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the president trying to once russia in a tweet telling it to get ready for a missing child heading toward syria. this is the world health organization says five hundred people treated in duma have symptoms which point to the use of toxic chemicals. and maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up algeria announces three days of mourning after a military plane crashes into a field killing all two hundred fifty seven people on board police in indonesia crackdown on illegal alcohol after it kills more than one hundred people in just one week. and risking their lives to find safety look at the dangerous route that tens of thousands of people are taking to flee the democratic republic of congo.

we begin with syria's war russia has hit back at the united states saying it's smart missiles should be aimed at terrorists not at the syrian government that comes after u.s. president donald trump warmed of a missile strike on syria following a suspected chemical attack in duma on tuesday he wrote russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria get ready russia because they will be coming nice and new and smart he added you shouldn't be partners with a gas killing an animal who kills his people and enjoys it well trump was responding to an earlier warning from the russian ambassador that any u.s. missiles would be shot down washington has been threatening military action after the alleged chemical attack russia's defense ministry has called it a fabrication saying there is no evidence of poisonous substances. but you put your flute but you have the peter which i want to stress on the ninth of april the day

after the alleged chemical attack in duma russian military specialists in the area of radiation chemical in defense and also medics arrived in the place of this alleged chemical weapons incident they took samples of the soil and collected the remnants of the so-called use of chemical weapons their expertise was conducted in it showed the absence of chlorine or poisonous substances but the world health organization says more than five hundred people treated in duma have symptoms which suggests the use of toxic chemicals they include difficulty breathing and disruption to the central nervous system the u.n. health agency says this is based on reports from its partners in duma demanding immediate on him that access to provide care for the victims and i want house correspondent can really help it has been monitoring events for us and so president trump suggesting that a missile strike could be imminent what's the latest that we're hearing from washington now. well we are told that there has been updated guidance from the

white house there will now be a daily press briefing that was not previously scheduled so we are hoping to get some clarification on the tweet that really left a bit of a collective gasp when many read it early this morning here in washington i imagine around the world trying to make sense of whether or not the president just use social media to almost in essence declare war certainly there's a lot of nervousness as the president's taunted russia but we know for days he's been working out a military response there has been this effort to build some sort of a case using videos and photographic evidence that in fact this chemical attack not only occurred but the syrian government is behind it along with support by russia this is of course something that has been denied by both russia and syria but the president is continuing to meet with his military advisers foreign policy advisers he's even canceled his trip to latin america at the summit of the americas to in the words of the white house oversee the syrian response so certainly appears that

there is an escalation in the works but again we're looking for some sort of clarification of what that might look like given the fact on monday the president said there would be some sort of decision made within forty eight hours and that window seems to be closing on that i think seems to have removed the element of surprise. yeah that's very odd for a commander in chief particularly one that on the president's rather on the campaign trail donald trump as a candidate mocked president obama for what he said was telegraphing his moves as commander tree chief particularly when it comes to iraq and certainly this seems to be with this tweet exactly what the president donald trump has done and what he said the word smart in that tweet he seems to be referring to the tomahawk missile precision guided missiles that were certainly used in twenty seventeen following a chemical attack in syria so there's certainly this sort of understanding that

perhaps the president saying this is what would be used again removing that element of surprise as you point out the other thing though we have to remember that donald trump as a whole so said this week in the cabinet room is that we may not know what's going to happen until after it's happened in fact he said his exact words were that the media and the world will find out what his decision will be after the fact. thank you very much from the white house can really help thank you kimberly. or a challenge brings us the latest reaction now from the russian capital moscow. on the russian response to u.s. collating tensions around syria is to say don't do anything that would destabilize the country any further door trumps your tweets seems to be a direct response to something that the russian ambassador to lebanon said recently in an interview to a hezbollah controlled t.v. channel which was essentially events if there was a u.s.

military strike against syria in any form then russian defense systems would shoot u.s. missiles out of the sky and hit back against the launch sites of those missiles now he seems to be slightly misquoting something that's the rub. in chief of general staff general gerasim of said about a month ago which was that if russian personnel russian infrastructure was threatened by u.s. strikes in syria then there would be such a response so we don't quite know whether this misquoting was intentional or not but the russian general response to all this has been not really to take donald trump's bait the foreign ministry says that any u.s. missile should be targeted at the terrorists in syria not as the foreign ministry puts it the legitimate governments assets governments and the kremlin has said rather dismissively that russia does not deal in twitter diplomacy that they are

more serious in their approaches. all to algeria now where three days of mourning of just been announced after a military plane crash is killing all people on board most were military personnel although the dead also include members of an independence group and dozens of refugees around a honda has mill. two hundred fifty seven people were on board the military aircraft it went down shortly after takeoff crashing near a military airport south of l.g. is the defense ministry says that many of the passengers was soldiers some of them accompanied by their families a number of people survived this family was among those being treated hurt when the plane crashed into a field close to where he was working. i could see that as soon as the plane took

off it started falling the plane flew over my head and came really close the wing clipped me as i was jumping to get out of the way and then it burst into flames have survived by the grace of god. the military aircraft was on its way to the algerian region of bash it stopping often to do it's a region on the border with the disputed territory of waste in sahara thousands of whiston sahara and have sought refuge here the polisario front a group that's been fighting for the independence of western sahara sit in a statement that thirty of the passengers will whiston so hiren's hitting back after getting medical treatment in now g. is the aircraft was a soviet designed to military transport plane the crash is likely the worst in algeria is aviation history made on one hand al-jazeera saudi arabia has intercepted a hoofy ballistic missile fired from yemen over the capital riyadh say they were

targeting the defense ministry in riyadh there are no reports of any damage saudi edge of fences also say they've shot down two unmanned yemeni drones in southern saudi arabia one of the drones is targeting the international airport the second was in just an province with the rebels that they were targeting saudi arabia's oil facilities just as a research fellow it's airpower in technology here in london he said such activity from the who sees us to reinforce their presence and manpower in the region. i think the timing is potentially more about keeping up a steady drumbeat of missile attacks to show you send a message to saudi arabia but also to other actors who are watching in the region and beyond that the threat isn't going away that the who these are not being militarily defeated. and probably hoping to send the sort of message that a wait and starve them out approach isn't working so perhaps the time is trying times come for something else i believe from the perspective maybe dialogue. i'm

not sure that's going to work but it's certainly an interesting factor that the these have kept up this regular drumbeat of strikes rather than trying to concentrate all their available assets for one cup big action police in indonesia trying to tackle the illegal alcohol trade after more than one hundred people died in one week from drinking bootleg liquor high taxes and a crackdown on legal alcohol in muslim majority in the nisha has created a black market among the pole step fasten reports now from chechen lanka in west java. people thought at first they were suffering from a bad hangover but doctors soon discovered it was much worse those who rushed to hospital just days after buying drinks at a food stall had organ failure and blurred vision when one hundred people have died so far one of them was twenty two year old her research her man who had just started working as a motorbike taxi driver together with autumn and he drank liquor from

a plastic bottle for around two u.s. dollars the cheapest and only drink available he and two of his cousins died. this drink should not be sold if it was up to me i would kill the person who make this that's how i feel right now if i would meet him he has taken my son's life police have started raiding food stalls and small shops where illegal drinks are being sold in a nice what a majority muslim population has restricted sales of alcohol it's also increased import taxes on liquor in the past few years but each year hundreds die after drinking bootleg booze including foreign tourists and this is what the victims have been drinking police are still trying to find out what exactly this made but investigators believe it contains a box of chemicals that the usual alcohol in this case it's probably mixed with energy drinks that give it its neighbor. some other things have been found

containing mosquito repellent we found this producer making illegal drawings in two thousand and fifteen mixing apple alcohol used to disinfect wounds with caffeine and a chemical coloring substance despite an increase in the month he has since stopped . balam and has been discussing a bill to partially ban alcohol in indonesia but researchers have found that since alcohol sales have been restricted death due to bootleg drinks have doubled in indonesia there's actually not necessary to to ban alcohol because consumption is one of the lowest in the world the problem is those who want to consume go home they need alcohol that is safe so they have more urgent issue for the government always to make sure our recorded a whole is suppressed and more recorded a whole should be made more for the war and more accessible lawmakers are still

debating how far reaching the alcohol ban should be they hope that with a partial ban police will crack down harder on those who produce and distribute illegal drinks but religious and she say drinking cheap spirits has become a habit and no way to escape the daily struggle to make a living they say clamping down on the black market will be difficult as long as there's a demand for affordable alcohol step fasten al-jazeera. west jaffa. so i had for you on the program to find ways for me said the national. he's been sentenced to ten years in jail for war crimes. to faff africans gather after stadium in so let's head to celebrate and life and what we need not because that and that.

holiday the 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 time whether to carry a class you just notice making its way into that east assad of the med it's right in this is quite mobile level i just wait for a swiss western parts of iran seeing some cloud in the rain that will just slide out of iraq baghdad around thirty two celsius brightening up as we go through a day as was going into friday that rain will start to peter out a little bit but still some pockets of heavy rain still in place for amounts of cloud into the caspian sea pushing a little further east was kabul will be dry temperatures here that's 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 southeastern corner seen a few showers just around concept was a more than end all of the arabian peninsula further south some rather big storms

around the southern end of the red sea this is the scene in santa couple of yemen the coast we have had some flooding right here over the past couple of days and 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 as of friday off to.

i'm back top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has warned that russia has won russia that smart result will be fired at its ally syria is threatening a military response to a suspected chemical attack into him on saturday but russia denies involvement. at least two hundred fifty seven people have been killed when a military plane crashed in algeria it went down shortly after taking off from port south of the capital. in saudi arabia's intercepted if you see ballistic missile fired from yemen over the capital riyadh say they were targeting the defense ministry and reality. now more than seventy thousand people have fled fighting in

eastern democratic republic of congo since january to seek refuge in neighboring uganda this is according to the united nations most of the new arrivals have fled fighting in the province malcolm webb sent us this report from wiley refugee camp in uganda. who these people run for their lives. no patients. there waiting for buses to take them to a place to make new homes in this refugee camp in uganda. rita elisa's story typical a few days ago a militia attacked her village in congo and killed her neighbors with machetes she fled with her five children she was pregnant with her sick daughter the dog and we saw the fighting had started then they started burning houses with people inside so we went into the forest and hid for three days then we decided to run. we came to uganda. militias from the lendu ethnic group been attacking villages in breeches

province called it to re since january the un says that supports more than seventy thousand to flee here uganda many more are displaced back at home people have lost their family ministers and women are subjected to sexual and gender based violence is for enduring. so they came very traumatised very tired in some needed very raw and they needed medical attention so. some people described the violence as ethnic rita so it's not she says the attackers killed anyone and everyone she said i think lendu herself 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 that new arrivals still need help at the moment a lot of the refugee settlement is a vast expanse of bush people are given plots wreaths is being given her here. she's got some plastic sheets a few simple for. 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. 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 he might be safer here for their struggle over malcolm webb al-jazeera jango ali refugee camp in uganda demonstrations in the

central african republic of late some of the bodies of those killed in recent violence outside the u.n. mission building in the capital. at least twenty one people were killed during a un operation in the mail a muslim a five neighborhood so peacekeepers and the army target armed groups mamata doe reports. once again the people of central african republic a witnessing renewed violence at the headquarters of the un peacekeeping mission in the capital bangui hundreds of hundred demonstrators laid out the bodies of what list sixteen people they say they were killed in violence between armed groups and un peacekeepers in the p.k. five neighborhood a muslim district in the majority christian city. population will think if i. didn't know what's going on exactly who i thought they knew that the they're going to attack force but they are attacking everyone so people react to it and they

start fighting back within it and. that night from two am up to eight am in the morning. local security forces along with peacekeepers launched an operation in the area on sunday to discuss and dismantle the basis of militias they accuse of extortion and attacks on civilians until now the un mission has been unwilling to provoke a fight over this calming the fight says it argues that given the few resources and troops utah's it's challenging to maintain security a common occurrence of peacekeeping in the modern age. central african republic has been struggling to return to us to billeted since two thousand and thirteen when the mainly muslim cynical groups pushed out president francois. provoking with elliot to the killings by the largely christian militias known as until. self-styled defense groups that sprung up in p.k. fire claim to protect the muslim brotherhood and the it's how about a simple as

a box full of religion it's the warlords who run these militias also fighting for power and wealth. but thousands have been killed since the conflict started when hundreds of thousands more have been displaced into comps even outside the country now with little new blood is there's little hope of them returning home soon mohammed atta while jazeera. serbian national politician vojislav shah show has been sentenced to ten years in jail for war crimes he said he was proud of the crimes attributed to him and would repeat them in the future cheshire was initially acquitted by a un course of committing crimes against known substring the balkan wars in the one nine hundred ninety s. that's now been partially overturned in the hague on appeal as he served twelve years in pretrial detention a judge ordered his sentence be considered as time already served voting has closed in a contentious snap election in azerbaijan early exit polls suggest the country's autocratic

leader president ilham aliyev has won a fourth consecutive term in office the election was boycotted by all physician parties who described it as a sham have accused the government of vote rigging. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is testifying in the u.s. congress for a second day about a massive breach of uses private data of a three year old billionaire apologized several times and promised to make meaningful reforms to protect data privacy facebook has been in the spotlight after the information of eighty seven million users was harvested by the political consultancy from cambridge analytical i think. it's clear now that we didn't do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well and that goes for fake news foreign interference in elections and hate speech as well as developers and due to privacy. we didn't take it broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake it was my mistake and i'm sorry i started facebook

i run it at the end of the day i'm responsible for what happens here us republican house speaker paul ryan says he won't run for reelection ryan says he will serve out his current term before retiring in january his announcement follows a series of regional election wins for democrats and mounting republican concerns about the party's ability to hold onto its majority in the house of representatives president donald trump tweeted that ryan would leave behind a legacy of achievement. mammals army has sentenced seven soldiers to ten years in prison each for their involvement in the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on wrangel muslims the military says the soldiers joined police in buddhist villages in carrying out the killings in iraq i'm stating last september. has been accused of ethnic cleansing against the rangar meanwhile a court in myanmar has refused to drop

a case against two reuters journalists accused of obtaining secret government papers on the crackdown weiland and chore sue were arrested in december while investigating abuses in iraq and state they could face charges on the myanmar's official secrets act which carries a prison sentence of up to fourteen years. social welfare relief and resettlement minister is on a three day visit to bangladesh when i met rango refugees in cox's bizarre country's first high ranking official as the country's first high ranking official to make such a trip he told them that they could return home to wrack and state united nations has condemned the persecution of muslim rangar by the myanmar army tanveer choudhry has more on what's being done to improve the condition of the camps there. most of their own refuges are living in slope a hilltop like there's an area highly vulnerable to monsoon rains now according to you and they are over one hundred thousand refugees are in an area they're highly

vulnerable and that risk they need to be displaced and move to a better place on safer ground so far they've been able to move forty thousand people there just isn't enough room and time to move the rest of them many of those . could be easily washed away with landslides and those in the bottom of the slope could be washed away by flood i spoke to one of the refugees who was working on his but there is no place for us to go we have to bear the monsoon season staying here we have no choice if the government or aid agencies help us. otherwise we are staying here aid agencies are doing their best to move some of the brown or boat people into safer ground a new location we need to move families who are most at risk in the next to safer ground so what you see here is three thousand workers working around the clock to make this land safe. so that we can move families to safety one of the biggest threat the refugees are going to face is water bon and mosquito borne disease

during the monsoon season also the communication process from from their home to the relief center and the clinics are going to be jeopardized by bad road conditions during the monsoon season just about when the refugees were getting adjusted to their new camp life they're facing new challenges in coming months. a memorial service has been held in south africa for the woman many called the mother of the nation thousands attended the ceremony for when a magical salamander in so wet oh where she lived and fought against apartheid catherine sawyer was there was south african celebrated we need. extraordinary life the contribution she made to the countries the british and struggle the forty thousand capacity to land a stadium in soweto was not as full is expected but the thousands who turned up sang and danced on airing her bravery than many were in exile and others like her husband the late now so mandela in prison those who knew her best talked of her

last. six months apart for gifts. and it's one of those things that's when service folks. should have a chance in hell was fact the cheers would look photo no face and she would say so to all i don't have just any ball because i said it's the pain up to the threshold tears don't come out anymore oh look there is debate about how she should be remembered she's accused of human rights abuses during apartheid then afterwards came a criminal conviction as well as allegations of fraud that many south african say that has also been a lot of propaganda to tarnish bringing to the most important thing is to outsmart to those that that thinking they can destroy you because you've come in with the commitment to save ha state funeral will be held here in soweto on saturday these

are you've. written setting because so we're told was at the very heart of the struggle for the leverage and i'm not i'm gay winnie mandela never left the township even atapattu the many people who pay out relate to we need to emulate wives have itunes perhaps you're safe so i changed and no one needs to do exactly what you do there will be a mockery level we still want to live in even. if. the government has declared ten days of mourning now will call me a barrel on saturday we need mandela will finally be laid to rest at a memorial cemetery in johannesburg a woman who many say has inspired them with a car each and the finds catching sight to hide his bag where you can find much more background on that story and everything else and that's fine i can out is there a. quick

look. top stories now russia has hit back at u.s. president donald trump's warning of imminent missile strikes in syria and the head of russia's lower house of parliament has told the interfax news agency that last go is in direct contact with u.s. military chiefs over the situation the u.s. has been threatening a response to a suspected chemical attack in the former rebel stronghold of duma on saturday well health organization says more than five hundred people treated shows symptoms of chemical poisoning trump treated the missiles will be coming but moscow denies any involvement in the attack that you put your feet that you have there peter we don't want to stress on the ninth of april the day after the alleged chemical attack in duma russian military specialists in the area of radiation chemical and defense and also medics arrived in the place of the silage chemical weapons incident they took samples of the soil and collected the remnants of the so-called use of chemical

weapons their expertise was conducted it showed the absence of chlorine or poisonous substances and our other top story saudi arabia has intercepted a hoofy ballistic missile fired from yemen over the capital riyadh who say they were targeting the defense ministry in riyadh and never there are no reports of damage. algeria has announced three days of mourning after a military plane crash killed two hundred fifty seven people it went down shortly after taking off from or for a military app or near the capital allergy is the government says that most of the dead was soldiers and their families so it to be algeria's worst ever at disaster in the world's deadliest plane crash in two thousand and fourteen. police in indonesia a cracking down on the illegal al called trade after more than one hundred people died in one week from drinking bootleg nikka i'll call is illegal in the alcohol is legal in the muslim majority country but rising prices and restrictions of caused

a surge in black market production often involving dangerous substances. were tested as in the central african republic have placed the bodies of at least sixteen people killed during recent violence outside the u.n. mission had courses peacekeepers and local security forces have been fighting on the groups in a largely muslim neighborhood of the capital donkey the demonstrators blame un soldiers for firing on residents who are angry at their presence in the area i'll see you for the news hour and twenty five minutes time inside story starts now. facebook c.e.o. in the hot seat masaka berg apologizes.