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this is al jazeera. hello welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm melting down is coming up in the next sixty minutes president trump ramps up the rhetoric warning rusher of an imminent u.s. strike in response to the alleged gas attack in syria. algeria begins three days of national mourning after the country's worst plane crash kills more than two hundred fifty people. with. celebrations in azerbaijan those president aliyev wins a fourth term in a vote boycotted by the opposition. and why the risk of cancer is pushing communities in the ivory coast to change the

way they smoke their fish. but first president trump has warned syria's ally russia that missiles are coming in his response to saturday suspected chemical strike in duma close to the capital damascus moscow has hit back saying america should target terrorists not the syrian government the u.n. secretary general meanwhile has called on the security council to prevent the situation spiraling out of control more now from our white house correspondent kimberly how can't. this is how the united states responded to last year's nerve agent gas attack in qana by attacking a syrian air base with tomahawk missiles and it's how the. us may act again. to the truck display of the syrian government for

a recent suspected chemical attack outside damascus with their troops on the ground in syria he's also accusing russia of complicity for supporting president bashar al assad in a series of tweets on wednesday morning president donald trump warned missiles will be coming and taunted get ready russia because they will be coming nice and new and smart russia has proven themselves to be responsible in part for this they guarantee that the use of chemical weapons by syria would not happen again they failed at that russia shot back in the war of words with trump it says there's no proof a chemical attack occurred on facebook the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman posted smart missile should fly towards terrorists and not towards the lawful government which has been fighting international terrorism for years it will be met and it will be met forcefully for days trump has been meeting with top military leaders and advisors. clued in on wednesday with defense secretary

general james mattis we're still assessing the the intelligence ourselves and our allies are still working on this. there are also reports a u.s. navy carrier task force led by the u.s.s. harry truman is sailing towards the region trumps also been conferring with world leaders like french president bakr all and british prime minister theresa may. it's an astonishing and confusing wrapping up of rhetoric for a president who said just a week ago that he wants to get out of syria what is clear is it appears the united states is determined to hold those responsible for the suspected attack accountable can really help get al-jazeera at the white house. live now to another of our correspondents in washington alan fischer alan how close do we think we are to

whatever decision whatever kind of military action the president decides upon or we don't really know or simply because there is a battle going on in the white house between strategy and impulse we see this strategy with calls to world leaders like president macor france to theresa may in the united kingdom we've even had in the last couple of hours there's been a call between donald trump and president the one in turkey there has been meetings of the national security council chaired by mike pence the vice president in attendance include the joint chiefs of staff america's top military man and also james mattis who is the defense secretary as well as john bolton the new national security adviser but then we have impulse with donald trump seeing forty eight hours ago there will be a response within forty eight hours and then suggesting in a tweet this morning that those missiles will be flying at some point on wednesday we've got syria sanders who held the press briefing in the white house saying all

options are on the table and she was asked specifically does that mean too that there is the possibility that there will be a normal attraction that what donald trump has tweeted out which we're told to regard as a presidential statement actually doesn't mean anything and there could be some sort of diplomatic settlement to all of this or she simply said again all options are on the table ok thank you very much alan fischer there live in washington with the point of view from the u.s. now let's go over to our correspondent rory challenges got more of the reaction from moscow. well the russian response to escalating tensions around syria is to say don't do anything that would destabilize the country any further donald trump's 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 that if there was a u.s. military strike against syria in any form then russian air 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 the russian chief of general staff general gerasim off 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 acid's governments and the kremlin has said rather dismissively that russia does not deal in twitter diplomacy that they are more serious in their approaches. well the world health organization w.h.o. is demanding immediate unhindered access to confirm reports of more than five hundred people in duma showing signs of having been exposed to chemical weapons it says its partners on the ground in every posted symptoms that include people having difficulty with breathing as well as disruption to their central nervous systems or some a binge of aid has more on the situation in duma from gaza into near the turkey syria border it's a strange wait inside syria where air strikes or missile strikes by the united states are imminent people on the ground in the seized area of where this chemical attack on saturday but may have been telling us about their difficulties and their

suffering not moving the moving image is only getting worse after this attack and this rhetoric that's been ratcheting up between the united states and russia a fight is on the ground are not actually hopeful by anything that will be moving after these strikes because they say this is not the first time that the united states will be carrying out these strikes and they say that the u.s. is going to be warning the russians in advance of how and where it's going to hit them so it is a very strange wait for them dearly for the u.s. president is tweeting about his attack he's saying that it's going to be shining in new missiles that the russians are going to face inside syria but yet he's going to warn them in advance as well on the ground inside duma more people have been able to leave today allowed five thousand people left for another northern part of syria people have been besieged there for years and activists on the ground are saying that or with all of this rhetoric the suffering of the people inside syria or the

fate of the assad government which has been carrying out attacks with impunity is not going to change well turkey's another country with a big interest in syria its prime minister bin ali yielder and says the u.s. and russia are acting like street fighting bullies. they beat that out that are made redundant they're threatening each other by tweeting do you expect the world to remain a spectator to your mutual exchange of words the disappearance of millions of people in the future of the region mom is always better no my missile is better launch it if you launch it this will happen it's a street fight the fighting like street bullies but who's paying the price for it civilians this isn't the time for competition it's time to heal the wounds of the region well the u.k. is also considering joining any military action prime minister three's a may has called an emergency cabinet meeting for thursday a report suggests she's also ordered british submarines to move within missile

range of syria the russian president vladimir putin has spoken by telephone to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu dissipating reportedly urged him to avoid taking action that could destabilize syria and iran has pledged to stand with the government of the syrian president bashar al assad against any foreign aggression but we can speak now to richard murphy he's a former u.s. ambassador to syria and he's joining us via skype from new york thank you for joining us how would you define this moment now with regards to the kind of decision that the american administration is having to make well it's making it still with zero complete to details. the reason agreement so that the organizations who are prevention of chemical weapons should go will go to syria with the support of the syrian authorities. but their organization is not well to assign blame it will report back on the.

force that there is evidence of the use of chemical weapons but they will not so we need. so any any kind of military intervention coming from the u.s. and its allies would therefore need to wait for the for this delegation to report back well that's a logical deduction oh yeah i just can't predict i don't know the state of planning in washington but it does seem that they the more facts of who did. we were where the impact was was felt in the in duma and as we as you point out the a p c w is not. able to ascribe blame or responsibility so even if they are to get in and to verify the fact that a chemical attack has taken place the u.s.

administration will not be any the wiser as to who carried it out else certainly not definitively well but that's that seems to be the situation now the the russians have said they would welcome that this is but they have vetoed crucially the new organization which would presumably as suggested by the united states in the council would ascribe. and the russians will marlo that they vetoed. given given the rather. she was a mere curial. approach to international affairs coming from the white house do you think what is your best guess as to how far the administration will stay its hand and wait for the various reports to come through to to verify and confirm

exactly what is going on into. well i hope so of course is that it's the way they are thinking that they should get more. president micro wants to be involved in the whatever actions. prime minister may choose where to walk off the missions so we have only a day or so but this. is certainly deserved or certainty before actually. richard murphy thank you very much indeed for talking to us live from new york still to come on this al-jazeera news hour we have mike pompei is facing his confirmation hearing to become the next u.s. secretary of state find out why some say he's not the man for the job. a community directs his anger against u.n. peacekeepers in the central african republic. and more drama in the champions

league but this time spanish side rail madrid booked their place in the semifinals over eventis joe we'll have the details. is observing three days of mourning after a military plane crash near the capital algiers killing everyone on board most of them a military personnel and their families but the dead also included dozens of refugees mariana holland has more. 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 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 then it burst into flames i've survived by the grace of god. the military aircraft was on its way to the algerian region of basheer stopping often to do for its a region on the border with the disputed territory of waste in sahara thousands of whiston saharan have sought refuge here the policy area front a group that's been fighting for the independence of western sahara sit in a statement that sushi of the passengers will whiston so hiren's hitting back after getting medical treatment in algae is the aircraft was a soviet designed to military transport plane the crash is likely the worst in algeria is aviation history maidana hond al-jazeera saudi arabia says it intercepted a ballistic missile fired from yemen over the capital riyadh hoofy fighters claimed responsibility for the attack through a twitter account they say they were targeting the saudi defense ministry reports

of damage saudi arabia also shut down two unmanned drones that who the forces say were aimed at riyadh's oil facilities. that are many of these advancements show the capabilities of the cooties this is what changed the equation and the rules of the political game and also manage to change the strategy of defense that's what we've noticed these missiles can determine the targets cortlandt and hit them accurately . meanwhile the yemeni national army has recaptured the coastal city of midi from who see rebels it follows a three day operation backed by the saudi led coalition more than ten thousand civilians have died in yemen civil war since twenty fourteen a palestinian who says he was the man shot by an israeli sniper in a video that emerged this week insists he wasn't posing a threat to dhaka was hit in the girls or in december which is when the video was

filmed it shows israeli soldiers celebrating the shooting her reforms it has been to talk to him in gusta. it is nearly four months into an eighteen month recovery from the moment he was shot by an israeli sniper shot. he says he is the unarmed man in this video shot last december apparently through the sights of another soldier's rifle. as he falls the soldiers cheer in celebration. of. his. we have here. a short drive from his home in northern gaza is the area near the separation fence where the shooting happened israeli military says it has the right to enforce a one hundred metre buffer zone on the gaza side a right unsupported in international law it says the man targeted was the suspected leader of what it calls a two hour violent riot involving stone throwing and attempts to sabotage the fence

. remembers it differently and. some young people near the border were lying on the ground they couldn't get out so i came to protect them and asked them to go back to them these really shocked me. and image shot from the palestinian side appears to show a darker in red near the fence gaza's health ministry says one person was injured by israeli fire on the day in question the twenty second of december because hospital record shows treatment for a gunshot wound on the same day he insists he was in no way a legitimate target store we had to care for seconds had another out of the give you an upset how am i a danger to the israelis we were on our land we didn't cross i was in the buffer zone i had no weapons in my hands i had nothing. what makes them abductors case singular is of course the way it was captured and the celebrations that followed but it's not an isolated incident by any stretch just over the last couple of weeks

hundreds of palestinians have been shot and injured here in gaza by israeli fire. since the so-called great march of return protests began on the thirtieth of march the health ministry says israeli forces have killed thirty demonstrators and injured sixteen hundred with live fire many like a shot in the lower leg often with devastating consequences israeli military is promising disciplinary action against the soldiers who shot the video and who celebrations it says did not suit the degree of restraint expected there will be no action against the soldier who pulled the trigger israel has made it clear that targeting unarmed protesters who approach the fence remains official policy ahead of the next round of protests on friday harry forsett al-jazeera gaza. azerbaijan's president is on calls to win a full consecutive term in office after a contentious election with sixty five percent of the ballots counted president aliyev has eighty six percent of the vote the election was boycotted by the

opposition who described it as a sham needs bachar reform. he's laid azerbaijan since two thousand and three and now in trying to be president for another seven years. there were multiple candidates in the race but only ever one front runner politics in azerbaijan is a family affair and lives wife was made first vice president last year. succeeded his father heyday president in the early ninety's the former k.g.b. general clamp down hard on opponent while at the same time opening up the country's huge energy reserves to international companies. this once crumbling post soviet republic is now one of the world's fastest growing economies balancing relations with azerbaijan's former soviet moscow russia and the west this country is one of the main partner of the repeal in from the point of fuel energy security but at the

same time this country. between russia and iran these folks in the smart foreign policy helps. to have good relations with only ber's i but the economic boom hasn't benefited all many people struggle on low incomes have made growing inequality. and this is what happens to antigovernment protesters . leading opposition parties boycotted the election accusing him of vote rigging and nobody can speak out in the ways that challenges the government and not face consequences and that means free will he says are either in prison or outside of his or by john well they keep quiet to many azerbaijan is a post soviet poster child an international player the host of major cultural and sporting events but it is to this day the only former soviet republic to witness

the rise of a ruling in a city as the nation gets richer one family the l.d.s. remain firmly controlled. demonstrators in the central african republic of laid bodies of some of those killed in recent violence outside the u.n. building in the capital bangui at least twenty one people were killed in a un operation in the mainly muslim p.k. five neighborhood this whole peacekeepers and the army target armed groups mohamed odeh 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 angry demonstrators laid out the bodies of at least sixteen people they say they were killed in violence between armed groups and u.n. peacekeepers in the p.k. five neighborhood a muslim district in the majority christian city. the population of think if i.

didn't know what's going on. in they knew that going to force but they are working everyone so people react to it and they start fighting back with denise and. that night from two am 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 and secret means 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 stability since two thousand and thirteen when the mainly muslim silicate groups pushed out president francois. provoking with telia

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. it's how simple as a box full of religion it's the warm ups who run these militias also fighting for power and wealth. thousands have been killed since the conflict started when hundreds of thousands have been displaced into camps outside the country now with renewed violence there's little hope of them returning home soon mohammed atta while jazeera. one of the victims of last month's suspected nerve agent attack in the british city of saul's free has made her first public statement since leaving hospital the u.k. government accuses moscow of being behind the attack on the former russian spy surrogate script holland his daughter yulia in a statement issued by the british police yulia states she doesn't want any russian

embassy services you also says her cousin in russia victoria's secret power he's been trying to visit is not welcome in the u.k. and doesn't speak for her know her father u.s. republican house speaker paul ryan says he won't run for reelection he'll serve out his current term before retiring in january ryan's announcement follows a series of regional election wins for democrats and mounting republican concerns about holding on to their majority in the house of representatives the mantra isn't to become the next u.s. secretary of state is due to begin his confirmation hearing later on thursday might pompei was the director of the cia when president trump selected him to replace rex tillerson and as our state department correspondent rosalind jordan reports there are those who question pompei suitability to become the nation's top diplomat. confirmation hearing date is at hand for the cia director michael pollan peo on

town to become the next u.s. secretary of state for a car service or cia director. with some say if confirmed pompei o eagerly will embrace president donald trump's america first approach to foreign policy that he's a kind of guy that approaches the world thinking about how to use force and how to use coercion before he thinks about how to use diplomacy and that's you know mr secretary of state is america's first diplomat so it's concerning to me. as cia director pompei o has been skeptical that negotiations will lead north korea. to abandon its nuclear weapons program even as trump prepares for a key meeting with kim jong il and in the coming weeks. during his time as a congressman called the iran nuclear deal terrible and wants the u.s. to walk away from it and he has long accused muslims and arabs of being security

threats a belief after this say disqualifies pompei o from serving as the country's lead diplomat if confirmed as our next secretary of state mr pompei i would infuse u.s. foreign policy with his view that muslims are a monolith against which america must fight but others say views won't matter to middle east leaders who are more concerned in getting weapons and political legitimacy from washington what could be problematic for pompei o is his willingness to attack moscow's behavior in syria in ukraine and in cyberspace something donald trump has up until recent days been reluctant to do here's what pompei o said last month about vladimir putin he continues to view the greatest. the greatest failure of the last century in the dissolution of the soviet union he is. bent on returning the former soviet union to its greatness and glory but john

glaser of the cato institute says pompei o knows how to stay in his boss's good graces he knows how to talk in a way that doesn't offend trump and he knows how to bolster trump's sort of attitude and confidence it's unlikely the u.s. senate will reject tom pales nomination ultimately it's worth recalling that he will be advancing donald trump's view of the world not his own rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. says a common heritage al-jazeera. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake but he. gets a rougher ride on the final day of the hearing into a face full face to preach plus. thousands celebrate the life of winning. man down. and he was suspended

for an ethical behavior but now former president sepp blatter says fifa is moving in the wrong direction of coming up with jenkins. from the clear blue sky of the doha morning. to the french autumn breeze in the city a few. stifling heat has been building in the middle of china usually when that happens it's a precursor to the cloud developing and the rain falling out certainly happening now so whilst we are up around the thirty mark we're dropping duck back to the mid to low twenty's for who had across to shanghai back to show young sea valley really the rain is developing once more for the sas it's still quite stifling twenty nine degrees in hong kong but twenty nine humid degrees it looks like we lost the shower free and that's true way down through vietnam to tyler in fact we should be seeing the rains breaking out now because prior to that happening clear skies suggest

rising temperatures that's true his the the rash of showers in the philippines three relays are in indonesia there there was as a rash so not as heavy as they were those figures they were but in the tempest in bangkok up to thirty five and again humid degrees we expect to see them relieved by showers at some point but clearly not in the immediate future and that's also true in india temperatures are rising humidity is rising that will happen next month or so we've seen showers break out to some degree they do relieve the heat temporarily but they also cause a storm down which they have recently in the north but fifth thursday does look a quiet today for most. the weather sponsored by qatar at least.

to take a look at the top stories here it out is there the white house says all options are on the table for a u.s. response to saturday's suspected chemical attack in the syrian town of duma it follows an earlier tweet by president trump warning the syrian government's main ally russia to get ready for missiles to be five. algeria has announced three days of mourning after a military plane crash killed two hundred fifty seven people yet craft went down shortly after taking off from who fathered military airport near the capital. of the dead soldiers and their families. azerbaijan's president has won a fourth consecutive term in a snap election that was boycotted by the main opposition. have claimed victory in a televised address after taking eighty six percent of the vote. for the emir of qatar has met u.s.

politicians and business leaders in washington he's trying to secure trade deals to counter. by four arab countries since june of last year. qatar has been on a diplomatic offensive in the us chased i mean. he has matched senior business and political figures. his country is one of the wealthiest in the world and is planning to further expand its investment both in the u.s. our economy partnership is more than one hundred twenty five billion we have plans to double this number in the near future a qatari business delegation is touring the u.s. to promote investment opportunities in the gulf state last june sandy arabia u.a.e. bahrain and egypt imposed an economic blockade on qatar accusing it of supporting

terrorism its charge doha has strongly denied qatari officials say their economy remains solid at the beginning of the g.c.c. crisis us president donald trump made statements critical of qatar but in recent weeks the president along with top military and financial leaders have raised in the region the u.s. has approved the sale of advanced walk it systems to worth three hundred million dollars i wish we had many more partners like you we have a trade surplus you invest in our country we have a military base and you work on terrorist financing where thoughts so thank you for all that you do the u.s. has invited gulf leaders to discuss the future of the region sandy arabia's crown prince mohammed when sandman met president trump three weeks ago the u.a.e.

as crown prince mohammed bin has pushed to be the last gulf to me try his visit is shadowed for the coming weeks the qatari say the erotic crown prince is the architect of the blockade and the white house has more. urgent both at this point what this visits are doing is to reinforce with the school that we're not going. do i need to tell the nation in the language or the action the u.s. is worried gulf dispute might lead to further instability and increase iran's influence in the region finding a solution to the growing differences among gulf rivals is going to be a challenge for the u.s. administration the located in countries insist on maintaining their in a less changes his foreign and domestic policies by the qatari government is unlikely to backtrack on what it considers to be an issue of sovereignty.

washington d.c. turkey has stepped up an operation to deport thousands of afghan refugees many have crossed over from iran in the past three months escaping economic hardship and the threat of violence in afghanistan sinan cozier early reports from east in turkey. it's been a long journey their feet are swollen. these afghan boys how well or three hundred kilometers since entering turkey. having left families behind they hope for a better and safer life here. that we've been travelling for seventeen days walking for twenty two hours nonstop i mean we have some bread water and a few shirts in our bags. they don't have passports or other forms of identification if they're lucky they won't get caught by the police will reach their friends and relatives in ankara or istanbul on the command to the afghans are brought to the strip attrition center that costs around one thousand five hundred

refugees and deported following legal proceedings. one of them is all the c.r.a. who is staying at the center where the sister mahnaz believe they are just one type tacking our universities and therefore my mother said to don going overseas. so they are far left. behind us tells how they are shop and their families were attacked one through four was covered this is an act that is off you can believe no more than thirteen five and you have the advantage that it's not all the problems of violence and forfeiting education that they face from drugs are also a major issue i think in that the boys to join taliban are yes they drive all of us and also if. to sell their actually ship for that they traveled with hooman traffickers from afghanistan to iran's northeastern city off machette and to the capital before reaching turkey through mountainous roads inside covered trucks.

there are one hundred seventy thousand afghan refugees who have registered with the un in turkey about twenty thousand of them came through iran in the first three months of this year alone it's a new migration way for the turkish authorities most of them are young men under twenty five but turkey is already hosting at these three point five million syrians and doesn't want another refugee influx many of these afghan refugees stay they do not want to go back to their country because of unemployment and threats of violence on groups like the taliban and but they can't stay in turkey either because many of them do not have legal recognition unlike refugees from syria yeah because of the lord we're only here for work we already paid all our money to the human traffickers we don't have a government that would pay this money back to us because they should rather kill us instead of sending us back for these men they were difficult journey has come to

an end they're being put on charge to plains back to afghanistan and their dream for a better future least for now over see them close although al-jazeera is to turkey mia miles government has sought to reassure refugees in bangladesh saying their repatriation is a priority social welfare minister when the met is the first senior official to visit a range of refugees who fled to cox's bizarre to escape a crackdown on record in state. two u.s. border agents have been reprimanded for trying to illegally force an injured man across the border into mexico the offices made no attempt to identify him and offered him no medical assistance and that's in violation of international treaty as well reynolds now reports. a new case spotlights the tensions at the border between u.s. and mexican officials a mexican official recorded the cell phone video in march of two thousand and

seventeen it shows two uniformed u.s. border protection agents escorting a disheveled and apparently mentally disturbed man in handcuffs up to the border at calexico california mexican authorities on the other side challenge them saying if the man is a mexican citizen he should be properly repatriated through the mexican consulate in the u.s. after his identity and nationality have been confirmed what i now know. better than it was as the u.s. and mexican officials argue the man flails about and lays on the ground one of the u.s. officers says the man looks like he's mexican but they do not attempt to determine his identity you need to get it right. and. as a mexican official points out that the man has a knee injury the u.s. agent repeatedly tries to make him go over to the mexican side.

eventually the man gets up and the u.s. officers allow him to wander away through traffic the man was eventually left in a park on the u.s. side about a month later he was hospitalized for observation and it was determined he was in fact a mexican national at that point he was processed and repatriated mexico to mexico . authorities filed an official complaint over the incident after an investigation that two u.s. border agents were reprimanded but not fired a spokesman for the border protection agency says their actions were quote not consistent with our normal procedures but he said the video merely showed an isolated incident a recent survey by an immigrant advocates organization shows

a quarter of migrants interviewed reported abuse or aggressive behavior by u.s. border officials robert oulds al jazeera los angeles serbian nationalist politician vojislav shell has been sentenced to ten years in prison for committing crimes against known serbs during the balkan morals of the one nine hundred ninety s. says shell was initially acquitted by a u.n. court but that vertica is now being partly overturned that's a new kagan now reports he had spent more than eleven years at the hague taking a belligerent stand at the tribunals investigating war crimes in the former yugoslavia it was is a man without remorse. the serbian ultranationalist was acquitted two years ago of committing crimes against humanity but on wednesday a un court reversed that decision. that finds mr sessions criminal responsible and imposed a sentence of ten years in prison in absentia despite the court's verdict he

remains unrepentant speaking from belgrade after the ruling told al-jazeera that he would do it all over again so we are certain you are preparing to be even more active in political life preparing to repeat all my will crimes and crimes against humanity. amid the bloodshed of the war shesh else extremis politics played a role in inflaming the persecution and violence against non serbs in the former yugoslavia an attempt to fulfill his vision of a greater serbia his original trial was beset with histrionics and delays and he was eventually granted provisional release but being diagnosed with cancer. returned to his home in belgrade his popularity boosted and he teamed up with political allies that shared his program at extreme nationalist use. and his supporters turned out in droves for his rallies. russia has described the latest

ruling as illegal maybe little appetite to indulge his continued presence on serbia's political stage serbia is seeking membership of the e.u. a move he is basically opposed to sony vaio al-jazeera facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has faced more tough questions on the final day of testimony about the massive breach of user's private data facebook has been in the spotlight after the personal information of eighty seven million users was harvested by the political consultancy cambridge analytical 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 data privacy we didn't take a 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 and at the end of the day i'm responsible for what happens here well david mackay visit technology reporter often online magazine he says the key question is whether zuckerberg will change the way he runs facebook. what we saw at these hearings was that he is resistant to changing the overall business model of facebook which is based entirely on the harvesting of user data and taking that data to help target ads he has said the company is open to regulation you start out some very vague ideas but certainly he did not get behind some sort of sweeping regulation of facebook that i think some critics of the company would like to see but it's not clear that there is the appetite for that even in congress let alone at facebook and in silicon valley you know i think our morning shows from coverage of the lawmakers that they're not any closer really to regulation of facebook i do think that they do they put facebook on notice they essentially said clean up your

act or we might have to come in and clean it up for you a memorial service has been held in south africa for the woman many call the mother of the nation thousands attended the ceremony for winnie madigan mandela in silhouette to where she'd lived and force against apartheid catherine so i was there. was south african celebrating this and that mandela's extraordinary life the contribution she made to the time she's jewish instructing the forty thousand capacity to land a stadium in soweto was not his food is expected but the thousands who tied up sat down on knowing how to pray for me when i sat in this like i had spent the late and then he said those who did you had best talked of her last. and she trusts. and it's one of those things that when ever she spoke out she would have chance in hell i suspect the cheers would look stroked only at face and she would say

first of all i don't have just any balls because i said it's the pain up to the threshold just don't come out and he will be there is debate about how she should be remembered she is accused of human rights abuses during apartheid then afterwards came a criminal conviction as well as allegations of fraud many south african say there has also been a lot of propaganda to tarnish bringing to the most important thing is to outsmart to those that are thinking they can destroy you because you've come in with the commitment to serve ha state funeral will be held here in soweto on saturday the usually significant setting because so we're told was at the very heart of the struggle for the liberation of winnie mandela never left the township even atapattu the many people who relate to we need to emulate the right ever it seems

that she saved our chief and we need to do exactly what you do there will be a mockery level we still want to live even to the wall if. the government has declared ten days of mourning i will call him in one thousand had barreled on saturday when the 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 johanna's bag. is a traditional delicacy enjoyed in many of west africa's coastal communities but the traditional smoking methods have been found to produce substances that are known to cause cancer in our very coast people are now being encouraged to you. healthy a method's shelob ellis reports. in a bubble of doom a woman smoked fish for food. from afar they sound happy up close it's

hard to tell for generations they have risen above the smoke glad for the work now they are learning they're surrounded by cancer causing particles and coating the environment. that she lives that it's really difficult but this is my job i live with it i can't stop i printed this job since my children to school and can help when they're sick. coastal communities in ivory coast rely on fish for food and income the un says up to thirty percent of the catch is smoked the reason it tastes better and lasts longer but the consequences hang heavy in the year. the part of the fish they are smoking is not of good quality it contains aromatic hydrocarbons which is a source of disease and cancer for the consumer those who smoke the fish are subject to lung diseases and sinusitis. the president of the fish process is union

says this is the arts a new traditional avon's in the capital abidjan smoke rises from a fire at the base through layers of fish and out of the vent it can act as a storage unit requires lease wood and can drive five times more fish than traditional makes us. these evans improve the quality and hygiene of products the health of women fish processes working on the robins and the health of consumers it also has a positive impact on the prison vaishnav the environment and the misuse of wood. widespread implementation will be difficult most communities cannot afford with the new weapons. the potential is great and these fish giants know the new ovens will likely help them live longer and hunky and mine. shall not balance al-jazeera. so they come here in the perfect under pressure will have the boldest play of the day in sport.

right his time for this was used his joe. thank you very much will for a second night in a row there's been high drama in the last days of the champions league realm of trade went into the second leg of their quarter final against juventus leading three nil but they found themselves at the receiving end of three goals from the italians the burnable with the score locked at three three on aggregate it looked like it would go to extra time until captain

a new ventus legend jan luigi buffon gave away a contentious penalty and was then red carded cristiana rinaldo had no problems finding the net from the spot and it's ray al who go through to the semi's for three on aggregate well from high drama to a lot lost a game at the allianz arena as by in munich carried their two one aggregate win into the semi's thanks to a goal a stroll with severe on wednesday so that's by in realm of trade roma and liverpool into the last for the draw for the semifinals takes place on friday barcelona exited the tournament on tuesday after a sensational comeback from roma to reach the semi's only away goals rule romans were in the mood for a party after that victory so much so that the club's president ended up taking a swim in one of the city's fountains that's a violation of local rules and he ended up in hot water. i want to thank the mayor

for my well deserved fountain fine. four hundred fifty euros. certainly got caught up in the excitement izing was a great night for all of us in rome. but i also don't want to encourage other people to jump into fountains. except if they want to fix the fountain and i think it would be a great personal gesture to fix the fountain in front of the pantheon and so i'm going to donate two hundred in the two hundred thirty thousand euros to it the quarter finals of the europa league regime on thursday also will go into the second leg against c.s.k. moscow with a strong four want to volunteer even so the english club cannot take anything for granted after seeing how roma overturn the same deficit to defeat also lona and this competition is especially important to all still as they are outside the european qualification places in the premier league but when is it the europa league game automatic entry into next year's champions league your body gives you

going for seven but you know it's not the end. guide to stage of course we focus on it because in the premier league it very. very very very slim chance to get up but your critique is of course one of the big targets of the season. meanwhile two time europa league champions atletico madrid take a two no lead into their last eight clash portuguese side sporting athletico were held to a draw at city rivals real madrid in the spanish league on sunday but diego simeone these men have won their last six ounce sayings in the european competition. and all four quarter finals in the europa league take place on thursday in the other two lats here take a four to lead to south spoke and masai will look to overturn a one nil deficit when they host like take what we count down to the world cup in russia there's competition to secure the twenty twenty six tournament

a joint bid from the usa canada and mexico is up against more rocco as the only candidates they'll find out in june who will get to host it but morocco has criticised football's governing body for moving the goalposts when it comes to selection a new five man fifa task force will hold technical inspections for both candidates and could disqualify them before they even get to the congress vote for murphy for president sepp blatter who was banned for unethical conduct is concerned about the new rule there is you know. we take you away from the congress. decided on the candidates by the. kind of. committee called task force to give them a search warrant to. even. be accompanied not that's not possible

a third of the cameroonian athletes competing at the commonwealth games on the gold coast have gone missing the three weightlifters and five boxes disappeared over the course of the last few days and team officials have conceded that there are unlikely to return it follows a similar situation at the london two thousand and twelve olympics when seven athletes from cameroon deserted the team and stayed in europe instead of returning home commonwealth games organizers have urged these athletes not to overstay their competition visas which expire next month. this is obviously a issue that. that team cameron is monitoring very very closely and until it becomes you know a real issue in terms of eyepieces and so forth we would obviously need to take that very seriously but you know right now it is certainly something that's. you know the safety and welfare of those athletes from the from a team cameron perspective is being taken very seriously but we are obviously

monitoring that situation with team camera now here's a shot you don't see every day and it comes to us from the last sixteen at the brazilian basketball league regional team. training in extra time against vasco da gama and their playoff game when shooting god did him a shot up pulled off a desperately or intentionally missed a free throw to score in fact it seemed the same me you for made against his team just three weeks earlier a shadow says he didn't train for it i'm cold it just pure instinct and that is a sport for now more later. well that's all for me and this al-jazeera news of it don't go anywhere because laura will be in the cities in just a moment with more of the day's news. the scene for us where they're on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is

always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join a sunset there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating base is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera and monday pointed 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 the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the you're. a story fourteen hundred years in the make. a story of succession

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