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president donald trump ramps up the rhetoric warning russia of an imminent u.s. strike in response to the alleged gas attack in syria. than oracle this is a live from doha also coming up on syria begins three days of national mourning up to the country's worst plane crash kills more than two hundred fifty people plus. celebrations in azerbaijan those present wins a full term and a vote boycotts of by the opposition. and why the risk of cancer is pushing communities in ivory coast to change the way they spoke their fish.

present donald trump has warned syria's ally russia that missiles are coming in his response to sas they suspected chemical strike and doing that in the capital damascus moscow has hit back saying america should target terrorists not the syrian government actually general has called on the security council to prevent the situation spiraling out of control one hour from the white house correspondent kimberly how close. 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 u.s. may act again a little earlier truck displayed 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 assad in a series of tweets. so 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 guaranteed 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 a 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 were 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 tops 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 roy hallums has more now on 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 door trumps 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 and sides 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 is demanding immediate unhindered access to confirm reports that more than five hundred people in duma showing signs of having been exposed to chemical weapons and says its partners on the ground in duma have of course in symptoms that include difficulty breathing and destruction to the central nervous system. that has more on the situation in duma from gaziantep near the tekkie 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 they 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 fighters 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 united states will 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 is 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 meet 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 all 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. is a former u.s.

ambassador to syria he says there should be more evidence that the syrian government launched a chemical attack before america proceeds with a military response. there is an agreement that the organization or prevention of chemical weapons should go will go to syria with the support of the syrian authorities. but firm organization is not to assign blame it will report back on the. cause that there is evidence of the use of chemical weapons but only not so we need to i don't believe the state of planning in washington but it does seem that they were all facts of who did what. we were of the if the impact was was felt to me in duma president micro wants to be involved in the political actions. and instrumentally as she's waiting for the book october issue. so we have only reduced the your support this

is certainly deserved or certain. before actually one of the victims of last month's suspect had nerve agent attack in the u.k. city of souls for a has made her first public statement since leaving hospital u.k. government accuses moscow of being behind the attack on former russian spy second script al and his daughter yulia in a statement issued by the british police yulia says she doesn't want any russian embassy services she also said her cousin in russia victoria's couple has been trying to visit her is not welcome in the u.k. and does not speak for her nor her father. algeria is observing three days of mourning after a military plane crashed in the capital algiers killing everyone on board most were military personnel but the dead also include dozens of refugees by on a honda has more. two hundred fifty seven people were on board the military

aircraft it went down shortly after takeoff crashing near a military a port 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 bash it stopping often to do if it's a region on the border with the disputed territory of waste in sahara thousands of whiston saharan have sought refuge here the polisario 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 now g. 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 its inception a ballistic missile fired from yemen over the capitol is the fight has claimed responsibility for the attack through a twitter account associated with the rebels they say they were targeting the saudi defense ministry and the reports of damage saudi arabia also shut down to unmanned drones that has the forces they were aimed at we had oil facilities work of art over there are many of these advancements show the capabilities of the hutus this is what changed the equation and the rules of the political game and also managed 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 middy from hoofy rebels follows a three day operation backed by a saudi led coalition more than ten thousand civilians have died in yemen civil war since two thousand and fourteen as about john's president has won a fourth consecutive term in a snap election that was boycotted by the main opposition parties have claimed victory in a televised address after taking eighty six percent of the vote the fuck are reports. he's laid azerbaijan since two thousand and three and now eleven 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 clamped down hard on opponent while at the same time opening up the

country's huge energy reserves to international companies. this one's 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 a few 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 only arabs remain firmly controlled . still ahead here on al-jazeera u.s. border agents caught on tape unless they're trying to make me force an injured refugee back into mexico plus yeah i do it all of us and also. to sell the actually ship why thousands of afghan refugees are fleeing the country and having to attack united live off that.

nice pink skies by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello rain has been spotting all the way down through eastern iraq kuwait some of the gulf states inhale shells in saudi the mess of cloud is still there but it's just coagulates and shadows all right and that's still true on thursday possibly more into the iranian high ground than anywhere else behind the sun comes out twenty three in baghdad a little less along the coast the mediterranean in beirut for example the sun will warm up the following day this cloud there is persistent and the rain is still there at reaching pasta syria as well clearly eastern turkey azerbaijan seem to be cloudy and possibly wet at times the tail end of all that is very slow moving spotting was rain occasionally thunderstorms the side of the business significant

showers or thunderstorms in yemen and some other was flooding as well that looks like not necessarily repeat for the next day or so and the cat is fading away so a dry clear is fair oh well a sound in the air all this dust in the air as well we've also seen big showers in south africa for thursday for the middle south africa you could watch out for them they might be around there we should be seeing the dry season coming in here hasn't apparently occurred to south africa botswana looks like having a dry couple of days at least along was symbolic. they're with sponsored by qatar and we use. the scene for us when they're on line which is a very nice time in yemen that peace is 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 eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an

activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. and again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour the white house says all options are on the table for u.s. response to the chemical attack in the syrian town of to close by donald trump born in the syrian government's main ally russia to get ready for missiles to be filed. algeria has announced three days of mourning after a military plane crash killed two hundred and fifty seven people went down shortly after taking off from military airport near the catalogue is most of the dead were

soldiers and their families. and doesn't buy john's president has secured a fourth consecutive term in a snuff election that was boycotted by the main opposition parties but most ballots counted. sixty eighty six percent of the vote and a televised address the time victory and thanks the people of this port and trust. their mayor of cast hall has met u.s. politicians and business leaders in washington d.c. he's trying to secure trade deals to counter an. and land blockade imposed on castle by four arab countries since june last year. reports. qatar's leader has been on a diplomatic offensive in the us checked i mean been hammered earth any 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. 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. 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 to do anything in the language or the action the u.s. gulf dispute might lead to further instability and increase in 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 located in countries insist on maintaining their embargo a less changes its foreign and domestic. well the qatari government is unlikely to backtrack on what it considers to be an issue of sovereignty. washington d.c. . u.s. republican house speaker paul ryan says he won't run for re-election will serve out his current term before retiring in january ryan's announcement follows a series of waging election wins for democrats and mounting republican concerns about holding on to their majority in the house of representatives. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg faces fayaz faced more tough questions on the final day of testimony about the massive breach of his private data the thirty three year old billionaire apologized several times facebook has been in the spotlight off the

past information of eighty seven million users was harvested by the political consultants in cambridge and a lesson. 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. two u.s. border agents have been reprimanded for trying to illegally force an engineer across the border into mexico the office has made no attempt to identify him and often a medical assistance a violation of international treaties. 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 until our mexican authorities on the other side challenged him 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. that i was going to 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 the money. 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 to mexico mexican authorities filed in a fish. complaint was 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. well and twenty thousand afghans have tried to illegally and to turkey via run over the past three months adding to the one hundred seventy thousand already that he has stepped up efforts to send them back home. heard stories about their treacherous journeys and search for a better life. it's been a long journey but your feet are swollen. these afghan boys how will toward three hundred kilometers since entering turkey. having left families behind they hope for a better and safer life here i would love us 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 and will reach their friends and relatives in ankara or istanbul undocumented afghans are brought to this repetition center that hosts 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 the way they are that's 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 his hands and leave no more than thirteen five and you have to break that it's not all the problems of violence in forfeiting education that they face drugs are also a major issue i think in that the boys to join taliban are you have to drive all of

us and also if. to sell their car she should feel that they traveled with hooman traffickers from afghanistan to iran's northeastern city of measured 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 u.n. 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 say they do not want to go back to their country because of unemployment and threats of violence on groups like the taliban and i so but they can't stay in turkey either because many of them do not have legal recognition unlike refugees from syria as of

the lord we're only here for world and 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 to what these men they were difficult journey has come to an end they're being put on charge to planes back to afghanistan and their freedom for a better future least for now over see them kosovo al-jazeera is to turkey. you zealand has banned all new offshore oil and gas exploration prime minister just send to us and says the policy went into effect twenty two existing expiration that means oil and gas operations could continue for several decades live as part of a pledge to help reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions to zero by twenty fifty smoked fish is a staple food for many of west africa's coastal communities the traditional smoking

process produces substances known to cause cancer in ivory coast people are now being encouraged to use more modern healthy and methods for. in above a 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 polluting the environment. that she lives there 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 the 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 answer new traditional avon's and obvious 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. therefore follow toy 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 of food in new weapons. the potential is growing and these fish dry is no

load when you ovens would likely help them live longer and healthier minds. shall not balance. it with al-jazeera these are all top stories the white house says all options are on the table for us response to those suspected chemical attack in the syrian town of duma follows an earlier tweet by president donald trump warning the syrian government's main ally russia to get ready for missiles to be fired power maintaining that we have a number of options and all of those options are still on the table final decisions haven't been made yet on that front you know anything at all what do you mean it certainly means i think there's a lot there that you can read from but at the same time the president has a number of options at his disposal and all of those options remain on the table and we're continuing to look at each one of them the daughter of the former russian

spy who was poisoned along with her father last month has made her first public statement since leaving hospital the u.k. government accuses moscow of being behind the suspected nerve agent attack on a script and his daughter yulia algeria has announced three days of mourning after a plane crash killed two hundred fifty seven people the military plane went down shortly after taking off from both iraq military airport near the capital algiers the government says most of the dead were soldiers and their families as they were to be algeria's worst ever disaster in the world deadliest plane crash since two thousand and fourteen. saudi arabia says it's intercepted a ballistic missile fired from yemen over the cops. responsibility for the attack through a twitter account associated with the rebels say they were targeting the saudi defense ministry. many of these advancements showed the capabilities of the cooties this is what changed the equation in the rules of the political game and also

managed to change the strategy of defense that's what we've noticed these missiles can determine the targets coordinates and hit accurately facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has faced more tough questions on his second day of testimony about the massive breach of users private data facebook has been in the spotlight off the personal information of eighty seven million users was harvested by the political consultants cambridge. as i had lines back with more news on al-jazeera after the stream. us president donald trump has said he will slap new charis on imports of steel an alum in your brass five gene would mean faster data transfer ten times faster than forty we bring you the stories the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. my name so can you like your director for the gun violence prevention team at the

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