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russia can complain all it wants about fake news but no one is buying it's lies and it's cover ups trading barbs exchanges between the u.s. and russia or at the un over the suspected chemical attack in syria. when you're watching al-jazeera live where headquarters here in doha are also coming up israeli forces were and hundreds more palestinians during the latest protest along the gaza border. britain accuses russia of spying on former double agent surrogates triple and his daughter for years before they were poisoned plus. i'm. laying out the this is the beginning of this. democratic

republic of congo in. the way. will be retracing their journey. welcome to the program the cold war is back that's the word from u.n. chief antonio terrorist during yet another diplomatic showdown between the u.s. and russia the security council member states have been holding another emergency meeting about syria this time russia's request to discuss what it describes as the threat to international peace from the u.s. military against the syrian government eat. a bowl xli william liberated the winner we continue to observe dangerous military preparations to an illegal act of force against a sovereign state in what would constitute a breach of international law not only the use of force but the threat of force

flies in the face of the un charter and this is precisely what we've seen in recent rhetoric and action by washington and its allies bellicose rhetoric is being ratcheted up at all levels including the highest levels to syria's shore at dish and our forces including the u.s. navy and its allies are nearing it appears that washington has adopted a categorical policy to unleash a military scenario against syria this cannot be tolerated and thanks to russia there was no un body to determine blind but we know who did this our allies know who did this russia can complain all it wants about fake news but no one is buying it's lies and it's cover ups russia was supposed to guarantee that aside what means chemical weapons and russia did the opposite. the world must not passively accept the use of chemical weapons after

almost a century of their prohibition everything the united nations stands for is being blatantly defied in syria with the help of a prominent member of this council. of course but like her choice from the united nations a mike of the security council is still speaking we have the representative ambassador from the ivory coast speaking right now but what really we heard was accusation and counter accusation we've heard all this before but who is now much more targeted. well indeed we've heard this repeatedly through the course of the week this is the fourth session of the security council on the issue of syria and repeated was the russian claims that the. illegitimate incident was fake in syria and we heard from russia that the from the u.s. there is that russia must accept responsibility that russia is attempting to

protect and defend its syrian ally so not really moving forward though we heard from the secretary general a strong call for unity in the united nations and in the security council also a strong call for some kind of mechanism that could attribute responsibility for any such chemical attacks but no sign of movement forward among members of the division within the security council appears to be as wide as it's been throughout these ongoing syria discussions and of course that a sobering point that was made by nikki haley were comments about chemical weapons not becoming the new norm in international disputes especially with international agreements on their prohibition and it couldn't have come really more focused with exactly what happened in souls in england i mean it happened in a very public place there and obviously what's happened in duma has also resonated

in such a short space of time. indeed the us ambassador has a link to these incidents pointing out that it has almost become a pattern in the use of chemical weapons you mentioned the international convention against chemical weapons well that's been in place since the late one nine hundred ninety s. one hundred ninety three of the world's nations are signatories to that particular convention and yet you are seeing in recent times allegations of chemical attacks proof in some cases of chemical it chemical attacks being carried out possibly by some members or some signatories to the chemical weapons convention so yes this is a far wider issue perhaps than alleged incident within syria that what we are hearing from the u.s. ambassador as well as from other members of the council and indeed the secretary

general is the very real threat that chemical weapons as you say could become a new norm that whereas in the past the it was seen as a highly successful chemical weapons convention which had removed the threat of chemical weapons from international discourse that was all seemed to be peeled back and pushed away in recent events certainly this is probably the greatest piece of concern among council members taking these examples as evidence of a growth in the use of chemical weapons to resolve any form of international dispute or difference for the moment we'll leave it there. and come back to the situation develops joining me in the studio as well in kabul and he's head of policy analysis of the arab center for research and policy studies it's good to have you with us on the program we may interrupt this interview if we hear the syrian ambassador to the security council speaking or cut to that but in the meantime let's just talk about what the french the americans and the british

ambassador said at the security council i got of i'm going to interrupt this and we'll go straight over to the security council let's listen to the syrian ambassador to the united nations security council military plane crash that claimed the lives of the two hundred forty seven people. second predicate i welcome the but dissipation of the secretary general in this very important session and i thank him for his comprehensive and accurate briefing that has a no clearly. pointed out and he and others in this council. on one have you just. did understand the title of this session and he spoke in the manner that is commensurate with the threats to international peace and security. and in light of

the allegations and accusations against my country and its allies. the ambassador of the sweden said that the use of chemical weapons is a war crime. and. this is true that i agree with him my government agrees to this when i and i talk of my the media however my dear colleague and don't you think that a war in itself is a crime and needs to be stopped and to be prevented from our gospel and one also had this it would be a very good title in a book by the peace institute in stockholm. instead of cyprien maybe this would explain to the member states that war in itself is

a crime. and would let my colleague the representative of the united states said that. the syrian chemical weapons that kill the civilians. and you know where used to be fifty times that's what she said. and fifty times chemical weapons were used and it only killed two hundred for you civilians. imagine this is the syrian government and how to become one unit hubby has reversed the course of the global terrorist war against my country by killing two hundred civilians only by the end of the matter after having used chemical weapons fifteen times what isn't this talk of those who are and mentors in north this is good for d.c. comics is superman comics is this how the white house strategize is that the

sitting government uses chemical weapons fifty times to kill two hundred civilians . how is this possible how's the struggle for five dollars a meal and then my colleague at the united states of america did overlook one important thing that her own country. on board of the good pray has destroyed our snug vials in the mediterranean along with ships by denmark and norway. their own experts in the u.s. should have told her that missing grenade attack said in this chamber in the june twenty fourth scene that there are no chemical stockpiles in syria and you can and. you know how they had that could they have simply forgot all of this.

are you a saddam in your pocket and those who think that military force western massive military force in the eastern mediterranean. is because there is a sufi you western. affection towards those vials terrorists in douma on those a bioterrorist where chased out of the north as you are aware and they are now on their way to saudi arabia and then they will be recycled into mercenaries working in yemen and they will be used in other battlefields including yemen. and you know a massive military force is in the mediterranean there is no target those diaries it's a handful of terrorists it targets the state of syria and its allies this should be

the topic discussed today in this session. my colleague the ambassador of the united states it was not horrified that their country used twenty million gallons of orange agent in vietnam in one thousand nine hundred eighty one when the. claimed the lives and well injury of the three million vietnamese and four hundred how the no weapon children are born and where the a therefore maty due to the use of the orange agent then the time and she was not horrified by the killing of the her forces of thousands of syrians in a rocket and thousands of iraqis in a fallujah and not using white phosphorous agent which is a chemical weapon. and. isn't this

a war crime my colleague the ambassador of sweden. remarks of the former defense secretary of britain henderson miles of the human body and this is to my colleague from the british the edition. mr henderson spoke of his kind of jesus and the united states use of those chemical weapons in iraq he said and i quote. and. it is unbelievable that you know even we would occupy a country that has iraq you have to look for chemical weapon of and. use of chemical weapons against that very same country your child is there these are pictures coming out of the u.n.

security council where the mechanic the syrian ambassador and you're from jeffrey is pressing the security council on this special session to be. addressing the tension especially in syria let's get over to michaela has been listening in obviously we're getting. a defensive posture of the syrian ambassador and also a bit of a history lesson but he seems to be goading the comments made by the swedish ambassador and certainly the american want to. indeed yes we've heard this before from the syrian ambassador being speaking here in this meeting by special dispensation a rule which does a lot concern nations to take their place in the security council when such discussions are happening and certainly very contentious note from the ambassador as you say goading the u.s. and its allies sweden in particular at this particular point this is once again

something that we have seen repeatedly within the council as we've seen in the course of the session today very much a reflection of what's been happening for chile day after day for the past week this is the fourth special session on syria that has taken place and each time we see almost the positions harden not the various protagonists the division within the council russia and its allies on one side the u.s. and its allies on the other continuing to widen even as the secretary general calls for some greater form of unity and slipping into this divide as well we have once again the syrian ambassador making very strong allegations against u.s. involvement in previous chemical weapons attack and continuing to absolutely deny any form of syrian involvement in chemical wealth this warfare it will leave it there for the moment mobile can use it to continue of course to listen in to what turbocharge africa has to say and join us and when i joined again here in studio we

had just cut the beginning of the interview short as he went back to the security council. let's just talk about what bashar jeffrey actually said one thing i picked up there was you know he said that in june twenty forty both denmark and norway who were apparently destroying all of syria's chemical stockpiles chemical weapons stockpiles said that syria had no more chemical stockpiles and that certainly i'm going to paraphrase what we know of what do you make of that statement in the light of what america france and the united king. saying that there was a chemical attack in duma well i think he was trying to undermine the credibility of the three allies the u.k. the us and the france by bringing a witness from within there was some community by saying these two european countries have. said that syria has got tired of all of its weapons of mass of mass destruction and he was by this as i said he was just trying to

undermine the could there were two of the argument of the three was that ambassador and the one of course as we've heard those three ambassadors speak in these last few hours. so you go to a sense that they're not listening to what syria has to say they really do believe they have the evidence nikki haley said so in a press conference just before they went into that open door session they're absolutely certain that they have the evidence they want to do something about this absolutely i think they are already convinced that the syrian regime has used chemical weapons in and go to the mike they actually seeking to have hard evidence in order to convince the international community because as you know these three countries especially the united states and the u.k. i mean we all know the ghosts of the iraq war are still very much on life and they don't want to be seen. once again as trying actually to to start a new military action against another country in the middle east based on the

obvious evidence this is why actually there are giving more time in order to have hard evidence from from from the ground in the need very much at this legal ground in order to start any military action because there is no way the united states is the u.k. and the france are going to have you on the u.n. mandate or i might add nations security council resolution that will allow them to use force against a syrian regime the russians they have been using the veto for the bars for five years they use it for twelve times this time and the was it six times against the background of chemical weapons the use of chemical weapons in and syria i think this is why they're giving more time in order to have that hard evidence and in order to start that that sort of military action against the syrian regime still speaking at the security council meeting there of course we'll continue to monitor what he says for the moment thanks for your analysis. head to the occupied

territories now where thousands of palestinians are out for a third friday of protests along the gaza israel border fence seven hundred people have been injured by israeli fire at the border demonstrations the palestinians are calling this friday's protest flag burning day more than thirty palestinians have been shot and killed by the israelis in past demonstrations hurry forsett our correspondent has been following events on friday at the car israel border just bring us up to speed howry on what we know about these injuries. the sun set here just east of gaza city along the border here we've been seeing the injured taken towards ambulances in there dozens throughout the day in fact just half an hour or so ago we were a bit closer to where the hardcore remaining protesters this is dwindling now still were and even then there was around a fire and five people were taken as my evidence is with gunshot wounds largely to their lower limbs which has been the obvious tactic that the israeli soldiers have

been using throughout so the gazan health ministry says that more than seven hundred people up and down the border have been injured so far on this the third friday of protests more than two hundred of them have been injured by live fire those numbers could well rise again with the next updates for the moment harry will leave of course to follow vents with you throughout the rest of the evening thank you let's head to a south asian hour pakistan's former prime minister nawaz sharif has been banned from politics for life five supreme court judges made the ruling earlier on friday not sharif who's been elected and removed as prime minister three times since the one nine hundred ninety s. was charged with corruption last year. the u.k. says the russian former double agents are going to triple who was poisoned last month had been under surveillance from moscow for at least five years now the comments were made in a letter from a c.

the british intelligence official to the nato security general so a ship or land his daughter yulia were exposed to a toxic nerve agent and song in march now he was jailed in russia in two thousand and six for passing information to the u.k. but was later released as part of a spy swap deal parker has the latest you case national security adviser mark said well has written to nato secretary general yen stoltenberg with more information relating to the poisoning of surrogate and yulia script power in the town of solsbury last month said well said that he believes the russian intelligence has been spying on the script files for at least five years and that yulia scrip hours e-mails have been under close scrutiny it was also said wells opinion that script file would so continue to be seen as a likely a legitimate target for assassination but it was comes as little surprise that a former double agent would continue to be under the watchful eye of russian

intelligence but he did arrive here in the u.k. in two thousand and ten in a very very high profile spy swap no attempt to be made to change his identity or hide him in a secret location in the u.k. the question is why did surrogate script continue to remain a person of interest to russian intelligence meanwhile the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander yakka vanko has been giving a statement at the russian embassy here in london in which he said that he was surprised by the spying allegations he is accuse the u.k. government of a policy of trying to destroy all evidence links to the script our case claim versus counter claim continues this diplomatic route is showing very little sign of abating at all. well tensions are running high in indian administered kashmir violent clashes between indian forces and separatists have led to several deaths and ongoing protests katty lopez has the story. there have been no was

planning on getting married in just a few weeks instead she's attending her fiance's funeral show his family says he had just left his uncle's house when he was shot and killed. he walked out to the washroom and was fired upon by police forces his body was just lying there we tried to help him but officers didn't allow us hours passed before we were allowed to go near him. the twenty five year old was one of four people who died earlier this week in indian administered kashmir following clashes between the police and kashmir separatist sixty people were injured. on friday police fire tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters in the capital city now that we just want to see them so that be can live a life that we want to do it not jobs not development not to and to be do you stand with all those in a sense who are being killed and their families because at the ngo to be able to listen to the incident. the fight over kashmir is part of

a seventy year old plan conflict between india and pakistan both countries claim ownership of the region at least twenty four people have been killed this year in violent confrontations but police say those who died in the latest incident were aggressors not innocent civilians in the. qur'an parvez a human rights activist says civilians are openly targeted by indian forces it doesn't matter for me that the media is a militant. and so every killing is always considered as legitimate by india. they. kashmiri civilians say the situation is becoming unbearable for some of the devil yes anti-government protests and fighting so far this year shar his family knows only too well the hike human cost that's being paid

. this of the young al-jazeera. a report by the united nations children's agency says the armed group has adopted more than one thousand children in northeastern nigeria since twenty thirty many of the children were taken from schools like the chibok girls the twenty fourteen more than one hundred of those two hundred seventy six girls are still missing unicef says nearly two thousand three hundred teachers have been killed and fourteen hundred schools destroyed by boko haram and an address has more from the capital of. when the report detailed happenings in northeastern nigeria especially between two thousand and thirteen to two thousand and eighteen a period of five years of book quiet on operations but we've known long before the chagos were abducted in two thousand and fourteen of boko haram atrocities involving the kidnap and abduction of young girls and children from their own homes

even in may degree we've seen and heard talking about fighters who are then living in a degree in the early part of the insurgency walking into their homes dropping something like fifteen twenty dollars and pick up their daughters and saying that the money is for dolly now experts are saying that the psychological impact of the. crisis will be seen is beyond what we see what we've seen in terms of loss in infrastructure or loss of money in the education sector there are a lot of parents who still insist that they're not taking their kids to school simply because it's not safe to do so last month we've spoken to the father of the only girl taken from who still remain captive in the hands of what our fighters inductee who said he has are the children in school and his contemplating on withdrawing the because it's no longer safe and it's sought risky to take his children to school and that's what experts are pointing at and they believe that

this will linger on for some time to come. now the democratic republic of congo has shunned its own donor conference in geneva accusing the u.n. of exaggerating the number of people who need aid attendees expressed disappointment that not enough funding was raised although violence has subsided in the kasai many people have not received food aid due to a lack of money now four million have been displaced by the violence and since december alone while seventy thousand to fled east to camps in neighboring uganda as malcolm webb reports. it's taken days for cooma corinne and her children to get from her village in the democratic republic of congo to the safety of this refugee camp in uganda with two year old. anti septic sprays just too much. life in the camp begins with vaccines and a medical check. fled her village after her brother in law was killed by a militia with machetes. her husband patricia's father was left behind.

when the fighting started we were very scared other people ran away but my husband wasn't around so i waited after everyone left i was alone i decided to run. as among thousands who fled to uganda since the beginning of this year most of them arrive here by boat on the shores of lake albert that borders the two countries the un registers them before taking them to the camps. retraced their journey across the lake. carrying already. showing. the u.n.

says the people who took this journey are among millions of congolese in need of help displaced by multiple conflicts across the country he says the crisis is neglected and he wanted governments meeting at a conference in geneva to donate around one and a half billion dollars when we reached the congolese side of the lake we found more people who fled their homes many here couldn't afford the boat unlike those in uganda they receive almost no assistance that the government says the un's greatly exaggerated the number of people affected by the crisis and so it didn't attend the conference. back the problems you money we're not trying to deny that there is a humanitarian problem but we don't consider it at that level we have to avoid making a business and of the humanitarian situation which discourages investors who can bring economic development. it's clear that many congolese desperately need help

chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse malcolm webb al-jazeera turi province in the democratic republic of congo. you're watching all just there i'm still robin these are all top news stories the cold war is back and that's the word from u.n. chief antonio good irish during yet another diplomatic showdown between the u.s. and russia at the security council member states have been holding another emergency meeting at russia's request moscow wants to focus on possible u.s. military action against the syrian government now the russian military is accusing britain of staging saturday's chemical attack in duma while syria says it's innocent. massive military forces in the mediterranean do not target those terrorists the handful of terrorist targets the state of syria and its allies this should be the topic being discussed today in this session thousands of palestinians

for a third friday of protests along the gaza israel border fence now one person has been killed and seven hundred fifty others injured by israeli fire at the border demonstrations the palestinians are calling this friday's protest flag burning day more than thirty palestinians were shot and killed by the israelis in the past demonstrations pakistan's former prime minister nawaz sharif has been banned from politics for life sharif was indicted on corruption charges last year. the u.k. says the russian former double agents are going to ship all he was poisoned to last month was under moscow's surveillance for at least five years the comments were made in a letter from a senior british intelligence official to the nato secretary general ripple and his daughter yulia were exposed to a toxic nerve agent in salt spray in munch a report by the united nations children's agency says the armed group boko haram has abducted more than one thousand children in northeastern nigeria since twenty

thirteen not many of the children were taken from schools like the girls in twenty fourteen more than one hundred of those two hundred seventy six girls are still missing chinese president xi jinping has attended what the government says are the biggest naval drills in the disputed south china sea china's latest show of force comes at a time of heightened tensions with the u.s. over fears of a trade war and washington's increased involvement with taiwan which china claims as its own territory those are the headlines we'll have more news in half an hour from our london news center but next on al-jazeera is a.j. selects to stay with us.