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is. hello i'm suzanne and this is the news hour from london coming up the u.n. security council discusses possible u.s. military action against syria as russia says it has irrefutable evidence that the suspected chemical attack dana was staged one person has died and hundreds more palestinians are wounded during the latest protest at the gaza israel border. and outrage in india over the rape and murder of an eight year old girl activists say the ruling be j.p. is shielding the accused. i'm joining the in doha with the day's sports

including a clash of the european titans as cup holders realm of data drawn against by in munich for the champions league semifinals. the u.n. secretary general antonio terrorists has warned that increasing tensions over syria could ignite a full blown military escalation to security council meeting in the past few hours caetera all members to act responsibly the meeting was called by russia in response to threats of military action made by the u.s. and its allies against the syrian government following last saturday's suspected chemical attack. in freezing temps in the libya leads you to reach a compromise in the establishment of an accountability mechanism system two leads to a flea blow military escalation. in my contacts review especially

with the permanent members of the security council i have been regenerating my deep concerns about the risks of the current impasse and stressed the need to avoid the situation spiraling out of control. michaela has been following these events out of the united nations for us my dear anything new about this stone says been taking ballet the key players in this conflict knows who what we heard was what we've heard throughout this week this is a forth a merge and see session held on syria and this week alone and the positions of the protectiveness were absolutely identical once again you heard from russia denials of any form of chemical action taking place in syria from the u.s. anger at the russia for what it described as russian responsibility for such an attack on the question of military action the u.s. ambassador made clear that joint action was being contemplated our president has

not yet made a decision about possible actions in syria but should the united states and our allies decide to act in syria it will be in defense of a principle on which we all agree it will be in defense of a very rock international norm that benefits our nations let's be clear assad's most recent use of poison gas against the people of duma was not his first second third or even forty night use of chemical weapons the united states estimates that assad has used chemical weapons in the syrian war at least fifty times or once again from the russian ambassador a complete denial that any such attack took place. the slogan the put there is doing you can win you there is no credible confirmation of this our specialists are

no traces of toxic substances the residents of duma know nothing about such a truck all information about the time has been provided for anti-government forces who have an interest in such a development of events we have weighty justification to believe and information to believe that what took place was a provocation with the participation of certain countries intelligence services so might lots of rhetoric and carefully worded speeches but hasn't really gotten anywhere further forward well apparently not at the beginning of the session incidentally the us ambassador was seen to be hugging and kissing the russian ambassador on both cheeks but any hope that this indicated a wretched thing down of the rhetoric was completely dead within minutes as that council session got underway the positions remain absolutely entrenched the divide within the un security council not only not narrowing it just appears to be growing wider every single session and that rhetoric that the secretary general was asked

to diminish continues to ratchet up so the scenario pretty bleak in terms of any action by the security council at the moment that divide within the body makes it unable to take any form of concrete action many things my kind of ally friends at the united nations well russia's defense ministry says it has interviewed people who were filmed receiving treatment in hospital following the tamer attack and that it was all faked to build and to russian failing it also directly accuse britain of being directly behind the fabrication this comes after foreign minister sergei lavrov warned it refuted will evidence existed which prove the chemical attack was staged. i would advise us to wait for results because the o.p.c. w. commission under pressure from russia and the syrian government has left for syria there will be zuma there are a specialist couldn't find any chemical weapons fluorine or whatever being used we have irrefutable evidence that it was another staged event at the hands of the

security services of a state which is very eager to be in the front lines of a rossa phobic complaint while the u.k. was swift to deny what it's describing as bizarre allegations this is great task it's a blatant lie it's the worst piece of fake news we've yet seen from the russia propaganda machine but i would like to take this opportunity to state categorically to you the world's press that britain has no involvement and would never have any involvement in the use of a chemical weapon meanwhile experts from the global chemical weapons watchdog the c.w. are arriving in syria to investigate the alleged chemical attack zain a hole that has more from neighboring beirut. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons their inspectors are going to head to begin their work on saturday of course the town where these sites are the site of the alleged chemical

weapons attack these inspectors are are to investigate exactly what happened and come up with their findings but there are already questions on whether or not they will be able to find exactly what happened because some there are some concerns that the evidence has been tampered with simply because there is a new authority on the ground when this alleged attack happened the rebels were in charge of the town and now it is in the hands of the russian military and the syrian government and it's not just that clearly this mission this fact finding mission its mandate is to determine whether or not a chemical weapons attack actually happened but in its mandate it cannot apportion blame and this is something that the u.n. secretary general referred to in his speech to the u.n. security council he welcomed the arrival of these inspectors and their mission but he said we need to go further now it's not clear whether or not the decision by the

united states and its allies to target the syrian government is in one way or the other linked to the outcome of the findings of the opi c.w. we heard from the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. saying that the u.s. britain and france they all have proof that there was a chemical weapons attack but what is clear is that tensions have somewhat eased and that there are contacts behind the scenes contacts even the turkish president or do go on making it clear that he is a mediating in this crisis in one way or another saying that the contacts between the russians and americans are continuing and there is a possibility that tensions can be eased now whether or not this can stave off military strikes it is still not clear but joining me for more on this in the studio is senior political analyst smile when bashar thanks for coming back and we're waiting for a white house briefing in about twenty min. we don't know if they're going to talk about syria but is the sense that you're getting from president sgt crowley that they are slightly reining back from the suggestion that the his initial

bullish report was that strikes almost imminent absolutely i think most news organizations were ready two nights ago for the attack to place because there was a sense of urgency on the part of the throne of mr h. and that the united states and its allies will have to all uphold the ban on the use of nuclear weapons because if you listen to us there haley talking about fifty attacks i'm not sure how she got to that number or that the public record shows two hundred. chemical attacks you really characterize is serious if it was a chemical republic of sort you know where the president continuously uses chemical weapons and that's sort of been allies ation normalization of these chemical weapons something that global powers will not stand for so in a sense we did was a sense of urgency if you will and since president from did that back in april two thousand and seventeen and nothing happened nothing put nothing happened to syria

nothing had been terms of international reactions everyone thought that this could just happen once again it didn't clearly he didn't think it through clearly it was one of those outbursts early in the am hours clearly he didn't consult the our lives all eyes seem to be on the inspectors now going into and there isn't a lot of talk about how to to protect the evidence given that the evidence that they're waiting for now as specially in the white house but also the other allies and do you think the russians if the evidence is seen to be extreme and proof that the russians will accept to be honest with you the whole evidence thing and then what you do with the evidence and who judges the evidence independent or otherwise if you remember the whole point of it doing u.n. security u.s. security council resolution advanced by the united states is that the russians insisted that any evidence and any investigation would have to come back to the

security council before anyone makes judgment before any independent commission makes judgment on it so the whole point of the allies the p three the united states u.k. and france almost making their verdict on this is because they think there is no more possibility for an independent commission of sort investigation of sort because the russians have vetoed the last possibility of having that in the end of last year so in a sense there is the prejudgment if you will that there is a chemical attack we know it we don't need someone else to tell us and we know that the syrian regime is behind it because there's a pattern of of behavior on the part of the syrian regime but second most importantly. it's really not about chemical weapons per se i mean that's that's called a spade a spade. and it's not just about people dying because people have been dying in syria half a million people died this year there is politics of superpower involved in the region there's russian american tensions there are russian french and city russian

u.k. tension after the last attack and says barry and so on so forth there's a lot of talk of cold war there's a lot of people saying quietly you know there are back channels between russia and america to make sure it doesn't escalate it do you get the sense that a lot of this is rhetoric for the public consumption but behind the scenes much of the deals are being done as you say it's not even about this chemical attack i mean i could sit here and give you a whole spiel about strategic or geo political analysis of cold war this and cold war that and world views it's a source of war and certainly the proxy wars happening in syria to be honest with you a big part of it really requires psychoanalysis more than geo political analysis because president trump just few days ago days theys ago congratulated president putin on the wonderful elections in russia and said that he was about to meet with him soon

in the future to discuss the relations and he previously said why not improve relations with russia and so on so forth but at the same time he says oh you don't know about a lot of nice beautiful smart missiles were you going to get a taste of it and you know russia is sponsoring this criminal this animal in syria and his own ambassador his close friends and best there nick. nick nick haley says something about russia's hands in blood of the syrian people all sorts of or so really we don't know there are no such is there is no clarity is a deep state versus donald trump is a don't trump versus bolton and not this we have no clear understanding of american policy always make clear politics entertaining amish i think it's very much if. coming up on this news hour from london pakistan's former prime minister nawaz sharif is banned from politics for life after being removed from office for

corruption plus. where. is the beginning of this year that tens of thousands of people of the democratic republic of congo. crossed the lake gondor to get away from flights will be retracing their journey. video replacer referees snow thank you says the english premier league and more on that coming up in sports with joe. and. gaza's health ministry says one palestinian has been killed and more than seven hundred fifty others have been injured during ongoing protests along the gaza israel border that includes two hundred people who were injured by life israeli fire hundreds of others suffered other types of injuries including being hit by rubber coated steel pellets and being overcome by tear gas from the process of being dumped as flag burning day part of an ongoing call for

a right of return for palestinians since the protests first began at the end of march thirty four palestinians have been shot dead by israeli forces are a force that sent this update from the border. well the sun has set here east of gaza city along the border with israel but the protest while it is winding down is continuing some several hundred mainly young palestinian men remain. a buffer zone which the israelis have unilaterally declared some three hundred meters inside gaza territory where since the last protest they've erected a secondary fence many of the protesters trying to dismantle sections of that fence during the course of the day and we've seen dozens of injuries the gunshot wounds that we've seen have largely been to the lower limbs again that is very much the israeli policy that we've seen throughout the last three weeks they had threatened to continue to use live fire against protesters and they made good on that threat

throughout the course of the day israeli military has also been broadcasting images of what it says are people trying to breach the border fence at various locations throwing what they say are improvised explosive devices towards israeli soldiers but the organizers of these protests maintain and some of the evidence that we've seen today suggest that these are still largely overwhelmingly peaceful protests there have been young children families coming here and that the people who have been approaching the border have gone unarmed as they did so the organizers say that this will continue until the middle of may marking the seventieth anniversary of the creation of the state of israel what palestinians call nakba the catastrophe . pakistan's former prime minister now as sharif has been banned from politics for life five supreme court judges made the ruling anyone friday sharif less than moved from office last july over graft allegations both haney and his ruling pakistan muslim now as has repeatedly denied allegations of corruption has not from

islamabad. a landmark decision by the supreme court which would have huge implications for the ruling party pakistan muslim league now watch now no why should he void earlier disqualified by the court in july of last year over the data leak and they're. facing a probe by the national accountability court now why should he have and his supporters of course have been donating the judiciary saying that they're being whipped to my from day one the old. we weren't quite gone closer the rejects you all form the people belonging to the families of one and so few of them didn't lose it and. all of the shore you know which was the waterfront. it was remain a black spot on the ticket. however another senior politician from the progress.

of the opposition was also disqualified on the same article in december. that did respect the verdict of the law but the ruling government is saying. now why should he have for dirge i've already been called by so it's called for contempt of court and also one of them has been sent for a month to jail however the ruling party is not going to accept their verdict the people across pakistan of course will say that indeed. by the country's supreme court which i said despite any ambiguity pertaining to additional constitutional law. in india. the ruling. is trying to protect men accused of raping a child in china and kashmir demonstrators say the crime is being used as a political and religious to marry and has.

the rape and murder of. spot widespread outrage. was anger at the brutal attack of an eight year old girl angered that hinder right wing groups had much to in defense of the eight hundred meaning accused of it if the slogan city is in the name of the hindu r.j. she'd amen in the name of the country india being the east for the accused i'm not the victim then i don't know what kind of mind reveal growing up in and what kind of country we are i don't think in this country in which direction the went missing in january in a hindu dominated area in indian administered kashmir. could betted body was found days later she had been strangled and repeatedly gang right. the killers of my daughter should be killed they should be hanged they should be punished that's it eight men are accused of abducting her and holding her at a temple they include

a retired government official and four police offices all of them reportedly to be local hindu mean who were connected to a land dispute with the girls muslim community. mania angry that this rally in support of the accused included members of the b j p the party of prime minister and that interim order doing body of the same to egypt is also a body here they are simply the support for little's you know the support if it's illegal he supports you and i don't think there will be actually. opposition leader raul gandhi later gathering to remember a c. for in new delhi at the same place with thousands of people demonstrated in two thousand and twelve against a brutal gang rape in the capital. as if this case has ignited religious tensions in the disputed kashmir region but protesters say her rape and murder is a reminder of just how much more needs to be done right across india to protect the . and groom's. joining me now to discuss this further is natasha

cowal a cautionary offer and associate professor of politics and international ations in a state of westminster along the thanks very much for coming in to al-jazeera one of the girls in the report of mariana said what kind of country are we growing up in and when you when you hear what has happened here really is the defense of the indefensible but there are marches going on to defend the attackers why. so this is this is actually the really striking seeing. the we cannot ignore the fact that this is happening in this in what is the state of jammu and kashmir which is a region of conflict so to many indians it is a you know it is it is something very staggering for them to think of how could there be hindu nationalists who are defending the rapist of young muslim girl but many who have lived with that conflict and with all the impunity of you know the

legal impunity in a heavily heavy militarization are saying well we've been you know living with these mass rapes and forced disappearances in this kind of violence for a long time and this this i think the this little girl you know it's her she her her horrific rape and death and murder actually lies have been deception i think of the hindu fundamentalist you know transformation that india is undergoing it is the militarized masculinity all of that is you know that systematically allows people to think that they can violently possess land and children and women so it's that and of course the fact that you know that she belonged to a nomadic community which is to say that they are economically vulnerable and it's part of that story of economic dispossession is will so it's it's horrifically tragic that is very particular as you say to this this one area but as you point out there this has been happening for a long time it was a huge uproar i think. five years ago just over five years ago when people talk to

the streets but nothing if this is still happening seems to have changed what why is that what's going on in the political levels what's going on on the street that this isn't being eradicated right so you see it is so india you know like many other patriarchal societies. and patriarchy means you want to possess the land then you want to possess women and you see women as property and as something that you can violently x. as i spar over now it takes a lot of your sleep for the conscience of the middle classes to be diluted as we saw with the nearby rape case five years ago you know that again a horrific gang rape and murder and when that happens you know there are these cases which have to be exceptionally brut to before there is a public outcry against what you know what an everyday lives you continues anyway so this has again mobilize people who are you know who are now saying we need justice that but nonetheless there are. legislators the ruling party legislators

that are marching in support that have marched in support of the rapists there are lawyers of that state bar association that stopped the police from going in and filing a charge sheet or tried to do so so it's so it's just the kind of absolute audacity that they feed and the other emboldened precisely by the silence of the leadership of the country so the indian prime minister has tweeted about a lot of things but not this not even a word to condemn so it's that kind of strategic silence of the ruling party which in effect enables this kind of violence and lawlessness and injustice against you know be it against in in for causes of protection or for you know other kinds of minorities and especially religious minorities i mean muslims in india right now are seeing seeing that and it's much worse it's very interesting to hear your thoughts on this natasha carol thanks very much for coming in. the democratic republic of congo is shelling its own donor conference in geneva on friday saying

the united nations has exaggerated the number of people who need aid the u.n. says escalating violence has displaced more than four million people within the country and since december alone seventy thousand have fled fighting in the east of d.l.c. for counts in neighboring uganda welcome webb has retraced the refugees journeys he's traveled from uganda's capital kampala to the chiang wali camp on the shore of lake albert where most of the refugees are resettled in cross the lake took a saying in a landing site on the d r c side of the water this is where many refugees take boats to escape to uganda and finally he continued to bania to a camp for internally displaced people. taken days for cooma kareen and her children to get from her village in the democratic republic of congo to three feet of this refugee camp in uganda with two year old patrice here. to explain is 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. husband his father was left behind. when the fighting started we were very skitt other people ran away but my husband wasn't around so i waited after everyone left i was alone so then i decided to run . is 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 borders the two countries un registers them before taking them to the camps. retrace their journey across the lake. in the wooden boat. is already. very often.

the u.n. says the people who took this journey are among millions of congolese in urgent need of help displaced by multiple conflict 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 and unlike those in uganda they received almost no assistance that the government says the un has greatly exaggerated the number of people affected by the crisis so it didn't attend the conference. but. we're not trying to deny that there is a humanitarian problem but we don't consider it's at that level we have to avoid making a business out of the humanitarian situation which discourages investors we can

bring economic development. it's clear that many congolese desperately need help. chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse malcolm webb al-jazeera you to reprove and in a democratic republic of congo we have much more to come on this news hour including james sophie unification we speak to koreans living close to the border added by highly anticipated meeting between the north and the south. lazies government considers giving special status to a syrian refugee has been stuck at kuala lumpur airport for more than a month and formula one world champion lewis hamilton sets the pace ahead of the chinese concrete but only just these houses for picture.

quality the weather still remains unusually disturbed across parts of the middle east areas of cloud spilling else of syria iraq pushing across iran and that's producing some rather live fish i was from time to time fifty to seventy millimeters of rain coming out of some of these actually thirty celsius there in baghdad eastern parts of iraq will see some cloud and right some very heavy rain into western areas of iran is nothing a little further north was up towards the caspian to see if you shall is just around maybe a georgia and azerbaijan over the next to die also that cloud extends all the way over towards tech minustah his back is start a few showers there making their way into afghanistan as well prices guys do come back in behind still not just some showers southwest inside of iran so if you shall was recently into the arabian peninsula cotton seems to be running just on this little by and of cloud it slides right down is that western side if you haven't always a possibility of want to light shows as we go through the next few days but it is

brightening up dry weather coming in behind temps is in doubt how to around thirty three degrees how to fish aspiration into central pa so so. if africa this area cloud that again is also in the process of easing away with bright skies coming back into the eastern cape. as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to become a disclosure on the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok we'll send our you waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera. we have

a news gathering team here that is second to non they're all over the world and they do a fantastic job when information is coming in very quickly all at once you've got to be able to react to all of the changes and al-jazeera we adapt to that. my job is is to break it all down and we held the view on the stand and make sense of it. welcome back to remind all the top stories here on the edges there are the u.n. security council has been meeting to discuss threats of military action from the u.s. and its allies against the syrian government following last saturday's suspected

chemical attack russia i'm serious say they have irrefutable evidence that the attack was staged and accused person of being directly involved in the provocation and gaza's health ministry says one palestinian has been killed and at least seven honda's of those injured during ongoing process along the gaza border. a report by the united nations children's agency says the group boko haram has adopted more than one thousand children in northeast nigeria since twenty thirteen many of the children were taken from schools like the chibok girls in twenty four more than one hundred of those two hundred seventy six girls are still missing innocent says nearly two thousand three hundred teachers have been killed and fourteen hundred schools destroyed by her argument interests has more from a brooch. well 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 gram atrocities involving the kidnap and up duction of young girls and children from their own homes even in may degree we've seen and heard talking about boko haram fighters who are then living in my degree in the early part of the insurgency walking into their homes dropping something like fifteen twenty dollars and pick up that just 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've see what we've seen in terms of loss in infrastructure or loss of months 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 with spoken to the father of the

only girl taken from who still remain captive in the hands of a book or a flight is in-depth who said he has of the children in school and he's contemplating on with doing that 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. volkswagen has unveiled its new had incoming c.s. gas to manage feet up in this growing list of struggling compounds all stemming the financial and reputational outflow from its massive emissions cheating scandal dominic cain has more on the man in the drive a saint. he's a man with a vision at least that's the image his company wants to portray these takes charge of at a time of potentially hard choices when some in the automotive industry believe w. which also skoda audi say it and porsche should slim down and concentrate on core brands wanted to lister's. it is our goal to make bargain one of the industry's

leading companies when it comes to profit innovation and sustainability. but one issue that won't go away is the so-called diesel gate affair when v.w. fixed emissions tests to show diesel was cleaner than it actually was dealing with it has already cost the v.w. group more than thirty billion dollars and now seemingly its chief executive his job. was appointed in twenty fifteen at the height of the scandal but in recent times has come under official investigation for what he knew about it and when by removing him and appointing does some analysts believe this move is a statement of intent from v.w. people bang for the op but there are folks of a clean up operation is underway it felt like and the rescuer mourner is leaving after he more or less concluded that diesel scandal and what's needed now. mr t. is a visionary and a great supporter of the mobility plan which is said to be massively pushed forward

at volkswagen so the decision is right also the new structures within v.w. pulling the different brands in order to have better steering it's a step in the right direction mission that's clearly something senior executives here in v.w. headquarters believe the question will be whether the vision the new boss is something that customers will like the look of dominic kane al-jazeera involved. the chief executive of telegram says the app well use its built in systems to get around and in russia earlier a russian court ordered that access to the telegram messenger service people. locked impacting on millions of years as it comes after the company repeatedly refused to give russian state security services access to its users secret messages telegram allows its more than two hundred million global users to communicate via encrypted messages which cannot be read by third parties and africa will go driven

and with a leadership style like that of a mob boss that's a scathing assessment of u.s. president donald trump in a new book by the former f.b.i. director james comey it comes less than a year after come he was fired by the president and the gallagher reports from washington. become more famous than me. even before james komi book hits the shelves it's making headlines in creating more headaches for us president donald trump in exits from ohio loyalty truth lies in leadership the former f.b.i. director writes this president is on ethical and on tell the truth an institutional values his leadership is transactional ego driven and about personal loyalty so many also alleges the president asked him to investigate rumors of a videotape showing don't trump with prostitutes in a russian hotel room he claims the president wanted to put the first lady's mind at ease i am extremely careful i'm surrounded by bodyguards i'm surrounded by people and i always tell them anywhere but i always tell them if i'm leaving this country

be very careful. because in your hotel rooms no matter where you go you're going to probably have cameras all i can tell you is the f.b.i. director has no credibility. online attack and is funded by the republican national committee aimed to discredit komi he was fired in may last year the trumpet ministration initially said he was dismissed over his handling of the f.b.i.'s investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails but president trump gave other reasons so it confused me when i saw on television the president saying that he actually fired me because of the russian stick. and learned again from the media that he was telling private leave other parties that my firing could relieve great pressure on the russian persecution book comes out next tuesday at a time when the president is already besieged with domestic problems his personal lawyers offices were raided by the f.b.i.

earlier this week and the fallout from accusations made by a former adult film star continue the picture james komi paints of president trump as unflattering to say the least the former f.b.i. director compares trump to a mob boss who demands loyalty over the rule of law his account of serving the president may not sway trump space but the memoir is already a bestseller and gallacher of his era washington. a syrian asylum seeker has been stuck at kuala lumpur airport for more than a month may now be allowed to stay in malaysia has an al contact was deported from the united arab emirates and has tried but failed to get into ecuador and cambodia and the malaysian government is considering giving him special status for a slower ports from kuala lumpur. so airport isn't the most comfortable place to spend a night for hassan al contact it's been home for nearly forty nine. real hope to syria has been devastated by war he wants to go to

a third country that will accept him but hasn't found one when al-jazeera spoke to his son he told us he wanted to get word out to his family that he thinks it's going to be ok what. for our testing. would have been a dispute going on. you would come to know that i'm not going back to the peacetime. air conditioner or the food. or. on its own. but has and says he's getting worried because he only has nine more months on his passport haasan says he hasn't tried to contact syrian officials in kuala lumpur that's because he doesn't want to be sent back he's been surviving on the kindness of strangers including a sudanese student osama subir who heard about the syrian plight via social media.

because. so. since hassan story went viral there have been many office of help people have been donating money to pay for his ticket out of malaysia the home ministry told al-jazeera they are deciding whether to allow him to stay but hasn't says that might only be a temporary solution as malaysia does not recognize refugees so he's still looking for a way out florence louis al-jazeera kuala lumpur. china is to hold a live fire drills in the taiwan straits next week exercises take place at a time of heightened tension with the u.s. over washington support for the island china regards taiwan as a breakaway province in ousmane came as the country's navy concluded its biggest ever fleet if you are in the contest in waters of the south china sea brown reports . in the sea where so many countries now have territorial claims an unprecedented

display of chinese military power image is likely to unsettle some of china's neighbors it was the top story on chinese state television running for more than twenty two minutes the fleet review involved forty eight warships a nuclear powered submarine and china's sole operating aircraft carrier the looming . display also included seventy six aircraft including bombers as well as ten thousand servicemen and women. dressed for battle issuing orders their commander in chief president xi jinping armed with words for a military he's determined to strengthen. building a strong navy has never become so urgent as today will carry out the thought of beauty a strong military new era. just forty eight hours earlier before

an audience that included world leaders president xi had sought to present china as the guarantor of free trade now in the south china sea that contains some of the world's busiest shipping lanes he had another message these are our waters and we have the strength to defend them. the display happened history u.s. navy aircraft carrier battle groups pass through these same contested waters china claims almost ninety percent of the south china sea and for the past few years has been reinforcing its claim by building artificial islands it denies they have a military purpose some of these warships and now sailing towards the narrow strait that separates china from taiwan to take part in a live fire drill next wednesday the first such exercise there in more than twenty years adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. a highly anticipated meeting between the

leaders of north and south korea is just two weeks away people who live near the border are hoping the summit can further improve ties after months of deflower missy kathy novak met some of them in the city of khost song. on the east coast is south korea's northernmost county it's home to a community of north koreans who arrived during the korean war seeking temporary shelter then found they could not return across the border when the county was split into a park killing so it was a baby with her family fled now she runs this restaurant which specializes in food from her homeland. there are only a few hundred north korean refugees left they often say that they hope the into korean summit goes well so they can return to the fields and the creeks of their homeland before they die a dream of reunification shared by others in this region further north not far from

the border about three hundred people live in the village of. their mostly elderly because there are no longer the opportunities there once were for young people it used to be a transit point for south koreans travelling on special tours to mount kumgang in the north but the program was shut down after a north korean guard shot a south korean tourist in two thousand and eight. it used to be very busy here there are no tourists to the residents who relied on commercial businesses had to leave. mere chung so hopes the leaders of the two koreas will agree to restart the program so his village can once again welcome tourists passing through many people in this border village may want to see the resumption of tours into north korea for south korean visitors but others argue there are ethical concerns about being a tourist in north korea because at least some of the money spent ends up in the hands of the government which is continuing to develop nuclear weapons and accused

of human rights abuses against its own citizens those issues are unlikely to be solved with one summit in the past it's been easier to agree on gestures bringing koreans together such as tourism and reunions for members of separated families. who wishes to see his brothers. who lives in the north but he's not getting his hopes up for that or any real breakthrough. after many years of being told i have no trust i just think oh i guess they're having a summit but i don't trust anything will come of it north korea is just trying to buy time that they're deceiving south korea but of kung does get his reunion he may just find himself on a bus one day crossing into the north korean side of this divided county kathy novak al jazeera co song of south korea so it's a column on the news hour. break. as satire about robert mugabe's final days as president takes center stage zimbabwe

in the test then you. and the sports caster semenya does iran double of the commonwealth games joe will have the details next.

now a satire about the coup that toppled zimbabwe's longest serving leader is taking center stage in harare the play openly ridicules mugabe and former first lady grace something that would have been unthinkable during his thirty seven year rule however much salsa has more from her already. one was. the production called

operation rigorously begins with grace mcgee former first lady insisting she can do what ever she nights i was his wasn't. was a god i was robert mugabe emerges accompanied by army generals who tell the ninety four year old and grace they are under house arrest the i don't believe. you can send them to imply that i knew i was. leaving the performers are acting what happened on november fifteenth when soldiers and armored vehicles blocked roads to government offices parliament and the courts then president mugabe was confined to private residence zimbabweans marched in the thousands demanding he step down eventually the man who had ruled zimbabwe for

thirty seven years was forced to resign we have was. read out to me i see now that mugabe is gone and image is president some are testing how far they can push the boundaries further seven years robert mugabe your deuced good years yet. but the question is did we speak out in both thirty seven years people watching the play got a chance to laugh at themselves and the country. in the process the government often criticized theatre productions and had i suppose a case sensitive issues some zimbabweans also display in the case that things are changing have been true for others on social. since mugabe's removal a few protests have been allowed doctors and teachers marched demanding more money there's always a line that's never to be crossed. subtle threats from the military from the

government. use this or lens based responsibly in codd's use their knee jerk response oblique in quotes and. it's not yet clear how much creative freedom zimbabweans have mugabe is fair game because he's no longer in charge with the people can openly mark the current leadership is another story. al jazeera. now over to joe for all of sports. say thank you when we've had a dramatic few days in european football that culminated in a draw earlier to find out which teams would play each other in the champions league semifinals and that itself has stirred up a mouthwatering draw byron. a five time champions by munich were drawn against title holders rail madrid in a clash of two of europeans titans yeah this is this is it is an exceptional encountering european football against the current reigning champions

and the reigning champions in the spanish league as well as the winners of the us super cup they also won the fifa club world cup it is a team with players that have an incredible ability was by and rails fourth meeting in a knockout faces two thousand and twelve the spaniards have beaten their german opponents in their last five matches the other semifinal will see liverpool's mohamed salah return to his former club room at the first legs of the same the finals will take place on april the twenty fourth and twenty fifth with the return legs a week later. the only plays of the three options we had we have never played before so. that's already exciting. i think it's how it always is and should be difficult will be to difficult games because of the fantastic side who sold it to games against barcelona if somebody only saw these two games and you know already pretty much everything about. the draw for the last four of the a rope illegal said took place on friday two time champion led to go but it will

face arsenal while masai place else booksellers book overturned a four one deficit to latvia on thursday to make it through to the semifinals english premier league clubs have voted not to use video replay technology in the league next season instead officials decided to extend trials of the video system referee or vos system for another year before choosing to adopt permanently in the league it will continue to be used in cup competitions the technology has been adopted by most of europe's major leagues for next season and will be used in the world cup in russia. south africa's caster semenya has made history at the commonwealth games on a strangely is gold coast becoming just the third female to win both the eight hundred and fifteen hundred metres titles so many is the reigning olympic and world champion over eight hundred meters and the twenty seven year old storm to victory in her favorite event on friday in a new commonwealth games record time of one minute fifty six point six eight

seconds. there's also a second gold of the games for uganda's joshua chip to gain in the ten thousand meters the twenty one year old holding off canada's muhammad lead to win the games record time checked again also won the five thousand meters he's the first man in over seventy years in just the second ever to win both titles at the commonwealth games. it was a clean sweep for kenya in the three thousand meters steeplechase olympic and world champion concepts list. took the gold ahead of abraham to be what and a most carry. an english catarina johnson toms and won gold in the women's heptathlon the twenty five year old who won the world indoor pentathlon crown earlier this year led the field heading into the final eight hundred metres race she crossed the line in fourth which was good enough to win gold ahead of canada's nina schultz and compassionate leave emerson it's johnson

thompson's first senior outdoor title. two indian athletes have been sent home from the gold coast for violating the game's no needle policy triple jumper rakesh babu and race walking it from thirty was also was asked to leave after a needle was found in their room in the athletes' village is the second violation of their role by the indian team these games we have asked the commonwealth games association of india to ensure both these departments on the first flight available as we have previously said as we have previously said the commonwealth games take a no tolerance approach to these matters but the calm of the. sea is no toll and the commonwealth games means no tolerance for the suspended boat defending formula one world champion lewis hamilton set the pace in fright on friday practice ahead of the chinese from pray but only just because a driver was seven thousand of a second quicker than for ariz can be reichman in the second session in shanghai

hamilton's teammate valtteri bottas was third fastest with sebastian vettel just behind his ferrari after a victory in the first two races this season vettel leads the world championship standings by seventeen points from hamilton. one of sports fiercest rivalries the boston red sox have won their latest series of games against the old foe the new york yankees in major league baseball the red sox had thrashed the yankees in the first game before you york came back in the second on thursday it was boston's nice night at fenway park two runs for mookie betts help them go six nothing ahead for chalo pitch seven school listenings ask boston ran out six to three wins and japanese sensation show her tiny can seemingly do no wrong on thursday the los angeles angels with three nothing up against the kansas city royals a tony stepped up to bat and rubbed salt in the royals williams with a three run triple the final score was seventy one to the angels only starting this

is clearly a rock n roll runner rasheed elmore beatty has won the world's most grueling race for six time he finished the math and de salvo just over twenty five minutes ahead of his nearest rival brother muhammad the ultramarathon takes competitors over two hundred thirty seven kilometers through the rough american terrain they also have to carry all or equipment for the six day race american runner magdaléna bull a one women's price. and that is so useful for now but to sue in london thank you joe and don't forget much more sports news on our website dot com that is it from a surcharge and for this news out there that we don't know will be with you in just a moment with much more of the day's news but thanks for watching.

what makes this moment this era we're living through so unique all this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion in what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important level wise to publish if you have a duty to be offensive or provoke that's all about it as people do setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. and hundred forty 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 full 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 war. on counting the cost how to get ahead in digital advertising why the new mad men dislike regulation but like harvesting everything they can about you french president's big test plus why oil the ruble and i mean you were in focus this week counting the cost on. al-jazeera. and for your.