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this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour life and i'm martine that is coming up in the next sixty minutes we can say that the syrian government was behind this attack we talked about this the other day. the united states says it has proof of who carried out a chemical attack in duma as it considers military action. the cold war is back with a vengeance but with a difference. the head of the u.n. walls against a full blown escalation in syria. one palestinian is dead hundreds more were wounded in the latest protests at the girl's the israel border. plus the summit of

americas kicks off without some of the region's top leaders. though the cold war is back that's the doris essman from the u.n. secretary general antonio good ted ash as an international standoff escalates over a suspected chemical attack in syria. the u.s. and its allies considering military action against syria in response to last saturday's alleged chemical attack in duma the leaders of france and the u.k. have agreed to work closely with washington and yet another u.n. security council meeting the fourth this week syria's main ally russia again claimed it was staged by western powers while in washington the u.s. state department says it has evidence that links bashar al assad's government to the attack we can say that the syrian government was behind this attack we talked

about this the other day the white house says address this is what we know that this was a chemical weapon that was used in syria the exact kind or the mix that we are still looking into there are some television shows out there in the united states that have started to ask well why aren't we releasing all this intelligence information right now a lot of the stuff is classified at this point so those things we're going to hold pretty close to the vest right let's go to new york now and the united nations security council meeting our correspondent there was mike hanna. some both cheeks for the russian ambassador but any hope that the russian and american rhetoric would record down was soon dashed as the ambassador's continued what this week has become a familiar confrontation in the security council denial of any attack on one side the story in the padilla's didn't you that when you there is no credible confirmation of this specialist found no traces of toxic substances the residents

of duma know about no such attack all information about the alleged attackers have been provided by n.t. government forces forces who have interest in such development of events an incredulous response. i started to listen to my russian friend and respond. but instead i'm in awe of the silly and how you say what you say with a straight face i really really the secretary general's impassioned call for unity in the council was clearly ignored and turn your good terrorists painting a bleak picture of a world facing multiple conflicts the cold war is back with a vengeance but with a difference the mechanisms in the safeguards to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seemed to be present and another familiar scene at the start of the session the us ambassador once again entering with her french and british allies and in an apparently posed huddle sending

a clear signal of joint concern and possibly joint action mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. in moscow the russian foreign minister has appeared to accuse britain of being behind a fabrication of the chemical attack but. our specialist who examined the area did not find any confirmations of the application of chemical weapons chlorine or of any other kind moreover we have irrefutable evidence that this was another staging which the social services of a certain nation how to handle a nation that is trying hard to be in the front row of the anti russia campaign for 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 for yet seen from the russian 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. well meanwhile experts from the global chemical weapons watchdog they're currently in syria to vesa gate this alleged chemical attack zana holder has more on that from 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 have been 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 the 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 and one where they are 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 why this move away from syria for now in gaza's health ministry says one palestinian has been killed and more than seven hundred fifty others were injured in the later. day of protests along the border with israel thirty four palestinians have been shot dead by the israeli army since the demonstrations began at the end of march harry for centerfolds was one of the protest organizers had called this third friday of demonstrations along the gaza border the day of burning the israeli flag demonstrators carried a mocked up coffin there in the pictures of israeli soldiers whose bodies are believed to have been held in gaza since the twenty fourteen war. but at the center of this protest for a third week with thousands of teenagers and young men unarmed prepared to approach

the border fence despite the all too obvious risks israeli soldiers had already killed more than thirty demonstrators and injured more than a thousand with live fire in the first two protests of. the sixteen year old ismail salim understands the dangers all too well he was shot and injured in the initial round of demonstrations against donald trump's declaration in december recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital in the last hour or so that now i want to send my message to the world that we have the right to live like other nations and other children living through both should not be our destiny while other flippin pace and stability. protection such as it was was delivered in the film of time burned to provide a scream from israeli snipers since the last protest israeli troops have erected a secondary fence at this site three hundred meters inside gaza and territory protesters made repeated sometimes successful attempts to drag sections of it away

israeli soldiers responded with tear gas and live bullets. like this really seven o'clock now who are still people are being taken towards the ambulances another injured man here with a gunshot wound to the lower leg that has been a tactic throughout for the last three weeks the israeli military as they were missing to continue to use life i reduce these posters they believe they can go back right throughout the day. the israeli army released video of what it said was an attempt to breach the border fence in southern gaza it said molotov cocktails and i e d's as well as rocks had been thrown towards israeli troops accusing gaza's ruling faction hamas of using the protests as cover it's a charge the organizers reject pointing to the sheer number of a mom demonstrators who've been shot since the protest began its shoot to kill and shoot to me thinking that by doing that they are going to intimidate and terrorize people but the people are quite detailed men to come to organize nonviolent peaceful protests in order to send

a message to the whole to tell them they are to you and is it wishing calling for our it said the demonstrations are due to carry on into the middle of next month when israel celebrates its seventieth anniversary and palestinians mark seventy years of what they call nakba the catastrophe. gaza's overstretched ambulance crews and hospital staff knew that at least until then this is how fridays will be a force that al-jazeera gaza. the u.s. vice president says his country will give sixteen million dollars to help support hundreds of thousands of people who fled political and economic turmoil in venezuela mike pence made the pledge on the opening day of the summit of the americas in peru well there in the peruvian capital lever is our correspondent john the home and mike pence coming instead of donald trump this is a summit that at least on the first day is being dominated more by those who have not shown up rather than those who are there. exactly that and i'll give you

a quick rundown of who isn't here the first of president maduro often as well venezuela and he's not coming because he was uninvited by host country peru the countries in this region a quite disapproving of venezuela's humanitarian and economic crisis and the elections coming up the many people feel could be fair in that country. he was uninvited the next of president trump decided that he was going to stay at home at the last minute rather than coming here he's the first u.s. president to do that and that's quite a blow for the summit he's very unpopular in latin america but still adds prestige to have the united states president here so he was the second not to shop and now we've just heard that brown castro the president of cuba will not be coming to the summit and that's significant because it was going to be his last regional appearance before he stepped down as the president of cuba but has cost a little bit of a cloud on the opening day of this summit as other presidents start to arrive here

and moving on to those who are there we've already seen pictures of mike pence and little about the sixty million dollars that he is pledging to give to venezuelans have managed to get out of the country to venezuela is going to clearly be one of the major issues being discussed. you're exactly right venezuela is going to be somewhere near the top of the agenda and that's where the united states and the countries that support really want another country another issues that's going to be high up on the agenda is going to be corruption the official theme of this summit is anti corruption it's quite poignant because the country where it's been held peru lost its president in the last couple of weeks to the bribery scandal the consequences of which continue to echo around latin america some countries have prosecuted politicians other countries haven't done and it be interesting to see how in just over a day of school in this summit they managed to come up with concrete solutions to tackle it there's some doubt about whether whether they can one of the issue that's

also coming up is trade at the moment a lot of countries obviously interested in that wilbur ross the secretary of commerce of the united states came out and supported his boss president trump's announcement that the united states could re enter the transpacific partnership a twelve country trade agreement that it left just about a year ago that it could start to reenter that first one of the things that coming out so it's going to be official plenary meetings is going to be official bilateral meetings but also important in this day and a half the summit going to be the meetings in corridos in lobbies those employment discussions between countries civil society and business leaders that something could come out of indeed and mike pence meeting opinion yet it will be an interesting one as well john heilemann i'm sure will report that this is in this that takes place thank you for now. now acquittals president has confirmed the death of two journalists who were kidnapped on the border with colombia last month

the men list seized along with their driver by a full a faction of colombia's fault rebel group the reporters were on assignment for the key to based. newspaper when they were abducted. with deep sorrow i regret to inform you that the twelve hour deadline is over we have not received proof of life and regrettably we have information that confirms the death of a compound there's not a lot more to come on this out as their news hour including this is nothing more than a poorly executed p.r. stunt by comey to desperately rehabilitate his tattered reputation the white house responds to a book by the former f.b.i. director that likens the president to a mafia boss. pakistan's former prime minister now i sharif is banned from politics for life. and a clash of european titles as couple of israel madrid draw against by munich for the champions league semifinals joe will have the details and spoke.

at the white house has been quick to dismiss former f.b.i. director james comey as new book which is highly critical of president trump as a poorly executed p.r. stunt the president five komi last may well his agency was investigating a possible collusion between russia and the trump campaign can believe it has more from the white house and is to me the newest allegations by former f.b.i. director james comey has the white house on the attack instead of being remembered as a dedicated servant in the pursuit of justice like so many of his other colleagues at the f.b.i. comey will be forever known as a disgraced partisan hack that broke a sacred trust with the president of the united states komi was fired by u.s. president donald trump in may of last. year after comi told congress that investigators were looking into the trunk presidential campaigns ties to the

russian government in a new book a higher loyalty komi pates a picture of it in secure self-possessed leader comparing him to the mob boss as he was prosecuted but it was the salafis allegations about an incident in a moscow hotel room in twenty thirteen that has deeply upset the president when he was still f.b.i. director comey met with truck to discuss unproven reports the russians film trouble with prostitutes according to komi trump was concerned his wife would think the allegations were true and i remember thinking how could your wife think as a one percent chance you're with each other moscow i'm a flawed human being but. this is literally zero chance that my wife would think that was true trump denies the allegations and took to twitter calling called me a leaker a liar and a slimeball he's repeatedly denied any collusion with the kremlin during the

campaign but the russia investigation continues under special counsel robert muller for truck campaign officials have already been charged. the latest allegations come at a tense time in syria trump is deciding whether to retaliate for an alleged chemical attack there has got so much on his mind right now that he in the best of times doesn't seem to be making good decisions i think his decision making in foreign policy could be even worse because of all these so-called distractions the book could also overshadow another key policy decision next week donald trump will sit down with japanese prime minister shinzo abbay to discuss his upcoming meeting with north korean leader kim jong un and his nuclear program b. of a meeting is scheduled to begin the same day james comey is book is released can really help at al-jazeera at the white house and staying in washington a u.s.

prosecutor has dismissed a claim by president trump's personal lawyer the materials seized by the f.b.i. from his home and office should remain private prosecutors also confirm that michael cohen has been on the criminal investigation for months cohen is at the center of a controversy surrounding the president and the poem star stormy daniels who claims he was paid one hundred thirty thousand dollars in twenty sixteen to keep quiet about a sexual encounter she had with mr trump on friday a judge approved a request from daniel's attorney to be heard in a closed meeting about cohen's bid for a restraining order on the seas materials. i think there's no question that there's documentation in those records concerning the video she asian with my client perhaps communications with the president relating to the payoff there could be a whole host of documents relating to that agreement the payment what the president knew in winning new it and we're going to hopefully find out exactly what's in the documents and one more item of washington news and president trump has issued

a full pardon to the man who is chief of staff to form a vice president dick cheney lewis scooter libby was convicted of lying to investigators and obstruction of justice in two thousand and seven after the identity of a cia agent was leaked unofficial reports from washington. he was dick cheney's right hand man inclusive confident but after a four year investigation into how the cia official valerie plame is name was leaked to the porter's. scooter libby find himself in court charged with lying to the f.b.i. and obstructing a cia investigation he was convicted of obstruction perjury and lying to the f.b.i. he was sentenced to thirty months in jail he never served one day his sentence commuted by president george w. bush his boss's boss no he's been given a full pardon by president trump pardon libby was the right thing to do after the principal witness recanted her testimony the d.c.

court of appeals panel unanimously voted to restore mr libby's bar membership after being presented credible evidence in support of his version of events and it appears that that key prosecution witness judith miller changed her recollection of the events in question. it was alleged libby a cia operative valerie plame to reporters she claimed the move ended her career and put agents overseas at risk one mission was to look at husband and career diplomat to see wilson a criticize the iraq war she says donald trump doesn't really care about a criminal case from ten years ago this is a very bad idea it sends a message that that those who commit crimes against national security can be pardoned elected begin by condemn the pardon came just hours after the president attacked former f.b.i. director james comey before the pardon was confirmed and adam schiff one of the leading democrats in congress tweeted on the day the president strongly attacks coming for being a leaker and a liar he considers pardoning

a convicted leaker and liar scooter libby and this is the president's way of sending a message to those implicated in the russia investigation you have my back and i'll have yours the white house is the nine the libby pardon has anything to do with the militant best again insisting it's simply writes are wrong from the past libby was convicted. special counsel was appointed to investigate the plame case the department of justice official who appointed the special counsel james komi. washington. the nigerian president says a rift within the group boko haram is hampering talks to release girls abducted from chip books four years ago fighters kidnapped two hundred seventy six girls from their school in the north eastern region in twenty fourteen some of them managed to escape and others have been released but one hundred of them are still missing and now a report by the un's children's agency unicef says boko haram has abducted more

than a thousand children in the area in the last five years almost two thousand three hundred teachers have been killed and fourteen hundred schools destroyed armitage or says our correspondent in a puja. 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 book or from atrocities involving the kidnap and up duction of young girls and children from their own homes even a degree we've seen and heard parents talking about but why fight is what 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 that will just and saying that the money is for dolly now expletive 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 month 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 book one 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 so 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. india's prime minister narendra modi says the culprits behind the rape and murder of a child in general in kashmir will be brought to justice he made the comments of the several mass protests in india broke out of relegation as a ruling b.j. people trying to protect the men accused mariana holland has more. than.

the rape and murder of. spot widespread outrage that was where anger at the brutal attack of an eight year old girl in anger 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 a hindu rajai 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 country we are growing up in and what kind of country we are in this country in which direction the went missing in january in the hindu dominated area in indian administered kashmir. look at betted body was found days later she had been strangled and repeatedly gang right to. 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 full police offices all of them reportedly to be local hindu mean who were connected to a land dispute with the girl's muslim community. mania angry that this rally in support of the accused included members of the b j p the party of prime minister not interim. body of the same to egypt which is also a body here in the us would be the support to lose 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 in new delhi at the same place with thousands of people demand. rated 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

women and goons medium the hond. but we've been speaking to natasha cool who's a kashmiri author and associate professor of politics and international relations at the university of westminster she says politicians in india must speak out on daily missal journey that's prevalent in the country. 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 exercise our over now it takes a lot of you see for the conscience of the middle classes to be jilted as we saw with the near perry 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 brutal 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 feel and the other precisely by the silence of the leadership of the country full of pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has been banned from politics for life five supreme court judges made the ruling on friday sharif was removed from office last july over corruption allegations which he has repeatedly denied come all has more from islamabad. a landmark decision by the supreme court which would have huge implications for the ruling party progress on muslim league now watch now why should a voice earlier disqualified by the court and july of last year over the palomar

data leak scandal of course she's facing a probe by the national accountability court now washer dave and his supporters of course have been taunting that you're dishing it saying that they're being with him i follow day one the whole trial event quite controversial the reject you all form the people belonging to the. family live in stance on and off the eminent didn't lose and jackie. all of the shore you know which way the water is going to go. it will remain a black spot on the judicial history of pakistan. when the fact is that he has been caught however another senior of politician from the pakistan tehreek in charge of the opposition was also disqualified under the same article in december his party of course has shared that their respect the verdict of the law but the ruling government is saying. now why should

a few orders have already been called by the court for contempt of court and also one of them has been sent for a month or jailed however the ruling party is not going to accept their verdict the people across pakistan of course will say that there is indeed a border shared by the country's supreme court which i shall decide any ambiguity pertaining to ditch constitutional law. lots more to come here on the al-jazeera news hour including. laying out since the beginning of this year and it will. probably. get away. we'll be retracing the journey. and we look at the bridge ahead for folks says the company tries to move on from scandal and financial loss. replacer referees

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you know with al jazeera time for its take a look at the top stories this hour zira news out the u.s. says it now has proof that the syrian government was behind the suspected chemical weapons attack in the town and duma is working with france and britain on a possible military response syria's main ally russia says the attack was staged by western powers. gaza's health ministry says one palestinians being killed and at least seven hundred others have been injured in the latest protests along the border with israel. the summit of the americas has kicked off in the peruvian capital lima presidents trump castro and my daughter and not attending the meeting . ok let's go back to our main story today and that is the international standoff over that suspected chemical attack in syria now the u.s.

is reportedly amassing its largest air and naval strike force ever since the two thousand and three iraq invasion and that includes apparently ten warships and two submarines in the mediterranean and gulf region a guided missile destroyer with up to sixty tomahawk missiles is already within range and when say the u.s.s. harry truman carrying ninety aircraft and five s. cool ships are also set to sail for the mediterranean and for its part britain has got eight cruise missile capable tornado jets at cypress airbase is also deployed submarines with tomahawk land attack missiles and according to the times newspaper of the year. ok it has offensive cyber weapons prepared to counter russian and syrian air defenses. all right let's speak now to retired u.s. army major my client who joins us via skype from new york good to talk to you mike i'm just wondering. the world is waiting as it's anticipating the next move i'm

wondering at what stage do you think the deliberations a rat with regards to what action is going to be taken against syria well i think the countries are deciding what the military targets would be in that the fact that five days of passed since the u.s. president said that they were going to be some kind of attacks as allowed the syrians and the russians to harden a lot of their targets move things around move military assets around we've seen that happening and so i think the target list is changing all the time and i think we've got to be careful about pushing this too far and getting to a place where russia could respond russia if we decide to use for example aircraft manned aircraft that can get out of the sky you can have a very quick escalation of hostilities in with that with just just tomahawk missiles attacks and i think we've got to just be very careful and understand what these unintended consequences could be mike you sound absolutely certain the military strike is in the offing. i you know what i'm not sure i'd say

probably ninety percent there's a side to me though that thinks that this coalition would not be able to do a military strike that would get the assad reason to stop using chemicals we've got to try to negotiate this maybe a little bit more i'm a little more optimistic at the u.n. perhaps we can get a cuban missile crisis moment there where we can show proof and specifically get the russians to agree but it doesn't look like that's the case both sides are hardening and i just don't know what those military targets are and i don't know if the syrians now have embedded themselves more with the russians if the united states kills russian soldiers with this military strike and the coalition forces i think things can escalate very quickly indeed this is the morning that's come from the u.n. said to general at the security council meeting isn't it that this has all the potential of escalating out of control and turning into a multi-faceted conflict and this is a direct confrontation in the past even during the cold war all of these were done

by proxy you had other countries involved but you're going to have the united states now lead this coalition was mostly u.s. technology u.s. air power and we're going up against some pretty sophisticated air defense capabilities of the syrians they're going to go well outside the syrian border syria in defense of their homeland is going to fire missiles that could hit u.s. targets could hit u.s. warships so all of those things are on the table we haven't seen a situation like this since you know well before the cold war we thought it ended back in the early one thousand nine hundred i might work with the the specific objective of any military action to be taken against syria what exactly would they want to achieve. well we want to make sure the assad regime recognizes that use of chemical weapons is a complete nonstarter can't do it he's got challenges inside of the civil war but we don't want to see him launching these chemical weapon attacks it's you know based on a a treaty that was developed at the end of the second world war of democratized

nations saying we were going to use these weapons again and the question is will a military strike achieve that end the strike that the u.s. did last year creating a runway it created some challenges for the assad government but it didn't stop them and their investor helli said there's been another attack since so what's it going to take is the military really going to be used as a as a hammer to basically stop it to stop these chemical attacks what that means is we're going off there every single chemical target and any capability that they have when it comes to delivering table chemical capabilities all right my client's talking to us live from meal tank you very much indeed thank you. syrian asylum seeker has been stuck at kuala lumpur airport full only say yeah i may now be allowed to stay in malaysia has and was deported from the united arab emirates and has tried to fail to get into other countries but now the malaysian government is considering giving him special status that's florence lee now reports from calling

the. so an airport isn't the most comfortable place to spend a night for hassan al contact it's been home for nearly forty nine hasan israel home 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 or. so. just think. what's happening is the economy. you want them to know that i'm not going back to the peacetime. i have an air conditioner. or. so. it has and says he's getting worried because he only has nine more months on his passport 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 saberi 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 has and 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. volkswagen has a new both seeing coming see herbut d.s. has to manage the auto giants growing lists of struggling car brands trying to.

from a coffee emissions cheating scandal dominic cain has more on the man in the driver's seat. 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 dodge and bang for the op but there are folks of a clean up operation is underway at fault wired and the rest is leaving all to a more or less concluded the futile scandal and what is needed now. for mr d.c. is a visionary and a great supporter of me my billet which is said to be massively pushed forward. 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 which 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 u.k. says the former russian spy said gates could have found his place and last month had been under surveillance by moscow for at least five years the claim is made by a senior british intelligence official in a letter to the nato secretary general said gays script holidays dollars a year you were exposed to a toxic nerve agent insoles pre-match the fucker reports 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 world's opinion that script file would so continue to be seen as a likely a legitimate target for assassination it perhaps 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 scrip our case claim versus counter claim continues this diplomatic route showing very little sign of abating at all. the government of the democratic republic of congo has boycotted its own donor conference in geneva saying the u.n. has exaggerated the number of people who are in need of aid an estimated seventy

thousand people have fled fighting in the east for camps in neighboring uganda malcolm webb has retraced the refugees journeys he traveled from uganda's capital kampala to the chiang wali camp on the shores of lake albert where most of the refugees are resettled he then crossed the lake to the cassette landing site on the d r c side that's where many refugees take boats to escape to uganda and finally he continued to bunia to a camp for internally displaced people. it's taken days for cooma careen and her children to get from have village in the democratic republic of congo to the safety of this refugee camp in uganda with two year old patricia. and she septic spray is just too much. life in the camp begins with frank scenes in a medical check. fled her village after her brother in law was killed by

a militia with machetes. husband father was left behind. when the fighting started we were very skinny it 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. as among thousands who fled to uganda since the beginning of this year most of them arrived here by boat on the shores of lake albert that 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. others.

around. the un says the people who took this journey are among millions of congolese in urgent 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 and unlike those in uganda they receive 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 turi province in the democratic republic of congo a play about the toppling of zimbabwe's long serving president is taking center stage in harare the sas are openly ridicules robert mugabe and his wife something that would have been unthinkable during his thirty seven years in power how room a tussle reports one was. the production called operation reg a-c. begins with grace mccartney's the former first lady insisting she can do what ever she nice i. just wasn't. god was. in robert mugabe emerges accompanied by army generals who tell the ninety four year old and grace they are under house arrest.

condition came to that i knew i was. the performer 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. in the thousands demanding he step down eventually the man who had ruled zimbabwe for thirty seven years was forced to resign we was. read out to me i. now the mugabe is gone and innocent as president some are testing how far they can push the boundaries purpose of america's robert mugabe you do. 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 sensitive issues some. display in the case of things like change you have to treat 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 needs to be crossed. subtle threats from the military from the government that use this online space responsibly in quotes use their knee jerk response a bully in quotes i was. it's not yet clear how much creative freedom zimbabweans have mugabe is fair game because he's no longer in charge whether people can openly mock the current leadership is another story. still to come on the al-jazeera news. does a rare double at the commonwealth games will have. the details the.

rise is time for the school she's now his joe thanks very much we had a dramatic few days in european football that culminated in a draw to find out which teams would play each other in the champions league semifinals and that itself threw up a mouthful tiring troll. byron. five time champions by and munich were drawn against title holders rail madrid in a clash of two european titans. 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 so it's buy and rails fourth meeting in the knockout phase of the champions league since two thousand and twelve the spaniards have beaten the german opponents in their last five matches in any of the semifinal you'll see liverpool's mohamed salah returned to his former club roma the first legs of the semifinals will take place on april the twenty fourth and twenty fifth with a return leg a week later. the only plays of those 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 saw the two games against barcelona if somebody only saw these two games and

you know already pretty much everything about rome the draw for the last four of the europa league also took place on friday to time charm his athletic eye madrid will face all still while most say play souths books outspoken overturned a four one deficit a lot c.-o. 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 ball 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 australia's gold coast becoming just the third female to win both the eight hundred and fifteen hundred metres titles so many a 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 was also a second gold of the games for uganda's joshua kip brewery chipped again in the ten thousand meters the twenty one year old holding off canada's muhammad lead to win in the games record time check to gate also won the five thousand meters he's the first man in over seventy years and just the second ever to win both commonwealth titles. the wall there was a clean sweep for kenya in the men's three thousand me to steeplechase reigning olympic and world champion consensus bruto taking the gold medal ahead of competitors abraham give you what a most cruelly. and in those catarina johnson thompson claimed the women's heptathlon title 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 in that which was enough to see her win gold head of canada's nina schultz and fellow english athlete emerson it's johnson thompson's first senior outdoor title she'll now bid for a third gold of twenty eighteen at the european championships in august meanwhile to indianapolis have been sent home from the gold coast for violating the game's no needle policy triple jumper wreckage and race walker it fun thirty were asked to leave after a needle was found in their room in the athlete's village is the second violation of the rule by the indian team at these games. we have asked the calm of games association of india to ensure these depart the street 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 games that ration no say is no tolerance the commonwealth games means no tolerance for these suspended. it

is unfortunate that that's a legacy because our insisting up to billing them so many times i don't know how they get rid of. and so i think should not happen broken run a rasheed elmore beattie has won the world's most grueling foot race for a sixth time he finished the marathon day sabol just over twenty five minutes ahead of his nearest rival and brother mohammad the ultra marathon takes compasses over two hundred thirty seven kilometers through the rough american terrain they also have to carry all their equipment for the six day race american runner magdaléna brulé won the women's rights. and that's all the sport for now more later and that's all from the al-jazeera news hour finale don't go away because i'll be back in just a minute or two with much more of the day's news of course we'll keep you right across all the day's developing sources say with us here that.

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the nature is news as it breaks this was a great election about who was going to win but it was about by how much with detailed coverage of the syrian civil war now listen to. what is new or different is that each the some people will live until to morrow so many innocent people will die from around the world the bats and balls are several years old the really good player to end up trading cricket academy and maybe one day playing for the national team. stories of life. and sparring session. a series of short documentaries from around the world. that celebrate the human spirit. against the arts. al-jazeera selects hunted.