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this is zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. six a mission accomplished president trumps a verdict after the u.s. person in france hit syria's government with more than one hundred missiles. if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again the united states is locked and loaded. a warning at the united nations there could be more to come if syria ignores the message it's been sent. but you know a little bit out of this after president assad supporters post on a show of defiance in damascus while state t.v.

shows him walking calmly into work. on all the top story this hour tens of thousands of south africans but when the magic is selling mandela farewell at a state funeral and sweater. and ivy just image in doha with all the day's sports news for legal leaders goss' alone to be put in syria to make it a record thirty nine games in a row without defeating the spanish top flights that and more later this news. welcome to the program all top story u.s. president donald trump has praised american british and french missile strikes against the syrian government as perfectly executed calling it mission accomplished it's the most significant attack against president bashar assad and the first coordinated retaliation for last saturday suspected chemical attack on duma

washington and its closest allies and more than one hundred missiles targeting a sigh. if it was such a facility in damascus and to chemical weapons storage facilities now homes one was also a military command center syria says it shot down thirteen incoming missiles over damascus while its ally russia says syrian forces intercepted seventy one cruise missiles throughout the country the strikes have just been discussed yet another heated u.n. security council meeting this one was called by russia it ended with the council voting against a resolution condemning the attacks so let's now speech on defense correspondent patty calling who's monitoring everything at the pentagon and so patty just hearing well president trump being president with the now infamous phrase that he's used to describe the operation in syria do pentagon officials share his views well they're trying to narrow the idea of what he was talking about and this does

show you what an unusual president president donald trump is every politician for about a decade has avoided say the words mission accomplished george bush did about the iraq war and it was a huge problem for him because the war obviously continued on and on and that was brought up again and again so this raises the question that if there is another chemical attack is that going to be basically brought up and put in his face and said how's that mission accomplished you know here at the pentagon perhaps because they say that they've seen a two thousand percent increase in activity from russian trolls and bots over the last twenty four hours they're being much more forthcoming than we're used to seeing under this administration they had a press conference here. this morning one last night with the secretary of defense they're really trying to send the message that they see this particular mission as huge success. i used three words to describe this operation precise overwhelming and effective that the at the pentagon claims of success as they roll

out his lights to show it with that they say is total destruction of three chemical weapon sites in syria a research facility a bunker and a storage area in all one hundred five missiles and bombs fired from u.s. british and french ships submarines and aircraft the pentagon says russia didn't try to fire back and they claim all of syria's attempts to shoot them down failed we've attacked the heart of syrian chemical weapons program i'm not saying they're not going to be able to reconstitute their theory and it's not saying that it's going to continue but this is dealt them a very serious blow so that i think that's that's the core of what i'm saying u.s. president donald trump was quick to claim victory on twitter writing mission accomplished a spokesperson here at the pentagon tried to clarify that rather broad statement saying this particular mission was successful or accomplished they admit though they didn't destroy all of syria's suspected chemical weapons russia and syria have denied that chemical weapons were used investigators from the organization for the

prohibition of chemical weapons arrived in syria hours after the strikes the u.s. says it didn't need to wait for their findings they had evidence enough but they provided none of it to the public line a lot of this has to do with intelligence and and i'm very happy to show evidence if i can but we were very confident that the decisions we made the u.s. is not saying this is over they say that depends entirely on what the assad government decides to do next. right so it and passing it one of the chances then what are the prospects of the military strikes what are you hearing from from the pentagon on that today. well i think what you're seeing is if you talk to people in washington this is the least amount that they could have done to send a message this isn't debilitating to his air force it isn't going to stop his chemical weapons program but they hope it is sending

a message but if you think about the broader context of this president trump really sort of boxed himself in earlier in the week where he basically threatened russia and said we've got great new smart missiles that will be coming your way than he's tried to take that back because he was criticized for telegraphing the military move something that he often criticized his predecessor for so i think there was a broad sense in washington that he was going to take some sort of action and it would believe that the secretary of defense should mattis was urging exactly this strike to send a message but not to lead to escalation so the message that they're sending from the pentagon is they can act again they choose they would like not to but now that they've put this out there at the u.n. security council with language like we're locked and loaded it would seem that if there is any sort of chemical weapons attack if they can say they have the intelligence to prove it was the assad government's actions then they're going to be forced to act so there really is just a wait and see attitude here at the pentagon thanks very much from the pentagon patty. lounges there is

a no one in beirut looks at the reaction that we've seen inside syria to the missile strikes. so liberations in the streets of the syrian capital and a message of defiance from government supporters hours after u.s. led airstrikes were described as the tripartite aggression. the strikes didn't come as a surprise for days the u.s. and its allies were discussing their options that allowed the government to evacuate military installations and potential targets. at the end the operation lasted for less than an hour it was limited to destroying what the pentagon said was syria's chemical weapons infrastructure in the words of the u.s. defense secretary james mattis a one off shot just like was executed with that. doesn't the russians particularly or not the russians and very difficult position and push them to

retaliate so i think everybody i mean i said it before everybody seems to have been relieved and some seems to be happy because this like was not as bad as it was a few days ago. the western alliance said the strikes were about deterring the use of chemical weapons but the syrian opposition leader nasser and how d.d. once and on all attacks against civilians by the syrian government on twitter he said maybe the regime will not use chemical weapons again but it will not hesitate to use weapons this was never about regime change nor was it about reducing the syrian government's military strength and it's not just about punishing the government for the alleged use of toxic materials. on the main issue is iran's presence in syria so this sort of crisis has to be seen in this political context this time they didn't target iran because they wanted to avoid escalation but the

issue about their presence has not gone away especially for israel. israel has been targeting iranian assets in syria for some time now iran said seven of its revolutionary guards were killed in the latest suspected strike on the t. for air base it's promising retaliation the risk of confrontation between the u.s. and russian military may have now receded but the possibility of a showdown between israel and iran is still on the table the iranian backed lebanese group hezbollah which is fighting alongside the syrian government says there is a new phase following the attack on the t. for air base israel it says is now in a state of direct confrontation with iran. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei denounced the leaders of the u.s. u.k. and france as criminals following saturday's strikes and said they won't achieve any gains there were fears of a wider conflict if russian iranian and hezbollah forces were targeted approach syrian government alliances the claiming victory but this is not the end of the

crisis for bashar al assad arriving for work on saturday it appears he wanted it to look like business as usual. beirut. so let's get more reaction on these strikes on a binge of aid is live for us from gaza on the tacky syria border and we know where russia and the u.s. stand on this obviously but really that we see in the syrian conflict become only more fragmented over the last seven years in a raid of different actors tell us more about reaction in the region to these strikes particularly from assad's allies absolutely reaction has been quite in continuation to what we've seen in the last year eight years of how the syrian crisis has split the middle east when you talk about the reaction it depends on who you talk to in the middle east even in countries like.

in jordan in among there were people who were divided on the streets and some supporting the strikes people who support the rebels some people who support the bashar assad government but against these strikes in the lebanese capital for instance they were in reaction in support of hezbollah and the iranian presence inside a syria in other places as well as the iranian government put it this saw this as a criminal act they said this is a violation of serious sovereignty but also in the region especially people in places like turkey they find themselves in a very difficult position because turkey is not just to do nato coalition but it also has a very close relationship with iran and russia who are on the opposing end of the fighting the turkish president however who was very timid in the lead up to this saying that the talks are the only way out was very strong very strong words said the reaction by the international coalition of the united states france and britain

was appropriate. she didn't follow the up till it was unthinkable to leave all the attacks the regime has conducted an answered that is why we welcome this operation because we can't tolerate what has happened the perpetrator has to pay for it and the regime has to understand that this inhumane and lawless attack will not stay on answered. and that is something that has also been picked up by the syrian opposition saying that this was an appropriate response to the united states and its allies should do more they are to stop the bashar al assad government from docketing people civilians they said would not just chemical weapons but regular weapons as well as people have continued to die in the war in the last seven years. we know that inspectors from the o.p.c. w. are now on their way to do move they have arrived in damascus what are the

expectations from this fact finding mission will they be able to complete that task . but it is a very controversial visit now which was requested on behalf of the syrian government and the russian government and there's been much criticism of these strikes the russian ambassador saying that the united states perhaps should have waited until it had proof and the u.s. saying that it had enough intelligence to carry out these strikes the delegation is in the syrian capital damascus they were due to begin their work today and as we heard the russian ambassador to the u.n. saying that perhaps this was the reason why these strikes were happened that maybe they want to stop the work of the open but the chemical watchdog says that it is on course then they are going to carry out their job doing to find out whether an attack in duma happened to which there has been so much reaction but to the dismay off many syrian opposition leaders as well as people who've been opposing the assad

government this delegation is not going to appropriate blame it is not going to find out who actually carried out this attack if it finds out the other thing that is going to be difficult for specters according to activists on the ground is how are they going to get testament testimonies from people who are under pressure that syrian government and its allies have taken over the besieged rebel town of duma. attack people who have been telling us about intimidation tactics that have been loyd by the syrian government some medical workers have been saying that they have families in damascus and they have been threatened not to say anything or not to give any proof. about whether this attack happened or not. all right thanks very much a summer binge of aid in gaziantep on the turkey syria border also in the last hour the united nations security council has rejected russia's draft resolution condemning the messiah attack as a violation of international law moscow called this emergency council meeting to

demand that the u.s. and its allies cease their aggression against syria only russia china and bolivia voted in favor of the draft resolution eight countries voted against four abstained and of course nine votes were required for the resolution to pass mike hanna is live for us at the united nations a draft resolution brought forward by russia that was heavily defeated at the security council today it was indeed that's a surprisingly heavy defeat but one must remember that this is a deeply fractured divided security council this is the fourth time the council has met in emergency session in the course of the week a number of resolutions have been introduced none of them have been passed in this particular case however no need for a veto from one of the permanent members because the mine votes to pass the resolution in the first place will not obtained but once again

a heated council debate russia denying once again that any attack took place and the united states being insistent that this may not be the end of military action should syria in its view carry out another attack i spoke to the president this morning and he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again the united states is locked and loaded when our president draws a red line our president enforces the red line. well the russian ambassador in a heated speech to the security council reiterated something he's been saying in recent days that there is no evidence that any such attack took place and t v a mentally rejected the strike carried out by the u.s. and its allies than it's going to give. the united states supported by the power

lies launched airstrikes against military and civilian targets in the syrian arab republic without a mandate from the united nations security council and in violation of u.n. norms and principles of international law and aggression against a sovereign state was carried out. in an act of cynical to staying a group of western countries decided to take military action without waiting for the results of the investigation russia condemns the attack against syria in the strongest possible terms. well even as yet another resolution fails to pass france says that it will contemplate introducing yet another resolution to the security council in coming days this one it says a doctor ready katie what it calls syria's weapons program at the same time as step the shing a cease fire and a lasting political solution given the ongoing argument within the security council very difficult to see any resolution concerning syria making its way through like

can a united nations thank you. so you are hearing there russia has dismissed the western strikes as an acceptable and illegal or a challenge has more on the reaction from the russian capital. the russians are looking at what happens they're assessing the impact of these strikes and they're thinking this could have been a whole lot worse than it was if you think back to the beginning of the week and all the kind of hot talk that was being thrown around the russian ambassador to lebanon saying that russia would be shooting all u.s. missiles out of the sky if they came anywhere near syria that it would actually be striking back against the platforms to launch them u.s. warships and u.s. planes none of that happens the cooler heads seem to have prevailed in washington d.c. perhaps persuading donald trump that there was no point in risking a great escalation and risking

a greater conflicts with russia so russian assets were not hurt russian lives were not endangered. iranian assets and iranian military lives were not endangered in this strike there were targets against three specific facilities that the u.s. and its allies believe were connected to syria's chemical weapons process those were hits but nothing else was. well in the u.k. and france questions are being asked about the legality of launching the strikes before any consultations with parliament be philips has more on this from central london. into the dark on the road from their base in cyprus british tornadoes headed into the night sky armed with storm shadow missiles which they would fire at a military facility just outside the home is the objective according to the prime minister very specific in scope this is not about intervening in the civil war

it is not about regime change. it is about a limited and targeted strike that does not further escalate tensions in the region we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalized which jets were also on their way and the french government described the attack on syria in similar language. there it is limited to precise objectives the destruction of the chemical capacity of the syrian regime in order to prevent it from carrying out more chemical attacks and pursuing a strategy of terror against its own population this action is proportionate and targeted. on the streets of paris some support for the a time due to move to sit to shop i think that the strike that was announced is a good thing i think that is our western societies duty to advocate a certain example to me. it's dangerous to face up to russia we don't know how

relations can be with pollution. back in london it's possible that british public opinion who did as it is seen here as the disastrous invasion of iraq may be more skeptical the main opposition leader characteristically cautious about the use of force parliament should be consulted parliament should be allowed to take a view on this but instead the strikes were launched last night parliament is in session on monday she could have come to parliament on monday to discuss the whole situation instead it launches strikes she claims there is legal basis for it i've asked her in a letter i've just sent to this morning to publish in full the legal basis and justification for it well later in the day the government did publish a summary of the legal advice which it took before launching the attack it justified it on the basis that the suffering in duma had been extreme and that the use of british forces had been proportionate that's the argument to raise the mayor will make when she appears before members of parliament on monday but already

critics are saying that that parliamentary debate should have taken place before not after the attack was launched but to be philip's al-jazeera westminster in central london. also our senior political analyst joins me in the studio now so. the military strikes have happened president assad has been punished what happens now. well it seems like everyone is celebrating this for sure certainly everyone is declaring victory was kind of bizarre you know when you consider that so many syrians have suffered and the bombing have just taken place but i mean really look at it. the syrian regime is claiming victory of steadfastness and continuation showing the very bizarre pictures of assad and his. and his supporters cheering in the streets of damascus you had the arrangements declaring victory about the none

changing equation of their influence and presence in syria you have the russians taking up the higher moral and legal grounds against the western powers and certainly you have the americans declaring mission accomplished and you have the british and the french saying we did what we must without you know killing anyone in syria and so on so forth so bizarrely everyone is declaring victory and no one seems to have learned anything from this lesson or have any idea where to move or how to move forward. the u.s. doesn't have a coherent policy on syria are we any clearer on what. well look. there was. a strategy but there was some kind of. a wish list. that was put out three months ago and it was very clear one free syria from weapons of mass destruction from chemical weapons to free syria from i so dollars three free syria from

it rainy in influence for free syria from bashar assad five allow syrian refugees to go back and rebuild so if you actually look at it you would see two out of the five wish lists getting rid of eisel and taking care of chemical weapons of more or less getting accomplished. and the other three and the u.s. is still in syria exactly but the other three are the challenging ones which which i think is the bottom line if you will for the americans it is not exactly chemical weapons per se it is not exactly bashar al assad per se because if we heard it clearly from the crown prince of saudi arabia after he left washington i think there's an understanding of sort that bashar assad staying i think for the americans and for the saudis and the israelis let's not forget the by the israelis because the israelis have just had their attack last week against a against

a syrian base airfield where iranians were present seven iranian revolutionary guards were killed so for all of that this really is the saudis the americans the french and so on so forth what's important is getting grid of the reunion influence in syria even if it will be done under the patronage of russia. that's not going to happen is it nothing has happened really to damage iranian or russian authority or territorial gains in syria at the rain in some wind vest and other in syria this is . this is so true i mean in so many ways even the. layout see the political advisor of the supreme leader of iran many just told us that doesn't you know you can bombard from the air but that will not change the equation on the ground that iran bashar assad and russia remain in control and

that whatever you do by air or through missiles is not going to change that equation on the ground in fact the problem with this sort of strike that we see in early hours of the morning is that they are so limited in scope that they might claim that there is a mission accomplished in terms of chemical weapons and that we don't even know that this is true but in terms of the consolidation of power by the assad regime and behind it to iran and moscow that even more so today than before and now we hear that the russians might give us as three hundreds advanced surface to air missiles to the syrian regime we hear that the iranians are going to get more involved and we had that the assad regime might now expand further south and north to the areas where the opposition unintended consequences thank you very much. in watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead iraq's political parties began campaigning for upcoming elections but they faced tough challenges in

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a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the top story u.s. president donald trump has praised american british and french missile strikes against the syrian government as executed washington and its closest allies launched more than one hundred missiles. syria says it shot down thirteen incoming missiles of damascus. russia has accused the united states france and britain of violating international law and the u.n. charter. and the u.n. security council has just voted against a resolution proposed by russia which condemned the attacks. palettes now at

the reaction to the strikes on social media when the syria strikes were announced much of the world started discussing it on twitter using the spanish english and french spellings of syria to debate whether the u.s. u.k. and france have made the right decision and looking at the online conversation in arabic one hashtags stood out on saturday america strikes this tweet from mohamad to wish is one of the most popular posts using the hash tag he says the west message to kill as you wish when you wish and where you wish and how you wish but without chemical weapons and while these pictures of planes and missiles are for many in the west the signature images of this military strike syrian media spent much of saturday's showing pictures like these of syrian missile defense systems appearing to intercept some of the air strikes in syria and russia both say many of the missiles were stopped but the pentagon says this is completely false and that

syrian forces fired missiles after the u.s. coalition strikes were complete so all of this is part of the information war in overdrive since the apparent chemical attack one week ago president assad is very much involved here tweeting out a video of him showing up to work after the u.s. coalition strikes in what appears to be just a normal day of work. well syrian state media also showed footage of people across the country celebrating what they consider to be the government's triumph over western aggression but some citizen journalists say that these pictures are fake fake news the video the president assad for example shows a shadow directly below a tree indicating it was taken mid day and not after the strikes as the post claims there's criticism of the u.s. u.k. and france as well thousands of british twitter users have used a hash tag not my name theresa may and over in france the minister for armed forces florence parly tweeted out this video showing the control room for one of the missile launches but as you can see all of the top reactions to her tweet have been

people skeptical asking for evidence that syria actually used the chemical weapon on its people and well no civilians were killed in the strikes development economist mohammed al douri told us this military action did little to help syrian civilians of urgency this is cheap political posturing on the part of the countries that are conducting the strikes if they actually cared about civilians they would support refugee programs that would lead to more refugees on their territory the u.s. is doing little or fiji this year from syria the u.k. and france have a terrible track record with that as well so of course it's unfortunate that this is just political messaging that comes at the expense of of syrian civilians and so the information war continues to be fought on traditional and social media and it's news conference at the pentagon said that been a two thousand percent increase in russian trolls in the last twenty four hours and so more about this with kid giles a senior consulting fellow at the russian eurasia program at chatham house thanks

very much for speaking to us what is russia trying to do. well first of all let's think about the social media trends that we heard about just in that last report we have to bear in mind that russia devotes enormous resources to trying to create the impression on social media that western policies are being criticized and that its own conspiracy theories are gaining support so the unfortunate fact is when you hear about the british tweets not in my name to reason may or the french skepticism over the legal justification for launches you have to bear in mind that without close inspection you can't tell that these are british or french citizens and not in fact these russian trolls that have stepped up their activity now if you watch the press conference from the american syrian military this mattison done but immediately after the air missile strikes you will have seen they concluded with a warning that that this information campaign was about to be stepped up and indeed that is exactly what we have seen from russia over the last twenty four hours but i

guess from russia's perspective they say that you have western media westen viewpoints western arguments that very much dominate conversation and policymaking and that actually propaganda is used by everybody not just russia but is certainly what russia would like everybody to think unfortunately it's really a misleading impression of the situation russia has ramped up its information warfare capabilities intending deliberately to subvert congress asians as opposed to simply providing objective information which other media do so it is in fact a hostile and insidious campaign which is designed to erode and undermine free media and free exchange of an opinion as opposed to enabling it. so then tell me if there is this battle over the use and deployment of information and propaganda what parallels do you draw with the way this is played out in conflicts of the past particularly between russia or u.s.s.r. in and the west well russia and the u.s.s.r.

before it and even back into tzarist times imperial russia has always seen information warfare as a really important means of achieving its geo political goals and achieving strategic objectives but what has really changed since crimea is that russia has realised that information confrontation can in fact replace arms aggression to do so crimea is held up as the gold standard of how if you get the information stick right you can achieve that caesar of somebody else's territory really without a shot being fired and so since then they have concentrated even further on exploiting the potential of social media of exploiting mass consciousness mass public opinion and seeing where they can use those to leverage actual policymaking by their adversaries in order to erode their options for resisting russia can i just ask it and i'm not making a direct comparison here because you know each each situation as its context but to a certain extent has in the trump of ministration done exactly the same thing we see diversionary tactics we see simplification and or distortion of facts it's not

the trump administration pursuit of a trump is the wild card because he seems to have learned so much from the russian side and it injects this element of unpredictability and of course that unreliability now previously before the arrival of trump you could reasonably assume that most western leaders most of the time at least attempt to be telling the truth and that was what really set russia site now we have this complicating factor that the the very top of the u.s. administration is doing precisely the same but i would echo what other u.s. leaders further down the chain say which is watch what we do not what we tweet. arwa thank you very much kegel senior consulting fellow at the russia and eurasia program at chatham house. the biggest gathering of heads of state in the western hemisphere is taking place in peru it is from across the americas a looking to tackle corruption and overcome differences on trade and political

crisis in venezuela is also a big focus there is several notable absence in the u.s. president donald trump is one he pulled out at the last moment just ahead of those military strikes in syria so john heilemann joins me live from lima what if we had a summit that. well as we speak spectate today a lot of the talk has been about venezuela the issue there is really serious problems in terms of the economy in terms of humanitarian issues and also in terms of an upcoming election that many countries around there isn't going to be free and there was lots of halt to it during his way there and again election the united states to some degree is trying to push in that push that reaction against venezuela as well another issue that came up was obviously the u.s. led missile strikes against certain points of syria with different mostly regional

allies talking about condemning the use of chemical weapons in syria is a sort of tacit rather than. two states but one of the countries canada went a bit further let's hear from prime minister justin trudeau. the decision by our allies the united states france and the united kingdom to take action to degrade the assad regime's ability to launch chemical weapons attacks against its own people canada stands with our friends in this necessary response and we condemn in the strongest possible terms the use of chemical weapons in last week's attack in eastern goot we will continue to work with our international partners to further investigate the use of chemical weapons in syria and those responsible must be brought to justice. the cuban government

was i think the only government that came out again. and said that condemned the use of missiles by the united states and their of our allies saying that that was illegal. and john so many different challenges in the region right now what is the likely outcome from this one of the trying to achieve from this summit . of the other events sort of overtook it a bit the main theme of. but corruption now the host country peru says they met with an agreement that they expect everyone to sign on to in the summer if they do manage that they will be an achievement in two thousand and fifteen in the last one of the woman before that they didn't manage to come up with an end agreement but the what we've seen of the agreement so far is pretty basic points about corruption and about how they hope to make institutions

more free and more autonomy in the future but nothing very concrete and that was really forseeable you could remember that a lot of the governments here at this summit that the been talking actually in the plenary session about how they've succeeded in eradicating corruption have had significant problems with corruption in the last couple of years there's been a huge scandal involving bribery that's basically spread across the whole of this region sort of yet to see if a cool it will make any real concrete difference in the way that governments go about business here thank you very much john hong homan with all the latest on the american summit from lima. let's go parties in iraq have started campaigning for the upcoming parliamentary elections in the seven thousand candidates are competing for three hundred twenty nine seats and next month's but they face tough challenges as well particularly in the aftermath of the three year war to defeat i still know how to dole reports. since there are the military announced the defeat of iceland

december two thousand and seventeen many it out there have been displaced people of return to their homes in most parts of the country life is slowly returning to something up foreseen the market. but the struggle to unite a country for generations divided along sectarian lines is far from over could the elections on may twelfth help some say mortal toll what was up again without all. those campaigning won't change anything they have the same faces they just change their posters and banners and much nepotism is involved. there's a colored field of convenience with five major shia analysts two sunni two kurdish and some smaller parties and independents current prime minister and he's produced as a new deal maliki had separate lists within the ruling da a poet. the leader of the but that organization is allied with the iranian backed shia militias known as the popular mobilization falls is. the powerful shiite

cleric modeled also that with a strong support base among book that's poor has allied with communists prime minister these popular with many of the country's sunni minority who funking for risking them from life and i saw but sectarian fears still run deep in iraq and religious loyalties have traditionally been exploited by parties during elections and some view his government as corrupt so i want the what. it does not matter if not as long as this corrupt government is ruling from the green zone to blend snatched from the iraqi people and it's brought the owners. in the same ilk thomas mufon kurdish region political loyalties are changing after the cut is regional governments failed referendum bid for independence last the new parties are seeking to challenge the traditional ruling ones the p u k n k d p and of course regional

players will be watching events closely some politicians are warning neighbors iran and turkey not to meddle in the pool and exploit mistrust between shia and sunni voters mahomedan to al-jazeera exactly four years since two hundred seventy six school girls were kidnapped from their school in northeastern nigeria by the group boko haram parents as a missing girls have marked the anniversary by much into their school and renewing calls for their release fifty seven girls escaped in the immediate aftermath of the attack and four years on one hundred twelve still being held by gerry as president how would you bihari says talks with iran to free the rest of the girls suffering from setbacks because of internal divides within the armed guard. the funeral of and here party activists when america's element has been held in south africa thousands of people gathered in her hometown of the west to pay tribute to the woman known to many as the mother of the nation catherine so i sent this report

from the funeral. we might give their loved one denis casket is brought into their land a stadium where rapturous applause was the tens of thousands of south africans came to be how goodbye and the best way they know through song and dance with. thousand members of different political parties sat side by side with dominating collars of grinning yelling for the african national congress was part of and read for economic freedom fighters whose ideology shaped the president cyril ramaphosa described as a fierce revolutionary still lives on and the mission that's called have. as it strives each day to fulfill its destiny as a united peaceful and prosperous and just aside.

to many south africans just most of all the official fighter doing apartheid she also stood with the poor afterwards most people here relate to her even after apartheid ended she wanted to fight for their rights she often said that south africa may have a great. many execs to know what it really mean to have economic and social freedom people have talked of her desire to see that distribution of life and a passion for young people and how frustrated she was about the wealth disparity between the minority white and elite black south africans on one hand and majority to pour on the other we also have to go back and decide for ourselves what natural justice means as a country so i think that people feel aggrieved the african majority in this country many of them feel incredibly still aggrieved. by the idea that people who had. traumatized that. dispossessed them live among us. we need mandela was also embroiled in controversy she's been accused of human

rights abuses during apartheid but he had been the dish of the a.n.c. it was criticized all vilifying and abandoning half to apartheid some of them by police but i mean it's you have turned it on you know senator arlen that's a person they're told they're going to be done you know fine art that's our present day we're ready to prove me right in front of the world after all was said and done we knew mandela's potential slowly made its way through so we're told the township she calls home to a memorial cemetery where she was buried. those people say she never wavered from fighting for a better life for black south africans and for that they say she's a hero cathy zoi al-jazeera johannesburg. still ahead for you this hour. our influx of syrian refugees is actually helping to boost jordan's economy. and it seem a thing for

a commonwealth games combination that's been pushed all the way to go last that action much more in sport. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very true those words privatization on anybody if they only killed. those people e.c.v. every two years something to invest a profit of they want our way up to the last drop on al-jazeera when the news breaks. on the mail man city and the story builds to be forced to leave it would just be all when people need to be heard to women and girls are being bought and

given away in refugee camps al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you the award winning documentaries and live news on al-jazeera i got to commend you all i'm hearing is good journalism on air and online. a comeback of seven hundred fifty thousand syrians have sought refuge and neighboring jordan which has put a huge strain on the country's resources and economy but a new joint initiative is aiming to reduce the impact by training refugees to join the local workforce and sasha going to reports from. more

strict mohammed jamal of the life he built in syria his job as a factory supervisor has allowed him to create a new one in jordan and restore his dignity. of the telephone idea of the beginning i could not provide the basic necessities of life for my son growing in my wife thank god now i'm having a decent life so jamal is one of thirty syrians recruited from refugee camps working at el san about the diaper manufacturer has been hiring syrians for five years and they now make up fifteen percent of its workforce when we started this process and it was video below the those are those if it positively to the all in all in vitamins what's happening at al sanibel and other factories in jordan could mark a new approach to how the international community assists refugees three quarters of a million syrian refugees are registered in jordan which has put

a strain on the country it's struggling with high unemployment and cost of living the hope is by providing work for refugees they will contribute to not drain the economy this would make let's say a wing to win situation this with. his force or dam because some of. some of the employers would come from outside of jordan and start having their new projects the government has made it easier and cheaper for syrian refugees to get work permits and streamline the process for companies looking to export to the european market the u.n. refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. has established eleven recruiting centers now more than ninety five thousand syrian refugees mostly men are working in factories farms construction sites and and stores. says by working his way up to factory

manager he's now in a position to provide opportunity is really good for me i'm happy because i feel like we were at l. sanibel having syrian refugees as part of the workforce has had another a fact the owner says it's brought a unity and an understanding that everyone whether a syrian refugees or a jordanian is first and foremost a human being natasha dizzier the had jordan. joins us now with all the sports marion thank you so much after being knocked out of the champions league on tuesday barcelona have bounced right back to make it a record thirty nine games without a defeat in the spanish topflight a two one win over valencia on saturday now sees them fourteen points clear at the top of the league or standings luis what is boss of the lead at the nou camp the school was doubled when samuel netted even though then he pulled one back it was

not enough to stop boss alone. it also means real madrid can go third with a win on sunday against bottom of the league malaga visiting the dens men off fresh from a champions league quarter final second leg defeat so you venters but they went through on aggregate anyway rael will be looking to bring back that winning feeling being though. if you watch malaga games it might shock you to see the position they are in in the league but with that being said we know that we go there to win the match it is going to be difficult because they are going to give it their all and that is normal we have to be ready to claim the points and we are currently doing quite well in the league it's continued to be a good week for liverpool after the champions league we never manchester city midweek a big bowl or three mail at home in the english premier league on saturday sorry i'm on a most. getting on the scoresheet the win takes you're going topside just one point

behind second placed manchester united in the standings meanwhile chelsea came from two goals turned itself in a much needed three points in the space of just eight minutes and hazard scored he sixty nine for league old and olivier giroud found the back of the net twice to keep chelsea's slim chances of finishing in the premier league top four alive. chelsea are in the standings remember just the top four teams qualify for a mixed season's champions league while fifth place will gain entry into the europa league talking are currently seven points clear of their london rivals and could move even further ahead they have just got underway against leaders manchester city city missed the chance to rep up the title against manchester united last saturday well they could still win it but only if they beat spurs and united lose to bottom of the table west brom on sunday sebastian vettel is on track for a third straight victory of the new formula one season after clinching pole position for sunday's chinese grand prix the ferrari driver was over half

a second quicker than defending world champion lewis hamilton in qualifying in shanghai on saturday hamilton who has won five times in china will start from fourth on the grid behind his mysterious teammate valtteri bottas and the other ferrari driver kinnear i can vettel leads hamilton by seventeen points in the driver's standings while ferrari have a ten point lead over mitt city's in the constructors' championship because it was really amazing it just kept getting better really happy i i know that the first lap i had some mistakes i lost the rear i think to the extent of the last bit and then six again so yeah i was a bit beaten out but then i knew that if i get a tidy lap and i have a little bit of margin i can push it through with. relays took center stage on the final day of athletics action at the commonwealth games on australia's gold coast end it was a golden double for england's track stars first in the mains for the by one hundred

metres relay where harry akins are u.t. leading the english team home ahead of south africa and jamaica some consolation to full team mates are now hughes who was disqualified after crossing the line first individual two hundred metres earlier in the games. and there were also celebrations for england's women's four by one hundred metres to. they held off jamaica just six hundredth of a second to take gold jewelry out winning the bronze. but after a rare silver bronze medal finishes in those sprint relays jamaica finally struck gold in the women's four by four hundred meters relay final individual four hundred meters bronze medalist stephanie macpherson bringing the jamaicans home well clear of nigeria in second and botswana in three. parts when i won the men's four by four and then put on another powerful show for the crowd individual four hundred metres gold medalist isaac mccloy leading a unique celebration he's. finally major league baseball's new

sensation has scored another first the night after the japanese rookie show hail tommy hitting his first three run triple in the competition he has struck a double for the los angeles angels and that's not all the designated hitter and pitcher achieved the home version of the game winning run as the angels came from behind to defeat the kansas city royals five. and that's all the sport for me i'll have another update for you in the twenty one g.m.t. hour but for now back to london and marion thank you very much peter well that wraps up the news out for me but my colleague lauren taylor will be with you in a moment with a full blast of news around up of all the day's top stories including the latest on syria coming up next.

when the winning the win of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine is going to overdrive. but just who he's been feeling saying. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what kinds of tests. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside the media opinion that listening post based time on al-jazeera. a new poll ranks mexico city as the pull for worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have

a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened i think about how to react what do i do if this gets west's no money on the uses a new service it's called loyal droid it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers the apple for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven the training of dr as. a story fourteen hundred years in the making. a story of succession and the leadership. as josie that tells the story of dispute and division of the hall. the caliph episode to just.