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this is al-jazeera. is the news hour live from london coming up. precise overwhelming and effective the u.s. verdict on allied missile strikes the targeted chemical weapon sites in syria. the pentagon says the strikes will set syria's chemical weapons program back years. meanwhile at the u.n. security council a draft russian resolution that would have condemned the allied action is voted down and in other top story. tens of thousands of south africans bid winnie but he's in a man dela farewell at a state funeral and so wetter. and arpita standard in doha with all the day's sports news legal leaders barcelona people in syria to make it

a record thirty nine games in a row without the feet of the spanish top flight better more later in the program. the u.n. security council has voted against a resolution to condemn the overnight military strikes by the u.s. u.k. and france against the syrian government is the most significant attack against president bashar al assad and the first coordinated retaliation for last saturday's suspected chemical attack on duma washington and its closest allies launched more than one hundred missiles targeting a scientific research facility in damascus and two chemical weapons storage facilities near homes one was also a military command center syria says it shot down thirteen incoming missiles over damascus russia says syrian forces intercepted seventy one cruise missiles throughout the country u.s.

president all trampas praised the strikes as perfectly executed corning it mission accomplished article hain has the latest from the pentagon. 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 what 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 the syrian chemical weapons program i'm not saying they're not going to be able to reconstitute it there 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 whine a lot of this has to do with intelligence and and i'm very happy to show evidence if i can that 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 particle hane al-jazeera at the pentagon. syrian state t.v. news broadcast pictures of damascus residents don seeing on the streets and

chanting in support of president bashar assad so now to has more from beirut. 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 with 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 that's 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. four air base israel 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 alliance is declaring 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. russia strongly condemned the strikes accusing the united states france and britain of violating international law and the u.n. charter mike hanna has more from the united nations this is the first time the council has met on syria this week a series of meetings that have served only to illustrate the massive divide on the issue because the secretary general's repeated calls for unity ignored they are all members to show restraint in these dangerous circumstances and to avoid any acts that could escalate smetters and worsening the suffering of the syrian people the meeting was called by russia and its close ally in the council but libya and outrage was expressed at the strikes took place even as international experts arrived in damascus to investigate whether or not a chemical attack actually took place or brings up an aggressive new standard this

is the organizers of the aggression didn't even wait for the elementary establishment of facts by an international organization which is authorized to do that they supposedly determine everything for themselves and you term who was guilty and u.k. ambassador argued the strikes were justified in terms of international law and in the representative from france was adamant that in the absence of diplomatic agreement the strikes were the only form of sanction against syria that remained and the u.s. ambassador threatened further action i spoke to the president this morning and he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again the united states is a lot and loaded when our president draws a red line our president enforces the red line. like every resolution on syria introduced in the past week this one failed only russia bolivia and china voting in favor this well short of the nine votes that would have necessitated

a veto from one of the permanent members despite a hopelessly split security council france says it will introduce yet another resolution this one addressing the dismantling of a chemical weapons program in syria also aimed at forging a cease fire and a durable political solution for those seeking some straw to clutch in the diplomatic breakdown away from the implacable confrontation in formal session members of the council continue to informally even affectionately engage mike hanna al-jazeera united nations in the u.k. and france questions are being asked about the legality of launching the strikes before consulting parliament bonamy phillips has more from central london. into the dark unknown 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 homs 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 targeted strike that does not further escalate tensions in the region we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalized her french jets were also on their way and the french government described the attack on syria in similar language. it is 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 for pursuing a strategy of terror against the population this action is proportionate and targeted. on the streets of paris some support for the a time due to force it to stop 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 says. it's dangerous to face up to russia we don't know how relations can be with britain. back in london it's possible that british public opinion hoarded as it is seen here as the disastrous invasion of iraq maybe 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 of strikes she claims there is a 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 reason may 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 . u.s. and british leaders have spoken on the phone since the strikes let's get more from alan fischer in washington d.c. so what did they discuss allan well donald trump has made a call to both prime minister theresa me and also present macor france we got a readout from the white house they were very brief to both leaders he said that they agreed that the strikes had been successful and necessary there was a bit more detail in the call with president mccraw where he said they had to discuss international stabilisation in syria to allow them to continue the battle

and the eventual defeat of eisel but this isn't the only international calls that have been made over the last few hours we know the president the one in turkey has spoken to both president putin of russia and also president of france in those calls he talked about the need for an international effort to come to an all inclusive diplomatic resolution mike pence who is the u.s. vice president who spoke to congressional leaders before the assault late to or on friday is currently in lima at the convention of the americas he says a number of leaders from the countries there have approached him both privately and publicly to thank him for taking action against syria and we know that the state department has made a number of calls to our allies over the last few hours not least the czechs the kuwaitis and the iraqis all this part of the international effort that the united states is mounting after the attack and any further indications from the

administration of what they intend to do next. well the fact that donald trump is speaking to president marc wrong to say there has to be a reinvigorating the international efforts for stabilize ation in syria but really talking more about the battle against eisel then coming to some sort of political settlement in the very long civil war in syria suggests that that is where the american focus is certainly we know that. thursday when james mattis was giving evidence on capitol hill he was asked what is the long term strategy for syria a lot of the questioning really concentrating at that point mainly on the possibility at that point of airstrikes and so it will be interesting to see what the next step is for the united states i suspect perhaps they were sitting waiting to see if there would be any military reaction from the russians and the iranians the feeling in washington is that the syrians are

a no position to launch any sort of attack against the united states the russians seem to be seated with the fact that none of their troops were killed the right the really as they believe are making more noises but don't intend to follow through with military action of course all of that at this stage is supposition but it appears that no the military option has been used the americans are going to look to push forward on the diplomatic front to try and move the situation in syria forward and official thank you very much indeed. more of the same joining the studio but what's next for syria is a. visiting fellow at the european council of foreign relations thanks for coming in so what do you make of the position now nearly twenty four hours on from the strikes where does it leave syria now in terms of the future well this these

attacks probably want change much on the grounds apart from the stated aim of deterring the syrian regime from using. resorting to chemical weapons but we know that we remember this is not the first time syria has been hit after accused of for using chemical weapons but the difference this time is that. it's not just the u.s. it is joined in by the u.k. and france which makes it a stronger much more stronger politically and it also became a fact that there is a pact. that has some military results but the problem is that the did that do not have a. political solution a political strategy on the ground that's why this this military attack would remain limited it didn't even degrade the capacities of syrian regime so i mean and it is you impression that is the political message it sends rather than the actual

destruction the ground of any chemical storage and so on that is likely to influence whether assad is tempted to use chemical weapons in future well syria was hit before and they resorted to. you know accused of resorting to chemical weapons against again and now the syrian regime is in a position that is much more stronger than in the past the rebels do not necessarily pose any threat to. against president assad in the long term and the remaining pockets of the rebel held areas could be. attacked by using other weapons and maybe the rebels are also political a. weaker than before so what about the reaction from russia i mean there's been a lot of suggestion that even if they don't retaliate militarily the retaliation might come in other forms of cyber attacks and so on how likely is that you think actually this is also a retaliate from the west against russia i mean we shouldn't forget that this is happening against the backdrop of the defeat of isis and it's the fact so capital in iraq and after that the kind of cards have been carved in

a different way in syria with russia in inviting turkey to capture a suicide nikken area in the north by using one nato country against the others and this is kind of also a response to that those steps from russia to actually delivering a political message that russia cannot have the cake eat it and. also i mean this sent a message to turkey as well that it may not be that easy to forage to balance out russia and the west if the tension arise further it doesn't mean the many mention of the role of russian and and and the kind of attempts to kind of perhaps manage what it's achieving on the ground in syria but in the end isn't won't russia be be happy if they end up getting a sort of warm water port that they can use to to project power from isn't that there well you know maybe a few months ago we were actually closer to a political solution there which russia which is the main patron of the syrian

regime would want to have some sort of stability in the country but then we've seen russia moving away from that and bringing in another actor into syria and now you know which is turkey now we are further away from any kind of. solution in syria apparently russia wanted to. kind of shelter some sort of lack of political will in the in the west and wanted to push for a kind of a maximalist solution by further weakening the nato allies. allies of the u.s. on the. grant but there might be some of these attacks show that there might be some repercussions of it but if the political will a political solution remains lacking that it is a big problem because syria you could us that coalition is supporting the. syrian democratic forces but they don't support group politically they don't even recognize the group and so do you but do you think in the long term the u.s.

and its allies will keep to this position they only can intervene if there's a chemical weapons red line crossed or do you think there's a danger they conversed getting more sucked in to the syrian conflict more generally and and in potentially conflict with the other actors are in position i think we cannot rule out the danger to you mentioned because syrian war in the past was a proxy war between larger forces on the ground who is doing the fighting were mostly proxies at the moment we have syria. and u.s. forces on the ground russian forces on the ground iranian turkish forces and french forces on the ground so it is no longer a proxy war and all these major regional and global forces are on the ground facing each other and there are russian soldiers very in proximity of u.s. army bases in eastern syria so we cannot rule out like big dangers of these military moves but this time apparently it was well coordinated with russia with syrian regime relocating their military equipments and fighter jets near it in

russian army bases not russian military bases thereby saving them from air strikes but that coordination in such a volatile situation cannot always be trusted because it is thank you thank you very much indeed and we should just thank you meanwhile in the u.s. antiwar protesters have marched outside the white house in response to the airstrikes were jesters chanted hands off syria and call for peace not war they say they want the world to know not everybody in united states backs a military solution is. i think every child our government just stop being bobby cox. the people have to speak out the world has to go it's a government that's not a us thing. this side should stand for something very different our aspirations are not the cause but justice never to the people for peace which is a consequence of justice not of power. have also been protests in europe against

the u.s. led missile attack on syria in greece around seven thousand people turned up at a rally in central athens to protest against the move a demonstration was organized by greece's communist party and saw crowds march to the u.s. embassy holding banners and chanting antiwar slogans but he's vehicles barricaded access to the embassy and there was a heavy riot police presence. to other news now the funeral of anti-apartheid activists when the medic israel a man deller has been held in south africa thousands of people gathered in her hometown of so wet zero to pay tribute to the woman known to many as the mother of the nation she died nearly two weeks ago in johannesburg at the age of eighty one after a long illness katherine saw reports from the funeral. we need to give their loved one denis casket is bossy to their land to stadium to a ruptured supply the. the tens of thousands of south africans keep to beat

had to buy the best way they know through song and dance. thing there was a different political parties sat side by side with dominating collars of greening yellow for the african national congress as part of and read for economic freedom fighters whose ideology shaped president cyril ramaphosa described as a fierce revolutionary still lives on and that. that's called have. as it strives each day to fulfill its destiny as a united peaceful and prosperous and just society. to many south africans just most holy a freedom 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 of 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 and in rwanda by the idea that people who had. traumatized that. dispossessed them live among us. we mandela was also embroiled in controversy she's been accused of human rights abuses during apartheid but she 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 even left turn it on you know furniture that are present

there to be done in a fine art that's our present day we're ready to humiliate 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. people say she never wavered from fighting for a better life for black south africans and for that they see she's a hero cathy zoi al jazeera johannesburg. exactly four years since two hundred seventy six schoolgirls were kidnapped from their school in northeast nigeria by the armed group boko haram the parents of the missing shot girls are marked the anniversary by marching to 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 are still being held and here is president obama do bihari says talks with boko haram to free the rest of the girls suffering from setbacks because

of internal divisions within the armed group. or more to come on the program including. well tell you how u.s. trade tariffs on china could impact on its nutritive beef industry. an influx of syrian refugees is actually helping to boost jordan's economy and what force. college really amazing it just kept going to keep getting better. and sebastian vettel gets a jump on his for me no one rivals and it's not a disappointing day for the reigning world champion details ahead in sport. it rained a lot over the last week in spain particularly more recently in the northeast this is the result of the overtopping of the banks the river broke in the northeast of

spain's more cloud commerce in the same direction still feeding much moisture into that area now elsewhere in europe with pressure has been nice and warm and despite the medicare that has run through the fact we've got fronts and system is still relatively warm we're talking about the low to middle twenty's in most places will be up in moscow seventeen and that mass a cloud over spain is dissipated by the time we get to sunday is circulating a bit further eastward dissipate altogether in fact most of europe is now experiencing warmish weather but a nuisance cat and rain is no longer of tickets threat to anybody but it will bring some rain to western parts of austria and i think through italy as well at the moment though it is still circulating in the western med is to giving rain to algeria and it still will be during sunday that northerly breeze is done as strong as it was listed in the seventeen now he is twenty two ahead of it as a lot spins out of the way obviously tensions are rising the sun will come out a long way ahead of that it's really quite warm once again egypt were approaching

the forty mark and that's cooler than a couple of days ago. with its leaders in jail a greek near nazi party with knives on the lives mothers and daughters of the imprisoned leaders to represent them. the women behind the fearsome right wing nationalist party going to do in a sort of when you say i'm not going to what exactly does it mean it means nationalized goldendoodle in god's a witness documentary on al-jazeera do you support the mosque if. we're here to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a farmer and it's also very important to give journalists to know the story very

well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global the policy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens here matters. one of the top stories one hundred zero. security council has voted against a resolution proposed by russia condemning the american british and french missile strikes against the syrian government. has president donald trump has praised the strikes as perfectly executed washington and its closest allies the more than one hundred missiles. and thousands of people gathered in the funeral of

a south african anti-apartheid activist winnie mandela. which on a natural top story the u.s. that missile strikes on syria the russian president vladimir putin has discussed the situation with his turkish counterpart to one by phone and he repeated russia's position that the strikes violate international law and u.n. rules. has more from moscow. 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 the launch the 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 an issue about looks not the reaction to the strikes on social media. when the serious 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 hash tag stood out on saturday america strikes this tweet from mohammed

to leashes one of the most popular posts using the hash tag and 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 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 while 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 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 in 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 while no civilians were killed in the strikes development economist mohammad told us this military action did little to help syrian civilians unfortunately 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 let in more refugees on their territory the u.s. has taken eleven 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 but it's a messaging and it comes at the expense of of syrian civilians and so the information war continues to be fought on traditional and social media the pentagon says has been a two thousand percent increase in russian internet trolls in the last twenty four hours kid was a senior consulting fellow at the russian eurasia program at chatham house told us russia uses social media to shape political views. 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 criticised 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 and if you watched the press conference from the american syrian military this mattison done that immediately after the end of the missile strikes you would have seen they concluded with a warning 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 period 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 realized that information confrontation can in fact replace the aggression to do so crimea is held up as the gold standard of how if you get the information aspect right you can achieve the seas you're off 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 this to leverage actual policy making by the adversaries in order to erode their options for resisting russia when the campaign in syria will say i'm a degenerate a major gathering of heads of state in peru and it is from across the americas and i think to tackle corruption and overcome differences on trade the political crisis in venezuela is also a main focus of the meeting and there are several notable absence as including u.s. president donald trump who pulled out at the last moment. john heilemann joins us live from lima so john the leaders there have been taking it in turns to address the summit to what they've been saying. is they finish shortly ago but as you said the issue of syria and the u.s. led missile strike really did jump to the top of the journey to hear the vice president of the united states mike pence talk to the other leaders this is the biggest gathering of leaders in the hemisphere and he basically asked them to back

the united states so let's hear from him now. but today i call upon every nation in this hemisphere freedom. to support this military action taken by the united states and our allies and to support it publicly if. this unilateral illegal action without evidence or conclusions from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons whose team look for proof on the ground constitutes a flaky violation of the principles of human lawyer. so you just heard last week there from the cuban foreign minister and that was one country to come out and say actually we don't agree with what with this u.s. led missile strike other countries did say that they agree with it at least tacitly saying that they condemned the use of chemical weapons in syria canada actually

came out and said we stand with our friends we we think the what the u.s. led attack did was right one of the other big issues of the summit was also venezuela that country is going through an economic and also a humanitarian serious problems at the moment and has an upcoming election that other countries around it see is not free and fair so that was an area for a lot of discussion a lot of countries saying that they disagree with what's happening in venezuela cuba again with venezuela in. turn on the thank you very much indeed. i could it was president has confirmed the death of two journalists and their driver who were kidnapped last month they were taken by a faction of colombia's former fox rebel group a journalist for an assignment for the quito based newspaper on the border between ecuador and colombia and they were taken on march the twenty sixth.

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 compassionate. political parties in iraq have started campaigning for upcoming elections in the seven thousand candidates will compete for three hundred twenty nine seats in next month's vote but they face tough challenges in the aftermath of the three year war to defeat i still haven't had a report says they doubt the military announced the defeat of iceland december two thousand and seventeen many it out there have been displaced people over time to their homes in most parts of the country life is slowly returning to something up for 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 what i thought of those campaigning won't change anything they are the same faces they just change

their posters and banners a much nepotism is involved. there's a cultured field of convenience with five major lists to sunni to kurdish and some smaller parties and independents current prime minister. has 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 outside it with a strong support base among book that's poor has allied with communists prime minister about these popular with many of the country's sunni minority will thank him for risking them from life and i saw but sectarian fee is still run deep in iraq and really just loyalties have traditionally been exploited by parties during elections and some view his government just couldn't so i want the book. it does

not matter if not as long as this corrupt government his ruling from the green zone to blend snatched from the iraqi people and it's brought the owners. in the seminole tunnel must mufon kurdish region political loyalties are changing after the cut is regional governments failed from them before independence last the new parties a second to challenge the traditional ruling ones the p u k and k d p and of course regional players will be watching events closely some politicians are warning me because i'm talking not to meddle in the pool and exploit mistrust between shia and sunni voters mohammed out of al-jazeera thousands of protesters have marched in the hunger in capital budapest and guess what they say was an unfair election victory by prime minister viktor orban demonstrations according for a recount of the ballots a free media and new election analyst obama won another landslide victory last

sunday for a third successive term after a campaign dominated by a strong and immigrant message. riot police in france have clashed with protesters for a sixth successive day at the abandoned site of a proposed airport research tempting to clear the protest camp these residents fought back with fireworks plans fairport close to the city of know in western france were abandoned in january after years of protests but many activists have opted to stay in the makeshift camp despite apparently winning their battle. chinese consumers are being encouraged to boycott american products and services in response to u.s. president donald trump's threat to impose tariffs on chinese goods this may have a huge impact on u.s. products like beef which i have only on middle class consumers from china our china correspondent adrian brown reports from shanghai. it's freezing inside this storage

room it has to be the boxes contain prime u.s. beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at this shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit. when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no he can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty so it was that for me to go when we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and

if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instead he'll buy more from australia new zealand and canada young says that after president xi jinping speech on tuesday he's less worried about a trade war happening now she promised to deepen economic reform and to improve the business environment for foreign investors. the appetite for beef in china is being driven by the country's growing middle class consumption has risen more than ten percent in the past five years so when china lifted a thirteen year ban on u.s. imports a year ago it was welcome news here for many chinese consumers though u.s. beef remains an on of fordable luxury to follow the american beef really doesn't

have that much to do is chinese people how many chinese people eat american beef not even ten percent please completely it's imported american beef certainly becomes much more expensive i probably will go for something else after all we also have good beef in china and from other countries the american people is not irreplaceable not words the u.s. beef industry wants to hear amid declining beef consumption at home it's relying on global demand a demand that is increasingly being led by china adrian brown al jazeera shanghai or the seven hundred fifty thousand syrians have sought refuge in neighboring jordan which has been a huge strain on the country's resources and economy but a new joint initiative by the government and un refugee agency is hoping to reduce the impact by training refugees to join the local workforce to have a name 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 libby they can also die in the beginning i could not provide the basic necessities of life for my sending and my wife thank god now i'm having a decent life. 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 it was video below. those motives if it was a totally 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 this is 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 will for larger purchases larger dan because some of. some of the employers will come from outside to florida 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 stores. abdulhadi says by working his way up to factory manager he's now in

a position to provide opportunities. is really good for me i'm happy because i hated my reward at el sanibel having syrian refugees as part of the workforce has had another effect the owner says it's brought a unity and an understanding that everyone whether a syrian refugee or a jordanian is first and foremost a human being natasha. son had jordan. australian foreign fighters have issued an emergency warning as a wildfire burns close to the city of sydney smoke filled the air in the southwest outskirts of the city of flames burned through a major military base local residents are being advised to take shelter on one hundred firefighters tackle a fast moving blaze no injuries or property damage been reported so far still to come. in sports english premier league leaders manchester city to bounce back after

a run of bad results peter we're here to tell you how they got along. for the benefit of people. so they see the importance of. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. discover football winning programming from around the globe challenge your perception but i was here and sounded so far fetched that i thought there were guys one more behold who was truly groundbreaking documentary.

fearless journalism their life their reality. see the war from a different perspective on al-jazeera. some of the sport has peter. lauren thank you so much after being knocked out of the champions league and tuesday barcelona have bounced right back to make 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 land league standings luis suarez gave vasser the lead at the no camp the

school was doubled when sam. netted even. pulled one back it was not enough to stop barcelona but we don't know as far as the same are going to get a lot of records well i didn't want to think this week much about records the important thing is that we continue winning with those players it's normal to get records they've got a lot of them in the past now in the future the court will have more business and it also means real madrid can go third with a win on sunday against bottom of the league. sedans men are fresh from a champions league quarter final second leg defeating you venters but they went through on aggregate anyway correll will be looking to bring back that winning feeling being though. if you watch malaga game seat 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 but we have to be ready to claim the points and we

are currently doing quite well in the league you keep manchester city recovered from their champions league exits to liverpool beating taught them three one on saturday to edge closer to the english premier league title gabriel jessa's gun the one and around him sterling struck for city who had lost three in a row in all competitions they now need just three more points to win the league crown but could be champions if local rivals manchester united lose on sunday. it continued to be a good week for liverpool the be all myth three no muhammad saw last scoring his fortieth goal of the season with a rebirth of a mean year and study your money also on the scoresheet when takes your going club side just one point behind second placed manchester united in the standings few dangerous situations. becomes a clean sheet but. a little bit of luck you know you need always. all good good really good game very important result ok let's take

a look at those standings now confirmation here of manchester city's sixteen point lead at the top of the table and if united lose to bottom of the table west brom on sunday city will win the league title little ball are now three clear of tottenham in third although they do have a game in hand just the top four will qualify for next season's champions league and chelsea kept their slim hopes of doing that alive on saturday coming from two goals down to beat southampton. we sure would agree we showed a great reaction we should be sure we did a great decided to. do we negate we showed. the right fire in our eyes think. we will be pleased for the second down lets up the tempos sebastian vettel is on track for a third straight victory of the new formula one season of the clinching pole

position for sunday's chinese grand prix the ferrari driver who was over half a second quicker than defending world champion lewis hamilton in qualifying shanghai on saturday hamilton who has won five times in china will start from fourth on the grid behind he's in the sales team a developed harry bought us and the other ferrari driver to me or i can get a lead hamilton by seventeen points in the driver's standings while ferrari have a take. point lead over miss eighty's in the constructors' championship. because it was really amazing it just kept getting better so really happy i i know that the first lap i had some mistakes i lost the rear i think three weeks ago the last bit and then six again so yeah i was a bit beaten out but then now i knew that if i get a tidy lap and i have a little bit of margin i can push it was really good with. the electric car racing series formula he hit the streets of rome for the first time on saturday sweden's

felix rosenquist started on pole position and laid on the left twenty three when he's car broke down and he had to retire the virgin driver sam byrd took full advantage of britain taking the checkered flag ahead of defending world champion lucas at the grassy after seven rounds byrd is now second in the driver's standings behind john erik of. staying with the motorsport three time super bike world champion jonathan ray has extended his lead at the top of the ryder standings the kawasaki rider winning in madrid on saturday he took the line one point four seconds ahead of fellow briton chaz davies with spain's chubby florists finishing third its rays second race victory of the season. finally one of the world's most famous horse races the grand national took place on saturday it was one of the closest contests in years thirty eight horses started the one hundred seventy first edition of the race which takes place at aintree liverpool with just

a short distance to go tiger road move tour of the field but look at this pleasant company made a late surge for the line a photo finish would decide the winner in the end and it was time to roll in the victory. and that's all the sport for me it's back to laura in london. thanks peter mind of our top story this hour as strikes by the u.s. france and the u.k. targeting chemical weapons facilities in syria earlier the u.n. security council rejected a russian resolution condemning the action bosco has demanded the u.s. and its allies cease their aggression against syria overnight the u.s. u.k. and france launched more than one hundred missiles at targets near damascus and holmes is president donald trump praised the strikes as perfectly executed when while there were protests in the united states and europe in greece around seven thousand people attended a rally in central africa. to have a government you know that because we have covered today to content to be

imperialist intervention from the us a great britain and france against the nation of syria is obvious that the reason the chemical weapons is just a pretext was heard in a major economic interest for some of the resources in the area we also called them the greek government those taking part for a long time now are supporting with its military bases the attacks on the people of the area. the united states with the french and the english are once again trampling on international law and are attacking an independent country greece as peaceful country should not allow the bases and troops in this attack. and that's it for me for this news al a back in a minute with more news by for that.

jewett from iraq he's also a part time going to museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous. most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several museums taking part in the project

called meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things. to me the great thing is it's not just about forming a new part of life it's culture as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the. investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok we'll send waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera.