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this is zero. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from unmounting dennis coming up in the next sixty minutes. overwhelming and affected the u.s. says allied missile strikes in syria were a success and threatens to act again if there are more chemical attacks. the u.n. security council rejects russia's resolution to condemn the strikes. in syria dominates the summit of the americas in peru with the u.s. vice president defending the military action plus. lawrence lee in manchester where scientists are using the one the material known as graphene to help find

a solution to the world's water crisis. the u.s. says it's locked and loaded for another military strike if the syrian government uses chemical weapons again without warning fall is the most significant western allied attack against president assad's government since the seven year war began the u.s. . the u.k. and france more than one hundred missiles on sites they say were linked to syria's chemical weapons program it was in retaliation for last saturday's suspected chemical attack on the town of duma well the smoke was still rising from the sites as the reaction came in from leaders across the region turkey expressing its support for the strikes the syrian government and iran called them criminal while russia drafted a un security council resolution to condemn what it called the aggression but that

was voted down now i've been speaking to washington's long term i've been asking heather knew it too is the state department spokeswoman about washington's long term strategy for syria i asked her what the u.s. is prepared to do next to help bring this seven year war to an end. first of all of it let's look at what we tried to do before we have tried diplomacy we've done that at the united nations security council we've done that with the european union with many of on our our partners and allies all around the world russia continues to thwart all of those attempts and stand in the way the united states and our allies had no other option we have watched as five hundred thousand civilians have been killed in syria for far too many years and when we saw what recently happened last saturday with the gassing of innocent women children and men that was far too far the united states came together with those other countries sending

a message not just to syria but also to russia and the other backer iran say we will not tolerate this the world cannot tolerate this what will we do now diplomacy is the option but we're also asking syria they have a chance to get out of this they could declare a chemical weapons they could hand their chemical weapons and they could finally stop killing civilians why is it that the united states felt compelled to intervene on an issue of chemical weapons use why is it the u.s. hasn't found it necessary to intervene when the use of barrel bombs for instance of being used as we know they've been use repeatedly throughout these seven is well i think we certainly have there's a new administration here in washington as of a year ago and that is that donald trump administration president obama's administration by many accounts never did enough to try to stop this president obama drew a red line and let bashar al assad just run right through that red line president

trump came into office he saw what bashar al of the charlotte did last april and there were strikes on a. port facility that was being used to hit civilians the president trump struck that facility over the past year we have tried diplomacy. and clearly the diplomacy sadly has not worked and that's largely because russia has stood in the way finally have a can i ask you what you think about the wisdom of the president using the phrase mission accomplished because we all know the echoes of of george w. bush and the iraq war which was a clear indication of him misreading the situation how wise was it for the president from to use that language understood and i'm a former reporter and i covered the war in iraq many years ago at the time that president bush had said that same thing though i understand why people my question president trump use of that however i think what he meant was mission accomplished

in that and this is significant and that we managed with the french and the british to hit the target to not have a single loss of allied life and significantly degrade the ability of syria to strike on civilians again i think that is what the president meant by that we called her in to cause i rush and syria the u.s. insists that all of its missiles hit their intended targets the strikes came ahead of a visit by chemical weapons experts who are now in syria to investigate the alleged attack and do the poppy culhane has the latest from the pentagon. i used three words to describe this operation precise overwhelming and effective at the pentagon claims of success as they roll out slides 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 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 have evidence enough but they've provided none of it to the public whine a lot of this has city with intelligence and and i'm very happy to show evidence if

i can but we were very confident about 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. rush's resolution condemning the missile attacks as a violation of international law was rejected at the u.n. security council called the council into emergency session to condemn the u.s. led action but it was only supported by two other countries on the fifteen member body mike hanna has more from the u.n. . 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 matters 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 in a gruesome news limited's 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 turman who was guilty u.k. ambassador argued the strikes were justified in terms of international law and 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 us 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 the 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 informal session members of the council continue to informally even affectionately engage

mike hanna al-jazeera united nations right live now to washington and our correspondent there alan fischer and alan we know that three's a maze facing a barrel questions as to the legality of the action that she undertook was about in the u.s. and president. well within an hour of the year strait being unknowns by the president just over twenty four hours ago there were senators who are questioning the legality of the action they were suggesting that to launch an attack like this donald trump really should have gone to congress it was a question james mattis was asked about when he gave evidence on the hill on thursday and there are senators who see this was a clear breach but james mattis when he gave his news conference at the pentagon late on friday night u.s. time he said that under article two of the constitution the president was fully entitled to take this sort of action quite simply because it was in america's national interest there are other groups who are seeing within hours as well how

can you hold international law by breaking international law this is going to be a question that is going to run and run in the coming days and weeks here in washington and so of course the supporters of the president will be hitting the airwaves on sunday morning then to make their case the justification for the action that was taken. they'll point to the fact that a year ago the president announced that there were going to be airstrikes in syria and the bombed and the steering carried out significant damage to the syrian air force to twenty percent of the air force at that time and therefore the authorization for the use of force was essentially still in place from then even though he didn't seek congressional approval this was a problem for barack obama you'll remember that he issued a red line a few years back when he thought that the syrians were using chemical weapons and

instead of making a decision he decided to leave it to congress to vote on the possibility of military action and congress the say did not to take that vote up and barack obama was left having made a red line then deciding not to defy congress and and go ahead with that as far as trump supporters are concerned a new hair that to a degree from nikki haley at the united nations the donald trump laid down very clear guidelines he put down a red line as far as he was concerned the syrians went over the line and he took the action that he felt was necessary and official live in washington thanking. well the reaction to the strikes among syrians themselves is pretty much divided supporters of the government have called them illegal while the opposition says they didn't go far enough of a dribbles and gaziantep on turkey's southern border with syria. this is what's

left of the burrs a scientific research center targeted by missiles from the us britain and france the site near the syrian capital damascus was among three alleged chemical weapons facilities hit during the joint operation the u.s. hopes the assad government got the message that its actions will not go unpunished was. the dawn on syrian state media was that of defiance in the face of what they called tripartite aggression. we did not sleep at the right honestly we went to the streets to support the army and the air force struck down the missiles. was two years war has divided opinion in the middle east people came out in solidarity with the assad government in cities with their support for iran and hezbollah or there is high and the u.s. sentiment to the relief of the syrian government and its allies the operation was limited instead of a much discussed sustained attack the syrian government tanks its russian partners for the warning about the much anticipated strikes after days of tough rhetoric

between u.s. and russia the syrian government had already evacuated military installations and cleared potential targets and allies of bashar al assad have been unequivocal in their support. you share last night's strike that happened at dawn against syria is a crime i clearly announced that the us president the french president and the british prime minister are criminals and have committed a crime. those on the receiving end of the syrian government's attacks and bombs welcomed the military action and we support the american strike because we support everything the targets the syrian regime we know that this bombardment will not lead to the fall of the regime but as targets this criminal regime we are supporting i suspected chemical attack on duma last week predictably support the allies of the assad government and those who oppose it well russia denies the attack ever took place turkey says assad's actions must have consequences their own gender just didn't follow the up till it was unthinkable to leave all the attacks

the regime has conducted an ant said 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 the syrian opposition backed the turkish president's call for an end to all kinds of attacks against civilians the u.s. britain and france that assad wasn't targeted the government forces and assets remain intact the intention they say was to force the assad government to stop using chemical weapons but according to a syrian opposition member the message that they seem to have received is that the assad government and its allies can continue their killings just not using chemical weapons some of a job or other syria. well the airstrikes in syria were the first major military interventions ordered by the leaders of britain and france and in the u.k. questions are being asked as to why parliament wasn't consulted. records i into the

dark on loan from their base in cyprus british tornadoes head into the night sky armed with storm shadow missiles which they would fire at a military facility just outside home is the objective according to the prime minister very specific in scope this is not about intervening in a 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 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 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 to move to said 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. 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 halted 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 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 launch the 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 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 to be phillip's al jazeera westminster in central london. the syrian government now says they have retaken eastern ghouta the announcement follows the departure of the last rebel fighters from duma the russian defense ministry says twenty one thousand people including rebels and their families have been evacuated government forces launched an offensive in the signature in february backed by russia. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour we report from senegal

on the world's first climate migrants. their fear is that the rate at which the ocean is rising here it's just a matter of decades before baber hood's of this ancient city brownish under the water. tens of thousands of south africans bid farewell to the mother of the nation. and in schools or after disappointment in europe barcelona sets a new record in the spanish peace it will have the details. syria has dominated discussions on the second and final day of the summit of the americas in peru the us vice president mike pence called on leaders to support the u.s. led strikes mr penn said he's confident government forces use chlorine gas in last

week's suspected chemical attack on duma john home and has more from lima. the summit the americas has now finished in lima peru and the main day of talks was slightly hijacked by what's happening in another part of the world vice president pence of the united states asked the other leaders it what is the biggest gathering of heads of state in the western hemisphere to rally round the united states lead missile attack on syria 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 the u.s. is also pushing for growing sanctions and isolation of venezuela a country that's been suffering economic and humanitarian problems for quite some time it also has elections coming up next month and sixteen countries signed an

agreement which calls for those elections to be free and fair there are worries that the opposition isn't going to have much of a chance in those elections now the main theme of the summit the official theme was against corruption and at the end of it the proven president said that the countries had come together in a commitment against corruption but this is a document that as far as we can see doesn't have any in full support measures so it's more a question of good will and how each country intends to implement and enforce itself but document so there's not really concrete outcomes of this summit of the americas has now finished in lima peru. the chief executive of the wilds biggest advertising agency delhi p.-p. has stepped down mohsin sorrows resignation comes as he's being investigated for personal misconduct and misuse of company funds he denies all wrongdoing the

seventy three year old has headed the company for more than three decades. somali security forces a bloke's amorality offices from transposing military equipment back to the u.a.e. it happened at an airport in the northeastern city of basra so ever r.t. offices were force unload military equipment from a private jet before taking off relations between the two countries have been strained since the u.a.e. announced plans to build a military base in somalia's breakaway territory of somaliland the funeral of anti-apartheid activist when he met his element dela has been held in south africa thousands of people gathered in her hometown of selected to pay tribute to the woman known to many as a mother of the nation katherine sawyer was there. we might be given dennis kaskade his posse to their land a stadium. welcome to the. the tens of thousands of south africans came to be had by the best way they know to song and dance.

members of different political parties sat side by side with donating collars and cleaning yellow for the african national congress a spot of and red for economic freedom fighters whose ideology shaped the president cyril ramaphosa described as a b.s. revolutionary she lives on in that nation that's called have mama. as it strives each day to fulfill its destiny as a united peaceful and prosperous and just society. to many south africans just last only a futile fight or doing apartheid she also stood with the poor afterwards most people will relate to. even after apartheid was ended she wanted to fight for their rights she often said that of africa may have. a maniac next to know what it really

mean to have economic and social freedom people have talked of her desire to see bad distribution of land a passion for young people and how frustrations 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. 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 yet the leadership of the a.n.c. was criticised or vilifying and abandoning half to apartheid some of them are planning but i mean no one's even left turn it on you know turn over on that or

present their case they can be done in a fine art that's our present there were ready to be late in front of the right after all was said and done we mandela's potential slowly made its way through so with all the township she called 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 say she's a hero cathy zoi al-jazeera johannesburg. a journalist in nigeria previously involved in negotiations with back around says he has information that only a few of the chibok school girls being held by the armed group are still alive the nigerian government says it has no way of backing up the reporter's claim and insists the guess asians are ongoing exactly four years ago back around kidnapped two hundred seventy six girls from their school in chibok activists held a vigil to mark the anniversary and call for the release of more than one hundred

girls still in captivity the islander son louis in senegal was listed in the year two thousand as a unesco world heritage site but it since fall into disrepair without urgent intervention more than three hundred years of colonial history could be lost as rising sea levels gradually ease up the city now hundreds of climate migrants are on the move as they curse her cripple. when the tide is out. what is left of his home resurfaces. this is where the kitchen was he tells his side. he shows him his grandparents bedroom. and the living area where they would all watch t.v. together. the ocean swallowed the two storey house i do shared with his ten relatives. it's a series of bad storms that destroyed the homes on the coast over the years the ocean keeps pushing forward they live on the brink in an archipelago barely one

meter above sea level san louis was once frances colonial capital in africa now tens of thousands of its residents have been displaced due to natural processes and human intervention. on a visit in february the president of france promised millions of dollars to save this unesco world heritage site and its inhabitants saying climate change was to blame for the destruction that forced france were urgently invest in the coastal marine life to help and protect its preservation macky sall has begun in their business program in the north to put up stone along the coastline in two thousand and three senegalese engineers dug a small canal in one of the islands facing the ocean thinking it would help evacuate flooded waters from the city center instead it made it worse the five meters wide canal is now five kilometers long. the city council is building an embankment made out of stone and metal people here say it will be no match to the

force of the ocean that has already destroyed concrete homes their fear is at the rate at which the ocean is rising here it's just a matter of decades before neighborhoods of this ancient city vanish under the water. displaced families are really committed to these makeshift tents on the edge of this to help. cure the rising temperatures and lack of water make it impossible to grow any food and so some have left the camp. not war or poverty but the changing climate they travel through this area desert and across the mediterranean to europe. adding to the hundreds of millions of climate refugees now on the moon in search for a safe place to live. nicholas hawk al jazeera senegal. still to come here at al-jazeera find out what's at stake as iraq's political

parties begin campaigning for upcoming elections. balun influx of syrian refugees is helping to this jordan's economy and what. college really amazing it just kept getting better. sebastian vettel gets a jump one for the one rivals but it's another disappointing day for the reigning champion the tent city. from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis and of the spring rains appear to be starting in just now in china to forecast the sunday's a wet run for hong kong and that rain extends back towards the southwest towards vietnam as well north of it looks fine shanghai is it twenty degrees low humidity

but as warm as it was in fact temps dropping a bit more and it could be a dry a day on monday in hong kong as the rain will spread a little bit further inland in china but it's pretty extensive rain is quite a gap know when you run down through southern vietnam through cambodia and laos in fact the showers efendi showing up in borneo further west melissa maybe the far south as atlanta but the massive cloud actually heading towards through lanka that's where the action is so it's just occasional but fairly big showers in borneo and maybe the southern philippines developing and then something is showing up in thailand and myanmar all monday so we should be seeing this time of year they are just backing off for a couple of days now said they were showers it was right heading towards her like at the moment is just days. see the line that catches the far tip of india as well the potential for want to bigger shows is that the northeast of india must be buying today for the not really in the full cost the next couple of days what is the forecast is gradually rising temperatures. the weather sponsored by qatar and

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tough is it take a look at the top stories here it out is there the u.s. says it's locked and loaded for another military strike if the syrian government uses chemical weapons again it follows the most significant western allied attack against president assad's government says a seven year award. began. the morning a future action coincided with the u.n. security council meeting on saturday a russian drafted resolution condemning the u.s. led strikes on syria was voted down. the us vice president mike pence has called on

leaders at the summit of the americas to support the strikes this depends said he's confident government forces use chlorine gas in last week's suspected chemical attack on duma. the russian president vladimir putin has taken to the turkish president on the phone saying the actions of a number of western states violates international law rory challenger has more now from moscow the russians are looking at what happens there 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 or launch them u.s. warships or 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 andrew chapelle looks at 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 hashtags 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'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 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 the 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 well 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. is taking less than refugee 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 and it comes at the expense of of syrian civilians and so the information war continues to be fought on traditional and social media and the pentagon says there's been a two thousand percent increase in russian trolls in the last twenty four hours we've been speaking to kid joggles a senior consulting fellow at the russian eurasia program at chatham house he says russia puts an abundance of resources towards the information war online. 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 mine injuries in 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 watch the press conference from the american see a military that's masterson 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. well in seven hundred fifty thousand syrians a silk refugee in neighboring jordan which has put a huge strain on the country's resources bought a new joint initiative aims to reduce the impact by training refugees to join the local workforce the pressure going to aim ripples from. more strict mohammed 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. in the beginning i could not provide the basic necessities of life for myself and my wife thank god now i'm having a decent life so jamal is one of thirty syrians recruited from refugee camps working at 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 very obvious that the those. if it positively to the all in all environment what's happening at 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 will make let's say a wing to win situation this will. end because some of. some of the employers will 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 stores. abdulhadi says by working his way up to factory manager he's now in a position to provide opportunity. is a very good for me i'm happy because i hated my reward at el san about 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 going to name. the had jordan political policies

in iraq a sausage to campaign for palm and transactions next month almost seven thousand candidates competing for three hundred twenty nine seats spots they face tough challenges following the three year war against eisel as mohamed atta reports. since they doubt 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 contrary life is slowly returning to something up or to normality 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 model tall well let's look at the what i thought here have to do with those campaigning won't change anything they have the same faces they just change their posters and banners and much nepotism is involved these accounted field of candidates with five major lists to sunni to kurdish and

some smaller parties and independents current prime minister hi they're all about the end he's produced as a new deal maliki had separate lists within the ruling. the leader of the but that organization is allied with the iranian backed shia militias known as the popular mobilisation forces the powerful shiite cleric and the doll said that with a strong support base among book that's has aligned with communists prime minister la but he's popular with many of the country's sunni minority who thank him for risking them from life from deisel but sectarian fears still run deep in iraq and really just loyalties have traditionally been heavily exploited by parties during elections and some view his government as corrupt so i want the book but it does not matter if we voted or 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 seminole tunnel must mufon kurdish region political loyalties are changing after the cottage regional governments failed referendum before independence last year new parties are seeking 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 neighbors iran and turkey not to meddle in the pool and exploit mistrust between shia and sunni voters mohammed of al-jazeera. people in china are being encouraged to boycott american products and services in response to u.s. threats to impose more terrorists on chinese goods imports of american beef wish depend heavily on middle class consumers could be hard hit his at china correspondent adrian brown. 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 the 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. 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've 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 unavoidable luxury to follow the american beef really doesn't have that much to do with people how many chinese people eat american beef not even ten

percent what is the point if the imported american beef suddenly becomes much more expensive i probably will go for something else after all we also have good beef from 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. water scarcity is potentially one of the biggest problems facing humanity in the coming decades the un reckons in thirty years a quarter of the world's population will lack access to clean water some countries are already dealing with severe shortages but scientists in britain say they may have come up with the solution in the latest in their thirst series lowers the has been to manchester to find out how it works. it may only be one atom fic and

invisible to the eye but the graphene layer wrapped inside these cheap can help provide clean water to the planet. the mesh around its tiny holes act as a filter bacteria and other nasty bits in the dirty water are trapped in the graphene layer and drinking water comes through the other side i do get blocked by the christian you know and just pure water can come you so effectively to see if you're more or less turned graphene into a shield like this and run so much water through it the salts molecule stick and h two o. passes through graphene can desalinate sea water as well we recently sold it stephanie possible to remove io. which was a very important step but now we need to reproduce stalls results on a very large scale this is probably going to take at least four five years i think . in many ways it appears to be the breakthrough the world's been waiting for cities like cape town face potentially catastrophic water shortages desert

occasions through climate change water borne diseases the problems are so well known yet solutions remain elusive that's partly because desalination and other filtration process is a currently slow and expensive once the graphene solution is scaled up to industrial levels it may hold the prospects of revolutionizing the availability of clean water they're going to gee this one for example have a big role to play they can reduce the cost of water distribution water treatment a lot. and it can really help the companies governments. to provide water for cheaper to the citizens it won't be enough but it can play a big role. as ever though much of the potential success of graphene will be wrapped up in politics people living in gaza for example rely on desalinated water and lay their hopes on israel and the united nations for solutions technological advances and political will on the same thing they've already had queries from people in cities like cape town wondering how quickly they can get hold of their

own personal water filtration system so there's no doubting the urgency of the need but it is as good an example as you can find of the way in which technology is now on the point of being able to overcome some of the planet's most difficult public health problems florence li al jazeera and manchester out still to come here in the . face. of one of the world's most famous. that and all the philistines coming out with cancer.

and monday put it well on i j z the u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered for even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the war.

and it's time for us forces that his peace. thank you very much after being knocked out of the champions league on tuesday barcelona have bounced right back to make a record thirty nine games without a defeat in the spanish top flight a two one win over valencia on saturday now sees them fourteen points clear at the top of league standings luis suarez gave boss of the lead at the no camp the school was doubled when samuel l. t.t. netted even though the whole pulled one back it was not enough to stop boss alone but be honest i myself am going to miss my lot of course well i didn't want to think this week much about the 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 club will have more business and it also means real madrid can go third with a win on sunday against bottom of the league malaga bandsmen off fresh from a champions league quarter final second leg defeat to you ventus but they went

through on aggregate anyway pereo will be looking to bring back that winning feeling. bian 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 but we have to be ready to claim the points and we are currently doing quite well in the league manchester city recovered from their champions league exit to liverpool beating taught them three one on saturday to edge closer to the english premier league title gabriele jesse gunn 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 they be born with three no muhammad so are scoring his fortieth goal of the season with a rebirth of

a mean year and study your money also on the scoresheet when you're going club side just one point behind second placed manchester united in the standings. dangerous situations. that we kept a clean sheet would send a little bit of luck you know you need always. lots of good good really good game very important result ok let's take a look at the 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 on earth 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 showed the greek gutter we showed a great reaction we should share with the great decided to. do we need game now we

show it. they're right fire in our eyes i think and. yeah we must be pleased at the photo for the second down. let's 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 was over half a second quicker than defending world champion lewis hamilton in qualifying and 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 develop terry bought us and the other ferrari driver kenny reichen it all leads hamilton by seventeen points in the driver's standings while ferrari have a ten point lead over mitt sadie's in the constructors' championship because it was really amazing it just kept getting better so really happy i i know that the first

love i had some is thanks i lost the rio i think three weeks ago the last bit and then six again so yeah i was a bit beaten now but then 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 lead on the left twenty three when he's car broke down and he had to retire the s. virgin driver samberg took full advantage of britain taking the checkered flag ahead of defending world champion lucas degrassi after seven rounds byrd is now second in the driver's standings behind john erik of. staying with the motor sport three time super bike world champion jonathan ray has extended he's lead at the top of the ryder standings the car sucky rider winning in madrid on saturday he took the line one point four seconds ahead of fellow briton chairs 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. sort of the one hundred seventy first edition of the race which takes place at aintree in liverpool with just a short distance to go tiger road move clear 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 tiger wrote in the victory. and that's all the sport for me will have another update for you again later on that's all for me as well in this al-jazeera news hour don't go anywhere because laura will be in the seas in just a minute or two and she'll bring you the very latest on the day's news and particularly about a family that's been repaired we patrick said to me and mom. in

the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big business with an unfortunate for small business to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics are blended together the recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the science that often solutions is very easy for us to have one hundred percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for it as you know it is very challenging to believe but the girl because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. a society's

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