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overwhelming and effective the u.s. says allied missile strikes in syria was a success and threatens to accept and that there are more chemical attacks. and security council rejects russ's resolution to condemn the strikes. there are more cars sounds are live from doha also coming up syria dominates the summit of the americas in peru with the u.s. vice president defending the military action. does the island and senegal rising sea levels are creating some of the world's first climate migrant. the u.s.

says it's locked and loaded for another military strike if the syrian government uses chemical weapons again that warning follows the most significant western allied attack against president bashar assad's government since the start of the seven year war the u.s. u.k. and france launched 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 and the smoke was still rising from those sites as the reaction came in from leaders across the region turkey expresses support for the strikes the syrian government and iran called them criminal well russia drafted a un security council resolution to condemn what it called the aggression it was voted down and more on that shortly but first this report from defense correspondent particle hane 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 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 to do with intelligence and and i'm very happy to show evidence if i can that 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. russia's resolution condemning the missile attacks as a violation of international norm was rejected at the united nations security council moscow called the council into emergency session to condemn the u.s. led action but it was supported only by two other countries on the member fifteen member body like hanna has more from the united nations if you will 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 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 bolivia 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 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 informal session members of the council continue to informally even affectionately engage mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. my colleague martin denis spoke to the u.s. state department spokeswoman can have a new out about washington's long term strategy on syria. 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 to 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. repeated seven yeah 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 assad bashar al assad 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 in a largely because russia has stood in the way finally can i ask you what you think about the wisdom of the president using the phrase mission accomplished because we all know the echo of george w. bush and the iraq war which was a clear indication of him misreading the situation how wise was it for president trump to use that language i understand why people might question our president's use of that however i think what he meant was mission accomplished in that and this

is significant in that we managed with the french and british to hit the target to not have a single loss of allies life and significantly degraded the ability of syria to strike on civilian again i think that is what the president meant by that syrian government forces say they have retaken the east and 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 family members have been evacuated government forces launched an offensive in february backed by russia well syria has dominated discussions on the second and final day of the summit of the americas in peru vice president mike pence called on need to support the u.s. led strikes he is confident government forces chlorine gas last week suspected chemical attack on duma john heilemann has more from. the summit of the americas

has now finished in lima peru on the main day of talks with slightly hijacked by what's happening in another part of the world vice president pence of the united states asked the other leaders it would is the biggest gathering of heads of state in the western hemisphere to rally round the united states led 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 forcible 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 is now finished in lima peru. the first range of family to be repatriated from bangladesh has arrived and man my government has confirmed that the family of five has been resettled in a camp and northern rock state and the given identification documents but have not been granted citizenship more than seven hundred thousand muslims have fled to neighboring bangladesh following a military crackdown last year the un is warning that

a safe return for them is not yet possible attackers disguised as united nations peacekeepers have don't detonated two car bombs at french and u.n. bases in mali attack happened in timbuktu on saturday one peacekeeper was killed and at least ten french soldiers were wounded no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. still ahead hail on al-jazeera support and skepticism as the u.s. air strikes on syria spark heated debate in britain and france. and we'll tell you how the u.s. trade ties on china could affect as lucrative beef industry. how often can we recently use the word blizzard in april in the u.s. or in canada not that often you think but that is exactly what this massive cloud

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remind you of all top stories the u.s. says and loaded for another military strike the syrian government uses chemical weapons again and the most significant western allied attack against president bashar assad's government since the seven year war. the warning of future action coincides with the u.n. security council meeting on a russian draft resolution condemning the u.s. led strikes on syria has voted down. and u.s. vice president has called on needs of the summit of the americas to support the strikes on syria and said he's confident assad's forces use chlorine gas and last week's suspected chemical attack on the. well reaction to the strikes among syrians as supporters of the government have called them illegal whilst the opposition says they don't go far enough. reports from. border with syria.

this is what's left of the birds a scientific research center targeted by missiles from the u.s. britain and. the syrian capital damascus was among three alleged. weapons facilities hit during the joint operation the u.s. hopes the assad government got the message that its actions will not go unpunished as it was. but 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 syria's war has divided opinion in the middle east people came out in solidarity with the assad government and 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. he shared last night's strike that happened at dawn against syria is a crime by clearly announce 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 that 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 it 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 in the perpetrator has to pay for it and the regime has to understand that this inhumane and lawless attack will not stay on. 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 see 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. other syria. strikes for the first major military interventions in syria ordered by the leaders of britain and france but in the u.k.

questions are being asked about why parliament wasn't consulted on the phillips reports. 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 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 him from carrying out

more chemical attacks and pursuing a strategy of terror against his own population this action is proportionate and targeted. on the streets of paris some support for the air time 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. 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 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 it launches 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 . a journalist in nigeria previously involved in negotiations with boko haram says he has information that only a few of the two box schoolgirls are being held by the armed group a still alive and i jury and government says it has no way of backing up the reporter's claim and insisted goshi asians are going exactly four years ago booker

kidnapped two hundred seventy six girls from a school in chibok activists held a vigil to mark the anniversary and call for the release of the girl still in captivity tens of thousands of protesters have marched in the hungary and powerful budapest against what they say was an unfair election win by prince of prime minister viktor orban on another landslide victory last sunday for a third consecutive after a campaign dominated by a strong anti immigrant message and there is a calling for a recount of the ballots a free media a new election laws. people in china are being encouraged to boycott american products and services in response to u.s. threats to impose more tariffs on chinese goods and wants american beef which depend heavily on middle class consumers could be hard hit are trying to correspondent brown has more 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 tons 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. as well when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no we can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty so. 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 on affordable luxury to pull up the american beef really doesn't have that much to do its chinese people how many chinese people eat american beef

not even ten percent you know you can't completely if the imported american beef suddenly 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 the funeral of the anti-apartheid activist when he. has been held in south africa thousands of people gathered in her hometown of seattle to pay tribute to the woman known as 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 south africa's new presence around opposer on as her memory at the event the mother of five nation. was grand children.

affectionately referred to her as big mama. she has been know up big mama throughout her life just as we are burdened by this sort of her death. so too are we comforted by the richness and profound meaning of her life. the film world is paying tribute to the oscar winning director mueller's foreman who died at the age of eighty six czech born filmmaker was part of the one nine hundred sixty s. new ways of directors that criticized the communist regime in czechoslovakia but it was in hollywood that for made his name in one thousand six hundred seventy five he picked up his first directing oscar for one flew over the coke his nest in years later he repeated that excess success with the day s. the chief executive of the world's biggest advertising agency w p p has stepped

down martin sorrels resignation comes as he's being investigated for personal misconduct and misuse of company funds he denies any wrongdoing the seventy three year old has headed the company for more than three decades the island of san louis . senegal was listed in two thousand as you know ask a world heritage site but it has since fall into disrepair without urgent intervention more than three thousand years of colonial history could be lost as rising sea levels gradually eat up the city now hundreds of climate migrants are on the move nicholas hark reports. when the tide is out. what is left of his home resurfaces. this is where the kitchen was he tells his son. he shows him his grandparents bedroom. and living area where they would all watch t.v. together. the ocean swallowed the two story 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 and then bitches 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 home their fear is at the rate at which the ocean is rising here it's just a matter of decades before they ever heard 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 the sahara desert and across the mediterranean to europe. adding to the hundreds of millions of climate refugees now want to move in search for a safe place to live. because hawk al jazeera senegal.

this is al-jazeera these are the top stories the u.s. has locked and loaded for another military strike if the syrian government uses chemical weapons again that warning follows the most significant western allied attack against president bashar al assad's government in the seven war a warning of future action came during a u.n. security council meeting on saturday a russian drafted resolution condemning the western allied strikes on syria was voted down by the member country. usa department spokeswoman has a new says the military operation has had the intended effect we have watched as five hundred thousand civilians have been killed in syria for far too many years and when we found what recently happened last saturday with the gassing of innocent

women children and men that was far too far if united states came together with those other countries then in a manner there's not just to syria but also to russia and the other backer iran say we will not tolerate this the world cannot tolerate. syria has dominated discussions on the second and final day of the summit of the americas in peru u.s. vice president mike pence called on need to support the u.s. led strikes he said he's confident government forces use chlorine gas in last week's suspected chemical attack on. attackers disguised as united nations peacekeepers have detonated two car bombs at french and u.n. bases in mali it's back happened in ten buck two on saturday one peacekeeper was killed and at least ten french soldiers were wounded no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack and mammals government has gone from the first family

to be repatriated from bangladesh has arrived they've been resettled in a camp and more than rakhine state they were given identification documents but have not been granted and ship more than seven hundred thousand range of muslims have fled to neighboring bangladesh following a military crackdown last year he warns it's not yet safe for ranger to return has been mine has not addressed systematic discrimination and persecution faced by the community as i had back with more news here on al-jazeera after counting the cost fifty three member states. one night comic figurehead as leaders of the commonwealth descend on london bridge biennial meeting al-jazeera asks how much does the commonwealth matter in today's world and where does it go after queen elizabeth all of the commonwealth heads of government meeting on al-jazeera. and.