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welcome to the program we begin this news in syria where representatives of a global chemical watchdog are trying to find out if there's been a chemical attack in duma when they arrived in damascus on saturday and specters from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons are expected to visit the site of that suspected gas attack in the syrian town of duma that killed more than forty people but u.s. u.k. and france say they already have enough evidence to back up their bombing campaign on the syrian regime's chemical weapons facilities where some a binge of aid is following the story from gaza that's nearly turkey syria border asama said with a chemical weapons inspectors arriving in damascus what can we expect from their visit. well we've heard from them that they are committed to carry out this operation where they're going to go into duma they're going to figure out whether this chemical attack happened or not despite the criticism that many had been asking that this fact finding mission should have been allowed to

figure out who actually carried out this attack which is not part of their mandate there isn't very much operational detail that we know about how are they going to carry this out because of security reasons the syrian government and their russian allies have short them that they would be allowed to carry out their work independently but we've been hearing concerns from people and activists inside duma who say that now this town is under the control of the syrian government there is no witness protection program that the o.p.c. w can offer so it will be difficult for people and medics on the ground to share those details with them because now as soon as this this mission actually goes in and when it leaves they will be under the control of the syrian government and their allies and people have been afraid in the past we've been hearing reports from medics saying that people have been threatened and have been intimidated specially those who have families in the syrian capital damascus so it remains to be seen how the o.p.c. them you will carry out this mission and what will they be able to find meanwhile

at this is something that the united nations we heard at the u.n. security council there's been a lot of criticism on the three countries which carried out these strikes russia and syria insisting that they should have waited for this operation to go go ahead they should have waited for the o.p.c. w. to go in and figure out whether there's been attack in russia continues to deny that it was a fabrication all those videos that you saw and people were dying in them and people were suffocating and all the reports that we've seen from medics on the ground are all false but there has been international reaction and as you can imagine predictably it has been divided on how who who supports whom on the war in the war in syria in iran for instance there has been reaction where the iranian government says the attack on the. the chemical facilities alleged chemical facilities is a crime where it's turkey has come out in that support. this is what's left of the birds a scientific research center targeted by missiles from the u.s. 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 as it was. at 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 to have what syria's 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. last night strike that happened at dawn against syria is a crime by clearly announced that the u.s. 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 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 targets this criminal regime we are supporting. this is picked up chemical attack on duma last week predictably support the allies of the assad government and those who oppose it while russia denies the attack ever took place there he says assad's actions must have consequences. 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 and osama now that eastern good has been cleared of all those rebel fighters what's the next step then for the syrian regime. well there and there are pockets of resistance that are left in the south and there are in the center there is the hama province and homs province where there are some areas still in the control of rebel fighters and then in the north there is the whole of it to province to province where hundreds of thousands of people according to various deals have been coming in the population of it according to estimates is going to up to two million people so what are you hearing on the ground today is that there have been some air raids in there are we've been hearing from activists on the

ground that there have been some attacks by the syrian government forces in hama and in homs countryside is there as well and there have been some air raids in it as well so there are multiple directions that this syrian government could go into it is expected that these pockets of resistance in the south and in the center are going to be easy for their dream to control because it's offensive to words the north has also continued but the rebel fighters there also include it's not just the opposition fighters it also includes the shah and a group formally aligned to the illness or front and by the affiliates in syria so this is going to be interesting to see how this did the government progresses to words taking all of these areas and they have been international warnings and numbers ringing that warning the government not to go to words and try to figure out a political solution rather than the military solution as we've seen in various parts of syria because it is very densely populated there is a lot of civilians there and unless there is a settlement is going to be

a bloodbath asama thank you. all right let's bring in mark farmer he's an assistant professor of politics on international relations at the doha institute he joins us live here on the set so where is assad going now with his wider military strategy i mean you know the regime has successfully taken duma they've taken eastern ghouta now they're talking about taking on i still in what happens next for the regime. well it depends a lot on russia actually because he was unable to do all this by russia and iran of course and i think one has to look at the whole conflict in geo political context not just as a chemical attack here or there but as a real struggle between the regional powers between turkey iran on the one hand and the united states and russia on the other and the stakes are very high now this last attack of court may frayed the relationship between turkey and russia because i have drawn as of course supporting the invest the measures taken against syria whereas russia of course not so it's all sort of locked up in this whole

geopolitical conflict so this is going back to the chemical weapons attack. for a minute because as we know the o.p.c. w. inspect arrives in damascus are they really going to find anything because the regime that a week to clean up only right this is the first time that an attack has occurred in a regime controlled area in fact so it will remains to be seen but you know frankly speaking we've been here before this is an iraq war redux in some degree to some degree we have again the allegation of a tyrant using chemical weapons or possessing them and again war launched by the west against that but at this time i think israel is in the fray which is very dangerous and russia of course as well as the stakes are much higher than the two thousand and three iraq yeah and western leaders constantly talk about syrian chemical weapons attack being a red line but many people asking the question mark why is it not ok for the regime to use chemical weapons but it's ok for the regime to use conventional weapons barrel bombs etc the kill thousands of syrian civilians is that some kind of

hypocrisy yes i would definitely say self i mean the regular artillery i served this was military artillery is just as lethal as chemical weapons and there is no real reason why chemical weapons should be singled out in that way that is completely true at the same point you also see that tax in and which were legit kind of chemical weapons so seems to be a pattern here the tyrants have some fetish if you want for chemical weapons but the other hand of course is allegation of war propaganda we are in the fog. war we should not dismiss that allegations of russia completely that the opposition may have had a hand in this to sort of trigger a western response to come to their aid so this is why in fact there should be a un investigation you investigation will probably come up with a result which won't necessarily point fingers at who perpetrated this act but might do you know review of their work chemical attacks and we've had this before in two thousand and seventeen in two thousand and thirteen etc and every time there was a doubt in mutual allegations of who actually was the perpetrator of these acts just a final thought from you before you go how is all of this then playing into the

wider issue the broader issue of u.s. policy or lack of it in syria i mean can now walk away from syria after these strikes what happens next as far as administration is concerned that is a big question with bolton in place with pompei on places or hogs or people have called for an increase of involvement and military action in the region elsewhere it might be difficult for you to get out of the region quickly as he seems to indicate despite this latest recent strike he seems to say that he wants to get us troops out but against that are bolton and the neoconservatives to whom he has hitched his fate he just recently pardoned scooter libby who was with the architects of the iraq war and who was accused of fabricating evidence for the iraq war and trump just pardoned him so why is he toeing the line of the neo conservatives that's a big question and will that mean that there will be a further escalation the future especially since the u.s.s. truman is on its way to the region so trump is contradicting himself in fact because in his campaign he ran an anti neo conservative platform now he's

implementing their policies always good to talk to you thank you very much there were protesters marched outside the white house to condemn those airstrikes in syria they chanted hands off syria for peace the demonstrators say they want the world to know not everybody in the united states backs military action. now arab league leaders are meeting in saudi arabia for our annual summit it comes at a time of regional tensions with airstrikes in syria the ongoing crisis involving qatar and its saudi blockading neighbors the meeting is expected to focus on these issues as well as u.s. president donald trump's controversial decision to move the u.s. embassy in jerusalem well our correspondent mohammed joins me live in the studio now mohammed syria is the big event this week in the middle east with those u.s. led strikes why would that be on the agenda that. well it's surprising isn't it

that the biggest event in the world is not up for discussion on the arab league's agenda a spokesman for the arab league has said that the agenda for this summit was put together and thursday in the missile strikes by the united states france and britain. for two thousand later so he says. it's not up for discussion so they will discuss it here in general times and continue on but not the strikes but not the strikes as we're talking to you we're seeing some of those arrival pictures of arab arab league members arriving in demand these are live pictures coming to us here at al-jazeera mohammed so the other issue what about the gulf crisis the saudi led embargo against qatar that doesn't seem to be on the agenda rather that is not on the agenda. the same spokesman talking about the agenda said. they're not going to discuss but he did not specify why not

but one thing that will be on the agenda of course is iran the arab league says it wants to come up with a common stance on iran which of course has influence in yemen and lebanon and syria what they want to achieve what is safe to say that iran is the centerpiece of this summit what so that if there once is a hush a stance against iran within the arab world and also. an agreement on how to counter iran's growing influence not on the in yemen but also in lebanon and syria. so this is basically what they're going to spend most of the time. but they're also going to discuss interestingly talkee who they are accusing of what they're calling violation of iraq's sovereignty so that is also on the agenda on the agenda too is. conflicts in libya syria and yemen as well as. they're going to discuss how to.

israel's bid for that attention of membership of the u.n. security council just a final thought from you i mean arab league summit stuck considered by many observers not to have any real political bite is this one going to be any different from the last one to play i mean it's coming at a thirty crucial time in the arab world you know conflicts keep on growing also as well as it recent events in syria which of course they said they're not going to discuss but the issue of jerusalem is key at a time when the united states is planning to move its embassy there. they will be talking about the palestinian issue of recent events there the killing of dozens of palestinian demonstrators it will be interesting to see what comes out of it but many people are not holding their breath mamma that thank you. all right plenty more to come here on the news and clearing we'll tell you how u.s. trade tariffs on china could affect this lucrative beef industry. on the island in

senegal where rising sea levels are creating some of the world's first climate microbes. and in sport the veteran striker still producing match winning performances in north america's biggest football that's also. not the first family to be repatriated from bangladesh has arrived in me and rakhine state the family of five has been given identification documents but not citizenship the united nations is warning the community still faces discrimination and persecution in more than seven hundred thousand range of muslims have fled to bangladesh following a military crackdown in rakhine last year. police in india have charged a politician with raping a teenage girl as protests against sexual assaults intensified. was arrested on friday the alleged assault happened nine months ago but he was only charged after

the victim tried to set a cell phone fire rallies against sexual violence have taken place this week after the abduction rape and murder of an eight year old girl in indian administered kashmir michael data but. she was a very beautiful when a cliff ago she was pretty why was she killed for what reason she was just doing her work in the day and would return home in the evening they killed her and dumped her body for six days she was raped and killed we just want justice a journalist in nigeria previously involved in talks with boko haram says only a few of the chibok school girls being held by the young group are still alive the nigerian government says it has no way of backing up the reporter's claims and insists negotiations are ongoing exactly four years ago boko haram kidnapped two hundred seventy six girls from their school in chibok. gunmen disguised as u.n. peacekeepers have detonated two suicide car bombs at french and u.n.

bases in mali one peacekeeper was killed at least ten french soldiers were wounded in timbuktu no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack senegal's historic coastal city of salary is at risk of disappearing due to a rapidly rising sea levels houses in the former capital and now unesco world heritage site are already being swallowed by the ocean leaving hundreds of people homeless reports. when the tide is out what is left of his home resurfaces. this is where the kitchen where is he tells his son. he shows him his grandparents bedroom. and the 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 a membership 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 the sahara 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 hark al-jazeera senegal. now water scarcity is one of the biggest problems facing humanity in the next few decades the u.n. estimates 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 a solution lawrence lee has more from manchester. it may only be one atom think and invisible to the eye but the graphene layer wrapped inside these two 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 don't get blocked by the christian and just pure water can come yet so effectively to see it more or less turn graphene into a shield like this and run salt water through it the source molecule stick and h two o. passes through graphene can desalinate sea water as well recently sold it stephanie possible to remove io. which was a very important step but now we need to reproduce those results on

a very large scale this is probably going to take at least 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 deserted vacations 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 are lots. and it can really help water companies governments much of a them 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 we al-jazeera in manchester. consumers in china are being encouraged to boycott american goods in response to u.s. threats to impose more tariffs on chinese products american beef is popular with the middle class and could be hard hit by a boycott our china correspondent adrian brown has more now 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 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. 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 he was there 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 a food of all 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 what is the point if the imported american beef certainly 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 in a few moments we'll have all the weather with rob but still ahead here on al-jazeera . demanding answers thousands of people march in brazil against the killing of a politician. in montenegro are casting their ballots to choose the next president . in a sport we'll find out which teams made an early move in the n.b.a. playoffs.

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a chemical attack in duma arrived in damascus on saturday and specters from the o.p.c. w. are expected to visit the site of that suspected gas attack in the syrian town of duma that killed more than forty people. our league leaders are meeting in saudi arabia for an annual summit it comes at a time of regional tensions with air strikes in syria the ongoing crisis involving qatar and its saudi led blockading neighbors. and police in india have charged a politician with raping a teenage girl as protest against sexual assaults intensified. was arrested on friday. happened nine months ago but he was only charged after the victim tried to set a self on fire. now somali security forces are blocked troops from transporting military equipment back to the united arab emirates they were forced to unload military equipment from a private jet before takeoff in the northeastern city of. relations between the two countries been strained since march that's wanted to buy based company to give

a management of the berber a port in the breakaway territory of somaliland. well relations between somalia and the u.a.e. have been frosty since june last year after mogadishu refused to cut ties with cats are in the gulf diplomatic dispute but that hasn't stopped a w. from investing in two regions in northern somalia the first is somali land which declared independence from somalia in one nine hundred ninety one a move that has not been recognized internationally in february the u.s. signed a thirty year deal to manage its berbera port and last month it announced plans to set up a military base there in neighboring point land the u.a.e. secured another deal to develop and manage its bosaso port of a dad has been training an anti-piracy coast guard for years but somalia's government has reacted strongly to what it calls infringements on its sovereignty and unity last month it passed a law banning a divide based company that runs the ports from operating in the country much brian as it is a security consultant on the horn of africa and somalia specialist with the think

tanks he joins us from nairobi by a skype mark so just last week the somali government stopped more than nine million dollars from the u.a.e. coming into mogadishu and now we have the authorities and put down stopping a u.s. a year craft from leaving with military hardware was this all about. well it's in modish or is. it disputes escalating between the somali federal government and the u.a.e. and the government was was making a point confiscating cash that was destined for the usa embassy general disher and reportedly for the payment of troops that the u.a.e. has been training and sustaining now the force that the u.a.e. supported the somali government has said it will disband and integrate with its own forces so it's taking a very strong line against. in portland the reports are less clear they have been. the u.a.e.

has been supporting many years and despite the reports that there's been some kind of dispute after sasso report today we have conflicting reports saying that the usa is committed to supporting the ministration and will continue to provide assistance to the maritime police force and that's an important point to make that because the u.a.e. owned dubai ports world was bad and operating in somalia by the government yet it continues to operate the two ports of of berbera so what does this say about how weak perhaps the somali government is in implementing its own policies. well it says a great deal. the government has moved issue is still a provisional government based on the constitution it's incomplete. needs to focus on developing the federal architecture somalia and its writ really doesn't run very far outside of the capital itself and even in the capital it's hold is somewhat

tenuous as we've seen with security incidents over the last last couple of weeks also political instability within the federal institutions nowi the united arab emirates have established very good relations with all of the regional parties and some are what are known as the federal member states and so the federal government is not just in a dispute. but it's actually also confronting the i guess what are its issues at matts i mean this is clearly a political and diplomatic standoff between somalia and the u.a.e. so what happens next. well it seems that the moment of the crisis is in a slippery phase. the somaliland initiative to build a base military base and to manage the port and expand that port is going forward.

just recently the u.a.e. announced that the package would include training for the somaliland military forces which is something of course mogadishu opposes i expect we will continue to see u.a.e. support to the federal no states against the wishes of moved it sure and this really looks like a dispute that nobody can win somalia is it is a very. poor country it's you know i was a conflict reconstruction face in need to focus on rebuilding and developing internally and not to be bogged down in these kinds of disputes both with some money itself and with important neighbors like the u.a.e. let me get a final thought from the about how is d.p. world and the u.a.e. reacted to all of this what are they pushing for well the u.a.e. has said that the somali government has nothing to do with the agreement with somaliland at the chairman of d.p.

world said that somaliland has been independent for twenty eight years and somalia has no war or a teen or something that mogadishu clearly doesn't want to hear. i think the u.a.e. has made it very good as long as mali there remains somewhat aligned. in the middle east in crisis that it will take a firm line against mogadishu government although it has also been training federal troops and has been trying to walk a fine line i think that balance calibrated approach u.a.e. has been taking is now an end and we should expect an escalation. thank you very much for talking to others in. and you. now thousands of people are gathering in barcelona to protest against the jailing of nine council on separatist leaders for their role in last year's secession referendum these are live pictures now from their spending wants to try these separatists on charges of rebellion catalonia has

been in political limbo since spain took over its regional government following its independence declaration last year joins us live now from barcelona so what are you expecting to happen today that. well daryn this is really an overnight as a very well organized event which is really brought together by a coalition of groups. which compose not just of chattel and pro independence civil societies but also trade unions and other groups which are very much against what the spanish government's reaction to the whole prices has been there is very much a sense that madrid surratt sees have really overstepped the mark and are really punishing people here with a kind of very hard and a punishment for expressing any contradiction to what the spanish government has

been doing you had also of course six months on monday you've got the anniversary of the two jailed leaders which have yet to be charged but expected to be charged that day but this is really a crux point hey where is the showing the tension between the will far and tease me the feeling the civil feelings here in in barcelona and in madrid you don't get it's not necessarily a case of people supporting independence here in fact you can't say that a majority of people who do support independence but what you do have is a lot of people certainly the great majority of the people really against what they say is really pressure against that political leaders have for example on friday once again the investiture of the jailed m.p. to make an. leader of the government again was postponed that very much say flies in the face of spain trying to be a democratic state government and trying to ensure that a government democratic process is ensured in this crisis so we have

a situation here where there is really an impasse neither side is winning out the spanish government strong arming the castle one side of it as well so this is where one side the castle one side is trying to galvanize and not just the united nations and european union powers to try and get that democratic right support in this but also to try and find a way out of this by galvanizing the european union to say look how can this happen in a democratic country like spain spain is sliding into authoritarianism and this is something which can't be tolerated if the european union is serious about its democratic conditions that spain needs to do to somebody i go there live for us in barcelona somewhere thank you. now voting is under way in montenegro's presidential election longtime leader has never lost an election and is favored to win he and his ruling democratic party of socialists have dominated politics in the country for more than twenty five years he favors closer ties with europe rather than

traditional ally moscow last year the country went against russia and joined nato let's get more now from aleesha marinovich is live for us in montenegro's capital. so this is the first presidential election since the country joined nato what are the international implications for this vote. well these elections today will showed the popularity of the long time political montenegrin lead that a meal of who in his almost thirty years long career was six time a prime minister montenegro in one time president of the country so actually his running now for his second presidential mandate he defied an old historic slavic ally of montenegro russia and led montenegro into joining nato last year the outcome of the vote also will show the public support of you kind of each euro atlantic policies about five hundred thirty thousand people's people will vote

today registered voters they will watch today and choose amongst seven candidates in this moment between the polls with more than fifty percent of the water which is enough for him to win in the first round not to go in the second one which is already organized in two weeks when we are talking about the second one in this poll says it's the opposition candidate has the candidate of various opposition parties some of them are pro russians pro russian parties like democratic front and on the third place is the first woman ever to run from for presidency. each when we are talking when we are talking about we have to mention that he led to montenegro to its independence in two thousand and six independency for

a much larger serbia and now he claims and wants to steer the contrie into the european union he was also the prime minister in two thousand and sixteen when accordingly to the state state. state organization. war to attempt to poor russian who designed to prevent contre from joining. russia denied any involvement in these events so actually the question today is the question which is here in the most couple of years and that his country stay on its path. path to always more. historical ally russia ok. thank you very much now in brazil thousands of protesters in rio de janeiro are demanding answers after the killing of a city council last month franco and her driver was shot dead the activist defended

the rights of minorities and criticize the army for taking of a policing of the city but so far nobody has been arrested supporters say she was the target of a political assassination. the agenda of this year's summit of the americas was supposed to focus on tackling corruption but the u.s. led strikes in syria diverted the discussions. reports from. the photo as planned but then the u.s. led missile strike on syria overshadowed the agenda at the summit of the americas 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 several countries hinted that they did justin trudeau went further canada stands with our friends in this necessary response and we condemn in the strongest possible terms the use of chemical weapons and last week's attack in eastern goat. the

humanitarian and political problems in venezuela also took center stage more than a dozen countries signed the statement calling full among other things free and fair elections. hinted also of course where we will win this one we will continue to be generous with the venezuelan people there are brothers but will be implacable with the oppressive regime and sort of. want us to see that the venezuelan president nicolas maduro himself was uninvited to the summit he was defended in his absence by the foreign minister of unlike cuba who traded blows with parents. yes know them all get out that it's not at all democratic to outtalk venezuela and mention president maduro when he's been excluded and isn't he has to despond i did ject the insulting evidence seized to cuba and venezuela the castro regime is systematically cept the wealth of

a great nation and stolen the lives of people. it's a far cry from the last summit when barack obama's handshake with raul castro symbolized thorin relations and relative regional home in a way that's been replaced by division and high profile absences including the us president donald trump some of questioned if the event itself is still relevant as evidence to the contrary post peru pointed to a written commitment from countries to fight corruption that was the summit's official theme and a relevant one that's in america's been shaken by region wide bribery scandal. but the document has no influence from measures and the sum ended with little evidence it's done much to clean up that reputation. john home of. lima. well so to come here not just clearing. counties opera for a new generation children in hong kong given old all form

a new lease of life. and sport a shock result for the host nation on the final day of a couple of games in australia stay with us. life in the islands fringing the antarctic peninsula is abundant a place of seemingly endless variety the whole region is richly biodiverse a living example of how things are pretty much free from the in through the. getting to see the astonishing bond life here is by no means straightforward the weather makes everything a challenge the environment where wildlife is living is incredibly fragile incredibly delicate there's all sorts of threats that are up against climate change krill fishing and then of course there's this tourism the number of tourists coming down here it's a beginning of the two thousand and two somewhere around four five thousand

a year we're now over thirty thousand a year. is still in pretty good shape but it's apparent this unique landscape needs to be very carefully managed as multiple threats begin to lose on the horizon. when the winning the win if the people hinges on the mass media and state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive. but just. influencing. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what cannot. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for access to the media opinion the listening post based.

welcome back now it's a centuries old art form that was once one of hong kong's most popular forms of entertainment but counties uprise struggling to engage the next generation the traditions considered a unique part of hong kong's identity and industry diehards are determined to keep it alive so a clock reports. after sixty years designing and creating traditional head dresses chan kwok yuan is considered a grandmaster in cantonese opera these days he spends less time creating and more time teaching to educate the next generation to appreciate this traditional us. the audience is mostly in their fifty's or sixty's i hope that we have more younger audiences over time that's the crucial point it's a concern shared by some in the industry who say younger people are now more engaged with other types of digital and time and. so they have come up with

a plan as well as subjects like math and science primary and secondary students can now study cantonese opera the hong kong government hopes that by making it part of the curriculum it to preserve this unique part of hong kong's cultural heritage the money through this kind of activity we hope to spark kids interest in this culture and they can experience the value of it the performance showcases stories of chinese history gestures and singing styles haven't changed nor have the demanding retains but the storyline has been given a modern make over everything got to be like cantonese opera the only difference is the story itself we try to write stories on the daily lives of the children that's me stop or it's considered a unique part of hong kong's identity has been recognized by unesco as an intangible part of the city's cultural heritage and this year the government is opening this new theater dedicated to the arts but with

a fan base of many adults and the elderly it industry knows the key to its survival is reinventing its tradition the decadent costumes are drawcard as well as the mike up but students are learning to appreciate the performance celebrating it on stage her whole journey i love the county's opera because i now know more chinese words and culture from it. i like it because my grandpa sings cantonese opera to us so i'm used to listening to him a lot with more than twenty schools now signed up to the program industry groups hope this do landscape of cantonese opera will stand the test of time sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. watch out for the sport has andy thank you so much there and well that on your car is one of the chinese formula one grand prix after a super hard drive in shanghai the result has left the championship race wide open with hartley to sebastian vettel finishing down in a police home and reports. sebastian vettel

started from poll position in shanghai after winning the first two races of the season the expectation was that the ferrari driver would make it three. but a bad pit stop on the twenty first lap proved costly for him. and eventually allowed finn valtteri bottas to take the lead. a collision between the two toro rosso drivers open up the field even further joining safety car conditions and daniel ricardo started to make his move through the field from six. zero. the australian had barely made qualifying just one engine problem that found his way to the top of the series of off it makes. vettel so he's right some gravel after

a collision with red bulls matts the stop and who was analyzed. while ricardo held them at the front the just the sixth victory of his formula one career bought us in kimi reichen and completing the podium defending champion lewis hamilton was full vettel finished eighth on a day that well and truly belong to ricardo. i don't know what it is i don't i don't seem to win boring races they're all pretty fun so that was unexpected you know for yourselves twenty four hours ago i thought we might be starting at the back of the grid there's a two week break before the next f one stop in azerbaijan with vettel leading hamilton. i ninety points in the championship standings daniel ricardo is now fourth release homan al-jazeera now commonwealth games organizes a face criticism for the delay in providing medical assistance to a marathon runner who collapsed while leading the race scotland's can hawkins' at a two minute advantage over his closest rivals when he fell to the ground

a couple of kilometers from the finish on australia's gold coast successful minutes for paramedics to reach the twenty five year old who had to pull out of the race which was won by a home run of mark shelley he was eventually taken to hospital where he's undergoing precautionary tests because surprise on the final day of competition saw england's netballers stunned australia is the first time the gold medal match didn't feature new zealand against australia helen howes be schooled in the final seconds to clinch a shock fifty two fifty one victory for england. new zealand clinch the first ever gold medal in the women's rugby sevens had been locked twelve twelve with australia forcing the final into extra time when calibrator came up with this sixty to try to clinch the victory australia had won the olympic gold medal in rio in twenty six days in the new zealand men sevens team beat fiji to gold and it was an all indian badminton final in the women's singles sun and the world beat so great rival peace

in doing two straight games adding to the team gold medal she also won on the gold . in the finishing third in the medals table while the host nation australia are well clear at the top of the standings there eighty gold medals almost double that of second placed england at the gold coast organizing committee both claims the games have helped restore australia's international sporting reputation after last month's cricket ball tampering scandal. sportsmanship was on show during the cold war games he is what the essence of australians about face bore no cheating and applauding the winners now we also like winning but nevertheless we applaud the winners we applaud the competitors we comply we applaud with the people will lose so yes international reputation has been restored thanks to these calm. defending n.b.a. champions the golden state warriors have started the playoffs with a win the war is beating the san antonio spurs in game one of their best of seven series and the third alfie

a seventy six has extended their winning run to seventeen games in their series opener against the miami heat bensimon south seventeen points fourteen assists and nine rebounds in his bias debut seventy six is winning one thirty to one hundred three. for me to be more aggressive attacking the room of the snow knocking down free throws. you know when i do the opportunity. to move in ball play the way up play not only those guys who can hit shots so as long as i'm your memo been good shots no refund for games played at all anthony davis scored thirty five points as new orleans edged going one against poland and the toronto raptors ended their ten game losing streak in game ones with that win of washington manchester city could be confirmed as english premier league champions lights are on this sunday after their midweek champions league loss against liverpool city beat sutton three want to wembley on saturday if second place manchester united lose against west brom then city will be the champions. when the people say it was

a big fail and what happened you know last week is they don't understand absolutely anything food was so chamblee seven games you can win the league the champions league but there is three days of interim months and i'm sorry it's much more important that we did these guys have done all the season. liverpool continue to form saw them beat city five one on our cricket in europe they were three nil winners against bournemouth scored his fortieth goal of the season with reverse ofa mean i would study go more and i also on the score sheets few dangerous situations . because the clean sheet would send a little bit of luck you know you need always. coach oh good good really good game very important result here's how the table is looking united sixteen points behind city ahead of home game against bottom club west brom the top four will qualify for next season's champions league chelsea just about keeping their slim hopes alive

doing that with a three two win at southampton newcastle the arsenal is sunday's other gangs barcelona made it a record thirty nine games are two defeats in the spanish top flight a two one when i have a legacy on saturday putting them false aim points clear at the top of their league a standings as they move on from their champions league exit against roma would be the nose for most americans are going to record 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 and the future of the club will have more business and slots on abraham of which martins first start for the l.a. galaxy with the goal slots and converted across from former england international ashley cole it to secure a one no one i would chicago fire the swedish struck a school twice and is there before the galaxy when he came on as a substitutes. the boston bruins have crushed its run on my police for a second straight game in the n.h.l. playoffs david pasternack scored

a hat trick and had three assists in the bruins seven three victory at city gardens i scored twelve goals to toronto's four in the opening two games of the series it's best of seven game three coming up on monday. nashville predators are all sides to nothing up in their western conference series with the colorado avalanche ron hoffman scored with one minute and nine seconds left on the clock as the products as one five four. ok that is how useful it is looking for an animal from a lighter and they thank you very much and that's it for me down in jordan for this news hour but my colleague joining the team is up next with more of the day's news such and done so much by the.

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australia more indigenous children are being taken from their families than ever before. when east investigates whether history is repeating itself. on al-jazeera. alice was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp. the government raised our hopes and then abandoned. politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed.