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is al-jazeera. and this is news hour live from london coming up. chemical weapons inspectors are in syria to investigate the suspected attack now the u.s. says new sanctions against russia to be announced. mass protests in barcelona nationalists take to the streets over the jailing of nine of their leader has. turned to rage against james komi the u.s. president described him as the worst f.b.i. director in history. and sport manchester city when the english premier league title after their closest challenger man united lose to west brom also australia's daniel or card. polls are

a shock when at the chinese ground free red bull driver moving from six on the grid to finish top of the podium showing. you don't and states is preparing new sanctions against russia over its support for the syrian government the us ambassador to the un nikki haley said the sanctions will target companies dealing with equipment related to president assad and chemical weapons use following the alleged attack in duma the sanctions will be announced on monday so you will see that russian sanctions will be coming down secretary will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already and they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use and so i think everyone is going to feel that at this point i think everyone knows that we sent a strong message and our hope is that they listen to it he also said the u.s.

would pull out troops from syria until its goals have been accomplished or engage in direct talks with president assad inspectors from the international chemical weapons watchdog earned damascus to investigate the suspected chemical attack syrian government forces say they've now retaken duma so in the heart of ports. it's being described as the biggest victory for syrian president bashar al assad since the start of the conflict eastern huta has returned to state control after almost six years for weeks the enclave on the doorsteps of the capital damascus came under heavy fire hundreds of civilians were killed the pro-government alliance was also accused of using chemical weapons in the main town of duma before the last rebel group surrendered. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is sending a team to the site to investigate those claims the u.s. and its allies didn't wait for the organizations findings they said they had their

own evidence and launched air strikes targeting syria's chemical weapons facilities those strikes were not about threatening bashar assad's hold on power but since the bombings the message from the government has been one of defiance its army says it is preparing for more offensives the priority seems to be clearing the remaining territories outside government control near the capital in southern damascus a number of districts are under a government siege centered on yarmuk some neighborhoods there are controlled by others by opposition fighters. the rebels also control areas of countryside in the central province of homs territory in the western region close to the damascus holmes highway parts of the southern province of daraa the northwestern province of idlib desert territory close to the iraqi jordan border elsewhere under the control of u.s. backed syrian democratic force rebels is the kurdish area while the region west of

the euphrates river is under the control of turkey back to rebels the government's priority now is to clear areas around damascus or what it calls useful syria because the location is strategically so important russian and syrian military officers have been reaching out to some rebel factions who are already under siege giving them the choice to accept state rule or surrender if they don't want to face an offensive in it live however there has been no offer of reconciliation there are warnings of a humanitarian disaster if there is an offensive there it's the most densely populated rebel held area some two million syrians live there almost house displaced from towns recaptured by the government iran a backer of the syrian government says it lives could be the next target but so kandahar which chairs the border with jordan the government has been trying to penetrate rebel defenses for some time now the u.s.

led strikes have not changed anything and threats of further action by western powers are confined to the use of chemical weapons the syrian government still has the upper hand and it's pushing ahead with its military solution to the conflict. beirut. or despite the recent targeted attacks on syrian government positions the west appears to have accepted that president assad is there to stay he is now in control of most of the country on saturday the syrian regime recaptured duma near the capital damascus after a two month military offensive the rebels surrender leaves bashar assad's government in control of almost all territory near the capital except a pocket of three neighborhoods in southern damascus around a palestinian refugee camp yarmouk it's between syrian opposition fighters and i saw the syrian army and its russian allies are also eyeing areas in western culture moon it's a vital interest to iranian backed hizbollah fighters who want to secure further

syria's western border but attention is expected to focus on the north where rebels control a big chunk of territory in province where rebel fighters have been sent from different regions of syria as part of transfer deals from eastern aleppo eastern ghouta and homs let's go to stephanie decker who's in gaziantep on the turkey syria border given what we were just describing there the kind of distribution of people around syria what you did with the syrian government strategy is next with regard to for instance in libya. well it's almost like they're cleaning house their main target initially was this was in the hands of rebels and trying to twelve and a real thorn in the government side for years because the rebels could also target damascus with mortars or rockets etc it live is of course something that the government recently iran have said that they will target but i think perhaps it will be left for last because at the moment they're still trying to clear up

opposition areas south of damascus as you mentioned yet move could this is an area that also has some nice will presence and then around the how much area and then you have also rebels along the border with jordan and then this province which is the main rebel controlled province where you still have infighting going on between all these different groups that have over time with all these deals as you were mentioning that the government made to clear out rebels from certain areas they've all ended up there but i think the bigger picture large if we look at this war now into seven years is that the assad government has taken back most of the country if you look before russia entered to help the government the rebels are really at the doors of damascus they held incredible pockets of territory they really lost when it came to us that he really held damascus and not much else so the reversal of tide that has happened here with the help of course of the russians and iranians and other militias on the ground is substantial and i think if you look at the loss

that syria has suffered when it comes to its people millions displaced both outside the country and internally and an unknown number of dead but certainly estimates saying around haul for a million people and you actually see what has been achieved and you have a country more divided than ever so it's very very complicated but certainly many people will tell you that assad has won is winning this war he's in control of most of the country and certainly at the moment he is slowly cleaning up those pockets of rebel held territory that remain and to go back to the issue of the suspected chemical attacks we knew we now know that the inspectors from the from the chemical weapons so watchdog a valuable watch what are their plans how does it work with them. well they will be visiting dumas now under the control of the syrian government it's in eastern which was of course as i mentioned earlier under rebel control for years until it was just recently retaken so they will be carrying out their work under the eye of syrian government minders and syrian officials what they'll be doing is talking to

people to witnesses there they'll be carrying out samples of course many people will say the opposition will say well can it be a fair assessment when it comes to operating under the control of the syrian government but you know having said that the o.p.c. w. is not new to operating in syria they've operated there for years also in rebel held areas they over school what was the dismantling supposed dismantling of syrians keppel chemical weapons program which happened twenty fourteen ofter that main chemical weapon attack in eastern goods in twenty thirteen was a bomb a cold a red line but that red line came and went the americans never did anything so certainly now what we're going to expect in the next couple of months we will have a report out by this group saying what it is they found they found evidence before of sulphur mustard gas what they said they found evidence before of saturn or sarin like substance they found evidence before of chlorine gas but chlorine gas was never part of sort of the chemical weapons that had to be removed so that will come out and we will have more clarity perhaps of what it was that happened there but

again they're not going to allocate blame so this war of words that we see that we expect that is now predictable in syria between both sides will continue just briefly the u.s. embassy in syria in damascus has been tweeting in the last hour or so saying that there's been a lot of russian propaganda about all this so they want to get facts clear so one of the tweets they put out was that the targets were carefully selected and they were really at the heart of syria's chemical weapons project it was planned and they said that one hundred five weapons were fired at three distinct military weapons targets and overhead so of course there's a lot of back and forth about this is going to change the course of this war many people will tell you know stephanie decker thank you very much indeed. on syria also featured high on the agenda at the arab league summit in saudi arabia the twenty two member body has been divided over the issue of saturday's u.s. led air strikes on syria saudi arabia bahrain and qatar have previously issued statements in support of action by egypt iraq and lebanon expressed concern this

argument used his role as host to push for a unified stance against iran which he blamed for instability and meddling in the region. joining us to discuss this is out there is senior political analyst mo and bashar some more what do you think this summit achieved well not much. there were a few promises and there were a few. lines in a communique but what we've learned from that oblique at least since in recent years is that they don't mean what they say and they don't do what they promise so in the end of the day they came up with three general wish lists if you will one is that they're going to support the palestinians and that is the capital of the palestinian state future of the syrian state that they're going to combating terrorism jerusalem so they're going to combat terrorism and they're going to

confront any foreign. interference in arab affairs but seriously i mean we know none of this is going to happen or we know whenever it happens things just seem to get from bad to worse so all in all a lot of the leaders in the in the summit actually function like. bio maniac firemen you know on the one hand they want to put off the fires. and the wars in the region but on the other hand they are the ones instigating the wars and the violence in the middle east so what do you make in the latest if a development from nikki haley's this announcement that russia's going to face more sanctions for its. connection with assad's syrian. chemical weapons infrastructure and so on or what difference will that make i think it's too little too late i think of course it makes sense after they carried over the two attacks one in april two thousand and seventeen one april two thousand and thirteen we don't even know if they're going to help in the end of the day because they are

like but they seem pinpricks attacks that will not do rail neither the syrian regime nor its backers in iran and russia so some sanctions of course will be either through the layers of sanctions against russia but i think is on the other hand that would be pushing the regime and its backers to be focusing on conventional force because and then that they let's all remember that the absolute majority you know if i'm going to put a figure to what i will see ninety nine percent of the five hundred thousand syrians who died and that many others who were injured in the syrian civil war over the last seventy years were the victims of conventional force not chemical force gimmick chemical weapons are the preoccupation of washington london and paris they are not the main preoccupation of the syrian people and in terms of where we are now after these strikes and and where all the kind of players who are involved in this conflict a position and some suggestion that we might be reaching an endgame with syria would that be fair oh is that it too soon to say it's definitely not an end game

but we are we are coming to a crossroads if your world or into some sort of a roadblock because now in syria is divided to four main regions of influence and in each region of influence there is a regional or international power and control so we have turkey in the northwest we have the united states in the north and the east and we have israel and jordan in. basically influencing the opposition controlled areas in the south or on that ah and then of course we have the russian iranian regime supported with it in the middle of the country it's very hard to see how the regime even if it's backed by russia and iran is going to be able to expand north or south or or east because if it will it's going to come into confrontation with turkey israel or the united states and that is doubtful at this moment one of the point about this isn't with nikki haley suggestion miniature not ready to withdraw all u.s. troops because originally the suggestion from the u.s.

and been that they were very much want to get themselves out of syria soon as they could do you think that now that strategy has actually changed this is just the latest position you know you never know with donald trump right but look i mean in five phrases the american strategy in syria was supposed to be not much of a strategy but there was a wish list the wish list was there not six wanted syria to be free of eisel free of chemical weapons. the three of iranian influence eventually free of bashar assad and last but not least for the refugees to come back and rebuild the country certainly in terms of chemical weapons and i saw the nazis have more or less made major progress because i saw was more risk defeated and chemical weapons are to been taken care of i think the main issues now is assad and iran if we heard nikki haley correctly today she said that the u.s. says that's not what i said to go that's not true for more secular state to extol us and said back in january that the united states is going to stay in syria and

that assad goes be that as it may i think the main focus of the united states in syria is not to change syria is not to rebuild syria is not to liberate syria from us that it's clearly there in order to make sure that iranian influence will remain limited because that is in america and the west and in israel's best interest is to make sure that iran does not have huge influence within the country well michel thank you very much indeed. still ahead on the news hour outrage in india as a politician is finally charged over the ledge rape of a teenage girl. protests break out across southern yemen after the appointment of a controversial military commander. and scored american efforts that ended in a collapse and criticism of organizers at the commonwealth games.

around three hundred fifty thousand protesters have flooded the streets of barcelona demonstrating against the jailing of nine cattle and separatist leaders for their role in last year's secession referendum spanish authorities intend to try them on charges of rebellion including the former president pushed him on who fled to germany so there you go reports from barcelona. the six months since catalonia has been governed under direct route from madrid and there was little in the way of a political resolution to the crisis i. thought no side is prepared to climb down from that position the spanish government maintains its line the illegal referendum last october was an act of rebellion and it's taking all measures it says unnecessary to contain it measures that protesters here say have gone too far or you can be against the bands or you can be brought in the bandits but. it's impossible to think that that's

a normal thing and i don't project foundries our politico prisoners in our politicians cannot do their job because they're not allowed to do them. so we are taking charge of the situation i think is the thinking behind the decision to jail catalan leaders would be that it would quell some of the fervor here but it could have been more of a mistaken one because that has only served to really galvanize people here pro independent test but also beyond that as well you say that their fundamental democratic rights are being threatened meanwhile be arrested cattle and politicians await trial on charges of rebellion a crime that carries a maximum sentence of thirty years in prison according to the lawyer representing the leaders there's little hope that spain's justice system would deliver a just verdict but the conduct of them over to the spanish authorities believe the standard you call for democracy you do know people are for the peaceful expression of better view of. the castle and parliament has called for legal charges to be

brought against a spanish supreme court judge for refusing to release one of the leaders jordy sanchez he was nominated to become the next catalan president now catalan politicians have only until the end of may to nominate another leader before new regional elections a cold if it comes to that may shift the crisis but not necessarily in favor of those who put so much. faith in the session is movement sunday at all al-jazeera barcelona. well on this i'm joined by political commentator and journalist began homewood oddo who is in madrid thanks very much for being with us what do you make of the scale of the demonstration today well it's a big demonstration but that is typical of nationalism estrangements in catalonia they are usually very big what it's new about these one is that it is not a pro independence demonstration for the freedom of the of the leaders to try to only those that are imprisoned and for the return of those who are in self-imposed

exile and as such it has been joined by all the forces not just the nationalists but also the spanish trade unions for example this is a success for the nationalists which intend to to groves on the base of their movement because whilst. on the issue of independence catalonia to split by half on the issue of the of the imprisoned leaders that he's quite well it's a quite clear majority of people proposes that and so i mean that the people there want to be jailed even if they don't necessarily think that the area should become independent but what about the charges that the planet is being pursued for rebellion sedition and misuse of public funds to people broadly agree with that or not. well in spain as a whole yes these she's seen as the right punishment people in the rest of spain and part of catalonia as well is very angry with the castle and nationally so they they go along with this interpretation of the law but it is controversial

among law experts because the spanish into spanish law the crime of rebellion needs the use of violence now there hasn't been any clear violence in the in the creation of independence on the illegal referendum the only violence we've seen and i was a reporter on the ground there during those days was divided the police violence but what the spanish judiciary is doing is interpret into law you can have way which i would call for small them they say that there was an implicit bias in the fact that large crowds wearing the streets so that is why they are trying them for evaluation and that is why they are having trouble in the rest of europe to see these accepted by all the judiciary's this is the case of mr puts the money in germany who is not being extradited precisely because the german. and german judges do not agree with this man he wants and on that point of pushed him on being in germany has that politically affected the independence movement as it weakened it.

well initially did his arrest in germany was really a blow to the expectations of the nationalists think that's a lonia they felt that everything was over but then after a few weeks things changed and now it's it's actually few other way around the judiciary in germany did not agree with the spanish judges they say they don't see rebellion because they don't see violence not only that but perhaps they would not destroy that human toll even for the lesser crimes he's accused of and that of course it's another blow but in this case the desponding judiciary and and the spanish government. home without a thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on the subject. yes president donald trump is on the another torrent of abuse on twitter against the former f.b.i. director james comey in a series of tweets trump challenges accusations kerry makes in a new tell all book due to be published next week it says i never asked komi for

personal loyalty i hardly even knew this guy i'm just another is many lies his memos are self-serving and fake in another tweet chant calls me slippery out of whack and the worst f.b.i. director in history komi has hit back saying on twitter that his book is about ethical leadership and serves as a counterpoint to that trump's act came in last year of his handling of the f.b.i. investigation into clinton's e-mail practices when the senate's go to she have a tansey he's in washington so is there any surprise in the kind of scale of anger that we're seeing from trump on the comi issue but really comb is very personal in his book we understand the book isn't officially published yet it's being published or being released rather on on tuesday but it compares trump to a mob boss he says trump is untethered to the truth and tony's main p.r. blitz officially begins this evening in the u.s. with a big network t.v.

interview on a.b.c. we've had several excerpts already that are pretty explosives a.b.c. says that they're all sorts of soundbites to come that haven't been released yet which are equally explosive or they would say that wouldn't there so we know that the sort of p.r. blitz on both sides is to be going on i'm no unwittingly perhaps trumpets is helping keep this in the headlines but the white house strategy is to discredit komi as someone who can't be trusted who was sarah saunders trumps. press spokesperson on one of these on the news shows as a verb. i mean give me a break the guy knew exactly what he was doing he thought hillary clinton would win and he thought that this would give him some cover he thought that he made these decisions based on the political landscape and not on the facts of the case and when the person that is supposed to leave the highest law enforcement agency in our country starts making decisions based on political environments and stead of on what is right and what is wrong that's a really dangerous position and i think that's one of the reasons there is such

a huge bipartisan consensus that james comey doesn't have credibility and shouldn't have been leading the f.b.i. any longer and she have but and i missed all this kind of torrent of abuse on me not very much from trump on syria there was one tweets about syria not so much about the about the policy toward syria but about what trump said on saturday about the strikes on saturday trump tweeted that the it was mission accomplished now this is a term in popular culture that has become synonymous with military failure ever since george w. bush had a big bond there which said mission accomplished behind him when he was talking about the end of combat operations in iraq in two thousand and three clearly the mission have new in there been accomplished in iraq and two thousand and three trump tweeting the following derision on saturday for him having used the same term in connection with syria that he knew all about that but he was trying to reclaim the term he tweeted the syrian raid was supposedly carried out with such precision

that the only way the fake news media could demean was by my use of the term mission accomplished i knew they would seize on this but felt it's such a great military term it should be brought back use off and. she have a chance and thank you very much. still to come on the news hour tensions flare in the horn of africa as some audio authorities seized major equipment belonging to the united arab emirates. scientists at a british university working on a breakthrough for water shortages. and this boat will find out which teams made an early move in the n.b.a. playoffs. alice springs fairly obvious from the satellite if you look at the amount of clouds

over iran over afghanistan to pakistan that she has done anything that ends in stan frankly you can expect rain at the moment less so in iran and less so still in iraq but there are still discreet showers around the euphrates and tigris for example about tails down towards q what tempted to run any twelve degrees and if it is still to remind you it's only april cold of a snow in the mountains just to the north southern caspian want us fine with the west for that bit of a breeze every day out again from the wrong direction to right make things really won't be as pleasant enough twenty six in beirut twenty nine in baghdad and by the time we get to choose a it's shot on the iranian side of the border less a further south or further west but there is cloud around the arabian peninsula and the breeze from the science would suggest dusty weather again possibly occasional suns to sandstorms kicked up by developing thunderstorms they look possible on choose iran qatar for example but a little less likely may be moving sas through the tropical rains to southern africa we've seen some decent rain recently for

a long through namibia and to angola those showers are still going that also every now and again sprouting up in the western cape. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very that was a privatization on anybody as the only field. goals people who see everything as something to invest the profit of the one dollar up to the last drop on al-jazeera discover a wealth of award winning programming from a round the clock challenge your perceptions but i was hearing sounded so far fetched that i thought they were buys

a lot of behold it was groundbreaking documentary. fearless journalism a life that i am glad to see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. from one of the top stories on our. united states says it would pull out troops from syria or engage in direct talks with president bashar al assad speaking on u.s. media the nikki haley also admitted relations with russia were very strained with new sanctions to be introduced on monday. syria also featured high on the agenda at

the arab league summit in saudi arabia with a twenty two member body divided over the issue of saturday's u.s. led airstrikes on damascus. three hundred fifty thousand protesters have rallied in the spanish city of pass alone or to demand the release of nine catchline a separatist leaders. protest against sexual violence a sweeping across northern india a politician from india's ruling party has been arrested and charged with raping a teenage girl it follows the rest of eight hindu men for the kidnap rape and murder of an eight year old muslim go in indian administered kashmir many of the protesters are angry at the ruling party which they say sided with the accused in the kashmir case shot ballasts has more in the uk the family has started a movement in india muslim nomads from indian administered kashmir they are the poster family for an epidemic of sexual abuse against girls and women by kittle

data but. she was a very beautiful and clever girl she was pretty why was she killed for what reason refreezes is the mother of eight year old a c for police charges released this week saying see for was abducted in january by eight hindu men including police offices and right for six days before she was killed on the parsonage and. everyone knows the details about the case now and even god knows these perpetrators must be asked why they killed such an innocent soul and it must be investigated. india's ruling b j p has defended the investigation into a seafoods death after the officer in charge took bribes to protect her killer. but activists saying the government is apathetic towards sexual abuse and that has created a culture of impunity in india. the protests which northern india after a sci fi story we shared and they grew on saturday will be j.p. lawmaker called it saying single was a wristed for the right of

a teenage girl the alleged assault happened nine months ago but he was only charged after the victim six or cellphone fire. go back just a few years to twenty twelve and mass demonstrations gripped india when twenty three year old joseph singh was gang raped and tortured on a bus in delhi who did secure violence in india out of the shadows this week prime minister in a ranger modi trying to get ahead of a fresh wave of fury if some are. if they're still as a society as a country we are all ashamed of it in any part of the country or in any region incidents like these shake human sensitivities i want to assure the country that no culprit will be spared on the hills of indian administered kashmir modi's words mean little to eight year old saima she has lost a playmate. she misses a sea for

a lot she tells us she misses her every day yet impunity apathy exploitation would simon doesn't understand that little girls in india pay the price for them all the same. one day she took out horses to graze and someone killed her her body was found a week later they didn't allow us to bury her there she was buried in another place with the sea for gone now she takes the horses to grace charlotte dallas al-jazeera . thousands of people have been protesting in the yemeni city of ties and the surrounding provinces demonstrators unhappy with the appointment of the former president's nephew tariq sally as a military commander accuse him of being a murderer and say that he should be tried for violations committed while in alliance with the who he rebels he's been appointed to lead fighting on yemen's west coast with the backing of the saudi led coalition. governor of ties has

criticized the protests saying the country's future lies with the coalition. it's the call for protest and the false propaganda are equal to those made by the who these their aim is to prolong the sea gentiles resulting in starvation and killing us. tensions between somalia and the united arab emirates a rising somali officials are refusing to let military equipment out of the country last week somalia seized millions of dollars of cash from a private flight to the u.a.e. mohammed atta who has more on how the disagreement started. in somalia just security staff stop these united arab emirates from living in the country of the military instructors on board refused to have their luggage starched . airport officials insisted all heavy bags be checked resulting in a tunnel it was both clear what their baggage contained. in

a lot of my bills this is a clear indication that relations between the two countries are going from bad to worse politically speaking the situation is headed for further escalation of the somali government has filed complaints against the u.s. . and internationally. last week the somali government seized almost ten million dollars in sealed bags from the u.a.e. royal jets at mogadishu international airport. was. confiscating cash reserves and for the u.s. embassy in a move to sure. troops. has been training and sustaining. relations between mogadishu and up with that we have been frosty since june last year when we're going to should resist the pressure from the u.a.e. and so did have to cut ties with qatar and join the blockade the impost on qatar the disagreement between somalia and the u.a.e.

centers around two deals abu dhabi is building a must have military base in the strategic paul tunnel but it better in some of them which wants to break away for the u.a.e. perper is conveniently close to yemen where it's part of the soda led coalition fighting iranian backed rebels the divide based company d.p. world is also taking over the port in but better some relatively small poll tax ports and livestock to the middle east and imports of food and other terms all that said to change now as d.p. world says it's prepared to spend up to four hundred forty two million dollars to develop the port for somaliland the dubai ports deal is not only a financial windfall but also a vote of confidence that is a major problem for somalia which view somaliland as its sovereign territory one hundred zero zero zero and nigerian journalist has suggested as few as fifteen of

the so-called shock schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram a still alive two hundred seventy six girls were kidnapped from their school by the militant group back in twenty fourteen the nigerian government says it has no way of knowing whether that's true and insists negotiations with boko haram are ongoing was believed more than one hundred of the schoolgirls are still being held captive . senegal's history historic coastal city of salary is at risk of disappearing due to rapidly rising sea levels houses in the former capital and now you know esko world heritage site already being swallowed by there should even hundreds of people homeless it was hack 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 the living area where they would all watch t.v.

together the ocean swallowed the two story house i do share 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 france's colonial capital in africa now and 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 that the river at which the ocean is rising here it's just a matter of decades before the neighborhoods of this ancient city brownish under the water. displaced families are really committed to these makeshift tents on the edge of this for how. 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 move in search for a safe place to live the hawk al-jazeera senegal urging is now closed in montenegro's presidential election a long time needed me djukanovic has never lost an election and his favorite to win he and his ruling democratic party of socialists have dominated politics for more than twenty five years he favors closer ties with europe rather than traditional ally russia last year the country provoked anger in moscow by joining nato on his irises one of south america's largest capitals and just like many other big cities thousands of people are living in slums now the government there is trying to integrate the slums into the rest of the city providing the residents with access to the basic services they never had before it's not going down well with everyone there's a bow has the story. it's known as the found an abandoned building in when a site is that for decades was home to hundreds of people that had nowhere else to

live. but these days heavy equipment is working nonstop to bring it down i'm going to be done today. we started to think in twenty eleven when the national government gave the city the building what we should do with it there were too many things happening here we decided to demolish it and start from scratch to transform the area. it was meant to be the largest hospital in that now america during the governmental. but when he was overthrown in one nine hundred fifty five the project was abandoned and since then it has been a symbol of neglect. or hoping to build a park schools and are currently building the new ministry of social development here the idea of this project is to increase the presence of the state in an area that has been historically abandoned around ninety families used to live in this building in this conditions with no water electricity or access to basic services

there were also one hundred forty families who lived outside the city has been offering all those occupying the area cash incentives to buy a house somewhere else. on the p.c. it was difficult to ask people to leave people didn't trust in our goodwill to help them leave this place slowly we started showing them that we want to help them improve their lives some families want to other places some of them are better off but there are ten families who do not want to leave and who works as a driver here says he's not ready to move. when you don't want to go because this is where we work from people know they can find us here i don't trust the government's intentions they leave and they don't finish what they started over seven hundred thousand people live in slums in suburban when a site is the current administration says it's working to improve the living conditions of everyone in the city but you know. what happens in the city

happens all over the country across latin america and in areas like education and health facilities force people to leave here the president is working on a play. and to improve slums around the country build roads and generate to work. this is part of the biggest urban development project when a site is has seen in decades but it is reducing poverty in the country what will guarantee that those who left the white elephant won't end up living in another slum once again. he said well i'll just see that when i say this water scarcity is said to be one of the biggest problems facing humanity in the next few decades the u.n. estimates that 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 so they may have come up with a solution urgently has more from manchester. it may only be one atom

fick and invisible to the eye but the graphene layer wraps inside this chub can help provide clean water to the planets 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 commute so effectively it's a suit you know more or less turned graphene in swiss shield like this and run salt water through it the salt molecule stick and h two o. passes through graphene can desalinate sea water as well we recently sold it stephanie possible to remove io. for a few 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 abuse for 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 and 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 . this one for example have a big role to play they can reduce the cost of. distribution water treatment a lot. and it can really help 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 me 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 and manchester. still ahead of the news hour hong kong's battle to save its traditional opera. and sport the veteran striker still producing match winning performances in north america's biggest football. in this. one.

witness. look you may be too. busy up until now the coverage of latin america that most of the world was a cloud cover included todd's tragedies of quakes and that was it but not for how people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go anyway five and a half months of demanding a good education system that was introduced in. latin america does europe has come to fill a void that needed to be filled. a

centuries old art form that was once one of hong kong's most popular entertainments is struggling to engage the next generation cantonese opera is considered a unique part of hong kong as identity and industry diehards so determined to keep it alive so track records. after sixty years designing and creating traditional head dresses chan caulk yarn is considered a grand master in cantonese opera these days he spends less time creating and more time teaching to educate the next generation to appreciate this traditional art. 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 will 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 and being 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 over the fan base of many adults and the elderly the 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 for her journey i love that he can't sneeze opera because i now know more chinese words and culture from it. i like it because my grandpa sings cantonese offer to it 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 year landscape of cantonese opera will stand the test of time sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. so will the sport now has for. lauren thank you so much manchester city are the new english premier league champions they've wrapped up the title with five games to go thanks to their closest rivals manchester united losing on sunday united were beaten at home one know by the e.p.l. bottom side west brom the last means they've fallen sixteen points behind with only

fifteen left to play for we were masters in complicated football everything was complicated. we couldn't plea fast. we couldn't sing fast everything was complicated one more touch one wanted to control the ball. one more turn one mostly one more trick. and we always give them. the opportunity to be solidly compact together in the long block would. you choose a go strong players. well the race for a second is still wide open just four points separate united and top six place arsenal were beaten to wind up by newcastle they can still qualify for the champions league if they win the league in which they're in the semifinals fateh neighborhood of h. has indicated that he could play at this year's world cup the swede who has who had

retired from international football said on twitter that is chances of playing in russia are sky high the striker has been looking good since joining major league soccer team the l.a. galaxy he marked his first start for them with a goals latin converted a cross from former england international rushing forward to secure a one win over the chicago fire the swedish striker scored twice on his debut for the galaxy when he came on as a substitute. daniel carter who has won the chinese formula one grand prix after a super drive in shanghai result has left the championship race wide open with title leader sebastian vettel finishing it down in eighth release homan reports. sebastian vettel started from pole position in shanghai after winning the first two races of the season the expectation was that the ferrari driver would make it through ok but a bad pit stop on the twenty first lap proved closely for him. and eventually

allowed fee involved three bought us to take the lead. a collision between the two toro rosso drivers opened up the field even so the during safety car conditions undone you ricardo started to make his move through the field from six. the australian had barely made qualifying juice with engine problems that found his way to the top of the series of off it makes. the. so he's right some rubble after a collision with red bulls match the stop and who was paralyzed. while ricardo held firm at the front the just the sixth victory of his formula one career bought a house in kimi reichen and completed the podium defending champion lewis hamilton

was fourth 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 we ourselves 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 one stop and as a by shown with vettel leading hamilton by nine points in the championship standings done you ricardo is now fourth release homan al-jazeera. commonwealth games organizers are faced criticism for the delay in providing medical assistance to a marathon runner who collapsed while leading in the race scotland's column hawkins had a two minute advantage over his closest rival swen he fell to the ground to kilometers from the finish line on australia's gold coast it took several minutes for paramedics to reach the twenty five year old who had to pull out of the race which was won by home run our mind shelley hawkins was conscious and talking about the time he was helped into the ambulance. of the biggest surprise on the final day of

competition saw in wounds and netballers down australia it was the first time the gold medal match didn't feature new zealand and australia and how and hounds be scored in the final seconds to clinch a shock to two to fifty one to three for england. he's saying bolt the d.j. took center stage at the closing ceremony seventy one countries have taken part in the games over the last eleven days with the english city of birmingham set to host the event in twenty twenty two of the gold coast organizing committee so the games have helped restore australian sporting reputation after last month's cricket ball tampering. sportsmanship was on show during the commons games he is what the essence of the strike it's about no cheating and applauding the way it is now we also like winning but nevertheless we applaud do we do as we applaud that compared it is we complain we're cool with it people will lose so. in the next repeat these

big stupid things to these comments guy. sunday's n.b.a. playoff action is already under way the milwaukee bucks in the boston celtics are facing off in the first round the celtics leading seventy to sixty six at the end of the third quarter on saturday defending n.b.a. champions the golden state warriors started their campaign with a win the warriors beating the sam and tony spurs in game one of the best of seven series and the philadelphia seventy six ers extended their winning run to seventeen games in their series opener against mine heat then simmons had seventeen points fourteen assists and nine rebounds in his playoff debut the seventy six ers winning one hundred thirty to one hundred three. for me to be more aggressive attacking the room of the tonight knocking down free throws. you know when i get the opportunity and just moving the ball play the way i play you know i don't need to go shots of guys who can hit shots so as long as i'm getting them open and good shots were fun for games then on saturday anthony davis scored thirty five points as new orleans

edged game one against portland and the trauma raptors and their ten game losing streak in game one with the win over washington. the boston bruins have crushed the toronto maple leafs for a second straight game in the n.h.l. playoffs david parsed and x. scored a hat trick and had three assists and the bruins seven three victory a t.v. garden they scored twelve goals to try almost four in the opening two games of their series best of seven and game three will be played on monday. and that's all your sport for now it's now back to laurin in london. thanks and that's it for me for this news hour. he will be here.

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