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we sent a strong message and our hope is that they listen to it. the u.s. is latest response of the alleged chemical attack in syria its u.n. ambassador says new sanctions are being prepared against russia. although i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up hundreds of thousands of protesters take to the streets of basra learned to demonstrate against the jailing of nine catalan separatist leaders. outrage in india as a politician is finally charged of the alleged rape of a teenage go. and trump's torrent of rage against james komi u.s. president describes him as the worst f.b.i. director in history.

united states is preparing a new sanctions against russia over its support for the syrian government the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. 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 think that russian sanctions will be coming down secretary mineta 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. says that the u.s. won't pull out troops from syria until its goals of been accomplished or engage in direct talks with assad i inspectors from the international chemical weapons watchdog are in damascus to investigate this is active chemical attack syrian

government forces say they have now taken duma. harder imports. it's being described as the biggest victory for syrian president bashar 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 remaining territories outside government control near the capital. in southern damascus a number of districts are under 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 actions by western powers are confined to the use of chemical weapons the syrian government still has

the upper hand and its pushing ahead with its military solution to the conflict is divided over the issue of saturday's u.s. led air strikes on syria saudi arabia bahrain and qatar of previously issued statements in support of the action while egypt and lebanon have expressed their concerns the saudi monarch used his role as host to push for a unified stance against iran which he blamed for instability and meddling so joining us to discuss this is al jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashara and so marwan there are no shortage of challenges in the region from syria to yemen and then you also have problems with economic and political instability how to arab leaders view this dysfunction. it's viewed as a. leaders who seem to their own people like bio maniac firemen they say they want to put off fires in the region but they are the ones instigated

the fires in the region in the first place they also hardly represent their people and they don't mean what they say and they don't do what they promise and they are the reason or one of the more important reasons why the region is living the nightmare it's living no a days and because the regime has lived this nightmare it's the crisis in the region has been internationalized hence the russians and the americans and the turks and the iranians are all getting involved hence it's becoming even more difficult for those leaders do anything really about the crisis in the region. so much so that you would one need to ask themselves after a summit like that first of all who's been watching who cares about what they've just decided today no one. and actually one leader who is keen to take a more proactive role is the french president emanuel macron and he's giving an

interview at the moment but he's just saying a couple of things here he's saying that the military strikes that took place have split. from russia because their relationship was growing. more close and he also says that france has convinced trump to stay in syria for the long term what does this all suggest about the way certain countries and actors are going to position themselves now after these strikes well look i mean the french especially a person mccrone who sort of you know sort of defined charter more slash friend of donald trump and a middle of the way guy between the west and the middle east so he thinks they're nicest should not just bombard the leaves and he thinks do not sense should not leave and he looks at the map and he sees that the geneva process has really been frozen and russia has get kidnapped or hijacked the whole diplomatic process and

took it to us then and so on so forth and i think the fresh president wants to be the middleman who is going to toe the russian president of the american president he's that he's helped to pave the way in order for some sort of an international process not a russian process restarts in geneva and that must suppose i'm accra wants to be the mediator for that and for that to happen of course he expects the american president to act in certain ways first of all not to expand the bargeman to beyond chemical weapons and to stay the course in syria so that america would have some leverage moving forward because let's remember while there was correct to say that most of the people in syria. on that no regime control but most of the resources of syria on their american control there are almost in the north and the east not in the worst all right thank you for now our senior political analyst marwan bashara and so as we were just discussing that france is saying that must join a push for

a political solution in syria and and what is his first public interview since the military strikes took place president emanuel has accused but idea of pollution of being complicit in the suspected chemical attacks strong words there our correspondent joins us live from paris and so we hear emmanuel very keen to reiterate his commitment to syria and very much on the offensive with regards to the russians. yeah there were some very strong words indeed for russia i mean what a man or marco is saying that russia has continued to use its veto on the un security council's a block these resolutions which might might have ended the use of chemical weapons in syria that's what he says and in that way he said that the putin was complicit with assad now it is significant this television interview because it is the first time we are hearing from the french president in person since those airstrikes on friday night into saturday morning up until now would only had

a statement from the elise a maltese using the television interview for is really to clarify further his position and why he believed france needed to take part in those airstrikes now he says that the syrian regime in his opinion he's now in no doubt to the syrian regime was behind that chemical attack in duma back or says that to the use of chemical weapons violates international law violates human rights and for kim the french president said the back in may when he first came to office he had said quite clearly that the use of chemical weapons was a red line that if it was crossed france would retaliate and therefore these airstrikes show that france has kept his word its word he also said that it was very important to consider the fact that there have been multiple diplomatic efforts and pushes to try and stop the use of chemical weapons as i mentioned already the u.n. blocking those resolutions in the u.n. yet at the end of the day nothing had been done and he said i had the france the

u.s. and the u.k. not acted then the credibility of the international community would have been at stake ok from paris natascha but i thank you. around three hundred fifty thousand protesters of flooded the streets of boston learned demonstrating against the jailing of nine catalan separatist leaders for their role in last year's secession referendum spanish authorities intend to try them on charges of rebellion including the former catalan president carter's put them on who fled to germany on a gaggle reports from boston mona. it is six months since catalonia has been governed under direct rule 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 you can be against the ban guns or you can be frying the bandits but. it's impossible to think that that's a normal thing and i don't project our fundraising our politico prisoners in our politicians cannot do their job because they're not allowed to know. 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 is but also beyond that as well you say that their fundamental democratic rights are being threatened meanwhile the arrest of catalan politicians awaits trial on charges of rebellion a crime that carries a maximum sentence of thirty years in prison according to the lawyer representing

the leaders is little hope that spain's justice system would deliver a just verdict but the conduct of the moment to the spanish authorities believe the started to call for democracy you do not know people are for the peaceful expression of their 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 fear. in the specialist movement sunday of all al-jazeera barcelona. still to come for you on the program waiting on pay day employees accuse the palestinian authority of withholding their salaries to pressure how mass my hong kong centuries old cantonese opera is struggling to attract younger

generations. hello and welcome to international weather forecast snows you look at europe's weather we've still got some rain across central areas in particular summer is quite heavy easterners all looking fine temps going to very nice for a full meal out across the west the deep area of low pressure developing and that'll be swinging into wards the u.k. but the important thing is that ahead of it will start to pull up air from the south and the warm air is going to spread across many western and central parts of europe over the next few days so as we head on into tuesday terms of twenty three madrid twenty one degrees expected in paris the rain across more central and southeastern era still there but time it should gradually be easing intensity but more unsettled from poland across into western russia so as we head down into north

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something to invest the profit of they want are up to the last drop on al-jazeera. welcome back just a quick look at the top stories for you now united states says it won't pull out troops from syria or engage in any direct talks with the president bashar al assad speaking on us media ambassador nikki haley also admitted relations with russia very strained with new sanctions to be introduced on monday. francaise moscow must join a push for a political solution in syria in his first public interview since the ass strikes

president emanuel accused of being complicit in the suspected chemical attack. and three hundred fifty thousand protesters have rallied in the spanish city of basra alone or to demand the release of nine catalan separatists leaders. all in all the stories we're following protests against sexual violence are sweeping across northern india a politician from india's ruling party has been arrested and charged with raping a teenage girl it follows the arrest of eight hindu men for the kidnap rape and murder of an eight year old muslim girl in indian administered kashmir many of the protesters angry at the ruling party which they say sided with the accused in the kashmir case charlotte ballasts explains the arc the family has started a movement in india muslim nomads from indian administered kashmir where the poster family for an epidemic of sick child abuse against girls and women by google data but. she was a very beautiful and clever girl she was pretty why was she killed for what reason

. refreeze is the mother of eight year old a c for police charges released this week saying see phil was abducted in january by eight hindu men including police offices and rape for six days before she was killed on the parsonage oh yeah i'll be the one 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 given 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 when b j p lawmaker called it saying single was a receipt for the rights of

a teenage girl the alleged assault happened nine months ago but he was only charged after the victim six or self on fire. go back just a few years to twenty twelve and mass demonstrations gripped india when twenty three year old jyoti singh was gang raped and tortured on a bus in delhi who death 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. it bears did 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 corporate 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 the sea for a lot she tells us she misses her every day. 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 . u.s. president donald trump has unleashed another torrent of abuse on twitter against the former f.b.i. director james comey in a series of tweets challenges accusations coming makes in a new tell all book due to be published next week he says i never asked me for personal loyalty i hardly even knew this guy just another of his many lies his memos are self-serving and fake in another tweet from called comi slippery out of whack and the worst f.b.i. director in history komi is hit back saying on twitter that his book is about

ethical leadership and that trump serves as a counterpoint to that trump sat komi last year for his handling of the f.b.i. investigation into clinton's e-mail practices so for more let's get to shout pretends he's been following this for us from washington and so more scathing attacks against komi by trump. roger we're just a few hours away now from the first broadcast interview all currently connected to the release of his memoirs next tuesday kerry has been very outspoken but i would have excerpts from the interviews and we've had excerpts from the from from the memoirs where komi compares trump very in very personal terms to say a mole bhosle says that trump is untethered to the truth and we're expecting more newsworthy moments in the interview even though we've had those excerpts already. released by a.b.c. the news network or that the t.v. network but what we also know is

a very clear strategy from donald trump at the white house on the republican national committee and that is to to suggest that he is not trust with a coma is not trustworthy to remind people like she will vote both parties of all political persuasions that that have been questions about coney's conduct in the past here was sarah who could be sold as the white house press secretary speaking on one of the sunday morning talk shows 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. but trump wasn't just tweeting about kermit

during his sunday morning tweet store we could also reference syria although he was referencing a tweet that he delivered on saturday about the airstrikes in which he'd use the term mission accomplished he had been ridiculed for using the term mission accomplished because in popular culture it's a term which is not associated with military failure after george w. bush had a big banner saying mission accomplished behind them when he announced the end of combat operations in iraq clearly in two thousand and three the mission hadn't been accomplished in iraq told tweeting the only way the fake news media could demean what he called a perfectly carried out raid was to use to attack the term mission accomplished i knew they would seize on it but we should bring back this military term he says ok good to know thanks very much i have returned seen washington montenegro's longtime leader djukanovic is projected to win sunday's presidential election with fifty

three point eight percent of votes djukanovic and his ruling democratic party of socialists have dominated politics for more than twenty five years he favors close the ties with europe rather than traditional ally of russia last year the country provides anger in moscow by joining nato. it's been a week since tens of thousands of gaza based employees of the palestinian authority should have had them monthly salaries the p.a. based in the occupied west bank says it's a technical glitch but the workers union says it's a deliberate move to ramp up the pressure on hamas which controls the gaza strip high force that reports. for a week now they've been living on less than a promise the palestinian authority says the delay in paying its gaza employees salaries is a technical issue soon to be resolved but these men know that their colleagues in the occupied west bank and retirees here in gaza all had their paychecks days ago the head of their union says the p.a. isn't even taking his phone calls. we're talking about thirty thousand families

this isn't a small number they paid employees in the west bank but they didn't pay us in gaza this makes the employees here really afraid. is waiting for his monthly pay a stipend of two hundred ninety dollars awarded after he was shot and injured during a protest three years ago nearly half of it goes on rent for the tiny home he shares with his wife and two daughters their landlord is threatening a fiction. we are prisoners families of martyrs the injured they shouldn't put us in between the two sides they shouldn't connect the reconciliation problems with our salaries because that will destroy one hundred percent of the. the palestinian president and fatah head mahmoud abbas has been threatening further measures designed to increase the pressure on rival faction hamas which controls gaza a reconciliation deal signed in october has been teetering on collapse since almost before the game could dried the p.a.

insists on assuming full governmental control of gaza including over the weapons of hamas his military wing something hamas rejects completely hamas demands continued payment of its tens of thousands of workers even after p.a. staff who've been out of their jobs for more than a decade of hamas' rule resumed their roles. relations who worsened still by the bombing last month but the palestinian prime minister's convoy during a visit to gaza the p.a. leadership based in ramallah in the occupied west bank had already cut its gazan employees wages by thirty percent in an effort to squeeze hamas by restricting the employer of cash to which it takes a cut the pay employees union says that if the salaries don't turn up in the banks by wednesday they will launch wider scale protests but they're aware that their power is limited if as they suspect this is no technical issue then their wages depend on the political decision being made in ramallah herefore said i'll just hear a gaza sunnis from yemen thousands of people have been protesting in the city of

ties and the surrounding provinces the demonstrators are not happy with the appointment of the former president's nephew tariq saleh as a military commander a murderer. and now centuries old art form that was once one of hong kong's most popular forms of entertainment is struggling to engage the next generation cantonese opera is considered a unique part of hong kong's identity and industry diodes are determined to keep it alive sarah clarke reports. after sixty years designing and creating traditional head dresses chan caulk yarn 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 to be like cantonese opera the only difference is the story itself we tried to write stories on the daily lives of the children cantonese operate is considered a unique part of hong kong's identity and 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 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 upper 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. there's more in everything we're covering right here including the continuing fallout from western ministries strikes in syria plenty of analysis on al-jazeera dot com.

look at the top stories united states says it won't pull out troops from syria into its goals have been accomplished it's also promising not to engage in direct talks with president assad speaking on u.s. media ambassador nikki haley also admitted relations with russia are very strained over its support for the syrian government and that new sanctions are being prepared 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 we're dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use and so i think everyone is going to feel it at this point i think everyone knows that we sent a strong message and our hope is that they listen to it. well it comes as weapons inspectors prepared to investigate a suspected chemical attack near damascus more than forty people died in the alleged incident in duma eight days ago syrian government forces say they've now

we've taken the area as the last rebel fighters leave inspectors from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons will work with the u.n. as part of the fact finding mission but on not assigned to attribute playing. meanwhile francis a moscow must join a push for a political solution in syria in his first public interview since the strikes present a monument on accused him of pollution of being complicit in the suspected chemical attack. well syria's also been featuring high on the gender of the arab league summit in saudi arabia the twenty two member body is divided over the issue of saturday's u.s. led air strikes on syria saudi arabia bahrain and qatar previously issued statements in support of the action while egypt iraq and lebanon have expressed concern the saudi monarch used his role as host to push for a unified stance against iran. i mean other stories are watching at least three hundred fifty thousand protesters a rally in the spanish city of boss alone and to demand the release of high profile

session its leaders the protesters took over many of the city's main streets and will yellow in support of the capital and has nine prominent separatists are being held while awaiting trial for their role in last year's secession referendum over the top stories or news coming up in half an hour's time i'll see you then talk to al-jazeera starts now. twenty million hospital. it was the woman.