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this is al-jazeera. now i'm not matheson this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes pro-government media in syria reports two air bases have been attacked with missiles but say they've been intercepted. russia agrees to that international inspectors and to sitting is doing on wiping state but faces allegations of tampering with the site of the suspected chemical attack. another setback for donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen is forced to reveal the identity of a client who's a key supporter of the u.s. president. canada pulls family members out of its embassy staff out of cuba over fears of a mystery illness. and we travel deep

inside the democratic republic of congo to track the fate of thousands of people displaced by ethnic violence. we begin this news hour in syria of her pro-government media reporting missile strikes on two government bases in homs and damascus state t.v. broadcast these pictures a few hours ago that says missiles were intercepted over share that airbase in homs this area was targeted by u.s. forces last year but the pentagon is denying any involvement after the latest strike shortly afterwards has balls media unit reported that a base in de mayo outside damascus was targeted state t.v. has made no mention of that attack while the reported strikes follow the mobilization of government forces in homs in a hot air has more on that. this could be the start of

a new offensive against rebel territory hopes. the syrian government appears to be turning its attention to this strategic region following its victory in eastern huta much of the central province has been recaptured in recent years but the opposition has long held an enclave in the northern countryside that area is strategic for damascus if it wants to secure the roads linking government controlled cities in the west of the country the opposition is promising a fight i mean a lot of mctear they weren't able to hurt us with the are two they're a shining and they did try to advance on the ground they failed we warn them that if they want to fight they will lose a lot of man. every so often the army drops leaflets on these besieged neighborhoods demanding rebels to reconcile with the government surrender and leave or face attack that's the way the government takes areas by imposing sieges and then bombing the rebels and the population into submission. we fear they might

displace us just like they did to others in other places people are petrified because they don't want to be left without homes or shelter. hundreds of thousands of syrians have been forced from their homes because of these so-called reconciliation or evacuation deals and they know returning is only a distant possibility they have. to be displaced i want to stay with my family and friends i don't want to go anywhere else to be humiliated. holmes says not the government's only target there is a rebel enclave forty kilometers northeast of the capital damascus rebels in the western region have been given an ultimatum to accept a state to rule or leave the faction in the town of the mayor has agreed to surrender to stave off a military offensive the opposition has little chance of winning the battles in the northern countryside of homs and in the western and crave those areas are under

siege they have been for years but it's only recently that the army has been able to apply military pressure throughout the conflict the pro-government alliance suffered from a manpower shortage and has had to prioritize battles. now the army is mobilizing on the front lines in southern damascus. and the opposition controls a number of districts there it seems the priority will be the battle with before a deal is offered to the rebels that would end all opposition presence in and around the capital where thousands gather to celebrate syria's independence day and this year the government is marking the anniversary from a position of strength has never been this comfortable since the start of the conflict more than seven you. the groups that is venice is a fellow at the institute for policy studies she is joining us on skype from washington d.c. thank you very much for being with us the obvious question given the fact the u.s. is denying that it's involved is who do you think is likely to have carried out

these attacks. well there are several possibilities one is certainly the u.s. denials or no denials that's certainly one possibility another of course is israel israel has attacked syria number of times primarily targeting areas where they believe there were arms transfers under way to hezbollah seen by israel as primarily a representative of iranian interests in in syria that may be the case here his below was one of the sources of one of the two reports there were reports of two separate sets of missile tat missile attacks that are being alleged and it's claimed in both cases that the syrian military shot down those missile attacks with anti-aircraft material of some sort one of them was announced by the syrian state media the other was announced by hezbollah so that could indicate the possibility of israeli involvement it's not likely that any of the opposition

forces have that kind of missile capability in that area so i would say probably some combination of the u.s. and israel is the most likely but we certainly don't know yet it's certainly possible we don't really know what happened and if something happened there's a lot of mystery here there's not a lot of info of clear information yet exactly and i'm guessing the next stage for those of us on the outside of the conflict is to try to work out who says what and to interpret that because if i understand it correctly it was russia who essentially outed israel when israel attacked the t four base recently so trying to analyze which what all the players are saying in reaction to this is going to be very fundamental to understanding what's going on isn't it. it is but i think the real danger here if we take one step back is what is the danger of serious escalation at this point were these two incidents if they indeed happen and let's

be clear they may not have happened at all the way we're hearing if they happen the way we're hearing. it is it likely to be engendering a new response now that could seriously look like a major escalation is this something that could lead to a direct attack between a by israel against iran would it be seen that way would we would iran retaliate is this something that might involve. russia at this point who is of course allied with both the syrian government and with iran in which case would the united states enter directly on the israeli side of israel was involved so this is one of those situations where the possibility of escalation is very very serious and until we know who is responsible and what actually happened i think it's quite dangerous to do this kind of speculation although i'm somewhat participating in it i think that

it's very important that we wait until there are clear. sources from outside independent sources that are confirming what if anything in fact it happened we faced a similar problem last week when there were the claims about a chemical weapons attack and before there was confirmation we heard the announcement that the u.s. intended and in fact did along with britain and france used a new set of of missile attacks to retaliate we still don't know because we still have not heard reports from the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons what in fact happened was there a chemical weapons attack at all if there was what kind of chemical was involved how many people it said or we don't have any of that information similarly the reports that have come in just in the last few hours about two new possible missile attacks we don't have clear information we don't know yet what happened and we

certainly don't know who is responsible as you're pointing out of course confusion as much as anything else is at the heart of the syria conflict how great is the risk then do you think that. groups on the ground outside actors. surrounding the country and further afield might be taking advantage of the confusion that we're currently seeing in relation to the u.k. u.s. and french airstrikes for example on the confusion over the economy alleged chemical incidents in duma to carry out additional attacks. you know i think that we have to be clear that what we sometimes call the syrian civil war is not just a civil war there are at least eleven separate wars being waged in syria only one is the syrian civil war there are wars being waged between numerous regional sectarian and global actors fighting for their own interests and they are all taking advantage of these very chaotic situations and the people that are paying

the price are the civilians of syria who are doing the dying so i think we have to be very aware of that and very clear that what's needed here is not to say which side is going to win but to look at what is it going to take to stop this massive set of wars we have certainly a civil war underway but far beyond that there is a war underway between turkey and the kurds there's a war between saudi arabia and iran there's a war between the u.s. and russia there are wars upon wars upon wars and all of them are being fought to the last syrian so the danger of escalation the danger of any of these outside actors taking advantage again of the new chaos caused by a new allegations of news new reports as well as the. attacks of last friday night is a consistent problem that we face it makes it much harder for the united nations or anyone else to even begin the process of organizing for it for

a cease fire development it's a very very dangerous moment particularly for syrians for those venice as a fellow at the institute for policy studies it's always good to get your point of view on this thank you very much indeed for your time thank you. russia says international inspectors will enter duma on wed in the state to investigate a suspected chemical attack the world's chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w held emergency talks were envoys traded accusations the u.s. accused russia of tampering with the site but moscow said the delay concerned security a fact finding team landed in damascus on saturday at least tabish if an attack took place over two weeks ago but it won't assign blame the russian envoy to the o.p.c. w accused british intelligence of fabricating the attack. we have serious grounds to believe that it was highly likely that this provocation was organized with the help of the british intelligence services well despite that the syrian

government has allowed journalists to enter duma as part of an organized media tour they were given access to a field hospital where medical staff told reporters no patients suffered from toxic gas symptoms other residents recalled a strong chlorine smell but blamed the attack on rebel fighters the tour did not include the building where syrian activists and medics say more than forty people were killed meanwhile witnesses from duma have told al-jazeera they felt the effects of a poisonous substance in the attack earlier this month many have now arrived at displacement camps in northern syria or some of binge of it reports from doesn't tap on the turkey syria border this is what home looks like today for his family on april the seventh they were in duma when it was alleged syrian forces launched a chemical attack. this close to where it happened. there was another missile which landed and then there was a very strange smell the first thing was smoke

a yellow smoke it had a rotten smell it was like a new thing was being tested on us just. although they've been displaced the children are finally able to play in the sun without the fear of bombs or near strikes more than sixty thousand people have been forced to leave their homes in duma but tens of thousands more opted to stay duma is part of eastern kuta which was besieged for nearly five years and bombed into submission over the last two months. the intensity of the last attack made gestural islam spike to surrender the next day in a statement the rebel group says it decided to withdraw to save lives russia and syria continue to deny that chemical weapons were used and see the pictures of the bodies and people gasping for breath is propaganda produced with the help of western intelligence agencies the u.s. u.k. and france didn't believe russia or syria and carried out air strikes on syrian military facilities in retaliation. some people like primary teacher illegally

entered turkey to reach safety he doesn't want to disclose his real name or show his face because his family is in damascus and he's afraid they will be harmed if his identity is revealed and how bad the governor's office when we came to it if there was a war like situation there in egypt there's a bombardment we left couldn't stay alive we don't want to face war again we want to have a normal life thank god again to turkey it was very difficult to cross but it wasn't impossible. medical sources doled out as they were the dogs were families in areas under the control of the assad government will be afraid to say anything about the alleged chemical attack there have been allegations and denials about tampering with the evidence in duma some members of the international chemical watchdog say they have not been granted access to the site where the alleged chemical attack took place russia maintains that it should be the u.n. which grants access but a week after the incident with a team which does not have the mandate to see who carried out the attack many don't have much hope in what will they find some other job. in the deck the city

a border first and transfers report of a block to new sanctions on. russia over its support for the syrian government the washington post is quoting unnamed officials saying that trump opposed the plan at a national security meeting on sunday washington's in basad to the un nikki haley had announced that russia companies would be targeted for supporting syria's suspected chemical weapon program by the more ahead on the news hour one of america's closest allies in asia looks to washington for reassurance on the threat from north korea plus. i'm very sorry for any confusion or anxiety fact. undoing the wrongs of the british government announces a plan to address rights concerns of some caribbean immigrants. and we'll have the winners of the one hundred twenty second the running of the boston marathon that's coming up later in sports.

donald trump's personal lawyer has failed in a bid to keep some of his business documents secret the items were seized in a raid in michael cohen's office last week by investigators looking into his dealings with an adult film star who says she had an affair with the president a judge in new york also forced cohen to reveal another of his well known clients christensen amid reports. attorneys for michael cohen and president trump asked the judge not to give investigators documents seized by the f.b.i. until they could review them and citing attorney client privilege to protect the identity of other cohen clients but the judge denied the motion and outed one high profile client conservative fox news commentator and trump supporter sean hannity hannity says he discussed real estate issues with cohen who's an old friend. attorney michael cohen is the one under investigation in the proceedings taking

place here in the federal courthouse in manhattan but it's a possibility that new information could come to light from those seized documents about president truong and his alleged affair with a porn star that's attracting so much attention thank you very much. investigators are looking for possible criminal activity surrounding cohen's one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to stormy daniels who says she was paid to keep quiet about her brief two thousand and six relationship with the president my attorney and i are committed to making sure that everyone finds out the truth and the facts of what happened and i give my word that we will not rest until that happens. she is suing for defamation of character and her lawyer says the seize documents could be important to their case and dangerous to anyone who's dealt with cohen he is radio active anyone that had any contact with this man in the last twenty years should be very concerned about what secrets of theirs are within these

documents the judge is yet to decide who will review the documents which include information about the president's business before they're given to investigators cohen's attorneys have asked for the appointment of a so-called special master to do the job there typically an independent lawyer who decides what prosecutors can see the prosecutors argue cohen doesn't need these special protections regardless of who represents christian salumi al jazeera new york both career is going to be high on the agenda when u.s. president donald trump meets with the japanese prime minister on tuesday since obviously looking to make sure washington keeps its military presence in northeast asia in order to counter threats from china and north korea committee hawkers reports. when north korean leader kim jong un meets u.s. president donald trump it will be an historical kasia no formal diplomatic relations a north korean and american leader have never met face to face. but it's

a meeting suspected in the next two months that will be deeply unsettling for a close u.s. ally japan it's one of the reasons why japanese prime minister shinzo opic will meet with trump this week at his florida resort hopefully it'll be a relationship that's much different than it's been for many many years trump wants north korea to scrap plans to build a nuclear weapon. north koreans want an end to the u.s. military presence in south korea something kim jong un could bring up with trump. but it decreased u.s. presence anywhere in asia is something that concerns japan a sworn enemy of pyongyang that's within striking distance of their missiles it's not so much north korea that the japanese are worried about although presently that's an immediate issue but longer term and over time it's the chinese who present a threat to japan and it's why the japanese want the united states to remain firmly

in firmly involved in northeast asia trade will also be a big topic trump plans to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports oh he's exempting countries like south korea canada and mexico japan wasn't on the list. amid corruption allegations at home and lagging poll numbers abbate could use a concession on trade from the u.s. to help him overshadowing the meeting however is the release of the former f.b.i. director james coney's book which goes on sale on tuesday the president fired komi last may over the f.b.i.'s investigation into alleged trunk campaign ties to russia trump has lashed out at comi on twitter calling him a slimeball and mentally incompetent in his first interview on sunday since being fired a commie compared to the mob bosses he once prosecuted going on i don't think he's medically unfit to be president i think is morally unfit to be president. trump's

decision to bomb syria over the weekend will also loom over the trip as pressure mounts on the u.s. to present the world with a coherent strategy can really help it al-jazeera washington well for more and more we can expect from those talks between chomping our brain let's speak to stephen naggy he's with the international christian university he's joining us on skype from tokyo thank you very much for being on let's talk about the problems that abby has at home first of all he's facing calls to step down he's japan appears to have been sidelined to some degree as far as diplomacy between north and south korea is concerned the since we go to washington with any sort of leverage. i think mr abbey is listening this. florida to speak with mr trump for reasons and his leverage comes from the deep relationship with united states force in the past seventy years of its alliance that alliances is for some based on

a military alliance but also an economic partnership so despite the scandals at home despite some challenges prime minister. and pennies is a stalwart party partner for the united states in dealing with regional issues in the short term of course north korea but in the longer term the challenges balance sheet china's rise. given the fact that his future does seem uncertain at least in the short to medium term is there enough incentive do you think within the whites host to keep the same level of troops in the region. absolutely there is no question that the number of troops we're going to stay in the region. the united states forward presence here not only in japan south korea and some of its alliance partners in the region represent united states long term commitment to peaceful development of the region providing security and promoting democracy within the

region although not all states are on the same page in the book about the united states' role within the region i think that we cannot argue that the united states provided a platform for development not only within japan and south korea but also china and other countries in southeast asia and that role is only going to increase as we have china becomes more influential in the region and other countries would like a reliable security partner an economic partner to balance china's largess within the region you know i can understand the argument from the point of view of the geopolitics of the region absolutely but we're talking about two leaders here who are embattled in their home turf obviously is in kimberly's report we were talking about james coleman his recent book. is that likely to have any impact a toll on the way that shinzo abi approaches president trump given tom's own difficulties at home. so i mean a stroppy sense realizing that president trump would be in fact the president of

united states his carefully cultivated relationship with mr trump it's a personal relationship that tries to keep all contentious issues to second track dialogue which means that contentious economic issues to a vice president and set vice minister aso. throughout with regards to the security partnership or insecurities are pushed down to different levels of diplomacy and that is very purposeful to maintain a cordial collegial relationship with mr trump he seems to have a nice this is nice this is bent to his and ministration into how he engages in international relations and i think prime minister of the obvious stance that he's going to continue to try and call that the that he's going to continue to try and get wins to mr crump and i think one of the. targets that some kind of concession on the automobile industry is going to talk about the united states japan alliance and how that's a beneficial alliance not only for japan in the region but also for the united

states' position north korea but also i think in eating in the long term challenge of developing a productive peaceful and prosperous relationship with china stephen king international christian university thank you very much indeed thank you for having me canada is withdrawing the families of diplomats posted in cuba after new information on mysterious illnesses which affected stuff at its advantage embassy diplomats from canada and the u.s. first reported symptoms of headaches dizziness and no show last year no medical specialists say they may have brain injuries cuban officials say they don't know what's behind the incidents or latin american editor lucien newman is in havana with more. the latest episode in the saga involving health issues of diplomats from the united states and canada here in cuba involves the families of canadian diplomats the canadian government says it is now withdrawing these families because

it cannot guarantee their health this after more than a year of investigations carried out by cuban american and canadian specialists they've never been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation as to what has been ailing or what was ailing these diplomats in two thousand and seventeen the symptoms were nausea headaches dizziness among others and now the canadians are saying that there could even be some brain damage involved last year the trumpet administration practically shut down its embassy here in cuba withdrawing most of its diplomatic staff saying that their health could not be guaranteed the cuban government has repeatedly denied carrying out any sort of acoustical or any other type of attack against american or canadian diplomats in this country but this latest incident now involving the withdrawal of the families of the canadian diplomats comes at a particularly sensitive time just two days before president raul castro is due to

step down signaling the end of a sixty year castro era in communist cuba. until now is editor in chief of musing news dot com and a lot in america analyst he's joining us on skype from miami antonia thank you very much for being with us this story at first when it came out seemed old no with the talk of possible brain injuries this is taking a much more serious turn. i think you're understanding rob by saying it was a lot of this is. really just a tremendous mystery and the canadians were talking about brain injury now but the emergence of been talking about them all off and the first american reported problems were even earlier than and ian's going back to all six million reports we dancer early in thousand and seventy so it really is the tremendous mystery in the course of the theories as to what this may be go from these sonic attacks there was a recent study by computer sciences university of michigan and i would state they

said it could have been the. listening devices that were placed to post together but then there are theories that this is just. an episode of mass hysteria so who knows all we know is that the more than two dozen americans and canadians have suffered health effects of some sort and there still is absolutely no explanation as to what happened when the us and cuba have obviously had something of a type event relationship over the last few years but counted as one nation ship with cuba as being pretty good where does that leave that relationship. you know it's a good question robin you're absolutely right the canadians have had a very good relationship with cuba they never broke relations after the revolution pierre trudeau the father of the current prime minister was a very close friend of fidel castro's and back to the castro was a pall bearer appear to those utero and his son now the prime minister of canada actually took a lot of flak because. someone flowery statement after fidel castro's death that

was seen by some as completely not taking into consideration all the human rights abuses over the decades that he was in power so it will be interesting to see what this means because it relations is strange for the canadians as this puts cuba in a club they don't want to be a part of which is what they call unaccompanied posts the only other countries canada does not allow diplomats family members to go to our guest anorak libya and south sudan so it's pretty extreme to make this move and tell you more if i could to get your opinion on this thank you very much indeed my pleasure. to head on al-jazeera. the prime minister is accountable to this parliament not still the whims of the u.s. president. the debate raging in britain on the decision to join allied action against several. hundred sports le bron james starts the n.b.a. playoffs with an unwanted career first.

through tranquil arabian can. and in on can free to use and if any should go on till it. has the spring rains looked as though they were starting in china but they've given up again now come back don't worry it looks as though the onshore breeze is developing rather more in the way of rain in vietnam but even that's fading away come wednesday so back to slot you know ten inches and slightly lower humidity in hong kong twenty four about the same in shanghai i'm not a sunshine to be was swimming up in woodland again at twenty eight i will soon to probably rain by the end of the week south of this irregular procession a fairly big shot mass of the southern philippines borneo back towards well probably malaysia the sumatra you can see where the cloud is but we're seeing increasing numbers of daytime shows now falling sudden and central thailand and

myanmar the green represents that that'll be the case the next couple of days otherwise you saw in those showers were still a few in indonesia but not as many as they were equally we could see a few showers in the fall to five in dia and sri lanka sort of massive cloud in the north of pakistan and running down through new poll an occasional big shower she gets to be in bangladesh and also east india but you know the story here we're into the pre monsoon heat and humidity the temperatures for coffee forty two naacp or just representing central india it's unpleasant is dry. the weather sponsored by cats on these. every food do is being animals it's being wheat and you measure the support of those insurgencies are. to do things in secret that are unlawful or politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew chose to retire from the n.s.a. we could not stand by and see all the work that they had done being used for mass

surveillance digital dissidents at this time on al-jazeera we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we are trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers are out there to know if i'm tired will. you are challenging the forces were challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going.

you're watching all to see a reminder of our top stories this hour pro-government media are reporting missile strikes on two syrian air bases syrian state t.v. says missiles were intercepted over say about in homs and hezbollah media say do marial field was attacked the u.s. says its military was not active in the area at the time. russia says international inspectors will enter duma on weapons to it to investigate a suspected chemical attack the u.s. accused russia of tampering with the site but moscow says the delay concerns security. a t.v. presenter is now caught up in the legal battle over the f.b.i. raid on the office of donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen has admitted he gave secret legal advice to fox news host sean hannity who's been a prominent critic of the f.b.i.'s investigation into the u.s. president's russian ties. an international team of scientists have engineered an

enzyme that eats types of plastic that are widely found in the world's oceans and waterways the enzyme is able to quickly digest what's called p. e. t. plastic that's used in millions of tons of bottles and takes hundreds of years to break down the team are now looking to scale up the project so it can be used on industrial levels. so discoveries the end game is amazing something that can eat plastically normally takes four hundred years to create that bacteria are starting to eat this in a matter of days we've done is we've today the end same from that bacteria in grown up in the lab i know we can actually digest p.t. within days much quicker than in the environment and the idea here is that we can make the end same faster know by understanding how it works and then we have an industrial process. well greg bakken is a researcher involved in developing the plastic eating and sign he's joining us on skype from near denver thank you very much indeed for your time one thing i'm going

to ask you first of all is the p.t. plastic we're talking about and forgive me because i'm not clear on this can you describe to me what p.t. is and why it's so tough to break down. thanks for having me rob so e.t. is a polyethylene term valet it's a pall it's essentially polyester and so if you look at your clothing for example and you see polyester written on your clothing that's typically eighty or some derivative of e.t. i mean it's used in single is used by rich bottles such as water bottles so it bottles around the world it's also the primary component or one of the primary components of carpeting also used around the world and so it's very tough to break down because it's manmade or in the bonds that connect the sort of building blocks of those are are hard for enzymes and bacteria to access and essential in the natural environment and also it was only patented about seventy years ago or so and

you know it's only been really in widespread use for about the last thirty or forty years so in terms of peachy finding its way into the environment through landfills and of course much worse through pollution it's only been really in the environment for about thirty or forty or so natural systems are only now we think of all the time to sort of catch up and be able to attempt to great just stick but it's still projected to last between four hundred five hundred years as my colleague john king was saying in the recording. just to get much to some context for this the we were hearing earlier on that the next stage is to try to scale this process up so it can be used in a much much wider level how long is that development process going to take and what kind of scales are we talking about. yeah it really great questions and so i'll point out that there are a few companies that are working on this on the commercial side already not necessarily with this particular incident but certainly have i would imagine with and signs of a similar a similar type and sort of

a similar chemistry to enable it but certainly the idea of going from a conceptual demonstration at a small scale and sort of at the bench and laboratory to a commercial scale is something that takes many years and put the how do you know what here would be two am certainly right now water bottles for example can be recycled. today but it's typically done through mechanical recycling and really what it is that essentially is kind of a down cycling soda the material properties of say a water bottle when you recycle it aren't necessarily sufficient enough to be a water bottle over and over and over infinitely and so with the idea of using an enzyme like ten days that we've been working on an engineering in this study is that we could break it down to its building blocks and then put it back into. as water bottles and things like this essentially to recover those virgin type properties that you would get from directly sort of urchin p.t. type material so it's absolutely fascinating greg thank you very much indeed for your time this gregg recommends one of the researchers on this project thank you so

much. appreciate it thank you. ok more on our top story the fallout of the suspected chemical attack in syria's duma france has announced a sixty million dollars towards humanitarian aid in syria it follows a debate in the french parliament where employees discuss their government's involvement in joint airstrikes on saturday m.p.'s emphasized the need for a political and humanitarian response. enemy is not syria we did not go into war against syria or against bashar al assad's regime. we want the terrorist movement that is organized in our territory fatal attacks that deeply struck. us and beyond that all souls. britain's prime minister has been defending her decision to join the u.s. and france in launching airstrikes against syria the opposition the says tourism a should have got parliament's approval first it's called for a debate on tuesday to make that a requirement for future attacks on the whole reports. having faced

a barrage of criticism over the weekend to use it made her case to parliament that bombing syria had been both morally and legally justifiable it was not she said about intervening in a civil war nor about regime change but about humanitarian necessity saving in syria's civilians from future chemical weapons attack as a legal basis for military intervention we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalized either within syria on the streets of the u.k. or elsewhere so we have not done this because president trump asked us to do so we have done it because we believed it was the right thing to do and we are not very many m.p.'s including in her own party a furious that parliament was not consulted first as is the convention in britain since the iraq war in two thousand and three the leader of the opposition led the charge mr speaker this statement serves as

a reminder the prime minister is accountable to this parliament not to the whims of the us president i there is no more serious issue than the life and death matters of military action it is right that parliament has the power to support or stop the government from taking land military action i. to resume a sword to justify her sidelining of parliament last week by citing the need to act quickly to prevent further attack and saying that high level intelligence could not have been shared with them ps in advance the rather damning opposition claim instead is that she rushed to support donald trump and feared that if she put it to a vote. she did last the prime minister's performance will not satisfy all far from it and certainly not protesters outside. on the basis of.

chemical weapons attack. without a fight in parliament. i don't like them and i don't see any reason. for the u.k. government insists there are no plans for further attacks in syria that presumably will change if there's another chemical weapon attack jonah how al-jazeera london the british government has apologized to thousands of members of the caribbean community who've lived and worked in the u.k. for decades but are now being treated as illegal immigrants the problem is said to affect as many as fifty thousand people who came from the west indies to britain after the second world war part of the phillips reports he came to britain from barbados when he was nine years old more than fifty years ago his father had a job in the post office michael married in britain had children grandchildren worked in education thought he was british until the government told him he didn't

have the right documents he lost his job as he fought for the right to stay here if i was deported i don't know what i would to take someone and throw them out if they have no no worth because that is what they're doing. you know it's about work what you know what you could do for you to help britain being a better place than it was a rival of more than four hundred. the so-called women dress a generation named after a ship that carried the first arrivals from the caribbean in the one nine hundred forty eight invited to britain given citizenship it's many of the children who travelled with their parents who are now facing difficulties some of being caught out by strict new laws specifying documents they need to prove how long they've been hearing this could not have blown up at a more embarrassing time for the british government the very week in which the commonwealth summit in which it's busy emphasizing its friendship with former

colonies as it prepares to leave the e.u. . ministers told parliament they're trying to repair the damage with a special team to help the wind generation a promise to resolve their cases quickly free of charge although the government isn't sure whether some people have already been disappointed in aaron can she tell the house how many have been detained as prisoners in their own culture can she tell the house how many have been to noise on the national health service how many have denied pensions how many have lost their job this is a day of national shape mr speaker i shan't be able gentleman's admiration for the people who came here from the caribbean and contributed so much to our society in many many different ways and that admiration remains in place i am concerned that the home office is becoming test become too concerned with policy and strategy and sometimes lose sight of the individual. but who is in charge of the home office

with these new stricter policies were being designed yes today's prime minister to resign may so as the public outcry grows there's now a political as well as moral imperative to treat the when dressed generation fairly barnaby phillips al-jazeera london. the former police chief of the spanish region of catalonia will face trial on sedition and criminal organization charges for his part in an independence vote shows that the peril briefly appeared in the high court in madrid when he was told he'd be prosecuted for what spain says was his lack of action to prevent last october's referendum he and other police chiefs are accused of failing to rescue civil guard officers who were trapped in a building in barcelona by tens of thousands of procession demonstrators. slovakia's interior minister says he will resign following weeks of mass protests over the murder of a journalist thomas drucker is the second interior minister to stand down after

investigative reporter young and his fiance were shot dead in february tens of thousands of people have been taking part in regular antigovernment protests but have also called for the national police chief to be sacked prime minister robert footsore stood down last month. several people have been detained following a small protest held outside russia's security service building in moscow over the blocking of the messenger service telegram the protesters threw paper planes the logo of the encrypted service the f.s.b. building before some of them were removed by police the country's state telecommunications regulators says it's begun blocking access to the app after a court ruled that it was in violation of local regulations the service has more than two hundred million users around the world yes i think definitely this is a violation of the constitution it seems to me it is written there the freedom of conscience the freedom of speech no one should read our correspondence and this is

really outrageous that everything is under control in our country all cost all correspondence all message it's total control i think this is not fair but you learn about it when you realize it you get really scared and feel hurt for the country. facebook's now confronting more problems in the us judges ruled it must face a class action lawsuit over claims it created facial recognition features for users without their permission people in illinois sued the company in twenty fifteen alleging violations of state law about the privacy of their biometric information facebook says it will defend the case which it claims has no merit it's the latest issue for the social media web site after it was found cambridge analytic improperly access the personal information of eighty seven million users the u.s. and the u.k. are warning that hackers backed by russia are targeting millions of devices in homes and offices around the world both governments say the hackers are trying to steal information and build networks for potentially devastating cyber attacks the

warning comes two months after russia was accused of unleashing a virus which crippled parts of ukraine's infrastructure and damage computers across the globe the new york times the washington post of one pill a surprise for their reporting on alleged links between russia and donald trump's presidential campaign the times also won the pulitzer for public service along with the new yorker for covering the sexual harassment scandal surrounding harvey weinstein revelations about the hollywood moguls misconduct caused global outrage and led to a worldwide campaign known as the me to movement other woman reported abuse half of kenya's electoral board has resigned because they say their organization is dysfunctional the commission was accused of failing to prevent voting irregularities during last year's presidential election president who took in yet one nearly ninety eight percent of the vote which the opposition boycotted. the

u.n. says ongoing fighting in the democratic republic of congo has forced more than seventy thousand people to flee to neighboring uganda al jazeera as mark is retracing the journey of the refugees traveling from uganda's capital kampala to the chilling quali refugee camp he then heads towards the seven go to a landing site where many of the refugees arrived by boat he sent us this report near the town of borneo where he accompanied the governor on a visit to the areas affected by ethnic violence. homes made of plastic sheet don't help much in the rain he people have in this camp for displaced people in the town in the democratic republic of congo they were attacked by militia who cut and killed people with machetes and burned houses the government says the situation is now under control. we joined the provincial governor on a visit to the conflict area. it's remote it barely broke.

he found small towns full of people who fled the countryside and came to hear what the governor had to say. the government is saying there must be peace encouraging people to go home and saying the government can provide security for the people here a skeptical about his message. each time we visit displaced people he said it's not safe to go home. because the rule from the lendu ethnic group the victims are ethnic hammers and lenders to two groups have been rivals in the past could most people here say there is no ethnic conflict right now. with many lendu friends. but they're telling us the government is responsible for what's going on that this is a war of the government they're saying this to us every day. many people here have

told us they share the same suspicion of the government's role that the u.n. doesn't have the world's second largest peacekeeping force here we met the mission's chief visiting one of the camps if alliances think that it's a new nuclear conflict but nobody knowing who is behind i did not heard at all that the government is i did not heard that. the government in kinshasa denies involvement as did the provincial governor. i want to assure everyone that the government has done nothing even the provincial government has done nothing we don't have any interest in destabilizing our own territory or killing our own population whoever is behind the violence convincing the population to return won't be easy most homes remain deserted behind them the fresh graves of those killed some hacked to death others burned in their homes it'll take a lot to convince people it's safe here malcolm webb al-jazeera it's

a very province in the democratic republic of congo. still ahead and alters you know one of the legends of the ice kinds of his state's details and this.

it's time for the sports. thanks very much american deseret linden and japan which she had claimed victories in the one hundred twenty second edition of the boston marathon runners were happy by wet and windy conditions and boston koichi chased down defending champion geoffrey caruso kenya to win with

a time of two hours fifteen minutes and fifty four seconds becoming the first japanese man to win the event since one thousand nine hundred seven. a limpy and deseret linden ended a thirty three year drought for american women in the store race to clinch top spot the thirty four year old prevailing at the time of two hours thirty nine minutes and fifty four seconds. for the first time in his career le bron james has lost the opening game in a first round n.b.a. playoff series james and the cleveland cavaliers were defeated by the indiana pacers. scott reports. has an enviable record in the playoffs but even he may not be able to rest with cavaliers recent deployed. and found it tough going in the series opener against the indiana pacers on sunday the three time defending eastern conference champions when twenty one points down in the first quarter assigned the problems they've had with the defense one season

still haven't fixed james led the cavs with twenty four points bringing them to within seven by the third quarter thanks to his funky footwork. for the pacers had picked up on the depo with some stellar routes as he zones deeper and finished up with thirty two points in the ninety eight to eighty victory even le bron with a great first defeat in game one of the playoffs to this point. so i've never lost a game. well i mean at the end of the day i mean they came in and they dictated to temple they were more aggressive. they just played aspire basketball and they just took advantage of everything that we wanted to try to do you mean playing like this or you. you playing our own bo friends or you it just hasn't been magnified. so it's

a play off now we've been doing this so you know everybody sees soon. it's kind of shocking to see we've agreed by the most they can still turn it around when game two takes place on wednesday and joining us. now by jock riches ended a run of three consecutive losses with a first round to win at the monte carlo masters the twelve time grand slam champion beat fellow serve to stand in straight sets for the last just one game which has been struggling with his recovery from an elbow injury and what's just out of argentina which brings us to. rafa nadal has a first round bye as he prepares to challenge for a record eleven to monte carlo title being world number one needs to win the tournament to prevent roger federer from regaining top spots. every year and i came here every year with the same passion with the same. play my best and to give me

chances to have the best result possible so specially this year i didn't finish yet so. hopefully this won't be the first. so korea have booked their place at next year's fee for the women's world cup in france they thrashed the philippines five nil in the women's asian cup took place a play off south korea dominated throughout the match ending the matildas close in several run towards the finals south korea john australia japan china and thailand as asian representatives in the tournaments. thousands of fans filled the center of eindhoven on monday to celebrate p.s.t.'s league title triumph for. the side secured their twenty fourth the dutch league title on sunday they did it thanks to a three nil win over title rivals i aks over who may now have an unassailable ten point lead this title being their third in four years. this young team had to go

through a lot to the beginning they have created a united team of put down a fantastic achievement not only winning the title but doing it to get the the home and give them a big applause i'm very proud of all of them let's celebrate. and one of the legends of international figure skating has called time on his career three time world champion olympic gold medalist patrick chan has announced his retirement the twenty seven year old who was three olympic medals in total helps canada when the team event in china he retires saying that he's filled his dreams and aspirations and sports. and that's all your sport for now more later some as it owns going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all the stories including those missile strikes in their bases in syria i'm rob matheson thanks for being with me.

and monday ported world on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries

haven't truly been able to escape the war. when the winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media and state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive. but just who is going to win saying. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what kind of a said and what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside polling the media opinion the listening post but based time on al-jazeera. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera.