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missiles intercepted the syrian government says at the border to attacks on two military bases. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up we're going to leave you with anything other than a judge or laces the client list for donald trump's lawyer who paid an adult film star one hundred thirty thousand dollars to remain silent. a court hearing for australia's most powerful catholic cardinal who faces allegations of sexual abuse plus. we'll go to. crimea where many rapper kendrick lamar can now add a pulitzer prize to his list of accolades.
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for government media and serious a two bases and homes in damascus have been targeted and. missile strikes state t.v. broadcast these pictures a few hours ago that says missiles were intercepted over sharat airbase in homes the area was targeted by u.s. forces last year at the pentagon is denying any involvement this time shortly afterwards hezbollah's media unit said a basin to mark outside damascus was also targeted state t.v. made no mention of that attack and say no holder joins us live now from beirut with more on this is a no what do we know about these areas targeted near homes. well there were two air bases according to the syrian state media airbase as well as the air base one in homs and one into. missiles were intercepted by the syrian air defenses there has been no claim of responsibility in the syrian media did not blame any party for this attack and now the united states deny that it carried out air strikes we have to remember just a few days ago on saturday the u.s.
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and its allies targeted three chemical weapons facilities in syria in retaliation for that suspected chemical weapons attack in these overnight airstrikes coinciding with the syrian government launching a number of offensives are gearing up for what could be all out offensive against a number of rebel controlled areas in syria in particular it is turning its attention towards homs that's in the northern countryside of homs the pocket of territory under the control of the rebels heavy bombardment heavy airstrikes we're hearing reports of five civilians injured and the people of homs are worried that they will face the same fate as those in eastern that they will face an all out offensive if they do not surrender and if they do surrender they will face forced displacement. this could be the start of a new offensive against rebel territory hopes. the syrian government appears to be turning its attention to the strategic region following its victory in eastern huta
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much of the central province has been recaptured in recent years but the opposition has long held an enclave in the northern countryside that the 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. they weren't able to hurt us with the shining and they did try to advance on the ground they failed we warned them that if they want to fight they will lose a lot of. 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
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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
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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 years ago. so the government is applying military pressure but at the same time offering so-called reconciliation deals the reports we're getting is that rebels are into mayor that is a town in the western rebel pocket they have agreed to surrender and they're expected to start evacuating the area on thursday and her live for us in beirut and a thank you after a series of delays russia says international inspectors will interview on wednesday
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to investigate a suspected chemical attack at follows emergency talks held by the global chemical weapons watchdog but the u.s. accused russia of tampering with the psi almost moscow that is blame delays on security concerns a fact finding team arrive in syria on saturday that will try to establish if a chemical attack took place on april seventh but it will not assign blame russian envoy to the accuse british intelligence of organizing the attack and. we have serious grounds to believe that it was highly likely provocation was organized with the help of the british intelligence services. president donald trump has reportedly blocked a plan to impose more sanctions on syria for supporting on russia for supporting the syrian government that is the washington post quotes unnamed official saying oppose the planet of national security meeting it makes a u. turn on a tape some of his business documents secret the records were seized as part of an investigation into his dealings with an adult film actress who says she had an
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affair with trump kristen salumi 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 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 i don't believe you ready ok this moment investigators are looking for possible criminal activity surrounding cullen's one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to stormy daniels who says she
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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 c's 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 it bears 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
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special protections regardless of who represents christian salumi al jazeera new york australia's most senior catholic cleric will return to court next month to find out whether he will stand trial on sexual abuse charges cardinal george pell is accused of multiple sexual offenses which denies his lawyer says he's being targeted to punish the catholic church for failing to prevent other cases of abuse and that the charges should be thrown out and thomas has been following proceedings at the melbourne magistrates court. although pavel is australia's most senior figure within the catholic church he was once off the ship here in melbourne he's also been archbishop in sydney and he was until very recently arguably the third most important person in the catholic church worldwide in charge of all their finances well he found out on tuesday that it will be on the east of my that he discovers whether he'll have to face a formal trial a multiple historic sexual abuse crimes at the place accuse him of the magistrate here in melbourne has spent the last six weeks hearing some of the evidence against
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him and hearing what some of his defense would be and she said that she'll now take the time to consider whether those witnesses all believable she said in court on tuesday but the defense would have to have a noire like to the possibility that those witnesses those accuses could be taken seriously by a jury and that would be the test by which she would decide whether or not a formal trial could go ahead it's not called no pal has been at the school a number of stages over the last six weeks he wasn't here on tuesday but he will now have to wait another couple of weeks before he finds out whether he will have to face a full trial still ahead on al-jazeera. t.v. . and hot water protests get louder at a popular coffee shop in the u.s. following new arrests at two black men. and cannibals family members out of its embassy staff out of cuba over fears of
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a mystery illness. hello spring proper is coming to almost all of europe now and despite this frightening looking to move clad that's mostly benign and the air and he's quite warm so we're talking about high teens here it may well bring a little bit of rain its course now across austria probably eastern poland up towards the baltic states attempt to moscow has risen ten degrees in the last his three days with nineteen eighty and to the west rough in the twenty's that may well be windy for a time but that wind is just encouraging more heat to come from north africa through spain and towards france so again twenty one in london twenty three twenty five in france and switzerland proper sprigg i think having had a bit of water in the ground everything will turn green is an improvement also it
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out now we've had rather strong winds and rains last his retains that's on his way out the still the rain potential and east now geria and maybe to his ear but that should all be gone in central study rising by wednesday this circulation here means heat and dust be brought up into libya as well the temperatures to around the forty mark in the middle of egypt thirty six in cairo but the picture really for all of north african as one of a benign weather pattern the blowing dust is a fine bit of sunshine.
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watching al-jazeera these are the top stories this hour pro-government media and syria says two bases and homes and damascus have been targeted and missile strikes state t.v. broadcast says missiles were intercepted over sarratt airbase and homes israel has made no comment on the strikes. a judge has rejected a bit badly u.s. president's personal water lawyer michael cohen to keep some of his records secret documents were seized as part of the investigation into
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a payout for an adult film actress who claimed she had an affair with donald trump . australia's most senior catholic cleric will return to court next month to find out whether he will stand trial on sexual abuse charges cardinal george pell is accused of multiple sexual offenses which he denies. in spain a group of head on pro independence leaders are expected in court to be formally charged with sedition and rebellion several politicians have been charged over the organization of the october first and dependents referendum in catalonia those indicted include their regions former leader carlos for tomorrow catalonia is interior chief and former speaker of the callen parliament are expected to appear before a supreme court judge today. canada is withdrawing the families of diplomats in cuba after new information on mysterious illnesses which have affected staff at its have and embassy diplomats from canada and the u.s. first reported symptoms of headaches dizziness and nausea last year medical
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specialists say they may have brain injuries cuban officials say they don't know what's behind the incidents or latin america newman has more from havana. 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 have 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
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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 calling as cuba several people have been detained following a protest outside russia's security services building in moscow they were aimed at the blocking of the messenger service telegram the protesters threw paper planes the logo of the encrypted service at the f.s.b. building the state telecommunications. regulator says it walked access to the app after a court ruled that it violated local laws 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
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conscience to freedom of speech no one should read our correspondence and this is really outrageous that everything is under control in our country all calls all correspondence all messages is 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 the u.s. u.k. and australia are accusing the russian government of maliciously targeting millions of devices for political and economic espionage all three governments say hackers are trying to steal information and build networks for potentially devastating cyber attacks mostly accused kremlin backpacker's of cyber attacks on hundreds of companies last year russia denies that claim. cyber security. within my department within my department within these signals directed in a different sport. believes that potentially four hundred australian companies were targeted but don't believe that there's been any exploitation of significance the
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the point. in force is for us as a government and should reinforce. is that vigilance is absolutely imperative of cyber security. is the chief executive of global cyber risk she says the biggest problem is that most people are unaware of the vulnerabilities of their home and office networks. this particular alert takes into consideration out of support equipment and old legacy systems that use this old equipment and therefore the advisory urges people to take note of patches that need to be made to harden their infrastructure they can protect themselves first of all by getting out and support equipment out of their systems getting rid of old legacy applications that require this use now this is a huge problem this isn't just like oh we haven't patched our our current system most of that is generally being done the biggest problem we see when we do cyber
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risk assessments in companies large and small but we do very large companies we see legacy applications those old applications that have been running around the business for ten twenty years that are being used and they require certain operating platforms and hardware that are out of support and are not serviced anymore and this is a huge vulnerability and it's really one now the target you don't have to actually get in to us to have someone click on a phishing e-mail you just exploit this ad supported swetman and so this is a very very large gaping hole and it is a big problem because like i said we see it almost everywhere we go. a u.s. judge has ruled that facebook must face a class action lawsuit over a truce of facial recognition technology people in illinois say the company broke state laws by collecting biometric information without their consent but facebook
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says the case has no merit it is the latest sent but facebook says the case has no merit it is the latest issue for the social media website after british consultancy firm was found with improperly access the information in nearly ninety million users and in another development indonesia's government has summoned facebook representatives for questioning the site admits the personal information of eight million indonesians was shared with cambridge analytical the philippines government is demanding justice for a filipino maid who says or saudi boss forced her to drink bleach agnes mincey is recovering after emergency surgery she says her employer made her drink the chemical when she didn't make tea properly the same employer is accused of not feeding nancy or for more than a month and stopping our from speaking to her family for almost two years. the head of american coffee chain coffee chain that has starbucks has offered to make a personal apology to two black men arrested at one of its outlets and philadelphia
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last week and today has prompted days of protests and accusations that the men were victims of racism robber and also parts of the. stuff of corporate apologies have already been made but unsatisfied protesters occupied the starbucks coffee shop in philadelphia on monday denouncing what they call racist treatment of two black men who were arrested at the cafe last week nobody. on thursday two black men were sitting in the starbucks waiting for a third person to arrive for a business meeting they asked to use the toilet but the manager refused because the men had not purchased anything the manager then asked them to leave and when they declined called the police cell phone video shows police arresting and handcuffing them and the friend they were waiting for arrives and has questions why did they do
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something about this my mother and the men were later released for lack of evidence they'd committed any offense the incident has become a full blown public relations disaster for starbucks which has long presented itself as a friendly community gathering place with twenty seven thousand stores worldwide in this incident does not reflect the spirit of our brand it was an unfortunate incident and will be sure to make it right chief executive kevin johnson apologized saying he took full responsibility and would review the training the company gives its employees the manager of the outlet has resigned i'm going to do everything i can to ensure it is fixed and never happens again however the city's police commissioner insisted his officers acted properly i'm going to tell you but. police officer did not want to have to make an arrest in matters of. the whole thing just
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. for black americans incidents like this are not uncommon in another incident caught on camera in february two black patrons at an applebee's restaurant in missouri were falsely accused of stealing a chain fired three workers as a result is coming amid continuing controversy over police shootings of unarmed black men the incident underscores the prevalence of racial profiling in the u.s. rob reynolds al jazeera. seven inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the u.s. state of south carolina seventeen others are injured in the maximum security leak correctional institution most of those killed or injured were slashed or stabbed prison guards managed to regain control after several hours as to deadliest present in the u.s. in more than two decades so lucky is interior minister has resigned after less than a month on the job he is the latest politician to step down following protests against the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiance and hochstein
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reports. of these weekly protests in bratislava have claimed another political scout tens of thousands of slovaks ready through the capital on sunday demanding the head of the police force step down that angry over what they say is his failure to investigate the mud of a journalist yan could siac political corruption instead of the police chief it was the interior minister who resigned on monday. if i think that the farting of the police chief is not right it would create polarization of the public instead of suzi the situation in our country i think that under these circumstances i've know for the right to be the interior minister that's why i've decided to put my resignation in the hands of the president. is the second interior minister to quit fairly three weeks after he took over from robert can't even. that was part of a cabinet reshuffle when the former prime minister. stepped down and in his six
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years in the row. did so smarr party is the biggest block in the three party coalition government it's been crisis since the journalist in february young could see ike and his fiance were killed an execution style murders at their home at the time the twenty seven year old was probing state corruption and alleged links between the government and the mafia and the theft of europe in aid from one of the companies he was investigating is owned by relatives of the current police chief the same person who's been put in charge of investigating the killings and. despite offering the one point two million dollar reward for information on those responsible and the arrest of seven people no one has been prosecuted for the murders despite the latest resignation on monday the current prime minister has backed the controversial police chief and praised his professionalism it's likely to mean protests like this will continue. as their. relatives their
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crewmembers on a missing argentinian submarine or a demanding answers from the government the vessel disappeared in november with forty four crew members on board that offense minister was questioned by an investigating committee or testers outside urged politicians to put more resources into the search fence minister assured the families the submarine will be found. the submarine is somewhere we have to find it and we are trying to find it we've been looking for it for five months and we'll keep looking for it this can happen we hired a company and they didn't find it in the one hundred days promised you're going to continue searching we need it and then a national team of scientists has engineered an enzyme that eats types of plastic that are polluting the world's oceans and waterways it's able to quickly digest p.t.t. plastic which is used in millions of tons of bottles and takes hundreds of years to break down the team is now looking to beef up the project so it can be used on and thus trail scale so discoveries the end game is amazing something that can eat
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plastic lid normally takes four hundred years to degrade the bacteria are starting to eat this in a matter of days what we've done is we've pulled a the end same from the bacteria and grown up in the lab i know we can actually digest p.t. within days much quicker in the environment and the idea here is that we can make the enzyme faster know by understanding how it works and then we have an industrial process. the reporters who broke stories exposing sexual harassment in hollywood have won the most prestigious prize in american journalism the new york times and the new yorker won a joint pulitzer for investigations into alleged sexual abuse by film producer harvey weinstein the reports led to his downfall and also sparked the global need to movement encouraging people to speak out about sexual harassment the new york times and washington post also want to hold serve for their reporting on russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s.
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presidential election. i don't what's being seen as a cultural milestone kendrick lamar became the first rapper to win the pulitzer prize for music as two thousand and seventeen album dam has been praised for bridging hip hop with high arch more now from astor. called the voice of a generation thirty year old kendrick lamar mixes hip hop with poetry and political protest his common subjects of race police brutality and perseverance made his songs the anthem of the black lives matter movement in the united states. his politically charged performances like this one on top of a vandalized police car have also triggered conservative backlash they're not helpful at all this is why i say that hip hop is that more damage to young african-americans than racism in recent years but it was with a quiet delight that the administrator of the pulitzer prize announced on monday
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that lamar's latest album was to be honored with this year's award a virtual stick song collection unified by its for nakheel or authenticity and rhythmic diane dimond tism. that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern african american life lamar is the most commercially successful musician to have won the pulitzer prize with his albums selling out at record stores he is also the first non classical or jazz artist to win the honor legitimizing rap music as critically acclaimed art lamar says his music is a reflection of his background the son of a former gang member now a cultural icon who is recognized for his contribution to american arts and music castro al-jazeera washington.
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pick up the headlines on al-jazeera. government media in syria says two bases and arms in damascus have been targeted and missile strikes state t.v. broadcast says missiles were intercepted over sharat airbase and homes in while russia says international inspectors will enter the syrian city of durham on wednesday to investigate a suspected chemical attack at all those emergency talks held by the global chemical weapons watchdog the us accused russia of tampering with the site while moscow blamed to liaison security concerns a fact finding team will try to establish if a chemical attack took place on april seventh but it will not assign blame the russian envoy to the. british intelligence of organizing the attack. we have serious grounds to believe that it was highly likely provocation was organized with the help of the british intelligence services a judge has rejected a bid by the u.s. president's personal lawyer michael cohen the keep some of his records secret the
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documents were seized as part of an investigation into a payout here range for an adult film actress who claimed she had an affair with donald trump australia's most senior catholic cleric is returning to court next month to find out whether he will stand trial on sexual abuse charges cardinal george pale is accused of multiple sexual offenses which he denies as lawyer says he is being targeted to punish the catholic church for failing to prevent other cases of abuse and that the charges should be thrown out canada is withdrawing the families of diplomats in cuba after new information on mysterious illness is which have affected staff at savannah embassy diplomats from canada and the u.s. first supported symptoms of headaches dizziness and nausea that was last year now medical specialists say they may have brain injuries given officials say they don't know what's behind the incidents. government. representatives for questioning side admits the personal information of
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a million indonesians was shared with the u.k. political consultancy at the center of a scandal over a major data breach a total of eighty seven million facebook users use without their consent most of them in the u.s. those are the headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera throughout the day for all the latest news. story is next. here is a very important source of information for many people around the world. have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going. to bring that story to the forefront.
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