in martinique as a result of those a very heavy downpours so we have had problems here dry weather comes in as we go on through the next few days to still assurance of one or two showers lot of cloud of rain there into cuba and jamaica so making its way further east. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. he ruled for nearly half a century. a controversial political figure in the cold in the middle east and one who was never far from crisis at home or abroad. in a two part series al-jazeera world tells the story of convincing joined at the soon to. be face. at this time on al jazeera.

this is al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the odyssey or news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes syrian state t.v. says international inspectors have entered duma to investigate a suspected chemical weapons attack. a show of solidarity to protest the number of palestinian inmates held in israeli jails its prison a day in gaza. a court hearing for australia's most senior catholic cleric who is accused of sexual abuse plus. leave you'll think of it over a judge releases the client list for donald trump's lawyer who paid an adult film star thousands of dollars to remain silent. and then throw the defending n.b.a. champions are looking good for another title the golden state warriors the have

moved to la play in the playoffs is the family time this passed. welcome to the program syrian state t.v. is reporting that international inspectors into the syrian city of doom of the site of a suspected chemical or. chemical and. joins us live from we're hearing the reports that the inspectors have been allowed to enter earlier than we thought. well yes syrian state television reporting that the chemical weapons inspectors have entered. the town where that alleged chemical weapons attack happened on april the seventh earlier today the russian military said the inspectors would be entering tomorrow wednesday following security preparations now both the russian and the syrian government have come

under criticism by western countries they have been accused of preventing the organization of prohibition of chemical weapons from entering and suspecting and investigating the. security concerns but the west believes that this is just a delaying tactic and the united states and france are expressing concern that the site could have been tampered with the evidence could have been tampered with so now. they're going to begin their investigations it's not clear when they will release their findings but we have to point out that the west believes that a chemical weapons attack happened they say they have the proof and that's why they launched the air strikes on saturday targeting the chemical weapons facilities so even if. that chemical weapons attack actually happened we are not expecting retaliatory strikes because the west is threatening strikes if. happens away from the chemical weapons and. we now know about this offensive against in the

south of damascus. the syrian army and its allies saying that they are preparing for an offensive to recapture a pocket of territory. number of districts that are in the hands of controlling this territory the syrian army preparing for this offensive sending reinforcements to the front line and the army commanders quoted by pro-government media saying that they've been starting to shell this enclave now it's not just southern damascus the syrian government is gearing up for a number of offensives in homes for example the central province of homs they've started to have. rebel pockets in the northern countryside very strategic area at a crossroads where the government controls main population centers so this actually is a crossroads that links all these population centers so the government really feeling very comfortable and launching more offensives after declaring victory in.

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 much of the central province has been recaptured in recent years but the opposition has long held an enclave in the northern countryside that 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. 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 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 if 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. so the army are flying military pressure and it seems to be working in the town of to mayor in the western calif rebel enclave the rebel faction there has agreed to surrender and we expect the evacuation to happen on

thursday some one thousand fighters will be evacuated to northern syria to rebel controlled northern syria or just out of there in beirut saying no thank you well with this is all that apparent gas attack and duma have told on jazeera they felt the effect looks like today for his family on april the seventh they were in duma when it was alleged syrian forces launched a chemical attack i will mahmoud 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 call it yellow smoke it had a rotten smell it was like a new thing was being tested on us because although they have 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 which was besieged for nearly five years and bombed into submission over the last two months . the intensity of the last attack me generation islam spiked 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 airstrikes 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 on how bad the. when we came to live there was a war like situation there in egypt this was 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 it came to turkey it was very difficult to cross but it wasn't impossible. medical sources told our desire that those were families areas

under the control of the assad government will be free 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 a job. now that directly syria border. palestinians are marking prisoners day in a show of solidarity with thousands held in israeli jails more than six and a half thousand palestinians including three hundred fifty children and more than sixty women are in israeli prisons more than four hundred are being held without charge or trial under so-called administrative detention according to rights groups eighteen hundred prisoners are in need of medical care seven hundred of those suffer from serious and chronic conditions since israel began its military

occupation of the west bank and gaza in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven it's imprisoned more than eight hundred thousand palestinians are a force that reports from ramallah. as the day designated the palestinian prisoners began their numbers swelled by another thirteen in the early hours of tuesday israeli soldiers made arrests across the occupied west bank including this one in a refugee camp near ramallah is a brother was detained the house ransacked in a hunt for weapons. that they have rested him on prisoners day he spent twenty years in jail and he got married less than a year ago haven't got any evidence against israel so such raids are integrity and security but for palestinians they represent the unchecked power of an occupying force six and a half hours and palestinians are currently in israeli jails of those a little over a thousand a serving terms from twenty years to life which usually signifies a conviction for killing or injuring an israeli that leaves five and

a half thousand jailed on lesser charges well none at all and most of these cases are talking about either political affiliation or public disorder like in any demonstration is he could on writing the slogan writing in your face book bait is considered and incitement palestinians in the occupied west bank is subject to israel's military court system and its conviction rate of ninety nine point seven percent it also holds the power to imprison without charge known as administrative detention israel says the system under which it's holding five hundred palestinians prevents attacks and protects the identities of informants salim daughter so we spent ten years in administrative detention but not all at once that he says is it's power you're never sure that you're free and when you leave you think of the next time you'll be administratively detained no one leaves administrative detention before the intelligence officer gives him the talk threatening him and making sure he thinks the next time. there's been plenty of next times for muhammad

and his family in the early hours of monday morning his twenty one year old son was arrested for a third time. with there they could have knocked but they've broken by force they want to intimidate us mohammed's wife nida says it's the thirteenth raid since last june when three men from their village killed an israeli security forces member in occupied east jerusalem she says she's taken to sleeping in her clothes in the expectation of the next one will sit out as era in the occupied west bank australia's most senior catholic cleric will return to court next month to find out if he will stand trial on sexual abuse charges cardinal george pell denies the allegations his lawyer wants the charges thrown out saying he's being targeted to punish the catholic church for failing to prevent other cases of abuse and to thomas has been following the case and meldon. although pal is australia's most senior figure within the catholic church she was once off bishop 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 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 i spent the last six weeks hearing some of the evidence against 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 that 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 should 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 plus also to come on the news hour including ice a full trial plus also to come on the news hour including. discovery to end james amazing. scientists stumble on a potentially groundbreaking solution to clear tons of plastics moderations plus. the grammy award winning rapper kendrick lamar come out of the not surprised his list of accolades. in a sport find out what the players of this top level germany game have to hop talking break that's also the. judge has rejected a bid by the u.s. president's personal lawyer to keep some of his business documents a secret the records were seized as part of the probe into his dealings with an adult film that frist who says she had an affair with trump christensen 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 trunk 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 collins 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 or u.s.

judges ruled that facebook must face a class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology people in illinois say the company broke state laws by collecting biometric data without their consent but facebook says the case has no merit it's the latest issue for the social media giant after a british consultancy firm with sounds of improperly access the information of nearly ninety million uses in another development in the nation's government someone facebook official for questioning the site admits the personal data of a million in the nations was shed with cambridge analytic. meanwhile a former cambridge on its going to executive has appeared before a british parliamentary committee lowenstein joins us live now from london and so britain a call is a who's the subject of words on a variety of american election campaigns how did that impact on her work on the u.k. votes and leave the european union. well in simple terms she worked for cambridge analytical during the trunk campaign when he won the presidency and came to listen

which had worked in variety different places of all over the world then went to one of the leave groups during the brics it referendum and said look we can do for you what we did for trump which is to have micro target small groups of floating voters and bombard them with messages through the harvesting of their data through facebook and all the things we know about. should know she said that in fact the leave campaign didn't actually take up their offer of work and didn't pay them for the preparatory work that they'd done but she said and this is quite explosive in terms of the allegations around breck says that the guy who was in charge of the leave campaign who's a very wealthy insurance salesman took he she claims that he took all of the names of the clients of his car insurance companies and basically said to his sales team phone all these people up and ask them what they think about the u.k. leaving the european union which is illegal to take commercial data and transpose

it into a political campaign of course this man denies it and will probably have to give evidence himself now to this very committee but if it turned out to be true it would be very significant because it would imply that the leave campaign leave dotty you campaign actually broke the law so in that sense it was a quite important bit of testimony laura so given all of that i mean how significant is her testimony that. well what she said in terms was that it was really quite cynical that she paints the picture came to listen as being a company which is totally amoral they didn't really care who was working for an almost did it just to prove it could be done so we went to nigeria for example and subverted the election there apparently she worked herself for obama and then switch sides and work for trump she was asked have you turn ever turn any work down because it was unethical and she said well not on think of any and she paints a picture basically of an organization which was only interested in getting the results it wanted whatever it meant for things like ethical standards and the and

the nature of democracy and up holding democratic standards and that's really very important for this committee because not only investigating whether or not the bracks it votes was was was was contaminated by fake news but it wants to know as well if you k. election law is actually standard enough and sufficiently strong to stand up to the big breaches by data companies the sort you mentioned in any countries from indonesia to the united states now lawrence thank you. now spain's government has become increasingly tough on catalans who still dream of independence the central government in madrid imposed direct rule on the region of the last year secession referendum from barcelona some of the yoga reports on how activists are changing their tactics. an act of defiance by catalan pro independence activists disabling a highway toll just outside barcelona allowing motorists to pass free of charge.

and welcoming them to the cattle on the public a protest in action but it ended up with one of the leaders being arrested on suspicion of terrorism she was later released others were charged with public disorder this is the new normal in cattle and grassroots politics. more than half a year has passed since the banned referendum in catalonia and there has been no breakthrough in the crisis the reaction of the spanish state has done little to dampen any feelings but there is a fear that the government will do what ever it takes to prevent secession from that a movement has evolved the committees for the defense of the republic were not afraid any more and the spanish government will do more against us that we will be afraid what they've done to us so far is nothing we appear afraid then censorship is winning and we can't allow that but it has come at a price that. they stay out of proportion so if you were

prosecuting us a terrorist people which only crime is being complaining making demonstrations in the three are you accusing of terrorism just because he's a perth again the integrity of this of the country that's a it's all how. it's a problem for the state the defense committees were set up in some sixty towns across catalonia and initially it was to protect the voting centers where the battle referendum was held well since then they moved on what they want to do now is. to bring about a new cattle on republic the spanish government's reaction has been to double down on the pro secessionist movement the full macaskill on president catalyst the moment is in germany where a court ruled out extraditing him to spain on charges of rebellion but he is still a wanted man. the the the there is an impasse and the committees are keeping the momentum going for now they refused to

give in to what they say is intimidation by madrid but the possibility of local elections in july may just bring those matters to a head the desire to have a catalan republic may be strong but the practicality of creating it is still a dream that is out of reach. sony vaio al-jazeera barcelona. now brazil has announced sixty million dollars of emergency funding to help thousands of venezuelans of fled an economic crisis of home it's estimated up to a thousand venezuelans cross the border every day and many of those of children al-jazeera as gabriel is on their reports from birth are stuck in brazil. in a school in brazil where the classrooms are increasingly filled with children from been a swale an elder political needs first comes a language in learning portuguese the school and bowl of beast of brazil in the far

north of the country received more than one hundred kids from venice when live this year alone forced to adapt and they appear happy but most are too young to fully comprehend the difficult reality of why they are here. at the nearby border crossing about one thousand venezuelan migrants a day line up to cross into brazil they're desperate fleeing a country they say lacks food and medicine most are like now year aguilar who brings their children when a better man wants to go to her but i'm here for a better future for my two kids i hope they can grow up here they can study a better future for them but it will be a difficult road ahead especially for the youngest. with little money many of the families end up living like homeless at a local park they are in need of the basics for survival at this encampment everybody is hungry someone finally brought some food so they're lining up

including the children for many of whom this will be the only meal baby whole day. across town at a gymnasium turned into a rudimentary shelter kids who are not in school do whatever they can to keep busy monica cut into a former model in venice whaler said she fled her country as a last resort it was a way that i well i hope to start working in the good job and have enough money to raise my children a united nations official here estimates half of all the migrants in shelters are children they've seen this kind of situation when you stop having child to as many people living on the street and so on children it's nice all five use up any kind of violence abuse exploitation. it's a growing migration crisis with an entire generation of venezuelan children whose future is across the border in a new land. gabriel is on to al-jazeera but will be eastern brazil. our time for

the weather now his efforts and looking very summer like across western europe over the next couple of days daryn the skies are opening nice there's going to be absolutely gorgeous talk about the satellite picture you can see this area cloud here is currently there across the british isles as going to make its way a little further east was running into an area of high pressure here hard pressure as the lid on the atmosphere suppresses the cloud it stops it from rising so the skies clear and temperatures will respond quite nicely here's our main area of high pressure in place we're going to see some lovely weather as we go on through the next couple of days but the temperatures is still sixteen in london for this afternoon twenty two celsius of paris and also for madrid they go on into wednesday those temperatures pick up nice to twenty two degrees take a look at thursday we are up into the mid twenty's in london twenty seven in paris and twenty three in madrid we are going to see some fine weather then across central parts is well over towards the eastern side if you are

a little more inclement there across western russia fifteen celsius in moscow eighteen in kiev and care will fall back to around ten degrees as we go through with day winds coming in from a cool a northerly direction nice and calm across central parts and going to say a good deal of pleasant sunshine there's that twenty seven there for paris getting up to twenty three images a temperature started to cheer quite nicely here and then back home in london gorgeous weather temperature is twenty five there. i don't thank you for that loss more still to come here and al-jazeera. we travel deep inside the democratic republic of congo destruct the fate of thousands of people displaced by ethnic violence plus. i'm very sorry for any confusion or anxiety found on during the wrong as the british government announced the plan to address concerns of some car b. and immigrants and in support for reaching the finish line at this year's boston marathon was even tougher than usual stay with us.

at the scene for us when they're on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible about in number happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

the carter. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here this hour syrian state t.v. says international inspectors of em to do much to investigate an apparent chemical attack russia has been blamed for delaying their entry for almost twenty four us moscow said there were security concerns and u.s. accuses russia of tampering with the site. meanwhile syrian government forces of a gun shelling the last area and i still control of the capital the own place of yarmouk has been on the government siege for several years off it's held by eisel by rival read the books. and a judge has rejected a bid by the u.s.

president's personal lawyer michael cohen to keep some of his records secret documents he sees as part of an investigation into a payout here arranged for an adult film actress who claims she had an affair with donald trump. somalia's military says at least thirty al-shabaab rebels have been killed in recent fighting in the hit on region the army's been trying to secure the area since february when the somali president declared a new offensive against the group police in nigeria have fired tear gas at hundreds of shia muslim protesters in a bluejays the second day of clashes in the capital demonstrators are demanding the release of their religious leader abraham. who's been jailed without charge since twenty fifteen. well the u.n. says fighting in democratic republic of congo has forced more than seventy thousand people to flee to neighboring uganda al-jazeera is retracing their journey traveling from uganda as capital kampala to the refugee camps he then heads towards

the landing site where many of the refugees arrive by boat sometimes this report from near the town of bunia where he accompanied the governor to areas affected by the. homes made of plastic sheet don't help much in the rain. people have in this camp for displaced people in the town of 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 room our under control . we joined the provincial governor on a visit to the conflict there yeah. it's remote is it barely broke. we 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 he's encouraging people to go home and saying the government will do it can provide

security for the people here are skeptical about his message. each time we visit more displaced people he said it's not safe to go home. because they're all from the lendu ethnic group the victims are ethnic hammers and some lenders to two groups have been rivals in the past could most people here say there is no ethnic conflict right now. because the hammer 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. u.n. doesn't have the world's second largest peacekeeping force here we met the mission's chief visiting one of the camps people are insisting that it's a. conflict but nobody knows behind i didn't know.

that the government is behind it i did not tell 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 territories or killing our own population whoever is behind the violence convincing the population to return won't be easy and most homes remain deserted behind them fresh graves of those killed some hacked to death others burned in their homes it will take a lot to convince people it's safe here malcolm webb al-jazeera three province in the democratic republic of congo human rights watch says government supporters in burundi have beaten and killed perceived opponents of an upcoming referendum voters will decide next month whether to extend presidential terms from five to seven years yes vote could prolong the rule of president here when currencies are who's

been in power since two thousand and five human rights watch says it's documented nineteen cases of violence relating to the vote since december at least one death. grip was environment department says the nerve agent used to poison the former russian spies. and his daughter was in liquid form it says it will take months to clean up all traces of the toxin nine sites in the city of salzburg will need special screening that includes the restaurant the script visited before they were found unconscious on a park bench. british prime minister treason may has met with caribbean leaders after the government was forced to apologize over its treatment of british residents who are being treated as illegal immigrants as many as fifty thousand people who came from the west indies to britain after world war two have been affected may said she was genuinely sorry about the anxiety caused by the home office threatening the children of commonwealth citizens with deportation she also said they had a right to stay and there was no clampdown on commonwealth immigrants policy phillips says more. 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 the porter i don't know what i would to take from one and throw them out if they have no no worth because that is what they do you know about work what you know what you could do for what you've done to help britain be a better place than it was a rival of more than four hundred happy jamaicans the so-called 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 been caught

out by strict new laws specifying documents they need to prove how long they've been hearing this could not have blown up i don't more embarrassing time for the british government the very week in which your hosts the commonwealth summit in which it's busy empathizing 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 noisy health on the national health service how many have denied pensions how many have lost their jobs this is a day of national shape mr speaker i shan't be a little gentle and 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 a 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 with big design and yes today's prime minister to resign 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. now an international team of scientists has engineered an enzyme but it's plastic it's a world first in an effort to find a solution for the three hundred million tons of plastic produced every year solid bullets reports. piles of plastic in every city in the world in remote regions with nowhere to go. since its invention last century the disposal of

plastic has plagued the world three quarters of it sits in landfills floods the oceans even the tampa st that's recycled is simply remolded never truly broken down until now we can break it down to its building blocks and then put it back and. as water bottles and things like this subject to recover those urgent type properties a bacteria discovered recently in a japanese recycling plant feeds on the world's most common plastic known as p.t. this is an enzyme aging the plastic magnified three thousand times the scientists wanted to study how it works but accidentally spit it out we actually thought we were making the enzymes floor by by changing a few amino acids but actually we've made it faster we've made an improved version of the enzyme better than the natural one already that's really exciting because that means that there is potential to optimize this and say even further the

science has a long way to go the enzyme can only digest plastic and needs to be scaled up in a commercially viable way basically we can just make gallons of powdered enzyme and then pour in a fox that this is what we're aiming to do so just in the same way that washing powder to parents were developed and made more stable been able to work at high temperatures low temperatures we're going to do the same with this enzyme and hopefully create something that we can use in an industrial scale every minute one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into our oceans if we continue this trained by twenty fifty it's predicted there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish it's an all consuming problem that scientists hope enzymes could help eat up charlotte dallas al-jazeera. well joining us on skype from oxford shirts professor andrew harrison he's seen the diamond light source that's one of the collaborators of the research professor on the face of it this all sounds like good news how was the

sense i'm discovered in engineered. so the discovery is as the last report said it was essentially by accident on finding a bacteria that thrived on the one on the way site in japan what the research as we were with then did was ask the question how does it live on the plastic how does it break it down and that's where damage light source comes in we provide exceptionally powerful microscopes that allow you to look at the structure of the molecules in this case the enzymes at the level of atom by atom and study exactly how they latch on to the polar molecules and chew them up break them down to their components so damn and walk towards a story now i'm going to say i'm dreaming of the scientists say that this could revolutionize the whole of the recycling process in the broader sense but allowing plastics to be used more effectively they're say but isn't the aim to get rid of plastics altogether well of course ultimately what we hope for is that society

itself is weaned off the platter what we know of plastics but whilst it's still out there you know our oceans are full of the stuff or landfill sites or church with it so this is extremely important regardless of what the long term strategy is going to be with plastic because we've got a huge cleanup task ahead of us and of course you know these brings up political as as well as anything else so it could be a long time before we all decide to give up our plastic packaging and i think this is a really important step to accelerate a process of clean up and that's an important point to make because the worry of course as you say is that with so much plastic in our oceans and landfill sites is this all too little too late. well this gives us a chance to catch up and to great a part of the great breakthrough here is that the natural bacteria takes an awful long time to do its work what the scientists on this particular team showed his ways to genetically modified bacteria so that they can so the enzymes that they produce can greatly accelerate the process and go from tenshi centuries to just

minutes to digest all the stuff and turn it into chemicals that are far less harmful just a final thought from you on that very point the other concern of course is could the enzyme be harmful to the environment could we be swapping one big environmental problem for another so this is the great thing about an enzyme it's extremely specific it acts on very very specific molecules and that's the whole point about genetic engineering how do you want to buys it to recognize a p.t. molecule and and and two that are not of the molecules professor andrew harrison thank you for talking to us thank you now the reporters who broke stories exposing sexual harassment in the hollywood of one of the most prestigious prize in american journalism the new york times and the new yorker won a joint pulitzer for investigations into alleged misconduct by the film producer harvey weinstein reports led to his downfall and also sparked the global me to movement encouraging people to speak out about sexual harassment the new york times

and the washington post also want to put its for their reporting on suspected russian interference in the twenty sixteen us presidential election and reuters photo journalist who recognize the documenting range of refugees who've been escaping the military crackdown in me and since august and what's being seen as a cultural milestone kendrick lamar has become the first rapper to win the pulitzer prize for music his twenty seventeen album has been praised for bridging hip hop with high art more now from the hot issue of castro. we are. 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 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 diamond tism. that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern african american life well maher 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 teacher castro al jazeera washington. all right so let's talk to steve perry he is an american educated and founder of capital prep schools in harlem new york he joins us now live from hartford connecticut so let's put this put it into perspective kendrick the first rapper to win the pulitzer prize and music how big a win is this for him and how is he managed to bridge hip hop with high art. i think it's a big win for kendrick lamar but i think it's a big win for the pulitzer i think that they have come into a time to understand the form of far or acknowledge a form of art that has been speaking truth to power from its inception whether it's white lines all the way up through mobb deep in biggie smalls there are too many artists to name who have paid the path that kendrick now has traveled and done very very well so congratulations to both the pulitzer and kendrick statement many music

observers were surprised by this award some even question whether rap and hip hop really needs a pulitzer prize or was this about the judges trying to connect with a younger audience do you think i don't know what the intent behind it was i just feel like cynicism is so deep maybe throughout the world that maybe they just thought it was what they said which was virtually virtuosic and that they understand that throughout not just music but throughout industry such as mine rap helps us to tell a story that's so important if you listen to hip hop from two three four five years ago all the way back to ten fifteen twenty years ago it tells a story of the african-american experience and tells a story in a way which only the people who live it can tell it so i you know for me i have to believe that the pulitzer committee thought that this was great music that they should reward and his songs of becoming i'm from haven't they for the black lives mount a movement is not because he makes

a unique connection with the audience on controversial issues like race like police brutality. and he does a fantastic job of spinning it's hail. that's complex too often when we're talking about the african-american experience it's either on one side or the other in one song he talks about how he on the one hand but moans the fact that. he struggles with the fact that trayvon martin was murdered and then at the same time not he as a person but he in the in this persona participates in a gang banging killing another black man he talks about the complexity of these of these issues and i think that there's something in that for this generation who doesn't just say that they see one side of the story but they see a more complicated african-american experience steve just a final thought from you what does this all say about the appeal and the evolution of rap and hip hop against the current backdrop of political and cultural turmoil in america. hip hop has always been what keris one from bogota productions referred

to as the c.n.n. of the streets hip hop has always been a form of music but it's also been the drums from our community that have told the tale of what we are encountering him and not just the the politics of what is happening against us but what we can do to walk leaning forward again congratulations to further lamar and all the work that he's done and the inspiration that he has extended not just to his generation to our community but to generations like mine that are ahead of his and to other communities throughout the world steve perry thank you for talking to al jazeera my pleasure. coming up in the sport after the break i discovered there is no mark says white hair a skull no means buildings but the folding yes no no no no but i'm told that the cells in the shouting match of the monkey collar mostest lauren that stay with us.

on top of the sport itself. defending n.b.a. champions the golden state warriors have taken control of their playoff series with the san antonio spurs in the absence of steph curry has two points from kevin draw a lead the way out for the warriors and game two and it's in has. with the golden state warriors style man steph curry missing through injury the sun and sunnier spurs months have been hoping to exploit some previously unexplored flaws the warriors though do still have nine time all star kevin durant's a call on. the warriors what big win is in game one of the spurs lead at half

time fifty three forty seven three possible excuse me for top of that was the key for durant's and plights holmes and it's a further step up their gang thanks for. the warriors night fifty three point shots compared to the spurs were hit just four or five nights in. this game the second time that thompson and durant's each school thirty or more and again for the warriors the other occasion was a game three of the twenty seventeen finals a series which sort of warriors beating the cleveland cavaliers four one to claim their second championship in three years the worry is finishing this game as well as one sixty one i want i can make it a loud thirty two. really want to i guess. take a lot of energy out of me. you know i'm not really flashy would play any more is trying to look for. the simple and easy. because.

we're not going to roll over. the mentality there we. want to take the fight to you know go home with him and charlie you know. from. the warriors to up in the series with the action now moving to san antonio picking three d. richardson al-jazeera. and monday's other game to a new way to score twenty eight points and the seventy six is seventeen a game winning streak which also moved into tents in the old time playoff scores list miami heat taking game two hundred thirteen two hundred three to level the series. other debates over the use of video assistance referees looks set to intensify ahead of the introduction at this year's world cup or the system is already being used in germany's top league but not without problems in this game of

between mains and freiburg the players had their half time break cut shorter due to evolve while the teams were off the pitch the referee reviewed an incident that had occurred just before the break and it was decided that a penalty should have been awarded and then the players had to return to the field so amazed could take the spot kick it means went on to win the game to know what it's made out on it was a really curious situation just before half time when the penalty was given we were already in the dressing room i don't think it was a penalty but it doesn't matter now i think i made a silly mistake which decided the game it shouldn't have happened. thousands of fans are filled the center of eindhoven in the netherlands on monday to celebrate p.s.t.'s league title triumph. decided to clear their twenty fourth dutch league title on sunday they did it thanks to a three nil when over title rivals i.x.

over whom they now have an onset of all ten point lead the fans celebrating what's been a great few years for the club this title being the third in four years. this young team had to go through a lot of the beginning they have created a united team and have put down a fantastic achievement not only winning the title but doing it to get i.x. to the home and give them a big applause i'm very proud of all of them let's celebrate. south korea have booked their place in next year's fi for women's world cup in france they thrashed the philippines five nil in the women's asian cup place play off south korea dominated throughout the match and in the philippines hopes of reaching a first world cup but they join australia japan china and thailand as the asian representatives at next year's tournament. it's wrong told maple leaves to have moved back into contention in the n.h.l. playoff series with the boston bruins austin matthews scored the go ahead goal in

the second period as the leafs defeated boston four two the brewers still leave the best of seven first round series two one. about djokovic has ended a run of three consecutive losses with a first round win at the monte carlo mostest the twelve time grand slam champion beat fellow serve to sand in straight sets for the loss of just one game djokovic has been struggling in his recovery from an elbow injury and has slipped to thirteenth in the world rankings. are good for the long run you just go there's no march as we're here we still know he's going to use the little bit yet you know the north american player and that was less than happy with the line call i made during his match with albert ramos when all us video replays later showed donaldson had been corrected the twenty one year old lost the match in straight sets and did later apologize for his behavior canucks to korea was once

again troubled by a long standing wrist injury in his first round match with thomas birds which he should corry had started the season of playing in second tier challenger tour events but the former world number four was able to come from a said sound to be heard it this time now. rafael nadal has a first round bye as he prepares to challenge him for record eleventh monte carlo title the world number one needs to win the tournament to prevent roger federer from regaining top spot. every you know i came here every year with the same passion with the same with the regime to play my best and to give me chances to have the best result possible now so specially this year i didn't finish no one event yet so. hopefully it is one of the first. well wet and windy weather at the boston mass and couldn't prevent desiré lendon producing

a rare home away and the women's race and then overcoming the conditions that to become the first american winner and thirty three years in the men's race yukiko or she became the first japanese runa to claim as a title since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven that prepared for this event by running a huff masson in his home country dressed acted and. and that's always full from we'll have more later on nights back to daryn so i thank you very much well that's it from a download of the news i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news stay with us don't go becomes a lot. travel often. by trying to use an old fart's you probably brought. up safari. like. bally's and scott.

eventually. scott. as far away places closer. to getting his cattle i always. and monday put it on. 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 country have been truly unable to escape the war. in the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big business of smelly business to the complexities of recycling when these

different plastics are blended together the recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the scientists that office solutions it's very easy for us to have a hundred percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. every dude is being analyzed it's being weighed and measured. politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew shows to retire from the n.s.a. big 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.