position of power of even raising the prospect of a potential veto proof votes to prevent them from going into effect there is not much support in my conference for terms that are sure most of us hope. that the mexican delegation that's come up here and discuss. the. challenges at the border and what the mexicans might be able to do to help us more than they. will be fruitful should be noted that congressional republicans have grumbled a president of the post only eventually to fall in line overtime 00 washington ceremonies are being held in northern france to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings president and britain's prime minister are in for some air and normandy to lay the 1st stone for a new memorial the site overlooks gold beach one of the 5 locations where allied forces landed the president will join other dignitaries in france for more commemorations on thursday let's go now to a toss about le who is in the region of normandy so natasha crawlin entry some

a they've already had a ceremony commemorating british participation in d.-day and then back around is going to attend a ceremony later with the u.s. president donald trump welcoming expect. yes the french president a man i will not call and treason made the british prime minister inaugurated a new memorial paying homage to the british troops that took part in that to normandy invasion $22000.00 troops died under a british command not only on d.-day but in the days and weeks that followed this is of course trees i'm a 2nd to last day as prime minister she officially steps down from the office tomorrow on friday and it is the 1st d.j. commemoration since britain votes its leave the european union and that is a point of some basic irony for some of the veterans here because they feel they fought so hard for closer ties with europe alongside their european partners and

they shoes with a man omar call will then go on to the covert to sell mao cemetery the big american cemetery where more than 1000 american servicemen. and women are buried he will attend a commemoration there alongside the u.s. president donald trump they are both expected to make a speech we don't know exactly what they'll say yet but of course it will pay homage to those who took part in this day indeed day 75 years to 75 years d.-day has been a symbol of international collaboration a symbol of nations coming together for a common purpose that we can expect the french president emmanuel michael certainly to touch on that he is an ardent multilateralist of his vision of the world he believes in international alliances institutions and deals donald trump on the other hand of course takes a very different vision of the world with his america 1st policy and that is why the alliance between these 2 countries the french american lines once so strong and

d.-day of course reflects that is today quite strange because these 2 leaders have such a different vision of the world so after the ceremony natasha those 2 leaders with very different views of the world as you pointed out are going to hold a working lunch do we know what will be discussed there. yes is working not to take place in car of the main town in normandy the eliseo saying that the 2 leaders will talk about issues such as a trade what they call terrorism or the situation in the middle east and iran now released a study putting quite a positive spin on this knowledge they are saying that amount of marco's extremely pleased the donald trump is here that the u.s. is an unwavering ally of france but there is no doubt that there have been many tensions between these 2 sides or perhaps police say seeing this as an opportunity to reset this relationship if you will but emmanuel michaels made it clear over the last year that he's unhappy that donald trump has pulled the u.s.

out of the paris climate deal out of the iran deal donald trump also indicating that he's often threatened to put. part of nato he wants europeans to spend more on their defense budgets another point of real contention that we expect the 2 leaders to talk about over the lunch is trade because the e.u. and us are supposed to be entering into talks on industrial trade but we know that a model markov is blocking these talks from the european point of view because he says that unless the us signs up to the climate deal or puts in some very strict rules and regulations holding environmental policy then europe should not be entering into these talks it's also be interesting to see exactly how that lunch goes but we're not expecting any statement from either the 2 leaders afterwards kind of talk about our lives in normandy thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera telling us parliament demands answers after the easter sunday bombings that killed more than $250.00 people and the invisible threat that's killed hundreds of

children and nigeria. the web sponsored by cateye always. and i know that the weather is very active every parts of europe at the moment in the northeast is incredibly hot so for us in poland is very very warm people playing in fountains there to cool down and the hot weather has also been with us over parts of germany as well the whole weather is sparking a few thunderstorms and there were a stand in the southeast corner of europe here we've seen very heavy downpours that have given us a fair amount of flooding for the west we've also got some very active weather here too this is the cooler the ed is pushing in and this is the leading edge of that it's given us a lot of rain and this is what it's looked like in paris a lot of various a people there and that weather then pushed northward simple to

lot of thunder and lightning and damaging winds as it made its way across the low countries and it's here working its way into norway at the moment say heavy downpours still and maybe some more damaging gusts of wind the next system is just now making its way towards the bay of biscay very very heavy downpours and very strong winds so for many of us in the western parts of europe on friday it's pretty miserable very wet and a very windy that cooler weather than spreading its way eastwards for the northern parts of africa that's a little bit of cloud for some of us out geria and seeing most of that that could bring us a spot of rain today but it'll clear for friday. the web sponsored by the time ways i really want to get down to the nitty gritty of the reality whether online when you have a male chauvinism that is in france with in our global federation it is really hard to get a piece of that or if you join us on sac. the coming to be felt and this is

a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us in our live u 2 chat and you too can be in history join the global conversation on now to 0. watching out 0 let's recap the top stories right now at emergency meeting is being held by the african union to address the deadly crackdown on a protest camp and sudan that's killed at least 100 people the united nations and the u.k. embassy how both announced they're removing some of their staff from that country. but the fighters in yemen is say they have crossed the border into saudi arabia and taking control of more than 20 military positions the saudi marotta coalition which

backs the many government has neither confirmed nor denied the hooty advancements. president trump says there's not nearly enough progress on talks with mexico over trade tariffs is threaten to increase duties unless the number of people crossing the border as a limited. parliamentary committee investigating sure longest church bombings that killed more than 250 people in april is meeting senior government officials that's looking into causes that led to that series of quare donated bombings on easter sunday the 12 member team will also look into what action needs to be taken and how fernandez has more from colombo. the special parliamentary select committee on the easter sunday bombings going through its 3rd day of hearings a key figure appearing before the committee to give evidence is the police chief the inspector general of police. is on compulsory leave sent there by the president by policy to say in the constitution does not allow the president to

remove the police chief that has to happen. with the sort of concurrence of the police commission but we have the police chief saying his piece essentially talking about the sort of lead up to these bombings the intelligence situation we're hearing so far that literally from october 2000 in 18 that the police chief was told that his presence was not needed at the national security council i think is the bigger belief when you look at the huge intelligence failings that allowed that carnage on easter sunday saw a number of the committee members posing questions to the police chief. who is being tall who or who says he's been told you know that his presence was not needed he says he got the feeling that this was a question of trust but he wasn't exactly told he also made it clear that with regards to some administrative sort of transfers of

a particular police inspector that he had taken on a lot of pressure from the president from the defense secretary who had urged him to remove this particular police inspector so all of that evidence being heard before the select committee today. prime minister has called for a national unity after parliament voted for him to stay on as its leader completes . a transition from a military general to civilian leader in the country as a civilian government for the 1st time since a coup in 2014 but the opposition says the military is still in charge of reports in bangkok. after more than 11 hours of debating and voting thailand's parliament finally elected a prime minister for the next 4 years when he figured general prayuth china china receives more than half the vote from the house of representatives which means he has been chosen as the new prime minister. but he's not new at all.

is the army general who led a coup to remove a democratically elected government in 2014 and has been prime minister ever since . much of his support in the parliamentary vote came from senators in the upper house who were hand-picked by the military it wasn't surprising therefore that they all voted for prior to continue as thailand's leader. the only other contender was a man seen as the new face of thai politics talent on june room wrong kit led his young future forward party to 3rd place in march's election the 1st since the coup he's now vowing to be a strong opposition voice continuing to fight for democracy and human rights. you know. what the. good news.

we thought was. that we. were there but for now he has to work outside parliament clearly seen as a threat to the military he has several legal cases against him which he says are politically motivated and the court has suspended his m.p. status 5 years after staging a coup the military says it is now returned democracy to thailand but the process was anything but democratic and the end result is an unstable government and the prospect of more political turmoil. for the past 5 years the military has been able to rule with impunity many of the same people are still in charge of the new civilian government but the now answerable to coalition partners and constituents and after being largely silenced since the coup the opposition parties can now speak freely one of their 1st jobs may be to table a vote of no confidence in the prime minister who they view as illegitimate wayne

hey al-jazeera bangkok zimbabwe has started talks with the e.u. to improve diplomatic relations president number summoning anwar has made it one of his major priorities to restore ties with the west and multilateral lenders like the i.m.f. to attract foreign investment zimbabwe's economy is struggling with soaring prices fuel queues and power cuts in his 40 year old former leader robert mugabe would only blame western powers doctors and northwest nigeria say the lead poisoning is threatening the lives of thousands of children as like many reports hundreds have died in the past 10 years as gold mining increased here in nigeria some for a state these children are sick from lead poisoning but it's difficult for their parents to get the help they need tensions between farmers and herders of access to land a blow to armed gangs often the talking people in this region making it risky to

try and reach hospitals the money as i see it a lot of his condition deteriorates i'll have to take him to the doctors on a motorcycle in a little come to sleep because of insecurity and that's the same with all children affected. for years muhammad watched his son's health deteriorate until he was unable to walk or eat today niger can only be fed through a tube grafted into stomach. there's heavy concentrations of lead in the earth here and aid organizations say many children began inhaling lead dust when the rapid rise in gold mining started around a decade ago. some are contaminated when they work in the mines are those when their relatives return covered in dust or when or is crushed at will. health workers say the levels of lead falling children's blood treatments can often be

free tell their range was staggering between $1400.00 micrograms of lead participant or blood above $100.00 really it is said that most victims die right but there is no all safe blood lead level even 5 micrograms of lead participants or blood or even below the rossum serious can't consequences in terms of neurocognitive. deficit but with attacks now happening almost every day so parents here say all they do is to wait and hope and they aren't the only ones who have been advised by security and will treat it will treat is not who because it's all of exposure to our team and this is affecting the treatment that we give to the children and we're very worried that this would be to reach the situation for me seemed more problems with late in the

community nigeria has strict mining rules have forced many workers you know minus underground they are bring their ox home to process exposing many children to contamination i did contamination project carried out in several villages 4 years ago is now at risk. for many here mining for gold is the only way to survive but by making a living this way they are putting their lives at serious risk. a body northwest nigeria. opponents of abortion and the u.s. have achieved another victory as the trump administration imposes new restrictions a medical research using fetal tissue government scientists will no longer be allowed to use fetal tissue 1st studies and 2 conditions including hiv and several cancers the us health department says it is trying to balance campaigning imperatives you tube says it's banning what it describes as

a hateful videos the video showing platform which is owned by google will block content that promotes or glorifies racism and discrimination and also remove videos that deny historical events such as the holocaust it's the latest in a series of tech industry moves to filter content that some free speech advocates are against censorship goldberg's from the university of dayton in ohio she says the ban could end up being counterproductive. but there are a very small number of private entities that basically control the conversation on the internet now and by doing this you tube is appointing itself arbiter of what topics we can engage in it's discriminating on the basis of viewpoint basically and that raises a lot of concerns because this speech will get out there but now it's going to be driven underground where other people can't really engage with it and might not change people's minds and that leads to a sort of further radicalization so it is a concern that youtube has so much control now over controversial topics that

counterproductive problems with doing something like this is you create free speech martyrs you kind of conflate 1st amendment for free speech concerns with the truly sort of objectionable views that people want to express and when a private entity that is so powerful like you tube censors these opinions or you know doesn't treat certain opinions the same as it treats other opinions you create people who say well now i'm not only expressing this opinion but now i'm championing free speech principles and you create a group of people that feels even more eliminated and marginalized and may already be on the sort of margins which is why they have kind of offensive in the 1st place . look at the headlines on al-jazeera that the union is holding an emergency meeting to address the crackdown on a protest camp and sudan that's killed at least 100 people united nations in the

u.k. embassy have both announced they are removing some of their staff from that country . who the fighters in yemen say they have crossed the border into saudi arabia and taken control of more than 20 military positions rebels also say they've killed dozens of saudis soldiers during heavy fighting near the southern city of wrong these pictures were run by a who the linked television station the saudi coalition which backs the many government has neither confirmed nor denied the advancements in iran the coalition had launched air strikes in the area over the past 3 days a group of u.s. senators is trying to block weapons sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan president donald trump bypass congress last month by declaring an emergency because of growing tension with iran and he approved $8000000000.00 worth of arms sales which the bipartisan group of senators wants stopped that's going to fishbowls have blocked hundreds of central american migrants from heading towards the u.s. border but. they were forced to board a bus and taken to

a detention center the u.s.s. threatened to impose tariffs on mexico if it does not limit the flow of migrants. parliamentary committee investigating sure longest church bombings that killed more than 250 people in april is meeting senior government officials it's looking into causes that led to a series of coordinated bombings on easter sunday the 12 member team will also look into what action needs to be taken and ceremonies are being held in northern france to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings french president and british prime minister a person mehr in normandy to lay the 1st stone for a new memorial the site overlooks gold beach that's one of the 5 locations where allied forces landed. some bob way has started talks with the e.u. to improve diplomatic relations president emerson and gaga has made it one of his major priorities to restore ties with the west and multilateral lenders like the

i.m.f. to attract foreign investment. so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news to calm the strain this next. hour jews are. swear every. i am really give you here in the stream today hospitals under attack in syria why are medical facilities still being targeted by syrian government and russian forces also in the show a social media warning from behind a game where what you follow online could land you into legal trouble and finally in australia why did federal police raid the country's public broadcasting offices we are live on al-jazeera and as always you can join the conversation on twitter or

on our you tube lifestream. this doctor says even this children's hospital couldn't escape the regime's shelling despite court tonight speaking shared with the u.s. . well let me go. during the airstrikes my wife and daughters were also at the hospital but i had to keep them here to be able to evacuate the others the hospital was full it was tough to decide and keep the crew safe at the same time we have only 2 options either stay or die following the syrian regime's latest airstrikes targeting the health facilities in and live medical workers think they are being deliberately targeted aid organizations are scared to send crews into syria leading to a shortage in medical supplies people say here it is much easier to find weapons than finding medicine. that report was from al jazeera. and it features one of more

than $25.00 health facilities that have been bombed in northwest syria since the syrian government russian forces began their offensive in rebel controlled it why are the attacks allowed to continue and what impact is it having on syrian communities over that to discuss this is. a founder and president of the n.g.o.s mad global. affairs welcome to the story welcome back to the stream you were just in. how are hospitals and medical staff coping. there are praying for the best i mean i visited that we come back in chicago where things are. able to for our patients here in the hospital we have. healthcare and we spend. tons of money to save one life the doctors and nurses struggle to save the lives of their patients and save their. businesses.

all of them have been already about their future and whether the us standing in the next week or not and then lies that 25 those that were bombed in southern lebanon or them. by the way when the hostilities means that you are depriving the local population healthier that mean if you are sick you cannot take them to the hospital back to need them. pregnant and deliver our baby when someone has a chronic condition. and that will lead to displacement oscillation in the last 4 weeks according to the united nations about 300000 syrians have been displaced from so that i know them how much one of the main reason targeting bombing schools and markets of course are getting hit with the infrastructures and that targeting comes in the headlines like this so have a look at this from the independent doctors in italy will no longer share fortunate of hospitals with the united nations after repeated attacks from russian and syrian

forces so online of course this is causing quite a stir their tweets circulating like this one resigned who says this would be a good time to lobby all u.n. member states end up holding their responsibility to protect it is necessary now more than ever the u. when of course is that body that so many people look to for safety and for help so the idea now that doctors and medical staff are deliberately having to go out of their way not to tell the u.n. about their locations for their own safety seems to. seem strange seems odd and scary talk to us about that. it's actually absurd to talk about this process which is called the conflict thing which is basically sharing your g.p.s. coordinate with that but national the u.n. expecting that the u.n. will protect you and expecting also the members of the u.n. security council not to talk. we're talking about specifically here russia but it

is also part of our norms and ethics humanitarian medical community interest not to target those ambulances and doctors even the time for 450 years based on geneva conventions protocols doctors hospitals and beyond that should not be targeted should not be had should not be doctors should not be killed nurses even in the time of war even if they are treating the injured fighters we're talking about are treating communities here treating kids i mean i visited these birth center in were shooting children and women and they are worried that they will be targeted and bombed like any other hospitals that were bombed and then you know by villages they are now doing most of their operations in the basement of the hospital not in the upper floor because they're more likely for the upper floor to be bombed some of the hospitals are even digging the hospitals and building them inside a mountain digging them inside the mullahs in the cave to protect the heart doesn't

that vision and inside of that they are being at so this the conflicting process is not helping 9 of the 25. shares your audience with the u.n. there was no investigation about that there's no accountability and that's why you are keeping keep hearing about these news of being targeted that person that you any of the reports about that let's investigate them and sign accountability and this is not happening even though that you have 550 houses. that were bombed according to physicians for human rights from the beginning of that crisis russian and syrian government forces had been criticized of course and i want to play a clip from the u.n. ambassador the russian ambassador because they've been criticized for violating humanitarian law so have a listen to vesey lead his russian u.n. ambassador and this is his defense to the u.n. on may 17th. but mr president we categorically reject accusations of violations of international humanitarian law neither the syrian army

nor the air force of rush or are conducting attacks against civilians or civilian infrastructure our target is the terrorists and this is what some of you prefer not to mention new bullets so he says it's about quote unquote terrorism wants to respond. and there's little problem is there's 3000000 people 1000000 of them are children what i've seen in my eyes in all of these hospitals that i've visited civilians who are being treated children newborn and in could get women who are having sections and delivering patients with chronic diseases. that happen the same day that i was visited. there was an open market that i visited it was bustling with with my because people are shopping for the month of ramadan right after we left was hit with a mother and her 3 babies were killed in that market these are not dead already

these are civilians who are living in their cities and villages because that's what they live they don't want to be i think he then actually there is no way for them to be refugees because he has killed or died in the north so the only way that they can do is to stay living and they're in their neighborhoods and cities and. are basically killing them displacing them mutilating them and causing a lot of stress on the civilian population i think. about the should be ashamed that not only that government supporting a government that is targeting civilians and hospitals and schools in a way that we have not seen and that he's been like this is you know never happened but also he's lying about that so i want to end with a comment we got from the president of the syrian american medical society of course of what he used to be a part of this is that actually and here's what he told the stream. many of our doctors and nurses lost their lives in syria. many of our hospitals were targeted

and destroyed over the last 2 years. we will. serve food we made sure that our patients are see. now it is time for the law to protect us. we want to heal everybody in syria we want to heal syria i think for that comment we have to pause the conversation on syria now per now but thank you for giving us that update our next topic is in danger which is warning its citizens to think twice before following social media accounts that share negative opinions about the government the country's ministry of interior sent a text message late last week debating the phones saying citizens could face legal action for following accounts which are biased or incite discord so how are behind any activists responding and berlin save use of a. blogger and human rights activists from bad aim he is vice president of the

group for democracy and human rights and in melbourne australia. is a spokesperson for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights welcome to the stream both of you and we also reached out to the government to share their views in this segment and they have not yet responded so saeed what was your reaction to the announcement. well i think this and i was paid by the government to get it to consider and showed the think about him and is not interested at all if you know i mean and then that would deficient for a position. i would say at a position fair was fairness in the street many wrote this many put this that were executed and victims to get executed more of that of photos that politically put a dent in the. photo political reason. to go in and now that

government. is dead that oppression reached with the social media not only in this city and so it is a skill a thing showed that the government. getting all people who are criticizing the government on social media and not only that but even following on social media is sick is a crime and. i want to share with our audience and you too as well a couple of tweets from the ministry of interior so this from june 1st anti cyber crime countering and citing social media accounts that promotes addition is a national duty and it's part of the community partnership to protect the security and the safety of the nation here is another one individual's providing support and backing to those accounts through comments will be held accountable so what do we know about that word accountable what do we know about the legal recourse and what the government is planning. of course the government is attending to take illegally

get actions they would enter gay people who follows those accounts they will irish some of those people they would accuse them of inciting hatred into the community and disturbing the public order the government of the hurricane does not accept any kind of criticism and does not accept any kind of demanding that people's basic rights and to freedoms they are campaigning there are reading all of all the kinds of freedoms and in the country the people are not allowed. to speak about their demands about the rights they are not either to speak about their human rights abuses and by relations they are subjected to. as they said i want them for 4000 political prisoners and the bahraini jade's those prisoners are subjected to every kind of torture you can imagine and nobody is a lot because about them anybody would dare to speak about these actions and abuse it is going to be arrested is going.