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this day w newsline from the deadly air strike targets a syrian military air base fourteen people died in the attack which syria and russia blame on israel the israelis have made no comment also on the program. hungary's victor wins a consecutive term as prime minister opponents fear a new crackdown against migrants. and germany's biggest lender deutsche about sacks its c.e.o. said count the new one hundred five the banks fortune.
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i'm phil gail welcome to the program syria and its main ally russia are blaming israel for an overnight missile attack on a syrian air base want to say at least fourteen people were killed in this as truck which comes as international alarm grows of an alleged weekend chemical weapons attack on the former rebel stronghold of duma the following report contains images which you may find distressing. missiles flare in the dark hours of the morning according to russian and syrian military they were fired from two israeli fighter jets though israel has declined to comment the missiles found their target an air base in the province of holmes used by the syrian regime and its allies at least fourteen fighters were killed according to observers. days earlier bombs fell in
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the town of duma in eastern guta the last remaining rebel stronghold it's alleged they were carrying chemical weapons according to the white helmets volunteer rescue group at least forty people were by poison gas during the attack many of them children smelling strongly of chlorine. the regime continues the intense and violent shelling barrel bombs were dropped by helicopters carrying poisonous substances. until now paramedics haven't been able to enslave because of the continuous shelling the regime is trying to wipe out this area civilians in eastern guta have enjoyed weeks of bombardment as the syrian government tries to root out opposition. many have now given up evacuating the region in bus convoys to territory still under rebel control syria denies its government forces launched a chemical assault it says its troops are advancing on duma without any need for
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poison gas nevertheless international condemnation has been swift and blunt a german government spokesman said it was clear president bashar al assad was to blame. for those responsible for the use of poison gas for the targeted bombing of civil medical infrastructure must be held accountable and also regarding this use of poison gas the circumstances indicate the acid regime was responsible. u.s. president donald trump took to twitter describing assad as an animal he said there would be a big price to pay for the use of gas. but serious russia says its inspectors found no trace of chlorine or any other substance in duma and called the allegations of provocation. the issue will be raised at a meeting of the united nations security council later today. in the
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last hour or so u.s. president donald trump condemned the poison gas attack as heinous and promised a swift response where you are studying that situation extremely closely we are meeting with our military and everybody else. will be making some major decisions over the next twenty four to forty eight hours. we are. very concerned what a thing like that could happen. this is about humanity we're talking about humanity we're going to double you can spawn the topics on your phone at the white house so welcome our example so president trump has been full of condemnation of the chemical attack in syria he tweeted over the weekend and we just heard him there what more has he been saying today. well as you just said he condemned the attack in syria there is strong the saying that this was
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an act against humanity and that therefore in cannot be allowed to happen and he also announced that he is going to make a decision on what to do in syria how to respond to this attack within the next twenty four to forty eight hours. a couple of days ago he said that he wanted to pull the u.s. out of syria now he says there will be a big price to pay for the chemical strike that the u.s. doesn't seem to have a coherent strategy on syria at the moment. well yes that's true that's at least award to many military experts say criticizing donald trump and you're right only a couple of days ago he and now it's at that was something he was thinking about for a while now that he would like to pull out of syria only to tweet after this horrific attack that there is a price that would be would be paid so know many experts here say
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that he if he doesn't follow through if he doesn't live up to this swedes he might be looking very weak in the eyes of russia and iran and that not taking action would be a moral and strategic fiasco so the president right now is in the very difficult situation and he has been even criticized in his own party senator john mccain tweeted for example that he thinks that the president's announcement to pull out of syria has emboldened the us at regime so on the one hand the u.s. is saying that it's going to find out who was responsible on the other we heard from the russian foreign minister. verse far as the russians are concerned concerned there was no chemical attack meets the u.n. security council meeting later what are things like you to come out of that.
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well the united states friends and britain and others has called for this emergency meeting to demand immediate access for first responders through this area to support an independent investigation into what happened and to hold accountable those responsible for what happened in syria but russia also attempted to schedule and never a rival meeting because they argue that what happened in syria should be discussed as an issue of terrorism and threats to international security in a clear attempt to protect the syrian government and to deflect international condemnation eventually they agreed to have only one meeting but you can see how divided the u.n. security council is on what's to do to stop the slaughter in syria as on the
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phenomena in washington thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world at least five people have been injured in a strong earthquake that struck western japan on monday morning six point one magnitude tremor was felt across a wide area roads and buildings were damaged in the hardest hit city. water supply has been disrupted no thoughts as of despite supply vehicles to help affected households. police have released six man arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack on marathon on sunday a search of ethical some homes failed to turn weapons explosives on the other concrete evidence prosecutors say the investigation will continue. under his nationalist prime minister viktor orban has won a decisive victory in the country's general election as right wing fidesz party has once again taken more than two thirds of parliamentary seats african paint that took a hard line on muslim migration patrolling migrants as
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a threat to hunger as christian identity in his victory speech was to orbit and said the result gave one karin's a chance to defend themselves and their country. victory is written in his name. nationalist across hungry and europe are celebrating victory or bans reelection his anti immigrant campaign drew people out in record numbers but in the capital budapest where the opposition performed well the reaction was mixed. well the government has successfully implemented its hate campaign they planted hatred in people's hearts which is very sad. this is what should have happened we are happy because we are not really interested in immigrants and that's what's at stake now. if this tendency continues then we won't be heading towards a liberal country in my view we will not represent european values and that makes
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me deeply sad. just michigan. despite being in a new member hungary has refused to implement the blocks migrant resettlement program or been has like an migration to rust and poison a threat which he said his win would stave off. there's a big battle behind us. we have won a crucial victory got a chance gave ourselves a chance to defend hungary. for bands reelection has energized right wing parties craving emancipation from the bloc several european politicians congratulated or ban including germany's conservative interior minister who also issued a warning to the e.u. . i would advise the european union to maintain sensible bilateral relationships with its member states but securely with smaller ones such as hungary
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i've always considered it wrong to manifest paternalism towards individual member states. for four hundred or bans feet as party one almost half the vote which gives them the two thirds supermajority needed to introduce sweeping reforms and head of the election or ban promise to take what he called moral political and legal action against his opponents. nigeria's president muhammadu buhari has confirmed that he will seek a second term in next year's elections the move follows both some speculation of his political future and the state of his health last year a seventy five year old spent months out of the country he was in the british hospital being treated for an undiagnosed illness even many nigerians wonder whether he was fit for office nigerian stock market fell to a three month low following today's announcement. doubly correspondent adam increase joins us from nigeria's a commercial capital lagos welcome i mean so did this announcement come as
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a surprise well of course people have been waiting for it a long time there's been speculation ongoing for a very long time but that it came today that they were already parts to london again that is indeed a surprise because as you said before he was in london for more than one hundred days last year on medical treatment a very long time and that of course triggered speculation once again of people who said is he really going to london for official business like his spokesperson said or is he going for medical treatment once again and obviously it is quite likely that the presidency wants to kill possible rumors at this point of time and how has the announcement been greeted well of course supporters are very happy about it they credit him for his successful fight against corruption and his serious fight against corruption but he in the capital leg of the economic capital lagos of course people are not that happy because the economy
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has really suffered over the past years since it isn't power to some extent it's not his fault because nigeria is very old dependent as you know and the oil price went down right when he got into power but his reaction has been seeing very critical by people here let's listen in what they had to say. he did not perform with i don't see anything no point to put it. so i don't think. i'm good good idea it was a constant thought of people maybe that he did a good job for a day i had nothing to offer everybody. doesn't complain we. get the money it's not spent this. is going to bring it on don't. believe. we should just give up on the show to give you a chance to another person just because. we needed change. and
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when president bush campaigned in twenty fifteen he talks about timing security and cracking down on corruption what progress has he made while in the field of. dressing the security issues of course there were successes in the fight against boko haram in the northeast of the country clearly the military gains a lot of the territories that the terrorist occupied before but has been repeatedly saying that the terrorists are technically defeated and this is obviously not true we still see attacks almost on a weekly basis in the north east of the country there was an attraction a massive direction of schoolgirls about two months ago still more than one hundred of the chibok girls who were abducted four years ago are still in the hands of the terrorists so it's clearly not right to say they're technically defeated and while he is trying to fight this one threats in the northeast other ones are boiling up there's an increase of kidnappings friend someone's apart some parts of the country
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and other parts there's increasingly correct clashes between hurts men and farmers hundreds of people were killed in the past years and it's really controversially debated here whether the president has been addressing those issues in an appropriate way or in creation like us thank you. business news with bad physical and to come in just a month. to learn german with. any time any place.
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