you're watching the news live from berlin after airstrikes the u.s. threatens further action against syria's leadership i spoke to the president this morning and he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again the united states is locked and loaded us ambassador nikki haley with a clear message to the united nations that as the security council rejects a russian resolution to condemn the western missile attack on the alleged chemical weapons facilities in syria also coming up. demanding freedom for

catalonia is jailed leaders hundreds of thousands marched through barcelona to call for the release of those imprisoned over the region's push for independence. and in formula one red bull's daniel ricardo who almost didn't even make it to qualifying has emerged victorious in shanghai. and now because of os and welcome to the program the u.s. and its allies say they have no further plans to launch missile strikes on syria but the white house has warned the united states is lost and loaded to act again if damascus carries out more gas attacks syria's president assad has said the western air strikes were based on a campaign of lies and the u.n.

security council a bid there by russia his regimes main backer to condemn the strikes has failed. after saturday's u.s. led strikes on syria it was a war of words between russia and the united states in the united nations. a sign of cynical this day in a group of western countries decided to take military action without waiting for the results of the investigation russia condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack against syria through its actions united states makes an already catastrophic humanitarian situation in syria even worse i spoke to the president this morning and he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again the united states is a lot and loaded. when our president draws a red line our president and forces the red line. but the bickering isn't just

about whether the strikes were just to find the u.s. france and the u.k. maintain that they bombed only chemical weapons facilities yet russia says the missiles targeted several a fields as well and they say syrian defenses destroyed seventy one of the some one hundred missiles fired that's a claim the pentagon disputes and i want to say that to the best of our ability to determine at this time no syrian weapon had any effect on anything that we did the pentagon showed off satellite images of the destruction saying the strikes completely destroyed two targets and seriously damaged in about one in damascus was reduced to rubble but there's still no independent confirmation of what the scientists were actually used for the face off by the syria continues. a story i'm joined by international security analyst marcus marcus the major fear prior to these air strikes what was that this would put the u.s. and russia in direct confrontation as are still a fear of that not really both sides have pursued

a policy of long confrontation in syria for the last couple of yes i mean both sides both of those are flying in syria or in the skies over syria and have carefully avoided any direct contact and for call parade and determining certain routes and certain flights times and here last night the night before when the u.s. attacked syria with again over the very carefully calibrated strike to avoid any casualties among the russian soldiers and all right he told us as well talk about specifically about the targets will first have a listen to what the u.s. state department had to say on that. we have a responsibility as a war old to attack and stop what syria is doing and so the united states with her allies one after three sites these are pinprick targets three targeted sites that we know were housing and testing chemical weapons. now she's talking about three

specific targets what we know about these targets they're well known to the international community all to the o.p.c. viz for a couple of years now and we have to take into consideration that the u.s. president announced the this kind of strikes i mean for five days so just in case they have been saved and certain chemicals they have been withdrawn and put in another place. and but just to be clear we also want to talk about the fact that what kind of evidence is there that assad specifically in these targets perhaps is housing and storing and researching chemical weapons it's difficult to assess from the outside if there is really a smoking gun i mean we all know it's. a problem of probability it's highly likely the go weapons have been used dozens of times over the last year and when we take into consideration the accounts of witness the witness accounts that they did that when they talked about in the ad campaign the bombs being dropped from airplanes

it's direct to the responsibility of the regime of the assad regime but it's not a smoking gun ok the white house says it has three main priorities they want to contain iran influence in the region they also want to ensure that there is no more use of chemical weapons and defeat the so-called islamic state with these airstrikes that they've completed with the help of friends and britain are they any closer to achieving any of these goals i think these kind of advice had nothing to do with the three goals you just mentioned i mean the islamic states has already been defeated more or less in military terms so it actually we didn't need additional strikes chemical weapons have been used after this trace of the let's hear in april of two of twenty seventeen for dozens of times by the syrian regime so by simply repeating this kind of symbolic strikes i think. we cannot expect that chemical weapons are not be used and the third goal to contain iran is

. for a political goal but and all that gold was going to be a compass by political means only i'm not going to turn it means what would the u.s. france and britain need to do be it politically or military intervention wise to elicit some kind of change in syria because we don't think of these airstrikes have done that so boldly i mean i'm afraid the case is lost i think. what can be what we can speculate about it would be a myth extended military campaign for a couple of days or even weeks to bomb the west back to the negotiating table so bad the europe and the united states would put this debate in any peace agreement or peace negotiations but i think there's no major appetite in pursuing these implementing this kind of extended military campaign middle east analyst marcus kind thank you for your insights thank you to india now where another child rape case has shocked the nation police say they've discovered the body of an eleven year old girl in the city of surat they believe she was abducted raped and then

strangled to death this comes amid days of protests in many parts of the country over the gang rape and killing of eight year old. muslim girl's body was discovered in a hindu java needed area earlier this year demonstrators have been demanding justice for her and other victims of sexual crimes in india. after some of the other stories making news around the world people in montenegro are voting in a presidential election a protester in fixed time former prime minister milo djukanovic called is expected to win he led the former yugoslav republic to join nato in two thousand and seventeen and is now planning its entry into the european union. protests have taken place in rio de janeiro to demand answers in the killing of a popular city councilor franco was an outspoken human rights activist she and her driver were shot dead last month no arrests have been made. thousands of

catalan separatists have been rallying in barcelona to demand the release of jailed separatist leaders the protest was organized by two pro independence grassroots groups and has the support of spain's two main labor unions the protest comes ten days after a german court dismissed an extradition request for catalonia has ousted supper's as president and released him on bail. the streets of barcelona flooded with yellow it's the color chosen to show solidarity with a nine imprisoned catalan separatist leaders who've been pretrial detention for six months now they're facing charges of rebellion in connection with last year's failed independence bid in catalonia their supporters consider them to be political prisoners since the arrests catalonians independence movement has stalled but advocates say their fight isn't over i wonder if i'm better not emma this is about

defending our democracy and ending a policy influenced by judicial authority releasing prisoners allowing exiles to come back and resolving the political conflict using policy and only policy because . among the jail separatists are members of catalonia is regional government including george essential as catalan lawmakers selected sanchez toys to be their new leader but both times a spanish judge refused to release him from jail to be sworn in catalonia has been in political limbo since spain central government imposed direct rule on the region after it unilaterally declared independence last october fresh regional elections will be triggered if a new leader is not all acted by may twenty second. formula one our red bull driver daniel ricardo has won the chinese grand prix not bad for someone who almost didn't make it to qualify after he blew his engine on saturday but his team got him

a new one just in time and the australian then drove it to the head of the pack. ferrari sebastian fettle came into the race as the favorite he won pole position and had won all of the races so far this season he did indeed roar to the front here too but it would be short lived. when a collision brought the safety car on to the track it proved to be a turning point for the drivers from red bull daniel ricardo and mocks fresh toppan who took the opportunity to get fresh soft tires in the pit that gave them a boost meanwhile fettle had lost the lead after a pit stop and a minor collision after that he never really got back on track. ricardo made some daring moves to overtake and soon he captured the lead with twenty laps to go the australian took the checkered flag with an almost astronomical nine second advantage a head of second placed voluntary put us of mercedes. i don't seem

to win boring races they're all pretty fun so that was unexpected you know what i'll still twenty four hours ago i thought we might be starting at the back of the grid so. just put sleeping through the boys yesterday i thank them off the qualifying but today is the real reward for that work it's ricardo's sixth career win and his first in shanghai battle still leads the standings but ricardo springs into fourth. in soccer manchester city have been crowned english premier league champions and p.s.v. eindhoven have won the dutch league title here in germany byron munich wrapped up the bundesliga title last weekend so they decided to arrest some of their stars for their game against glaad back on saturday but the match was still important because biron were bidding to stay in the group with the trouble on the line i'm glad back

are gunning for europe. flatpack fans were hoping a weakened by and would give this side an easy ride defended to rowboats and was among those handed a well earned breather by the bundesliga champions nicholas silver came into the starting eleven and enjoyed a difficult start he lost out in this challenge of yours that german one no to glad back in the eight minutes he will spend oh i have no chance but despite big games on the horizon in the german coach and champions league by and pushed hard thomas miller close to an equaliser here. in the thirty six minutes they did level militant prissie began as he set up central wagner. robert leaven dusty's feeling almost missing. by and were clearly the best at same and just before the break but they headed home by the glass but people young soma should have done better. in the second half it was more of the same with buying rampant summer did

not work as hard trick but was then powerless to stop tiago making it three one in the fifty first minutes. the recalled german title holders completed a staggering ninety five percent of their passes and it was soon for one thanks to david all of us cracker. substitute eleven dusty then made it five. his twenty seventh fleet goal of the campaign. button are still hungry your pint has been walk away with another treble if they continue to play like this in the crunch weeks ahead. in the bundesliga over a derby on sunday shell got claimed victory over rivals dortmund for the first time since two thousand and fourteen shall cut took the lead shortly after halftime but it wasn't until the fender naldo hammered home the second in the eighty second minute at the points were wrapped up the two nil victory means dominic to death

goes men remain in second place dortmund dropped to fourth with their champions league spot under threat with just four games left this season. you're watching the news i'm having the back at the top of the hour with more news thanks for watching . there's one way to survive there and it's just hide your identity. bangladesh what does the true face of the country look like in. freedom independence a separation of state and church that used to be important but for decades political infighting grew has hindered progress and there's limits to extremists are gaining more influence joe marcus again the rule of law.