i am. i am. here watching g.w. news live from berlin after the airstrikes the u.s. threatens further action against syria's leadership. this morning and he said if to syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again the united states is locked and loaded the u.s. ambassador nikki haley had a clear message to the united nations as the security council rejects a russian resolution to condemn the western missile attack on an alleged chemical weapons facility in syria. also coming up with hundreds of thousands marched

through barcelona demanding freedom for catalonia jailed leaders nine separatist leaders have been imprisoned over the region's push for independence. speaking out for the woman who can speak no more a friend of mine how they franco defines death threats as she searches for answers in the killing of the popular rio de janeiro councilwoman. ban. i'm biased waiter welcome to the program. the u.s. and its allies have said they have no plans for further missile strikes on syria but washington has warned it's quote locked and loaded if damascus carries out more poison gas attacks the white house also says it's preparing new sanctions on russia as punishment for supporting the regime of syrian president bashar al assad the u.n. ambassador nikki haley announced the move on c.b.s.

is face the nation will be coming down secretary mineta will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already and they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use. syrian president bashar al assad has said saturday's u.s. led airstrikes are based on a campaign of a lie coming from the u.n. security council assad hosted politicians from russia which continues to support its ally amid threats of sanctions from the u.s. . business as usual appears to be the message of these syrian state t.v. images an upbeat president assad welcomed russian politicians to damascus signaling that the u.s. led strikes did not pose a threat to his hold on power russia says it's firmly behind its ally. relations between the russian and syrian army's or accident so relations between politicians the army will now fulfill its task. russia and the assad government are

not the only ones defiant the pentagon showed off satellite images of the destruction saying the strikes completely destroyed two targets and seriously damaged another one in damascus was reduced to rubble. we have a responsibility as a world 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 it's these people that were affected by the poison gas attack that triggered the u.s. led strikes thousands of refugees from eastern live in this camp near aleppo many a disillusioned. i feel nothing because the u.s. britain and the rest of the world have taken away our emotions they told us with

the friends of the syrian people but on the contrary they're our greatest enemies. we know that they tell us do whatever you want to kill if you like. should back in damascus or. deputy foreign minister greeted a team from the international chemical weapons watchdog despite western allies already having launched retaliatory strikes inspectors will now determine whether police and gas was used in duma but they will not assign blame. we're being joined now by allister hay an expert in chemical warfare and he has been involved in the analysis of chemical weapons in iraq joining us now from leeds in the u.k. press or thank you so much for being here let's start with the question of whether there's any evidence that any of the sites attacked were used actually for the manufacture of storage of chemical weapons as the u.s. is claiming what we certainly know about the laboratory outside damascus

that was clearly one that was testing our chemical weapons and inspectors had collected evidence from this some time ago from one of the few coppers in the bar so that was unequivocally testing substances the syrians refuse to acknowledge that the evidence was there now syria denies that it's behind the duma tack to spite this evidence but is there any doubt that the syrian government has used chemical weapons in the past there is no doubt whatsoever there was a mission set up by the security council in two thousand and fifteen the joint investigations mission between the o.p.c. job mean not just nations and given the specific remit of identifying the perpetrator and into their reports they say quite convincingly the evidence is unequivocal syria had used chlorine on at least three occasions and it did use

nerve gas last year in an attack that killed one hundred people and injured another two hundred. now you have been involved in six different investigations into chemical weapons attacks including two in iraq and now based on your experience with these and what you know of the facts so far from syria this last time how difficult do you think it will be for inspectors from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to establish what happened in duma. well it's given inhibited access then it should be relatively easy to get the evidence the inspectors have done this sort of thing many times now and syria as long as nothing has been moved they will see victims interview victims interview treating doctors they will talk to other witnesses they will take blood samples and urine samples where they can collect evidence from the environment if you get you know where an explosion has occurred different chemicals i blasted into concrete traumatic you

find it on foot where they go for dead animal dead animals dead birds as well so there will be plenty of evidence there it's more difficult with chlorine but they'll find the evidence it's only a week off to the incident now the west says saying that it took this action because of the use of chemical weapons can you think a picture for us as to why these weapons are considered so much worse than conventional ones. well there is an international treaty that outlaws these weapons of course it was the horror of the first world war where there were one in the whole million casualties of chemical weapons that really started the whole war rolly but it took until nine hundred ninety seven for the chemical weapons convention to come become international law their one hundred ninety two states that signed convention now and basically they're saying there should be no chemical weapons used anywhere and the three countries attacking syria i suppose are doing

is saying syria is not obeying the requirements of the convention despite having signed it and they object to that and they all attacking syria telling us you know don't use chemical weapons present alastair hay in the u.k. for us thank you very much for your expertise it was good night now to some of the other stories making news around the world protests have been taking place across india over the gang rape and killing of an eight year old girl bano a muslim girl's body was discovered in a hindu dominated area earlier this year demonstrators have been demanding justice for her and other victims of sexual crimes in india. a month governing democratic party of socialists says this leader kind of it has won the country's presidential election the six time former prime minister spearheaded the former yugoslav republic joining of nato in two thousand and seventeen and is now crafting

its entry into the european union. thousands of castle and separatists have been rallying in barcelona to demand the release of jailed secessionist later s. to pro independence grassroots groups organize the protests and they also have the support of spain's two main labor unions the protests comes ten days after a german court dismissed an extradition request for catalyze ousted separatist president and released him on bail. the streets of barcelona flooded with yellow it's the color chosen to show solidarity with the 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 did in catalonia their supporters consider them to be political prisoners will limit the most serious problem is the price paid by politicians who are elected by the people we cannot stand for that we just today i'm here because i'm with everything going

on just like everyone had today i want the freedom of all calm writes. since the arrests catalonia is independence movement has stalled but advocates say their fight isn't over money from good this is about defending our democracy ending a policy influenced by judicial authority releasing prisoners allowing exiles to come back and resolving the political conflicts using policy and only policy because. among the jailed separatists are members of catalonia is regional government including george essential as catalan lawmakers selected sanchez twice 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 being central government imposed direct rule in the region after it unilaterally declared independence last october fresh regional elections will be triggered if

a new leader is not all acted by me. twenty second. and to brazil now where thousands have turned out in rio de janeiro demanding answers in the slaying of city councilwoman my other franco she was shot dead a month ago after an event on empowering black women franco have been a fierce critic of police brutality racism and discrimination against the poor though her death and shock waves through brazil there have been no arrests in the case so far. speaking out for the woman who can speak no more a month after mario franco was gunned down her supporters demand answers one particular detail of the investigation has spiked their suspicions officials say she was killed with police bullets they say were stolen. franco's death cuts especially close four to leary a patrol name they were close friends like franco patrol is

a leftist politician devoted to feminist causes and defending the poor and she too has received death threats. you know this is a political crime aimed at silencing everyone marinelli stood for the people of the slums blacks women and the l g b t community the state is behind this crime. since franco's murder petrone doesn't go anywhere without bodyguards but she refuses to be intimidated. but i say we must now keep moving forward we will not give up we will continue monday at the site around the world to achieve democracy for those who never had it those living in the slums and the fringes of brazilian society that is where the it is most people here believe this was a political assassination franco's case shocked the country and prompted an outpouring of protests especially in rio where the military recently assumed control of the state's public security many are critical of this move especially.

since franco's slain by democrats how about our democracy is under threat this worries me but at the same time it empowers me to take to the streets there's narky part we're here because we want justice and we want to defend what little democracy we have in brazil you. go they kill mariachis body but not her voice. telling ripa trani and the other demonstrators have no down and the mariel's legacy is far more powerful than her killers could have ever imagined. and were now to football manchester city have sealed the english premier league title while in the bundesliga shaka it rivals dortmund for the first time since two thousand and fourteen shaka took the lead shortly after halftime but it wasn't until defender naldo hammered home the second goal in the eighty second minute that

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