the war blew through douma for six years.ies. douma is just one fragment of the wreckage of syria. it might be too late to put this country back together. jeremy bowen, bbc news, damascus. two years ago an explosion at a market to more than a0 in mexico. the second time in a month, site of a fatal accident involving the local lilacs industry. the explosion was visible for miles when once again, sparking a fireworks factory set up a chain reaction and left behind a trail of devastation and loss of life. 0nce trail of devastation and loss of life. once the blaze was under control, the extent of the damage became clear. among those killed was a child and some of the emergency service workers who were first on the scene to attend to the injured. translation: when the emergency services arrived, firefighters and police, there was a second explosion and that is why they lost their lives, were now providing first aid for the initial blast, the second one happened. for many mexicans, this tragic episode could have been avoided. as re

the war blew through douma for six years.s. douma is just one fragment of the wreckage of syria. it might be too late to put this country back together. jeremy bowen, bbc news, damascus. police say the couple who are fighting for their lives after being exposed to a nerve agent in wiltshire fell ill after touching a contaminated item. dawn sturgess and charlie rowley have been poisoned by novichok— that's the same nerve agent used on the former russian spy, sergei skripal and his daughter in march. the home secretary, sajid javid, once again pointed the finger at russia. he said that britain must not be used as a dumping ground for poision. our security correspondent gordon corera reports. —— poison. scientific analysis here at porton down labs has said to confirm that both incidents contained the same type of novichok nerve agent. so far it cannot be proven they were from the same batch. the skripal‘s are believed to have been poisoned after novichok was placed on the handle of theirfront door. sites they visited afterwards

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she notes mayor fatemi douma says the city's people are suffering from this clash of interests he is the yazidi put in office by the central government then left to fend for himself. and is. treated like fourth or fifth class citizens let me give you an example i had to live in the mountains for three years and five months there were six thousand families in the mountains if we weren't yazidi us they would have taken care of us like they did other people. more than residents come to him every day asking for money for reconstruction but he can't help them the government says it wants to press on was rebuilding but almost pessimistic after the latest protests he says he expects any available money to be spent elsewhere. what are we we're here on earth when do we want to know are out in the percent of americans and so forth and i was well experienced i should. listen.

i was frustrated with the douma members lying about the plane being shot down, and saying it was only social media and there were no facts. when they said come out with direct links. they denied the deaths of 207 people. they denied the killings, that there are higher ups. we know it wasn't just chech unanimouses. for the president to meet with a liar he cannot do it in any foundation of accepting what he has said. he happens as untrust worthy as kim jong-un. >> we know the president was briefed on this indictment earlier this week and here's what he's been saying about putin. >> he's a competitor, he's representing russia, i'm representing the united states. in a sense we're competitors. not a question of friend or enemy. he's not my enemy. i know you'll ask will we be talking about meddling? i will absolutely bring that up. i don't think you'll have any, i did it, i did it, you got me, there won't be a perry mason here, i don't think. you never know what happens. but i will absolutely firmly ask the question. >> the president also continues to call this a witch hunt. if he meets wit

she goes mayor fatemi douma says the city's people are suffering from this clash of interests he is the yazidi put in office by the central government then left to fend for himself. and is the senate that is. treated like fourth or fifth class citizens let me give you an example i had to live in the mountains for three years and five months there were six thousand families in the mountains if we weren't yazidi so they would have taken care of us like they did other people. and we were more than residents come to him every day asking for money for reconstruction but he can't help them the government says it wants to press on with rebuilding single but almost pessimistic after the latest protests she says he expects any available money to be spent elsewhere. well i'm joined tonight by ahmed for jews he is deputy executive director of johns the global organization that is a multinational in geo which supports victims of you know the genocide mr boyd is it's good to have you on the show tonight joining us tonight from the city of s. and here in germany we just heard. what the conditions our

chemical weapons watchdog says that chlorine gas was used in attack on the rebel—held syrian town of doumalled in the attack near damascus. britain, france and the united states responded with air—strikes. the syrian government denies carrying out any chemical weapons attacks. pakistan's former prime minister, nawaz sharif says he will return from london to appeal against his prison sentence for corruption. a pakistani court sentened him to 10 years over charges related to four luxury london flats. his daughter and political heir, maryam nawaz, was sentenced to 7 years in prison. investigators here in britain have entered a hostel in salisbury as they search for the item contaminated with a nerve agent that poisoned a couple. police believe charlie and dawn were exposed to novichok after handling an unknown object. the pain that make pair remain ina object. the pain that make pair remain in a critical condition in hospital. key sites have been sealed off and this afternoon the decontamination process began. a team in special protective suits arrived at the hostel where dawn sturgess had be

british soil by the russians as a chemical attack it turns out now there was no chemical agent in douma even the o p c w and now it is explaining that when there is a lot of lying coming from the british government and i think we need to know what the truth are and if i were british i especially would want to know what the truth is so do you think that the media will try to somehow hive this case as it did after this crippled poisoning again placing blame on russia before they fax her out oh absolutely the birth of the british media is even worse than the american media as as being total lapdogs of whatever it is the government says so i don't really expect anything from the british media well says the original script the case says not yet close to how long will this new investigation take will we average see a clear resolution to this what do you think. i don't think we will under this government and you know there are some people that are that have raised the specter that with mr trump and mr putin about the me to meet i suspect the russian government probably has to information about

again in the front pages of the headlines when it was the syrian regime that used chemical weapons in douma in damascus if the was the white helmets that went in and brought us the images that were shown to the world of what happened there. we were reminded of the work then do and why they're so critical as the war continues. >> again, some 800 civilians including the group the white helmets evacuated from syria. thank you for the reporting, oren, we'll stay in touch with you. >>> the gunman who held hostages for hours at a los angeles grorkry store sits in jail this hour. >> we just learned that the won who you see here was caught in the crossfire as a gunman barricaded himself inside a trader joe's store and traded gunfire with police. she died at the scene. >>> the standoff lasted several hours with the suspect making demands to believe. tended when the g it ended when he surrendered peat peacefully after the shooting. >> the suspect in the end asked f handcuffs, he handcuffed himself and then our fire department is under lapd's careful high, treating the suspect's wounds. >> anda the su

goes to see him, when you've got the senior delegations that visit the rubber stamp parliament, the douma, it doesn't do us favors especially when it comes at the expense of our allies. >> how about keeping that putin-trump meeting in mind and apparently, steve, the way russian tv is playing this whole visit with these republican lawmakers, is that these republicans, you know, they talk this big game, but when they got there and they were face to face with these russians, they were quiet. how do you think that affects any sort of dynamic between putin and trump going into that meeting? >> well, first of all, you have to understand that, again, looking at it from the russian side, the russian-controlled propaganda outlets that are essentially they're network news, equivalent thereof, of paint this absolutely, you know, in the best possible light for putin and russia. that's -- that's sort of another win that we're giving them. yeah, just the very idea that we're going in to talk to the president, going in to talk to putin right on the heels of the senate oversight committee's hearing that

putin gave lugovoi a medal, the order of merit to the fatherland, second class, for his work in the doumame clean and this will be known? >> i believed one day we will know this. it will be very obvious for people to decide. >> in the years she's been looking for answers, other questions have multiplied, other deaths have been recorded. there was boris berezovsky, the russian oligarch litvinenko says he refused to assassinate, another prominent critic of putin. in 2013, he bad found dead in his london home. originally called a suicide. the judge said he couldn't rule out murder. >> the way he killed himself -- >> he hanged himself with a -- >> with a scarf in the bathroom. and the fact that his bodyguard was not there, it raises questions. >> in february 2015, another putin critic, boris nemstov was gunned down in the shadow of the kremlin. the victim was about to lead a major rally against putin. it went on without him. five chechen nationals were arrested and put on trial. they have denied involvement in the murders. nemstov's party colleague suspected putin loyalists were behind the as