and into a pennsylvania field nearly three thousand people died mike hanna covering the story joining us from washington d.c. so this is a development in what is still likely to be a very lengthy legal process mike. a lengthy process indeed what the judge has found by what he said was a very narrow margin is that he does have jurisdiction to hear this case brought by survivors and victims of those killed or injured in the nine eleven attacks the judge was the same one who heard a similar case back in two thousand and fifteen and threw that particular case out saying that individual u.s. citizens could not bring legal action against foreign countries however he made very clear in his judgment on this day that this was changed by the justice against sponsors of terrorism act passed by congress in two thousand and sixteen which does permit u.s. citizens to bring cases against foreign countries should they suspect them of aiding or assisting terror attacks within the us itself but certainly there's a long process to hear this judgment likely to be appealed by lawyers for saudi arabia also

well we have correspondents monitoring developments on both sides of the atlantic mike hanna is following developments in washington and mike as we saw from the report we just heard cambridge analytic his reach went far beyond the u.s. but what questions are being asked over there about the way this firm impacted the twenty sixteen election. well that's precisely the topic of conversation on the hill in the course of the day there is a senate intelligence committee meeting which is discussing the issue of election security and how to avoid any problems in elections in the future now at that meeting though they were supposed to be speaking to some various tech executives including the founder of facebook mark zuckerberg but as yet no such meeting taking place also members of congress have demanded that facebook executives appear before them to discuss the issue of the data that was provided to cambridge analytical certainly it's a major political issue within the u.s. at present and that's also a multi-layered series of reactions the financial trade commission the f.t.c. is also reported t

background checks while republicans are protecting the constitutional right to bear arms and as mike hanna reports from new york the stalemate has some corporations taking their own steps to slow gun sales. of the second amendment many of you are there being vague promises of executive action from the president and much discussion among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle but as yet there are no concrete signs of any substantial tightening of the u.s. is notoriously lax gun control legislation some corporations are not waiting for congress to take action several major businesses wal-mart dick's sporting goods kroger and the latest l b have announced they are unilaterally raising the minimum age for gun sales and will no longer sell guns to customers younger than twenty one . federal law states that no one under twenty one may buy a handgun but confusingly any eighteen year old or above can buy a semiautomatic rifle with no background checks or training it's time the sens say some c.e.o.'s when we looked at those kids and we saw what with the grief that they were going through and how thes

mike hanna al-jazeera washington thousands of soldiers and police have entered a slum in rio de janeiro and it's the largest operation since the military took control of security in the brazilian city last month the soldiers arrested twenty four people and they seized large quantities of drugs there cracking down on a wave of violence driven by fighting between rival gangs but critics say the military intervention is crushing the civil liberties of rhea's forest people. time for sake a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera china has confirmed its president xi jinping has held his first face to face talks with north korean leader kim jong un pyongyang state media also says the chinese president has accepted an invitation from kim to visit north korea beijing says kim is committed to getting rid of his country's nuclear weapons at china correspondent adrian brown has more it does demonstrate the china does have sway over north korea because in the past of course during recent years when north korea has carried out missile tests china was always given the impression look we only have

see resulting in a massive impact on the millions of people who live within the country mike hanna live at the u.n. in new york thanking activists say syrian government forces have been arresting hundreds of people as they leave eastern ghouta over the past few days tens of thousands of civilians have been getting out of the rebel held area which has come under heavy bombardment by the government for the past month they're hard to report . estimates vary on the number of civilians who have crossed into government controlled territory because of military operations in eastern huta but it's believed to be in the tens of thousands many people found themselves back under government rule as frontlines quickly changed the pro syrian government camp is calling this a victory a liberation but human rights organizations are expressing concern following as of yet unverified reports of people going missing or arrested no one it's fair minded about the violations that we have seen in places of detention by government forces from the torture ill treatment sexual violence and even executions in order

finally broke his silence four days after british media exposed the actions of cambridge analytical mike hanna as the latest after a dramatic day of developments hit the nail on the head a hearing on election security by the senate intelligence committee john discussion about how to protect the electoral process from outside agencies in the light of social media interference some twenty sixteen the elephant not in the room though is facebook founder mark zuckerberg he and facebook chief operating officer sheryl sandberg were also absent from an internal facebook meeting tuesday that was addressed by legal executives zucker burke has released a lengthy statement acknowledging that there were failures in facebook's protection of data he continues i started facebook and at the end of the day i'm responsible for what happens on our platform i'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community while the specific issue involving cambridge analytics. should no longer happen with new apps today that doesn't change what happened in the past we will learn from this experience to secure our pla

worsening dispute over who is behind the poisoning of a former russian double agent and britain mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . the u.s. consulate in st petersburg shut down some sixty diplomats ordered to leave the country by the middle of next week sweeping russian retaliation. there will be mirrored measures but not only stopping events the u.s. ambassador is invited to our ministry where my deputy would deliver him the content of these retaliation re measures against the united states they include the exposion of a similar number of diplomats and they include our decision to withdraw our consent to the operation of the united states consulate general in some petersburg as for the rest of the countries everything that concerns the number of people who leave the russian federation from diplomatic missions is also mirrored signal at the root of the dispute the alleged poisoning of a former russian double agent on british soil with a russian designed nerve agent russia vehemently denied any involvement but in a coordinated move more than one hundred fifty russian diplomats have b

doubled over the last year in the country with millions in need of food and other humanitarian aid mike hanna joins us now live from the u.n. so why was a security council meeting called in the first place. well there's a simple answer to that sue and that is money put very bluntly the un says that only four percent off the funds needed to create a humanitarian rescue act in the d.r. sea has been raised so far this meeting tempting to focus on the diet humanitarian situation in the d.r. c. and also looking ahead to a very large donor conference that will be taking place on the thirteenth of april to begin to raise the funds necessary to address the humanitarian crisis and the crisis is indeed this is what the un's humanitarian chief had to say humanitarian needs caused by internal conflict have doubled over the last year thirteen million people need humanitarian assistance more than four point six million children are acutely malnourished including two point two million suffering severe acute malnutrition we're seeing mushroom in epidemics including the worst outbreak of cholera in fifteen ye

mike hanna al-jazeera washington. the trump administration says it is placing strict limits on how and when transgender people are allowed to serve in the military donald trump has rescinded a blanket ban issued earlier this share that disqualified any transgender person from military service that order is being challenged in court the new policy by prevent any transgender person who needs surgery or significant medical treatment from serving except in certain cases donald trump's appointment of hardliner john bolton is a national security adviser has raised questions internationally bolton is previously push for preemptive bombing of iran and north korea but he's not the only recent addition to the u.s. president's team with a more aggressive tone our white house correspondent kimberly halkett has a story. recent appointments made by u.s. president donald trump to his cabinet have left many in washington nervous i'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the cabinet others say that i was on his mo

mike hanna al-jazeera new york. thousands of people have protested in slovakia over the murder of a journalist investigative reporter yann cushy ak was found shot dead next to his field say in their home in the capital bratislava on sunday he was writing an article on suspected links between the italian mafia and the prime minister shelob ellis reports. it was a silent march through bratislava the sound of boots on the frozen ground doing the talking to. protesters rallied in a dozen slovakian says he's demanding justice for the murders of investigative journalist. and his fiance. the twenty seven year olds would you say marry in may they were killed in their home last week obviously this is why we are here to support slovak journalists on stand up for freedom of speech we want to journalists to work freely. to see i could been investigating suspected corruption between the italian mafia and people close to prime minister robert fico. jaan coup ziac expose the activities of people connected to the italian mafia and

talks trump also fought off tweets about phone calls he's had with the leaders of china and japan mike hanna is following events for us in washington d.c. so mike all these tweets from trump but still no more real detail how do you think things are progressing well president trump obviously things they are progressing very well among those series of tweets that he issued in the course of the day was one that to north korea has not conducted a missile test since november twenty eighth saying that he believes that they will continue to spend their nuclear missile testing program so he appears confident that north korea will keep its word the assurances that it was given not directly to president trump but via a south korean mediator as you said president trump also talking to various world leaders the president of china the prime minister of japan as well as the president of france in the course of the morning attempting to get full international support for what is an absolutely unprecedented step by u.s. president to meet the north korean lay their leader in face to face talks and how prepar

the last year in the country with millions and need of food and other humanitarian aid on my job mike hanna joins us now live from the u.n. mike just give us a little sense as to why in this meeting of the security council was called in the first place. well essentially they want to bring attention to the crisis in the d c a crisis that involves many layers there's been ongoing conflict in regions of that country with militant groups operating there's been a ongoing political crisis with the president joseph kabila overstaying his constitutional term new elections are due in december but there's been great political opposition in recent months and a report just released on this day indicates that there's been massive political violence as well with some forty people being killed in the past year in demonstration related violence but this is what the u.n. representative for the region to see humanitarian needs caused by internal conflict have doubled over the last year thirteen million people need humanitarian assistance more than four point six million children are acutely malnourished incl

mike hanna washington now paul says six thousand rivers and streams with india various treaties have been agreed to divide the water between the two but many in the poll say that disproportionate with india getting far more than its fair share. reports from dunder said district in nepal john the issue others cannot afford to live off his land he has half an acre and if he had enough water he says he would never have to buy food again but just fifty meters away there is water it is the common project to build for agriculture more than forty years ago and meant to serve both nepal and india. when the come along irrigation project was complete officials from nepal and india had a grand ceremony use the water they said but how are we supposed to use the water and went straight to india the water flows past but there are no channels that feed the farmlands yet have has to use a diesel pump to access water at around four dollars an hour yet of says the land here is for a time and could produce cash crops but without a ready supply of water it is impossible many people have to look outside

mike hanna al-jazeera washington. in brazil two buses being used by former president lula da silva election campaign have been hit by gunfire no one was hurt in the attack the silver was in either of the vehicles which were transporting brazilian and foreign journalists police also due for at least two suspects is seeking a third term in october's presidential election despite a corruption conviction the bars him from running for office. thousands of soldiers and police have entered a slum complex in rio de janeiro it's the largest operations since the military took control of security in the brazilian city last month now security forces arrested twenty four people and seized large quantities of drugs they're cracking down on a wave of violence driven by fighting between rival drug gangs critics say the military intervention is curbing the civil liberties of rio's poorest residents. now survivors of the mudslide disaster in sierra leone seven months ago are struggling to rebuild their lives temperature elders for the

layers of resistance to facebook both among the public and as i said among lawmakers in washington mike hanna thank you very much in the u.k. opposition party said they were concerned cambridge anaemic ticker had struck deals with the ruling conservative party and the mother has more from outside the company's headquarters in london. well here in london we've heard precious little from cambridge analytical since tuesday when they said they were suspending chief executive alexander nix following the airing on britain's channel four news of undercover filming of nixon colleagues claiming that they'd influence elections in various countries well on wednesday there were accusations in parliament by opposition parties. that term senior figures in cambridge analytical parent company had given major amounts to the conservative party of prime minister to resume eight those were concerns that reason may be responded to directly as far as i'm aware the government has no current contracts with cambridge and in this account with the with the s.c.l. group what we have seen in cambridge on alyssa car and t

has made clear it reserves the right to further response the diplomatic dispute is far from over mike hanna al-jazeera washington. meanwhile eunice crippled the daughter of the former russian spy who was also poisoned in the attack is getting better that's according to hospital officials russia has demanded the access to her doctors say she is recovering although it's unclear if she will be well enough to speak to investigators her father said yes cripple remains in a critical condition u.s. president donald trump has told supporters that american troops will be leaving syria very soon he was speaking at an event in the state of ohio when he began complaining about how much the u.s. spends on rebuilding other countries. and by the way we're knocking the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now very soon very soon we're coming now we're going to have a hundred percent of the caliphate as they call it sometimes referred to as the land take it all back quickly quickly like some previous trump announcements this one caught many in washin

right now for let's get reaction now from mike hanna who's joining us from washington to so do we expect the u.s. to take further steps that well that's a real possibility we heard from the state department spokeswoman that the u.s. reserves the right to take any further action should regard that that is a necessary thing to do certainly the tone of the state department response was very heated making very clear as you heard there that russia should not consider itself as a victim as the spokeswoman put it saying too that the u.s. is just one of more than twenty countries that have expelled some one hundred fifty diplomats and this was a good reason for these expulsions so the state department still considering whether any further action will be taken in addition to the expulsion of russian diplomats earlier this week in the light of the to protect russian move in expelling americans not the first time that there's been a diplomatic spat between the two countries mike but do we expect relations here to deteriorate do we expect this to further put a strain on the relationship. well for a

legibly explosion data from fifty million users to help donald trump's presidential campaign so join mike hanna who's in washington to talk us through what else he post and. well it is a lengthy statement from mark zuckerberg and follows this ongoing crisis as it were within facebook itself following the fact emerging that cambridge analytic are farm to data from facebook servers to use in the two thousand and sixteen election campaign well mark zuckerberg has said is that he apologizes to facebook users for what happens he says that our responsibility is to protect your data and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you then continues to explain the circumstances that happened around the twenty fourteen. vent in which cambridge analytical took all the data from these servers and he says that there was a betrayal of trust with the end user that is the facebook client but there was also a betrayal of trust he is adamant by cambridge analytical as well he does say that mistakes were made but pledges that in future facebook will continue to protect the privacy of its customers but the stateme

firm cambridge analytical misused information from the social media platform mike hanna has more hit the nail on the head a hearing on election security by the senate intelligence committee johnson discussion about how to protect the electoral process from outside agencies in the light of social media interference and twenty sixteen the elephant not in the room though is facebook founder mark zuckerberg he and facebook's chief operating officer sheryl sandberg were also absent from an internal facebook meeting tuesday that was addressed by legal executives zuckerberg has released a lengthy statement acknowledging that there were failures in facebook's protection of data he continues i started facebook and at the end of the day i'm responsible for what happens on our platform i'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community while the specific issue involving cambridge analytical should no longer happen with new apps today that doesn't change what happened in the past we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyo

covering this story on both sides of the atlantic nadine barber is in london but first let's go to mike hanna in washington so mike what are they saying there well we haven't heard directly at all from mark zuckerberg as you point out that report that he'll be speaking in the next twenty four hours not properly sourced at this particular point and importantly as well he and the chief operating officer sheryl sandberg did not speak or did not appear at an internal facebook meeting tuesday so once again people are asking where is mark zuckerberg in the light and in the face of the scandal questions being asked to on the hill here in washington where the senate intelligence committee is holding hearings today snow permitting the election security now it's known that they want to take it chief executives to appear before them among them mark zuckerberg so we haven't questions on the hill we have been questions it appears within facebook and the question is where is mark zuckerberg at present. and what is this all doing for the public's trust in social social media networks in general and and basi

that speak to mike hanna he's following events for us in washington and mike it would appear that we're getting some more details from the white house on what needs to happen before a meeting takes place yes indeed the question that has been our since this meeting was announced is whether they are going to be any preconditions well white house spokespeople have been huffing and puffing about this particular issue maintaining that certain guarantees have been given by the north korean leader that there will be no nuclear development no nuclear testing that he has no problem with the ongoing exercises between the u.s. and south korea however the press spokesperson sarah huckabee sanders was asked directly at today's news conference as to what preconditions there are and this is what she had to say. they've made promises to denuclearize they've made promise just to stop nuclear and missile testing and they recognize that regular military exercises between the u.s. and its allies south korea will continue the maximum pressure campaign we're not letting up we're not going to step back or mak

soon well that makes things very very different that's the view from moscow we'll cross over to mike hanna who's joining us from washington so russia had said that it was going to retaliate now it has mike has there been any u.s. reaction well there has indeed there's been absolute anger from the state department the state department spokeswoman saying that russia's response was not proportionate saying that russia has no right to play the victim here as she put it she pointed out that small than one hundred fifty diplomats from some twenty seven western nations have been expelled in response to the illegible russian involvement in that nerve gas of a former russian double agent so that certainly from the u.s. state department great anger at the russian action and what does this mean then for us russian relations. well certainly once again these relations which have been pretty dodgy for a long period of time now are deteriorating even further and importantly those world the spokeswoman the us state department spokeswoman also said that the u.s. reserves the right to take further action ma

movements louisiana's attorney general said the police had good reason to believe sterling was armed mike hanna covering the story joining us from washington was this this isn't expected mike. well sadly among the many who were expecting a different decision yes indeed it was we have had these protests for a long period of time over the killing of alton sterling yet at the same time the processes of investigation have come under criticism as well in particular the fact that it was carried out by local law enforcement officials now coincidentally and this heightens the differences in which processes can be carried out on the same day there was a shooting last week in sacramento in that particular case today the police chief of sacramento has announced that law enforcement officials investigation off. the shooting of a twenty three year old will be supervised by the california department of justice in a bid to make it much more transparent and in a bid to calm the emotions surrounding this particular shooting what all the other important point of difference in the case said we mentioned that the

for the people in the propaganda department that prospect does seem a long way off has been in mike hanna in washington now my class of tweets on north korea from president trump today but any more details on how his planned meeting with kim jong un is progressing. well president trump appears to convince that it's progressing well among that flurry of tweets that he passed out in the course of the day one saying that north korea had not conducted a missile test since november twenty eighth indicating that he believed the assurances that had been relayed to him that these missile tests would be suspended so president trumpets very upbeat about the sub coming meeting but of course talks as well he had with china and with japan in the course of the day seeking international support for what is an unprecedented move by a u.s. president but we still haven't heard anything from north korea in all of this not even a confirmation that it issued an invitation to try should we read anything into this well that's a difficult question because what we do know is that the invitation was extended to pr

government of long denied involvement in the attacks which killed almost three thousand people mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . manhattan judge george gentles says that by a very narrow margin he does have jurisdiction to hear this case it's brought by survivors and relatives of victims of the nine eleven attacks the judge the same judge heard the case back in two thousand and fifteen a similar case but threw that one out of court he made very clear in his judgment today that the difference is the act passed by congress in two thousand and sixteen the justice against sponsors of terrorism act which does allow u.s. nationals to bring action against foreign countries they believe may have assisted acts of terror within the united states but still a lengthy legal process ahead lawyers for saudi arabia likely to bring appeals against the judgment they may even consider appealing the act passed by congress back in two thousand and sixteen an act that was vehemently opposed by the obama administration at the time also what's going to happen in coming weeks and months is a process for

has made clear it reserves the right to further response the diplomatic dispute is far from over mike hanna al-jazeera washington. turkey's president is rejecting france's offer to mediate between ankara and kurdish armed groups in syria. one says that he's saddened by france's approach to the syrian conflict a delegation from the wife e.g. met with france's president emmanuel mccrone on thursday and said that france had agreed to support them the other one says that turkish forces could enter iraq's sin job province to fight kurdish forces the school another was stumble and get more from zero as a student cost. president want something pretty angry at this french initiative this offer to mediate between the why p.g. and e. . how would france's involvement in all of this impact upon bilateral relations between turkey and friends. as in actually the first the stiction between two countries is that turkey sees why fiji as an offshoot of the out both p k k the kurdistan workers party which is recognize a terrorist organization but france says you recognize only p.k. k. as a terrorist organizat

we have course one is monitoring developments in this story in washington and london with mike hanna who's in the u.s. capitol and of course as we're seeing in that report that cambridge analytic has reach extends well beyond the u.s. but tell us about the questions being asked over there about this and of course its relationship with facebook and the role it might have played in the u.s. election. well pressure legislator's is ramping up on facebook now underlying all of this is cambridge analytical involvement in the twenty sixteen election involvement that it based on data harvested from facebook now what legislators are demanding to know is why were security so lax why has facebook taken so long to try and take some steps to secure the privacy of its clients and lawmakers are now asking the facebook founder mark zuckerberg to appear before them there has been a formal call for a judicial investigation and a judicial committee to hear the facebook founder but mark zuckerberg and his chief operating officer sheryl sandberg have been silent since the scandal broke and even on tuesda

terms of how elections can be protected against social media ok that's the view from washington mike hanna thank you well the british prime minister to resign may have spoken about the scandal in parliament listen. what we have seen in cambridge and in this because of the allegations are clearly very concerning as is absolutely right that they should be properly investigated it's right that the information commissioner is doing exactly that because people need to have confidence in how their personal data is being used and i would expect facebook cambridge analytic and organizations involved to comply fully with the investigation that's taking place and now joining us from london so we are expecting to hear from a former facebook employee in a d.m. who will be speaking to a parliamentary committee. that's right she will it's not the first time that somebody from facebook has been up before but culture media committee of the british parliament but that committee a very frustrated with facebook that's putting it mildly the head of the committee has written to mark zuckerberg summoning him to

background checks once republicans are protecting the constitutional right to bear arms and as mike hanna reports from new york the stalemate has some corporations taking their own steps to slow gun sales. the biggest fear of the second amendment many of you are there being vague promises of executive action from the president and much discussion among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle but as yet there are no concrete signs of any substantive tightening of the u.s. is notoriously lax gun control legislation some corporations are not waiting for congress to take action several major businesses wal-mart dick's sporting goods kroger and the latest l b have announced they are unilaterally raising the minimum age for gun sales and will no longer sell guns to customers younger than twenty one . federal law states that no one under twenty one may buy a handgun but confusingly any eighteen year old or above can buy a semiautomatic rifle with no background checks or training it's time the sens say some c.e.o.'s when we looked at those kids and we saw what with the grief that they were going thr

delayed twice since his second and final term expired and that was at the end of twenty sixteen mike hanna joining us live from the united nations listening to that briefing to tell us more about it and what the u.n. is saying it can actually do mike. well what you're outlining there is a litany of disasters a compared to you know of factors that have led to this massive crisis within the d.r. see what the u.n. is doing at the moment needs one thing it needs money at this particular point only four percent of the aid needed for twenty eighteen has been raised by the u.n. this meeting taking place here in new york is a preliminary part of what will be happening at the beginning of april april the thirteenth where a donor's conference will be held to raise money to get this necessary funding for the crisis or to deal with the crisis in the d.r. see but important to note too that this is a ongoing developing crisis the figures that mark i'll cop represents said that in his speech he said some thirteen million people. in need of humanitarian assistance the shocking fact is that this is an incr

worsening diplomatic dispute over who is responsible for poisoning a former russian spy in britain mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . the u.s. consulate in st petersburg shut down some sixty diplomats ordered to leave the country by the middle of next week sweeping russian retaliation zeneca limmy. there will be mirrored measures but not only stopping events the u.s. ambassador is invited to our ministry where my deputy would deliver him the content of these retaliation re measures against the united states they include the explosion of a similar number of diplomats and they include our decision to withdraw our consent to the operation of the united states consulate general in some petersburg as for the rest of the countries everything that concerns the number of people who would leave the russian federation from diplomatic missions is also mirrored signal at the root of the dispute the alleged poisoning of a former russian double agent on british soil with a russian designed nerve agent russia vehemently denied any involvement but in a coordinated move more than one hundred fifty russ

designed to update the leaders on the progress of nuclear talks with north korea so let's go to mike hanna in washington for more on this of course it is the big story of the week isn't it like a potential meeting between president trump and kim jong il and one of the sunday talk shows been saying. well there's been a number of democrats and some republicans who've been somewhat critical of president trump a particularly because he did not seek any concessions from north korea before agreeing to this face to face meeting lizabeth warren the democratic senator insisted that there was a real danger that north korea would take advantage of president trump but members of his administration came to his defense treasury secretary steven chu chen insisting that no concessions being made that in fact the u.s. was maintaining its strong stand on sanctions that no lightening of these sanctions would happen in the lead in to this particular meeting and support too from the director of the cia who had this to say this first meeting i think is between the president is the leader of north korea the two

permission was given by the original users zuckerberg says terms of service have since changed and mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . and here in a hearing on election security by the senate intelligence committee johnson discussion about how to protect the electoral process from outside agencies in the light of social media interference and twenty sixteen the elephant not in the room though is facebook founder mark zuckerberg he and facebook chief operating officer sheryl sandberg were also absent from an internal facebook meeting tuesday that was addressed by legal executives zuckerberg has released a lengthy statement acknowledging that there were failures in facebook's protection of data he continues i started facebook and at the end of the day i'm responsible for what happens on our platform i'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community while the specific issue involving cambridge analytical should no longer happen with new apps today that doesn't change what happened in the past we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our commu

as well as into a pennsylvania field nearly three thousand people died at the time mike hanna covering the story joining us from washington d.c. so this is a development in what's still likely to be a lengthy legal process like. a lengthy process indeed the judge george daniels has ruled that he does have jurisdiction to hear argument against saudi arabia's alleged involvement however he does not have jurisdiction to seek any financial. penalties against the businesses or other financial entities the same judge routed through the caves out of the courtroom back in twenty fifteen but what the difference is between then and now is an act in twenty sixteen passed by congress the justice again sponsors of terrorism act which allows u.s. citizens to bring action against foreign states even though they are not on the list of terrorism of the state department so the judge now says that this argument can go ahead he will continue to hear the case but they're likely to be a number of appeals against his judgment there is also likely to be ongoing legal argument against that justice against terr

continue to protest and were in the death of yet another african american at the hands of police mike hanna al-jazeera washington mammals parliament has elected a new president when loyal to man was laid on thanks to cheney his princess ten sure resigned a week ago blaming health problems his resignation follows international criticism for the government's handling of the hang refugee crisis. scientists a core infrastructure on shock physics fishing to prevent them they wiped out for waters around indonesia the demand for shark fin soup in china is in danger in many species reports from east indonesia. they are predators at sea but powerless against fishing lines sharks of all sizes float the fish market in lombok nearly every day their court for one reason their expensive fins mostly sold to china to end up in soup we've filmed fifty five sharks being auctioned on a single day some still babies. jack fishing is legal in indonesia except for whale sharks which have become an endangered species the government has also imposed an export ban on hammerhead sharks to prevent more populations com

leader for talks also fired off a tweet about phone calls he's had with leaders of china and japan mike hanna is filing events at first in washington d.c. so mike there's been a flurry of tweets today from trying to still no more real detail how do we think things are progressing well the president trump appears to think that if things are progressing very well indeed among the multitude of tweets that he passed in the course of the morning was one saying that north korea has not conducted a missile test since november twenty eighth that he is confident that they will not do so that they will stand by the word which was reported to him through south korean intermediaries as you said he also had discussions with the japanese prime minister and the chinese president in the course of the morning he also apparently had a telephone call to the french president emmanuel mccrone so certainly the president trump is attempting to reach out to world leaders to get them on board with this absolutely unprecedented decision to hold a face to face meeting with the north korean leader and have prepared is t

continue to protest and were in the death of yet another african american at the hands of police mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well the movement black eyes matter has played out a lot on social media especially following incidents of police shootings in the last few years how high art has been following the latest discussions on line with well people are definitely looking about and i'm going to show you a list that should come up in any moment and it shows names of black people that have been killed by police near and that's being shared on social media including at the top there if you can see alton and stephanie crock and there's the survey keeps going on but they're sure these are just some of the names because one they're the ones that made it into mainstream media but the list actually does go on now people from different backgrounds there have been coming together online in solidarity just there is one of them he's encouraging the sikh community to march for steffan krog but scenes from sacramento city hall were posted and shared as well online. those themes of protesters interru

police found the officer who fired the shots culpable but the state's attorney general did not mike hanna al-jazeera washington. turkey's president has rejected a french offer to mediate between ankara and kurdish armed groups in syria dismissing emanuel now as quotes out of his depth it comes a day after the u.s. president donald trump contradicted his own defense chiefs telling a rally in ohio that u.s. forces would be out of syria very soon stephanie decker with more. the americans have long had a presence in this part of northern syria supporting the syrian democratic forces arrest in the fight against eisel the turkey views the kurdish y p g which makes up the bulk of the s.d.f. as a terrorist organization and the latest twist french president met with an s.d.s. delegation on thursday night in paris an offer to mediate which isn't going down well in ankara why biggio there's dick. says that he gave guarantee of support to the y.p. g that france can be mediators between turkey and the s.d.f. who gave you this judy do not engage in things beyond. turkish armed forces have already takin

mike hanna al-jazeera washington. this is the news hour from our series still to come on the program why the prospect of an end to the nuclear deal doesn't bother some iranian businesses plus mexico is the latest country to ask questions about elections facebook and cambridge analytical. and sport world cup holders germany remind their rivals why of they'll be so difficult to beat this. human rights groups have accused militias backed by the united arab emirates of kidnapping and torturing people in yemen it's believed that fifteen thousand people could have been affected al-jazeera spoken to relatives of the missing who are calling for their return sullivan job at reports. many in southern yemen are demanding to know where their missing relatives are and human rights groups are accusing militias which are backed by the united arab emirates of making arbitrary arrests in aden and lach. they say some detainees have been tortured and others are banned from contacting their families testimonies given to al-jazeera provid

kelly will not be there mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well just to round off our coverage of the reaction to what happened in that florida school for you there was an interfaith gathering a little earlier in washington that follows point yesterday where protesters chanted shame on you two u.s. politicians and the president mr trump said last year he would never infringe on the right to keep a long running and contested debate of course within the united states we have seen many many school shootings but this one seems to have been the one that has knowledge to american politicians towards a tipping point because it left seventeen students and staff members dead it was the deadliest school shooting in the united states since twenty twelve let's talk now to brandon scott he's a baltimore city council member he joins us live brandon scott public opinion in the states is soaring for it is growing in popularity for stricter gun control seven out of ten people who were recently asked do you want stricter gun control said yes so how do people l

nadine barber who is at cambridge and of the six offices in central london first so let's go to mike hanna who's in washington for us and mike as he was seeing there cambridge analytic his reach goes far beyond the u.s. but tell us what questions are being asked today in washington about the role that might have played in the u.s. election. well pressure is mounting on facebook to offer some kind of explanation as to why data harvested from and services servers was used in the twenty sixteen election campaign by cambridge analytical there is a senate intelligence committee hearing going on at present they had hoped that some c.e.o.'s from social media companies would appear this has not yet happened and certainly as well there are other lawmakers asking that mark zuckerberg the founder of facebook be called to appear one senator saying that a judicial committee should be established to investigate facebook's role in that twenty sixteen election so the issue generating a lot of traction here in the u.s. legislature the demand to from members of congress that facebook offer some kind of expl

and speak to mike hanna who is in washington d.c. for us mike what else do we know. well the district judge in manhattan george daniels has ruled that he does have standing in the case brought against saudi arabia now this case has been brought by some two thousand survivors and relatives of victims families of the nine eleven attacks now this case was previously rejected by the same judge back in two thousand and fifteen the difference between then and now is a bull passed by congress and twenty sixteen sponsors of terrorism act now basically what that says is changing u.s. law of that actions can only be brought against foreign states by u.s. citizens if it is shown that they are linked to terrorism formally by the u.s. government now the twenty sixteen bill actually changed that and said that u.s. citizens have standing against any entity or country that they believe is responsible for acts of terror on u.s. soil so the judge is allowing this case to go ahead what's going to happen next there will be numerous appeals there are many appeal processes to go through b

white house says the action marks a quote further deterioration in its relationship with moscow mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . the u.s. consulate in st petersburg shut down some sixty diplomats ordered to leave the country by the middle of next week sweeping russian retaliation. there will be mirrored measures but not only stopping events the u.s. ambassador is invited to our ministry where my deputy would deliver him the content of these retaliation re measures against the united states they include the exposion of a similar number of diplomats and they include our decision to withdraw our consent to the operation of the united states consulate general in some petersburg as for the rest of the countries everything that concerns the number of people who leave the russian federation from diplomatic missions is also mirrored signal at the root of the dispute the alleged poisoning of a former russian double agent on british soil with a russian designed nerve agent russia vehemently denied any involvement but in a coordinated move more than one hundred fifty russian diplomats have b

president wants to change amazon's tax treatment let's go to mike hanna who is in washington d.c. for us so mike tell us what's been happening on wall street. well certainly bad news for amazon shareholders the stock has slid in close to five percent in trading during the day that some thirty three billion dollars out of the pockets of shareholders now this all following a report by x.e. are saying that president trump has got amazon in his crosshairs that the report says he's upset with taking some form of action against amazon one of these could be looking at its tax collection priorities finding some ways in which extra tax could be charged off amazon's of businesses so certainly a major situation for amazon just based on a report that the president is targeting it that my quote reasons with the president have to want to target amazon well the president has tweeted before in august last year for example he put out a tweet saying that amazon was costing us jobs he also according to the accessory port has been speaking to friends and business men who reportedly have told him that

delete facebook and the chilly prospect facing the company is that its client base may freeze it out mike hanna al-jazeera washington two other news there and at least twenty two people most of them children have been killed by. the province the white helmet to rescue the children died. after the raid. has more details. have been deaths and injuries mainly among children because of our strikes launched by what the opposition says were russian jets they targeted residential areas in the village of kaffir about the. countryside they hit civilian homes the first airstrike targeted a house near an elementary school children at the school were terrified they fled the school in a chaotic way so residents tried to shelter them inside an underground cave in the neighborhood however the jets turned back and targeted the location with several missiles hitting the cave that was sheltering more than twenty children and women the cave fully collapsed on top of the children civil defense units did all that they called to rescue them what they could not rescue them and after several hours of trying all those

government has long denied involvement in the attacks which killed almost three thousand people mike hanna has more from washington manhattan judge george gentles says that by a very narrow margin he does have jurisdiction to hear this case it's brought by survivors and relatives of victims of the nine eleven attacks the judge the same judge heard the case back in two thousand and fifteen a similar case but threw that one out of court he made very clear in his judgment today that the difference is the act passed by congress in two thousand and sixteen the justice against sponsors of terrorism act which does allow u.s. nationals to bring action against foreign countries they believe may have assisted acts of terror within the united states but still a lengthy legal process ahead lawyers for saudi arabia likely to bring appeals against the judgment they may even consider appealing the act passed by congress back in two thousand and sixteen an act that was vehemently opposed by the obama administration at the time also what's going to happen in coming weeks and months is a process for discove