it's a parliament of the palestinian liberation organization the palestinian national council has seven hundred forty members is recognized by more than one hundred countries as a sole legitimate representative of the palestinians fatah the party of palestinian president mahmoud abbas dominates the council but other popular groups are also represented one of the key functions of the council is to elect the eighteen member executive committee of the p.l.o. which rules the whole organization as speak so obvious there is harry fawcett who is in ramallah for us in the occupied west bank ramallah harry where you are a rare gathering happening there today of the palestinian national council what's on the agenda and what are the objectives. well look the main thing on the agenda tonight which is the official opening ceremony for this as you say reg other ng is a speech by president mahmoud abbas in which he's likely to set out a couple of things the need for unity in the face of the trunk declaration on jerusalem the need for the various palestinian factions to come together and face

and moving to other stories we're following palestinian national council is officially meeting for the first time in twenty two years in the west bank city of ramallah the power it's a very rare assembly but it's going to discuss several critical issues top of the list here is whether or not to suspend the recognition of israel the meeting is scheduled to last three days. you know. if this council is harmed them the palestinian dreamy seriously harmed therefore we were very determined to create the session we were hoping that everybody who wanted the future of palestine and the palestinian people we wish them to be here but unfortunately prefer to be abroad i force it joins us live now from ramallah so a very rare meeting of the council harry what is the purpose of this for now what a bass. well i think some of it was in capsulated in that sound bite you just heard of the speech which is is still going on it's an extraordinarily wide ranging speech it's a very long historical introduction which name checked everyone from karl marx to napoleon bonaparte to others he essentially is is tr

and the policy and national council that the world recognizes that means that any decisions taken by the p. and c. maybe they are binding in a front of the world but they are not binding binding all palestinians to abide by what comes out of this meeting plus we need to talk about about what our boss is acting with a dictator mentality in order only to bring his own people to do whatever he wants to do without delivering anything to the palestinian people the p.l.o. have failed since one thousand nine hundred three when very good nice israel's right to exist and signed they also agreement to this day they did not offer the palestinians anything in fact they are still cooperating and coordinating with the israelis while the israelis are continuing to occupy more palestinian land and killing more palestinians and blockading half of the palestinians in. gaza were about two million palestinians are living in very big prison so all what is going on now means nothing to the palestinians people means nothing even for the future of the palestinians but then as long as israel is not a corpse

when i was a fall -- small part of a group at the national security council, we transferred commercial communications satellites from the munitions list to commerce department's licensing jurisdiction. that was a vital down payment for the reforms we need to consider today. it's an area where u.s. national security and economic interests could be in profound alignment if we get it right, and we need to get it right. if we don't fix the legal structure, the full scope of the opportunity presented will either be frustrated or -- [inaudible] offshore with very real costs to national security. so to kick off today's event, it is my great pleasure to introduce my friend and colleague, the president and ceo of the hudson institute, ken weinstein. ken? [applause] >> thank you. really want to thank you for the extraordinary effort you put into launching what is a major initiative for hudson institute. those of you who don't know, brant is the former general counsel of incutel, a distinguished record of service at both the department of homeland security, the department of defense, serves on nu

from vice president pence to the new secretary of state doesn't there pompei o two his new national security council national security council adviser john bolton so that's where the schizophrenia comes from i think it's this attempt to try to get his domestic base out in november they do not want another war in the middle east they do not want u.s. troops squander troops and treasure squandered abroad he has to then deal with the fact that he's staffed his entire operations of his government with neo cons you know michael you really puts himself into a very tight corner because he's. joining members of his base people that were very very supportive of his foreign policy approach or in the campaign and then you have the foreign policy swamp the blob and the media that says well you're a wimp because he only had three buildings and damascus suburb i mean stuck between the two of them go ahead michael. well yeah i'll tell you the i watch the republican right the way right the moral equivalent of the progressives on the left a lot closer maybe than a lot of people do and i'll tell you their furor with

now for the first time in twenty two years the palestinian national council is officially meeting in the west bank city of ramallah to discuss several critical issues top of the list is whether or not to suspend the recognition of israel the meeting is scheduled to last three days beginning with a speech by palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas shortly well our forces joins me now live from ramallah so twenty two years in the waiting area why are they meeting now. well as far as mahmoud abbas is going said it we expect to hear a collaborator on this when eventually he makes his introductory speech which is the date of end of tonight's opening ceremony at the moment they're still going through the names of attendees trying to find a core of. good is likely to say that this is about. facing off the threats emanating from the united states and israel to a future palestinian statehood at a time of incredibly close alliance between those two nations if it signed but we're waiting to see what donald trump's white house published in the form of the peace plan in the wake of course o

you on the program sending a message to the world that they are not defeated the palestinian national council meets for the first time in twenty two years and a u.n. security council delegation arrives in myanmar and me to the country's leaders as part of an investigation into the rangar crisis. however the weather's looking largely dry across australia over the next couple days it has some pretty good sunshine recently manji little more cloud just starting to slide its way through the pond missing some cooler weather coming into perth recently nineteen south to say southerly winds talking in for tuesday that will make its way further east this week on through the next twenty three celsius natalie twenty one in melbourne the cloud becomes a little more widespread as we go on through wednesday will pick the temperatures back a little stupid up to twenty one celsius in melbourne having said that on the other side of the tasman it's cold enough for new zealand over the next day or two certainly feeling well more autumnal least the wind in the rain has pretty much gone the will still be some bits

the united nations security council is due to meet later.election victory. he says his re—election is an opportunity to defend the country's borders. the battle for influence in the south china sea is continuing to heat up. beijing has dispatched its largest—ever naval fleet to the area, at the same time as a us aircraft carrier heads there as well. beijing has accused the us navy of "trespassing" in the south china sea, while washington has called china's construction of military outposts there "provocative". rupert wingfield hayes reports from on board the us aircraft carrier, theodore roosevelt. pilots describe what we're about to do as trying to land on a postage stamp. in the world of aviation, there is nothing harder. in the middle of the south china sea, the crew of the uss theodore roosevelt is calmly going about what is a pretty extraordinary business. but it is not what they are doing that has brought me out here, it is where they are doing it. we're about 300 nautical miles north—east of singapore, over there is vietnam, over that

you have been behind the closed doors of the national security council meetings. what is going on? >> the national security council meetings are about sorting the e facts and making su understand what is going on. let's review some of the facts. we have to review which of thewe wars in syrire talking y out, and even those of us who work professionave to tweak it in our minds. this is not about the war between assad and his people. this is not about isis this is not what is going on bes.een the turks and the ku this is not about russian or iranian cursion. this is about the very narrow question about did or did not the assad regime use weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons, against itswn people, which the united states has a great interest in preserving the prohibition against those weapons. that is the question being debated right no i really comes down to two questions. the first is did it happen. of course, what is your standard of proof? do we need to have a beyond a reasonable doubt standard thatme the assad rearried out the attacks, or is it more the preponderance of ev

at the united nations security council the russian ambassador launches a tirade against british allegations that moscow is behind an attack on a former spy and his daughter the british ambassador fires back saying all the signs point to russia. christopher spring thanks for joining us alstad south korean president park geun hye has been sentenced to twenty four years in prison on a conviction including coercion bribery and abuse of power in a verdict broadcast live on south korean television the court ruled that park had colluded with friends to receive tens of billions of dollars in kickbacks from companies and state agencies park was impeached and arrested back in march of twenty seventeen. months of massive street protests. we're going to go straight to seoul now waiting for us there jason strother one of our correspondents there jason the former president park geun hye found guilty on several charges just talk us through the charges the verdict in the sentence. sure she was found guilty of sixteen of the eight hundred pound suit against her these all revolved around a friendship she had

united nations security council has voted against a resolution proposed by russia condemning the american british and french missile strikes against the syrian government. washington and its closest allies and watched more than one hundred missiles yes president trump has praised the strikes as perfectly executed syria's ambassador to the u.n. accuse the u.s. u.k. and france and undermining the work of weapons inspectors on the ground. to the three of us i say your lawyers spoilers on hypocrites you're trying to see failure in the actions of this organization to not pursue your interests you have tried to undermine the efforts of the investigative bodies. in the u.k. and france questions are being asked about the legality of launching the strikes before consulting parliament barnaby phillips has more from central london. into the dark from that base in cyprus british tornadoes headed into the night sky with storm shadow missiles which they would fire at a military facility just outside home is the objective according to the prime minister very specific in scope this is not about interveni

consultations going on all week with the threat of military strikes hanging in the air the national security council meeting multiple occasions this week the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley coming down to washington. to continue to consult with high level partners here in the white house campus and eventually it seems that the determination was made that there was enough credible evidence that it was in the u.s. is interest to act in this way in conjunction with france and the united kingdom ok kimberly many thanks for bringing us the view that from the white house can really hold it reporting well as we've been saying the u.s. is saying that all the targets in this operation were linked to the syrian government's alleged chemical weapons program of the first target was a scientific research center in the greater damascus area the pentagon says it was used for the production and testing of chemical and biological warfare technology two more sites were targeted west of homs both of those were chemical weapons storage facilities according to the pentagon one of them was also a milita

on monday the palestinian national council is due to me to that i'm it's supposed to represent all palestinian factions and its decisions are binding but many groups such as hamas islamic jihad and the popular front for the liberation of palestine staying away more bickering among the factions. well life here is becoming progressively worse so many people we talk to say they're fed up with one of them. one of the. no no no they do nothing for us i don't care about the amazing saw many meetings all with no results all they care about is their own power. even many of the children will tell you there are no opportunities here they see their parents struggle their elder siblings complete their studies but find no work they've never left gaza and yet still seem aware that something is missing stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza still to come here on al-jazeera joyce banda is back or the former president of malawi is risking arrest by returning to her country plus. an emotional meeting between running the refugees and the u.n. delegation to hear stories of rape and torture. from long flowing on in the

thanks to the spec to with us and the national iranian american council thank you so much. i still has claimed responsibility for a double suicide attack in central kabul which killed at least twenty five people and injured dozens more nine journalists from lung those killed making it was safer media in afghanistan since two thousand and one jennifer glass reports from kabul on the almost zero zero zero zero the first suicide bomber was on a motorbike i saw says the target was intelligence headquarters but the explosion killed civilians and policeman in the street every day added the limb for policemen and from district nine who were up the front line but were among those monsters and three policemen were wounded as well emergency workers rushed to the scene to aid the wounded. afghan cameraman reporters and photographers who come to cover the news became part of the story when a second suicide bomber disguised as a journalist blew himself up among such attacks could create existential threats against press freedom and freedom of expression in afghanistan which is considere

a high level team from the united nations security council is in me and its latest stop on a trip to assess the range of crisis some seven hundred thousand people have fled me and state last year fearing persecution at the hands of the military that most of them are now living in camps in neighboring bangladesh from where charles stratford reports. on song suchi nobel peace prize winner and for so long the darling of much of the world for the fight for democracy in myanmar u.n. security council delegate silly capital naked all the reputation of the civilian leader now in tatters after her refusal to publicly at least condemn the military crackdown and the injust rights groups say the army supported by buddha small killed thousands of men women and children carried out a campaign of gang rape and destroyed hundreds of religious villages the other thing the security council should do is to refer the situation in iraq train state to the international criminal court the crimes against humanity that were committed against a population were clearly of the gravity and severity that they war

the national safety council says left over painkillers in america's medicine cabinets are dangerous and help fuel the nation's opioid epidemic. and as washington correspondent morgan wright reports there is new legislation to help combat prescription drug abuse and rid your cabinets of unused medications pkg: senator richard blumenthal, ct: medicine cabinets in connecticut and around the country are full of unused potentially dangerous powerful painkillersmorgan wright reporting: senator richard blumenthal says - for too many americans, the path to addiction starts at the medicine cabinet.senator richard blumenthal, ct: addiction and abuse result from pharmaceutical drugs particularly powerful painkillers, opioids, oxycontin, and other drugsso a bipartisan group of senators wants to make it easier to safely get rid of unused prescriptions.senator richard blumenthal, ct: disposing of these powerful painkillers and other drugs will help save livesmw/su right now many pharmacies don't participate in the drug take back program because of the cost of paying for the destruction of drugs - and

anyway, intelligence director at the national security council. that guy was fired months ago as the intelligence director at the national security council. that was a guy that was fired after he reportedly helped republican congressman devin nunes pull off that weird stunt at the white house that got nunes investigated. this was the stunt where devin nunes tried to say that he had the proof that president obama really had wiretapped trump tower. remember that? congressman said he had to rush to the white house to tell president trump what he had found. well, president obama did not wiretap trump tower and whatever congressman nunes had, he reportedly got from the white house in the first place, so he didn't need to rush it back in there after he just took it from them. the stuff that he got from the white house, he got, reportedly, from a young guy who mike flynn had installed on the national security council. in the wake of that mishigas, that guy who flynn had installed who helped out devin nunes with that stunt, that guy got fired from the nati

reportedly kiboshed the sharing idea, so instead mike pence will take keith kellogg off the national security council where he had been serving as chief of star. that's a lot of departures suddenly. it was that just national security adviser h.r. mcmaster. it was all these people that have gone suddenly in the past three weeks, at least a half dozen of them. john "great white death" bolton has cleaned the place out quickly. but he's not replaced them. we hired one person, someone from the white house personnel office, but that's it. all of these new folks are out since bolton started just three weeks ago. while we have the wall here, there's one more change involves -- it concerns a guy. do we have him up here? this guy. oh, look, it's gone. we killed the wall -- oh, it's back. the control room just got in my ear and said, no idea. that guy was fired months ago as the intelligence director at the national security council, he was fired apparently after he helped devin nunes pull off the weird stunt at the white house that got him investigated for mishandling classified material. nunes said he tried t

president's pretention this moves and he's going to ripley's jerry jones director of the national economic council what do you make of that. well i have a great deal of respect for larry i have been on set with him before i've talked to him people forget he had a long background not just on wall street but also as somebody who served in presidential administrations understands the issues the most important thing is i trust larry's instincts i think that he's got the right instincts on economic policy i think he will help certainly to rein in some of the more protectionist instincts the president has so i am actually very confident that larry is going to do a great job as a director of the national economic council and he is going to serve the free market cause well in that role what do you make of trump going to war with these o's in the amazon. well this to me is very troubling i don't think that our public leaders whether it's the president or anybody else should be using their office to go after a specific american company and here's why there are repercussions when a public leader when a publi

president says and what other people say happened there contradictions that's something the national council is going to look into and it could result in criminal charges against the president but we're not at that point yet but a way if you are a target do they have to tell you your target. they usually do not although what they can't do is a lie to you in the course of questioning and so they say or you're not a target whatever that means it's quite ambiguous language. but they you know they do need to be honest in their communications with someone they're questioning and so i would not expect robert miller's team to be secretly saying well the president's a target tell him he's not a target for criminal charges that's not the way they would conduct business and i hate that could result in serious complications if you want to have a prosecution later on so i would i would suggest that it's pretty much exactly as robert miller's team is saying it is at this point in time. to report to the. lawyers usually hearing a report about the president's actions while in office and potential obstructi

nations charter which states action must be in self-defense all authorized by the united nations security council. the prime minister has assured us that the attorney general had given clear legal advice approving the action i hope the prime minister will now publish this advice in full today the summary notes references the disputed humanitarian intervention doctrine but even against this the government fails its own tests the overwhelming humanitarian catastrophe due to the civil war in syria is absolutely indisputable. but the foreign secretary said yesterday these strikes would have no bearing on the civil war and the prime minister has reiterated that today by saying this is not what these military strikes were about. mr speaker does for example the humanitarian crisis in yemen entitle other countries to arrogate to themselves the right to bomb saudi airfields all their positions in yemen especially given their use of banned cluster bombs and white phosphorous mr speaker three united nations agency said in january that yemen was the worst humanitarian crisis in the world so will the prime mi

the united nations security council will this hour can be to discuss the attack which russia says was a clear violation of the organizations charter. u.k. prime minister lourdes the joint military operation against assad's government was limited targeted and effective. and in other news russia's foreign minister claims the international chemical weapons watchdog may not have correctly identified the nerve agent used poison script. last month. saturday six pm here in moscow namecalling brail rolling coverage of the aftermath of those joint strikes against syria overnight we're expecting the united nations security council to convene any moment and when we hear from the keeper tagon is there we will cross live to it but let's bring you up to date on what we know so far american british and french forces have pounded syria with missile strikes the attack took place in the early hours of saturday morning and came in response to allegations that the syrian government used chemical weapons against civilians claims which are u.n. watchdog is still yet to investigate. well as i said the u.n.

security council delegation is due to visit the refugee camps in bangladesh before heading to me for what is expected to be a tightly controlled two day trip. the inability of the united nations security council to take strong action against myanmar is largely because of china's veto power china has big business interests inside myanmar and especially in rakhine state myanmar so far has banned any independent investigation into alleged atrocities and it seems highly unlikely that this visit by a united nations security council delegation here will lead directly to me being called to account but pressure is growing on me. the u.s. state department is leading an investigation into claims of extrajudicial killings rape and also by the military a repatriation plan by bangladesh and beyond more allowing refugees to voluntarily return has so far failed to get off the ground shim still says he will never return to me and more or less the government guarantees his family citizenship security and the same rights as other citizens of the country he and his family are from others growing in pressure on garza's hospitals after four palestinians were killed and almost nine hundred others

everything the united nations thenceforth is being blatantly defied in syria. with the help of a permanent member of this council all nations and all people will be harmed if we allow assad the use of chemical weapons. it is those who act to violate the prohibition of chemical weapons, who deserve our condemnation. those who act to defend it, deserve our support. and the united states and our allies will continue to stand up for truth, accountability and justice to an end of the use of chemical weapons.

the palestinian national council is officially meeting in the west bank city of ramallah for the first time in twenty two years top of the gender is whether or not to suspend the recognition of israel. well you're up to date on all of our top stories there is more news coming up in twenty five minutes time the so do join me then i'll see you a little bit later on. on may second two thousand and eleven u.s. president barack obama announced important news to the world. tonight i can report to the american people and to the world the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda. the al qaeda leader was shot dead in a raid by u.s. special forces on a compound about sixty kilometers north of pakistan's capital islamabad. the death of bin laden ends a ten year manhunt for the world's most wanted man. to send. someone to kill. before his death the last known sighting of bin laden by anyone other than his very close on to raj was in late two thousand and one as he prepared to flee his stronghold in afghanistan. however in subsequent years he shoot

national security council so she's been moving between washington and the united nations let's go to the chamber ok michael before we go to the chamber we will cross back to the chamber as and when they start speaking for the time being mike thank you but i do stand by for us because i will be crossing back to you as that testing gets underway. the british prime minister to resign may meanwhile has been keen to emphasize that the u.k. is not trying to topple the best side in assad's government last night british french and american armed forces conducted coordinated and targeted strikes to degrade the syrian regime's chemical weapons capability and deter the use this was not about interfering in a civil war and it was not about regime change as i discussed with president trump and president makram it was a limited targeted and effective strike with clear boundaries that expressly sought to avoid escalation and did everything possible to prevent civilian casualties we would have preferred an alternative path but on this occasion there is none. we cannot allow the use of chemical weapo

at the end of main one nine hundred sixty four the formation of the palestinian national council was debated at a conference in jerusalem. king christine not only attended the meetings but also the different a speech to send out his personal message and expressed his serious concerns. when you know you're a liberal. and i'll just you know. you have to have really made you know to look at just a. little bit have you know what i look for your i'll move on like a i let you. talk a little walk a dog i love it but. i didn't look at the. good good and not let me look but a. little emptied out give it to how do you do what i did i'm a pub i'm not so i. don't want to hear good. and i like that you have to set up women shot because of the. problem with your body but i want to be young why. in return the palestinian liberation organization pledged not to interfere in georgians internal affairs or was jordanian citizens of palestinian origin. really. will play any better than anyone what. the medina did look. at their point but a lot of i don't mean like i can or to any other activity of what i

issue as is the united nations security council. the president is coming into the situation having said he wants to pull the united states out of syria all together. of course, his national security team is not fully formed. he is waiting confirmation for the cia director and secretary of state and his new national security adviser john bolton's first day on the job is today. >> thank you, abby. the pentagon had to deny syrian state mediimmediatmedia reports attack was on the air base in homs. we now could learn who is behind the strike. we have ben wedeman in beirut. ben, what are you learning? >> reporter: we heard early in the morning local time that there had been a missile strike on what is known as the t-4 air base which is one of the largest air bases in syria. about 60 miles northwest of damascus. initially the syrian media was saying it was probably an american strike. of course, the pentagon quickly denied it. now we're hearing just a little while ago from a statement from the russian defense ministry saying it was israeli

now for the first time in twenty two years the palestinian national council is officially meeting in the west bank city of ramallah to discuss several critical issues these are pictures of their actual for a meeting there live pictures coming to us from ramallah topping the list is whether or not to suspend the recognition of israel the meeting which began in the last hour to last three days beginning with a speech by palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas shortly my stint in the national council serves as a parliament and representing palestinians in the occupied territory on the dance it's been meeting since nine hundred sixty four but last held a full session in one thousand nine hundred six it was around six hundred members including representatives of various factions independents military personnel and other associations but many of them are boycotting the convention including hamas which governs gaza the popular front for the liberation of palestine and islamic jihad and force it now joins us live from ramallah so it's been twenty two years harry why are they now decidi

on monday the palestinian national council is due to me to that i'm it's supposed to represent all palestinian factions and its decisions are binding but many groups such as hamas islamic jihad and the popular front for the liberation of palestine staying away more bickering among the factions. well life here is becoming progressively worse so many people we talk to say they're fed up with all of them. want to. no no no they do nothing for us i don't care about their meeting so many meetings all with no results all they care about is their own power. even many of the children will tell you there are no opportunities here they see their parents struggle their elder siblings complete their studies but find no work they've never left gaza and yet still seem aware that something is missing stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. the british home secretary amber rudd has resigned after it was revealed she planned to step up the deportation of caribbean immigrants but she came under intense pressure to step down amid the windrush scandal where caribbean immigrants living in the u.k. for generations when a

organization is up for election for the first time in more than twenty years the palestinian national council is voting for a new executive committee and discussing potential successors to president mahmoud abbas the p. and c. has around six hundred ninety members which includes representatives of various factions independents and military personnel but many a boycotting the convention in ramallah including islamic jihad and hamas which governs gaza. will be shocked when i'm at the mass confirms that any council that doesn't carry the unification idea of the palestinian ranks is a council that never expresses the whole of the palestinians it is a council hits the unity of our people and hits the organization and its legitimacy and its representation over all palestinians all palestinians living in gaza told al-jazeera they're increasingly angry and frustrated not only by the israeli and egyptian blockades but with their leaders stephanie decker reports from gaza. continue up this road along gaza sea front and you will reach the israeli controlled areas crossing for the vast majority of palest

translation: without a mandate from the united nations security council and in violation of norms andas carried out, which is on the front line in the fight against terrorism. just as one year ago, when the airbase in syria came under attack, the united states used as a pretext is staged chemical attack against civilians. this time in duma, damascus suburb, russian literary experts did not find any traces flooring or any other toxic agents. —— chlorine. not a single local resident was able to confirm that a chemical attack had actually taken place. karen pearce said this. in the early hours of this morning, the united kingdom and did co—ordinated and targeted strikes to degrade assad's chemical weapons ability and it their future use. the british airports launched missiles at literary facility some 15 miles we st of at literary facility some 15 miles west of homs. a full assessment has not yet been completed at we believe the strikes to be successful. furthermore, none of the british us or french aircraft or missiles involved in this operation were successfully engaged by syrian air d

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constantine find out who's been following the story for us but we'll start with you the united nations security council rejected russia's resolution condemning the attacks let's have a quick listen first what the u.s. ambassador had to say we're here today because three permanent members of the united nations security council acted the united kingdom france and the united states acted not as revenge not as punishment not as a symbolic show of force we acted to deter the future use of chemical weapons by holding the syrian regime responsible for its atrocities against humanity so xander is that the u.s. saying it's ready to strike again. yes you're right the ambassador was pretty much clear about that she said that the. locked and loaded meaning is ready to strike again if the syrian government is going to use chemical weapons again and how he also added that and stress this readiness and determination by saying that if this president and draws a red line he in force is the red line and it was a very clear warning you know not only toward the syrian regime but also toward the russians here that you aske

issue as is the united nations security council. the president is coming into the situation having said he wants to pull the united states out of syria all together. of course, his national security team is not fully formed. he is waiting confirmation for the cia director and secretary of state and his new national security adviser john bolton's first day on the job is today. >> thank you, abby. >>> in the face of those heart wrenching images of children gasping, russia is calling the attack a hoax. the foreign ministry claims the forces in syria are fabricating the allegations to provoke international military interventi intervention. let's bring in cnn's nic robertson. nic, russia is denying anything by the assad regime and allies this morning. >> reporter: they are pushing book this hard. they are poi-- pushing back on s very hard. they are worried what they hear from president trump. they hear two israeli fighter jets that fired eight missiles at the t-4 air base in syrian air base. the israelis struck before shortly after a dron

we just learned that national security council principals are meeting tomorrow on syria. the meeting will be led by newly appointed national security adviser john bolton and will likely tackle what options the president has in a meeting at the white house. we're also learning the united nations security council will also meet tomorrow in an emergency session. u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley released a statement saying this. quote, yet again there are reports of what appears to be a chemical weapons attack in syria. unfortunately chemical weapons used to injure and kill innocent syrian civilians has become an all too common occurrence. the skufecurity council has com together and demanded mediate access for first responders and hold accountable for those involved in this atrocious attack. of course, we'll continue to follow these breaking news developments. >>> meanwhile, a new report suggesting the president's white house chief of staff recently threatened to quit. the "washington post" quoted john kelly as saying, i'm out of here, in a fit of anger last month. a f

will wait to see us next and take it from there kitty logan in london thank you the united nations security council is set to hold an emergency session on the syria strikes in about an hour from now following a request from russia and a statement released by the kremlin russian president vladimir putin slammed the coalition strikes as an act of aggression i would worsen the humanitarian catastrophe in syria and he repeated the russian position that last saturday's a legit gas attack in duma was a fake for reaction from moscow we go to alec lewin he's a correspondent for the british newspaper the guardian can you tell us more about what wasc out has been saying in response to these strikes. well there's that a lot of different statements coming out of moscow but of course the words that everybody is is looking at the most are putin's remarks he released a statement very early today. surprisingly early for him he usually waits a while to see how the situ is calling immerses session of the security council on the other hand he didn't say anything about retaliation and his his words really seem to be m

going to interrupt this and we'll go straight over to the security council let's listen to the syrian ambassador to the united nations security council military plane crash that claimed the lives of the two hundred forty seven people. second predicate i welcome the but dissipation of the secretary general in this very important session and i thank him for his comprehensive and accurate briefing that has a no clearly. pointed out and he and others in this council. on one have you just. did understand the title of this session and he spoke in the manner that is commensurate with the threats to international peace and security. and in light of the allegations and accusations against my country and its allies. the ambassador of the sweden said that the use of chemical weapons is a war crime. and. this is true that i agree with him my government agrees to this when i and i talk of my the media however my dear colleague and don't you think that a war in itself is a crime and needs to be stopped and to be prevented from our gospel and one also had this it would be a very good title in a book by the peace institute in stockh

poisoning case just got more complicated russia says that it wants a united nations security council meeting on the nerve agent attack in which moscow remains the chief suspect this after moscow failed in a bid to join britain's investigation into the poisoning of service cripple and his daughter the incident has sparked a diplomatic crisis our coverage begins with this report. departing on bad terms sixty american diplomats pack their bags and board buses at dawn they're leaving the u.s. embassy in moscow the latest diplomatic expulsion in the wake of the spy poisoning crisis a large number of russians have also been ordered out by the u.s. and other western allies which accuse moscow of orchestrating an attack on sega's script and his daughter yulia in the u.k. in march using a nerve agent with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov claims the attack was staged to justify the expulsion of its diplomats. there who wouldn't put it we're going to been a while since we've seen such a blatant mockery of international law diplomatic ethics and basic decency. i will point out that we will

charter moscow called an emergency security council meeting mike hanna has more from the united nations. this is the first time the council has met on syria this week a series of meetings that have served only to illustrate the massive divide on the issue the secretary general's repeated calls for unity ignored they are all members to show restraint in these dangerous circumstances and to avoid any acts that could escalate smetters and worsening the suffering of the syrian people the meeting was called by russia and its close ally in the council but libya and outrage was expressed at the strikes took place even as international experts arrived in damascus to investigate whether or not a chemical attack actually took place or brings up an aggressive new standard of the organizers of the aggression didn't even wait for the elementary establishment of facts by an international organization which is authorized to do that they supposedly determine everything for themselves and the term and who was guilty u.k. ambassador argued the strikes were justified in terms of international law and in t

-- i don't know as much as some people here do about it -- but when you're looking at a national security council that's got 400 people on it, wouldn't you rather be one of the top four or five dogs on the national security council? wouldn't you rather handle latin america for the national security council than for the state department? of course. if you're in domestic policy, think about it. the clinton health care bill was put together by a hundred people on the white house staff. the department of health and human services had virtually nothing to do with it. so when those things happen, you say how do you get a good cabinet officer, how do you get a good assistant secretary. and if you're an assistant attorney general and the white house counsel's office is 40 or 50 people, wouldn't you rather be over there? yeah. >> joe, there's some people in the, i would say the current punditry class is tying all of these reality things -- in other words, real things that have happened in our country recently like the election of donald trump, the mass shootings, the #metoo movement on sexual harassment.