reuters news agency reports confirmation of that from a senior american official. er. first, this is what mr trump said a short time ago. we've had talks at the highest level. let's leave it a little short of that we have had talks at the highest level. we will see what happens. there was some confusion about what he was actually saying, he at one point responded to a barra shopper report is a question —— reporters questions with the asset yes. one of those questions was you speak to recoup the kim jong—un? those questions was you speak to recoup the kimjong—un? the those questions was you speak to recoup the kim jong—un? the white house later clarified he had misunderstood the question and clarify that he hadn't spoken directly to anyone but there had been comedic age and at the highest level. and now we have a report from the washington post, which is quoting two anonymous sources, saying that the cia director paid a secret visit to north korea at the easter weekend to lay the groundwork for the forthcoming summit and he did visit and meet kim jong—un. it is notab

south korea's blue house — the presidential office — quoted by the reuters news agency, is saying thatorea is considering negotiating a peace treaty with north korea. let's go straight to seoul, and our correspondent laura bicker: it could be a very big moment.” it could be a very big moment. i can confirm that that is what the blue house has announced, that is the presidential palace. its spokesman has said that within these talks that will take place between north and south korea and, hopefully, between the us and north korea, they will be seeking a peace treaty. just to remind viewers, the korean war endedin to remind viewers, the korean war ended in 1953 but the two sides as technically still at war. they are yet to sign a peace treaty, they have only signed an armistice to this point. what we are hearing from the blue house is that this is not something they will completely put on the table for kim jong and. they are potentially offering it as an incentive to give up his nuclear weapons. they are looking for a way to reward him for denuclearisation and they believe a peace treaty

of the that's according to the reuters news agency quotient of russian official well that country's military police have also been deployed security says it will ensure there is no one in the town. previously held by syrian rebels fighting the government it's one of the largest. which has been under siege since two thousand and thirteen. last november the u.n. says eighty thousand civilians fled to government held territory in damascus in march some twenty thousand rebels and civilians have. to rebel territory in the northwestern province of idlib under deals with assad and his ally russia well the syrian regime took control of an agreement with russia and. the deal says only russian military police are allowed to enter the city after the evacuation and not syrian regime forces crossing points will be open to commercial movement as soon as those military police and to the city the agreement is that those who wish to stay in the city will not be prosecuted or forced to serve in the syrian military and the release of all pro-government presidents helped in. so the news that's coming out of the

stronghold in the eastern ghouta enclave just outside damascus and this is according to the reuters news agency and they're quoting a russian military official who says syrian state flag has been raised over a building in duma so reports there that the syrian government forces have taken full control over the town of doom another this is a live shot of the outskirts of doom and there we have seen a couple of buses traveling along that road we have over the past few weeks seen civilians fighters and their families leaving east and other parts of syria under various negotiations with different rebel groups inside eastern now we're getting reports that a settlement has been made with the last rebel group in doing which was josh. that they have we are hearing from only the russian side at the moment that they have surrendered that the syrian government forces have taken full control of doom or you can see another bus traveling along that road on the duma outskirts we're going to be keeping a close eye on this story talking to our correspondents there and people on the ground to get you more informa

province describing the attack as a new aggression by its enemies to residents in hama told the reuters news agency that the blast came from a military base which is reportedly used by iran backed forces on the news ruling party says it will not block popular opposition leader nicole question yun from running the country demonstrators have been rallying in support of russia and ahead of tuesday's parliamentary vote to choose a new prime minister armenia's previous prime minister search sarkozy and resigned a week ago after mass demonstrations took place against him. set for myself in the team here in london witnesses coming up next it's impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis it's not just about the police believe the day it's not just about the banks it's not just about to go to my real people.

province describing the attack as a new aggression by its enemies to residents in hama told the reuters news agency that the blast came from a military base which is reportedly used by iran backed forces amini is ruling party says it will not block popular opposition leader nicole passion yun from running the country demonstrators have been rallying in support of passion and ahead of tuesday's parliamentary vote to choose a new prime minister armenia's previous prime minister serge sarkozy and resigned a week ago after mass demonstrations took place against him set for myself in the team here in london witnesses coming up next. it's impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis it's not just about the billion trillion dollars of debt it's not just about the banks it's not just about government to my real people. took from them by little what i mean by want to pick it up on. the net i think i'm honestly not bombing them in the need. to have them standing but managed in a. sound on their own no one. will look at me in that i'm a. little bit there's been no no. no no. no no. do

into the suspected poison gas attack eleven days ago now they're currently in damascus but reuters news agency is quoting a united nations source is quoting united nations sources as saying they're not likely to go to do it today as expected they've been there's been reports of gunfire their inspection team will focus on establishing whether a poison gas attack actually took place and if so what chemicals were used. before news broke today that the chemical weapons inspectors' visit to duma might be delayed we spoke to journalists stuff on board from t.v. for sweden he visited them on monday and talked to people there about the alleged poison gas attack. well those that i talked to some of us said that they didn't know anything about it others didn't want to talk about it and those somehow did opinions. most of them that they thought the rebel side was there was also going through it although you have to have their mind that in syria you cannot express your you know what you actually think sleep because there is always a risk that you might get into trouble so i would put too much. weight on b

so from the western standpoint he doesn't look like a victim. just looking at the reuters news agencys been having a look at the french presidential twitter feed, showing video of french warplanes taking off for syria for this intervention. why are the united states, france and the uk, the west, in a sense, so cleaved from russia in syria? why are they so far are part? —— far apart. well, the united states, britain and france, traditionally, they have a regime in syria which was not literally genocidal, and they value that. bashar al—assad's regime has been under pressure from his own population since the arab revolt in 2011. russia swoop in to help save along with the iranians. that really puts russia and iran and the syrian regime of assad on one side. typically that is going to be saudi arabia and united states and its allies on the other side. so relations between the us and russia could hardly be worse, of course. trump is part of the problem. he has no credibility as an interlocutor with the russians, as somebody who could sit down at the table and have a deal with them, because

investigation into the suspected poison gas attack today they're currently in damascus but reuters news agency is quoting a united nations sources saying they're not likely to go to do much today as expected have been reports of gunfire there the inspection team will focus on establishing whether a poison gas attack actually took place and if so what chemicals or use let's stick to journalist stefan borne from t.v. for sweden he was in dumas on monday and joins us on the line of from damascus hi stefan there are reports that the weapons inspectors will not go to do much today and that there's been some crossfire any news on when and if they'll actually be able to access the site. what we know about this incident obviously it's happened already yesterday while u.s. curiosity was there to look at the site and see if it was possible to work to safely and then there was some gunfire in we don't know much about that if it was just up in the air of what was written was and did something one other piece of information says that there was some protest by local people demanding aid from the u.s. if tha

that such actions will not be left without consequences, i'm looking here, this is from the reuters news agencyworried you when you were in the white house? it's very non—specific. to me it sounds like blaster. you have the russian ambassador to lebanon saying if the us fired missiles at the syrian regime that russia would not only target those missiles but russia would target the aircraft and naval vessels from which they came ash blaster. that was a very strong statement. —— bluster. it was intended to serve as blaster. frankly i think airstrikes are largely over tonight. i don't know that there will be consequences for the us military. russia may look to asymmetric tactics to impose some sort of restrictions on us businesses in russia, which they are contemplating, but they will have more of an impact on the russian economy than the us economy. michael carpenter, thanks very much, a former defence... deputy assistant secretary of defence and served in the white house foreign policy adviser to vice presidentjoe biden. the us, britain and france have carried out missile strikes against chemica

last rebel stronghold in eastern guta enclave outside of damascus and that's according to the reuters news agency quoting a russian military official who says the syrian state flag has been raised over a building in duma also getting reports of russian military police being deployed into duma and eastern in order to secure the area for a proper independent o.p.c. doubly investigation. into the alleged chemical attack the daughter of the former russian spy who was poisoned along with her father last month has made her first public statement since leaving the hospital powell says she wants no help at all from the russian embassy the u.k. government accuses moscow of being behind the suspected nerve agent attack on and her father so again algeria has announced three days of mourning after a plane crash killed two hundred and fifty seven people the military plane went down shortly after taking off from both eric military airport near the capital algiers those are your headlines are back with more news here on al-jazeera after witness to stay with us. this is really an attack on the truth itself is a

world about the decision to strike inside syria and just as he was speaking, this is from the reuters news agency appears as if those strikes were being carried out. in damascus, several big smexplosions. e rising on the east side of the city.er s a possibility it's not related but the coincidence seems ite something. chris buckler is still in washington. how important was it to get the u.k. and france on board? we know that these discussions have been taking place over the last few days? >> i think there was a real attempt by the u.s. here for it not to lk like a single country taking action here but trying to get someanupport i think this has felt from the start that america badgets to try t ensure that this is an international response dreadful pictures that came out of dhouma after those chemical weaponsttacks. ose pictures have caused a lot of shock and outrage and they wanted to have military support and they have that from both the france and the u.k. in takiny this militction and as you mentioned there, there are now reports of that beginning. in fact, president trump was very clear at th

russia mother tampered with the attack site that's according to a statement obtained by the reuters news agency russia's foreign minister denies those allegations hotly were on that note from correspondent jacqueline vogel. well he flat out denied those accusations coming from the u.s. envoy saying that he guarantees that russia did not in any way tamper or manipulate the site of the alleged attack now the u.s. envoy is referring to the fact that just a few days after this alleged attack took place russian military did send specialists to the site and searched the area and they said that they could find no traces of chemical weapons there and since then of course russia has been calling for an international independent investigation to take place on the ground especially given that the initial reports of this alleged attack were coming from groups like the white homeless which has a very questionable reputation now the o.p.c. deputy organization for the competition at chemical weapons did i write to syria already on saturday but it seems that they have yet to begin their investigation now serge

this footage supplied to the reuters news agency and not independently verified by the bbc apparentlyedics desperately trying to help children and families. syria's government says the allegations are a fabrication, staff from the medical relief organisation on the frontline say they are worried about what could have been used. many patients have suffered from symptoms compatible with exposure to gas, chlorine gas. also their symptoms we re chlorine gas. also their symptoms were deteriorating in a fashion that isn't compatible with fewer chlorine gas exposure and that is where our positions are concerned about exposure to nerve gas in high concentrations. what is not disputed is the ongoing bombardment of douma, the last remaining rebel stronghold on the outskirts of damascus. weeks of assault from the air and ground as the president's troops, backed by russia, try to reclaim control of the town. and that is perhaps why the town. and that is perhaps why the us has been quick to blame oath, saying: graf or and it is civilians who suffer most, as this conflict continues, more than seven

statement that russia says" such actions will not be left without consequences. " this is from the reuters news agency have worried you when you are in the white house? it is very non-specific full top to me it sounds like bluster. you have a russian ambassador to lebanon saying that if the us fired missiles at the syrian regime, that russia would not only target those missiles, but also the aircraft and ships that it hit, that was a very strong response, aircraft and ships that it hit, that was a very strong response, either it was intended to serve as bluster or was unauthorised by moscow. tonight, i don't know that they will be consequences for the us military. russia may look to asymmetric tactics to impose some sort of restrictions on us business in russia, as they are currently contemplating. but those will have more of an impact on russia's economy then on the us economy. let's bring you up—to—date with what has been happening. it has been a fast moving few hours. the us, britain and france have fired cruise missiles at suspected chemical weapons sites in syria. the us military said the three l

looking at the reuters news agency, syrian state tv as saying that a scientific research facility in —— is seen. i suppose this is more of the same, they are targeting perhaps where these chemical weapons are being made, stored, and from where they are just repeated? absolutely right. a science research facility could be somewhere where chemical weapons are researched and stored and investigated. it is difficult. one wouldn't necessarily be surprised to hear the syrians claimed that it is a civilian research facility which has been hit. we know from people on the ground that there have been several large and loud explosions in and around damascus. the french, british and american authorities are claiming they are targeting chemical weapons plants and army bases, particularly associated with the syrian regime. it is clear they are not attempting to hit any locations that are not part of the syrian military capability. then, thank you. —— ben. max abrams is an assistant professor of political science in boston. we spoke a few days ago, when the alleged chemical weapons attack happened.

their investigation into the suspected poison gas attack they are currently in damascus but reuters news agencyis quoting a united nations sources saying they're not likely to go to do much today as expected there have been reports of gunfire there the inspection team will focus on establishing whether a poison gas attack actually took place earlier this month and if so what chemicals were used we spoke to journalist stefan board from t.v. for sweden earlier he visited them on monday and talked to people there about the alleged poison gas attack. well some don't want to talk about it some people are claiming that it's actually the rebel side that is responsible for that attack and so on all doses of their started turning in this building that these days but you have to have in mind that people here in syria don't care it's general speech freely about what they think and so big event almost everywhere it is time to just letters you know government controlled area rebel controlled areas so you have to see to it wait what what's people are saying actually it could lead to war or not if they if the

the reuters news agency reports confirmation of that from a senior american official. reports from palm beach, florida. us media are reporting that mike pompeo, the director of the cia paid a secret visit to north korea on the easter weekend to lay the groundwork for this summit. he has been nominated to become secretary of state and during that visit he met directly with kim jong—un and it was a week later that the white house said it had directly confirm that kim jong—un was willing to negotiate about possibility of giving up his nuclear weapons. so it seems to be this meeting that mr trump was referring to when he said that contact referring to when he said that co nta ct ha d referring to when he said that contact had happened at the highest level. we have had talks at the highest level. let's leave it a little bit short, we have had talks at the highest level. it is going very well but we will see what happens. all of this has come to light as mrtrump happens. all of this has come to light as mr trump is hosting the japanese prime minister at his resort in west pa

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has already given such an assurance in initial talks with south korea, but according to the reuters news agency first time it's given this guarantee with washington. church services have been held in canada, following the deaths of 15 young ice hockey players in a bus crash. prime ministerjustin trudeau will attend a national vigil in the coming hours at the hockey rink where they played in their home town in the province of saskatchewan. police in germany have arrested six people over an alleged plot to carry out what's described as a "violent crime," at the berlin half marathon. the german newspaper, die welt, say the accused has links to anis amri, who was behind the truck attack that killed 12 people at a christmas market in berlin in 2016. in golf, patrick reed has won the us masters to land his first major title. reed, shot a one—under—par 71 that left him one shot clear of rickie fowler. it's reed's sixth pga tour victory, but the first major championship of his career. 0urteam in our team in sport today will have more. the battle for influence in the south china sea is continuing to hea

two journalists from the reuters news agency held in prison in myanmar will find out shortly if chargesoo were investigating alleged crimes by the burmese army against the rohingya people when they were detained last december and accused of possessing secret government papers. thejudge will rule on whether the case should be dismissed because of a lack of evidence. an international war crimes tribunal is due to deliver its judgement in the case of a prominent serbian politician later on wednesday. radical party leader vojislav seselj was cleared of crimes against humanity and war crimes two years ago. prosecutors appealed against the acquittal, they maintain mr seselj led a paramilitary group which forcibly displaced or killed tens of thousands of people in croatia and bosnia in the 1990s. yulia skripal, who was poisoned with a nerve agent alongside herfather in salisbury last month, has been discharged from hospital. she's been taken to a secure location. her father sergei, a former russian spy, remains in hospital and doctors say he is recovering more slowly than his daughter. the rus

russia might have tampered with the site of the alleged chemical attack that's according to the reuters news agency which obtained a statement from a meeting of the organizations executives inspectors from the o.p.c. w are currently in syria to investigate the claims made by the assad government russia's foreign ministers denied the suggestion that his country's experts meddled with any evidence. well he flat out denied those accusations coming from the u.s. envoy saying that he guarantees that russia did not in any way tamper or manipulate the site of the alleged attack the u.s. envoy is referring to the fact that just a few days after this alleged attack took place russian military did send specialists to the site and searched the area and they said that they could find no traces of chemical weapons there and since then of course russia has been calling for an international independent investigation to take place on the ground especially given that the initial reports of this alleged attack were coming from groups like the white helmets which has a very questionable reputation now the o.p.c. w. t

rush it might have tampered with the attack site that's according to a state detained by the reuters news agency russia's foreign ministry denied those allegations. and you can see russia has not tampered with them yes i can guarantee but before you before you're not it's like it's like. it's absolutely the same as was the logic of the resume on solsbury that's of course is it a lover of foreign minister for russia giving an in-depth interview to the b.b.c. which brought up a number of key issues. the reason channel existing between the russian and the united states military. both between the good patrols and on the ground in syria and i believe the military discussed and continue to discuss this and other things very professionally and they understand the charter and they understand maybe better than anyone else that the danger of this kind of adventure. i'm not in the guessing business what i know is that the way one sometime ago the three western countries who are leading this this crazy campaign said eve us of the uses chemical weapons then we would use force you know i believe that was a si

has already given such an assurance in initial talks with south korea, but according to the reuters news agencyhave arrested six people over an alleged plot to carry out what's described as a "violent crime", at the berlin half marathon. the german newspaper, die welt, say the accused has links to anis amri, who was behind the truck attack that killed 12 people at a christmas market in berlin in 2016. stay with us on bbc news. still to come... as a us aircraft carrier sails into the south china sea, we report on washington's concern over beijing's growing naval power. 25 years of hatred and rage as theyjump up on the statue. this funeral became a massive demonstration of black power, the power to influence. today is about the promise of a bright future, a day when we hope a line can be drawn under the bloody past. i think that picasso's works were beautiful, they were intelligent, and it's a sad loss to everybody who loves art. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: western leaders express their outrage at a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria. the united nations security council is due

these pictures come from syrian state television via the reuters news agency.kes overnight. those air strikes, the contribution from britain and america, we are told now that the french launched 12 missiles. and that the british launched eight from the four tornado jets. two were fired by each of four tornadojets, which were jets. two were fired by each of four tornado jets, which were launched overnight. by my reckoning, as his 20 missiles in britain and france in total. which presumably means the other 80 came from the united states. those pictures from damascus, we can't verify them independently. they had, according to the syrian border that we do know that one of the sites it wasn't damascus. the british, americans and french say it was a site used in chemical weapons storage or production. and there were two other sites in and around homs which were also kids. there will be a un security council meeting convenes for a later this afternoon. —— also hit. more news from us after the weather. thing is looking brighter and warmer as the weekend begins. tomorro

this is from the reuters news agency. diverted from their path, injuring three civilians. this is the state newsagency in syria. something else they are saying, senior assad regime officials, saying that the targeted military sites were evacuated days after a warning from russia. that is assad official saying this. they spoke about 30 missiles fired at syria from the us, french and research. a third of which were shut down. —— french and british. clearly, much of this is difficult to verify. also, the russian foreign affairs committee has been giving a statement, saying that the attack on syria by us and allied forces are" an outrageous violation of international law and are groundless attack on a sovereign government". the us defence secretary, james mattis, also spoke to the press about the operation. earlier today president trump ordered the us military to conduct operations in concert with our allies to destroy the chemical weapons capabilities of the chemical weapons capabilities of the syrian regime. tonight, france

government forces have pushed the last rebel fighters out of the town of that's according to the reuters news agency quoting a russian official that is the last rebel stronghold in eastern guta outside damascus russian military police have been deployed to take on the security. the white house says all options are on the table for u.s. response to saturday's apparent chemical attack in duma that follows an earlier tweet by donald trump warning the syrian government's main ally russia to get ready for missiles to be fired. a former senior official in china who was once a major candidate for a leadership position has been convicted on charges of corruption. is one of the most prominent politicians to be charged under president xi jinping anti corruption crackdown. israel says it has fired at several hamas positions and gaza in response to an explosion which damaged a vehicle used by an army engineering the military says a bomb was planted under a protest of the gaza israel border no one was injured and it's unclear what type of weapons israel used in the attack. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has fac

russia might have tampered with the attack site that's according to a statement obtained by the reuters news agency russia's foreign minister denies the allegations more on that now from correspondent jacqueline booga. well he flat out denied those accusations coming from the u.s. envoy saying that he guarantees that russia did not in any way tamper or manipulate the site of the alleged attack the u.s. envoy is referring to the fact that just a few days after this alleged attack took place russian military did send specialists to the site and searched the area and they said that they could find no traces of chemical weapons there and since then of course russia has been calling for an international independent investigation to take place on the ground especially given that the initial reports of this alleged attack were coming from groups like the white helmet which has a very questionable reputation now the o.p.c. w. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons did arrive to syria already on saturday but it seems that they have yet to begin their investigation now sergey lavrov also ca

crisis with a policeman telling the court they were laid into a trap while lone unsure so of the reuters news agency are accused of violating a state secret so are acquiring official documents but the police when he was appearing as a prosecution witness allege one of his senior officers and ordered colleagues to hand over the documents to entrap the journalists who already knew. the prosecution witness testified today and he testified the truth i want to say that the truths are coming out as he testified about how the police brigadier general trapped us it is coming out that no one can do unfair things to us no one should suppress us and the media i believe that the truth and justice will be coming out soon the german capital bolin is slowly getting back to normal after the discovery of a world war two bomb sparked a mass evacuation around ten thousand people were ordered to leave an eight hundred meter radius area in the city center including the railway station on disposal experts to fuse the five hundred kilogram british bomb which was dropped more than seventy years ago germany uncovers around

policeman telling the court they were lured into a trap while on a and choice so all of the reuters news agency are accused of violating a state secrets law by acquiring official documents the policeman who was appearing as a prosecution witness alleged one of his senior officers had ordered colleagues to hand over the documents to entrap to journalists. so normally you know we're very surprised the truth has been revealed in this way we thought from the beginning this case was a set up but we didn't expect the police would testify like we have this testimony will be a very strong support for the defendants case. german capital berlin is slowly getting back to normal after the discovery of world war two bombs parts of mass evacuation around ten thousand people were ordered to leave an eight hundred meter radius area in the city center including the main will weigh station bomb disposal experts to fuse the five hundred kilogram british bomb which was dropped more than seventy years ago germany uncovers around two thousand tons of unexploded munitions every year and finally one of the world's mos

placement telling the court that they were lured into a trap while on and juries see all of the reuters news agency ever accused of violating a state secret by acquiring official documents up the policeman who was appearing as a prosecution witness alleged one of the senior officers and ordered colleagues to hand over the documents to entrap journalists normally you know with every surprise the truth has been revealed in this way we thought from the beginning which case was a setup but we didn't expect the police would testify like we have the testimony will be very strong support for the defendants case. appalls government is banning all public vehicles that are more than twenty years old in a drive to combat air pollution but some say the move is unfair on people who rely on their vehicles to make a living in a stressed reports live from the capital katmandu. catastrophic can be a nightmare and often the pollution levels exceed that of larger cities like new delhi and beijing you know to manage pollution and accidents in the past government started enforcing an old decision to ban public vehicles

with saudi arabia's king psalm on when discussing the gulf diplomatic crisis according to the reuters news agency donald trump demanded that saudi and its partners quickly end the dispute it's not clear what the king's response was in saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind egypt severed ties and imposed a trade embargo on qatar almost a year ago accusing the government of funding terrorism cutters strongly denies the allegations. as are the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us inside story is coming up next thank you for watching.

palestinians have been killed by israeli soldiers since the protests began nearly four weeks ago reuters news agency is reporting that two united nations vehicles have been seen close to the side of a suspected chemical attack in duma near the syrian capital inspectors tasked with determining if a chemical attack was carried out on april the seventh have been trying to gain access to the site for almost a week there have been they've been waiting for approval to enter from a u.n. security team the u.s. has accused russia of delaying the inspectors entry and tampering with the site. and russia's foreign minister says the u.s. led strikes on syria last week did not cross what he called the red line so he says the kremlin told us which areas would be acceptable to target. where you are we had contacts between the military leadership and the level of generals with our representatives in the commanders of the u.s. led coalition they were informed about where our red lines are including geographical red lines on the ground in any case the result showed they have not crossed these red lines police in south

forces have pushed the last rebel fighters out of the town of duma now that's according to the reuters news agency and they're quoting a russian military official it's the last rebel stronghold in the east and clave outside the capital damascus russian military police have been deployed to the area to take over security. the u.n. chief antonio terrace says the security council must prevent syria spiraling out of control the softer present donald trump said the u.s. will respond to saturday's suspected chemical attack and duma which is not far from the capital damascus. a white house correspondent kimberly halakhah is. this is how the united states responded to last year's nerve agent gas attack in qana by attacking a syrian air base with tomahawk missiles and it's how the u.s. may act again. trump has blamed the syrian government for a recent suspected chemical attack outside damascus with their troops on the ground in syria he's also accusing russia of complicity for supporting president bashar al assad in a series of tweets on wednesday morning president donald trump warned missiles will be comi

with saudi arabia's king saul man when discussing the gulf diplomatic crisis according to the reuters news agency donald trump demanded that saudi and its partners quickly end the dispute it's not clear what the king's response was saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain in egypt has severed ties and impose a trade embargo on tatar for almost a year accusing the government of funding terrorism and qatar strongly denies the allegations those were the headlines and back with the news hour in thirty minutes next it's witness here on ars sarah. yes they are actually pretty committed here we know. if the entire football v.d.u. going to happen it will be sure solidly. we're going to zero but i might be the c.d.'s became i tell you i guess dolly on. the way. but little do you want to see what goes into it all alone in the bush what is getting even if you know. this you will get everybody single your what a look at the. top of the hour yet also one of the able to say but i will put our humbly your love and my will are they are things. in effect a man in me turn to stone. i mean i think that and then to hear. and

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this footage, supplied to the reuters news agency, and not independently verified by the bbc, apparentlydesperately trying to help children and families. syria's government says the allegations are a fabrication, and staff from a medical relief organisation on the front line say they are worried about what could have been used. we have received many patients who suffered from symptoms compatible with the exposure to high concentration chlorine gas. also, their symptoms were deteriorating in a fashion that is not compatible with pure chlorine gas exposure. and that is why our physicians are concerned about exposure to nerve gas in low concentration. what is not disputed is the ongoing bombardment of douma, the last remaining rebel stronghold on the outskirts of damascus. weeks of assaults from the air and the ground as the president's troops, backed by russia, try and reclaim control of the town, and that is perhaps why the us has been quick to blame both, it is civilians who suffer most is this conflict continues, more than seven years in and no end in sight. rising violence on britain's

with the policeman telling the court they were lured into a trap while loney and sure of the reuters news agency are accused of violating a state secrets law by acquiring official documents they face up to fourteen years in jail but the policeman who was appearing as prosecution witness. one of his senior officers had ordered colleagues to hand over the documents to entrap the journalists so noronen you know we're very surprised the truth has been revealed in this way we thought from the beginning this case was a set up but we didn't expect the police would testify like we have this testimony will be a very strong support for the defendant's case you know you know. the prosecution witness testified today and he testified the truth i want to say that the truths are coming out as he testified about how the police brigadier general trapped us it is coming out that no one can do unfair things to us no one should suppress us and the media i believe that the truth and justice will be coming out soon north and south korean officials can call each other directly thanks to a newly installed hot line sout

korea's statements if you stay with us here of course on al-jazeera let's move on because the reuters news agency is reporting that police in madagascar's capital her fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators or forty's declared on tuesday that any weekend protests would be illegal the opposition says newly passed electoral laws are scandalous attempt to muzzle and ahead of elections later in the year fighters in the rebel held area near syria's capital have agreed to lay down their weapons and leavers part of an evacuation deal brokered by russia state television showing buses with fighters and their families leaving moon about forty kilometers from damascus and traveling to northern syria more than a hundred thousand people live in the mountainous region half of them are internally displaced and have been under siege for years now syrian president bashar assad backed by russia and iran is seeking to recover control of the last few rebel claves near the capital and syrian rebels have also reportedly agreed to withdraw from their last stronghold near the capital it's in the south of damascus th

call with saudi arabia's king salon when discussing the gulf diplomatic crisis cording to the reuters news agency donald trump demanded that saudi and its partners quickly end the dispute it's not clear what the king's response was saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt are severed ties and imposed a trade embargo on qatar for nearly a year accusing its government of funding terrorism a charge that qatar strongly denies. the description of the forceful language is very different from the original white house readout of trump's phone call with king saul man which was released on april the third it says president trump emphasized the importance of resolving the gulf dispute and restoring a united gulf cooperation council to counter rainy and malign influence and defeat terrorists and extremists. mom bashar is a senior political analyst joins me now live from our london bureau on the release of this document does actually make for interesting reading that the white house has to all intents and purposes seemed to be telling the saudis and the u.a.e. to sort their regional issues out

two journalists working for the reuters news agency in myanmar accused of violating state secrecy laws have appeared in court while own who were arrested in december while investigating abuses in rockline state if convicted they could face a prison sentence of up to fourteen years last week a policeman who is appearing as a witness told the court that one of his senior officers gave the documents to the journalist to entrap them. officials in mexico say an award winning journalist was killed last year because of his investigative stories on drug trafficking and organized crime have evolved as was shot dead in may just weeks after he interviewed a leading figure in this in a lower cartel. a suspect was arrested on monday night until juana valdez was one of at least ten journalists killed in mexico last year. now light pollution is threatening to undermine our ability to search for life on other planets even happening in chile's atacama desert one of the darkest areas on earth i think obama's home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes but light pollution there is increased up t