locals including doctors from the syrian town of duma testified this week at the u.n. bank chemical watchdog headquarters in the netherlands they were saying that they witness no signs of an alleged chemical attack on april seventh r.t. arabic located a boy seen in an unverified white helmet video showing the supposed it aftermath of a toxic strike he also gave evidence to the o p c w but not everyone wanted to hear what he had to say of explains when these reviews emerged pundits and politicians took them as gospel the truth conclusive indisputable and irrefutable proof of as he adds chemical since the chemical weapon that killed dozens of civilians and astaire's that the us had regime has previously used in chemical attacks the assad regime has used this same yellow gas canisters the n.s.c. telling fox news they have a high degree of confidence that it was used they must have had solid evidence you don't just launch a hundred cruise missiles in an act of war without convincing proof beyond any doubt right right wrong. we were in the basement and then heard someone outside

alleged attack in the city of duma witnesses explain how events unfolded on april seventh to the u.n. bank chemical watchdog alongside russia's representative boy also spoke out after appearing in a video which activist groups claimed to show a chemical attack. we were in the basement and then heard someone outside scream go to hospital they were scared they started to pour water on me i don't know why they did this. on the seventh of april i was in the emergency room treating patients injured during the fighting the same day around seven pm we started receiving patients with breathing problems about fifteen cases this happened because people were inhaling smoke and dust but they only show symptoms of choking and nothing more it all happened because one missile hit a building nearby and a lot of dust got into the hospital rooms. your side of. the screams chemical weapons chemical weapons were used to create panic this lasted for about an hour we were treating the patients and then sending them home we had no fatalities or instances of people suffering from poison substances these testimoni

renegade general hurley for half the loyal to live years rival parliament in the east and reject the u.n. bank government in the capital tripoli zimbabweans of celebrated their first independence day without robert mugabe is leader the economy and upcoming elections are the big test for the new president and. how to metacity reports from harare. it's the first independence day celebrations without robert mugabe is about his former president in charge the military forced him to resign in november. the new leader a missile when i got one lice independence flame which was first lit thirty eight years ago with the bobby gained independence from britain in one nine hundred eighty. after years of government corruption and mismanagement and demagogue his role when i go is under pressure to in crippling foreign currency shortages and create jobs. and. when i go is pushing for more direct foreign investment to revive the economy some people warn that will not necessarily create jobs we need to have you know a targeted approach towards it because it's not just going to trickle down once the economy star

u.n. says up to one hundred thousand people have now returned to iraq in syria five months after i still was driven out in a u.s. bank to military campaign now a u.n. team visited the city earlier this week for the first time since it was freed testament's two thirds of homes are destroyed while most residents still have no access to clean water but city leaders say it's still riddled with unexploded devices made reika the defacto capital of itself declared caliphate when it captured the city in twenty fourteen ministers from egypt sudan and ethiopia holding talks on who controls the world's longest river egypt which depends on the nile for water is worried about a day being built upstream by ethiopia smith explains. in the northeast of africa the waters of the nile irrigate crops that feed millions of people the white nile flows from uganda through south sudan and into sudan and the blue nile from ethiopia into saddam and in the capital khartoum they converge on the world's longest river heads to egypt and not far from the border with sudan ethiopia is building what will be the largest down in africa a one thousand

banks. it is difficult to navigate the u.n. agencies from a leadership aspect and bilateral agencies to create a cohesive economic plans. to me, the economic planning and the security our two sides of the same coin. as a private investor, i am curious and interested to see advancement on the economic side and planning. mr. o'hanlon: thank you. panelist,s to each starting with the ambassador. ambassador schwartz: on agriculture -- it is much needed. there is a lot -- it was productive, particularly in the river area. there are a lot of big problems getting in. security, obviously. this has changed and become more complicated over the last 25 years since land ownership -- a and othersclans moved in and taken land, stolen land. a lot of people have been displaced. unfortunately, it seems to be the bantu population. land ownership is important to them. there are water issues that were not as pronounced before. great.can make it work, it is tough. -- i am notmilitary privy to the last few months. of the drone strikes is to support s

u.n. to do more to protect journalists there in the right amount of jumping there in ramallah in the occupied west bank mohammed thank you. well on friday the u.s. blocked a u.n. security council statement endorsing calls for an independent investigation into the deaths of palestinian protesters the other fourteen security council members had agreed to the statement which also supported the right of palestinians to demonstrate peacefully the u.s. which is israel's closest ally blocked a statement last week as well. but more to come here on the news hour including under attack someone is caught between an escalating dispute over fishing rights between barra tenure and senegal. and colombia attempts to register the hundreds of thousands of venezuelans who fled from the economic and political turmoil back home and its board a milestone for women's football in the middle east details coming up without. not least forty civilians including eight children have been killed in the syrian government has trikes on the rebel held city of duma the raids ended a ceasefire that had been in place for almost two weeks

u.n. for at what lies ahead deutsche bank new ceo. bloomberg. ♪. rish: very big decision.ery big challenge with a new top.t the >> new man at the top is now going to have as his main goal returning the bank to some revenue growth which was the for his goal predecessor. christian takes over immediately. there was a meeting earlier. we should about five hours ago bank executives. the executive board meeting and the succession plan that he is a lifelong deutsche bank employee. as the ceo over almost immediately according to the statement that was released frankford. what's important, he risen within the company as the cohead bank startedment almost 30 years ago. had two major recent victories. leading the internal into moneyon laundering scandal. executives and corporate employees to buy into cuts. he has risen to the top. what's also important is that garth richie was promoted to unit.ead of the security will become former deputy ceo is now leaving. to john klein, he becomes a president. what happens to the stock chart look. the expectation is it gets better from here. trail

u.n. present in somalia. there is about 30 countries with sort of bilateral presence either in nairobi or somalia. there is about eight or nine developmental banks. so and then to ambassador schwartz's point about capacity, it's very difficult i think from a somali leadership perspective even to navigate all the u.n. agencies and all of the bilateral agencies to be able to develop a cohesive coordinated economic plan. so to me the economic planning and the security are two sides of the exact same coin. and as a private investor, i'm very curious and interested to see advancement on the economic side and the economic planning. thank you. >> thank you. so i'm going to give about two minutes to each panelist, starting with the ambassador, if i could, and then we'll wrap up, please. >> go in reverse order. >> just a couple of them per person. >> on the agriculture. it's much needed. i think there is a lot of -- and it was very, very productive, particularly in the river area. but there is a lot of big problems i think getting in now. security obviously. and this has changed and become more complicated over the last 25 years as land ownership -- a lo

and the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders of the people who needed to learn all this are gora from democracy to the markets on al-jazeera. the. u.n. security council meets to discuss the spiraling diplomatic crisis caused by the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. . this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a german court allows consular only as former president carlos pushed him on out on bail and so they decide on extraditing him to spain meanwhile brazil's wildly popular acts president lula is tell he must go behind bars over a corruption conviction. and zimbabwe's a money maker is put under the spotlight after human rights campaigners say the tobacco industry is rife with abuse. the un security council is meeting to discuss the fallout from the poisoning of the former russian spy service cripple and his daughter the session has been called by russia which is seeking to undermine britain's case that moscow was responsible for last month's attack in salisbury eunice cripples health has improved rapidly but her father remains in intensive care lawrence lee reports. first the good news scriptural is on the mend

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through wells fargo bank which we understand was located in the tripoli international airport in libya just hours before the u.n. security council met to approve a nfls over that country. similar -- no-fly zone over that country. simile, we had one that mysteriously appeared in tehran -- iran in 2014, bearing an american flag emblem. this occurred, obviously, in the midst of u.s. and international sanctions. prohibiting the travel of u.s. aircraft to iran was the law at that point. the f.a.a. could not explain who was operating the plane or who owned it, and the lack of transparency and accountability in the f.a.a.'s registration system is a serious national security threat. now, there was a time when democrats and republicans could work on amendments like that and they would be accepted. i'm still mystified as to where the opposition came from. also, the public health and safety demands that the f.a.a. take immediate steps to mitigate the impact of concentrated flight paths, which come in and out of major airports around the country. they got a new system called next gen system that concentrates the flights ov

meeting in the west bank city of ramallah for the first time in twenty two years the top of the agenda is whether or not to suspend the recognition of israel and a delegation from the u.n. security council is in myanmar to investigate the rango crisis that delegates have met with me amounts to facto leader unsung see cheney in the capital before traveling to rack and state some seven hundred thousand rayna muslims have been forced to flee the region after a military operation was launched last august was the headlines i'll be back with more news in twenty five minutes time do join me then coming up next it's the strain. hi i'm femi oke a today why are looted ethiopian treasures from the nineteenth century still in the u.k. . a new exhibition in london showcases plundered artifacts from the abyssinian empire casting a spotlight once again on the debate over whether the spoils of war should be returned to their home countries so right now you are in the stream we're live on al-jazeera and you so leave your comments in the chap box on league and i will do our best to get into the show. you straight. if you know piers government is calling for the return of cultural artifa

meeting in the west bank city of ramallah for the first time in twenty two years top of the agenda is whether or not to suspend the recognition of israel and a delegation from the u.n. security council is in myanmar to investigate the rango crisis that delegates have met with me amounts to facto leader in the capital before traveling to rack and state some seven hundred thousand rayna muslims have been forced to flee the region after a military operation was launched last august was the headlines i'll be back with more news in twenty five minutes time do join me then coming up next it's the strain.

bank and tributes have been pouring in on his facebook page. facebook page with many people expressing their sadness and calling on the u.n. to do more to protect spanish seanie and journalists and this was one of the very last photos more to talk with his camera an aerial photo of the so-called grand return comes near khan yunis well joining us now on the news great is sami abu salim he's a palestinian journalist working for the national news agency wafa is live from gaza thank you so much for being with us. what is your reaction to the death of your condo and you know israel says it it's investigating do you think yasser was deliberately hit by the israeli army. i think that this mere door i can call it milled i think this move there is a new evidence that the palestinian journalists are facing a horrible dangers in the palestinian territories especially in gaza a civil kinds of danger number one to be killed to be murdered by israeli occupation this is the first they are facing why i call it murder because they are it is obvious that they are being targeted deliberately for example what happened yesterday that. our coll

located on quite steep banks banks where the vegetation has been stripped where the refugees have been using as far i would so they are very susceptible to landslides now the u.n. says that needs to as quickly as possible move around two hundred thousand people to an area of land that the bangladesh government has allocated around one hundred acres un and aid agencies are also busy training range of refugees in first response programs a lot of volunteer is being trained in that they're also being trained on how to better secure their tents there are roads being built as well out of break more substantial kind of sort of face through the refugee camp in all the that if there is some sort of landslide or a serious problem during the cycle then agencies have access to all areas but it's very telling that one person from the international organization for migration who's very much at the forefront of this campaign preparing these camps said what is important now is that they try and avert a potential disaster from what already is one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world chance thank you very much for that for now that's why correspondent charles stratfo

the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders of the people who needed to learn of us are gora from democracy to the markets on al-jazeera. coming. up. the. u.n. security council meets to discuss the spiraling diplomatic crisis caused by the poisoning of a full russian spy in the u.k. . this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a german court allows consular only as former president carlos bring.

iranian forces which bank the asset government in the war the strikes happened just hours after at least forty people died in a suspected chemical attack in duma in eastern halter the u.n. security council is due to discuss the attack in a few hours time both the presidents of france and the us believe chemical weapons were used when duma was the rebels' last stronghold near the capital damascus now leaving as part of a russian sponsored deal in exchange the rebels released prisoners of war zone the whole that joins us now live from beirut so let's start first of all with the news of that strike conducted we're told of the russians say by the israelis well what more do we know about that. well there has been no official confirmation from the israeli government u.s. officials have been quoted as saying that the israeli government informed washington that they do intend to strike at targets in syria before it happened like you mentioned the russians as well as the syrian government they're pointing the finger of blame at the israelis now this is not the first time israel has struck targets inside syria but this is the first time that the russian government is actually bl

north korea, they have been laundering money, stuart through chinese banks, to north korea to help pay for it this is one of the u.nccounts china has actually complied with. they help to shut down the laundering of the iranian money into north korea. so that is kind of dried up some of his money source to finance this. and, pretty interesting, last friday, at the workers party plenum, their big communist assembly, he is always there boasting about the nuclear program, he was talking about economics and economic policy a lot is going on. that is why stuart, i really believe this president will wait to see what kind of deal, if any he gets on denuclearization from kim jong-un before he makes a final determination on iran. stuart: he was very clear yesterday, i forget the exact words, they have got to get rid of the nukes. they have to denuclearize. that is dramatic and straightforward, what he says. >> he has got more leverage. brought kim jong-un to the table and it is american strength. when the president did what he did in syria the other day, he was not just sending a message to bashar al-assad. he was sending a

u.n., reagan vetoed that. back to your spending, starting in the 1980's, reagan had said there out the banks with the brady bondsthen, we had to long-term whenal -- the latest is bush wrote a check to the banks for $900 billion. if you add all of that up, that is about $5 trillion in spending, with interest. fdic went from 40,000 in the 80's -- now it is 250,000. i know a lot of the guests at have a lot of money in the bank, but i doubt the average caller has anywhere close to a quarter million dollars. now private -- you can go to your stockbroker and put $750,000 in two an account. that is protected by a private insurer. i think warren buffett and the rest of this guy should open a bunch of trading accounts, use cipro, and we can eliminate fdic. one other thing -- that chemical plant harvey destroyed in texas is still burning. in 2014, the epa says you should not put concrete domes over your generators in case you get flooded -- host: we moved to john from los angeles. democrats line. how should congress cut the nation's debt? good morning. caller: hi. host: good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? i w

u.n. sanctions openly and it doesn't really matter if the talks between trump and kim go well. we can ignore it. if the talks don't go well we have to start imposing costs on chinese banksndering money for north korea. >> sandra: with the little time i have left your expectations for the discussion in the white house today with the french leader and our president when it comes to syria and leaving a u.s. military presence there, macron wants it. the president has shown recently that he wants to pull our troops out. >> there is a lot of pressure in washington to keep the troops in. this is one area where i think trump can make a concession to macron. the most important thing when you heard both talk on the south lawn is just how overwhelming the american relationship with france is. it is our oldest one and even if you have minor disputes today, they don't really matter much when considering the centuries of relationship. >> sandra: fascinating stuff. gordon chang, great to have you on set this morning. >> bill: confirmation for the secretary delayed indefinitely. why is ronny jackson's future of the cabinet for the trump administration suddenly in jeopardy. >> sandra: t