crisis but also about regional issues as you know qatar and the key players in the conflict of syria for example on the share similar views about how to move forward and what kind of world should the opposite syrian opposition play in the future with nature the qataris have signed an agreement paving the way for nato to pass they'll to. get into qatar used a qatari military base of date will for nato is operations enough god is said but also in their. push against i self in the region and that's quite significant because as you remember back in june when sandy arabia these are lies start of the embargo on. the accused qatar for sponsoring extremism accusations strongly denied by qatar had now this partnership with no don't have a qatari perspective is clear indication they are able not only to break the embargo but also to break any attempt by the saudis to put more isolation. or qatar now this comes against the backdrop warning crees tension in the region and the rising rhetoric particular from saudi arabia with which suggest that we might not see any political way out of the crisis

understatements as our correspondent in turkey syria border and declaring what amounts to a victory and we've been asking this question all morning is it really just too premature andree. it would seem that in terms of this city it is apparently all over more or less bara the follow up operations which are ongoing clearing areas all of. it providing the advise explosive devices out of course the other operations going on in other why p.g. held areas that turkey wants to take over we're hearing now that there are vases going on in various other locations within the occupied territory occupied by why p.g. so we're certainly not at the end of this operation no our freedom is a key area in terms of what's turkey wants to do but of course as you're saying it has to move east as far as walk happen is concerned it was quite fast in the end because overnight saturday sunday their walls detachment of special forces according to turkish c senior sources within the military that was to actually deployed following on from that the free syrian army deployed attacked from the west and the east and ap

says nearly one hundred fifty civilians have managed to leave rebel held eastern ghouta in syria the government's ally russia and rebels agreed to evacuate injured people from the area which has been under heavy bombardment for the past three weeks. former south korean president lee myung bak has been questioned in court over a string of corruption charges he's accused of taking more than ten billion dollars in bribes from the states by agency he denies any wrongdoing he served as president for five years from two thousand and eight keep it here on al-jazeera the stream is next and then or news. breaks candidates don't like the winner but he may putin's tight grip on the kremlin is very easy to use now when russian people. there is every indication that they will return him to the boards presidential to. follow the russian elections here to zero. hi emily could be and you're in the stream you're joining us for our second show this week covering the south by southwest festival in the u.s. city of austin texas so they will look at how musicians are expressing political activism through

are life my headquarters here in doha also coming up the number of wounded and dead keeps rising in syria's eastern whether it's meant to be a partial ceasefire. also despite scandals and legal problems silvio berlusconi looks poised to make another return to italy in politics. are all those it's been a tug of love something to celebrate the restoration of one of russia's many run down the states. welcome to the program two of the world's superpowers off flexing their military muscles russia's president showcased its plans for the development of its nuclear weapons arsenal a lot of it putin says it will make russia invincible the u.s. has reacted to the threats by approving plans to sell more than two hundred antitank missiles to ukraine and is accusing russia of violating global arms treaties. certainly did not enjoy watching we don't regard that as the behavior of a responsible international player president putin has confirmed what the united states government has known for a long time that russia has denied prior to this that russia has developed been developing destabilizing weapon sys

looking at six more years of the big question what's next also on the grid escaping the violence of syria. only to be arrested in government territory what's happening to with least some of the people who've made it out according to human rights groups citing unverified reports will also have the latest on what it's like for those still trapped inside the ever shrinking rebel enclave and a health system on the brink of collapse children detained right eroded the latest u.n. sponsored report on the occupied palestinian territory makes for difficult reading we'll speak to the offer. from the liaison woman convicted of naming made to death prison time details of an online petition that. demands equal justice for all and they sent messages live throughout the say on spezza and facebook. with the newspaper live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and then al-jazeera dot com thanks for joining us it was an easy victory to easy according to international observers that's a lot of repute and won a fourth term as president so he secured seventy seven percent of the votes p

designed to make life unsustainable for the ranger who remain in the north of the state of rebel group in syria's eastern ghouta says it's reached an agreement with russia to evacuate wounded people from the besieged enclave the un security council is due to discuss a possible ceasefire. germany's grand coalition deal has been signed almost six months after national elections chancellor merkel said she's optimistic it will be a success the deal was signed by mrs merkel's christian democratic union is a very region sister party the christian social union as well as a social democrats you're up to date there is next. on counting the cost in what's been a big week for global trade we'll look at how the u.s. is up bending the rules of comus and free trade is really worth fighting for plus the latest mind bending concept cars from the geneva old tosha counting the cost at this time. the journey to europe starts here in a small bus station off the coast of west africa on the outskirts of gambia skeptical banjul in their backpack they carry some money a change of clothes and perhaps a cell phone everyth

to surrender an area in the south of syria's east and the evacuation of rebels from another group is also continuing from harasta the syrian army's assault to retake began a month ago has been one of the most intense attacks of a seven year war china has called on the us to pull back from the brink as fears of a trade war grow it says it will impose its own tariffs on u.s. goods if president trump insists on taxing chinese imports start lockets around the world fell following trump's announcement of the plan. brews president has been sworn in martin this car is taking over the congress accepted the resignation of head republican he resigned amid allegations of corruption the european union has called back its ambassador in moscow for consultations related to the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. a unit has also backed britain's view that moscow is likely to blame for the attack on sergei scrip all and his d'orsay yulia russia denies the allegations though and says e.u. leaders are being drawn into an anti russia campaign instigated by the u.k. and the united states it up

in syria citizens are collecting evidence and i want a little bit guilty as charged of crimes committed against civilians moved out of syria and there are both six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the outside regime to justice it puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human face syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for getting this is that he was out live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes box like a book finally speaks up but is it enough to rebuild trust lost in facebook over the cambridge analytical control to see. china will not sit idly by while just about rights and interests are hurt tough talk from china as donald trump prepares to slap beijing with billions of dollars worth of tariffs. on. an emotional prison for one nigerian father as he desperately waits for his daughter while dozens of other schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram go free. and on fire a small have all the day's sporting including serena williams is coming back to tennis hence an

human rights chief to those responsible for the assault in syria's eastern ghouta.

all set for more evacuations a day after the second largest rebel group in syria's eastern good surrenders. jane darkness is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the french police officer who was hailed as a hero for foiling the supermarket attack dies of his injuries are. florida high school students take the lead in washington d.c. as they prepare for a series of anti gun rallies around the world. and all dressed up for a big occasion the first iraqi made movie in twenty five years. syrian rebels in eastern good saw surrendering in a southern part of the enclave that a second rebel group to stop fighting in recent days fell like a rahman was in control of the mulcaire and it had been fighters in harassed surrender on says and now that leaves duma as the last rebel stronghold outside the capital damascus rebels and their families have been given safe passage to live as part of the deal the area is the last rebel held province in syria but it is facing intense bombardment and dozens of people have been killed in recent days in a how to joins us now from beirut what more can you tell us

just zero world meets the children who have become victims of syria's civil war. a syrian child on al-jazeera. al-jazeera is a very important force of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. in twenty sixteen when he's revealed big girls from me and some as young as fifteen were trafficked to singapore to work as means it's illegal and cost the lives so why does it still continue in law abiding singapore want to win east on al-jazeera . fourteen palestinians killed and over a thousand injured in clashes with the israeli army along the gaza border following protests to motlanthe day. though i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. turkey accuses france of getting it completely wrong over its backing for the kurdish y p g in northern syria. syrian rebels deny russian claims they've agreed to evacuate the last opposition held enclave in eastern guta. and we need

special envoy on syria stuff and de mistura brief the u.n. security council on the worsening situation not just a nice thing good thing you got to remember the rest of the country as well christians louise at the u.n. for us today is following those developments christian tell us what's been happening and what stuff into mr a said. well stefan de mistura is essentially confirming for the security council what we're hearing from our reporters like alan fischer on the ground that the situation not only in eastern guta but throughout the country is continues to be precarious this was an meeting where the special envoy was supposed to update the security council on implementation of their resolutions particularly twenty four zero one which called for a cease fire across syria and as we can see is not being implemented the one bright spot de mistura mentioned was duma where a shaky cease fire has held for the last six days but in terms of the impact of the ongoing fighting on civilians he described a very grim picture. with civilians continuing to

in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their families where the most terrible thing was syria just to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship through the other sometimes a call to conclude whether to god continue to be surely active in coltrane's. the disappeared of syria at this time on al-jazeera. b.t.w. with your top stories from al-jazeera turkey says it may not hand back the city of earth to the syrian government once its military operation there is over the turkish government says it expects to clear a freeing of kurdish fighters very soon thousands of civilians are leaving the city after turkish troops and free syrian army fighters encircled that place to launch the military assault in january to clear syrian kurdish forces that control the region russia's foreign ministry has called u.k. prime minister to resign may's allegations that moscow was behind a nerve agent attack in england completely insane a spokeswoman said moscow was working on retaliate saree measures for

russia's defense ministry says thirteen thousand fighters and their families have left syria's eastern buthe over the past three days the heading to the only other remaining have rebel held area evacuations a part of a deal struck between rebels and the syrian government ally russia sinha has more from beirut. ahmed says he never carried arms against the syrian government but some of his family members belong to the five rebel factions that's one of the reasons why he left his home in eastern as part of the surrender deal reached with the pro-government alliance the other reason is his opposition to reconciling with a government that has killed so many people. every family in lost a family member i lost a lot of friends i lost a colleague who was among the twenty six who died in the famous airstrike i lost two children that i was teaching at school we decided to move away from this brutal regime. now lives in a mosque he is among some eight hundred thousand people who have been displaced from what was once the rebel controlled enclave in the suburbs of damascus many of those deported t

activists have released new video they say is phosphorous bombs being dropped on a rebel held enclave in syria people struggle to breathe after the residential area in the town of. the pictures emerged after eighty eight people were killed in another aerial assault on the east and that's one of the highest number of casualties in a twenty four hour period pauses and fighting began ten days ago. syrian civil defense says there's also been a gas attack in the town of south east of the massacres at least fifty people have been affected france is promising to respond if there's proof chemical weapons were used in france as i mentioned there warning of action if the reports of those attacks are indeed true in terms of involving chemical weapons we can get more of this from a hold of a joins us now live from beirut so where do the facts stand when it comes to those reports. well this is not the first time activists on the ground as well as the civil defense report a chlorine gas attack in eastern. they've reported this more than once since the latest bombing campaign began just over three weeks ago

is the devil that we know and the last thing we need is an egypt that is like libya or iraq or syria we need stability and we are willing to sacrifice the democratic principle but how stable is egypt right now and you know this compromise it's be made by the west i mean ultimately is it going to be effective that's a very important question and i think that's the dilemma facing most of western leaders. there is this idea of this notion of the likes of sisi even the likes of assad the likes of commitment solomon and others but they'll get on ters of security and stability in the region and partners in the fight against terrorism than the alternatives. but the fact of the matter is the hit the ships authoritarian regimes and repression in the arab world is the the root cause of terrorism instability and violence in the middle east so having taking the shortcut of supporting more repressive regimes will not allow for stability in fact i would argue not only it was going to create more chaos next time around in egypt and the likes it's going to create even worse blowback to those who sup

general confirming what we already know that violence continues not just in eastern but all across syria. absolutely said while the overall intensity of the conflict has gone down since declaring a cease fire there has been absolutely no cessation of hostilities in syria and of course eastern ghouta has been the focus of much of the international community's attention recently with the fighting there continuing unabated the secretary general called it hell on earth. some eight deliveries have been getting into syria but under threat of shelling and a precarious situation some medical supplies have been seized by the government so far the u.n. claims not a single medical evacuation has taken place which was also called for by this resolution although the secretary general did welcome news today that some deal it looks like has been made between opposition groups and russian troops in order to allow some of those evacuations to begin so they are waiting and hopeful on that front but what was really surprising perhaps out of this meeting was an announcement from the united states that they

we begin in syria where a u.n. aid convoy has entered the main town inside the besieged rebel held enclave of eastern but before being allowed past army checkpoints most of the convoys medical supplies were confiscated syrian and russian air attacks meanwhile have continued killing at least forty people in just the past twenty four hours santa has our reporter and the warnings on the may fire. images in this story the story. it's the first time aid has entered the rebel controlled enclave of eastern huta since the latest offensive began just over two weeks ago but world health organization officials say seventy percent of what was loaded on the trucks was removed during inspection it's not the first time syrian government officials have prevented trauma kids and surgical supplies from reaching besieged areas they have been systematically removed from aid convoys in the past to prevent rebel fighters being treated but such life saving medical equipment is what is urgently needed medics say they are struggling accord

activists have released new video they say is phosphorous bombs being dropped on a rebel held enclave in syria people struggle to breathe after the attack in a residential area in the town of homs the pictures emerged after eighty eight people were killed in another aerial assault on eastern that's one of the highest number of casualties in the. twenty four hour period since pauses and fighting began ten days ago syrian civil defense says there's also been a gas attack in the town of south east of damascus at least fifty people have been affected france is promising to respond if there's proof chemical weapons were used so the holder has more from beirut in neighboring lebanon. cases of suffocation and breathing problems are being reported by activists and medics on the ground in eastern civil defense accusing the syrian government of using chlorine gas it won't be the first time they've accused the syrian government is using chlorine gas as a weapon of war since the latest military operation against the besieged and playful eastern would have began almost three weeks ago the shelling really h

the last time i spoke to him he told me he was thinking of going to a syria the world wants to see syria's fighters up close and personal but those behind the camera pay the price filmmaker yes it is a made easy chillingly intimate footage on and behind the front lines cost him his life his body was going down with an exclusive documentary syria the last assignment at this time on al-jazeera. t.v. . he set up in doha with the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia's air force says it's intercepted seven missiles fired from yemen you see rebels have claimed responsibility for the strikes which targeted airports in the capital riyadh and three other cities the saudi authorities say one person was killed in the attack and two others were injured and warn the saudis of a military escalation. in the fourth year of fighting we will be using more developed and more diverse missile systems which will overcome all american and non american air defense systems will use our better and better can missiles will use a long range drones which have excellent military capabilities we will activate the mili

on the turkey syria border and other news south korea's president says japan has not resolve the issue of so-called comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery during world war two and was speaking at an event marking one thousand nine years rose up against japanese for japan has denounced the comments. what president said is it gets to japan south korea agreement it is totally unacceptable and extremely regrettable we immediately lodged a complaint with the south korean government the greenman is an irreversible solution to the issue when japan has conducted all of the obligations based on the agreement and now which is south korea to do the same. donald trump's white house communications director is stepping down the third to leave the post since he came to power thirteen months ago. as one of the president's longest serving advisors it comes a day after she testified before a congressional panel investigating alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election. and trump has been meeting party leaders to discuss reforming gun laws he told them to seriously co

well further north in syria in afrin turkey has criticized the u.s. state department after it voiced concern over the situation in that part of the country that this is in the aftermath of the turkish takeover of afrin from kurdish fighters ankara says the u.s. doesn't understand the purpose of the operation victoria gave him the reports that some of it's enough rain some much needed aid is starting to flow in the turks say they were careful to leave the town's infrastructure intact and have told civilians they can return to those who've already made it home there's a huge sense of relief not only job but i'm talking to the people of my village of lift i hope they can hear me return to your village we're comfortable here there's nothing to worry about it's quiet now. the syrian government has criticized what it calls turkey's occupation of the town and blames the united states for allowing it to happen if turkey is part of the nato and the nato is involved into the bloodshed in the area in iraq as well as in syria so the nato is protecting turkey don'

are russia because we again have combined this was the russian behavior in syria and all that was made. in a good. and in a gray and many other places i think that the polish says that there are russian demonstrate right now before the western world is absolutely independent from its. position america it was upset to his russian behavior russia confronting american policy in many places in the world grain middle east and even a far east so i think that it is the pot of a global confrontation we is a russian federation. and that was used by this case in a london ok i don't believe that russia have a new connection with this case because it is not the in the interests right now or the russia matthew could win in london you had what vs just love was saying that what do you make of that. well i think there is clearly a very consistent line coming from berlin paris london and washington that the nature of the material the fact that it is high grade a high grade military nerve agent really puts all hours pointing in one direction and it the argument certainly made by to reason may and also t

in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their families back to the most terrible thing though syria just to be detained this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship of a mother sometimes a call to compete better to die than continue to be surely than coltrane. the disappeared of syria but this time on al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey and let's recap the top stories for you right now on al-jazeera russian foreign minister sergey lavrov says moscow will expel british diplomats that's in response to britain ordering out twenty three russian embassy staff over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in the u.k. last week also denies any involvement. added that moscow had stopped paying attention to comments from britain after the u.k. defense minister told russia to quote go away and shut up if this clearly impossible to remember. when the last time a high ranking official used such strong phrasing against russia i don't remember if it ever happened stop paying attention to thi

near the turkey syria border. the families of those on board malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy are attending a memorial to mark almost four years since the plane disappeared the malaysian government and a u.s. based company have launched a new search for wreckage m h three seventy disappeared on march eighth twenty fourteen as if live between color longer and beijing with two hundred thirty nine people on board is thought to have crashed in the indian ocean live now to our correspondent florence louie she's in kuala lumpur and florence i understand you're actually at that memorial service is cry for us if you will the the mood with which the families of those on board the flight are coming together. father was a very moving tribute by family members who lost their loved ones on that plane they spoke of how it's so difficult for them to continue. not just because they've lost their loved ones but also because there's no closure there's no sense of understanding what exactly happened and this is what really

thousand five hundred fighters expected to be bussed to live that's a province in the northwest of syria under the control of the opposition they will be accompanied by six thousand family members and any civilian who would want to accompany them can leave of course this will include media to the civil defense volunteers people who are too afraid to stay behind because according to the government they are terrorists now according to the deal the evacuation was to have started at five g.m.t. which is approximately three hours ago so still no movement in that crossing now this has happened in the past these delays because of logistical reasons we're talking about seven thousand five hundred people leaving the town of harassed and like you mentioned this is the first deal in eastern huta of course not the first deal in syria because we've seen this happen in the past where the government lay siege to an area and bombs it really into submission when rebels the side you know they have no other choice but to surrender and be bussed out to other rebel controlled areas so this is one rebel facti

troops would have syria that he soon stephanie decker. the americans have long had a presence in this part of northern syria supporting the syrian democratic forces arrest e.f. in the fight against eisel but turkey views the kurdish y p g which makes up the bulk of the s.d.f. as a terrorist organization and the latest twist french president met with an s.d.s. delegation on thursday night in paris an offer to mediate which isn't going down well in ankara but there's dick. says that he gave guarantee of support to the y p g that france can be mediators between turkey and the s.d.f. who gave you this judy do not engage in things beyond. turkish armed forces have already taking the troll of much of the syrian province of a free in pushing out the y.p. everyone has long threatened to push further east on to members where the us has military bases and all the way to the iraqi border the americans have also been monitoring the potential front line between kurdish fighters and the turkish backed syrian rebels who are nearby and to complicate matt

at least eight turkish soldiers are killed in northern syria where they're battling kurdish fighters. will join security patrols in somalia as new attacks by al shabaab hit the capital. and as hollywood gets ready for the oscars on sunday we turn the spotlight on the film industry is biased against women. welcome to the program of the u.s. accusing russia of breaking treaties dating back to the cold war after vladimir putin unveiled what he describes as invincible nuclear weapons the russian president presented the arsenal with video animations one of which depicted an attack on the united states. i certainly did not enjoy watching we don't regard that as the behavior of a responsible international player president putin has confirmed what the united states government has known for a long time that russia has denied prior to this that russia has developed been developing destabilizing weapon systems for more than a decade in direct violation of its treaty obligations president trump understands the threats facing america and our allies in this in this century and is determined to prot

were moving troops from elsewhere in syria to are free in a but. that is ongoing at the moment and the free syrian army backed by the kurdish military have taken control of six significant towns and villages around our friend to the north and to the south just in the last few hours and president everyone believes that there is going to be an assault in our friend and he believes that there could be free syrian army and turkish troops in the city in the coming days and certainly we're hearing from people on the ground and from that we've been speaking to that that city has been targeted by airstrikes no if it is taking it will be the latest to succumb so if the time of our friend is taken it will be the latest major stronghold to be. overwhelmed by the free syrian army backed up by the turkish military and we crossed the border on friday to visit one tone that has already been taken by the free syrian army. we drove into syria with the turkish army escort they decided where we would go the destination the village of dead one of the first retaken fro

children are amongst the latest victims of the offensive to take the last remaining rebel stronghold near syria's capital. the u.s. president says north korea has promised to hold missile tests ahead of his meeting with leader kim jong un donald trump was speaking at a rally in pennsylvania there's been no official comment from pyongyang on the proposed meeting nor on the missile tests those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off to techno stay with us. these. people. see all these. documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. this is techno show innovations that can change lives the science of fighting the fire we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in the unique way. this is a show about science blow not ised scientists tonight techno investigates. whoever bought this got way more than they bargained for yes they did it's everywhere in clubs street corners in cars they say it's safe and can help break the cigarette happen if i had to say what is more dangerous honestly at all but what's really inside those east s

or the war crimes committed in syria for that for that matter that those are the aggression aggression in eastern ukraine that needs to stop and then the west is not pursuing these measures to have a cold war with russia nobody wants this this is not in our interest as i said we should actually be focusing much more on the. competitive threat that's coming from china and elsewhere and not on on mr putin's russia was which is a security competitor but not an economic competitor with with the west and actually we're driving by having this confrontation with russia we risk driving mr putin's russia much closer to china than it would naturally be in the state of affairs saw sending a strong signal but then also being open to talks in case the kremlin decides to stop the aggressive acts and come to a two or more cooperative relationship based on on international law and mutually agreed terms and this is not a call how long do you think russia can withstand the sort of international what looks like isolation now and pressure because russia is of course it's not the soviet union you know it h

in syria joining us via skype. from damascus and we thank you for your time tell me more about these. convoys of a because we heard that seventy percent of the medical supplies didn't make it make their way and. i think had become who were here yesterday when he joined mission to get them it was he never mentioned the i.c.r.c. anyone and it was composed of forty six trucks. are so rare and medical supply that should just be more than just look at what you just think you can. still some of them reckon i can see that you were planning to green we couldn't build them on the trucks so they didn't even been on the tracks however yesterday we managed to bring them surgically i didn't. i adams to treat the wounded to the bare hands and also some other extension hand medicine do you have plenty of supplies both food and medical i'm just wondering if if the real problem is trying to get the stuff and not the fact that you don't have enough of it. we have the capacity to fulfill the needs of the people in a hotel we have our

between ankara and kurdish op groups in syria the television from the y.p. g. mess france's president about. some of the france agreed to support them. russia is expelling more diplomats ambassadors from twenty three countries were summoned to the kremlin but accused of taking unfriendly steps some twenty four hours after one hundred fifty diplomats including sixty americans were expelled that's in retaliation to the expulsion of russian diplomats in a coordinated response by britain's allies to the poisoning of a former russian spy at his doorstep or a challenge support from moscow. well one after another black ambassadorial cause of be pulling up here. around outside the rather ornate silver gray doors of the russian foreign ministry and the ambassadors have been walking into essentially get a dressing down from the foreign ministry staff air and be told how many of their personnel has to be packing their bags to leave from what we've seen so far it seems to be broadly tit for tat in line numbers wise with the explosions that we have heard from western countr

not welcoming poor any additional involvement in a conflict and the middle east whether it's syria or whether it's iran or or iraq or what or yemen or what have you i get a little bit of the administration will continue to bleed internally and to weaken . with as fine a way it's thank you very much thank you very much as well i guess it's a very and a fashion show and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site al-jazeera dot com for further discussion you can get our facebook page at facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story can also join the conversation on twitter on my handle is at a.j. inside story on the vessel and they stay inside story t.v. thanks so much. it looks ugly it sounds ugly and scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the wild recalls hardesty side and who controls the other side people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil the weapon that was designed for war and it took you about five minutes to buy a movie to america's gallons of a

the last time i spoke to him he told me i was thinking to go into syria the world wants to see syria's fighters a close and personal but those behind the camera pay the price filmmaker yes it is you made these chillingly intimate footage on and behind the front lines cost him his life his body was going to be an exclusive documentary syria the last assignment at this time on al-jazeera. a day of protest turns to bloodshed at least seventeen palestinians are shot abit more than a thousand and shared by israeli troops on the gaza border. shock area this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. prepares to close its consulate in st petersburg as russia responds unkind to western expulsions at its diplomats. office a blind salamone has been terminated from the ground which police department to be action against the police officers involved in yet another fatal shooting of an unarmed black man which sparked nationwide protests in the u.s. plus. as fresh water becomes more scarce scientists consider a controversial option to quench our thirst. and secretary general has called for

draft resolution on a syria ceasefire kristen salumi will tell us more about when the q. haley had to say on the draft resolution kristen. well yes a threat coming from the united states directed at the syrian regime and some strong words for russia the united states saying that clearly the resolution twenty four a one passed fifteen days ago has not been implemented she faulted russia for continuing to bomb areas of eastern ghouta for the first four days sometimes twenty times a day after that resolution was passed she said that there had been ongoing allegations of chlorine gas attacks in that time and went on to say that if the united nations security council didn't back up the resolution then it would come down to the united states to act and she referred to an air strike that u.s. forces made on an air base in retaliation for a chemical attack in concert croon as an example of the united states being willing to step up and take action if the international community was not going to follow through and make good on this resolution passed by the united nations calling f

in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their family right near the most terrible thing in syria just to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship throughout the world are sometimes a call to compete better to god to continue to be surely to the new culture of. the disappeared of syria at this time on al-jazeera. a new poll ranks mexico city as the poll with worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened you think about how to react what do i do if this gets west's no money on a uses a new service it's called lal drive it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers the apple for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the wilds. that cele

the supermarket by shouting allahu akbar and stated he was a soldier of eisel and ready to die for syria he was asking for their break brothers before shooting a customer a member of staff and they both died instantly but in two thousand and seventeen he was under surveillance but there's no signs of indicating he would carry out a terrorist attack. the attack took place in three stages first encounter the gunman carjacked a white opel car wounding the driver and killing his passenger then stealing caucus on the gunman shot and wounded one of a group of four police officers who were out jogging in the street it was only then that the gunman drove eight kilometers to the town of type where he attacked a supermarket took hostages and killed two more victims the violence has shaken people across the community it was you know. i took cover because he saw me and then he followed me with a knife perhaps he had no more bullets left as i did what anyone else would do i manage to get out through an emergency exit french president emmanuel makkal had been in brussels at a european summit as news o

take a look at the top stories here and out of syria british m.p.'s say the poisoning of a former russian m.p. looks like state sponsored attempted murder by the kremlin so gays can apologize d'orsay usually have remained critically ill in hospital a week after they were found unconscious. a rebel group in syria's eastern ghouta says it's reached agreement with russia to evacuate wounded people from the besieged on claims the un security council is due to discuss a possible ceasefire. but is have been recovered from a bangladeshi passenger plane which crashed in flames there katmandu airport in the poll. and that's exactly what we're going to talk to our correspondents of enosh rest are about she's live for us on the phone from the nepalese capital what more can you tell us a bina. i'm actually at the airport right now where. i've come over to gather whoever's injured i'm on. that blog being recovered injured are being taken out. what we can say is that there is. a line it's going to be my airline i talked to one of the people. the accident happened

still ahead for you in the news thousands of people are transported across syria as government forces regain control of nearly all of eastern ghouta. we'll tell you what a top fundraiser for president trump has to do with the united arab emirates. and in sport n.b.a. teams come together to show their support for an unarmed black man in sacramento last week. egyptians have started voting for a new president and the country's three day election bought the time out has been low incumbent president abdel fatah sisi is expected to win a second after most of his challenges with drew. reports. a crucial moment for the band seeking reelection president opted for to his c.c. once a comfortable win and the huge turnout among the nearly sixty million eligible voters his supporters see him as the only man capable of leading egypt at a time when the nation faces many challenges and an impish vote i couldn't sleep from all the joy just to come here and say yes to my motherland egypt i came here to say yes to stability yes to development i came here to say yes to our military and. i will vote for si

the disappeared of syria but this time on al-jazeera. definite are the top stories on al jazeera the f.b.i.'s deputy director has been fired just before he was due to retire andrew mccabe says he's dismissal is part of the u.s. president's ongoing war on the bureau donald trump has tweeted that it's a great day for the hard working men and women of the f.b.i. rosen jordan has more from washington d.c. . the attorney general jeff sessions put out a statement saying that this is because he released information that should not have been released inside the f.b.i. to a reporter and that when he was questioned about it by investigators within the f.b.i. . that mccabe miss led those investigators those are road to a big offenses inside the f.b.i. and so said that he is made the decision to dismiss him immediately well obviously this is something that andrew mccabe strongly disagrees with the chinese president's closest political ally wang chih shann has been voted in as vice president xi jinping is also being confirmed for a second term with u

lashes out at russia and syria accusing them of using a u.n. cease fire it's a bomb easterner into submission in the morning and protests in russia following a deadly mall fire in siberia that killed more than sixty people. there could be a different look in the referendum. you know how they're not being in my view cheating the man who blew the whistle on the facebook data scandal testifies that he the same dirty tricks were used in the u.k. as campaign and saudi arabia's crown prince uses his visit to the u.s. to renew his attack on the iran nuclear agreements. hello the u.s. ambassador to the united nations says all members of the security council should be ashamed that the bombing of continues despite as cease fire agreements while syrian government forces with russian air support launched an offensive to retake it from fighter groups more than a month ago the u.s. ambassador nikki haley blamed the two countries for what she called a slaughter but her syrian counterpart struck back. on impossible odds immunity to do not collapse all four as

at us soldiers we pick it up that's not in the it's a professional america's guns secret pipeline to syria and this time on al jazeera when the news breaks when people need to be heard. to good to me is. my brain and this story needs to be told asia's largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring a mood winning documentaries. and live news on air and online. they watch us. they gather evidence but so can we. and american cyber activists develops and used in brazil to monitor police. we have more cameras than they do because we're the people a bigger brother. beaks. the spine on a zero for a man who's decided to break with tradition and train to sail competitively we're not that we want to present a positive image and change the steering typical expectation of women for them it's about more than just racing yes you can still be a good on lonely woman and also a very talented sailor going off around the world showing everybody how strong our money people are al jazeera world meets the first female sailing crew in the g

alan fisher has more from the turkey syria border. but what has happened in dumas happened elsewhere in syria we've seen it before where first of all the split the area as they did in eastern guta on saturday and there's no surrounded one time in the syrian government forces and but by the russians then tend to use their military advantage to try again a political advantage by saying to the fighters maybe you should leave him move to another part of syria as a see that has happened before in this conflict meanwhile in a free and we are hearing that the wipe e.g. the kurdish militia are calling on civilians to help form a human shield to police themselves between the y. p.g. and the advancing free syrian army which of course are backed up by the turkish military no it's not just cards who have responded to this call and we hear that there are buses heading towards our friend but also groups here in turkey clued in women's groups and socialist groups although how they will get across the border which is currently closed is another issue

in syria iraq and overseas prompted the formation of a u.s. led military coalition next year in september russia and to the conflict directly say it's targeting iso and troops it calls terrorists but what it really did is dramatically alter the battle lines in favor of its ally bashar al assad q robert has areas like if to the lead there are homes came under government control twenty seventeen saw the final push against isis by the u.s. led coalition forces which forced to to retreat from what strongholds of rock and a resort into small pockets inside syria which brings us to now by the syrian government is trying to push opposition forces from key rebel enclave near the capital damascus over twelve hundred people have been killed in eastern go-to since february well as priyanka mentioned there the start of the uprising began when a group of children screen and sacrificed sea on a wall in the southern city of daraa some of us yes name was one of the boys involved this is his story. my name is. and i'm twenty one years old i was fourteen when t

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former spy and his daughter amid reports civilians fleeing the stone good to are being arrested by syria's government a new airstrike kills fifteen children in a school plus. i mohamad followed by the shores of lake chad coming up i have told you why this source of fresh water for millions of people in the region is at the risk of disappearing. their warm welcome to the program russia's president vladimir putin appears to have softened his tone towards the west the day after his security and all the six years in office his victory got a cool reception abroad many internationally distilled to congratulate him but after meeting with the cabinet it's he beat he said russia doesn't want an arms race and will seek to resolve its differences with other countries lawrence lee has more on moscow. the russian president spent monday basking in the warm glow of his record breaking success he had said he wanted to reach out to his opponents and build bridges abroad meeting with all the b.'s and candidates his language could hardly have been more conciliatory. but you know we must vote and we will give

in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their families right near the most terrible thing to syria just to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship of a moderate sometimes a call to compete better to die than continue to be surely acted in courtrooms. the disappeared of syria at this time on al-jazeera. a global economic superpower that's underperformed in the world of football when he explores how china is now spending billions in his quest to conquer the beautiful game. at this time when al-jazeera. i don't know our intended on them of the top stories on our jazeera the u.s. or state rex tillerson has been fired by president donald trump on twitter and appears he wasn't told about it beforehand announcement and fourteen months of an often rocky relationship to us and has repeatedly denied falling out with the president and said accusations that he's called him a moron a not true they publicly disagreed over a number of issues including the iran nuclear deal to us and has used h