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al-jazeera won't expose the life and why of maisie adda at this time on al-jazeera. the. syrian government forces tighten their grip around the country's last few rebel held areas. and i'm adrian for again this is al jazeera life and also coming up thousands of people gather in the u.s. capital to begin a march against gun violence. a french police officer who was hailed a hero for trying to stop a supermarket attack dies of his injuries. tens of billions of dollars worth of ivory why zimbabwe's former first lady is being investigated in connection with the whole. syrian government forces are closing in on the few remaining rebel held areas of the country at least and good close to the capital damascus rebels are surrendering in a southern part of the old clave it's the second rebel group. to start fighting there in recent days felt like iraq man was in control and been fighters in harasta surrendered on thursday that leaves duma which is just to the northeast of the capital is the last rebel stronghold in the area. the deal with rebels around also involves safe passage f

al-jazeera. al-jazeera . where ever you. surviving syria's war people in eastern go to longing for safety and basic necessities. along the whole robin you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up polls open in italy in three hours time in the country's general election with migration a central issue. also an anxious wait for german chancellor angela merkel as her rival parties and membership vote coalition which could decide her political future plus. abuse of power sexual harassment that has really led the conversation in the industry throughout the asker campaign season the dark side of hollywood threatens to overshadow the movie world's biggest night of the year the academy awards. welcome to al jazeera syrian government forces continue to bombard the rebel held on place of eastern guten their damascus now these latest pictures published by syrian state news agency appear to show night operations by government fighters and activists saying government forces have

al-jazeera. on counting the cost the italian job what the next government has to do when it comes to the economy the first drop rates it gets a frosty reception in the u.k. plus we'll explain what five g.'s all about and if it even matches counting the cost at this time. twenty eight killed and fifty others wounded in coordinated attacks and bikini capital the french embassy and the army headquarters are targeted. and though i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up the u.n. imagery which shows the bombardment of eastern ghouta is getting worse despite a so-called cease fire ordered russia. troops to its border with bangladesh triggering fears it plans to expel thousands of refugees living in no man's land and the british prime minister treason may have met saying pay won't get everything it wants when it comes to bracks it. is to begin a fast so where is twenty eight people have been killed in coordinated attacks on the military headquarters and the french embassy in t

a witness documentary this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. hello i'm daryn jordan in doha the quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera moscow has told a u.n. security council that accusations by the u.k. that it's behind the poisoning of a former russian spy on his daughter are unfounded britain requested the emergency meeting in new york just hours after prime minister to resign may order the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats the u.s. called on a security council to hold russia accountable for it described as a chemical weapons attack so again you describe our remain in a critical condition in hospital after being targeted with a military grade nerve agent last week britain's deputy ambassador to the u.n. the security council to take a united starts towards russia this is how russia has acted in every other case where it is being caught flouting international law denial destruction and threats it is what russia does but we will not let such threats deter us we will not weaken our resolve we will stand firm confident in

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al-jazeera. mark zuckerberg speaks out after days of silence in the cambridge analytical controversy saying facebook made a mistake. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera life and also coming out. air strikes in syria as a blip province killed at least twenty two people most of them children. french authorities place former president nicholas sarkozy under formal investigation in connection with ties to the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi. and tradition but the modern twist we look at an artist to provide evil the strong thousands of visitors to pakistan. facebook's boss has promised to safeguard the information of its two billion users after a major a data breach it's the first time mark zuckerberg has publicly addressed accusations that fifty million users had their data harvested by a third party app and passed on to a political call to its consultancy that is that firm in cambridge analytic is accused of improperly accessing the information to manipulate us voters during the two thousand a

still ahead on al-jazeera the u.s. president lays out his harsh measures to combat a nationwide drug epidemic and i say for the missing sri lankan women demand answers and justice for their loved ones. from the waves in the south. to the contours of the east. however the weather is generally set fair across see a middle east over the next few days lawsie settled and sun a little bit of cloud over towards that is a sort of a round heading over towards afghanistan by some bits and pieces of rain there are a couple of around fourteen celsius the west of us five and settle twenty two degrees in beirut little bit of cloud just sliding out of the turkish mountains it's just a chain resettled and sunny that cloud will drift over armenia pushing over towards the caspian sea northern parts of iran maybe just catching a little bit of that out but as you can see it's general looking dry baghdad at thirty degrees celsius sort of values that we're looking at across the arabian peninsula highs here in doha of around thirty degrees a

see the world so much respect to al jazeera. and i have a problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera syrian government forces appear to be making further invalids into the rebel held territory of eastern goat that they now reportedly control more than half of the opposition area and have splintered what's left in rebel hands and to three separate pockets rebel groups have a porsche be considering an evacuation deal mariana holland has more for three weeks the syrian army's bombs have fallen on eastern good while its troops have moved in and to rebuild here a tree. that was sort of on the other for all but some of the syrian arab army continue their operations in eastern guta successfully day by day other areas in vast spaces of eastern ghouta are secured. and the last week rebel held territory shrank and split into what syrian state media saying the army had completely surrounded the town of duma now those same government forces have reported the way even further into opposition territory splintering the rebel held territo

an al-jazeera english interactive journalism jenna's she remembers the first journalist who inspired her was eighty who worked for the b.b.c. really famous in fact soldiers in the u.k. forces whenever they saw eighty turning up they knew that they were in trouble and a crisis was about to happen for you. to become a journalist. well actually i was inspired by the idea that i wanted to travel all over the world and i wanted a challenge for myself. because nobody was unfortunate when i started it was maybe the only thing to five men so yeah there were a few men who inspired me but i remember when i went started working to feel that was it as a producer as a few producer and more than once i was still in good without that's not really a place where i was perceived middle east and of course some of us told that then i wanted to go or so and i wanted to prove that actually i could operate in certain areas this by your preconceptions sort of stereotype. and that's how we get started was more of a challenge everyone was telling me i couldn't do. better but i think you were given when you we

at this time on al-jazeera. we will not weaken our resolve we will stand firm britain takes its case against moscow to the un often and sing russian diplomats will be expelled over the poisoning of a former spy russia says it wasn't involved.

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

the disappeared of syria but this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. another day another explosion. from one of the thousands of i.e.d. strewn through the landscape of this lawless tribal region in pakistan with only the most basic equipment a fearless bomb disposal unit are determined to counter the horrors of a relentless taliban onslaught. armed with faith but witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. i'm certain this is the news hour live from london coming up via the f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe says he kept personel ma'am.

described the images to al-jazeera. well these images shows us that there has been increases and heavy bombardment in using guta and in particular in duma that reanimate is based on a satellite image taken this morning to an image taken on the twenty third oath temporary so what we observe in the imagery is continued. to continue shelling and continued damage to infrastructure in doing this as if a case into it can be sometimes it's been to distinguish between residential areas and businesses etc but but we do observe damage to a large number of different types of buildings including what seems to be residential areas so it's quite widespread damage that you observe including you know damage to infrastructure where our service roads areas etc we see certain areas where there's severe damage to a week ago and other areas where there's no damage that we can see in the satellite imagery to certain areas but also out of that state but what red damage but there are definitely areas that we see you know heavily affected. the

al-jazeera. fide f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe says he kept personal memos of his interactions with president don't trump. again i'm suited to this is al jazeera live from london also coming up to begin there are guns into the syrian town of a freeness tens of thousands of civilians flee to safety polls open in russia in a vote widely expected to deliver president vladimir putin another term in power and another blow to yemen has the world health organization was diptheria is spreading across the country affecting more than seven hundred people. we had to the u.s. where it's being reported that fired f.b.i. deputy director under mccabe kept a detailed notes on his interactions with president bill trump mccabe was sacked for misconduct just days before he would have been eligible for full retirement benefits donald trump celebrated his firing on twitter saying and fired a great day for the hardworking men and women of the f.b.i. a great day for democracy sanctimonious james komi was his bos

april on al-jazeera. from the stories beyond the headlines phone lines examines the u.s. his role in the wilds fifty years since the death of martin luther king we examine the impact of his assassination and the state of race relations in the u.s. today the award winning show thrives returns for another season with stories about solutions to some of the greatest manmade environmental problems as the first meeting since the bridge that vote is set to take place in the u.k. we examine how well of the commonwealth is today between corporate and public interests up to the last drop unveils the longstanding rule for water in europe april on al-jazeera. as the u.s. has withdrawn from the trans-pacific partnership deal others have staged committed to it first small countries with small populations such as yours is this actually a better deal without divided states signatories of the world's newest trade block tool to al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. and. where ever. russia's foreign minister says his country will expel british diplomats after the u.k. boarded twenty three russian embassy staff over the spy poisoning scam. i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up more action against russia across the atlantic this time as washington imposes new sanctions over alleged election meddling. mexico's accused of torture during the investigation into dozens of missing student. i'm wayne hay in central vietnam where people are marking fifty years since an american war crime that went largely unpunished. now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says moscow will expel british diplomats it's in response to the u.k. ordering out twenty three russian embassy staff over the poisoning of a form a double agent and his daughter in england last week moscow denies any involvement so you lever off added that moscow had stopped paying attention to comments from britain after the u.k. defense minister told russia two quot

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my kind of al-jazeera washington. and is mounting in the u.s. city of sacramento over the police shooting of an unarmed black man twenty two year old stefan cluck was shot at least twenty times when officers cornered him in his backyard they say they thought he had a gun while been told as a reporter from sacramento. yes there is no demonstrators marched through the streets of sacramento california capital city for a second day friday they were protesting the police shooting of an unarmed twenty two year old black man last week he was judge he was sentenced and he was executed the protesters blocked traffic and shouted slogans and dented a car that tried to pass through one group attempted to block a major highway but were prevented from doing so by california highway patrol officers in riot gear stephan clark died in his own backyard killed by a hail of police bullets i don't care what color he was you know no person on this earth to be sat down like that. your book you. think of the newly released video from a police helicopter shows clark run

this is al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the al-jazeera news outlaw you from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes russia calls it a daily pause in the fighting but in syria there's barely enough time to bury the dead. u.s. president donald trump breaks with his party stance on guns and calls on politicians to go big on reform. south korea's president it's out to japan never its role in the world war two sex slaves. and the long track to a better life we meet the mother and son walking from venezuela to brazil. welcome to the program at least six civilians including a young girl have been killed on thursday in russian and syrian government and strikes on eastern ghouta it's unclear yet whether the deaths occurred during the third day of a humanitarian poor was in the fighting that's currently under way but on wednesday fourteen people died in more aerial bombardments on the rebel on plate the u.n. estimates more than five hundred ninety people have been killed and well over a thousand injure

al jazeera. marks mccoskey is a senior fellow at the atlantic council says the u.k. has several options on how to respond to russia's lack of cooperation. you know i think the u.k. government is coming to a critical crossroads they understand that in the past they may not have acted in response as robustly as they should have because they obviously are now a target of a new attack and as a result they're going to want to try to prevent this from happening again so one i think they're looking very seriously at economic sanctions against russia similar to the united states magnitsky law that could target corrupt and human rights violators from the russian federation to obviously they're going to look potentially at expelling russian diplomats and intelligence officers from the embassy again that likely won't be enough and three they're likely to take this issue to multilateral institutions like the united nations nato and the e.u. with cooperation with u.k. allies to present a case that russia serv

reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera a u.n. aid convoy has entered the besieged syrian rebel held enclave of eastern but two thirds of the convoys medical supplies were confiscated before it was allowed past the army checkpoints it's really appears to be headed for political deadlock after sunday's election provided no clear winner populist and far right parties surged and supported mainly at the expense of the traditional center left and then al-jazeera investigation has revealed a new evidence of saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain attempt to overthrow the qatari government in the one nine hundred ninety six south korean officials have met north korea's leader kim jong un for the first time since he took power at the end of two thousand and eleven the meeting at a banquet dinner in pyongyang comes at the start of a two day visit that will focus on averting nuclear conflict and restarting talks with washington bride has more now from seoul. from seoul with smiles south korea's delegation heads north hoping to build on th

al-jazeera antarctica. and i have a problem and the headlines on al-jazeera syrian government forces have made further and roads into the beveled how territory of east and both are they now control more than half the opposition area and have splintered what's left in rebel hands into three separate pockets rebel groups have reportedly considering an evacuation deal with the government. why is. it and he says the situation is dire. i don't see any. resume i see the russian airplanes and militias of iranian. known. army coming to is doing. yesterday in there was really. i don't know anything about them. unfortunately the situation here in eastern good very very awful and miserable well also and soviet kurdish fighters have called on civilians to volunteer to form a human shield around the city of a flee in as turkish forces advance al-jazeera has heard reports that womans and community groups have responded to the calls turkish troops and free syrian army fighters have surrounded the thing and warned they'll

i come out of my compass in an exclusive documentary al-jazeera examines one man's extraordinary battle for justice in ghana. a potential new problem for donald trump the fide f.b.i. deputy director reportedly hands over notes of his conversations with the president to the investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election. forty back to watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead his forces and their allies begin the final phase of their offensive against kurds skinny northern syrian city of free. it's election day in russia there isn't much there isn't much doubt about the results but what will it mean for long term policies much less. and a new debate over facebook and privacy after revelations that data on users found its way to a political research for. thank you for joining us the political storm surrounding the firing of a senior f.b.i. official is gathering momentum in the us media reporting that andrew mccabe kept personal memos on his interactions with president donald trump and those documents are now with the special counsel investigating the trunk campaign

time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the al-jazeera news out of from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes another shift in the white house stands for meeting him junkfood donald trump now says the deal with north korea is in the making. so grateful for what they've received we're in a syrian villages people get enough basic necessities to last a few weeks. a study in concentration we meet highly educated palestinian women who are still struggling to find work plus. i'm a clot reporting from an expedition in antarctica on the effort to turn the third remote weddell sea into the largest protected area all are. welcome to the program donald trump says a deal between the u.s. and north korea on its nuclear program is very much in the making in a tweet he says if completed their agreement will be quote a very good one for the world his words come as the white house says will be no preconditions to meeting leader kim jong. spoke earlier with china's president xi jinping on the phone both agre

the listening this time on al-jazeera. and here in the stream today a check in on three stories around them that caught our eye attention when for public school teachers in the u.s. state of west virginia after a nine day strike that kept students out of the classroom and educators gathered at the state capitol then to south africa what impact will a controversial proposal for land expropriation have but first to the border between ireland and northern ireland an issue that.

at this time on al-jazeera. where are your. top stories on the al-jazeera news hour a south korean delegation has crossed into the demilitarized zone that separates their country and north korea for talks in a truce village they're expected to nail down the details of the south korean president meeting with the north korean leader kim jong il next month. a u.s. judge has rejected saudi arabia's bed to dismiss lawsuits which allege that it helped plan the nine eleven attacks the court in new york found that it has jurisdiction to hear the cases which have been filed by victims' families. president donald trump has replaced another senior member of his team veterans affairs secretary david shelton is the latest to go after a scathing report about his travel expenses. since late last year the world's attention has been brought to the plight of seven hundred thousand muslim. who fled violence in myanmar but elsewhere in the country kitchen state another one hundred thousand people have also been displaced by years of fighting betwe

this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian from again this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes syrian government forces tighten their grip around the country's last few rebel held areas. the french police officer who was hailed a hero for trying to stop a supermarket attack dies of his injuries. marches protesting against gun violence are planned across the united states in the coming hours. in sport defending formula one world champion lewis hamilton is in pole position for the australian grand prix but his mistakes teammate. hits trouble ahead of the season opening race in melbourne. so we begin in syria where government forces are closing in on the few remaining rebel held areas of the country in eastern goods or close to the capital damascus rebels are surrendering in a southern part of the on klav there the second rebel group to start fighting in recent days. were in control of some malka and been fighters in send surrendered on thursday that leaves duma which is just north

al-jazeera won't expose the life and why of maisie adda at this time on al-jazeera. and new year new lessons and new rules this is the time when you get to choose your english teacher is for the next two years meet the teachers empowering best students might say i'm michael all about freedom we're going to look at perspective i want you to develop the skill with which to speak by letting them choose the lessons they learned revelent cation democratic schooling united kingdom at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back or remind all of the top stories here and i'll just there are hundreds of thousands of people are demonstrating across the u.s. calling for stricter gun laws the march for our lives rallies are in response to last month's school shooting in florida which killed seventeen people the syrian army is close to taking full control of a single thousands of rebels a friend and fleeing to opposition held it leaves duma as the last rebel stronghold near the capital damascus and a car bomb has killed two policemen and injured five of us in the egyptian city of alexan

this is al jazeera. watching the news hour live from the headquarters in doha and coming up in the next sixty minutes allies of the u.k. lined up to expel dozens of russian diplomats over a nerve agent attack in seoul spring now russia is vowing to respond egypt's presidential election it's not who will win but what kind of mandate president sisi will have saudi arabia threatens to retaliate against iran after accusing it of being behind missile attacks from yemen. and the oldest gun makers in the u.s. has filed for bankruptcy and blames the growing anti gun movement as one of the reasons. alone more than twenty countries have now joined britain in expelling dozens of russian diplomats over the poisoning of the former spy's surrogate script ball and his daughter in the u.k. well it's thought to be the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence officers in history in the u.s. the russian consulate in seattle washington has been closed and sixty russians right across the country have been ordered

the boy who started the syrian war this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello there oracle this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes and humanitarian aid convoys forced to turn back from the syrian enclave of east and as shelling continues. former russian spy is in the u.k. hospital after reportedly being exposed to an unknown substance. leaked e-mails a u.a.e. linked businessman and the suspected plan to get america's top diplomat fired we'll have details in a live report. on this no clear winner in its these elections so who will govern leaders of both the anti establishment policies say they are ready. an aid convoy has been forced to retreat from syria's besieged eastern goose a region because of an escalation and fighting the red cross says aid workers a safe and most of the forty trucks have been unloaded the world health organization says around seventy percent of medical supplies were blocked by the government monday is a delivery was the first since mid february seven hundred. have been killed and. since the governm

al-jazeera. tracing the fall from prosperity to financial ruin this is beside lead a movement where we hear lies nothing worst post world the injury the devastating impact to save the big means also for save the deposits of in the recent years and the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders of the people who needed to learn a less gora from democracy to the markets on al-jazeera. al-jazeera . swear every. breaking news a u.s. judge has rejected saudi arabia's bid to try to dismiss lawsuits which claim it helped plan the nine eleven attacks. barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program a diplomatic triumph china ping trumps trump becoming the first world leader to meet north korea's kim jong il and polls close in egypt's presidential election but it looks like turnout has been low despite the best efforts of the government. and the people of chemical. burying their dead after sunday's shopping center fire which killed sixty four people for

the longstanding rule in europe april al-jazeera. cut. al-jazeera. where ever you are. just is in the same. sun journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for out in the media or opinion the listening post at this time on al-jazeera. a day of protest turns to bloodshed of the seventeen palestinians a shot dead with more than a thousand injured by israeli troops on the gaza hold. hello i'm down in jordan this is you from doha also coming up turkey's president tells his french counterpart to back off rejecting emmanuel month rolls off its immediate kurdish forces in syria. officer blank salamone has been terminated from the police department effective to be action against the police officers involved in yet another fatal shooting of a black man which bought nationwide protests in the us plus i'm when high in thailand we will tell you why migrant labor one of the backbones of thai industry is coming out of the shadows. u.n. secretary general antonio guterres she has called for an independent probe into the killing of at least seventeen palestinians shot dead by israe

you the news and current affairs the matter to you al-jazeera. forget all the bad news about war poverty disease famine things have never been better that's the view of the harvard professor and bestselling author steven pinker who is considered to be among the world's most influential intellectuals in his latest book he denounces those he says progress and calls for us to stop whining and start celebrating how humanity has become richer healthier and safer than ever before thanks to the european age of enlightenment but do the facts support him or has he got it wrong this week headliner steven pinker.

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at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. are watching the news hour live from headquarters. coming up in the next sixty minutes a u.s. judge rules that saudi arabia can face lawsuits from families who were accused of helping to plan the nine eleven attacks another departure from the trumpet ministration the president has just fired his veterans affairs secretary a south korean delegation heads north to a truce village for talks they hope will be boosted by a historic meeting in beijing. paradise lost the mozambicans who accuse a chinese company of almost destroying their village by mining too much sound. hollow aid u.s. judge has rejected saudi arabia's bid to dismiss lawsuits which allege that it helped plan the nine eleven attacks the court in manhattan found that it has jurisdiction to hear the cases which have been filed by victims' families the saudi government has long denied involvement in the a tie. which hijacked planes crashed into new york's world trade center the pentagon and outside washington d.c. as well as into a pennsylvania field nearly three thousand peopl

check out our website al-jazeera keep it or. this is al-jazeera and these are the top stories police in southern france have been searching the home of a gunman who killed three people in a series of attacks the man hijacked a car and shot at police officers before taking hostages at a supermarket in the town of tre he was shot dead by police the second rebel group has agreed to pull out of eastern ghouta in syria the government now controls nearly all of the once rebel controlled territory near damascus rockman is the latest group to withdraw. students from the florida high school where seventeen people were shot dead last month have arrived in washington d.c. to lead saturday's march for our lives event. and then. an interfaith service was held at the washington national cathedral some of the speakers include family members of victims of gun violence nationwide at least half a million people are expected to join them in the u.s. capitol for the anti-gun march more than eight hundred events have been planned around the world. i

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this is al-jazeera. hello welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine denis coming up in the next sixty minutes in a major advance a syrian army cuts off two important towns in the east and guta and its effort to retake the rebel.

al-jazeera. where ever you are. but i'm daryn jordan in doha with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the head of facebook has apologized for breach of trust off admitting it mishandled data had belonging to fifty million of its uses mark zuckerberg broke his silence.

so lad on al-jazeera the u.n. reports an increase in attacks on palestinians by your vehicle is really settlers in the occupied west bank. only a few survive crews move in to clear the beaches of more than one hundred stranded whales. through tranquil arabian can you. can free to use and if any ship going to. follow the same some rather lively downpour spilling out of southeastern parts of europe recently big area clouds piling outs of turkey across syria towards caspian sea towards iran if it was afghanistan afghanistan should stay largely dry over the next day or so having said that twenty one celsius in kabul furthermore we have got a little more cloud northern parts of the caspian in season haps some wet weather the wetter weather will be across turkey though that will drive its way further ace was brighter skies to come back in behind fine and dry for the event beirut lovely weather here twenty one degrees celsius chance of want to see showers into northern parts of iraq but for most of the region it will sta

by kind of al-jazeera washington. after weeks of heavy bombardment syria's army is close to fully capturing eastern side damascus it has also suspended its air strikes on duma which remains in rebel hands while two groups have already surrendered with sizes of people being bussed to rebel held areas in the north these faces of their families arriving in hama after traveling from harassed others are being taken to if. a car bomb has killed two policemen and injured five of us in northern egypt just two days before monday's presidential election is haq had a security convoy as it passed a police station in the center of alexandria the interior ministry says the city's security chief was the target. french investigators say they found three homemade explosives a handgun and a knife inside the supermarket where a gunman took several people hostage on friday meanwhile a policeman who died after offering himself in exchange for a hostage in the siege and traipse has been hailed a hero by the french president arnaud above th

al-jazeera government. still ahead on al-jazeera peace talks going to both rebooting colombia as the government announces it will sit down with c.n.n. rebels and students in the u.s. plan asking walkout to demand tighten gun control. from the waves in the south. to the contours of the east. hello we've got some lovely springboards now tucking into a good part of central and southern china there be some wet weather over towards the southwestern corner towards but look at these temperatures into the mid to upper twenty's across at eastern side as we go on through chews day forty back to around twenty two in shanghai still not too bad a little more cloud and rain talking its way and still getting up to twenty four in hong kong a chance of one the two showers to northern parts of vietnam and the usual scattering of showers across southeast asia the heaviest of which allowed it to be into malaysia just around the march or into jobber again it stays very disturbed here over the next few days that wet weather neve

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right here on al-jazeera. still ahead of al-jazeera a cold war style mystery is a former russian spy lies critically ill in a british hospital. and we look at a new government strategy in afghanistan to help educate children for a better future. for the heavy downpours continue across a good path of southeast asia sees a very heavy rain into malaysia eighty millimeters here twenty four hours what's the weather will tend to a just way a little further west which as we go on through the next day i would say but many places still seeing pockets of a very heavy rain the usual heat of the day showers big downpours there into indonesia java still looking very just to count to thirty two celsius here and we see that wetter weather nothing a little further south as as we go on through thursday chance of some showers too by this date making their way into that eastern side of the philippines meanwhile the showers continue across northern parts of australia plenty of cloud up around the gulf of carpentaria queensland re

see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. u.s. president dog trump val's to keep up the pressure and sanctions on north korea despite plans to meet its leader. i'm sam is a than this is al jazeera live from the house so coming up we meet the families in northern syria caught in the middle of fighting between turkish forces and kurdish fighters. this does stops here. a show of unity kenya's president and main opposition leader puts aside their differences to heal the country's political divisions. pharmaceutical exactly of one of the most hated man in america finds out his fate for defrauding investors. donald trump says a deal between the u.s. and north korea on its nuclear program is very much in the making and the tweet he says if completed the agreement will be quote a very good one for the world the white house says there will be no preconditions to trump meeting the leader kim jong il trump spoke earlier with chinese leader xi jinping by phone both agreed to continue sanctions until north korea takes steps to end its nuclear

this is al-jazeera. fully back to go this is the news hour live from the headquarters coming up in the next sixty minutes russia rejects british prime minister teresa mayes accusation that moscow is likely responsible for the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. . the u.s. calls for an immediate cease fire in syria's eastern ghouta and threatens the uni lateral action if the international community doesn't die also this hour at least fifty people are killed after a bang the daschle plane crashes that nepal's katmandu airport bus. i'm a truck reporting on the multiple threats to wildlife here in antarctica from climate change to terrorism. thank you for joining us russia has dismissed accusations that it was likely behind an attack on a former spy in the u.k. british prime minister theresa may earlier today said it's highly likely moscow is behind the poisoning of sega's scrape and his daughter with a nerve agent wannabe phillips reports from london. the british police and military are still combing all