kenyan t.v. channels remain a fan despite a court order allowing them to reopen. a congressional memo on russian election meddling opens a rift between the white house and the f.b.i. . and a guilty verdict for a band who attacked a crowd of worshipers outside a london mosque. united states is accuse the syrian government of continuing to use chemical weapons against its people and of seeking new ways to deliver them follows a suspected chlorine gas attack near damascus on thursday which is injured at least three people well the white helmets volunteer rescue group has been posting pictures of the alleged gas attack on twitter under the hash tag duma suffocating in jordan as the latest from washington d.c. . the civil war in syria has not been at the top of the news agenda here in washington for at least several weeks but on thursday the trumpet ministration made known a couple of serious concerns about the conduct of the war on the part of the government of president bashar al assad first reporters were told in a briefing off camera that they do believe that the syrian government still has a chemical weapons arsenal and did not come clean about the extent of their chemical weapons holdings back during the obama administration when they gave up their weapons in order to not face any sort of u.s. military action for targeting people with chemical weapons during the syrian civil war then here at the state department new allegations about the use of a weapon that technically isn't a weapon but still has very dangerous effects when used against people we are watching very carefully and the united states is an extremely concerned about yet another report of the use of chlorine gas by syria the syrian regime to terrorize innocent civilians in the east good of syria outside of damascus if confirmed the attack is the third reported instance in the past thirty days in east ghouta we take the allegations of chemical weapons use very seriously and are working with our partners on the ground to investigate the reports so beyond raising public awareness about the security situation inside syria the trumpet ministration is trying to see if they can somehow come up with a new way of verifying that the syrian government still does possess chemical weapons there had been an organization known as the joint investigative mechanism which should have been renewed according to the u.s. at the end of december so that it could continue its work trying to clarify what syria is doing and what it's not doing in terms of using chemical weapons russia which is serious close down. took action and said no we don't want to reauthorize this body so now u.s. officials are trying to figure out if there's a new way of standing up a group that can try to not only gather the evidence of what syria is doing against its own people but use that evidence as a foundation for possibly lobbying potential sanctions against the assad government but charles duelfer was the chief u.s. weapons inspector in iraq in two thousand and three he says it seems little can be done to determine president assad's use of chemical weapons. the united nations had an investigation which was continuing on after that early spring attack and they identified syria as one of the agents and they identified the government as being the person responsible for however that the organization has since ended in the russians have vetoed the continued operation about or so it's a difficult position you know in from pasha role thoughts perspective i mean he's going to be attentive to what's going on in north korea and also what's going on in the lawn he will have noticed that saddam hussein was removed from power after he got rid of his weapons of mass destruction he will have noticed the cut off he is removed from power after he got rid of his weapons of mass destruction so the the dynamic is extremely dangerous right now even if you're most successful in getting rid of the weapons has the united nations inspectors were trying to do you can't erase people's memories that you can't you know cause the bottom is to be taken by the people involved and so these engineers and scientists have been continuing apparently to develop the you know the the munitions of this the artillery shells or the rockets that deliver the chemical agent so you know that is apparently what the united states is claiming they are continuing to pursue presumably with the objective of making it harder to attribute the origin of these of these weapons to the to the regime itself you know as as the you know the syrians have been trying to make the case that well you don't know that we did it it could have been isis the russians have also made that case so the ability to diffuse responsibility maybe their objective the turkish foreign minister has spoken to al jazeera about turkey's cross border offensive in northern syria an operation was launched nearly two weeks ago in a free to target syrian kurdish waikiki militia which the turkish government considers terrorists medlicott a suit says his country has no interest and the nixing parts of syria. if there is a threat other side of the border and definitional law and the un charters and solutions security council resolution actually give a right to that country to eliminate that threat so this is what riyadh doing we are there to eliminate the terrorist organization we are not targeting the kurds. not syrians i mean any syrians not our ups not to mention. we have no interest in serious territory and or properties this is our in our aim is to defeat this terrorist organization and actually through defeating. terrorist organization or cleaning this area from the terrors we're supporting. the country's territory interact with it and you can see the full interview with the turkish foreign minister on talk to al-jazeera on saturday at over four thirty g.m.t. and you can catch the again on sunday at eight thirty and nine hundred thirty g.m.t. . saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are attempting to end the standoff between government forces and secessionist fighters in yemen's port city of aden a southern city was overrun by the u.a.e. back to specialists who took control of the government headquarters on sunday or so opened up a new front in yemen's war and prevented much needed aid from reaching civilians sally on the morality envoys have met with both sides urging them to abide by a cease fire the one hundred fifty miners who were stuck underground in south africa have all been brought above ground they were trapped at the beatrice gold mine during a power blackout the power has since been restored three kenyan t.v. stations remain off air despite a court ordering them to reopen the government closed the stations on tuesday after they tried to broadcast a mock you know gratian ceremony staged by the opposition leader rhino dingo catherine sawyer has more from nairobi. lunchtime news at n.t.v. one of three t.v. stations switched off by the communications of far of kenya on tuesday the news bulletin was only available online cutting off millions of iranians nationwide who can't afford the internet. was his why opposition leader right loading or taking an informal oath swearing to be as he called himself the people's president tens of thousands of his supporters rather more cannot gratian a tuesday government wants t.v. stations against providing live coverage because of security reasons the directive was ignored by some the government allowed the event took place so i don't get the sense of what is illegal what is allowed to take place and then it will be. an offense i don't understand the ministers. why they are allowed the event but cannot allow coverage the high court has now ordered the resumption of t.v. services until a challenge to the government ban is had in two weeks the cabinet secretary in charge of security sits in this office of the president says that tuesday symbolic swearing in of rollo dinka was an attempt to overthrow the government and a threat to national security he say the t.v. stations that were taken off air while facilitating that illegality. police have also arrested the lawyer who presided over the oath thing and have declared the national resistance movement an organized criminal group the opposition coalition started the movement last year to push for electoral reforms through peaceful resistance these opposition leaders say plans to intimidate them won't work really for for a long time to leave this country a new constitution and twenty term the new constitution. really with all the freedoms that it entails is under serious attack. a dingo says he doesn't recognize a horror king at a is president because he won the presidential election last august they result was invalidated by the supreme court it remains unclear what his next steps will be or even what he states will people's president really means catherine sorry al-jazeera arabic kenya the white house is expected to release a controversial memo about the way the f.b.i. and the justice department went about the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election the document apparently claims there was anti trump bias in both departments alan fischer has more from washington d.c. . the memo has dominated talk in washington for days donald trump was even asked about it as he left his state of the union speech turning i was. back to the four page memo was written by republicans on the house intelligence committee it alleges a misuse of power by the f.b.i. and justice department under the obama administration while investigating the truck campaign during the us election the f.b.i. issued a real statement arguing that there were important details left out which would fundamentally impact the memos accuracy and the justice department says releasing the document would be extraordinarily reckless. it's the president who must make the ultimate decision to declassify and release but no after a national security review the white house is blanked out some parts of the document and sent it back to the committee it can no be published at any time at a gathering of republicans in west virginia the president made no fresh mention of the memo but afterwards speaking to the media republican leadership defended the idea of its release this family is not an indictment of the f.b.i. the department of justice it does not impugn the moeller investigation or the deputy attorney general what it is is the congress's legitimate function of oversight democrats have argued the release of the memo over their own objections are all part of a campaign to undermine the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the presidential election in fact the leading democrat in the house has called on the republican chairman of the intelligence committee devon is to be removed in a letter to speaker paul ryan nancy pelosi says congressman is has abused his position to launch a highly unethical and dangerous cover up campaign for the white house congressman nunez deliberately dishonest actions make him unfit to serve as chairman and he must be removed immediately from this position the leading democrat on the committee says the row doesn't serve the american people the memo is seriously misleading because it omits very material information and has deep factual inaccuracy is new this was part of the trump transition team and last year recused himself from leaving the russian vest a geisha now he will decide if he will release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington. lots more still to come here on out is there including twenty eight russian athletes have their live tunneling pick bans for doping lifted but can they compete in the upcoming winter games. and we'll tell you was the push to bring home the body of a veteran democratic republic of congo opposition leader a year after his death for the state. how the weather's looking lousy for an intro i across parts of the middle east over the next couple of i still a little bit of cloud between the black sea and the caspian sea always a chance of want to see showers and they could well be wintry in nature but by and large it does look settled seven ice celsius for many hit tehran baku seeing seven or eight well getting up to around nineteen there in beirut fine interact he has to go on through friday i think we should hang on to the decent sunshine as we go through sas date with the possibility of one of two showers just creeping towards cyprus possible if they want to see showers just around central and southern parts of the red sea over the next few days before much of the arabian peninsula the status quo really twenty two celsius here in doha some of the value to for abu dhabi somebody to form a scot and it will stay largely to i still go that team some wind coming in so the possibility of a little lift the dust and sad but i think much to worry about here well you dry across much of southern africa we could deal with the rain in cape town ice on of that it's in the forecast. at about thirty four celsius the showers to gather across northern parts of south africa as we go on through saturday pushing up into zimbabwe much of zimbabwe seeing some of the heavy spells of right central areas of mozambique also wet along with madagascar. i don't want to live in the world where everything is designed in california to me . is in my hands of the corporation the only way to be subversive is to be able to control. my small bands he has built a chip that anyone can. cost like a piece of spearheading a global movement to democratize technology. part of the rubber series at this time . welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here this hour the united states has accused the syrian government of continuing to use chemical weapons against its people and to finding new ways to deliver them that follows continued airstrikes by syrian government forces near damascus on thursday. three t.v. stations in kenya remain off the air despite a high court ruling against the government shut down the country's top t.v. networks were taken off air on tuesday after they tried to broadcast a mock inauguration ceremony held by the opposition leader right now dingell. and the white house is expected to release a controversial memo on russia's involvement in the twenty sixteen presidential election despite objections from the f.b.i. the member was prepared by republicans in the house intelligence committee the f.b.i. says it's misleading and reveal sensitive intelligence information. now a man who drove his family into a crowd outside a london lost last year has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder one person was killed and nine injured in the attack prosecutors said down else born was motivated by hatred of muslims u.k. correspondent bobby phillips reports. darren osborn in a pub in wales days before the attack the police call him a hate filled with a history of violence drug and alcohol abuse in the pub he wrote a letter which was found in the van he used for the attack a letter so full of hatred for muslims say the police that it's too offensive to release he rents the van to drive to london police say to find muslim targets he says he wanted to kill opposition labor leader jeremy corbin he drove all over london arriving at the muslim welfare house in finsbury park after midnight where people were leaving after ramadan prayers and one man happened to fall ill on the street c.c.t.v. footage shows the van moments before it drove into the crowd on the left of the screen. drove down this road the seven sisters road into this little cul de sac where a crowd of people were trying to help who by coincidence had fallen ill just a few moments before he plowed into the crowd as he got out of his vile i would this is in court said that he was smiling the local eman protected him from the crowd until the police arrived moments later the crew say that this was an attack on all londoners no you. know what the police have released a call from someone who asks for help is he conscious. then specifics we hear the attack right along come out of people are going oh you know the police told me darren osborne acted alone but right wing extremism is a growing threat in britain we have arrested more individuals than we've ever done in relation to domestic extremism related activity. we've seen three groups described by the government the government has also appointed a new extremist commissioner which is welcome. and we are pushing more people through our prevent and channel program relevant to again this category of people this diverse community has suffered i spoke to the who protected daryl's born from the angry crowd they're all lost in scores and. those immediately affected and then there is a last thing fear. and concern in the. what's to say the van or the coming speeding in our direction isn't the next down. the troubled individual who turned into a politically motivated killer but to be philip's al-jazeera finsbury park in north london. for refugees of been shot in the french port city of calif after a fight broke out of a meal distribution it was between eritrean and afghan refugees and police were called to help break it up it's not immediately clear how the four were shot several other people were injured in the altercation. now mourners in the democratic republic of congo are calling for the body of a veteran opposition leader to be brought home a year after he died in brussels they accuse president joseph kabila as government of trying to avoid a funeral as it turned into a mass rally there and a honda explains i was thousands attended services to celebrate the man who would lead the congolese opposition for decades. it ensures security died here ago after a long illness but if it's to repatriate his body from brussels have failed the bishop who lead his mess is also choose to katie's brother he renewed the call for his body to be brought back home. we are counting on pressure from around the world so that finally your party's will decide to repatriate the remains of she said katie and organize the funeral that he deserves. it he and she security was a vision politician described by his supporters as a champion of nonviolence against those who abuse the power and position he first served with and then stood against the government of dictator mobutu sese seko he went on to oppose. and then his son the current president joseph kabila who took office in two thousand and one after his father was assessed knighted just to k.t. died just weeks after could be refused to step down when his constitutional to him in office came to an end under an agreement brokered by the catholic church kabila was allowed to stay in office provided new elections were held in two thousand and seventeen. that deal was not on it and simmering frustration erupted into anger a crackdown on demonstrations the opposition supporters still lived. even india eighty interest security remains a unifying force for a fractured opposition. among those attending services has some felix who replaced him as he had of the opposition coalition and bruno chip an opposition leader and now kong prime minister. we will it is just a question of time do everything to make sure his body is repository ated so that we can hold a grand funeral worthy of his status as a freedom fighter. congolese authorities now say elections will be held in december but could be liz opponents say it's just delay tactics and all the while armed groups are becoming a growing threat in the mineral rich nation. that the fear is of a return to the sort of conflict that killed and displaced millions of people more than twenty years ago mariana han al jazeera. well the united nations has launched a three billion dollar aid appeal to help south sudanese people affected by the ongoing conflict it estimates there are around seven million people in need plenty of the displaced children which is affecting their education as he morgan reports from juba. it's not class time but building says he wishes he could go to school his school however is not like it used to be it's now in a u.n. camp for displaced people where he's been since he fled fighting in his hometown in the north of the country. when the fighting took place our schools were destroyed in my brother and i were afraid would be recruited by armed groups so we ran to the un camps for safety now i miss my old school and friends. bolding is one of more than sixty thousand children receiving education in u.n. camps around south sudan the civil war now in its fifth year has seen thousands of people killed and millions displaced it's also had a major impact on education with one point eight million or seventy percent of school aged children not getting any the united nations children's agency unicef says one in every three schools have been destroyed or damaged occupied or close at least once during the war and even in those areas where there was no fighting there are still challenges to be faced getting access to education south sudan's constitution provides free education but students have to pay schools for registration and for uniforms and exam fees with the were weakening big kaname many families struggle to find the money and pull their children out of school most of those forced to leave are girls not to go foci is one of them i came home. i used to go to school but my father passed away and my mother couldn't afford to pay the registration fees for me and my siblings so no i don't attend classes i don't feel good about that the rest of the kids get to go to school and i can't go the u.n. says south sudan has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world about three out of every four people and their concerns the world will ensure that craig goes even higher. he's pretty concerned that. almost a whole generation thirty percent is just about one third of the. population are not going to school and how adverse will that impact the future of this country. almost the entire generation will grow up not having gone to school. for men to building they know what it is like to sit in a classroom they hope the situation in the country changes and changes soon so they can continue with their education and be part of a brighter future he will morgan al-jazeera juba. the son of cuba's revolutionary leader fidel castro has been found dead cuban state media is reporting that sixty eight year old fidel castro diaz balart died on thursday he'd been suffering from depression diaz balart earned the nickname or little fidel because of his resemblance to his father. the french dairy giant has admitted it may have been selling salmonella tainted baby milk for more than a decade more than twelve million products were recalled last month after it was revealed that thirty eight babies were made ill by formula produced a factory in western france the company says the same factory may have been responsible for another outbreak in two thousand and five tensions are rising in south africa's drought hit city cape town where residents were in the middle of a severe water shortage one person was arrested after a fight broke out at a natural spring where residents had been collecting water new restrictions were introduced on thursday in an attempt to avoid day zero but then april when they may have to turn off most taps people are being asked to use no more than fifty liters of water a day. think we've been coming here for the past five years the only now having a plane for more than ten years he said he didn't think it has been happening for so long the only planting now. and this is my first experience with these new laws that we put into place it's tough but what can you do we all need the water it's the live shows. we just go with the flow twenty eight russians have had their lifetime olympic bans overturned by the court of arbitration for sport but the international olympic committee says the decision does not necessarily mean those athletes can compete at the winter games which beginning next week in south korea as it was rich island has more from moscow. sochi gold medalist alexander lead cough silver medalist. gold medalist alexander tretiak of just three of the twenty eight russian athletes who have their olympic doping bans overturned and their results at the last winter olympics in russia four years ago reinstated after their appeals were upheld by the court of arbitration for sport the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that an anti-doping rule violation was committed concerned this does not mean that these twenty eight actually saw the innocence but in their case due to insufficient evidence the held it's a setback for the case built against russia by the international olympic committee and world anti-doping agency. putin has often said it's the anti doping allegations against russia are politically motivated even that they are designs to interfere in the upcoming presidential elections well that voice is less than two months away now and so for the kremlin cass's decision is a timely gift. it fits neatly into a picture often painted here certainly one regularly offered by the governments and state media of russia as a besieged fortress righteously defending itself against a largely hostile world and russia is now pushing for its previously disgraced sports men and women to be readmitted to the winter olympics starting next week in south korea because just put together the court of arbitration for sport confirmed the athletes are clean and the vite take part in the olympics so the russian olympic committee will send a letter to the international olympic committee suggesting they allow athletes to compete in the olympic games. despite what russia's sports minister says the international olympic committee notes cass's point i lack of evidence doesn't prove the innocence of those athletes for now the i.o.c. seems reluctant to readmit them to compete in pyongyang the result of the caste decision does not mean that athletes from the group of twenty eight will be invited to the games not being sanctioned does not automatically confer the privilege of an invitation still provided it's not overturned on appeal the caste decision means russia has the legal momentum in a country where sport and politics often march together that's a boon for its athletes and the kremlin will reach alan's how does iraq oscar. time for a quick recap of the top stories here al-jazeera the united states accuse the syrian government of continuing to use chemical weapons against its people and of seeking new ways to deliver them it follows a suspected chlorine gas attack in rebel held territory on the outskirts of damascus on thursday. well the white helmets volunteer rescue group has been posting pictures of the alleged chlorine gas attack on twitter under the hash tag duma suffocating we are watching very carefully and the united states is extremely concerned about yet another report of the use of chlorine gas by syria the syrian regime to terrorize innocent civilians in east gouda syria outside of damascus if confirmed the attack is the third reported instance in the past thirty days in east ghouta we take the allegations of chemical weapons use very seriously and are working with our partners on the ground to investigate the reports saudi arabia in the united arab emirates are attempting to end the standoff between government forces and secessionist fighters in yemen's port city of aden the southern city was overrun by the u.a.e. but secessionists who took control of the government headquarters on sunday saudi and the morality envoys have met with both sides urging them to abide by a cease fire. three t.v. stations in kenya remain off air despite a high court ruling against the government shut down the country's top t.v. networks were taken off air on tuesday after they tried to broadcast a mock inauguration ceremony held by opposition leader rhino didn't go the white house is expected to release a controversial memo on russia's involvement in the twenty sixteen presidential election despite objections by the f.b.i. and it was prepared by republicans on the house intelligence committee the f.b.i. says it's misleading and reveal sensitive intelligence information. the manager of his van into a crowd outside a london mosque last year has been found guilty of murder attempted murder one person was killed and nine injured when darren osborne rammed his van into worshippers and things report prosecutors say osborne was motivated by hatred of muslims. for refugees have been shot in the french port city of calah after a fight broke out of a meal distribution it was between eritrean and afghan refugees and police were called to help break it up it's not clear how the four was shot. well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after such a that's what. the palestine national locust was first founded in the one nine hundred thirty s. but has had to be revived in two thousand and ten always very important thing in palestine now musicians from all over the world come together to perform in the occupied territories. it's like every palestinian living in the aspirant felt it was the first time they performed using their identity al-jazeera world hears music as a force for unity the diaspora orchestra at this time digital. it's interesting. and. even a.t.g. billions of hundred years.