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Who died in the bomb attack on the St Petersburg underground has risen to m. In Northern Ireland a man who sexually abused a woman with a Learning Disability and held her captive for 8 years has been jailed. And why no mention of easter provokes a row about eggs and faith. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that at least 58 people have been killed and Dozens Injured in a suspected Chemical Attack on a rebel held town in North Western syria. The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights reported that the strikes were carried out by Syrian Government or russianjets. And it claimed that rockets were fired at clinics treating some of the survivors. The United Nations Security Council is due to meet to discuss the attacks and officials have confirmed that if the reports are confirmed the attacks would amount to a war crime. Syrian and Russian Military officials have denied any involvement. Our correspondent wyre davies reports. The footage posted online by Syrian Opposition activists after the attac
a legally binding texas on the table we support fully the irish government that avoid a harp all of them but if there is no agreement on hard drugs which is looking increasingly likely then there will be a hard border isn t it better to have a deal without the backstop than a hard break that that isn t the hand of the british colleagues we cannot we cannot offer anything to be have negotiated again busy approval of the british government the taxes on the table and now everybody has a you. responsibility having all the negative impact of heartbreaks in mind. i could consider to talk about the political declaration where we can identify on the general let me say voting what we want to achieve for example that we can avoid the the activating of c. of the backstop if we if we come quickly to a common understanding about the future trade relationships if you would do so then
they dominate their economy, they have future trade relationships and could cut off natural resources and things like that. they haven t pinned up geographically. particularly if we get russia to join and who also shares a geography with them. i m hopeful that president trump made his case that we need china to help us with a peaceful diplomatic solution. arthel: hopefully he was able to make that point. meanwhile, as you know the u.s. is stepping up military exercises in the region. do you think it will ever come to the u.s. taking military action against north korea? and our diplomatic talks with kim jong-un a crazy idea? this guys a madman. it s hard to negotiate with a terrace like this and think that you can have any headway fortunately, we have the fed