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. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour on al jazeera, and live from doho and i'm steven and these are the stories from around the world, the coast guard is looking for 200 people feared down off the coast olampoodsa. >> we know 127 migrants from east africa have perished and that number is expected to rise. >> reporter: ahead panic near the why house, a woman is shot
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dead after a police car chase plus. >> i'm lee welding of headquarters in zurick where the executive meeting is closing and we will have news on the world cup of 2022. ♪ and walking in the footsteps of st. francis the pope makes a historic visit to cc. ♪ but we open with the migrant boat tragedy off the coast of si sicilly and we know 127 have died and more than 150 have been rescued and several hundred are still missing. the coast guard is searching in the sea and the migrants have been on an amazing journey and many are from east africa and we will talk to peter in the capitol in a moment. according to survivors, the
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migrants traveled to libya and from there took the boat to lampadoosa and previous and similar occasions such voyages began on tunesia and closer to europe and 70 kilometers and sherry is there for us and let's go to the scene of the tragedy, the waters off of lampadoosa with soyia and the search must be continuing not just for survivors but of course the bodies too in what i'm told are difficult weather conditions. >> absolutely, steve, and certainly the weather conditions today have not helped the ongoing search and rescue operations. they know the search and rescue operations know there are bodies still trapped in the boat and here to talk to us more about that we have a spokesperson who has been coordinating some of the efforts. what can you tell us about the
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ongoing search and rescue operations? >> actually it's not good temporarily and it's difficult to go down 47 meters and then to extract these people with one phase so we are planning to work again in the afternoon. >> reporter: so there have been divers who went down there and have they said what they seen what they saw on the boat? >> the boat is full of people and other people is on the ground, on the bottom of the sea around the boat outside. >> reporter: of these search and rescue operations continue what kind of coordination do you have, you have the finance guardian the coast guard, any other agencies helping? >> they are meeting in the morning and in the afternoon to plan this. so there is always everybody and somebody is working.
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>> reporter: with all the waves of migrants that have come here it's not a new situation here, is there a sense that perhaps there could be more of some kind of helper happens even from brussels and eu in order to help the people with this continuing situation they are having to face? >> we are doing the best but i think it's not an italian problem. we are the border of europe and work as europe police force and border and surveillance. the evening before the boat arrives was 180 at 9:00 p.m. and add midnight were more with a lot of women and children. >> thank you very much. of course, the opinion perhaps that this is not really a problem for the people of lampadoosa and the mayor said this is a situation which they
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had to deal with for years and there needs to be a larger help and european help to get concerted effort to get more humanitarian help and aid to people who are fleeing dangerous situation, conflict in africa and middle east and they come here traumatized and european wide assistance to the situation really needs to be put in practice now, steven. >> thank you for that. let's go to mogudishu and peter. peter, they estimate about 30,000 have made the periless journey to italy and tell us more about people smuggling in east africa and the horn of africa. >> yeah, absolutely, steve. there was a recent study i'm looking at that suggested that of the refugees that are crossing from africa into europe between 97-99% of them used
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people smugglers at some point on the journey. it's an absolute integral part of the movement of refugees. the problem is that it's a well organized criminal network that is involved. international organization for migration say people smuggling is up there with drug smuggling and the weapons trade-in terms of its profitability. so it is a well organized, massive problem. >> reporter: does the numbers, do the numbers accurately reflect the situations in the migrant's home countries? some people report that the situation in somalia is improving but migrants are still coming. >> well, on the face of it it looks as though things are improving and there is no more fighting and the front lines disappeared but saying there is no fighting is the same as peace and stability and economic opportunities.
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one of the things you hear talking to refugees and people on the move is that none of them make this choice to leave their homes and security and familiarity of their homes easily. it's a tough decision for them to make. the fact is there is still enormous amounts of insecurity and decreasing amounts of confidence in the stability of the government and economically things have not improved enough for people to be able to survive any more than they were able to in the past. what we are seeing happening is people sending a lot of younger men, the men that are more capable of making the journey in the first place and once they are there and getting jobs and sending money to be able to support their families that is continuing and until the situation here in the horn of africa, not just somalia but other places in the north and jaboota or ethiopia and until they stabilize we will see continuing numbers of people trying to move into southern, europe. >> thank you peter and the boats
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carrying undocumented migrants from europe leave and sherry is live from the capitol tunis and they don't leave from there, they leave largely from the south of the country. >> exactly. and we know that boats are leaving probably every other day from tunis but don't hear about them unless things go wrong but the majority of boats we see at the moment with sierrans even are leaving from italy because tunis clamped down on the migrant boats and also when they do find these they tend to push them into libya. libya we understand the operations there and the human trafficking is very organized at the moment. it's a multi million dollar business and we are seeing and i expect thousands of people in places like mizrata hoping to
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get on the boat to make the journey. the reason they go to libya is law an order has broken down since the fall of qaddafi and used to be a deal between qaddafi and berlusconi and they are trying to get in to libya to help them coordinate some sort of coast guard operations to stop the boats from leaving there but have not managed to do so so far. >> reporter: thanks. gunmen shot dead a muslim cleric in the city and three others died in a barrage described of bullets which were fired into their car and seen as the successor to controversial clerc and he is accused of fundraising for al shabaab and he was killed in a similar shooting last year and after protesters accused the
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police of carrying out the attack and kenya police denied involvement in the killing. an investigation has opened in washington d.c. after a woman was shot dead following a car chase and she tried to drive through a security guard at the white house and kimberly has details. >> reporter: this sedan seen speeding away from the white house police tried to stop. >> an unauthorized vehicle tried to gain access at an outer perimeter check point, stress that, outer perimeter check point of the white house and beyond that check point there were other checkpoints that someone would go there. >> reporter: no shots fired at the white house but it struck a secret service officer as it drove off and driving at high speeds through the mid afternoon city traffic with the police following closely behind. witnesses say they were terrified when they saw the suspect vehicle come down the street and stop about 100 meters
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where those police lights are flashing, it's there that police ordered the woman driving the black sedan to stop. she didn't stop. instead she rammed into a security barricade and it was then that police opened fire. politicians working in the u.s. capitol were told to stay in doors, tourists and bystanders outside found themselves running for cover. one officer was injured as he tried to block the suspect's car with his own. >> after the sedan was stopped by police they surrounded it and it backed up and smashed into a cruiser and took off on the south side of the capitol and that is where i heard the gunshots. >> i thought somebody was attacking the capitol and i was trying to get away. >> reporter: the female driver of the black sedan was killed by police and she was reportedly unarmed. a small child who was riding in the car throughout the police chase and gunfire has not been harmed. >> the child is approximately a-year-old and is in good
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condition and in productive custody. >> reporter: what is not clear is why the child had to experience such a frightening ordeal and the incident is under investigation, al jazeera, washington. >> president obama cancelled his trip to asia as the partial government shut down in his country and enters the fourth day and congress has not agreed on a budget to pay 800,000 nonessential workers as they are described and could be another crisis in two weeks if they don't raise the debt ceiling and we will explain. >> hello. >> reporter: barack obama on the road with a message. >> we can get back to the business of governing and helping the american people. >> reporter: shutting down the u.s. government is one thing, the next big thing before congress is a much bigger deal for the entire world. >> the united states is the center of the world economy so if we screw up everybody gets screwed up, the whole world will
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have problems. which is why generally nobody has ever thought not to pay our bills. it would be the height of irresponsibility. >> reporter: but that is what the republican-controlled house is threatening, to refuse the u.s. to borrow money unless the president helps the regulations and change the code and change the healthcare law to name a few and means the u.s. government won't have enough cash to pay the bills and could decide to default on its debt. the head of the international monetary fund describes this as commission critical. >> the government shut down is bad enough but failure to raise the debt ceiling would be far worse and could very seriously damage not only the u.s. economy but also the entire global economy. >> reporter: if the u.s. defaults on its debt some possible outcomes.
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[bell ringing] stock markets panic and the value of the dollar plummets and making everything in the u.s. expensive slowing recovery and irene foster says that puts other country's currencys at risk. >> where will capital flow because we are higher risk and brazil are attracted to the global market. so capital might suddenly know from the u.s. to brazil which then will cause currency issues and so on in counties like that because it tends to flow as hot money and flows fast and quickly and so countries often recover fast enough when that happens. >> reporter: all of the dire predictions come with one caveat, everyone says they think that is what will happen but they don't know because it never happened before. other countries have defaulted on their debt but they were not the world's largest economy. patty with al jazeera, washington.
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>> reporter: still to come on the news hour on al jazeera from doho live in rome with the former prime minister berlusconi could be in deeper hot water plus. ♪ the city of new orleans have character but barely make a living and details are coming up. afghanistan on the brink of a major sporting achievement and find out what it is a bit later. ♪ a bit of sport now, in fact, or is it politics? football's body fefa will announce a decision on whether or not to move the 2022 world cup from summer to winter and administrations are meeting in zurick to talk about the date to avoid the summer heat and an official said it would be irresponsible to announce a position with still so much to
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consider. so al jazeera's lee winnings in zurick are they still considering so much? >> yes, they are steve and this is a two-day executive committee meeting. but it's nearing completion now and within the next few hours we will hear from fefa what was discussed in the meeting and absolutely dominated the meeting by issues rounds the world cup in the 2022 issues of course, potential switch from summer to winter and of course the fate of construction workers and it's not subject to cause protests at the fefa gates on day one. >> if anyone of fefa was in doubt the 2022 is dominated the agenda the protests at the start of the executive committee meeting would have forced the point home. the message outside the gates of fefa headquarters is clear, protesters here to say red card for fefa and no world cup
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without workers rights and they long had a problem with fefa over other world cups and country and not just 2022 and want more action. >> the government can do more and know they can do more and expect a change, it's the most important and fefa has to encourage them and fefa has to take responsibility. >> reporter: the treatment of construction workers became a major issue when they were investigated and put under the spot lot and fifa added it to the agenda and seeking assurances on health, safety and well-being but won't be moving tournament in the middle east. >> we have talks with international unions, with human right boards and so on one or two years ago and this is one more example that shows that the people really want us to put pressure on the government but
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at the same time it's important to highlight that it's not that fifa is like that, we are on the same page. >> reporter: they are close to development and the head of the supreme committee say construction workers will be looked after. >> it's not damaged a bit at all, the reputation at all, from the beginning we indicated we are committed in terms of workers' welfare as well as 2022 are dedicates to the health and safety of every person that works in katar. >> reporter: what will happen for them to properly determine the switch to winter and talk about dates, but there is resistance and that is why this concentration period looks like it will happen. i've been told quietly there will be a task force set up led by shake feldman of bahrain and he is likely to have a big role
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because his leak effected far worse than other leagues and the politics continue and more about politics than sport but we will hear news in the next few hours. >> thanks lee. a major development drive is underway to get cata ready to host the cup in nine year's time and will need an army of construction workers and people are dieing in the heat and focused conditions of doha and this is from india, one of the top three countries exporting labor to kata. >> kp has been recruiting what are the foot soldiers in the global labor army for the past 25 years. on average each client pays him $320 to be placed with a company in the gulf. concerned about worker rights and the safety of the citizens
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abroad the indian government stringently regulates exchanges like this. >> translator: we now have to provide better guidance to people who go to the gulf and tell them about what to do once they get there and who to call in an emergency. >> reporter: india has been exporting labor to gulf countries for decades but only in the past three years has it introduced these formal checks and balances regulating the recruitment business at home is the government's way of protecting its workers abroad but in other parts of asia it's a very different story. and he died on a construction site in july and received $380 in compensation from his employer but she said that is not enough to pay off the loan to get the job and while discussing the situation with al jazeera, her daughter was overwhelmed of the mention of her father's death. >> translator: i don't know what i'm going to do with my
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children. my husband is gone and all our land is sold off to pay the debt. >> reporter: labors who come from places like this put their faith in unscrupulous people and who should be held accountable for the deaths of the neighbors in katar has become a source of diplomatic tension. >> translator: if the government had given more attention to issues like these perhaps things would have been different and we have directed our embassy and staff to effectively monitor and hope to see less incidents in the future. >> reporter: some governments like the philippines have taken it upon themselves to negotiate higher wages and better working conditions for their nationals. >> when you allow people to go out of the country we also would like them to enjoy the same kind of protection that workers live
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in the philippines. >> reporter: workers will be powering in some of the wealthiest nations in the world and for the small role there is renewed pressure on countries of origin and host to guaranty their well-being, al jazeera. >> reporter: and we have the regional director for arab states for the labor organization and joins us now from beirut and the head of the 2022 organization running kata world cup said he is committed to security and the health of migrant workers. do you recognize that statement? >> i think we have heard many reassurances over the past couple of days, but simply over the past year and a half we have been engaged as the national labor organization trying to help them with some technical solutions and looking at issues
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of labor inspection, the whole migration pattern and management issues, even labor statistics and their employment policies in general. i think the real reassurance must come in the practice of course but these are very welcome words of political commitment. >> reporter: do you have evidence that workers are being abused and their rights are being ignored in kata? >> we are a standard setting organization and don't have an office in qatar but we are facilitating discussion first of all among trade unions from australia countries and this is one of the largest destinations and it absorbs 15 million migrant workers and it's a very important dialog and discussion. we know that there are violations across the arab region certainly in the gulf and also know there have been an increased number of
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precautionary measures set in place. what we need to do now is help make sure they are fully enforced. >> reporter: and what kind of violations have you found? >> can you hear me? can you hear me now? can you hear me now? well, she can't so apologies to anybody following that interview with nada of the international labor organization. reminder you can keep up to date with the news on our website at al jazeera.com, al jazeera.com is the site to click on to. now let's take a look at the weather around the world with everton and we have tropical systems bearing down on china and the u.s. and what can they expect in the next few days? >> yes, steven, not looking terrific at the moment across the northwest pacific and to systems and we have a tropical
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depression 23 w it's called and a catchy name and will follow on from a rather more active system. this is typhoon making its way just to the south of shanghai and clearly defined and pretty well organized and we are talking about winds of 165 kilometers per hour and gusting to 200 kilometers and landfall to the south of shanghai some time on sunday and wet weather pushing through and also windy weather may also have some impact on what is taking place in korea this week and we will have to wait and see on that. we have another tropical storm, the first named storm of the season which may impact the united states. it will make land fall through the next couple of days, storm of karen and 100 kilometers and with the rain we could see 200 millimeters of rain coming to the deep south of the united states and goes close to new orleans and heavy rain coming
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through here on saturday. the wet weather pepping up as we go on through sunday so we are not talking louisiana, mississippi and alabama seeing flooding rains. >> thanks, the city of new orleans is renown of jazz and over the years produced some of the industry's biggest names but musicians and life in the big easy is far from being easy and close to the poverty line and only a few have health insurance but al jazeera reports that some are trying to change that. >> reporter: new orleans is one of the planet's unique cities, shaped by a diverse cultural history, rich in architecture and best known for this. ♪ you find muscinas on almost every corner and many in the big easy despite the devotion and talent live close to the poverty line. ♪ we have to do what we have to do to survive, do you know what i'm
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saying? and it's a long day and we barely make $40 to $50 on a daily basis. >> reporter: it's built with artists in mind and owns a house and has a safe and creative place to live. >> different musicians from different genres of music living in one block and we are getting together and combining songs and putting new ideas and concepts together in area. >> squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, tight, tight. >> reporter: on the other side of the city the clinic treats 2000 artists and families and provide care for the estimated 4 of local 5 musicians that don't have medical insurance and cofounder mrs. boltman said it's
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the way to help the cultural ambassadors of the city. >> we have to give them the dignity and the esteem that what they are doing as musicians or indians is worth it. >> reporter: it is an early grave for the city's musicians. and buddy bolden is buried in this graveyard and he was 29 when died and new orleans wants to avoid that for generations to come. because above all else it's about preserving the sound track of the city and new orleans, louisiana. >> reporter: still to come we will speak to people from syria who fled to france and can more be done to help them. and the stock market next month, is it worth investing? it's the billion dollar question and coming up, in sport an
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appearance by mahamid ali, details coming up.
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♪ welcome back, you are watching al jazeera the news hour with steven and the top stories the italian coast guard searches for 200 african migrants messing after the boat went down off the island and carrying 500 people and sailed from the libyan port city of mizrata. the vice president told al jazeera it would be irresponsible to shift the 2022
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world cup from summer to winter because fifa has talking to do before they can make a decision. a woman has been shot dead after a car chase in the heart of washington d.c. and police say the woman tried to drive through a security check point near the white house. in a few hours time a former i'd jan prime minister berlusconi will learn high school fate and he could be expelled from parliament after his conviction for tax fraud on wednesday and he said he would support the government in a vote, this is after the party denied him the backing he needed to bring down the government. al jazeera's phil joins me now from rome and failed to bring down the government and will he survive the vote? >> well, it looks very, very unlikely to be honest with you. the senate are talking and have been there in an hour and three quarters and it's a sealed process and don't know what is being said and could take a few
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minutes or several hours. the feeling is we will get a decision on the future in a few hours and we heard from the man who will take his seat if he is kicked out and lacks moral credibility and has to go and we did not hear from berlusconi's legal team and this is significant because they were due to speak and it's a sign that he is admitting defeat. the situation is clearcut. the law as it stands, the 2012 anticorruption law said anybody convicted of a crime with two years or more in prison cannot hold office in italy and not just rome but anywhere in italy and this sentence was double that and it was four years. his legal team were arguing the law didn't necessarily apply to him because his crime was commited before the law is in place and opponent's say it's retrospective and this has been a pretty awful week for sylvia berlusconi and losing the grip on the party and it will be a
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pretty awful end to the week for him as he will be ejected from the building in the coming hours. >> it's looking dark for the man only just criticized as lacking any moral credibility. is it the end for berlusconi, is in the end of this remarkable politician's political career? >> well, yeah, there is one more process we have to go through if he is voted out, but this is very much a formality and that is that the decision of the 23 strong commission has to be ratified by the entire floor and some 250 people there, that won't happen and probably happen around mid october. but the feeling is that sylvia berlusconi will go. i spoke to one political analyst this morning and said sylvia berlusconi is a man who fights and used to getting his own way and seems to be unravelling and what can he do? he said this is the end for sylvia berlusconi and what will happen is if he is impeached as
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we expect he will no longer be a political figure, he will be nothing more than a convicted criminal with a political past all be it one that owns an empire and very rich but also he will be stripped of his political immunity and that means that potentially he could be arrested and could be investigated if any other allegations are made towards him. of course october, mid october not just when he would literally be ejected from this building and told he has to leave, it's also the time he has to make a decision on what kind of format he wants his prison sentence to take and has two choices here, he can serve the prison sentence under the guide of social services or serve it under house arrest. he has a huge home just a kilometer and will not go to jail because when he was prime minister he passed a law that said over the age of 70 sentenced to prison doesn't go to jail and of course mr. berlusconi celebrated his 77th birthday.
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>> happy birthday and many thanks in rome. teenagers in the philippines are telling us how they were forced to fight on the island now for 19 days and we have more. >> reporter: these boys are finding it difficult to share their stories. they say they were abducted from outlying islands in the southern philippines by liberation fighters and at gunpoint forced to join the battle the fighters waived against government troops in the city. >> translator: i don't know why they took us, what they did to us is wrong, i just want to go home. >> reporter: they managed to escape and were taken by government troops and forced to admit they were rebels they say and were then beaten up by the very same people whose job it is to protect them. the boys are now in the care of the welfare department which confirms they are minors and
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they deny it saying they are working hard to ensure the rights of every one including accused are protected. 200 fighters are in the city in the philippines and took 200 hostage and put the flag in the center of the city. thousands of government troops search in the fighting that followed 200 people died, thousands more were lost. for weeks government forces battled hard to redeem control of the neighborhood and this is where the fighters were held up together with several hostages and there is nothing left here now except the damage caused by war. this part of the city is now a ghost town. at least three suburb villages were used as a battle ground and houses reduced to ashes, the lives of thousands of families here will never be the same again. armed conflict plagued this
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region for decades and not the first time children have been dragged into the fighting. >> as far as the children are concerned, mnlf is at the very least not cognizant of international laws bearing participation of children in armed conflict. >> reporter: negotiations with a group the islamic liberation front hopes peace is attainable and the end of abuse of children in armed conflict was this sight. the reason that the fighting shows the cycle of silence is proving to be too hard to break. al jazeera the city in the southern philippines. >> reporter: they are attacking government bases in syria. and this apparently was an attack on the village on the providence and members of the sector and the bashir verified
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the pictures posted online. [gunfire] activists say shelling on areas in dara intensified despite saying holding their positions so they say. there are an estimated two million syrian refugees worldwide and germany promised 5,000 and france some but not disclosed how many. the u.n. says the european nations should do more to help, from paris here is jackie. >> reporter: a long journey from the northeast of syria to the outskirts of paris and he learned in france that cigarettes are expensive and he makes them himself and if his other problems were theis easy o fix. >> translator: my kids are going to school and for 7 months they have been at home and the conditions which we are leaving
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are very bad. >> reporter: and he arrived in france with his family six months ago and found a flat through a housing charity and get $650 a month to live on. france says it received 1700 asylum requests from syria since the conflict began and not all have been processed. groups representing refugees say the french simply are not living up to their international obligations. lawyers representing syrian asylum seekers in france said western governments have been vocal about the conflict, now it's time to turn words into action. >> translator: europe refugees may be the planet mars and easier to get to mars than it is to europe. >> reporter: so far european countries have accepted very few syrian refugees. here was a plane load arriving in germany earlier this month, the first of 5,000 refugees who
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have been offered temporary shelter there and says europe needs to do more says the u.n. >> we have seen a rise in the number of people trying to cost the sea and trying to cross turkey and greece and arriving in bulgaria and it is flooded with the capacity to deal with them. so we need a better responsibility sharing among states within the eu. >> reporter: more than 2 million people have now fled the conflict in syria. the counts over the border in lebanon and jordan are saturated and faced with images it's hard for europe to say it can only take a few thousand refugees and jackie in paris. >> reporter: the army regained a base that was captured by al-qaeda and they did not
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specified how many people died in the operation. there are expected to be more antigovernment demonstrations in sudan and 30 died which erupted after the government cut subsidies and we report from cartoon. >> reporter: family is grieving, a week ago a 28-year-old pharmacist was shot dead by security forces during a protest. he had gone to the streets with his cousin mohamed. >> translator: we were chanting and shots were fired and it was a trap and the streets were seal off and we had to follow a certain route and chanting by the army and people were united. we did not know that there were militias loyal to the government and fired tear gas first and then the shooting started. >> reporter: it was sparked by government and fuel subsidies and started on the outskirts of
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cartoon and thousands of people poured the streets of the capitol denouncing the government. the demands by protesters for political reform, freedom and eventually a change of government is something that strikes a cord among many of the youth in the country even though not everyone is ready to go down to the streets yet. about 800 people have been detained so far, among them many young activists, authorities say they are criminals who vandalized private and public properties but for mohamed who is not using his real name for security reasons the intentions are an on going campaign of intimidation carried out by the government. he has been jailed several times before. >> translator: i never thought the arab spring would happen here as much as other countries and people cannot gather or protest. it relies on scaring them with threat of chaos and it's not
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crushed yet but it's going down. >> reporter: protests are on going not on the large scale seen in other capitols but small ones pop up around the capitol on a daily basis like this on a side street away from security forces but not very fair from the residence which has become a focal point in the capitol. >> translator: it's my right to protest. the law allows me to. why should they kill people and why should they shoot at protesters? this is cowardly and this regime must go. >> reporter: this is not the first wave of demonstrations, others have come and gone. but many now feel it's a matter of time before the change they are calling for comes true and al jazeera. >> and still to come on this news hour. ♪ we will be reporting on the pope's historic visit to cc and
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in sport. ♪
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♪ twitter will debut next month on the stock market and hoping to raise a billion dollars when it starts selling shares and we report. >> a lot of like what. >> reporter: stand up comedy can be lonely and this is a reaction to a joke can be tricky but she learned to harness social media for instant
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feedback. >> it started out like okay well i had this funny thought about a head line in the news, let me just tweet it out, this joke. and based on the retweets you got and based on the responses you got to that tweet it became like maybe i should do this on stage tonight. >> reporter: entertainers and celebrities are some of the most active users and 7 of the top ten followed on twitter are pop singers and twitter launched 7 years ago with more than 200 million users and a powerful way to share information and now you can own your very own piece of the company. twitter is planning to stop public trading this year and advertising is growing quickly and audience is expected to do the same. larry is a professor of marketing at pace university and said advertisers could be cautious. >> they are going to find ways to experiment, to take some degree of advertising on twitter
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or through other sources to twitter, but they are not going to spend a lot of money until they get a sense that it's paying off and there is a return on their investment. >> reporter: once the company is in the hands of shareholders it must find a way that advertisements without alternating users with too many promoted tweets. the stock market is widely compared to the other big name in social media, in may last year facebook was on nasdaq and first from trading the company struggled. the hype around the shares was large and turned to panic when glitches in the nasdaq computer caused confusion for the first couple hours of trading and it tanked and recently it has risen sharply because of advertiser confidence in the company. it is timing for it to go public and not reaching saturation point. >> it will get more gross and more awful. i see some really awkward tweets out there about personal lives
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that make me cringe. >> reporter: and judging but the growth of social media platforms over sharing is here to stay, al jazeera, new york. >> reporter: now, here is a tweeter, it's robin. >> thank you so much, as you have been hearing on the news the football governing body is announcing a workgroup is set up to decide if the 2022 world cup should be moves to the winter cooler months and it ended in the last hour with the 2022 show piece dominating talks among the custodians and it was discussed and also pushes for the switch from the hot summer months to be confirmed by his executive committee. we have the reporters monitoring this and we are live in kata and lee weldings who is at headquarters and the stocks ended and waiting a press conference in the next couple of
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hours to announce the official word but what have you been hearing there? >> the committee meeting is over, but i don't think there will now be any surprises because the word that i got over the last day or two is what we expected at the start of the week which was easy to confirm for the winter and that seems like it's all coming a bit too soon. so instead they want a consultation period. instead they want to look into it properly and get everyone involved. now, we got that idea firmly from where the executive committee arrives and the star of fifa and the president jeffrey web, when he was talking about making a decision on winter today he told us it would be irresponsible. >> i don't think it would be, i don't think it should be a decision today and not presented with an analysis and don't know who the stakeholders are and irresponsible to make a decision today. >> reporter: and what fifa will
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do is come out and talk about the task force they are setting up and led of bahrain for 22 not just the switch from summer to winter that looks inevitable at some point but also moving forward with the health and safety of construction workers. they also make sure that the figures like richard the head of the english league say he will play a big part in discussions going forward. >> what the process will be for the task force and when are we likely to get a final decision on that? >> what people have said, the people in charge of the european clubs is remember that this world cup tournament is nine years away and please don't rush, and they wanted to rush it through this week and fed up. he said i just want to move this forward. but there is time. so the talks will take place as long as needed and won't be a definitive timeframe because
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they want to get it right and say it is winter, these are the actual dates and the people may not be happy with it they will go along with it. >> we will check in with you later in zurick and we will go to the doha and the decision may not be announced today but what is the thought about the switch to winter? >> the feeling is the tournament will be switched to winter but having said that the organizing committee has been unwavering in response to this and always said they are planning on holding the world cup in june and july, the construction zone and they continue to invest millions of dollars in cooling technology for the stadiums and the stadium behind me is where the fifa delegates were brought to experience the cooling technology and they were impressed by it and they rejected allegations of wrongdoing in the bid process and they said this is really
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fifa's world cup and it's up to fifa to tell them when to host it so if they decide to move it to winter months then the council of 2022 committee is prepared to adjust the schedule and having said that the construction timeline is for june and july and they continue to invest the millions of dollars in the cooling technology. >> reporter: and we are live from doha and thank you. and to the club game where english top 2-2 in the second tier competition 2-0 win in the league on moscow and they scored to seal the win for the visit visitors. >> good first steps and we were in control and always tricky because angie looked threatening on the deck and giving them the initiative and attacking our spaces whenever we lost the ball. but i think through what we had
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done in the first half we deserve the result. >> reporter: and they bounced back from tomorrow opening loss with 2-0 victory and top of the group with 1 win and they are other winners from the first day's action, 45 supporters were arrested before the match against bulgarian champions and accused of violent acts in the capitol of sophia and 30 supporters were barred from buying tickets and sent home because of fears and they have been sanctioned for racial and violent behavior by their fans. afghanistan have reached another historic mild stone and they are going to be in the 2015 cup in
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australia and they have two other competitions. the united states have a one point lead over the international team at the first days action in ohio and jordan won the final and had advantage for the u.s., and tiger woods had three birdies to win the match of matt kutcher. >> we ham and egged it pretty good and i got a roll in there for a little bit and on the back nine it was him or me on each hole and we did pretty good. >> reporter: this week's china opening could see a change in the world number one ranking in men's tennis for the first in two years and he will lose his crown if nidal reaches the final and he booked his place in the semis and fighting hard at the
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quarter finals of the top three here with verdasco and next opponents will be an american. and boxing icon mohamed ali has made an appearance in his hometown of louisville and 71-year-old attended the ali's greatest fight in the supreme court after he refused to be drafted in the vietnam war and stripped of his title and went to prison and his conviction was eventually reversed. that is your sport. >> still the greatest and thank you very much. pope francis made a historic trip to cc, the birth place of the saint whose name he took. the pope visited st. francis of the tomb and told people in the town he wanted to continue reforming the church and we leave you with this report from mary ann hund.
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♪ walking in the footsteps of one of the roman catholic church's most humble, this is pope francis's first visit to cc to decide the town where his name sake francis of a city gave up his worldly goods and dedicated himself to helping the poor. that was back in the 13th century but the vision has a place in the modern day and what the head of today's roman catholic church wishes to emulate. ♪ pope francis took charge of a church dealing with sexual abuse scandals and accusations of being out of touch with its people. many of whom had lost faith in the church. and with a clear mandate to reform the ailing institution, pope francis has not held back in his criticism, saying power is sented with the vatican and not enough with the faithful. in resent intervals the pontif
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taublgd about small minded rules and obsessed with imposing reality on sexuality and abortion it lost the sight of mission to serve the poor. but his position doesn't have universal support especially with conservative catholics and that means he likely has a difficult road ahead of him. to help him along the way he has hand picked 8 cardinals to bring about the changes and they are at his side on the first visit to cc and appears to send a message that he will not be swayed from his path in the memory of his name sake. al jazeera. >> reporter: ♪
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the government shuts down and al jazeera america covers all of it. from washinton politics, to the real impact on you... >> there's harworking people that want to do their part.. but the government isn't doing theirs... >> coverage continues on al jazeera america. >> obama administration officials said they need to enrol 2.7 u.s. redents between the ages of 18 and 35 in exchange plans to balance risks and hold down costs. will they enrol come 1 october - should they pay the face. >> joining me now is jen mishory, deputy director of young invincibles, she's in washington d.c. and yevgeniy feyman, a research assistant at the manhattan institute.
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thank you for being with us. i want to start with you yevgeniy feyman. the young people are crucial to the success of obamacare. >> absolutely. they'll balance out the risk pool, they'll keep premiums that need the insurance, and the administration is reaching out to them. >> jen, the young invincibles are in the 18-34 group. tomorrow night, fault lines investigates wage practices in the restaurant industry. >> the employers have the upper hand out here. they can steal from you and face very little if any consequences. >> basically this industry is saying, "we don't have to pay these workers at all. they should work for us but we don't have to pay them. >> two thirds of low-wage workers experience wage theft every week. >> you're telling me that these people are allowed to treat people like this and you can't do anything?
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