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♪ we now rejoin this program already in progress. >> the leaders of our countries and those of you who lead in the business world. on behalf of president obama i would urge apec to increase the interaction between the leaders here and the private sector because i think that in the end will result in better policy faster. beneath the surface of the success we celebrate though, there is also an under current of concern, and i would be remiss if i didn't say something about it. when we talk about rules, predictability and the sancitity
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of contracts we can't forget that corruption corrodes the markets and bruises uncertainty and creates efficiency and under mines good governance and frightens away good capital and put simply it slows down growth and doesn't speed it up. it doesn't expand growth and it certainly doesn't meet the standards of a world that is increasingly looking for more transparency and accountability. it creates a fragile system instead of a strong one. president obama and i commend apec for its close work with the private sector to develop ethics for businesses large and small and we commend apec resent work to shine light on money
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laundrying and illegal traffic and our economy's simple bottom line, our economies will not reach their full potential and we will not meet the demand of all those young people looking for us for good choices and for the future and we will not do that unless we eliminate criminal enterprises that undermine the legitimacy of what we are all trying to achieve and the rules by which we are all trying to work. apec can advance its efforts by continuing to build capacity, among customs officials, connecting law enforcement agencies and reducing demand. in these days if a government doesn't step up to tackle their responsibility, guess what? citizens will. because with the global use of social media everyone in the world has an instant communication stool, everybody has a camera and increasingly we are seeing people hold people
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accountable. pictures, videos, stories that anyone with a video can share with millions of people in mili seconds will actually help to create accountability. there is a new cop on the beat. finally, i want to say one last word about another value that we need to defend. and it is one that like the others that i mentioned will actually benefit businesses and economies. and it's one we can only address multi laterally and some of you may think it's strange that the secretary of state of the united states picks this issue to say something about here at the apec conference but i think it's a moshl responsibility as well as a practice business one and that is the urgency with which we must all come together to deal with the issue of climate change. i know that when people talk
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about climate change eyes glaze over and against all evidence there are still some people who wonder if it's real. and many wonder what they can actually do about it. well, the fact is that the absence of a concerted global commitment to address this is inviting catastrophe and for everybody's business it's inviting uncertainty. for insurance companies it's inviting insolvency. the resent united nations report with it's nearly unanimous conclusion that human beings are to blame for what is happening warns us the consequences and makes clear our responsibility. as the world's biggest consumers of energy and the biggest emitters of greenhouse gasses, we are number two in the world,
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pacific nations including my own have an enormous responsibility to lead a transformation that can not only save lives but create millions of jobs. i will just tell you after 29 years of following this that the extreme weather around the world, the flooding, the fire, the drought, the intense storms are nothing compared to what will come if we don't act. the reduction in some of our fisheries, the maldevice and rise of sea level and pacific islands that are threatened, all this will present us with refugees such as we have never seen before and with food shortages that may boggel the mind. what is astounding to me is this: staring us in the face is an economic revolution that could solve all of this. there is a $6 trillion market
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with 6-9 billion users over the next 20-40 years and that is the marketplace of all time. the market that created the great wealth of the 1990s was a technology boom. it was a $1 trillion market with 1 billion users, compare that to the 6 trillion and 6-9 billion users. energy is the solution to climate change. and the energy market is staring us in the face with an enormous amount of opportunity and despite the amount of gas that is becoming available, we still have a responsibility particularly those 20 major emitter nations to deal with this issue. i think apec understands that doing nothing is not an option and that is why it's been a leader in increasing energy efficiency, reducing inefficient and market distorting fossil
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fuels subsidies and we need to continue to move in that direction. but this is an invisible and tangible change in this part of the world. and tomorrow i look forward to meeting with president yono and representatives of the pacific island countries and apec leaders to talk about how we can ensure a more sustainable economic program around us. yesterday i had the chance to visit benoa port where america is engaged in a public private partnership with some fishermen here in indonesia and engaged with universities, ucla and free universities old here trying to build a sustainable fishery and sustainable future. these are fishermen who work for tampa bay, florida company and fish are shipped from here everyday and it goes to out back restaurants in america to walmart and to whole foods.
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this is the world we are living in today. but if there is too much money chasing too few fish and we don't have sustainable practices, then we will obviously inherit crisis beyond recognition, 60 million people in indonesia depend on fishing and marine resources for their livelihood and 60 million indonesia get most of their protein from the sea. >> that was john kerry, still is john kerry, u.s. secretary of state talking about energy, he did mention the fact he shouldn't have been making the speech and it should be barack obama but he said in quotes a moment of politics is how he describing it in washington stopped the president from coming to bali and some see it as a huge diplomatic gap considering modern policy is supposedly all about focus on asia pacific and not the middle
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east. economic policy he says is the most important focus for the united states and he says an economic revolution could solve so much. scott is live in bali and you have been watching and listening to the secretary of state's speech and what else did he say? >> one thing he said fairly early on in the speech is we all have a stake and conferences like this he said the important bits come on the sideline of what is being discussed and the main parts of the summit and discussions and summits are good but meetings on the sidelines that have the progress that nations need and it was a sales pitch for the trade pack the united states is pushing for the trans pacific partnership and a good chunk of that he said we need to come together and pass this thing and subtly some things he was saying were themes that have coming out from the
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administration the whole way through in negotiations and pass it and keeping this very, very lucrative market for everybody for all parties involved, the united states says, so to push that forward and that was a pitch from john kerry to all members at apec this needs to be passed and passed soon. also something i thought that was very interesting he focused on and that is to move forward the economies in this region and globally is there needs to be more transparency and rules and predictability in the markets here and corruption needs to come down and you can read that in many, many ways, there are a lot of countries here that have corrupt politicians and look at china and administration there, it's taking a hard look and really cracking down in corruption in the country and a lot of it is routed in economy and that is what john kerry was touching on. businesses will not invest in those countries unless there is transparency, unless there is a stability. that is what he is focused on
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when he said there are solid rules and transparency and they really restrict this corruption. one thing he said, the economy here is booming. this is the middle class in this part of the world is expanding rapidly and saying if all these things go through it could do even better. but a lot of it is underlining the sales pitch for the ttp, the trans pacific partnership that the united states desperately wants to conclude the negotiations by the end of the year. >> reporter: next year the sales pitch and apology and it will be interesting to see if he could ever get more predictability in the market and they would love it. scott in bali and thanks to you. earlier john kerry said syria president could take credit for starting the process of destroying chemical weapons so quickly and he thanked the russian counterpart for supporting the initiative and both men are at the apec summit to talk about trade issues and also talking about the use of
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chemical weapons just on the sidelines of the summit and the deal they made to destroy thaz chemical weapons and arsenal and he said work already started should be welcomed. >> i think it's also credit to the assad regime for complying as they are supposed. now we hope that will continue. i'm not going to vouch today for what happens months down the road but it's a good beginning and we should welcome a good beginning. >> reporter: well, let's go to the director of the globe site and political analyst in dubi and the speech, do you see anything in there for you? >> it's interesting, he tried to focus on economic affairs and stating this is a priority of the united states. his three biggest issue relate to the middle east and peace and security here, the israeli palestinian negotiations and syria conflict and of course the iran nuclear program.
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so a miss match in the activities of his own administration. >> indeed. can we go back to syria. >> sure. >> and what he said earlier, the little sound bite we heard and good beginning he said twice. how do you read that? is that a branch to the president or is that because he and sergei are working well together. >> it's an olive branch with sergei and the russians, there was intensity that really rose up in the relationship and antagonism with weapons and looked like u.s. may carry out a strike and since a deal by the russians was put out to eliminate the stockpile there was a decline in it and kerry seems to be reenforcing that ahead of talks with iran in october and potential conference on again have an in september. >> they didn't come out with a
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date for that, that is the u.n. conference. >> u.n. conference, the dates being forwarded right now and in november and of course iran and nuclear talks in mid october. >> mid october. does it change anything what we are calling an olive branch to president assad? >> it may change something in the sense that u.s. may start favoring political reconciliation which it has on a hit or two. >> reporter: political reconciliation, how does that work? >> this is a problem because the u.s. called for the departure of the regime which is a legitimate call given what happened in the last 2 1/2 years. yet the russians said he can only under go such a transition through elections which are held in 2014. so while the united states might pursue talks reconciliation it's not clear how they will be able to reconcile between it. >> reporter: a diplomatic gap, same as crossing the red line. >> we will see if there is a
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diplomatic gap but they are leading themselves on a path and beholden to the russians and a gaf process. >> reporter: thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. ♪ 51 people have been killed in egypt during the 40th anniversary of the 1973 war, the worst of the fighting erupted in the capitol trying to enter the square and more from our correspondent there. >> downtown cairo on sunday, a day for celebrating the military, instead it saw gunfire, tear gas and civil unrest. this was ramsey street at the square. across cairo protesters took to
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the streets and this is the symbol of resistance from january 2011. but surrounding streets security was tight. in places police used tear gas to control the crowds. antimilitary protesters against what they consider to be an illegitimate government. >> we have to go to the risk of this killer, we have this in front of people which strike against this killer and we will do it. >> anticop, okay, we are all the muslim people and egyptian people and one human, okay, again anticop. >> reporter: but they painted a different picture here forming a center of celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1973 october war with israel.
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for hours crowds tried to get through security checks into the square. some had come with one purpose in mind. anti-coup protesters cannot come over here because the egyptian people will protect egypt and we are willing to die and sacrifice ourselves. >> reporter: it was marked by celebrations on one side and protests on the other. from the east to minya, south of cairo violent scenes and reports suggest a number of dead and injured. october the 6th is meant to be a celebration of egypt's military, a day when it's people mark their thanks for its achievements. but for these people on the streets of cairo, that is the last thing on their minds. al jazeera cairo. >> reporter: getting reports
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gunmen in egypt killed at least five soldiers and the attack happened on an army patrol north of the suez canal and we will bring you more on that when we get it. well, moving on to pakistan where a bombing has killed at least two people who were taking part in a vaccination program against polio and happened near a hospital and victims are a police officer and volunteer from a peace committee and pakistan is one of three countries in the world where polio is an endemic. japan airlines signed a deal with air bus and 31-a-350 worth $9.5 million and this comes as a surprise to boeing and it will receive the first a-350 in 2019. >> translator: we are confident
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we can offer comfortable air travel with the aircraft, it completed the test flight last month and the development is in full progress towards the launch in 2014. no dice by 2019 it will be in a fully prepared state. >> reporter: and we have the executive director and chairmen of the center for asia pacific aviation and said it's a good fit for a company at this point. >> it's really very much risen from the ashes since its bankruptcy and now it's more focused on getting the costs down and it's a high-cost carrier because japan is that sort of market. but this aircraft is a fit for some of the longer needs and it's slightly smaller than the 777 that boeing would probably have in its place and is there forth better tailored with a good cost profile as well to
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operating some of the long and slightly thinner routes. >> reporter: the wife of a suspected al-qaeda figure seized by u.s. forces in libya has been speaking to al jazeera. and she says libby was effectively kidnapped from tripoli and the government wants an explanation from washington. and carolyn malone reports. >> reporter: this is where libby's family tried to capture him outside their home in tripoli and the cars were waiting for him when he returned from mosque on saturday morning. >> translator: mosque men came out of the car but the driver wasn't masked and one adjusted his mask as he came out from the features they were obviously men and there were at least ten of them and armed with silenced weapons and told him to get in the car, close the door and drove off. they broke the window on my husband's car and seems like they had drugged him. they have been wanted for 15
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years by the f.b.i. but where he was detained angers libya's government what wanted to know his whereabouts and john kerry said it was a legal operation. >> he is a key al-qaeda figure and he is a legal and an appropriate target for the u.s. military under the authorization of use of military force past in september of 2001. >> reporter: the involvement in the twin attacks on u.s. embassys in kenya and tanzania in 1998 where 200 people were killed and he returned to libya after the fall of qaddafi in 2011 according to the family and his brother said he deserves to be tried at home. >> translator: in is a work of piracy to kidnap my brother and supposed to present legal documents to libya government and my brother should be tried here in libya. >> reporter: instead libya are
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seized by u.s. commanders and is now reportedly being interrogated on a u.s. navel ship. carolyn with al jazeera. >> police in kenya say last month's attack on the west gate shopping center was planned several weeks in advance and the video shows them going september 6 to pave the way for the attack and they are in a bank and collecting cash they later used to pay for a car and the car was used to block the mall's, entrance stopping people from getting inside. rat holes and mines where children squeeze down narrow mine holes to dig for cole and tens of thousands of children are exploited by the mining, industry. and we report. >> descending in the depths of danger, 17-year-old rye starts
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another day by crawling into the mine to dig for cole. but just a few minutes in he realizes there is something wrong. a heavy rock has collapsed on another miner crushing his legs. the workers manage to free him but he is clearly shaken. >> translator: every time i go to work i think the roof is collapsing on top of me. sometimes i have to work alone and that is when i'm really scared. i just feel like getting out of there. >> reporter: he has been working in the cole pits since he was 15. local activists believe around 70,000 children like him work in these so-called rat holes because adults are usually too big. the conditions in these mines are horrific and i'm standing on a temporary wooden platform and there is a drop of about 40 feet beneath me and as you can see around me there are caverns and
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they crawl in to mine for cole and go on their stomachs to be able to fit into these holes. accidents are not uncommon here. and when they occur the workers are sometimes buried alive. the miners have no safety commitment and training on live next to the cole pits. they have been lobbying the state government to rescue them but nothing has been done because most are illegal migrants from nipole and bangladesh. >> they are dying and the dead bodies are not being taken back because it's not possible and no way they can do it and not being reported because these are in the contact of our state i see illegal migration. >> reporter: despite earning millions of dollars each year they use manual methods to dig for cole. and she is trying to get them to use modern machines so children would no longer be needed.
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but cole exporters deny the use of child labor. >> there is not a labor. you can put it in the international news i don't mine for that. >> reporter: what about cole mining? >> we are not concerned about cole mining. >> reporter: and she knows children work in the mines because he is one of them. his only goal is to earn enough money to some day leave. al jazeera. >> reporter: this is the website and we have teams across india bringing news and information and for more indepth coverage go to our website and click on the link titled india spotlight, that and more on al jazeera.com and news and sport and business and al jazeera.com the focus on the website, india. typhoon has made landfall in
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eastern china and hit several hours ago forcing self of hundreds of people out and waves of 20 meters high are hitting the coast and craig reports. >> reporter: the typhoon came at the end of national week here in china and everybody was away on holiday, some 7,000 tourists had to be evacuated where this typhoon came ashore and tracked across the pacific and directly north and turned left at the top of taiwan before slamming into southeast china and causing a lot of damage there to crops, trees and several of the villages within the area. one million people were moved before the typhoon reached the area, some 70,000 fishing boats were returned to port after this typhoon did the damage we are seeing there right now. several people are missing and no reports of deaths yet but there is another typhoon on the way. typhoon donna has started to get
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steam in the pacific and is also heading north. the track is heading for japan and we should see it reaching japan in a few days if it continues on the predicted track. >> reporter: police are moved into shanty town slums in rio in attempt to make it safer before the world cup next year. the 700 members of an elite police navy took part of an operation which is a broader drive-by authorities to push the drug traffickers out. 19 people have been killed in a bus crash in peru and others injured and it ran off of a road in the juan cavalika region and went in an revine and are investigating. they are reintroducing this by
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the end of the year and think the courts will increase the number of sexual offenses committed in the country and we report from johannesburg. >> they are happy the government is setting up special courts to convict more sexual defenders and rape and other sexual offenses often are not reported. and people as a girl it's not easy to go out there and say you got raped. my friend got raped and my other friend she got raped when she was like 14 but she only told her parents when she was like 20. all along she couldn't say anything to anyone and after she told her parents, nothing was done. she just got talked to. >> reporter: and africa is one of the highest rates of rape in the world. >> outside of a war zone this is the most dangerous country in the world to be a woman.
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