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>> attack on a boxin boxing wed. gunmen kill three in cairo. >> you are watching the world news live from doha. >> also coming up fires that the bush fires in australia could create one massive inferno. >> the global nuclear watchdog about to give it's verdict on the crisis of fukushima in japan. >> the sign of hopes in uganda
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where a mysterious brain disease is affecting thousands of children. ♪ >> an eight-year-old child is among three people who have been shot dead at a church in egypt. gunman on motor bikeses opened fire at a wedding in ki cairo. the christian churches have been the eye of attack. the attackers arrived on not or- motor bikes and opened fire without warning. their targets a christian congregation at the church of the virgin mary. the people were attending a wedding and were just leaving when the gunmen arrived. >> we came running his at a -- t hysterically. i found a woman on a chair with
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gunshot wounds. the local parish priest said although the target was a christian church this was an attack on the entire country. >> what happened i is an insulto egypt and it's not directed only to the christians. we are destroying our country just imagine what people outside of egypt will think when they hear this has happened. we are an nationally known church. the christians make up 10% of the population. in resent months dozens of churches have been attacked across the country. fueling tensions between christians and the muslim populations. it's understood the church of the virgin mary had been left undeunguarded for several month. the head of the church says the
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officers will increase their patrols outside of churches following this attack. >> australian firefighters are bracing for what they describe for an unparalleled fire fire emergency in the next few days. there is a thought that the fires could join up and create one huge fire. the state of emergency has been declared there. andrew thomas with more. >> the most of the concern is the weather is ge getting worse. it's getting hotter and windier. notably windier on monday morning and over the next 48 hours it will get hotter still. two or three huge bush fires meemight join to form what is cominsome arecalling a mega fir. already it's a state of emergency and giving authorities a right to enter and an demolish
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a person's house. john is the deputy controller here. what is the priority for your guys at the moment. >> the fire started on thursday and it's now mount. monday. we have 200 volunteers working in this part of the area. our priorities are putting in back burns and containment lines and making shoo you sure sure te stays where it is. it could push the two fires together and could under certain weather conditions force the fire to run towards the edge of sydney. the suburbs of sydney could be at threat. tony abbott went out as a firefighter overnight own saturday. he didn't take a tv crew with
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him. he is anxious to show that he is one with his firefighters and this is a serious situation that he is personally involved with. >> a suicide car bomber drove into a ca ka cafe killing 55 pe. it was a mainly muslim district job foreign leaders from the european union are arriving in luxembourg. they will be discussing how the bloc should act on the issue yof chemical weapons and them talk about the humanitarian crisis in the country. >> the syrian government has accused a turkey for supporting rebel fighters. turkey refutes resent resent developments on the ground.
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that is worrying the government. omar reports from that border. this is one of turkey's smallest provinces. it shares 110 kilometre border with syria. half of the people that live here are syrian refugees. many are nervous about the al qaeda in the area. >> we are worried. >> this is a road that leads to the syrian border. beyond this turkish border post parts of the northern syria have become a strong hold of al qaeda. last month's it's fighters
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controlled the city and town which is only 5 kilometres from turkey. the fighters say they are strong and well equipped. this rebel calls on people to join their cause. and in the province of edna the armed group is powerplay and pom reachin --and reaching out to r. the al qaeda linked group and along with other rebel groups want to control more land near the turkish border. syria says the turkish government backs these groups. they have warned that turkey will pay a heavy price for supporting armed groups in his country. now groups in syria affiliated to al qaeda is a few kilometres away from here and that worries the turkish government.
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the govenor says syria's accusations are baseless. kite'al qaeda's presence near ty is not welcomed. >> this problem or threat is a security one but for four border provinces. of course we have security there that is why we are tightening our security to highest measures. >> terrorism does not have a religion. intelligence is working hard. >> the war in syria is causing a lot of problems for turkey. now as different armed groups including al qaeda maintains along the border turkey's security could be at risk. >> in nigeria a gunman wearing uniforms has killed 19 travelers and burned three trucks. it was close to the border of cameroon. they believe the bokaraham were
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behind the attack. >> the the govenor says a ma lisaa amilitia is to blame. an alternative pipe line through opeethiopia. >> relatives of those that died in the westgate shopping mall are gathering together for a memorial service. it's been a month since a number of gunmen went on a killing spree. our correspondent talked to those still ser searching for ld ones in nairobi. for james the westgate shopping mall is not so much a me memoril
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as it is a grave. he was supposed to join his under a and tw --aunt and two co celebrate a birthday on the day the gunmen attacked. they are still missing the photos are a painful reminder of what happened here. >> my aunt and my first born. >> he brought his daughter and son to westgate for a treat. since then james has heard nothing. and now he is full of unanswered questions. >> they didn't protect us. they are hiding from us. which isvery wrong. we need to know the bodies are there. we need to do a ceremony and go and bury our people. but they are not doing that. >> the one month on from westgate we no very little of what happened when the shooting began. the police and civilians and military did their best to rescue people in what now seems
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a well intentioned attempt to contain the crisis. new silent video from security cacameras shows four relatively relaxed gunmen hunting down and shooting anyone they could find. this does not look like a well carcoordinated military operatin but a random attempt to create as much blood shed and fear as possible. the new video raises far more questions than answers. if there were only four men involved in the attack, then why was the government telling us there could be as many as 15 involved. how was it a small group of lightly armed men were ag able o fight off the security services for almost four days. >> a former intel agains intellr believes they should have seen westgate coming. the officers were aware of a possible attack. and we didn't seem to be
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prepared or seem to have been preparing for it. and we don't seem to have an answers. >> the government has launched an inquiry but so far it's declined to release the results or give any information on what happened inside of the the building of terror and confusion. >> what form is this memorial service going to take, peter? >> well, david, the key part of the service is goings to happen right here at a memorial garden. this guard edge has bee -- gards been renamed peace garden. there are 70 trees here and 54 have names and the remaining 16 are unnamed. those are for the bodies unidentified. they'll be planted about the time the shooting began at westgate. it's a solemn service and it's about memorializing the victims.
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>> peter, you showed us some pictures in your report about the number of gunman tha that my have been in the mall. other pictures have come out and i want you to talk about them in a moment. it appears to show soldiers coming out of the shopses with bags in their hands. with the context of that in mind, is it an outpouring of grief or is there outrage there as well. there is there. >> there ask there is a growings about what happened in westgate. here it's a ceremony that looks at memorializing the victims and coming to terms with the loss. underlying of all of that, of course is the a angers and frustration.
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>> we'll await reaction from the authorities to those pictures. >> still to come on al jazeera calling for better pay an better benefits. we'll call for protests in tunisia's capital. >> we look at the rise of what is known as drone journalism
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>> hello once again. i'm david foster. >> gunmen have attacked a wedding party in the equil in el kicairo. >> there are concerns that fires in new south wales will join up to create one massive inferno threatening the city of sydney. >> residents that died in the westgatgate shopping mall seigee having a memorial. >> a team of international experts are presenting a preliminary report to the japanese government on the clean up of the fukushima power plant. experts are in a press
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conference have spent a week assessing the site. radioactive water has been leak leaking into the pacific ocean. >> the problems of fukushima sencenter earned the around ther reactors. back in june the plants operating that radioactive water was leaking from a storage tank into the ground in july they admitted the contaminated water was reaching the sea. in august they raised alert level. and this month they were dousing contaminate the water from a detached pipe. it's not looking good. let's bee examine it now. have you heard anything of interest from the atomic agency
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people on what they believe is it happening at fukushima? >> it's all in general terms. typical u.n. statements. they have learned less sons ands songlessons and they will sharet will other nuclear agencies. i am still waiting. they have not got edge to the gt paipairpaiparamount point. next month is going tock a dange -- tobe a dangerous momen. >> are you saying it's getting worse and worse by the day? >> no, no e. th the issue of the leaking water and seven under ground huge tanks is not the issue i'm referring to. when it the even event happenede
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were four explosions hydrogen explosionings they are called, they blew up the ceilings of the reactreactors. and now next month they are going to unload the spent fueled. and that fuel is plutonium and uranium. and flew tonplutonium is very, g staining -- dangerous. because of the explosion there are no more cranes that are controlled automatically, accurately to lived thes lift te assemblies. and it's going to be done man manually. to me that is a bo potential al. >> if any mishap in handling
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these spent fuel assemblies that will be a very serious incident i. >> is it possible that thes thee inspectors could say you can't go ahead with them. you should stop. >> they have to take them out. they are taking the best chance as they say. >> what would happen if they remained there? if they remained there the whole structure supporttheing the pool has buckled and it's not stable. and in the edevelopmen event ofd earlearthquake that structure wt stand still. we are looking at the press cone foconference we'll bring you tho
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you on al jazeera. >> thousands of inzer indonesia workers want their wage to go up by 150%. we have more from jakarta. >> news thousands of workers are gearing up fore for a a protest. they are demanding a 50% intercrease of thinter--increas. >> we don't agree with the presidential decree that allows the minimum wage to increase by 50%. the fueled prices have gone up and the economy is dpoing doingl and the gdp is going um. up. we are demanding 50 percent. >> they say they can't live on a
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wage of $170 to $200 a month anymore. prices have gone up significantly the living costs and the cost of energy and thanktransportation. and thin they want healthcare fl of the workers. and not auld o starting in janu. >> the prime minister is in washington trying his very best to improve a relationship between the two countries since osama bin laden has been killed. >> on sunday the sunda state department has asked to reinstate blocked asis tankses s it is aassistassistance to paki.
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>> the classified documents say the nsa not only accessed call calderon's e-mails but that of his government. the earlier documents showed that the u.s. spied oint other leaders including the current mexican president. >> unfortunate manned aircraft enable the military the ability to attack without risking troops. now they are developing a drone for the use of journalists the use of these drones is a grey area and wiel we'll hear why frm john andrew. >> the newest media frontier the sky is the limit. john was watching a drone photograph the landscape to make
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a map when he had an efif epiph. >> there is every tornado and every returnin hurricane and fld wildfire and biblical disaster. use your imagine nations. >> -- imagination. >> he believes that the capability of $1,500 drones could be as use full to news organizations. he walks into my office and says i want to create a drone journalism lab. my thought is, what is that? university of nebraska launched the world's first uav lab for young journalists. >> we are quite literally creatings this new tool for journalists to use. there are no guidelines other suggestingsuggestions on how yod
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use this. we are just making it up sand ai want to keep doing that. >> the picture on your test model may look a little woul wobblely. but with refinements it could look like this. that means no place is out of reach. therthey are still work in prog. but a drone is i in use in india to watch cricket. it's so far ahead of the law it's left many questions unanswered. >> someone says if that thing flies over my house i will get my shotgun out and shoot it down. >> as silly as it sounds it's not clear whether they can do that. gif you think about we are still writingwriteing the rule book.
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>> thousands of children in east africa suffer from a disease called notting syndrome. little is known about what causes it and there is no cure. >> yet in uganda a group suffering from the disease are showing signs is of improvement. >> walter cance can't no longerk and barely event. the growth of his body and brain are stunted. he has noting syndrome. thousands of children have it and there is no cure and eventioeventually it kills. his sis a sister grace has it t. most of the time she is too weak to couldn' comp out come out of.
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>> it's difficult to look at these two children. i look for support from any well wisher and without that i feel useless and they will die. >> a few kilometres away these children suffer from the syndrome but they have been coming to this special sen centr for a year. >> they are given basic education and bal balanced meald the staff he hem help them to wh every day. >> you can see them. they could not play, they are now. they would have no smiling on the their faces. >> now they laugh. they are still no not cured. the children still get seizures but they happen less frequently
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and the staff are trained by dock torgdoctors how to handle . medicines for epilepsy help and vet minutevitamins too. these two doctors run a charity for the syndrome, called hope for hu humans. >> the children here have improved considerably and they are healthy and happy. and to a large extent they are getting what all children need balanced meals, exercise and suitable education and simple high green. hygiene. that suggests that it is so developed that must be because of the extreme poverty. walter is it too far from the center to walk there. >> the government provides service for children with the
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centrasyndrome but with less su. >> more many it creates great suffering and often death. >> for more on that story and the world news log on to al jazeeraljazeera.com. in india, a woman's fate can take a cruel twist when her husband dies. >> they would beat me, both my daughter in law and my son would beat me. my brother in law tried to rape me but i fought back. i got him beaten up.

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