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>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello, welcome to the news hour, in doha, our top stories. the world's top diplomats fly to geneva, but israel warns of an epic mistake. the crime of the century, that's the conclusion of the palestinians who say that yasser arafat was assassinated. and the world's largest storm battles the philippines.
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and i'll have the latest from europe, including a british soldier convicted of murdering a wounded afghan fighter. and the ukraine fighting for its own gas supplies after twice being left out in the cold by russia. ♪ so we begin in geneva and the attempts to end the standoff over iran's nuclear program. the meeting in its second day has taken on new significance with the arrival of many of the world's senior foreign ministers. william hague is already at the talks. top diplomats from france and germany are also on their way. and u.s. secretary of state john kerry has just arrived. he says no deal has been done yet, but he hopes a solution can
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be found. >> i want to emphasize there is not an agreement at this point in time, but the p5 is working hard and i look forward to the meetings that i'll be having very shortly with -- with lady ashton, and my fellow ministers in the p5 and then i will be meeting with minister zarif. we hope to try to narrow the differences, but i don't think anybody could mistake that there are some important gaps that have to be closed. so thank you very much. >> we have correspondent covering all sides of the story, live in the iranian capital. but first let's go to james bays who joins us live in geneva. james there must be a feeling
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that a deal is close to tuition. >> i arrived in geneva just a few hours ago. there are all of the official jets because in a very dramatic move, all of these officials have decided to come here in person. it's all at a much higher level than it was. no one here says that a deal has been done. you heard that from secretary kerry a short time ago, but clearly the fact that you bring in these big donees suggests that a deal is close, and a deal possibly can be achieved soon. >> let's go now to tehran, how is this being reported and viewed there in tehran? >> during the last 48 hours, there has been a lot of optimism, cautious optimism.
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there has been about a decade of disappointment in these talks between iran and the p5-plus-1, those powers trying to come to some kind of an agreement on this nuclear issue. but the iranians are the ones that are really under pressure. and this country is under very, very tough international sapg shuns. and effecting the average iranian. there is a lot of optimism about hopefully this situation ending really soon, and sanctions relief as part of that deal, but people are very, very cautious given what has happened in the last decade. so we really will have to see how this plays out over the next couple of hours, and saturday morning, the start of the working week here in iran, when everybody goes back to work, and
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how the media will react to what is going on in geneva. >> all right now to jerusalem. how does the israely prime minister see it? >> it is very much the opposite. benjamin netenyahu has been holding meetings with the u.s. secretary of state over the past three days. part of the discussion was about the israeli palestinian negotiations now underway, that part did not go very well, as secretary kerry very uncharacteristically blunt in many of his statements calling the settlements unlegitimate, but it was on the area of iran where disagreement fully emerged in the very first meeting. john kerry saying that the goal
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was to have a peaceful nuclear iran. the israel prime minister making absolutely clear that israel would not accept the ongoing nuclear technology to exist within iran or allow the sanctions to be lifted at this particular point. benjamin netenyahu appeared to precede announcement of a deal making very clear his belief that the deal on the table is complete l completely unacceptable. he had a breakfast meeting with john kerry today, significantly the two did not appear in public. after that meeting some obser r observers concluding they did not want to accentuate their disagreement even further but arguing in public. >> understand the iranians are walking around very satisfied in geneva as well they should be, because they got everything and
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paid nothing. they wanted relief of sanctions after years of a gruelling sanctions regime, they got that. they are not reducing in any way their nuclear enrichment capability. so iran got the deal of the century and the international community got a bad deal. this is a very bad deal. >> we'll bring you any developments in this story as they arrive. but for the moment mike, many things. the palestinians are calling it the crime of the century. they say finding out who killed yasser arafat is a national and moral responsibility. two reports determined that arafat didn't die from disease or old age. >> reporter: >> translator: this is the crime of the 21st century.
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we will not save an effort and no obstacle will stop us at arriving at the facts. the basis, ladies and gentlemen, is to find out who stands before the assassination of yasser arafat. and who has the technical and scientific resources for that. we say that israel is the only one to be accused. >> of course you heard that the palestinians say that israel is the only suspect, something that israel has repeatedly denied. >> let me say this as simply and
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clearly as i can. israel did not kill arafat, period. it's as simple as that. we have nothing to do with that. and the palestinians should stop levelling all of these baseless allocations. >> joining us now is the man what spearheaded the investigation into arfats death. both teams say that he died of unnatural causes, if you like, but unlike the swiss team, the russians say their results are inconclusive. why? >> it was an intriguing press conference by the way, but the truth is the general was saying two contradictory things. he say we know it was poison, but we don't have enough evidence that polonium was
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responsible. today they introduce the russian inquiry, and well, you know, the russian inquiry said they were uncertain, but our investigation puts the general's comments in a different context. in fact, we had convincing evidence that the russian evidence is not as clear-cut as it was presented today. we'll show a clip from a documentary that is going out on sunday. we'll run that now. ♪ >> a new development bringing me to the armenian capitol. we were expecting results from swisserland months ago, but the news is it will be delayed for more investigation. in the meantime, a man from the soviet union contacts me.
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the palestinian authority brought russia in to conduct a third examination. after months of communication i decide to meet the source. ♪ he asked and we agreed to hide his debitty. we spent hours checking that neither of us are being followed, unsure of the risks of releasing this classified material. ♪ >> he shows us 15 pages, said to be the summary findings from the russian lab. after we convince him to speak us to on camera.
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>> they were not only restricted in how they presented the report, they were also given an incomplete selection of samples. the document shows they measured only four of a total of 20. >> it's not clear what happened to the other 16 samples. in the four that were tested the reading of pal loan um were
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suspiciously lowe. nonetheless the scientists write that the results are inconclusive. >> so phil, does it appear as though the russians have handled the evidence that they were given incorrectly or has their investigation in some way been interfered with, do you think? >> well, that's a good question. it does appear that there was political pressure placed on him, and one can only surmise as to why that would happen. we presented the russian report and it is available on our website, by the way, but we presented the conclusions to the
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renounced forensic scientist, and this is what he has got to say. >> choice of bone fragments that have chosen to use is very odd, and the levels appear to be 10 or 20 times less than you would expect just from anybody else in the world. so i think the results are meaningless. >> all right. so where does this -- these conflicting reports leave the -- the quest to find who killed arafat? >> well, there is a french criminal investigation taking place now, so the onus will be on them. but in terms of the palestinian authority, the general has been investigating this since 2008. i'm not very confident in watching him today that the palestinian authority are going to take this forward themselves. >> phil, many thanks. and you can see the full
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investigation into yasser arafats death right here on al jazeera. our exclusive docken in try, killing arafat premiered sunday at 1900 hours gmt. the children were hungry so i went to get potatoes for them in the farm. that's when they shot at me. >> fleeing the violence. aid workers in crisis in the democratic republic of the congo. and the strongest hit yet of a possible world cup in qatar in 2022. details coming up later in the program. the strongest typhoon to hit land since records began. telephone lines are down, power is out, and millions have fled
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to safer ground. we'll can get an update now from ted who is on the line in the philippines. ted what is the situation there now? >> reporter: hi, adrian we are in the central part of the philippines. we have one confirmed person was killed. and [ inaudible ] so far. and also here in the peninsula, [ inaudible ] were ordered to leave port, and right across the island from where i am at now is [ inaudible ] weeks ago and we are receiving reports there that
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they had to leave evacuation centers. now last night evacuation was ordered of about 700,000 people, roughly 125,000 families, and that actually minimized the number of fatalities. >> okay. ted many thanks to you. let's get an update now on any storm from caroline malone. >> the strongest storm on record to make landfall hit the philippines. homes were flattened. the typhoon arrived early on friday when the strongest gusts
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hit cambodia. >> incredibly strong winds, we have had reports from locals of roofs being ripped from buildings and windows being blown in. it pushed waives to more than 5 meters high. >> i saw the big waves and we immediately started to flee. we thought it was a tsunami. >> reporter: even before the center of the storm passed, treeing were being blown down. >> as always no storm can bring a united filipino people to its knees. >> reporter: the storm came in from the east, and hitting further north where high waves
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were seen. many of people have also been effected in heavily populated areas with lots of tourists. but there is only so much that can be done to prepare for a storm as strong as this. >> this week the philippine red cross has been distributing emergency aid items, emergency kits and emergency shelter, but they are still extremely vulnerable, because you are talk about thousands of people who are already living in make-shift shelters. >> reporter: communications have been cut, so the full extent of the damage will not be known for a while. >> this storm made landfall getting over 24 hours from now, where is it likely to go now? >> now it is heading towards
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vietnam. it has weakened slightly, so that's better news, adrian, but in terms of absolute strength, you can see it making its way across the central part of the philippines. we were talking of sustained winds of around 300 kilometers per hour. very, very strong storm and it does continue to make its way westward. it has weakened, but that made it the strongest cyclone to make landfall since those records began. it broke the record set by hurricane camille set back in 1969 when the winds got up to 305 kilometers per hour. 500 millimeters of rain certainly a possibility, and a high storm surge as well. at the moment we have winds of
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around 250 kilometers per hour, so that does make it a category 4 storm, but it is still very much a supertyphoon and catastrophic conditions still a possibility. it is going to take its way out of the sulu agency and into the south china sea. and push up towards vietnam. when it hits vietnam, we are looking at those winds being the equivalent of a category 2 storm at that point. big thunderstorms certainly still a possibility. still plenty of rain to come, sunday the showers will be somewhat fewer, and you can see the strong winds making their way towards vietnam. we are looking at landfall around 6:00 gnt on sunday. so still a very damaging system,
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adrian. >> absolutely. many thanks indeed. a british soldier has been guilty of murder following the killing of a seriously injured afghan fighter. let's join felicity in london. >> this was a fighter who was shot at close range two years ago. two other soldiers on patrol were equated. lawrence lee has more details. >> reporter: the incident happened in 2011. in response one of the insurgents were badly wounded by helicopter fire and a group of marines dragged his body to the trees. what they didn't know is they were reporting their own actions on one of the soldier's own helmet cameras. a gunshot can be heard.
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>> go that way. [ gunfire ] >> all three men have pleaded nothing to murder, claiming they believed the man was already dead. what the court-martial had to decide was whether the marines own words contradicted that asserti assertion. >> [ inaudible ] this doesn't go anywhere, fellas. >> yeah, right. >> the judge ruled the men's identity would not be revealed and decided the video itself would not be made public, but certainly the convictions of murder of a british soldier a year before the withdrawal can only make the exit more difficult. italian police have arrested a somali man in connection with
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a human trafficking ring. france's credit rating has been downgraded again this time from aa-plus to aa. standard pours say it is not doing sufficient to cut debt. the french finance minister has criticized the downgrade, saying it [ inaudible ] put in place by the government. at least one person has been killed in an explosion at a shop in the southern russian republic. the store was completely destroyed. the attack was similar to an incident that happened last week. ukraine has signed a second deal to search for natural gas after a warning from the
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russians that it might interrupt supplies. russian has turned off the gas to the ukraine on two occasions. ukraine which was once part of the soviet union has tried to ensure its energy independence. >> reporter: the kremlin may not like, but the ukraine is looking for its own natural gas sight. the ukrainians hope new exploration will let them step away from an uncomfortable dependence on moscow. leaders think the government's gamble could pay off with the production of billions of cubic meters of natural gas. >> if you look at ukraine as a hole, and all of the energy projects that have come on the table, i would say ukraine has a
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good hope that it should be able to increase its production of particularly gas. >> chevron has agreed to a $10 billion deal in early november. opposition to frac-ing and other techniques is relatively low here. thank to the russian company turning off gas supplies in 2006 and 2009 because of disputes about prices and debt. >> reporter: he thinks his country could be energy optimistic optimistic -- independent by 2020. part of the drop comes from breaking with soviet habits of not f even counting how much gas you use. >> by introducing even some
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small changes, for example, in some companies in the ukraine until very recently they even didn't have meters, you know. just by introducing meters they are able to save their energy. >> reporter: moscow has been blowing hot and cold on another gas threat. but the russian prime minister saying no interrupting is in the offering. all right. you are up to date with the latest news here in europe. back now to adrian in doha. >> still much more to come in the next hour. we'll bring you reports on the drug trade. plus tiger woods digs himself out of trouble and into contention. details coming up from the turkish open. ♪
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news hour from al jazeera. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says there's no deal yet on iran's nuclear program. he is now in geneva with several other top diplomats to try to reach an agreement. palestinian investigators say that former leader yasser arafat was poisoned. two reports determined that arfat didn't die of disease or old age, but failed to agree on what was responsible for his death. and the strongest typhoon ever reported has made landfall in the philippines. the congolese government are set to sign an agreement with rebels. the leader is believed to have
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turned himself in. hundreds of fighters are reported to have also surrendered. the m23 announced it was giving up arms on tuesday after a 20-month battle with the army. let's no live now to malcolm webb. malcolm what is the significance of this peace deal given that the m23 was more or less routed? >> that's right. i mean they were defeated on the battlefield, so this deal will basically just sort of put that outcome on paper. it's a deal that will very much be written on the terms of the congolese government from day one. m23 would have liked to have drawn up some kind of deal when they were in a stronger position. maybe even last year when they took the regional capitol, but even for months after that they had mortar and so on outside of the hills pointing at the city. so they could have negotiated
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some serious influence in the province, but in recent weeks they lost it all. the government took all of the major towns and flushed them out of their very last bases. so this will very much be the government's deal. >> their leader is reported to have turned himself in, and is being held there in campola what is likely to happen to him now? >> well, he is on a un sanctions list, so that means according to un rules uganda has obliged not to let him travel except back to his own country. they will probably want to put him before a military court, maybe even want to charge them with war crimes but uganda said they won't just send him back straight away, not without assurances that everything will
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be done properly. really it's a bilateral agreement that has to be made. >> malcolm thanks indeed. the united states has lost its voting rights in the world's cultural agency in esco. the u.s. stopped paying its fees to the un. paul brennan has more. >> reporter: there are more than 20 world heritage sites in america alone. the statute of liberty, the grand canyon, yosemite. >> a vote is a very precious thing when you are part of any kind of enterprise, so losing our vote and not being able to vote has a very, very strong
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emotional impact for me. >> reporter: it may be best known for its heritage sights but its core mission is fighting extreatmentism through education. >> to add palestine as member of unesco. >> reporter: until 2011, the u.s. contributed $18 million a year, 22% of the overall budget, but that immediately stopped because u.s. law bans the funding of any un agency which has palestine as a member. >> what i regret is that this decision became so divisive and i would say a trigger to this suspension of the funding, and that it does not go along with the other decisions of the united nations, which put us in the slightly different situation. >> reporter: although the obama administration has tried to amend the law and resume
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payments, that reform has stalled. >> we need them to be active, by -- by making this decision, first of all they have created big problems for unesco but they have also lost part of the road, and we need the road. i'm not saying well, that's very good, bye-bye, and leave us. i'm not saying this, but why did they choose to get out from the game in this way? >> many expect an american return to happen sooner rather than later. there is since 2011 a racking up of nearly a quarter million dollars a day, prolonging the problem will only make it worse. paul brennan, al jazeera. several african leaders and diplomats are meeting in the central african republic to helpen the security crisis
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there. >> reporter: what you can't see from the sky is that almost all of these huts are empty. some people have run into the bush, others have made it to these blue and white tents. this man was shot on his way here. he says armed men burned his house, killing his brother and father. >> translator: what they did was senseless. there was no reason for them to do this to me. i went to get potatoes for the children from the farm. that's when they shot at me. >> reporter: there are now more than 40,000 people here in this remote town, mostly christians, sleeping on the grounds of the cathedral. >> reporter: this family talked 25 kilometers to get here today. they say they can't go back to
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their farms and livelihoods because of the fighting in the area. the un says it can't cope with new arrivals. people keep coming because they are afraid of revenge attacks by former rebels. in september sel ka was attacked by a group called anti-balica, which means anti-machete. on the other side of town muslims are hiding in a school. this man says they killed his father. he is now looking after his family of 20. >> translator: my message to these people is they may want to retake power and get back in government, but they need to
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spare civilian lives. >> reporter: in has become a complicated conflict, with armed groups killing for political and sometimes religious reasons. >> people here have in many respecteds been forgotten, but the united nations stands for the rights of children and the rights of women. and we have on obligation not to abandon these people. >> reporter: the un security council is expected to agree to a new peace-keeping mission. and she joins us live now. this meeting that's being attended by several african
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leaders there, what are its aims? what is it trying to do? >> i think the aim of the contact meeting here really is to mobilize the international community into some sort of action. i have just come from an interview where the president of the congo, and he told me that concrete -- what he would like to see is the african union taking a lead in this. that conflicts with some we have been talking to who would like the uniteded nations to take the lead. there is even talk that the united nations might go for an executive mandate. that happened in kosovo. and that would mean the united nations would come here and run state institutions like the police, military, and justice
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system until the country can get back on its feet. of course the president of the republic would not agree with that. for the moment he believes that he is the best man to run the country and that he can bring everything under control and stabilize his own country. >> but it's clear he doesn't have control over elements that are reportedly loyal to him. is there are sense of frustration there. france prime minister said that a genocide was happening there and they risk becoming another somalia. >> i think in the background behind closed doors. diplomats certainly told us that they are concerned with -- particularly with what al jazeera exposed here, a massacre in the western part of this country, and concern that the president cannot control his
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own security forces. there is a sense that this country is sliding towards becoming another failed state, but possibly not in a somali sense but more in terms of a potential civil war here. there is also a fear from french diplomats in particular that if the country doesn't stabilize, the security vacuum here would just attract all kinds of armed groups from neighboring countries, and that will deteriorate. >> okay. many thanks indeed. anti-coup protesters are rallying across egypt once again calling for bet protection for women. they say that security forces are increasingly using violence against female protesters. this is the scene in the capitol cairo. rory has the latest for us.
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>> the anti-coup alliance says this is the worst period in egyptian history for repression, it says that security forces are deliberately targeting women. if it's true certainly the gipian security forces have an awful record when it comes to the protection of women. you have to look at the sexual abuse that went on over the course of the revolution, and also the virginity test that happens under the staff period. and bodies have cataloged a huge range of abuses since the coup. but these are general ones. they are not specifically about women. so thousands of people detained on charges or no charges at all, held in awful conditions, can't see their lawyers, et cetera
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some of those are women. but as to whether there is an actual specific campaign on going at the moment to target women, the evidence for that is anecdotal, and it's worth pointing out that the muslim brotherhood it's a which makes up a significant part of the anti-coup alliance doesn't have a particularly good reputation for women's rights, certainly internationally at least, and amongst those egyptians that oppose them. and for the last few months it has definitely been trying to set it's a up as the protector of egyptian women. still to come, trimming the fat. while the government on the u.s. wants to ban the fat in these products.
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♪ hello again. seizers of crystal meth and methamphetamine pills reached record highs last year in asia. the amount of drugs seized rose by 59% from a year earlier. and much of it originates from myanmar. >> reporter: the aim is to educate people about the dangers of drug abuse. he has been doing this for five years, and says he has
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definitely noticed a trend. >> translator: we see rampant abuse of methamphetamine among the wealthy families and the upper middle class. the drug is not cheap but very easy to make. >> reporter: according to a new un report, myanmar remains the primary producer in asia. last year they seized 18 million meth pills. and the number of people seeking psychiatric help related to the use of amphetamine-type stimulates are also been on the rise in the last five years. the report says methamphetamine is the top illicit drug threat in east and southeast asia. the number of pills seized last year was 59% higher than the previous year. the biggest seizures came from china, followed by thailand. but 90% of those drugs were
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manufactured in myanmar. most production takes place in the eastern state. the region which is also a major opium producer has traditionally been unstable. but now a recent peace initiative between the government and various rebel armies has given hope that drugg drugger eradication programs may be able to take place. >> now here is sport. the president of fifa has given its clearest indication that the world cup in qatar will be held in the winter. last month fifa announced it wouldn't make any firm
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decisionsal after the brazil finals next year. but speaking on friday, he said a winter world cup was inevitable. >> you know that we have in the executive committee take note of the situation in qatar. we have said that there is -- just to confirm that 2022 will be in qatar and there is one site we are starting now the consultations to try to bring this world cup into the winter, and when i say winter, i just want to say, can only be november, december, and in no way january, and february. it can in no way january and february. >> three timer world champions nigeria will take on mexico. nigeria tromped mexico 6-1. now the mexicans will be having
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to turn the tables. the game kicks off in a few minute's time. >> translator: we are very happy to be in the finals. it is truly a privilege to make it this far. that is the most amazing thing about football is it puts you in different scenarios, and now we have the opportunity to meet nigeria again. >> [ inaudible ] have crashed out of the [ inaudible ] with a surprise defeat at home. the brazilian team had been held to a goalless score in the first leg, and then ben necessary arreese knows rose to the occasion. [ inaudible ] hit the post. but in the [ inaudible ] minute they sealed the 2-0 win. in the other semifinals
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[ inaudible ] they lead 2-0 from the first leg, but it was the opponent who scored in the first half of their return match in columbia. they were denied a spectacular second in stoppage time. 2-1 on aggregate. on to golf and tiger wood has worked his way into contending in the turkish open. he came back with a sparkling 9 under par in the second round. the swede leads the european money list, and sunked a birdie on the 10th to end 1 under par. it has been a happy homecoming so far for adam scott. he has a bogey free 67 on friday. the highlight of the second round came from ricky fowler as
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he holed in for eagle on the first. he is in tight for third. own to tennis, [ inaudible ] says he is still going strong after a long season. the second seed made it to the semifine walls victory in his second match on thursday. the serve was up against the argentinian, the 2009 runner up wasn't going down without a fight. and had the same score in the second. then got back to winning ways, and going through to the semifinal as the group winner. >> after -- after ending up the week, i knew the schedule was going to be quite tough on me and on david who played also finals, but i was fortunate enough that my group was selected to play on tuesday and thursday. and i played at night at 8:00
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pm, which helped to recover, to gain more time to get ready for the matches. and i want to win every match that i play on. roger federer has reported a another victory over his french opponent. gaskay is now eliminated. >> i think it was a tricky match today. i think we both struggled. i think he might have had a bit [ inaudible ] i'm not sure how well he was feeling, but from my side i tried to play aggressive, sometimes really well, sometimes i struggled, i still think it was one of those matches that you try to play tough and hopefully come through, and that's all i really needed today is just to make sure i won the match and give myself one last shot to qualify for the semis.
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. >> group a matches conclude on friday. the swiss have broken in the second to lead 3-2. he would qualify if he can beat nadal a little later. the miami heat beat the clippers 102-97. it was the third loss for the clip ores on the road this season. the lakers now travel to houston to face the rockets. houston's dwight howard was facing his old team. it was a 3-pointer by steve blake with 1.3 seconds remaining that clenched it for the latest, and they won it 99-98. kicket and india have beaten west indies to win the first
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test. early on day three the host misdisked the west indies for 168. the next test of this two-game series begins next thursday and will be the 200th and final test match. and south africa batted first taking 266 for 5 of their 50 overs. pakistan are now 26 without loss. that's all of the sport for now, adrian. >> thanks indeed. the u.s. food and drug administration is planning to ban trans-fat in foods. john reports from chicago. >> reporter: americans prepare to say good-bye to all of this. it might prove tasty, but the
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u.s. food and drug administration has declared trans-fat an articlery clogging peril. >> i'm so glad they are doing it, because it's in my children's snacks like cookies. >> reporter: many americans can't quite say what a trans-fat is. >> i don't really know what they are. >> reporter: but the agency says banning the substance could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths each year in the u.s. >> trans-fats not only raise the bad cholesterol but they lower the good cholesterol. >> reporter: it adorned the labels of many processed foods. and can even be found in this
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deep dish pizza. here in illinois a proposal to ban the substance failed two years ago. but americans are eating less in any event. some fast-food chains still serve up trans-fats but most have phased them out entirely. for some americans personal liberty is more important than health. >> i just know it's bad, but i'm not for banning it. i want to have my own choice. >> reporter: it might require a change in america's hearty appetite, but authorities are hoping a bit of preventi prevention -prevention -- [ technical difficulties ] >> that will do it for the news hour. thanks for watching. stay with us here.
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>> they say they did it because they were trying to protect my children. they didn't protect my children, they traumatized them. >> fault lines examines why so many native american kids are caught in the child welfare system. >> any time they see a social worker its like seeing a police officer. the immediate response is, "they're here to take my kids". >> from the indian perspective who sees this in terms of history, this is as about as adversarial as it gets.
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>> welcome to aljazeera america. these are the stories we're following for you. the iran nuclear talks move forward, but no deal yet. in october, the employment rate still went up. death and damage in the aftermath of that typhoon that slammed into the philippines. we may be close, but no deal yet on iran's nuclear

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