tv News Al Jazeera March 23, 2014 9:00am-10:01am EDT
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this is al jazeera. >> hello from doha. this is the news hour on al jazeera. russia's take-over of crimea intensified. this flag flies over close to 200 ukrainian bases in the region. four dead and many more injured in kenya has government opened fire during a church service. an outbreak of ebola kills 59 in guinea and there are fears it could spread further. and shrimp farming booms if
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bangladesh, but at what cost? hello, everyone. a top nato commander has issued a stark warning saying russian forces on ukraine's eastern border are both sizable and ready for action. russian forces are strengthening their hold on the crimea peninsula. pro-russian forces stormed an airbase. earlier shots were fired as armored vehicles moved in. russian military has also seized ukraine's only submarine along with the flagship of the naval fleet at the port near sevastopol was abandoned. nick spicer is in sevastopol joining us live. what's happening to all these
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ukrainian forces forced off their own bases, up to 189 of them now? >> reporter: they're faced with a difficult choice. the russians are telling them they can either join the russian army or leave the country. it's difficult. some of them are deciding to join the russian army. they have strong feelings about their russian heritage, their russian speakers. russia has a long history in this country, in this part of the world before annexing the crimean peninsula. however, others are thinking they should go to ukraine, and that is what duty instructs them to do. we met up with one officer whose mind was never in doubt. this major spoke with al jazeera before russians took over his base. the soldiers were still holding out. leave ukrainian army and become a russian citizen and get a job
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with better pay in the russian armed forces. he has never lived in mainland ukraine. his parents and family live here in nearby sevastopol. he has relatives buried here, but there's something stronger than that. >> translator: as for me, i will definitely leave and fw to mainland ukraine, but despite all the endless offers, i will not accept russian citizenship or pledge allegiance to russia. >> reporter: the ukrainian defense ministry says the soldiers leaving heroes, not deserters, patriots that severaled a nation well. it's promising them financial support and housing, but many soldiers leaving to the mainland say the government should have given them clear orders in good time. torn between his officer's dignity and his disappointment,
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he's going to pack up more than his uniform in the coming days, a whole life, memories, joys and disappointments will be coming for a trip to a destination he does not know yet. but he agrees with something else. he says this flag flew over the base during the three-week standoff with the russians. the officers decided to cut it up and share the pieces in hopes to fly it someday over their base once again. for now, he needs to get his paperwork off the base filled now with russian soldiers. after that a long road with the major, and there's simply no other one to take. we'll be back in a moment. i want to mention a little bit of breaking news on a different topic. the prime minister has himself
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confirmed that turkey has shot down a syrian plane. this plane is apparently going into turkish air space. this is from the rutgers news agency here. they're saying a syrian plane violated our air space. our f-16s took off and hit the plane. we're going to have more on that from or correspondent in istanbul. the prime minister confirmed they shot down a syrian plane into their air space. back to nick spicer who brought that report on all the people relocated. what is happening as far as, i guess, can we call it integration or changes with this new government and the relationship with russia? what else is happening? >> reporter: the kremlin is taking no time in taking over the administration of crimea saying that it will be sending in officials from various ministries to russia fie, if you
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will, the crimean peninsula. that will mean the people from the industry of the interior running the police force and the ministry of defense running the ar army. beyond that, the introduction of the introduction of rubel the only currency that runs in parallel to the ukrainian grivna until then. people are offered passports as well. i've spoken to people lining up in quite large numbers to get russian passports. there are a lot of questions as well. what will the exchange rate be? you can imagine if it's not the right rate, a lot of people might lose significant savings. there's a concern about inflation. will things be more expensive when crimea is integrated into the russian market? let's remember that the ruble
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has been dropping as a consequence of the intervention in crimea, which makes foreign goods more costly in russia and now in crimea presumably. a lot of hope overall. i talked to people what benefits they will expect. a lot of questions marks as well. we understand that the ruble introduction may begin on monday, so that's when people will start to get an idea of what their new lives will be like. >> thank you. back to the dments made by nato by the military chief for europe who says a sizable russian force is massing along ukraine's eastern border. this was general philip breedlove who said the full stand to the ukrainian border to the east is very, very sizable and very, very ready. they're concerned about a threat to muldova. they're a break-away region that might want to joan the russian
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federation. the population is ethnic russia. when you see it on paper like that, it is a -- it's fair enough to think along those lines. what have the russians said about any other areas in the region and what their interests are? >> reporter: russia's defense ministry have been unambiguous in their response to these reports by this nato senior general. they're saying that russia's armed forces are not carrying out any unannounced military activity that could threaten the security and stability of neighboring states. you can't get it clearer than that. the deputy foreign minister antonov, he says they have no plans to concentrate near the border. they respect the limits allowed in the size of the forces on
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those borders. basically this is a message that's been repeated throughout the week. it was president putin who announced the membership of crimea to the russia federation on tuesday. he said quite openly that russia had no expectations, did not in any interest to expand its hold on the ukraine. this message was taken up by e the -- russia's defense minister. we spoke to chuck hagel in washington 48 hours later. he said, look, there have been exercises being carried out on the boarder and in the air. we have jet fighters and bombers on a deployment on thursday and friday of last week. there are also naval exercises in the black sea. he says there are only exercises, and there's no intention of russia crossing into the ukraine. that very much was the message that has come from the kremlin
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in the last few hours. >> thank you to that. that's peter sharp live for us with that update from moscow. that breaks news out of turkey to do with syria, though. the turkish prime minister has confirmed the armed forces, the turkish armed forces shot down a syrian jet after it strayed into turkish air space. there were reporting it was bombing rebels trying to seize control of a border post in northwestern syria. more on that when we get it and talk to our correspondent and the latest on the developing news out of the conflict in syria. at least four people have been killed in an attack on a church in kenya. masked gunmen opened fire during a service. 21 other people were injured, and there's no immediate claim of responsibility. kenya's interior ministry says the gunmen escaped despite
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police being 100 meters away. katherine, what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, police are saying that they blocked all exits from the air of who could be behind this. no one has claimed responsibility. police are telling people not to speculate and to wait for the investigation to be completed. this has to be said. this can't -- this attack happened after police arrested two men with a vehicle stashed full of large quantities of pipe-bombs and explosives that were large enough to bring down a 20-story building. it has been intensified since those explosions of what's covered by police. we're told that the trucks that are being brought in have extreme security helping.
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so it's very concerning, but even in all the stages people can walk into a church and then vani vanish. >> no indication, katherine, on responsibility? there are certainly other places in africa where there are the usual suspects. does anyone jump out in kenya here? >> reporter: no one in kenya has claimed responsibility, but the coast is one of the regions that's being carefully watched by security agencies. normally dwrups and leaders are ral callizing them and asking them to join al shabaab has acted in part of the country including the coast. we should be quick to jump to the conclusion that it's connected to al shabaab. there are a lot of disgruntled groups in the coast as well. groups that feel marginalized.
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so there's possibilities. terrorism is one that is there throughout. >> thank you. still ahead this news hour, algeria's ailing 77-year-old president says it's standing for re-election. we'll find out why not everyone is happy about that. the man that helped to bring down hosni mubarak is in court. we look ahead in sports to ar uably the biggest game when real madrid hosts barcelona. we want to reiterate the breaking news out of turkey. the turkey primary confirms armed forces have shot down a syrian jet. that's the jet coming down after it was shot in turkish air
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space. reports suggests it was bombing rebels trying to seize control of a border post in the northwestern area. these are reports that came out about 20 minutes or so again and the then the confirmation as we say from the turkish prime minister himself and these pictures from the turkish television reporting to shoez it there. you see the explosion, that syrian jet coming down in turkish air space as it strayed there. more on that as soon as we get it with our team in turkey. one of the egypt's most from meant activists mab released on jail after spending four months in jail. he was a youth leader in the uprising that overthrew hosni mubarak in 2011. he faces trial. ahead of his appearance, activists released footage of what they say shows the mistreatment of young men and women in custody. we have more on that. this footage was filmed by
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self-styled anti-coup activists in egypt. it shows young women being taken into custody. here teenage boys are led away by plain clothed officers. they're among 50 youngsters accused of taking part in anti-government protests transferred from a juvenile detention center to torah prison in cairo. their families try to invade to stop the transfer. >> translator: there were no more than 25 of us. we asked them not to transfer our children, but they responded with water cannons and buckshots, even though we're all women. >> reporter: those still held in alexandria are aged between 12 and 15 is have been staging a hunger strike in protest of the transfers. their families accuse prison authorities of beating the youngsters and restricting access to them.
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>> translator: the criminals got a long time, but we were allowed only two minutes and we had strict body searches. when i put food in front of my child he told me that he was not going to eat. >> reporter: human rights groups say many children are illegally being held alongside adults in egypt and are routinely mistreated, but some government supporters defend the justice system. >> translator: some children were arrested, and they confessed. this shows the muslim brotherhood strategy to use women and children to perpetrate illegal acts. the security establishment are only maintaining order without any violation of human rights. these heen yus acts by the brotherhood are strongly condemned as no illegal act could be tolerated, no matter who is behind such act, be it a woman or minor. >> reporter: the international
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law says children should be detained as a last resort, and in today's egypt it's far from a rare event. >> good point to update you as well about one of three al jazeera english journalists. he's been taken to hospital for a shoulder injury. ma home med received little care for his shoerl that dislocated before his arrest in december. he's been detained alongside two reporters. all three accused of having links with a terrorist organization and spreading false news. there is also a bell outhas been in custody for six months. al jazeera continues to demand their immediate release. at least one person has been killed during fighting between pro and anti-syrian fighters in the lebanese capital of beirut. it ended when the electric neez
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army was ordered into. five days of silence in tripoli, which has left 24 dead. a tanker that escaped liebian waters has been steered to tripoli by u.s. special forces. the morning glory left the port to break a naval blockade two weeks ago. that led to the dismissal of the prime minister by bar lament. it's been boarded by special forces off the coast of cyprus. in afghanistan security footage has she had light on a deadly attack at one of kabul's most secure hotels. taliban gunmen passed through multiple security checks on thursday. they smuggled in weapons by hiding them inside shoes. they were patted down after passing through detectives and their shoes were not checked. a u.s. senator visiting afghanistan is urging president barack obama to explain his
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plans. kelly ayotte says the afghan people need to be told. she did warn that american forces would not stay on after the withdrawal if president karzai delays signing a security pact. >> it's time for us to be clear about what the united states of america's commitment will be as a follow-up to 2014 and beyond to the people of afghanistan. now, that support is contingent on the president signing the bilateral security agreement. >> now, australia's prime minister says there are new and credible leads in the search for the missing malkin flight. they have detected debris in the southern indian ocean. it's not clear what those objects are, but the area they
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were seen is is the focus of the focus. france says it too has satellite images showing potential objects of interest floating within the search area about 25 kilometers southwest of perth. >> over the last 24 hours, there have been three significant developments. new satellite imagery, new chinese satellite imagery does seem to suggest at least one large object down there consistent with the object that really satellite imagely discovered, which i told the australian parliament about last week. yesterday one of our civilian search aircraft got visuals on a number of objects in a fairly small area in the overall australian search zone. >> it is a big search zone.
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>> this is remote. if you were to try and choose a worst spot for an aircraft to go missing, then you couldn't find it any worse of this. there's nearly 250,000 kilometers away from perth, which is a fairly remote city. the weather conditions for australia, we get used to sunshine and occasional storms, but really it's all relatively beni benign. don't you move away towards the west and you head towards this region. i had to redraw all the maps and look at -- i tried to look for the islands. there is absolutely nothing here except the weather patterns. it's worth points out that the southern oceans are cloudy 80% of the time. that's what they're up against. they can't see the sea surface because of clouds, which is always onto want surface. we have the weather fronts racing around the southern
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oceans. because antarctica is covered in ice, you have nothing but water. they keep on going. we have a tropical cyclone towards the north. that looks like it will gradually die away and become less of an issue in the coming day. the weather is very unsettled. lots of symptomy weather to come, i'm afraid. >> thank you for that, richard. forgive me. we're looking at the breaking news again out of turkey to do with the syrian war plane being shot down. the turkish prime minister has confirmed this himself. his armed forces shot down a syrian jet after it strayed into turkish air space. these pictures say that cloud and smoke was the result of that plane being shot down on the line. a columnist with the newspaper today examines on the line from istanbul. we thank you for your time. any more information you can give us that's been released. >> reporter: the information is very sparse.
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nothing at the moment. it will be half an hour to go down it's the beginning of a series of perhaps escalations in the beginning. we will see if they're following. >> explain for our fews how this can be. he is the tough speaker at the best of teams. you have it straying into turkey air space and this is the immediate raek. -- reaction. how big can it be in the conflict? >> reporter: we have certainly the upcoming elections in turkey. it's interesting very tense circumstances because the prime minister is looking at the
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aftermath and the political scene is very tense. this is certainly case to come out of the elections because there are allegations of the option that their constitution does this. that is the point. the second point is two or three days ago the main opposition leaders issued a statement saying that the opposition is concerned that there are rumors that there will a military escalation with syria. you complied these could be linked with the coming elections that are going on aimed at perhaps doing this with the escalation. certainly we will have to hear the opposition necessary in the coming hours. the third, of course, is this is
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to be season as a long term retaliation of turkey, because there was surveillance for turkish aircraft, and it was shut down offshore syrian air space. that was two years ago, and it was near that it was struck down by the earian air forces. >> would you stay on the line for any? i'm going to talk to the correspondents in is tan but, but i want to keep you on the line. stay there for. can you hear me? >> reporter: yes, i can. >> where are you for context of our viewers? >> reporter: the prime minister and the rally in istanbul that syria violated our air space. our f-16s have shot down a
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syrian plane because it violated our air space. he did say that if syria does it again, it will happen. he congratulated the air force their bravery, and he basically warned syria for violating the air space. >> if you can still hear me, it re-affirms turkey's place in this and how important and significant a player it could be? >> it is very important, however, i don't think that there is an appetite in turkey for a widest thing at the moment. the government has said many times before including the prime minister and the foreign minister that turkey will never tolerate brief of its own
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country. i think they wanted to send a message that they're serious. it's repeated again, and there couldn't be a wider action with the elections coming in about a week's time. so i don't think the government has an appetite for syria. they've already been criticized by their own public that their stance in syria is not a right one. >> great job. some difficult conditions there. for our cost dent in istanbul. these pictures come from sur kish television, and turkish television is saying this is the aftermath of a syrian jet being shot down in turkish air space. the confirmation came trektly from the prime minister himself, and these pictures are the latest from turkish television. apparently, if you'd just bear
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with me while my computer fires up. here we go. the quote from the turkish prime minister. a syrian plane violated our air space. they took off and hit the plane. that's what the prime minister told that rally of supporters in turkey. of course, he's getting ready for elections, but this is a major incident happening with a syrian plane being shot down in turkish air space. more developments, and there will be plenty of them as soon as we have them. still ahead this news hour, ifrn are ever deeper positions. we have the latest on the political violence sweeping venezuela. will of people. frefrn voters choose their next mayors. wayne rooney's latest wonder goal for manchester united gets
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welcome back. the headlines, the brablgs news. the turkish prime minister just confirming in the last few unexpected minutes that the defense shot down a syrian plane for violates air space. state tv says these pictures are of the jet. reports are that it was bombing rebels trying to seize control of a border post. moscow says the raaschian
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flag is flying over 189 ukrainian bases in the crimean peninsula. they have warned to a possible russian threat to a neighbor. at least 21 were injured during the attack in kenya near the port city. so this breaking news repeating. turkey shot down a syrian jet that went into it's air space. james, your thoughts on this and how it changes the syrian conflict and affects it. >> reporter: this is an important development because turkey is not just a neighbors country of syria. it is a country that is a nato member. this is a nato military jet that is now being involved in taking down a syrian jet. as we understand it, it's been
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confirmed a short time ago by the prime minister that it was the turkish air force that were responsible. he's said that a syrian plane ran into the air space and our f-16s took off and hit this plane. why? if you violate my air space, the measure will be hard. that's from the turkish prime minister. i think others in the region are watching this pretty significant step. >> it reflects his almost mood at the moment. he's a tough speaker and he has elections coming up as well. this is for him a show of strength. >> reporter: absolutely. what we don't know are the dpakt details of exact where this took place. they say it violated turkish air space. we're not clear where the tur tissue planes were at the time. whether it was actually turkish planes or whether it was turkish
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ground air defenses. some of the details, i think, will emerge in the coming hours. i think some will be important to make some of what happened here a little clearer. i think it is worth reminding viewers this is an area on this border crossing between taking syria where there's a lot of fighting going on understand between the syrians and the turks but between the syrian government forces and rebels on the syrian side. >> great context. our diplomatic editor on the line from kuwait today. the other big story is the ukraine and crimea. the russia flag is now flying over 189 military installations in crimea. so russia is definitely making its moves. what's the reaction in ukraine? let's go to phil in kiev for us. protes protests today i believe and a meeting of the ukrainian cabinet
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>> reporter: yeah, that's right. i wouldn't call it a protest as much as as a rally on independent square. very defiant words coming from the people on the streets about what is happening out in crimea. a lot of anger being expressed at the way their soldiers and men in uniform are being treated. also saying that this is a rally of solidarity and unity trying to keep ukraine held together. that is, of course, relevant to what we are hearing coming from that cabinet meeting, the government meeting here in kiev saying a number of things, the least of which that they have stopped a number of what they call russian agent proceed vok turs in the east of the country in particular. that they have drove around the east of the country trying to stir up tensions between those communities early pro-russian or pro-western.
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kiev is saying that that's not a natural occurrence. that it's actually being orchestrated by moscow. >> thank you for that for developments there. now, three people have been killed do pro and anti-government rallies in venezuela's cal t capital. at least 31 others have died in almost two months of unrest. they're still demanding president maduro resign. but the opposition itself remains deeply divided on how to move forward. >> reporter: if there was any question about serious divisions within venezuela's opposition movement, the nationwide march called in support of imprisoned mayors and political leader damopos left no doubt. as he was scheduled to speak, the man who nearly won the
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laeksz elections last year abandoned the rally. >> translator: maduro, if you resign, you'll open a path to peace for venezuelans. >> reporter: a letter written from prison by him calling for president nicolas maduro's immediate resignation and threatening to brill millions out on the street if he refuses seems to signal the breaking point. the moderates want to change the government and hard liners who argue change can't change. >> translator: it is our right to demand the president's resignation, and we'll keep fighting because this can't continue. >> reporter: not to be outdone, students supporting the government marched to the presidential palace to hear maduro. >> translator: i will take my violate takings for dialogue. they refuse, because they think if time passes the government
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will fall. >> reporter: the opposition is also split on negotiating with maduro. in a statement capriles said it was time to get off the streets and go into poor neighborhoods to end polarization and oppression. on this day of national protest, his words fell on deaf ears. after every demonstration coming the confrontation behind them. masked men are waiting for the riot police to come down to stop them from blocking this road. >> translator: we're here to take a stand, but we're prepared to fight if the police attack. >> reporter: on this occasion the tear gas did its work, and the protesters dispersed, but with no end in sight to venezuela's latest political unrest, now in its sixth week. thousands of people have marched in the chilean capital demanding changes to the constitution. saturday's protest is the first mrit cool demonstration since
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president lachelete was elected two weeks. they want better education and the legalization of same-sex marriage. street battles between police and protesters in spain's capital. it drew tens of thousands of protesters to central madrid. we have this report. >> reporter: as police moved in to clear madrid's square, protesters reacted. a tense end to a peaceful antiausterity process, the biggest since the economic crisis began. >> we want to change this society and government. it's completely unfair. more than 6 million are unexamined and 2 million families with no incomes in the country. >> reporter: demonstrators came from all across the country remembering almost every sector of spanish society. many walked for days to get
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here, some covering hundreds of mill low -- kilometers. >> there were long stretches led by old people. some were 76 years oel. >> reporter: two years ago spain was teetering on the brink of default saved by a $130 billion bail outon to keep the banks afloat. the government implemented widespread reforms making cuts to the health and education sectors, cutting pensions and increasing taxes. protesters say that's backward. s this the first major demonstration since a new law went into effect at the end of last year. those protesting in unauthorized spaces outside parliament can face hefty fines. the government says the law is for people's safety, but protesters say it's a draconian spin on the speech. according to this with that city
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with economic growth in 2015. numbers don't mean much to people here. they're up their demands. if it's to disperse protests, dozens were injured and many meem including 17 poom r arrested. the inspectors will follow police during the night to make sure there's no violations of the law as they carry out their right to free speech. a reminoritied of the breaking news out of turkey where the prime minister has confirmed his armed forces shout done a syrian jet after it strayed into turkish air space. that plume of smoke going up, that's the result of the flame shot down. reports were it was bombing rebels trying to seize control a border post northwest of syria. we are going to talk to odd
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professor of international relations in istanbul for your thoughts on well if you deal in international relations, how is this going to affect the syria conflict and all the players who are involved? >> reporter: first of all, a couple of years ago when the syrians shot down a turkish plane off the coast, tush key reinstated the rules of engagement and said anything that approaching turkish border by five miles would be shot down. we don't have -- i don't have the details of this, as to what exactly transpired, but this seems to be fit those rules of engagement for the syrian plane, especially if it breached the turkish air corridor. >> the turkish intentions were laid out since that happened? >> yeah, that's right. >> yes, yes. that's right.
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i was just confirming it with you. >> okay. no problem. what sort of diplomatic brought up a good point earlier and said turkey is a nato nation here. how does that play into it again, the fact that you have a nato jet which has done this? >> well, nato has patriot missiles to protect turkey against syria or attacks anyway, so in some sense nato is involved. again, this one is not necessarily an attack against turkey. the plane left and may have strayed. the rules of engagement it declared after the plane was down clearly indicated what would happen if certain boundaries are crossed. again, i don't have the details and you don't either. we don't know what has happened. i have to presume that this was a consequence of the syrian
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plane having violated turkish air space on the turkish border. >> so the reaction is in conclusion to this. thank you for your time. >> absolutely. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. just reminding you pictures coming in from turkish television of what they are saying is the aftermath of a syrian jet being shoun done as it violated turkish air spaces. the rules of engagement were enacted a couple of years ago and what the turks are saying now. this is from the prime minister himself. this syrian jet strayed into turkish air space and turkish f-16s shot is town very, very quickly indeed. still waiting fr a reaction of the safest to -- i guess syrian reaction is critical and crucial in the story. still ahead on this news hour, all the sports including
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will be exported to china. bangladesh is one of the biggest importer of shrimp in the world, but the success comes at a cost. we have the story from the district of kunna of the southern bang lash desh. >> they call it white bone, but they have made a killing farming shrimp. the industry is an amazing foreign exchange earner for the current. for shrimp farmers it's easy money. >> translator: take my farm. whatever i invest in it, i get six or seven times more money in return. it's a really profitable business. >> reporter: the industry hasn't rewarded everyone equally. all this used to be farmland and home to a large number of farmers. >> i hired four our five laborers, and that's good news for shrimp grower and bad new for the locals. it would have provided an income
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for several dozen farmers. >> reporter: a fill kilometers away grows his crops on the soil. it's so clauky it turned white. because of all the shrimping, that's a major problem in the area. >> reporter: shrimp farming benefits those that have the land. small farmers like me haven't gained from it at all. >> reporter: he said many neighbors are displaced because they can't support themselves off the ban. they employ over 1 million people. maybe not in farms but factsary like this one. they say crops should be grown elsewhere. >> if we don't produce rice, there's no problem with that. all the bang la dish cannot grow the shrimp. that's the area.
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>> the shrimp center is an example of how farming is changes. perhaps an inevitable transition as they play catch-up on the road of industrialization. >> while shrimp farming may bring in good revenue, so some say it affects the environment. that's here on monday on al jazeera. what happened in cricket? >> a very exciting game and another good one for new zealand. pakistan started that campaign with an impressive victory over the favorites of australia. they smashed 94 runs in reply. the australian hit 76. to football now, and real madrid could take a big step towards regaining the spanish
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league title on sunday. they host barcelona in our classico. a win for real would open them up for a seven-point gap over the bitter rivals, so now third. nine games remain after sunday's match. second place athlico madrid and they go on a 31-match unbeaten run in all competitions. >> we have a lot of confidence. everyone knows that their niche will be really difficult predicting that they have the ability, the strand, the personality to do our best. >> reporter: this is probably the last chance we have of winning the league. after this match we have nine games left, and it isn't the same trying to win with 1 point,
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4 points or 7 points. the big teams don't usually falter this time of season, at least not a lot. they're moving into fifth play as they take on southampton. currently both sides are at 0-0 in the first half. aston villa will hope to claim another three pointses taking on stoke. it was a-scoring day in the premier league on saturday with 32 goals scored in the eight fixtures. about the most spectacular was scored by wayne rooney at west ham. rooney is scoring from behind own half the opener. david beckham scored for united in 1996. he was there to enjoy rooney's goal and it was great to see bruce as he was giving a post-up match and press conference. now look at this reaction. >> what a goal by the way. wow, wow, wow. you'll never see anything like
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it again. wait until you see this. it's more importance than me. wow. >> meanwhile the ree referee offered apologies to arsenal after sevening off the wrong player. he was given his marching orders after a penalty was awarded to the blues, but it was, in fact, chamberlain for the man at fought for a handball in the box. they say identities of mistaken identity are very rare, and they also can appeal the decision. >> the sending off is bigger. they picked people like me that thinks that one little screen in front of the official is a big help against this kind of mistakes. >> munich is one minutes away from returning to the title after they loss 2-0 on saturday.
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they scored nint eight minutes to keep tech running. there's an 18th straet win, and the celebrations are put on hold. however, 3-0, and they take the time in record time with seven games in hand. they have to be in berlin on tuesday. adam scott will become world number one. he can claim the arnold palmer invitation on sunday. the australian started the third round with a 7-shot advantage and it was made at the event. his leave was cut to just throw strokes by key began bradley. >> i'm going to have to play a pretty sharp round of golf and not open the door at all, and if it pans out that i got the number wub ranking off a wing,
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it will happen. i'll have to celebrate that later, i guess, if it pans out that way. i'm looking to win the golf tournament to him. that's enough motiving at point and a great position to be in. in arizona lind ya cohen is on the verge of her professional vikt on the lpga tour. the 16-year-old shot a 5 under 67 to leave by the first row. only an amateur. well, nadal crushed hewitt to go through the third round of miami masters. he whips through the opening seconds in 27 points before chossing up the nabokov. next >> mark ma ket starts at the grand prix on sunday. a thrilling lap of 1:35.00.
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this is a hoed after marquette broke his leg in a dirt bike accident in australia. the los angeles dodgers have completed a clean sweep of the major league opening series in austral australia. he picked five shutout innings in front of a cloud of 39,000. any knocked in two runs to beat them 7-5. >> it's been a great experience to be able to come here and to be able to see the city. you know, to be able to play, you know, in this atmosphere. it's a great atmosphere the last couple of days. that's all positive. i believe it's been a great experience for our guys.
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>> there's more expert on our website, check out aljazeera.com. >> thank you. thank you for that. finally, it might not hang up in the louvre but it's a velvet painting. you find it hiding at a -- rob ren neldz met the owner there to find out more. >> reporter: in creepy clowns are the stuff your nightmares are made of, this museum might not be for you. >> i like the velvet at the center of air. >> reporter: it's the world's only museums deck indicated to paintings on black velvet. a grow in the dark satan and velt vetty depictions of jesus galore. the co-owner carl baldwin has
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amassed 3,000 paints of elvis. this is the art of people. it's the people's life. we'll would get them. it's not intik at a timing. >> that's not to say that nothing here is sacred. >> this is the hull of elvis, and elvis never leaving the building and this is our elvis tiki we find. so elvis is the -- one of the greatest figures ever and the consistent of rock 'n roll and velvet paints. >> then there are the clowns. >> we're in the black light room, which is the p.a. resistance of the museum. >> clowns are always part of velvet painting and the clowns are crying and sad. >> finding velt vet aren't isn't easy. >> they're also piled on a bunch of jack in the back of a closet somewhere, in a she had.
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then they have covered with cat hair and who knows ha. >> karen appearedson says this stuff has a rock bottom sincerity that's lacking in today's pop culture. >> crying clowns and big-eyed kids, they're kind of cheesy. but when they come in here, they can't stop looking. it's like a train wreck or something. people come in and they're like oh. >> it's open four days a week at l a's chinatown and the clouds are waiting for you. just before the next bulletin on al jazeera, the latest pictures from turkey. these are posted to syria medal from syrian rebels showing what they say is a serious jet being shot down. the turkish prime minister has kwif confirmed his military shut it
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good morning. this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm morgan radford with a look at today's top stories. a syrian jet has reportedly been shot down by the turkish military. they confirmed the shootdown, but each country offers it's own verse where and how it went down. turkey's prime minister says the syrian jet was downed by turkish f-16s after inviting the air space. syrian tv says it was shout down by turkey as it pursued, quote, rebels within its borders. >> i just saw it like somebody wants to grab you and everything was gone. >> the search is under way right for you for survivors after a
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