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>> molotov cocktails at the ready. pro-russia protesters in east ukraine force the government to backdown. >> hello, welcome to al jazeera, life from doha. locked in a cell the might grants languishing in libya, and the guards who say they are just following orders. >> the people versus the president - we report on a fight over land in the philippines. >> and the cycle of life - the man touring brazil's world cup
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stadiums and hoping to help his team to victory. >> ukraine's prime minister promised greater powers to eastern regions to end weeks of protest and occupation. oleksandr turchynov called for calm with leaders in donetsk and told officials armed activists occupying government buildings should be removed peacefully. pro-russian protesters involving self-rule ignored a deadline to disarm and leave. >> translation: i would like to state clearly that the central government is not only ready for dialogues with regions, but fulfil lawful requirements for the citizens of our country. the framework of our constitution will be able to satisfy requests of every region. >> separatists have been
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occupying government buildings for a week, and they are armed with explosives, ready for any attack. >> it's reminiscent of the early days of crimea's crisis, where protesters stood in the old. here they are against a new ukrainian government. it's been a week since the take over of a security building in luhansz. a referendum on federalism is the main demand. with every day that passes, the list gets longer. they want a south-eastern army to operate separately from kiev. there's little smathy for the -- sympathy for the protesters. the majority look to kiev rather than moscow. >> this is crazy. these are unemployed people,
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paid by russia, representing less than a per cent of us. we can't listen to them. if they want a referendum, there must be six months to prepare it. >> worry looms over the city as the protesters seized a large amount of weapons inside the security building. >> the government warned several times that it will retake the building by force if they don't evacuate. a deadline has come and gone and there has been no action. perhaps because the authorities in kiev know this can be a risky operation. >> the encampment is growing around the building. families and sympathisers, vowing to protect those holed up inside. >> translation: if they try to remove us hell will break loose. there's a mini army. we don't have weapons, but we can get them. >> stones and molotov cocktails are ready to be used, if need
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be. many pray that day will never come. >> now, the u.s. imposed a third round of sanctions against individuals linked to crimea's breakaway from ukraine. six separatist leaders, the vice speaker and oleksandr turchynov, who signed the deal with moscow, to split the peninsula from ukraine, and serves as the crimean representative in the russian parliament. moves are for russian continuations to de-escalate and move the troops from the border. the prospect of sanctions is something they are aware of. i think that, in fact, the sanctions are working, but, you know, something i said about sanctions in regard to other context as well. sanctions can create economic impact, facts that leaders
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should consider, but leaders have to change their policy. >> libya has detained migrants trying to cross into libya. thousands tried to make the journey. they end up in centres, and many do not know when they'll be released. >> they want to know when or if they'll be set free. for now there doesn't appear to be an answer. some say they have been detained for a year. this man says he's been held since 2012, and it's grim. >> i didn't say anywhere for human being here. >> this, you might think, is how it should be. freedom of movement. an open door. for the vast majority. it's more than 250 men. some of these men have not been outside for two to three weeks.
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>> i couldn't get the sunlight or something or make exercise. >> there are 10 men who have special permission to be outside, and they help out. the knards that didn't -- guards that didn't appear to be defensive say they can't organise exercise because they don't have proper security. isn't it inhumane the way the people are treated? >> translation: humane or not, it's not for me to decide. i'm a man doing the best i can under the circumstances. i'm not mistreating or hurting anyone. we do what we can. the state is not helping us. >> te danees get -- detainees get regular meals. conditions are not what they should be because they are poorly resourced and short-staffed. many of the men here are uncertain about their rite, and
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don't know what will happen next. >> now to the reason why many of us are having to change our computer pass words. it's called heartbleed, a bug allowing passwords to be read on popular websites, such as facebook and twitter. the national security agency denies it was aware of it. it was a glitch in the security of websites, and affects encryption called open ssl. it is to protect data such as emails, passwords. certain addresses begin with https - i am sure you have seen it. accompanied by a closed green padlock. it's supposed to be secure. heartbleed creates an opening, making the site vulnerable to
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hackers. it exposes data in up to two-thirds of the websites, and is believed to have been around for two years, prompting a series of federal websites to be shut down in canada. >> more than three-quarters of canadian taxpayers filed income tax returns online through the canada revenue agency. anyone attempting to beat the deadline this week got first hand experience of the heartbleed worm. on wednesday the agency shut the web file services down, and now the website has been suspended, those that use the open encryption software. they are a precaution, no security breaches have been detected. doesn't mean they haven't happened. >> given the scale and scope of the vulnerability, it affects the majority of users on the web around the world. it's a matter of time before we
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see some were compromised. the mathematics points us in that direction. the list is growing. google, facebook and others say they have fitched the bug. others are racing to do so. canadian and national banks say they are not yet affected. this is potentially one of the biggest online vulnerability. >> the numbers seem almost too big to believe. really, this is a watershed event in internet security. this is the one, the straw that will break the camel's back. we need to pay attention, we haven't in the past, it needs to change, and now. >> once determined, the hard work begins - finding the breaches that ocurled, discovering the data taken, and how it will be used. we'll be hearing about
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heartbleed for weeks and days to come. >> an ex-identity theft expert says people must monitor online accounts closely. >> you now how what they say, where there's smoke there's fire, and the n.s.a. and others would see a crack in ssl encryption as the key to the kingdom. this is the holy grail. for them not to say anything would be a huge slap in the face to the computer security community as well. >> a lot of people are currently upset that the rumours, or that someone or a group has come forward leaking this. whether or not it's true, that remains to be seen. over the coming weeks, whoever it is that has essentially dropped the dime, they'll need to be revealed and come out in order for the truth to be told. this is an 11, a big deal.
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consu consumers, it's a good idea to change the password. now might not be the best time, change your passwords now. if you have to change it in a few weeks, do so. monitor your accounts closely at this point. >> australia prime minister tony abbott says he's confident signals from the black box of the missing malaysian airliner have been detected. the australian-led search for the boeing 777 is trying to gather as many signals as possible before the detectors switch off. the prime minister says an imminent breakthrough is unlikely. >> given that the signal from the black box is fading. what we are now doing is trying to get as many detections as we can, so we can lect - so we can narrow the search area to as small an area as possible. once done, and i don't want to
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speculate on when that might be, once that has been done. it's our intention to then deploy the submersible, which will conduct a sonar search of the seabed and based on the sonar search, attempt to get a visual. >> a pakistani judge threw out charges of attempted murder against a 9-month-old baby. he was accused of taking part in a riot in the eastern city of lahore. he is said to have thrown stones as police as his family fought with gas company workers collecting overdue bills. the boy's relatives face charges still. >> let's look at the other stories we are parliamentary secretarying to develop. middle east - a new prime minister about to witness a first protest against his government. young people angry about laws
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which they believe encourage temporary jobs. scotland's first minister will make his case for scottish independence. alex salmond is hoping to win over voters, in what is a close process. scotland would suffer greatly if it left the union, the british are warning. >> bubba watson on course for another win at the masters, with a 3-shot lead at the halfway stage at augusta. shooting a second round 68 thanks to a streak of birdies on the back line. >> taking personal responsibility - pope francis askses to be forgiven for the priests who committed illegal acts on children. >> and the hunt for a wanted man - both those stories coming up.
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>> welcome back, let's recap the headlines. ukraine's prime minister promised greater powers to eastern regions. the u.s. imposed another round of sanctions against individuals blamed for crimea's breakaway. >> libya detained nearly 500 migrants trying to cross to europe, most from somalia and iret raya, part of thousands that try to cross every year. >> national security agency denies it knew about heartbleed and used it to spy on people.
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computer users are warned to change their passwords on facebook and twitter. >> 10 years ago a group of farmers in the philippines were shot dead whilst protesting at a sugar farm owned by president aqueeno's family. no one was arrested for the deaths. we have this report from the northern philippines. >> this is the place they once called home. this woman and her husband remember how armed men hired by the sugar plantation they worked for broke into their home. they wanted to own the land their family had been farming. tlool the incident had been painful, the struggle was a long one. it began almost 10 years ago when they survived an attack
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that killed seven farmers during a protest against the sugar matter. it was worried that the harassment of farmers may lead to more violence. . >> they continue to harass us, displace us. land is important to us, it's our life. we will fight for it, even if it means more of us will die. we stand united. >> she blames it on this man. >> president akeno's family owns the sugar foundation. aquino was the congressman at the time it happened. he said he owned 5% and gave up the shares when sworn in as president. he insists his government is committed to providing a long-term solution to the problem. >> he gave instructions that government programs to support
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farmers should continue, even after land distribution. >> for florida, this is not enough. she says they want justice. especially from a man whose mandate is to protect them. >> this reports of a progress. filipino farmers are the poorest in the country. according to the united nations they are worse off compared to counterparts, because government land distribution targets are not met. >> the supreme court has ordered the family of president acheano to redistribute its location to farmers, ruling they have the right to own the land. here, justice is so slow. no matter the promises, they believe their struggle represents the darker side of president acheano's legacy.
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>> now, joining me from hong kong on skype is deputy director of the asian human rights commission. good to have you with us. there's a question here, looking at the report, why has there been no accountability for these deaths? >> because lack of investigation, prosecution and punishment of any security forces - military, in the philippines... ..and none of those were involved in the killing of the workers in 2004, has been killed - a lot of those involved has been prosecuted. in fact, part of 2004 incident there has been activists, human right defenders killed, and around seven or six of them were killed. and then even witnesses to the
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massacre were also killed. when it comes to investigation, it is impossible that any form of investigation... ..prosecution of this case involving the killings over the activists. >> we apologise for the sound difficulties there. if you can hear me though, i guess this raises the next question of how much official involvement is there from the state, if nop of this can be -- none of this can be investigated properly. >> the problem in the philippines is that those who make the law that ensures punishment must be subject to the same laws. that applies to the struggle of the farmers demanding for distribution of their land, for many decades. despite the supreme court's
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ruling that this land should be distributed in full, then the implementation of that involves, again, a lot of exemptions, making it impossible for farmers to reclaim the land, despite the court order. there are around 4,000 legitimate farmers, who are beneficiaries to the land distribution, and the supreme court has already ordered that it should be distributed to them. and the problem here is that the security forces, and the government links these legitimate demands for livelihood in the philippines to an issue of security. if a person demands for food when it comes to reclaiming the land, the security farce says it is -- force says it is becoming a security threat. there is a heavy presence of
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security forces from the army forces, from forces under the control by the military and police, and in many land plantations owned by politicians, and those with positions in authority. they have heavy presence of armed forces, because they connect the plan to initial security. once it becomes an issue of security, it justified action that involves justification so killings, targeted... >> thank you so much. pope francis has asked for forgiveness for what he calls the evil committed by priests abusing children. it's the strongest statement from the roman catholic church. he's been previously criticised by victim's groups for not taking a bold enough stand.
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>> thousands of cases have come to light in the past decade. >> translation: i feel compelled to personally take on all the evil that are quite a few in number. not compared to the number of all the priests, for damage they have done. the church is aware of the personal moral damage made by them, the men of the church. >> egyptian police say they have shot and killed two people that are outlawed muslim brotherhood. the me were trying to set fire to a police checkpoint in the niger delta. three have been arrested. >> in alexandria - security forces used tear gas and live ammunition to disperse a rally. one protester was killed. there were several demonstrations against the government across egypt. >> al jazeera is demanding the
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immediate release of its journalists in egypt. peter greste, mohammed badr, and mohamed fadel fahmy appeared in court on thursday. the case that is within adjourned until later this month. they are accused of providing a platform for the outload muslim brotherhood, and have been in gaol for 104 days. >> abdullah al-shami an al jazeera arabic has been held without trial since august. he's been on hunger strike for the last 82 days. al jazeera rejects all charges against its journalist. >> six members of the knights templar has been arrested, but with a $two and a half millionnd boundary, the leader is still at large. both the police and vigilantes are looking for him. more now from adam raney. >> mexican soldiers and vigilantes are on a manhunt. both groups are searching the mountains looking for the most-wanted man in mexico.
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the head of the knights templar. for months this man has been working to bring down the cartel, but he is thinking of quitting. >>translation: the top leaders will fall. others will take their place. >> the government is concerned thousands of armed men could take the place. the self-defence group say they won't put their guns away until the head of the knights templar, and his deputies are brought down. it's these rugged mountains where the last leader standing of the knights templar has been holed up, trying to avoid the push to bring him to justice, dead or alive. >> the answer to how gomez could evade justice is becoming clear. this man is being investigated over holding allegedly private
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meetings with goma and other leaders. it points to high-level production, providing a protective cloak. many hope for an end to the standoff between the cartel and the authorities. this farmhand worked at a ranch, a depot for hay and cattle. it was known for wild bar bys hosted by the leaders. >> translation: the vigilantes will not let us into the ranch. there's no more work. we have to wait. no one is telling us anything. >> the fortress is idol. signs of its heyday and parties is bare for days to come. the president promised to bring security and jobs back to the violent and impoverished state.
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>> he continues to bring down the cartel. as long as he is at large people will be skeptical that leaders are out to catch their prey. >> and with exactly two months to the world cup in brazil, one football fan is determined to see all 12 host cities. cycling 9,000km from one stadium to another, to raise money for charity. here is andy smith's story. >> my name is andy smith, i'm a british touring cyclist in brazil, to explore the amazing country and have a bit of an adventure. >> the plan is to visit every world cup football stadium, 9,000km in total. i guess my goal is to discover brazil. i travel through cities, multiple states, through all the
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country side and highways and case line and mountains in between, to see the towns, villages, cities and meet the people. the world cup is something special, particularly here in brazil. great to see it for real up close, it's stunning. i can't wait to go inside and see the pitch. i am not sure that i can help the england team at the world cup, but i'd like to think the thought of cycling 9,000km across the country where the temperature is 35 degrees will probably get hotter in the north. i'd like to hope they'd be inspired to play better. we'll celebrate in rio after the final. for me, it will be a memory to take for the rest of my trip. i hope to come back and see the final. who knows, england-brazil will be idea. >> for more on that story and
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others, go to aljazeera.com. you can see the lead story there. the main story in the ukraine, the standoff in the eastern cities and the latest offer by the prime minister to find a peaceful end to the whole crisis. we'll bring you more news. >> the obama administration said that it would drop illegal immigrants with no criminalists to the bottom and criminals to the top. did they? that's the inside story.