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>> running away is not the answer... >> is a chance at a better life worth leaving loved ones behind? >> did omar get a chance to tell you goodbye before he left? >> which side of the fence are you on? >> sometimes immigration is the only alternative people have. borderland only on al jazeera america russian agents in eastern ukraine provoking scenes like this. ♪ hello and welcome to al jazeera life from doha, also on the program, a warning on south sudan, 50,000 children at risk of starving to death. search crews looking for the missing airline and going deep in the indian ocean.
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and this 2000-year-old tomb was recently lucid and asking how this could have happened under the nose of the people. ♪ we are getting reports from nigeria increasing the death toll which is now at at least 35 people killed in a bomb blast at a busy bus station and no immediate claim of responsibility of the explosion that happened on the outskirts of the capitol and on sunday 60 people were killed by gunman in northern nigeria and this was this borno state and we can speak to our correspondent on the phone and at the scene of the latest explosion at the bus station and what are you seeing? >> reporter: it's absolute chaos
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here and thousands of people are at the scene to see what happened and from eyewitnesses we managed to make contact with here on the ground is that many people were out this morning and boarding buses in the center and it's a place where thousands if not tens of thousands of people live and work in the capitol and you take the bus about 5 kilometer ride in the capitol and there was a sound of explosion and some people say it was two explosions, some say one, some eyewitnesses say they saw some men in car acting strange before the car exploded and some say it provides explosive devices but at the moment it's not sure exactly what caused the explosion. security services and emergency services are not speaking about what is behind this attack, what could have been the motivation, it doesn't look like an accident. it looks like something that may
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have been planned. it's a very, very heavy security presence and soldiers have sewn up in the last few minutes to clear thousands of people who came to see what is going on. it's a bloody scene and body parts and people who are injured are being taken away from the emergency services. >> reporter: we are seeing live pictures that your camera is bringing us from that bus station. it does seem to be a lot of army personnel people walking around and a lot of people in civilian clothes wandering around. >> reporter: this is a densely. populated area and people go to the capitol for work and now what we have here is thousands of people looking at what is going on. the authorities are finding it difficult to clear the crowds,
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to stop the crowds from seeing what is going on and they are concerned about whether there could be more violence, you know, whether this was some kind of class of something and whether it could be another explosion and trying to people to go home but people want to know what is going on. >> thank you and no stranger to violence but we see it mainly in the north. the capitol of buja, has it seen this kind of attack before? >> 2011 we had attack on the u.n. headquarters at the capitol and the islamic state throughout the country and claims responsibility for that attack for the people working here. in the last couple of years the capitol has been quiet and a couple of years we are seeing an attack of this nature and i want to under score as i said they do
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not claim responsibility or any other group and looks like an accident and it raises the question of how effective the security services are in coming down on violence and most of it has been in the north. this is the first time we are seeing it in the capitol. the question now is whether the authorities would have control over this group. >> evon reporting for us live from the capitol and there are pictures of the bus station where a bomb explosion happened just a few hours ago. reports of at least 35 people killed. russian foreign minister sergei fedorov has spoken about u krak and says they are not working to destabilize the east. >> translator: we need an
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honest and clear reaction from the rest would double standards and not shifting blame to moscow. they did not listen to the people in southern and eastern ukraine and using military force to put down the protest and it's dangerous and those people planning to do so should be punished. >> we are live from there, peter, what else did we hear the foreign minister say? >> reporter: he has finished speaking and opened a lengthy statement 20 minutes by saying he was totally opposed russian and kremlin is opposed of use of force by the government and they will have to take responsibility of what happens if that goes ahead. this was a primary message of this address. he said that the basically the west is employing double standards here and said the demonstrations in independent square were described by the west as democratic but the same
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demonstrations, sort of demonstrations carried mout in the eastern ukraine were actually examples of terrorism. he said that the threat of force to ukraine would create a very, very dangerous situation. he said that russia had no agents, no intelligence officers there, this was something that was made up by the west and he said that john kerry, the u.s. secretary of state and the ukrainian counterpart are going to produce at the party talks on thursday there was russia involvement and said show it now or it doesn't really exist. so just going on, we are not involved in affairs in eastern ukraine and was a very strong message he had. >> peter thanks for expanding what we have been hearing from the russian foreign minister and buildings are under siege across a number of cities in eastern
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ukraine. one of the flash points is donyette and is there and we are hearing from peter, the russians are very adament and have you seen any evidence that suggests otherwise? >> reporter: i think it's very difficult to tell exactly where these people are coming from. the people in charge of these set administration buildings have taken control of the buildings and say they are russian and ukraine and the people outside, the supporters say they are local to the city. i think what we have seen over the past few days is difference from the groups who come in to take control of the buildings and supporters that take over from them. the initial groups that come in to take control of the buildings often look professional and very organized and seeing some russian military issued fatigues and ak 47 and very organized but
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it's difficult to tell when the accent and if someone who is russia or lives in russia but we have heard around the town is people are being paid to come and take part in these pro-russian protests and we understand it's $50 for us day's work and who is paying the people remains to be seen. >> thank you for joining us from eastern ukraine. an unmanned, unwater robot will be launched in search for the missing malaysia airliner for the wreckage at the bottom of the southern indian ocean and they will stop searching for ping signals and nod heard for six days and they think the black box batteries have died. center of the search zone is 2200 kilometers northwest of perth and they go very far down
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and will cover 40 square kilometers and traveling at around 9 kilometers an hour. syria president says the war is at a turning point because of his achievement against rebel fighters and they had comments from damascus university and said there is a turning point this terms of national reconciliation. opposition fighters in the largest city aleppo are making gains and destroyed to tanks during fighting around an air intelligence base. two sons of the labor yeah leader gaddafi will be in court on monday along dozens of members of the charges of corruption and war crimes and andrew has more. >> he was caught in november
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2011, six months after being indicted by the international criminal court but former fighters from zintan refused to extradite him to the hague and no argue to transfer him to the libyan capitol and planning to use a video link for the trial in tripoli. and his brother saadi gaddafi did not have the same high profile and known for failed at items to be a professional footballer playing for through clubs and making two times in three years but the libyan government successfully applied for extradition. no details of the case but there are more than 200 witnesses and vast amount of written evidence. the gaddafi brothers accused of mass killings followed by systematic torture and further murders. they are also accused of
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embezzlement and had a lavish lifestyle overseas. >> and appearing in the hearing is abdul and brother in law of the late muammar gaddafi with a crack down on resistance and wanted by icc but libya doesn't have anything to do with the hague and will cause consternation with human rights groups and issues of the airing of a video last month which saudi gaddafi is seen apologizing to the libyan people from his prison cell without any lawyers present. andrew simmons, al jazeera, tripoli. >> al jazeera wants the release of journalists in egypt and they appeared in court on thursday. the case has been adjourned urn till later this month and
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falsely accused of providing a platform for the muslim brotherhood and another journalist in detention is held without trial since last august and on hunger strike for 84 days and al jazeera rejects all the charges. we are in guinea in a few moments where voters hope the elections will end years of political instability. looking for the stars, why it's getting harder to find these collarful creatures along california's coast. ♪
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hello again and you are watching al jazeera and these are top stories, latest reports from nigeria say 35 people killed in a bomb blast at a busy sub station and no immediate claim of responsibility of the explosion which happened on the out skirts of the capitol of buja. ukraine's second deadline telling gunmen to get out of the east has passed and the government threatening military action if pro-russian armed groups do not lay down weapons and no sign of that offensive. and an unmanned under water robot is due to be launched in the search for the missing malaysia airliner and search for under water ping signals is stopped because they have not been heard for six days and they
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suspect the black box batteries have died. and in guinea and a high turn out in the parliamentary elections and the vote two years ago was stopped by a military coup and we are from the capitol and rejects expected by friday. >> reporter: another chance for piece and attempt to rebuild a nation, people in new guinea stand in line to vote for the preferred candidates and 13 men want to be president. and they hold identity card and he has been through this process many times since his country gained independence from portugal in 1974 and 5 in the last decade alone and there are no illusions about what his
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future may hold. >> translator: i voted because i must. only god knows who is a good leader and who has good intention for the country. i cannot possibly know. >> reporter: the same polling station they said the country interim president also cast his vote. >> translator: this is the person who will win the election a chance to complete his mission and forget because guinea is in need of unity. >> reporter: closely monitoring the election are republicans from the european union, u.n. and west african block and finding the votes and plan and security reform program. >> security reforms in the generic sense require, of course, how you restructure
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military, how the relationship, civil, military relationship is defined. >> reporter: many people here are cautiously hopeful this election is going to give them the change they want and the man who they worked for will be strong enough to solve the country's problems. he will have to deal with a crippled economy, destabilizing drug trafficking program and to disengage from the politics of the country, a tough job ahead for whoever becomes president of this west african state, catherine with al jazeera, guinea. >> i'll take you back to eastern ukraine and getting live pictures coming to us from the region, the town of holifka and seeing some pro-russian activists taking yet another government building. and let's get a sense of the chaos happening there.
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a large group there of many masked men, many of them are gunman and we don't know if they are armed but they appear to be ransacking the building and this is a few hours after the deadline passed when the ukrainian government in kiev threatened military action against groups such as this taking over many government buildings across towns and cities in the ukraine and east of ukraine and forces showing no signs of any ukrainian military making any sort of move on it seems this may have embolden pro-russian groups to carry on, ransacking and taking over government buildings. as you can see there is not much opposition and the pictures are coming from a local media
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station there and seems to be pretty free to wander around and capture images and doesn't seem to be any sign of any ukrainian police forces or military trying to get control of the situation. security forces in the philippines say they killed two members of the armed group after a raid on a safe house and happened in the city in the southern philippines and six have been arrested and the group was founded in 1991 and is blamed for some of the worst bomb attacks, kidnappings and be headings in the country. a man has been arrested after shooting two jewish community centers in kansas and three including a 14-year-old were skilled. f.b.i. is investigating if the suspect had links to white
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supremacist groups. we are taking over and cassroros that major changes to the tightly-run state economy and allowing cubans to work for themselves and rise in entrepreneurship and we have more from havanna. ♪ the peanut seller in the heart of old savannah and she has been working for herself for a year and a growing number of cubans working for themselves now the president castro loosened control designed to help the island's economy. >> translator: advantages of being self-employed is thanks to god i can manage my own income and don't have to rely on a salary and organize the finances of my home and life. >> reporter: she is finding living without state support also has disadvantages. on days off she is home sorting cooking and packing peanuts and some burdens of state control have disappeared, others from
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the free market have arisen. >> translator: when i started to sell peanuts they cost 3 pecos 50 and now they are 15 and sometimes 20 and the paper used to cost 10 and now it's 25 and then 30. >> reporter: for more than 50 years most cubans have known is the tightly-run state system. and efficient and bureaucratic and few incentives to work and changes are occurring but do not come easily. courses run at the college in the center of havanna and some people living in economies take for granted like accounting, marketing and customer service. >> translator: we discovered there are needs to prepare them because we didn't want them to open businesses that would fail since that wouldn't be good for
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the economy. >> reporter: entrepreneurs or capitalists is a novelty in what is a socialist system. and enjoying freedoms that being self-employed brings us and she is an individual who works in her own way. but she is also experiencing something of the pressures too. i'm daniel with al jazeera in havanna. >> the trial of the former head preacher of the london mosque begins in new york on monday and the egyptian was extradited from britain and the u.s. accuses him of trying to set up al-qaeda training camps in oregon. uniquero monday sculpture is returned by tunesia, and it was looted and recovered from a son-in-law and the former president alli and we report.
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>> reporter: the mosque of stolen from nigeria during the civil war and roman sculpture depicts the greek creature medussa and three years after it was recovered they are taking it home. >> translator: we are celebrating reaching a happy solution for what we call the case of the mask of gorgon and stolen from the site in 1996. >> reporter: it was more than 100 artifacts discovered in the home of a son-in-law of former president ali and the family departure from the country has not stopped illegal trafficking. >> this is the earth they brought excavating illegally of course. >> reporter: and they took the picture back in january when the walls were still intact and
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diggings destroyed pottery and walls are starting to cave in. >> looking for gold, silver, diamonds and stuff and usually don't fine the things but the problem is they destroy whole sides for the sake of finding something that usually they do not find. >> reporter: and it's the rich history that makes it a popular target. these are the remains of an ancient early christian tomb, 1500 years old. thousands of sites like this scattered across tunesia but many are unprotected and open to logiins say looting is not the only problem and sites are left open to wind and rain and minister of culture admits archeology has not been a top priority. >> translator: in is a problem of strategy more than a problem of finance, it's a problem of priorities. we have to admit it, that is why
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we are here. >> reporter: and the government says it's working with interpoll to track the international traffic network behind looting but negligence and corruption threaten the historical heritage. and i'm with al jazeera. >> and bubba watson celebrating the second win in the masters in three years and the american won by three shots at the tournament and 20-year-old spieth becoming the youngest ever masters winner and tied for second. and one thing is happening to california's collarful star fish, in the past they could be seen in large number on the coastline but now they are nearly all gone and we report. >> in this rocky corner of the california coast researchers are gathering evidence in a marine
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mystery and searching rock by rock and crevase for the star fish and many used to thrive here and important part of a complex ecological system but today however researchers can find hardly any of them. >> so far we only saw two stars here and in the past we saw 145, a year ago at the same exact location and going from 145 down to 2 is pretty drastic. >> reporter: star fish lived in the oceans for 450 million years. but now they seem to be in trouble. all up and down the pacific coast star fish also known as sea stars have been dying off in huge numbers. scientists have no idea what is killing them. divers started noticing large number of dead and diseased sea stars in alaska and british columbia last june. >> widespread phenomenon right now, massive mortality event.
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>> reporter: divers have seen the disease kill in a matter of hours. >> it starts off like a white lesion usually and then basically they get deflated and their arm just come off and creep away from them so at the worst state you will see like four or five arms that have obviously spread away from the center of the body. >> reporter: scientists believe some sort of virus or bacteria is killing the sea stars but they are baffled by why the animals have suddenly become so susceptible to the inf fefe fe infection. >> it's a pathogen and leads to death and has consequences on the community, why now and why and figuring out why this has either become now and having been here before or why it has moved here from wherever it was before. >> reporter: possible causes include man-made chemicals,
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ocean acid, waste wat discharge or warming ocean due to man-made climate change and scientists are not ruling anything out, rob reynolds in california. >> and reminder you can keep up to date with the latest news on our website, al jazeera.com. >> a world without extreme poverty by 2030. i'm talking to the man. and christine la guard tells me what will happen if the u.s. doesn't system up, act like a leader and help are reforms. this a "real money", and i'm ali velshi.