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rebuilding the dream on real money with ali velshi on al jazeera america >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and a warm welcome to this news hour i'm laura kyle in doha and the world's top news store. gunfire at a camp and survivors of afghan landslide are sheltering and are they alive. accused of abusing her powers she testifies in court and denies all charges against her. leader of a radical group in nigeria says his fighters are holder more than 270 school
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girds and he is threatening to sell them. and a parasite destroying entire colonies of honey bees and the effect it could have on global food supplies. ♪ gunfire has broken out at a camp in afghanistan where survivors of a landslide have been sheltering and happened when desperate village's started to get supplies. as a result some aid agencies are reported to have been pulling back from the area for security reasons at least for now, 250 people are confirmed dead from the landslide and many more are still missing in northeast afghanistan. our correspondent is live in the province and it sounds like a pretty desperate situation
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there. any clue as to who was firing these gunshots? >> reporter: a very volatile situation indeed and very tense situation. we were only a few meters away from this aid distribution center when the gunfire ur -- erupted and followed scuffles of security forces and people getting aid and up to ten police officers guarding this aid distribution center were beaten up and suffered some injuries. now that resulted in this aerial gunfire by security forces but this wasn't one, to or three shots, this was sustained gunfire over a period of three or four minutes and we understand that automatic rifles were used as well. so you can probably see be mind me but there are lots of tents here and people sheltering in the tents, caught in the middle
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of gunfire and under scoring how tense the situation is here. >> absolutely and how much aid has actually got through so far, how much more is needed? >> reporter: it's been very inconsistent. some people have received aids, many other have not received here. while we were here shortly after this gunfire erupted, a number of foreign aid agencies quickly like like unicef and the world food program after this gunfire erupted and quickly left here because of how unpredicted and volatile this situation is and what we understand and part of the reason why it has become so tense here is there are people from other areas coming to this place and trying to access this aid. people who have not been effected by this landslide which you can see behind me and that is where some of this tension is coming from. really where the source of the tension is coming from is anger at the government, anger the government has not been clear
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about what it's going to do for the people affected by this landslide and that is really what's behind this incredibly volatile situation. at an area which suffered a huge natural disaster and where humanitarian disaster is quickly unfolding. >> there are other villages at threat of similar such mudslides, what are they doing to try and protect those areas? >> reporter: well, they have asked these people to move, they asked people to go from the areas which are prone to landslide and you probably cannot see but it looks quite gray and overcast and there is some fear it's going to rain over this evening and that is bad news for people living in the areas which are vulnerable to land slides but there are many more who refuse to leave their home. so it's a very tense situation here with the needs of the people. their feeling is it's not being met and the government of course trying to help in any way they can.
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but again it doesn't seem like the to sides are really meshing and where a lot of this tension is coming from. >> great to speak to you in afghanistan and thank you for joining us there. now thailand's prime minister has denied all accusations that she abused her powers. she went before the constitutional court and if she is found guilty she will have to step down, a verdict expected on wednesday and being charged in another case by the anticorruption body and this is the laidest challenge to her rules and six months of protest failed to force her out of office and more from florenc. this came from 2011 when she transferred her head of national security to be prime minister advisor. now that is a position that is effectively inactive. she has been accused of using
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that transfer to subsequently maneuver and could be promoted to police chief and the prime minister appeared in court to defend herself and said her actions were taken for the good of the country and at time when the president was promoted to police chief he was no longer related by marriage because of a divorce in the family. now in her supporters see it's as another attempt to try and unseat her after six months has non-do so and bias and previously ruled in 2008 to remove two prime ministers who were then ally to the shinawat family. if she is found guilty in this case however she will have to step down and that could create a legal vacuum. the law says and states a leader will be selected from the lower house of parliament in 30 days. the problem is the last election in february has been nullified and both sides have already said they will be holding major
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street protests this week and next so it means thailand's political crisis looks set to continue. >> and we have the chairman for center of strategic studies at bangkok university and thanks for being with us. we are expecting a verdict tomorrow in this case on the prime minister's alleged abuse of powers and what do you think the outcome is going to be? >> well, the outcome can be in three different directions. first she might not be found guilty. second, she might be the only one guilty of the legal transfer. thirdly she and the whole cabinet will be alleged to be involved in the legal transfer. that is the three scenarios. >> how independent do you think the judiciary is in this case? >> i think the judiciary is very, very independent because the witness that they want for
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questioning is just part of the allegation because the -- all the case is built around the report and also based upon the order and of the transfer in paper. so it's going to be all in paper. >> because there are others who say the courts are simply trying to do what six months of anti-government protests have failed to achieve and that is oust this current government. >> not exactly. but because the court will be handling this in a very, very delicate way, they will not -- the decision against the prime minister or her cabinet on nameless ground because i think it is very, very crucial that the constitutional court will
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adhere to the rule of law and give her a very fair trial. >> because of course it is a case that is fraught with tensions and one that if she is found guilty supporters are not likely to accept how worried are you that we will see repeats of those street battles that marred the capitol not so long ago? >> i have that in the back of my mind. but right now the immediate problem that her supporter cannot garner enough strength is because of the right scheme which has is already under process of investigation of another corruption case, which means the support of the rural area is not as massive as before in 2010. >> okay, we will watch for the verdict tomorrow and thank you very much for joining us there
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from bangkok. authorities in china have detained a prompt negligent human rights lawyer in beijing and he was arrested to discourage activists for marking the 25th anniversary of the square protest and accused of creating a des tush answer. six people wounded in a knife attack at a rail way station and the latest in a series of at -- assaults and police shot one of the suspects but not clear what the reason was and there have been similar attacks. united kingdom and the united states have offered to help with efforts to find and rescue more than 270 school girls in nigeria and they threatened to sell the girls they captured three weeks ago and white house spokesman jay carney says the white house
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is doing what it can. >> it's an outrage and terrible tragedy and the president has been briefed several times and the national security team continues to monitor the situation there closely and we have been in touch with the nigeria government to help find and free these woman. >> we report from there and there is growing anger on the government's response. >> this is a video from the leader and it was released on monday. in it he says his fighters abducted the girls. >> translator: a girl of 12 years old i give her out for marriage and a girl of nine i give her hand for marriage as they gave my mother out for marriage. >> reporter: and he was protesting against the government's failure to rescue more than 270 girls kidnapped by the radical group. she says she was arrested and detained on the orders of
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nigeria's birth lady states jonathan on sunday. she and two other protesters were summoned to the presidential villa to discuss finding the girls but when they got there the first lady accused them of being sympathizers and said they were embarrassing good luck jonathan by holding protests and then they were taken away by police. they spent the night at the police station. these angry supporters showed up to demand their release on monday morning and protesters said the first lady had no right to order the arrests. what is the situation of the government and what platform should she say that and appreciate there is federal ministry of defense and staff, who is responsible, constitutionally in nigeria so we don't know what instrument or what structure she is using to engage in this remarks and this investigative activity she is backing up on. >> reporter: the women have now
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been released. these allegations against the first lady are likely to further fuel public anger over the government's handling of the abductions and this took place in the capitol and london in washington over the government's handling of the situation. a spokesperson for the president told al jazeera he does not think the allegations against the first lady ordering the protesters are true. many people are angry with the government's handling of the abduction and these allegations could lead more people to the streets. evon with al jazeera nigeria. >> and we have the executive director of the policy and legal efficacy center and thank you for joining us. we have seen so little action on this case from the government, from the military, what do they need to do? >> well, the military needs to tell us what they are doing and we have no sense they are doing
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anything. nigeria are in distress. this is completely very, very sad for all of us as a country and we don't see any action on the part of the government. we don't see the government talking to the security chiefs. we don't see the army going out for the children. we don't get briefings from the mi military and they are questioning if the girls were abducted or not so this is completely distressing and we see the helplessness of the government to respond to a very, very bad situation. >> what i'm struggling to understand here is why this is the case? >> well, clearly there are questions that have been asked in government about whether the girls were kidnapped at all and they have an appearance and make the point they are looking for their daughters and they go out into the forest and we have not
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seen the military showing any concern. we have not seen the president what efforts have been made. we have not seen any indication that there is even as we speak any attempts by the government to go into the forest, to go out and look for our girls that are missing. and for our nigeria in is unprecedented level of inactivity on the part of this government and brings a whole lot of issues into question. >> and on top of that we have a report of accusations of the first lady ordered the arrest of these women who have been campaigning for the girls' release, one has to wonder what she would achieve from that. >> well, clearly the interpretation in the presidency is that this is a political issue in the image of the president and for all we see as nigeria what is in the mind of
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the president is reelection. suddenly the country is not in the mood for this kind of reaction from the presidency or the wife of the president. we want to see action on the part of the government. we are not seeing it. and we are very, very, very upset that this government is doing nothing about the girls that have been kidnapped. >> the u.s., the uk coming forward offering their help and have not specified how they can get involved but do you think they will be allowed to? >> well, we hope that that happens. we have made the point repeatedly that in nigeria there is a lot going on we need international help to be able to address this problem. the government has not shown that it is dealing with it locally and we don't know what it would be for international help. suddenly this country needs international help to be able to deal with this level of terrorism that the government
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has not shown they can handle. >> we will have to leave it there but thank you for joining us there. still ahead here on this news hour the born free generations first vote on south africans end of apartheid want from their politicians. plus growing marijuana at home and without fear of the law, and uruguay rolls out pioneering operations. and the english primary league and will tell us what all the tears are about. ♪ united nations secretary general arrived in south sudan following months of violence there and he is expected to hold talks with officials to try and end the fighting and they have been attacking each other in the
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northern oil town of bentu despite u.s. threats of sanctions and we are live for us from duba and what have they been up to? >> reporter: he arrived here this morning and his first port of call was protection of civilians area at the main u.n. base and at the very beginning of the conflict back in december the u.n. opened up bases for the purpose of sheltering civilians in need of protection and did not think it would be like this but here we are five months later and almost 80,000 people on u.n. bases and that was his first stop and met some community leaders. these camps have become controversial because they were never intended to have this many people to fit and there is a question mark if the u.n. can offer protection for this number of people on their bases. a few days ago we talked with civilians and people were
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attacked by the people from the town despite the peace keepers and this is something he will talk about when he is here. >> it is a little patchy but we will press on because we thought that moon would meet the president and wonders what he is going to be hoping to achieve on the political front. >> reporter: well, the u.n. mission here is huge, not only is it a peace keeping mission and development partner of south sudan but instrumental in the foundation of the fate just three years ago. you would expect the u.n. may have leverage with the administration here and of course the united states of america has a very similar history with this country, john kerry a few days agree do and just to days later after extracting that he was commits to a peace process we saw government troops marching in bentu and engaging the military
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again so we will see how much leverage they will have, the secretary general moon is urging a peace process taking place and he is meeting at the moment with the president. >> thanks for the update there from duba. the united states extending its lease on its only permanent military base in africa and barack obama finalized a ten-year deal and it's used to launch drone strikes against al-qaeda and other targets in yemen and somalia and 4,000 soldiers are based there. a trial of 39 soldiers in the democratic republic of congo has two convicted of rape and 13 clears, the remaining 24 were convicted of less crimes, that is the biggest rape trial so far. thousands will vote in south africa general elections on
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wednesday. it is an overwhelmingly young country and many will vote in the election for the first time. more than 25 million people are registered to vote out of a total population of nearly 52 million. and nearly 80% of voters are under the age of 30. south africans born after apartheid in 1994 and there is the born free generation. those over 18 will be voting for the first time. and we have been to meet some of them. >> reporter: some of his friends cannot find work and say black applicants are meant to create work in balances created by discrimination during apartheid and gerard says he knows why it's necessary but says it's time to see beyond color. >> if i could speak to president zuma from a white man's perspective you cannot use under tones and cannot use race as an
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excuse and it's time to move forward and if you are reelected in 2014 and i don't know if i would be too happy with, but if you are reelected it's time for jobs. >> reporter: he is what is called a born free. part of the generation born after the end of apartheid but its economic class that divides people in south africa more than race. some young people don't like the term born free and say it implies those born post apartheid have different experiences living in what is still a divided south africa. calvin is also worried about employment as he tries to navigate his way out of poverty. >> i'm 20 years old but i'm still sleeping in the same room with my parents. i don't have the privacy. if i want to take a bath someone has to go out. when i wake up i have to go out so my little sister can take a
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bath. >> reporter: research says one-third of those between the ages of 18-19 have registered to vote. >> genuinely seeing a youth that is quite dissolutioned by the political landscape in south africa. they don't feel it's going to make a difference and therefore for some they opted out of going out and voting this year in the 2014 election. >> reporter: but he is determined to vote and wants to see more jobs created for all south africans and calvin and friends need the basics such as a decent place to live. >> we are joined live from johannesburg. >> we are here at the university here and some of the students will be voting for the first time on wednesday and she says she will vote for change when she casts her ballot. what do you mean by that? >> i'm talking about the type of change and we are students under privileged and don't have funds
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to study and other changes where we can have opportunities after we study to get jobs. and they have enough money and grants can also be increased as well. thanks. >> reporter: you are born free but only a third of you have registered to vote, what do you think about that? >> i think it's very sad because if you want change we are future leaders of this country and more people should have registered and i also feel that the registering places were not made valuable to everyone and they didn't know where to register because there was a place to register and no one was notified about that so i had to go all the way to pretoria and i have to vote there. >> reporter: briefly do you see a sense of apathy among your peers about going to vote? >> i do. there are so many of my friends and students that said they don't even want to vote because they feel that the posse that is going on and that is here is going to win and there is not going to be change.
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but we also confuse as to which posse we should vote to because there are so many choices and so many of them have a lot to offer but will they really implement those changes they promise to do. >> reporter: thank you very much, analyst says the reason there is low registration rate between 18-19 is because they are young and may not be politically mature but hope there is a big turn out on wednesday when south africans are set to vote. >> thank you very much. harry is live from johannesburg. now the united states has announced that it will allow the main surn opposition alliance to open a diplomatic mission in washington and provides $27 million for nonlethal aid to the national coalition and that bring ls the total to $280 million and that is the latest move in formalizing the diplomatic relationship following the closure of the
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embassy in march. and leader is expected to meet the u.s. secretary of state john kerry on thursday. well fighting between two syrian rebel groups have killed at least 69 people in the oil rich eastern province. and hall -- the al-qaeda leadership is disowned for being too extreme and people in the area have been forced to leave their homes. in the northern syrian providence around 30 government soldiers have been killed in a bomb explosion. rebel fighters reported they put them in a tunnel underneath a check point. and now we are going to turn our attention to europe and get all the very latest weather with everton, heavy rain i gather everton. >> that is right, heavy rain in
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italy and balkins and push across the southeast over the next couple of days. we have fair amount of cloud in the eastern side of mediterranean and see heavy downpours across the countries over the next day and syria and lebanon and jordan seeing big downpours in the next couple of days and the rain that stretches across a good part of here and through the black sea on on to the western side of russia. we have seen some heavy rains as i said into italy and the balkins recently and we have high pressure in charge now and things quieting down nicely pushing the weather down to the southeast and you can see the huge massive cloud around syria at the moment. high pressure coming in behind central areas fine and dry. we see wet weather making its way across the northwest corner of here and running its way through the united kingdom and france and germany and that will continue making its way further east as we go through the next couple of days but these are the
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conditions looking at in the northeast of bosnia as the heavy downpours came through and state of emergency is declared here because of that. warm sunshine in lower parts and it's rain and mobile and will make its way further east. >> everton thank you very much indeed and stay with us and ahead on the program we will be reporting on why the gap between the rich and the poor in indonesia is widening and homes in detroit with a selling price of just $1,000 and the bargain and with the struggling motor city. in sport it wasn't a topper form answer for the top seed in the east and nba playoffs coming up, later. ♪
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hello again i'm laura at al jazeera headquarters in doha and several people officers have been beaten up and injured for afghans who survived the recent landslide and gunfire dispursed crowds in dispretty attempts to get aid. thailand's prime minister denied all accusations she abused her powers and she was testifying before the constitutional court and the verdict is due on wednesday. the united states has offered to help find more than 270 school girl whose were abducted in nigeria the radical group
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threatened to sell the girls. that is admitted to abducting three weeks ago and the girls' family accused the nigerian government not doing enough to rescue them. let's go now to ukraine where the interior minister says at least 30 pro-russian gunmen have been killed in the fighting in the eastern city in slovyansk on monday and 20 others wounded. here are latest pictures from the city and pro-russian groups there are reported to have moved many of their forces to the outskirts and reenforce the barricades outside the regional government building that was taken weeks ago. french president says ukraine is risking a civil war as the planned presidential elections are not held at the end of may and putin doesn't want the poll to happen. meanwhile the foreign ministers from russia and ukraine and briefly before talks in the
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austrian capitol and they are meeting there to push for a peaceful solution to the crisis in ukraine and nick spicer is live from kiev and nick we are looking at some pictures from that meeting because we are expecting the russian foreign minister sergei fedorov to come up in a moment but it doesn't look that eminent to come up and talk to the press. any idea of what he might be sayin saying? >> a pretty good idea, if you go by the russian foreign affairs website the real take away they consider the may 25 election which is to be held in ukraine a sham and russia doesen want it to happen and says what the ukrainian government should engage in widespread constitution to take into account the needs of minorities in the country in other words the people in the russian-speaking southeast. so we can expect sergei fedorov to say things like that.
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it's worth pointing out russia is in the dog house in the council of europe and they were suspended until the end of the year and russia was suspended for the big decision making bodies of the council of europe parliamentary committee which was angry over the annexation of crimea and referendum which they did not recognize. >> you have not particularly among friends there is he, nick, and if we look aboard the operation going on in the east we have the interior minister saying 30 pro-russian separatists were killed and have been killed recently. what is the latest you are hearing from there? >> not lots of movement in slovyansk and people are holding on the ground they have taken and we understand however that the airport in dansk is closed down for security reasons.
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so that is something that adds to the tension overall in the area. there is some speculation that if you will a pause in the assault on slovansk that the head of the organization of security in europe is going to moscow on wednesday and that the optics wouldn't be good if the ukraine government was continuing to try to take back the administration building and taken by the anti-government protesters. >> nick thanks for that and we will cross to that press conference with the russian foreign minister sergei fedorov if and when it happens. now, a couple of other stories coming out of europe later on tuesday, uk and france celebrating 20 years since the euro tunnel linking the countries are in business and millions of passengers and
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vehicles passed through the so called channel. and the contest begins on tuesday and conflict between russia and ukraine are in the spotlight and they are competing to reach the final on saturday. indonesia's economy is growing in the first three months of the year and elections in july and many have been left out despite the boom and the gap between the rich and poor has widened. >> reporter: this is one of the largest economies in the world and real estate prices are booming and new businesses are opening everyday. possibilities are everywhere and he is seizing them and owns an it company. with seven employees, two cars and enough money in the bank. >> translator: i'm from an ordinary background so you can say i'm a self made man.
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the situation in indonesia gave me a chance to grow and i'm able to express my own opinion. >> reporter: although he works in the same city he lives in a different world, as a motorcycle taxi driver he has to beg for customers, trying to make $10 a day. >> translator: i am disappointed. it's talk and they don't do anything for the people in this country. what we see is still the same thing. rich people are getting richer and poor people are getting poorer. >> reporter: one country, two different worlds, one world full of luxury and plenty of opportunities and the other where people struggle everyday to survive, they are two worlds apart and so far the government has failed to close the gap. sammy's world has air condeshing, shopping malls and trendy coffee shops and statistics show the number of rich people has grown
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significantly but there are also more poor people now. >> translator: i don't know what i see with the luxury. i only think this belongs to a rich person and us poor people cannot enjoy it and we cannot even enter these buildings. >> reporter: not only has business but also sammy's career as a stand-up comedian is booming in indonesia. >> translator: good thing about this government is freedom of speech which is widely accepted and we see a lot more young intellectuals due to this new freedom and this is also good for our economy. >> reporter: . >> translator: now i still do the work and what i expect from elections for a proper job to get a house and send my children to school. >> reporter: the government admits that a growing gap is a problem that needs to be
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addressed soon. opposition parties are trying to reach out to poor people saying they will improve their lives but he can only hope these are not just more empty promises ahead of the elections, i'm with al jazeera. a growing list of celebrities are protesting of islam ecccriminal law and punishments are expected to include death by stoning for those convicted of being of gay sex or adultry and calling for a boycott of the hotel chain that is linked here and he joins demonstrators outside the beverly hills hotel which is part of the company and this was the first southeast nation to introduce sharia. a diver involved in the sefrm for dozens of missing people from a ferry disaster in south korea died. the 53-year-old man fell
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unconscious in deep seas off the coast and others pulled him to the surface after communication with him was lost and he later died in hospital. and the world health organization called the spread of polio a global health emergency, there are out breaks in at least ten countries around the world and dominick cane reports. >> reporter: vaccines help keep us healthy and ask your clinic to know which vaccine you need. for 70 years the world health organization helped to reduce the spread of diseases and eradicate them where possible. until recently it believed that polio is one it had contained and through an immobilization campaign the organization reduced the infection rate from hundreds of thousands per year to below a thousand. but now the who says it is spreading again and has become an emergency. >> the international spread of polio to date constitutes an
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extraordinary event and public health risks to other states which a coordinated response is essential. >> reporter: until the civil war in syria broke out it had been free of the disease for 14 years. but the w.h.o. believes the country has been reinfected with polio virus from pakistan. there immobilization teams have been targeted by armed groups who reject western medicine. polio is a viral disease that effects children under five and spreads by contaminated water and attacks the nervous system and causes paralysis and kills within hours although that is rare. this is the second time the w.h.o. issued a declaration of a public health emergency in the past five years. the first was during the swine threw pandemic of 2009, the difference now is that the vaccine to stop polio is cheap
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and ready available. dominick cane, al jazeera. the head of a columbia president's reelection campaign resigned because of a bribery scandal and the president is accused of taking a 12 million bribe to protect a suspected drug trafficker from being expedited to the u.s. and says it's politically motivated. a vote to elect a new president is due later this month. a monday has been arrested in guatemala city after authorities found $2 million in cash hidden in his van. police are investigating whether he was transporting the money for an organized group or drug trafficics and mexican cartels are believed to have expanded their money laundering operations in guatemala in resent years. uruguay has details of how people can grow, sell and use
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marijuana, the first country to launch what is called a cannabis market with each house allowed to grow up to six plants and we have the report. >> reporter: clubs that grow marijuana like this one can now cultivate and smoke legally what they have been producing illegally for years. the health of recreational benefits should they say now be enjoyed by a wider public, free of stigma and misunderstanding. >> translator: we want to end these myths. these tabus that surround marijuana. this so called evil weed used by the devil. >> reporter: the world is watching uruguay experiments will tackle the drug gangs and bring marijuana in the open and explore its potential. who would have thought a cannabis library operating openly and legally in the heart
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here dedicates to a debate with the passing of this law is only now really beginning to open up. >> translator: these books and in several languages covering marijuana from every angle. >> we are entering a period where cultivating marijuana will be legal and academics will want a suitable place to do their research. >> reporter: recent polls show most uruguay are opposed to the use of cannabis and the government pushing through the strong criticism. >> translator: the difficulty this government has had is that it doesn't know which direction it's going in. there is lots of contradictions. >> reporter: uses will be allowed up to 40 grams a month, registered clubs up to 99 plants a year. but deciding how taxes are levied, who can and cannot buy and countless other details have
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delayed the implementation of the regulation governing the new law. >> translator: so many interested parties, the economic, the political, the moral and so many people worry about the consequences so we are happy the government has been taking its time. >> reporter: it's tough being a pioneer and there is nothing to copy and they are turning for expert device to marijuana users who just a short time ago they were prosecuting. a twist of fortune to contemplate over a now legal smoke. >> reporter: still to come all sports and we will tell you what is next for the most december -- decorated olympian of all time. do stay with us. >> tested by hard lived truths... >> these migrants are being exploited
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♪ it was once known as the automotive capitol of the world and detroit has bankruptcy and theft and there are steps towards urban revival by selling houses next to nothing and john reports. >> reporter: the motor city has a major problem. in the shadow of detroit's auto empire lie 80,000 and often blighted homes and the largest bankrupt city is making homeowners an offer they cannot refuse, a house in a healthy neighborhood with a starting bid of $1,000.
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>> $1,000 starting bid anyone and every one in the country can afford this. >> reporter: the first of a dozen homes has been auctioned on line with bidders taking the advantage to buy low and grow with detroit. >> there is a lot of opportunity here and architectural jobs and a place to put your money, live here and it's a place where you can really see your investment grow. >> reporter: detroit may be bankrupt but the city center is looking more prosperous than other and downtown detroit is surrounded by a landscape of boarded up and blighted homes, now in worst shape than ever. make is the first city's white mayor in 40 years and the majority black city wanted a man with a plan to revive it and carried about his race and he notified the owners of 79 properties they need to get the houses repaired and occupied within six months or watch the city seize the title.
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>> it's really about stabilizing the neighborhoods, they do not want to demolish the blight out of detroit. they want to set up neighborhoods that are stable and able to be saved. >> reporter: the winning bid of the new program's first home auction did not come from deborah leevy. >> people at work knew my situation and paper with this situation. >> reporter: the price? $32000, a fraction of the cost of the average american home but the point is not to drive up property values, it's to repopulate the urban ghost towns that surround a newly hopeful motor city. john in detroit. >> reporter: researchers in the united states are reporting the spread of a parasitic fly and a threat to honey bees and the zombie bees are accused of the attack on other honey bees. >> they have flown out in the
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middle of the night. >> reporter: they witness a strange and unnatural event, honey bees leaving their hives to die in the middle of the night. having collected the dead bees back in the lab the cause becomes clear. they are infected by the tiny zombie fly which lays it's eggs in the bee and hatches out, killing the bee in the process. and bee keepers are reporting the phenomenon in more and more populations across the united states. >> i had people call me and say you have to move these bees, something is going on with them and yards would be littered with hundreds of bee carcus all from the bee parasite. >> reporter: known to target bumble bees and wasps and now the honey bee and dealing with this and increased pesticides and research has this website and encourages volunteers and so
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called citizen scientist to report sightings and specimens. >> citizen scientists have found new examples up and down the west coast from santa barbara to seattle and most recently on the east cost in the vermont area. >> honey bees polinate crops each year and fundamental to food supplies and we need a better understanding of new and emerging threats. i'm with al jazeera. and time for all the sport. >> laura thank you so much, liverpool manager believes english title bid is over. that is after liverpool three away 3-0 lead at crystal p pal-palace and they pulled one back and substitute and braced
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for a draw and liverpool players well aware that manchester city now just need to win their last two games to become champions. >> we need to win tonight to keep the pressure on. obviously it was still in the hands of manchester city. and a winton would have given them a little pressure in the game. and astin villa will go on and have good players in the top four of the season and every one will look at manchester city and look at them as a team to win games and get the job done. >> it has been remarkable and i think the players have so much credit in their application and the way they have gone about the job and not just today but for six, seven months and i'm really delighted for them and supporters have been wonderful,
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yes. >> the draw did send liverpool top and replaced by manistee if the 2012 champions win on wednesday. mathematically chelsea could win but they need liverpool to lose the game. in italy people who crowned on sunday without playing notched up another victory in the league and beat atatlanta and won all 18 of the home matches this season and elsewhere they drew three-all in rome. spanish side will have to wait another week to secure a ropa at home and follows the draw on monday, 78 minute and the first goal in this contest was scored and carlos fired into the lead. granada left it late for an equalizer and they are salvaging a point in the 9 third minute.
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and the president suggested clubs should face harsh punishment if fans are guilty of racism and comes in spain on sunday where papa claimed he was racially abused by atletico madrid fans and this is the opening of a center of excellence. >> the matter is that they must fight racism but racism can only be fought if we apply strictly the resolution taken by congress last year on the morise island and said in cases of repetition you have to deduct points for the team which is the fans are responsible or you have to eliminate this team if it goes to a cup competition from the competition. >> reporter: there will 37 days to go until the world cup starts
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and they named their squad for the tournament and the couch picked 23 players in group e and with most of the regulars through qualifying and honduras third time there. >> translator: my heart and gut and players tell me each time i talk to them, their eyes tell me every time i'm talking with them and it's clear the only thing that can be seen, the only thing they want is to be in the world cup. >> reporter: in the la clippers beat the oklahoma thunder 122-105 in game one of their western semi finals and indiana they lost the opener to the washington wizards, bradley scored 25 points and trevor added 22 more to lead washington to 102-96 win over the top seed.
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game two is on wednesday this indiana. >> for us we know this is a tough building to play in. we have not won here in a while and why wouldn't this be the best time to come in here and get a win and the playoffs so just coming in and ready to play and getting the early jump definitely helped us out throughout the whole game. >> pittsburgh penguins take 2-1 lead in the playoff series and sidney scored the first goal of the playoff ending a 13 game goal and goal keeper took 35 shots to shadow the rangers 3-0 and game four is wednesday this new york. other playoff game and he scored his third goal in two games to lead the la kings over the ducks and jonathan quick made 36 saves for the kings who are 2-0 up in their best of 7 series, game
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three is thursday in l.a. and in the last few minutes roger federer is out of the masters and replaced and on monday they followed up the resent first round exit with another opening match defeat here and beaten by colombian qualifier in three sets. 7-5-4-6-6-2. next up is a second round meeting with frenchman who edged out fellow countryman and he took the first set and throughout the second taking it to a third and managed to hold down 6-3-4-6-6-3. nadal will join the action in the second round. >> it was very special and unbelievable, that energy from the crowd and the memories of
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the year that i played here is always unforgettable. i'm very happy to be back here in the tournament. i really like it today. and for working hard and i have to be ready for the action. >> reporter: michael phelps come back will continue in the charlotte grand prix and the 18 time olympic gold metalist came out of retirement by competing in arizona and his coach entered the 100 meter butterfly and free style in north carolina in a plan to build up endurancendura. check out al jazeera for more al jazee jazeera.com/sport and back to you. >> do stay with us on al jazeera and elizabeth has a full half hour bulletin of news for you right ahead.
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