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endangered creatures at will. you. >> hello and welcome to the news hour. we have your top stories. defying kiev in moscow, parts of eastern ukraine vote on a referendum for self rule. hello, in london, who wants to be a billionaire? the streets are not paved with gold but why the world's richest people want to live in london.
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>> we have all your sports. the english premier league championship going on right now. details coming up alert. >> people in parts of eastern ukraine have less than an hour to vote on a referendum of self rule. polls closed early out of fear of violence, but they have been rejecting threjected by the intl community as you illegal. the ballots have been held in two regions with a combined 6.6 million people. people have been asked one question in ukrain ukrainian an, do you support self rule. recent opinion polls are
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suggesting that two-thirds of the people in the east do not agree to join russia. >> hastily arranged, low budget, the referendum drew large numbers of voters to a fairly small number of polling stations in eastern ukraine. at issue the question of whether the region should split from the rest of ukraine. the government in kiev has denounced the vote. >> i would like to understand line one more time it's not a referendum. it is an attempt by terrorists, bandits and killers to cover their activity by having citizens vote. >> keys words do not carry much weight for those keen to endorse the republic of donetsk. >> big crowds have turned out to
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vote. a simple yes or no. there are multiple different interpretations of what exactly it means. >> we want to live with russia in friendship says this man. >> this woman isn't entirely sure what she has voted for. >> i voted for our national republic, she says. >> i want peace in this country. i don't want the kiev that was created in maidan, the war killing people, and it continues here. >> it isn't easy to find a voice in opposition to all this. we travel to a town firmly in anti-government hands where one man was prepared to talk to us. he didn't want to be identified. >> a lot of people who are against the organization and even more people who are for it
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in general they have not understood what kind of a threat it poses and what can happen as a result. it appears that russia doesn't want us, and we are parting from ukraine. left on its own this region will head towards catastrophe. >> the referendum has gone on despite calls by president vladimir putin for a delay. the government in kiev said that the vote will tip the region into an abyss. some here feel that that has already happened. >> well, n a moment we'll cross to paul brennan just outside of a polling station in what do you know? >> reporter: these reports have emerged in the last 25 minutes or so.
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in an exchange of fire i. in efforts to prevent team were casting their ballots. tempers started to flare, and now that it is dark here it appears civilians, and i use the term rather advisedly have gone and armed themselves, and there has been an exchange of fire. there has been one fatality, and one injured. >> now that the polls are winding down, just an hour left for polls to close. what comes next. that's the real concern. >> it is. frankly the figures are
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irrelevant. they can claim that 50,000 people have voted. they can claim 500,000 people have voted. we'll never have an independent way of verifying that, and no way will this election meet international standards. it's what is going to be claimed as a result of this election. that's what matters. we've already heard three interpretations. in slovyank, it is a very hard line and very pro-russian. they say the result gives them mandate for much closer friendship with russia. he wants the east of ukraine to be seceded to russia. in donetsk we heard the head of the people's committee hear saying what the result actually means is that the ukrainian forces in eastern ukraine are in illegal occupying forces. and a third opinion that we've heard from the chairman of the donetsk said no, no, in does not
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mean that we're going automatically join russia at all. it means that we have a mandate of self determination. which of those three or perhaps more opinions that will chip in later on in the coming days, which one of those will win through? this vote has just made the situation even more complex than it already was. >> thank you very much for the time being. reporting from donetsk. we'll cross to kiev to get the view from there. authorities are warning local authorities they could be liable for complicity with that referendum. >> reporter: that's right, the justice minister came out and said that the security service has warned local authorities that they could be liable for complicit the for these referendums. and they say they have been
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threatened with become polling stations and threatened with the use of violence. all are calling this referendum illegal. they say it's illegitimate and it's nothing more than an attempt by terrorists to cover up their crimes, and they're using the people of donetsk and huhansk. we heard from the e.u. saying that they will not recognize the vote. because this is illegitimate they will not recognize any outcome, they're saying that the outcome has been determined by the self-appointed leaders in these regions. i think it's fair when people in
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the east do come out with their so-called results this will put pressure on the authorities and two weeks from today elections will be held. >> reporting from donetsk. 20 bodies have been recovered off the coast of libya after two boats sank. we have more from tripoli. >> reporter: we are getting two different versions of the incident from libyan authorities. a spokesperson for the libyan army said 20 bodies have been recovered. now a spokesperson for the ministry of interior said around 40 bodies were recovered. this incident started on friday when a body carrying 130 illegal immigrants from different
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african countries capsized. and then the police arrested 50 people and 70 remain missing. probably that explains why on sunday we are seeing the emergence of the dead bodies. libya has repeatedly called on the e.u. to help the libyan government curb the influx of illegal migration which escalated in the chaotic conditions after the fall of libyan government. >> they're going to drag out anti-government fighting in the city of fallujah. they told al jazeera that the iraqi military is using controversial weapons to try to win the battle. >> reporter: these pictures could be the first time we see the use of barrel bombs in reak. they are heavy explosives. the name is accurate.
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the bombs are. they were used due to a shortage of conventional weapons. one man who lives in fallujah said that he spoke with witnesses who saw barrel bombs being dropped by helicopters. >> they're dropping barrel bombs in the city. >> reporter: they said we're fighting terrorism it, and we're doing it in a humane way. we're conducting our operations to sweep away terrorism, and we did not use barrel bombs in fallujah. >> shortages and people who have fled is that the army has fired barrel bombs. they're describing barrel bombs oh in fallujah. >> reporter: they say this operation in fallujah is the
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final and decisive action against anti-government tribal militias. however they've been fighting in anbar province since january and both sides have experienced heavy losses. if the use of barrel bombs have been confirmed in civilian areas that constitutes a war crime. >> fighting between yemeni government forces and alqaida-linked fighters is increasing. yemeni military has launched the largest offensive against al-qaeda earlier this week. it was considered to be a major stronghold for the group. this operation has led to increased tension in the capitol out of concerns of reprizal attacks. three gunmen attacked near the
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presidential palace. >> reporter: what we know so far is that a suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives. part of that building was destroyed and search is underway for people buried under the republic. there have been no claim of responsibility so far, but many people think that the only group with the capability to launch such attack is al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula o and listed s the most active al-qaeda franchise outside of afghanistan and pakistan. it launched many attacks in that area since 2002. it has killed western tourists in the area. that attack came hours after an
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attack hit when a military checkpoint near the presidential palace. we're talking about an area that is specified to be secure. because not far from there, there is also the headquarters of the intelligence. people are concerned about al-qaeda. >> the fear tha that a fragile cease-fire in south sudan has begun to collapse. rebels say they have come under attack from government forces. the agreement was struck on friday between the president and former vice president. nigeria's president has welcomed israel's offer to send a team of anti-terrorism experts to find nearly 300 school girls abducted last month. the group boko haram has claimed responsibility for the
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kidnappings. >> reporter: almost a month after the abduction of girls in m nigeria, many are praying for their safe release. many responded to the call as the holy rosary church. >> it is very important to pray for the girls. after exploring all options in terms of trying to make claims to rescue the girls. >> reporter: the nigerian catholic church has urged all nigerians irrespective of their faith, to pray instead of trading blame and accusations. at in mosque worshipers have been praying for the girls after every scripture of class. after the girls were kidnapped they called for three days of fasting. >> this is bringing solidarity
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irregardless of people's faith, people'people. it's a concern of all of us. >> reporter: many nigerians have welcomed experts from the united states and britain to assist nigerian authorities. protesters say they need to keep the pressure going. >> i have a right of peaceful gathering. nobody is going to violate that right. i'm not going anywhere. i have the right in my society. this is a democracy. i protest to not talk of democracy. i'm not going anywhere. >> they want to make sure that the government does not relent until search and ca search and s yield results. >> still ahead on the al jazeera news hour.
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>> i'll be telling you how the jordanian forces are trying to improve securities in the world's largest refugee camp for syria. in sport, robin will have all the details. >> but first the french runner in the information presidential race has received a welcomed boost to his campaign. abdullah abdullah. we have more from kabul. >> reporter: former rivals now on the same tied for abdullah abdullah. resul said he made the decision
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for the sake of national unity. >> we're supporting abdullah abdullah not out of personal interests but because he shares the same homes and aspirations that i have for afghanistan. >> reporter: the former foreign minister could gain considerably from his endorsement. political analysts say his decision has secured him a place in abdullah's inner circle. we ask if he'll offer resul a role in his government. >> absolutely. now we are part of one team. now it's his team-my team. that is over now. now from this point on we are one team and we will form the future government. >> reporter: it's not just,
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diplomats say that he said that hidipsupport for abdullah is abs close as one can get. >> yes, the current president is
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widely expected to win a new term. voters seem to have got behind the hard line she's taken with russia why the ukrainian crisis. the president cast her ballot and voting has been taking place throughout the day. well, an associate president at the institute of international relations and political science, he says events in ukraine have helped to secure the president's position. >> it has had that certain effect. there was a great deal of concern among the electorate that could effect lithuania. and she decided she came straight out and said she would do everything in lithuania's defense and was in position to emphasize important steps vice
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president biden visited in the last several weeks. she had a chance to act presidential, and she did so with verve and vigor. >> now the supreme court has ruled the far right golden dawn party can take part in elections. there were questions over golden dawn's eligibility while they were being investigated for criminal activity. the greek government began investigating the group last year after the murder of a musician. what has been theory action there to this decision that the golden dawn party can participate in the elections? >> reporter: well, it's too early to gain the reaction on the street, although i do not think that the result is going to surprise many people. the decision to ban golden dawn
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under its original name must have been much more controversial than to allow it to run. in any case the party would have run. they had registered under an auxiliary name national dawn. it would have been in there in spirit if not in name. the party owes it to the fact that it is allowed to run even though the supreme court at the moment is investigating it as an potentially criminal organization to its ideology opposite, the communist party. that party had been banned after the greek civil war. it was reinstated in 1974. no one saw any significant gain democratically speaking from the banishing of the communist party. and the party gained because of fact in the public view it was being persecuted.
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it may be problematic to turn what is a legal matter into an inflammatory political matter by banning the party. >> the party leadership is in prison and more than half of its parliamentary is under investigation. how are they likely to fare in these elections? >> reporter: well, if opinion polls are to be believed they are polling a respectable 8 percent to 10% for the european election and because here in greece there is a parallel local election taking place the most high profile golden dawn deputy is running for mayor of athens, and his approval ratings is 12% for that position. it doesn't seem that he will win but getting those figures golden dawn are winning the moral victory. they're polling the sorts of numbers they got in june o of 2012, which was just shy of
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7%. they're in effect showing the greek public that legal prosecution against them as a potentially criminal organization has not affected public opinion or ideological basis on which they stand, the ideas they're trying to propagate. that gives them a lease on life politically. >> john, thank you very much for putting it all into context for us. crown ijohn in athens. now there are more millionaires living in london than any other city in the world. 104 billionaires live in the u.k. ian joins me in the studio now. why are so many of the world's billionaires living in london. >> as 72 of 104 u.k. billionaires are based in
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london. it's a good place to do business. the financial regulations suit them, and they like to enjoy the london lifestyle. >> would you say it is more about the lifestyle, the fact that london is a strategic location in terms of the city of london, the way it straddles time zone more than anything that the government is doing to attract it's wealth. >> i don't think the government is attracting its wealth. yes, they enjoy their lifestyle. some of them have already made their money and choose to live in london. >> and so london boasts more billionaires than any other city. what about other prosperous cities in the world. >> well trailing behind is moscow with 48 billionaires, and then new york with 43. america has got obviously more
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billionaires, but the u.k. per population has more billionaires in the g-8, in the world. >> did that surprise you? >> yes, it's all based on sterling measures. so people who think there are a lot of billionaires in america and other places, yes, that's correct. but when you equate it on the same currency measures it surprised me that we went up to 100 billionaires for the first time. we had 88 in the u.k. last year. it's been a rapid increase. >> would you say that moscow has seen a decrease? >> no, moscow is second in the number of billionaire, an. >> and their wealth is growing there as well. >> people think there are a lot of russian billionaires in london. india has more russian
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billionaires. >> thank you so much. good to have you in the studio with us today. now you're up to speed with the stories we're covering from london. let's head back to doreen. >> still ahead on the al jazeera must hour life gets increasingly difficult in one of syria's city where is the water supply has been cut off. hamilton wins his first spanish grand prix, but someone is not happy. find out more in sports. ♪ what is this place? where are we? this is where we bring together reliably fast internet and the best in entertainment. we call it the x1 entertainment operating system.
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blasts appear to be revenge attacks by al-qaeda over yemeni army defensive in the south. nigeria's president has welcomed israel's offer of ex-peexpert terrorist offensive. some people in aleppo are so desperate they've resorted to digging wells to find water and there are conflicting reports of who is responsible for the shortage. >> reporter: these people have to queue here to get water. many have not had any for days. >> people here have been looking for water for the past few days, and all they're getting is water for cleaning, but we don't have any other option.
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>> we don't have tap water for more than two weeks or even more. we come here to this mosque to transfer water to our homes. we're really getting exhausted. >> tap water has been cut off, as you can see here. the boys are trying to get water from the mosque taps. but without this we wouldn't have a single drop of water. >> reporter: anti-government fighters blame the syrian air force for bombing the water supply lines. but the syrian observatory for union rights accuses anti-government fighters of cutting supply lines to western parts of aleppo. it said that the rebels were trying to cut off the water to government areas but in the process deinstructed the supply to other areas. >> therees that been no water here for a while. we had to dig a well so people can use and drink water. we don't have water at home, that's why this place is so crowded.
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there is neither water nor electricity here. >> reporter: the city was home to millions of people, but years of fights than crippled the infrastructure. there is a risk of the spreading of disease, but for people in aleppo the choice is that risk or going thirsty. >> the jordan refugee camp is home toen thousands of syrians. >> it's the second largest refugee camp in the world and home to over 1,200,000 syrians maintaining order has become a matter of national security for jordan. riots and clashes have broken out here in the past, and jordan doesn't seen these camps closing any time soon. that's why it is seen as
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essential. tighter security means everything and everyone entering the camp gets thoroughly searched. last month the army found an intact improvised explosive device and that sounded alarm bells. >> question try to transfer to jordan. we know some of them will go into jordan. >> reporter: police patrols have increased and every day a team of 2,000 security personnel is needed to cover three shifts. higher sand barriers to prevent refugees from entering and leaving illegally. but there is another approach. many are trained to carry out internal policing and reports threats. >> when there is a problem we try to solve it ourselves and not go to the security forces. if we can't we have to tell them
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so the issue does not get any bigger. >> reporter: since the beginning of the year the government started using iris scans to register all refugees to document all syrians on jordanian territory. the jorda jordanians have expred fears of syrian sleeper cells and are suspected of planning to create chaos and instability inside and outside refugee camps. refugees agree there are syrian government loyalists living among them. >> they are infiltrators. the syrian government loyalists who want trouble and turmoil. they're here in the camp, and many are in this area. i used to live in this part of the camp and i moved. >> reporter: but it's not just syrian government loyalist who is are here. rebel groups have established a foothold in the camp. another reason why jordan has taken the security of these
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camps so seriously. al jazeera. >> the trial of the son of the late libyan leader muammar qaddafi has been postponed until may 25th. he and dozens former officials are facing charges ranging from corruption, war crimes and suppressing the 2011 up rising. cairo has sentenced 46 students who were involved in anti-coup demonstrations in the capital of cairo. the students who supported ousted president mohamed morsi were accused of blocking roads and attacking security. they were fined over $4,000 ea each. three al jazeera english journalists have been held in an egyptian prison for 134 days
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now. they are falsely accused of conspiring with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. the group has been declared a terrorist organization in egypt. journalistal shamy has been held without trial and his health is deteriorating even further. al jazeera rejects all charges and demands their release. guatemalans remembering those who were killed in the civil war. david mercer has more from guatemala city. >> reporter: marking a landmark court ruling through music hundreds commemorate the conviction of general former dictator sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and
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crimes against humanity. but the festivities are bittersweet. >> just ten days after the vet adequate maul la's top court overturned the conviction, sending the trial back to its original phase. it has many here worried. >> reporter: tone general one of the genocide cases architects was told to step down seven months before she thought her term was set to end. she was passed on being re-elected despite being the second most qualified candidate. in april the guatemala bar association tried to suspend for a year the judge who presided over the trial. many say it's clear what's going on. >> there have been changes in favor of impunity and those responsible for genocide. they feel empowed to do what they want to guatemala, but we survivors will keep working for peace.
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>> reporter: national and international groups met on friday to discuss the trial. many analysts said recen-- >> i think what we've seen in the past year has been a backlash where conservative sectors, the busy least, the military, the politicians who come together in an effort to block this trial and future trials. >> reporter: some support he is say that the trial has been politicized, and the foreigners are much to blame. >> we have to governor ourselves. we have to apply our own laws and find out how to apply justice. neither the united states, spain, holland, switzerland, nor the european union can tell us how to do things. >> reporter: guatemala will likely return to the international spotlight, but
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that is still seven months off and bringing the country's most infamous dictator back to court may prove to be an elusive goal. al jazeera, guatemala city. >> the remains of thousands of unidentified victims of 9/11 have been returned to ground zero in new york. they were placed in metal boxes and wrapped in an u.s. flag returned to the spot. some relatives protests against the move saying it's wrong to store the remains at its storage site. still to come on the program. >> the st. louis rams select michael sams. >> history is made as america's biggest football league select it's first openly gay player. and robin will be here as the new champion is crou crowne.
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plus we'll have reaction from the u.k.
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>> they're really ready for michael sams. that's going to be very
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interested. >> sam's selection follows another high profile move. in february jason collins became the first publicly gay pro athlete in the popular american sport when he joined the national basketball team. collins said it may be attractions attention for breaking barriers, but it's not just the talent on the player field that is being judged, but it's the ability of attracting sponsors who want to cash in on the changing face of pro-american sport. >> let's get all the rest of the day sports with robin. >> reporter: thank you very much. good to have you along. manchester city on the final day of the city to be crowned league champions. the team and fans celebrated their second league title in three league time in march.
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fighting back against new castle in the 2-1 victory. rogers return for the first time since the 2009 and 2010 season. chelsea stays to fight back at cardiff city. manchester united rallied to rescue a point at south hampton. no europe football for the first time since 1990. a dramatic final day cap capping a very thrilling premiere season. we have more. >> well, going into the final day of the premier league, this is the outcome in the position of dominance after a coupl coupf good weeks in the season.
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they got there, and west ham did not put up much resistence. bumanchester city swept them aw. the money that comes in from abu dhabi, but you have to say it's a triumph not only for the players, the fans but also the coach they brought in. manuel peligrini. he got the players behind him, he gave them confidence and you have the crucial thing in leaders, and that's a bit of luck. he held his nerve with that, and highways been playing a great style of football. it's very difficult to begrudge them the title. what they need to do now is take that domestic dominance into europe and get on the same wage as uefa. there is a fair pay issue. they have overspent, uefa is not
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happy about it. they want to fine them. this is what is on the table. but manchester city has to decide if they're going to accept that and move on or if they're going to fight it. if they fight it, they relationships a harsh punishment. that been difficulty for them as they attempt to take that dominance into europe. >> this is how manchester city finishing two points ahead of liverpool. chelsea and arsenal taking up the other two championship league spots. united you'll see there finishing seventh in the season. at the bottom of the table they're the one going down. leicester and one of four championship teams vying for the place vying for the championsh championship. in spain they have been just as fierce with atletico madrid
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all in motion. it's a three-way race which looks like it's about to become. real madrid needed to win to keep themselves in contention. bad news as they go two goals to not. leaders of atletico madrid facing a real square. they took a 1-0 lead in the first half. atletico has leveled the match, 1-1. it remains that way and it's approaching full time there. it looks as though all the three top teams will be dropping points just as they did last weekend. barcelona, if these scores stay as they are right now atletico will only need a point in the final game against barca next weekend. to win the la liga title. a move that angered neighbor spains that given british territory's best team the a spot
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in the champions league an. we have that in reports now. >> uefa president welcomed as guest of honor by a marching band in gibraltar. his first visit to the british territory since it joined the uefa family. and like any family, they were expected to shake hands with the players before the game, but at the last moment declined to do so. he also refused to speak publicly about his visit. spain opposed gibraltar joining uefa, and the two are being kept from playing each other. was the president's low-key involvement political? >> i can't answer for the president. i can't answer on our behalf, and we have it very clear. we've had it clear from the very beginning, we remain at any moment ready to develop relations with the federation,
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and we enjoy an excellent relationship with the members of the president and other senior members of the spanish federation. that will continue. we're very keen to keep politics anpolitics. >> allowing two goals in the first half and turned nasty after the break. it looked every bit like a game going into extra time when legal frank stole the trial after two minutes added on. his scor goal made the score 1-. now a place in next season's uefa looking. >> it's incredible. the first round is going to be made up, and then after that we can get past the first round. we're looking at teams like celtic and it's just amaining.
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it's unreal. >> a remarkable achievement and an opportunity for what is really not much more than an amateur football team. the celebrations here in gibraltar are over, and they will play uefa champions league football next year. the president has already flown out, but uefa's newest member has just landed. al jazeera, gibraltar. >> in football let's turn our attention to spain after the mercedes drive. now leading the driver standings by three points overtaking teammate rossberg. we have the report. >> reporter: starting from hull position hamilton had an explosive start leading rossberg into turn one. the pair in a legal of their own in the early stages lapping at least a second faster than the
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rest of the field. drivers crashing the car numerous times. world champion sebastian vettel remained in the mix. but all highs were on the hamilton-rossberg duel which showed no signs of easing. in the dying stages it was hamilton in front while rossberg threw everything at his british teammate to close the gap to just .6 of a second on the final lap. a checkered flag came down, it was hamilton. rossberg second. while vettel crossed fourth. >> hamilton now lead the driver standing by three points chalking his fourth consecutive
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victory. al jazeera. >> leading the sport coverage on our website go to www.aljazeera.com/sports. >> see you later. thank you. cosmic discoveries are set to become more active with a new telescope. >> reporter: to explore the cosmos you need to capture starlight that could have traveled billions of light years. to do that you need a clean mirror. it's made from seven tons of glass, the surface film 1
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1/10,000-millimeter thick. the pace of astronomical discovery depends very much on the ability to peer into the universe, and it knows no bounds. it's flattened all in quest to answer those pressing questions like the nature of dark energy and dark matter. the story of black holes, and how stars and galaxy evolve. this is how the giant magellan telescope will look. it will produce images ten times sharper than the famous hubbel telescope. >> it is really going to open up the sky for us, and it will allow certainly myself to go after really faint stars for example little dwarf galaxies that are swirling out and about the milky way which we have great trouble opening. >> down below, they are hard at
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work. you have to be well-fed if you're going to turn starlight into spectrum. they set up to film the light of the milky way. >> it's so fascinating to combine my research work and it often looks appealing because it's not a pretty image but it gives us information about the object with the beautiful image of that same sky gives us. >> mark phillips is on the hunt for super novi, tracking back $3 billion years. >> we're able to see the supernova and it's post galaxy the way it was back then because it took the light $3 billion years to get here. you can measure the expansion of the universe at that point through these kinds of observations. it's discovered that the expansion of the universe is
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exhilarating rather than decelerating. >> reporter: a few hours later more incredible pictures of our home galaxy. >> we have a nice movie clip of the rising miracley wa milky wa. this is the spiral arm back near the galactic center. it's very bright, and that's what makes the milky way special in the southern hemisphere. >> reporter: now more data, more spectra, more knowledge. bit by bit we build on our understanding of the universe and our place in it. al jazeera, chile. >> that's it from myself for the news hour. for our viewers in the united states we hand you over to al jazeera america, your regular programming on that chapel. for the rest of our international viewers, we'll be with you from london with more
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>> this is an area where our government discriminates against its own citizens leading trial lawyer david boies is fighting to bring marriage equality to every state. a battle he says is akin to the black civil rights movement. >> in the '60s, you had businesses saying we don't want to serve fragr fran americans. >> boies along with ted olson took on proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage.