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>> i'm ali velshi, the news has become this thing where you talk to experts about people, and al jazeera has really tried to talk to people, about their stories. we are not meant to be your first choice for entertainment. we are ment to be your first choice for the news. >> thanks for joining us. this the al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton in new york. let's get you caught up on the top stories this hour. men dressed as police attacked pakistan's biggest airport with machine guns and a rocket launcher. >> told me to telethe cops it was a revolution. >> in las vegas, two police officers are gunned down while eating their lunch. a rare embrace. brought together by pope francis
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at the vatican. and a new treatment for snake bites that could save thousands of lives. >> we begin tonight with the aftermath of that dea deadly ast on pakistan's largest airport. 23 are dead. includes all ten of the attackers. 20 others were wounded as men stormed the airport. a gun battle broke out. all flights into karachi were diverted. >> a deadly attack on one of the pakistan's busiest airports. after storming the all terminal, the congratulatei general airport. this -- karachi general airport.
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they could hear loud gun fire. >> hands up in the air. we heard gun shots on and off, on and off. there were moments when we heard multiple blasts and loud blasts. >> in-coming flights were diverted to other airports. the military was called in to secure the area. suicide vests and grenades were recovered. >> since the attack took place overseeing it themselves. >> karachi is pakistan's financial capitol. airports and military installations are in a high areh state of alert.
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it comes at a time when the pakistani taliban is divided as the government tries to negotiate a peace settlement with the group. joelle nayan al jazeera. >> shopping center in las vegas, two suspects staged an ambush. >> they had a backpack and i saw their gun in their hand. >> a witness describes a man and a woman enter the shop and opened fire. >> my officers were simply having lunch when the shooting started. >> reporter: police say both officers were shot but one was able to fire back. >> the suspects took the officers' weapons and some ammunition from them on the way out the door. >> also on the way out the suspects had a message for police. >> he just told me to tell the cops that it was a revolution and he had just killed two cops
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inside cici's. >> they allegedly killed a civilian near the front entrance then exchanged fire with police responding to the crisis. >> a short time later more shots were heard. preliminary, it appears the female suspect shot the male suspect then took her own life. >> the civilian victim has not been identified. 42-year-old alan beck and 32-year-old eger salder. >> it is a very, very difficult day. >> as of right now they don't have a motive for the killings. egypt's new president is promising to boost the economy and tackle terrorism.
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aspoke from the gardens of his new home. the presidential palace. less than a year before, it had been occupied by mohamed morsi. now the man who led the coup that owfd morsi is in charge -- ousted morsi is in charge. there was a threat of civil war. there was the misuse of religion, and acts that are contradictory to the proper religion of islam. as you have seen, the people were the big losers. in addition there were a bag economic situation. we were in debt here and overseas. there were high unemployment. >> now sisi says the priority is fighting terrorism. he never named the muslim brotherhood but in a thinly veiled reference the new
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president said there had been no reconciliation with anyone who he said had adopted violence against egyptians. >> in order to adopt co-existence there will be reconciliation that sees egypt as his or her nation. but those who kill egypt have no place on their past. i'm saying it in a clear cut way. those who kill the innocent and kill the honorable people of egypt have no place in our path. >> sisi also promised economic reforms, to improve the economic environment and to concentrate on improving the country's poor. brought down hosne mubarak, the last military man who led egypt.
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>> three al jazeera staff accused of supporting the muslim brotherhood have now been held for 162 days. on thursday egyptian prosecutors demanded the maximum. they want seven years for peter greste and 14 years for baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy. pope francis invited the two leaders to pray. 96 spicer reports from the holy city. >> you can no longer say peace in the holy land hasn't a prayer. pope francis welcomed the israel and palestinian leaders, to claim that prayer is powerful. ♪ >> almighty god and father. we gather here together, we, your children.
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>> translator: jewish christian and muslim leaders all read passages from their sacred text. pope francis said there was always reason to hope. the israeli prime minister is not here. benjamin netanyahu is the real israeli peace maker when it comes to peace talks. earlier in the day the pope thanked people around the world for their prayers for peace. on st. peter's square. >> i'm very happy for this meeting and for this pray for peace in the middle east and for peace for my people, palestine people who's suffering for 66
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years. we must say enough. >> it all ended with a handshake and the planting of an olive tree as the symbol of hope in the future and the desire for peace. nick spicer, al jazeera at the vatican. more details are emerging about bowe bergdahl's time with the taliban. tortured five years in captivity, claims taliban guards kept him in a cage. he's still undergoing treatment at a u.s. military hospital in germany. meanwhile, lawmakers are discussing punishment for bergdahl if it's found he deserted his colleagues. bergdahl has received four e-mails containing specific threats. the same day a homecoming
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celebration was planned for him in haleey hailey idaho. officials are now under pressure to improve conditions. overall, illegal immigration from mexico into the u.s. has fallen but more and more miles an hour are attempting to cross over. about -- about minors are statementing to cross up. that's up from 6,000 three years ago. officials say most of the children at a shelter in nogales. >> more than 700 unaccompanied minors are being sheltered i in nogales. mattresses portable bathrooms and even shower facilities. >> if you compare the number from last year and this year, it
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seems to be that at the end of this year we want to have maybe triple that we have over the last year. >> it is part of the surge of children crossing from mexico. the recent influx of more than 48,000 traveling on their own has overwhelmed the border patrol. so last month the department of homeland security began sending immigrants from texas to arizona. dire conditions at the nogales center. brewer released a statement calling on president obama to secure the southern border with mexico. if the obama administration put half the effort into securing our being border our state and nation would not be facing this situation. most of the immigrants come from central america trying to flee violence an. >> they work closely with us in the city of nogales.
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now as a city we need to help border patrols so they can help accomplish their goal and make sure these children are all taken care of. >> federal authorities say they will use this center as a way station to administer vaccinations to the children. as soon as the department of health and human services finds places for them. morgan radford al jazeera. >> last year, are al jazeera met several families whose children were deported, jennifer london returned to te tijuana. >> you'll find francisco villa secondary school.
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her new school with its concrete walls and bars on the windows is a strange as the country she now calls home. >> i like it way more over there because i just think it's prettier, i have friends. i had my whole life over there. >> reporter: and so did 13-year-old stephanie who also used to live in southern california. >> didn't know that much spanish. >> both girls are u.s. citizens forced to leave the only country the only home they have ever known because their parents were deported back to mexico. back in november it was estimated there were some 5,000 u.s. born children and teens living throughout the mexican state of baja, california. but there are actually 10,000 living init in are tijuana alon. >> returning hasn't been easy. >> you can pass the border, you
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can see the difference, like trash everywhere, the walls are graffiti and stuff. and then we didn't have a house. >> schools in mexico already struggle with lack of funding. even a lack of space. and they are certainly not equipped to handle the needs of thousands of binational students. >> they are subjected to a lot of teasing because they don't speak spanish, they don't dominate the language and the teachers don't have the patience for these kids. >> reporter: which is why this program funded 50 international community foundation in san diego county is so -- funded by the international community foundation is to critical. they learn spanish, computer skills and receive counseling. umparo lopez is the director of the program. >> there are students of very different needs. the most difficult thing is they don't feel part of the place,
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mexico or u.s. how can we tell them they won't be able to go back to the states? >> the key is keeping them away from drugs, keeping them away from other problems of delinquency. >> the kids say for them the key is realizing they're not alone. >> the program has helped me because i met other people like me who go over there and have to come over here. >> i'm learning new stuff i'm getting used to being here. >> these all american teens now forced to find their way in mexico are actually the fortunate few. they are receiving help. thousands of others aren't so lucky. jennifer london,it tijuana, mexico. >> aerial view of the devastation. plus, hillary clinton launching a high profile book tour. her disagreements with president obama on some foreign policy
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decisions. and soccer's governing body under fire, the world cup corruption on the sunday segment, the week ahead. ahead.
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>> villages in afghanistan are beginning the recovery from a deadly series of flash floods. floods tore through several villages in baglan province over the weekend. the debt toll has risen to 81. officials warn the number could go higher after thousands have been left homeless. northern afghanistan. >> reporter: the only way to get to the affected area is helicopter. all that can be seen of what used to be villages is mud and rock. this village was once a thriving community. after days of heavy rains, flash floods washed away the homes and businesses that once stood here. >> there was a big thunderstorm. it made so much noise. we all ran away. the floodwaters came and destroyed everything. all of the houses and shops are
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gone, so is the mosque. >> afghan president hamid karzai has offered help and aid. floods come to areas like this in afghanistan but rarely disasters of this scale. it will likely take years for those who have survived to rebuild. the flood comes only week after torrential rains triggered a major landslide in a neighboring province burying an entire village. thousands of others remain displaced. this series of natural disasters comes at a tense time in the country. in less than a week voters will choose a new president. al jazeera guzagari nuer, northern afghanistan.
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>> they say they want to offer a multimillion dollar award for information that could lead to their loved ones. the three month search for the airplane has been unsuccessful and may lead to a change in the way the ntsb searches for aircraft. >> the exact location of the malaysia airlines jet remains unclear. search teams focus their efforts but their lack of progress has put pressure on airlines and aircraft manufacturers to come up with a better way to track airplanes. how does realtime tracking work? airlines in the air, there are thousands at a time, would automatically send information to a satellite. some aircraft do this already for engineering reasons, but the
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plane's location, second by second data on its altitude speed and direction. engineering companies already track the performance of some planes. this allows them to pick up any problems and advise airlines even when the craft is in flight. one suggestion is the same technology should be expanded to include detailed location data. >> not on all airplanes but the more modern airplanes there is a dynamic connection with the crown station and that comes to a satellite and we pick up that signal at the ground be station. we pick it up with the internet and look at it with our own specialist. >> but with thousands of aircraft in the air at one time, each producing a vast amount of data, any tracking system would need to be selective. it would only need to send some data some of the time. perhaps when a plane deviates
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from its planned route or altitude or makes an unexpected maneuver. >> the technology is essentially there now. what we need to do is find a way of applying it in a consistent way and a globally standardized way, not to do different things in different parts of the world but enables airlines to do it in a cost-effective manner. >> the business of commercial aviation is on the verge of being trmed o transformed on a l scale. >> the aviation authorities who will ultimately decide what sort of tracking is required and whether equipment such as transponders that identify aircraft should be designed so that pilots cannot disable them in flight. terek basley al jazeera. >> actor and comedian tracy
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morgan is still in critical condition after a deadly pile up on the new jersey turnpike. one passenger was killed in the wreck. the driver of a walmart truck face death by automobile. the driver did not notice that traffic had slowed down. morgan's spokesperson said the actor broke several ribs his leg and nose in the crash. hillary clinton has launched a high pro file book tour. lays groundwork on her expected run for the presidency. tom ackerman reports. >> hillary clinton has remained a highly visible speaker, making speeches for a fee of $200,000. who rank her as a clear favorite for democratic presidential nomination in 2016. >> you know i'm going to decide when it feels right for me the decide. i will be on the way to making a
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decision by the end of the year yes. >> the rollout for comploinlt'sa subtlety of a military mission ramping up to full speed. >> did i go to 112 countries. i was on the aim airplane for so many days i didn't have time to worry about my hair. >> but in the book titled hard choices, clinton also lays out some of her views on america's global role. she admit she got it wrong, plain and simple. president obama for u.s. to arm and train moderate syrian groups in the presidency of bashar al-assad. this was the president's call and i respected his decision.
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hosne mubarak's reforms, did not support him during the arab spring uprising. jewish settlement reaction in the occupied west bank. that emboldened mahmoud abbas. the deaths of four americans including the u.s. ambassador to libya on the 2012 attack on the benghazi consulate. some republicans have tried to pin the responsibilities on clinton. democrats who may compete for presidential nomination they also give her high marks as a strong leader who understands the problems of ordinary americans. but back in the 2008 campaign historians note that she had a 50% lead over obama only to see him win. tom ackerman, al jazeera, washington.
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witnesses form the main pillar for many prosecutions. in this week's episode of the system we see how sometimes witnesses can get it wrong. >> you know every day in this country, thousands of suspects are identified by eyewitnesses. but a shocking number of these eyewitnesses get it wrong. here this location, two gentlemen went in to purchase some drugs, gun fire ensued and the resident at this location was killed. when the police arrived, they were looking for two black males, one tall one short, the witness had given that identification. how accurate are eyewitness identification? >> about 30% of the time people pick someone say yes, that's the person who did the crime, are wrong. >> what jennifer believes that the identification procedures used by the majority of the
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police departments in this country are outmoded and unscientific. >> they put me in front of a big glass window, door-like. handcuffed me to the bench. but everybody else in the room was pushed to the other side, where they couldn't see these individuals, they could only see me. >> you can see the system top of the hour, at midnight on al jazeera america. coming up. a series of allegations facing the world cup's governing body. in our segment, the week ahead. and doing political research can be tricky business in russia. challenges some polling companies face.
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>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here are the top stories we're following now. more than 20 people are dead after an attack on pakistan's
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biggest airport. there has been no claim of responsibility for the assaults so far. all the attackers were killed. police in las vegas say two of their own officers were killed in an ambush. the officers were having lunch when they were shot at close range. the suspects killed themselves in an apparent suicide attack. egypt's saying no reconciliation for those who use violence against the government. abdel fatah al-sisi was sworn in today. it is sunday night and time for our look at the week ahead. tonight we focus on the world cup in brazil. 32 national soccer teams have made it thrust a two-year qualifying process. they'll determine the most cov
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coveted trophy for the support. but fifa has been blamed. >> fifa are joking with the brazilian people. >> reporter: over 400,000 tourists are expected to flock to brazil to watch what is known worldwide as the beautiful game. but thousands of brazilians are protesting the billions spent to host the cup. we cannot participate, we can only watch on tv, on the other hand 250,000 people have no home in brazil. >> of the world cups i have covered in person i have never seen a political atmosphere that is in brazil leading up to the start of the world cup. it is a new generation, and they are not going to take it. their bus fare went up by 20
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centavos, their favelas are overrun. >> fifa still faces questions regarding qatar's bid for the 2022 tournament. there have been allegations of corruption and vote buying. the aspect of buying votes and qatar's soaring heat. will not likely to be able to repair fifa's reputation in the future. >> he's left his support with a terrible legacy for doubtful for 2022. >> response to the winning u.s. bids to host the 1996 summer olympics in atlanta and the 2002 winter olympics in salt lake
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city. >> of course this is nothing new. in my own country the united states there were lots of allegations of gift-buying and favors and jobs that all the ioc delegates new that their sons and families could get deals, could get jobs in the united states, could get educations. the ioc cleaned up its act. and believe me the ioc compared to fifa is the boy scouts and the girl scouts. >> despite the controversies the world cup begins thursday and is expected to attract a worldwide audience of 1 billion fans. but after a champion is crowned next month questions about the cost and the public benefits of big time sports won't end. rio is expected to host the olympics just two years from now. cowrntcoirntcowrnlcourtney keel.
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>> not everyone is happy about brazil hosting the world cup. protests the amount of money being spent on the games. they say the government should spend it instead on education an health care. after corruption allegation, world cup sponsors are calling for an investigation for qatar's hosting the events in 2022. making it a poor choice for host nation. brett force, the senior contributor to soccer magazine and gabriel alejandro in the week ahead. >> there's nothing wrong about taking these big events to nontraditional environments. i support that. but when you do, you have to do your due diligence. i'm not sure fifa did this time around. you mention the extreme weather
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in june and july when the world cup is traditionally played. the temperatures are around 150° fahrenheit. >> they talk about using private funds. now here we are $900 million public funds on a stadium. >> the thing about fifa it's no stranger of scandal. it's actually a business of cyclical scandal, one after another. it's not answerable to anybody. it's not beholden to any government or certainly any constituency, so the problems and these questions will always arise. >> which is why we've seen a number of protests. let's break it down. brazil is spending $14 billion to host the world cup this year and it plans to use the same infrastructure to host the olympics two years from now. that's a huge increase over the
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$3.5 billion that south africa, spent three years ago. but germany also had most of its infrastructure in place before it bid to host the games. russia estimates it will spend around $22 billion to stage the next world cup in 2018 and by 2022 qatar plans to spend nearly five times as much as the previous hosts. is there any economic benefit to hosting the games? >> in brazil they are certainly as you mentioned spending a lot of money, with stadiums and airports and public transport works and everything else. the brazilian government says this had he hope to bring in as much as $15 billion. that's the government's estimation. some say it won't be that high but the government says they will be bringing in money from this tournament, given how many tourists are coming.
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founder to 600,000 tourists, but traveling between the host cities speck money as well -- spending money as well. it's not as bad an investment as it's made out to be, that's the government's response to this. so of course is brazil going to make a ton of money off of this? no, it's a country with seventh largest economy in the world. $7 billion isn't that big in the scheme of things. but the money they have to spend to get ready for this. >> so many people don't want the world cup, they are saying fifa go away. the spoacial ills that they are facing. >> absolutely, no doubt about it. there were millions of people that went to the streets protesting. the numbers have gone down. there are still protests, as we have reported but the numbers have gone down. we haven't seen the millions we
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saw last june. most say they aren't necessarily against world cup. they are just using the world cup to shake the government a little bit, saying we need better health care, better public transportation, better schools. and they are using the world cup as a means to get this message out. you do get a group that say, we want nothing of the world cup, pictures of fifa go home. but there are pictures that i have seen here, thee protests, people saying we're not against the world cup, this is brazil after all, we are against overspending, where we could be building new hospitals or things like that. it is nuanced in that sense. >> and brazil has a rich history when it comes to soccer. but when you look at the allegations of corruption, are these businesses getting a sweetheart deal from the
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government? >> in brazil? >> brazil. >> it's all part of the same package of course and what's happening with the common man is very interesting as gabriel mentioned. the cost of living is rising in brazil because of the prosperity there and because of the world cup. but it's not -- that rising tide is not lifting all boats. so the people on the bottom level are not seeing that benefit and that's where a lot of the outrage comes and directed at the companies you have mentioned. >> do you have outrage against the sports goferg body, fifa? -g goferg body, fifa? >> absolutely. fifa among sports governing bodies had perhaps the lowest reputation of all, because of this scandal they bring forth in the world. >> why do you think that is?
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is it because they bring forth no regulation? >> it is registered in switzerland, not beholden to any constituency, the fans themselves have no real say, and it is the fact of the sport's great popularity, globally, transverses so many economies and in some way, is ungovernable. >> do the fans seem complacent about fifa's corrupt role? >> like your guest was just saying, there was some real sentiment by the brazilian people all the way up to the top that fifa is a little heavy handed here in brazil. while i just said most branszians are -- brazilians are not against the world cup, they are against fifa.
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fifa has come in, dictated what they want, when they want, world cup is a private party, brazil is just hosting it. fifa officials would go abroad and be critical of brazil and the preparations, but they come back to brazil and say we have full confidence in you. it's interesting to see what they will say when this is all over. brazil is going ohave about 160,000 security officials on the streets in the country for world cup. that's a lot. that's way more than south africa, more than five times more than germany. brazil is aing unsafe country no doubt about it. kidnapping tourists, the government think they have all that under control. this is a country that hosts
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carnival every year. that brings millions to the country. hasn't hostanything since 1950, quite like this, but they are experienced with hosting hundreds of thousands of people on the streets. >> in our final moments brent are there areas of concerns in the week ahead for the world cup? >> you might look out for manipulated matches. pointed out that the final games in the group stage are going oinvolve teams that are essentially eliminated from tournament events. >> you're talking about match-fixing? >> mash-fixing -- match-fixing one of the scourges of the events. there is going to be massive betting and these players are going to be susceptible from fixers of international crime. one thing to think about certainly. >> is there something to do to
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fix fifa? >> that's a tough solution there. i think fifa needs a fundamental restructuring. it needs a change of the culture. it needs a change in leadership. sep bladter has been there for a long time and he's the testify lon don of soccer. -- he's the teflon don of soccer. he needs change. >> appreciate your time. let's take a look at the other events coming up this week. on monday the 11th annual islamic conference taken in doha. to bring together people from around the muslim world. the controversy concerning the prisoner exchange surrounding bowe bergdahl. the united nations will hold its 50th year celebration.
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petro poroshenko says they should meet every day in order to try stop the fighting by the end of the week. ukrainian separatists and government officials fighting resumes. said to be from slovyansk. the city came under heavy shelling today. vladimir putin has toughens his foreign agent law. register nonprofit organizations as foreign agents. some nonprofits fear the change could force them to shutter their doors. rory challenge reports from moscow. >> the officest aren't glamorous but the work that goes on here is invaluable. employees constantly monitor the political pulse of russia with polls. must register as a foreign agent. >> translator: the threat of close exists constantly because there are no signs that this
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policy would be rolled back. actually the opposite. most steps are likely to be prohibitive. banned, it a quiet possibly. >> still functioning though. ing its activities were suspended last year, human rights watch has documented dozens of court cases, prosecutions and warnings, targeting russia's ngos. this whereas the catalyst for the crack down following -- this was the catalyst for the crack down. there was a surge of public anger, moscow's square was regularly crammed with people calling for vladimir putin to go and the government was shocked into action. but these days the square is empty of protestors. the government has unleashed a raft of new legislation
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targeting freedom of assembly, the independent media and of course those ngos. for the architects of the laws there were necessary steps to prevent western political influence upsetting russia's delicate order. >> translator: the president of argentina once joked you know why there are no color revolutions in the u.s., because there's no u.s. embassy. through u.s. embassy they put soft pressure on society. we have witnessed it in our countries, jo, cur georgia, cur, ukraine. >> that particular war is applied selectively dependent on political situation. >> in russia, the term foreign agent carries the cold air
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taints of espionage and only one ngo has voluntarily registered. some like levada center has forsaken it. find themselves on the list whatever they do, rory challenge, al jazeera moscow. prime minister from democratic party of kosovo says he has won enough vote to secure a third term in office. there was low voter turnout. the vote was seen as an important step in stabilizing the country 15 years after its war with serbia. rebecca stevenson is joining us. >> triple digit heat in california and then severe weather breakout from colorado to texas and continuing eastward tonight. right now you are looking at video we had seen come in from colorado and places around
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denver even. details on these storms and where they are now, next. ow, next.
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on al jazeera america >> as rebecca just mentioned severe weather has impacted a number of communities in colorado. this video you're about to see was captured on cell phone, 40 miles west of colorado springs. when a tornado touched down on a golf course. >> when i looked down i see there's a man with a huge blow to the right side of his head and his wrist bone just completely popped out of his skin. just a horrifying sight. i grabbed my phone called 911 and we had to lift a golf courst
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off his head. >> rebecca stevenson. >> as the thunderstorm started to pick up in the afternoon on the lee ward side of the rockies, lee ward meaning it is on the eastern side of the recycles, those storms came in contact with an area of low pressure, coming across at the same time, it really enhanced the energy and helped those storms just explode in energy, and storm reports came in with so many tornado reports from aurora, to centennial to grover, to a few places in southwest wyoming even, into new mexico and texas too. lot of rainfall in these storms. live radar, all the way down touching almost into lubbock again. again speaking of lubbock, you had a lot of lightning last night. storms were hitting you hard just 24 hours ago. this was impressive video taken
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of that lightning. always exciting that kind of an energy release. let's go back to live radar. showing you how these systems are tracking and causing problems into the southeast. we've got a flash flood warning in place, tornado warnings in place, but these concerns stretch all the way over into louisiana and stretching into tennessee again. tennessee also had some strong weather last night and it's back. so our focus tomorrow as we get into monday, monday night, another round for texas eastward, storms firing up, triple digit heat san joaquin valley, and into parts of nevada and arizona. heat warning in effect. around the world, new delhi, india, your temperatures are 113 to 117. just an umbrella to try to keep
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the sun's rays off, sometimes that doesn't work, in places like stockholm, sweden, the royal guard, this soldier did recover well, just getting rehydrated -- >> take plenty of water. those temperatures phoenix and sacramento temperatures are well above normal. >> well above normal. >> and it isn't even summer yet. >> june 21st. >> up next, the spray that may help save lives. lives.
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>> your chances of getting bitten by a poisonous snake here in the united states is very slim but not in a lot of other countries. jacob ward tells us, what can are be a help. >> none so extreme as its insulation from the danger of death by snake bite. >> we don't have a lot of
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venomous snakes that we're concerned about. the most potent example i can think of this is that my son has a pet snake, this is are our pet king snake. and if you saw this snake in india, you would be very scared or anywhere in southeast asia or really anywhere in the world. >> here in northern california the most dangerous snake i'm about to encounter is a rattlesnake. i'm within moments of several hospitals, any one of which could deal with the situation. there are only a few deaths from snake bites in the united states but in the world it's a different situation. 2 million snake bites and 100,000 deaths a year. a truck driver from a village in india woke to find his wife
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struggling from the effects of paralysis. >> she woke up and she wasn't able to talk as her tongue started twisting. >> his wife died before she could reach the hospital. it had been determined she was bitten on the thigh. the antivenom must be tailored to the specific snake and often ends in allergic reactions worse than the snake bite itself. as a result, matt lewen and colleagues are working on a po portable portable device. >> no matter where you go in the world snakes have the same basic tool kit. they kill by paralysis, they cause bleeding or they cause tissue destruction but the
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enzymes are all related. and so we can attack each one of these three basic tools. there you have it. what i would say what we've gotten from these recent experiments are two things. one is we've shown that we can deliver drug through the nose that can reverse particlecy. next, we test they had idea in mice against very high dozes of cobra venom and the mice did really quite well. whether this is right drug or could be something different, we've shown that the idea can be done, and so now we need to take it to the next level. >> a true miracle cure for snake bite is still years away but matt and his colleagues are hoping that this can be the bridge between a snake bite in the field and lifesaving in the hospital. a bridge that this woman didn't have. jacob ward, al jazeera, san
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francisco. >> a big night on are broadway for actor brian johnston. alger mcdonald won a tony for her portrayal of lady day. and best play went to a gentleman's guide to love and murder. event meant to raise funds for breast cancer. one michigan teen decided to organize a walk for cerebral palsy on his own. his brother carried him for 40 miles. >> really couldn't explain how much this support has helped push us through. we've had times where we're not really sure, we weren't sure if we could make it. but it's all pushed us through. thank you. >> braden can't get around without a walker but with his
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brother's help, the pair made their way from home town to university of michigan. that's true brotherly love. stay tuned, the system with joe berlinger is coming up. thanks for watching. >> i'm sitting on the couch and next thing you know i got like three 9 mm just pointed directly at my face, i'm going what is this about? what you comin' in with guns drawn for? they laid us on the ground, out of everybody they picked me. i was like ok, what's going on? they said do you know who this detective is? i 'm like no. he says this "guy is colombo." i said "colombo?" he said, "have you ever seen the tv series colombo?" i says, "growing up. you know growing udo