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good afternoon to you and welcome to al jazeera america. i am morgan radford. these are the stories we are following just for you. >> these teenagers were kidnapped. the kidnapping was carried out by hamas members. >> as the search continues for three missing teens in the west bank, the israeli prime minister points the finger at hamas. the u.s. shifts military assets to the persian gulf, but still no plan to stop the violence. >> we made make probably over 200 difficult products. >> bringing jobs back to
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america. why some companies say it's actually cheaper to produce stateside. ♪ >> israeli mile minister benjamin netanyahu is blaming hamas for the kidnapping of three teenage. it's a charge the palestinian government wrong -- flat-out denies and is cracking down on palestinians in the west bank. >> humamas terrorists carried o the kidnapping of three teenagers. we know that for a fact. these teenagers were kidnapped. the kidnapping was carried out by hamas members. hamas's denials do not change this fact. >> in response, hamas spokesperson dismissed
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netanyahu's accusations as being stupid and intelligence-driven. al jazeera's jane ferguson is in ramala with more on the crackdown. >> reporter: it's been going on for three days now across the west bank. it's very much so centered around hebron in the south of the west bank. it's near there where the three teenagers were taken from. we have hering reports that essentially that city is on lockdown. there are so many checkpoints in and around that city, an intensive searching house to house across the town of hebron there, really searching for any clues here that's where a lot of arrests have taken place. and that seems unlikely to abate. as you have said, at least 80 people arrested so far. >> that's likely to rise. there is no indication that this operation across the west bank will truce. now, sources in the palestinian security forces told al jazeera that in hebron, at least 2,000 extra members of the israeli army had been moved in there. and israeli prime minister,
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benjamin netanyahu has also said that absolutely every option is on the table here. >> is presumed to include every military option. >> iraq is on the verge of an all-out civil war. the government has launched a counter offensive against the sunni led rebels who control much of the north. the latest from baghdad. >> the iraqi government says its forces are making gains as thousands of fighters are heading to samara as well as the city of mosul. sources in mosul suggest that the army reinforcements have arrived on the outskirts of the city. they described those forces as elite units. so the battle could really intentionfy in the government's efforts to try and root out the fighters from the isil and other fighters from mo
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mosul. there are heavy clashes between gunmen and government forces. the town is predominantly shi-ite. the death toll stands at 10 people kidder and 3 -- killed and three 2 injured. this covers all of the fighting parties. now, in the capitol, baghdad, a suicide bomber blew up himself at a crowd of laborers. >>tac skilled at least a dozen people. you can sense the situation is escalating theres fear this country is heading toward sectarian violence president obama said he will not send u.s. troops into iran but the pentagon ordered a an aircraft-carrier into the gulf. randall pinkston joins us with more on exactly how the u.s. is approaching this conflict in iraq. randall, good morning to you. first off, the president's handling of iraq, specifically the decision to, to withdraw all
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u.s. troops is being questioned. is that criticism valid? >> the president's critics think the criticism is valid. we heard house speaker john boehner accusing the president of taking a nap as this crisis has developed. senator john mccain was almost apoplectic in his anger on the floor of the senate saying he and lindsey graham three years ago had urged president obama to maintain a u.s. military presence in iraq and this morning, senator continued the criticism warning of consequences for the u.s. iraq and syria combined will be the staging area for the next 9-11 if we don't do something about it. the people holding ground in iraq hold ground in syria. economic instability that comes from a collapsed iraq will affect gas prices in our economic recovery. the main reason is if isis is not dealt with, that's the staging area for a new attack. >> but you know, for all of the
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criticism, not even the president's most virulent critics think u.s. combat forces should be returned to iraq. no one mentions one of the reasons president obama was not able to leave troops there is because iraqi prime minister no uri al maliki refused to give an immunity deal for access taken in iraq. malaki did not want the troops there. he would not give the president a deal. the troops came home. here we are. >> randall, you mentioned these combat forces. the pentagon said it send the uss george h.w. bush to product u.s. interests in iraq. what specifically does it mean by that? >> the announcement was made by the pentagon. the official reason, as you indicate, is that the -- would
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provi the commander in chief with flexibility should military options be required to protect american lives, citizens and interests. >> could also include that the ship's assets, fighter jets, recon sans aircraft, rescue helicopters, missiles, all that could be used if the president does, indeed order a military strike. in addition, by the way, to the uss george h.w. bush, the guided missile cruiser, philippine c and the guided missile destroyer uss truc truxton are standing by for orders. >> joining us live from washington, d.c. meantime, the conflict has created an entirely new humanitarian crisis inside of iraq. thousands of iraqis have fled their homes in and cities have fallen completely all around them. al jazeera's hoda abdel hamin has their story. >> reporter: it's a melting pot of people who share the harsh
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reality of being refugees and facing a life of uncertainty stuck beside a checkpoint between mosul and air field, they have no where to go. this lady was in hospital when mosul fell to sunni rebels. when everyone around her fled, she had to follow. . >> there was no one to help. i am here with my children. i never imagined i would end up like this. but without this camp, we would have nothing. >> it created a mass exodus, a feel more people are on the move as the sunni rebellion spreads throughout iraq. the u.n. says it's just the beginning. >> it's being dramatic how events have unfolded at all kind of levels but particularly the human starn level. there is some displacement now happening in diala, and people are crossing into sulimania
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province. we will probably see some in the south go towards baghdad. so, a i said in the beginning, we are at the tip of the iceberg of the whole problem. >> reporter: when they first left, none of the people here reed the scale of the crisis. >> this camp is growing by the day, simply because of people have run out of cash. many of those who are staying here actually for the second time displaced. they come from other parts of iraq. in the past years they move through mosul for safety. >> that's what happened to abdullah wali. he never thought he would have to find a new shelter for his family of yeah. >> we moved from telefar to mossul where there was securiul we spent it all on hotels in the first days. i don't have anything left. we are forced to come here.
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>> this man's story is more telling about what iraqis have gone through in the 56math of the u.s.-led invasion. he is too entimbarrassed to sho his children. >> i have to abandoned everything and move again. my children are all over the place. i am here. >> reporter: the road to the kurdish region is choked with exhausted refugees. people continue to flee mosul and surroundings as the sunni rebels con sol date power. many wonder if they will ever go home again. al jazeera, in northern iraq. hundreds of families in pakistan alone the afghan border are also fleeing their homes the pakistani government is sfeping up pressure on the rebel hides outs. there has been increase in airstrikes and drone attacks. this follows the attacks by the taliban on pakistan's largest international airport in karachi which killed 36 people.
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peace talks between the two sides have been 59 an impasse since february. crain's president, petro porono declared today a national day of mourning when a military plain was shot down yesterday in lunhansk. he is vowing to punish the rebels who were responsible and launched a series of airstrikes on rebel-held areas. >> reporter: outside the luhansk hospital where separatists fighters are being treated, still inside is a policemen who was shot near the luhansk airport yesterday. he is in critical condition. ukrainian troops are moving in on the city of luhansk, still in the control of pro-russian separatist fighters who took over two border guard basis last week. they control the military warehouse they control room the administration building and have checkpoints but they are increasingly nervous. they have seen fighting, sporadic fighting on the
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outsskirts and they are preparing for an imminent attack. authorities in kiev are commenting on nato satellite images which were released which nato fears shows russian tanks being loaded on to low loaders on the russian side of the border. low loaders are a method of transport of tanks going by road. authorities in kiev suggesting that this is further proof that, in fact, weaponry, personnel, heavy art i willery is coming across the border and implying that russia is sort of leading this pathllery is coming across the border and implying that russia is sort of leading this path. john kerry called the russian counterpart, sergey lavrov warning him that partners are willing to raise the cost for russia. the questions to the international community will be: is this proof enough to step up these sanctions? pay up or else. ukraine says it expects to
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resume talks with russia tonight hoping to end the dispute over natural gas payments. russian gas exporter gazprom has given ukraine until monday to pay part of it's nearly $2 billion debt. otherwise, the gas will get cut off, which could completely disrupt the gas flow to the entire european union. >> and some of the imports come through ukraine. it's been one 00 days since flight 370 completely vanished. the families of those on board are waiting for answers. to mark the anniversary, relatives of chinese passengers prayed at a beijing temple for their loved ones. the flight was last heard from after taking off from kual kuala lampur. next on al jazeera america terror. >> made in america has been important to us. what the country is realizing is it's important to all of us. >> bringing jobs back to the
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united states. why more companies are choose to go make their products right here at home.
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>> final respects for a fallen comrade, the body of a las vegas police officer to wyoming where he will be buried. a police procession is expected to take place at 4:00 o'clock eastern. a memorial service for officer allen beck, ambushed while eating lunch with his partner and his killers are a couple with anti-government, anti--police views. they killed another man before dying in a shootout with police. his bok will be flown to salt lake city and to his hometown in wyoming forburial. train workers back on the job after president obama stepped in to end a strike. more than a dozen train lines shut down on saturday when negotiations broke down between
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transit officials and the union representing engineers and electricians. the two sides have been at odds for four years now, all over pensions and wages. president obama created a presidential emergency board just to help mediate and that will force the 400 workers to return to the job. several big companies bringing jobs back, transitioning from years of outs outsourcing and beginning what will economists call reshoring. 1 denver company is joining the trend. this is how a plastic laundry bin you buy for your home is created before its shipped to a store. >> you make so many things here? >> we make probably over 200 different products. >> noel ginsburg is the ceo of intertech plastics, this giant injection molding plant runsell seven days a week.
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>> the economics of manufacturing globally have begun to change about two years ago. prior to that, what we saw most of the tile is our business was moving either to mexico or to china. >> that's what ginsburg -- when ginsburg moved back home from asia to this sprawling plant on the east side of denver. >> if you manufacture everything overseas and we learned this when the economy collapsed, there is nothing left for people to do. if you outsource all of your jobs. the re-shoring has created 200-plus positions. new jobs for workers like tool maker drew miller? >> i see more small jobs starting to open up again. before, we used to have a lot of little shops around. they dried up. >> it's not just heavy manufacturing like what goes on here at intertech making the move back here at america. high-tech companies are doing it as well. >> last fall, apple announced it was moving some of its manufacturing from asia to a plant in arizona, creating 2000 new jobs. according to the boston
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consulting group, more than half of the 200 u.s. companies with sales over $1,000,000,000 have moved jobs back to the u.s. or are planning to over the next two years. >> the cost of production has raised significantly. >> economists say the cost of offshoring jobs that once made overseas manufacturing so attractive is becoming more expensiv expensive. >> what's happening is that those businesses are bringing back production. i have seen the rates in southeast asia raise. >> at denver's inter tech, the move to resore production has doubled revenue over the past two years as it repositions itself as a truly american supplier. >> "made in america" has always been important to us. what the country is realize, it's important to all of us. >> reporter: as the reshoring trend continues, some economists predict as many as 5 million
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jobs will come back to the u.s. by the end of this decade. jim huli, al jazeera, denver. so staying in colorado, there is also a new trend in elderly care that's emerging called a naturally occurring retirement community otherwise known as no rc. to help seniors grow old inside their homes. straight to a center near denver. >> goodness. jumping. here you go. >> 63-year-old ada menzies knows her chickens by name. they return the favor by laying an egg a day. >> thank you, ladies. >> her parents built her home, and she was raised here. >> it was a happy, happy place to grow up. we just knew that everyone was welcome here. >> a third of the people in this one square mile area are long-time residents like ada. while older and needing help, they want to stay in their own homes. so the local jewish community organization has designated the neighborhood a naturally occurring retirement
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community or a no rc. seniors identify what social services they need and the no c hooks them up with medical care, housekeeping, yard work, even meals. >> they can be engaged. when you move folks to an assisted living or a nursing home, it sends -- it sends a message that maybe my time is coming to an end. >> since no rcs are funded largely with private money and grants, they keep seniors from dipping into higher cost government programs like medicaid and medicare. no rcs can save thousands of dollars a month from care this assisted living and nursing homes. >> the whole world is a no rc. we have known it's been coming for over 20s years. >> by 2030, nearly 1 in 5 americans will be over 65. cathy grim, a senior, herself, heads up two no rcs for colorado jewish family service. she says no rcs are a good joyce
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to keep older people home where they can be independent. >> we are not one hip fracture at a time. we don't want to be treated as a burden. we want to be looked at as a resource to give back to the community, and that's what the no rc model is all about. >> this is from my great granddaughter. >> wednesdays are reserved for a get together called stitch and chatter. it's a good reason to get up in the morning. >> this is something. >> we've got good at growing people old. but we haven't gotten as good at quality of life. so that's what we really need to focus on. hour do we help people have a quality of life well into their 90s. >> ada cared for her dad through his fight with alzheimer's. her mom was able to die at home this past merry christmas with support from the no rc and her neighbors. >> ed clark, thafrmingdz for your head last night. that was great. >> ada's dream: to live to the earned where it all began. carol mckinneyley, edgewater,
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colorado. >> having a shortage of blood donors may not actually be that bad. still ahead, how a new machine may revolutionize the health industry by recycling blood instead of relying on trans fusions.
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welcome back to al jazeera america. i am morgan radford. here are today's head lines. 80 palestinians are under arrest as part of a crackdown in the west bank. three teenagers including a u.s. citizens have been missing since thursday. israeli prime minister blames hamas for that ab duction. the iraqi government has launched a counter offensive against a sunni offensive. so far, it appears their assault has stalled just north of baghdad. . >> ukraine expects to resume talks with russia hoping to end a dispute over natural gas payments. russian gas exporter gazprom has
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given ukraine until monday to pay up or pay out. they must pay at least part of their nearly $20 billion debt. every single day, blood donations save lives. what happens when there really aren't enough donors? that may not be such a problem in the near future. al jazeera's phil lazell explains. >> it is one of the issues medics have always faced: how to minimize the amount of blood lost during major surgery, especially with demand for donations seemingly insatiable which is why the name hemosep is getting surgical circles excited. born in britain, tested in turkey. this takes the best bits out of the blood that leaves the body and prepares them to go back in. >> what this system will do is it will take the blood and then suck it into the bag. once it's in the bag, the bag will start to filter out all of the water-like solution. so usual left with the clotting factors and the red cells and then they can be given back to
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the patient. >> they are the important bits? >> they are the important bits the patient requires to help them stop bleeding and continue carrying the oxygen around the body. >> the notion of recycling blood caught on during the early years of the aids crisis with concerns about come tamnated supplies. it's not a new idea. what is new is being able to do it all so cheaply. a unit of blood costs $240, but parts for this machine are half that price, $120. they can even be manufactured on a 3d printer. >> the actual device, itself, is a very small footprint. you can move it to the location that's required and it is very cost effective compared to current methods. >> why is it cost effective? >> basically because you are recycling the whole blood species. you don't have to add other elements like platelet therapy when you are giving blood trans fusions. so, it can save costs and save time. >> hemosep was intended for war
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zones where spare blood is typically in short supply but it's helping groups like jehovah h's witnesses who 's religion bans them from receiving another person's blood, reducing recovery times and the risk of complications and death. the feeling is this machine could revolutionize the operating theatre. >> casey cason has died. his voice was heard in everything from commercials to scooby doo cartoons. he retired from most activities in 2009 and has been hospitalized for several months. he was 82 years old. good sunday to you. watching out. more severe weather as we wrap up this weekend. on father's day it will stay stormy. we are watching storms
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progressing against minnesota, iowa and missouri we had a lot of storms over iowa. >> has weakened. we have rain around. now we are not dealing with watches or warnings but we will watch out for the saturated grounds to get more rain on top of that. >> will lead to potential of blood, around chicago it's going to be windy. when we get stronger storms tom bubble up late this afternoon into evening. we will have to deal with the threat of not only the heavy rain and damaging winds but large hail will be possible. anywhere from chicago through st. louis as well as tulsa answers oklahoma city, an area to watch. >> storm system will wrap up and head to the east as we get through the late evening and overnight hours. notice what we see by monday morning, our next rain showers starting to form here across the dakotas. the next system that keeps it wet and stormy here in portions
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of the upper midwest. morgan back to you? >> thanks so much, ebony. thank you for watching sufrex life from new york city. stay tuned because "listening post" is coming up next. ♪ >> hello. i am rim arrested gizberg. one ye after edward snowden exposed spying, can the internet be reset. egypt and one of the best known bloggers is a convicted criminal looking at 15 years in jail. british muslims and the media there. it's not