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award winning investigative documentary series fault lines the deported only on al jazeera america >> welcome to the news hour, coming up in the next 60 minutes israel warns palestinians living in northern gaza to leave their homes as it steps up strikes and calls up soldiers. 12 people killed. thousands forced from their homes as a powerful typhoon hits the philippines. >> the netherlands is found liable for 300 bosnian muslims.
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>> and it says it can control the h.i.v. a.i.d.s. epidemic b by 2018. >> israel is calling up 8,000 more soldiers as it intensifies it's attacks on gaza. that's on top of the 40,000 already deployed, of course, it's also told 100,000 palestinians to leave their home in gaza ahead of airstrikes. hundreds of people have been mourning thelets of loved ones. the u.n. said most of those killed in gaza are civilians. human rights watch is describing the destruction of homes as a war crime. the israeli vehicles killed 220 people since the attacks started more than a week ago.
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iin that time one israeli has been killed. a funeral has been held for that israeli man. dozens attended the event. the 37-year-old was killed by a mortar fired on tuesday near the crossing. as the violence continues both israel and hamas remain defiant. >> our message to netanyahu, we do not fear your threat. netanyahu government and israelis will pay dearly because of the children killed a few minutes ago and the other women and children who were killed in the streets of gaza and other crimes as a result many of our sons and daughters were killed. this is pure blood that hall not be wasted. the occupation will pay dearly
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for this blood. >> we look for a diplomatic solution, and they bear th the full responsibility of the violence. >> life is becoming increasingly difficult. many people don't have enough food or water. john hedron explains. >> reporter: they want to know how many times the israelis will drive her from her home. >> they never stop firing shells at us. our children are traumatized. it's driven them mad. it's driving us all mad. they have destroyed everything, the farm, the chickens, the house, everything. >> reporter: after the israeli air force dropped leaflets demanding that she leave her farm for the second time she returned with thousands of others to gaza city to a school now overrun with refugees.
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>> we return back home. during the night there were explosions, people were shouting all night because of the explosion. we didn't know where to go. we came back to the school and there was no longer any space for us. >> reporter: people here have twice been kicked out of their homes. this air dropped israeli leaflet tells them to leave. two hours after the deadline many of them are outdoors. >> reporter: some become refugees because their homes are gone. >> i'm unemployed. i have 50 family members. where can i take them to escape. they need a house. >> reporter: the refugee crisis worsens the shortage of power, water, and urgently food. dozens of humanitarian groups try to fill the gap, but it is
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not enough. >> the people of gaza are suffering. the situation is collapsing in gaza. the need it more. >> reporter: ali depends on aid of his family of 15. he's not just impoverished but he's also in the line of fire. it is these neighborhoods that israel fires the rockets. >> whenever there is a bombing my kids start shouting. we live in fear always. during the heavy shelling we leave the house and stay outside. we don't stay inside because with are afraid that the house will collapse. >> reporter: here where hardship and danger are as much a part of the landscape as the sea that borders them many fear th.
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>> stephanie decker does join us live from gaza, if you can hear me, steph. you witnessed one tragic incident. >> reporter: yes, that's right. it happened outside of our hotel where a dozen of international journalists are staying. there is a peer that goes out and the shell from the sea came in. i took a picture of it when it happened and it showed four young boys running away. there were four boys who died. we saw from the shack one body being pulled out. once the boys ran away another shell targeted them. a lot of outrage about that. the israeli army said it targets rockets launching capacities of hamas. we've been staying there for nine days and we've never seen a single rocket come out of that area. did i call the israeli army for a response, and they said they
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were investigating the incident. those boys have now been buried, but it's called a lot of outrage. it's just one example of what is happening here. as you said earlier, the majority of those killed, the civilians in these airstrikes are still i don't know going. they're going on throughout the day and even in the night. it was intense. a lot of bombardment going on. thousands of people have left their homes from those northern areas, and there is not enough places for them to go. which highlights another examiner of the siege here that people can't leave. they're not free to leave. they don't control their borders. an absolutely desperate situation. >> how are people preparing? they fear that the worst is yet to come. >> reporter: well, the people at the moment are petrified. they're afraid of a ground invasion. how they're preparing for that, they say there is nothing they
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can do. they say it's in god's hands. we've been through this many times before, of course. this is not a new conflict, this is a conflict going on for six decades, and this is a cycle of violence that has been happening again and again and again. certainly even the faction also tell that you they'll resist living under occupation. that is their right, and they're prepared. certainly a ground invasion for the israeli government and army will be a challenge because hamas is better prepared than we saw in 2012. there is a whole underground tunnel system that the israeli government does not know what they're dealing with. there will be casualties on the israeli part which the israeli public does not really stand for. that might be a last resort. the israelis are key to keep the control of the air, of the skies here. they bombard from the skies. they shell from the sea and shelling across the border, which causes them very little
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damage in terms of human life, but here in gaza, 220 people dead, over 1,500 injured. it is not a balanced conflict. >> stephanie decker from gaza. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry said he has been speaking to leaders from israel and the middle east trying to discuss a cease-fire. they're there to choose the chief. gaza not far way must give them something else to think about. >> reporter: absolutely. it's been added to the agenda in the last minute and leaders telling us how concerned they are about the situation at the moment in the region. the main point, as you say, at
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this summit is to choose the top jobs in europe. it's interesting that one of those top jobs is effectively foreign minister, the high representative of foreign policy and security held by catherine ashton at the home. quite possibly one of the front runners is the italian foreign minister. right now she's in the region. she's been in jerusalem in the last few hours. she has been speaking with you prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that a cease-fire is vital. >> how important are the appointments being made there to the direction of the european common policy might take. >> reporter: they're obviously very important and it's a difficult decision when europe decides it's top jobs. the italian foreign minister,
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will she become effectively europe' foreign minister? there is a lot of balancing to be done with these top jobs, balancing left against right, balancing regional concerns. every country would like a top job and the big countries expect a top job in the european system. there is another factor playing into this all of this, that's whether candidates are seen as pro-russian or anti--russian because of the ukraine crisis. that's playing into this. that's one of the factors going into the italian foreign minister getting that job as europe' high representative. she is seen by some as too close to moscow. >> james bays from brussels. if you want to know what is going on, we've got videos on your website at www.aljazeera.com. and now we have analysis from our teams there on the ground. www.aljazeera.com is the
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address. now a dutch court has ruled that the netherlands are responsible for 300 killed 20 years ago. >> reporter: they ruled that they should have known that the men could be murdered when deported from their compound, but in the death of thousands of others in what is considered europe's worst massacre since 2002. >> they lost their sons, their fathers, and their husbands in this massacre nearly 20 years ago. and they place much of the blame on dutch peace keepers. families of those killed in the genocide filed a lawsuit against the netherlands, accusing their soldiers of failing to protect boos bosnian muslims. the conclave was overrun by forces.
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over a thousand men and boys were killed, their bodies dumped in mass graves. but the court said that they were llibel for 300 of those deaths. >> 8,000 people are gone. they're all victims. the dutch soldiers contributed to that. we knew that 50 soldiers could not defend thousand was civilians in the serbs went on a killing rampage. >> the court ruled that dutch peace keepers should have known 300 men would be murder first degree they were deported from the compound. but lawyers for the mothers said that the judgment did not go far enough. >> the big issue is for the bigger group. this will not end today. this will be continued. >> reporter: analysts say the decision has far-reaching
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implications. >> no international peace keeper will be able to operate outside of the law. everybody must be aware of the legal consequences of their acts and the things they fail to do. >> reporter: the netherlands could appeal this decision at the dutch constitutional court meaning the fight for justice for grieving families is still far from over. al jazeera. >> filmmaker and author was imprisoned in a concentration camp during the bosnian war. thank you for taking the time to talk to us. what do you make of the conclusion of the court over this? >> well, it is potentially a very significant ruling. i understand the case is not over yet because the dutch government can appeal against this ruling. if this rule something upheld on appeal it could have consequences for everyone else, for all the other survivors of in boost knee bosnia.
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>> what kind of feelings does this dredge up for people like how have been through the event? >> it's frustrated to be constantly reminded of those events which took place nearly 20 years ago. constantly living in denial because the authorities, the serb authorities kept denying that those crimes took place. so if this rule something upheld on appeal, then i honestly can't see ho how the serb authorities will be able to continue denying that these atrocities took place. if the foreign government did not participate in the killings of these people, admitted their own culpability, they would not be able to deny that genocide took place. >> is there a danger, though, if people keep going through the
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courts actually you put off the process of reconciliation? >> well, i think this is the only way to force the serb authorities to recognize that genocide did take place in bosnia. it would be far better if there was a common understanding about what happened in bosnia during the war, and if we were able to move on, if we were able to have some shared narrative about those event. unfortunately, those who committed those crimes keep denying that those events ever took place. >> okay, thank you very much, indeed, for taking the time to talk to us. >> thank you. >> hundreds of people are leaving eastern ukraine for russia as fighting between separatists and the army continues. 2.5000 people have moved out of the city of donetsk with another 500,000 expected to leave over the next five hours. strikes have killed several in
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the region this week. we have reports now from donetsk. >> reporter: 17-year-old lydia gets good grades and wants to be a journalist. she lives in an orphanage in the outskirts of donetsk. but they were all evacuated. >> we just went to bed and the bombing started. it was the scariest thing, sleeping people and they're bombing. >> reporter: the night they evacuated a mortar landed just outside of the wall of the orphanage. also an orphan, valle valetina. >> i hope thehis mother-in-law's body is in his
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car. >> she lived on the fourth floor of this building. he came to check in on her. he found her charred remains in her bedroom. >> i need to register death because we need to bury her, but i can't find the right authorities. thank goodness my wife is not with me. >> reporter: ukrainian officials say nine civilians died in the two days of shelling last weekend. the children got out just in time. for the 33 orphans here it's a peaceful and welcomed change, but how long will it last? there are still hundreds of separatist fighters in donetsk and the army is on the move. >> reporter: 11 civilians were killed in an attack that leveled an apartment block. the military denied it saying their aircraft in the region are grounded after a plane was shut down monday. suggesting that russia had something to do with it.
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>> despite the fighting lydia is hopeful. she's looking ford to university in two years. >> i think we can survive all the troubles, and in the end ukraine is united. i think those will be the best. >> it's not certain how long or if these children will live in an united ukraine. >> there is more to come on the news hour including 200th day in the egyptian prison journalists hold protests to highlight the plight of the al jazeera staff. >> plus the cycle of violence in central african republic. new details emerge about the extent of the killing. >> it's not that we saw a reason, we'll continue, and we'll find another reason.
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>> the team organizing the world cup speak to al jazeera about the criticisms in the hosting of the tournament. >> mexican police have rescued 458 children that were abused as a refugee for abandoned boys and girls. security forces raided the home after complaints of parents who were not allowed to see their children. the children and eight workers are being questioned. up to 12 people are dead after a powerful typhoon hits parts of the philippines. cleaver flooding prompted hundreds of thousands to evacuate their homes. from in a nil la we have the report. >> reporter: the typhoon lasted only a few hours, but in that time it caused considerable damage. strong winds blew down fire
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lines leaving a third of the city without power. several areas had been flooded and roads closed. >> the government said it is working overnight to get life back to normal. >> clean up and restoration would be a priority. plus, looking at lessons learned here. >> reporter: over 100,000 people have been told to evacuate their homes and businesses, but many are stranded. some people hearsay the government could have been better prepared and should have learned it's lessons a long time ago. rama >> reporter: the government said it's improving its disaster
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preparedness program, but here in this shanty town they are the most vulnerable now that it's typhoon season. this man said he has been through this many times before so he braces for the worst. >> what else can we do? when a typhoon hits, we suffer, we endure. when it's over we just fix our homes again. >> reporter: people hearsay help from the government is just too slow in coming, so they just rebuild on their own, doing the best they can with what little they have. al jazeera, manila. >> china says it's ended drilling operations near the disputed islands in the south china sea. china moved an oil rig into the area in may. vietnam also claims part of the area. 20 passengers have been injured after a south african
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airways flight experienced severe tour turbulenc turbulence. 165 passengers were on board. the united nations security council has condemned a huge car bomb that killed 90 people at the market in eastern afghanistan. at least another 1505 were injured in the glass. jennifer glasse. >> reporter: the explosion destroyed a whole block. they're picking up the pieces after a well horse. he was lucky to be at his other shop. he you. >> there were so many people, women and children, innocent people, small kids. there was a woman, she was in pieces. it was a brutal attack.
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it was very indead. >> anthree in front of his shot. more just further away. they say there is no word that it is had the help of the pakistani. >> reporter: our security forces are supposed to stop them. but they come secretly. they do not come openly. sometimes we can catch them, sometimes we do not. >> reporter: hospitals did not care about the. right after the attack there was confusion.
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>> the people were under the hoops and were dying. >> reporter: the usually bustling market is closed for now while people hear more after an attack that touched practically every family here. al jazeera afghanistan. >> humanitarian aid groups doctors without borders say those attempting to flee the violence in central africa republic are dying on a massive scale. militias have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people since it began last year. we have reports from paris. >> reporter: a new finding shows a country steeped in extreme violence. doctors without borders spoke to three and a half thousand families who had escaped to a refugee camp in neighboring chad. they reported 2.5 killings during the country's crackdown a
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high pled. bloodshed. many killed while trying to flee the country. >> in is about the level of violence during the exodus of those people. >> reporter: the chaotic situation has made it difficult to know exactly home people are dying and how many people are being killed. the respect conducted by doctors without borders is a grim snapshot of what has happened to one community. painting the impression of violence on a massive scale nationwide. when muslims seleka rebels seized control last year they plunged the country into a religious conflict between the muslim majorit minority and
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christian majority. the rebels have been locked in a vicious cycle of attacks and counter attacks with christian militias. but people are suffering in thousands. many are living in protected enclaves. others are desperate to flee. despite the presence of french and africa forces, the violence goes on. france plans to send 10,000 more soldiers by september, but for now the level of sectarian violence continues to claim more innocent lives. >> bringing the h.i.v.-a.i.d.s. epidemic under control. the police say it is possible. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow.
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we have the headlines for the news hour. israel calls up more soldiers as it intensifies it's attacks on gaza. it's told 100,000 palestinians to leave their hole homes in gaza. >> victims families accuse dutch peace keepers of failing to stop the genocide of 8,000 bosnians in 1995. typhoon left a people dead and hundreds of thousands of people evacuated their homes. >> more now on our top stories. the conflict in gaza. the executive director of the palestine center in washington, d.c. good to have you with us. first of all, when you look at things that happened in the last few days you we have mass
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mobilization. the fact that the last israeli cab inspec cabinet meeting with the details not fully released, do you think they made the decision for a ground invasion? >> it could be. it would be a tragic and criminal act. in 2008 and 2009 the israelis attempted to solve this problem that they were facing with the projectile fire by going in with massive aerial bombardment and ground incushion. the only thing we saw after that was the continued ability of the militants and gaza to manufacture more and longer reaching projectiles. there is no military solution to this. i think they knew that going in and unfortunately they decided to engage in a military campaign knowing full well that the military objectives would not be
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met, and knowing also full well that scores of civilian casualties would be created. so i think, you know, the decision making there is really not rational at this point. they're being forced into trying to do something to appease the public. of course, that is angered at this moment, but this is not the way to resolve this issue. >> if israel does launch a ground invasion does this basically mean that the israeli calculation is that it's trying to achieve security for its cities while also continue to go enjoy siege and occupation of palestinians rather than looking at a way to achieve security through ending occupation and siege. >> well, as a resultly. if you look at previous cease-fire agreements when the rockets have stopped being fired, the he siege does not
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stop. the autopsy does not stop. even under those best moments of cease-fire agreement there is a system of violence that's still ongoing, that is still oppressed by the israeli state. that is the occupation and the siege and so on. these cease fires if they do not address the underlying causes of discontent are really not going to last very long any way. so that's really the challenge here. the israelis are not going to be able to solve that with a ground incursion. they're going to create more problems. history has shown that you cannot bomb your way into peace or bomb your way into coexistence with your neighbors. they need to deal with the legitimate grievances of palestinians in a diplomatic way.
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>> yosef, thank you for your thoughts. let's take you to syria now where four people have been killed and another 22 wounded. free syrian army fighters say they've ceased weapon seized weapons from government force there is. it's president bashar al-assad said that westerners will pay the price for supporting the opposition army as he was sworn in for his third seven-year term. in iraq there is increased pressure for nouri al-maliki to
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step down. >> they are targeting security and stability. >> it's 200 days since three al jazeera journalists werists were arrested and detained in egypt. mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste were all accused in helping the muslim brotherhood. in a letter, mohammed fahmy highlighted the importance of a free press. >> 200 days of imprisonment has left me and my colleagues more determined than ever to fight this war against freedom of speech. a moment of charliet clarity flares in my memory. in prison i have learned to turn suffering into tragic optimism. a human achievement. i see the global support in continuous campaigns as an achievement for all of us rallying, tweeting, and simply saying journalism is not a
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crime. >> well, vigils are being held for the three al jazeera staff with a number taking place in the united kingdom. let's go to lauren in london for details on that. >> reporter: yes, colleagues of mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste took part in a silent protest here in london. they're also joined by journalists from different networks based in the city. >> reporter: they may be different tv networks, but they share the same opinion from cnn to the bbc. from sky news to itn. journalist who is would be rivals on any other day but they are working together right now to support three al jazeera employees who have been locked up for 200 days. mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste are in prison in egypt. you this was them being sentenced three weeks ago and jailed, reporting false news was the charge, something that they
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and their employer emphatically denied. >> peter greste should not have been imprisoned for one day let go it hundred. >> here in al jazeera, staff are doing whatever they can to get their voices heard. this is a silent protest. the message from these employees is very loud, very clear. journalism is not a crime. ask the network. it's official position remains unchanged. it continues to demand the immediate release from employees from prison. >> at the end of the day as journalists we're all aware that it could have been any one of us inside that jail cell in cairo. wherever we are in the world, we're always thinking of peter and mohammed and bader and calling for egypt to reverse their shameable decision. >> reporter: cross social media
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the #free ajs staff is being retweeted. there is a determination to make sure that these men are not forgotten. >> why is he doing that? because there is noise being made about it, and it won't go away and these people stand as symbols not just what has happened to them but journalists all around the world who are imprisoned by governments. >> reporter: the goal for these journalists now, to bring the men home and to continue the news without fear of being locked up. al jazeera london. >> two moscow metro workers have been arrested after the tuesday train derailment that killed 22 people. more than 100 people were injured when three carriages came off the tracks in the russian capitol.
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peace talks come in mali. it signals the start of the operation which the french have announced on sunday. the mayor hired a deejay to blast loud music at the group to move on, and they've agreed to move on by wednesday. a shootout in the capitol tourist district. four people were injured as captured in athens. he has been on the run sinc since 2012 after being charged of being part of the group that fired a rocket. >> reporter: the arrest of 660 people targeted people accessing child abuse images online.
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the u.k.'s national crime agency says more than 400 children have been protected as a result of this operation. >> we have reaction, we go to peter saunders, the head of the u.k. national association of people abused. are you surprised by the scale of this operation? >> it is pretty big, 660 arrests. i think that's probably unprecedented, and hugely welcomed and a credit to the policemen who did the hard work tracking these people down. >> what do you think has changed here? is it the coordination changing the way things work? >> it does seem that the new nca has got it right on this one and credit to them. but clearly there has been a coordinated effort across the whole of u.k. and throughout the 43 of the 46 police forces were involved in this operation.
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and yes, 660 people now have something to think about. >> is this surprising in your experience? >> not at all. child abuse crosses the spectrum. it knows no social boundaries. there are prisons in this country that house pilots, doctors, nurses, you name it, people who hurt children. they come across the social spec spectrum. this is a hugely encouraging move by the police to track people down. what they're doing is they're accepting out a very clear signal, message if you like that if you dare to look at these kinds of images, which we have to remember are the product of a vial, vial crime against a child. if you dare view them and buy into that, then you're going to have to suffer the consequences. i think that's really important. >> is it a problems will that this is an international medium, the internet, and perhaps children are abused a long way
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away from where these arrests are taken place? >> they absolutely are, and many of the images would emanate far from the united kingdom, we know that. but in the same way that the technology is enabling these perverts and abusers to do what they do, the same technology is also enabling the police to now track them down. it's a case of keeping one step ahead of them, and i believe that's what they are now able to do. >> because as you mentioned there are victims here, in some ways silent victories because someone is looking at a picture and they don't have a voice. >> to know that your picture is out there being gawked at by perverts and abusers attentionly around the world is a dreadful, dreadful burden to carry. to carry the burden of having been abused is bad enough, but to know that your imagine could
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be out there for people looking at it is as i say beyond the pale. but give credit to the police. there needs to be more international working. i think there should be an international police force dedicated just to this vile social crime. it's all over the globe, as you know. >> thank you for talking to us. >> thank you. >> an up-to-date with all the news from europe. let's go back to doha. >> time warner has rejected a take over bid by rue per murdoch's 20th century fox. the offer was believed to be worth $76 billion. time warner said it has no interest in the discussion of the merger of the two biggest media entertainment the country. the u.s. said that the
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h.i.v. a.i.d.s. epidemic should be under control by 2030. a report found the peopl the number the people infected have stabilized. and this is due to the wider availability of treatment. the number of deaths of a.i.d.s. has fallen by 35% since it's peak in 2005. joining me now from new york is an h.i.v. policy adviser with doctors without borders. good to have you with us. when you look at some of the figures on this, while there are positive figures to be happy about, there is still, what, around 19 million people living in h.i.v. who are not even aware. is that a reality check that perhaps this is too premature to celebrate yet?
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it's a sign of progress that every year year on year we have an increase of the people in treatment. the drop of infection and the number of people who are still alive. one challenge we do see a lot of people coming in late, very late, frankly sometimes too late to help. rather than patients dying literally at our clinic's door step we need to be reaching people earlier in the disease progression. this is a story of two epidemics. one in countries where there is neglect where treatment is abysmally low.
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and then on the other hand there is progress in treating people in the disease progression every day 37 we need to help countries catch up, by the way, we know that with h.i.v. treatment the earlier we treat and the more people we treat as quickly as we can, then we can reduce not only suffering from unnecessary sickness, not only unnecessary death, but we can reduce the risk of transition. that's the imperative at this point. >> what is holding back outreach. is there a link with whatever is holding things back. i think it's nine africa countries that represent such a huge chunk of areas which are seeing new infection rates? >> that's right. so of course the context is different in each of these countries.
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so we have, of course, like i said, a lot of progress in a lot of countries where we have a majority of people that are in need of treatment getting it. and in some corners of the continent. however, what we need to do is make sure that the commitment to scale up both from donors as well as national governments does not wane in the light of this progress. we have to address the challenges and by the way for us success, when we can really celebrate is when we can close the deadly gap and access to treatment. as you say we're still only halfway there. >> all right, sharon ann lynch, thank you for coming on. coming up in sports, a century from south africa. in the highlight agains in the test dependenc against sri lanka. details coming up. era america
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presents... holy money only on al jazeera america >> let's go 20 sports news. >> let's go to sports news. >> they have said that they're not concerned in the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 tournament qatar has been the subject of fierce criticism since being awarded the world cup but has always denied any wrongdoing. well, speaking to our sport correspondence lee we willing in rio de janeiro, they say the publicity comes from a lack of understanding, but that's something that they expect will improve in time. >> in the long term i think this
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phase that we've been going through since 2010, i think it will be important, an important phase. it brings attention to something that we said from the very beginning. it's changing the perception, bridging cultural differences, and in my belief the cultural differences are being magnified right now. if this wasn't magnified at this stage then we wouldn't be able to achieve that goal later on down the line. >> people talk about the world cup in isolation. they talked about an african tournament. people just talks about qatar, and they're forgetting the aspects of the first world cup in the middle east. the head of the federation is saying it will be on qatar. what's your view. >> i pose this question back to the people who continuously attack and continuously openly
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undermining our bid and world cup in the middle east. is it racist, i don't know. >> reporter: laws have changed on migrant workers over the last few months. have they made progress? have they gone far enough? >> i think the progress has been tremendous. people need to keep in mind qatar and the evolution ofga tar. in the past 30 years is what qatar has achieved is compared to ma other countries have achieved in 100 years. there will definitely be imbalances. some things do not progress as fast as other things and they need to catch up. this is the natural evolution of any country. we welcome that, the headlines and pressure, but it has to be constructive. not just that we found a reason to bash qatar, and we'll continue bashing qatar, and if
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this reason does not exist, we'll find another reason. >> when are people going to embrace it. >> i think people are embracing it, but unfortunately what makes the headlines is not the good stuff. there are a lot of people embracing it. i witnessed it during this world cup. we launched our cool fan zone to broadcast to the fan club, and it was just amaze approximating the amount of people that were there, it was mainly a test site for us, to test open realm cooling technology, and the test was fabulous. 13 degrees on average less inside than outside. humidity outside was in the range of 85 on average. inside on average it's 60 to 65. these were perfect conditions to watch the game. there is a lot of anticipation for the world cup in qatar.
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there are a lot of people who are positive about it and a lot of people who are excited about it. >> in your heart and in your head do you feel 100% certain that qatar will host the 2022 world cup. >> yes. >> thank you. >> alegri has been appointed the new coach of juventus. he won the serie-a title. he was sacked in january after four seasons. with the side eventually finishing 30 points behind the winners. he played over 500 times for juventus and returned as major in 2011 winning three serie a titles including going through one season unbeaten. highways been heavily linked with the national coaching job
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after the world cup. >> i'm happy to be here, but i'm also aware of the importance to train juventus. tomorrow i'll begin to work with the club and the players to face an important and winning season. >> barcelona has been defending their signing of controversial striker. the player has had $128 million transfer from liverpool finally concerned with the club. still confusion whether the club will be allowed to present him to fans at the new camp. the player is staying indoors while serving a four-month ban from football activity for biting during the world cup. they're still hopeful to get the suspension reduced on appeal. the coach said it won't affect the pre-season separations. >> it's a situation that we already know about. the ideal scenario for me as a coach is to have all the players
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from the beginning of the season, but we already had factored in this handicap. we already knew this and we're waiting for the court of arbitration to see what the real situation we will confront is. >> the american league beat the national league in the mlb all-star game on tuesday. the new york yankee shortstop derek jeter appearing in his final all-star game wa went to the field. mike trout hit the tie-breaking run. and earning the most valuable player award. >> yes, i thought it was great. i didn't know what was going to happen. my back was turned and i heard cano yelling, and usually when he yells i ignore him, and then i saw ramirez come out. it was a wonderful moment that i'm always going to remember.
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>> cricket phenom has become the first south africa open to hit a further. it happened on day one of the first test match. 103 and 159-1 their first inning early on. but after the host hit back taking four wickets. 268-5. the 11th stage of the tour de france as the race made it's way from the german mountains. a late breakaway with a secure of the second stage victory of the tour following tuesday's rest day. >> that's your sport. >> thank you very much. we have another full bulletin of
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