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>> as fighting expires, a new ceasefire between hamas and israel are denied. the deaths of four palestinian children playing on a beach make tensions run high. >> the original break in attacks was brokered by the u.n. to allow supplies into gaza. what's next? this is the aljazeera news hour live from london. also coming up, the taliban launches a dawn raid at kabul airport forcing flights to divert.
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>> south africas former president answers questions over alleged corruption in a massive arms purchase. >> celebrating a new life, we see how prosthetic limbs from a lead to printer give hope to sudans victims of war. >> a five hour humanitarian truce expired between israel and hamas. israel said at least one rocket was fired from gaza as that truce ended. there have been reports of a new ceasefire, but now that doesn't appear to be the case. at the original break in attacks was brokered by the united nations to badly needed supplies into gaza. so far, a week of israeli bombardment killed 235 palestinians, many civilians. one israel has also died. >> among the dead of four palestinian children. they died on a beach wednesday during an style air strike.
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we were close to that air strike. tell us what you witnessed. >> >> we're at the location, this is our hotel. when you look behind me, you can see the shack that was hit. i was in my room and heard two very loud booms. the strikes which appeared to come right there, i took a picture of the aftermath. you can see smoke and when you enhanced it, you can clearly see four young boys running away. i heard another boom and what transpired is one young boy was pulled from the rubble and those other four who had run up the beach, three of them were struck further up the beach, as they were running for safety, it appears that they were targeted. the army issued a statement later in the day saying they were targeting after initial investigations, they were targeting hamas operatives, and
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that this is an ongoing investigation and that the civilian casualties were a tragic incident, however this happened in front of two hotels filled with international journalists. we saw it play out in front of our eyes. what happened is these young boys were running away from where the two initial hits happened and then they were killed further up the beach, so certainly there are questions to be asked, whether they were legitimate military targets, certainly not the israeli army said they are still investigating the case, but it does highlight that issues like this happen all the time, they just don't happen in front of the eyes of the international press. >> so far, in the toll of this fighting, there's been a number of children killed, emotions running high after this latest incident. >> absolutely, we spent the morning with the family of one of the boys, muhammed, the 11-year-old killed here. his mother, his father, his whole family absolutely
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devastated, his sister said to us why are palestinian children different than the rest of the children in the world, playing on the beach, and you can see the deceptively serene image behind me. there are israeli naval ships that attacked this area, that is the gaza port, all the time. she is saying why is it our children and nothing gets done, the international community stays silent. they say he was a young boy, a good boy, trying to find work to help his family, his father was crying, saying my heart is broken, god give me wears to deal with this, an absolutely devastating scene. people are outraged, but tell you this is their life, something that happens all the time, just because the international press is here during this conflict highlights these issues, but it's something that is a daily reality for them, not just their children being killed, but the siege and again, it looks like you can
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swim out or fisherman go out in this water. there is a limit however you can go, at the moment, three in and outiccal miles. there is an amount that the limited in the conflict. they don't want a ceasefire until the siege is lifted and people can live like others in the world. >> thank you for the time being. live in jerusalem. earlier, there were reports of a potential ceasefire that seems to have gone away. what's the latest on that? >> we are hearing israeli leader reports quoting the israeli foreign minister saying that reports of a ceasefire being reached are far from representing the reality, and that he spoke to israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu and as of now, these reports are incorrect. earlier, we spoke to another senior israeli official who told
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us that the qatari proposal for a ceasefire is not on the table right now, and that israel wants palestinian president to be part of any ceasefire deal reached. that's what we know so far about the ceasefire. separately, since the humanitarian pause in hostilities expire, we have been able to say that the number of rockets fired into southern israeli communities landed in open areas not causing damages or casualties. it appears that the rocket fire has resumed. >> tell us what the situation is with regard to public opinion in israel, how much difference does say the incident where the four children were killed play into that and what they want the government to do. mistake as far as the israeli public is concerned, they want to see an end to the rocket
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fire. that's their top priority right now. this is especially true and evidenced in southern israel communities, close to the border with gas, where people say they are tired of the rocket sirens and alarms sounding in their communities, and tired of coming under rocket fire. a lot of these rockets are being intercepted by the iron dome, the defense system. there's only within one israeli death hins these hostilities began, but people want an end to this rocket fire. this operation has been on going for nine days. i think the israeli public is able to see right now that it hasn't been able to achieve the goals as stated by the israel army, to deplete the rocket launching capabilities of the different palestinian factions in gas and to stop the rocket fire. this puts more pressure on the israeli prime to act to stop this. we assume that if this goes on and no ceasefire is reached,
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more angry public israeli opinion could force the prime minister to take a different path, maybe even a ground operation at this point, in order to put an end to this, but this would have disadvantage, because it would lead to casualties among israel soldiers, which is very sensitive issue in israel and also lead to more civilian deaths in gaza, which would come under international condemnation and israel may here allegation of in discriminate killing of civilians if it carries on and expands its military operation. >> thank you for that live update from jerusalem. >> an initial pause in the attack was to allow aid into go see, but israel has closed an important border crossing. it did so after stopping 13 fighters coming through a tunnel attacking a village. the israeli army said these pictures show gunman tunneling from gaza. the army said there were several
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casualties, but it's not clear how many. it showed women found at the tunnel entrance. >> joining me now is a middle east analyst at the institute for middle east democracy. thank you for coming to talk to us. i want to go back to the situation on the ground at the momentum. there was a flurry of reports for a potential ceasefire. this morning that seems to have been denied. >> the ceasefire was one that was actually put forward by egypt under encouragement from the rest of the international community, the u.s. and even the u.k. got involved with william hague asking the egyptians to broker some sort of peace deal. it is true that under sisi, egypt is far less aligned with
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hamas and have less interest in putting a pause on the fighting. they are no longer aligned with hamas in the way the muslim brotherhood were. >> who else is there to bring this to an end or there is an outside actor who can help at all? >> as tony blare stated yesterday, this particular ceasefire agreement that egypt was putting forward had the support of the arab league and international community. whether it came from egypt or not, hamas rejected it after israel almost immediately accepted it after the meeting. it allowed for no preconditions before the talks held. it is ultimately something that's been put forward by the large part of the international community and hamas did reject it after israel agreed to it. >> what is the situation at the moment? we have this humanitarian pause, if you like, how much different will five hours of stopping any
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operations make to the lives of the palestinians trapped in gaza? >> well, it was the u.n. who asked for this five our pause so that palestinians would be able to get through water and food they need, some semblance of normality back to their lives. israel agreed. hamas did continue to fire mortars from the gaza strip, though the number did go down. it would allow a breather for civilians, israel said they are not targeting civilians. >> in the meantime, civilians are being killed, the children on the beach were playing, so there is an element of civilians killed by israeli air strikes. >> absolutely correct. if you look at the count of civilians who have died in this operation, we don't yet have a definite figure, but what we do know is that a lot of civilians have died, a lot of people have
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died in the gaza strip and one israeli, testament to the strong defense system israel has in place. it does make us ask why hamas about every attempt made to punish israel, tunneling in, sending in frogman armed with rockets are failing so badly, it makes you warned why they aren't feeling for the people of gaza and why didn't accept the ceasefire to give respite to the people unfortunately caught up as hamas is using them for human shields. >> strehl has not wanted to have a ceasefire because in terms have public relations, it looks very bad for them to be killing in sent children on the beach. >> the number of deaths is something that doesn't play out on the word stage for israel. one has to wonder what hamas is hoping to do here. because of this large number of casualties, it looks as if they are trying to maximize the number of dead in gads so the
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pressure will be close on israel internationally because everything hamas is doing is failing to win for them. >> thank you. >> at least 14 german soldiers have been closed near the border. there were two simultaneous attacks and gunman killed. we have more. >> the attack is different, because of the high death toll, the deadliest on the security forces and also the fact that it was very well organized, simultaneous on two different tune nearby is that military patrols. there have been horrific scenes at hospital where relatives ever gathered to find out about the dead and the injured. we're expecting the death toll to rise, because the remote location of the attack. there is a group that have taken
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responsibility. they have links to the area. there are fighters operating in that area with links to algeria, and libyans. this it critical with the registration voting taking place. not only is there a security problem with attacks taking place, but also an economic problem as well with high unemployment in the country. >> still to come on the program, rescued victims recount harrowing tales of abuse and hunger in mexico. >> tiger woods tees off in search of his fourth british open title.
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>> ukraine officials are accusing russia of shooting down one of their fighters jets. the pilot ejected to safety. it's the strongest ukrainian allegation yet have direct russian involvement in the conflict. we have a report live from donetsk. what can you tell us about that jet ukraine said was shot down? >> it's an s.u.25 fighter jet, viewed as a tank killer, used low to the ground and during battles with tanks, is used at air support. it was hit. ukrainian officials say it was by two missiles coming from aircraft on the russian side of the border. this is something we haven't seen actual air to air, have reports or accusations from the ukrainian government of air to air missiles. we've had other incidents on a wednesday, ukrainian cargo
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aircraft, army cargo aircraft was shot down by a missile
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taken notice. the situation is not going to the united states preferred scenario and putin has said they
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are reacting in a childish way. he alleges said something which might have long term ram if i cases, the russian government is going to have a look carefully at how much money it spends on defense and security. the implication here is that maybe it's going to have to ramp up defense and security spending, an indication that really the relations between the east and west are only going to deteriorate if the situation in ukraine perpetuates. >> thanks very much, indeed. >> the campaign is an island of gathering evidence which they say proves catholic nuns disposed of babies born out of wedlock. archaeologists are trying to determine if thousands of babies
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are in unmarked graves. >> these women want to know more about who they are, as well as helping the living. the islands biggest mother and baby home in the southern city of cork is a place where pregnant women once married were forced to go and separated from the newborns. in this waste land which used to be part of the home, they are taking the first steps to recover whether the nuns who buried babies who didn't survive are unmarked and forgotten. >> it was a solution, way out for them to go away and have a life. >> is that why they were buried in unmarked graves? >> i believe so. >> dents in the earth and round raised areas. >> these are the particularly
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awful years in terms of death rates. >> records show hundred was children died here, so they must be somewhere. >> we have to hold people accountable for these crimes. there are mothers out there, siblings, there are grandparents, uncles and cousins who do not know what happened to their loved ones. >> since this could have been happening all over ireland, it hardly looks full of urgency. the notional idea of perhaps hundred was children's bodies being buried in the former grounds are a mother and baby home, but perhaps the most extraordinary is the survivors of that home, all these women are having to do the investigation themselves. there's absolutely nobody here from the authorities to help them. >> we went to try to speak to one of the remaining former nuns, the sister still lives in cork and was here in the 1980's. she referred us to her lawyers, but in a separate phone
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conversation had this to say. >> i don't know. >> in 2002, she was able to help find her medical history, she was born there and immediately separated from her mother. >> i'm your daughter. >> they were eventually reunited after her mother spent most of her adult life in a catholic work house. >> my adopted family asked about my mother. they told her she was dead. her mother's dead. my mother wasn't dead. i hugged her in 2002 and said hi. i'm back, i'm your daughter. and i love you.
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>> they said all these things happened long ago and the past isn't relevant to the present. >> we will have more on that growing scandal later. >> in the second of our reports, we speak to more survivors of ireland's mother and baby homes who describe how as babies, they were used in drugs experiments. >> the former penalty of south africa has testified at an inquiry into a $5 billion arms deal his government negotiated 15 years ago to purchase fighter jets, helicopters and war ships. the deal has long been subject to allegations of corruption. it was in tended to modernize south africas national defenses. the benefits to the economy northwesterly materialized. the president was investigated over corruption allegations. the case was dropped before he
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took office in 2009. his former aid was jailed for soliciting a bribe. companies from germany, italy, sweden, britain and france were all involved in the deal. the british have denied allegations of bribery. we are live in johannesburg. bring us up to date with what's going on in the court. >> the former president gave an hour's worth of evidence and since then, he's been cross examined. he's had some success, i think in trying to convince the commission that the deal was necessary. he said there was a constitutional obligation on the government to make sure the country was defensible, so the military hardware under apartheid had been left to a state of disrepair. he said it needed to be upgraded. he said it was difficult to reach a balance between what to spend on the military hardware and what to spend on things like
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house and social spending and housing and things like that. it was a difficult balance. he said it's been very difficult under cross examination for the lawyers to get any traction, any momentum going, because they are constantly interrupted either by the judge leading the commission or by his lawyers. this part of the inquiry is really only about how much should they have cost it and whether they were needed. it's not about the specific corruption allegations. that comes next week when the former president could be recalled. >> this happened quite a long time ago, so how much interest is there in ordinary people as to what is going on there in the court case? >> you know what, if you look at the public gallery, it is 90% empty, and that's been like that for most of this inquiry into this very nitty gritty of what discussions were had and when they were had, we're expecting as we get into the more specific
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corruption allegations that the level of public interest will increase. the fact that the former penalty is on the stand is getting a lot of attention, but we also must remember, i think that this was a long time ago and for many south africans, there have been lots of scandals and corruption since then so they have seen all of these allegations swirling around, some past and present politicians and only two on the periphery, if you like who have actually gone to prison. many south africans think the window of opportunity to really bring people into account has passed. >> thank you for bringing us the latest live from jonesberg. >> still to come this news our, how a top u.s. agency tasked with preventing disease have had safety lapses.
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>> you're watching the aljazeera news hour. several rockets have been fired from gaza into israeli communities as a five hour humanitarian truce expired. both sides denied reports they were close reaching a ceasefire. >> if you know release have been held for four palestinian children killed wednesday during an air strike near their homes. 235 palestinians and one israel have been killed in a week of fighting. >> ukrainian military officials accuse russia of shooting down one of their fighter jets bay rocket. eastern on you crane has seen fighting in several eastern cities for months. >> during an uprising in 2000, a photograph of a father and son cowering became an iconic image.
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the boy was killed. this is 14 years on from his death. >> he always is surrounded by his 10 children. every time he looks at his 12-year-old son, every time he looks at the scar on his arm, he remembers one is missing. >> on september 30, 2000, he and his son got caught in the crossfire between israel forces and palestinian protestors. this became the most iconic image from the uprising. he was killed by an israel bullet. >> he was the life of the family, the one closest to me and the one dearest to my heart. >> this is the down stairs room. >> down stairs, the shrine to muhammed fills a wall. today, there's another son with the same name as the older brother he never met. >> my parents tell me i look like him and act like him. >> this is the area humid died, the israelis were on that side,
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the palestinians fighters on that side, they were caught in the middle there. if you look at the street now, it's almost completely abandoned. everyone is scared of israeli air strikes. >> a few seconds later, a mile away, the israeli military struck a suspected rocket launcher. the air strikes have been even closer for the family, 170 feet away, another 200 feet away. after a boom, his four admits she's scarce. >> are you used to it? >> for all gasses old enough, this is the third conflict in six years. his home bears the scars. >> this whole area was demolished, is that right? >> during israel's 2008 campaign, his neighbor's house was bombed, the kitchen blown out. he's rebuilt but feels powerless to shield his children from yet another war. >> this is the challenge our
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people face. every day, our people bleed. this is not the first time. >> he can't quite finish. he told me the wound created by his son's death bleeds at random molts and never heals. >> children are the most important thing to palestine. as long as there is occupation, there will be killing. >> as jamal was talking on a beach just a few miles away, four palestinian children were killed by an israel air strike, an image that may become as iconic and tragic as mum's. >> three aljazeera journalists have spent 201 days in an egyptian prison, falsely accused of helping the outlawed muslim
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brotherhood. two were jailed for seven years last month, the third given seven years but receiving an additional three because he had a spent bullet in his possession he picked up at a protest. aljazeera continues to demand its journalists be freed. >> the taliban claimed responsibility for attacking the kabul gnat have international airport. four fighters targeted the military side of the airport. jennifer glasse reports. >> the taliban attackers used rockets in the early morning assault on kabuls airport, setting a car ablaze. afghan forces race to the scene, trying to find a way to dislodge the gunman from a building under construction. >> the attack started with rocket fire from these buildings towards the airport, then foreign and afghan forces started firing from their position. >> the attack went on for hours, the april closed and flights
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diverted. kabul's airport has separate military and civilian sections, the latter used by the afghan air force and nato aircraft. >> this truck was blown up. this is the most sustained attack this month and comes at a delicate political time. a review of the 8 million votes cast in the presidential election is same to start this week, hoping to name a new president by the end of august. >> the australian government has axed a contentious carbon tax on the nation's worst gas producers. it was intros died by the previous labor government in 2012. some say it punishes legitimate businesses.
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it has reliance on coal reserves for electricity. >> a helicopter crashed near school, all five firefighters onboard killed. they were searching for the 60 of the april 16 ferry disaster and returning to the headquarters at the time of the crash. >> at least 18 people have been killed in severe flooding in central and southwestern china. more than 100,000 people have been forced from their homes. rescuers search forego survivors of a landslide that buried several houses. six people are missing. iraq's prime minister said its country should not split up. sunni rebels have captured parts of the north and west in an attempt to carve out an islamic state. al-malaki called on government members to put aside differences and is resist be pressures to resign.
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>> all arab countries are on the brink of purr million and chaos as gangs and terrorists gather together to fall apart targeting stability and security. >> this video shows troops advancing on the city of tikrit. the fighters from the islamic state group are defending the area north of baghdad. it is a strong hold of supporters of formerly loyalists to sadaam hussein. >> in damascus, video posted claims to show opposition fighters in the suburbs. the area is strategically important because of proximity to damascus. >> the center for disease control in the u.s. acknowledged safety lapses have plagued health laboratories for years. some accidents involve the transportation of no one severallized samples of anthrax
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and burden flu. the agency thought the laps which is were unrelated incidents. they were described as sloppy and inexcusable. we are in atlanta now. this sounds like quite a serious development here. >> good afternoon. indeed it is, the c.d.c. headquarters behind me here in atlanta is abuzz this morning, because yesterday, dr. thomas friedan testified in front of a congressional hearing for two hours. it's fair to say that they gave him quite a shellacking and probably fairly. anthrax and bird flu, two words that you hear are quite squarey for the entire world, actually active anthrax samples were transferred from the lab behind into other labs, unbeknownst to
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the scientists, a complete safety breakdown. they are looking at a complete overhaul of the safety precautions inside the laboratory behind me. we received an email from the doctor to the c.d.c. staff. aljazeera obtained that email. yesterday, he noted to the staff that he is ceasing all of the transfer of biological materials out of the facility behind me to any other facilities in the u.s. or word until they get their hands really on the fact safety questions that they are trying to fix. congress is asking them to look into it. their own people are looking into it, and so the situation here is the fact that america's biggest scientific center for disease control and prevention, making serious safety mistakes and people want answers and so does the director. >> do we have any indication yet how long this has been going on and whether people were put at
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risk? >> that's a great question. people were put at risk, but all put on medicine, antibiotics to fight the possible anthrax transmission. no one actually did get sick. there have been safety issues for at least a decade, according to what the doctor said yesterday at the hearing. the past few months, clearly everything has come up to stake here and people are now knowing what's been going on, the safety inside the building has not been up to par at all for at least a decade and they're going to be sure to make that happen in the proper way going forward, lauren. >> thank you for bringing us that story live from atlanta. >> microsoft announced it is cutting 18,000 jobs or 14% have its workforce. the u.s. software and technology giant plans to make the layoffs over the last year as it
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integrates the nokia. factory and professional positions will be at stake. >> the familles of children rescued from a mex can home spoke of the horrors that children endured after decades of abuse. we have more. >> for months, even years, parents say they suspected abuse, but dederived full access to their children, they could only guess from the bruises or muggled notes. >> several times when i visit herd, i found her beaten. she had cuts on her hands and a scar on her arm from being hit, but she told me she had fallen. when we came to visit, they would have someone there to make sure she didn't tell us anything, but my daughter would give me notebooks where she would secretly write things and tell me that way yes, they were treated badly. >> 600 people were freed on to do so. among them, six babies, 154
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girls, 278 boys, 50 women, and 109 men. these are the conditions they were living in. authorities say the house was infested with rats and children forced to eat rotten food. ten victims were so malnourish'd, police couldn't tell how old they were. it wasn't just the equal lower. parents say children were held against their will, allegedly subjected to sexual abuse and some forced to beg for money on the streets. >> the actions of one person to another, actions where minors were treated like property, really, it's one of the cases that has had the greatest impact on me. >> the house of the big family had been running for around 40 years. parents say they were advised to take children there for conditions such as hyperactivity or to be cared for when they weren't able to.
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speaking in 2012: >> housewives are watching soap operas, gossipping on the street corners and don't take care of the house and the kids, the most important things. >> some commentators say the owner was well connected and protected by corruption. >> this had been already something that was known, denounced on multiple occasions over a long period of time, and nothing was done. we have to ask why nothing was done, who was protecting the owner and this home and in who's interests. >> the owner and eight workers held for questions and an investigation underway. two days after the police raid, the sheer scale of the alleged abuse at the house is still only just sinking in. aljazeera. >> >> heart patients may soon have an amendmentive to an electronic
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pacemaker after break through research in the united states. some are creating a biological pacemaker that will not use batteries, using gene therapy to manipulate ordinary heart muscle cells to induce a steady heartbeat. it is hoped one will be fitted within a human within three years. >> the prime minister has permission to leave the country for the first time since the coo. the military staged a coup to restore order following months of unrest. >> more than 30,000 people are seeking shelter in the philippines after a powerful typhoon swept the country. 38 were killed in torrential rains and strong winds brought by the typhoon, more than 2 million homes are without power. >> the u.n. is alarmed at the
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displacement of tens of thousands of people in yemen due to on going fighting between rebels and government forces. nearly 15 million people are in need of humanitarian aid. 3 million have no access to water or adequate sanitation, 8 million have no access to health care. children under the age of five are severely malnourish road, 10.5 million yemenis struggle to go get food supplies. it is worried that the situation will worsen. >> these children left after fighters took over the city. they live in a small room with their mother. she feels lucky that her relatives could give them a roof over their heads. >> we were living in the middle of the fighting between the army and opposition. we managed to get out. >> the government said 35,000 people have been forced out of their homes by the fighting.
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relief workers say the number is enough higher, many living in difficult conditions like in the schools. classrooms are now places to stay with desks and floor mat to say sleep on. some say it gets cold at night and all they have for warmth are plastic bags collected during the day. >> we don't have any furniture here. we have no blankets. we don't have proper toilets and nobody carse about us, except some charitable people. >> when it's time to break the daily fast, there antalways enough for everyone to eat. they haven't seen any support from the government. some say they are too proud to go out and seek help. >> i'm not going to complain to anybody but god, but the state should be looking at after us. >> >> there are reports of heavier fighting where tribesman resist
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the advance. the president's ghost insists that hutti are terrorizing tribes men on thor lands. bottle al-qaeda and soon any fighters and army are against the hutti fighters. for those forced out of their homes due to the ongoing fighting, all they can do is pray for peace. >> ahead on aljazeera, lead to printing is revolutionizing life. >> in sport, is moving to europe a help or hundred dunes young footballers? [ grunting ]
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and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. >> to sport now with andy richardson. >> thank you, lauren. tiger woods made his return to major golf and he's in a decent position at the end of his first round at the open championship. woods is back in the clubhouse at three under par. he had to recover from a really poor start, bogeying the first two holes. he is returning to action after surgery in march from a back injury. now three shots clear of woods is mcelroy on six under.
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three italians in the top five, three are brothers. four top finishes on the u.s. tour this year. he is on four under par. >> real madrid wasted no time buying up one of germany's stars, to be shown off to madrid fans later this thursday. he has gone through his medical in the spanish capitol. he scored two goals in brazil and signed a six year deal with real. his contract is undisclosed but up wards of $30 million. >> happy to take on the imperfections of suarez, completing a move from liverpool. he is serving a four month ban from football activity after biting italy defender during the world cup.
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>> it's situation we already know about. the ideal scenario for me as a coach is to have all the players from the beginning of the season, but we already factored in his handicap. we knew and await a verdict from the court of arbitration of sport to see what real situation we will confront is. >> joining chelsea in a $34 million deal, signing from athletico madrid. >> i always dreamed as a child of playing in the premier league. i always had wanted to play in different countries and experience a different culture, so i let the club know my objective to have a change of scene. >> following brazil's failure at this year's world cup, big questions asked how they can be competitive at future tournaments. too many young players are
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moving to europe too early in developments, but some clubs insist such a policy is part of the solution rather than the problem. we report. >> raw football talent doesn't get much better than this, but the world cup showed there is as bottleneck on the road to success. clubs huge one in sao paulo could change things. designed to make money by taking children and grooming them into ailable assets. the commercial needs to improve players benefits to search. >> we are giving a chance to kids from poor neighborhoods. we want to be able to start their careers here, play for the national team, to have an opportunity to play in a world cup. >> the market aims for europe and their business model means there could be a shift in
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brazil's football culture. >> the 7-1 defeat against germany may be showing talent is no longer enough, so clubs finding new ways to take players from here to here at the top teams in europe. >> a player about to leave home is one of the club's best prospects. he may have more in common with a team that who you him 80ed brazil in the semifinals than with his own country man. >> the game showed us that brazilian football is behind the times. here we are taught a german philosophy, technically superior. if i went to munich, it would be easy for me to adopt because it's like here. >> brazilian rivals play for pennies. the best way for a small club
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like ours is to go directly to the clubs in europe. we can send our best talents direct to them. >> with a world cup trophy in german hands, brazil is looking for answers. this could be one of them. >> in cricket, england and india named unchanged sides for he could test match of the series, now in its second session. 113-4. two wicks, the first of the series, finished in a draw. >> from south africa witness putting them in a good position on day two of the first test match against sri lanka. thirty without loss in reply to south africa's 455-9. >> plenty more of course on our
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website, check that out, aljazeera.com/sports. that is it for now, i'll hand you back to lauren. >> thanks so much indeed. a small company in california is using cutting edge technology to give amputees a better life. one man has taught doctors how to use 3-d print to go create new artificial limbs for children and adults injured in fighting. >> this is daniel omar, 16 living in the war ravaged mountains of sudan. two years ago, an air strike severed both his arms. he was left nearly helpless, unable to feed himself. he told his family he wished he'd have died. >> this is a video effects producer in california. he runs a small nonprofit organization called "not impossible." we look at things that we
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consider to be almost borderline absurd that they haven't been involved, evaluate it and say that shouldn't be that way, let's change it. >> after reading about daniel, the father of three boys himself flew to sudan with 3-d printing to build daniel an arm. >> as a technological phenomenon that's recently come to the mainstream, it's a massive tool. >> he set up the equipment in a hospital run by an american doctor. he modified a simple existing design for a prosthetic arm. it has no batteries, no chips and can be radar about f. broken, appropriate technology for a remote trick ken region, and it works. daniel's new arm has changed his life. for the first time in two years, he's able to feed himself.
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the motto is help one, help many. he taught local doctors and technician to say operate the printers and left them behind when he returned to the u.s. now they are printing prosthetic arms for dozens of amputees. >> it's amazing what happens when you give stuff away. my goal was to try to lead a community and village with the technology and know how you. >> a mixture that proves that many things are not impossible. aljazeera, los angeles. >> you can catch up with the news on our website at aljazeera.com. you can watch us by clicking on the watch live icon. details of course of the conflict between israel and gaza, more details on that, of course in a few minutes' time, but that's it for this news hour. back in a pew minutes. bye for now.
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