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europe. heavy shelling in eastern ukraine has the prime minister tenders had i see resignation. security is boosted after details emerge of an imminent attack. first to the israeli offensive in gaza. the death toll is now more than 780. in gaza there's another attack on a u.n. school where palestinians have taken refuge from the fighting. john kerry has been on a diplomatic push in the region is now in egypt, and he's discussing a possibility of a cease-fire. at least 15 have died and dozens have been injured after a rocket landed on a u.n.-run school.
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it was being used as a she wilt by hundreds internally displaced gazians. palestinians are blaming israel, but the israelis say it was a hamas rocket. stephanie dekker joins us from gaza from the latest. a place they felt they could be safe, the u.n. school. tell us the circumstances from that attack. >> reporter: the story we hear from everyone that came out of that school said they weren't told that they needed to leave because of the intensity of the fighting around there. there was heavy shelling. they waited, they say, because there's so many of them and the families are large. they have eight, nine, ten children here. they were waiting for buses to pick them up, so many were sitting in the playground with their luggage waiting, which is when it happened. people there tell us that it was tank shelling.
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one of the our producers got there when everyone calmed down, and he thought it was an air strike. the israelis say it was a rocket fired by a palestinian faction here. hamas denies that. she say it's a massacre and they're going to retaliate strongly. it comes down we know this is a military campaign, but the civilians. the u.n. shelter is the only places israel has coordinates where civilians are told they can be guaranteed safety. that is certainly not the case after what we saw today. you mentioned earlier four schools in the last four days and the u.n. is outrages and this is what the spokesman had to say a little earlier. >> in remarks to the press made just now in iraq, the secretary-general is appalled by the news of an attack on a u.n. relief and works agency school in northern gaza where hundreds of people had taken refuge. many have killed including women and children as well as u.n. staff.
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in his briefing to the security council two days ago, the secretary-general condemned hamas rocket fire and called on israel to exercise care to avide an attack on a united nations premises where civilians have taken refuge. more than 100,000 gazans has sought refuge in the facilities. he says all sides must abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law and to honor their obligations to humanitarian workers. today's attack underscores the imperative for the killing to stop and stop now. >> stephanie, let's turn your attention to this for a moment. update us on the situation there, because we understand that there was a strike earlier on. >> reporter: that's right. it's been an intense campaign of shelling overnight east of there. what happened is that there was a couple of hours of humanitarian somewhat and some
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ambulances and the red cross managed to get in four or five hours into the neighborhood. they said it was still extremely tense. they couldn't get to many areas they needed to, but they managed to bring out 25 injured people. that campaign now there is still shelling going on there. not as intensive as it was overnight, but still an active campaign, of course. the israeli soldiers have been focusing on lang the border area. again, the ambulances say they need much more time to be able to clear the debris, the rubble that is on the streets and be able to get to the places where they believe people are still buried. we had the incident just a few days ago, and there was another one there actually. they pulled out some people from the rubble there three days. there is still hope people may be alive. because of the security situation it's so intense, the shelling and fighting by palestinian fighters in the areas, and they can't get to
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them. >> all right, stephanie, thank you very much for the time being. stephanie dekker reporting from gaza. it causes violent confrontations between left and right wing protestors ers in israel. they're seen as traitors that help with the military campaign and they say it's dangerous to speak out. >> reporter: this is an israeli activityist no stranger to the protests but she said from the israelis has taken a sinister turn. >> we're told that -- people are saying that we hope a rocket hits our house. they hope that we -- that there's a holocaust against us specifically. >> reporter: she was at this protest in tel aviv last week when things turned ugly. you're a traitor. you're a killer this man shouts.
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it's the anti-israeli left wing protesters calling for an end to the occupation. tensions have existed between the left and right in israel, but left wing says right wing activists appear more organized now and they seem to have an increasing sense of legitimacy among israelis. pictures like these released by military that add to the israeli support for the campaign in gaza. tunnels are destroyed and soldiers walk through the rubble. many israelis feel that those against the military action don't understand the threat. >> translator: if the israelis want they can go to gaza. here in this country it's not possible to live in peace. there are missiles and they kidnap our soldiers and kill us and dig tunnels to the houses of those who support them. >> reporter: she says she will continue to protest even if her
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neighbors don't understand. >> there are many israelis protesting this and it's confusing. it's easy to categorize us as traitors or people for the other sides. >> being labeled an outsider is a small price to pay in the face of so much suffering. going back to that news that we brought you a short while ago that at least 15 people have died and dozens have been injured when a rocket landed at a u.n.-run school in gaza, we're going to speak to the head of the u.n. office for humanitarian affairs in the occupied palestinian territories. he joins us on the line from jerusalem. our reporters reported many in gaza, in fact, say israel was responsible for that attack. israel, meanwhile, says that it was hamas, and a rocket fell short of its target. what do you understand the
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situation to be, and what happened with that attack? >> well, first of all, the impact is huge and a tragic human consequence with the number of people killed and the number of people injured. these are people, obviously, who are even more tragically seeking shelter from violence elsewhere. they settled to this shelter as a sanctuary and safety. that just makes it all the more tragic that they were killed there in this location. in terms of the actual responsibility, at this point i think this is yet to be verified. it's not easy to move around in gaza today because of the violence. you have a 3-kilometer buffer zone along the fence with israel, so basically that's a no-go zone by israel. a lot of people in gaza have fled to these shelters and almost 100 other shelters that
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belong to the local governments and schools. they're fleeing from this no-go area, and that's the dilemma we have in gaza. there's nowhere to go these days. >> where would you tell these palestinian civilians to go? according to reports put out by you, by your office, the most recent shelling has caused damage to six u.n.-run schools. where would you tell the people to go? >> this is the dilemma. gaza is a tiny sliver of land with 1.8 million people. the population density is almost 5,000 people per square kilomet kilometer. this is why we call for an immediate cease-fire. in the meantime, we certainly have asked for civilian areas not to be touched by either side.
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in many cases running in fear of their lives from their homes that have been destroyed for some place to keep shelter. at least preserve the school they're sheltering in. >> is there anything you can do at this point to ensure that your u.n. facilities are safe? >> well, i think the first thing that has to be taken is to let all parties of conflict know that these are shelters for civilians and the civilians can go to. the other thing is, obviously, we have a huge humanitarian program to assist them because many left with nothing but the shirts on their back. they need food, mattresses, hygiene kits. it's a huge problem for that. in some places they have 3 liters per capita per day, which is a terribly low amount of
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water one has. it goes far below emergency needs. in this case we have to inform the parts of the conflict to ensure that they advocate don't hurt the civilians and in the meantime help to support these people with basic needs. >> all right. thank you very much for your time. >> thanks for having me. in iraq two car bombs have killed at least 15 people in central baghdad. this follows an attack that left at least 60 prisoners dead. the inmates were being moved from one military base to another when unknown gunmen struck their convoy. the violence took place as iraq took a step closer to form a new government. the parliament elected the kurdish politician as the new president. the largely ceremonial post has to be given to a kurd. we have the story. >> reporter: this is iraq's third president since saddam
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hussein was forced out of power. he's an ethnic kurd from the kurdistan party. he was sworn in after the second round of voting. >> translator: in the name of god the most merciful and compassionate, i swear by almighty god to carry out my tasks with loyalty and dedication and to safeguard the independence of iraq and it's sovereignty. >> reporter: now the president has 15 days after taking office to nominate a prime minister to form a government. politicians remain deeply divided over who to choose. prime minister nouri al maliki won the most votes in the april election. he wants a third term in office, but his opponents say he's leading iraq to dissin integration and civil wars by eliminating sunni arabs and
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kurds. ban ki-moon arrived in the capital to urge leaders to form a government. they need to unite to face the threat posted by the fighters belonging to the islamic state. further north of the capital they still control mow month sul and tikrit. this video shows the fight in the city of mosul on thursday. witnesses say a number of civilians were killed. in the capital of the kurdish region, the u.n. asked kurdish officials to discuss the formation of the government and the country's future. ban ki-moon says iraq is facing difficult times, and he called for iraqi leaders to unite before the islamic state rule and sectarian and form an
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inclusionive government. thousands of iraqis are protesting the threatening of christians in mosul. they have ordered them to pay a tax, convert to islam or leave the city. those that refuse will be executed. a flight carrying 116 people from crashed in northern mali. the dc-9 was near the algerian border when they were asked to make a detour to avoid poor visibility. nearly half of the passengers were french and the french foreign minister has reacted to the latest air disaster. >> translator: if this disaster is confirmed, it will be a major tragedy for our nation and many others. the president of france and the government, like all the french people, stand alongside the families affected by the tragedy
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just as all those recently bereav bereaved. we'll have much more ahead including the u.s. death penalty once again comes under scrutiny after a prisoner takes nearly two hours to die. in sports, the first medals have been decided in the commonwealth games. we have more in sports. first we turn to ukraine where there's heavy shelling in donetsk, and the prime minister is resigning. we go to the european news center for more on that. >> he announced he's quitting after two parties pulled out of the governing coalition. this meant parliament could no longer do it's work, and i'll explain what that means in a moment. first, we go to donetsk where the nil tear stepped up the campaign to take back control from the separatists.
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we are there and have this report. >> reporter: shells hit the northern suburbs of donetsk. both sides are using heavy artillery. it's close to people's homes. ukrainians want the city back under kiev control. the separatist fighters say they won't let that happen. many people here have already moved to safer parts of the country. some people say they can't leave. >> translator: my mother's 85 years old, and she can't be moved. so i have to stay and look at her and spend the night in the shelter, and there was a woman with a one-week-old child there. we're all so depressed and scared. >> reporter: what ukrainians appear to be doing is pounding separatist defensive positions trying to find a way into this
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city. one of the weaknesses for the ukrainians is it's extremely danger reduce right now to fly in the skies above eastern ukraine. since april separatists have brought down almost 20 ukrainian aircraft, including two fighter jets on wednesday not far from the wreckage of mh17. the separatists are still denying they brought down the malaysian airliner. i asked their military spokesperson whether russia is still backing their cause. >> translator: you need to understand that our enemy, the ukrainian state, is using not only all their power but also the power of nato. that's why we asked russia to help us against this military machine. if we had the support that you're speaking about from russia, we would be in kiev by now. >> reporter: the international committee of the red cross says this is now a civil war. the streets of this once
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bustling city are almost deserted. the only cars are driven by armed fighters. people here are preparing for the worst. al jazeera, donetsk, eastern ukraine. >> ukraine facing more turmoil following the prime minister's decision to resign. the two parties withdrew the support, and he said parliament could no longer do its work and pass necessary laws. the nationalist party led by the former boxer klitschko has paved the way for early elections. yatsenyuk will remain in a care taker role. what do you think was the tipping point for yatsenyuk that made him decide to go right now?
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clrp it's the collapse of the coalition, and they look to the elections and need that to happen before you need new elections. apparently he had written his resignation weeks ago, and it all comes down to really the failure, his failure and parliament's failure to get through an amendment to the budget to give more funds, billions of dollars to the high pressed forces of the ukrainian army in the east. that was enough. he said, how am i going to pay salaries, the army salaries tomorrow? how can i find fuel for our armored vehicles, and how do you compensate the families of the fallen? a real sense of frustration there from this 40-year-old, really one of the faces of the political might and revolution. >> country in crisis, peter, as we know.
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a pretty terrible time to lose a key politician, isn't it? >> reporter: it really is. i mean, i was talking to a lot of the people down there and still there. they were saying, look, you know, we really didn't rate the prime minister when he came in, but he's done a wonderful job. this was repeated time and time again. they kept saying, this is not a time to change our prime minister. look, we've got an increasingly bitter conflict in the east, which as we know the pro-russian separatists. the economy is frankly an absolute mess and is heading towards recession, and this is not really the time to be changing horses. whether or not there's a future for yatsenyuk later, who knows. if they can't get this coalition together, a new coalition together in 30 days, then there will be elections possibly in october. >> peter, thank you. the communist party is also
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being dissolved and thrown out of ukraine's parliament. they cheered as the chairman made the announcement saying he hoped the communists would never come back. on tuesday he got the authority to dissolve the party because it has went below the threshold. the dutch and australian foreign ministers are both in kiev to learn more about why flight 17 was shot down. they signed a memorandum of mutual understanding with his ukrainian counterpart witnessed by the ukrainian president petro poroshenko. they're calling for a u.n. team to secure the crash site, which is controlled by pro-russian separatists. the remains of 74 more victims from the mh17 plane disaster have now arrived in the
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netherlands. another two planes touched down south of the country earlier. they arrived with military honors. they will taken to a military barracks to be identified. the first 40 coffins arrived from ukraine on wednesday. we have the report. >> translator: the day of national mourning may be over, but the grieving goes on. the mound of flowers laid in tribute to the victims outside the airport terminal 3 where the fated journey began is growing ever higher. thousands have now added their names and thoughts to the books of condolence. the flight too kuala lumpur won't be known as mh17 on the departure boards. it carries too much emotional weight. the passengers board the airline have reassurance it's been diverted to turkish air force base. two more planes landed carrying another 74 victims from flight
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mh17. they were given full military honors. among the relatives watching the first flight come in was a man from newcastle who lost his 28-year-old son, liam. >> you look at the news, and it's far away. most things that happen are far away, and it's not anything to do with you. all of a sudden, it's part of you. every family there yesterday had something to do with somebody, so everybody was hurting probably in exactly the same way. as i see it, never, ever happ s happens. >> reporter: over the next few days the convoys will bring a somber shade to the country's highways. all the relatives have to hold onto are the pictures of their lovelied ones. intimate memories of lives cut so cruelly short. they're all receiving special counseling to help them through this ordeal. >> there's grief. it's mourning. it's frustration, too. it's a very complex set of
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emotional that the relatives are experiencing. >> reporter: beneath the dutch flag at the airport, more flowers and tributes including a handwritten note that ends with these words. this will never be forgotten. our hearts, thoughts and prayers to you all and your families and friends and loved ones. two opposition activists in russia have been convicted of organizing mass riots a day before the 2012 inauguration of president putin. the pair from the left front movement have pleaded not guilty in a trial that lasted almost two years. 11 other people have been convicted for taking part in the same demonstration that ended in clashes with police. i'll have much more from europe later in the news hour, including the ruling that he invited a human rights convention by allow the cia to operate a secret prison there. also ahead, it inspired
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>> 15 stories one incredible journey edge of eighteen coming september only on al jazeera america hello again. the headlines on the al jazeera news hour, a u.n. school in gaza has come under fire. israel says it's investigating whether they carried out the attack. at least 15 people were killed raising the death toll in gaza to 788 since the israeli operation began more than two weeks ago. iraq's parliament elected
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massoum. some more now on the top story in the israeli offensive on gaza. this is not the first time a u.n. installation has come under fire, four facilities including three to housed displaced gazans have come under attack. in 2012, one u.n. school was struck, and gaza's second largest police facility was also destroyed. during the six-week offense in 2008 and 2009, 18 schools including eight nurseries were destroyed. an unknown number of palestinian buildings were also destroyed at the time. while hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of injured now set to to be more than 5,000 people, charles joins one family as they wait for news from about their loved ones. >> reporter: thhe searches in t
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crowd for his family. he's been here at the hospital since wednesday when the bombing started in the nearby village. he's desperate for news of his 80-year-old mother. >> translator: there is no one who can help the elderly out of their homes. they are trapped. there are so many dead people in the street. >> reporter: a car carrying an injured man arrives. who is this he asks? it's his brother-in-law. medical workers roll him to a stretcher and take him inside. his sister has no idea whether her husband survived the attacks. >> translator: my children are crying for news of their father. >> translator: whether there are marchers or they survive, it's in god's hands now.
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>> reporter: outside hundreds of people wait for news of family and friends. the injured wait in the shade for doctors to arrive. we have spoken to the manager of the hospital, and he says they're treating up to 150 people a day with a range of injuries. there's constant artillery fire and jet fighters overhead. the israeli military has already hit a number of hospitals since this conflict began. dr. jamal is afraid his hospital may also be hit, and there are no beds left for patients. >> translator: more and more people are coming needing treatment day and night. we have never been under pressure like this. >> reporter: the dead are lifted into ambulances to be taken to the cemetery. he calls again for news of his mother and prays she's still
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alive. charles stratford, al jazeera, gaza. let's bring in our senior political analyst joins us now. we saw that u.n. school targeted. at least 15 people are dead so far. could this be a turning point when the international community turns around and trying to take stronger and more immediate action to find a cease-fire? >> i doubt it, judging from the reactions thus far already more than 700 people have died and thousands are injured. there is a very shy and timid reaction from the international community or so-called international community. meaning those israeli -- israel's friends like the americans and the british and the french who would probably do something about it. none of them have any love lost for hamas or the palestinians. at the end of the day if they want a cease-fire, it has to be
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for israel's benefit or according to israel's conditions. >> we know that the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in egypt right now. he's said that, quote, some progress has been made in an attempt to find a cease-fire. what's he talking about here, and what progress has been made that you know of? >> there isn't much progress except the fact that they suggested something like a humanitarian truce, a long one, which is going to disguise the truce without fulfilling the conditions of hamas or israel, if it has any conditions. i think at the end of the day when secretary kerry talks about progress and that progress doesn't see the light, it means it's hamas' fault. i think this is again another diplomatic ploy to put the squeeze on hamas. underground the situation is escalating so badly and the stakes are so high it's basically impossible for hamas to accept anything short for fulfilling a good point of the
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demands. let me tell you why. there are three ways to look at what happened today and what's happening the last few days in gaza. one, that things are by design. meaning israel has to take on hamas' military infrastructure, and it takes a lot of civilians and a lot of them die and that's how it goes. or it's by default by fighting a war in urban centers is problematic and leads to the death of so many. when israel took that decision it knew it would kill a lot of people because that's how it is to bomb the people from the air. it's going to lead to a lot of suffering. the third thing is it's just a cynical of waying crippling gaza. at the end of the day what will happen is following. what's going to happen is when the dust settles, gaza is going to be on its knees. it's going to need all the help it can go whether it's to rebuild hospitals, schools and communities and so on and so forth. how would you do that? you need international help and need to open the crossings?
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what's the return? everybody demands the de mil dedifficult tearization of gaza. hamas insists they won't be demilitarized. >> let me ask you this, though. the palestinian authority authority abbas has come out and publicly backed hamas' demand for a cease-fire, including the listing of the siege, et cetera. how does that factor into the whole equation? >> well, certainly on the surface it clearly after abbas' meeting it seems there is one palestinian united position. it also seems that they could speak to the international community with one voice. however, the pressure on abbas is huge for him to step in for
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hamas and handle it. neither the americans or israelis or egyptians would agree to lift the siege. there's a wedge between hamas after 2006 because israel is it not want unity between abbas and ham hamas. hen, they had 1,000 security guards to take on the crossing. otherwise, neither egypt or israel will allow them to hope. that's why one hopes that the national consensus remains, but when you look at the reality, there's pressure to break the consensus again. >> thank you very much. that's our senior political analyst joining us from london. norway has beefed up security across the country after being informed of an imminent threat of attack for people linked to fighters in syria. we go to felicity. norway is on high alert.
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they say they received reliable information an attack could happen in days. rebecca singh has this report. >> reporter: officials deal with what they're describing as a concrete threat. >> translator: while researching this case, the information's credibility was strengthened. we also have information to success that any act of terrorism against norway may take place shortly probably within a few days. we have no information about who, how, what goal or the manner in which such a possible attack it planned. >> reporter: they do know who could be behind it, people with links to fighters in syria. it's believed about 50 people have traveled to syria from norway as foreign fighters, and many of them have now returned. news of a possible threat comes just days after norway's
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anniversary of attacks three years ago. eight people were kimmed in oslo, and 69 more died when a gunman opened fire at a youth camp on the island 40 kilometers away. the memory of that day and of the lives lost is still raw. >> translator: when these things happen, you feel a bit safer when the measures are visible. at the same time it's scary to see armed police and makes the situation seem more real and serious. >> reporter: norwegian authorities are looking more closely at the information they have. they say by going public they hope the threat remains just that, the threat that does not become a reality. europe's top human rights court has ruled that poland broke the european human rights convention by helping the cia to render two terror suspects. this is the first confirmed existence of cia secret prison. poland allowed them to operate a
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secret torture center in the northeast of the country. in 2002 and 2003. they famed to stop the torture of inhumane or degrading treatment when two suspects is were taken there. two accused of orchestrating the 2000 attack on u.s.s. cole in yemen are held in guantanamo bay. they've been ordered to pay $175,000 to both suspects. the president called the judgment embarrassing for poland and damaging to its image. b that you will mow is a lawyer representing them. >> my client not fully away he was in poland or not claimed he was deprived of liberty. he's been kept in custody for more than a year.
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he's been interrogated with enhanced interrogation techniques, which is simply for turs, and that being deprived of any contact with his lawyers or family or whoever he wishes to contact. i do hope that this decision will be important to my client. it will once he becomes aware of that decision that it will help him live in the circumstances that he's been forced to live in for over ten years without any charges brought against him, without really any significant hope that he could be released. it was actually one of the most important goals when initiating that -- upon initiating the application in front of them. >> reporter: a woman who escaped a death sthens in sudan for refusing to give up her christian faith flew to italy. she and her husband and two children including a daughter
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born while she was in jail landed in rome earlier. later she had a private meeting with pope francis who praised her for her strength and courage. they sentenced her to debt, but following intense pressure she was let go. they will travel from italy to the united states. the italian navy rescued 690 migrants trying to reach italy. they're trying to cross the seas in north afr africa. the navy has been patrolling the waters between africa and sicily since last october when 366 people drowned when the boat capsized. survivors and relatives mark one year since the high-speed train crash killed 79 people there. flowers and candles were placed at the scene and thrrees were
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planted in memory. the train was traveling around a bend at more than twice the legal speed limit whether it came off the rails. that brings you up to date from the latest news from europe. back to doha now. a botched exkuecution in th u.s. state of arizona rekindled the debate over the death personality. it took joseph wood over two hours to day when it should have taken ten minutes. >> reporter: it normally takening ten minutes but joseph wood's execution took nearly two hours. >> stfs disturbing to watch. >> some witnesses say the 55-year-old inmate struggled to breathe for hours as he lay in the death chamber. >> if you catch a fish and throw it on the shore, the way the fish opens and closes his mouth. >> you hear a deep snoring and sucking air sound going on for more than an hour and a half. >> an hour in his attorneys tried to stop the execution,
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finally an emergency appeal. wood died before the court could act. >> one wondered if someone would come in and stop the procedure. troy and i were looking at each other saying, he's not dying. >> his attorneys tried to prevent the execution because arizona was using a new experimental cocktail tried only once before in ohio where an inmate struggled for nearly 30 minutes before dying. the supreme court denied wood a stay. his death is the latest in a series of botched executions. in april oklahoma stopped the procedure as clay done locket was on the gurney. he died 43 minutes later. ever since europe stopped selling execution drugs in the u.s. in 2005, states are trying to find replacements trying an untested combination of drugs and facing protests. >> the courts need to put a stop to the state using experimental execution procedures.
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>> reporter: although concerned about the length, the governor said he died in a lawful manner and did not suffer. wood was on death row for the murder of his ex-girlfriend and her father in 1989. >> to me it looked like he was sleeping and snoring. that's what i saw. then he passed away. how is that suffering? >> reporter: his victims' family shared little sympathy grateful wood's life ended no matter how long it took. >> you don't know what excruciating is. what's excruciating is seeing your dad and sister laying there in a pool of blood. >> jonathan betz, al jazeera, new york. megan mccracken is from the death penalty clirng at the university of california berkeley school of law. she's joining us from philadelphia. how much of this botched execution brought back the issue of how america executes its inmates into the spotlight? >> it certainly has brought
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executions once again into the spotlight. it's the fourth time this year that a department of corrections has had a very troubling, very disturbing, and very bad execution. mr. wood's execution lasted almost two hours. he struggled to breathe and he struggled against his restraints for an hour and 40 minutes. so it's really a yet again botched execution that has brought the problems of this endeavor to light. >> why do you think this is happening? >> well, i think that mr. wood's prolonged and really horrific execution is the predictable consequence of arizona's experimental procedure. they were using a combination of drugs that had been used only once before, which also resulted in a botched execution. they are vounisurrounds their procedures in secrecy refusing to disclose the pertinent information to help the courts and public assess these procedures for whether or not they're legal and constitutional
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and whether or not they're what we should be doing. >> so do you think that there might be a time, megan, when the courts actually step in? >> i would say that that time has already come. the courts really should be ordering the department of corrections to disclose the pertinent information about their execution procedures, and that includes not just the name and the quantities of the drugs to be used but their providence, where they came from and are though potent or expired or fda approved our compounded? these questions extremely relevant and crucial. they need to disclose the qualifications of their team members. are they competent to perform the tasks assigned to them and they need to disclose how they developed this protocol?
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arizona took this protocol for ohio, and that's the only other place that's been used and they changed the doses. how did they arrive at the doses they decided upon, and why did they think this new combination and dosage would work better given the previous botch of dennis mcguire in ohio. >> we'll leave it there. thank you for joining us from philadelphia. still ahead on the al jazeera news hour, after a 23-year absence, a familiar name makes a return to the formula one calendar. we have the rest of the sports for you in just a moment. stay with us. r..
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hello again. welcome back. thank you very much. day one of competition at the commonwealth games in glasgow. 20 gold medals will be won, but it's bad news for the organizers. he has to pull out after failing to recover from the illness. he was going to run for england in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the glasgow games. >> i believe most disappointed not being able to be here as well. i know from speaking with his agent and so forth that he's expressed that and he really wishes he could. from that standpoint, you know, of course we just wish a speedy recovery and hopefully he's back in fighting form. as i mentioned, 20 medals are up for grabs on thursday.
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jody ensured the first gold medal went to england. he missed out for selection at great britain in the london 2012 olympics. he sprinted it victory in the triathlon event. her teammate grabbed bronze. from italy he has moved a step closer to winning the tour de france with victory in stage 18. they're on a near 150-kilometer long mountainous trek. he did have one small hiccup on the way with a minor collision with an unsuspecting fan on a final ascent. he powered home for the fourth stage here. if he goes on to win the tour, he's only the sixth man in history to win all three grand tours, having won it.
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>> translator: for me, it was important to win the stage, and the team did a great job. it was very difficult, very hard. it was good to get a victory and it was extremely important for real madrid rodriguez says he feels like he's living in a dream which will see him at the club for six years. the 23-year-old arrived in spain a week after finishing as the top scorer in the world cup at brazil, telling fans he's determined to bring even more success to real madrid. >> translator: i've always enjoyed changes and like winning, and i want to always win. i have a winner's mentality. football and an israeli team has been attacked by protesters
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opposed to the israeli offensive in gaza. it happened during the preseason friendly in austria. around 20 people stormed and said pro-palestinian slogan. it was halted after several players got involved in scuffles with protesters. the invaders were of turkish origin. the argentinian side were in the premier club competition. this was the first leg of the semifinal in buenos aires. the side from bolivia totally outcast with several goals coming out. the second leg takes place in la paz on wednesday. formula one teams have arrived in hungary ahead of friday's practice. after a 23-year absence, mexico
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returns to the formula one calendar. the race was held there in 1962 before becoming part of the word championship a year later. the last race was held in 1992. >> translator: between 2016 and 2019, the race will have i an economic benefits of $2 billion generating more than 18,000 direct and indirect jobs. formula one is a race for more tourism, income and development. taken in an unbeaten 140 helped put sri lanka on top of the day, one of the second tests against south africa in columbo. they led them after the first test victory under the new cap pain. they're leading at the moment with an advantage ending the day on 300 and of 5-5.
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the new york yankees held off the rangers that was called off in the fifth inning. it was locked in 1-1 until gardner hit a home run of the year to give the yankees a 2-1 win. it was a close affair early with the padres and chicago cubs game in illinois on wednesday. he leveled the scores here with a three-run homer before an rbi double. the pau padres get a hit and wo 8-3. in turkish occupied northern cypress a new project helps to rebuild trust on the divided island. it happens on the site that inspired the tragedy othello. we have this report from the site. >> reporter: it was the by retreating crusaders after muslim armies retook jez lrusje.
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it was an event that shakespeare knew him, and his play "othello" is set in cypress, which many believe is this place. ed modern turkish invasion brought isolation and slow decline. the once mighty walls of othello's tour have crumbled. now they have something called the joint technical committee have started restoration. in early 2015 it will re-open to tourists. the joint technical committees are a rare animal for cypress. it was established by political leadership by both sides and as a result it was quickly and enthusiastically supported by the u.n. and european union. it's a rare good news story that everyone is keen to promote. >> we're here to respect those that built these monuments. these are not just the monuments of cypress or greece.
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these are the monuments of humanity. >> the committee has 17 projects funded by $7 million of he u money. they need a lot more. this work is about defying 40 years of division and mistrust to save common heritage for both sides. >> occasionally we do argue but not across ethnic lines or community lines. we argue about which is the best way of conserving this. >> the work is slow and pain-staking, but this project is just one example of a trend, greek and turkish separatists working together to get things done. after 40 years more are spending more time thinking about the possibilities of a shared future than about the divided past. simon mcgregor with al jazeera in turkish-occupied northern cypress. please stay with us on al jazeera. we have much more news coming your way in just a moment.
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