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>> welcome to the news hour live from doha. i'm darren jordan with top stories from around the world. ukraine cease-fire under pressure. both sides accuse each other of violating the truce that is only 24 hours old. huge protests in yemen. dozens are killed in fighting in the north. we'll go live to the capitol. and just months into its presidency, egyp egypt announces power cuts.
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>> we're about to find out who has won the big prize of the golden lyon. >> welcome to the program. bod sides are accusing each other of violating the cease-fire. truce on friday after five months of fighting. >> after the cease-fire was announced, within the last 24 hours rebels sheffiel, shelling was announced. >> bring us up-to-date on the cease-fire so far.
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what's the situation on the ground? 234 >> reporter: to a certain extent, no news is good news. there are no gunshots that we've heard and certainly no artillery fire. we would eternally here if there were artic hear. no evidence of that. that said that doesn't mean that both side are not accusing the other of violations of the cease-fire. we heard in your introduction from national security double, and just a couple of ours ago i scrolled across lennon square and spoke with a senior figure within the pro russian separatist movement here in
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donetsk. he said he has evidence of the forces of ukraine here in the east are really rather reluctant to abide by the truce. >> we believe the poroshenko wants to stop the firing, and he doesn't control all of his military units. we intercepted selling analysis from those units where they say that poroshenko can do whatever he wants, and they'll keep on fighting and there is no cease-fire in their plans and the shelling in the suburb of donetsk is still going on. >> we take stock of all this all started. we've seen ukraine lose control of crimea, which was annexed by russia back in march. we have pea also seen fighting in eastern you rain. particularly where you are in donetsk and luhansk. the leaders in the up rising of
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kiev who ousted viktor yanukovych could have managed that the situation would have deteriorated with such deadly consequences. >> no, i don't think so. the fighting that has taken place had deadly consequences. but those protests were against corruption and nepotism, turning awa away from western values that were gaining credence with the young people and turning to the east where president yanukovych was insisting on doing. now we're in a situation where perhaps this is the start of the split of ukraine. will the independence that is demanded come to full fruition? well, it's possible. there are going to be intense
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negotiations. insisting what he wants is an amount of federalization and certainly not the ability of turning fully fledged into russia's arms. what happened six months ago, eight months ago could not have prepared us for what is happening now. >> let's cross over to moscow now and talk to peter sharp. peter, moscow said if it's hilt with more sanctions it will respond. what does this mean, and is this moscow talking tough? >> i do believe that they would avert fresh sanctions he's going to be disappointed. the problem is putin's credibility in the west has been
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about exhausted. first is the russian line where there are no russian soldiers involved. and there are very few nato states that don't believe that russia isn't heavily involved in the fighting of ukraine. so many western leaders take the line that the ukrainian prime minister took on thursday when he said that this cease-fire was nothing but a smokescreen to try to avert the sanctions. now we understand that they'll be announced by monday. what will it be? we won't know until tuesday. but the emu. is preparing to bar big russian oil companies from raising any capito capital on the european market. it would be limited to companies with 50% state holding. also the european energy
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services would not be able to help with russia wit's arctic exploration or deep sea drilling. >> thank you. to the latest reports, 50 people have been killed in fighting. we go live now. what is the latest developments is the violence there getting worse? >> yes, the fighting has intensified over the last few hours, and we're getting the report that dozens of people were injured in the last few hours. well, the fighting has escalated over the last 48 hours on both sides. the army-backed militias, and they're trying to consolidate their presence sources stay at
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least 12 20 soldiers were killed there. fighting resumed. with the stand off and deepening sectarian divide is a concerned of an armed confrontation. government loyalists on the streets of sanaa. they say they're ready to die for the republic accusing the houthies. >> i feel sad because the
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houthies were with us but now they're not. >> reporter: they denounced sectarianism an. the political divide has deeply divided yemeni and raised national concern for the country and asking for more political representation in the government. >> dismissing an offer by the president to form new government and cut fuel prices. despite growing anger houthi es insist their campaign is peaceful. >> the police and the army all understand that violence will
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breed violence. >> reporter: while it is intense in the streets, the houthies boost their chance for the president to make concessions in the coming days. >> it seems that the houthies have plans to gather at the capitol again tomorrow. >> reporter: you, indeed, the president has exhausted all diplomatic ways to come up with a political sentiments that is in sanaa. they say the campaign will take two to three days, and then they will note another phase. they have been very explicit about that phase, but we do understand from different sources they're likely to
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continue blocking the main roads of the capitol and might even move towards the airport, the international airport of sanaa and also come closer to government buildings. the government has been ver sending very strong messages to the houthies. we've given you options. we've already started cutting fuel prices. if you don't agree with that, you may expect very swift political action and a very charged political atmosphere here in sanaa. >> thank you. now the egyptian prosecutor has charged deposed mohamed morsi with endangering national security. he's accused of leaking sensitive documents to qatar. qatar offered egypt support during morsi's presidency.
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morsi was jailed shortly after he was deposed and faces several other charges. he's only been in the job for three months, but already egypt's president has been forced to explain itself on tv here is some of what presidentialcicy hapresident al sisi has said. >> let me remind you of my contract, my covenant with you, i said we as egyptians are facing huge insur mountabl insurmountable obstacle, and we won't be able to get over them without your support. >> protests against living standards. this was a scene in cairo with marchs after friday's chairs. organizers are calling for a bigger demonstration on the
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nighwhere power cuts have forced businesses to shut down. >> mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste received long sentences after trials seen by many observers as politically motivated. their convictions have been appealed. and you can join the campaign to get al jazeera's journalists freed by using the #free ah staff on twitter. there it is on your screen. the address www.aljazeera.com. more to come on the news hour. including al-shabaab leader killed in a strike. and we look at somalia continues
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to face. and we look at electronics fair. we'll show you how serena williams did later in the sport. >> airstrikes by the iraqi military pursuing islamic state fighter has killed several people. south of kirkuk several killed. allies have tan on decided to take on the i.s. kurdish fighters battling the i.s. say they're running out of
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weapons. >> reporter: germany standing by its pledge to help the kurds push back against the islamic state. the first of three shipments to be flown to iraq that will include assault rifles anti-tank systems and heavy army infantry vehicles. prime minister david cameron will help too,. >> we're helping the iraqi government. we're flying missions over iraq, we're supplying humanitarian aid. >> reporter: but for all the promises, they've yet to turn up here. instead, the kurds believe they're sitting in warehouses while the peshmerga are running out of bullets for their outdated russian weapons. >> the policy, we're a friend of
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the same policy and there will be a here. >> they're up here in the front line in preparation for their push on mosul. >> we hear their weapons coming in. we have information about that. but we have not seen any weapons so far. the. >> iraqi government has insisted that all foreign shipments must go through baghdad respect to the iraqi sovereignty. the kurds suggested that the planes landed in erbil but are expected by a representative from baghdad. there was no rely. instead it's been suggested that the planes touched down briefly are checked an then flown north.
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but the longer the shipments are delayed, the longer the person measurega are outgunned by the i.s. firepower. and those doing the wrangling are doing nothing on the line. >> on the kurds are not only fighting the islamic state group, they're also giving shelter to the yazidi people who the group is persecuting. turkey is giving a hand giving yazidi shelter when they've been able to cross the border. we go to the pressure of iraq and syria. >> this is a traditional kurdish chant. these yazidis are safe, but many still have relatives who face the islamic state. one of thousands trapped on
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mount sinjar and seriale circled by i.s. fighters. >> we reached the mountain. there was one small water spring for thousands of women. the peshmerga disappeared. we could not protect ourselves. the islamic state group singled us out, and they mean to kill us all. >> the camp of the schooling 3,000 yazidis. next door a reminder of the refugee crisis turkey has been managing. one of several refugee camps in the country. the facilities are of high standard but the camp is full and for now there this is the last yazidi refugee camp that will be built in turkey. the turkish government is paying
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for three refugee camps but they're building them over the border in iraq. security concerns in the final locations in iraq need to be changed. now they expect to be ready for 35,00 3500 yazidis. >> aid, will it be safe? b, will i it allow us to continue services, the same kind of services we've been doing here. >> reporter: but many yazidis we spoke to said that they could never go back to iraq. their ancient religion draws from islam and christianity. so many yazidis wonder what chance they will have. al jazeera, southern turkey. >> the united states and somali governments have confirmed the
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killing of al-shabaab's leader. >> the government of somalia have been reacting to the death of al-shabaab's leader godane. they acknowledge the airstrike outside of top leadership wer with the full nothing of their government. now the death of ahmed g odane comes, the remaining leadership
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of al-shabaab will try to fill the role that has been left, but it remains to be seen whether they'll be able to find someone with the kind of clout this man enjoyed. >> well, al-shabaab still dominates many ruler towns. fighters lost the key port of kismayo a year ago. and it has been blamed for a series of attacks in somalia and in neighboring kenya. the group has up to 9,000 fighters. research on somalia and work for the somalian monitoring group said we should expect retaliation attacks from
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al-shabaab. >> godane has tightly controlled the organization and personalized his rule, but there are many tensions within the group, and there is real risk of fracture and factions within al-shabaab growing apart. there are parts of al-shabab functioning with considerable autonomy, especially parts involved outside of the country. we should expect a wave of retaliatory attacks or attempted attacks. i don't expect to see the movement cave in or for the violence to cease any time soon. the real key there is that the somali government and south africa forces are depriving al-shabaab of the towns they used to control and the revenue they received from taxing those towns. al-shabaab has just lost it's leader, it's losing territory and financing. for the first time in a long time it's on the defensive.
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the real challenge for the government is to extend political outreach an to communities who still use al-shabaab for leverage and to launch a truly political process. >> flooding triggered by torrential people have killed 110 in pakistan and more is expected. the second largest city is underwater after the rain overloaded its drainage system. indian minut facing the worst flooding in 60 years. let's check on the weather now. >> meteorologist: a good mart --a good part of northern india, you'll see about 319 millimeters
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of rain in only one day. that was huge amounts of rain coming in the region. we've seen 43 430 millimeters of rain coming in here over the last 72 hours. let's go to lahore, it's trying to move away and more ref rain is expected over the next couple of days. i'm hopeful that it "t" will be fewer and farther between as far as showers ago. i'm afraid the total here over the last three days is staggering, 571 millimeters of rain coming down. you can see the showers overlapping the border from pakistan into the far north of india. we will still see some hours but hopefully not as intense as
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recently. the weather will find its way further southeastward and the eastern side could expect to see nasty weather. i think this is going to be the next area of flooding as we go into the coming days. that will sink south and westward as we go into the new working week. much of western india seeing some really heavy rain. elsewhere we still have showers into bangladesh. we push up towards nepal, and as you can see hopefully to dry pakistan. >> now to berlin to look at the future of technology. the consumer electronics fair, nick spicer checked out some of the latest gadgets on the show. >> a touch to a global trade
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fair. when it comes to t.v.'s, bigger is once again better. so it's higher resolution and cuffed scenes which is said to bring more natural viewing experience. >> i'm not sure that it goes good with real things like africa. >> this trade fair is 90 years old. when it started radio was the big new technology. a quarter million people are expected to visit this year and half will be from industry and people looking to make a deal. >> deals will involve cell phone manufacturers trying to wow the public ahead of the release of the new iphone. samsung has teamed up with other firms so the smart phone can
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connect to you a virtual reality experience. in this case a rock concert. >> you are in a way cut off but it also can be a social experience. so we can allow to you communicate with your friends who are also watching, for instance, the sporting event inside the device. you're allowed to chat with them. it doesn't necessarily need to isolate you. you can connect to anyone in the world who is doing the same thing. >> the trend of the smart household conditions with appliances controlled from a distance and working to save energy and so is the trend of putting cameras in seemingly everything. from phones to take selfies to little cameras to film every exploit those of your child or your bet. nick spicer, al jazeera, berlin. >> sierra leone people are confined to their homes. >> and people fleeing ethnic
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cleansing from their country. >> and we have the championshipping more on that later coming up in sports.
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>> welcome back to al jazeera. ukraine and russian separatist
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accuse each other of breaking the cease-fire. egyptian president al sisi calls for patience in a power crisis that has led to power blockouts across the country. now sierra leone's president has ordered the country to go into lockdown for four days to try to control the ebola virus. almost 4,000 people have been infected across west africa since the start of the year. the very good from guinea, sierra leone, liberia, recently senegal and nigeria, death toll now at 2097. >> reporter: the doctor was working in liberia for an aid
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group when he contracted the deadly virus. >> he has a very serious infection. we know this can be associated with mortality. we'll aggressively support this patient and hope for the best. while the other two infected americans have survived, the strain of the virus has so far had a 50% fatality rate. hospitals meanwhile are struggling to find enough staff to treat ebola patienc patients. many local staff have fled in fear and it's difficult to educate the public on how to keep itself safe from the virus. >> the goal is to stop the spread of the virus in six to nine months and stop
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international spread of the virus. this can be done in the infected countries and by the international community. >> in switzerland people have been meeting about the virus. >> two vaccine candidates were identified. one is for chimpanzee, and the other one safety studies are currently under way in the united states of america and soon to start in europe and africa. >> they've already had promising results in animal trials but the first data on how effective and safe they are on humans won't be available until november. only then will they be able to decide whether to start mass production and distribute them inside the infected countries.
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>> this is a huge challenge, we're organizing to meet it, and i'm convinced we can succeed. >> reporter: the clear message from experts and leaders is that there is no quick solution. effective treatment is still months ago. >> well, stephen mckandru is heading the emergency response in sierra leone. he joins us in sierra leone. do you think this four-day lockdown is going to work. it's going to be impossible to police, isn't it? >> well, we think this is a good measure and amongst a lot of other measures that need to be done this is an unprecedented challenge and will take unprecedented action to face. we have to follow through with discipline and a lot of integrity and just courage to
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face this done. yes, we think this is going to be part of the solution. >> let me ask you, stephen, what are your red cross teams doing on the ground and how are you helping medal officials there where you are? >> we have mobilized a mass of red cross response and it's getting bigger all the time. we're currently getting set up with delegates from all over sierra leone to treat patients. but on the other side where we have to prevent this disease we'ring going out and working with people who have died and sanitize the body, get them in the ground and upon that we're doing other activities as in tracing the contacts of the people who have been infected. and when working on a massive social organization campaign so
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people will know what ebola is, what it is, what it is not, and how to deal with it. we have a giant program and we're expanding hourly. >> you say you have a big program. give us a sense of some of the challenges that you face. it must be difficult working in some of those remote areas? >> we have incredible challenges here. just getting supplies and people out to infected communities is a challenge. we also have activities in the urban centers, which is also a challenge because of the scale of the population and where we're working. we have a double challenge where we have to work in all sorts of environments. we have massive challenges just around resources. we need more funding. we need more resources. we're moving as fast as we can, and we have a couple more challenges which is fear and denial are the challenges we're
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facing, too. >> it's a pretty dangerous job that you're doing there. 20 health workers have died in sierra leone and loa alone and the disease has killed more than 2,000. is there a worry that the disease is now out o out of control? >> you oh, there is definitely a worry that we're not ahead of this disease, that this virus is ahead of us and we're catching up to it. we're definitely worried. at the same time we can't change this with fear. we're going beat it with knowledge and discipline, and everyone working together. we can get ahead of this thing if we work together and we so we're going to beat it on all levels. >> steven mcandrew, thank you for your time.
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>> emerge from hiding on thursday, the leader fled the capitol last year after accusing the government of reneging on an earlier peace deal. dhlakama has ran before but lost in previous campaigns. katherine soy visits a camp in south sudan. >> reporter: children try to make the best of their education after it was disrupted by the conflict back home. they are the only school in the camp and has taken in close to 3,000 children between 5 and 12 years old. because the classes are still so few they are in shifts.
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morning and afternoon. >> children that are more, 160 students in one class. >> the majority of children, however, remain out of school. here they remain to be registered. this child was separated from her parents when fighting broke out on the day she was supposed to start school in south sudan. she's still waiting for the chance to finally get into a classroom. >> we were told to wait, and so i'll keep coming here until that time. >> in another part of the camp refugees have their buy crow metrics taken to make sure they get full u.n. protection. this school is full and are taking new new arrivals. most of the refugees here are women and their children. over 500,000 refugees have crossed into ethiopia since
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conflict broke out in december. >> we're seeing a thousand people on average. we have almost 190 refugees who have arrived here since the beginning of the crisis. that's a very large number of refugees by any standard. >> back at the camp, they met as they fled. >> i had to take her with me. because if i left her, and she died, it would be a curse to my children. >> so they both rate. for a husband who went back to fight, and the girl for a mother she has not seen or spoken to since may. >> libya's government has sworn in a new cabinet. minister also begin their duty in a week.
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libya's new government including those from around the country. they say the tobruk parliament is unconstitutional. fighting in golan heights in the countryside on the syrian-controlled side of the territory that's mostly under israeli occupation. last month rebel fighters kidnapped 45 u.n. peace keepers in the area. now the aged city of aleppo has seen some of the fiercest fighting. barrel bombs have been dropped with devastating effects. it has killed 50 local people. here is marianne hand.
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>> reporter: it's difficult to pick out anything here that might indicate that this was once a popular taxi stand. people had been lining up on friday hoping to catch whatever public transport was available in aleppo. two barrel bombs reportedly fell. when rescuers scrambled to find survivors they mostly found the dead, a child among them. >> all the people here are civilian workers and passengers, people who were killed and dozens injured from the bombs. there is not a single militant here. >> reporter: and this is the difficulty for the future people who were trying to scrape out an existence in this besieged city. according to human rights watch the government's weapon of choice the barrel bombs are indiscriminate and wildly inaccurate. but the bombs have hit and killed hundreds of civilians. the number of dead in aleppo is
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growing. syria's second largest citiest to the border with turkey. the last few months rebels have had to confront a new foe, the islamic state group. once their ally i.s. fighters are now pointing their guns towards rebel positions. rebels are being squeezed between islami government and i see lambic state fighter--islamc state fighters and those stuck in the middle. >> time for a short break. when we come back. [♪ music ] music yoga and even ping-pong at the library that redefines what it means to be bookish. and brazil's new captain has
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a starring role in the enoccurrence. stay with us.
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>> welcome back. now with the popularity of e-books online newspapers and video games many say that libraries don't appeal any more. but one library in england is refusing to stay quiet any more. >> reporter: drawing dragons, winged beasts and other mythical creatures may not inspire every child to read a book, but that's the hope at the library of
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burningham. >> we encourage them to go down to the library after they've done this task. >> books, yes, but the library is much more. the award winning design in the once dreary square has brought new life to the city. >> we have never been about building a library. this is all about building a city. it's about place making, quality of life and pride in the city that people live in, sense of community, sense of place. >> it's clearly a hit. nearly 3 million visitors will have passed through the doors next month when the library marks it's first year. the traditional pursuits of reading and research are still there, but ping-pong, strategically placed pianos. [♪ music ] and music practice rooms bring other visitors. >> i come here for books, comics, and yeah, i really like it.
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>> lunchtime poetry performances draw enthusiastic crowds. books are still at the very heart of the building, but the library is all about the new--new use of space. new technology. activities to attract new visitors. the library is always looking for new ways to engage the community. singles nights, yoga classes and a drop-in health clinic reinventing the library for the 21st century. jessica baldwin, al jazeera, birmingham, england. >> time for sport now. >> thank you very much. hamilton will be at the grand prix on sunday. the driver will start at the front of the grid.
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he has the 29-point lead over hamilton in the championship. williams will start in third. and world's number one serena williams is now one win away from claiming her 18th grand slam title. she'll also have the chance to win a third u.s. open. >> reigning champions serena williams o on her way to the semifinals in the open. it was part of a spell that saw williams win nine games in a row and at one stage 22 out of 24 points. laying in her first grand slam semi, makarova managed to beat
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williams in the second set, but it was not enough. the american was able to take the set 6-3, to reach her fourth u.s. open final in a row. >> i'm just really excited to be in the final in the beginning of the week. i definitely wasn't sure i would make it this long and i definitely wasn't sure i would be here. so i'm just elated, to be honest, to have made it this far. >> she'll now face her friends wozniakci. she took the first set on the tie break, and peng with an early break in the second at flushing meadows. but the chinese player suffered from leg pain, and she needed a medical time out. peng managed to return to the court but ten minutes later she
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collapsed again ending her semifinal. clearly distressed as she left arthur ashe stadium in a wheelchair. >> it's great, but health is more important. to see her struggling out there, i just wanted to make sure that she was okay. i got the word that she's okay now. i'm in the finals, which is great. it's been five years for me since my last one here, so i'm extremely happy to be back here. >> williams versus wozniacki is on sunday. al jazeera. >> winspiring young american women to become future champions. many in the united states are still looking for a role model. the 12th straight grand lamb without an american man in the quarterfinals and has not had a grand slam finals in 11 years.
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there are efforts to bring back dominance in the sport. >> danny first picked up a tennis racket at age three the same year andy roddick won the title. no american male has done it since. >> i have to explain to my friends that tennis is not just a sport running back and forth. there is so much emotion in it that you have to care about what you do. >> his passion for the game according to his coach is what is missing in american professionals along with a sense of strategy. >> american players, they look great. they hit the ball great, but they don't really know how to play. >> in i 1984 six of the top four from americans. they were all household names to
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encourage the next generation of tennis pros, the united states tennis association is looking to increase cooperation among training facilities so the best trainers can play with and learn from each other. >> you have little factions of great players, and the great players then are not trained together. i think that's a big part of the problem in american tennis right now. >> pelletrito said that his friends are drawn to traditional and less expensive sports like basketball, baseball. >> the williams continue to inspire little girls across the country to pick up a racket. right now it's the little boys who are in need of a role model. >> australia beat south africa in the rugby championship in perth. south africa had been leading
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with a quarter hour to go. the high tackle on adam ashley cooper, the 100th test match for the springboks. the two minutes left with a try for the wallabies. converting to give australia the 24-23 victory. now the top of the standing after beating argentina. they called two tries for the all blacks he now has 26 tries in 25 tests. argentina still without a win after two and a half years in the rugby championship. moving on to football in a friendly in the rematch of the world cup quarterfinals. there was nothing friendly about this encounter. sent off just after halftime.
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and it was brazil's new captain that would call the winner for the kick in the 83rd minute. the winning start t. sergio garcia has been down playing his form going into the ryder cup later this month, but on friday he showed that he's warming up nicely for the team event in scotland. showing impressive shots at the bmw championship in colorado to take one trophy at the halfway stage. he'll represent europe for a seventh time at the end of september, and we'll be hoping for more stunning shots like this. the final of the cricket in zimbabwe is taking place right now between australia and south africa. australia managed 217-9 despite
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a four-wicket hole. and south africa 139-3, midway through their innings. athletics and american wit unbeaten in his last 16 races and sets the best time of 9.77 seconds. now later in the 32-year-old followed that up by winning the 200 meters in 19.71 seconds. he's now one meet away to go unbeaten for an entire someone since 2009. in the men's high jump competition qatar's barshim won
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bissetting a new asian record with a jump o, and just missed out bee on the world record height. >> thank you very much. now the top prize of the venice film festival will be announced on saturday. we take a look at th the contenders. >> the golden lyon is getting closer and closer, but who is going to scoop it up come the big night? maybe the look of silence. this has been a strong contender since the start. the look at the indonesia mass killings of the 1960's. the only documentary in a festival dominated by war stories. but in true festival style there is something for everybody. this movie, surreal, definitely. a contender, very much so.
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a pidgeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence. trying to describe the plot is impossible as one critic put it you might as well do a dance about a cake. and the crowd opener was "bird man." former batman michael keaton an actor wh about an actor who played super hero roles. the cinema is well represented here. adventurous, this esteemed italian director believes the whole festival is not dangerous enough. >> it is very under political control. i kno
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>> i wouldn't think that's true at all: i don't see any sort of fear i in the program at all. it's easy to category eyes the kind of films that they have. >> so the focus shifts from festival to awards. dozens of films have been screened here over the last few days. all anyone will talk about is which film will take the golden lyon. venice is one if not the most difficult to call. nobody really knows. even at this late stage, what the jury is thinking. al jazeera, venice film festival. >> that's it for pups stay with us at al jazeera. we have more news at the top of the hour. thanks for watching.
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>> hundreds of days in detention. >> al jazeera rejects all the charges and demands immediate release. >> thousands calling for their freedom. >> it's a clear violation of their human rights. >> we have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. >> journalism is not a crime.
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right now... >> from oscar winning director alex gibney, a ground breaking look at the real issues facing american teens on, the edge of eighteen only on aljazeera america > a ceasefire in ukraine. after thousands of deaths and millions displaced, did vladimir putin get hits way. president obama changes his tune, saying islamic state group must be dismantled and destroyed. hello, i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this", those stories and more ahead. >> the ceasefire between pro-russian rebels and ukraine. >> the next step is to it.