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♪ french president says the world must not waste any time coming together to defeat the islamic state group. ♪ hello, i'm nick from headquarters in doha, other top stories, leader of sweden social democrat says he will try to form a government without the help of the far right. following allegations of abuse of aids hiv patients. ♪ and we will tell you how pope francis has broke with tradition
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presiding over these wedding ceremonies. ♪ so the french president says the world must not waste any time coming together to defeat the group which calls itself the islamic state or isil, 30 countries are meeting in paris right now to decide how best to push is out of large areas of iraq and syria we are under their control. >> translator: the struggle of the people for tur rest is our struggle as well and we have to act together and the turn of the conference and stand by iraqi authorities and not a moment to be lost. >> translator: we have to prevent the youth and deprevious isil of resources and punish all those who linked to it. >> reporter: continued military support addressing the conference and there is urgency
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in the corporate national assistance in combatting the islamic state or isil. >> translator: we continue to ask for airborne operations to be jarred out regularly against terrorist sights and much motor allow is to set up sanctuarys and see them wherever they are and cutoff their financing and bring them in and stop fighters from neighboring countries from joining is. >> reporter: we have the latest from the conference. >> reporter: just before the talks got underway this earnest, he said it was crucial there was international unity on the fight against the group calling itself islamic state in iraq and stressed the u.n. security council has labeled that group a threat to international security. it's clear that he would like to see international legitimacy lend it to any potential air
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strikes by the u.n. but it's far from clear whether that will happen. in the meantime and he is hoping as is the iraqi president who is also here in paris that more and more countries will sign up to some kind of involvement in military efforts against the is group in iraq. some arab states will be prepared to take part in air strikes, others may be prepared to lend intelligent support and cash crucially. in the last few hours we heard from the defense minister saying french planes are already starting to carry out strikes in iraqi air space backing up the u.s. and its air strikes against the is group. what we don't know is how many more states are prepared to come on board and take part in activities like that. crucially i ran, one of the key players in iraq has not been
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invited and that is problematic given its role in the fighting in syria. syria, of course is crucial also to the future of the is group and some cynics say whatever happens here in paris will be of limited effect unless the international community also takes concerted action to stop the is group from spreading in syria. >> we will get the view from the iraqi capitol and speak to chan and both presidents making it clear regional involvement is crucial. >> reporter: that is absolutely right. the paris conference has been welcomed here in baghdad officially. the foreign secretary, sorry foreign minister issued a statement before the press conference began saying the islamic state didn't begin in iraq but it wasn't iraqi problem and welcomed all of the international help. what the iraqis are looking for is concrete steps, are they
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going to get hopes of military support they need and get the intelligence gathering support they need or get the humanitarian help they need and that is what the iraqi president will be pushing the international community for and he will want to walk away from this conference for something he can tell the iraqi people that is being done and there are unofficially concerns about this from sunni groups and inter international these saying the groups have a different relationship with each other and it needs to be more concrete if they are to be baffleled in iraq and are worried about freezing out i ran you are effectively losing a key player that could bring peace both on this side of the border on iraq and the other side on syria. there are concerns and over all it is welcomed home and many
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people are worried that the one thing that has not been mentioned all throughout this and this is if it's barack obama, the u.s. president speaking about islamic state or here at the paris conference is a political solution to the problems in syria. >> is there any sense or awareness of how long this fight against isil will take? a question of years, not months, i guess. >> reporter: well, let's hope you are right, there is a historical precedent for all this, take al-qaeda in iraq that came in going in 2004 and not until late 2006, early 2007 when the troop surge happened here in iraq, that problem was finally routed. but the root causes for the creation of al-qaeda this iraq and now in 2014 for the creation of the islamic state have not gone away. there is grievance from sunnis and regional problems allowing the creation of groups like al-qaeda in iraq. so if you beat them militarily
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those root causes still exist and i talked to the americans 3-4 years to get al-qaeda from iraq and back then it's likely it will take something similar with this group unless something changes in the policies and not what we hear from the paris conference or the international community. >> that conference in paris due to wrap up in an hour or so so we will learn more them, for the time being thanks very much. ukraine defend minister says they are nighting rebels in the east and have dozens of prisoners in donetsk and fighting is continuing in the city despite a ceasefire deal reached this month, more than 3,000 people died since the conflict began in april. in sweden the leader of the social democrats declared victory sunday and the left coalition have not won enough seats to form majority
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government and from stockholm. >> reporter: lead by the social democrats and partners between party and the left, social democrat leader will lead the largest party in parliament but he will have a hard job creating a new coalition. his block has no clear majority. his party is promised to spend more on the public services attracted many. >> people have been quite dis t dissatisfied with the way the people in the society who need support in the society the most, unemployed, the sick people, also schools system and healthcare and the elderly and those things. that's why they vote for new government. >> reporter: so end eight years of conservative economic polltys and the rule of rinefelt and
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conceded defeat and will hand over leadership to the party. >> translator: we did not get far enough and red green wants seats in the parliament with center right alliance and we will keep our promise, i will have resignation from. >> reporter: this reafter forms the commitment to the famous generous welfare state with tax cuts and rising living standards for many but suspicious about public services especially education and healthcare and this vote says they have had enough. it was a good night for the right wing democrats and tried to go mainstream campaigning for 90% cut in sweden immigration and doubled the vote and the third largest in parliament but none of the main parties say they will work with them. they turned back to the values of the welfare state and possibility of higher taxes to pay for it but at the same time
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a surprising number voted for radical party that wants to end sweden reputation for refugees escaping war and persecution. i'm with al jazeera. the hurricane made landfall on the peninsula and they report winds of up to 195 kilometers per hour and one of the worst storms to hit the region. tens of thousands of tur risk and residents are in emergency shelters. venezuela is protesting in caracus and harris has been speaking to lopez supporters in caracus. ♪ supporters of lopez protest outside a courtroom, his cut out serves a reminder how isolated he has been from his movement
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after seven months in jail and his lawyer positioned the case against him to be nullified. >> translator: this is unconstitutional and the court denied it and we demand the supreme court put order into this. >> reporter: facing charges including violence and criminal conspiracy after street protest resulted in several deaths last february. he turned himself in to authorities saying he had nothing to hide. what happened inside the courtroom doesn't necessarily effect the opposition resolve and students detained alongside lopez and later released say they are just waiting for word to once again take to the streets. the plans that were the protest that led to lopez detention took place looks much different today. these are the plans and leaders have been very quiet.
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>> reporter: quiet but according to them busy making plans. he is one of the leaders of the student opposition. >> translator: what is next is the street and one would be a better planet because of the rate we face today. >> reporter: the government said it will not tolerate more violent protest and trying a violent protesters to drive the point home, al jazeera, in venezuela. still ahead, germany thousands against anti-semitism and increase in hate crimes. i'm lawrence lee in europe's energy capitol with a big question about the scottish referendum, is there enough hoil here to fuel the national stream and what happens when it all runs out. ♪
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hello, again the top stories on al jazeera, the president says they must motor waste time coming together to defeat islamic state group or isil and 40 countries are meeting in paris to push isil out of iraq and syria which are under it's control. warning of a severe humanitarian crisis in iraq and with winter approaching half of 1.8 million displaced iraqis do not have proper accommodation. sweed done's opposition party defeated the center right coalition in the parliamentary election and democrats did not win enough seats to form a
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majority government. let's get more on our top story and abraham and he is in the center in doha and great to have you back and talking regular involvement at the paris conference and very much talking that up but there is no i ran there, isn't freezing out iran going to cause problems of its own? >> this is a key issue of the coalition, as we have seen in the cause of the iraqi president who clearly called for involvement of iran and this coalition and no one actually can deny the impact of iran on this coalition and the campaign itself. iran is a key player in the region. it has serious influence in i q iraq. and in the past with the maliki
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or other groups in iraq. >> it's syria as far as the west is concerned, it's part of the problem. >> yes because it's all related. the problem is iran and bringing them to the coalition iran comes as a package and has some positive influence to the campaign but also has serious liabilities, mainly one major reason we have seen what we are seeing today is the marginazation and exclusion of sunni community in iraq. that result is the action of the iraqi government. that was a close ally of iran so there is already a serious sectarian divide. >> my second question about the concerns that are out there and the fact that by international the issue and the way the united states has and the coalition is
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not taking account of those complex problems on the ground, desperate groups and so on. >> you are right and yesterday there was cause by iraqi tribal leaders facing terrorism and should be facing all times of terrorism including terrorism practiced by some shii malitias in the government where reports came out with some appraisal acts and some iraq and sunni community. this is another dimension of the complexity on the ground and also bringing iran will fuel this problem and also back to your original question on iran and bringing them will bring with it also the nuclear debate and negotiations with the west and also the whole issue of syria, of course, with i ran being a close ally with the
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regime so that is one measure i think why this issue of iran has not been desolved and the u.s. obviously who is leading this coalition does not want to legitimize the involvement. >> it's a complex issue, thank you very much. the conference is due to end shortly and i think there is going to be a press conference around now so we will speak then. the jewish museum at belgium opened four months after a gunman killed four there and security tightened for the reopening ceremony and he was a french national who was arrested in july. in germany they put on a share of support for the jewish community there and we report now from berlin. >> reporter: a turn out in the low thousands but the mood was defiant and angela merkel spoke at the request of the jewish
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community, a number of attacks and people and property over the summer including molotov cocktails thrown at a synagogue. >> translator: today much more than 100,000 jews live in germany is near to a miracle, it's a gift, it fills me with great gratitude that people today are being insulted, threatened and attacked in germany as they somehow reveal themselves to be jewish or side with israel is a terrible scandal, i won't accept it. >> reporter: antiseparatetism is a painful subject in germany because of the painful holocaust and they have fought against it through hate speech laws and illegal to show the nazi similar -- symbols but it has shifts to the immigrant community. demonstrations like this one against the war in gaza and for
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an independent palestine that some were chanting jews to the gas chamber. nothing near a rallying cry for the over all gaza protest movement but the words shocked and hurt even among non-view jewish germans. >> i came today because i think it's important to show solidarity with the jewish people concerning the history. >> reporter: israeli flags in the crowd and carried proudly and saying being pro-israel shouldn't mean you get beaten up. >> translator: the situation in germany is tense and many of us are afraid because the anti-semitism and hatred against jews is spreading. hatred never disappeared but now it's more mainstream. >> reporter: the life for the slowly growing jewish community
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here is 24/7 protection atkinson goings, bakeries, book stores and kindergartens even when things are calm in the mid east and merkel says she wants a germany where that is no longer necessary, nick spicer, al jazeera berlin. >> reporter: south korea hiv aids patients are seeking care in general hospitals only the center was stripped for allegations of abuse and it has provoked a debate against aids patients. >> reporter: in a wooded valley southeast of seoul is a nursing home providing rural accommodation for the elderly and long-term care for the sick. and known to the other patients and nonmedical staff 25 of its residents are suffering from aids. there used to be more. last december this place was stripped of the status as the single government approved sent tr for long-term aids care after allegations of physical and session wall abuse and some
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patients have been rehoused temporarily in general hospitals but the 25 remain in a facility officially deemed unfit to look after them, their care still paid for by a government subsidy. >> translator: they do not accept us here any more the only option we have is going back home. >> reporter: center for disease control cited a lack of medical expertise and training. an opinion shared by a former resident who did not want to be identified. >> translator: when you get sick the medicine they give you painkillers and next tranquilizers and sleeping pills and at 9:00 they make you sleep and it's like a prison. >> reporter: initially they hired care give i'were hired n because of experience. >> translator: caregivers with problems were fired and replaced and when there were problems we
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tried best to solve them with the c.d.c. but rumors became too exaggerated. >> reporter: the problem is sister memberic one and his is the only one of the nursing homes to accept people with aids and should be able to choose their medical care by suffering from any other disease. >> translator: that is a point of common ground with activist who cataloged complaints against the institution. >> translator: it's serious there is not a single nursing home in south korea to accept aids pay patients and south korea must revisit the aids policy. >> reporter: it's doing just that and in talks with a possible successor to sudan and patients need this type of accommodation so their families can secretly visit them without admitting to the nature of their illness. there is plenty of cause for concern both in allegations against this institution and some of the information it has
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given us in its own defense but more widely this situation has inadequacy of long-term care for aids patients in the country and the prejudice at the heart. harry faucet, al jazeera in south korea. referendum on scott land independence is three days away now and both sides campaigning hard to win over undecided votes is at the heart of debate who gets to control north sea oil and we report from the energy capitol with lawrence lee. >> reporter: the granite city they call this and on the east coast here it's often bitterly cold and unremittingly gray but this place is basquing in the economic sunshine for years, that oil has provided. he runs a successful construction company and yet he supports independence from the uk because he thinks so much of the profit has been wasted by london. >> oil was discovered in the late 1960s when i was a teenager and ever since i was a teenager
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they say the oil is running out and this is development and opportunities and i think we could have a much stronger economy in the northeast of scott land with the inf infrastructure and investment and encouragement from uk treasury been stronger. >> reporter: debate of the future of the uk agree scott land could survive as an independent country, but oil, energy and scott land's future income have been a source of endless debates. it has been central to the arguments of the scottish national party that the seas there are still full of oil and that the profit from scottish oil should go to scott land and not london and the unionist insists as they have for years that the forecast is incorrect and the oil is running out and the big question is this country as they say really quite poor or as the nationalist insists
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really quite rich. one day the oil will run out that is certain but replacements could be every bit of lucrative. this water in the far north of scott land will create the world's biggest energy scheme and there are other similar and large renewable energy projects throughout and after all a windy country surrounding by crashing seas looks very profitable indeed. >> tens of thousands more people employed in these fields and much more development of these resources. so i think it's a case of the let's say dependent on the level of our ambitions. >> many in scottish business say huge wealth is an illusion. >> no need for weapons and airforce and expanding and continuing pensions, expanding child care, you name it we can have it, the only thing is not
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promises is white christmases, we can have it all. >> reporter: the slogan is yes we can and unionists is no we can't. it's who the voters the believe, al jazeera in aberdeen. >> sex outside of marriage is a sin by the catholic church but now some couples living together now have the blessing of the pope and we have more. >> reporter: at a time when people are abandoning catholics by the millions and pope francis often preaches the church must be a partner and not an obstacle to social change and on sunday there was another symbol of determination to make the church more inclusive and compassionate. catholic couples who previously had been prohibited from marrying they can now in rome. some prospective brides and brooms had been living together and one had a grown up daughter and marrying a divorcee.
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>> translator: a little piece of advice it's normal for married couples to argue, it's normal, it always happens but my advice is never let the day end without having made peace, never. >> reporter: since his election 18 months ago the pope criticized the church of what it calls on sex and home sexuality. >> i think we have knowledge is a question and can be linked together more for people with adopting of the church. >> translator: the church has been closed for too long, too rigid and maybe this new pope arrived at the right moment. >> reporter: the catholic church still has deep challenges to face but pope francis seems determined as ever not to put the emphasis not on church but
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attending on social needs to his people. i'm with al jazeera. and more with the stories we have been covering from the pope marrying couples in rome to indeed the important conference going on in paris right now on our website, al jazeera.com is the website, al jazeera.com. pass pass the united states orders air tricks to hit so-called islamic state fighters in iraq and syria. military attacks is half the battle. i look at how they fund themselves and what can be done to bankrupt it. and a small but wealth country of qatar has been an influential and controversial player in the region how to stop u.s. companies leaving america to lower tax bills. sheila bear has a simply solution - eliminate all corporate taxes.