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in terms of what you can control, you can't control everything. that's it for tonight. good night. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to a news hour from al jazeera at the headquarters in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutes, the first look at isil fighters inside the syrian town of kabane as they are pouring in enforcements in attempt to take it over. we hear why vie reynolds in syria is forcing young girls to have children with american twice their age, plus some of
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the heads of thousands forced from their homes by boko haram campaign of violence in nigeria. >> and i have the sport, the host of the biggest football tournament in africa ask them to postpone it because of the ebola outbreak. ♪ kurdish forces engaged in a desperate battle to defend kobane and isil sending in reenforcements and pouring more tanks and weapons on the border and kurdish forces managed to regain their security headquarters in the town but it again has been over run despite more coalition air strikes and representatives of the kurdish forces told al jazeera that isil continues to push further into kobane from the south and east where there is fierce fighting and we will take you there live
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a mile or two away from kobane and stef decker is on the turkish/syria border and stef when we have spoken to you over the past few hours behind you we have heard the sounds of battle. is that still going on? >> reporter: yes, in the last half hour or so we saw increased activicoun activity and we are 3-400 meters away which is a position that isil holds and hearing what seems to be outgoing fire more towards the center of the town and it is an ongoing fight and we are told by sources inside the town that the kurds need more weapons to be able to push them back and coalition air strikes and there has been activity this morning and one air strike hit the town but it doesn't seem to have done anything to reduce the sound of the fighting we are hearing. of course we get our information from sources on the ground and also what we hear and see and
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it's an intense sound of small-armed fire and mortar explosions constantly and extremely worrying and why we had the strong message from the u.n. and special envow to syria saying open border to kurds who will go to fight and help the kurds inside fighting isil because it's not moving at the moment and he had strong words saying turkey will regret not doing more because we can't afford a massacre at the hands of isil and this is pressure on turkey to do more at the moment even though there is diplomatic efforts there is not a clear indication how they will be stepping up the military campaign against isil. >> these are pictures of isil fighters in kobane and you could be forgiven for thinking when you look at those pictures and those supplied by kurdish fighters in the town that the place is deserted apart from those involved in the battle but that is not the case, is it? >> reporter: no, majority of
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civilians have left. this is why we saw this massive exodus around three weeks ago when it all started, people petrified and the psychological aspect of the pr campaign of terror so to speak that isil is inflicting with propaganda and messages and people are advancing will flee because there will be no mercy especially for the kurds and we have 180,000 people that cross into turkey over the space of probably about ten days. we do know there are some civilians left, 5-7 00's the figure we heard from the u.n. and especially elderly people who are not very mobile and also those who simply say they don't want to leave their home and think they life here is humiliating and undignified and depending on handouts and heard this from many people who say they prefer to die at home than live that kind of a lifestyle here and gives you an indication of the desperation of people here and such anger that it
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seems to be allowed to happen and it's sereal to see where we can see kobane and nothing really is being done. >> stephanie decker live on the syria/turkey border and asking for help against isil and dana is there and what is the significance of anbar and how long before they pose a threat to baghdad? >> reporter: like you mentioned iraqi officials are appealing for help. they believe it's just a matter of days, after ten days and isil can control the whole providence of anbar and borders syria and means isil will have an open supply line between the strongholds in iraq as well as syria and it's also at the doorsteps of baghdad so they can use this province as a launching
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pad and it's strategic because there are army installations and they have pushed into village's and took over positions and means they get more weapons and this is despite air strikes and for the coalition this is an embarrassment because isil has not just been defeated or the capabilities degraded on the country, it's on the offensive and controlling more territory. what the u.s.-led coalition as well as the iraqi government needs is for the sunnis to side with them and this is majority sunni province and right now they don't have much support among the population to take on isil. >> thanks, live in erbil in iraq itself and isil responsible for a killing, a camera man was among 13 people shot dead according to a media watchdog and he came from a village near tekrete and targeted because he
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refused to work for the group and this is a senior lecturer in the study of islam and the muslim world of king's college in london. dr. kurston and we heard a lot and a media frenzy about the killing of isil of western hostages, the world's media doesn't seem to be that interested in this cameraman, why do you think that is? >> indeed that has been a general tendency. i mean isil was already establishing a reign of terror since last summer and thousands of iraqis and syrians have died at the hands of isis fighters since the summer and it was actually only when semi celebrities and journalists like foley fell victim to isis that the west woke up. there is still a tendency in the media to treat victims in the region and of local origin, sort of anonymously. >> we are told he belonged to a
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sunni/muslim tribe and of course isil fighters are sunni too and what does that tell us? >> indeed, i mean it has been very much projected as sort of a sectarian conflict but i think we have learned over the last few months already that isis is in a category of its own and among other jihad movements on the extremist fridge they are controversial and the jihad websites one sees debates among jihads of what isis is doing legitimate or even helpful to their cause, that was the cause with the proclamation of that and the execution of innocent bystanders and people from the media because they are to be considered noncombatants from ideological and puzzled other
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jihad organizations as well why isis has this very uncompromising attitude and it's not so much only turning on people who are against them but even people who simply do not wish to execute what isis wants and in the case of this cameraman his refusal to work with isis was the reason for his death yesterday. and the fact that indeed he comes basically from the constituency where isis has the support base in syria and iraq didn't matter. >> doctor, stay with us, the religious minority has also suffered at the hands of isil fighters who see them as hariticks and thousands got refuge on mt. singai without food and water and some young girls from the community are shedding light on the abuses they faced at the hands of isil which they say includes slavery and forced marriage.
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>> translator: those who didn't want to get married were married by force. whether they became a muslim, or not, they insisted on marrying us and offering to live together then get married. >> dr. kurston as far as isil is concerned and the women they find to marry them and forcibly marry them, what are we to make of that? >> indeed, this is also one of the callus outputs of the isis policies which are on the one hand indeed ideological and very much driven what they see as islamic agendas but there is also an extremely pragmatic dimension to it that pertains to both their engagement of which we get only incidental reports of involvement in the forced marriages and even trading women for whatever purposes they are doing it. as well as a lively black market
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in trading oil from the wells they have captured. so isis presents this very contradictory picture of an organization claiming an uncompromising ideological agenda but a very pragmatic if not cynical way of implementing politics. >> thanks for talking to us from kings college in london. the violence in syria forced hundreds of thousands of people to seek refuge in neighboring countries and there is a big rise in the number of child marriages among refugees and girls as young as 13 having children with men more than twice their age. and we report now from zolica. >> reporter: this is not the syrian girl's real name, she was 13 when she got married right after the war began and she is now 16 with a child of her own. the war forced her parents to marry her to her cousin to make sure someone would look after her in jordan.
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war, displacement and marriage made her drop out of school in the 9th grade. >> translator: i advise any young girl to get an education and not take on the big responsibilities i have as a child. i had my son so young i didn't know what to do when he cried or got sick i had no clue. >> reporter: she was timid in the interview but said pregnancy was excruciating and from unicef had a sharp rise in child marriages between the ages of 15-17 among syrian refugees in jordan. and if that is not enough the study also shows that almost half of these child marriages were to men who were ten or more years older. ngos are concerned that early marriages could leave some girls in abusive and exploitation and they want to prevent child marriages and help those who are
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already married cope with challenges. she is 17 and divorced after a three-year abusive marriage. >> translator: so many of us were crammed into a small space and my ex-husband became more violent. he would beat me and scream at me all the time. >> reporter: some syrian families had to flee from the war find early marriage favorable for economic and cultural reasons. reproductive health worries ngo and indicate early marriages have a higher risk of pregnancy complications and miscarriages and aid agencies are working to raise awareness. >> we are really looking at a generation of girls that will lose their future, their education is lost and they no longer go to school after being married, so the cycle of poverty of one's ability is transmitted from a generation to another. >> reporter: although early marriages have long been an accepted practice in syria, it
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appears the war has, encouraged them more and in the process shattered the dream of young girls, al jazeera, daka. reports that three soldiers killed in the east of the country and the blast occurred in the province of habamoot and 20 days after government soldiers were killed in attacks in the same province, president morsi arrived in cairo court with others from the muslim brotherhood from one of the trials and facing a number of charges including insighting murder, using vie violence against protesters and this is from people taking rally in december 2012 and facing charges of terrorism and espionage in separate trials and say he conspired with hamas and freeing
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muslim brotherhood members and accused of passing classified documents to katar and could face the death penalty if found guilty. al jazeera continues to demand the release of three journalists in prison in egypt and fahmy and gres that and mohamed have been in jail 287 jail and accused of aiding the muslim brotherhood and are repealing the convictions and mohamed got extra three years because of a spent bullet he picked up at a protest and more to come on the news hour and greek politicians try to appease the people dissolutioned with the state with plans to cut funds for political parties plus. >> i'm in mumbai and coming up, we will see if india new commercial futbol league can
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compete in a country where cricket is king. ♪ global ebola outbreak cannot be controlled without a massive international response according to the u.n. special envow for ebola, david navarro and comes as the world health organization confirmed more than 4,000 people have now died in the outbreak and majority of the deaths have been in west africa. who says the 2316 people have died in liberia. the country worst effected. sierra leone ebola killed 930 people. in guinea where the latest out break began 778 people have died. and 8 people have died in nigeria. aid agencies in sierra leone say the international community needs to invest far more money and resources into fighting the ebola out break and sierra leone doesn't have enough resources to treat ebola patients, on average
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there is only one doctor for every 50,000 people. dominick kane reports. >> reporter: this is an ebola treatment center in western free town and cares for people who have tested positive for the disease. those suspected of incubating the virus are placed in a separate ward. those with the full-blown disease are treated in special tents behind steel fences. >> in this moment there are nurse staff inside one tent that they are providing care to one patient and there is always another person outside following the activities that we are doing in the risk area. >> reporter: in this outbreak many of the people treating patients have themselves become infected from accidental contamination. that is something the healthcare workers here take very serious
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ly. >> translator: and the treatment center you have to be careful when you go inside there, it's a risky job for the cleaners, the nurses, the doctors and it's not easy to do the work inside. you have to take your time and take all the precautions. >> reporter: trying to contain the outbreak is especially hard for sierra leone, it's home to 6 million people. 75% of them live in poverty. the government spends $205 per person per year on health. and there are only 120 doctors. another problem is how to ensure the safe disposal of the body of victims. they are highly contagious and with more people dying everyday in some places the bodies can lie in the open for some time. >> we use protective equipment and then we use gloves and then we use boots, clothing, it's very risky and it's a voluntary
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job to save our country. >> reporter: but if the people organizing the treatment center in lakar are correct, that on its own may not be enough. dominick kane, al jazeera. in spain the number of people being monitored for possible ebola infection has risen to 17. they are all at the same hospital where the nurse theresa ramaro is in serious condition and she is the first person to contract the virus outside of african and they are furious of the government of the handling of the first case and staged a noisy protest during the visit to the hospital. the u.s. is set to begin screening passengers for ebola and new york will use thermal senses from new guinea and sierra leone and washington d.c. and atlanta and newark will role
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it out in a few days. a confidence day in parliament and puts an end of speculation of when the elections will be held and insists the government is stable and will push ahead with its economic reforms. meanwhile the greek government is considering cutting funding for parties and right now taxpayer money is the only source of funding and john reports from athens. >> reporter: he prides himself on selling almost exclusive greek products but his business is hanging by a thread. >> translator: we should abolish the tax dividend and get a symbolic amount and get the rest on their own and we pay it up front with cash and the tax man wants cash. >> reporter: they foot the bill for political parties to the tune of $70 million last year, 7
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times the burden of the average german voter. the ruling coalition of isobarlesss and conservatives have a bill to cut public funding to parties behalf and post nations online. >> this is a new generation of politicians and we want to regain the confidence of society and that is what we are doing now. >> reporter: many taxpayers will welcome greater transparency but some say the government only did this under pressure from their so called striker of creditors. >> reluctant to do it and between you and i if it was not the pressure from tell european community, it was not the pressure from any other non-government organization like the spanish international they would not have done it. >> and it will make life difficult for the ruling
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coalition because together socialist owe greek banks millions. >> reporter: the two parties are already failing to pay interest on the first majority of loans and political observers here don't believe they can raise money from private donations to do so so the new law could bankrupt them and since the taxpayer bailed out the greek financial system two years ago the taxpayer again would foot the bill. >> they decided these debts are not going to be serviced. could be they would change their names and tax register and start all over again with a different name. >> reporter: party debt is only all thousand of the national debt but since politicians caused both taxpayers who have no escape don't feel politicians should either, john with al jazeera athens. a landslide killed at least 19 people in northwest china and
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happened in the province here and it buried a dorm with construction workers as they were sleeping inside, 9 people were killed by the crush itself and ten others died after unsuccessfully attempts to save them. nicaragua destruction in parts of the country and hundreds of homes flooded and destroyed by landslides near the volcano, bearing down on southern japan concerned about mudslides and flooding and let's bring in the metrologist who can tell us why the typhoon has been downgrade it's no less dangerous. >> typically when you bear in mind last week with other typhoon had problems and vast amount of rainfall and that is the major issue as we go on through the next couple of days, staggering alongen and at the moment this is the eye and getting broken apart a little bit making its way across
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okinawa and gusting to 230 miles per hour and it is getting weak through the next couple of days. this is of great significance, the movement just 11 kilometers per hour and it's 6-7 kilometers and staggering along and slowly pushing to kishoo sunday to monday and expecting to make its way to kishoo and this is a picture and you can see the outer bands only coming to the far south of japan. moving another 24 hours, yeah 24 hours later it still is making its way across southern parts of honshoo and took a day to push out in the waters of the north pacific and some parts could easily see another 300 millimeters of rain over 36-48 hours and will cause life threatening floods and mudslides. a system going to the eastern side of india and that will also
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cause problems over the next couple days with very strong winds and flooding rains for eastern parts of india, adrian. >> thanks and torrential rain and winds and south palo is suffering worst drought in centuries and vehicles dumped under water and the city reservoir turned up on what is now the shore and the south palo governor is asking for help from the government. now, the people of bolivia elect a new president on sunday and the incumbent appears to be way ahead of the closest challenger and one of the issues that he is focused on now is a 135-year-old territorial dispute with chile. more on that from our latin america editor who is in that part. >> reporter: a bolivian naval vessel sees colors on patrol and not in the ocean but, yes, a
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lake. at more than 4,000 meters above sea level the lake here is the world's highest navigable lake. having navy relegated to this body of water is a humiliation endured by bolivia since 1879 when it lost the coastline to neighboring chile in the war of the pacific. at the naval base sailors learn the basics so they will be ready for the day when their land-locked country gets a corridor to the specific. and we visit a school where a patriotism class is underway. >> translator: when the chile arrive here they told them to surrender and what did our hero answer? that your grandmother surrender answers this boy. >> reporter: as you can see from a very early age these children are taught that chile took away bolivia rightful
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access to the sea and when they graduate the boys at least will have to do the military service and there they will march around the lake and this is what they will chant, i want to bathe in the blood of chile, i want to bathe to drown my sorrow. so deeply rooted anger and sorrow explains why bolivians see this as a wound that refuses to heal. after decades of frustrated attempts to negotiate a sovereign corridor to the specific current president has taken chile to the international court of justice in the hague. >> translator: using his speech before the u.n. to make his case. his aggressive approach angered neighboring chile ahead of sunday's elections. >> that issue is one of the few issues that has a completely
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natural consensus about it and he is the leader of consensus and that is why he is speaking to nations about that because it brings him a lot of support in the country. >> a country that views the president's efforts as a national priority, as its children sing of their dream for a deep blue sea for bolivia. and i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: approaching the midway point on the news hour and still to come on the program. >> millions of the children now and i'm talking to you must be working in the mines and factories. >> reporter: we will hear from india's nobel peace prize recipient and who he thinks he will be giving his prize money to. plus, as the funeral of haiti leader, former leader approaches we look at the family that ruled for 30 years and in sports the kansas royals first post season for 29 years just keeps getting
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♪ hello again with the news hour from al jazeera and adrian in doha and kurdish forces defending kobane saying isil is sending in reenforcements. in the past 24 hours u.s. led forces launched ten air strikes in support of kurdish fighters there. aid agencies in sierra leone say the international community needs to invest far more money
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and resources into fighting the ebola outbreak. 930 people have died and have died there from the virus. a typhoon has hit parts of southern japan bringing powerful winds and huge waves and torrential rain and making its way across okinowa islands and isis is gaining ground but denying control over the city of benghazi and more violence in the city and as rival groups wrestle for control libya's neighbors are concerned. and we report. >> reporter: chanting for the over throw of parliament the one that sits in the libya city here and for months two rival representatives and no government. these protesters oppose any foreign intervention and support
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libya's dawn in the reliance of malitia which controls the country including the country tripoli and gather in the freedom square of benghazi, a battleground for months and this is the latest car bomb that went off in front of a local hotel and it was not clear who was the target. like other parts of libya no one single group is in charge here and he is declared a terrorist group by the united states says it's making gains in the city. but it denies aims to expand beyond benghazi. >> translator: we regret this internal strife that our people in libya are dealing with. the treacherous has dragged them into this and cost loss and tragedy. my god, if this will drag on they will lose more and more and pray it will end soon. >> reporter: but increasing numbers of radical fighters is
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becoming a serious concern. this video posted on the internet appears to show a convow in support of the islamic state in iraq and lavonte and the area is considered a stronghold of the group and fighters have been pledging support for isil. >> translator: in the name of benghazi and the youth of liberation we will continue our campaign until we establish god's rule in this area. >> reporter: the elected prime minister abdullah is reaching out for help and promised to drain libya army and provide support but cabinet is in tarook and legitimacy challenged in court in tripoli. standoff between elected politicians and those who claim to defend the revolution drags on libyans are suffering. more than a quarter of a million have been forced from their homes and many are unlikely to return any time soon, i'm with
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al jazeera. protesters in hong kong continue to camp out of major rally sites across the city and regained momentum in spite a failure to hold talks with hong kong's government the talks have been scheduled for friday but the government said they wouldn't be constructive and protesters are rallying against beijing's decision to screen candidates for the city's 2017 election. a won'teekend of protest in ferguson, missouri. >> don't shoot, don't shoot. >> reporter: people demanding justice for an unarmed teenager michael brown shot dead by police in august leading to days of unrest. al jazeera's is in ferguson. >> reporter: this is the combination of the first night of a holiday weekend of protests in ferguson talking about the killing of michael brian, the black, unarmed teenager in
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august by a police officer. organizers are hoping thousands will gather in st. louis on saturday and end with an act of mass disobedience on monday and this is not just about protest or politicians and they organized various seminars and lectures trying to analyze why in the u.s. black teenagers are being killed at a rate 20 times higher from white peers as a study on friday reveals. there are seminars on race, politics, class, gender, economics in a bid to try to understand the concepts involved and mobilize the anger we saw on the streets of ferguson in august to try and effect lasting change. cameroon government says 27 hostages captured earlier in the year by boko haram have been freed. the group includes ten chinese nationals who were taken in may near the town close to nigerian
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border, the wife of cameroon prime minister was also released and she was abducted by the armed group in july. inside nigeria five years of violence in the northeast of the country forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. the state here was once a refuge for victims of unrest but it now is a battleground between boko haram fighters and nigerian security forces. al jazeera's amid reports. >> reporter: tears and anger. this is the life lived by thousands of people displaced by boko haram fighters in northern nigeria and these are even lucky to have a roof over their heads and occasional treats like second-hand items and food. and her family of five lived a comfortable life but she says her world came crashing down last year when boko haram fighters killed her husband.
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this camp is her third home in less than a year. >> translator: after my husband was killed, nothing mattered. we had a happy family, a home and businesses, everything is gone now except the children. i tried to help them but i just don't have the strength to do this anymore. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of displaced here in the state. this is one of the newest camps set up to cope with the rising number of people displaced because of fighting in the northeast and home to 500,000 people displaced because of boko haram. a resent u.n. report says there are up to 6 million people forced from their homes in nigeria. authorities here are struggling but the government says the displaced have been taken care of. >> translator: we are not approaching this and we teach them to make life worth living
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afterwards. >> reporter: some displaced feel differently and john and eight members of his family fled to cameroon in january after boko haram attacked their town five times and three other village's he got refuge in is targeted and he now found a new home in a church, 200 kilometers away from his last refuge. >> translator: after being displaced four times we are all afraid boko haram will eventually find us here and what is the help except what the church gives us and we cannot do this properly and we are suffering. >> reporter: the government is struggling to cope with the number of displaced people but security forces launch new offensive to take back territory seized by boko haram fighters the feeling here is the worst is yet to come. i'm with al jazeera, northeastern nigeria. mexican rebel group
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threatened to take action whoever is behind the disappearance of 43 students in the state. the group which has been dormant for years calls it says the revolutionary army of insurgent people and promising to take up arms of what it calls the narco state. north korean media say high-level talks with the south have been cancelled after leaflets were launched from across the border and 200,000 pamphlets in north korea on friday attached to giant balloons and the north tried to shoot down the balloons. pakistan teenager malala yousafzai says she wants to donate her peace prize to children around the world and the 17-year-old is the youngest ever recipient and says the award is an encouragement for her as she campaigns for the rights of all children to
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educati education. >> you all may know that the organization and because of that nobody was allowed to go to school. at that time i stood up for my rights and said i would speak up. i did not wait for someone else. i did not wait for someone else. i really had two options. one was not to speak and wait to be killed. and the second was to speak up and then be killed and i chose the second one. so telling me story i want to tell other children all around the world they should stand up for their rights and should not wait for someone else and their voices are more powerful. >> reporter: child rights activist was jointly awarded the nobel peace prize which is kailash satyarthi has been speaking with him in new deli following the announcement. >> reporter: bitter sweet moment for kailash satyarthi after decades of campaigning for
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children's rights he has received the most prestige award along with malala yousafzai and it's a cause he wish he didn't have to fight. >> millions of the children now and i'm talking to you must be working in the mines and factories and homes and workshops and so on. and i feel very bad about it. every moment of joy i feel for them because it is because of them. >> reporter: kailash satyarthi has been attacked and intimated but his organization helped to rescue more than 80,000 working children. >> translator: he has been injured and has escaped death and even had to change his name. people have come in front of him carrying a gun so just imagine if he didn't have strong will
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power how could he get out of situations. this kind of thing has happened a lot. >> reporter: in india he is a national hero compared by some to gandhi for his peaceful but determined work to end child slavery. he has promised to spend the prize money on his organization. after campaigning for more than 30 years kailash satyarthi received global recognition in hopes that this award will raise awareness about his work to protect india's children, i'm with al jazeera, new deli. at least seven people killed in a stampede in antirally in pakistan and happened friday in the city here and police say around 40,000 people were at the rally organized by the politician khan. the funeral of jean-claude duvalier known as baby doc is set to take place in haiti and
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he is responsible of the torture and death of thousands and andy gallagher is at porto prince of the legacy. >> reporter: even the dead cannot find prince and porto prince cemetery and human remains lay scattered and coffins desecrated and jean-claude duvalier's team has not been spared and this was once a grand memorial. >> trouble in haiti after the president jean-claude duvalier refused to step down after his term. >> reporter: his rule pitched haiti in chaos and pressure and torture and disappearance of thousands marked his time in office and when he died made his son president for life but under baby doc as he became known little changed. after 15 years in power in 84
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and returned 25 years later welcomed by many and invited to official events by haiti's current president and jean-claude duvalier former lawyer say baby doc is much understood and did much for haiti. >> the people are here and there were days of insecurity and didn't know those words when jean-claude duvalier was in power. we didn't know nothing about these things. >> reporter: like his father baby doc used malitia for opponents and lived through both regimes and say jean-claude duvaliers ruled through fear. >> i lived almost all my youth in terror, you know, to the point where i got home and i was talking to my father and mother in whisper because jean-claude
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duvalier had an incredible network of spies. >> reporter: jean-claude duvalier led haiti for 30 years and great cost and tens of thousands were tortured and killed while father and son led lavish lifestyles and some have loss and some feel cheated for justice and many more are simply too young to remember either. both duvaliers died free men and for victims that is injustice and jean-claude duvalier's grave is vandalized and empty and this is a man for many say did so much harm and i'm in porto prince haiti. the biggest football tournament in africa is thrown into doubt over ebola out break the team of most effective complains they are being treated like pirahs and details with joe. ♪
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hello again and time for sport and here is joe. >> adrian thank you very much. they are calling for the big football tournament to be postpone and it was due in january and include teams from the worst effected nations and the tournament held every two years attracted almost 800,000 fans when it was held in africa last year and they are due to meet at the african federation of football to discuss the dangers of hosting the event. and football has been badly effected by the ebola outbreak
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of resent months and july liberia the worst effected by the disease is trying to control the virus, early august three sierra leone players were refused to come in and had to forfeit and cannot make the finals and they under went-bowl screening before going against congo and qualifies in guinea and liberia and sierra leone and they tried to find vent venues to have the game and may postpone the event and we are standing by in ghanna and gary they requested postponement but will the configuration of football listen or will they go completely the other way and cancel it altogether? >> i doubt they are cancel this,
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it's too high-profile tournament for them and they will make sure the screening is done of all the 15 countries that are scheduled to join morocco and make sure the tournament goes ahead. there is too much to lose in terms of what it means for football and also they are always going to say that, i mean, with health as good as they are currently in the western world they should be able to put something together. >> but this has been building up for sometime now. we continue to have qualifiers, and some would say they should have dealt with it earlier, what do you think? >> certainly, 100% agree with you they are built in the area and right now we are between a rock and a hard place and we are about three marches to go at the moment and the tournament is in january and what will you do, will you tell them to stop playing or say for example my
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country ghana will be playing guinea in casa, blanca and neutral countries can be found but for the tournament let's host the tournament and the numbers coming into morocco are screened for precautionary measures are taken for the tournament. that is what we will see. i seriously doubt the tournament will be postponed. >> briefly you are in ghana what are fans telling you there, are they worried about going to matches? >> well, no. people are not worried because, i mean, even though ghana is about three blocks away to put it that way from the nearest country that has ebola, that is liberia, people are not really scared because, you know, inasmuch as the borders are not 100%, even the united states are having problems with people coming into their country, people are generally feeling cool about it and any time there is going to be a qualifier or
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something common sense asked it be move like the game against guinea today will be done and people are not terrified of it but national level there is a lot of chaos to people coming from countries such as guinea and sierra leone and things like that. >> that is african football gary smith talking to us from ghana and gary you mentioned, well, moving on to cricket now and it's a nation known for football, sorry, known for its cricket of course india but on sunday they will launch a brand new competition, the indian super league and 8 franchises will compete in a three-month tournament and we report. >> reporter: this is a rare site in india, mumbai a city of 18 million people this is the only dedicated football field. but these kids might have a head start in becoming the next big thing. the indian super league is set to begin with five international football players on each team
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and those behind the league say high television ratings for the world cup and various european leagues prove indian fans want football. >> they decided they are interested and they would not have the money and a lot of football players tend to come. >> reporter: many international players and world cup winners are no longer in their prime but the head of the league says they will help in creating an appeal for the sport in india. >> that is what the aim is to make the national team stronger and i think we have to start at the bottom of the pyramid and that is where we want the clubs and franchises to concentrate on on the grass root on the development and that is what we were looking. >> reporter: but it will be challenging to build the stadiums and facilities needed to reach that goal. football is not as popular in india as the rest of the world but as a new league starts up it not only competes against other sports for attention but money
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and cricket dominates to professional levels and to counter that and have excitement they asked dolly wood for funds. this brand expert says the excitement of international players will only last for so long and creating local champions is one of three important steps to the league's success. >> whether the fans actually start consuming the sport and playing it and last but not least is the sponsors and investment and if these things don't happen i don't think it will sustain it and it's there for the entertainment culture. >> training to be india football stars of tomorrow and if the new league scores with fans they may have a popular venue to show off their skills. i'm with al jazeera, mumbai. >> more on this we are joined with the editor of india website
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and thank you very much for joining us, do you think this league will be a success? i'm afraid we lost the line now. we will have to come back to him a little bit later on to talk about the indian premier league. moving on to the netherlands and they bounced back from defeat in 2016 qualifying against a win of kazistan and the opponents took the lead and putting ahead of just 17 minutes and the dutch equalizer only came midway through the second half. abraham and robin added to more for 3-1 victory. total of 26 goals scored on nine matches on friday and belgium six past endura and you might also remember he was on the receiving end of the bite at the world cup sword three goals in
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italy match and the goal for the opponents. united states all time leading goal scorer played his last in the international football match. and donovan worry the arm ban in the 158 and final appearance and played a part in the usa 1-1 draw with ecuador and he was substituted before half time and he retired with 57 international goals and he will continue playing in major league soccer until the end of the season. >> i've put a lot in to this game over many years and tonight feels like it was all worth it and so i'm very grateful. >> reporter: the kansas royals took game one of baseball american league championship against the oriols and 5-0 and a two-run homer and gave royals
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8-6 win in the 10th inning, the fourth extra inning win in five post season games as the royals continue their return to the championship series for the first time in 29 years. >> all these games are big and there is a lot of emotions in it and our team is just having fun with it and seems like every night there is somebody else stepping up so it's good to see and my brother is here so it's good to do it in front of him. >> reporter: and that is all the sport for now. >> thanks indeed and we will end the news hour with breaking news from iraq right now and getting reports of a suicide bombing in the country, al jazeera is on the line from baghdad and can tell us more. >> reporter: since the bombing took place in the marketplace north of the city and this was unusual and it took place if the middle of the day. normally we see bomb ings taking place in the early morning to
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catch the early morning traffic or late at night when people are taking advantage of the cool to do shopping and go to market and this is in the middle of the day and nine people are dead and at least 12 injured and we expect that figure to go up. >> thanks and khan is live on the line from baghdad. that is just about it from this particular news hour. before i go let me tell you an egyptian court sentenced several people from the muslim brotherhood and handed 15-year terms and accused of torturing a lawyer during the revolution in 2011 and full details on that, the suicide bombing in iraq and the rest of the day's news straight ahead on al jazeera. thanks for watching, i'll see you again. good-bye for now. ♪
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