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♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ and it's good to have you here for the news here and i'm david foster and this is what we are studying in detail in the next 60 minutes and kenya death squad and they talk to al jazeera about killing radical muslims without trial. syria asks the united nations to put sanctions on israel for carrying out air strikes near damascus. a million philippines forced from their homes waiting for the storm to pass and it's on the way to the capitol manila.
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out rage in india and bans on line taxi service uber after a woman says she was raped by a driver. ♪ now starting the news hour with an al jazeera exclusive, for the first time kenya's counter terrorism police have admitted that they do kill suspects. no trial, no due process. they target so called muslim radical and one police admitting he has killed 50 suspects, one of the officers says the western countries including britain know about the death squads and simon reports. >> this is the body of michael, one of 21 suspected radical muslims allegedly gunned down by kenya police since 2012. and he predicted his death when i met him last year. >> i'm the one who is being
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terrorized, my life is the one which is in danger. >> reporter: al jazeera's investigative union has spoken to the police hit men involved in the chill ings and we verified they were members of kenya's counter terrorism unit and agreed to conceal their identitie identities. >> since i was employed i killed over 50 and day and day out you kill of suspects. >> reporter: britain and american provided millions of counter terrorism and police and the officers claim western security agencies know about the killings because they provide some of the intelligence in police reports like this
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obtained by al jazeera. do you think the british know that you guys are eliminating terrorists? >> they do. once they have the information they know. and it has been worked on. >> reporter: the head of the international bar association since the interviews provide evidence that individuals from western governments are complicit in the killings and could face charges. >> if there are individuals that are found to be not just training but are actually to have been directing supervising, targeting individuals that in turn would be targeted in a killing, then there is a criminal responsibility. >> reporter: the british foreign officer said it was aware of the killings in kenya but rejected any involvement
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while the kenya police denied running an elimination program. simon is heard in the report you just watched live from london and what we saw there was a little bit of what will be later on today an hour-long program and obviously didn't see it, wondering if you can tell us what other evidence you have because we hear the unnamed police officer say what they did, have you got anything to back this up? >> yeah, obviously we took steps to verify these people are who they claimed to be and also interviewed witnesses to some of the actions that they talk about and verified what they were telling us with what witnesses were telling us. we also then interviewed numerous human rights groups in kenya who spend many years documenting the human rights abuses by kenya police and not the least of the u.n. on
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killings who had done a report on police killings in kenya who sadly backed up everything we were being told. >> reporter: was there a motive for people going on camera and telling what they had done which reflects extremely badly on them? >> that is why we protected their identities and they were concerned about retribution but to a certain population and this action will play very well. there is a lot of violence in kenya and taking harsh steps against that and the people we spoke to honestly thought they were doing the best to protect kenya, that was the motivation for them to speak forward. >> reporter: any thought on your part that the authorities are quite happy to see this information leaked? >> i doubt they would have been happy to see it leaked but what was quite evident is when we
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were looking for the kenya government to give us a rebuttal and denial they put ub a spokesman and they were careful not to accept or deny this was the kenya authority's work. so i don't think they were sanctioned to come and speak to us but i think certain sections of the kenya population this is the message. >> reporter: so what happens next because the allegations you make are explosive in more ways than one i suppose, what do you expect to follow on from this? >> i don't see a great deal of change in kenya when the killing report came out on kenya a few years back, there were some police reforms that were suggested that have taken hold and it has changed since that report came forward, the head of the international bar association who we review in the filling has called on countries and support to the kenya police and now to stop and he says
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there needs to be a paradigm shift in how they treat suspects before western countries can continue supporting them with western funding. >> thank you very much indeed and you can watch the entire exclusive report, inside kenya death squads on line monday, december the 8th, that is this day at 20 hours gmt and that is 2000 gmt. in the philippines a million people are waiting to return to their homes after evacuating areas in the path of high toan hagupit and we went east of the country and found one family just back after two days in a shelt shelter. >> reporter: she has been through so many typhoons in her 57 years she can't even remember how many. her house has been repeatedly damaged over the years, it does
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not even have a front door, she has just returned after yet another trip to a shelter. she usually brings her baby jesus statute with her but this time she left it behind to protect her house. >> translator: the only thing i can do is pray that he helps us and keeps us healthy. it's important that you don't fall ill when you are already poor. >> reporter: this is the waterfront here, obviously the ocean is a lot more calm when it was when the typhoon came through on sunday and people sought shelter at the government building about 200 meters down the road and this is where she lives and it's essentially a squatters village built on top of reclaimed swamp land. inside her house it's hard to tell what is the damage from hagupit and what is the result of previous storms. but what is for certain there is more water under the house.
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her fisherman husband died four years ago and her six-year-old grandson lives with her and he wants to be an engineer. >> translator: obvious i dream for him to finish school and if he finishes college he can start earning money. >> reporter: kept her and her family safe from the fierce storms but with the passing typhoon season it's difficult for her to keep a roof over her family's heads, philippines. stef with us here now, is the worst over or are people in manila likely to get the brunt of it? >> more flooding and a chance the storm could rejuvenate and looking at the satellite we can see the storm for the last 24 hours and you can see first it was fairly organized then it is disheveled and smaller as well and indication it lost some intensity as you expect because
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it's over land at the moment so the main problems currently are with the amount of water it sucked up and seeing a lot of heavy rain and there is more likely in the way of flooding and landslides as well and what the storm is going to do is work to vietnam and could reintensify so when it hits on friday it could cause major problems. >> reporter: stef, thank you. syria calling on u.n. to impose sanctions on israel accusing it of carrying out air strikes in damascus according to syria state news agency, syrian activists say israeli planes bombed the airport being used by military and another strike targeted a weapon's cash close to the lebanese border, that is what the syrians are saying. let's go to mts tie up live for us in jerusalem and normally israelis keep their heads down
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as accusations such as this, so a few rumblings? >> not a lot at this stage. in fact, israelis are being, as you rightly pointed out tight lipped about this and haven't heard anything from the government or the military, however, opposition politicians have been quick to season these apparent israeli air strikes saying that it's a cynical move by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as he eyes elections in march of next year. whatever the case most military analysts have dismissed this, saying that an air strike like this if carried out by israel would take weeks of planning. whatever the case again as you have been saying we understand that the targets were the depot which serviced air missiles or launchers and there is a suggestion here in the israeli media that these were distincted
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for hezbollah in lebanon, again, we don't have confirmation for that. however, we have seen israeli air strikes in syria before and in the past we have also heard the suggestion that it was target i targeting ammunition and arms that could potentially go to lebanon but not a lot being said by the israelis. >> mts time, thank you. inside syria dozens of soldiers have been injured after opposition fighters targeted government offices in aleppo and reportedly bombed a tunnel close to aleppo castle and took on soldiers in a gun fight, heavy shelling soon followed on in the opposition held old neighborhood of the city. meanwhile syria foreign minister arrived in iran and in tehran for talks with iran officials on a two-day conference on violence and extremism and iran is a key
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ally of the syrian government and has been assisting iraq by politically and military in the fight against i.s.i.l. and met in tehran and iraqi foreign minister said the two nations most work closely together to fight what he called the ugly face of i.s.i.l. . >> translator: this is a strategic threat to both countries, the threat is the presence of i.s.i.l. on iraqi territory and this makes it necessary to promote the importance of our relationship as much as possible as well as to have maximum coordination in order to face i.s.i.l. >> reporter: india capitol new deli ban the online taxi service uber after the alleged rape of a passenger by one of the company drivers and demonstrations about more steps being taken to protect women the suspect has been arrested, and we are live for us now in new deli and clearly since the suspect has
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been arrested i understand has appeared in court there is not a great deal we can say about the offense because of legal proceedings but the amount of anger this has generated is pretty huge. >> reporter: absolutely, once again it's a reminder of the women's safety of the issue of rape and sexual violence in india and we should say the timing can't be worse. we are looking at a week out of the two-year anniversary of a gang rape of a medical student in new deli and the question in india after we are hearing of the news is what is changed and if it has changed why aren't people seeing the changes that authorities are dealing with the issue, the way the social and cultural conversation is going about women's safety and issues of rape. so again it's highlighting very bad time but it's highlighting some key challenges that india is dealing with. >> reporter: for those that don't understand what an online
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taxi service is in this case, uber, give us the way that it works in india and why some particular are particularly worried about this type of service. >> yes, well essentially what you are looking at is this is a facilitation service, it connects drivers to passengers. so there is a web-based app as you are talking about and download the app on your mobile phone and request a taxi and a taxi turns up and has details of the driver and who he is and number and you accept the booking and the driver will accept your booking and you jump in the car and go where you need to. and uber does not own the vehicles and it's between passengers and drivers and that is the key sticking point and what the authorities will focus on moving forward. >> the drivers themselves are not licensed experienced drivers but simply members of the
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public. >> well, exactly right. and that is what is coming through. there have been reports from other publications looking at this issue at how the uber system works in india and one particular organization speaking to drivers and say we turn up with documentation and license and cars and verified by uber, the question is what kind of verification or how stringent does uber and what kind of systems does it use in the verification and where do they come in contact with the authorities like the police who should be really responsible for checking who is being offered these licenses and who is driving these vehicles. >> banned in new deli likely to be ban across india or not? >> well, look at the stage and the backlash is pretty huge i must say, it's a news story playing out across ionia and uber has a growing demand for what many describe as a safer
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service or a service that is more efficient as well. it's hugely popular across india and it will be interesting to see what kind of ramification this has. as you mentioned ban in new deli and let's see what happens across the country. >> thank you and we will have more on this topic later on in this al jazeera news hour, a comic book with a female rape survivor is quote super hero and boasting attention of sexual violence in india and we will talk to one of the creators. we report from greece on how corruption and miss management are making a bad economic situation worse and in sport tiger fluffs it again but did he avoid finishing last in his own tournament? ♪ six former detainees from gitmo
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detention center are starting new lives and they were never charged and their release which had been approved years ago was delayed by u.s. bureaucracy and they are free as they report from uraguay capitol. >> reporter: uraguay is far away from the six men's homes which for now they cannot return to but it's also far away and that is what counts and treated at two hospitals before their resettlement program begins. >> he is hopeful now he is out and free with proper medical care he can get better and rebuild his life. >> reporter: providing the men with education, housing and help them to find work. for now they just are are relieved to be free with a burning desire to be reunited with their families. their futures are uncertain and
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the uraguay are doing all they can to help the men rebuild their lives a long way from home. it was personal one from the president, himself a former prisoner and out spoken on human rights especially gitmo. >> translator: that's not a present, that is a kidnapping den because a prison needs some kind of law, some kind of prosecutor, the decision of a judge, whoever that may by and a reference to the law, that place has none of that. >> reporter: gitmo detention camp opened in 2002 to detain so called suspects in the wake of the september 11th attacks and according to the human rights group reprieve the u.s. acknowledged holding 779 people at the camp to date, most of them were never charged. six years after president obama pledged to close the facility, there are still 136 inmates, 67
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of whom are cleared for release but the u.s. authoritys say they cannot end them home because of security concerns, their home countries are unwilling to take them back. >> when you talk to a prisoner about their future they sort of raise an eyebrow at you and say i have no future but i'm happy to say that is what i'm here to talk to him about and we will sit down and talk about what he wants to do. >> reporter: when president obama signed the executive order to close the camp many believed it would take months and not urge but the process is arduous and more detainees expected release before the year out but others actually facing charges or deemed too dangerous to be set free that really stand in the way of the closure of gitmo prison. i'm with al jazeera uraguay. greek officials expected to ask european finance ministers in brussels for more time to pay
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back the multi-billion bail out and greece is facing an up hill battle to balance the budget and one of the region for that is rampant corruption and we report from athens. >> reporter: the old athens airport has been billed as the biggest urban redevelopment and the asset development fund sold over $1 million dollars and say the land is worth three times as much. >> the fund is not among the institutions that have behaved in the way that protects the public interest and has not accounted for costs, how it chooses its advisors, whether it signed independent evaluations of the property and to home and neither the fund or government answered the question. >> reporter: forced to sell the lucrative assets to pay back $400 billion bail out debt and land is the biggest source and how it's valued is critical.
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greece's $14 billion privatization plan isn't the only area suffering over capacity but country is stuck at the bottom of the eu in transparency rankings and people have come to believe the government lacks the will to step up the fight against corruption. earlier this year the government presented a bill that would have legalized thousands of properties that encroach on constitutionally protected and has done little to dispel of catering to special interests and mp has other legislative missteps and highlights a february law which makes it possible for civil servants, bankers and managers of state company to escape miss deeds but insists that lenders should have done more to cleanup a country that appears not to be able to clean itself up. >> translator: it's hypocriticalel for greece to be
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corrupt when no one is serious about fighting corruption, there are politicians in greece who have money in off shore company despite 2010 law that prohibits it and why don't they ask them to open up their records and we would know who is corrupt in greece and system provide them with money would be exposed. >> reporter: greece cut to balance the budget for creditors and people don't feel that supervision has brought them greater justice. and we are joined live from athens, the gentleman you spoke with at the end of that report, john, i suppose he has a point if they won't cleanup the system and leased the money somebody has to otherwise it will never end. >> well, what he is saying is that greece is no better but certainly perhaps a little bit worse than the rest of the world. what he is saying the person who
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put an emphasis that is weighted towards certain areas such as increasing productivity and boosting greece exports and of course managing corruption but not enough, not enough in the right areas. right now the group is discussing in brussels how and when greece might exit the supervision regime that it's in from the euro zone partners and these are the areas they are particularly concerned about, the fact that exports are very weak and anything out of tourism and shipping and the debt is unsustainably high and element of political into instability and a question mark to have reform here. apart from corruption there are other areas that the euro zone is concerned about. >> give us your assessment john of how greece is doing and i remember reading not so long ago uk, italy and greece asked to pay extra money in eu coffers
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because they are doing better than expected and some people say greece is in trouble and some people say things are getting better, which is it? >> it is really six of one-and-a-half a dozen of the other, greece has done much better than predicted and 0.8 gdp last year and schedule predicted it should reach 0 percent surplus and in other words it made about $3 billion euros more from state revenues than it was predicted to do. it's now able to sell at least short-term debt of 6-12 months on the open market for a much lower rate than would have been expected of 1.7% and it is also doing much better in the recession department. the recession is essentially over even the imf agrees of growth of half a percentage point is expected this year but the other half dozen that we are talking about is that there is disagreement over how greece
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will do in the median term and disagreement for example over how well it's going to do in 2015 but the budget passed by parliament last night is disputed by greece creditors and do not think the budget surplus will be 3% of gdp as greeks say and it will be 1% less and if that is true it opens up a fiscal gap that requires financing. the europeans. >> in the middle of all this john you mentioned the budget of the people are still being squeezed by austerity and making their point known about the budget in this country. >> well, that unfortunately is one of the big factors of the political instability which is perhaps the main concern here now. greece will face constitutional crisis in march when the president's term end and this government lacks the 3/5 majority it requires to elect a
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new one and at that point greece may see general election or possibly a double general emotion. >> john, thank you, and live for us in athens and we turn to the other side of the world now, welcome back stef also with a look at some of the world weather. >> it's all looking very strange in australia at the moment. let me tell you why because there has been some lively thunderstorms and not always where you expect them, look at this, a cluster of showers here and normally showers this intense with this much thunder and lightning only seen over the northern parts of territory but we have seen them to the south and purring through alice springs and giving impressive lightning displays and heavy downpours as well and alice springs and things look like they should calm down over the next few days but elsewhere lively thunderstorms and look set to stick about and a bright white cloud on the east coast and new south whales and
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victoria where we have seen heavy downpours and impressive storms as well, this picture is from sidney and you would be a bit concerned to see that heading toward you and being sidney people are out to surf despite the weather is clearly on the turn. over the next few days there are going to be yet more thunder downpours but slowly beginning to pull to the north and sidney could be an outside chance of shower but parts of queens that includes brisbom and some could bring hail and gusty winds as well. still to come on the news hour the spy trial of former president mohamed morsi, after being ban for six years al jazeera allowed to report again and taking a look at indonesia's longest lasting conflict. we have the sport and why lebron james is keeping a close
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♪ good to have you with us on the news hour and i'm david foster and global headlines kenya police squads admitted for the first time they carry out extra judicial killings and some of al jazeera investigative unit discuss involvement in a kenya involvement assassination program targeting suspected muslim radicals and kenya police department denies running elimination program. a million people forced out of their homes in the philippines
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because of the typhoon hagupit and it's a tropical storm and winds of 100 kilometers an hour and 22 people are confirmed to have lost their lives. syria has called on the u.n. to impose sanctions on israel, damascus says israeli planes carried out air strikes on government-held parts of damascus province. the military is fighting to maintain control of the country's biggest oil refinery, retaking complex north of baghdad partly thanks to u.s. air strikes on i.s.i.l. in november and i.s.i.l. continued to launch attacks among suicide bomb ings to try to retake the refinery and here is jane's report. >> reporter: six months into the fight against i.s.i.l. iraq's oil fields remain a mayor
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battleground. kurdish forces backed by u.s. air strikes last week repelled a major attack of a group southwest of the oil rich city of kurkook and detonated a u.s. made hum v packed with explosives from the pipeline to the major oil refinery of the major point of fighting. and the battle where it began before dawn. and it lasted for more than a day. peshmerga commanders say 25 i.s.i.l. fighters were killed. it's not known how many of the kurdish fighters died. these i.s.i.l. fighters were believed to by iraq and this was attempt to pull him to safety after he was wounded. the center of iraq oil field is hugely important. >> translator: we had
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intelligence reports that the enemy was intending to launch offensive on the city and aiming to find a weak spot in peshmerga units to storm the city for work and declare the islamic state of kurkook just like mosul. >> reporter: for a secentury i is disputed by arab and turkman and say it's the capitol of an independent state. in june after the iraqi army melted away as i.s.i.l. advanced in this region, kurdish forces moved in to secure the city and the oil fields and there they have stayed. in the past few days peshmerga reenforced defenses and sending more fighters to the shifting front line. commanders say as long as they live and breathe i.s.i.l. won't seize kurkook or its oil. in the last month kurdish and
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iraq forces have taken back a lot of territory seized by i.s.i.l. in june but i.s.i.l. is picking its battles and needs infrastructure for the islamic state and the group is expected to continue suicide attacks to try to retack key oil installations across northern and central iraq and jane with al jazeera, baghdad. >> reporter: not continuing it'ss mediation efforts to rescue kidnapper and lebanese soldiers and 30 police and soldiers taken in august and have been sex cuted and seven have been released and jane ferguson is monitoring that story from us from the lebanese capitol beirut. >> reporter: the government have held security and emergency meetings over the weekend to try to find out how they can move forward with these mediation efforts. sunni religious leaders
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volunteered a proposal they could go ahead with mediation efforts but the government has not made public how to secure the release of these hostages. that government comes under increasing pressure with such incidents. it's a very fragile coalition of a broad spectrum of political stances in lebanon's structured political landscape and we have to main groupings in this coalition government and one is hez hezbollah and stand with assad regime and the other led by sunni politicians firmly against the assad regime and when you consider those groups are in fact together in a government it's clear that fragile government will come under increasing pressure as the war on syria continues to effect politicians inside. 13 students and a number of teachers and parents have been arrested by houthi fighters at a high school and taking part in a
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protest demanding release of another group of students and teachers detained by houthis in another province and we have the details. >> reporter: [chanting] students chanted civil rule, no military government, and carried signs saying we need to learn but we can't because malitias are on our campus. the university has become a classroom of civil disobedience, students have taken to the streets on an almost daily basis since shia rebel fighters have taken control of the capitol as well as other provinces in yemen. the students say the houthis need to be purged from the university and anger is fueled by the fact that the houthis have repeatedly arrested students. >> translator: their presence is not legitimate and bodies have the right to follow the educational process at the university. we also refuse to drag the university to the square of
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sectarian and political conflicts. >> reporter: but that is exactly what happened. the houthis are accused of taking over academic institutions not only here but other provinces as well. a member of the houthis says they stepped in to are protect educational facilities after the government failed to do so. >> translator: we do not interfere in the university affairs, we are part of student committees to help our colleagues protect the university. it is our national responsibility as citizens of this beloved nation. [gunfi [gunfire] who is in control is a bitter and often violent fight. on the front lines are students who help give birth to the 2011 revolution and continue to push their hope for a democratic government. i'm with al jazeera. the court in egypt postponed
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the trial of president mohamed morsi of charges of spying until december 14, his defense team is arguing he should be set free because he has been held in an illegal detention facility and we report. >> reporter: the past president mohamed morsi is accused of spying and faces several other charges lined up against him, and on sunday his defense team called on the court to throw out the case against him, his lawyers base their argument on leaked recordings saying he has been detained illegally. >> translator: the leaks are very crucial and if the court proves it's fabricated it will have a direct impact on the case and that would benefit all suspects including morsi and the prisonment and arrest and everything that was based upon it. >> reporter: on thursday muslim brotherhood aired what it said were leaked audio recordings of
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president abdel-fattah el-sissi aids and talking about forging evidence and interfering in the judicial proceedings against morsi and t.v. station said recordings reveal generals discussing ways to deceive the public and court regarding the deposed president's where ants and detained by the army after a military coup in july of 2013 and he was being held at the secret military location and that made the generals nervous. in one of the recordings a man said to be the military legal advisor tells egypt's navy commander what needs to be done to avoid weakening the court case against morsi. >> translator: we have to be ready for the worst case scenario otherwise the spying case will fall apart and spying and cases will be underminded and the place morsi was detained on july third and sent to the
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prison would be proven illegal, this will undermine all the legal cases against him. >> reporter: the prosecutor accused the muslim brotherhood of fabricating the news and staging the recordings and also ordered an investigation into the leaks. the court is yet to decide on the authenticity of the recordings. on saturday morsi spoke for the first time about his detention and told the court that he was detained for a few days in the republican guard compound in cairo after the coup. then he was taken by force in a helicopter to a navy can't in alexandria where he stayed until november fourth of last year and court proceedings against morsi put the judiciary under spotlight and accused of many and muslim brotherhood being controlled by military but the government insists that is judiciary is free and i'm with al jazeera. al jazeera continues to demand release of our three
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journalists held in prison in egypt for 345 days, greste, mohamed and jailed on charges of helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood and are against their convictions. and later in the news hour we told you how india's capitol ban the on line taxi service after a woman alleged one of the drivers raped her, this is the incident. and rape is shocking and assault takes place every 20 minutes and one company now is trying to address the issue of sexual violence by taking out a comic book and these are images from that book using ancient myths trying to shame the rapist in this series which can be accessed both online and in a
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little while as we join the creator and writer of all of this, not only online but also in comic book form pretty soon. >> good to be here, thank you. >> tell us a little bit about what led to this idea. >> i was in deli two years ago when the horrible rape on the bus happened which everyone knows got international attention. and i was involved in the protest. and during the protest i spoke to a deli police officer and asked him what he thought about what happened, what happened on the bus and he said something which was very shocking to me, he said basically no good girl walks home alone at night. which implies that she probably deserved it. i realized at that moment that the problem of sexual violence in india is not a legal issue, rather a cultural problem. so that's sort of where this
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whole idea of trying to address sexual violence and in particular the views that surround it. >> how will this effect people in your opinion, how will it make them change their attitudes? >> well, the idea is our main audience for this comic book are young, between 12-25 teenagers. and which are a huge demographic in india and a lot of them learn about the methodology and stories about their culture and themselves through pop culture and comic books is one of the most ideal forms of addressing that. what is unique and very innovative about the comic book is the main character of the comic book is a rape survivor. we want to put the image of rape survivor as the hero of this story. we want people to identify and
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most importantly empathize with survivors of rape. >> there is a family saying shape on you and previously that might have been shame on the rape survivor, this is shame on you for being a rapist. >> well, you know, the huge problem in india and in a lot of cultures is that if you are a woman and raped, the culture around you, the families, the community, even the police try to discourage you from trying to get justice. i've interviewed rape survivors and gang rape survivors and it's an uphill battle. if the culture is working against them. one of the rape survivors i interviewed there was a police officer next to her with a semiautomatic weapon and she is for the rest of her life always under the threat of death, how can a 16-year-old girl who survived rape try to get justice when they know for the rest of their lives they are going to be
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under this kind of shadow. this is what the comic book is trying to challenge and address. >> and there are pictures up all over mumbai or will be soon and it will be translated into other languages. as you give us this response, tell us a little bit about where people can access it. >> sure, well, they can go on our website and it's free worldwide to download in every format from my books to kindle to comocology and you can also read it online as well. an unique thing in india and other countries we will be creating reality street art and want to put our main character, the survivor of rape that image all over the country, all over the world on the sides of walls. now i should mention one of the really innovative things about the comic book is it's augmented
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reality which is a radical concept so with an app you can scan the comic book or street art and literally popping out of the walls and pages and it's animation and real life stories of rape survivors and interaction futures. again, this is i believe one of the great innovations we are trying to do with this besides putting the main character on it. >> you can find it there, thank you, thank you very much indeed and get in touch with us and let us know how it's going and we would appreciate and thank you for your time and it's 5:00 in the morning or later than that where you are, good for you, thank you. now, al jazeera has gained exclusive access to the region which is home to one oof the world's forgotten conflicts between progroups and indonesia government and we are at the pru ventric
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ventricle -- capitol. >> they describe themselves as forei foreigners in their land and are migrants from other parts of the country despite bringing them in they are the poorst in indonesia. >> translator: we are all poor and government has department stores but killing livelihood. >> reporter: part of indonesia after agreement between the united states, netherlands and united nations in the 60s and agreement disputed by the independence activist until today. a small arm movement regularly fight government troops for access to her and we are only allowed to report with government escorts. in the longest lasting conflict the future is far from over and interests are at stake with this area full of natural resources but calls are growing for dialog
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and all hope is now on the president to take a lead. church leaders are trying desperately to bring all parties together. >> translator: if the government were aiming for independence can meet and try to identify the exact reason for this independent struggle i'm sure we can find a solution. >> reporter: for these students it's difficult to trust the government due to human rights abuses and say one of them was tortured by police during a protest in april. >> translator: we want to talk about our history, about how our land was grabbed by indonesia republican and the root cause of the problem and if they don't want to discuss this issue there will be no peace here. >> reporter: the government so far has refused to discuss the history by developing it economically it hopes the conflict will be resolved.
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>> translator: for us the territorial integration is final because of the most credible organization the u.n. has approved it, what is more important now is to make sure they start to trust the government and had to come here with the best of intentions and continue to improve their life then the independent struggle with the superior automatically. >> reporter: for other women struggling to get by it's not so much the political future that matters, their hope is on the new president to finally improve their lives and give them the safe rights as any other person, i'm with al jazeera. the sports coming in just a moment with andy richards and coming with that and among things we are talking about is olympic icon and a summer stadium getting a wintry make over, stay with us if you can.
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♪ and the sport. >> thank you very much david and tiger woods is feeling positive about his golf game despite finishing last because of a back injury and out for four months and the 14 time major said he was feeling strong and pain free but that triple bogie and finished a tie for last in florida and america's jordan speath was the winner with 26
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shots ahead of woods. >> i think if i stay the course that i'm on right now that i will be physically able to do what i want to do and that's the biggest difference. i had not been able to practice and dedicate myself as much as i used to just because my body just wasn't there. my practice sessions were so limited. >> reporter: a planned state memorial service for australia phillip hughs has been cancelled and the family says such has been the level of support since his death and no longer feel a further service is required and he died after being hit by a delivery in a domestic game last month in a series with india was delayed as a consequence and that will now get underway on tuesday with captain michael clark there and is past and fit to play and name the team's 13th man. >> made going out there the most
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difficult and might get into the game more but i think mentally we had a few training sessions, the vibe is good, everybody came out there to get out and play cricket and do it the best, that is their goal and i guess we can wait and see how we will all feel because we will all feel probably a little bit different. >> after attending the funeral i was as emotional and taken back by the incident because phil was a guy i used to interact with when he used to come on tours and even australia when i met him then i camped with him in 2008 at briston and knew him from them and closer to him than most other guys. football and mesi able to meet goal for goal in the pair's latest spanish league games and
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had a hat trick for madrid on saturday and the 29th hat trick in spanish league, a record and mesi doing the same on sunday against espanol and this game finishing 5 barcelona and still trail by to points at the top of the league table. manchester united play south hampton in the league later on this monday and west is third in the table for now at least and beat swanzi 3-1 on sunday and a couple goals from carol back from injury and this was their third straight win. >> victories at this stage of the season in a short period of time and we are third in the league now and put a nice gap between the teams below us in that position. and i think that we just got to try to maintain it now. >> reporter: now australia's national coach said his team can
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win the upcoming asian cup and talking up the team chances at a time when they are sliding down the world rankings, the hosts have just named their provisional squad and looking to move a difficult year with points at the world cup in brazil and one win in the last ten games has also seen him drop to 102nd in fifa rankings but the lowest ever position. >> nothing has really changed and what we have done in the interim has been about building a squad of players who to be fair to them have given them some really top challenges in the last 12 months. a lot of them you will see on that list are only sort of getting in their teams in sort of caps and the fate but we find unbelievable challenges but that has been for a purpose. >> reporter: in the nba
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portland beat the nicks picking up 9 games in the process and lebron james in town playing brooklyn on monday and would be impressed with what he saw with the performance of aldrich with 24 points and 11 rebounds for the blazers and new york could have tied the game later on and he missed a three pointer. and 99 portland. now the man in charge of the olympic games says future forms are needed if they are to stay relevant and thomas speaking at the annual ioc general assembly taking place in monoco and trying to make it cheaper to host the summer and winter games and efforts to be made in the fight and the german plan also be voted on by the ioc this week. >> if i would deliver this speech in a theatre, i would
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perhaps say with an ironic smile of course to change or to be changed, that is the question. >> reporter: 2022 winter games is a huge issue facing switzerland, germany, poland and norway dropped out due to costs involved and beijing is the unlikely favorite to win and sunday the summer olympics and the bird's nest getting a make over and set to be used if the chinese capitol wins the bid and kazakhstan will be the only other contender at next july's vote and more sport on the website and check it out, al jazeera.com/sport. okay, there will be more sport for me later on david and that is it from me. >> no more from me for now and thank you very much and good to have your company and julie is
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on al jazeera america ♪ kenya's death squad, police talk exclusively to al jazeera about killing suspects without trial. ♪ i'm julie in doha and also coming up, on al jazeera, syria asks the u.n. to sanction israel for allegedly carrying out air strikes near damascus. a million philippines forced from homes awaiting for the storm to pass, it's now heading to manila. and some u.s. protests against police killings turn violent, arrests made i
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