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iraqi war planes ever carried out strikes, killing 15 suspected fighters. pilgrims are gathering for rituals culminating in the holy day. security it tight ahead of saturday, police and soldiers have been deployed to protect till gripples and their sites of worship. the sunni armed groups have threatened attacks as shia's end that you are 40 day mourning of the grandson of the prophet. >> fighting isil is draining iraq's economy. the city of mosul is the key to defeating the armed group about that we have a report from baghdad. >> when isil swept northern iraq
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in june, it seized assets, property, gold and cash from citizens, business people and banks. iraq's finance minister said over half a billion dollars was stolen from banks in mosul, tikrit and other cities. isil is believed to be the richest such organization in the world. a lot of that revenue comes from iraqi oil fields. the group retained control of major oil fields in the north of iraq. from there, it smuggles oil to turkey or sends it to refineries in syria. >> i have targeted them in order to deprive them of this revenue, but they have enormous financial resources. they are paying they're recruits, soldiers or fighters good salaries, better than what
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we can afford to pay ours. >> iraq has a serious financial crisis. the economy is expected to shrink this year because of lower oil output due to the war. the iraqi government believes five months of airstrikes and more effective ground forces have put isil on the defensive. it's apparently planning to push on with an attack on mosul to recapture the city taken by isil in june. >> the roc government set up liberation of mosul and this can only be done in concert and coordination with the coalition, not separately. i believe it's doable.
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contrary to what many believe or think, i don't believe it will be a long-fought battle. >> he and other iraqi leaders say airstrikes and an army won't be enough, reclaiming iraq's third large evident city will take those on the sideline to fight, as well. >> money has been one of the iraq's biggest weapons, but now the government is struggling with a serious financial crisis at the very time it needs money most. iraq's new finance minister said with falling oil prices, the government will have to make tough decisions on cutting spending while being able to continue this fight. al jazeera, baghdad. >> oil prices continue to tumble after the international energy agency cut forecast for global oil demand for next year. prices are at a five year low. a further decline could raise
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social unrest in oil producing countries. french crude, which is used to price most oil is currently trading at $60 a barrel, down more than 40% this year. oil producing nations are among the biggest losers, the international monetary fund warns that it may need to come to the aid of opec's rica members. countries like indonesia and india have taken the opportunity to slash or trim subsidies for diesel and pet troll allowing the money to be used for infrastructure projects. in the united states, pet troll is at its lowest price in five years, hitting an average of 2.64 a gallon. airline profits are set to rise next year and could pass on
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savings to consumers. let's take a closer look at how falling oil prices are affecting people right around the world. we will be hearing from new delhi, where lower oil prices are likely to cause an inflation drop. we are in toronto, which has seen its stock exchange foul by 12%. first, let's go to tokyo where consumers are benefiting from lower retail prices. >> japan's nuclear power industry remakes in a state of shutdown after the disaster in 2011, so japan has been having so import vast amounts of energy. that meant $38 billion a year extra government spending, so this big drop in the price of oil represents a huge windfall for the june knees government. it also represents a saving for japanese householder to hit hard by rising prices in inge ports and because of a consumer tax
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hike. this does represent a challenge to the job knees government's target of raising inflation. they want to see a target of 2% inflation, really changing the whole situation here in japan, which has been marked by deflation for many years. some economists say that target isn't really the important thing. the most important thing is oh to get people spending again and potentially this drop in price will allow them to do that. >> a drop in oil prices is very good news for india. it imports 70% of its energy needs and so the government is saving a lot of money now. ordinary indians also saving money at the pet control pump. here's what they have to say. >> groceries, everything is coming down. >> i hope it lowers down even further, but it all depends on the international market. >> lower oil prices also means lower inflation and this is important in india, because the
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country has been suffering because of inflation. it's peaked at 10% last year, hurting the middle class, so lower oil prices, lower inflation is going to provide much needed relief to ordinary indians. >> the arrival have winter here in canada is being softened this year. gas prices have never been lower is a the oil price declines. it's cheaper to go on vacation to fly to a sunny destination, but most importantly since most people here heat homes with heating oil or natural gas, those prices are declining, too. other good effects, the retail sector, christmas shopping, holiday shopping time, prices are lower. you're going to have lower transport costs generally across the board. there are other places falling oil prices around the so good at all. canada has the second large effort petroleum reserves in the
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world, oil reserves of huge national importance to the economy. it provides revenue for health care and job creation. falling prices are causing havoc there. if they're going to keep calling falling, real trouble lies ahead. here in canada's financial capitol, we've seen carnage on the floor of the stock exchange. prices have fallen 12%. this country, the economy, banks, law offices all around me in toronto are dependent on the energy companies doing well a understand they are not at the moment. there's a lot of nervousness about. >> violence between security and hamas in the occupied west bank. palestinian activists say israeli police stormed the rallies in hebron firing tear
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gas, they say officers destroyed a stage set up for celebrations marking the founding of the organization. two people have been arrested. >> al jazeera continues to demand the release of our three journalists imprisoned in egypt. the three were jailed on familiar charges of helping the outlawed muslim brother hood. all three are appealing against their convictions. >> still to come on this news hour, zimbabwe swears in two new vice presidents after the president sacks a deputy accused of plotting to kill him. the u.s. politicians debate a huge budget bill to stave off another threat of a government shutdown. switzerland introduces new laws targeting corrupt behavior by top sports officials. we'll have the details later.
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>> two major trade unions organized protests to reform the job market in italy. the countries airports and hospitals have been affected. labor reforms are said to be needed to counter high unemployment and bring the country out of recession. the plan changes to employment laws is expected to make it easier to hire and fire workers. we are in rome. >> perhaps the biggest problem, the thing that most exercises people in italy is unemployment, across the board of people of working age, 15% are jobless, among the youth, one in two, 45% have no job. the government's answer has been the hugely contentious jobs act passed earlier this month, containing some of the most sweeping labor reforms that italy has seen in many, many
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years. it will make it easier the government says to hire people, better for business. the union's say it simply makes it easier to fire people removing laws against unfair dismissal. they are also unhappy about the budget for 2015, wimp the unions say is just another austerity budget, another one after six dictated by brussels and outsiders that have failed as this one will fail, they say, to reverse the trends of high unemployment and low, slow growth. >> identity's prime minister is in ankara. >> people have the right to go on strike. it is a right guaranteed by the constitution and we respect it. although i don't agree from the strike. >> joining me now is professor
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of economics at the university of massachusetts. thank you very much for being with us. at the heart of these protests is the prime minister's plans to overhaul the labor market, to make the economy more competitive. what do you make of the job act, will it solve the unemployment crisis? >> no, it won't at all. this is really more of the same. the european union has been pushing this type of so-called reform to markets for decades and the situation, the unemployment situation, the economic situation has been getting worse and worse, because the underlying problem is not that it's too hard to hire people or too hard to fire people, but that there is a lock of effective demand for the product businesses produce. the lack of demand is driving unemployment. >> at the same time, there are those -- >> and undermining economic
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growth. >> -- measures you said are not working, i'm thinking of greece here. these austerity measures are still in early days yet. no doubt they are painful measures for now. don't you think it's still too early to tell if they are effective in the long run? >> well, they've been trying hard core hastert for years since the coalition government came into power in britain and slashed government spending, for three years, the italian government has been chasing the economy downhill to try to balance the budget with more and more spending cuts. greece has been conducting austerity programs for several years. it's not working because it's bad economic theory. the economic theory behind it is rejected by the international monetary fund and by virtually all serious macro economists at this point. the europeans have tried a
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massive social experiment. it's failed, it's time to change. >> you say that the labor market is not really the problem, the problem here is the fact that there's a decline in product coming out of these countries. how then would you suggest boosting their economy? >> oh, i would suggest first of all, the germans -- get serious about this, germany is the source of the problem. germany is the largest economy and holding down wages in its country for 20 years, exporting its unemployment problems to the rest of europe. the first thing to do, germany should wage raises across the board 20%. that would rebalance labor costs between germany and the other members of the euro zone. the european countries in general should raise government deficits to 5% of g.d.p., something comparable to what the
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united states did successfully in 2009 in reversing the sharp economic contraction that we were going through. unfortunately, we adopted austerity ourselves, but still, the united states is auctionsful compared to europe. >> thank you so much. in other news in sierra leone has imposed a two week lockdown in the east of the country after a rise in the number of ebola infections. the epidemic was thought to be largely under control in the kono district. 87 bodies have been buried in the last 11 days and authorities fear the ebola statistics in the country underrepresent the situation in kono. sierra leone has overtaken liberia as the worst country affected by the virus.
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6,500 people have died from ebola in west africa. >> a spokesperson said people attending funerals are spreading the virus. >> generally, most of the infections are spread two ways, one is by attending unnative burials. when someone dice, the tradition here is like many places, you come together as a family and there are rituals, washing of the body and some rituals with that water, which in the case of someone who's died of ebola, it's highly infectious, the most dangerous time to be around someone is at the moment of death or just before, for these people to come and to touch that person and weep and brush away the tears, they introduce the ebola into their bodies, when they way away a tear, they could be giving themselves ebola. the if you know release are a main transmitter of the infection. if you're caring for someone
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very sick in your house, it's very easy to catch ebola through the care of that person and through handling the body fluids as you clean them up as we would for any loved person when we care for a child or sick person. that's how the disease is spreading. >> the 32 people killed and 45 others injured in a twin bomb attack, two male suicide bombers detonated explosives near a busy outdoor market. the blasts occurred close to oh a similar attack in may that killed 118 people. >> zimbabwe's two new vice presidents have been sworn in, the countries president chose them as his second in command. she was fired along with eight other ministers. we have more. >> those interested in politics,
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it's a big day. the cabinet has been reshuffled with two new presidents. people are trying to get as much information as they can for these two no appointments and what it means for the country. analysts say one is said to be the favorite of the president and could one day take over as leader of the country. what do all these points mean to the economy and to improve the lives of people on the ground? >> maybe jobs, better life for our kids and better life wherever you are. >> with he he don't know whether
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they are going to deliver or not, but we hope they are going to deliver and we have a president that is going to do the will of the people. >> there are some people who say he has only pointed loyalist, people who won't try to remove him from power, same faces i have not different positions. sceptics feel nothing much will change on the ground. >> the u.s. house of representatives has beat an midnight deadline and approved a trillion dollar budget for next year. the republican measure passed by 290 votes to 206. president barack obama urged cross party support to avoid a government shut down on thursday. let's get more from tom ackermann live in washington, d.c. some of the provisions of the bill have been held up. why? >> the democrats in the house had objected to several
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provisions which of course the white house had also been a posed to, but agreed to let the president approve, just for the sake of keeping the government funded. tucked into the bill was in particular one provision that said that banks, big banks would basically be relieved of some of the regulation on their higher risk hedge funds and these democrats said that we do not want to go into the next election seen as having facilitated another possible bailout of wall street. that opposition rose to the level, to the fact that even the house democratic leader nancy pelosi did. the republicans had dissenters. they needed enough democratic
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votes in this republican majority house to pass and they had other objections to the bill, as well. >> the bill has been approved, but just how long is the funding good for? >> let me caution that the senate still has to go along with the bill and they are convenes just in about half an hour from now and it accounted take a couple days in order for them to follow through. it's assumed that the senate ultimately will approve it, because the alternative is that the government will cease having funding. the homeland security provision of this, funding for that only allows for spending for the next two months. the reason is because the republicans have been outraged over the president, president obama's executive actions that will go into effect next year, which basically will provide several million of the undocumented immigrants in the country to stay and to work legally and the republicans
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wanted to include a provision in the bill that would actually counter that. their leaders ultimately decided that they do not want to risk a shut down and the accompanying bad publicity to the republicans, so they agreed not to have any provision in this bill that would restrict funding for the homeland security department, which enforces immigration here, but again, this fight will most likely come up once again when the new congress, where the republicans will have control of both houses will take up this fight once again and defy president obama. >> the crisis continues. tom, thank you very much, tom ackermann there from washington, d.c. >> the head of the c.i.a. has defended his agencies interrogation methods in a rare news conference. john brennan tried to explain the torture techniques used in
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secret prisons. he admitted that techniques were used but says that information from detainees helped track down former al-qaeda leader osama bin laden. >> in a limited number of cases, agency officers used interrogation techniques that had not been authorized, were abhor rent and rightly should be repudiated by all. >> still ahead, we speak to villagers in a remote part of china still living with a dangerous legacy left over from world war ii. ♪ >> the united states is excused of using hiphop to generate discord in cuba. >> a military helicopters in the skies patrolling the area and the security forces, including paramilitary forces are ensuring that this match is held without incident. >> pakistan tightens security ahead of an important cricket
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>> a reminder of our top stories. an iraq finance minister has said the fight against isil is draining iraq's economy. he also says mosul holds the key to defeating the armed group. >> transport in italy brought to a standstill after two major trade unions protest government plans to reform the job market. italy's airport, local transport and hospitals have been affected by the nationwide strike. >> sierra leone imposed a two week lockdown in kono after a rise in the number of ebola infections. 87 bodies have been buried over the last 11 days. it looks like the u.n. climate change summit taking place in
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peru will not wrap up friday. rich and poor nations are trying to agree on a global climate action plan ahead of a major conference in paris next year. our environment editor joins us from lima. it seems like it's a good sign that the summit's being extended until a consensus is reached. >> there determined to reach some kind of consensus, whether or not all the delegates here will get the consensus they want is another matter entirely. this is the last scheduled day, whether it ends up being the last scheduled day of the conference also remains to be seen. we'll see how progress is achieved today or not. the problem is that all the differences that we've seen over the last 20 years or so are still very raw and coming to the
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fore, and it's hard to say how the various parties resolve the differences. we had the deal between the u.s. and china, how they were going to cut carbon emissions in the coming years, but that has crashed into a wall in this past week and we've seen little progress. we'll talk more about that in a moment or two. first, there have been all manager of rallying cries to try to find progress here at the lima conference. >> every year, around this time in one country or another, the seemingly endless u.n. negotiating pros grinds on and on. here they are trying to stop that. the rallying cries have begun for the delegates to shape up and produce results for future generations. >> i want them to look back at us and ask the question how did you find the moral courage to shake off the lettingar gee.
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>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry made a flying visit. >> there are many global threats, terrorism, extreme im, epidemics, poverty, nuclear proliferation, all challenges that know no borders, climate change absolutely ranks up there equal with all of them. >> this time, there is more optimism than usual. >> i've never seen such a sense of resolve that you find among people here. yes, that of course will translate into something concrete and that's where, you know, people are sort of protecting their own turf. >> progress is still
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extraordinarily slow. >> this is proving differ, because all the countries of the world are at different stages and we want to be sure that rich countries doing what they can do do not slide backwards, do not backslide. >> we're still here and we'll see what happens. we'll find out as the hours go on. we go to the head of climate here. what's your prognosis as to the way things are going now? >> things are going unbelievably slowly, which is surprising, california is in the most severe drought in 1200 years, countries in latin america are hit hard by droughts, and we're seeing negotiators just sitting around for most of the week developing
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a text that's nearly 100 pages now down to seven. >> that sounds manageable. >> it is, but there are huge divisions that remain. the science is very clear. they know why they're here. know they have to agree on ambitious cuts, none is apparent in the text we see in front of us. >> what's your sense or are we going to get somewhere today? >> our sense is that we're very likely to be here until tomorrow, however, however, there's always a chance that the country will have some ceremonial negotiations. we could be done at the end of the day, everybody collapse, but still, all of the hard work will remain to be done in paris. >> it's what's not in the text that's the issue. >> that is the absolutely most important point. what we have now is a rush to get a deal, anything that we can calm a deal, not just here, but in paris.
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the point is if we don't get much, much more action on emissions and especially a transmission out of fossil fuels and into renewable energy, it's not going to matter what kind of a deal we have after 2020, it's the actions that need to happen now and the next five years that counts. we don't see anything that commits country to say taking immediate actions. they're kicking the ball down the road, leaving it for somebody else to fix the problem. >> you get the sense that that is inside-outside. >> this is a bubble, right? negotiations are going with glacial slowness, but outside of this conference, people are losing their lives defending their communities against illegal mining and illegal logging. people are in the streets protesting for climate action. countries even taking action, businesses calling for more action. you have catholic bishops calling for more action to get out of fossil fuels. you have fighting leaders calling for action and not much
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happens here. you have to wonder. >> as far as paris is concerned, all this is just trying to clear the path to a successful negotiation in paris and a successful treaty there in 2015 in a year's time. are we on that route? >> we are not on that route and we're not on that route because countries are not yet putting the things on the table that are going to get emissions down to a level that keeps us away from the most dangerous impaction of climate change. n.g.o.'s say this all the time. now you have businesses, faith groups, you even have many, many political leaders now calling for immediate and rapid action. that's because we know that climate change is affecting people. it's costing people their lives and livelihoods right now. >> all right, sam, thanks very much indeed. sam said earlier they are tearing into it in the conference right now. let's hope they are now getting stuck into it and we'll see how the day develops. >> fingers crossed, reporting from peru.
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>> in bangladesh, fisherman are cleaning up what environmentalists are calling an ecological disaster. an oil tanker collided with another vessel, home to the largest mango for pest that the spill threat bees trees, fish and a rare species of dolphin. we have this report. >> i'm on the brisk of the river on my left side, you can see the mangrove forest. about 10,000 square kilometers, 60% of this is in bangladesh territory, the other the indian side. within 50-kilometer range, this is the oil washed ashore by the tides. the impact is yet to be determined. there is a dolphin sanctuary
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just about a kilometer from here, where we have some of the most endangered species of dolphin. this is the habitat of the royal bengal tiger, the most famous bengal tiger. these river channels are not supposed to be used by the commercial vehicles, but because it had been filtered recently, the commercial vehicles have been using this. yesterday the government banned use to preserve this area, which is a national heritage site. >> in the u.s., heavy rain and storms have battered parts of the west coast. this house is sliding into the pacific ocean. washington state to the north california and nevada in the south, powerful winds are creating dangerous conditions
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for tens of thousands of people. the san francisco bay area is feeling the brunt of the storm with reports of widespread blackouts and flooded roads. >> sony pictures co chair woman apologized for insensitive jokes about u.s. president barack obama. amy pascal made the remarks to a film producer in emails leaked by hackers who attacked the studio's computer network. she said: the hackers who broke into sonys computer system have been revealing a stream of sensitive information. it is not known who was behind the hacking. there is no shortage of
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suspects. >> the hack attack stole enormous amounts of sony's confidential information, and brought the studio giant to its knees overnight, data made publicly available on the internet included financial documents, emailed transcripts, unreleased movies and the salaries, tax identification numbers and personnel files of 3,800 sony employees, including the c.e.o. and all the company's senior management. sony has asked the f.b.i. to investigate. the hackers who call themselves guardians of peace have not been identified. some experts and u.s. officials suspect north korea. the regime in pyongyang is furious over the comedy "the interview" in which the stars obtain and interview with the north korean leader only to be persuaded to use the opportunity
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to assassinate him. >> we would love it if you could take him out. >> hmm? >> take him out. >> for drinks? >> for dinner? >> take him on the town. >> no, take him out. >> you want us to kill the leader of north korea? >> yes. >> what? >> it was called an act of war and warned of merciless retaliation. the malware used was written in korean and pyongyang praised the cyber assault as a righteous deed. >> the hack has caused enormous disruption and embarrassment at one of the world's biggest movie makers. >> sony shut down its entire system, leaving workers to scribble communicators. director scott ruden called actress and human actress angelina jolie a minimally talented spoiled brat.
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screen writer ridiculed michael fast winder as not famous enough for leading roles. amy pascal wrote emails about barack obama with a racist tone, suggesting that he would only like films with african-american themes or cast members like 12 years a slave or the butler. she formally apologized. besides damage tosonis reputation, leaked personal information could make the company liable to lawsuits under california's strict privacy and data protection laws. al jazeera, los angeles. >> in china, legislators voted to ban
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burqas. >> people in china are still affected by chemical weapons left behind by the japanese troops. >> across northeast china lice the destructive legacy of another country. it's a bomb. one of 700,000 the japanese government admits to, more than half in this province. they are everywhere. sometimes we find them. >> his son was badly burned after stepping on another shell and can't understand why this one hasn't been removed. >> of course we worry. how can we not?
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it could kill us if we accidentally touch it. >> nearby, a father of another victim tells me his son was playing with friends beside this now frozen stream. he saw a steel tube lying at the water's edge and tried to retrieve it, thinking he could maybe accept it for scrap. chemicals inside caused serious burns to his hand and left him with a long and so far fruitless battle for compensation from japan's government. >> how contain not be furious? the japanese troops left all these chemical weapons in our soil. it not only killed our ancestors but will harm our children and next generations. >> japan admits its retreating army left behind weapons that contained chemicals, including mustard gas and cyanide. this is the entrance to a
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military facility when some of those munitions are being droid under japanese intersection, but the chinese government said it's not happening fast enough. >> it's estimated that at least 2,000 chinese victims have been burned. 4,000 of these have been found and destroyed, a small personal of what japan's army left behind. >> tokyo promised to destroy as many of its weapons at possible by 2012. now almost 70 years after the second world war ended, it's still asking for more time. >> we've got some news that's just come in now and the wires reporting that london's air space has been closed. several airports have been shut
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down. no flights are flying out of either airport at the moment. we're told that this is due to a power shortage, so just some breaking news that's come in, london air space has been closed, airports have been shut down. no flights coming out of there due to a power short automobile. we will bring more details on the story as we get it. >> still ahead on the news hour, a remarkable return to cricket for sean abbot, still dealing with the death of phillip hughes.
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>> the u.s. government appears to be using a new weapon against the cuban government, hiphop. there are allegations a u.s. agency secretly tried to infiltrate the cuban hiphop team to start a movement for social change. >> they call themselves musicians, but according to newly uncovered documents, they and others were knowingly part of a secret government program aimed at fueling political change in cuba. the idea was to infiltrate the hiphop scene. it backfired. it was paid for by the development agency known as u.s. aid and farmed out to contractors for millions of dollars.
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it's said to have been putting some musicians in danger. >> young musicians were recruited into a program with clear political goals. it's alleged they weren't told that on at least six cases, putting innocent cuban artists at logger heads with the cuban authorities. >> u.s. aid told al jazeera the program was never a secret but part of an effort to strengthen cuban society. the state department said safety of those involved was the responsibility of contractors. >> we recognize that ordinary cubans run the risk of upsetting cuban authorities and for that reason, it was the responsibility of the grantee. >> this wasn't the first time u.s. aid has been accused of undermining cuba's government.
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a fake twitter account was paid for by the agency. >> i believe firmly that anything that can be done along those lines, perhaps not through u.s. aid, so as not to create problems for other programs that they have, but anything that can be done is a good thing. >> the critics say u.s. effort to undermine the cuban government are counter productive. >> it brings out the worst in the cuban regime, a government that is very repressive but through acts like this and operations such as this, we're help to go foment more paranoia and mistrust and incentivizing them to clamp down in all sectors of society. >> the program which ran for two years is now closed down. the only ones who will suffer now be cuba's real musicians.
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al jazeera, miami, florida. >> time for sport now. >> the heads of some of the biggest sporting organizations in the world could face corruption investigations after a new law was passed in switzerland on friday. there are currently 60 international sports bodies in the country, including the international olympic committee, fifa. switzerland is used for geographic location, low tax rate and relaxed legal code. tougher laws voted in by the parliament will allow for financial transactions to be examined, the exemptions from money laundering laws will be lifted, they can be investigated and prosecuted for corruption. i spoke to the politician behind the new law and asked them why
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switzerland needed these changes. >> the pressure has become bigger and bigger during the last few years, from the outside. also the pressure from the swiss people who say if these federations, these international sports federations don't do anything by themselves, we have to do something, because they are tarnishing the image of our country. >> we go to the professor in criminal law at the university of basil. taking into consideration corruption allegations surrounding fifa, how necessary was this law? >> i think it was necessary, and it's only the first step of two. first of all, it means one is treating these heads of the sport good morning bodies like politicians and the next step means that it could beef up the anti corruption laws. of course in the case of fifa,
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they have since roughly 2000, most of them already been on that list, but it has a big effect also on the 60 or 59 other such organizations. >> do you think we're likely to see any actual prosecutions as a result of it, or is it more have a statement intent by lawmakers? >> the way it works is if you are on that list and you want to open a bank account, then you will have to answer questions, tougher questions, you'll have to explain where you got the money from, whether it's your own money and so on, and if what you answer is not sufficiently clear, then the bank is obliged to notify you to something called the financially intelligence unit. this is the money laundering unit and this could spark off law enforcement action.
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>> some say it doesn't give swiss prosecutors enough power to prosecute wrong doers. >> i don't think this is the right place to turn the screw any further. to make them politicians, people you have to be careful about, i think that is what is crucial, essential. the place where you have to go further is on the actual corruption law, that's the february step that one has to take. >> you have some in sight on fifa, previously one of the advisers and told them about reforms they should make to curb corruption. however did they go in implementing your reforms and will this allow prompt further change? i would say halfway there, the glass is half full. they did a few essential things, but they got stuck on the way,
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for instance, what they did not do is introduce a term of offers, and that's now a problem that back fires, because the president at the moment is going to run again for presidency, and we would have liked him to step down. >> all right, that is the professor in criminal law at the university of basil. thank you very much. >> pakistan will host a five game cricket match. we have more. >> pakistan is holding an international tournament with the kenyan a team here in the city of lahore. this is happening after five years of suspension of international cricket here in pakistan after the deadly attack on the sri lanka team in 2009
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that wounded seven players and killed eight people. the pakistanis are trying to reassure the international teams that this is a safe venue. extra security measures have been taken. the kenyan s team is housed in the b.c.b. compound. there are 14 gates that separate that team from the outside. helicopters are patrolling the area and prosecutor military forces ensuring that this match is held without incident. the kenyan team will be playing five monday matches all at the same venue. >> dave warner's scoring streak continues after 145 in the first innings, warner followed up with 102 on friday. it's his sixth century from 11
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test innings. he paid attribute to phillip hughes, his friend who died after being hit in the head by a cricket ball. >> another person heavily affected by the death of phillip hughes has been making a remarkable return to cricket. 22-year-old sean abbot bold the delivery that struck hughes in the head. playing friday, the fast baller took career-best figures, a six from 14 with seven overs to help his team win. that is all the sport for now. >> stay with us here on al jazeera. we've got another full bulletin of news four right at the top of the hour. you can get the latest news at al jazeera.com.
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