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france orders 10,000 troops on to the streets to protect its citizens a day after millions united in solidarity against violence. and turkey says the female accomplice crossed into syria last week. ♪ this is al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha and also ahead divers retrieve one of the black boxes from the air asia flight that crashed in the java sea last month plus. >> thousands of people lost limbs during the earthquake in
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highty highty -- haiti and they are moved to the camp and are still here in port au prince and that story coming up. ♪ hello, france is preparing to mobilize 10,000 soldiers to help protect its population the announcement comes a day after solidarity rallies with almost 4 million people across the country. last week 17 people were killed in several attacks around paris and rory challenge is joining us from paris to tell us more about the boost of security forces rory? >> reporter: well clearly the french government is not comfortable with relaxing at the moment because it still thinks it might be some sort of threat out there. and the reason it believes that is because there is a question that is hanging at the moment a video was released online in the
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aftermath of last week's violence which was an explanation from bali who attacked the jewish supermarket of why he was doing what he did. now, police and the government here don't know who films and who edited that video and don't know whether that person is a threat. so this is why we are seeing this big mobilization of troops and 10,000 due to be hitting the streets pretty soon a good number of those, about 5,000 troops and police are specifically going to be protecting jewish schools here in france there are about 700 of them and they are felt at the moment a particular target. >> rory thank you for the update and reporting from paris. meanwhile turkey's foreign minister says the suspected female accomplice of one of the gunman rory was talking about
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killed last week this france did cross into syria from turkey and that happened last thursday. and she is believes to have arrived in turkey ahead of those attacks. let's find out more on that and bring in bernard smith from the turkish town near the syrian border and bernard. >> reporter: we are hearing that the turkish foreign ministry says turkey from madrid on the second of january and stayed for a night in istanbul and checked out of a hotel in istanbul and the belief is she went to the border to the town of orfa and local media is reporting this has been discovered because that is where her mobile phone signal was picked up on the 4th of january down in orpa and the last was heard from the mobile phone signal was on the 8th of january, the day of the attacks, the killings at hebdo and on
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that day the turkish foreign minister said she went into syria and don't know how she did it, through an official border crossing or smuggled across but foreign ministry saying she went into syria on january the 8th. >> bernard we certainly saw yesterday a turkish delegation in paris standing in solidarity with the president there and the whole country. and we know that the prime minister excuse me that was going to be meeting with the german chancellor angela merkel who was also in france yesterday and the meeting taking place in berlin and what is going on there and what will they be talking about? >> well, of course by talking about regional security issue, turkey has been under pressure for quite sometime to stop fighters crossing its border into syria and into iraq. now it used to be relatively easy perhaps a year or more ago it was quite common for foreign fighters to come through turkey
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transit through turkey and to cross into syria and the turkish government of turning a blind eye to this because it wants to see the regime of bashar al-assad and turkey was happy for that to happen and since last summer turkey has under u.s. pressure clamped down on illegal border crossings and know from talking to smugglers they say it's much harder to get across much harder than it used to be but not impossible this is a 900 odd kilometer border with syria and you cannot police every meter of it and you can still get across illegally if you want to but it's much harder than it used to be. >> thank you and bernard reporting. the speed of response by the international community to the threat posed by i.s.i.l. is under further scrutiny. iraqi prime minister abaddi says it's too slow and speaking in cairo he maintained the coalition fails to provide
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enough military support to his troops and his comments do echo opinions already expressed by the kurdish community. meanwhile i.s.i.l. fighters have killed at least 24 members of the kurdish security forces in a surprise attack in northern iraq, it's the deadliest single attack against the kurds since last summer when the incident took place near guar a town southwest of erbill and crossing and joining us from erbill to tell us what this attack really tells us about the ability of i.s.i.l. to launch these deadly attacks still now in a couple months after the coalition started their air strikes against them. >> reporter: indeed doreen this attack shows not only how daring i.s.i.l. fighters are but also their capacity to strike and dip in kurdish territory. according to the commander of the peshmerga forces and guar
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area where the attack happened general says hundreds of i.s.i.l. fighters some of them came by boats, attacked the town of guar a surprise attack which he described as one of the deadliest that have been current on peshmerga forces positions on this very long front line that they have between them and i.s.i.l. and he says that the military power to i.s.i.l. fighters and also saw pictures from local t.v. that show the peshmerga chasing and retreating i.s.i.l. forces and gunning some of them down and as far as we know right now guar is deserted by the people who are living there. most of them have fled fearing that they would be caught in the cross fire. now, guar is very important because it's only 45 kilometers away from erbill the capitol of
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the region and it's also right between erbill and mosul and would be crucial for a planned attack on mosul by the iraqi government to take it from i.s.i.l. >> mohamed recording from erbill and mohamed thank you. libya's general national congress will meet in tripoli to discuss the upcoming u.n. mediated talks with rival parliament set in tawrook and follows moves of citing with governments backed by several armed groups and the talks are scheduled to take place in geneva next week. lebanese security forces have stormed a prison in beirut. they moved in to transfer the detainees after an investigation showed that some had exchanged calls with a man who conducted a suicide bombing on saturday. nine people were killed during that attack in tripoli and some of the prisoners burned their mattresses to protest that move from the overcrowded detention
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center. indonesia search and rescue teams found one of the two flight recorders from the air asia planes and searching for the cockpit voice recorder and 162 crew and passengers were killed when it crashed in the java sea two weeks ago and we have more from dakarta. >> announcement two weeks and one day after the plane crashed at sea on its way to singapore, the flight data recorder was found just two kilometers from where divers earlier located the tail of the air asia plane. >> translator: i received an official report from the national transport safety committee. at 7:11 a.m. local time we had succeeded in lifting a part of the black box known as the flight data recorder. >> reporter: the recorder that contained up to 50 hours of flight information will be opened at the office of the national transport safety committee. indonesia has a lab to
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investigate airplane accidents in 2009 and the team of france will assist in the process that can take a few months to finalize. >> translator: if we have converted all data experts will ann ann -- analyze it and look at human factors studied and all data synchronized. >> reporter: more than two weeks after the crash investigators hope to find some answers and data will be analyzed right here in a few moments the victims should get some clearance. relatives of 162 victims hope conclusions of the investigation can be presented to them soon and also urge authorities to find remaining bodies that are most likely still trapped in the body of the plane. after more than two weeks after sea conditions of the bodies are already hampering the
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identification process. i'm with al jazeera. still ahead on al jazeera how sinagal has vaccines in remote regions without power plus plus. [chanting] why positions are changing in south africa as real leopard skins are being replaced by fake fur. ♪
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♪ hello again the top stories on al jazeera, france preparing the
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mobilize 10,000 soldiers to help protect the population and announcement comes a day after unity rallies across the country in opposition to attacks that left 17 people and three gunmen dead last week turkey said the accomplice killed is now in syria and said to have crossed the turkey syrian border a day before they took hostages at a kosher market in paris. iraq's prime minister criticized the u.s.-led coalition for being too slow in the fight against iraq and lavonte and speaking in cairo he said coalition failed to provide military support to his troops. three months after taking office the afghan president has nominated 25 ministers for his cabinet, jennifer glasse is joining us from kabul to tell us about the makeup of that cabinet, jennifer.
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>> the president promised it would be a diverse cabinet and new faces and seeing old faces the chief of the army and he will become the chief of defense, the former head of the high peace, the head of foreign affairs but no one before has been a minister. they do have experience in leadership. they do have experience in government. but it's the kind of shake up the president ghani and chief officer abdullah-abdullah reforming and corruption has been a huge problem here the 25 ministers are ministers designated to the cabinet and in claud clueds women and they will approve or disapprove and not a moment too soon and waiting three months since the inauguration of ghani for the cabinet and it's stalled since then and hoping the naming of the new cabinet will mean things
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is get going again and ministries will start working like they are supposed to and feel can get documents and approvals they need to build to buy things and transfer home and settle legal dispute. >> it seems ghani will have to deal with something else that is now come up and that is a new report that seems to suggest that money intended for some of the salaries for afghans, the money excuse me is bank rolling what this report is calling ghost workers, what do we know about that? >> that's right. this is a new report by the special inspector general for afghanistan, that is an american watchdog looking at the money and the $500 million for the police comes from the united states and basically saying there is not really good oversight on police salaries as many as maybe twice as many police identifications have been issued as there are policemen,
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there is not a computerized system and found a number of flaws in the system and this is a very delicate subject between the u.n. development program which administers the $500 million and the afghan government and he told the u.n. he wants this money administered by the afghan government within the next six months by june. the afghan government according to this new report really just doesn't have the recognition to do that but the afghan government president ghani accuses the u.n. of really miss managing this money, it takes 4% to manage the $500 million and says 20% of the police are in danger of not being paid but it really is just one of the many many challenges this new afghan government faces as it moves forward. >> all right, jennifer thank you jennifer glasse reporting from
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kabul. pupils and 150 and most children were killed when taliban gunman stormed the school in peshawar and walls raised and electric fencing raised to help. >> reporter: they reopened the schools across pakistan there is apprehension there will be more deadly attacks like the one that took place on december the 16th leading to 150 killed including 32 children. now importantly the government has already issued guidelines for security to be stepped up in private schools as well. however, in the city of peshawar which had more than 1400 schools, 1200 schools have not come up with a mark and will not get the no objection certificate and there are also concerns that stepped up security including the walk-through gates and
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raiser wires will add to security cost and mean an extra burden for the parents and students who are studying at those institutions so a big challenge as far as the government is concerned which of course wants to reopen the schools but also has to take adequate measures to ensure the safety of the children. >> the sri lanka good evening -- working week and facing his first challenge with lawyers and rights activists protesting outside the supreme court and charles stratford has more from columbo. >> reporter: the first working day in columbo since the election victory at the center and these boys are activists on the new president to act on his promise of delivering an injudiciary immediately and angry about the continued deployment of the top judge in the country. they say former president
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appointment to chief justice was totally illegal. >> he will take a side which means there won't be justice and won't be independent judiciary and has to be rule of law in the country and has to be independence and it can only happen if the chief justice and every other judge stays away from politicians and parties. [chanting] the previous ridging had absolutely no respect for benchmark of democracy and judicially became judicially of the president. >> reporter: the president has promised as part of his 100-day plan to end what he describes as kronism in the judicial system and lawyers and activists turned up for the protest today and want action now. south korea president says she is open to holding a summit with north korean leader kim
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jong-un and also said there will be no preconditions for talks. but she insists that an end to the nuclear program should be part of that discussion and harry faucet is in seoul with more. >> reporter: since inauguration she said she would be willing to speak to kim jong-un in a summit and has to be progress from the talks and will not have talk for talk sake and now she says she will talk to him without any preconditions whatsoever. the change seems to be brought about that kim jong-un made a statement on new year's day which he said he was open to a summit if the conditions were right and the fact this year is the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the end of japanese peninsula and beginning of division on the peninsula and therefore it would be a symbolic time tomorrow meet. >> translator: i'm willing to meet with anyone necessary to solve the pain that has been caused by the division of korea
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and open up a way of peaceful unification. i can hold the summit if it helps but we cannot discuss peaceful unification without discussing nuclear issues. >> reporter: also in the press conference on monday said north korea has been passive in the high-level talks that it made at the end of december and north korea has been critical of south korea for failing to south activists and launching leaf leaflet's attached and both leaders say in principle, in theory they are open to a summit there is plenty of territory that needs to be covered before that can become reality. the fifth and veracity of the earthquake that killed 200,000 people in haiti and housing is still a challenge and we have more. >> reporter: when the ground
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shook buildings collapsed, the rubble fell upon them and escaped with their lives but not with all of their limbs and he worked as a carpenter but lost his arm and has not been able to work since. gilbert and hundreds of other people maimed by the earthquake have been living in this temporary housing set up by relief organizations but despite the millions to alleviate the suffering of those who lost everything this camp has no electricity, no proper toilets or showers. >> translator: our life has become more miserable here. despite all the money that was given for recovery we have not benefitted and even public buses do not stop for us because they know we cannot afford to pay. >> reporter: he and others here have heard promises of long-term adequate housing many times but five years after the earthquake and three years of living here and they are still waiting. the conditions are not getting any better,, in fact they are deteriorating.
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even children have to fetch water outside of the camp using any means possible to get it home. according to u.n. statistics today there is 79,000 people still living in tents and temporary shelters in haiti as a result of the earthquake and down from 1.5 million right after the tragedy. >> the key to success is we have been able to reduce this displacement chapter that is part now of haiti's history. >> reporter: there are more than 100,000 more people who don't show up in official statistics occupying makeshift homes in slums like this one, many of them received a year of humanitarian aid to rent an apartment and get out of the tent cities but that aid has since run out. >> translator: instead of taking the opportunity to solve the housing problem, the aid organization chose to pay short term rent and after one year the people could not afford to pay the rent on their own because
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they had no jobs and end up in the slums. >> reporter: back at the camp the most vulnerable are still waiting for a chance for a proper place to live and hoping they are not forgotten but feeling like they already have been. i'm with al jazeera, port au prince. >> reporter: traditional religious group have long worn liberty erred skins but with big cats facing extension they are now going for fake fur and victoria has that story. [chanting] members of the church go through the steps of a traditional religious dance, january is the holy month and thousands of them will gather for a special ceremony. this year few men have dressed in traditional leopard skins and spotted pelts spotted for fake fur between conservationist and church leaders.
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>> protection of animals and therefore we don't have to kill animals in order to beautify ourselves. >> reporter: but opinion among church members is divided and leopard skins a sign of pride and royalty in the religion and some do not want traditions to change. this religion has been founded and i believe that as a church we cannot try and be like that about things i do not believe in that because if we become like that about things we may find ourselves lost the identity. >> reporter: conservationist say there are 7,000 leopards left in south africa, their decline due largely to poaching and they have fake fur for an animal alternative some say the debate about ceremonial dress has become a distraction for more important matters. >> it's how you relate to god
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and by preaching common clothes to holiness and it's not about how you dress so to me it means nothing and that is why i'm not wearing the skins. [chanting] a few years ago conservationists worry as the church grew the leopards will be pushed to extinction but at this year's ceremony more members chose to wear fake fur and playing in the part to protect the leopard, i'm with al jazeera. and sinagal pursuing is an immobilization program to prevent child mortality but getting it to remote areas is a challenge. >> reporter: visits from the team are a special occasion and there are no hospitals in this remote region. their arrival always attacks a crowd especially when they are spotted carrying vaccine coolers. no one here has ever been
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vaccinated vaccinated. vaccinated. . >> translator: it's great all kids of the village are getting it and government made it free of charge for all children under five. >> reporter: getting it to those who need it the most is difficult and vaccines need to be kept between 0-8 degrees celsius and in this environment they last a few days and damaged because over lack of proper storage. [ [baby crying] no electricity here to power a fridge and sometimes we have ice but we cannot control the temperature and no one paid attention to the problem before giving us vaccines is not enough and crucial we find a way to conserve and transport immobilizations otherwise our work is useless. >> reporter: many children continue to suffer infectious diseases like tb and polio and yellow fever and children die of pr ventable diseases and look at the numbers 1.5 million children died last year because they
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weren't vaccinated. u.n. saying that's unacceptable. unicef is distributing newly designed vaccine coolers to district nurses in regions where children die the most on the outside they look like regular coolers but take a closer look and they are manufactured specifically to withstand the tough climate and the bill and melinda gates foundation is developing millions for new vaccine coolers and this is powered by rechargeable batteries and conserves vaccines for a month and you can monitor the temperature and working on an solar power versions but some say the latest designs are impracticable. coolers need to be sturdy enough to withstand the shocks of transport. back in the village he and the team are on the road again, these vaccines need to be used before they are damaged, ahead is a ten kilometer walk to the
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next village where more children are waiting for the first life-saving injection, nicholas hawk in sinagal. keep up to date with the news on the website al jazeera, there it is on the screen al jazeera.com. oil prices is in a free fall, it's not good news. the sudden drop is a sign of bigger problems. talk about a dangerous job. we'll hear from a woman who makes a living smuggling oil for i.s.i.l. red states versus blue states, the deep economic divide between them put all of america's prosperity in jeopardy. i'm ali velshi. this is "real money".