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>> hello there you're watching the news hour live from london. coming up jordan vows an earth-shaking response to the brutal killing of its pilot. and security forces say within hours jordan will execute the failed iraqi suicide-bomber who isil tried to swap for the pilot. also ahead reports that an arrest warrants for argentina's president cristina kirchner was found at the home of the dead
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prosecutor. plus applications vote to make britain the first country to allow the creation of babies from three people. >> hello jordan is vowing a response to the killing of the captured pilot. he was captured when his f-16 plane came down in isil-held territory in syria in september. the jordanian government vowed to do all it could including handing over an iraqi prisoner. al rasawi eye is on death row in jordan for her role for killing six people. she was to be handed over in
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return for the pilot and the japanese journalist, who himself was killed by isil a few days ago. it is now reported that kenji goto was killed a month ago. >> reporter: when the news came in the had state television confirmed the death. jordan's king abdullah cut short his visit to the u.s. >> we have received with sorrow and anger the news of the killing of the hero, moaz al kassasbeh.
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>> meanwhile president obama was one of the first world leaders to react. >> this is just one more indication of the viciousness and barbaric organization. i think it will we'll redouble the vigilance on the part of coalition to make sure that they are degraded and ultimately defeated. >> many people on the streets are still in shock. >> we're so sad for him and i consider him a hero and martyr. we're proud he defended the country, and we're sad for his family. we're his family. >> what is this, islam? this is not islam my brother. >> lieutenant al kassasbeh was
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captured when his plane went down in syria. >> they scare the government and the people of these coalition members. >> reporter: jordan promised a severe reaction and asked for mass prayers in memory of the pilot on wednesday. >> let's take you live now to nisreen el-shamayleh. they have called for unity but give us an idea of how people are responding to the murder of moaz al kassasbeh. >> well, people are saying different things. now that we see this pilot being burnt alive for the first time in a video attributeed to isil
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they say that we need to increase attacks on isil and people are more determined than ever to fight isil when before they felt that this was not their war and jordan should not be part of the coalition led by the united states. then you have the other people who are holding the government responsible. had jordan not participated in this coalition then al kassasbeh never would have flown over isil. there is a lot of mixed reaction and feelings at this point felicity. >> also, we've heard reports there are plans to execute the iraqi prisoner, who herself was due to be handed over if the deal had been agreed. what do you know about that? >> well, we know that there are a number of credible channels
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who are quoting that iraqi prisoners in jordan convicted of killing a jordanian truck driver in iraq and belonging to an outlawed organization as well as four others may be executed in the coming hours. bev not been able to confirm that ourselves. what we've been able to confirm is that the families of two of these prisoners one in iraq and one in jordan, have confirmed to us today that their sons have indeed been moved from their prison cells to a prison in jordan where executions are carried out. this has been confirmed. these movements have been confirmed by the families as at least two of these prisoners who are in question, and that are on death row. >> nisreen el-shamayleh with the latest. thanks nisreen. well andrew simmons takes a
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look at the background and career of the murdered pilot. >> reporter: moaz al kassasbem was the first jordanian pilot to be captured by isil and killed. his family and friends and supporters have called on the jordanian government to secure his release. [ protesting ] while also voicing opposition to jordan's involvement in the fight against isil. >> our sons are being sent to fight outside of the jordanian border. this is not our business, and the war is outside of the jordanian borders. our son was sent on a military mission in order to be killed. >> reporter: public. in jordan is split over the country's membership of the coalition. but support for the government to negotiate for the pilot's
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captors had been overwhelming. >> we definitely want the jordanian government to inter convenient. he is jordanian citizen and he is our son. . >> a spokesman said that jordan's stance from the beginning has been to secure the life of left al kassasbeh. in return to the pilot's release, jordan agreed to hand over this woman al cvs hawi, who is on death row for being part of an attack six years ago. isil's demands were made using japanese hostage kenji goto in video and audio messages. then he was murdered. the beheading was posted on the
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internet. the family is from a big influential describe in jordan. they toned down their protests during what they described as politically sensitive times. but one of the pilot's brothers made it clear that they were still unhappy. >> this is not our war here. and all jordanian citizens say this and this statement. this war is not our war. now i'm very sad about my brother moaz in this situation but i believe god will bless moaz. i hope that. >> once again no mercy was shown by isil. another life lost, and in jordan now there will be more division,
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more protests over the country's role in the american-led coalition against isil. andrew simmons al jazeera. >> king abdullah of jordan was in the united states when he got the news. let's go to washington, d.c. so we know that the king is cutting short his visit to the u.s. has he already left washington? >> we don't believe he has left yet. he was on capitol hill in the last couple of hours meeting with members of the senate foreign relations committee as well as with other top u.s. senators so we don't believe he has actually left the city left. there are rumors about whether or not he was going to meet with pratt barack president barack obama. those rumors have not been confirmed in the white house. it's a situation where the people of jordan might want their ruler to be back with them as quickly as possible. we do know that he did issue a
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brief video address to the jordanian people expressing his anger and his sadness over the death of pilot al kassasbeh. >> will this change the way that the u.s. is fighting against isil? >> reporter: well, it's not clear whether it's going to change anything. officials in the military will say that they have to prepare their troops for every possible contingency, but let's not forget lt. al-kassasbeh was the only member of the country's military to fall into isil's hands and was considered a prisoner of war. this is not a situation repeated by all of the countries who have been taking part in the air war and it has not come up in particular with iraq where you've had iraqi forces on the ground trying to push back isil from parts of the country that
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had been taken under their control in the past eight to nine months. what you will see is that he will certainly factor this in to how they continue what they say is a multi year fight but i don't think you're going to see people pulling back, as it were, certainly not because of this one horrific event. >> roz jordan live for us. thank you. let's talk more about this with oh a middle east east analysts thank you for coming in. similar question, really, what effect is this murder likely to have on the contribution of jordan to the anti-isil coalition? >> actually, it could from the jordanian point of view all-ought war against isis. the jordanian were shocked. and they're panicking. we can see that there are reports that they will execute al rishawi and others immediately maybe in the
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morning, tomorrow. so it seems that the jordanian government is is reacting to the killing of the pilot. jordan is facing dangerous choices whether they will go all the way to fight send troops on the ground, or they'll refrain in order not to face a backfire against the jordanian people. >> even before al kassasbeh had been criticizeing jordan for being involved in this. >> yes people in the middle east people in the arab world worlds are against any american intervention. they knew what happened in iraq. they knew what happened in libya when libya became a failed state and yemen. they don't want to send their boys to fight under the american
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flag in iraq and syria. that's why they were against it. many people said no, it is not our war. we don't want to participate in this war. our people will be killed. we are not in danger of isis any more. maybe in the future, but for the time being why should we provoke them? personally i went to jordan. i researched my book about isis, there are really, really deep down they don't want this involvement at all in the problem of syria. >> the reality though is that we all talk about this being an u.s.-led coalition against isil, but many arab nations are involved like jordan. are they also going to be taking a step back now and looking at whether or not they should be involved? or is there a feeling in most of the region that people put aside their differences because something has to be done about a group that carries out barbaric killings such as we've seen today? >> well, when we look at it, this barbaric way of execution
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is a message. it's a message for the arab members and coalition. they're saying, look, we did not behead them like the other hostages the british the the american the japanese. no we burned him to death because we will tell you that this is the fate of any pilot of yours who we're going capture or any soldier who comes to fight us. it is a brutal message. i believe it could have an affect effect. why? since the shoot down of mr. kassasbeh's warplane, the jordanian government has frozen all the attacks against the isis and iraq and syria. so maybe the other countries will follow suit. we don't know yet. but it is a brutal message and it is very clear to frighten people and terrorize them and say look, we're here to terrorize you. we're not here to get away with
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it. they're a brutal people. when you say brutal, they are very happy because they want to pass this message to everybody. yes, so the people when they enter our village or town. this is their strategy. i believe that they know what they're doing and they deliberately choose this brutal way to burn al-kassasbeh. >> thank you very much, indeed. thank you. still to come on this news hour the u.n. rejects allegations of genocide that croatia and serbia filed against each other. hope that al jazeera journalist mohammed fahmy may soon be set free. we'll have the latest from equatorial guinea.
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>> but first the fight against isil in iraq where the iraqi army and a powerful shia militia are declaring victory over the group. the fight was led by the call that held a victory rally and said they're ready to move north into isil strongholds. >> this is a victory dance. the victory was taking back the last remaining areas of diayala province and in many cases overshadowing iraqi forces. the most powerful is the badr corp.s. it says it has 25,000 fighters.
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they said they will move on to fight isil in mosul and anbar province and no foreign troops would be allowed on the ground. he said afterwards his fighters were already involved in the battle in anbar. and for iranian troops. >> we have two videos if the iranians bring troops we'll reject that, but if they come in to help us, we don't mind. >> he said any killings and kidnappings would be punished. the event in diyala included some sunnies. the photos of iran's spiritual leader were a sign of how dramatically things have changed in iraq. for more than 30 years this was a base for an iranian dissident group trying to overflow the
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iranian government. now it's full of iranian-backed shia militia fighters who played a lead role in a fight against isil. fighters say they're ready to move onto the next battle. >> god willing we're preparing to move forward and liberate the rest of the iraqi lands by the efforts of all those brave men around me. >> despite the celebration it has been a hard-won victory. there are deserted villages and fields. the fighting damages schools and government buildings. this mountain range separating iraq and iran, one of the only places free of explosives laid by isil, only known as daesh. >> what we do now is to satisfy the situation is to clean the
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area from bombs. this is the straty of daesh. >> it comes as a cost, but iraqi leaders say it was a price that the country had to pay. diyala province, in iraq. >> reportedly pushing boko haram out of a border town after sending in troops. 2,000 troops send in from chad with airstrikes from the chadian air force. they say to be in control of the border town. croatia and serbia have been urged to turn the page from a bloody chapter in their history after a top u.n. court rejected their rival allegations of
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genocide. they centered on events during the 1991-'95 balkans war. >> the battles were relentless. the forces were well-equipped and their tanks rolled in. bodies mounded in the streets and croates surrendered but the serb force has a wider campaign in mind, one of ethnic cleansing. prisoners were taken outside of the town and murdered. croatia said it all adds up to genocide. >> an entire town was destroyed. everything from cultural to sites and everything was destroyed. >> croatia wanted yugoslavia held responsible.
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16 years later with the republic consigned to history and serbia it's legal successor the hearing final ligand. but serbia said croatia had a case to answer, too. in 2010 it had a counter lawsuit stating that croatia ethnically cleansed areas. it's not known how many were killed but 200,000 serbs were forced to flee their homes. >> they exposed us and said they are not criminals but we are. they regard us as crazy. we ran away, give me a break. >> after a long process the process ruled that even though both sides committed many crimes neither case amounted to genocide.
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20,000 people were killed during the croatian war of independence independence. no ruling, both countries say can wipe the stains from those four brutal years. >> let's find out how that judgment has been received from our correspondents in croatia and serbia. >> serbia is not satisfied with the international court of justice, who reject its genocide lawsuit against croatia. in a statement it is said that the court did not recognize that the crimes against serbian population where they killed all serbian population including animals and destroyed their houses. serbia's president said that was a clear example. it recognized that mass killings
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of serbs was committed in croatia, but they sent a message that now it's time to look into the future and to put past behind them and to work together in good faith to resolve every issue between serbia and crow withcroatia so they could introduce long lasting peace and prosperity to the baltic region. >> there is general dissatisfaction in croatia with the international court of justice. the political leadership of the country is not satisfied with the fact that croatian lawsuit was dismissed. but they also believe that this judgment confirmed that there was an attack and war crimes were committed. on the other hand, the serbia lawsuit against croatia was rejected over military actions. during which croatia occupied
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territories of the country. this judgment is considered that croatia was not--political leaders said that there is still a lot of open questions, open issues between the two countries, but they also consider that this judgment will not harm relationships between serbia and croatia. >> thank you for being with us. i guess these verdicts come with little surprise. why have these cases lasted so long and progressed this far? >> s >> i think this decision
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stressed one important issue and that is mass crimes committed in croatia and in the region. no matter that the court decided that those crimes didn't reach levels of genocide, it's clear that mass crimes have been committed, and they're not committed individually as accidents, but in an organized matter committed by regular military forces by both countries. >> it effectively aggravated that both side were equally to blame. both sides carried out these killings which don't amount to genocide. does this now allow both these countries to put that awful war behind them and move on? does it draw some sort of line politically in the sand?
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>> i think two often we look at that phrase and put it hyped rand look towards a bright future but it's not always easy to look in the future that way. there are important issues why. first, the victims. say someone who is raped killed or lost dozens of members of their family, to put it behind and look at a bright future. on the other hand if you take a look at only the fact that we have claims of genocide, it clearly shows that countries in this region have very long history of violence and very burdened. i think we cannot build that bright future on the illusion
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that is tall to our children and is part of our historical books. if we wish to overcome that burdened past, we need to look at justice. i think that's one of the strongest points in today's decision. >> really interesting to talk with you. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> still to come on the program a russian mother accused of treason is released on bail as her case galvanizes opposition voices. a knife attack at a jewish culture center in nice. and rory mcilroy is hitting out in court rather than the golf course. blank
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the islamic state in iraq and the levant. the group has released a video of pilot moaz al-kassasbeh being burned to death. news of the pilot as death has brought anger in his hometown. supporters called for very revenge outside of the headquarters used to campaign for his release. a bomb has killed at least one person in egypt of alexandria. a 12-year-old boy was among the injured. police found two bombs, one was recovered and another near a police station. there was an explosion near a
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busy square in central cairo. the government is now offering a year's worth of public transport for people who report bomb and sabotage threats. egyptian-jailed canadian-citizen mohammed fahmy hopes to be released under his canadianen citizen indianapolis. hamfmy's release is imminent. he said diplomatic efforts to release famny have been going very well. peter greste is now on his way home to australia. has behind bars is egyptian producer mohammed fahm baher mohammed, who was jailed at the time of the bit of his third
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child. in eastern ukraine escalation in fighting and indiscriminate shelling has killed 224 civilians in the past three weeks. well the town has been subjected to heavy shelling in the last couple of days. ukrainian army has been trying to evacuate people trapped by the fighting. there is no heating or power in the town in dontesk and luhansk. both being held by rebel fighters. a case has galvanized opposition in russia and there was an unsanctioned demonstration in front of the moscow security service. we have reports from moscow.
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>> reporter: all protests are symbolic gestures. but when the russian law only allows a single demonstrateor that's all you've got. >> they're really afraid if they put her 20 years in jail, then it could happen to any active person we don't want that to happen. that's why we're here. >> svetlana's family described what it was like when they came for her two weeks ago. >> they said we're taking you right now. police immediately grabbed her and led her away. i said wait, that's my wife. what's going on? >> last april svetlana is thought to have made a phone call to the ukrainian embassy in
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moscow. she told diplomats about a conversation she overheard on a bus, a soldier from a local base who she thought was talking about secret deployments to ukraine. >> she possibly might have considered that by calling the embassy fewer people will die and more over, they say that russia is not at war that is, i know that she was not led by any harmful intentions. >> anatoly say they're refuseing to give evidence against her. two days ago she was sitting in the detention center. her bail is apparent victory for thousands of people who have signed petitions for vladimir putin to let her await her trial at home with her family. svetlana's fate is something of a cause celeb here. some are pointing out an apparent inconsistency in this case. how is it that svetlana could be
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accused of treason for revealing russian troop di employments deployments in ukraine when the russian government has consistently denied that there is anything going on at all. >> three soldiers have been injured in an attack in the french city of nice. france is on its highest alert after 17 people were killed in several separate attacks in paris in january. from paris jacky rowland reports. >> reporter: the scene from tuesday's attack and the reminder of the contention on the streets of many french cities. a man armed with a knife stabbed a soldier in the neck as he guarded this jewish community center. the attacker then tried to run away but was reportedly stopped by a shop owner. two more soldiers intervened, and the attacker stabbed one of them as well. >> the soldier has been attacked as he was paroling the avenue. when he was arrested, thanks to a local who was passing by, who
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brought him under control with the help of two tram-way officials and municipal police he was struggling and hurt two other soldiers. the perpetrator has been arrested, and is now in the hands of municipal police. >> reporter: they have identified the attacker and said that he was questioned in france after being expelled from turkey last week. there appears to be not link to the gunmen who killed four people at the jewish supermarket last month. that attack led to an increase in security across france. more than 10,000 soldiers have been deployed outside of sensitive sites like jewish and muslim centers and some media headquarters. france has been at its highest state of alert. terrorism level since the attack on charlie hebdo.
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french people are aware that even the army presence on the streets is likely the norm for some time to come. jacky row lapped, al jazeera, paris. >> an argentinian prosecutor found dead in his apartment last month allegedly had a warrant for argentina's president cristina kirchner. he was accused president kitchener of coring covering up involvement in covering up a bomb attack in 1994. what more do you know about this latest development? >> reporter: well, as you say there seems to be confusion all around but it does seem to be confirmed that these documents found in the rubbish bin do
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prove that he was planning to issue an arrest warrant for president kitchener and head minister a few months ago. that was first denied by the prosecutor who has taken up the case. and then she admitted afterwards that she made a mistake and these documents do exist. in the middle east president kitchener went on national information with a copy of the newspaper who looked at the story. as you said, every more confusing, and there are no indications of taking up the case following the death two weeks ago. we're still unsure whether he committed suicide or if he was murdered. >> presuming. argentina is gripped by the story. >> gripped by the story and
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increasingly polarized. we've seen protests from people supporting the government's stand on this, and protests from people demanding some kind of open and transparent inquiry into what went on. those who believe that he was killed. those who believe that he committed suicide. absolutely polarized is the society. the government seems to be confused about which way they want to go on this. first of all saying that he committed suicide and then he didn't. trying to find the lines to take on this case. in the meantime we don't know who killed the prosecutor and there are many questions about the case he was investigating the case from 21 years ago killing 95 people. >> thank you. the credit realitying agency
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standards and poor's has agreed to pay $1 million to settle legal action brought by the u.s. government. they were knowingly inflating ratings of risky mortgage investments. the settlement is part of the u.s. government's efforts to act against those who are responsible for a crisis. british politicians have voted to legalize new form of ibs treatment prevent mothers from passing on deadly diseases to their children. it uses the dna from three people to produce a healthy being. the u.k. will be the first place in the world that allows this ground-breaking process. it also has its critics. >> this mother passed on a disease to her daughter lily. she died from heart failure when she was less than a year old. elizabeth has faulty mitochondria in her dna.
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>> i think one of the worst things is not only being told that your child is going to die and there is no cure. there is no treatment. it is just wait and see. but then to find out that subsequent children are more than likely going to be affected in the same way. it's just really really tough. >> the new treatment can break this desperate cycle. it's pierres insist that it's safe. but controversial for some it involves dna from three people. the mother donates an eagle fertilized by the father's sperm. but the mitochondria which surround this nucleus are faulty and it is that that passes on the problems. in the new technique the nucleus is placed inside avert a
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fertilized egg of a donor. opponents including the church of england say that it opens the way to engineering and designer babies. some scientists say not enough testing has been done to see what other effects it may have and they're rushing in to unknown scientific territory. >> i think altering the genes of a child creating a new child essentially opening the way to determining the type of person who is born is a very difficult ethic boundary to cross. >> they understand that on the cutting edge of science taking a calculated risk when benefits are so clear are sometimes necessary. >> the "is" 382. the nos 128.
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>> they voted overwhelmingly in favor, and the first child under this treatment could be born as article as early as next year. . >> well to, discuss this further we're joined by the director of genetic alliance in u.k. and by the founder of the pressure group. first, have there been ethical and public reviews into this form of ibf. why are you so opposed to. >> it's not me that's the only person opposed to t i think the majority of people worldwide are opposed to this, and rightfully so. we're talking about a modified embryo. a modified human being. to think that this was endorsed in a discussion,ing that that we should be holding our heads in shame about there was a
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three-hour discussion in our programming. we decided it was a good idea to change the building blogs of life. in so way whatsoever could anyone describe this as a cure. we're not curing the mother who carries the disease. we we're not talking about the children who are born with the condition and will continue to be born randomly. it's a very danger route endorsed in parliament today. >> even in a tiny way you're and once you start on this path, there is near that it could lead to more genetic. >> if what she said is true then it would be a huge step to take. but championshipping the
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championing of the mitochondria. it is completely dis distinct from the 99.9% of our dna which shows what we are what we grow up into, our hair color and eye color and all the characteristics that make us up. there is no automatic leap from improving the opportunity for a woman to-to-have a child who will not die from a from this disease, to a specter of designer babies, from which we're a long way off if ever. >> these mitochondria mitochondrial dna it's they
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don't contribute to your personality, your hair color or eye color. if it could be proved that this is as far as jeanette genetic were to go, would you be happy with that? it's a tiny amount. >> i don't think we should say that it's a tiny amount when we see how difficult it is in the disease that's carried on in generations. he says, there is it is very significant, indeed. as we do, we certainly are not against finding ways to cure decease suicide, but to why is it that there are so many pro significances: we hear an awful lot to opposition to genetically modified food, and in this
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instance we're talking about genetically modified human beings. >> it is experimental. it's pretty much uncharted territory, and nobody really does know what the long-term impacts might be on these babies who are products of three people. this is the problem isn't it. it even experiments despite what scientist might say. >> of course the first time do you it is an experiment. but it is an experiment that you set against the background of a certainty. if you don't do anything, the woman every woman every child she conceives will have the mitochondria disease. we're moving away from couples having no healthy babies into babies that will grow up and. and this mitochondria disease should be removed.
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from that point of view i believe it's positive. they have been given the power to review the applications. if it thinks that the science is there is sound that the risk is acceptable, then they can license the procedure on a case by case basis. >> we have more to discuss. i appreciate your time. thank you very much, indeed for coming on to the program. all right still to come in the news hour. from in church, we have
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>> let's go to sport now. >> thank you so much, felicity. ivory coast footballers say they're ready to put years of disappoint behind them at the africa cup of nations. the country won the title in 1992 but since then successive teams have failed to fulfill theiren doubted potential. >> it's become an all too familiar scenario. ivory coast favors in the start, reach the knock out stages and leaving empty handed. >> the ivory coast back in 1992. theythe closest they came to
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winning was in 2012. >> i won't be satisfied. >> savory coast is the democratic of coming go. >> we know that they will be strong because i think it is the last time for some players of the savory coast to expect to win the africa cup so there is great moderation. >> equatorial guinea, appearing in the semis for the first time and ghana is sure to pose as a sticky prospect. but if their fans are to be believed the players are on their way to the first cup of nations title. >> as you know, ghana is a very
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strong team, but equatorial g use inea is also strong. we can win. >> do you think you can win the cup of nations? >> why not? anything is possible. >> in a competition that's been known to produce surprises the host nations made just right another chapter so far. >> now the referee who gave the equatorial guinea in that win over tunisia has been just suspended for six months. they awarded the host nation a last-minute spot kick that kept them alive in the competition. both teams broke in a fight.
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>> just a minute or so away, they're 3-0 down. sunderland and press to be. presspreston will be home to united. recallier on we spoke with journalists who have been looking into the haves and have nots of english football. >> the gap is massive and it's wider. as you look back historically the average wage of a top-flight english club was 44,000 pounds. and for a team in the fourth tier, it was 21 £21,000. there was a factor of two. come forward to 2241, the
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average wage as £126.25 million. now those figures are for everyone on the wage bill, the management as well players. but they do indicate that over that period of time a factor of two had widened to a factor of 50. inequality had massively increased in english football during that time. >> fifa president said that the sport's world governing body needs to end its culture of intimidation. the official voter of england georgia, the united states and home federation, but the fifa vice president along with former portugal international and dutch will challenge for the top role. and looks to make progress with the new team. they've had serious technical issues and managed to negotiate pre- pre-season laps in spain
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last season's runner up did 150 lapse in his mercedes before his engine shut down. >> i would try to see where the problems are in the car. we achieved that in many ways. we were glad to see things breaking down. that was good. >> golf's world number one rory mcilroy is in an unfamiliar scene, he's in an irish court mcilroy is suing them, and the irish firm is suing him alleging breaches of contract. that is how sport is looking for now. we head to felicity in london. >> thank you very much, indeed, for that. thankthank you for watching. we'll be back with more news.
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>> i didn't fight vietnam so that someone could take my property away from me >> hard sell an america tonight investigation only on al jazeera america >> joint military exercises between united states and south korea are regular occurrences. this one, codenamed max thunder - took place in november at the kunsan air force base 150 miles south of seoul... >> this type of exercise takes place every year but for the north korean government they consider this a provocatio