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greece's bailout effort as unacceptable. people in the libyan city of derna are assessing the damage the day after egypt launched aish strikes. i.s.i.l. linked fighters were killed but children killed as well. meanwhile, security in egypt has been stepped up. armed vehicles have been deployed in roads and highways in every province of egypt. their job is to secure public buildings and property. and egypt had reportedly been planning an operation for months, delegates from that government are in cairo now to discuss the next steps. france has called on the u.n.
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security council to conduct actions again those groups in libya. soon after launching aish launching air strikes nadim baba reports. >> a new boost for abdel fattah al-sisi answer his government. french prime minister was in egypt signinging a jet deal. >> egypt is the country to purchase the rafafaell air crafl.
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>> there is a political element. it means this type of deal put closer to french and egyptian political authorities and at a time when we all have to fight jihadis. it is good to have a close connection between french and the egyptians. >> before the signing french president francois hollande talked with his court participant abdel fattah al-sisi, and expressed his sympathy over killing of egyptian citizens by i.s.i.l. also marks a new step in egypt's quest to find alternatives ou.s. military assistance. last week russia's president vladimir putin was in cairo for
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talks presenting his egyptian counterpart with an advanceed rifle. nadim baba, al jazeera paris. houthi fighters have control of the area since september. houthis dissolved parliament and took over the exat capital of yemen sanaa. fighters were already inside iraq to fight i.s.i.l. he also said his force he will not retreat from syria. nazralla called for attack on lebanon and other region.
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>> i say to you who call on us to withdraw from syria i call on you to go to syria. we might not have talked about iraq before. we have a modest presence in the early phase and the sensitive phase in iraq but i say let's go to iraq and go now. >> imran khan has koran has the story. >> tell me they were unaware of the fact that hezbollah fighters are here in any number. but under the auspices in iran. hezbollah does play a role in iraq, they are here to play a role in the shia shrines in iraq. there may be a small contingent
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of hezbollah fighters in advisory training role in shia militia but not a front line fighting force from the people i've spoken to. hasan nezrulla says, they were accused of beating a senior. and killing several sunnies. the sunni block has wend their part in parliament, decide whether to go back to parliament. what they're looking at is a need of investigation into why this attack took place sorry an whether there's a need to disarm the shia militias here in the capital baghdad. >> t.j. house of afghan refugees are now being deported, from
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pakistan. at the time the pakistan government said it would immediately begin expelling all undocumenting afghan refugees. 1500 were deported in january twice the number deported from the prefs prevention month more than all of 2014. afghans report incidents of police conversion. coarse. nicole johnston reports from fromjalalabad. >> in pakistan, wazir allir remarried.
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they detained him and his son nf they agreed to leave. >> translator: they gave us this document saying you have only three days. you have to leave. what can you do in three days? i was selling things in the street. i left it all behind. >> it's the first time his sons who were born in pakistan have ever been to afghans. >> translator: our first few days went off now my heart is to my own country, heard none of us call us refugees. in pakistan. >> more than 3,500 afghan families have left pakistan. that's more than the entire
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number who crossed in all of last year. thousands of afghan refugees are entered behind me. many of them are accusing the pakistan government of conducting raids on their presence. even if they have the proper papers to remain in pakistan. >> there are approximately 1.five million refugees in pakistan. pakistan government has given them one month to leave. there are afghan refugees who are not registered. pakistan want them gone. when the winter is over they'll pack up the tents and travel to their ancestral village hoping that will be the end of a journey that began more than three decades ago.
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nicole johnston, al jazeera jalalabad. >> can you hear my ms. hawk? no, we seemed to have lost you. we'll try to get marguerite april falk on the line a little bit later on. later on we'll be live on the island of lampled.and lampedusa. and how cyber criminals stole millions from banks around the world. explain there presence... >> when you're part of many worlds, where is home? >> in ghana, i was not going to be able to become the person i wanted to be. >> every monday, join us for exclusive...
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only on al jazeera america. >> welcome back. the top stories here on al jazeera. and the leader of lebanon's hezbollah has called on his military wing to increase its presence in iraq. his forces were already fighting i.s.i.l. in iraq. he also said hezbollah would not retreat from syria. thousands of afghan refugees from pakistan are now being deported. coming on the wake of a deadly peshawar attack on schoolchildren. pakistan said it would immediately begin ejecting undocumented refugees. >> the latest pictures from a
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egyptian air raid. in libya several children have been killed as well, apparently. libbians had hoped life would be better after the fall of former leader moammar gadhafi gadhafi. stefanie dekker takes us back. >> february 2011 and libbans united hopeful calling for fall of moammar gadhafi's rule. they got what they wanted. eight months after the revolution had started gadhafi was dead. fast-forward, four years and libya is fractious lawless and unstable. in the words of the u.n. envoy it is close to total chaos. with two rrvel governments one
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in the capital tripply and the other queend confined to two cities in the east. libya's oil wealth caught in the power struggle. all western embassies have pulled out. this part of the u.s. compound taken, after u.s. left, citing security concerns. many activists journalists and loyalists have been killed. the group claimed an attack on the last five star hotel open in the capital and then i.s.i.l. issued a video showing the beheading of 21 egyptian coptic christians apparently on a
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libyan beech. egypt has responded bombing the city of derna. many libbans will tell you they don't know where to go from here. libya seems to have become more unstable and dangerous than it ever was. stefanie dekker, al jazeera. >> let's take you back to the thousands of afghans who are being deported. margarita falk joins us. are this comes on the wake of pooh taliban attack on a school in peshawar last year. why is the pakistan government making that link? >> we do not have indications that the pakistani government is
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linking afghan refugees to the heinous crime that was committed against innocent civilians mostly children. the government of pakistan has assured us that they have found no linkages whatsoever, between refugees from averages in pakistan and these schools. >> why refugees,. >> we have no word that afghan refugees in pakistan have been expelled. we know that there are many undocumented afghans that living in pakistan and there's a crack downed against them but they are
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not under our mandate. we are responsible for refugees who have registered as such. >> these are afghan refugees that have lived in pakistan for decades. they have children there now lives in pakistan. they are being forcibly removed and say they need to go back to afghanistan, where they have no home no jobs. is it fair that pakistan is doing this rather than assisting these refugees? >> well, any government has the right to take any measures they deem fit to control its foreign illegal or undocumented population. we are advocating with the government of pakistan to put in place a mechanism whereby those
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people who have lived in pakistan undocumented, for many years, can depart in an orderly manner. because -- well, for humanitarian reasons and as i said we really have no mandate for these undocumented afghans who live in pakistan and this is an issue that the government of pakistan is dealing with from a national security pest. we would like to -- we are advocating for the government of pakistan. >> margarita, thank you very much we are running out of town town. spokesman from the government in jalalabad. more than 2400 migrants is now been rescued in the past 48 hours, from the mediterranean
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sea. some have been taken to the island of lampedusa. from where claudio lang lng lavanga joins us. >> twice the capacity of the reception center. on top of it, you have to consider that reception center may not be ready or fate to care for any of the migrants at all. because that reception center was not even officially opened yesterday. it was closed down about a year ago because ever concerns over the conditions which the migrants were treated there but there was no option. of course these migrants as the 2,000 more that were rescued on
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sunday night had to be brought here because it is the southern most part of italy that the migrants were rescued off the coast of italy. that means the migrants will have to be moved quickly to other exception centers around the country. last night we did see a line of 100 migrants being loaded on a military aircraft. many more will have to be moved quickly, before that situation becomes out of control in that center fauziah. >> we were told that the group was rl confronted by armed men ton immediate mediterranean sea. that really underlines the situation doesn't it claudio? whether this is the first time
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armed men were threatening the open seas, the italian navy, during the rescue and they ordered them to take the migrants but leave the boat behind. now usually what happens is that the italian navy tress regulation cues migrants and then they tow the boat, if it is sea worthy still they tow boat where it is seized by the authorities. close by on the island of lampletd therelampedusa there is a graveyard of old boats. now the fact that human traffickers are worried about taking about t boats back, may mean they want to increase the frequency of the migrants transportation to europe.
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the italian authorities believe there are 2,000 migrants already on the way to make their way into the mediterranean sea. if that is the case it could be more than last year's totals, fauziah. >> claudio lavanga reporting. the italian are navy has rescued about wo,000 migrant from north africa. we will bring you more news when it comments in. meanwhile, emergency information say this happened after the city
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of lahor. we will bring you more as the story develops. nigeria based boko haram has warned the government that there will be more attacks. these countries have sent troops to fight the armed group. the threat comes as regional leaders meet to device a plan to fight boko haram. hawaiidr ravmentbasi reports. >> finalizing an offensive against boko haram. >> this session is historic because we must use it to respond to the barbaric actions of the group boko haram. they have the system of a conventional army but use
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asymmetrical tactics. >> cameroon and chad are among countries who are committed to send forces to nigeria. this is why they are mobilizing. these pictures show boko haram's first raid on chaddian soil. five people were killed in the south of the country. and in niger thousands have left to escape fighting between their army and boko haram. the group is launching more attacks outside its base in nigeria. it is not just african countries that is involved. >> as you know, this exercise tris place in the could context of everyone facing terrorist acts,
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particularly in africa and particularly boko haram which is spreading terror. >> but it is nigeria itself where people have suffered the most. hadyr abassi, al jazeera. >> ultimatum saying the country must extend the current bailout program. eu minister ended with no agreement on monday. john siropolous has more from athens. >> after the euro group broke down on wednesday with greece cufergaccusing its members ever a
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bait and switch. opening up the possibility of a discussion over the terms of those loans. which is exactly what greece has asked for. it wants to unbundle the term of austerity measures and government cuts and reforms and deregulation which creditors have asked for over the past two years, much of which greece wants to be done, some of which remains to be done. however, just before the euro group of meeting gabben, it was replaced by a separate communique which demanded that grease sign onto the memorandum of policies and reforms as they have been agreed to. in the past with no grace period for negotiation. only once the greek government had signed onto an steppings of
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though terms beyond the end of february when the agreement and the financing program that greece is in come to an end only then would the euro group agree to sit down and enter into negotiations what should change within that program. >> cybercriminals managed to hack into banks around the world. security officials say it is one of the most sophisticated heists ever. jonathan betz reports. >> reporter: it is one of the biggest bank heists ever carried out with kinds rather than guns. managing to hack into the computers ever banks all over the world. >> the team doesn't have to be a huge group of people. a bunch ever technical knoll technologists
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cyber l crms took millions by inflating bank account balances, transferring money out online or even ordering atms to simply start dispensing dispensing cash. often the banks didn't even know had. >> they need to be prepared. if someone wants to get in they normally will. >> authorities in several countries are investigating. but the banks hit haven't come forward. last week, president obama urged companies to be more open about aarticulates and to share what they learned with one another and the government to better spend off muj huge attacks.
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>> these hackers are getting stronger and stronger every day. we need to be strong tore fend off their attacks. >> jonathan betz. al jazeera. >> a reminder, keep up to date at aljazeera.com. i'm at the 45th agual forum meetings in davos switzerland, and about to lead a conversation about closing the infrastructure gap. most upped we are not building infrastructure or maintaining that that we have. some of that is because of a shift in how we gn the biggest -- finance the biggest infrastructure projects like power plants, roads, dams, railways. with interest rates at low, this may be the best time history to figure that problem out.
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