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>> don't try this at home. >> "techknow" where technology meets humanity. monday, 5:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. . >> welcome to the news hour. i'm rob matheson in doha. we have details of greece's deals coming up in two live reports. fighters loyal to isil take responsibility for attacks in eastern libya. more than 40 people are killed. al-shabab fighters attack a hotel in somalia capitol. officials are among the victims. plus...
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>> i'm rob reynolds in arizona where native native americans are protesting a teal that allows a multi national mining corporation to begin digging a copper mine on public land. >> thanks for being with us. europe has granted greece a crucial extension to its massive debt bail out. but that comes at a cost of huge concessions including a commitment to spell out reforms in two days. greece's leftist government was looking to ditch austerity. >> i'm glad to report that the deal has paid off and we've established common ground.
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>> the euro group meetings for greece and for europe to turn a page. there were difficult meetings. but in the end we have shown like the negotiation needs compromise, you may have to say no to what you don't have a moral or political right to say yes to. >> let's first go to brussels. give us break down of what has been agreed to today. tensions continue to rise after news surfaced that had been
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scheduled early on in the day continued to be set back by one hour and then two hours and then finally four hours. earlier on both sides of the dispute came up with a workable solution, an agreement they believe has been reached. so what is in it? well, i will tell you. is it eurozone finance ministers have agreed on principles on friday to extent greece's financial rescue by four months. the deal will be once they have been given a list of reform. the final agreement must be end in april. it does not mean that greece can stick back from the brink. there have been concerns that it's banks were eminently running out of money.
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this does raise some questions about what greece really can do in the four months it has been given, and what of course happens when the funding has come to an end. >> i want to ask you about that. initially greece had asked for six months. now four months. is there any indication of what would happen at the end of those four months? >> absolutely. greece had hoped for more time primarily to introduce much needed reforms. it was hoping for what is called a bridgeing loan. to allow the country to really come up with a long-term fix. but four months, well, that's a big question. is that going to be long enough to make any workable change here to help lift the greek economy out from the critical state that it currently is in. the greeks may well end up be in
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a situation why they need to re renegotiate further money. the real work, though, both sides of the dispute said that it begins immediately. >> thanks very much. and they say that greece won't get any more cash until the bail out program is completed. is this a victory or a slight defeat. >> they point out that this is an achievement. they did win more time, four months of time in which to renegotiate the terms of the bailout. that means both the austerity measures but also the period of time over which greece will repay its enormous loans from the european union and european
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central bank. it is keen to point out it is not being forced to accept certain austerity measures under the previous government such as raising a value-added tax in the tourism of industry. tougher tax controls and tougher auditing. these are things that remain as far as this government is concerned dead letter. but as it was pointed out this government has committed now to picking up the austerity program where the last government left off. and they depend on the successful completion of the review on the basis of the conditions in the current program. this is what the greeks wanted
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to avoid. this is the bitter pill that they'll have to accept in the next few months. >> they were wanting to ditch many of the spending cuts that greece was going through. >> i think on the whole the electorate has rallied around this government. they've appreciated that it's launched national cause rather than partisan cause. there are the partisan politics, the conservative opposition which fell from power in january has said this was not worth an election. we would have gotten to this point in due course. but the fact is they didn't. and more importantly they didn't place enough emphasis on growth in the economy which would have led to greater tax revenues. that is, i think key why they lost the election. this is something that this government is promising to fix. they want to focus not only on
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humanitarian and distress buttualities generation. what they will propose in the way of position to achieve this, one thing is for sure they'll ask for an extension of the period of time of which greece is to repay its loans. it's been proven that greece cannot produce the size surplus extra cash above and beyond what the state needs in order to repay creditors in the time frame speddified up until now. >> live for us in athens. thank you very much. now, at least 45 people have been killed in several explosions in eastern libya. five of them were egyptians. the blast took place 250 kilometers east of ben good bengahzi. >> it is early morning when a triple car bomb attack rifts
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through the village. a sequence of bombings took place, and. >> the largest number of casualties where interest was a long cue. it's the hometown of the speaker of parliament of the u.n.-recognized government in tobruk. he said that the bombing was likely in retaliation of the recent airstrikes. a claim that was later confirmed by an online statement from isil's libyan affiliate. egypt carried out airstrikes in response to the beheading of 21 coptic christians, action con
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condemned. they under line how much more these airstrikes have destabilized the country. there is an impact on the 1 million egyptian who is were in libya. >> i am so happy that i'm saved. the issue is much bigger than us. but we're targeted. we lost our jobs. many things happened. >> but the vast majority of people here would not tell us their story on camera. they said ever since egypt carried out the airstrikes in eastern libya the situation and egyptian workers have become more vulnerable. they're also concerned about the impact of egypt's increasing role in libya. >> if the egyptian people and the egyptian leadership see 21 coptic christians being--seeing their throats cut under the most brutal and horrible circumstances that there is a
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reaction of some kind. but i would say that we also have to keep our heads cool, and make sure that we, of course, react, but that we also realize the risk of this country going up in flames. >> it all comes at a time when the u.n. western powers favor the political tract rather than lifting an arms embargo as requested. >> those who choose not to participate are excluding themselves from discussions which are critical to combating terrorism as well as to the overall peace stability and security of libya. the best way to counter the terrorist who is are operating in libya is to help build the national consensus that they need to fight these groups. not each other. >> a meeting among all factions is scheduled next week in morocco. the hope is that this will bring about a government of national union unity.
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>> al jazeera. >> a television appears to suggest that a senior official in the office of president el-sisi was thought to be trying to interfere with libyan affairs. there was a meeting between el-sisi and a cousin of moammar gaddafi. he's believed to control large sums of libya's oversea's investment. the phone call is from more than a year ago when sisi was the defense minister of egypt. meanwhile, hundreds of libyans have rallied to protest against the egyptian airstrikes on libya. the attacks of the brutal murders of 21 coptic christians by a group related to isil. thank you for being with us. how much is egypt's involvement complicated things in libya?
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>> it would be unreasonable to expect to stand by and stand by when a number of its citizens were brutally slaughtered the way the 21 coptic egyptians were slaughtered by isil. obviously if you get an outside power involved, it becomes more difficult, more complicated but it was already difficult and complicated, and there was unfortunately, i think too much delay by outers to try to work with the different elementaries within libya the one based in tripoli. the one based in tobruk to try to get a government of national unity. even if they do get that, it's hard to see anything other than force that is going to extra
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pate, if that can be done the isil people, the daesh people from libya. >> foreign military intervention would further escalate. how great of a risk do you think that would happen? >> well, that is a possibility but they already were in a position of fighting with one another. and i doubt whether the egyptian involvement itself is going to play an instrumental role in that. but if, indeed, is there is some concern about outside intervention that should be a spur to the people who actually live in libya to work together to get something which can lead them to be against--against daesh. after all, even the people in tripoli, who tend to be much more radicalized than the people in tobruk do have something to lose. everybody in libya ultimately is at risk from the isil people,
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and anything that can help them to come together is going to be better than nothing at all. unfortunately, i think also the outside world, including the united states, a lot of european countries, have allowed this to fester for far too long. i find it a little incomprehend softball that the united states has been so ambivalent about the egyptians trying to do things in retaliation for their people being killed. after all as americans we have the drones and aircraft there in in a millisecond. >> former ambassador to nato. thank you for your time, sir. >> thank you. >> jordan's foreign minister has compared the fight against isil to a third world war. they made the comments during a meeting with u.s. secretary of state john kerry in washington, d.c. >> this is a war that has to have a muslim and arab stance
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but we cannot do it. it is truly a third world war. you have over 65 countries as part of a coalition, and all of us are threatened by these people. all of these countries and individuals, and i think it takes the collective effort of all of us to defeat them. >> earlier this week the white house hosted a summit of how to combat extremism around the world. >> violence latent with the promise of a research life. >> these soldiers will not stop fighting. >> isil and other militant groups use social media to get
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young people to join it's ranks. >> inter rashad hussein coordinator for strategic counter terrorism communications. his job is to help local communities to protect their children from isil and to challenge the group's messaging online. >> we want to go right at those that are targeting people that have been susceptible to this ideology and to stem their regroutment. >> a first big push. a digital messaging hub. as proof of the importance of hussein's new role, the president praised him at this week's summit on extreme i am.
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>> with the government, our efforts will be led and i'm grateful my envoy to, rashad hussein, has agreed to serve in this new role. >> he said that much of his work will focus on families, business owners and there will an bush to get countries to address their own shortcomings, a lack of political access, for example, as a long-term solution. >> there is someone who is well off, well integrated, but they still feel that they're not able to reach their potential and they feel as if they're not able to engage in a meaningful life or fulfill their sense of purpose. that's where this ideology comes in and play as role. >> the u.s. government knows how to use overwhelming force with its military. now the obama administration wants to show it can use intellectual power to challenge
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isil and other groups. roslind jordan, al jazeera. >> revealing names of those suspected of war crimes in syria. >> fighters from the somali group al-shabab say that they carried out two attacks. government officials are among the dead. and find out if details in sport. >> this video was up loaded on social media. it appears to show fighting. rebels sow to keep supply lines from turkey open. a new report found that there has been a rise in human
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rights violations. investigators have spent years documenting events, but the sir syrian government is calling the report biased. >> the four commissioners have been working on documenting human rights violations for three and a half years. the situation gets worse and worse, but their new report goes much further than any of the previous eight ones. after meeting with the security council, they told reporters they have a confidential list of the perpetrators of war crimes, and they may make it public. >> can i ask you about your lists of purpose perpetrators. >> to date we have prepared four lists, which have been submitted to the human rights commission
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for safe keeping. we'll look at the pros and cons of whether or not to release the list. >> it's clear that the commissioners wants more support from the security council as they left, the commissioner thought that the microphone was off when she said this to the british ambassador. >> the syrian government was quick to give its reaction. it's ambassador describing the commission as biased. >> are you worried that key officials of your government of the military, even the name of president assad might be on that list? s. >> all this propaganda aims at destabilizing the government and misleading the public opinion. they did it in the past. they'll do it again.
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>> so now for the first time it's asking for the urgent consideration of the idea of setting up an ad hoc tribunal. in other words, a special court for syria. james bays. al jazeera, united nations. >> the somali armed groupal al-shabab said it carried out attacks in mogadishu. mogadishu is a city used to violence. but vehicle full of explosives ran through a hotel front gate. >> the explosion was so huge that it shook the whole surroundings. i survived but saw several
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people who were lying dead. the scene is very ugly with flesh and blood everywhere. >> the al-qaeda-linked group al-shabab claimed responsibility. >> so far we're trying to get the confirmation. >> al-shabab controlled much of mogadishu and somalia south until 2011 when an africa union offensive pushed it out. since then there have been attacks, including the siege at kenya's westgate mall where 60
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people were killed. this is the latest blow to the somali government and the reminder of al-shabab's deadly power. >> one protester is being killed and several others have been injured in a anti-coup rally in egypt. the area has been a flash point for violence between pro muslim brotherhood protesters. since president morsi has been ousted in 2014. a proposal reportedly sent to president sisi for approval. it has attracted international condemnation. trials lasting as little as two days have ended in death sentences for hundreds of people. anti-government protesters have taken to the streets in venezuela demanding the immediate release of the mayor
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of caracas. intelligence agents arrested the mayor over allegations that he was attempt to go attempting to overturn president maduro. the obama administration said it's considering various ways to help steer the venezuelan government in a more positive direction. the white house spokesman said that allegations by president nicholas maduro that the u.s. is trying to destabilize his government are ludicrous. >> like all previous allegations, they are ludicrous. the venezuelan government should stop trying to blame the united states for events inside of venezuela. and the venezuela government needs to deal with the grave situation that it faces. the united states is not promoting unrest in venezuela, nor are we attempting to
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undermine its economy or government. >> indonesia' attorney general said two australians convicted of drug smuggling will be executed. it says that the two men will be among the next group of prisoners to be executed by firing squat. squad. a group of australians were an arrested in 2005 attempting to smuggle heroin into bally. they were supposed to be transferred to a prison earlier this week. but that was delayed for technical reasons. an brasilia is been sentenced for drug smuggling. brazil has withdrawn its ambassador to indonesia. still to come in the program. we ask what happens now in afghanistan with the so-called car economy coming to an end.
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>> i'm in los angeles a long way from russia, and as this city gets ready for the oscars, find out why edward snowden is causing a stir on this side of the pacific ocean again. >> and in sports, chris bosh could miss the rest of the season. we'll tell you why later this hour.
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talk to al jazeera part of our special black history month coverage on al jazeera america >> the cost of concessions. including a commitment to spell out reforms within two days. 45 people have been killed in several explosions. five of them were egyptians. the blasts were placed 250 kilometers east of ben bengahzi. explosions in mogadishu where two people were killed in the
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explosion. the blast took place near the presidential palace. >> the first break through to in the reconciliations this month. >> yemen's political factions reach a deal forming the transitional council. >> the details of the direction of these have not been agreed on. this initial deal, and very par from the final deal.
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>> and yemen's political crisis continues. the main factions have yet to agree on a presidential council which is going to be the highest ex-pitch body. an interim government, how to reform the army and the police and the banned armed militias. but the houthi who is control the capitol say they were disarmed, and watt the upper hand in the areas they control. the sunni majority remains skeptical. with describes men gathering its province, and al qaeda stronghold. they are forming a new force to defend their city against shia houthies. the anti-houthi sentiments is on the rise. protesters take to the streets to denounce the hotely take over. the growing opposition to houthi
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rising influence is something that many believe could trigger a wider military confrontation that may spin out of control. al jazeera. >> in afghanistan foreign troops withdraw many overseas projects are winding down with an increased fear of violence. but that leaves many locals without work. >> they start gathering at dawn. jobless men with the tools of their trade. interest are painters, builders, and brick layers. all of them desperate for work. >> i was working for an organization that had 1,500 employees. now it has less than 50. i'm responsible for 40 people in the family. and i haven't made any money for two months. >> working for ngos, military
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or construction projects. but now the work is gradually drying up. all over kabul thousands of people are waiting on the side of the road looking for a job for an employer to come by and pick them up. they're angry and frustrated. with the country's unemployment rate growing, the chances of getting anything are looking very remote. >> others blame the government and it's failure to gray on a new cabinet for driving investors away. this man says why respect they making peace among themselves instead of fillling their pockets. on the edge of the city construction machinery lined up without a customer in sight. a refugee in pakistan, he returned home to set up his business.
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>> it was not realistic. it should not be considered a realistic economy. because it was suddenly disappear. >> the new president ashraf began any said that they can no longer rely on foreign aid but this will take time. >> we have seen the closure of more than 600 projects, and it has depriveed almost 50,000 afghans. afghans intellectuals scholars and professionals and they've become jobless. >> as the savings run out they're left to join the crowd of unemployed men knowing that there are hardly any new jobs to go around. nicole johnston. al jazeera kabul. >> thousands of people from myanmar's ethnic hmong north say
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that it represents the people. adrian brown has this update. >> some 30,000 refugees are said to have fled across the board from myanmar into china. many have come here and are accommodated in what is a convention center, a place where trade fairs are held. now 25,000 people are being accommodated here. they get water food, and shelter, but none of them knows how much longer they will remain here because the fighting is still going on across the border. now this is a tricky problem for china. the rebels are fighting the army of myanmar. now, some of these rebels have appealed to china to provide aid because they were ethnic chinese. but china said there is no way that will happen.
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but myanmar is not so sure. a few days ago a government minister said that china should do all that it can to prevent chinese soil being turned into a base for terrorist to launch across border raids. that's the sort of language that will enrage beijing. china has scoffed at notions that they would provide aid to the ethnic chinese rebels. it's worth remembering that a few years ago china was the only friend that myanmar had. that's now a friendship being tested here on the border between the two countries. >> diplomatic efforts continue to try to stop the ongoing violence in ukraine. the leaders in france and germany have been meeting in paris. both countries have set the terms of the minsk agreement should be observed. the cease-fire was supposed to start five days ago but it has been broken repeatedly. we have reports from donetsk.
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>> reporter: in central donetsk the sound of explosions vary in intensity but never really stop. they have been exchanging tanker artillery fire as if it has never been fired. they took a direct hit from an artillery shell. the school only reopened three days ago. five times in the last six months this school was caught in a cross fire of the artillery between the separatest forces and the ukrainian army. five times repairs have been made. they just spend $2,000 putting new windows in, and they waited until tuesday to reopen because they hoped that the cease-fire would provide a degree of calm. no one was killed, but the sense of grievance was enormous. >> we spent so much of our money. we changed all the windows for plastic ones.
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the money was complected by the parents of the children. we tried to bring back to normal but see what happens they shell us. thank you very much, poroshenko. >> the room where children are taught about ukrainian history and customs was among those damaged. >> a geography teacher had collected artifacts. they say they don't understand why this is happening. >> we were living here. everything was normal. then they came and started shelling us.
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the fact is by shelling us the ukrainians are shelling themselves. >> a few streets from the school another thursday night shell strikes lapped in front of this residential block. many residents had already fled to other parts of the city. a few returned on friday just to survey the latest damage. all the time the sound of nearby shell fire continued. >> it's very difficult. when you come out to the street you are afraid. i tremble with fear. i'm scared of a shell landing next to me and tearing me apart. it's such a terrible fear. in all of my life i never felt ascared as i do now. >> they quickly contradict those who claim that the battle of debaltseve has been the only violation of the minsk agreement. there is no way of knowing when school 58 might reopen. for now the only lesson being learned here is that in ukraine cease-fires only work on paper.
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al jazeera donetsk. >> in kiev president petro poroshenko has led a somber service at independent square, marking a year since snipers shot and killed protesters there. >> on kiev's maidan or independent square where last winter's anti-government protests took place the faces of the dead stare out through flowers and candle lit memorials. looking back at them motions are still raw of those who well remember the worst day of gunfire and bloodshed. here they call those who fell the heavenly hundred. and the year-on some wonder whether it was all worth it. >> i think this is very high price for the country's independence, and it still has not been achieved. >> they were fighting to remove the tyrant who was ruling us. >> president petro poroshenko,
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booed by some in the crowd for his handling of the war in the east placed the blame squarely on russia. he has other problems,. >> we will win no matter how difficult it is, how many disasters we face. i promise you that we will prove that those sacrifices won't go to waste. >> on the anniversary of the worst day of shootings and killings on this square, spot lights mark the places where protesters fell and almost endless sea of people have come to pay their respect. there has been almost nothing in the way of justice for accountability since layers of the old state still run deep here in ukraine cemented by corruption. >> eye gore was among those who would be in the barricades. had he not been shot in the leg he would be among those in the front lines in the east. >> i don't know how long it will
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take us to have peace and victory, but it will come soon because everyone is tired of this and not just us, the other side is tired as well. >> maidan was only half the job and possibly the he said part. building a new state maintaining its borders uniting east and west. that could be much harder. jonah hull al jazeera, kiev. >> we'll go to papua new guinea. the country with ambitions to one day play at the cricket world cup.
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>> controversial land deal in the united states of arizona has angered native americans who consider the place a holy site. it's the world's largest deposits of copper ore. rob reynolds reports from the area of oak flat where a bitter fight is being played out. >> marching to save sacred ground. ground they call holy. the place where their ancestors were created. a place of religious freedom. >> they talk about the religious war overseas, well, there is one right here happening. >> this part of arizona is
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riddled with huge cooper mines. it's a rare desert habitat with natural ponds and streams. it's on federal land but it's on enormous copper. theyretoe rowrio tinto has been trying to get to the are for years. a spending bill will now allow rio tinto to take over the oaks flats and begin mining. >> opponents say that it will destroy natural habitants and water sources and leave a giant pit. >> the crater will be 1,000 feet deep and two and a half miles in diameter. >> the lawmakers including the former republican presidential
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candidate senator john mccain. asked for comment the senator's office e-mailed a statement from mccain predicting the mine will create nearly 4,000 jobs in the nearby community of superior. apache tribal officials reject the economic argument. >> we all want jobs. we all do. but we all want jobs that will not destroy the future of our children. >> reio tintorio tinto defined declined to comment on camera. the apache say they will not ait allow it to stop it's cull. >> it's our culture. to get rid of it completely, you
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might well bomb us. >> environmental reviews might take several years before mining can begin. the apache say they won't give up until their sacred land is safe. rob reynolds al jazeera, oak flat arizona. >> now it's time for sport. >> thank you so much. the highly anticipated fight between manny pacquiao and floyd mayweather jr. will happen on may 2nd in los angeles. mayweather himself announced the bought on friday after months of negotiations. he posted a picture of the signed contract online. the showdown will be boxing's richest fight ever. mayweather could earn up to $120 million while pacquiao's cut could be around 80 million. the fight has been in the making for five years. now to cricket in pakistan playing the west indies right now. pakistan won the toss and decided to field. the west are so on 103-2.
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both sides are looking to bounce back after losing their opening head matches. the ongoing cricket world cup includes 14 countries but plenty more have ambitions to one day be involved. they include papua new guinea who just missed out on qualifications. we have reports. >> the cricket world cup may be grabbing the attention in australia and new zealand, but in papua new guinea this is where all the action has been. no day goes by without matches springing up all along the road from the capitol. introduced by 19th century missionaries cricket has flourished here. a great majority of pngs players have come from this area.
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>> for those who do, it can mean an escape from poverty and the dangers of the area one of the world's most crime-ridden cities. and they're agonizingly close of putting png on the cricket stage. cricket has been part of this village for 100 years. but it's only been recently that that talent has been harnessed. >> png rise in the rankings saw them awarded one day international status. positive to just missing out on the world's twenty20, and this world cup. >> we've missed two world cups, and they have learned what they need to do to get there today. if you look at it now the nets are never empty. >> it could mean breaking cricket out.
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>> we want to make it a national game. and the event happens i'm sure, they will compete test cricket country. >> and yet cricket here means more than that. the national team takes training sessions with special needs and disabled children, giving them independence and self worth in a society that often hides them away. >> they think that they are not pushed, but there are people out there who love us and want us. >> the reduction of the next world cup could hurt pngs international progress, but there will always be another generation of cricketers ready to take up the challenge. >> for us here, a massive boost they won a relegation scrap against.
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equalizing soon after but german international restored the lead before halftime. making it 3-1 with a minute to go. the home side did get a consolation straight after but they hung on for a third straight win. chelsea manager jose mourinho said that he feels ashaped after a group of the club's fans were film yelling racist comments and pushing a passenger off the train this week. >> we feel ashamed but maybe we shouldn't because we are not--i refuse to be connected with these people. i'm connected with chelsea. i'm connected with so many things that this club defends
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and represents. >> enrique has denied claims by the striker that their form is from a down turn in attitudes. enrique was speaking a day after messi. >> we're undergoing the normal process of the season. we work on the same matter of how to beat our opponents. and you think that the truth belongs to you, or that you people think the way you think. i'm the one in charge here. i give you my opinion whether you believe me or not. >> new york yankee coach joe girardi said that alex rodriguez
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will have to reprove himself. he's coming off a year-long drug suspension. the longest in history. despite the 650 homers on his resumé when he rejoins his team in florida he'll be treated as a rookie. >> 's on the roster, but i think you have to prove yourself in a sense for playing time, and how you fit in. we really haven't seen him play in two years. we don't know where he's at. that's something that he'll have to prove and earn. >> and there are concerns that ten-time nba all-star chris bosh could be out for the rest of the season. miami heat forward are undergoing tests with concerns that he has blood clots on one of his lungs. there will be more information on his condition in the next few days. that's all your sport for now. rob, back to you.
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>> thank you very much, indeed. the journalist who helped edward snowden. >> does the nsa collect data. >> the security serviced inner on the run with top-secret information on the other side of the world. they love this kind of film at the oscars, but this is not fiction. "citizenfour" is up for oscars this year. this is the man who infuriated national security agencies. and this is the story, his story from the start filmed by the journalist he contacted to help him. >> glen and i were given instructions where to meet. it was in a public area in a mall and we were told to be there at a certain time, and a man would walk by working on a
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rubic's cube. we were surpriseed that he was much younger than we thought he would be. >> here an fire alarm advice visibly spooks him. this is a man who knows his information will have repercussions, yet on the whole he's calm. >> he says no regrets. he wanted the people to know what the government is doing and he feels that he accomplished that. he feels in a democracy that programs like this should not happen in secret. >> do you still believe you are being watched? >> you know, i don't have--you don't know these things. these are intelligence communities that work behind the scenes. i have had sources say that my communications are lit up like a christmas tree. >> snowdon's actions would change his life forever. he fled to russia, although she does not believe that he'll stay
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there for the rest of his life. >> i hope europe comes forward. germany, there is support there i hope another country will come forward and offer him asylum. >> do you think he'll ever come back to the usa? >> i think he will. >> security around this film has, as you would imagine, been pretty tight. it was edited in germany because the filmmakers were concerned that the fbi may turn up and take their equipment away. and the footage was held on highly encrypted hard drives. there have been attempts to block it. one to have the oscar taken away, and other to have the director prosecuted as aiding and abetting edward snowdon. he may not be popular with everybody, but he's not going away any time soon. al jazeera los angeles. >> just before we go we have news of a massive fire that's broken out at dubai marina. we'll have more in a couple of
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>> this is al jazeera america.live from new york city, i'm tony harris. a new black eye for the president's health care program. nearly a million people sent the wrong tax information. >> we're talking about a very small fraction of people who are affected. >> but these people rely on tax subsidies to help pay for their health insurance.