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leaked cable show israeli intelligence was not getting are iranian,. >> i'm john siegenthaler. abu mansour hadi says he is withdrawing his resignation.
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we're in turkey, where there's a campaign to protect this deeply spiritual ceremony. and we begin with an al jazeera exclusive. based on hundreds of leaked cables from international spy agencies. a secret document by israeli intelligence reveals mossad ds did not agree with their intelligence clayton swisher reports. >> this is a bomb. this is a fuse. >> it's now notorious. the moment israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu twarnd united nationswarned the united
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nations of an iranian bomb. >> at current enrichment rates they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage. >> the spy cables reveal behind the scenes just one month behind the speech, descrailg intelligence sent -- israeli intelligent is sending a very different message. >> working to close gaps in areas that appear legitimate which will reduce the time required to produce weapons from the time instruction is actually given. >> the mossad chief hinted a disagreement with netanyahu earlier that year. he is clear, an attack on vaughn not the right way. in the spy cables, mossad
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estimates further enrichment to make nuclear weapons. but instead iran got rid of it as part of nuclear negotiation is. spy cable shed new light on netanyahu's address and begs the question, where did he get the information? >> earlier, asked him what this means for netanyahu's credibility. >> well, it puts it in question, it's a very contentious visit he's scheduled to have in several weeks in washington d.c. before congress. one would think after reading netanyahu's assessment, if prime minister netanyahu was willing to fudge the truth before the entire world that the united nations in the general assembly,
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having a different reaction in front of an american audience. >> over the coming hours and days in al jazeera in partnership of the guardian newspaper and aj plus, give us a taster of what else we can expect to be revealed by this remarkable trove of papers? >> i think broadly speaking, the team that worked on this we were shocked to find the extent to which johannesburg has become the el dorado of espionage. >> in what way what do you mean? >> they work spy and downer spy to scupper deals over natural resources, to insist that the south african government surveil this muslim-o or that
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pro-palestinian organization or this ngo or that ngo. the entire rubric on terror has really warped, and in public they say we want rule of law rights and behind the table they're asking for very undemocratic things. you can see that in the cables displp you can see that in our exclusive website aljazeera.com/spy cables. u.s. court has fined palestinian groups $218 million for terrorism over two years ago. liable for the attacks in which 33 people were killed. the lawsuit was filed in new york, because some of those two died were american citizens. the palestinian authority has rejected the verdict and called it baseless.
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kristin saloomey has more in new york. >> the attacks took place between 2002 and 2004 bombings and shootings that happened out in the street and in one case in a crowded cafeteria at hebrew university. the lawsuit was brought by ten american families victims of these attacks who are americans who gave reemotional testimony in the court about how the attacks affected them and their families and how they're still dealing with the emotional and physical scars of those attacks. their lawyers had argued that the p.a. and the plo had knowingly supported these attacks because they showed documents that showed some of the attackers had worked for the palestinian authority. some of them had continued to receive salaries from the palestinian authority after they had been put in prison.
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argued that this is essentially a social welfare state that a great portion of the populace receives government benefits and that there's no knowing support of these attacks. but in the end the jury did find the palestinian authority and the plo had knowingly known of these attacks. the reaction of the palestinian authority, they are very deeply concerned about the decision made in the new york court the charges are baseless, not a proper jurisdiction for such a hearing and goes on to say we will appeal this decision. again the palestinian authority and the plo found liable for $218 million an amount that under the u.s. antiterrorism law could be tripled to more than $650 million. >> george salem is the
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co-founder of the arab-israeli institute. >> i bleem believe that the courts of appeals will find that the authority doesn't have a sufficient presence here in the united states, isn't at home to use their jurisdictional phraseology. the jurisdiction must be essentially at home in the united states. and in a similar case against the authority vofg involving palestinian soldiers, the district court found that the authority is not line, that there is no jurisdiction. >> in yemen abdel mansour hadi says he is still the president and withdrew his resignation. hadi is now in his home town of
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aden after leaving sanaa. hati calls for talks to unite country. mohamed vall has the story from aden. >> the city of aden is now the de facto capital. in the coming days he's expected to receive the governors of the northern provinces which declared allegiance to him. it is part of an attempt to retake his position. >> the transitional tasks and the stipulations of the national dialogue. >> on monday, hadi sent a letter to the parliament saying he has withdrawn his resignation and he is getting support. the gulf countries called on the people of dwroam rally yemen to rally
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against him. the powerful province of ben yad, major demonstrations have taken place in the city of ta'izz against houthis and in favor of the president. protesters asked him to resume his full powers and to expel his adversaries from sanaa. expressing their solidarity. the houthis say they have fought for decades to end marginalization. they say they too control sanaa as a revolutionary force of change because the government has failed to fix yemen's problems. but the response to hadi's position, they tried to force the resigned ministers to retake
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their posts. the houthis also began to crack down further on protestors. this is a funeral of a youth who was killed in the city in central yemen and the houthis opened fire on demonstrators on sunday. amnesty international has condemned what it has described increasing incidents of torture in the last few weeks. president hadi called for government ministers to come to aden for a new government to be formed but they refused. six are still under house arrest in sanaa. yemen risks division and civil war. mohamed vall, aden aaden. >> a blatant violation of the u.n. charter. >> the cries you in ukraine
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. >> you are watching al jazeera and here are the top stories. a secret document by israeli intelligence reveals mossad did not agree with their prime minister's assessment that iran was making nuclear weapons. just after benjamin netanyahu told the u.n. that they would be able to build a bomb win a year.
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abdel mansour hadi says he's still president. a u.s. court has found the palestine liberation organization liable for attacks more than a year ago. a u.s. jury awarded the victims more than $218 million. plo says they will appeal the ruling. tobruk based libyan government, u.n. brokered negotiation are scheduled to start in morocco on thursday. al jazeera has obtained an audio recording the conversation is believed to have come from a meeting last year before rallies in support of
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deposed president mohamed morsi. >> every year they turn out across egypt. no different last year, carrying pictures of deposed president mohamed morsi. coup that forced him from power in july 2013. at least four protest erst were killed. dozens injured. a leaked audio recording presents new insight into events of that day. the gathering was chaired by interior minister mohamed ibrahim who gives clear instructions about how protesters should be dealt with as they left friday prayers.
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>> ibrahim was no less blunt about how the demonstrators should be dispersed. are. >> reporter: riots groups have criticized the use of excessive force by egyptian forces, thousands are being held indefinitely without charge or trial. while others are being prosecuted under new
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anti-protest laws. on monday a court in cairo hand he down a 5-year sentence to one of the organizers of the protest, for holding an unauthorized are protest. >> shows that no room for protests today in egypt no room for nerch of anyone of a different political persuasion. >> reporter: it appears that fridays in egypt will bring no protests and more protest. rebecca singh, al jazeera. >> the retrial of two al jazeera journalists in egypt has been adjourned until march 8th. mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed appeared in court, peter greste
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the third journalist in the case was freed on february 1st and deported to australia. human rights group amnesty international says there's mounting evidence that egypt committed war crimes in israel. the strikes killed seven people in the residential neighborhood of derna. amnesty international said the organization failed to take rl precautions. abdel fattah al-sisi said it was carefully to avoid such situations. following sentence by so-called courts in i.s.i.l. controlled areas.
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the report says certain ethnic and religious communities as well as those associated with the government are being targeted. new zealand says it will send troops to help forces in their battle against i.s.i.l. 100 military personnel will be deployed. the troops will be based this the north of bagged and baghdad and will be involved in combat. likely to start in may. france has seized the passports of six of its citizens bound for syria. it is believed that they would join the forces much i.s.i.l. 40 other people will also be be banned from travel. european union foreign ministers are scheduled to meet on tuesday and talk about the crisis in ukraine. the issue also dominated the agenda of the meeting of the
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united nations security council. james bays reports. >> this was supposed to be a meeting ever increased security. with the 70s anniversary of the u.n. in a short time. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke. >> russian is trained arming and fighting alongside a u.n. charter and an assault on its neighbors territorial integrity. one that's caused 5700 lives and forced the glaisment of 1-- displacement of 1.7 million ukrainians.
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>> in an interview with al jazeera he told me wants eu or u.n. monitors sent to his country. >> we have been contemplating the idea of putting an additional element. it could be u.n. element it could be eu element on the ground. and we need to stabilize the touch line in order to eliminate the possible stretch for attacks. it's exactly what we have in mind. >> the plan to get an u.n. or eu are input would be difficult to achieve. meanwhile going the eu route it's likely some european countries would be thrownt send their people into -- to reluctant to send their people into the front line of a war zone. monitoring mission from the osce is strengthened. >> the if osce has no reliable
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verification all agreements are really questioned and this is really important to keep the pressure. >> the council has now met to discuss ukraine about 30 times in the past year. they do all agree on the minsk peace deals but that clearly is not hawrlting halted the bloodshed and on any other matter there is no agreement at all. james bays, al jazeera the united nations. denying charges of rebellion and xeno phone ya. xeno phobia.husband laurent bagbo is being held at the icc where he faces charges of crimes
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against humanity. according to the national ebola response center the neighborhood of aberdeen will be in quarantine for 21 days. the area which is popular with foreigners has registered six new cases of the virus next week week. sierra leone was the hardest hit country in the ebola outbreak. more than 10,000 cases have been reported there. kenya's high court has struck down parts of the controversial security law. the legislation was set to undermine civil liberties by imposing restrictions haru matassa reports from nairobi. >> it's a packed courtroom. to decide if some section of
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kenya's laws vital rights. security threats from terrorist organizations like al shabaab. but things don't go their way. >> the amendment act and section 66 of the penal code is hereby declared unconstitutional. >> judges declare some parts of the rules unconstitutional. reporting on security operations without permission from security agencies. >> there are certain aspects of the ruling which we did not agree with and in particular, where the act attempted to restrain braicting. broadcasting, we believe that should have been kept in view of the attacks that are going on. >> reporter: those that oppose the law are thrilled.
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>> and where there is a contest between terrorism and the fundamental rights, the constitution is very clear. if we were reduced to the powers -- i mean the privileges we enjoy it will mean a terrorism of one. >> there are kennians kennen kenyans who believe, limit the number of refugees from nearly 500,000 to around 150,000 violated human rights and kenya's immigration act. they plan to appeal the ruling. they don't believe anyone's fundamental rights will be violated in the name of fighting terror. haru matassa nairobi oops.
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>> congress passes a bill funding the department of homeland security. obama says if the money is denied it will have a direct impact on both national security and the economy. his warning comes a day after the armed group al shabaab completenned to attack groups in l canada, united states and u.k. president nicholas maduro stated nenl planning attacks against the nation will be prosecuted. whirling dervishes have become a form of entertainment bernard smith explains. >> it is a practice that is 750 years old. legend has it that as the
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islamic scholar jalalidad roomi whirld his body until he reached oneness with the divine. roomi was a devout muslim. his followers says it its deeply spiritual ceremony, farook jalemi has now launched a campaign to reclaim his ancestors' practices. >> translator: today we have whirling dervishes spinning at wedding ceremonies. it is very disconcerting. >> including the prime minister to discuss his worries.
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but despite official promises to protect the ceremony, there are performances today that roomi probably wouldn't recognize. there is a regulation that bans these ceremonies from being performed in entertainment venues but well, it's not enforced. >> no eat no drink no spinning. that word they understand the mentality. three minutes we show normally, 25 minutes they are talking about 30, that which together they are 30. >> so this is an acceptable way to show it you think? >> yes yes yes. >> this group the mevlana culture and art foundation says its ceremony is faithful and respectful. but they perform without the oversight ever roomi's descendants and without that control the family fears the unique skills needed for sama
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will be lost. bernard smith, al jazeera istanbul. >> and a reminder you can keep up to date with all the news on our website at aljazeera.com.