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>> the cia admitted it. >> "freeway - crack in the system". only on al jazeera america. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and good to have you with us and welcome to the news hour from al jazeera center in doha and i'm julie and a grim recovery operation in northern afghanistan following an avalanche which killed around 200 people. iraq heritage destroyed i.s.i.l. fighters smashed priceless statutes dating back 2000 years. the hong kong abuse case a women
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jailed six years for mistreating her indonesia helper. i will have the news in sports and it's the quickest 150 in one-day history at the cricket world cup. ♪ the snow in northern afghanistan has started melting and that means the risk of further avalanche, there has been an effort to dig out homes, schools and mosques buried in the northeastern province of panjshir but in many cases it has been in vain 197 people unknown to have died and that is a figure that is still expected to rise. nicole john'ston is in panjshir for us. >> reporter: the police chief and governor of panjshir say that there are dozens of
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villages that they simply cannot contact at the moment isolated villages high up in the mountains, much further down into panjshir and there are estimates that some 200 families are un akaccounted for at the moment and they have tried to reach these areas and helicopters have flown in and unable to land. we have seen a very large convoy of 600 vehicles entering panjshir today and 1,000 troops in the area trying to clear the main road. there is only one road into panjshir which is a big part of the problem and afghan security forces are also hampered by the fact they don't have all of the necessary equipment they need or the expertise. afghanistan's president ashir ghani will be visiting the area the government is under a lot of pressure to try and do something, to try and help the situation and get supplies to
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people who desperately need it. panjshir is an area that a lot of the political elite in kabul come from and that is putting extra pressure on the government. the u.n. is condemning destruction of iraq's ancient history by i.s.i.l. fighters. priceless statutes some more than 2000 years old have been smashed to pieces. the director of the mosul museum has confirmed this video that men with sledgehammer is genuine and emergency meeting on iraqi heritage. >> the destruction of artifacts as we are seeing in iraq today is reprehensible and it's also in violation of the latest security council resolution we have just seen resolution 2199. the director general of unesco asked the president of security council to convene an urgent meeting on this matter so the security council can address the destruction of artifacts.
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as you know when history is destroyed you also destroy the future of a country and fuel sectorism and fuel more violence robbing the millenial culture of iraq puts its future at risk. i.s.i.l. fighters seized control of a bridge which links two cities. the seized bridge collects haditha with baghdadi in the province by an air base used by iraq and u.s. military and 20 killed in battle and they say the total is much lower. iraqi air strike believed to have killed i.s.i.l. fighters and civilians and this shows attack now in western iraq. hospital staff say at least nine civilians and many i.s.i.l. fighters were killed in the attack, i.s.i.l. commanders are among the injured, videos showing a masked man threatening
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to be head westerners under the head of i.s.i.l. shocked the world and now identified as a kuwait british citizen from london called mohammed emwazi and we report. >> reporter: by the time the reporters turned up in west london they were long gone the police had already been around reports emerged their son was a murderer. easy to understand why they didn't want to be there. >> we have proudly donated 100 million to kill our women and children and destroy the homes of muslims. >> reporter: weeks since american security services said voice recognition software identified the man who newspapers called jihadi john and it's a ridiculous name since he was involved in behaving captives and journalists and people who could not defend himself and could not fight. the organization tore through
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iraq and syria as much of the world looked on in disbelief. inevitably the question is raised as to what if anything the british security knew of mohammed emwazi but neither they or the police would comment. this organization which routinely hears complaints from muslims about lives in britain did know mohammed emwazi and he told them he had been repeatedly harassed by the security services and blocked him from returning to kuwait where he was born. the man who knew him described him as a beautiful person enraged as his treatment by the british authorities. >> this is a problem we have here that we created in the uk an information which the security agencies can act with impunity and destroy the lives of young people without any recourse to be able to challenge them in an effective way. >> reporter: to add to it all cage linked him with michael the killer of the british soldier lee rigby angered at the hands
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of british security and they say they cannot talk about specific cases but efforts to maintain security is regarding the threats. if they tried to stop mohammed emwazi from returning home to kuwait from london they seem to know who he was and the question is how dangerous they thought he was because after all this appears to be a successful young man far removed from the stereotype of the isolated loser apparently at risk after radicalizing influences. >> well educated and chimes with research we have done in terms of looking at the profile of people who go to syria and they are well educated and social mobile people these are not people coming from deprived backgrounds. >> reporter: the media has made its mind up this is mohammed emwazi, until he takes the hood off it won't be known for
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certain and his parents apparently don't believe it's him but that is understandable, lawrence lee, al jazeera in london. a man described by prosecutors as one of al-qaeda early leaders convicted of conspiracy by a court in new york. and he faces life in prison for involvement in the u.s. embassy bomb ings in kenya in 1998 which killed 224 people prosecutors say the saudi arabia was one of bin laiden's closest aids. the rebel held suburb east of the capitol has been under siege for almost two years, 300 civilians died because of food and medical shortages during this time and in the first week of february more than 100 lost their lives in what has been described as one of the heaviest air attacks by the government and dana reports. >> reporter: over a-year-old she died of malnutrition and wasn't the first victim in duma
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the rebel held suburb of damascus has been under siege by government forces for almost two years and activists say 264 civilians died 188 of them children. >> translator: we couldn't find medicine. we couldn't find milk and when you do it is very expensive and we cannot afford to buy it. >> reporter: people are not only dying of starvation, duma has been a battleground for years, much of it has been rised to the ground, it's 7 kilometers northeast of the center of damascus and like other suburbs of the capitol it's under sieged and the first area to see anti-government protests four years later it's the main opposition stronghold surrounding the government-controlled city. in the first week of february more than 100 civilians killed in what was described as one of the heaviest attacks on the city
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that lasted for days. and he survived but his wife and seven-month-old daughter did not, minutes after he left the house government aircraft targeted the neighborhood and this campaign was in response to a rebel attack on central damascus. >> translator: on that day my wife was told to stay home alone because of air strikes and she took my daughter and i went to her sister next to us and led them there a few minutes later i heard the plane and explosion and i came back to the house, destroyed. >> reporter: some people in the opposition did question whether causing civilian casualties in damascus had any military or political benefit and he was not one of them and blames the government for targeting civilians and despite losing his family and home he still believes that the struggle should continue i'm with al jazeera beirut. police arrested 13 people on terrorism charges. the interior ministry says the
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suspects include four women involved in the killing of four policeman near algerian border and estimated 100 people arrested in the past three days as part of the government antiterror initiative. and it's effecting businesses in tunesia where people depend on flow of traffic is worst effected and business dwindled since they closed several crossings and we report from there. >> reporter: not many customers come to the shop these days. he says business has been slowed down ever since the tunesia government imposed export tax of $15 for each foreigner leaving the country with goods through land borders. >> translator: so the libyans don't come anymore, i used to have 50-60 clients and now there are none. my income decreased. our situation got worse with the chaos in libya. >> reporter: the world bank says that cross border illegal
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trade is costing tunesia $600 million a year and the government decided to clamp down. the official border crossing is open but less traffic and not only because increase in fees but also because of the lack of security on the roads inside libya. now a few months ago the government declared this whole border area a military zone the army has been deployed from stopping weapons and people getting in the country but it has an effect on the income. this is smuggling from libya but security beefed up along the border this illegal trade has come to a stop and now there is little to do for most of the people here. >> translator: nothing will change whether one talks or not, it was daily trade, they call it smuggling, it was just enough to feed it nothing more now there is nothing. >> reporter: the situation has hit young people particularly hard in an area where economic
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development is close to none. some say it's so dire it is pushing some of the youth to look in the wrong direction. >> translator: the youth in the country are under pressure to find a solution and have lost all hope so they decide to go and maybe die. >> reporter: it's a worry and his two sons are 28 and 30 years old are unemployed. he says they are at breaking point. >> translator: they could steal, they could look the other way and join i.s.i.l. they have nothing to lose of course some will go for sure. the government is doing nothing for them. my sons are disgusted. there is so much danger for the youth now. >> reporter: people here say the area is safer now and no one joined the ranks of i.s.i.l. so far but wonder how much worse things will get as the crisis in libya continues to deteriorate, i'm with al jazeera, tunesia border with libya. more to come here on al
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jazeera including we will be taking a look at how the financial budget may effect india's massive food aid program and hearing from cuban american dancers on communist cuba cozying up to the u.s. and a big european march is marked by crowd trouble and we will have reaction later this hour. ♪ now, court in hong kong sentenced a woman to six years in jail for abusing her made and erwiana solistyaningsih welcomes the judgment and she had 18 charges rageing from assault and not paying wages. in a moment we will be hearing the view from indonesia and let's speak to elizabeth tang
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from the international workers federation and is joining from hong kong and good to have you with us. the employer was sentenced six years in jail and do you think it sends a strong enough message to both employers and government? government? >> yes, partially. in hong kong they will now get the message if they do not treat their domestic workers fairly there will be consequence. but, however, our government so far has not taken up any measures to stop similar cases to happen and i'm afraid the employer will still think that this is an isolated case and it's not about me and they will not really look at how they are doing with their domestics. >> the maid in this case erwiana
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solistyaningsih spoke out about the abuse she suffered and she was hit so hard her teeth broke. many workers won't have the courage to do what she did or won't have faith their claim also be believed, is that the case? >> yes, because domestic workers all stay inside private homes with their employers and they are very difficult for them to tell others outside the homes about their experiences. so and also many of them especially the newcomers have to pay back loans which they have borrowed to pay the agency piece which can be as high as six months wages, so they are quite oet oet -- quiet and endure order
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and miss treatment of employers and most of them do not speak up. >> indonesia has now said that workers shouldn't be allowed to go abroad because of this kind of abuse they can suffer, is that a solution? would that be enough to push foreign governments into better protecting their workers? >> i don't think it will work because the situation in the country is so bad, domestic workers especially young women have no job opportunities so if they want to have more income then they have to go abroad to world and domestic workers and if there is a ban like this i'm sure many will seek the legal or regular channels and more abuses so i think that is not a solution. the solution is government in indonesia and governments in the countries and legislation, has
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to enforce legislation to stop this kind of abuses to happen. >> let's hope that happens, let's hope there is better protection for foreign domestic workers and elizabeth thank you for speaking with us in hong kong. high profile case has an angry response from indonesia and the president wants to stop sending domestic workers abroad and we report from dakarta. >> reporter: this is a symbol for the plight of domestic workers, the case of abuse shocked many around the world. for eight months her employer treated her like a slave. >> translator: i was tortured and beaten i was never paid. i was allowed to sleep for only three hours in the afternoon. i was forced to sleep on the floor. i was very seriously abused. >> justice for erwiana solistyaningsih. her case led to protest in hong kong and internal bleeding
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and injuries all over her body she was admitted to hospital for a month. on february 10 a judge found her employer guilty of charges of abuse. >> translator: my case became well-known because of the protests otherwise i would be just another case like so many only because so many people have supported me we have come this far, i really hope my case will not be the only one to get attention, all other maids who are quiet and do not speak out their cases should be brought to court. >> reporter: to prevent more abuse the president has announced eventually he wants to stop them going abroad as domestic workers and only skilled workers would be able to seek work elsewhere. the president says he wants to preserve the country's dignity banning maids working abroad but critics say the president's plan violates workers rights especially with the lack of
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employment opportunities. urged the president to focus on protecting workers instead of banning them from work abroad. they say the government should have put proper laws in place and rectified an international convention on domestic workers to protect the maids long ago. >> translator: the government indirectly legalizes this modern slavery and human trafficking, if you look at the laws it's not written that migrant workers are human beings and should be able to defend their rights and determine their own conditions. >> reporter: most of the estimated 6 million indonesia workers are employed as domestic workers like malaysia saudi arabia and hong kong and the government says it has to stop eventually. >> translator: what we want is those working abroad have skills so they can fulfill job requirement. that will make our workers more competitive in job market and
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respected worldwide, if two conditions met then what the president means is dignity will be fulfilled. >> reporter: despite her ordeal erwiana solistyaningsih says the government cannot stop sending women like her abroad and hopes her case will be a warning for people who leave indonesia every year to make money for their families i'm al jazeera. chinese state media says at least 15 people are missing after a boat sank off the coast and 19 people are said to have been on the vessel including 16 suspected migrants. state media says four people swam to safety from mainland china and strong currents are hampering rescue operations. 10 people killed and nine injured after wild elephants went in the eastern west state and people in the area say the elephants seem to have been in search of food and caused severe damage to homes in the process. a team of rangers tossed with
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leading the huge animals back into the forest. the indian government has released an economic survey saying growth will be more than 8% this year on saturday the annual budget will be revealed and could effect millions of indians who rely on the government's massive food aid program and we report. >> reporter: for as long as he can remember he has sold most of the wheat he grows to the indian government but worries his son won't follow him in the family business because politicians are talking about changing the state-run public distribution system and he says if the government decides to buy less grain it will ruin him. >> translator: the entire farming sector will be destroyed and we are agricultural and 70% of people are in farming. and how will the country
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operate? >> reporter: the government seeks hundreds of millions of people by buying food as a set price from farmers like him and food is a sensitive issue in india and states like this talk of potential changes to the scheme makes political allies nervous. >> we have given government time and if changes committed by the previous commissions and rolled back the food subsidy scheme it would be dangerous for them and the country. >> reporter: the food aid program is said to cost the state nearly $20 billion a year and 70% of the population benefits from it the public distribution system is considered by some economists as a huge burden on the economy. faced with opposition from disgruntled farmers and political allies the government will have to act discretely as it decides future cause of action but not everyone is willing to wait, some farmers are thinking creatively and
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moving on. he moved on a long time ago and it has been 15 years since he decided to invest in high-tech farming methods and today he earns hundreds of thousands a year by selling high-quality produce and sinh says farmers need to adopt if they want to survive. >> translator: our farmer is happy at the fixed rate he is getting and increasing profits but not finding ways to survive in the tough market and if he doesn't catch up in the standards he will be left behind. >> reporter: he says he will not completely withdraw the public system that support india poor but to prepare for the future farmers here may have to grow through innovation to remain profitable i'm with al jazeera, pinjab. weather with rob now and big weather system developing in the indian ocean, what is going on? >> forecasting and gather
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evidence and the evidence starts here in the peninsula. so looking at this here first of all the winds are up. the winds are up and therefore the sand is up but they will die and in 24 hours by the end of saturday most gulf countries will not be seeing anything in the air and maybe saturday and temperatures reflect that and up to 25 degrees and light wind and things happening further east as well and we look at this going through bangladesh and it has nothing to do with developing system but behind my head over iran there are more clouds and as those clouds have moved through that is the next piece of evidence they are coming down with the breeze and that is a fairly cold breeze and therefore over the arabian sea it warms up and it lifts and spins up and we end up developing something, a spinning and low center if you like. first of all we have strong winds with 22 degrees but with
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winds near gail force this is saturday, rain will be falling and at the same time this line that comes on to india just south of mumbai will develop further and if we run it on sunday and it's a big one and looks like a northern european storm system and massive through india and strong winds is a big change. >> rob, thanks indeed for that. diplomates from the u.s. and cuba will meet for a second time on friday as they move towards normalizing relations and in december the two sides said they would reestablish embassy in both countries but for some cuban americans there is skepticism of the renewed hope and we talked to three cuban belly dancers who defected to the u.s. ♪ this is the city ballet in central florida, a small dance company with big ambitions and
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autistic director martin wants to bring ballet to masses and came from cuba and talents who have been through similar experiences. dancers like ricardo only here for four months the 23-year-old came to the u.s. alone, most of his family is still on the island and like many in his situation he is nervous talking about u.s./cuba relations. he tells us he hopes any changes are positive for both countries but he especially wants change for cuba the people and his family. like ricardo, diaz defects to the u.s. and she too left her friends and family behind to pursue a dancing career but she has a clear goal in mind for the future. ♪ . >> translator: my ultimate hope and dream is my family joins me here in the united states. even if the situation were to
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get better in cuba but i realize it's a personal decision and i would understand if they didn't want to leave their country. ♪ in all the brand and city ballet home to dancers who recently defected and all came to the u.s. for a better life but like those who came before them they are realistic about the pace of change. >> it's going to take time from both countries in my humble opinion to kind of get to a good relationship and, you know something that can be really good for the cuban people. >> reporter: all three of these cuban dancers that made the long and difficult journey to the company are watching the process carefully but with caution but all three of these young people have bright futures with expectations of what might happen in the months ahead, i'm with al jazeera, brandon, florida. still to come here on the news hour we will be reporting on the conference in the u.s. that may dash the hopes of some
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presidential want to be for the official starting gun for next year's elections being fired. and look out for the lamas, millions are captivated by pictures of a couple of lamas on the loose. plus alex rodriguez heads back to work with the yankees but did he impress the bosses? we will give you the rest in sport. ♪
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avalanche in afghanistan, more than a thousand soldiers are helping in the search and recovery operations. i.s.i.l. fighters in iraq smashed priceless statutes which are thousands of years old, director of the mosul museum has confirmed that newly-released video of men with sledgehammer is genuine and u.n. condemned attack on iraqi heritage. a court in hong kong sentenced a woman six years in prison for abusing her indonesia maid and law-wan-tun charged with assault and not paying wages. people from the tribes are migrating to the region and say they are being marginalized and persecuted back home. and mohamed reports where many are trying to set up new lines despite a crack down by security officials. >> reporter: the message is clear, they are not welcome
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somali soldiers willing to use force if necessary. every vehicle entering this town is searched for migrants drivers bringing migrants in risk jail time or a hefty fine. >> translator: most of them come by foot because most vehicles refuse to bring them here and deport many of them and we will continue sending them back. we cannot call for this number of migrants. >> reporter: these men told me the threats of deportation will not stop them from trying their luck. and he walked four months to get here. along with ten other migrants he has found a job on this farm also owned by an ethiopian. >> translator: i chose to move here for security reasons and found a job, this is my second time coming back here and i went to find work but was deported, i'm staying here. >> reporter: this is ethiopian neighborhood and ten years ago this part of the city was
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exclusively inhabited by somalis and today it's not only home to thousands of ethiopian migrants but also thriving ethiopian restaurants and shops. many of these migrants help boost the local economy some local leaders want to see them deported. >> translator: we are not happy with their presence they brought many problems in terms of help. we don't know what health issues they may have and brought criminals to this town like people smugglers and also putting pressure on the job markets. >> reporter: he is not home but he is not going anywhere soon he will save enough money to bring his wife and children i'm with al jazeera, somalia. let's get to nairobi and speak to matt the director of research at the somali ngo and good to have you with us matt and ethiopia one of the fastest growing economies in africa and why are people migrating away? >> well, this is not a new
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phenomenon, it's something that has been going on for many years. really since as early as when the land was established in 1998 and of course somali land before that. there has been a steady stream of migrants in ethiopia mainly looking for work as labor, as domestic workers and of course they are very active human smuggling routes from the northern somali coast to the arabian peninsula. >> causing problems in somali in terms of competition for jobs or racial tension? >> well, it has been a source of tension. not really because of competition for jobs but just the coexistance caused friction in 2009 there was attacked on ethiopian and settlements around the town and more than 20 people
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were killed in grenade attacks so it's something that comes and goes and have been spurts of violence but by and large it's also an accepted part of the economy in which human migration and smuggling and trafficking have coexisted for many years. >> so there seems to be talk of a crack down by somali authorities, do you think somalia will forcibly repatriate these migrants? >> the administration has a close relationship with the government of ethiopia and so from time to time we see these types of operations where migrants are stopped and then return to ethiopia. but the authorities have a lot of other problems on their hands, there are people who benefit from the people smuggling trades and so i expect that the crack down is likely to be as in the past short lived and we will continue to see both
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migration into the land and migration through the land towards yemen and saudi arabia and beyond. >> matt thanks very much indeed for that matt speaking to us from nairobi. nigeria president good luck jonathan has made a surprise visit to towns recaptured by the army from boko haram in the northeast. the first stop was in the state where he inspected weapons and soldiers took back from the fighters and from there he want to baga a key town seized by boko haram in january. last week the army managed to push the armed group out of the town bordering chad. >> government with the opposition and that is good as a president for you to appreciate this this.
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i'm very hopeful this will turn around the journey of ending boko haram and addressing it. >> reporter: u.n. condemning destruction of iraq's ancient history by i.s.i.l. fighters the statutes from nineveh the empire and some date back to the 19th century b.c. and archeologist described their destruction as a night more and they have 12000 sites around 1800 of them are currently under i.s.i.l. control. and we have an archeologist from the london based institute of archeology and good to have you with us those pictures of men taking sledgehammer and smashing up those priceless statutes it's so depressing and distressing, what were your thoughts as you saw those pictures? >> well as i said before, i thought it was a nightmare,
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perhaps i wake up and it's just not there. >> can you still hear us libya? >> now i can hear you. >> the i.s.i.l. fighters who destroyed those priceless artifacts have been in control of the museum since june and said they were protecting the things inside that museum why do you think they decided to destroy them now? >> i can't say exactly why they did it now but they were maybe busy destroying the other shrines, islamic shrines and the churches and so on and now they finished with these, they have turned into the archeology confines and the museum is the nearest for them. >> what do you think this kind of loss means for iraqi
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heritage? >> it's tremendous, i mean the syria material and the material is an unique site in iraq and the statutes and the reliefs at that site is absolutely no where else you find them and the combination for the history and the art of the -- that period is, again, unique because haditha was on the border between the roman empire and persian empire and the people who lived there were arabs so the combination of all these civilizations, you know flourishing in one place is something unbelievable. >> unesco now demanded an emergency security council
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meeting because of what has been lost in this museum. do you think that anything can be done to protect those heritage sites which are currently under i.s.i.l. control? >> it's very difficult and would unesco be able to get there or the united nation or would dash or i.s.i.s. believe in them? >> sorry for the sound problems you've had there but thank you for joining us and good to have you with us iraqi archeologist live from london there. in mexico a mass rally has been held to mark the five-month anniversary of disappearance of 43 students. [chanting] there were some scuffles between protesters and riot police at the end of the protest in mexico city, the attorney general says investigators are certain these students were killed and
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incinerated after police handed them over to a gang many family members of missing students are skeptical of the government version of events. a truck driver strike in brazil effected food for the last days and blocking roads in nine states for a cut in diesel prices and milk fruit and vegetables are not reaching super markets, as part of negotiations the government offered to extend free financing for vehicles. tourist in puru have been rescued leading to the historic ruins to collapse. emergency workers built a temporary pulley system to rescue the group and the bridge is an alternative route used to reach the famous site. outbreak of measles is making many germans sick. some patients are ignoring doctors' advice to be immunized and politicians worried efforts
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to eradicate the disease are failing and from berlin nick spicer reports. ♪ a public service announcement encouraging people to get themselves, their children vaccinated against measles. not everyone is listening. theresa ignored her doctor's advice and her two kids contracted the disease suffering high temperatures diarrhea and skin rashes and alternative medicine and what they went there was better than possible side effects of vaccination which she says includes bad allergies and deficient immune system. >> translator: no one can tell me about protection and i question the concept and sign scientifically it is not proven how it works and i don't want to vaccinate the children. >> reporter: 570 cases and at latest count the school was shut down at the beginning of the week when one student fell ill
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with measles and several others asked to stay home because they have not been vaccinated and a 18-month-old baby died in berlin because of an illness and it's bad news for a government who hoped to eradicate it in 2015. and they are working towards it if it means vaccinations are mandatory with a law says the leading member of parliament. >> personal view as a doctor if i take a strong position on science and reject modern day science and so forth, that is fine if it concerns my health but it's not so fine if it concerns the health of children who may take away diseases from which they would never recover. >> reporter: the government says it wants most of all to reach parts of the public that may not have got the message yet before worrying about parents who do not trust conventional medicine nick spicer berlin. to u.s. now and what is billed as the largest gathering
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of conservatives in america and the action committee will hear from some of the biggest names in the republican party but group criticized for appealing to just a narrow section of voters, and adam fisher reports. ♪ the committed and condemned, faithful and conservative political action committee is one of the most important gatherings of the year and heading to presidential election. >> the men and women gathered here today are going to play a critical role. >> reporter: acquired stop for anyone looking at winning the nomination. >> it's a very important voice for republicans and it may not be a majority of republicans but it is a very substantial segment of the republican party and it is the most passionate segment of the republican party. so it's important to appeal to cpac to have your conservative credentials credentials.
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>> reporter: the presidential hopefuls this meeting won't mean you secure the nomination but it can mean you could lose it. all speech failure to connect with the audience here and that could derail a campaign before it really gets underway. the significant issue this year is who is it this is a predominately white middle class gathering and a gay republican group was turned away and needs to connect with african/americans and hispanics and women and leaves them a lot of work to do to attract new voters. >> they are saying they are going to go with the values and letting people know what their message is and their conservative fiscal message and social message as well. >> reporter: jeb bush is one of the biggest names here and doesn't always appeal to the conservative wing of party but reaction to him could be significant. but the event tends to throw up a surprise, a minor character who delivers a performance and wins the crowd and creating some momentum and one conservative
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operative the people who leave the hall will be taking the message out to the country selling the person they like the best. >> we are a big party with lots of opinions but these are clearly the conservatives and these are the people who will be out there knocking on doors supporting candidates and everybody is here to make their best impression on them. >> there is a poll at the end of the convention meaning little with presidential nomination but it's better than losing republicans lost the last two presidential elections and they don't want that to become a habit, allen fisher al jazeera, at the cpac conference in maryland. still to come here on al jazeera, u.s. regulators approve new rules governing the internet, we will have more on that plus all the sport, gulf and the world number one returns to action but doesn't go quite as planned, details on the way. ♪
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♪ u.s. regulators imposed tough new rules for internet providers and trying to restrict providers from controlling download speeds and john reports. >> the u.s. communication commission decided it will treat the internet like a utility and no fast lane. >> with a shout out to four million americans who took their time to share with us their views views. today history is being made by a majority of this commission as
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we vote for a fast fair and open internet and with that i will call for the yeah and nay and all in favor, the ayes have it. >> reporter: fcc chairman tom wheeler originally proposed doing away with net neutrality but the plan attracted millions of public comments and huge outcry and the question was whether to allow internet providers to charge a premium what would be a second internet a faster more reliable internet and the rest of us who do not pay extra would have a slower connection and speed makes or breaks the companies that deliver contents or movies or music through the web and if a site is loading you click away and faster sites have advantage and the idea of net neutrality is we should travel the same roads on the internet if you are netflix or a tiny up start you
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get to use the same digital highway and makes the internet a revolutionary business tool everyone reaches everyone else at the same speed but for years internet service providers like comcast and time warner and at&t and verizon say they should be charged for a faster internet and a separate lane for those who can afford and it means those who could not afford premium access and smaller companies would share a slower more crowded digital highway and the segregation critics say would kill the free and open internet as we know it but the fcc will regulate the internet service just like phone service or well the highways. the new rules will now prevent broadband providers from blocking or limiting content, john in washington. let's get some sport now with richard. south africa captain is the quickest 150 in one-day history
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at the cricket world cup and came from 64 victories against the west indies and scored 162 in sidney and now holds the one-day record for the fastest 50 100 and 150 and have all come against the windies. let's look at the score card and not helped the post 408 for 5 in 50 overs and the first time they have broken 400 on australian soil and west indies is not close and took five wickets and they were out to 151, south africa winning by 257 runs. futbol in finals and the match against roma stopped twice on thursday after there were objects on the pitch and halted in the first half when a giant plastic bananna had to be removed, the second half fans reacted angry after a final play was sent off so referee took
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players off the field for ten minutes and police on alert following fan trouble in rome for the first leg and detained 17 locals and one italian before the second leg kicked off and roma won the ty 3-2 on aggregate. aggregate. >> it helped. >> translator: this kind of behavior is not helping the club actually these incidents are damaging the club players are standing on the pitch and trying to do their best and this happens, the incidents can really only damage it. >> reporter: and also in the europa league out on penalties and it was the first time back in istanbul since winning the champion league in 2005 liverpool won the league from last week was cancelled out by the second leg to make it 1-1 on aggregate and turkish side eventually winning the shoot out 5-4 and missing the decisive
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kick kick. >> when i see 7 of them like in school when the school take penalty 7 of them go like this and i say okay we are not trying to go away shooting what we want, they wanted to shoot them and gave us to say we are going to do it and we done it. it's brilliant. >> i'm happy with the takers and confident so we are obviously disappointed for him because it's not in the game and he played very well but someone has to miss and unfortunately it was him and us that go out but we were happy to take them. >> reporter: 16 second leg matches in total and top games and reigning champions knocked them out and a good night forcier and they knocked them out and bad news for the greek
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champions and crushed out them. mcalroy did not go to plan at the on do classic and a with indy day for the first round of the pg international in florida, world number one tee shot on fifth hole landed in water but he did manage to get to birdies on the final holes but still finished with 3 over par, 73 and 8 shots behind the leader jim herman. >> i'm coming off a three-week break and tough conditions to come back out in and i know my game is there and today wasn't obviously what i wanted to start with but if i can get in the red numbers tomorrow i'm right back in the tournament. >> reporter: tennis news and world number one yakovich is through the championships and needed 49 minutes to meet turkey, 6-1, 6-1 and face four
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seed in the semis. federer is through to the last four and took 7 title in dubai and won 6-1 and french man retired with back pain and now will face another and off to the teenager surprised two time grand slam champion andy murray beating in straight sets and 80 places below murray and made 55 unforced errors. >> i was playing really good i was feeling very good on the court and i'm just happy to be in the semi finals and i just beat andy murray so yeah this is amazing. >> reporter: controversial new york yankees alex rodriguez welcomed by teammates and fans as he joined the team for spring
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training 39-year-old made a return after a season long suspension for doping and hit three home runs during the practice, 500 fans turned up in florida, and his return divided opinion as his team manager says rodriguez has to prove his place for the opening day. >> i think the most important thing that comes back is his offense and hopefully that is the quickist. it's hard to say, you know when i watched him take ground balls his hands seem to work fine. his throws seem to be fine and vp seemeds to be fine. but it's at that faster pace that you got to see and you hope that it's his offense, can i predict which one will come back the quickest, no. >> running back adrian peterson back in the nfl after a judge lifted his suspension for child abuse and missed 15 games last season after admitted and striking his son and eligible to
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resign with minnesota or be traded to another team and we have plenty more sport on our website and the latest check out al jazeera/sport with blogs and videos from correspondents around the world. that is the sport i have for now and i'll have more a little later on. thanks for that. you will like this story, they are funny and two run away lamas caused a stir in the u.s. state of arizona, the animals were part of a mobile petting zoo and visiting elderly people in phoenix and more mobile than they should have been and decided exploring the neighborhood would be exciting and they dodged the traffic and perhaps they thought they were lama-guineas and avoided capture in the sun city neighborhood. they are safe home now and no lamas harmed in the program and this is it in the news hour and good-bye for now.
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