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n't see the truth. >> "talk to al jazeera". only on al jazeera america. >> welcome to the al jazeera news hour live from doha. al shabab gunman attack a university in northeastern kenya, killing at least 15 people. >> heavy fighting in yemen's southern city of aden as houthis try to take control of it. >> isil fighters are pushed back from the refugee camp near syria's capitol. >> combating a childhood killer,
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india's new vaccine. >> we begin this news hour with a developing story out of kenya where al shabab gunmen are holding hostages at a university. fighters are hold up in garissa near the border with somalia. one of the gunmen has been arrested as he tried to flee the campus. at least 15 people are dead and 70 others injured. we have the latest. >> al shabab attacked the college cam campus at down. they fired at police officers stationed at the college. witnesses say there was panic and confusion among students.
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>> we had gunshots and they were sleeping. it was around 5:00 and they started jumping up and down running for their lives. it's unfortunate that where they were going to is where the gunshots were coming from. >> we ran because we were not even given time to know what is happening. >> al shabab said its holding students hostage. kenya's military has been deployed to garissa. the town is close to the border with somalia. >> i super viewed residents around the scene and they told me that the place looks like a war dozen. >> al shabab has carried out numerous attacks in kenya. they tornado the west gate shopping mall in nairobi and killed 67 people. in may, two explosions hit a city. in june, 20 people were killed in a coastal town, they opened fire at a hotel bar as people watched the world cup on television.
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gunman attacked a bus near the somali bored her where 28 people died. there have been numerous other attacks and kenya's president said his country is fighting what he calls a war on terrorism. in february, teachers from garissa took parts in protest calling for more soldiers and police to be in areas where attacks are frequent. this latest incident may cause more kenyans to lose faith in the government and how it's handling the security situation. al jazeera. >> the kenyan president has just addressed the incident. >> on my own behalf and behalf of my government, i extend condolences to the families of those who have perished in this attack. we continue to pray for a quick recovery of the injured and safe
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rescue of those still held hostage. there is appropriate deployment to the affected area. i urge kenyans to stay calm as we resolve this matter and to provide the authorities with any information they may have in connection with any threats to our security. >> let's get the latest now from al jazeera's malcolm webb from garissa in northeastern kenya. we heard the president saying more troops were going to be deployed to garissa. tell us about the latest there the situation on the ground. >> the university's just a few hundred meters down the road. we were closer until a short while ago and soldiers moved by standers and journalists further
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from the university. they're concerned for safety and trying to get a complete lockdown on the situation here. in the last half hour, we've seen two buses from the university going toward the holding area. the buses were students, hostages rescued dozens of them. we don't know exactly how many. a couple of hours before that, we spoke to a hostage on his mobile phone. he's since been rescued. he said that there was 200 maybe 300 maybe more students in the accommodation believe that were held hostage by the attackers. we've seen a kenyan army tank moving this direction towards the university compound. they say they'll have to use a tank then, i imagine that would be a last resort for them. of course hostages are still in the buildings and they fire on those buildings with a tank that's going to be a very tricky situation indeed. >> the siege not over yet. garissa university is not for from the border of kenya and
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somalia and al shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. weapon heard kenyan universities had been warned about an impending attack. what sort of measures were there in place in garissa to prevent attacks from happening? >> we don't know exactly what was here when we arrived a few hours ago a strong military presence here now. we heard that there's only four or five assailants in there. they are completely out numbered by the soldiers, because they have an advantage position now and they've got a lot of hostages beings they can still week havoc with such you small in connection. in terms of precautions there were two armed guards at the gates of the university, and they were shot dead at 5:30 this morning at local time when the tackers first came in. they threw explosives, killed the guards and moved into the accommodation blocks where they've been holding students
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hostage ever since. >> how many students do we know still are being held hostage by the attackers there. do the police have any idea where exactly they are within the campus of garissa university? >> >> i think they have, well it's the army dealing with this, not the police and they've done things to take control over the hostages and casualties taken away and we can't act as any at the moment, the army trying to stay in complete control. as we understand from people we have spoken to inside, i think the hostages are in one or maybe a couple of the accommodation blocks and they're on the upper floors we've heard people saying that the attackers are up on the roofs so that makes it very difficult for the soldiers to even approach the building without being shot at themselves. as i said, we spoke to a student who said there was at least 200 300, maybe more in there. we've seen a few dozen come out
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from buses. that means there still could be more inside. >> thank you very much for that update live from garissa in northeastern kenya. >> the saudi-led coalition's aerial campaign to stop houthi rebels from taking yemen entered its second week. houthi forces and rebels loyal to former former president are fighting. so you had rain is reporting its first casualty. the interior ministry said a border guard soldier was killed by gunfire from across the yemeni border. ten other soldiers were injured. >> while the war has led to virtual lockdown in yemen's capitol sanna people have either left or are staying at
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home. just a few businesses remain open as we report now. >> a food store that's open for business in sanna has become a rare sight in a city under bombardment. the war in yemen has not only forced people to flee homes in search of a safe haven buff made many businesses shut their doors as within already battered economy is further devastated. >> there are few people left. those who stayed live alone without their families, so hardly anyone comes to buy anything anymore. >> what makes things more difficult is that his shop is not far from the airport and a military air base, prime targets in saudi-led airstrikes against houthi fighters who currently control the capitol. >> in yemen almost 1 million children under the age of five are malnourish road and the world food program say 13 million yemenis depend on polluted or dirty water for
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drinking. >> there's no doubt this war gravely affected yemenese, even though food and other products are available the average yemeni can no longer afford such things. many families are now displaced. it's making poverty and unemployment rise drastically. >> back at his store he finally has a comer. all he buys is a bottle of water. >> now i'm lucky if i make $20 a day. how can i may my bills? if the situation stays like this i'll be out of business within days. >> as the war rages on that for the ordinary citizen every day is a battle for survival. al jazeera. >> joining us now here in the studio is muhammed kabati, advisor to the past three yemeni prime ministers. let's talk about the we're hearing about possibly troops disembarking in aden.
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u.s. troops are on the ground. what are they telling you? >> reuters had information that came out that there are forces in the port of aden, but we got in touch with our people there who told us actually there was an evacuation of some of those in aden who were going to be taken by a chinese frig gat. there was shooting at the trig gat. this perhaps gave the idea that there is landing of troops. >> this is not a ground operation. >> we can't confirm it at all. the people are aden are looking for something like that. civilians are being hit these houthis will have in fill traded now, holding on top of the mount bees and crater and hitting at the civilians. i mean, it's crater, which is one of the very, you know, densely populated part of aden. >> we saw civilians also suffering in sanna, as well as aden as you mentioned. you believe that a ground
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operation is necessary at this stage, that aerial bombardments will not be enough. >> we need some sort of forward advance to coordinate with the command center. unfortunately, the local administrators are not in aden. all those people have disappeared and there's nobody to call the efforts of different pockets of recent r. resistance. most resisting now are youths, they are not really very much else. they need somebody to guide them and so on. if you get special force to say arrive arland in aden airport in the handled of the legitimate government, you have somebody who could coordinate efforts and resistance with the commander control center of the operation and start from there expanding and aden could be in hand. aden is surrounded. aden is now -- >> what's the significant of aden if aden falls. >> if aden falls and the whole
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operation started when the son of the former deposed dictator said, ali abdullah saleh was telling saudis, air raised, don't go there. he said if you go to aden, defend us on the ground. aden is a very, strategically military point the whole of the influence of the red sea is there, the strait and it's symbolic because it's the capitol where the president has moved to. >> let me ask you now muhammed, what is the objective of the saudi-led coalition right now? what is the ultimate goal, the end game? we're now in the second week of this aerial bombardment by the saudi-led coalition. what are they trying to achieve? >> the end goal is to get people back. people should get back, we have 10 months in that national
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dialogue conference. >> the houthis are not interested in going. >> ok. if you hilt ali abdullah saleh and the to come out with the white flags they'll have to come. these people cannot claim to have a constituency that i also more than 15%. they do not control the country. they will have to come to their senses and iranians have got to understand that they can not at all extend their power of in fluence to somewhere far away from them. i think the message is people have got to go back to the dialogue table but with ali abdullah saleh still playing this is a master, we are dealing with a man who thinks that he can keep the world and push the whole country in anarchy or let me back through. >> very interesting to talk to you. of course we could talk about yemen for sometime. we look to having you on set later, of course. advisor to yemen's last three past prime ministers.
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still ahead nigeria's outgoing president hopes to set an example for africa and beyond. plus: >> i'm erika woods in south africa. i'll tell you how the country's electricity crisis is putting people's health at risk. >> in sport marching on at the miami missters. details later in the program. >> talks continue two days past the deadline for the iranian nuclear agreement. james bays is lausanne where those talks are taking place. everyone says progress has been made but we still have no deal. >> they're not there yet
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despite what you say marathon talks and these really are marathon talks when you think about the fact you've had the u.s. secretary of state and the iranian foreign minister overnight here in various meetings lasting eight and a half hours and only breaking just before 6:00 a.m. in the morning. the iranian side now saying they're hopeful that they could be able to fly back to tehran later this evening after they have had an agreement. i have to say some of the western delegations and other delegations don't seem quite as confident about that. the big question, though, even if they get a deal out of this, what sort of deal will it be? that was a point i put to iran's foreign minister. >> is there an agreement? >> the agreement is supposed to come on june 30 if you're all working well and very lucky so
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what we expect today is a statement, and the fact that we have all reached common understanding on how to resolve the issues, but the agreement a written agreement is something that needs to be drafted by all participants and agreed upon in a multi-lateral process and that would take hopefully three months to finalize and hopefully less. >> james, foreign ministers already mentioned the date of june 30 there. what they're working on now is a framework deal. i wonder whether the delay they're experiences now in reaching this graham work deal will impact the final agreement due in june. >> i think it will in some ways. i think the big question here is what they come up with at the
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end of this, is it actually going to be that framework agreement or is it going to be, he heard the word there a joint statement on common understanding of principle. why is this deadline that is actually past now the end of march important? it was a self imposed deadline by that the obama administration because they want to show congress they had something concrete something concrete to persuade congress when it comes back from recent on the 14th 14th of april not to introduce new sanctions. everyone thinks new sanctions will destroy this whole process. the question is whether what mr. zarif is talking about will have enough concrete details for secretary kerry to take back to washington to show congress. >> james, thank you very much live from lausanne, switser left hand. >> turkish police arrested 10 suspected of links to a banned far left group. they conducted raised in
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istanbul following two deadly shotouts. tuesday a prosecutor was killed when police tried to rescue him from gunmen who took him hostage. gunmen tried to storm the police headquarters in istanbul. >> an israeli soldier has been wounded in a palestinian city in the occupied west bank. local media reports that the stabbing happened at the checkpoint. we have the latest from jerusalem. >> what we know after speaking with the israeli military, according to them, a palestinian man, along with five others, tried to penetrate in their words, the separation wall, an israeli platoon or an israeli group of soldiers happened on them during what was described as a routine patrol, and that's when the altercation occurred. an israeli soldier was lightly wounded in this altercation. the palestinian man who allegedly attacked the soldier
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has been taken into custody for interrogation, as well as the five others who were with him. >> a russian trawler has sunk, killing 54. more than 100 were onboard the ship when it sank off the coast of the peninsula. search teams worked in freezing water to rescue survivors. drifting ice may have torn a hole in the vessel. >> facile fuels recognized as being a major contributor to poor air quality. in south africa, the aging power plants are having a detrimental effect on people's health. the power company has been given five years to meet air quality standards. erika woods reports. >> this wind farm is south africa's newest show piece for renewable energy. the government wants 42% of its
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electricity to come from wind and solar power within the next 20 years. in the meantime, more than three quarters of the country's electricity needs come from stations fueled by coal. those living nearby say they're getting sick from all the polluted air. >> i'm suffering from asthma. >> green peace says cat arena's symptoms are common in this area. she doesn't have access to electricity. the area is home to 11 coal powered stations and another under construction. this region is built on coal mining and burning. as soon as you arrive in the area there's a noticeable difference in the air quality. some researchers say it has some of the dirtiest air in the world. >> green peace says allowing the state owned power company and other big polluters an extra five years to meet carbon
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emission standards could cause the premature death of up to 19,000 people. >> you can't actually put a price on human health and the department of environmental affairs has clearly gone against stricken's constitutional right to a healthy environment. by approval all of the post penments applied for, they are putting people living in those coal areas at risk. >> the city of environmental affairs didn't carry out a health assessment before it made the decision. they said it wasn't a mandate to do so. >> we all knew what we were doing. when the applications of postponement arrived in front of us we shouldn't be told that no leave those and now go and do this air study which is not even in our purview. we are doing what our law and regulations are saying we should do. >> the minister said the government has a difficult task, balancing environmental health and economic issues to cope with
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south africa's power short only. she said her decision was based on sustainal development of the company. >> before i was not sick. when i moved to this area, i start to get sick. >> those living near the power stations believe their health is sacrificed for the economy. al jazeera, south africa. >> world leaders have been hailing nigeria's democratic spirit following the peaceful presidential election. muhammedu buhari has become the first nigerian to out of the a president through the ballot box. 15 million people elected the former general to be their next president. yvonne everyone phrasing nigeria's democratic spirit. it is a very proud moment for the country isn't it? >> that's right. on wednesday night u.s. president barack obama called president goodluck jonathan and thanked him for his statesmanship like behavior and
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for holding peaceful elections and for conceding defeat as quickly as possible to reduce any tension or unclear outcome in the sense of how people feel about this outcome and the fact that he has won. there were fears that there could be post election violence if there was not a clear winner. many people were surprised that president jonathan conceded defeat so quickly. it has been a very, very tough contest between the two opponents, political opponents and people were worried if there was not a clear winner, there could be violence. the question of his legacy are what people are looking at now. his political opponents that still exist said he was left no choice but. everything was thrown do this race millions of dollars was pumped into trying to get him reelected, but left with no choice he had to concede.
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here's a look at how he came to power and how he might be remembered by the nigerian people. >> when goodluck jonathan was elected president in 2011, many people were convinced he could fix nigeria's problems. he was the former vice president. he was highly educated with a p.h.d. in zoology. he inherited serious challenges like corruption and the boko haram attacks in the north. he promised to deal with them quickly, but critics say the problem only got worse. >> the area he did the worse for was the area of security for nigerians. it's a very sad thing. so many people died and it was as the if the government didn't care. at the end of his tenure corruption became the culture of nigeria. the oil sector became awash with corruption. >> thousands of people died under jonathan's watch and
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hundreds of thousands displaced. weeks before facing the election, the government says it reclaimed all the territories once controlled by the group. >> president jonathan did not invent the boko haram crisis. it was an inherited problem. i imagine, you know, that there will always be security challenges. as we speak now, you know, all the territories that have been taken over by boko haram have been, you know, more or less taken back, and the security forces ahead. >> when he conceded defeat, he said he'll be remembered for setting the country on a path to true democracy. >> i promise the country free and freer elections. i've kept my word. i've also expanded this place for nigerians to participate in the democratic process. that is one legacy i would like to see and hear. >> jonathan will go down in history as the first sitting
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president in nigeria's history to lose an election and hand over power, but also to have presided over the worst peace time crisis in the country's history, boko haram. president jonathan conceding in the way he did feels so rare for africa and for this country. many people anticipated that he would try to hold on to power. we all know the image of african leaders that don't want to let go. the people very happy he accepted defeat in the way that he did. according to nigeria's constitution, he will remain in power in my the end of may when there will be a constitutional hand over of power to general muhammedu buhari. we asked him what he'll do after that. it's assumed he will go into public life in some way. some say he might get the prize for african leadership because of the way he gracefully accepted defeat. he said he doesn't want any prizes. he just wants to continue to serve the nigerian people.
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>> thank you very much, live from nigeria. >> let's get an update on the weather now. we saw a spectacular sand storm here in doha last night. how is it looking? >> not too bad still gusty. i wouldn't plan to go camping over the next 36 hours or so. we've got the system here. you can see the cloud rolling across bahrain into qatar making its way into iraq, actually and you can see how it's made its way through. we should call it a gust front. that brought us the really strong and gusty winds. it's moved for iran, pushing into a good part of afghanistan. looking at things quieting down, but friday another gusty day. you can see winds gusting to 20-25 kilometers per hour. it's really saturday before things really wilkie it down. bright skies coming in behind, looking lovely in qatar 32 degrees good day for camping
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then. northern pakistan into far northwest of india seeing very heavy rain around the region, 55 milliliters of rain. we have seen over the last five days a staggering 225 millimeters of rain. monthly average for max something like 91 mill meets of rain. come saturday, things do at long last become dry. >> still ahead on the al jazeera news hour, afghanistan seeks justice for the death of a woman beaten and burned by a mob while police looked on. >> i'm in buenos aires where argentina is marking another anniversary of the malvinas or falk lands war.
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>> students taken hostage in kenya. gunman stormed the campus just before dawn. some students have been freed. at least 15 are dead and 70
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others injured. >> there are reports to houthi rebels captured the yemeni presidential palace in aden. president hadi has been in saudi arabia since the cam pine against houthis began last week. saudi arabia reporting its first cart. a border guard has been killed an 10 injured by gunfire from across the border. >> iran's foreign minister said he and six world powers are close to reaching a nuclear deal in switzerland saying a joint draft statement still needs to be written after a marathon overnight session. >> in egypt gunmen have killed 15 soldiers and injured dozens during multiple takes in the northern sinai peninsula attacking four government check points and may have taken hostages. the reason has seen an increase in violence since the overthrow of egyptian president mohamed morsi in 2013. >> joining us now for more on
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the situation from egypt's sinai peninsula is a election you lecturer from the university. this is said to be the deadliest attack since government soldiers were killed in january. you wonder how it is that this fight, the massive military presence in the region, the deployment in the region that fighters are able to conduct such attacks still today. >> i think it's a very complex situation. the insurgency is now in low to mid level they were able to sustain their attacks significantly. this is the first time you have acquiring such weapons mortars
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and s16 and s18 anti aircraft guided missiles, and also a very much mix of a guerilla tactics with car bombs and urban terrorism tactics at the same time. they have been using this quite significantly. i think they are capitalizing on major grievances that there is not only limited to northeast sinai which has been the case for the last 15 years but also in the wider egyptian context at the moment, and the military claims that they killed a lot of them if you count the numbers from 2011 would probably reaching numbers like over 3,000 people killed that the military claim are militants, but there are a lot of question marks on who are these people. >> most of the bigger attacks have been claimed by a sinai based group which has fledged allegiance to isil, the islamic
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state of iraq and the levant. do we know whether there is any coordination between them and isil or is this -- are they acting on their own really? >> there's of course the symbolic link with i.s. they claim to be the sinai province now but there were multiple groups especially after 2011 operating in northeast sinai and before that, as well. partners of jerusalem became the most effective of these groups and steadily grew to be the largest of them before they declared support to or allegiance to i.s. that gives a regional dimension to that is the problem. the problem really started probably three decades ago and it was a very much a local issue. it was more a northeastern sinai issue, but since the second palestinian intifada since 2000
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and the way the military dealt with the problem there it grew to become a security issue in that area, and with more eradicationist policies, crackdowns the grievances expanded and you had more actual popular support at some point by 2011-2012 to some of the militants there. it became much worse after the july 2015 coup that morals you had the attack or the attacks to north sinai happening in central delta, happening in cairo and happening even in north of upper egypt. the group leader claimed responsibility for such attacks. >> ok, thank you so much for your in sight. omar live with us there from london. >> the u.n.'s palestinian refugee relieve agency is demanding an immediate end to the fighting in the camp in syria.
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islamic state of iraq and the levant forces entered the camp and took control of its western part. anti-government fighters defended the camp, which is home to thousands of people. we have a report. >> smoke rises from yarmouk camp in southern damascus. it was the last thing the desperate people of yarmouk needed. >> since early afternoon there were fierce clashes in the vicinity of the 18,000 civilians who were there. now remember, amongst those are 3500 children. their lives are in danger. >> the palestinian refugee camp has been under siege since 2013, with tiny amounts of aid getting through. human rights groups say women
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are dying in childbirth and children of starvation. isil has fought with free syrian army around the camp before but was pushed into nearby districts. activists are concerned though isil has left the camp, its fighters are bound to return in a bid to push into the center of damascus. >> isis are besieged by the fighters and the other syrian opposition fighters, like the free syrian army, the areas east of yarmouk. june across the country, there is continuing bombardment. activists say the regime is
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still using chlorine gas a claim damascus denies. the u.n. says more than 220,000 people have been killed in the conflict so far, and the most vulnerable are often the victims. al jazeera. >> syrian rebel fighters now control most of the country's border with jordan, pushing government troops out of the crossing. syrian air force have since raided the position in retaliation. we report from amman. >> syria's last official border crossing with jordan is now in the hands of rebel fighters. syrian rebels from several battalions of the free syrian army united to push government troops out of the crossing. fighting broke out three days ago. by thursday morning the rebels had taken over the entire syrian site of crossing. >> with god's help, we have lib rated the border crossing with
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jordan. we have cleanse this crossing from the if it of bashar al assad's regime. >> syrian rebels believe removing troops from the crossing could lead to their removal from many other parts of the area. >> after seizing the crossing, rebels will seize nearby villages like the one which lice on the highway to damascus. this would cut off the army from military supplies. it means areas under army's control will be under complete siege. >> wednesday jordan announced the temporary closure of the crossing due to the fighting. this is the only functioning crossing between jordan and syria and is considered a crucial gateway for syrian, jordanian and lebanese traders. keeping it closed could mean huge economic losses for both countries. jordan trains and cooperates with what it describes as moderate rebels along its border. in return, rebels make sure
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groups like al-nusra front and islamic state of iraq and the levant are kept away, because jordan considers them a threat. that's how the kingdom has kept its borders safe and stable. despite jordan's good relations with some syrian rebels along its border, it had previously said it will not operate a border crossing with an unofficial party. this could change. analysts say the government may reopen the crossing now run by rebels for trade purposes, but will not necessarily be comfortable doing so. al jazeera amman. >> at least 16 people are dead and 36 others injured after an explosion as a protest in eastern afghanistan. the bombing took place outside the acting governors home. a local member of the country's parliament was among those wounded. the taliban denied responsibility for the blast. >> meanwhile, the murder of a woman by a mob in afghanistan has sparked calls for police to be better trained and women to
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be treated better. the shocking footage of her being beaten drove people around the world to hold rallies in her honor. jennifer glasse reports from kabul. a warning that her story contains some photographic images. >> the last half hour of her life must have been terrifying. surrounded by an angry crowd calling for her blood and that's what they got. long live islam they shout as they beat her with sticks and stones. hundreds cheered her killing many filming it on their mobile phones where we got this footage. >> even in death they couldn't let her rest, burning her remains. she was accused of burning the koran. she was innocent and the backlash immediate. at her funeral women activists carried her coffin, breaking with afghan tradition and
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thousands demonstrated not just in kabul but in germany london and new york, all demanding justice. that's what her family wants too. her mother said she made sure all eight of her daughters were educated so they could contribute to society. >> the government should be held accountable for every drop of her blood. she's not just my daughter. she's the daughter of the nation. >> her brother says the police on the scene should have saved her. instead, the police chief initially told the media she had mental problems, and encouraged her parents to lie. >> he told us we should say the same thing that if we didn't, angry people would burn the whole city, that we had a calm people down. >> she was killed in this busy part of kabul in broad daylight. >> there's a new sign here now naming her for the street. her mother said the killing
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isn't a reflection of the whole nation but the fault of a few bad people. >> a few hundred meters away, the spot where her body was burned has become a shrine and those operating here say those responsible should be punished. >> it was a shameful act for our nation and people. it is a shame for those in power right now. >> the presidential commission appointed to investigate the kill officially found her innocent. it said the killers were illiterate and the police failed to do their duty. >> how poor the security system to protect women in afghanistan is because when you talk to the police officers, some of them will actually think mentally that it was her right to be killed. that's why they didn't act quickly. >> 27 people are in custody including 16 afghan policemen. ten or 11 are still at large and charges are expected to be filed soon. jennifer glasse, al jazeera kabul. >> argentina is marking the
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33rd anniversary of its conflict with britain over what they call the maldivas island and britain calls the falklands. we have a report now from buenos aires. >> the malvinas belong to argentina is a phrase often heard hear here. this museum is dedicated to the case. >> this is not a war museum. it's a peace museum we are trying to fill with symbols of justice. the occupation continues set by the politics of crone colonialism. russian armaments have been bought including long-range
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fighter jets. argentina said it was not a threat toe peace and sent a strong letter of complaint to the united nations and others of american states about what it calls british warmongering. a remote archipelago in the south atlantic ocean. 649 died in the 1982 conflict. 33 years after that conflict, the theme remains high in the public consciousness. these are veterans of that conflict visiting the museum on their way from their homes in the north to a ceremony in the far south closer to the disputed islands. >> our fight continues to be important through our words our testimonies. >> i still hope to one day set foot on what should be our territory and that our cam address who died defending our land can rest in peace.
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>> argentina under the command of a brutal military government invaded islands on april 2 1982. britain which had governed them since 1833 sent a task force to reclaim what they call the falklands. there followed a short fierce conflict in which a total of more than 900 combatants were killed. despite that defeat, argentina continues a peaceful claim to the islands using diplomatic pressure to urge britain to negotiate over sovereignty. earlier this year, it should be this note, reasserting its argument. meanwhile, britain says that while the islanders want to remain under their authority there is nothing to discuss. the long standoff continues. al jazeera, buenos aires. >> coming up, one finds out why
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>> welcome back. a new inexpensive vaccine is set to be introduced in india to prevent child deaths from the roto virus. it is the first to be produced in the developing world. >> it's children most at risk of infection. many of them are preventable.
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her 5-year-old died from severe diarrhea. she said it's he impossible for people like her to protect their families from threats like this. >> if the water was clean the outside was clean why would my daughter die? why would my children fall ill? we don't have money to treat her in a fancy hospital. for poor people like us, this is what happens. >> unsanitary conditions lead to more than 300,000 child deaths from diarrhea in india every year. one third of caused by this, the roto virus causing severe diarrhea in infants and young children. most poor don't have access to available vaccines. this lab developed the first vaccine for the roto virus made outside europe or the u.s. >> at about $18 vaccines available are too expensive for most families whose children are likely to be infected. the new vaccine developed in
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this lab will cost $3, making it more available for those likely to be infected here and across the developing world. >> in clinical trials, the new vaccine is shown to be about 58% effective, similar to other roto virus vaccines, but its makers say it's only part of the overall solution. >> it's just impossible to clean up everything, but this part of the sanitation program you combine this with sanitation program, you may get 50% maybe 100% significance. >> those who work with the poor agree, saying simple steps can make a big difference. >> boiling water like hand washing, breastfeeding is also really important because mothers use dirty water with milk powder. we can really make a big dent in reducing the number of children who die through simple intervention he is. >> health workers are trying to
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deliver the message hoping with the potential of a cheap vaccine, children in these areas won't become another statistic. al jazeera, new delhi. >> time to catch up on sports. >> arsenal manager credit sides proposals from the english football association to increase the number of homegrown players in premier league squads from eight to 12. next year marks 50 years since england last won the world cup. after their first round exit, in brazil the standard of english players is trying to be increased. >> i'm happy and would like to contribute to the quality of the english national team, but you have two questions that you can raise before that. what is the heart of the problem. first overall between 66 and 96 in england. it didn't improve too much the
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performances of the national team. >> one of the stages built for the world cup in brazil is already being sold, its owners are facing severe financial problems. brazilian engineering company is selling the arena. a corruption scandal involving the oil company pet pro brass undercut their access to financing. they're also trying to sell their 50% stake in salvador's fontaine over. >> there's better news for one of brazil's biggest clubs corinthian's had a big win peru striker scored a hat trick in a 4-0 victory. the corinthians continue their perfect start winning four games after four in south america's football top club competition. >> tennis in third seat andy murray booked his place in the semifinals at the miami masters. the before it got off to a shaky
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start, losing the first set 3-6. he fought back in the second to take it 6-4 and left the match. murray cruised through the decider 6-1 to seal the win. he'll face thomas burdic in the last four. >> my returning the serve extremely well on the back foot from the, you know, when i was return the first set i was able to dictate points. when he was hitting his first serve and then on the second and then on my first serve, as well. when you're able to sort of control 75% of the points, it makes a huge difference, and that's the most pleasing part for me. >> no such problems for burdic in his final. the eight seed won in straight sets 6-3 6-4. people fails murray since
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winning australia's open semifinal. >> we're going to start from zero, which is good. i'm really looking forward to that match. it's always a great challenge to play a semifinal over the big event and playing against a player like andy. yeah i need to raise my game again, bring something more, bring something else and try to do better and i did. >> in the women's draw, serena williams won her 700th career match to reach the semifinals in miami, winning in straight sets. next up is indian world champion. the romanian beat sloan stevens 6-1, 7 faux five in her quarter final. >> >> brooklyn secured a fifth win
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in a row by defeating the knicks. brook lopez net the 18 of his own. this wasn't an easy win. the knicks push in my the end could have won it with a last gap three brooklyn hanging on, final score 100-98. >> the nba is set to have its first playoff indian or in, signing a contract with the kings. the move follows impressive performances in the developmental league. >> former world number one kevin peterson will not be recalled to the england team. alistair cook leads england's cricketers. peterson is not part of the touring party and hasn't played an international match since january last year.
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>> kevin isn't on the radar so, you know, i can only say it to many times he can't be in mind or focus at all that's my decision. i've got enough decisions to make. >> i have to show you some amazing pictures from the horse racing track. look away, though, if you're squeamish. riding in the u.k., amateur rider louis ferguson lost control of his horse. look at that! oh that looks painful. don't worry the teenage jockey didn't suffer injury. he might want to get a bit more practice in before he saddles up again. >> wow. >> thank you so much, richard for that. that was of course on al jazeera. we've got plenty more news coming up in just a few minutes. we'll have the latest out of kenya, of course. do stay with us, we are back in
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