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>> don't try this at home. >> "techknow" - where technology meets humanity. monday, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> part of al jazeera america's >> special month long evironmental focus fragile planet >> kenya gives the united nations only three months to move the world's biggest refugee camps over the board to sow mall with a. >> you're watching live from london. in the next 30 minutes cuba's president apologizes to u.s. president barack obama as they get ready to hold historic talks. in panama.
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local armed groups battle houthi rebels across southern yemen bolstered by the saudi-led airstrikes. >> kenya has told the united nations it has to move the world's biggest refugee camp over the border to sow ma i somalia, and it has been given three months. it has accused sal shah babb of hiding out in the rafael camp and the decision to say get out follows a decision on attack on an university that killed 148 people.
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william ruto said, they have asked them to relocate the refugees in three months, to which we shall row locate them ourselves. let's go live to garrissa. they say that the united nations is absolutely shellshocked by this announcement, but do they believe it's something that we believe they will carry out or is this just an identify idle threat? >> well, david, it is the first time that kenya has said it's going to do the action of relocating the refugees into somalia in the calls of kenyan
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leaders also at the local level here in the region, which has been facing the brunt of the insecurities that is currently going on in kenya. if they are not moved kenya will do it themselves, although u.n. officials who spoke said it will be impossible to close the camps within that time frame. >> what evidence is there or at least what evidence has the kenyan authorities provided al-shabab is hiding fighters within the camp or getting recruits from there?
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>> well, no, other than comments comments, beliefs that the camps are believed to be a hide out for people causing insecurity for the country and a place where al-shabab trains it's young men there. there is absolutely no prove the government has brought. what we know is that the border between kenya and somalia is very poor. they are 800 kilometers away from the border, and this is one of the reasons why there are suspicion that is the camps are aware-- >> tell me if i misread this or whether or not this is an urban myth or country side myth in this case. but kenya is building a wall the
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entire length that have border. >> the wall's construction has already begun. and yes it is one that many feel that is going to stop the flow of people who want to come to cause harm in kenya. but many believe that it's not going to be anything as long as the corruption within the police forces continues and the police force continue to receive bribes from people who want to cross the border, and as long as this war is not manned properly, both airlinely with helicopters as well as soldiers on the ground. then it's going to be an exercise in futility. >> thank you. mohammed in northern yes and
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no. >> ground fighting between armed factions still battling a lot of country. targeting the number of houthi gathers, and military sites. among these the military camp which is under the control of the republican guards loyal to the former president ali abdullah saleh's son. houthi rebels retaliateing as well as those loyal to saleh against those who are loyal to the current president in aden here. they say they have captured to iranian military officers, who were advising houthi rebels. the local armed group.
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supplies have been delivered to sanaa. >> now the saudi city on the border with yemen okay, just tell us an idea, give us an idea of your location, and how it fits in to the battle of the airstrikes going in presumably pretty close to you at some point, and maybe people trying to get back towards where you are. >> yes that's right. where i am now is 100 kilometers away from the actual border. actually this is the closest interesting city or the closest city in the very sense of the words to the border with yemen. that makes this place very
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strategic, very important we have seen movement of people. we've seen movement of officials coming and going. however, the aircraft striking yemen do not go from this place. they do not actually move from this place. they have other bases other military bases from which they take off. here also, we can say that the situation is normally the city, however, people who go to the border people who visit those areas in the last few days tell us that traffic between yemen and saudi arabia seems to be normal under border crossings. there have been reports of some infiltrations along the border. that means people who cross without legal paperwork. aside from this, the situation is normal. however, today in his briefing the coalition spokesman brigadier general said that the
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some clashes actually happened today between the houthi fighters and the border guards in the area in the extreme south of saudi arabia. they said that the movement of the houthies have been noticed and greasing their moments in that areain--movements in that area and clashes there. but there is no decision to make ground-to-ground offensive and the situation-- >> let me jump in. let me jump if. i want to ask you about something that i read out in the news before i came to talk to you. suggesting that two iranian military officials have been captureed inside yemen which would be stunning if it were true. it would perhaps affect the course of this conflict. what do you know about what has been claimed and what the reality might be?
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is. >> yes, they have claimed that they have captured those two iranian officials and that they're actually part of the revolutionary guard. the iranian revolutionary guard. the spokesman of the coalition has been asked this question during the press conference just an hour ago. he said he does not have--as a coalition they don't have specific information go "b" their arrest, but they have enough proof and evidence that iranians are there in yemen training the houthies and helping in that fight. but let me add that our own al jazeera sources in aden have confirmed that those two iranian officials have been captured, and that they are in the hands of those committees. >> well, thank you. on the saudi-yemen border. cuba's president raul castro
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meeting with u.s. president barack obama saying that relations between u.s. and cuba is not obama's fault. obama said that he's ready to remove cuba from the terrorism list of sponsors j in my opinion president obama is an honest man. he is a humble man and i think his way of being is in keeping with this humble origins. >> i become impassioned,, i can't help it. i apologize to president obama who has no responsibility for these events that took place. >> there were ten presidents before him who were president when these events happened. >> let us go to our diplomatic editor james bays, who has been following events in panama city. if barack obama had wanted
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somebody to support him the difficult political convention, he couldn't have asked for a bigger fan that raul castro, could he? >> absolutely, david. remember that this process of when u.s. and cube only started in december four months ago. and those words that you heard there from the cuban president would have been unthinkable at any point before december, any point for the last 50 years. those words of endorsement of an u.s. president. truly historic words ahead of what we expect to be a truly historic meeting coming up in the next couple of hours we believe. what we're lady to believe in the white house is that there will be a meeting a meeting of substance between the two leaders. that's not happened since fidel castro's brother raul took over.
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it's worth pointing out among other things that raul castro spoke in that speech, that president obama was going to lift that designation that cubans have wanted to be lifted for so long, that cuba is a states sponsor of terrorism. the only countries that have that designation four of them, and cuba is one of them. and it looks like in listening to president castro, that is imminently going to be lifted. that itself is another historic development. >> when the two men meet, we'll know they're on better terms of where they have. did barack obama himself signal anything? because he spoke just before rale castro at the same meeting. what is the tone of what he had to say? >> very positive tone, as you would expect, david. he said that this would not just help cuba and the u.s. it would help the entire region. he made it clear that the cold
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war was long over, and he said that he didn't want to fight the battles that were battles that came from before, who was even born. of course there are attorney issues, which is the idea that they'll open again embassyies, an embassy in the u.s. and havana and in washington, d.c. among those duff issues, for example and also if there is going to be a cuban emboss sue embassy how are they going to get money. and thisnot rest just just with president obama but with congress. >> james bays in panama city. still to come on al jazeera.
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the world's biggest refugee camp out of kenya. >> saudi-led airstrikes of military installations. and president castro if defense of u.s. president barack obama calling him an honest man. the leaders shook hands earlier. >> bangladesh has executed a convicted war criminal and. he was found guilty of overseeing a massacre during the country's war of independence in 1971. he lost his final legal appeal on monday and refused to plead for clemency from the president.
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he was the second person executed for war crimes that was set up four years ago. let's get up-to-date live for us in bangladesh's capital daka. set up 40 years after the civil war ended. and many say that it's all politically motivated. >> yes, it's been a long time, but this has been one of the main elections in 2018 for this government. now this has been a major player east a dozen people have been convicted. he was fault guilty and he was given the death sentence.
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a lot of people would say that there are those who have been effected by the process. and many are known to have collaborated with the pakistan army and this process should have taken place a long time ago. they're happy to see that people have been convicted. he was executed on december 2014 this was the second one who has been executed. >> wasn't there talk about the germ stake, if he was executed, what kind of support will there be for that? >> well, it's partially marginalized the activists are not able to protest because the police in the security force have been very heavy handed with them in some cases using rubber bullets, tear gas and complaints
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ever human rights violation. they say that this is politically motivated. they're not happy with this. because there has been threats against defense council and other irregularities. in general it's a politically divided issue although most people say that the car tame should take place but it's been politically used by the government at this point. >> thank you live for us in bangladeshs bangladesh, and apologize for referring it as a civil war when it was a war of independence. in nigeria elections have been alcoholly watched to see if president elect but but buhari's party can celebrate victory.
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the governors are the most influential. some say that historically voted pdp could shift to the apc and gain states of the battleground. in the southwest nigeria capital 21 million people there contributes up to a third of semi year i can't's gdp. while move down the coast to the delta there the richest oil-produceing region in the country our course important dent yvonne ndege. >> we understand that there is
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violence and some election irregularities are taking place in quite a number of polling areas and polling stations. we're also told in some areas armed men have shown up and snatched ballot boxes ballot papers and electoral materials. it has caused fear and tension in this close contest. there is heavy presence of security personnel however in some areas things are going relatively well and peacefully like where i am. people hear have been accredited to take part in the election. they're just awaiting to cast their ballots. there is, like i say, fare about insecurity. a curfew has been put in place and there is a restriction on vehicle movements.
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>> tens of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting. having signed a treaty, leaving many of the internally displaced people feel they may never go back. >> she's been washing her family's clothes the same way for the past 24 years. sharing a stem pipe with the neighbors on a settlement for people displaced by conflict. between georgia and nearby south ossetia. people remember it like it was yesterday. >> the 27th of march, 1991 i thought after some period i would return, but it was false hope. so much time has passed, and we're still here. >> her son believes they have more than enough time to turn their lives around, but he's out of work, and the house is fulling apart.
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>> three governments have changed but nothing has been done here. >> the family are among 250,000 internally displaced people i idps. some two-thirds of them are still without decent housing. the georgian government is trying to provide new homes. this accommodation built for the european youth olympics this summer will later become apartments for dips. georgia's idps now make up 7% of the population. the numbers keep on rising as families have more children. so they're going to have to build a lot more hopes like this but also provide opportunities, jobs, in a country already crippled by high unemployment. >> officials say they need to find $1 billion but can no longer rely on international
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aid. >> the problems are much more serious now. and because we understand they need support. >> looking over south ossetia. he shows his son the area where he should have been born. now it's out of reach in russian-controlled territory. >> i do not think returning there is possible. at least while i am alive. >> no going back to the way things were, and hope that his son might have a different future. al jazeera tbilisi. >> the irish government stands accused of betraying hundreds of women who survived a horrific child care procedure during childbirth. here are reports from dublin.
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>> reporter: this is what a phisiotomy looks like. using a saw to to allow women to give birth. it has left many women incontinent and unable to walk. >> now in whose interest has this scheme been constructed. after all any woman who accepts compensation signs away her right to take action against anyone in the state that looks a bit like protecting the abusers. >> it's extremely difficult to understand why women in their
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70s and 80s who have been abused that's been accepted by a retired judge and they have been offered money should in addition be expected to indemocrat indemnify the very people who abused them and the institutions that over stood that abuse. >> maureen clark has been given an office to assess what monetary value to put on the suffering. several lawyers for the women who wouldn't go on the camera said that some victims may be inventing symptoms to claim money. >> she didn't believe most of the women. when you have women talking in front of you talking about sexual dysfunction and how they couldn't bond to their children it's desperate. one woman said she was story she ever made a claim. >> evident about their physical status is unacceptable. she throws back the claims saying she wants proof. >> the department of health said
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that judge clark had not raised the issue of women making false claims and she said she could not speak to us about the claim. true enough all these operations happened in the 20th century, but many people believe that if ireland is to move forward there should an reckoning, and people should be held accountable and so far two-thirds of the survivors have received the bear minimum. >> 5,000 euros for women who spend a lifetime, decades of pain agony and and it's quite shocking. >> the irish church, state and medical professions have protected themselves were even having to explain why hundreds of women have this done to them in childbirth, and the victims themselves are the ones being forced to offer that protection. moving into the final chapters in their lives that can hardly feel like justice. lawrence lee al jazeera, dublin dublin. >> examining cctv footage
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