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as president and commander in chief, i take full responsibility. >> president obama reveals to hostages have been killed in a u.s. operation a state of emergency is declared as a volcano sends ash 20-kilometers into the sky.
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with the sport as the french team for doping we will hear from the champion as he defends his kenyan teammates of the drug allegations. >> european leaders are holding an merge summit on the growing refugee crisis in the mediterranean sea more than 1,000 people have arrived at the port in the past 24 hours. under the discussion, doubling the cash and equipment available to two e.u. border patrol missions in the mediterranean, accomplishing a military and mission. and resettling in other e.u. states. lawrence lee reports. >> europe's leaders stand accused of putting refugees in
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coffin so the coffin has become the mo tiff for the protests. here they were, white europeans and black africans alike, right outside the european council meeting. outraged that people have been left to die in the sea so close to rich countries. >> this should give refuge to all of them, families with children included. many of these people complain of a lack of basic rights where they have managed to resettle the crisis in the mediterranean has brought all of these to a head. >> easy of course to see this process as being about anger and injustice but there's something else here as well, and it is this, these campaigners say in the tragedies in the mediterranean opportunity, to try to force europe's leaders to change their policies. who was talk of attacking smugglers and their boats behind a narrative from the rescue.
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the best way to stop people drowning was to stop them getting on the boats in the first place. saving the lives of independent people, is of course, the number one priority for us. >> but saving lives is not only about rescuing people at sea, it's about fighting smugglers and preventing migration floats. it is important to change the policies to make more humane, to stop criminal idessing these communities. we are seeing how they are being criminalized through racial profiling chasing undocumented my grants. all of these policies need to be addressed and approach is just wrong all together.
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europes leaders say they have to stop this, and yet keep people that they describe as european council real highn't grays out where that e u. meets has been happening what have been hearing about the outcome. >> yes there's a news conference that's going to be held of the european council but there's. a sufficient amount of briefing that has already happened for us to get a sense of where they are heading. i think among the headlines they will want to put out potentially a 300% increase in funding for front ex-that's the border agency at sea. whose aim is to try to keep migrants out which has been overwhelmed since the scheme by the italians was folded. separately to that, there are
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countries like the u.k. and ireland, which are saying that they want to offer ships and helicopter in the case of the u.k. which would do a tandem search and rescue team. which they say can take on several hundred people, and helicopters with radar that can scour the mediterranean to pick people up, now that they say will be run under the italians side by side. so -- and probably the different part of the sea so there's all that kind of thing, and the it frommish say it can be in the area within a week from now. so they say that give as sense of their urgency remember both of these things don't stop for immigration, sending most of them back on the issue of military campaigns against smugglerssmugglers the idea who would that be under?
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probably the united nations, so that would have to go to mork, so there's to actual time line on that and the biggest question of all how many refugees to they want to look after and who looks after them, well, countries like the u.k. say none, thanks we are happy with our development program don't try to make these countries more livable, other countries like swede and germany are saying it is not enough, other countries need to do more, but there's no big commitment on that at all. >> thank you very much indeed, we will return to you when that news conference happens. a former italian minister who was in office. in 2011, he is also been the european commissioner for justice freedom and security, thank you for your time and for joining us here, i just want to return to that idea of a military option for thatting the sites used by people, how would that work? logistically and politically.
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>> well it is a very important initiative, i am happy that apparently there has. political mandate to get u.n. mandate to horde capturing and destroying the boats that are used by traffickers in the ports of libya. it is necessary to get a u.n. mandate, because otherwise that kind of user force could be the act of war. which is not possible. otherwise, it would be an action of international police. and that is acceptable that can work, provided that pooch are ready to put their assets particularly drones and armed drones to capture and destroy particularly in the port and
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other ports of libya. >> all right though, one of the groups controlling the coastal capitol has said it will confront any union said to attack sites used by people so there's already their concern just -- is the situation completely kay t yoic you were a foreign minister at the type, given the state of the country now and what is happening do you think you should have done more to plan for the after math of the ousting of cad daffy? >> well, i think -- in 2011 when we decided nato arab league, united nations europe, to go ahead against the regime to -- because there were massive atrocities. committed against civilians.
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a training mission, this is the mistake not acting against the regime, against which for the first time in the history of, arab league and nato were acting together. now today i know, what the government says defined the government of tripoli said, yesterday that they wouldn't accept unilateral action, and there is why i spoke about the u.n. mandate to transform the action or act of war in initiative. that want to kill human beings and make them. >> thank you indeed.
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>> and giovanny died during the operation near the border along with an al quaida leader, president obama says he takes function responsibility. based on the bell jens we had obtained at the time, including hundreds of hours of surveillance we believed this was an al quaida com pound that no civilians were present, and that capturing these terrorists was not possible. and we do believe that the operation did take out dangerous members of al quaida. what we did not know, tragically is that al quaida was heating in this same compound. >> more on how the mission will be viewed in pakistan.
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>> for the past several years the u.s. drones have been actively targeting compounds on the pakistani side of the border as well as the side of the border. even though there has been hundreds of civilian casualties as stated by the investigative journalism, amnesty international and the u.n. and condemnation from pakistan that there is invariably civilian casualties as well. the earn manies have never apologized for the drone strikes, however, it is interesting to see that the u.s. is now apologizing the american president taking responsibility for an operation that went terribly i don't think pack in january. and admitting that at least two of the hostages including an american and an italian, were killed in that particular vehicle, by the u.s., so indeed there will be question marks as to whether there should be an apology for the hundreds of civilians also killed in pakistan tribal
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area, along the border. >> in washington d.c., she joins us live now, it is unusual that the president should recognize much less apologize for a drone killing what do we know about the operations. >> well, the white house briefing is happening right now, lauren, we do know that of course there were those two strikes we mentioned and that two aid workers warren weinstein, and italian they were killed they have been held hostage the last several years by al quaida, the president came out and apologized for those as commander in the chief but he didn't even mention the other two americans. because they believe they are members of al quaida. they just acknowledged that the president did actually order these strikes. the president only gets involve when they believe civilians can there.
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there were civilians there that the aid workers were there or an americans there. >> how is it likely to impact on the drone program. >> that the president came out and he was revamping the drone program, that he was going to set the highest standard, with almost near certainly that no civilians will be target sod we have been speaking to groups behind the scenes and they say this called into question the entire program if those are follows and they say they were, then obviously it is not enough, because civilians were actually killed in this attack. now the white house says lit review and it could have an impact depending on what they find but they say we should have the resulted shortly. >> thank you very much indeed for that live update there thank you. >> still ahead on the program. lacking ex-pertize. comes under attack by his
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former advisor. chaos in libya, rival governments try to find a solution. as clashing continue on the ground. as he bids up to his bill fight in vegas some bad news, details coming up in the sport. >> the rebels are dend maaing a complete halt to the raids. nearly 2.5000 air missions have been carried out during the month long campaign. the saudis say they 95% of the air defenses have been destroyed. and the death toll over the past month is now topped 1,000. with more than 4,300 people injured. karl johnston reports. >> before the war adan was a
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busy city, now tents rumble through the streets. their support the campaign to restore him to power. we urge you to continue your operation, because it is what kicked out the houthis and we in the south we salute you. >> . >> they were hit again. after almost a month of bombing most people want the war to end. we hope for things in the conflict to calm down, and for
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them to become safe. and for the militants to lead adan and go back to the area. >> the capitol has been badly damages. this is a city with a world heritage lists historic center but outside ode sen gnaw cars have been hit. people search for their things. what is happening here is the ehumanitarian crisis these homed that have been destroyed and the victims as a result of what the politicians have done to yemen. >> long lines have forms for food a political solution to the conflict seem as long way off saul yeah arabia says it has ended the first phase of operation storm.
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every day is a struck and there's no clear sign that it is about to end the war in yemen. al jazeera. >> government air strikes in syria have killed 32 people, ard cooing to activists the syrian observatory for human rights says the biggest loss of life happened when a hospital was hit. these pictures appear to show the aftermath on the outskits of the capitol. >> that plan never got off the ground in an exclusive interview, former chief political affairs advisor says the plan fails because he was not equipped for his role. james bays explained. >> no one doubts that stefan has one of the toughest jobs jobs in global diplomacy. he is the u.n. special envoy charged with trying to bring peace to syria a place that
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seen more bloodshed than anywhere else in the last few years. until recently, he was employed as the principle advisor, he has decided to spook out expressing kits satisfaction with the way he has been running the mission. >> i think over time it became clear that we were enganged in what even under the best of circumstances and wanted to know more than a rather meaningless side show that was going in where. >> when you call a cease fire -- >> he is politically critical of the way he announced his plan for a cease fire or freeze in aleppo, he briefed the press after informing the security council in a closed session. >> it should be something that freeze it is conflict in the area. >> but it has claimed this point he hadn't properly floated the idea with the government or the opposition. >> the total absence of prep
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pa story work, and that pretty much guaranteed that you weren't going to get a freeze, you will get frostbite. >> his predecessors were former secretary and veteran diplomate. in my experience, and trying to deal with these issues he was very much out of his depth. he simply wasn't up to the task, and i don't mean this as a personal criticism ever as an observation that he doesn't have the right background, and expertise. >> and he makes this charge. >> there was a very serious issue of to put it bluntly chronisim the dojo personnel decisions are those with whom he felt a particularly close professional connection, irrespective of the fact that
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they were also completely out of their depth and simply were not equips to deal with these issues were given almost unlimited responsibilities when he last briefed the security council he told them about the eminent start of his aleppo freeze plan. now that plan is dead, and he is going to brief them about a new initiative a series of talks, but given the scathing criticism of him some may be asking whether he is the right person to lead a new process. james bays al jazeera. >> the spokesman for ban ki-moon, he says the u.n. has great confidence in it's syrian envoy. and refutes the claim that no preparations were made for the plans cease fire. i think he started presenting this idea of a freeze to the security council and then to
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the press but prior to damascu had extensive with the government he and his team also had discussions with various opposition groups and i think he announced it because he saw a willingness on the part of the government to perhaps move forward on the freeze, so i think the fact to say there was no prep work i think is a miss characterization of the situation. >> the three day truce has collapsed in libya after fighting broke out against between factions lo ill to the governments. talks between the two parties are set to start in morocco. >> a few thousand people used to live here, now the area west of tripoli is deserted. it has become a military zone with on going fighting with, toes to the government, and tribal forces loyal to ben gad and i base general.
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a truce was announced to allow people to return to their homes a tense calm remain in p some areas although it looks like the fighting is far from over. it was calm today and then our fighters were ambushed. on the political front u.n. sponsors talked between the rival parliaments are due to start later on thursday. there is a renewed focus on a resolution follows reports of new armed groups the country has been pushed deeper into chaos, since two rival governments emerged in june last year. the legally formed government is now led by acting prime minister after his predecessor was sacked earlier this month. the second government is based in that look, is headed by prime minister. the u.n. envoy to the country said the solution is
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difficult, but not impossible. >> we have made important progress in the last days i think the parties are now getting closer to an agreement, of course, the remaining part is doing to be difficult, but not impossible. >> it is not only isil affiliates and warring factions that threaten libya. traffic on the market on the coast where migrants and refugees pay thousands of dollars for a rickty group across europe. with multiple issues to confront the ability is a priority for the country. al jazeera. >> nigerian soldiers are reported to have recreted from the last strong hold. they fall back from the forest over worries that the area has been bobby traps. the forest is around 100-kilometers from the village, where more than 200 school girls were kidnap add year ago. intelligence fishes thought the girls were being held
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there, but have failed to find them. six people have been killed and thousands of others have been left homeless, follow as number of attacks. charles stratford reports. >> they marched in solidarity, following in south africans alike. a unified front in a country that was once proud of it's achievements in fighting racial hatred. >> thousands of people cogging together today in this march against the message is clear no to attacks against foreigners in south africa. >> civil society groups school children religious leaders trade unions and foreign workers joined the march.
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we can't continue, we have to be united moving forward. >> we all bleed on the inside, at the end of the day doesn't matter where you come from, we are all just human and trying to get through this together. >> hundreds of foreigners have left the country in fears since the attack began last month, resentment among some locals that foreigners are taking their jobs. the attacks have brought shame to this nation one that struggled against ratism for so long. >> we want to put an approach, it is not that all south african -- that's why we are mobilizing the society let us come together, let us march together. >> the government is launched a media campaign against it has set off a special committee, it is deployed the army, toward what it describes as hot spots.
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woe must continue to work together so we never again have a situation like this in 2008 more than 60 people were killed in another wave of violence the government said then as now the policy and unemployment were among the root causes. those problems still exist today. and voices calling for change are growing louder, al jazeera, johannesburg. >> still to come, from top general to disgraced criminal, the latest on the sentencing of former c.i.a. director david patraeus for leaking secret military information. police are accused of carrying out mass killing of vigilantes. and in sport why qatar winter world cup is still getting a chilly reception in more ways than one. just because i'm away from
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european leaders have held a minute of silence for boat victims in the mediterranean. they talked about doubling resources for e.u. border patrol missions and finding ways to destroy the traffickers boats before pien't grays board them. u.s. president has offered his condolences for the deaths of an italian hostage that were killed during drone strikes. died during the operation near the border along with an al quaida leader. the rebel group is demanding a complete call to the raids. returning to our top story nearly all the migrants that make the treacherous journey lead from libya. reports now from the libyan city and the people risking everything in search of a better life.
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they escaped war and poverty traveled for weeks sometimes month to reach libya. the gate way to life in europe. he nearly made it and then the boat he was sailing on was intercepted by the libyan coast guards. it was on the same day another one carrying 400 migrants capsized. >> and i come here, i don't know this place. we don't understand. they help us. >> mohamed was on that same journey, he escaped sierra leone after both his parents died of ebola last year. >> we are everything anybody here for us. that's why this -- we don't
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have any help. >> now they are in a detention center about 1,000 people are held here, the building used to be a school, the classrooms are now crammed. they come mainly from sub say hair ran countries put some from as far as bangladesh. >> there's only one toilet available for everyone here, men and women together. living conditions are extremely difficult. authorities do acknowledge that but they say they are doing as best as they can to cope with the situation and they do fooer in the coming months things could get worse. >> with the on set of summer, many more migrants are expected to reach the coast everyone here heard about the ship wrecks that recently cost the lives of hundreds. still, it is a risk they are prepares to take. >> yes, it is dangerous but there's no work in my country that's why i will take that risk maybely die, i am scared but i have no other option, i
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have not spoke ton my mother in months she doesn't know if i am alive or dead, but i have to work, any some money, and then i can see her again it will take four or five years it isdy pair that made them three so far from home now despite the risks to europe remains the only hope for a safer future al jazeera. >> a former c.i.a. director is due to be sentenced in the u.s. for leaking highly classified military information he freed to plea guilty in exchange for more lean yens punishment. more from washington, d.c. >> when he was unanimously confirmed as the director of the c.i.a., david patraeus was applauded for his pedigree as a top general in iraq and afghanistan. >> i don't believe i have
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encounter as military leader or civilian leader for that matter with the combination of charisma and intellect that general patraeus possesses. but fast forward and the most respected general was forced to resign. he was accused of sharing top secret documents with his misstress prod well has been writing a biographer, and the two became aren't maicly involved when she felt threatened she began sending anonymous harassing emails when the fbi unearthed her as the source of the emails they also discovered evidence of the affair with the general. patraeus is accused of sharing eight of his personal black books recording his time in afghanistan, the highly confidential material, is said to include the identity ofs covert intelligence officers
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war strategy and even notes from high level meetings. he will plead guilty to unauthorized removal of classified materials the charge carries up to a year in prison, but unlikely he will do any jail time, this amist says he longs. >> longs to a cast which is extremely powerful, protected by powerful interests essentially. patraeus certainly ingratiated himself with the people who are not just supporting america's wars abroad. >> but also with those in positions of power that's why unlike edward snowden for exposing the mass program in the u.s., or chelsea manning jailed for leaking diplomatic cables patraeus is expected to receive just two years probation.
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al jazeera washington. >> federal police have been accused of killing 16 vigilante whose are fighting a powerful drug gang. if true, lit be the third time in the past year that security forces have been involved in mass killings. killed in the cross fire, it is unclear what this cell phone video really shows but according to an investigation the police opened fire on members of vigilante groups on january 6th, this contradicts the government's story that nine people died in friendly fire. we have come to this safe house to meet the men that say they were attacked that day. >> the police were hooded and aims their rifles at us, we raised our hands and said don't shoot and they started
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shooting. >> he said the army was there too, one of the leaders of this group known as the viagras they called themselves self-defense forces authorities say they are part of a drug gang. and it's hard to tell where one's allegiances lie. most of the men were allegedly in town that day. >> . >> they were kneeing them in the knees and shooting them. >> the last time we met this group, was fearly a year ago when they were working with state police to bring down the most wanted men now he feels he can't even go to town. this woman says she witnessed the shooting that arrived on her doorstep that day she asked to remain anonymous. >> they only have sticks and rocks to defend themselves they seemed desperate and ran off.
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police and federal authorities refuse to speak to us about the report, the present security czar at the time, now in a new post, he main tapes that killings were result of cross fire. >> check points manned by federal police are found all across the state because it is still a very violent place? the past they used to coordinate their efforts by the vigilantes say we have been speaking to say they will never trust the police again. >> we show the security footage from the scene of the violence. he says his men are running and they never fired. some of what happened on january 6th was caught on cameras, but the truth from that day may never fully come to light al jazeera mexico. >> police in guinea have fired tear gas at opposition supporters. and the protestors are chalk for new local elections rifle factions have a long standing deal that local elections will
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be held prior to this poll, the demonstrators fear that the delay the rivals will gain more influence in organizing their presidential campaigns. >> everyone here has escaped the fighting and the surrounding areas. he was cleared and criticized their government. >> he had eight children, including a boy with leukemia. he is unloam id and poor. he said he felt humiliated after sleeping two fights in the open waiting for permission from the government to let his family in. they demanded a sponsor i said i have no one.
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i asked them to give me my papers and let me die in dignity back home. >> he and his family were allowed in after someone they don't know sponsored them. his wife says they had to. now they urge the government to do something so they can return home. >> more than 113,000 people have left am bar since april 8th. the government has september the enforcements to clear of isil fighters. that battle may continue for a while. >> the u.n. t says it is doing what it can to help. >> i think what was surprising is how quickly the people left am bar. in particular, left are maddie what with saw was within a period of a couple of days more than 100,000 people left town, they took what they could and ran.
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the world food program has distributed food to 80,000 people. we have distributed kits, emergency kits that contain a little bit of food and buckets and the things you feed when you are running. >> they are all terrified people, they are lucky to have found shelter. there are 106 families living in the this camp. conditions are quite tough and many people here feel they have an uncommon future in other effort pas of baghdad conditions are not much better for the displaced. mosques are packed and people are almost squeezed in. al jazeera, baghdad. >> despite it's rich oil fields the economy in northern iraq is struggling to cope against the on going battle against the levant. the kurdish government has been trying to convince oil firms to help invest and develop the region. >> with the governor in town,
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exhibitors at the oil and gas fair punt their best feet forward, it is a chance to network and take stock of what has been a rocky few months there's the fight against isil plummets oil prices and an on going budget dispute between baghdad. but kurdish authorities want to make clear northern iraq and it's oil fields are open to business. >> there's development because the region for exporting the oil will be increasing. >> but in reality things aren't running quite so smoothly in desks they agreed to produce 550,000 barrels of oil a day in order to receive it's allotted share of the national budget from baghdad about $1 billion a month put the government is talc short of it's promises. >> they say it is not yet meeting it's quota for the problems and because of
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pipeline problems on the side. critics have suggested that perhaps the region wants to keep the oil but that's being rejected. >> compounding matters money is coming only -- the deputy head of the peshmerga says it is having an effect on the fighters on the front line. >> because of the economic crisis in the region, especially pause of the issue of oil. >> there are two or three months we haven't received the money. >> international oil companies are awaiting for their money too, the kurdish regional government owes the piggest investor more than $230 million in export payments. age itselfs say investors won't hang around forever. >> they have to pay them, for their research and when they get the return, and they sell the oil, that i will be part of it, but if things are going
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the same way, and the government cannot provide the payments for these international companies they won't be able to proceed any more. >> kurdish authorities they say will have to face the music, and prove to investors it is safe to keep digging in northern iraq. al jazeera. the report on human rights suggests political opposition is being muzzled. says opposition politicians have been jailed and peaceful antigovernment protestors have been attacked. amnesty is urging end yeah to lead with the identity manile east. a farmer taking part in the protests has hanged himself. the rally was staged by opponents of a proposed land law, they say it is in the interest of big business and not farmers. the prime minister is not doing enough to help rural communities. >> this is the body. a farmer from the northwestern
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state. he hanged himself at a political rally that was meant to highlight formers rights. a man commits suicide when he finds all avenues of his life are closed, nobody heard his misery. >> his life in front of hundreds of people in the indian capitol. so the workers had to do what they are not supposed to, they scale immediately and took the man down. >> he has become the latest casualty there are reportedly as many as seven farmer suicides every day. in the state alone, 601 farmers have taken their lives. many of the deaths have been
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in the cotton belt, follows crop damage by unseasonal rains. opposition politician blame the indian government for failing to protect farmers interests. they say is shift is purkeing low income farmers to the brink. >> what has happened within a year, the farmers have lost fair? the party. the farmers feel that the government is not profarmers the government is anti-farmers. >> but they say there is no direct link between government policies and the suicides. they say people have taken their lyes after destruction to their cops caused by severe weather, many farmers accuse poll sixes of pointer soing other issues like agriculture and land, and whether it is losing their prospects or the prospect of losing their land, quite literally it is a matter of life and death.
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still the come after the break, the latest on the value cano that has caused a state of emergency to be declared. and france loses it's plate in next year's olympic games we will tell you why in sport.
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>> one of chili's most dangerous volcanos has erupted for a second time in a day concern is growing as ash spreads across the region. alexius brian reports. >> a reminder of the earth's
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fury. as the volcano roars into life sending ash and smoke into the sky. this time lapse video capturing the moment it erupted for the first time in 43 years. chili has issued a red alerted, closing local schools and airports and orders anyone near picture to leave quickly. we are going to increase the evacuation zone from ten-kilometers to 20, and we are of course aing anyone nearby to evacuate the area and take all precaution measures for safety. >> that sent locals scrambling and as the clouds drew so did the pet troll pumps. >> it was impressive to see an
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enormous mushroom cloud with the immense force and to see the ash, at that point there was a lot of panic a lot of chaos, traffic jams people going to super markets everyone looking for water. >> it is considering one of the most dangerous of the vol cane mows and why there's been no lava yet. they are watching this closely. >> now for sport here is joe. >> well, france's team was tipped as one of the main medal contenders. but now they have been stripped of their place in rio for doping offense. tested positive for a banned sedative during last year's game. he is the highest ranked frenching rider at number 17 in the world. the body which governs the sport ruled that he hadn't cleared the drugged usage beforehand, and disqualified the entire team of five riders for the offense. canada will take france's
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place in rio. doping is also been a hot topic in athletics with kenyan distance runners. it's led to current champion having to defend himself and his countryman ahead of this sunday's race, six of the leading marathon runners have taken part in the london marathon. the questions over doping led to an angry exchange. where he up cysted they were not involved in doping. >> i think there's also been i think they are clean when it comes to the definition. >> he hopes of making his olympic boxing debut next year have been crushed. busy preparing for his fight against floyd mayweather wanted to compete for the philippines in rio.
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the international boxing associate said anyone that fought more than 20 bouts wouldn't be allowed to take part. he fights mayweather in nine days time, in what is believed to be his sixty-fourth professional fight football's european governing body say it will make sure that russian and ukrainian teams are kept apart for the semifinals. the dru takes place on friday. two teams are among the 18 still left in the competition with one round of matches to play. >> which kicks off in a few minutes time, they hold a 2-1 lead russia has been a tough place in the past that victory came at the same stage nine years ago when severe made it to the semifinals. well the two teams still fighting for a place in the
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semis, who have it all to play for against club, and dynamo kiev who drew 1-1 in the first leg. in the remaining match napoli led 4-1 going into the second leg in a few moments time. european politicians are discussing if they should ask fifa to restage the vote for hosting the 2022 world cup which is due to be held in qatar. qatar has already been cleared of any serious wrongdoing in a report. they are pushing ahead with preparations for the tournament, and details of their latest world cup stadium, richard park was at the launch. >> the new stadium design, another step for the organizers of the 2022 world cup and the first major one since it was confirms the tournament will take place in the winter months. >> i think you can say there's
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a sense of relief, when some things are end ping you just want closure. i think everyone is happy the date has been set it brings aceps of closure and i think it brings clarity for the future. >> 0,000 will still have cooling technology, and will host matches up to the quarter finals. construction is expected to start at the beginning of next year qatar 2022 saying they will continue to monitor the world fair at the construction workers involved. >> we have strict requirements for -- we have standards and we force the standards on our contractors. they need to abide by the standards. we carry out regular inspections to visit the labor camps, verifying periodically, that they continuously adhere to the requirements. while this is the fifth of
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eight stadiums say they will have for the world cup, it is not clear though how many they will have in total another thing is whether the cup will take place in qatar the year before the world cup itself. fifa has suggested it could take place in another country in the middle east. >> they don't want to disrupt the seasons of the leagues for more than one season, so it is understandable however, there is an understanding there will be an event replacing the cup of the same magnitude of larger. >> with seven years to ago there will still be many complex situations. they say they continue to work closely with all of their stake holders and so not marching to the beat of their antrum. al jazeera. doha. ramp fell nadal's preparations have taken another major plow with his second defeat in the
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space of five days. that call had hoped to bounce back after the semifinal defeat on saturday, but his fourth season continues as wement down in straight sets to 13 seed frab owe. it is nadal's second defeat, to the italian player this season he has two more tournaments in madrid and rome before the frenching open started on the twenty-fourth of may top seed savely made it through to the port finals. the red bull formula 1 team says they are worries about running out of engines this season. red bull have already used three, and team principal now estimated they may need nine to complete the season, that would lead to severe penalties including demotion on the starting grid. the driver has been demonstrated the red bull car but despite the hire spirits a major problems behind the
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scenes at the austrian owned team that won four title between 2010 and 2013. they have publicly threatened to withdraw if they don't improve the performance of it's engines. >> correcters are going well on the third day in the second test of the west indies. he looked in a strong position to make a long awaited but he was told for 76th is now almost two years since his last test time kirk put on 125 runs and another partnership has taken england just 50 runs behind western first inning total. >> and that is all the sport for now lauren. >> thank you very much indeed. see you again soon. that's it for this news hour, bye for now.
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