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is on charities to fill the void and depend on donations to field new york's hungry. hello, and this is the news hour live from london. coming up desperate rescue efforts in kathmandu. the number known to have died in saturday's earthquake mounts. there is the constant danger of after shocks. this one sent people running from their homes. two protesters shot dead as police break up demonstrations opposing a third term for the president.
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migrants who make it across mediterranean safe to italy, what happens next? this is the sports and chelsea edges closer to be crowned premiership champions, and real looks to rinaldo to reale in barcelona in the spanish title race. hello. it's almost midnight in nepal, and efforts are continuing to free those trapped by a major earthquake which struck near kathmandu on saturday night. throughout the day people were pulled alive from collapsed buildings. more than 2,400 are thought to have died. that number could rise as rescue workers manage to move into the more remote areas, and the fear and panic continues for many. aftershocks rattled not only nepal but surrounding countries. the large ersst was a 6.7 magnitude.
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foreign governments have begun sending supplies. this is aid from pakistan. india, china, israel and japan have also pledged support. rescuers trying to reach survivors on mt. everest face a huge challenge. 17 climbers were killed in the avalanche triggered by the quake. we have the latest. >> reporter: it's sunset and rescuers are working in the dark again. parts of kathmandu are without electricity, but even with just torches and bare hands, the first night brought some success. nepal is hoping the second night will be the same. for every life saved many more have been lost. here they're burning bodies in a mass cremation. this is a deeply religious country. some of the temples where people would normally seek solace during tragedy are in ruins.
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there have been at least 12 aftershocks. it's causing panic, and there's hardly any news from remote villages nationwide. >> the main difficulty with the districts and there's some informal information we receive and the district headquarters have been flattened, 80% damaged and 30% damaged and we find it difficult to get the detailed information from those areas. >> reporter: some more information is coming from mount everest, nepal's famous attraction. these are sherpa guides who made it through an avalanche triggered by the earthquake. some of their colleagues aren't coming back. >> translator: actually the tents flew everywhere. we don't know how many casualties there are. about 55 people were involved. >> reporter: because of everest and its rich history, nepal is a
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renowned tourist destination. many foreign nationals, the exact number is still unknown, would have been in the busiest spots on saturday afternoon when the quake struck. the grief felt here will reverberate globally. >> al jazeera's andrew simmons is outside the teaching hospital in the capital of kathmandu, and he joins us live now. andrew tell us what you've been seeing today. >> reporter: well the situation here is really critical. it has to be said. there are hundreds inside this hospital, the main cases are trauma head injuries in particular and right now as you can see behind these people most of them are walking wounded but some are simply waiting to get inside for treatment. it's so bad many people in this city prefer to be outside right
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now because they're worried about further earthquakes. here though they're outside simply because there is no room left in this hospital. the drug supplies are at a critical level, but i spoke to a doctor a short time ago and they say they're managing but they're short of water. there's enough food but they're short of water. of course, the power situation is diabolical entirely reliant on generators and with that shortage it's a critical situation. >> is any aid actually arriving yet, andrew? >> reporter: yes. i came through the international airport five six hours ago now, and a lot of planes are coming in. there's a real crisis going on there, though. it's a small airport, only one runway. the coordination is getting better, but it's very very hard
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to then move on the aid to such a vast area that's covered by this quake. we're talking something like 160 kilometers at least to the epicenter of this quake, which leveled whole areas. here in the capital, the damage is very extensive, especially to the four out of seven unesco historical sights. by no means is the city flattened. it has to be said that this whole range of concrete structures, many have feared they would collapse. these blocks of flats, which have been built to deal with the population explosion here of 2.5 million in the kathmandu valley. it's the old structures hit by the shallow quake. structures that date back to even the 3rd century, and these structures have been made up from handmade brick, no mortar
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or concrete between them with ancient timbers and came topping down. that's why we've had so many tourists killed and all sorts of tragedies with people trying to go through the rubble with their bare hands. very little equipment to aid them. no real heavy plant being involved in any numbers to try to retrieve the dead. those who are still alive, many have been recovered from the rubble an unknown number. the overall -- the number of the overall dead is continuing to rise and no one knows where that's going to stop. at this stage it's well beyond 2,400. if you look back to the last big quake here the really big one in 1934 that was a bigger quake, but 8,500 people were killed in that quake. i think the real challenge now
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for the emergency services the rescue services is to get out to these outlying areas, which will have to be by helicopter. roads are extremely bad. and then further down the road we'll get a better idea of just what the death toll is not only that just what the challenge is going to be to try and renew the infrastructure here because the power is down, the phone lines are down in many areas, and there are water supply problems also. >> andrew we have to remember this is a very poor country. there are many aid organizations already in nepal because of its situation. >> reporter: that's right. that's right. they're very active on the ground. there was better coordination. we spoke earlier to one of the doctors here. they're on 24-hour round the clock operation here. they're saying the coordination
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now is getting better on the ground between the emergency workers and the medics and those ngos going out to assist and to try to basically triage the situations in and around the areas where people have got injuries. also we have a number of international flights in from all over the world with search and rescue teams, sniffer dogs special equipment. they're already being deployed in a large number of areas. so coordination is getting better and you've got to remember, as you rightly point out, the level of poverty here is colossal. the level of resource to this source of operation is limited. and it has to be a question of time before it can really get into gear. but, of course, they're up against so many challenges not least of all the issue of power and the shortage of fuel for
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generators when you have one. then of course the weather as well. people are preferring to stay out in the open. so many just small groups large groups people assembling in large areas, campers sold off in a rapid way. people prefer to be out in the open than going back to their homes. this is a real fear. we're talking about tens of thousands of people who prefer to do that. now, of course we're getting quite heavy rain in the north, and that's a challenge to everyone as well. this is a colossal problem. when you think that this force of nature did what many acts of war wouldn't achieve nor would any act of terror for that matter. not only that the tallest mountain on earth was literally
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rocked by it and avalanches ensued. no one knows the full extent of injury and death there yet or indeed the level of damage. so this is an ongoing operation in every sense right now. the recovery of bodies and also the search for the live ging and trying to reassure a shattered nation that there is some future there is some hope. people are just walking around completely dazed from this earthquake. >> a truly desperate situation. andrew simmons reporting live there from that hospital in kathmandu. thank you. singh is from one of the villages and her family home lies in ruins. she's here in the newsroom in london. do you know what happened to your village? where is your village in nepal? >> it's called lavuke and it's
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93 kilometers from kathmandu. it's in the southern region of nepal nepal. it's situated in the village. it takes two and a half hours to travel over there. >> a small victimllage, i'm assuming? it's not huge? >> my area is around 1,000 houses. like the population is probably around 5,000. lots of houses. when i heard the news yesterday, i was -- i didn't know what was happening. i kept listening and looking at the news. it was really devastating news and i was really in shock.
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i was trying to contact my family. it's so difficult to contact. i couldn't get in touch with my family. later in the evening my -- i called my brother in the city kathmandu. i just managed to talk to him. he said apparently all of us are okay, but the situation is really devastating. i found out that dad has gone to the village in the district. we didn't know anything from what was happens -- happening in the village. this afternoon i managed to talk to my dad, and he said it's 90 -- like 100% of houses are like all destroyed. around 50% of the houses destroyed from the bottom of the house. like around 40% of the houses
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are around like broke in half. it's in half. >> it sounds amazing that he actually managed to survive. >> yeah. the thing is i was asking where he was. he just went there for two weeks in the village. my family are there at the moment. he visited the village from time to time. he used to be the leader of the village, and then he used to be the head teacher in the primary teacher. he's retired at the moment. he just went to see the houses and just to collect some things from the village. normally at that time nepalese people have a meal around 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning. a big meal. after the meal he just lies down in the house, but luckily yesterday morning he went somewhere else. he was outside the house. he said i just escaped the death, actually. if i was at home i wouldn't have
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survived. that's what he said. at the moment he's okay. i think around 13 people altogether died in our area our village. >> he's the former leader of the village, he must know the people that died? >> yes. he's trying to help. one of our relatives, we used to -- it's my village that i was brought up in. always in my memory i always -- my mind is there. so one of the family members, three of them like my dad's uncle and his daughter-in-law and child died inside the house. the house collapsed. when i was talking to my dad this afternoon, he said he was just coming out from there and they came and helped them to take the bodies out. he said it's a really
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devastating situation, but we're trying to be -- stay positive. it's scary. even i was talking to dad, and he said oh my goodness. it's another one now, and they had like 6 point something that time time. this was an aftershock. so he said there's just having a tent outside the field. and they're just trying to help all the people over there. >> a terrible situation, and we're very sorry for your loss. we appreciate your time for coming in and telling us what it's like in a rural village. >> thank you so much. thank you. we are worried about the whole nation. i am not focusing about my individual village, but obviously, first thing comes your family. >> of course. >> we all worried about -- i'm worried about the whole nation how everybody will get through
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it. it's really really tragic. it's a devastating situation. it really is. thank you. >> thank you so much for your time. we appreciate you coming in. >> thank you. >> the international committee of the red cross has indeed set up a website to help reunite people with friends orel actives in nepal. the address for that site is on your screens now. here it comes. you can go there to search for or register that you are missing a family member orel active, and you can also see a list of those already missing and indeed those people who have now been found. still to come on the news hour, the fight for an oil-rich area of yemen with rising levels of violence on the streets of the country. also a wake is held in baltimore for a 25-year-old man whose death is symbolizing racial issues there. some breath-taking picture from the cliff diving series
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from colombia. that is in sports. first, syrian government air strikes have killed dozens of people across the prov dins of idlia. it targeted a strategic town taken over by opposition fighters on saturday. after days of battling it out, the rebels entered the town for the first time the 4-year-old war began. also in the province the assad government bombed the town of katush. an armed rebel group is now in control of four villages. a series of car bombs in and around the iraqi capital of baghdad killed 18 people. the deadliest act was in the busy commercial area in the city's center. the neighborhoods were also
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targeted. yemen's foreign minister says there will be no dialogue with houthi rebels until they withdraw all the fighters. speaking at a news conference in london he said that the majority of his country is no longer under the control of the houthis. >> most of the more than 70% are not houthis. there is a lot of misunderstanding and misinterpreting on what is going on in yemen. this is an unfortunate war and is something that's been forced -- because it is houthis that give them no choice. give the yemeni people no choice and no option. just to start and hopefully it will be finishing soon.
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it is not a war against the yemenese and it's not a war against -- i mean it's not a war against the workers. it is a war to saef yes, ma'amsave yemen and the future of yemen. >> saudi air strikes targeted an area near the presidential palace in the capital of sanaa. fighting is continues between houthi rebels and the president. we have the latest. >> reporter: this is in the center of yemen. it's an oil-rich province east of the capital of sanaa, which the houthis took over last year. both sides want control of it. >> translator: this is the entrance to the city. this is the houthi presence or any of the allies is not true. >> reporter: fighting has been
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raging for days. this is a main strolled hold? sanaa in the noth close to the saudi border. outside the government's stronghold in aden fiercesome battling between the loyalists and houthi fighters along the units. rebel forces are trying to capture the districts. warships also pounded an area near the port for the first time. meanwhile, five air strikes hit military strikes and an yaer near the presidential palace on sunday. 30 houthi fighters were killed when their truck was attacked. a month after the collision strike in yemen, it seems the battle is an endless one. >> al jazeera also has exclusive video of fighting around the southern city of kaiz.
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popular resistance forces have been battling houthi militias there. it's been taking place near the headquarters of the local gov. ban ki-moon is asking them not to resort to action. he made the comments as navy vessels prepare to sail in libya. libya's coast guard is also on patrol there. al jazeera sent this report from on board one of their ships. >> reporter: it's usually around sunset that the coast guard sails off in search of migrants at sea. they're patrolling the libyan coastline. >> translator: the same way the european union assisted italy, it should assist us. there should be operation because we don't have equipment for the means to deal with this. >> reporter: their fleet consisting of a tugboat they
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took over and modified for their own purposes and there are two navy vessels for shore professionals only. one has a broken engine and no spare parts. they patrol 600 kilomotors of coastline. a good number of trafficking boats have sailed from here. their duty is to inspect every boat they spot. this turns out to be a registered fishing boat and the patrol continues into the night. >> translator: the area the smugglers smugglers' boats leave from have no security. they usually sail off at night and no one spots them. >> the tugboat is slow and they're too far to reach before they cross international waters. we covered les than the 20% of the coastline, and it took us 24 hours. we didn't find any migrants at sea, even though there was information that some had sailed off from libya in the area we patrolled. now, that's not only because of
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the lack of modern equipment, but also because it seems that the smugglers are continuously changing their tactics. since mid-april the coast guards have rescued about 250 people in this area. they were found in overcrowded dink dinghies that go undetected by radar. this 35-year-old was one of them. >> translator: he was a 35-year-old like me and he was scared and ran away. he told us he knew what he was doing, but it seems not. >> reporter: the coast guard have noticed an emerging pattern lately. >> in the past they were big boats that carried hundreds of people. now they put them in rafts and quickly train two or three passengers how to use the engine and show them the direction to follow on a compass, and off they go. >> reporter: this summer we will see many many more people trying to take the desperate journey. most sail into high seas
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undetected by the libyan coast guard s. the flow of migrants trying to reach europe has continued since last sunday when a migrant ship capsized killing at least 800 people. for thoughs who make it to shore, there's a new challenge to start a new life with absolutely nothing. barn barn bephillips reports now. >> reporter: the tentative first steps in europe after painful days at sea. hundreds of african migrants disembark from a italian naviship. men and women are decided and first aid for those that need and clothing for the cold. but first impressions are deceptive. within days most of these new arrivals will be effectively left to fend for themselves. the reception centers are full. the government and aid organizations overwhelmed by shear numbers. the migrants who come to sicily
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report on support networks from friends and family from people who might come from their hometown or village. it's those that don't have the contacts who can find themselves in a very vulnerable situation very quickly. like 18-year-old karama. he came by boat two weeks ago. he has no friends, no money, no phone, and no idea as to what he'll do next. he's sleeping in the mosque. he asked for his face to be hidden. >> translator: my dream is to stay in this country, study, learn the italian language go to school speak with the italians have the right documents, send money home to my parents. >> reporter: the imam say some nights it's 10 migrants and some nights it's hundreds. >> translator: the problem is enormous. italy has ton its part but it's
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not capable to solve the whole problem on its own. it needs to be solved on a european level if not a world level. this is everyone's problem. >> reporter: as long as they're provrt and war on europe's doorsteps, these wary boat loads will keep on coming. a moderate won northern cyprus cyprus' election according to the election there. he took over 60% of the vote. he beat the incumbent leader, a conservative who came to power five years ago. the u.n. says that talk between greek and turkish separatists should now resume. still ahead on the program, heartache for nepalis living abroad. we here from people in the gulf trying to contact loved ones in the country. local knowledge. find out why it was a rare home win in golf today.
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hello again. welcome back to the new hours. a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. people are in damaged building in the devastating earthquake. 2,500 have died and that number is expected to rise in more remote areas. there's a series of strong aftershocks, the largest is a magnitude causing fear and panic for many. it was in kathmandu and felt as far away as india and bangladesh. saudi air strikes targeted an area near the presidential palace in the capital of sanaa. in london yemen's foreign minister said the majority of his country is no longer under the control of the rebels. scientists are now analyzing seismic dat to understand what caused the strongest earthquake in nepal in more than 80 years.
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here's our science editor. >> the earth's crust is made of large tectonic plates land masses sometimes including whole continents constantly moving and bumps into each yore. they straddle two plates. they're forced again and under each other at a rate of 5 centimeters each year. that may not sound very much but this tremendous force behind them. now, this line shows the strength of the forces and the likely magnitude of earthquakes they could produce. that force pushes the erosion plate up at a rate of 1 centimeter a year and this resulted in the world's highest mountains, the himalayas. it results in strong shallow and very damaging earthquakes like that on saturday. in parts of nepal the terrain makes it even worse. the kathmandu valley has a 300-meter layer of clay beneath
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it. it focuses on seize mcwaves in the whalevalley. it can turn solid ground into something like quicksand that can swallow buildings and roads and result in even more damage. >> we know roughly where earthquakes occur and how often they occur. that helps plan accordingly. so it's possible to construct buildings so it mine miezs the amount of damage and it's possible for communities and people to become more resilient if they're aware of the possibility of this happening. >> now, there are aftershocks and at least 35 of these five-plus magnitude quakes can be expected in the area over the next few days and weeks. there have been landslides too. some triggered by the quakes and others likely to happen during the upcoming monsoon season. damage like this has been
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anticipated and warned off. because the fall is so poor without the money to rebuild houses and more roads to make them more resilient to earthquakes, the country and its people are now suffering. >> hundreds of thousands of nepalis working in the gulf are concerned. we met some of them in qatar. >> they've been trying to call their relatives since the earthquake struck. some have managed to get through even briefly, but for the last new hours the phone lines have been down and they're worried. >> it's sadness. this is our black day, all the nepalese nepalese. it's a black day. we're praying for god, by the grace of god for our families. >> reporter: people from nepal moved to the gulf to work. for many the goal is to earn enough money to build a house in nepal and help their families. now they can't even do that.
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>> translator: our houses have collapsed. all my family are sleeping in the field on the ground. i wanted to see my family and i can't go there. if you try to send money, they can't receive it. >> reporter: he just found out some of his relatives have died. >> translator: my brother's son and wife were killed. everywhere we are facing the same problem. landslides are covering the villages. my contract is for two years, so i can't go back to my home. >> reporter: under the sponsorship law, employers can prevent migrant workers from leaving the country. there are more than 400,000 people from nepal living in qatar. many work in the construction industry. most of them are on two-year contracts that only allow them to go home at the end of it and they tell us that even though
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they're desperate to go to nepal now, they don't believe it's possible. the dprup group representing them all over the gulf is urging companies to let people go home. >> reporter: if the workers lost their house or someone in the family died they should be given permission to go home. the company should let them go and the media should make this happen. >> reporter: some of the men say they're so stressed about the quake they can't work and right now home has never felt so far away. nicole johnston, al jazeera, qatar. indonesia has confirmed it will execute eight foreign drug convicts within the next few days. the government gave a 72-hour execution notice of the families of those convicted. they include nationals of australia, brazil the philippines and nigeria. one indonesian man is also set to be put to death by firing squad. the procedure of one of the australian nationals appealed to
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indonesia's president to reconsider. >> have mercy. the president needs to show that now, and he's the only one that can stop it. it's not too late to do so. please show mercy. kazakhstan's president has taken victory in the country's election according to the exit poll. baez he took 97.5% was vote. the win extend z hi 26-year rule. kazakhstan has been criticized by the west and human rights organizations for crackdowns on dissidents. a ceremony was held in northern germany to mark the liberation of a former nazi concentration camp. the president joined thousands of others on the site of the former concentration camp. more than 70,000 people were murdered at the camp before it was liberated 70 years ago. the president informed those at
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the ceremony to honor the memory of the bergen-belsen victims. >> translator: 70 years is almost a whole life span. that's how long it's been. today and in the future these images continue to make the world think for our children and prompt us to ask why and make us sad and angry. two people have been killed in berundi after police opened fire on demonstrators. hundreds are protesting against the president's decision to seek a third team in office in defiance of a two-term limit. his supporters say he's eligible for another team since he was chosen by the government rather than the public. we have the latest from the capital. >> reporter: the protests started at sunrise this morning. crowds of protesters gathered in suburbs. police were deployed and
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protesters started cheering and chanting and police fired tear gas. we were in a suburb for a couple hours. as the process was dispersed, each time they came back in larger and larger number. they are starting to have roadblocks and rubbish. the police managed to each the upper hand using tear gas in other places. there are reports its firing people, and at least two people have been shot and several people have been injured with gunshot wounds as well. i spoke to the president a short while ago, and he says that the protesters feel responsible for this violence and not the presidency. he says they should all be peacefully resolved in the presidential election and the people unhappy with the result can be challenged through the courts. that's not something that activists have seen and protesters won't accept. they don't believe that an election including pierre will be free. they don't think he should run again, because it's against the
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constitutional limit. a wake is held in the u.s. city of baltimore for a black man that died in police custody after suffering a spinal injury. more than 1,000 people marched through the city on saturday demanding action over freddie gray's death. people from arrested after they slash clashes with police. gray will be married on monday. we join you now from the city of baltimore. what's going on there at the moment? >> reporter: well the wake and viewing is occurring just behind me at this funeral home. freddie gray as you mentioned, taken into police custody and died soon afterwards having had three of his neck vertebrae broken and his voice box skid marked and 80% of his spine severed from his neck. the police say it's a mystery to them. they will give their initial findings of their internal investigation friday. on the streets in baltimore
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yesterday it was another example of a police force that routinely brutalizes black members of this city. the story today, though really is how those protests have been covered. for those of us actually at the protests it's difficult to reconcile what we saw with the headlines and discussions on the class about what happened. there wasn't a rising in baltimore last night. there was a brief period where a few kids got on top of a police car and smashed the windows. there was a little bit of other windows broken but that was about it. little pockets of civil disobedience and otherwise a multi-racial throng of people about things need to change. here's a figure that has become more and more -- a leading figure in the black lives matter movement that sprang up after michael brown was killed by a police officer in ferguson missouri. you've been dealing with the coverage of this as far as the
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actual meat of getting reform. what did you think when you picked up the papers today and saw the headlines? >> i'm remindered blackness is criminalized in the area because white people are coming together. if there was no riots lars night -- there is pockets of property damage. what's violent is freddie gray's spine being snapped. that is violence. the police are the only violent people since august. >> you see the discussion is now shifting in some ways to well look how, do they expect to have nands met if they go out and burn things up and break things and so on. that's what we hear quite often, i suppose. >> it's interesting. i can't manage the way people's pain manifests. people are grieving and mourning because freddie was killed in a gruesome way and the city responded wholly inadequately to his death. they put the seeds of this idea that he wasn't buckled correctly, and therefore he died seemingly to suggest negligence. this was murder and it needs to be treated as much.
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the city leaders are bhoelly inadequate and woefully unprepared for this. >> we don't know who the kids were on top of the police cruisers smashing the windows. >> after sports events and white students burn couches and cars it's not called active violence. when the police kill people here the baltimore sun calls it an undue use of force. this is a violent act the police have been doing, and they need to say it as much. >> you've been the forefront of the black lives matter movement since last august. it does show there's very powerful vested interest at that seize upon moments to try to discredit the movement and yet, the movement is spreading. we see demonstrations around the country. how do you manage to keep that going? >> the reality is there's a mike brown in every town. the issue of police violence is closer to people than they realize. that's why the movement is spreading. injustice is everywhere and people slowly wake up as seeing this problem as indemmink and
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that corruption is embedded into the culture of policing in america. >> reporter: clearly the authorities of baltimore have learned a lot of lessons from ferguson. >> they have not. >> reporter: the policing is more low-key, there's an attempt to show their listening. are they listening? do you see signs of change? >> yesterday was an example they didn't learn. i was in downtown where there are protesters in the street and no less than 200 officers. it was radical overpolicing happening. they did show restraint in some areas and they showed nonrestraint in other areas. they are heavily protecting the police department department and city hall and some other key places but they -- there's no strategy showing that they like learned much from august. >> reporter: thank you very much from the black lives matter movement. the wake will continue for a few more hours, and freddie gray's funeral will occur tomorrow monday morning. back to you. >> thank you.
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more than a million venezuelans have left their oim-rich country in the past decade. now, for a country not at war, that figure is considered enormous. al jazeera's virginia lopez looks at what's behind this unlikely migration. >> reporter: young professionals are leaving the country in hoards. many of those searching for a better future are young doctors. a lack of medications, diagnostic tools, and even basics like gauze and cotton are just part of their daily struggle. >> translator: there's very little to keep us motivated. our work conditions are bad. pay is bad. the lack of motivation extends to everyone from our nurses to our surgeons. >> reporter: immigration experts say many of those that left say the lack of professional satisfaction drove them to look for options abroad. yet, for others it was the country's crime problem. >> whether you see this is the
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sector that has been the engine that huz pushed the economy in terms of leading the private sector and in terms of having the high qualifying jobs in the industries, so you know when you start losing all of that it's an area -- it's a section that is going to be very difficult to be replaced. >> reporter: less and less doctors means that a job that relying on team effort loses keep links in the chain. after waiting for hours, patients can go back home untreated because there's no longer an anesthesiologist or surgeon at hand. they have seen an exodus of the talented middle class. among some of the groups are doctors. they're in search of decent pay, a safe environment and adequate training. outside the ministry of exterior, people line up on a daily basis to legalize documents they need in their new
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homes. for mylena the last drop in a very full glass came after she was kidnapped outside her house. >> translator: who wants to leave their land their customs, their traditions and friends and be aware from your family and beaches and country? nobody. this has become unbearable. the way i see it this is no longer viable. >> reporter: as the economic and political situation in venezuela continues to deteriorate, most of its young professionals are likely to i ammmigrateimmigrate. many fear few will be left behind to build the country. scientists say chile's calbuco volcano is unlikely to erupt again, but it's still sending out thick clouds of ash forcing people from homes, canceling flights and disrupting
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traffic. we have taken a close-up look at this volcano tuz how it's affecting the people that live nearby. >> reporter: a magnificent close-up view of a volcano in eruption. chile's geological service invited al jazeera to fly over the calbuco volcano, which is continuing to spew tons of volcanic material. this is the closest they've came to the crater since the volcano first erupted late wednesday, but you see smoke that semi pulverized rock and gas. you can smell the sulfur. >> i'm coming in from the left okay? that's why it's so black. >> reporter: a column causing havoc as he heads straight towards neighboring argentina and uruguay. down below the rivers are boiling from the hot rock and ash, the same ash that covered
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the town that's beyond recognition. it's here that we find the ariba family overseeing the damage. the town of 4,000 was evacuated. like many, they are living in a shelter but have come to see what's left of their home. >> reporter: we're afraid looters will come to steal what we have left. >> while it's contaminated it can cause lung problems and skin rashes. in the last month alone, there have been freakish floods and deadly mudslides in the desert. there have been forest fires from an unprecedented drought. volcano eruptions from not one but two volcanos. many joe that the only thing missing now are the locusts. if the people here are determined to stay. >> translator: i was born here. i'll stay here until i die with
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our without the vanl. >> reporter: a volcano that still shows no sign of relenting, nor of allowing thousands of families to return home. coming up next zoe is here with all the sports including against the clock. why every second counts. that's coming up.
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hello again. welcome back. it's time for sports with zoe. >> thanks very much. we start in spain where real madrid are about to kick off needing a win to keep pace with leaders barcelona. expect a challenge for the title. they may have been boosted by the champions league quarterfinal success mid-week but real has another lengthy injury list ahead of the match. they trail by five points with four games left to play. >> reporter: we have to think the match is something to be very intense and dynamic because they're very die in that case micks, which they proved against madrid and barcelona. with this profile we have to be in a strong and fit condition, and then later try to compose our way of playing on the page. >> these are the matches. they have a valuable win in their battle. they move up to fourth.
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in english premier league chelsea has edged closer to being crowned champions of a 0-0 against arsenal. it's only the second time this season they were prevented from scoring at the league. they remain 10 points clear at the top and need one more win to get the title. >> there is a point, and it's five. if we win today we need three and if we lose today we need eight. so this point is like almost three points because you don't need eight. you need five. so it's a positive result and i think also a positive result for them. >> what happened is not the experience at the back that could close a game down. this may be a freedom of mind today to maybe too conscious of
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that contract and the play was enough in the final third and made some wrong decisions. >> manchester united missed a chance to go to second after being beaten by everton. mccarty gave ever ton a 3-0 win. seven points clear of liverpool in the chasing pack for champions league football. >> today you show two teams trying to win eye to eye over 90 minutes, and i think we were the better side in every department and we were worthy of that clench hit, which is an incredible one against the quality of manchester united. >> in the first half we created a lot of challenges. five, i think. we never scored. when you see the shots on goal it was also without conviction.
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that's not good. they have been crowned german champions for the 25th time assist they lost 1-0. they beat berlin on saturday thanks to bastian. his goal is sealing a 1-0 win to leave the coach and his team on the verge of glory. vladimir klitschko has reclaimed his title over jennings. this was the 18th consecutive championship defense. that's the third highest career total in boxing history. the ukrainian fights and furry is likely to be the next opponent. >> it's a good european fight, and as a champion of the world you travel and fight in
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different places. i know that he's also mandatory, and obviously that is something that they have to do to defend my title. he made history by being the fooirs chinese player to win a tour event on home soil at the china open in shanghai. he finished 9 under. he had a bittery chance in the 18th to settle matters but had to make due with par. he finished with a final round of 71 and that left the door you way open. he could have been forced a playoff if he held this opportunity, but he missed the putt for par and that handed the title and trophy to the home player. they led an all kenyan at the london marathon winning the men's race by 5 seconds. a kenyan woman the women's event. her winning margin was more
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comfortable. first to the men's race where one of the best fields settled saw him make his move after passing big ben in the final couples of miles, he was able to stay with him. they were down the mile. he gave a former 5,000 world champion crossing the line just ahead of kipsang. winning time is 2 hours 42 minutes and 42 seconds. there's an end to the run. the 28-year-old had time to acknowledge the crowd as she wins by 18 seconds. and that's the sports from me. >> thank you. thanks very much indeed for that update. all right. let's just remind you right now that you can always catch up with the latest news and sports over on our website. that is what the front page looks like at the moment. that's at aljazeera.com. stay with us. bye-bye.
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desperate rescue efforts in nepal. the quake death toll is now more than two and a half thousand. the fear and panic continues. the region hit by aftershocks and aid agencies are worried about a humanitarian crisis. hello. you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up. yemen's foreign minister rejects peace talks and says 70% of the country is no longer under houthi control. what

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