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inspiring. entertaining. "talk to al jazeera". sunday, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. ♪ up >> hello there i'm barbara serra. this is the news live from london. the rescue of hundreds of girls from a forest but can't confirm if they are from the chibok kidnapping. pulling out survivors from saturday's earthquake and up to 10,000 people may have died.
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also ahead a russian biker club pushing through poland to ride to the defeat of nazi germany. >> the countdown continues for what is billed the fight of the century. one of the stars of the show has arrived in vegas. >> we begin the program if nigeria where the army says it has rescued 300 women and girls. they've been rescued from the forest, a boko haram stronghold, but it is not known if any of the girls kidnapped from khibok is among them. do we have any confirmation yet? >> well, in the last hour or so, the nigerian spokesperson has been tweeting about this story.
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now in addition to what you've explained 2 hundred girls and 90 women having been rescued we're also being told via the tweets that there is an ongoing screening process profiling process of these individuals. there is also information about operations that have been going on in the forest to fight boko haram. it has been going on for weeks. we've been trying relentlessly to get more details about who exactly these individuals are. are they chibok girls? are they others girls who have been kidnapped over the boko haram insurgency. it has been a trademark of what they've been doing. we're trying to get that information. we haven't got it at the moment. all we're being told is that there are more details to follow. the question is when. >> and yvonne, there have been reports over the past year that
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some of the girls managed to escape. how likely is it that the chibox girls kidnapped a year ago are the ones being freed? >> you can imagine that everyone is hoping that these girls are the chibox girls that this is over, this nightmare that this area has been going through is over. there has been conflicting information issued by the nigerian authorities in the past about the whereabouts of these girls. it takes you back to the week that they were actually kidnapped a year ago april 2014. initially we were told that the military rescued some. there was an u-turn on that. then we were told that some escaped. then at some point the chief minister knew where the girls were but couldn't can you them because of posing a danger to their own lives. that's been the last kind of official line.
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for months and months and months. people are saying where are the girls? it's hard to imagine that the over 200 women and girls who have been kidnapped and it's not the chibok girls but as i explained, kidnapping has been a trademark for boko haram. it's possible that these girls rescued and found are not the chibok girls. many are hoping that they are and that the end of the nightmare is nigh. >> we're getting some news in from the routers news agency, breaking news on this story. and it's saying from the reuters news agency the nigerian girls rescued in the army operation and they are not the chibok girls kidnapped last year. they're quoting an army spokesman. we'll go back to yvonne ndege.
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we're reading this again. we're getting this from the routers news agency. they're saying that the girls rescued in the army operation are not the chibok girls. and this goes along with what you were just saying. there are so many women kidnapped in nigeria. that it wasn't beyond the pale. and what is your reaction? >> we do have to be cautious because over the last six years boko haram had been kidnapping women and girls in many villages across the northeast region, across the north as a whole. and it is in theory possible as i was saying that these are women and girls from many different places. many different villages. the statement you read is being attributed to a military spokesperson. i'm going to believe that military spokesperson brigadier general who often briefs the media, if this is accurate, and we're going to check it out. obviously there will be a huge
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disappointment. as soon as these lines start to develop, over 200 girls have been rescued, which everybody have been speculating and many believe that the chibok girls girls--hopes are going to be dashed, and people are going to be disappointed. what this means is that the hunt for them. the attempt by the military authorities who try to find them and ask you them continues. now president goodluck jonathan who leaves office on the 29th of may, has said that in no stone is being left unturn. that the military authorities are doing everything they can to find the girls. and over the last few weeks we have witnessed town after town after town being taken back by the armed forces. and this forest was really the last stronghold. there has been a battle raging there in several days, and many people have been hoping, believing, and speculating that
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this is where the girls are. and if the military can penetrate the camps in the forest then the girls would be brought home. what this statement seems to suggest that that's not the case tonight. and that the hunt for them continues. >> yvonne, thank you. we're going to lead you now to try to confirm that story. of course, we just tied in and we'll remind the viewers the nigerian army's rescue operation is not of the chibok girls. thank you so much for joining us. you heard it as we heard it. that's what we're hearing from the army spokesman and your reaction. be honest, when you came over here did you think it was the chibok girls? >> i did. i got news as well that it was not the chibok girls.
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i heard that the 200 girls plus 93 women rescued were not the chibok girls. clearly routers is now confirm confirming. i think again it's a reflection of what has been going on in the last six years. i think it's not the girls for nigeria this is quite a significant moment. this raises hope of the possibility of these girls being found. >> it's great that the girls have been found. the chibok girls have had so much focus. many said how many hundreds of girls can be missing. and apparently so many are that a few hundred can be discovered. >> i think the latest figures that we have as far as the number of people kidnapped is 2,000. we don't know the exact number of girls and women. we do know how a lot of boys had been kidnapped had been taken up
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as child soldiers. it leaves us a question of look looking at 1,000 to 8500 who have been kidnapped. >> the girls found were found in the forest, last of the chibok strongholds. assuming that they're still together as one group we're getting closeer to the day that they will be found. >> we're looking at the sambisa forest and it's fairly large. they've captured four camps within the sambisa forest. presumably camps that will be raid: for a lot of people this hopefully should give them--i mean you can problem imagine it's a difficult time for the parents and relative of the girls who have been captured about absolutely. thank you so much for being with
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us. let's go to nepal where the rain has been hampering efforts to help people who have been trapped by the earthquake. now the prime minister has warned the number true figure for the number have died is around 10,000. we have traveled to the foothills of the himalayas to see how the operations have come along. >> it's a operation that stops for refueling and rebriefings. there has not been enough to bring the relief this country so desperately needs. beyond the sprawl of the forced capital is where the extra effort is needed most. from this altitude you can see just how inaccessible this terrain is to the special forces rescuers. they really have a colossal job on his hands.
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>> perched on mountain sides homes that have collapsed. but the army says there is no way of reaching anyone trapped inside unless teams were wenched down from helicopters hundreds of thousands of locations. and here a landslide on a small village that's disappeared in a mound of earth. the number of dead is unknown. this is one of many further disasters in the wake of the quake, and it's aftershocks. the colonel is defending his operation against international criticism, insisting while so many have died few people are recognizing or even counting how many have been saved. >> one ma 17 helicopter of the nepal ease rescued so many
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people. >> right now this hospital is treating 800 people, and they admit that they're at breaking point. this woman has a back injury. she has traveled over 100 kilometers for treatment on the floor. there are no beds mats, no trulies left. this hospital is overwhelmed. they have been going since saturday. >> we have to help them. we risk it and we do it. >> the casualties keep coming in. people continue to get injured when unstable buildings collapse often because of aftershocks. others have been traveling long distances for treatment.
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the first sight here you would be forgiven for thinking that the earthquake just happened. >> meanwhile the search and rescue team has pulled a man from buildings alive. he spent 80 hours in a room with tree three dead bodies before being rescued. he was on the second floor of a building when the quake struck. it took rescuers five hours to pull him out when they heard his call for help. let's go to mohammed in kathmandu. a bit of rare news in the past few days. a person miraculously after 80 hours has been pulled alive. the country is overwhelm by the scale of the crisis and the aid that is needed. from what you've seen do you get a sense that the coordination of aid is getting better.
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more help is getting to the people that need it? >> you know, from what we saw at the airport just a few hours ago. seems as though it has gotten slightly better, but not enough to really bolster the morale here just yet. what we saw coming in to kathmandu--we saw a plane full of aid workers full of rescue workers desperately trying to get here. also this plane was full of nepalese migrant workers coming from the middle east trying to make sure that their families, who they provide for and they send money to from the middle east that they are still alive that they're okay, that the houses they built over the years is still standing. once we got to the airport planes were on of the runway for hours trying to get to the gate because there is only a limited number of planes. even aid planes that could come in at any one time. even the infrastructure of the
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airport was damaged. when we flew in we saw these only air camps starting to dot the city. it's quite difficult for the aid to get in. even though the international community has really opened its arms and have tried to send people in to help the nepalese people and the government here at mits they needs the help, there is only so much that can be done. i can tell you the mood of the people we have spoken with has really shifted from one of the shock and grief from the last couple of days to one of frustration because even though everybody is admitting that this country needs more help. even though the government is saying that they need more help. as you said there is this miraculous recovery, the fact of the matter people are worried that there is going to be a lot more depth in the days to come. as you hear remarks as the prime minister said today the death toll could reach up to 10,000
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people that really strikes fear in the hearts of so many across this devastated landscape. >> it is a shocking figure of the 10,000 people possibly that would die from this. other that i found shocking was eight 8 million people affected a quarter of the population, it tells us what their needs are their most immediate needs. >> we're having trouble with the transmission here but the population here is in needs. they need clean water. there are agencies trying to set up triage centers across the country. more and more people in kathmandu are actually being streeted right now it's the countryside. it's in the mountains that people are afraid that it's going to be a lot more deaths in the days to come. even though there was this recovery today the sense is that
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there haven't been two many recoveries yet. we're approaching the 96th hour after the quake. and after the 72 hour mark passes if there haven't been too many many covered allied, really the morale start to flag and worry when will it be just a recovery prescription. a lot of concern this will get worse with the remarks that the prime minister gave earlier today, that will make people more fearful than they were before. there are more encampments dotting the city. there are a lot more people afraid to going back in their homes, and a lot of people who don't have homes to go back to. >> reporting there from kathmandu. mohammed, thank you. coming up on al jazeera, final goodbyes for foreign prisoners in indonesia and appeals for clemency fall on deaf ears. we speak to the family accused
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ofaof a man who is accused of captaining a smuggler ship. and we have sports just a little later. >> at least 52 people are feared dead after a huge landslide in afghanistan. it happened where 52 people are feared dead. shots across the bough shot in the gulf. they boarded the vessel after this trespassed over maritime borders.
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isilthey don't know whether or not the plot is real because it's a saudi-led investigation. and certainly even though the u.s. government has put out statements to americans what happen to be in saudi arabia to take safety precautions, they caution that this is not because of the ongoing saudi investigation into alleged isil perpetrator behavior. the u.s. basically says this is a saudi-led investigation and while they do share intelligence information they don't want much attention focused on their own embassy in their own country. >> staying in the u.s. the president has been speaking about monday's violence in the city of baltimore saying there is a needs for national soul searching. the unrest came after the funeral of a black man who died while in police custody from a
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neck injurey. >> it is not a protest. it is not a statement. it's people, a hand full of people taking advantage of a situation for their own purposes and they need to be treated as criminals. the violence that happened yet distracted that you have seen multiple days of peaceful protesters. that were focused entirely on legitimate concerns of these communities in baltimore. >> well, the cleanup operation is now under way. more and more security forces have been put on the secret. 15 buildings were set on fire along with 144 vehicles. almost 200 people were arrested. let's get more now from tom ackerman who is in baltimore for us. is there a fear that the
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violence we saw on monday night could be repeated. >> well, right now what you see behind me is a milling crowd of people who are assembled just in front of the police line, the police barricade that separates it from the command post. and there is a line--a human chain of people who are forming a buffer to prevent any kinds of untoward incidents today. we've seen very little disturbance in the city. the police report that there were a handful of arrests mostly adults, not children as was the case yesterday when we saw significant looting and rock throwing and bottle throwing. today the police used a little bit of pepper spray here, but there were no real confrontations here. as a matter of fact at times it looks like it takes on the aspect of a street festival but that's not to minimize the anger that is pervasive through this
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crowd. and waiting for answers from the police about the death under suspicious circumstances of fredry gray. we expect to hear come signed of a preliminary announcement from the authorities later this week. meanwhile, the police here have been reinforced, and they're not in evidence at all here. the police say they're being used in a subsidiary way to reinforce the citywide curfew going into effect about four or five hours from now. barbara? >> tom, thank you. we'll be checking in with you for the next few hours to see what developments there are from baltimore. thank you. now let's speak with vincent karen. sir, thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera.
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it was very interesting. we heard president obama speak and he called for national soul searching over what's happened. what do you take him to mean by that? >> well, barbara this is one of those points where i disagree with the president. the leadership moment here is not to call for calm, not to call for more dialogue and reflection. the leadership moment is to call for change. the reason why people are so anger in baltimore is not just because of the suspicious killing of freddie gray, it's also because the baltimore police department has a long and torrid history of brutalizing people in over a three-year period. they have paid $5.7 million to people who have been brutalized and beaten by the police department. so what we have here is had a scenario where people are calling for change, and the reason why the confrontations are happening and the reason why people are angry, and the
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reason why it goes from the oldest in the community to the youngest in the community they've all lived under terrorist reign by the police department. what we should be calling for is real change from the baltimore police department. >> i guess the president also said that this kind of violence detract from the points you just made. just broadening it out from beyond the baltimore. we've really seen i guess from an outsiders point of view more and more of these cases coming out of the u.s. so you know, police brutality towards young african-american men. why do you think we're seeing all of these cases now? >> well, for a couple of reasons. one is the proliferation of video. everybody has got a camera, and a lot of these interactions there is video there as in the case of new york city, in the killing of eric garner.
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you're going to zoo see. what is happening people are capturing these things more. the second thing is that as starting in during that time. during that up rising people were saying the same thing they were saying now. they were calling for healing they were calling for calm. as you we know 50 years later that was a complex situation of structural racism that conversations weren't going to fix. it took legislation it took concerted effort by policy
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measures to see change that we need to take. >> what will it take to make the change now. >> what thing we should not wait for is we should not wait for people not to be angry. people are going to be angry for a very long time. if you look at the police response from the baltimore police department and other police departments from around the country the first thing they do is when a suspicious killing happens or something is caught on camera, the first thing they do is suspend judgment. police departments across this country and in baltimore really work as closeed fraternal order. they work as open departments of government. they first get their story straight. the suspicious people go underground. they don't know what is happening. what will happen we're hoping
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for is that the baltimore police department will be open about what is happening to give the people confidence that these situations are being investigated in a meaningful way. most people in the united states particularly black folks, don't think that police can police themselves. that's why people are so angry. >> vincent warren, assistant director of the center of constitutional rights. we'll have more from baltimore a little later. from town the owners of the baseball team is trying to prevent another game from being postponed. and looking at new measures in venezuela and they take steps to meet their debt repayment.
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kidnapping last year. they found 200 girls and 93 women from the northeast of the country. a man has been pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment in kathmandu 80 hours after the earthquake in nepal. heavy rains have been making rescue difficult and the prime minister said that 10,000 people may have died. and president obama has called for national soul searching after the riots over the death of a black man who died in police custody. in the past few hours it's been confirmed that eight drug convicts have been executeed. these are the scenes. moments before the executions took place. two australians four nigerians a brazilian and indonesian was killed by firing squat.
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in a minute we'll hear from wayne hay in sydney. let's go to the indonesia island of java, obviously this has been an incredibly painful moment for family and friends of those executed. have we had reaction from them? >> yes around 4:30 now in the morning, and it's a little over four hours after the executions took place on the prison island across the water right here. and everyone is still waiting here. it's quite a big crowd here waiting here in the early morning for the ambulances to come back. some reactions have already been given. reactions of sadness, of course, reaction of grief about what's happened. a lot of families were hoping for a miracle at the last minute and only for one of the
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prisoners, the only female mary jane that miracle happened. at the last minute she was spared from the execution. from the firing squad because of the developments in her case in the philippines where her alleged recruiting surrendererred to the police, and the president of the philippines made a last-minute appeal to president widodo to spare her life so she could be used as a witness in this case. the other families, the australians, nigerians brazilians, their fate was very different, and they had to face the firing squad despite all the efforts to save their lives. >> judging by the record on this, it's sad for the families, but is it a surprise that the executions were carried out? >> no, not really, i have to say. it's been all along that president widodo has said that he would not go with what he
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called foreign pressure. he said that every country has to respect indonesian law and the indonesian law says there is a death penalty for drug traffickers. he had lifted an unofficial moratorium that has been going on for many years and he was the first president to start executing, and this has been the second batch already. there have been a lot of criticism from the united nations and european unions who say very serious crimes can be punished with this harsh penalty. but according to president widodo he wants to give a very strong statement in what he calls his war against drugs. >> from indonesia, thank you. now let's go to sydney and speak to al jazeera's wayne. two of those convicted prisoners were australian. the australian government had
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asked indonesia not to execute them and it fell on deaf ears. what reaction have had we? >> the australians waking up to the news that the two nationals were just executed two hours ago. and the reaction so far has been one of outrage. certainly in the media. strong criticism of the execution. strong criticizeism of indonesia's president widodo. so far nothing official from the australian government. we're expecting to hear from the foreign minister julie bishop any moment now. she was very strong in her statements leading up to the execution saying there would be consequences if those executions were carried out. we're expecting a strong reaction from the government.
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so a very senior man. he tweeted there were fewer greater displays of regressive thinking than the death penalty. if that is anything to go by we're expecting a strongly worded statement coming soon. >> they say thee need these executions in their war in the drug trade. what is the drug warlike? do these executions serve as a deterrent? >> some of the bally nine had been involved in drug running in the past, so there is a president obama. >> wayne forgive me for
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interrupting you b but the australian prime minister is speaking. >> our ambassador will be withdrawn for for consultations. i want to there's this is a very important relationship between australia and indonesia. but it has suffered as a result of what's been doing over the last few hours. whatever people think of the death penalty whatever they think of crime the fact is that these two families have suffered an appalling tragedy and i'm sure every australian's thoughts and prayers will be with these families at this time. as a parent, i feel for these
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families as what is a very difficult time. >> it is with a very heavy heart that my concern despite ongoing efforts right up until the last minute to seek a stay of execution, two were put to death this morning. at 3:00 a.m. i received points from the gunreports of gunfire. they were rider to identify the bodies. we have not yet heard from her. she's not entitled to have a telephone at the prison. but we must assume that the executions have taken place and she's in the process of formally identifying the body. we can assume that the execution
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executions have taken place. as the prime minister said, our thoughts and prayers are with the families and their friends. they're currently with officials who are providing them with support or assistance. i was in contact with the families overnight. they are in a devastating position and i understand they'll put out a statement later this morning. our concern centers on the fact that the apparent rehabilitation was not taken into account. rehabilitation is a fundamental aspect of successful prison systems. mr. chan became an ordained christian brief. and hoping to improve the lives
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that. their death at this time senseless and unnecessary. we have continued to make reputations but pleas of rehabilitation were apparently not taken into account. officials willry range for the bodies to repatriated to australia, and we'll ensure that they'll be treated with respect. i expect to be able to discuss further aspects of their relationship with indonesia when they return to australia at the end of this week.
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>> julie bishop, there the australian foreign minister and tony an abbott, the prime minister speaking and giving their reaction to the execution of two australians in indonesia found guilty of drug offenses. and tony abbott said that the australian prime minister has withdrawn the australia ambassador from indonesia. what a strong response from the australian government? >> yes certainly. a response that was expected. it may be seen as something of a symbolic move to withdraw the country's am abouts der to indonesia, but certainly a strong move. it's has its citizens executed before in other countries singapore an australian man was executed ten years ago. they didn't withdraw their
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ambassador on that occasion. they're very outspoken the australian government, against the death penalty but this is a significant move to pull the ambassador back for canceltations as they put it, the official term that they will give it. but it's more been about the process. as you herds from julie heard from julie bishop, the way they were there for ten years before being put on death row. the fact that many of their calls to their counterparts in indonesia went unanswered, and they could not talk to their counterparts properly particularly in the last few days. australian prime minister tony abbott could not get through before the process would take place. it's been more about the process rather than the fact that the death penalty has been used in this case even though they're
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very outspoken against this. >> wayne hay in sydney. thank you. saudi coalition jets in yemen's capitol to prevent any iranian plane from landing. they say the plane ignored a warning to turn back. iran said that the plane was carrying aid. the damage caused by the bombing has rendered the runway unusable for aid flights. the retrial of two al jazeera journalists in egypt has now been adjourned until may 9th. mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed have been charged with aiding the egyptian security and aiding the banned muslim brotherhood charge that they and al jazeera rejects. the trans-pacific partnership is poised to be the biggest trade agreement.
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prime minister shinzo abe is getting the treatment few receive. >> there is a reason beyond just the normal relationship of allies: : money. specifically the trans-pacific partnership, a priority for president barack obama. >> i've been very clear that ttp is good for american businesses and american workers. >> white house officials believe the key to getting into the agreement is that u.s. and japan have to settle their disagreements first based
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imports and exports of agriculture goods and cars. they don't believe they'll be able to come to any agreement on that. the prime minister gave the vaguest of updates. >> on the bilateral issues, we love the fact that significant progress was made. we'll continue to cooperate to lead the ttp talks to the last phase. >> some analysts say that the delays are telling. >> president obama came out of the tokyo meetings last year saying we've had a breakthrough. we think we see the way to a deal and here we are a year later, a couple of months ago it was, well, it's going to get down. abe comes to down, and then maybe not. >> they promise to keep going. if one thing is clear after this top class treatment this is a top priority for the u.s. president. patty kulhane al jazeera. >> a tunisian man accused of captaining a migrant boat which sank nine days ago is back in court in italy.
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he has denied being in charge of the overcrowded fishing boat which went down off the coast of libya killing 800 people. this sink something considered the worst disaster yet. of smugglers bringing people to europe. 15 bikers were turned away from poland. they were trying to reach berlin following the route of the soviet army's advance through eastern europe. >> when they reached the crossing on monday, the cameras were waiting for them. this has been a controversial trip from the start. >> they warned that the bikers would not be allowed in.
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indeed, they were sent away. >> they were denied entry. first they were refused entry to poland to all apartments of the group, and the head of the group, myself, was put on a sanction list and my visa has been annulled. >> on tuesday the leaders slammed poland's decision as petty and farcical. they said it was clearly an act for the ussr war wartime heroism. >> we'll continue our trip. i don't want to create problems for the guys. do you see how ridiculous that we have to disguise our trip. this russian phobia has gone too far. on the very eve of victory day we should hides ourselves and go secretly to the graves of our ancestors j he suggests that
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more bikers will attempt the journey, but germany said that they won't let the group in either. vladimir putin has wind with them many times. and it has earned them a place on the sanction list. they're on the full front of anti-maidan, attempting to preventing a western ukraine up rising. the group insists they're just a bunch of bikers. but in the current climate of east-west temperatures this is exactly why they make european states so nervous. rory challands al jazeera. >> we'll have all the sport including barcelona go goal crazy. and robin will have all the details in just a moment.
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sunday. they are considering to switch to go afternoon starts to avoid the curfew. provide mayweather meets manny pacquiao in las vegas in one of the most hotly anticipated fights in boxing history. pacquiao in vegas has made his camp 400 kilometers from las vegas. they were greeted by hundreds of fans and the camp has admitted they're tired of all the hype. >> i'm going to feel better on sunday. because, you know, manny has trained hard. he's focused for the fight and this who promotion has been a nightmare since day one. i'll be very happy when it's over with. >> and they say they'll fight
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one more time after saturday. the fight into the six-fight deal with the broadcaster showtime. football fans will be in for a real treat. barca versus united july 25th, and chelsea three days later. it would rain goals and double from messi. one from neymar and barca now five points clear at the top of la liga. new to come, bayern munich's hopes at the table have been dashed.
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the general dump went the distance. and the in indonesia the government suspended the fa, the latest row to hit the country. >> well, football in indonesia is no stranger to controversy. in the last couple of years it has faced corruption, security it gains and the deaths of two players who were unable to pay for medical treatment because they had not been paid by their clubs. this is more tit for tat. follow closely. the government tried to block two teams from playing in the top tiered super league because of issues over their ownership. the faa ignored the order and kicked off the season any way. then the police refused match permits for games to take place. the league ground to a halt
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after two matches. football's governing body fifa warned them to back down, now they've done the opposite and suspended the f.a. they said that the clubs won't cooperate. thousands of football fans and a halved through the streets in protest and could lead to fifa suspending all football activities in the country including those involved in the national team. >> wimbledon has finished its league with total prize won almost $41 million. that's three more than the highest--next highest paying event, the u.s. open. and wimbledon first started in 1877. is paint until 1968 when prize money was awarded.
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fast forward to the turn of the century, the total prize $17.3 million. in 2007 the men and women were on par with each other in terms of prize money. and roger federer and venus williams picking up checks for $1.07 million each, and more than doubled eight years later. that's $40.88 million to share now. the winners will pocket $2.88 million each. this year's tournament is starting a week later than use to allow for a bigger gap. organizers hoping the extension from two to three weeks will give players more time to warm up in the events. >> you do test your body in a way that is quite hard to
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replicate. we pray for the opportunity. we hope that the players will take advantage of the opportunity and they'll all come here well rested, well prepared, fit, well adjusted to competing on the grass. >> bangladesh cricketers are hoping to build on the good will cup performance. pakistan has already won all four limited overs matches. now they're playing the first of five test day matches. bangladesh scoring a half century for the tenth successive match. >> that is the sport. there is more later. >> wimbledon is a week later. >> with a lot more money. >> and it might be sunnier. i'll bring my umbrella just in case. that's it for now. for more on our website go to nub www.aljazeera.com. for more news join us in a few minutes. bye bye.
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>> jewers in nepal pull out a survivor from saturday's earthquake amid warnings that more than 10,000 people may have died. you're watching live from london. also coming up in the next few minutes, the nigerian army rescues hundreds of girls but confirms that they're not from the chibok school kidnapping. national guard troops sent to baltimore after a night of rioting over a man who died in police custody. and the
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