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>> fears of disease in nepal. thousands living in unsanitary conditions in camp following the earthquake. hello, welcome to al jazeera america, live from our headquarters in doha. also ahead - more demonstrations in several cities over the death of a black man in police custody the u.s. warns burundi's government not to let the political situation spin out of control as protests continue in the capital. and why the u.s. auto industry
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is heading west to silicon valley. more than 6,200 people have died in nepal from the devastating earthquake that struck the country a week ago. almost 14,000 have been injured. bodies are being recovered from the rubble and now there's the threat of disease. in the capital kathmandu, more than 20,000 people are living in 21 relocation camps. the conditions are poor with no clean water and not enough toilets. the united nations says there's a growing number of dyer ear cases -- diarrhoea cases in quake-hit areas. health workers are trying to protect against an out break of disease. >> one situation is measles, and u.n.i.c.e.f. will looking at an
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emergency measles campaign. it can kill children. diarrhoea is a concern, making sure that kids have their hands clean so they are not sick. >> there are claimers of home. a woman and a teenage boy have been pulled out alive. we have their story. >> a day when good news is overshadowing the bad. two dramatic rescuersful this person pulled from the remains of a hotel in kathmandu, hours after a teenage boy was saved. when this 15-year-old was stuck in the rub he couldn't see a think. >> i didn't know if i was alive or dead. >> he had no idea if he could make it. but he didn't give up.
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. >> i crawled around. >> his rescue in kathmandu was cause for celebration. his rescue cause for celebrations. onlookers so used to seeing dead bodies cheered for him. at a medical camp, volunteers are optimistic about his recovering. >> dehydration, a few broken bones, doing remarkably well. miracle. >> reporter: happy to be alive, he describes how he got through the ordeal. >> i found wet clothes and squeezed water from the clothe and drank the water. i found butter, which i ate. >> his incredible story gave a moral boost to a city in tatters, and people among the ruins. bracing as they have forever more bad news. this brought a much-needed respite to a city and country in mourning.
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mo hammed joins us live from kathmandu. incredible stories of survival of a climbing death toll. how are people there feeling. it's been a week after the quake. there has been bright moments of hope. it hasn't changed the mood. the mood is grim. a sense of resignation. folks at the sites, who feel like they are only going to see bodies pulled from the rubble. they have grown accustomed about that. let me tell you more about the
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site. it's an iconic structure. we saw a chinese aid team there. they are goodnight the rubble. they are trying to prevent the spread of disease and with the smell. there's a stench of death in the air. officials tell us there are dozens of bodies. there are bulldozers clearing the rubble in the area trying to help the residents get back to some of their homes, the ones that have not collapsed. it's a difficult scene. residents bracing for bad news. apart from what you mentioned. what else is being done. what are authorities doing to
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prevent the spread of diseases. more aid teams have gotten into the country, medical equipment has gotten into the country. some have been able to set up hospitals, some international groups have done the same. there's a bottle neck in kathmandu. there's limited space for air plane. it's give for them to collect their food. there's a rapid response people ready to deploy and the international community trying to get the medication fuel. not just in kathmandu, especially in other areas, where there's more devastation, that's what is hard and that's why
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government officials are concerned the death toll will rise and are worried diseases will spread if something doesn't happen soon to proven that. >> thank you very much for the update. that is our correspondent live from kathmandu there new video emerged of the moment the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the temple city on saturday. a tourist captured this city. the historic city is 13km from the capital. as you can see, it's filled with hindu temples. it is known as nepal's cultural gem. many of the vehicles have been damaged or destroyed. >> police in baltimore completed investigations into the death of freddie gray the black man that
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suffered an injury while in their custody. it could be weeks before details are public. the report will be handed over to to the prosecutor who will decide whether to charge those involved. >> police brutality around the u.s. police confronted protesters. tom ackerman sent us this update. >> wednesday saw protest rallies. the rain thinned the crowds. there'll be another night of curfew. police were satisfied with a level of compliance. they rejected demands for the curfew. this weekend we'll see people
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off the streets. they have completed the investigation and turned over to state prosecutor who said that she will take her time to decide whether there is enough evidence to proceed with any indictments of the six police officers suspended with pay, pending the results of the investigations. both the prosecutor and the police. a senior u.s. diplomat warns that burundi may approach a point of no return. protests continued for a fifth day over the president's decision to run for a third term in office. 15 demonstrators have been injured in clashes. the unrest is described as the biggest political crisis since the civil war ended in 2006. rights groups say the reaction have been brutal and abusive. the burundi red cross says six have been killed and injured. malcolm webb reports from the
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capital. >> this man was among a crowd of protesters when police opened fire. he was lucky a bullet just grazed his leg. he seems unshaken. the police are trying to intimidate us. they want us to stay off the streets and do not want us to expressure views. he's one of self people seeking treatment. the protesters say the president should not run for a third term. supporters say he's entitled to. police fired tear gas. supporters blocked roads. there has been groups of soldiers on the street. police trust the army. some say when the soldiers are
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present, the police don't use live rounds. riots groups say the government is trig to silence anyone that objects. the ministers of public security read a press conference. we can't ask questions. >> the organiser said the protests were peaceful. throwing stones shooting throwing grenades - they showed us a gun money, and a man with a bloodied beaten face. they said he was an arm protestor. away from the protests in the city center one was thrown into a bus. we don't know who by. police said we should film it. more wounded protesters arrived
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i'm elizabeth puranam in doha. these are the top stories. >> experts warn of growing health concerns in nepal. thousands concerned at the unhygenic conditions. more than 6,000 people are confirmed dead bodies buried on the rubble police in baltimore have completed their investigation into the death of freddie gray a black man who suffered a fatal spinal injury. for now the results are confidential. demonstrations have been held around the u.s. with over 1,000 people marching in philadelphia. u.s. warned of sanctions against violence in burundi. as protests agant the president continued for a sixth day. anti-government protesters rallied against a decision for the president to run for another turn aden has seen some of the
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fiercest fighting. saudi arabia says dozens of houthis fighters have been killed. fouring north -- further north there was an attack on a border post. >> fight has been made in idlib. the government retaliated with barrel bombs. the pictures are from bench city in north-west idlib. a new alliance of rebel groups including al nusra front gained ground in the province. >> now. ethnic groups are meeting to discuss a ceasefire deal that they reached with the got. often they disagree with each other and the government. for one day they put their differences aside to pitch for piece. >> the koran people have been fighting the government for decades. more than 60 years of strife make it the longest running
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conflict. more than 100,000 have been displaced. many went in refugees in thailand. there's little economic investment. leading the possibility, roads and facilities in cham bles. a ceasefire between the government and rebels was signed in 2012. there's sporadic fighting and peace is made more complicated because the ethnic group slips into armed and unarmed factions. the koran in the village, they were able to forget the violence. >> everybody wants peace. i don't know if it's for real or not. i don't know when we'll have the chance to play football with ethnic groups. >> the council, together with handhakes for peace. a non-governmental organization arranged a friendly game.
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the star power was provided by formal international footballers who held drills for the players, not only to pass it along but as a way of bringing the two sides toot. the army pulled out at the last minute. the border guard force is there. >> for us it is good. we don't shoot each other like we did in the past. >> but the villagers too, the match was numberable. compared to weapons, footballs are much better. >> reporter: turn out was lower than expected, because of reports of fighting nearby. >> reporter: away from the pitch and the front line the difficult work goes on. the government and 16 armed ethnic groups agreed in principal to the text of the draft ceasefire agreement. that number does not include all armed rebel groups. a final deal has to be reached
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before political dialogue takes place. >> meanwhile, clashes still go on. >> there have been demonstrations over discrimination against black people in israel. 13 people have been injured in anti-racism protests in jerusalem. israeli jews accused the police of brutality. >> reporter: they came out in their hundreds. mostly israeli dues of ethiopian regiment. angry at black israeli soldiers. more than a dozen were hurt scuffles broke out with the police uch. >> against police brutality. the police is acting with force against civilians. >> in an incident last week, an israeli was alleged etedly assaulted by immigration
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officers who thought he was an illegal immigrant. this video sparked outrage, when israeli police men were seen shooting a soldiers showing police pushing him to the ground. and that an officer tried to help his colleague. >> the issue of african migrants stirred controversy for years. activists say policies resulted in a 50% decline of ethiopian youths in israel in the last decade. >> in a video uploaded on social media, the civilian picks up a rock. in 2010, wiki leeks published a cable saying 65% of households relied on welfare to survive. many tenants signed agreements not to sell or rent property. >> in 2013, the israeli
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government injecting women with birth control without their knowledge. >> out of 18,000 asylum seekers, mostly from african countries, 45 were granted refugee status. protesters in jerusalem demanded an end to racism against blacks. >> in 2015 those week in the land of israel have no reason to exist. we are subject to covert racism. it must be stopped. the israeli government provides aid to some. they struggle to integrate. israel has built a fence along the boarder of egypt, and build detention centers to house those seeking refuge without the required paperwork. protests might be over for now, but unless race relations improves, the anger is likely to
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boil over the nigerian army released the first pictures of women and girls rescued from a boko haram strong hold. 293 people were freed from the forest on wednesday. the army says it freed another group of captors, more than 160 women and girls. ynonne ndedge reports. >> reporter: nigeria's military say these are some of the 293 women and children rescued, healed in severe and inhumane conditions the military says. they are trying to work out the identities of the women and children - where they come from how they were kidnapped. many are hoping that some rescued are the chibok schoolgirls, abducted by boko haram in april. 219 are still missing the military can't confirm whether some of the rescued are from
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chibok. >> we search everywhere not just in that forest. everywhere where there are profitists where they live is being searched. we hope to located the chibok girls. and everyone held. many are demanding that the military announce the identities of those who have been freed. >> how many more people are still missing. we never had a record from the military that says that. the number of people were abducted. numbers of women, men or boys. >> on thursday the military announced the rescue of 160 women and children and promise said to release their identities too. ongoing operations against boko haram are going well and they
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expect to free more people who may have been held captive by boko haram in the next few days. >> running out of the enclaves and several are overrun. it fits into the plans. it gives a lot of encouragement. >> it's not possible to independently verify what the military are saying. restrictions have been placed on humanitarian organizations and the media? abbinging the areas where the rescues are taking place. many hope that the military's claims are accurate. >> the united arab emirates has destroyed over 10 tonnes of ivory. the stockpile was seized over the past three years. the u.a.e. is a key transit hub, most ending up in asia where it's used for traditional
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medicines. >> u.s. congressman bernie sanders announces he's running in the 2016 presidential election. he will change hillary clinton. he has a long record of speaking out against income equality and corporate money in politics. when people in the u.s. think of electric cars they think of tesla motors. a car-maker is trying to change that. ford motor company is moving part of the operation to silicon valley. >> reporter: the center of gravity in the american auto industry is shifting westward towards silicon valley. in january forward opened a technology center. a place where they met. being here in silicon valley part of silicon viy is important for our future to get the talent that we need coming into
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the country and supports efforts of driving innovation. >> here cars are designed by parts, kind used for the super car, with self-adjusting height for speed bumps and spoilers for wind resonance. ford is part way down the road, when it comes to the annoying task of parallel parking. this one is steering itself. see. know hands. ford is researching making cars. they are playing catch up with tesla. tesla developed an niche in the it 100,000 range. the challenge is whether they can do it for moderately priced cars. analysts say car-makers will look to silicon valley a
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tree-lined home to experts in speech technology cyber security and data management. >> autoos are mobile commuting platforms. if you want is to be on the pleading edge of that you want to be where you can incorporate the technology as quickly as possible. >> that is likely to attract automakers building an island in detroit. n.a.s.a.'s space craftnded its journey by crashing into mercury. it's slightly bigger than the moon. and is the closest planet to the sun. until the messenger spacecraft arrived in mercury's orbit, little was known about the
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planet. since then messenger's seven scientific instruments have been feeding back volumes of data. >> it's a massive core similar to the earth but bigger proportionally bigger. it is now sure that there is a liquid call surrounding this which is producing the mag nettic field. >> messenger revealed the moon-like service in detail. scarred by the asteroids and meter its. they recorded temperatures fluctuating between minus 170 and plus 4 degrees celsius. mapping lava flows and finding mass covered by dark mysterious matter. >> the team put forward that the dark material is organ ebbing delivered to mercury from the
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same thing that brought water size and what on our planet were the building blocks of organic chemistry and life. >> now the craft's fuel has run out. and n.a.s.a. says it's powerless to drag it towards the planet. the impact adds another small crater to its already pitted surface. >> all the explorations of the planet are giving us app idea of how the solar system must form, how the planet came to be. it's placing us in time and space within the universe and the confinement of the system. it's important to know these things. >> this image is one of many released in the weeks and months ahead. >> the next mission is not expected to arrive until 2024. until then scientists work
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there data from messenger, hoping to add detail to our knowledge of the planet. >> and a reminder that you can keep up to date with all the news on our website at aljazeera.com. it's a black on white crime. there's enough crime in our now. >> "america tonight"s sara hoy on baltimore's life interrupted. also - new insight into what happened when freddie gray was arrested. >> reporter: what was the first thing
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