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>> sharks like affection. >> "techknow". where technology meets humanity. monday, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. the government works to prevent the spread of disease as the death toll continues to climb. ♪ hello welcome to al jazeera i'm live in doha also to come on the program, fierce fighting in the war in yemen as the battle for aiden intensifyies over the airport. workers around the world mark may day with protests and demands for better way. three times in eight days the volcano in chile erupts yet
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again. ♪ but first more than 6200 people have now died in nepal from the devastating earthquake that struck nearly a week ago 13,500 are injured and bodies are being recovered from the rubble and search rescue teams are using their hands to clear debris from buildings and century old temples and there is the inevitable threat of disease, in the capitol, kathmandu 20,000 people are living in 21 relocation camps, the condition are poor with no clean water and not enough toilets, the u.n. says there is a growing number of diarrhea cases in quake-hit areas. health workers are trying to prevent an outbreak of disease.
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we have been speaking to roger the head of emergency response at the world health organization and he explained exactly what is needed right now. >> there are five functional hospitals that need urgent support so this is in gorka. if it's in another country or two others which need support. there is assessment and this will drive the response. we are finding support for these five hospitals to be able to get the medical we need. we participate in that and have a shipment that has just come today which will be distributed to these hospitals and basically they are still needed shelter, water, food and water and sanitation is determined for diseases to happen and we are working with partners to have supplies for water and sanitation and also preparing
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ourselves for possible diarrhea disease, that is something that is inevitable without an earthquake but also something we can prepare for, to prevent a big epidemic of diarrhea diseases. >> reporter: despite all of the despair there is still glimmers of hope a woman and teenage boy were pulled out alive after spending five days under the rubble and we have their story. >> reporter: a day when some good news is finally over shadowing all the bad. two incredibly dramatic rescues. was pulled from the remains of a small hotel in kathmandu just hours after a teenage boy was saved. when 15-year-old llama first got stuck in the rubble he couldn't see a thing. >> translator: i didn't know if i was alive or dead. >> reporter: he had no idea whether he would make it but wasn't willing to give up.
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>> translator: i was trapped but could move around by crawling in the rubble. >> reporter: he was stuck there five days before being pulled out and his rescue in kathmandu was cause for celebration, on lookers, so used to seeing dead bodies from the surroundings of late cheered for him. now, at an israeli camp volunteers are optimistic he will recover. >> dehydration and malnourished and doing remarkably well. >> reporter: happy to be alive llama describes how he got through his ordeal. >> translator: i found clothes and squeezed water from the clothes and drank the water and found butter which i ate. >> reporter: llama's incredible story gave a much needed morale boost to a city in tatters and the people among the ruins. bracing as they have forever more bad news this brought a much needed respite to a city
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and country in mourning mohamed, al jazeera, kathmandu, nepal. a new video emerged of the moment the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the ancient temple city that was on saturday. a tourist captured this video of the historic of around 13 kilometers from kathmandu the the capitol and it's filled with hindu temples. and this is a real cultural hub it attracts many many tourists but a lot of the heritage buildings have been damaged and destroyed. now, an earthquake of a magnitude 7.1 has struck off the coast of new guinea a day after a 6.7 quake was reported the u.s. geological survey says the quake hit 128 kilometers
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southwest of rebal and length of 61 kilometers and a tsunami warning has been lifted from the tsunami center and no immediate reports of damage nor casualties and let's find out a bit more about this and speak to daniel who joins us live via skype from the australia capitol and she part of the tsunami warning center and thanks for talking to us and tell us what you know exactly of what has gone on in png. >> this is actually a second magnitude 7.1 in the same region, then by center is ten kilometers to the northeast of the one that occurred yesterday. thankfully in this region it's very uninhabited. they have a lot of earthquakes in this new britain region. of course it's very close to the city that underwent a large volume foe eruption in the 1990s
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from the volcano and thankfully this is not expected to cause any damage and it would have been felt in the city of rabal but i would not expect any damage from a distance of 3, 400 kilometers away. >> as we mentioned the tsunami threat seems to have gone away but what about the possibility of the volcanos because as we mentioned it's also sitting on the rim of fire and so what about this sparking volcanic activity? >> it's away and volcanos are not connected by that sort of distance so it's not expected that a volcano would erupt except there are volcanos potentially closer to where this earthquake has occurred. there is a line of volcanos behind every zone and you will find them through indonesia and
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papa new guinea in the region and hope the volcano will not go crazy right now but certainly we should be weary of further earthquake activity. we hope this is not a fore shock of something larger. certainly the increase of activity has occurred in the region over the last couple of days but we can't predict earthquakes but you should always be prepared. clearly in these regions we know that they will occur and they will continue to occur into the future it's a very active subduction zone and it's important to remember when an earthquake does strike don't run outside but get under some furniture, that is the best way to survive an earthquake inside a building. >> thank you for the advice and talking to us live from the australian capitol. now to yemen and the southern city of aiden has seen some of the fiercist fighting since the
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conflict began and fighters loyal to the exile president abd rabbuh mansur hadi are battling houthi rebels to try to regain control of the port city and further north three saudi soldiers have been killed in an attack on a border post in tz providence and saudi arabia maintains that its border is secure but it is sending reenforcements to the area as mohamed reports. >> reporter: reaching the border with yemen takes a tough ride up the mountains in southwest saudi arabia and this hill top is overlooking the rebels in northern yemen and soldiers took us to the site which they are monitoring the area 24 hours a day, it's a military zone and any movement on the other side gets a response. sporadic fighting happens almost on daily basis along hundreds of kilometers from here to east. houthis were able on occasion to kill saudi soldiers by sniper
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fire or mortar shells. the saudi army says it has destroyed several houthi vehicles that were transporting fighters and weapons to the border. >> translator: we deal with them from a distance and make sure to spot them before they get close and before they can shoot. we rely on information we collect through various means including goggles and other types of surveillance. >> reporter: some of that information is provided by these tribesmen, houthi rebels across the border shell areas like these from time to time so these men come here to prevent such attacks. yemen is right behind these mountains and these men who were born and live here all their life and tell us they are the best of fighting in the area and they are ready to help the government. >> translator: the armed forces of our country are doing their job perfectly well but as citizens we have a certain obligation. we don't know if we will be asked to help but if asked we need to be ready. >> reporter: during a brief war between saudi arabia and the
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houthis in 2009 houthi fighters attacked saudi border villages and killed many soldiers and residents were removed from dozens of the villages for safer areas and saudi arabia has taken every measure this time around to prevent a repeat of those events. off the red sea coast the coast guard has increased its patrols. >> translator: the type of danger we are monitoring has changed and previously it was mainly smugglers and now we are looking for fighters in position of weapons and possibly ready to launch attacks. >> reporter: saudi arabia controls the water, the air space and the land borders of yemen and yet the risk of the war spilling over into saudi territory is still high which according to the military here won't stop vigilance. staying in saudi because the
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saudi arabia they will separate the oil company from the oil ministry and this is a decision that comes days after a major reshuffle of the government this is the largest energy company. it's also saudi arabia's biggest employer generating over $1 billion a day in revenue and we have a correspondent on set with me now and you know saudi arabia pretty well and seems as though changes are very big and come a plenty in saudi these days. >> absolutely and we have seen a generational shift two days ago with appointment with the relatively young given the history of the country and also they are now making decisions, showing the world that saudi arabia could be changing and that was a decision to reform
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and saudi arabia cashed in with the biggest company in the world and has the two largest on-and-off shore oil fields in saudi arabia. it is also instrumental and i think this is a decision that will be closely monitored by stock markets and western capitals because saudi arabia is instrumental in stabilizing the price of oil across the world so this is a very significant. >> is there any indication this of course is a critical area isn't it, is there any indication that this is a change in oil policy? >> well i don't think we are going to see dramatic change by the end of the day. saudi arabia is known for being instrumental in stabilizing and if we have problems like libya, iraq and shut down on the basis and saudi arabia would put more oil in the international markets to stabilize it and can operate both ways and it can be used as
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a weapon to sort of advance the interest iran i cues saudis of lowering the price of oil to undermine iran and it's definitely a message to the world that saudi arabia is changing and some changes you see in the coming days will reflect the environment in the kingdom. >> what we are seeing is a much younger generation taking the helm in saudi arabia. >> yes, you have the sort of security chief, the man who will make decisions and how to deal with security of the kingdom. and mohamed is the defense minister. >> when we say young we are talking in their 50s. >> in his 50s and the other in his early 30s the youngest deputy in saudi arabia. he is a defense minister and he is the chairman of the supreme council and in charge of money
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in saudi arabia and are sending a message, you are seeing young generation and you have to adapt to new reality and some of the decisions may be dramatic in the coming days or weeks because he has been hoggish in decisions and has been the one launching air strikes against the houthis in yemen and also he has been the one saying we are not going to tolerate further iran influence in the future because it's a red line. >> interesting development because we are witnessing a much more robust saudi foreign policy these days. >> reporter: saudi arabia has pride itself on being a protector of islam and seeing iran's influence spreading across the region and the concern is because saudis one day may say to leaders we are losing because of you and why we saw a robust attitude by saudis we will be hands on with help from the americans and if they can help we do it otherwise we go the other way. >> thank you. and more to come on the program
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including nearly a million british citizens live in spain and we talked to a couple of them about the upcoming u k election and concerns for their homeland. [chanting] a north korean diplomate disrupted the united nations conference. ♪ inspiring. entertaining. "talk to al jazeera". sunday, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america
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>> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. ♪ hello again and let's look at the top stories at al jazeera, doctors in nepal say outbreaks of disease in camps for the homeless after last week's earthquake and number of confirmed dead is more than 6200
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and more than 13,500 others have been injured. saudi arabia says dozens of houthi fighters have been killed during fierce fighting in southern yemen. fighters loyal to the exiled president abd rabbuh mansur hadi are trying to regain of the port city of aiden from houthi rebels. saudi arabia is restructuring the state oil company to include separating it from the oil ministry saudis or ramco is the world's largest company and comes days after a major reshuffle of the kingdom's government. now let's go to the uk where the election is taking place on thursday and that has been democrat dominated so far by the economy and immigration and registered british can cast ballots no matter where they live in the world and we report from spain where around a million britains live. >> reporter: it's still quiet
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in the little town here but soon enough the bars and restaurants will be full of european sun seekers and half of the population is british and in the bar we found some of them putting the world to rights and plenty wrong with the uk. >> people from romania say or hundreds of camps in cali and they move to australia? no. can they move anywhere in europe? yes. where they want to go. >> britain? >> yes. >> yes, they want to and to be fair probably so would i. wouldn't you? >> reporter: over the road dean shows us his contribution to spain, he founded a charity which the british people can contribute to and the money goes to the spanish poor this he says helps define the difference between the right and the wrong sort of migrants.
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an immigrant is someone who goes to somewhere else and gives a little bit back, is that what you mean? >> that tends to be the perception of most of the people that i know locally yes, it is. >> reporter: none of these people would regard themselves as racist rather than perceptions about immigration fall into a bucket of frustration and misplaced priorities a sort of rage that comes from reading too many british newspapers. if there were ever an election on the costa then a conservative party would win with the sort of numbers reserved for a central asia dictator ship and the independence policy would do well and if they had their way and britain left the eu then all these folks would probably have to go back home to the country they gave up as a lost cause. no stranger to outsiders, the ancient romans and arabs and
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moores have all colonized these shores. now the russians are busy buying up the coast and british immigrants are nothing to fear or resent. >> translator: for me right now it's fantastic because majority of my customers are from all over the place and mostly english and britain is in a good place economically and bring a lot to the area. >> reporter: you get the sense that even though british immigrants feel the old country has gone to the dogs their new home could end up a rather lonely place and looks a bit tarnished and lacking the glamour it had a half a century ago and like britain they have given up on lawrence lee. now at least 13 people have been injured during demonstrations in jerusalem, israeli jews of the origin accuse the police of brutality and of discriminating against black people in israel and we
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report. >> reporter: they came out in their hundreds, mostly israeli jews or ethiopia origin and angry at what they say was police brutality against a black israeli soldier and more than a dozen people were hurt when scuffles broke out with the police. >> glas the police brutality. the police is acting with force against us. >> reporter: in an incident last week an israeli or ethiopia decent was allegedly assaulted by immigration officers who thought he was illegal immigrant and this video sparked outrage on social media and policemen were seen beating a soldier and shows a policeman pushing him to the ground after he didn't initially obey the policeman's order and tries to help the colleague and the issue of immigrants in israel stirred controversy for many years and deliberate policies has 50%
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decline of the population of jews in the last decade the video up loaded on social media the soldier picks up a rock and threatens policeman before police backup arrives and in 2010 there was a cable from tel aviv saying 65% of ethiopia origin relied on them to survive and then they revealed many tenants in the southern city signed agreements not to sell or rent to ethiopians in 2013 israeli government admitted to injecting women with birth control treatment without their knowledge and figures this year says out of 18,000 asylum seekers mostly from africa countries were granted refugee states. protesters demanding an end to racism against black israelis. >> translator: in the year 2015 those who are weak in the land
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of israel have no reason to exist and subjected to racism and it must be stopped. >> reporter: the israeli government provides aid to some refugee groups but struggle to integrate into society and deal with the issue of nearly 50,000 in origin israeli has a fence along the border we egypt and built large detention centers to house people without the required paperwork. jerusalem protests might be over for now but unless race relations are improved that anger is likely to continue to boil over. i'm with al jazeera. now workers are on the march in traditional may day rallies, in hong kong into national workers saw demonstrators demand similar working conditions and held in indonesia and cambodia and south korea demanding more minimum wage and better living
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conditions. north korean diplomate disrupted a u.n. conference on its human rights record and has been jeered for discredit the military regime and james base has the story from u.n. headquarters in new york. >> reporter: chaotic and angry scenes at the u.n. and it all started when a north korean diplomate demanded the right to speak at a meeting on human rights in his country but the u.s. ambassador said he should wait his turn. >> you are discrediting yourself further by interrupting the proceedings. we will continue our panel and you can speak when the panel has concluded. >> reporter: but the north korean would not back down and so ambassador samantha power seemed to relent. >> i this i the audience will agree it's better to allow dprk to speak since it's a self discrediting exercise and conclude your statement and we will go back to our panel, there is no need for a microphone.
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>> reporter: so he addressed the committee room with his microphone switched off. amid occasional jeers from the crowd and had a number of defectors from north korea. then someone decided to turn the microphone back on. >> plus shut the mic down since this is not an authorized presentation. please ensure that the microphone is not live. thank you. >> reporter: the north korean continued on and on detailing what he said were human rights abuses by the u.s. even mentioning resent events in baltimore and the ambassador who organized the meeting with the south korean counterpart lost her patience. >> calling u.n. security and sir you can either conclude your remarks or you will be removed from the room. >> reporter: the crowd continued to jeer the north korean and there was applause as he stopped just as u.n. security officers arrived. >> it must be chilling for you
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subjected to terror of the regime to be confronted with bullying and disruption and the kind of behavior that we saw today. >> reporter: what happened in the committee room shows north koreans' determination to counter any criticism of its human rights record, however that subject is now on the u.n. security council agenda and it's a subject many nations want to continually raise here in new york. james base, al jazeera, the u.n. now the emergency is not over for people living near a volcano in southern chile. they have been ordered to leave their homes again after another eruption and gerald tan has more. >> reporter: the fearry of calbooko erupting for the third time in eight days, the volcano in chile belched out rock and smoke. >> translator: it was
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impressive and never seen anything like it poor people. >> reporter: the latest irruptured shun -- eruption prompted leaving around volcano and they just returned to their homes following two blasts of last week and blanketed the region with ash and disrupted air travel. >> translator: we are here in the shelter because of the volcanos eruption and we are a bit scared but as soon as things improve i believe i will be able to return to my house. >> reporter: it had been dormant for nearly 50 years before rumbling back to life last wednesday. >> translator: the seismic intensity is lower than the two others particularly the first, the ash cloud reached no more than four kilometers in height remember the first reached 17 kilometers and ash will affect areas south of the volcano. >> reporter: thursday's
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eruption was not as powerful metrologist warn of rain and could lead to volcanic mud flows capable of wiping out everything there, gerald tan with al jazeera. you can go to al jazeera website and keep up to date with the stories at al jazeera.com. hello, i'm ray suarez, harper lee published one novel "to kill a mockingbird." it's been printed millions of times around the world in the past 50 years. now it turns out lee had another book in her, and it comes out this summer. continuing the story of scout, sttacus finch, boo radially and tom robinson who came to life in the hollywood classic. months away from its release, it's
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