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erican dream. "hard earned". premiers tomorrow, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> part of our month long look at working in america. "hard earned". a spate of bombings across iraq's capital, 21 people have been killed since thursday. hello, i'm richelle carey in doha. new evidence that syria's government is using chlorine gas on its own people. are and
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also coming up on the program, european boats save another 2500 from drowning in the mediterranean. >> and i was the better fighter. >> and the most expensive bout in history. first suicide car bomb detonated near restaurants and cafes full of customers. the second in the same neighborhood. baghdad has seen a spate of bombings in the last couple of days. near restaurants and shops in baghdad's shia neighborhood of paladea. killing five people, another car bomb near an ice cream shop
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killed four people in the shia neighborhood of shirea, and another killed seven people, and south of baghdad a bomb blast near a cafe killed three people. baghdad provinceial leader is blaming dislaced sunnies for those conducting the wave bombings.this is what he says, that there is a link between the recent attacks in baghdad and the displaced peams. we'llpeoples, we'll have more. coalition forces of rebel groups backed by turkey qatar and saudi arabia had been making gains if
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the conflict. syria last september a fact finding mission from the global chemical watchdog opcew color only gas had better than used on attacks in three villages earlier in 2014 but did not assign blame for those attacks but the u.s. and other western powers blame the government saying no other party has the ability to deliver the attacks. hashem ahelbarra has the report. >> reporter: it's the second alleged chemical attack on the town this week, and it's not first time the syrian opposition has raised concerns.
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in 2013, united nations investigators confirmed the use of serin nerve agent outside the syrian capital damascus without establishing who carried out the attack. the u.s. and many other countries though have repeatedly accused the government of bashar al-assad of attacking the people with chemical weapons. accusations dismissed by the leadership in damascus. last month, united nations security council ambassadors were shown this video. doctors trying to revive three child victims of an apparent chlorine gas attack. it was too late. rebels say chemical attacks have increased in northern syria, following major gains by the opposition in idlib province.
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this is a military parade on the outskirts of damascus, the biggest show of syrian rebels only weeks after capturing the city of idlib. the army of islam is tasked once the regime of bashar al-assad is toppled. >> translator: today we stand united against the iranians, they want to establish a syrian state here, and i can assure you we will defeat them. >> army of conquest to capture idlib.
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now their people are set on attack here. is the u.s. has in the past refrained from arming syrian opposition fighters. it was concerned about weapons landing in the hands of groups like the nusra front. but nusra is now joining moderate groups in their fight to repel i.s.i.l. from syria. is saudi arabia, qatar and turkey provide significant assistance for syria's rebels. i.s.i.l. rebels still hold ground in major cities. more rebel groups are now considering joining forces to defeat assad. hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera. is >> the syrian observatory for human rights says the coalition has killed nearly 52 civilians in it also says children were among those killed and not a single i.s.i.l. fighter was injured. no confirmation of the report but it is investigating these
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claims. joins us live from baghdad and we certainly appreciate your time. the government says what's happening is i.s.i.l. is basically embedded, among displaced sunnies who are trying to flee safety, does that ring true for you is there any proof on that? >> well, first of all let's speak on frank basis. there is humanitarian crisis, which is very obvious for anyone in the world that are about 250 250,000 and has been displaced from theirs homes because of the fighting with i.s.i.s. and i.s.i.s. has occupied their territories, this is first. and secondly, this is a very important issue is that they must have camps or some sort of support, governmental support for their resistance to be an
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iraqi lived on the iraqi home land. which is also very important issues is being done if there is any infiltration of i.s.i.s. inside these refugees or inside these, it is the government to do everything to help them and to try convince the who must help i.s.i.s. who is infiltrate inside them which is a very important issue. and that's why the problem is now, there is no real governmental support for them. what happened is actually the sunni political ngos and even some sunni institutions that support these refugees, or these displaced im impirian. we are talking about the whole security situation in baghdad and also in iraq, there is a
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real infiltration of i.s.i.s. inside not only the sunni area but also inside the shia area, the shia governed areas. it cannot be stopped by only security measurements. it also can be stopped by political issues, by political institutions of the sunni more sharing the decision inside the cabinet, inside the iraqi cabinet and that's why it started from ten years there is no real responsible government for the iraqis for the whole rakes. >> mr. rashi let's go back to what you were saying about the humanitarian crisis. i.s.i.l. seems to be creating the humanitarian crisis and they're allowed to exploit it as well, because the government isn't doing enough to specifically address the humanitarian crisis, to i have that right? >> yes yes right but then the government has its own
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responsibility to have the plans to stop such harsh normal responsibility of the any government in the world. but what's happened now is that they don't have a real measurement against what's happening for omvarian, at the same time they are claiming that there are infiltrations inside them inside these displaced families and thirdly they are trying to make some measurements some security measurements on them by opening the streets for militia, to target anyone, that it is -- belongs to the ombau. all these things, all these measurements show us that we have a major security failure. we need, we need a real planning for what's happening in iraq. because at the end there will be also not the i.s.i.s. infiltration but also there will be outside agenda that will be implanted inside iraq.
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>> house of iraqi expertise foundation thank you very much. egypt's army says it has killed 29 fighters in 11 days of raid in northern sinai. 133 suspects have also been arrested, in a year long crack down. groups based in sinai have been attacking egyptian security forces since president mohamed morsi was overthrown in 2013. gaining ground inglens against houthi rebels. after fierce battles. the region has been under rebel controls since march. yemenis can now be granted vee isvisasto work legally.
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mohamed val has the story. >> wanted by immigration police but the status of these estimated half omillion illegal immigrants from yemen is about to change. the background, caused by the war in yemen. in march a saudi led coalition launched a air strikes against yemen hundreds of civilians have died and thousands have lost their livelihoods and homes. saudi officials say about 30,000 yemenis arrive in saudi arabia every month. saudi arabia says the legalization is a brotherly gesture to the people in yemen. >> we escaped harsh conditions
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in yemen but it is even harsher here. i think king's initiative would be very good for us. >> ali spends some of his time helping food vendors like this one. when they don't need him he wanders the streets look for work. like hadi, this young man wanders the streets looking for work. >> you have to buy right to work. >> they worry about the loved ones they left in conflint conflict in yemen. >> when they come here to send the hard earned fruits of their labor to their family back home.
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>> providing up to $1.4 billion for their families at home. this accounts for 4.2% of the gdp in a country where more than 50% of the population lives under the poverty line. the additional half million without legal papers, even though they make less money. the king's decision is likely to boost both economic status and a better chance of survival for their families. mohamed val, al jazeera acknowledge riyadh. >> a trial has gun in kabul of a lynch mob. prosecutors say 27-year-old farkunda was beaten to death and her charred body thrown into the river after she was accused of burning the koran.
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about 300 nigerian women and children being held captive by the armed group boko haram have been brought back, ownership 600 women's and children the nigerian army sea they captured this week. they included two newborns. >> we can tell you the majority of them are children. they are mostly -- they are all women and children. but the majority are children. >> still ahead. on al jazeera. a festive baltimore rallies in hope after police are charged with a man's death. plus we are live in nepal after survivors cope a week after the earthquake. earthquake.
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>> every day is another chance to be strong. >> i can't get bent down because my family's lookin' at me. >> to rise, to fight and to not give up. >> you're gonna go to school so you don't have to go war. >> hard earned pride. hard earned respect. hard earned future. >> we can not afford for one of us to lose a job. we're just a family that's trying to make it.
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>> a real look at the american dream. "hard earned". premiers tomorrow, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> part of our month long look at working in america. "hard earned". >> welcome back. you are watching al jazeera. our stop stories right now. at least 13 people have been killed in two explosions in baghdad. these bombs went off just minutes apart in a popular commercial area of the city. one of the explosions was a suicide car bomb that detonated a restaurant and cafe filled with customers. syrian activists say government helicopters have been attacking people with chlorine gas. the attacks happened friday night in in idlib province.
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about 300 nigerian women and children held captive by the armed group boko haram nigerian army rescued them last week. a victory rally in baltimore, the celebrations in the u.s. city followed the decision to prosecute six police officers after the death of freddy gray. john hendren reports. >> what a difference a day makes. >> it will end at city hall no matter what. >> reporter: when the marchers did reach city hall a day after six officers were charged in the death of freddy gray, thousands filled a street and a neighboring park. in a country where homicide charges against police are rare and convictions even rarer
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demonstrators consider the charges themselves a victory. >> it is a rallying point for us to continue to seek justice. we want justice and whatever that looks like we can accept it. >> reporter: but there was also an air of relieved celebration. this couple making a statement beyond they are wedding vows. >> this is something i have to live in this country. >> i am japanese but my husband is black. >> in new york, chicago ferguson missouri, and other towns where unarmed black men have been killed by police, the celebrants are black and white. >> my grandmother was a young woman during the you know civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s and i wanted to ask her when i was in school what she did and it turned out she didn't really do much of anything.
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that was disappointing. i don't want to say i did nothing when my grandchildren asked me what i did. >> representatives of the police officers union called this a rush to judgment. a case that followed a pattern of white police officers brutalizing young black men took an unexpected turn when the photographs revealed three are black. that changes nothing isn't a case about black and white it's about blue, police when you and brutality against african americans. >> everybody needs to be treated with dignity and respect no matter what your ethnicity. where you come from. >> when the verdicts come down for officers charged in a police system where brutality against
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blacks is hard to prove. john hendren, al jazeera. >> the magnitude 7.8 struck one week ago. more than 7,000 people are known to have died and 14,000 injured. fez jamil is live in kathmandu. aid is not getting to them, where do things stand on that right now? >> well, the biggest problem is the last mile of connectivity. we had about 40 medical and relief trucks leave kathmandu just yesterday alone but the furthest any of them were able to make it were the district headquarters. they are not able to travel on the highway because the landslides from last week are still blocking the road. the furthest they get is the district headquarters and supplies literally just sit
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there. infrastructure in nepal is not good to begin with. travel in these areas could take two to three hours this was last week, and since then it is taking even longer and that in itself is causing delays. >> relief has not gotten to people the number, the death toll we still don't really know. >> that's correct that's one of the fearsful people have. the government -- fears many people have. many helicopters have gone to these areas but there is no place for them to land because the terrain just couldn't handle it. so the big issue is they have gone to some isolated areas they have found people alive but they are worried the further they go in the longer it takes to get othese areas the death
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toll may climb. >> that's fez jamil in kathmandu, that up. more lives have been saved from the mediterranean sea italian and french navy as well as coast guard ships spotted them off the coast of libya unprecedented numbers this year. john vops siropolous explains. >> it's the end of a long and dangerous journey. the greek coast guard pluks plucks these 34 syrians from a life raft. >> i am coming from dead. i am and my family. coming from dead. i want any any any 50.
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>> these people have seen their family murdered. they spent all their savings on this crossing, $3500 but others choose to bypass the smugglers. all they had was this dinghy. it is only five and a half kilometers from turkey, the coast guard has picked up 1500 people so far more than it collected all of last year, that's because tactics have changed. >> last year we were facing a kind of invasion of very fast boats with a smuggler on board. and a kind of a sophisticated transportation. and we needed to deploy our means, our patrol boats in order to be able to tackle the situation, also to make some hot
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pursuits as well. >> smugglers tried to bulletproof their casings in vein. a new method was to put their clients in a rubber dinghy. maritime law demands they be rest constitute. temporarily housing and feeding people in this disused hotel. there is no floor space in the lobby, the mayor says he's shaving money off the budget to feed these people. >> they are also worried how is cost going to absorb all of these arrivals. >> reporter: 90% of these arrivals are from war zones greece and the united nations want them to be screened before
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they cross and sent legally to europe but no such policy is being aired in brussels yet. john siropolous, al jazeera in the aegean. >> 38-year-old american floyd mayweather relyied on his counterpunching to win $180 million. after the match he announced his retirement as boxers often do. and said this box this september will be his final match. our sports producer andy richardson. my apologies i'm a little excited about this. let's get it from andy. went the distance. any surprise there?
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>> from a sports spirit, any rendition of the national anthem anthem. mayweather and pacquiao, very predictable. mayweather very controlled. but pacquiao at 36, he has had notable defeats not quite the fight are he once was. didn't have the ambition to really hurt mayweather. this is a sport that's hid be to many behind a payperview window. those who may not have watched boxing, some saw the fight via payperview. what was the fuss really about? mixed martial arts encroaching on boxing.
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>> if i just said a moment ago floyd mayweather has already announced his impending retirement. the song and dance in boxing. what is next for these fighters? >> he loves money floyd money mayweather. he's talked about how much money he has earned and how delighted he was with that. his record at the moment is 48 and 0. the great rocky marciano was 49 and 0. whether or not this was the first for a rematch of this fight, pacquiao has been talking about the fact he came into this fight with a bit of an injury. the judges were perhaps a bit harsh on him. but sequels point to the originals, and i think he will fight again mayweather, whether or not pacquiao does or not i
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