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tech >> reporter: when the massive earthquake shook nepal, his house collapsed, burrying his two-year-old daughter with it. >> translator: the image of my daughter running to my sweets is playing in my mind. i have to fight the pain of not having her anymore, and on the ordeal with the loss of my home. >> reporter: he is from a velage in central nepal thousands of men from his district have been working in the middle east and malaysia, most as laborers. his construction company has given him one month leave and a one-way ticket home. when he returns he will have to
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pay them back. after six hours, he finally reaches his village. almost all of its houses have been reduced to rubble. this is his older daughter four year old rosie. this is his family. the two year old was sleeping around here when the earthquake happened, and her grandmother was the only one around. it took almost two hours for everyone to gather to dig out the baby and by the time they took her to the hospital they pronounced her dead. his wife was with her older daughter washing clothes in a riverbed when the earthquake hit. she can't even bring herself to say that her daughter is dead. she just keeps saying she is
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sleeping. >> translator: i don't know how i made it back home. when i got back my daughter was in the field, sleeping. it rained all day. we waited with her in the rain. in the evening they took her away. >> reporter: but even during this grief, she knows she has to be practical. he has to go back she has. they have crippling loans. he has to earn and she says she'll take care of the house. but he is concerned. >> translator: what if the company does not call me back. i won't be able to go anywhere else to work what will i do? >> reporter: he has taken these pictures with him to qatar. now they are the only ones the family has. once he goes back to work he says he will be able to send enough money to rebuild his house, but he says no amount of money will help him fill the
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void in his heart. israel's prime minister is struggling to form a new government after a former ally withdrew his support, leaving him short of the majority. he has less than five hours to present his new coalition to the president. mike hannah has more. >> reporter: israel's parliament has begun summer session, but as of yet there is still no government in place. benjamin netenyahu's party has 30 seats, but he needs the backing of another 31 members to secure majority support. it's largely because of this man that netenyahu is struggling. long-time ally announced earlier this week that he would not be part of the coalition. effectively taking six seats that netenyahu so desperately needed to the opposition. >> translator: this proposed
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coalition does not reflect the demands of the national camp and therefore, i have decided to resign as foreign minister and clearly we are not joirning this coalition. >> reporter: the mayor reason for the desertion. netenyahu's decision to include the ultra orthodox religious party in his colotion. they demanded the reinstatement of special privileges. it was precisely these privileges that lieberman and other members successfully fought against in flefous government. netenyahu has also signed a coalition agreement with [ inaudible ] and promised the most of finance minister to the leader. he still needs eight seats to secure a majority.
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this man controls exactly eight seats. he heads the jewish home party comprised mainly of settlers and regarded as extreme right-wing even in the israeli political spectrum. and well aware of its present power, he is seeking a number of privileges from netenyahu, not the least the position of justice minister. few would have envisioned in situation 40 days ago when netenyahu claimed a sweeping victory, and pledged to form a strong government. at best now we'll have a one-seat majority and a weak government. mike hannah al jazeera, jerusalem. ♪ now just a day away from the u.k. election and the voters is
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[ inaudible ]. many are predicting a [ inaudible ] parliament and the mud slinging has already begun. let's go to lawrence lee outside parliament. tell us what kind of mud they have been throwing around. >> reporter: it's extraordinary, lauren the questions are being raised about the nature of democracy frankly. remember how it is supposed to work here. 650 parliamentary seats in the house of commons, if a party wants to form a government it has to get a majority. that 326 seats in parliament and then they can go to the queen and say we want to form a government and she says fine off you go. but that's why the scottish national party has become such a problem for the prime minister david cameron, because they have had such a successful campaign. none of the two big parties can form a coalition government
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without their support. and david cameron doesn't want that to happen because they want independence. he and his supporters have now come close to suggesting that the threat from the scottish nationalist is such that the future of the united kingdom that it would be better to exclude them from power even if it might mean a minority government and even if it meant ripping up the rule book. north london a very wealthy and liberal area the lab leader comes from around here and his party is trying to hang on to his constituency but some labor supporters don't like the idea of their party doing deals with those who would chop down the united kingdom. would you vote labor if they didn't have to get the support of the scottish nationalists? >> yes, definitely. >> reporter: this election is forcing together parties which are like apples and oranges, and
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that makes things potentially very messy. if the opinion polls are right there is almost no math mat ticks that would allow the conservative party to get a majority in parliament. the labor party could, but only with the support of the scottish nationalists and they want independence from the united kingdom, and it is that that is leading people to question the moral legitimacy of this arrangement. the scottish enemy is holding the levers of power. >> the leader joins me now. mr. craig have you had any sleep. >> reporter: opponents are taking to the airwaves arguing that the public would prefer a government that keeps the u.k. together even if it can't get a majority. so that's what gives cameron what he claims is the moral high
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ground. but he still has to have a healthy number of mp's. >> reporter: but senior civil servants have been hard at work reminding politicians that rules are rules, and only a majority in parliament is going to count in the end. >> the idea that you can exclude the smp, this is not a democracy. if scotland voted for them they voted for them. >> reporter: if all of this was simple then the party with the biggest gang would claim victory, but the book makers can't sure and that implies that this isn't simple as all. >> what is cameron's strategy in raising this question of legitimacy? >> reporter: i think there's two parts. before the vote and then after the vote. before the vote he is trying to put as fear into the electoral rate as he can. he is trying to drag potentially labor votes from the left and
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for millions of u.k. independence voters to the right to the conservative party to try to stop this from happening. but if that doesn't happen then he is going to have to call on his friends in the right-wing media as to what it would look like in this country if the scottish nationalists had power in this country. >> thank you. it has been almost 120 years since the first movie screening at this theater in london. and now the film reels will be rolling once again. >> reporter: welcome back to a bygone age of cinema. ♪ >> reporter: this is london's regent street cinema set to reopen after a multi-million dollars refit. it was here in 1896 that the brothers showcased their famous
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movie at the start of its world tour. >> i imagine people might have been quite squared, and i mean it must have been extraordinary, just the darkness and then something moves towards you. i think it must have been just -- just -- you know dream like. instead of beautiful and extraordinary, like a spectacle circuit. >> reporter: it will know everything from silent film to restored classics and modern art house. this old building giving new audiences just a taste of how it fight have felt to see that first moving image. >> it is a little bit magical, i think, and to know that we're reopening a cinema where the first film was screened to 54 people who are just normal every day people to have that history behind us is
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extraordinary. >> reporter: within months of the first outing here in regent street it was being used to film the coronation in moscow. that was news footage that appealed far more widely than these clips. >> they were all films of actuality, but it was being able to see news from abroad that brought people back to the kin kin -- cinema. >> reporter: it also showed the first x-rated video. commercial space exploration company, spacex has taken another step towards putting an astronaut into orbit.
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it went high into the skies, the capsule then parachuted back to earth before slashing down. it was to prove that they would fire its passengers out of harm's way should there be any problems during launch. there is more on our website, the address is aljazeera.com. the saudi lead coalition launches a barrage off air strikes into yemen. after houthis fired into saudi arabia. four afghan men sentenced to death for in a camp kabul. some of the 850,000 people displayed by war in afghanistan, and the continued
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