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the skies above cape canaveral in florida. it came back down to earth. the test was to prove passengers would be kept out of hammer's way should there be problems during launch. they plan to put passengers into orbit by 2017. for more go to www.aljazeera.com. >> some say the trial wasn't fair. >> i'm jennifer glasse in a camp for displaced afghans in kabul. some 850,000 people displaced by war and that number will continue to grow.
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>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris. maryland governor larry hogan lifted the state of emergency after a week that. >> i'm asking the department of justice to see if our police department has engaged in a pattern of stops searches and arrests that violate the fourth amendment. i'm asking that they investigate what systemic changes or systemic changes exist within our--challenges exist within our police department that can contribute to excessive fourth and disin a tore and discriminatory policing. i would hold those accountable
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if change is not made. we cannot be timid in addressing this problem and i'm a mayor that does not shy away from our city's big challenges. at no other time in our city's recent history has any administration brought this level of resources to the table. >> yesterday attorney general loretta lynch went to baltimore where she pledged to help the police department. in yemen more than 30 airstrikes hit two provinces right near the border of saudi arabia. the saudi coalition said that it's in response to houthis firing mortars and rockets at a saudi town. we have the latest from riyadh. >> the houthis are not engaged in some lulls of fighting in the
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area. but when we look at the latest developments as the houthis have been able to strike inside saudi arabia and inflict damage in civilian areas for the first time it is unlikely that the saudi also accept to stop toker the airstrikes cross yemen. they may accept to do that in some parts. they've been talking recently about safe zones inside yemen where the humanitarian relief can be brought, stored and distributed. but it is a problem because they have to put troops on the ground to protect those distribution points. they haven't yet clarified how they're going to do that in the light of the heavy fighting there, and the houthis there in the cities and in many areas of the yemen. yet, they're going to discuss this tonight with john kerry who is arriving here. the americans, of course, are going to push for a kind of trust or a kind of stop in the airstrikes that will allow the humanitarian aid to be brought there. the saudis are going to insist,
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probably that they're going to maintain their airstrikes, and continue them, at least near the border as we have seen in the last 24 hours. >> in rade, secretary of state john kerry is set to talk, he praised the country's efforts to fight extremeism in south africa. netanyahu has been busy trying to win over smaller parties to secure a majority in particle. netanyahu's likud party won in march but not enough seats to rule. >> right now he's eight members of knessett short of 61.
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he's trying to convince naphtali bennet to minimize his appetite. >> what we're going to see with this next coalition no matter if it's 61 or 67 or however many people end up joining the coalition is you're going to see a shift to the extreme right reflecting the positions of israelis. the vast majority of israelis have voted for these people. they voted for parties that don't believe that palestinians should have any rights to freedom. >> if netanyahu cannot form a government by the end of the day, the president will ask someone else to form a coalition, likely the zionist union, which came in second in the voting. in afghan the court sentenced four men to death for their roles in the killing of woman. she was accused of burning the
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qur'an. caroline malone has the story. >> the murder trial has been closely watched in afghanistan. 49 people including policemen were on trial. the case was televised. four people have been given the harshest punishments. >> we've sentenced each of you to capital punishment, death. our decision on these four people is not definite. they have the right to appeal. >> the woman was wrongly accused of burning the qur'an. she was brutally attacked in march. they beat and kicked her and then set her body on fire. hundreds of people watched. some people even recorded it on their phones. that evidence was used in the case. a sign has been put up in central kabul where the attack happened and a shrine has been built on the river bank where she was burned. afghan women carried her coffin at the funeral breaking with tradition. thousands of people demonstrated
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in afghanistan and other parts of the world call forgive justice. many of them were angry not only at the crime, but that it happened in public while the police were present. 19 policemen are also on trial. some of them say they called for back up but that none came. they are verdicts and possible sentencing are due on sunday. caroline malone, al jazeera. >> nigerian troops have rescued 25 more women and children from boko haram but it is unclear if any of them are the school girls kidnapped one year ago. army officials say that many fighters were killed in the operation of the sambisa forest this morning. 700 women and children have been rescued from boko haram in the last week. italian rescuers today picked up hundreds more migrants in the medicine mediterranean. the u.n. security council is considering a resolution that would authorize the e.u. to seize boats from smugglers.
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some e.u. leaders have proposed destroying those boats before they're used. despite the dangerous the number of migrants risking their lives to reach the european shores continue to rise. mothers with children continue to face the hardship. >> they didn't know each other before but now they're leaving together. this is the only space available at the detention center. outside hundreds of men are roaming the corridor. the days are long. there is nothing much for them to do other than to think about their lives. >> she set out from mogadishu with her younger sister. >> i need everything, and they killed my father. i don't know where my mother is. then i have to live a better life. >> to get this far the women have crossed several borders often without travel document and little money. their last leg was through the
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sahara desert in libya. most of them hidden in the back of a truck like this one. often hidden under bails of hay. some were robbed. others raped. exhaustion is etched on faces. this woman traveled with her two children from niger. she just arrived here but won't talk to us. at 16-year-old aisha plains what they have been through. >> we don't eat anything. only water. not food. they beat us sometimes. they think we're animals. we're not people. >> the women here have different reasons for their or deals. for one, it's about getting an education and feeling safe. >> i want to study and be a doctor but it don't come true. i'm 15, and i don't know the alphabet. where should i stay? there is no place for me in this world. where i go there is war.
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i think time is going by, and i still haven't gone to school. now i'm in prison. >> these women don't know exactly where they are in libya but perhaps the most difficult part is not knowing for how long they will be held in this room. many complain that they have not been able to speak to their families for days. sometimes weeks. they worry no one knows where they are. >> we need to go. everybody people have problems. every people have problems. we need just to. >> thethey are resilient and despite everything they will continue to wander, looking for safety wherever it may be. al jazeera. >> a new allegation today about the co-pilot investigators say deliberately crashed a plane in the french alps.
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andreas lubitz practiced crashing the plane. an oil train has derailed in north dakota. the tiny town of hemdale has been evacuated. it involved an oil train with 109 cars. five are said to be burning. there have been no reports of any injuries in the derailment. last ditch bid for votes. making the final push in one of the closest elections in recent memory. and wiped off the map. an once vibrant town is now only has a few survivors.
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>> so the nhl out with its findings from deplate gate. whether the patriots infencely
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deplated football during the afc championship game back in january. it says it is likely patriots employees broke the rules and that quarterback tom brady was aware. but generally cleared the team of cheating. team owner robert kraft put out a statement saying in part that his team did nothing up appropriate. it is the last day of campaigning in the united kingdom where polls show tomorrow's election is exceptionally close. at this point own one thing is clear. no party is likely to secure an outright majority. >> in north london, wealthy and liberal. in this era of coalition politicians some 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
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didn't have to get the support of the scottish nationalists. >> yes. >> you hit it on the head. >> this election uniquely in the u.k. is forcing to get the parties which are like apples and oranges and that makes things potentially very messy. if the opinion polls are right there is no math ticks that would allow the coalition the majority in. and this late in the day leading conservatives to question the moral authority or legitimacy of that arrangement. the conservatives are full of talk of constitutional crisis. the opponents of the scottish national party are take together
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airwaves arguing that the public would prefer a government that keeps the u.k. together even if it doesn't have the majority. >> that's what gives the moral high ground. but he still has to have a healthy number of mps. >> in the corridors of power senior civil servants have been hard at work reminding politicians that rules are rules rules, and only the majority in parliament is going to count at the end. >> the idea to exclude the snp scotland has voteed that's a fact of life that has to be taken into account. >> if all this was simple then the party with the biggest gang would claim victory but the book makers aren't sure and implies this is not simple at all. >> the death toll from the devastating earthquake in nepal is rising. at least 7500 people have been killed. the once pus bustling
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mountainside is now covered in rubble. rescuers fear that the town may have no survivors. >> it's a valley that leads to what was one of the most popular places in nepal. few would want to go there now. what you see below used to be a large bustling village. trekkers from all over the world traveled here. local people made a good living out of their presence. now there is nothing left. one earthquake followed by an avalanche destroyed everything. the massive glacier came crashing down the mountainside within seconds of the earthquake completely annihilating this village. no one here survived. it's a grim eerie atmosphere, and for the recovery workers working day after day in this, hard to imagine what they're going through. a spanish search team has now arrived to help. so far they've only found body parts. nepal's special forces have been leading the operation here. >> there were 180 locales here.
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and 250 foreign tourists. we found 42 local bodies, and then nepal nepalese people and furniturist bodies. >> seven bodies are waiting for identification. nepalese and foreigners amongst them. morning embassies are anxiously trying to trace missing people, but an enormous if not impossible task lies ahead. finding and identifying all of the bodies. a large number of people living here had sent their children to boarding school leaving many orphans. >> the problem for them, they lost their family, their property everything, so it's really a shock for them. it's difficult to survive. >> the only positive here is this building. ahead of the village still standing backed up against the mountainside. two elderly people and three children survived.
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they've now left. leaving only the bodies and searches behind. andrew simmons. al jazeera. nepal. >> in indonesia rescue teams are searching for nine people missing after an avalanche. at least four people were killed in a mudslide in west java. local media say 200 people were living in the village that was hardest hit. the landslide caused a geothermal pipe to nap setting off an explosion. a number of people have been displaced in their own country due to violence. 11million people were displaced in 2014 alone. jennifer glasse has the story of people displaced in afghanistan. >> he came to kabul six years ago. brutal fighting between the taliban and nato forces forced him out of his village in helmand province. >> we're safer hear. there is no fighting. it is calm here. no one will balm us, but life is
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very hard here. >> he said there isn't enough work to earn enough to feed his family. a common problem in this sprawling camp on the edge of the capital. most here thought this would be a temporary stop like this man who has been here for five years. >> i didn't think we would be here for long. i thought i would be here for a month or two. we hoped our village would be peaceful so we could go back. now we don't even think about going home. >> there is no school. most of the children are illiterate and for many this is the only home they've ever known. the united nations says 800,000 afghans are displaced because of war and the continued fighting means that more will flee their homes this year. >> about two weeks ago this woman and her four daughters and two sons fled fighting in helmand province with only what they were wearing. she said the fighting in southern afghanistan made it too dangerous to stay. and about the same time in northern afghanistan hundreds of
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taliban fighters averaged an offensive where they're fighting thousands of afghan soldiers and police. the civilians are caught in the middle. >> our entire village is falling into the hands of the taliban. our houses have been burned and destroyed. >> 10,500 families have left their homes in a matter of weeks. there are no dispoliced camps in the city so people have moved in with relatives and friends some living 20 to a room. local officials say no aid has arrived yet. the united nations anticipate as many as 150,000 more afghans will become displaced in their own country this year, where there is conflict, one official said. there is displacement. jennifer glasse, kabul. >> coming up, tracking the health of the nation's hispanics yield surprising results and preparing for the worse, a spacex trial in case anything
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goes wrong. that's next.
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>> the national survey on the health of hispanic, there was a real disconnect between those who need care and those who receive it. >> maria immigrated from south america 30 years ago. the 54-year-old said she has a number of health issues. >> i have arthritis high collect traditional and diabetes and i have it all. >> on top of that she has no health insurance. >> it would be great if everyone could get obamacare. i didn't qualify because my husband made $23,000. he needed to make less. >> her story is shared by many hispanic the nation's fastest growing ethnic group. now the center is putting hispanic healthcare risks and
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the microscope. in its first-national report according to the cdc heard december disease and cancer are the highest for hispanic. hispanics live longer than whites hispanic don't smoke. >> one doctor said one of the biggest hurdles for his patients is the cost of healthcare and knowing what services are available to them. >> this is one of the biggest barriers. they don't have access. they usually try to avoid to go to the doctor because of the expense of living to have.
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>> hispanics are nearly three times as likely to be uninsured than whites, but many programs like the one dr. nunez runs makes it available. >> coming here is good. because i get the medication much cheaper than other clinics. >> early intervention at community based health centers is key to helping latinos protect their health. >> and here in new york city construction is almost complete on a very tall and very skinny skyscraper. that's the latest building trend. it's packing a lot of room into a very small space. but as jake ward tells us pulling that off requires tremendous advances in engineering. >> i'm nearly 1400 people in the
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air in sort of the cutting edge of high-end residential living. in the future we're going to be living at this incredible altitude if we make enough money. this building, manages to stay at this height because a combination of systems. it has a central core. but the exterior of the building the outer limits acts as an outer tube. and they're connected at five different points throughout this 9 of story monstrous building. now the things about it is that your great enemy of building a building of this size is not the basic logistics. it is hard enough to get water at this height. you need high-end pipes. you needle aggravators that can go fast enough that you're not spending all day getting down to get your dinner or breakfast. but the great difficulty, the
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thing that they really worry about is wind. when you're spending millions of dollars to live in a place like this you cannot be sitting there with your cup of coffee and having the whole thing moving back and forth on you. but the thing is you can't stop the building from actually moving. all you can do is slow it down. that's the trick. they use a combination of systems that interior and exterior rigidity. the thickness of the floor and the way it connects in the five points throughout the building, and then they have a dampening system on the roof where weights are hung from a flexible material and when the building is pushed by wind those two weights sort of counter act that motion. all of that serves to make this not only the kind of place where you can, you know, hang out and look across the entire state of new jersey the way we can. but it also means that your coffee is not going to move in
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your cup. you won't feel sea sick. this makes it the future of high-end residential living. >> you can see jake's hole whole report tonight. freight liner inspiration is now licensed to operate on an open public highway. the driver can put on its auto pilot on the highway. and an spectacular launch for spacex. >> the test is meant to simulate how astronauts would abort the spacecraft if it were to launch. this time the rocket was unmanned but they plan to begin launching astronauts in 2017. that is all of our time. thanks for watching.
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i'm tony harris in new york. the news continues live from london. >> four men are sentenced to death over the killing of a