tv News Al Jazeera May 12, 2015 9:00am-10:01am EDT
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>> hello welcome to the news hour from doha. here's what's coming up in the next 60 minutes: >> we hope that a ceasefire will hold. >> iran calls for a truce in yemen as the new u.n. envoy arrives in sanna. >> a new earthquake hits in nepal. dozens of people have been killed. >> no refuge, indonesia will
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send back every bolt carrying migrants. >> john kerry visits russia for the first time since the falling out over ukraine and syria. >> hello so the new u.n. envoy to yemen arrived in the capitol sanna. iran said it backs a truce call for an immediate resumption of attacks between pro government forces and houthi rebels. >> any ceasefire and any halt on the military operations is supported by iran to help the victims of this war which are innocent children and women. this ceasefire must turn into a permanent ceasefire and talks to form an inclusive government should immediately resume. >> an iranian ship is on its way packed with aid and journalists
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part of a humanitarian mission carried out by the red crescent society as well as iran. we are joined from iran. tell us what you are hearingerring about the ceasefire that is meant to take effect in a couple of hour's time. >> the situation on the ground is escalating, the saudi-led coalition intensified airstrikes over the last 48 hours targeting top houthi military commanders and deposed president ali abdullah saleh. the houthis have been saying that the airstrikes are a crime against civilians and that they are committed to continue their fight to defend yemen. people which pretty much concerned what happens, whether the ceasefire will come into effect and whether it will hold. the biggest concern now is that because of the fighting, which is taking place almost
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everywhere in yemen people are concerned that both of the houthis and forces loyal to president hadi might just engage in further fighting, which could result in the collapse of the ceasefire if it comes into effect. >> i have some questions about whether it comes into effect and whether it is going to stick. what do we know about the new u.n. envoy to yemen and what he is proposing to bring about a political solution? >> the united nations nations new envoy met with french officials about how to move forward in yemen then came to riyadh and met with president hadi and saudi officials, now he's in sanna talking to the houthis. he said that he would like to see this ceasefire implemented as soon as possible and that the only way out of the crisis in yemen is political dialogue led by the yemenese between
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different factions. as we speak, there is this deepening divide between the different factions. you have on one hand, those loyal to president hadi, you have the sunni party very skeptical of the congress party led by deposed president ali abdullah saleh so i think the biggest obstacle it faces as we speak is to overcome the trust deficit between the different factions and also bring them together to talk about a political solution that is going to lead yemen in the near future. >> you talked about what was happening in the ground. we are going to play some pictures from monday evening seems it's a strike on a weapons depot. what do you know about that? >> the saudi-led coalition said it interfered targeted that area based on intelligence gathering this is an area used by the
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houthis and president ali abdullah saleh to store missiles. however, a pro houthi news agency said that the attack resulted in the death of 90 civilians around the area because of the massive explosions there. many communities were targeted. we have to take into account that in yemen there are two news agencies before i got at the same time, one under the control of the houthis and one under the control of the president hadi. >> reporting from riyadh in saudi arabia, thank you. >> more than 1400 have died in yemen since the saudi-led airstrikes began in march. thousands are suffering from a shortage of food, water and fuel. the u.n. has calls for desperately needed aid to be
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allowed in. >> much needed supplies being distributed to displaced families in central yemen. they have abandoned homes and left behind everything they owned to seek safety from the fighting. >> we started distributing relief aid to displaced families. when we managed to get to all the families, we will complete our campaign and distribute even more aid. >> the handouts, there are oil and bags of wheat tea and sugar. >> before we arrived here, we were engaged with fierce battles with houthi fighters, we had to take our families away. the families are afraid of houthis, we left everything behind, but now are suffering from water shortage and lack of basic necessities. >> further south in the port city of aden, people beg for help as they line up. >> oh people of good faith
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people of the world, we are living under siege surrounded by these houthis no water no electricity, the sewage is overflowing. our irchildren's bellies are swollen and we have no medicine, nothing. >> we hope that our brothers in charge of relief rush to aid our citizens. what we lack i guess aid and relief. >> the constant bombardment of the capitol sanna has left many homeless. muhammed and his family have been living in a sewer drain since their home was destroyed two weeks ago. >> it's underground been, the environment is bad. it's safer here than on the ground during the airstrikes. >> yemen was already one of the world's most impoverished nations but after six weeks of fighting people here are even more desperate. they'll be hoping the proposed five day humanitarian ceasefire due to start late on tuesday will hold long enough to get
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them the help they so badly need. erika wood, al jazeera. >> nepal has been shaken by another earthquake and 42 people have been killed. police say another thousand people are in hospital there. in india, 11 people have lost their lives. the epicenter of the magnitude 7.3 tell mother was near a popular stop for climbers on the trek to mount everest. the quake sent people in the capitol running from buildings. it was felt in indonesia. it's just over two weeks since nepal was devastated by a quake which killed 8,000 and injured 17,000. we have this report: >> a building that survived the earthquake from two weeks ago has come down in a spectacular way. people are trying to clear the mess around here. there are suspicions that a tax
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see and motor bike might have been buried under this rubble and it's impossible to tell right now. >> we will remove this material -- >> officials here are still afraid of what might happen. the rest of the building, there are other buildings which look very dangerous with massive cracks and those will come down if there are other after shocks. >> now joining us live to tell us how people are reacting now
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a couple of hours after the latest earthquake. >> people have finally got to a sense of normalcy and now everyone is panicking again. earlier, people were running out of their houses with their beddings and people putting out their tents to spend another night out in the open, so people are going to prepare for another night outside and people are almost expecting after shocks but now are scared of going back into their houses. many of these houses do have big cracks and before, they were quite happy well, they were going back, thinking that it was not going to fall down on them, but they are now very afraid that might happen. >> how has the emergency
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response been? >> the army, the police managed to come out immediately. at the hospital, because there were already volunteers working over there, they managed to get together and organized services much faster than it was last time. in the valley, the devastation is not as big as it was before, and around the country, also it's smaller but it's spread out this time, and emergency services are stretched. >> are we expecting more announcements of casualties, the death toll to rise? >> we are hearing it's just the beginning. there have been landslides, there are buildings where they haven't been able to remove the debris. it's going to take a while before we know how big this, the casualty rate is going to be
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because which this earth quake. >> ok, speaking to us from cat man do, thank you. >> the international organization for migration has called on southeast asian governments to find and rescue hundreds believed to be stranded at sea and at risk of death. the crimean navy redirected a boat toward the malaysian coasts saying it will not accept anymore boats carrying rohingya migrants. migrant came from bangladesh, including hundreds of children. 2,000 people reached shores in the last few days. we have this report from the malaysian island. >> this is one of three vessels that transported more than a thousand migrants from myanmar and bangladesh to the shores of malaysia this week. many were bangladeshi however
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there were more than 400 rohingya muslims many women and children, you can see clothes cooking items baby items. there's room, clearly beneath the deck as well as on top of the deck to house the passengers. the row hinge i can't muslims we spoke to told us that food and water were extremely scarce and they were often beaten, as well, police are stepping up their monitoring of the maritime borders because of reports that thousands more migrants are still out at sea. >> we are stepping up on activity to make sure that they are not illegal encroachment into malaysian waters. >> the migrants are being processed by the immigration democratic aiming to achieve immigration status. they have to be recognized as
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refugees and they have to be issued with identity cards for that to happen. >> no boats with rohingya are welcome here in malaysia. they pushed back one boat. what happened i see that the crimean military saw the boat and said there was around that a thousand on the boat and they said there were screams coming from the boat, it was a bad smell, a very bad situation. what they did is gave water food medication and some fuel and then pushed them back. earlier sunday, two boats were accepted on crimean land because these people already managed to make it ashore. this new policy the military is describing is different than in the past. since 2009, crimean has been accepting boats with rohingyas in different parts in indonesia and many have arrived a few
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thousand have arrived in indonesia and they were all accepted and handed over to the unhr or the international organization for migration. so this is a different policy right now. >> there's much more ahead on the al jazeera news hour, including gunfire reported in burundi as protests against the president's reelection plans enter a third week. live from the capitol. >> plus concerns over greece, admitting it will run out of cash in two weeks. >> the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has arrived in russia, his first visit since the start of the ukraine crisis. kerry and putin are expected to discuss iran and syria. >> allies of the murdered opposition leader boris nemtsov
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unveiled a report they say proves russian soldiers have been fighting in eastern ukraine, a charge the kremlin repeatedly denied. crossing over to rory challands from sochi we'll talk about that report, but first tell us what chance there is for a shift in u.s.-russia relations now that kerry is there. >> never say never and certainly the russians, a few politicians have been musing over the last day or two that hey, if john kerry is coming all the way over here to russia, maybe he's bringing with him softer u.s. stance against moscow, but the americans don't really seep it that way. they see it at keeping lines of communication open, the chance to bring the secretary of state over to moscow enter russia to hear from the boss, really, the big man, vladimir putin keep
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those channels of communication open not expecting any massive seismic change in relations because there is no many differences that remain between the two. we have one proffer of cooperation going on at the moment and that's iran, where the u.s. and russia have been working together with each other to get iran around the negotiating table. the u.s. wants to nail down that nuclear deal with iran before the end of june. then there are two other big issues syria and ukraine where the two different countries are still poles apart on how they view those two situations. >> speaking of ukraine russia's involvement in ukraine is now spot lighted in this report that's been put forward by russia's opposition. what can you tell us about this report and what they are hoping to achieve? >> well, remember, this report was started by boris nemtsov
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the politician shot dead in moscow in february. now, he was halfway through that report. it has now been finished by his colleagues. they've just published it and what itwhat it highlights are a series of allegations against putin's administration, first of all the military involvement in ukraine and what that has cost russia financially. so in terms of military involvement, it's been looking at paratroopers who are supposed to have been told by their commanders that they had to resign from the army and go and fight volunteers in ukraine. they were promised if they did this, if they were injured they'd make up compensation, or if they were killed, their families would get compensation. that hasn't happened. in terms of what it has actually
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cost russia, it alleges in the report that russians have lost $39 billion from their salaries, $14 billion from their savings because of sanctions. then there's the cost of the military involvement itself, $1 billion spent by the russian government funding the volunteers, the men who have gone to fight in ukraine and keeping them in the equipment that it has kept the separatists are the upper hand. >> reporting from sochi, thank you. >> to burundi now where police fired at protestors in the capitol. demonstration against the president's bid to run for a third term have been going on since last month. crossing over to malcolm webb to tell us about the protests. what is the latest. >> we are in the capitol where
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there's been heavy protesting, one of the heaviest days of protesting so far. the organizers say today and tomorrow they're pushing for an extra coverage of protestors. they really want to get their message across, because tomorrow, heads of state presidented from all around the region are going to meet in neighboring tanzania with the president from burundi here and protestors are hoping that they'll try and pressure him away from running for a third term. now a small crowd of protestors heading past and singing. scenes like this in the city today, clashing with police in some places, police are visible. the police have moved away. behind me, this is the office of the ruling party in this neighborhood, which crowds are protestors destroyed earlier. the ruling party have offices
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like this in every suburb of the stiff, through the country side, as well. people who live here who don't like the ruling party protesting against the president running for a third term smashed the building in and looted it, as well. >> where is this and the on going protest leave the election? >> the african union and european union say the election must be postponed sake it can't happen safely at the moment. the president submitted his papers last week, also one key opposition figure submitted his papers, as well. certainly in the current climate, it's hard to imagine an election going ahead with protests everywhere. opposition parties say and we've spoken to many throughout the countryside, say they have been threatened by the militia of the
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ruling party which many say is a militia. throughout the area, they are said to be in hiding because of threats of violence politically targeted from this group. in such a climate it's very difficult to hold an election that any of the opposition parties are going to say is in any way free or fair. they say the only free and fair election has to be one in which the president doesn't run because he's done his three terms. the protestors, their attention has been drown by the camera here. they came over chancing against the government, against the president. you can see, they've got a flag some, as well and some sticks. big groups like this throughout the city, most of the day some clashing with police, other places, it seems the protestors have the upper handled today and they have roadblocks built along
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the streets without the police trying to or being able to break them up. >> thank you that is the scene in the capitol of burundi. thank you. >> chads president said the war against boko haram has not been won because the armies are chad and nigeria are working separately allowing the boko haram leader to remain elusive. we have more from the nigerian capitol. >> the president came to congratulate good luck jonathan for a peaceful election at the end of march. discussions were held about how the fight against boko haram is going on. the penalty made comment saying it was regrettable there hasn't been greater coordination between chad and nigeria
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soldiers for better results. the picture given by it military bosses is quite different. they say there has been good coordination between the two countries, not just chad but other countries helping them fight boko haram niger and cameroon. it's evident in the fact that the group has been severely diminished, there have been few attacks over the last few months but in the last few weeks, we've seen the rescue of hundreds of women and girls in the region, in the forest specifically where it's believed that that is boko haram's last remaining strongest stronghold in the country. there is a sense a feeling that boko haram is soon to be over, so it's not very clear the basis on which he was talking about. he didn't give specific exampleles where there was a lack of coordination and a lack of a beyond front which he described in these comments.
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>> the u.s. says saudi arabia's king has expressed regret for not being toil a attend a high profile summit of gulf leaders hosted by the u.s. his son the crown prince will attend. the king of bahrain declined the invitation to the meeting. the white house dismissed suggestion that sing salmans absence is a diplomatic snub. >> there's been no concern raised by our saudi partners either before the change in travel plans or after related to the agenda at camp david so i know that there have been some speculation that this change in travel plans was an attempt to send a message to the united states. if so, that message was not received, because all the feedback that we've received from the saudis has been positive. >> this is pretty unusual, the
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white house never announces that people are going to be attending a summit or meeting with the president unless they're fairly confident they'll actually show up. the white house is saying that the king agreed to and that's why they announced on friday he would be is the summit and have one-on-one time with the penalty wednesday. what changed? saudi officials say the king decided to stay in saudi arabia because that will happen during the humanitarian pause in yemen but behind the scene analysts are saying this is a snub. the white house press secretary joked that he was asked so many questions about it that snub is really the word of the day at the white house. the white house has tried to down play what seems to be a pretty serious diplomatic spat saying the right people will be at the table when announcing new initiatives on defense security. >> climatologists warn that the el niño weather pattern is returning after an absence of five years carrying the threat of extreme weather to the world
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p.m. richard will explain what all that means. >> it is not straightforward it's a difficult concept but the basic idea is that el niño is associated with a warming of the waters in the pacific ocean. we've actually seen that, because typhoon nor which formed in water two degrees above average for the time of the year. these waters spread across the pacific ocean all the way towards peru. careful, if your water suddenly becomes very warm, you tend to get air rising and get low pressure. what happens under one of these is that you get a change in the pressure patterns right across the globe. it has big impact on the actual weather. this is where i come in, the weather bit. in parts of peru, we see a massive change, much wetter weather comes along whereas further towards the northeast of south america including
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colombia, it becomes very dry. the southern states see more in the way of rain certainly during the winter months. that implies snow, as well and cooler conditions. take australia where this research came from. they get droughts and cooler conditions affecting parts of the country. if you look at africa, dry there was just a story today about the lack of maze production could be down 42-50% zambia and because the el niño is on its way and will be here for at least the next 12 months at least. >> still ahead another blogger hacked to death in bangladesh and the third such killing this year. >> the french president's historic meeting with fidel
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>> a new earthquake in nepal also felt in india. >> indonesia navy commanders warn boats found carrying rohingya migrants will be sent back. 2,000 refugees have landed in indonesia and malaysia in the past 48 hours. >> there is a migrant crisis on europe's southern shores, as well. the european union appealed to the u.n. for help to deal with people smuggling seeking a mandate allowing military action to destroy smuggler's boats. tens of thousands have crossed from libya to europe this year. addressing the u.n. security council, the e.u. foreign policy chief admitted that europe has been slow to act. >> 2015 looks even worse than
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the previous year, and consider that in 2014, 3,300 migrants died trying to enter the european union by sea which means that three out of four people who perished by crossing a border in the world died in the mediterranean sea, three out of four. this tells us that our first priority is to save lives and prevent further loss of life at sea. we believe in the european union that this is a huge responsibility that we all share, not only at europeans but also globally. >> more than 30,000 migrants have arrived in italy since the beginning of the year from ports in libya. some don't intend to stay in italy, but what happens to those who do? stephanie decker followed the journey of one teenager from gambia trying to build a live in sicily. >> time seems to be standing still. he was 17 years old when he
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arrived 10 months ago from libya. he was taken to a center for minors and his dreams put on hold. >> i go to school nearly three times, i go to school. after that, when we wake up in the morning we sit without doing anything. all that has been wasting time. it's waste time, because some people before they move from our country, they are talent, they have knowledge. >> he applied for asylum, but it's a long process. italy is overwhelmed due to a lock of an organized central system to deal with tens of thousands of applications, leaving many in legal limbo. >> around 70 young people are housed here and many of them were only supposed to stay here for a short time, but there is nowhere else for them to go. they end up waiting for this lengthy legal process to play out for an extremely long time. >> these young men complain about the conditions here, four or six to a room and they often
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don't get the weekly pocket money they are promised. the people who run the center say the money drips in sporadically. >> the lock of money means they can only offer an insufficient service, not that is even a cheap one. i can't buy clothes very often and they're weekly pocket money i can only delivery every two months. some of the boys are not happy. >> they will have their dreams and this long wait means they are getting incredibly frustrated. young men usually full of energy, they're future weighs heavily. >> i came here to have good education and good life, because in the future, i will be a father. i want to take care of my family, you know. >> someone described those who are saved at sea as the invisible ones. >> it is right to take care of the people who risk their life
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at sea but then once they arrive in the port, we forget about them. they get stuck in the system and can't fulfill their hopes. this is the forgotten tragedy. there is beauty and hope against all odds, with patience and faith, they say they will wait to get the opportunities that they have risked everything for. al jazeera sicily. >> a secular blogger in bangladesh has been hacked to death by a masked gang. it's the third such killing this year. he wrote for a number of websites including one moderated by another writer killed in february. crossing over to dhaka for more about this and circumstances that led to this. >> what we know so far that
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around 9:30 or 9:00 in local time, he was attacked by four masked men. nobody knows who they were. they stabbed him brutally. by that the time he was in the hospital, he died. just a few minutes before he left the home, he left a blog saying he was critical of ruling party m.p. who made a comment about a university teacher that he will whip him that nobody knows if that had anything to do with it. we just also heard that an al-qaeda indian splinter group that twittered a claim for this particular incident. another group tweeted are also claiming indicate for this particular incident. this has been done before but nobody really knows if these people are just buying credit or they were actually involved. what the people are upset about
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is the government not so proactive about bringing these people to justice. recently, i was very critical of the government because they didn't contact her after the incident, because she was a victim in the incident and was a prime witness to the particular incident yet the government never contacted her about the details of her particular incident. >> that's what i wanted to talking to but because some critics of the government saying that they are in fact indifferent to this and it's been going on as we were saying, this is the third incident this year alone, do we expect the government to do anything or say anything now? >> absolutely. well, the government is increasing by coming under pressure not just locally, from international media, as well, because there are thousands of bangladeshi blogger and activists who now feel quite threatened, so the government that to come up with some sort of explanation and at least try
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to arrest the culprit. there is no clue to who it might be or the motive might be. some are saying that the bloggers who are secularist have been paragraph indicating in what they are writing about islam and prophet mohammed. that's not the issue. the issue is they shouldn't be threatened. there is freedom of speech in bangladesh and people write on different issues. the people are quite concerned about the recent incident and governments inability to come up with a particular solution for this incident. >> reporting from dhaka, thank you. >> the syrian government is again accused of dropping barrel bombs on neighborhoods in aleppo activists saying 15 people were killed in a huge explosion as a bus station in hajj and holmes. at least three people were killed in three explosions blamed on isil fighters.
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>> the france president francois hollande is wrapping up his tour in height tee. he made a tour in cuba, meeting fidel castro. the french leader called on the u.s. to lift its trade embargo on cuba. we have more from havana. >> untying the ideological knot, 12 years after the you're union froze ties with communist cuba in response to the arrest of 77 dissidents, french president francois hollande is here to declare bygones be bygones. >> this visit is taking place in a context in which at last it's possible for cuba to have all the necessary conditions to interact with the rest of the word. france has always been in favor of lifting the u.s. embargo that hinders cuba. >> speaking at the university of havana holland made it clear
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france wants to take a leadership role in a renewed dialogue. >> francois hollande happen made the caribbean one of his foreign policies, france and holland are positions themselves ahead of when the united states lifts its embargo against cuba, which would make trade and tourism flourish. >> it's all about capturing american business. >> where are the americans going to go to now? the forbidden paradise. cuba's going to open up, the americans are going to be there. i want to have a dutch hotel taking care of the americans. that's what you're seeing. >> president hollande is accompanied by companies including the company handle sales of cuba rum. the french penalty has not
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alluded to the issue of human rights to led to the e.u. freeze. instead, he offers to make france a faithful ally of cuba, this time apparently without any conditions. al jazeera havana. >> just to jump date you on a story we told you about earlier in the news hour, that is the iranian ship and according to the iranian state news agency, they are reporting that the cargo ship use that right there headed to yemen will be escorted by warships. this is according to the iranian naval commander quoted in the state news agency saying that cargo ship heading to yemen expected to head to adada will be escorted by war ships. that has workers and journalists, part of a humanitarian mission carried out by the red crescent society, as
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people in prisons journalists in prisons maybe awaiting the judicial system. sisi is becoming the problem not the solution for egypt. >> what do you expect the reaction egypt to be? >> i would think he's quite weakened and in some divisions particularly, the egyptian media is somehow starting giving anti sisi stories and people really are suffering because the economy is in a very bad shape and propaganda is not working anymore, because unfortunately sisi had depended on 1960's style propaganda, which does not work in 2015. >> could these leaks now that
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they've been you you authenticated, it is noted the group who commissioned the report are lawyers representing muslim brotherhood. >> it is embarrassing of course, but the most important thing i guess the trust the public trust is -- have been lost, and a lot of criticism on the ground, in the street, as we know, the minister of justice arrived yesterday for saying that people from working class are not suitable to serve in judiciary, and from working class background, so i think the regime is crumbling is in very bad shape indeed. >> how will this impact sisi's
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relationship with gulf leaders? >> from what i could see there's some embarrassment and as you can see from what happened in yemen at the moment, he's not really an insider of what's going on, only trying to participate in the war on yemen but he always is given a cold shoulder. >> thank you for joining us from london. >> thank you. >> time to get an update on the sports news. >> thank you very much. one of the most successful quarterbacks in nfl history tom brady will appeal his four-game ban for cheating. the new england patriots star has been punished for his alleged involvement in using under-inflated balls in a playoff game. we have more. >> following months of investigation, the nfl has punished the new england patriots for allegedly using under-inflated balls in their playoff victory over the
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indianapolis colts. the superbowl champions have been find $1 million and stripped two draft picks while their star quarterback tom brady banned for four games without way. he has denied the accusations. >> i feel like i've always played within the rules. i would never do anything to break the rules. i believe in fair play and respect the league and everything they're doing to try to create a very competitive playing field for all nfl teams. >> it was conclude would the patriots staff likely tampered with the balls to help brady handle and throw them more accurately and that he knew about it. he will appeal his punishment. >> tom brady is according to the report more likely than not to have had at least some knowledge the balls were deflated, but there's no suggestion in the report that he actually knew they would be deflated below the legal limit rather than say at the bottom of the league limit. i think that's the lionel take
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and that the punishment way overstates the crime. >> friday's contract is affected. >> if someone's breaking rules i understand, you know, you are going to get punished for it. >> this is the latest in a long list have scandals the nfl has had to deal with, including cases of domestic violence and concern over concussions. >> one of the first things they need to do is get an independent procedure for taking care of these problems, both the ones on the field but more importantly the ones off the field that have really hurt the nfl. >> the patriots went on to win the superbowl in february. there are no plans to take the championship away from them. >> for more on this, i'm joined by nfl broadcaster kevin.
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tom brady has decided to appeal the ban. do you think this is the right decision and also, does this incident damage his reputation? >> first of all, if you have oh -- you're banned for any amount of games the most natural reaction is to appeal. let me set something straight, i'm a fan of the nfl not of any particular team in general. i think when you talk about legacy, i don't know about that. i don't really understand that legacy thing of will it hurt him, you know, his let's period. right now, it's going to hurt the new england patriots, because they're going to lose him for up to four games. i think the penalty was fair. the rule is in the rule book for a reason. a football should have this amount of air for a reason. if it wasn't of importance, it wouldn't be in the nfl book. also they knew that you're not supposed to take air out the ball. that's something that they knew from the organization, from the trainer, from whoever took the air out the ball, if it wasn't
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such a big deal, they wouldn't have been secretive about it. they knew when they did it that they were doing something that they were not supposed to be doing and i think the nfl was right with their suspension. >> do you think that suspension and the nfl are doing enough? >> i think that's enough. i think that really brings notice to us. a lot of things are starting to happen with the nfl we see players getting suspend domestic abuse coming now to the forefront. a lot of these problems were always there with the nfl but because of social media and the new commissioner and type of people he's bringing in under him, they are now addressing some of these problems that were not addressed in the past to the amount they needed to be addressed to so i think right now, what the commissioner is doing as far as the drugs domestic abuse the breaking of rules, all this is in line. i think, you know, the four game
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suspension basically when you have other type of things that you have to get suspended for four seems to be the number, so i think this stays with the number of the four game suspension for tom brady. >> thank you very much for that. june the golden state warriors have tied their western conference veals with the memphis grizzlies at two apiece. seth curry led them to victory. the 27-year-old back in m.v.p. form scoring with this three-pointer for 101-84 with game five in california on monday. >> it's a similar situation at east at the atlanta hawks have leveled their playoff series with the washington wizards at two all. jeff teague scoring 26 points as the hawks 106-101. >> barcelona heads to munich later on tuesday for the second
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leg of champions leg semifinal. they are on an eight match winning streak and haven't let a goal in seven. two years ago they lost 4-0. >> you should not be too confident going into a game like this. you have to respect the opponent, control their emotions. i will tell the players what they are weapons could be and how we can count on them. >> camp dish won the second stage to extend his overall lead claiming his 11th stage victory in the race. hentlyed out his opponent again. >> that's it for me. >> thank you very much. let's take a look at a very pricey painting, so expensive that it smashed by far the world
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record at an art auction. whoever is going to be looking at the masterpiece by picasso is keeping their name secret. john with him tell us just how much was paid in new york. >> welcome to this evening throughing forward to the past auction. >> chris tees in new york, the much talked about picasso painting, women of algiers, part of a unique sale. the bidding's fast and furious another one for the record books. >> most of these young collectors who have become billion airs are not traditional, studying art. these collectors tend to be more impulse shopping. >> is that a woman? >> probably could be a woman could be a bird.
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>> there's nothing quite like teasing an art dealer. it's ok, he has heard it all before. a private arts dealer, he remembers a different time. >> most of my collectors were lawyers and doctors professional people who made a good living. we didn't have hedge funds in 1980. >> according to him today's buyers are not collectors in the traditional sense but young billionaires from silicon valley russia, china the middle east seeking returns on their investments. >> when you have people worth let's say a billion dollars or more, whether they pay $1 million or $5 million or $10 million, this is not a major part of their investment. >> the pick consistent sow wasn't the only big sale at cristies multiple works are art sold for tens of millions of dollars. another is tuesday night in new york, key paintings expected to sell for record amounts like this estimated at $14 million
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to $16 million. >> isn't it a square on a yellow background? >> it is one of the most fame and you say artists. >> just because top buyers are seeking a good investment doesn't mean they don't appreciate the art. >> i think that you can do both. i think that a lot of art today has tremendous asset potential. >> buyer beware, especially seeking to pep up your portfolio. >> in 2007, 2008, if there's a meltdown, these works of art will go down considerably. >> no sign of that yet though. >> $160 million. >> john terrett, al jazeera, new york. >> thanks for watching the news hour on al jazeera. we're back in just a couple of minutes and we'll have much more
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