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most feel that the country should be doing more. elsewhere in thailand there are strong feelings expressing the opposite point of view. there has been a social media trend saying the "rock newman show", should not be allowed into thailand. a facebook page will be set up, entitled we will not let re into
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our country. 14,000 liked it. more thahan that, people have been asked to change their profile picture to this. it reads: the major city of thai people don't want rohingya in the country. as it moves into a new phase there's a did the to deal with - growing disagreement with the people over their responsibility let's get the weather with richard. i'm hearing that the searing problem. >> yes, that's right. states have heatwave warnings. it's not just the humans suffering at this time of year, they are now in control of the infrastructure. and of course, thousands of people. >> there are about 140,000 people here, including some displaced from homes in the resort. people are afraid. there's no water. we can only use local wells and there's no power. most of the time.
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polymer rah is surrounded by gas fields. there's also a weapons depo. >> the military significance is mostly in tempters of the prison. the human cost has been huge. the cultural cost has been incool cueble. it has price less artifacts. some were under belled up and taken but much remains at risk. we may have different beliefs and views but we have to protect such incredible vestiges of human history. and i would appeal, indeed, that destroying heritage will not achieve anything. fighting between rebels has already damaged part oz if
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sites. it is being used as a u.n. syrian camp. they say shows the ancient walls covered in bullet holes they accused soldiers of looting. palmyra is seen by many as the cradle of civilization. so much of the past has been preserved but it's future is uncertain. al jazeera. >> at least 22 people have been killed in fighting between libyan soldiers and fighters. 50 people were injured during the battles rival groups have been fighting for control for more than a year. in recent months this has includes members of isil. isil is also making gains in iraq, where heavy fighting is underway from baghdad, there is a new front line inen barr province.
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and the east of ramadi there is a fierce fight, isil has taken some towns in the district. forces loyal to the government are trying to prevent the group from getting closer to a main base a few kilometers away. the islamic state of iraqs han't lost it's momentum, just days after seizing the capitol. there are those that believe the arm grouped may not just want to grab territory, it wants to drain the resources of it's opponents. does isil want to settle or being a moving group, this is the idea of being moving combat or let's say a moving group, you are always threatening so many fronts especially when the defensive military forces are not equips and not ready. >> shia militia commanders
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are moving some of their troops from the cross line to anbar, this is part of on going preparations for the promised counter offensive. >> these men are known as the popular mobilization force and they will lead the fight in the sunni province. they are called in after the regular forces and anbar's local police were not able to hold off the assault. >> there is a shortage of government forces and authorities are now asking for volunteers to join, the prime minister also says they will speed up the training of the local police and arm and recruit sunni tribesman, it is not the first time they make such a promise to integrate sunnies into the security forces. many are skeptical that this plan will work especially because there has been a long time opposition from shia politician. on the front line, militia
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men are seen fighting alongside the local police and army soldiers. the government has been trying to show this this fight is being waged and is not a shia war against anbar sunnies. there is a need to create a nonsectarian army in iraq, but the country is at a dangerous cross roads and with multiple front lines iraqis need to unite now more than ever. al jazeera, baghdad. in the last few hours president obama has said he doesn't think the fight against the group is being lost, al jazeera is live in washington, d.c. what else did he say about the progress of isil. >> . >> he doesn't think the coalition. >> the set back the reason that they fell to the islamic
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state, is there wasn't regular forces trained by the united states, and so he is doubling down on his belief this the trains troops they themselves will be able to take the fight to isil, who did have some criticism not of the prime minister, he said that he is believes that he is trying to form an inclusive government, and fight isil, but he did say that the weapons and the training was not happening fast enough. >> . >> they will have to defend itself. >> they have the republicans have been fiercely critical, we have heard some of the fringe candidates for president say they would sup worth boots on the ground, other more main stream senators have been saying what the president needs to do is increase the number of trainers on the ground. and the number around 10,000 to train the forces so they
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can do that faster. the while house is really pushing back, what they are trying to say is that the republicans are full heartedly looking for another iraq invasion it is not clear that we had even republicans say that, but that's the tact that the white house is trying to put this in the light of, the president has never supported that strategy. the president was opposed to that when it was employed we the previous administration, and he is opposed to it which is almost always republican members of congress, what this administration will continue to do is implement the strategy that the president has layed out which is to build up the capacity of local fighters on the ground, in iraq and syria to take the fight in their own country. so the white house is doing theirs they are trying to say there are just two strategies that they need to know about, what the president is doing or a full fledged invasion,
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which they know will be deeply unpopular, he is also asked isn't there a middle ground, a different strategy. he said no, there's only two ways to handle the situation. >> thank you indeed. with me here in the studio, from the royal united institutions thank you for coming to talk to us. to obama is describing the latest set backs or the progress of isil as a temporary set back where does this leave the international coalition? what can they do next. >> what is the international coalition against isil? there appeared to be no solidifies coalition there doesn't appear to be a command structure. there doesn't appear to be a singular strategy, there is a coalition providing air power, there are the army, the shia militias and peshmerga working in some sort of lose coordination,
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but it isn't clear whether they are being coordinated properly against isil. so there isn't a clear leadership. there doesn't appear to be a priority adispatched to this, and that's why we are seeing this to and pro of losing ground, but regaining it elsewhere. >> in syria for example they now say that isil controls 50% of of syria. >> it could be if they are allowed to continue, if they manage to defeat asaad, then they effectively will take control, and the rebel movements who have not been able to make head way, will be isil's mercy and probably won't survive very long. >> why is isil managing to gain this kind of ground? militarily i mean? >> because they are united. and they have a divided opposition. they have asaad, they have
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the rebel movements, who are against them, but not concentrating on them, wholly. they have not got anybody on the ground that is coordinating a fight against them. >> that issue of troops on the ground, obama clearly doesn't want to get dragged down that rout, but he says what needs to happen is there had to be ml1 c^ training on the ground, so far that doesn't appear to have been effect i, beyond that, do you think there is a case for sending in troops and how would that work? >> well, theres a case. because clearly the iraqi army has failed, they fail add year ago and it's failed now after so much training. and all the while the longer you take this thing the greater they take this. so there is a case for intervention, he is absolutely right we don't want another invasion of iraq. but that us cann't prevent
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you from intervening with air mobile forces they can go and take territory and hand it over so the iraqi army to hold. becauses the easier to hold territory than take it. and that doesn't prevent the many air mobile forces there in the region. jordan, sauce yeah arabia and others have invested hugely to deploy forces quickly grab various pieces of ground, and then hand them over to the army, and nobody is considering that option. >> thank you very much indeed. >> still ahead on the news hour. >> i am lawrence lee in the skies of lithuania toe the bat, i states. >> and targeting the new generation, mexico opens off new front in it's war against drug gangs plus. >> i have two bullets in my
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tummy, second in my right lung. it is now not working at all. >> big time cricket returns we will hear from the umpire who almost died the last time a major game was played there malaysia's prime minister has ordered the navy to search for thousands adrift at sea as many as 4,000 people are still thought to be trapped on boths in the sea. more than 3,000 have been rescued or come ashore in the past month. in addition to the naval search, malaysia says it will allow 7,000 migrants in, but on temporarily, that is always the problem with this policy, letting the people who they are trying to help know they can now receive help. these migrant boats are thought to be way offshore, especially since the push back policy by the different
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governments of this region, not letting then land, they are thought to be outside of mobile phone range and probably don't know that they can now seek refuge, if they saw a naval vessel they would probably be more likely to outrun it knowing that that vessel is now there to offer them help and assistance in getting ashore. so that will now change in theory. migrant vet sells will have a choice, in all likelihood, they will probably chooses to come here, and people in malaysia know that many have been going through to the indo knee sean side of the sea, and in theory, though, if given the option they will start to come here, this is the people onboard especially from knee mar and many of their families and friends are here, so they will likely come hire so the authorities are gearing up for an inspected influx, of hundreds possibly thousands
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of newcomers in the next one to two weeks. >> many of the migrant whose have come ashore are in poor health. where they are being cared for. >> they all thought children going to die, they simply couldn't believe it, doctor whose have examined the asylum seekers say their condition is very very bad. most of them are dehydridded mall new iraqis they have infections and all kinds of skin diseases and they are struggling to take care of them. >> we thought we had died already, and would meet god almighty soon, we had lost all hope, we were so scared. >> indonesian and malaysia have agreed to accept 7,000 migrants many of them were still at sea but the reality here on the ground is that the navy did not actively rescue anyone who still stranded in their boats until they get a direct order to
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change the policy to send away everyone who is illegally entering the territory this means that time is running out for the thousands who are city at sea, and looking at the condition of those who have just arrived one day ago, it is clear that there's no time to lose. >> come, malaysia has agreed to provide some temporary shelter thailand is taking a different approach. the asylum seekers onboard will be detained if they make it to shore. the view of the international community has been clear. get these people onshore and get them to safety. they have agreed to provide the migrants with temporary shelter. but thailand has said no. they won't open their doors just yet. the government here says they have and will continue to
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provide aid to those on the boats but it boiled down to immigration law. if they come onshore they will be detained until the status of each migrant is determined. are they a refugee or fled for economic reasons. if they have left to find work, they will be sent back. >> once they heard us explaining our laws they said they would only like to provide food and water they don't want to be detains they told us they want to go other countries we can't force them on this. >> he has never met -- and is not muslim. >> they didn't do inning wrong, not helping them is equal to killing them, we need to provide. >> he says that they would help them, but they have no extra money. in the vick ladies and gentlemen, just down from the taye navy base involved in the boat operations most
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people the country should be doing more but elsewhere there are strong feelings expressing the opposite point of view. there's been a social media trend, saying they should not be allowed into thailand. a facebook page has been set up saying we will not let them into our country. over 14,000 people have liked it. more than that, people have been asked to change their profile picture to this. it reads the majority of thai people don't want them in the country. so as this moves into a new phase, thailand has an additional challenge to deal with growing disagreement within it's people on the country's responsibility. al jazeera. thailand. >> u.n. estimates that more than 100,000 trying to leave by boat in the past three years, so why are they so desperate to get out? a large ethnic moor norty, and they are muslims while a majority of the country is
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buddhist. they have faced a denial of rights freedom access to travel, and access to education. hundreds were killed and more than 140,000 were left homeless. on going discrimination has led to an exodus by sea when many tried to reach public majority countries like malaysia and indonesian. for more on the situation news president of the berm please organization in the u.k., thank you for coming to talk to us. >> thank you. >> there's a slight change of tact. over this issue of the boat people out at sea. how much difference will that make for people trying to get away from myanmar. >> you need to look at your actually why these people are threing from their native land. we can see here in the media 8,000 people are floating at sea. we node too look at that back to more than 1 million are
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facing serious persecution in their own country, they are facing genocide recently, in the university of london has mentioned that the minority by the berm please government amounts to genocide so this is the question here. how you can understand why these people are fleeing denying the right to have food, and medical treatment denying the right to have children, and the right to move from one village to another. >> blocking off aid, so with you want to live in the uncan or you -- however you want to stay in catch or leave from the country, the two option os facing, is given to them, so that's why these people are floating in the high seas. >> i recognize that it is not on the people who are back in myanmar, but do you think
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that the attention on the issue generally is going to improve the situation? or could it make it worse? what do you expect the reaction to be? >> it depends how international community will move forward with this situation. it depends on the international community, if you look at the bear please government response, so farther continuously denying the existence of the people. they aring looking at an legal immigrant. even though they live there for 1,000 years. how they put pressure on, and if you look at since 2012, when more than 16,000 become entirely displaced people. there is still no improvement, because of low level pressure from the international community. so the berm please government, they will not listen, but it depends on how u.s., u. can e.u., together
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collective pressure, they can give to them. is very important point. >> thank you very much indeed, for sharing your views oen the subject, thank you. >> thank you. >> a mass i clean up and entering a third day. continuing to lap up on the famous beaches. the state governor has now declare add state of emergency after half a milliliters leaked from the ruptured oil pipeline. teams are helping wild life if they can but they are urging the general public to steer clear, despite their best intentions. >> proeffect the i equipment needs to be warned by train professionals to work with the oil. many of us are responding here work, live, and play in southern california. and i understand the desire to help. but i must again stress, that even the volunteers must be trained, and wearing proper protective equipment.
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more from the beach close to the town on the southern california coast. >> here at the state beach is the center of the clean up effort, which is really only just begun. the workers question hind me, as much as as it is covered in oil as possible. this is sort of the great irony of this place, is that this is sort of california at it's most beautiful. this is the birthplace of the environmental movement in the middle of the last century so the idea that oil spilled here has californians feeling particularly tragic about these circumstances. it is of course, also led governor brown the governor of california to declare a state of emergency, and create a unifying command of federal state and local resources. there are specialized boom, skimmer boats out in the water, there's the crews here onshore trying to deal with this. the company plains pipeline which created the pipeline that spills say that over
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2,000 barrels of oil were lost inland. at least nine miles maybe more, and of the deetenning tragedy, is this is the season for many iconic marine mammals. blue whales, gray whales. sea layen yos they are all moving to feeding areas right mow, so we are seeing terrible scenes of those animals swimming light through the spill. this is one of the most toxic things that man has ever create sod the idea these products are now in the water being injected toughing these anle mas all of that deepens the tragedy that everyone is responding to here. the study found that a record number of dead dolphins suffered from lung lesions caused by swimming in oil contaminated sea.
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b.p. has rejected the leak between the oil spill and the dolphin deaths. >> mexico has opened a new front in it's war against drug gangs. 10,000 forces forces have been sent. the task for dismantling the new generation cartel. adam rain travels to the state capitol and sent this report. a show of force, 10,000 federal soldiers have been sent to the western state. just the latest military build up in an on going eight year drug war. it follows a wave of speck tar lay acing tabs. two downing of a military helicopter less than two weeks ago, and the killing of 15 police officers last month in an ambush. despite talks that this is a new threat missing persons advocate says it's been behind hundreds of disappearances of people across the state. there is an organized
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structure that is directly tied to the disappearances. it is gaining attention now but this goes way back, this is not new, this is just the tip of the ice burg. >> this is whow the government is up against. the new generation cartel. a heavily armed group while the government took on other cartels they make millions running drugs and kidnapping. they enforce their own justice, build thundershower own weapons and increasingly use them against the government. the state security chief admitted hi had no idea if they had hundreds of gunman our thousands. still, he was sure victory. i am confident our actions will allow the criminals and take them into custody. the capitol is mexico's second largest city, it has long been known as a home of cartel leaders but for years
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they drew little attention. many believes they had an opportunity with authorities as long as things remained calm. in the wake of the violent there are raids here nearly every day. >> this was an operation in a upscale neighborhood by the army and federal police and what we are seeing zero is an increased coordination between various forced ithey try to take back control. >> there's even more attention we elections less than a month away, the whole state is being closely watched. >> this is the result of security strategy that is corrupt to the bone. >> it's been a long secret that politician are part of the problem less clear if that will change any time soon. >> still ahead on the neurohouse, chinese president tries to convince her nation
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the u.s. president says he doesn't think the fight against the group is being lost. groups estimate that as many as 4,000 people are still adroit many of those made it to shore are in poor health. an emergency has been declared in the santa barbara region. nearly a fit of the oil has reached the pacific ocean.
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the number of people coming in has hit near record levels. that's 109,000 higher than a year earlier despite the promise to cut immigration to less than 100,000. cameron says that figure remains his ambition, but freedom of movement is a founding principle. simon mcgregor wood reports. >> british police on a raid looking for illegal immigrants it was a good photo opportunity, for a prime minister trying again to get tough on immigration. the latest numbers are an embarrassment to david cameron who keeps promising targets he can't keep. >> immigration was an issue in the recent election, and he now claims a mandate for
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tougher action. >> so while a strong country isn't one that pulls up the drawbridge, it is one that properlile cos immigration. >> next week his new majority government introduce a new law, promising to make the u.k. less attract i tomia grans. one, dealing with those that shouldn't be here by boosting deportation, retomorrowing our labor market rules so we reduce the demand for skilled migrant labor and crack down on the exploitation of low skill workers. and three, addressing the spike in e.u. migration by negotiating in europe. >> they paid homage, but his argument, and it is one he thinks will connect with many, is that now the numbers are simply too high, and they are putting pressure on public services and forcing down local wages.
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>> making life harder for imn't grays won't help. according to some. >> they have gone beyond tightening the borders, they have gone beyond tightening visa controls now it is about letting migrants who want to try the adventure of living and working in britain for a period of time to know they will have a very very tough time. >> half of last year's immigrants were from the european union. under the cherished principal of free movement. he says he is determined to get concessions from his e.u. partners. unless he does, he won't get the numbers down, and arguing for this membership of europe, and his promised referendum will be much harder. al jazeera london. sweden says it has scrambled jets to intercept two planes flying near the air space. it comes as note toe considers a threat by three nations for thousands of troops to protect them against a possible russian
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invasion. the move would break a packet made where russia, that nato would never put permanent bases in former countries. lawrence lee has this report it is a trillion, but the intention is real enough. they have 15 minutes to take to the skies they were scrambled for real 150 time tousled doe russian aircrafts over the baltics. the current lead nation in this mission is norway, backed up in lithuania by the italians, this they say is all about reassuring the tiny baltic states that they won't let the russians do to them what they did to ukraine. we show them our presence. and show them they are nearby, and on alert we are air born within 50 minutes and there's basically -- a
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show of force and show them that we are here. >> the trains carrying oil and russian troops pass straight through. lithuania, the fields surrounded. >> as well as calling on nato to defend the skies the country with latvia, has now formally requested a standing nato army of 3,000. that's a real test of nato stated commitment. 20 protect these countries. >> the process will continue
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on the ground, lit be good. >> of course the russians say this is hysterical scare among questions. we were refused an interview with their ambassador, one of their diplomates said to me, some people say we have our hand in everything. nato admits there has never been a single significant incident. of a russian war plane deliberately breeching the air space of any of the states. and for all just in case they say they have to do it for real. >> privately some officials admit it looks strange to intend so much effort on preventing an air or ground war, they actually think extremely unlikely.
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but set against a western narrative, of an unpredictable leader, that prefer not to take any chances. time is running out for greece to make another payment. the new government came to power promising to reverse rising unemployment, which it blamed on austerity. the countries attempt to change the strict labor regulations with the euro zone. josh reports. you can get a temporary posting without equipment or materials so you can't practice what they have learned. >> more than half are
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officially unemployed those who start earn 500-dollar as month, but many are forced to work on the black market. but the precision and unemployment. >> if at the time of the crisis what you choose to do is act officially, and reduce demand by the present wages you accelerate and you amend the problem. unless the policy proposal or a right wing, oriented proposal in my opinion, it is pure and similar. under an uneelectricitied prime minister, that marks one of the largest and most violent. this is the situation the
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left wing vows to overtun when it was elected in january. in order to boost consumer spending. it wants to prevent employers from laying off more than 5% of their work force in one go. and it wants to bring back collective wage bargaining. unions may have agreed in your sector. i can't give you 800. if you want, you can sign an agreement for 500 there's 1.5 million unemployed people. people are totally unable to bargain. >> it is popular but it's own bargaining possession is weak. without growth, there is no visible end to unemployment.
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al jazeera athens. >> the government has promised to do more for it's work force who help the country prepare for the 2022 world cup. there was a range they are facing. many cases are not being paid for month at a time, they don't even have enough money to buy food and water and they have to rely on charity people who are also living a very poor recommendation, that doesn't rely on the accommodation for work ores and also, people who are being forced to work eventually, because the employer is threatening them, with with holding their passports and refusing to let them leave the country.
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and what we have seen is that the changes that have happened is electronic payment system has been announced. it hasn't been introduced yet, so we have to see what happens. but the end of the summer, we should see how that is working in practice. a number of inspectors has increased to 294 inspectors i believe. however, these are small changes and they don't address the core of the issue. which is that employers have a very big power over workers. >> she addresses congress to outline her political plans for the year ahead the government has been tarnished by scandals and the approval rating is under 20%, despite a major cabinet restructure. with money and security to ensure it's transition to democracy remain as success he has been meeting the
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president in washington, d.c. but many are still reeling from one of the dead rios attacks. 22 people were killed in march at a famous museum. they spoke to the family of one of the gunman. >> he used to spend his summers a t this family farm he describe add young man that studies french and enjoyed going to ed withings. through march 18th, and another tunisian government attacks the capitols museum. in three hours they killed 22 people mostly foreign tourists. the cousin said they were close, and there was no signs of what he was planning but he has his theories about why he did it. it is a feeling of oppression, of our identity,
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among some arabs and muslims. there are international groups and weapons exploiting this feeling, it is seen among them to turn them into the hands that carry out their dirty work. the authorities say he and hundreds have received military training in libya. it blames many of the recent attacks on a group linked to al quaida, the president is in the u.s. to talk about libya, and to ask for help military assistance may improve security here, but it won't solve the problem of why so many does thesians are joining armed groups. the government estimates around 3,000 young people are fighting in syria libya and iraq. >> they advise the government on what he calls religious security. he says people should be
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arrests and re-educated before they join these groups. >> what has led these people to practice terrorism is total ignorance of religion they also have psychological problems they may be problem in their attitude or nature, and they have wahabi beliefs. >> the authorities estimate up to 20,000 are ready to fight for armed groups abroad. two government is taking a tough stance. but it also needs to deal with the root causes of why it is own citizens are willing to kill or risk being killed in the name of religion. protestors have been battling for weeks. and the president plans to run for a irrelevant this term, in the capitol. winning trying to protest in
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the capitol. the police seemed determined to stop them, and did. the women are against president's bid for a third term. we need peace, and we want to be heard why are you beating us? what have we done? we don't quantity people to die because of the selfishness of our leaders. >> the police eventually leave, defeated the women are two distraught to protest. >> the police have shown they mean business. >> the capitol hasn't been peaceful for weeks on thursday, police and members of the presidential guard disburse people trying to march to parliament, where the president was swearing in new ministers. at least one person was killed, people here say they are tired of the violent and death, they are begging the international community to intervene. >> this person is just been killed in front of us, president obama the rest of
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the world needs to rise up and be seen, they need to stop thissen ma. there is a heavy security presence, many people say they don't feel safe. a man was shot and killed in this neighborhood, after that happened protestors got scared and they ran away. they say it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to come on to the streets. >> government officials say nearly 200 people have been arrested since the protests against the president began nearly a month ago. many have also been injuries or kills. despite this they say they won't stop until the president gis up plans to hang on to power. the word's oldest tools have been found. which whens they predate the emergence of modern human beings. it is forcing anthropologists to rethink as it was thought they only started making
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be his last term, but he is having one more go. very difficult here in europe, he is not hugely popular, but in the rest of the world, football world is made up of six confederations. very difficult to remove, and today we have seen two of the rivals pulling out of the race to focus support behind one of the candidate but even he of jar dan freeways as huge task. but we shall see, one man seeking to remove from power that is prince alehouse sane of jordan, he will be the sole rival. in the last few hours michael van prague of the dutch football association, and portuguese -- louis both pulling out of the presidential race in an effort to focus support behind the prince, fifa's 209 member associations will vote a week on friday. well, this is what a very
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anxiousry louis has to say on his facebook page. absolutely power to one manning something i refuse to go along with earlier we spoke to world soccer magazine. he believes that it is likely to win the vote, regardless of who does or doesn't take him on. >> is not all of azia, but certainly a few votes. as well as the european votes of van prague can possibly have expected to call upon. but he still had the vast majority for the entirety of africa. south america, concacaf, behind him and also most of azia. so he has -- a majority, and i think he will get the clear two-thirds vote. that he needs to avoided a second round of votes. and i think he will win a
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fifth term. the return has huge point yensy, he almost lost his life in the 2009 gun attack that shook the world game. for six years no major team visited pakistan, but that is set to change on friday, and he will be umpiring in the game against zimbabwe. gunman shot a the sri lanka team buses as it was headed to the stadium and wounding several players and officials. which is now not working at all. 22 bottles of blood i intent
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27 to 29 days in intensive care, a few days in coma, so it was a horrible day for me and for the pakistan. since then the national team have played all their hope matches aboard. the situation in their own country deemed too risky by other teams to tour. but now six years on, to be level international cricket is returning to pakistan, with zimbabwe's tour starting on friday. >> the main event that zimbabwe has broken the spell, as it were, and that it will i hope pave the way for others to follow suit later on we have interest from other countries and i think within the next year or two, we will be having more tours. from nebraska countries. >> the european game will take place at the same stadium, and also marks the come back who will umpire his
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first international game at his home ground since the attack. >> i am very much excited i can't express myself, because after six years not very well in pakistan. it is a big sport even in pakistan. the overall security situation remains unstable. and the international cricket council has refused to send it's officials to pakistan. the team is confident that safety is being prioritized. >> but the marian thing for us is to play good correct. >> tickets for friday's 2020 match have sold out. as the frans prepare to tear
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their seats for a historic game which it hoped will mark a change in the country. al jazeera. >> fluctuating porches kicked off between new england and new zealand. finishing up on 354 for seven. has sign add two year deal the 35-year-old has been with the spanish clip for 17 seasons and also the champions league three times. i want to keep playing football, i think qatar is the best place to prepare as a future coach or a sports director. i still don't know what i
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would like to do, what i do know is i want to come back, that is my goal. is again setting standards in practice hamilton three-quarters of a second quicker than his mercedes teammate hamilton aiming to win this race for the first time since 2008. the title leader, as commissioned got a bit worse eventually as the rain came down. roberto smashing and taking out a teddy bear. rainmaking. and that's the news hour, more news in a minute.
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