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>> a tunisian soldier guns down seven of his colleagues inside a military barracks. hello, i'm mary ann namazi, you're watching al jazeera from london. also coming up. mass graves and prison cages found in jungle. fuel shortages banks shut down and businesses in nigeria. plus. >> i'm wayne hay reporting from
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new zealand. technology at a could save lives. >> a teunsan soldier has tunisian soldier has opened fire on his colleagues. nazanine moshiri has details. >> the confusion outside the military barracks in the moments after monday's shooting is adding to the tension. the military says a corporal stabbed to death one soldier grabbed his weapon and opened fire. the man had no known connections to any armed groups. the military insists he must have killed for personal reasons. >> this soldier had family problems. he suffered from behavioral disorders. he has been recently transferred
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to a less-sensitive unit where he wasn't allowed to carry weapons. until now this is an individual case and the motives are under investigation. >> his motives will be crucial. vectors will want to speak to his friends and family. the base is in the heart of the capital. close to parliament, and the bardo museum. this is where 22 people were killed in march. motte of them tourists. the two men responsible were tunisians who received weapons training in libya. what happened will do nothing to reassure people in the bardo attack. the army is supposed to be one of the most trusted institutions in the country. it is responsible to protect tunisia's border from the insurgency and instability of
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the area. the public will want to know how the soldier was be be able to turn begins hes his colleagues. nazanine moshiri, al jazeera. as florence louie report, most of the victims are parts of myanmar's persecuted rohingya minority. held captive by traffickers who would try extort ransom money from their families. the camps are now abandoned but police think they have found mass graves nearby. >> we have discovered 159 which we believe to be graves, we don't know what are underneath. we also discovered one highly
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decomposed body and we will also bring that down. we will conduct postmortem on those remains which we found to get to the cause of death. >> reporter: and 28 abandoned camps were found along a 50 kilometer stretch of the border. many of the camp occupants are thought to come from myanmar and bangladesh. more than 3500 migrants the those countries have traveled to indonesia, thailand and malaysia in the past weeks alone. thousands are thought to be trapped at sea and are rohingya, paying smugglers to get them to other countries to find work. if they don't go by sea many escape via larnd borders. theland borders. earlier this month similar
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camps were found on the thai side of the tboard. >> the only thing surprising about this is the malasian government didn't find these camps earlier. we've known there's been these camps on both sides of the border. now malaysia really has to investigate what was happening there, whether there was official complicity in the running of these camps by local officials and others. >> reporter: human rights watch also says there needs to be international pressure put on the myanmar government to stop the persecution of the rohingya peep. until the rohingya feel safe enough to stay in myanmar it is feared that many more will perish in trafficking camps or at sea. florence louie, al jazeera pearla state malaysia. >> a taliban siege underway in a town of nauzad in afghanistan's
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southern helmond province. jennifer glasse reports from kabul. >> heavy fighting has been going on for hours there. the taliban has captured most of the area, seven afghan army soldiers and 9 afghan policemen have been killed. if his forces don't get help they might use lose the headquarters themselves. we know the fighting has gone on most of the i today and they have the headquarters surrounded. >> meanwhile at least five people have been killed in a suicide bomb in afghanistan's zaba province. i.s.i.l. fighters have reportedly set iraq's biggest
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oil being refinery on fire, be beiji, to retake it. from baghdad imiran khan's reports. >> reporter: iraq's largest refinery in baiji burns. stop advances by iraqi security forces. i.s.i.l. have set off at least nine car bombs killing dozens of security forces and shia fighters. this video shows them burning machinery inside the territory they control. hindering their efforts to recapture the refinery. >> translator: we are about two kilometers radius from the refinery yet it is in open terrain in which i.s.i.l. have rigged it with booby trapped
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trenches sand bear racks and bombs, therefore trying different methods to hold our advance. >> reporter: the facility has been hard fought over for the last six months with both i.s.i.l. and iraqi security forces at different times claiming they've been in control. baiji oil refinery is a major resource, whoever is in control it is hard to see why i.s.i.l. would set fire to it. car bombs in ramadi when they took that city just over ten days ago. this might be a direct push to keep the iraqi security forces out for good. imran khan, al jazeera baghdad. >> 15 people have been killed in government air strikes in the i.s.i.l. controlled city of palmyra. the dead include government
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soldiers and civilians accused of backing president bashar al-assad. while the war in syria has forced many people to look for safety in lebanon but fears are growing about the risk of disease in refugee camps there. many refugees brought their life livestock which form their security. >> reporter: when he left syria three years ago he took his live took with him. many were sold, or died on the way. >> translator: how can i leave it behind? it is part of my grandfather's tradition. we earn our living from them. how can i leave it behind? >> reporter: it's been estimated there is a 60% rise of livestock near the border with syria which is causing concern. there are 1.2 million syrian
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refugees in lebron thon and some have brought their livestock with them. the risk of transborder animal disease has increased. large number much animals arrive without proper health checks. some farmers have reported new diseases over the past two years. the most common is foot and mouth which causes ulcers. vital disease known as lumpy skin. the united nations food and agriculture organization says it has killed some cattle. >> some new diseases like lumpy skin disease have started appearing in syria as well as lebanon and iraq, the countries bordering syria. we worry about the number of
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cattle growers in lebanon are very small are growers they oant two three four cows they are landless they're poor and if one cow dice that is one-third of your assets and it's your livelihood affected. >> these casey are now immune but they still need to be closely watched. cattle trading and cross-border grazing between syria and lebanon existed before the war started. it is impossible to follow herd following its instincts. for him going back to syria is a dream. if that happens he is taking his five daughters with him along with his goats and sheep. >> chronic fuel shortages in nigeria issue is still likely to be a major challenge for the
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new government which is due to be sworn in in a few days. al jazeera's ahmed idris is in cano. >> reporter: this is one of the few petrol stations selling the commodity in cano. no matter how long it takes they can still get a little fuel. what is happening here is reflected in other aspects of life in nigeria. electricity which is 3,000 megawatts, is down to 1500 megawatts. for all nigerians but there is also outstanding issues of subsidy payment to marketers importing the products as well as the corruption in the oil and gas industry. now airlines are banks
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hospitals and even telecommunications companies have or are considering shutting down their operations or scaling back their operations simply because of the energy crisis in nigeria. now transportation costs have gone up around cost of goods and services are also on the rise. fuel cuts and power outages are no insist in nigeria because people have gotten used to them but shutting down just a few days before a new government comes into office. >> still ocome the funeral of burundi's opposition leader. >> and trying too rebuild one month after the nepal earthquake. i'm andrew simmons i'm visit a family who didn't just lose their home, they lost a moct moct mother and her baby. [beeping]
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"inside story". only on al jazeera america. >> welcome back, you're with al jazeera. radio quick reminder of the top stories. a tunisian soldier has killed seven of his colleagues before being killed himself. the be attack wasn't linked to terrorism and the man had personal issues. comments came after 139 graves briefed to contain the bodies of human trafficking victims were discovered near the border of thailand. fuel wholesalers have struck
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a deal with the nigerian government to end a fuel crisis. rattleys have resumed in the capital of bruins burundi in bujbujumbura. haru you mutasa has administer o. >> it's another day of protest in bujumbura. some of them are gathering over there, the plan is to eventually get into the city center. the police know this so the police are on the ground pretty much in every volatile neighborhood. they will try to block them from the city center. people are trying to get as many people possible to participate in the protests. stopping people going into opportunity, telling women in the markets to shut down the
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participants, they can't sell, they want them all to come onto the streets they say that is the strategy now. get a lot of people gathered we can march into the city center and that's when they say that's where the big protests will actually take place. it seems people are defiant despite police being on the streets and they say they have one message for the president they don't want him to run for a third term. >> it's been one month since a magnitude 7.8 hit nepal killing 8,000 people. those gatherformed a human change to reaffirm the resilience of the nepalese people. we brave you the story of reshma. >> the lush greenery of this area can't hide the pain.
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what this area is still going to tests every facet of human endurance. this is what pass he as an aid handout. some shelter. the path they're following is the one taken a month ago by a mother and her baby who were buried in this rubble. for three days, a family watched as the search continued. reshma kept clinging to the hope that her mother and baby brother were alive. a grandmother feared the worse and when the bodies were found there was no dignity. just a crowd watching the earth mover take the bodies past their family. his daughter distraught. they went through traditional 13 days of mourning but they struggled to find comfort. this is a homeless family finding it hard to reyou rebuild its spirits.
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>> translator: i'd love to get my life back but the repeated tremors have affected everybody in the village. it's just not me and my loss. it's difficult. >> reporter: reshma looks to her grandmother rather than her mother now. but what's lost with her childhood may have gone with her loss. she makes sure her grandmother takes her medicine. >> we don't have a home and we are compelled to live like this. the rains are coming and i don't know who will help us. >> reshma also makes sure the live stock flex door are fed on time. there is little difference between the animal shelter and what has to serve as a family home these days. some are demolishing what used to be their homes. self help is the only commodities in good supplies.
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the new building materials provided are put to good use bit it's only temporary shelter. reshma's father resham, deals with the fabric that will support it. this is resham's parents' house. it was rebuilt after the 1939 earthquake and it will have to be rebuilt again. his uncle's house next door will have to be rebuilt. this is his home, that's going to have to be rebuilt. a close family, their homes in rurches. yet they do have the inner resolve to rebuild. there are bound to be moments whether resham can't see a future. she has the support and warmth of a large extended family though and every one of them are
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determined to overcome the destruction and loss. andrew simmons, al jazeera nepal. >> more than 400 people have died across india during a severe heat wave. most of the deaths were in the southern states of telengana and anda pradesh. forecasters say it can continue for next two weeks. >> tornado hits the mexican border city of asuna. adam rainey has more details. >> this is a major storm to hit ciudad acuna category 4 storm tornado force winds civil
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officials tell us they are not accustomed to tornadoes it's extremely rare, although they sit on the border of texas conditions in mexico usually don't make it possible for funnel clouds to form. massive damage at the time city of 100,000 plus, so much that the president and the governor have announced this a national disaster. the governor of the state is touring the location assessing the damage and trying to figure out just what his people need. >> well, just across the border in texas the governor has declared a state of disaster in 24 counties as a tornado left thousands of people without power. the neighbor state of oklahoma has been badly feat he.
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gabriel elizondo has the story. >> underwater, that's how people felt after being dazed by a week of flooding. small towns in central texas bore the brunt of the damage like in wimberly, when this man was able to survive but his wife and two kids are still missing. >> we have whole streets that have one or two houses left and the regulation are slabs. >> you can tell, it's going to be months to fix this stiff. >> in san marko texas residents have been warned to stay inside. >> there is infrastructure problems throughout the county, powers lines are down, bridges undermined, this is not the time to start moving. it is the largest flood in the
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history of this region. it is significant in its impact. different from any flood we have ever had. >> in claremont oklahoma, a firefighter was swept into a floosh andflood and drowned. wishful thinking, forecasters are expecting another storm to hit the area in coming days. gabriel elizondo, al jazeera new york. >> more than 20 years after four years of severe spending cuts and ostring of corruption scandals. tim friend reports. >> the spanish woke up to a new political landscape. the established parties were punished by the electorate for
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asausterity and corruption. and the newspapers predicted a new era of coalition politics and further instability. earlier as the election results came in it quickly became clear that this man would play a read leading role in what comes next. podemas leader pablo iglesias. >> reporter: from barcelona to madmadrid. overturning absolute majorities held by the rule conservative popular party and the mainstream socialist. >> people have spoken and will continue to do so. i am proud madrid and barcelona have fashed a new phase. -- marked a new phase.
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>> we mush negotiate talk and find new solutions. >> the prime minister, are mariano ohio and his are the supporters are up for a huge challenge. >> i insist that the victory of the popular party is undisputed. we suffered a clear loss of votes and so we can't be truly satisfied. >> for d emos grew out of the seant austerity movement, could be on the brink of holding the balance of power. tim friend, al jazeera spain. he hding into the rugged landscape can be fatal. now a new zealand company is using a new technology to help save lives. wayne hay has more.
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>> using cameras on so-called unmanned drones is nothing new but honing them specifically for search and rescue is. and in christchurch a two man company is leading the way. >> our focus has again in humanitarian and saving lives when you get them involved in a small organization like that you can't very well stop. >> the organizations showing how the planes fitted with that kind of technology can use an eye in the sky. all is controlled by um personal computer. >> i can send it off to the direction that one feels needs investigation. >> the smaller would be around $5,000. larger ones will be able to stay up in the air for up to 10 hours and carry rescue equipment.
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>> with more than 150 miles an hour and snmedz new zealand rugged beauty. search and rescue has hundreds of challenges. blul three may be reducing the amount of conventional air aircraft. at the moment, we send our folks into harm's way actually. and if we can eliminate the riive of crew members in the sky, sending a uav, that is all right. >> one of the potential uses is to search for victims in disaster zones. the technology is being developed in christ church acknowledge an area that struck
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a few years ago. there is the commercial side of the project and has to pay forselves wayne hay, al jazeera, christchurch. >> remember you can find anything you want, aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. [ ♪♪ ] hello, i'm richard gizbert, and you are not the "the listening post", here are some media develop. the osama bin laden story is back in the news. the recent history under the journalistic microscope. cuba set to come in from the cold. what will it mean for the
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