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>> i.s.i.l.'s growing grip on power. >> the big question is where are the jets of the international coalition? >> i.s.i.l. now controls half of syria and syrian rebels blame the u.s. for not doing enough. a show of force. al jazeera captures russia's movement tanks and equipment near the ukrainian border. but russia says the smoovment onlymovement isonly for exercises.
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the new ceo of malaysia airms airlines rebrands the airline. unlocking the locks of love. >> we think there is a way to love him or her. >> the city is putting an end to a heart felt tradition. good evening and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm antonio mora. we're beginning tonight with breaking news of a ferry disaster in china carrying hundreds of people. rescue operations are underway this moment to find victims and the disaster. disaster happened in
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the ya yangtse river. >> the yangtse river this tour vessel it appears was on the trip to three gorgeous dam three gorgeous area of the dam. only reports that there are some 30 or so people have been rescued and this is what, some 12 hours since this ferry went down since the boat went down so obviously concerns are mounting for just what the number of fatalities might be from this. and we are hearing that lechang the prime minister is on the
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way, and xi jinping the president is, a large number of the passengers on board will be senior citizens. concerns are mounting on the number of fatals there might be fatalities that there might be. >> rob mcbryde thank you. the struggle for power in the war torn country of syria is beare apparently tipping towards i.s.i.l. the group now occupies nearly 116 square miles across both iraq and syria. that is a total area the size of
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italy. opposition rebels just got harder. russia and iran who are strong assad supporters have begun withdrawing resources from the country. opposition fighters battle i.s.i.l. for control of the besieged city of aleppo but they are slowly losing ground. caroline malone has the story. >> most major forces in the syrian war are now involved in fighting for pats of aleppo. rebel groups have lost the country side towns of soran alnaiai to i.s.i.l. i.s.i.l. has released this video said to be its fighters in control of the town of soran azaz some north of the province near the border with turkey. blocking opposition supply
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routes between turkey and northern syria. kurdish fighters have made gains further east near raqqa and hasaka. government is fighting in aleppo too. they have troops on the ground but have an advantage with their air force. activists say this is the aftermath much a of a military attack. opposition groups are having to focus on the front line with i.s.i.l. or daesh rather than pushing for new ground with bashar al-assad's new government. raising questions of help from the international community. >> the international commission is supposed to be meeting again tomorrow, the question is where are the jets of the international commission? this won't even wait until tomorrow to be frank. otherwise syrians will feel as if they are really in this
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alone. >> reporter: for now opposition groups are having to focus on defending themselves from i.s.i.l, rather than colt theconsolidate the gains they have made against assad. kaycaroline malone, al jazeera. >> translator: we make an urgent call to the neighboring countries to coordinate amongst themselves after the international communities fail to support the coalition to interfere immediately to prevent syria from becoming a center from the most brutal sources. we want you to provide one or more safety zones. >> rebel groups from different parts of syria have joined
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forces to stop the movement of i.s.i.l. one was at a police station just north of fallujah, the other at an army base just north of ramadi. iraq security -- 42 members of iraq security forces were killed. when three suicide bombers struck. now they fear revenge attacks from shia militia that were keeping many from returning as well. imran khan looks at the toll it's taking. >> they came to northern iraq to
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escape the fighting between iraqi security forces and islamic state of iraq and the levant. life under i.s.i.l. has left a deep psychological scar. >> translator: life was meaningless, senseless because of them. all basic services stopped. we had no water no electricity. i.s.i.l. oppressed us. wouldn't let us even smile. they even stopped our transportation so we couldn't even have it e-visit our visit our friends and family. >> fear of security forces that now rule tikrit is why they won't go back. >> translator: we wish we could go back to tikrit but there's nothing there. we're so afraid of the security. there's no local government. it just doesn't exist at all. who will are protect protect us? >> eight weeks ago shia militia captured, from i.s.i.l, in the
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aftermath the prime minister ordered the militia to the outskirts. even so, many from tikrit are afraid to go home. >> they are too afraid. what happened in the previous period they say own just individual acts and that will not happen and many of us right now watch all the people monday monopolization forces right now. of course we will punish everyone willing to do this kind of works or this act. >> reporter: shia militias have been criticized for revenge attacks. saying they should be reined in after a variety of places across iraq. despite prime minister haider al-abadi bringing them into control, this man is alleged to
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be a i.s.i.l. fighter and was burnt. local sources have told al jazeera the man is said to be a shepherd. we may never know the truth about the man in the video but the fact that such a piece has gone viral, that the government ignored them, they weren't given jobs in the army, add to the fact that we are now hearing about this alleged shia attack, you can understand why many sunnies fear the return to the battle as in 2006, 2007, 2008. imran khan, al jazeera baghdad. to talk more with the threat of i.s.i.l. to the assad regime we are joined by al jazeera's syria contributor rasha al alash.
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thank you for joining us. can assad survive without the russians and the iranians? >> no, assad cannot survive without the russians and the iranians. in fact, without their support he would have fallen about three and a half years ago. whether or not the iranians and the russians will actually abandon assad is a really complicated question. they are not going to leave just like that. they have a lot of interests especially the iranians, they are not going so let i.s.i.l. take over dmask. partdamascus. to maintain some sort of hegemony over syria. >> what is your reaction to an international business times report that says that russia is
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pulling back because western sanctions have hurt it so much that it's reaching out to other gulf states who oppose assad? >> yes, again russia has enough problems of its own. it's got ukraine and hurting domestically but it still has that navy base in syria. you know syria has a very sort of also symbolic presence for russia from the soviet days, it used to be a soviet ally. it's going to be very difficult for moscow to walk away knowing that assad is going to fall, unless it has some sort of contingency plan. we won't know for a while exactly what's happening. >> the israel newspaper haretz has said the syrian army has mainly ceased to exist and assad
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has lost the areas grip of the areas he still has control over, is it that bad? >> i would say the syrian army has almost failed to exist for a while, iran has been running the show with the help of militias and mercenaries including hezbollah and shia sectarian mercenaries from iraq and afghanistan. for a long time, the syrian army has been weak beyond repair. >> and there are reports that hezbollah has been having a lot of problems losing a lot of fighters inside syria. is the u.s. failing here because the more moderate rebels it wants to train many are rejecting american overtures because the u.s. is insisting it is fighting i.s.i.l. and not assad, does the u.s. need to be
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more well aligned with the group? >> without assad i.s.i.l. would really have a tough time surviving. in fact in the areas where it controls i spoke to be people from dar azor yesterday and they say people hate it, they hate being under the control of i.s.i.l. but i.s.i.l. reminds them that at least they're fighting assad. that i.s.i.l. is facing in the face of assad and i.s.i.l. is providing food and power without assad i think i.s.i.l. is the first to know that they will probably cease to exist. >> and if i.s.i.l. though does manage to somehow take control of the whole country and assad fall though, would there be a fear that whatever happened and who retained control that there could be a systematic slaughter or ethnic cleansing of the
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alloites that assad is a part of? >> oh absolutely. if assad falls there will be falls there will be a major power vacuum, a lot of revenge, a lot of chaos. i.s.i.l. thrives on chaos. i.s.i.l. will thrive for acertain time period, until the people realize there is no poirnt ofpointof you supporting i.s.i.l. when the enemy is gone. if assad falls a lot of extremist groups will rise and the war economy will thrive and there will be more chaos and bloodshed than now. >> it's difficult to imagine more chaos than there is now. good to have you with us, thanks. coming up in about 20 minutes we'll go to i.s.i.l. in be
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libya, the group trying to fill the vacuum after the death of moammar gadhafi about i.s.i.l. and its worldwide ambitions. a journalist captured in yemen has now arrived safely in oman. stacy coombs was one of several americans believed to be held by the houthis. he is scheduled to undergo a medical evaluation before flying home to seattle. >> we are grateful for the sultan of oman, and deeply appreciate his imaginity's friendship to our country. >> oman is hosting diplomatic talks between is saudi arabia and the houthis.
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moscow insists it is not backing pro-russian separatists. al jazeera has an sluive report an exclusive report that shows a very different story. how a woman wound up in the jaws of a lion after the break. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion.
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>> a new u.n. report says more than 6400 people have been killed in the fighting in eastern ukraine. the study released today also says both sides have committed atrocities. at least 16,000 people have been injured since fighting broke out between pro-russian separatists and the ukrainian government last year. that report says there is more
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evidence that russian forces are taking part in the fighting. russia denies any involvement in the conflict. al jazeera has evidence else wise. charles stratford is reporting. >> be al jazeera has no way of verifying where these pieces of equipment are moving too to and from. the be insignia are painted over. be makeshift military camp across the fields we noticed clouds of dust around an area which looked like a farm. large military vehicles were moving in convoy along the mud tracks. about 10 kilometers behind me is
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the russian border. conducting military exercises and it categorically denies that there are missions being conducted. the army has been conducting exercises around a thousand kilometers from here and nato nato has been conducting its own exercises at the same time in northern sweden norway and finland, special operations in peace time, as a state secret. schesingdisclosing details about a soldier being killed could now put you behind bars. has nothing to do with the conflict in ukraine. in a recently released report disaims what itdetails what it says
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is the russian military in the ukraine. boris nemtsov was shot dead before it was published. a close associate of nemtsov is in hospital fighting for his life. it is suspected he might have been poisoned. a february ceasefire between separatists and the ukrainian army is still holding but with reported violations being conducted by both sides. russia says it has the right to conduct military maneuvers wherever it wants in its territory despite the sensitivity of the time and space. charles stratford, al jazeera near the be russian-ukrainian border. >> two nations say they are willing to help but the proposal asks too much of them. they already taking the majority of people seeking asigh asylum in
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europe. turning to the migrant crisis in southeast asia, actor matt dillon traveled omalaysia he visited a rohingya camp on myanmar's western shore. the minority group has few resources and targeted violence. myanmar does not consider the rohingya citizens. (n) bangladesh dozens were charged with murder over the rana plaza garment factory which collapsed in april of 2014. the factory's owner and 43 others are responsible raising questions about bangladesh's garment industry. malaysia's airlines took a major step to charter new
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territory for the company. hoping to restore the confidence of the flying public after a disastrous 2014. divya gopalan reports. >> a new name, that's what's emerged from malaysia airlines restructuring. christophe mueller the new ceo describes the restructuring with reason. the changes followed two tragedies involving malaysia airlines in the past 14 months but analysts say the carrier had been racking up losses for years. >> this restructuring is driven by business imperatives and the need for it was identified long before last year. so i wouldn't put too much direct connection. it's the intensely competitive
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situation that airlines fly in. >> to promote the country's foreign policy it had excess staff due to powerful unions, analysts say all this made its operational costs at least 20% more than its rivals. more people than ever are flying nowadays. in fact industry revenue has doubled in past decades however much of that is driven by low low cost airlines. in the asia pacific region there are nearly 50 budget airlines. one of the most successful is air asia, it competes directly with plaish airlines on malaysia airlines on 70% of its routes.
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>> it may not look like a startup but in fact we will be a start july. everything will in fact be new. >> but winning back public confidence will likely be its biggest challenge. divya gopalan, al jazeera, hong kong. israeli's prime minister will visit israel next year. dates for the trip have not been set but he will also visit with palestinian and jordanian leaders. the tightening of bilateral ties with india. an american woman was mauled to death while vacationing vacationing in south africa. she stopped to take pictures of a lion, it eventually attacked her jumping through the open window of the vehicle. a man was also mauled trying to fight off the loin.
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park visitors are prointed prohibited from driving through the park with the windows down. libya now faces a serious threat from the armed group i.s.i.l we'll take a look at how fast it's advancing to fill power vacuum from the death of moammar gadhafi. one of the most extreme races on the planet but it could soon be a thing of the past.
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first a look at the stories taking place around the u.s. in our american minute. the senate could vote on be legislation tomorrow, that would end the bulk collection of photo data. the supreme court has ruled on two major cases one involved a pennsylvania man arrested for posting violence messages on facebook. another of a woman who was turned down for employment at abercrombie and fitch for wearing a muslim headdress. and lid lind you day graham lind day
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lindsay graham launched his run for the presidency from south carolina. diplomats will meet in paris to help develop a better policy oto fight i.s.i.l. mohamed jamjun report. >> part of the u.s. coalition battling the group, they're among the countries who promised to pulverize a dangerous enemy into retreat. but on the ground in iraq the situation remains dire. critics say the coalition strategy is extremely misguided that the miss tirial ministerial meeting in paris is ineffective. >> there is nothing like an iraqi army, the iraqi army has been disbanded back in 2003.
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>> it's journalist knicks nicholas inau, taken hostage by i.s.i.l. for almost a year. >> we are basically supporting an army that is ineffective and giving them weapons that they will eventually hand over to i.s.i.l. this is absolutely stupid. >> laulaurent fabeaux called the meeting. in fep february, fabeaux is stilt position this position. >> translator: this contract is what justified our military engagement and i say clearly here it must be better respected. >> and yet despite mounding
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pressure on iraqi president haider al-abadi, sectarian divisions in iraq have only deepened. expectations for talks were already low. they were lowered even further when it was announced that u.s. secretary of state john kerry would no longer be attending in person, due to the broken leg he suffered. for now though far from the ravaged streets of iraq and syria diplomat will discuss searching for a solution seems harder to reach than ever before. mohamed jamju informationg, al jazeera, paris. >> a u.n. official was in erbil today, she says she will request $500 million when addressing the u.n. this week. >> we also know that in the next couple of months, maybe millions
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more people will need aid because of the counterinsurgency, because they'll be forced from their homes. it may be by the end of 2015 that there will be 10 million people in iraq that need assistance. that's the planning number we're working on. >> includes 3 million who are internally displaced. in context tonight i.s.i.l. is making major gains in libya, its group is make inroads in coastal city of sirte. >> i.s.i.l. fighters control the airport city of sirte. i.s.i.l. also referred to as daesh is now clearly part of the bloody battles for power and libya's oil. >> the country's running out of time. libya is on the verge of
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economic and financial collapse. it's facing a huge security threat because of the civil war but also, i would say even more important today because of daesh, threat. >> sirte, essentially located on the coastal highway sits between libya's two rival governments approximately 750 miles apart. libya's city of derna fell to i.s.i.l. late last year. recently the group claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing that killed two guards at a checkpoint near the city of misrata. i.s.i.l. has set up checkpoints in key positions. it has launched suicide bombings in benghazi to capitalize on the divisions there. in february released a video that showed i.s.i.l. fight centers libya killing more than
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20 egyptian coptic christian oil workers. i.s.i.l. remains even more rooted. in april members of the u.n. security council condemned the killing of 30 ethiopian workers. u.n. security council wrote since the beginning of 2015, there has even been a new reverse flow from the middle east to libya. libya is increasingly becoming a base for incoming fighters to receive military style training. i.s.i.l. has deployed envoys from iraq and syria including libyans returning home to recruit and indoctrinate in extreme ideology. libya is similar to syria and iraq where the group can find control in warring factions, it
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can't exploit any splintering sectarian faction he. i.s.i.l. faces regional groups so they haven't gained ground as quickly as iraq and syria. but like iraq, they may find loyalists. i.s.i.l. execute strategy. it would also provide needed local legitimacy for group in the tribally controlled deeply troubled country. be courtneycourtney kealy, al jazeera. >> you've written that i.s.i.l. has worldwide ambitions and strategies but aren't you surprised by the speed of i.s.i.l.'s expansion outside syria and iraq? >> no, not really. i.s.i.s. has been talking about its global strategy for almost a year now. and frankly we've seen, since i.s.i.s. declared the caliphate
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last june, that it has the capabilities to send foreign fighters back and to manipulate geopolitical realities in order to gain ground in the region and that is something we have learned for some time. >> but the caliphate was supposed to be in the levant. now we are speaking about libya and other places. >> that's the key. when i.s.i.s. declared the caliphate, it changed its name to just the islamic state it's meant to be a global caliphate. we've also seen it invest significant amounts of time and effort incouple caiting regional affiliates that can eventually help it expand beyond the boundaries of the levant. >> is there too much success from the u.s. and its european and arab partners on what's going on in iraq and syria and
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not what i.s.i.l. is doing elsewhere and stemming that global outreach? >> i would say so. obviously the fight within iraq and syria is key that's the caliphate legitimacy. but at the same time i see the u.s. and its partners are not really framing the fight in a global way which is what i.s.i.s. is doing. and that's setting us up for strategic miscalculation. >> how does i.s.i.l. do it though? because you think they would be embattled and certainly fighting wars on multiple fronts. is there any kind of centralized control or are these groups that are just loosely affiliated? >> well, that's something we certainly watch for and i.s.i.s. actually has a formalized process for creating these affiliates. and i've published extensively about why it wants to inculcate these regional alliances. what it wants to do is return small numbers of fighters back
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to their home network to use locals who are already there so it doesn't take away from i.s.i.s.'s efforts in iraq and syria. it givers their organization resiliency in case they suffer losses in iraq and syria. >> be courtney kealy just brought up, it has seemed to be growing in influence in libya could there be tremendous consequences that that is a failed state it has two rebel governments, and we could see libya become what afghanistan was for osama bin laden and quealt? >> andqueald? >> -- >> al qaeda? >> and what syria is now. we've seen an influx of new
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fighters come and join i.s.i.s that it's greater as if i.s.i.s. hadn't expanded beyond its boundaries. >> what do you think is happening in libya? we've got one government of tripoli in the west and another one in tobruk in the east, and i.s.i.s. is in the center of the country could we see a complete and utter split of the state what's left? >> frankly, i think that's what we have already seen. its stronghold is in durna in the east and we have seen cells in tripoli and misrata as well. we are approaching this point where this can really become a training ground and source of radicalism in the region. >> arlene gambir, it is a pleasure to have you.
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tonight, and we go live... >> an unscheduled stop in japan today for the solar powered plane that is trying to circle the globe. the solar impulse 2 bad weather over the ocean forced a change of plans and a late night landing as nagoya airport. the flight will continue when the weather improves. beijing has placed restrictions on lighting up in public the ban could be a tough sell in a country where more than 300 million people smoak smoke. adrian brown reports . >> previous bans failed
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proirming e-primaryprimarydue to be lack of enforcement. churn are most affected by this, clear signs authorities appear serious this time. >> for the first time the regulations very clearly spell out what happens if somebody doesn't adhere to the regulations. and it's not only that the smokers themselves will be fined. more importantly the owners and managers of a business will be fined quite healthy fine if they don't keep the be premises free. >> the great wall and forbidden city are now also off limits to smoking. but in beijing the risk to passive smoke could be the least of your problems.
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doctors say breathing the air on aparticularly polluted day can be equal to smoking a pack of cigarettes. a packet of cigarettes in china costs on average just $1.50. the world health organization hopes that can change. >> the more expensive cigarettes are the less people will smoke so for us the more expensive the better. >> but the industry's unlikely to be squeezed too hard. the taxes it pays accounts for 10% of all government revenues. china has more smokers than the population of the united states. and on monday, we found one of them openly violating the new law. and the restaurant owner openly telling us to leave. adrian brown, al jazeera beijing. >> the new smoking ban in beijing is a bold move for china, the world's largest
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tobacco consuming country. the world health organization says this is the most dangerous threat to global completely, 80% of smokers live in low and middle-income countries. tobacco kills an average of 6 million a year more than half a million of those deaths are from secondhand smoke. one person dies every six seconds because of tobacco products and by 2030, the number of smokers is expected to pass 8 million a year. former director of the office of smoking and health at the cdc. it is very good to have you with us sir. the w.h.o. report is loorming, despitelawrnlg,alarmingthe number of smokers worldwide is still growing. >> yes, we've made a lot of progress but the number
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continues to grow. part of that is population growth. more and more people more young people grow into adolescents try tobacco and increases the number of smokers. the rates are going down but the absolute number of smokers stand at about 1 billion that smoke approximately 6 trillion cigarettes a year. >> the percentage has declined but the absolute number has increased because of the population growth. >> yes absolutely. >> how effective is the ban in china? as many as the population of the united states. >> it's hugely important. i've spent the last seven years going back and forth to china working on projects with the gates foundation and pfizer company. china gets cities to establish smoke free public places and workplaces. and having beijing the largest city or a city of 22 million go
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smoke-free in indoor areas and bars and restaurants is almost unimaginable. it is significant for the rest of china and for the rest of asia it can't be underestimated. >> adrian brown's story raised the issue of economics and smoking and how the chinese government gets 10% of its revenues from tobacco. certainly surprised me. will the chinese government then have the incentive to enforce these new laws? are the costs to the government high enough to counterbalance the appeal of all those revenues. >> that's therevenues? >> that's the real conundrum. the revenue of people using tobacco in china the monopoly not only gets the tax dollars but also the profits of selling the cigarettes. but the chinese government is paying for health care expenses that are caused by smoking.
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an they're realizing it is a tradeoff. you can make revenue now osh spendorspend revenue in the future, fighting the diseases that smoking causes. china taking a hard look of promoting smoking versus trying to discourage it. most countries including china have ratified the tobacco control which is a w.h.o. treaty requiring all countries to reduce the use of tobacco over the next few years. >> one thing that shocked me in the w.h.o. report was only 37% of people in china know that smoking causes heart disease. only 27% know it can cause stroke. as you've mentioned, you've led a major national and global initiative to stop smoking. how hard is to it get that nefnlg through? >> well, getting the message through, the knowledge part isn't that hard. but china is just at the beginning of this process. you know most men smoke smoking
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is the norm. quitting is an unusual behavior, very few people have quit in china. so they're very much at the beginning of coming to grips with the problem. and so their knowledge isn't very high about the harm. this this country, in the united states knowledge is very high but we still have over 40 million smokers. so it requires more than knowledge. it righteous the desire to rid -- i requires the desire to rid yourself of an addiction you're harming yourself, and harnlg yourharming your family. taking it personally like that. >> good to have you with us, thanks. thanks. >> in tonight's off the radar segment a race that combines endurance skiing with a volcanic landscape. it is an event you can only find in iceland but the future of the event could be under threat.
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math ruvsee reports. >> there wasn't even a gun ostart the race in iceland and only about 50 people took part. but it's an event like no other on the planet. the course runs directly over an active volcanic landscape. >> this is special the race through active volcano area. and you ask see the steam and smell, it's everyone from maybe five six years old to 80. >> the geothermal obstacles facing exet torsz infacing everyone in the volcanic part of us a land, boiling mud pots impromptu hot springs. the competitors ski over the rift between the eurasian.
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and the transarctic tectonic plates. >> all the cross country races for past two years the olympic games, the world championship, have all been in very warm temperature. wrafned there's a lackand where there's a lack of snow. >> last two winters a lot of snow, this year, not so much snow. it's my feeling it is always less and less. >> former member of the icelandic ski team won the race this year, by a large margin. having enough snow just 60
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kilometers south of the arctic circle to race next year in april, will be a clear icelandic mark he of climate change, matt rumsey, al jazeera iceland. one of the most romantic land marks in the city of lights is no more. >> it's ironic, we're here on our engagement to put our locks of love on a landmark. maybe that's not so ironic. >> an interesting take on the conflict in ukraine from the kiev post. you a
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streets. 20 of the booths are going to museums and heritage sites around the country. now our global view segment. how news outlets are reacting to various events. an debt torld an editorial in lebanon syria full of empty words false hopes, bureaucrats and media events. the kiev post has an interesting take on another story we've touched on the crisis in ukraine. under the headline bleed ukraine slowly russia continues its strategy of chipping away at ukraine without triggers a harsh response from the european community. and smoking ban new rules ask save society in smokers the china daily says will test the
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authority's determination and administrative ability. finally now paris is breaking up with its love locks. for years couples have attached locks to the pont des arts. jacky rowland reports from paris. >> it is early morning in the city of love and a bit of romantic history is about to come to an end. they're closing off the pont des arts a popular destination to attach a padlock. time to go. >> i find it a little ironic. we're here on our engagement for our locks of love. maybe that's not an owe men on our future relationship. >> i came here 42 years of
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marriage to put a lock on for my wife and i can't do it. >> that's rubbish of course. >> the whole saga of the pad locks has put the city in a tricky position. obviously it doesn't want to do anything to upset the tourists but it has responsibility to the people who live and work in the city. in the end it came down to public safety. the risk that part of the the.walkway could fall down on the a pedestrian or a passing boat. >> the issue we have with the love locks not the bridge itself. >> one tourist at least thinks he can find a solution. >> try to find another bridge. >> jacky rowland, al jazeera paris. >> coming up tomorrow, a year since the surge of undocumented
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children entered the u.s. from south america. we'll look at where they are today and what's been done to curb the flow of migrants through mexico. that's this edition of al jazeera, international news. fault lines is up next, i'll see you again in an hour. >> every summer in america a force of nature becomes a man-made disaster. some call it a war millions of acres, billions of dollars. no end in sight. >> in this episode of fault lines we follow the 2013 wildfire season and ask - with more homes than ever now under threat what are the real costs of putting them out? >> the
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