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into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". only on al jazeera america. on the deefnlings, saudi arabia saysdefense, saudi arabia says it shot down a scud missile shot by houthi fighters. hello from al jazeera headquarters in doha, in doha, i'm junti'mjane dutt top. >> slammed by the critics the movie about fifa, that couldn't come at a worst time.
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swee begin with the lacest development on the war in are are jim. state tv says the missile was fired by the houthi rebels, from aden a border guard says to be killed by an attack in jazan and nazran. osama ben javid has the details. >> saudi outpost on the southern border. took control of this military area near ravan. dozens of the attackers were killed during battles that lasted for hours. it says renegade fighters allied to former president saleh and
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houthis were involved. border skirmishes with the 1500 mile border with yemen. is. >> surprisingly we did expect a saudi invasion of yemen but for houthis to invade 60 to 70 kilometers into bazan, this is a serious issue. and saudi arabia must deal with serials before it goes out of seriously before it gets out of hand. >> saudi arabia air strikes have been hitting houthi positions. more strikes were found in chu chubwa and sanaa. pro government forces say they're resisting forces.
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there both the houthis and president hadi's government have agreed to send envoys to geneva. >> i think if the last two months has shown the world anything it has shown us by just bombing the yemeni people will not solve problems there flp has to be negotiations between the various peaforts. >> more than 2,000 have decide and more than a million have been displaced. only hope for an end to the fighting. osama ben javid is al jazeera. >> visit comes 20 years after the end of the bosnian war which
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killed about 100,000 people. lawrence lee joins us live from sarajevo. what's on the pope's itinerary lawrence. >> this is a theme of symbolism jane that's running right through pope francis's visit. at the moment he's been at the presidential palace, meeting all three of the presidents. tripartite one serb but croat and one bosnian. greater reconciliation is going to be to that. the main meeting is at the olympic stadium where there's a large catholic and mostly croat gathering. a muslim carpenter took it upon himself to construct the throne
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that the pope with it sit on, and later this afternoon the pope will hold an interreligious talks at one of the catholic offices here which again you used by all three. so again what it is is not a demonstration of what's possible is that these three sides here can live together. i'm just going to carry on talking because we've lost communication for the time being. it is worth adding jane that this is going to see the more significant event like this because it's 20 years since some of the worst events of the bosnian war and the end of the war. in july president clinton is going to be here to mark the horrors of very very very, of are
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the war. too much of a look at what's ahypothesissing but the biggest problem here is entrenched ethnic divide which threaten to hinder that greater sense of reconciliation that the pope would like to push for today. >> lawrence lee pope is there for a one day visit to sarajevo. deadliest boat disaster in nearly seven decades. stayed media says more bodies were found on saturday.
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the eastern star sank on the yangtze river. it's believed sudden winds overturned the boat. 40 people -- 14 people survived. the islamic state of iraq and the levant has filed artillery shells. habaner air base east of ramadi. i.s.i.l. took control of the city last month. launched an ordinancive against the iraqi army and shia rebels be is supporting them. in iraq the attacks were in raman and salah provinces.
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u.n. spokeman has told that he doesn't expect a change in strategy. >> we know the most important boots on the ground are going to be iraqi boots on the ground and priemedprime minister abadi has made it clear. that's what he wants. there is not going to be u.s. troops on the ground in a combat role. as you know there are some 3,000 troops there as advisors and trainers trying to help the iraqi troops go against had enemy. i see to change in that at all for us from our perspective. >> i think it's really important that we don't confuse tactical issues with a strategic purpose.
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and i think that's what maybe happening here. nobody is trying to understate what happened in ramadi and certainly nobody's happy about what happened there. it was a tactical defeated by the iraqi security forces. we understand that, prime minister abadi has talked about that. but that's far from saying that the strategy unsound or it's not working. actually in truth if you look at the last nine or ten months that we've been operating against the group as a coalition we have continued to make solid process. >> it is the today of vote for turkey for president recep tayyip erdogan faces a myriad of challenges. jamalel shael takes a look. >> there are now more than 2 million syrian refugees living
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in turkey. these images are a stark reminder of the toll the war is having here in turkey. resurge entities here, like ann ahnkara. worsened the crisis and suggested this isn't the ak party's only misstep. turkey enjoyed warm relations with damascus, so much so, held joint committees and voted to scrap resistance. anka ratificationa has all but cut off ties with tel aviv.
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sinjar amir is a professor of turkey relations. >> turkey is not a medium power not a world power. turkey cannot take the behavior of a world power. you cannot take party for one side and try to change the situation in one country. >> reporter: aimmediate dir beidoku. >> based on certain venues, values like democracy. values like supporting human dig it this. >> reporter: turkey's foreign policies have not only helped define the ak party answer rule, but in world policies, it has won turkey a lot of support but also a great deal of criticism.
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>> says that the criticism is unwarranted. >> many actors they blame turkey and turkish leadership for changing its foreign policy orientation but this is not the case. when we look at the regional environment in which turkey is located, we see that the other sides of the relationship, other actors were changed dramatically. >> there's no doubt that turkey's role on the world stage has grown since it came to power. extends far beyond its borders. jamalel shael. al jazeera ankara. >> giving up the bullet for the ballot. we meet the vigilantes turned
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he. >> top stories on al jazeera three soldiers and a border guard from saudi arabia are said to have been killed in an astack by houthis on a border area. saudis have shot down a missile filed into the kingdom by houthi rebels. pope francis has arrived in the bons nan capital.
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in turkey, two people have been killed in a proelection rally. the votes widely seen as a performance test for ak party of president recep tayyip erdogan. we have gotten a report that be in afghanistan taliban fighters area could fall if reenforcements don't arrive soon. the u.s. defense secretary says western sanctions have failed to get russia to change its course offer theen ukraine the ukrainian
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campaign. nadim baba reports. >> firmly under their control after two days of fierce fighting. left nearly 30 people dead since the minsk agreement with ukraine and russia signed in february. ukraine's president petro poroshenko has told a news conference that 50,000 troops have been deployed in a reaction zone. >> i can tell you the number of russian troops in the ukrainian border is unprecedented. since august of this year there has never been that many troops deployed at our borders. >> special session of security council in new york. >> the recent provocative steps
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by russia clearly indicate russia's intention to disrupt the minsk process. afternoon attempt of the russian site to exert military measures. >> held by pro-russian separatists. >> i won't go into a discussion with my ukrainian colleague of the charge of the eunt nations and internationalby the unitednations. a pine tiff operation in east of ukraine. >> but addressing the session via video link the deputy head of an international monday torgt monitoring
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mission. >> residents around the area are worried suggesting that the military track has not been abandoned in favor of the political one. thighs events underline the need to break the cycle of violence now before further escalation takes place. >> the leader of the self styled donetsk republic says the latest fighting has killed around 400 croojukrainian fighters. whether or not that is correct. nadim baba, al jazeera. >> activists say 30 have been killed by national forces. the protesters want the president nkurunziza to abandon
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his reelection plans. many rescued by units of the italian armed forces that deals with smuggling. hoda abdel hamid made some of thevoyage with the be ship. >> for years it goes well beyond that. noar front of the rescue of migrants making journey across the mediterranean sea. >> translator: saving human lives is really gratifying, especially when there are children. it was emotional. >> when the sea is rough we have to keep them calm, bring them on board as soon as possible. they were all sing, thanking god
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for us. >> the newest in the fleet of the border police, its on board camera can zoom in about 10 miles away 18 kilometers. other eu nation are also proalg by sea and from the air. this is a ship of the british royal navy. we're about 24 nautical miles off the coast of libya and in front of the trich li tripp lidz area. tripoli area. any boat in this area needs to identify itself overt wise otherwise
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it gets searched. >> all part of the recently established triton mission. >> it consists of joint seas patrols. days 6,000 migrants reached our area in just a few hours. we had to call upon commercial ships in the area to help. if there are lives to be saved we will go wherever they are even beyond the triton area. >> coordinating all search and rescue operations. it's here that we saw the crew rescue nearly 250 people in little more than an hour just a few days ago. thousands more in the past. and while the eu politicians deal with the never ending
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influx the crew continues to search the sea in search of life to save. hoda abdel hamid, al jazeera mediterranean sea. >> the virus mers, 50 people now have the virus. first person returned from saudi arabia with the infection last month. his wife has bin the first person to be discharged in hospital. in malaysia, nine more bodies have been found. the magnitude 6.0 quairk twig triggered on friday. 11 died eight are still missing. in honduras, demonstrators are
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demanding the resignation of president juan orlando earned hadhernandez. extra police to the south because of escalating violence. teachers have threatened to block voting and attacked officers of political parties and unrest in chiapas. meanwhile, vigilante officers are triting for a seat in congress. from michoacan. a report. >> leader of a vigilante farmers unit which took over parts of michoacan. nowadays the hat remains but the
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begun has gone. mora has found a new job as candidate for congress in the europe coming elections. he doesn't think much about the criminals. >> they are a bunch ever crooks who lie to everyone. >> but he sees hymns as a loyalist shoot out in which his son and ten others died. >> i've talked to vigilante group and said to them, we need to get into the circle and that may be easier to get what we wanting. >> with the farmers upridessing petering out many find it is a good sometime to move into politics. >> the problems that provoked
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the vidges lan vigilantes still abound. she's close to the vigilante movement. her brother was one of the leaders until e-was put in jail. she says she's continuing her brother's industrial by challenge. >> i want what we lived through to action as a base for change and to hell us decide what we want through ourselves. not killing or are amped uprising. mutually help. >> vigilante candidates are have proofed difficult for gangs. called off a campaign spot in a nearby town after being warned
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by the plan ambush. instead, he greeted supporters in his home village. we urged him to quiet down rather than what he has established. >> the the mexico's tallest peak the third in three months. two other mummifyied bodies were fown,. >> a film over the world soccer's soccer. >> football association.
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fifa. >> reporter: it's been a story that's been seen before, but funded by $60 m from the organization it's got owner horrible views. like substantialist tick story hideous, ill timed internal politics. not the usual fare of sporting movies. but after the events for the last two week with corruption charges for those and sepp blatter. somewhere some of the lines take on additional sequence. >> you apparently have a time too learn money.
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>> i don't know where the money is going. i have my suspicions. >> sits only on in 11 cities and a handful of screerches. washington d.c. is sharing its screen and the smallest one at that. is those who see the movie say they havethe theater is fill with laughter wii is interesting it's supposed to be a come did i. >> having come out tom leading guys from fifa are being stain out in handcuffs from their hotel rooms in switzerland. >> the movie will be available
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