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ontinues next from london. for more on the latest go to www.aljazeera.com. >> turkey's ruling party suffers a set back at the ballot box and suffers the difficult task of creating a coalition. i'm lauren taylor. this is al jazeera live from lornd. alsolondon. coming up. turkey's relationship with its war torn neighbor plus. >> we don't yet have a complete strategy. >> barack obama says he needs more commitments from iraq before he can fine-tune the fight against i.s.i.l. and compulsory coding. will hong kong schools lead the world in what's being called
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literacy for the 21st century? hello, thing political party of turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan faces weeks of political wraing rang ling. rangling to form a compromise. the maim party chp came second, prokurdish people's democratic party, significant break through first time they have secured enough votes to enter parliament. omar al saleh is in turkey.
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when can we expect a stable government to be formed? >> well, the winning party the ruling ak party is expected to be nominated 50 president it should happen in a few days. once the president calls on the party to form a government, the party has 45 days to try and bring a coalition together. if the party has the right to say he can't they failed before the 45 days. we are talking about a matter of weeks. we do understand from the ruling ak party that they are trying to get a coalition together. they need at least 18 seats in parliament to unable them to form a minority government. the consequences of that if it happens that means the government will be very weak and it won't be able to pass any laws in parliament. the latest development is coming from the lead opposition party
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the chp all opposition parties parties without the ruling ak party. the mhp and hdp and the chp can call a coalition together and form a government. >> what is the impact going to be on turkey going forward? >> i think it's going to be a big one because remember, before the election, there was an economic issue here and people were starting to worry for the first time in many many years that the growth rate has fallen inflation, risen the turkish lirlira , fell by 4% the stock market fell, there is the issue of instability and that stability, the political stability of this country is now shaken and of course turkey relies on foreign investment. if there's no political stability that means there will be more problems and the people
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here in this country remember the day of the 1990s where there were weak coalition governments unable to do anything. and they were on the verge of bankruptcy before the imf bailed them out. but the good thing about it is the good thing in perhaps many years again that the opposition parties may be all the political parties perhaps reach certain level of maturity. because when you listen to the oral statements coming from all the political spectrum they do say these elections are crucial and also equally crucial for the parties to act responsibly and bring the coalition together for many years. >> omar al saleh from istanbul. success of the prooccurreddish peoples democratic party. how they reached out to broaden their appeal. >> in turkey's largest kurdish
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party, people's democratic party into parliament will bring new momentum into a three year stalled peace process. cost 40,000 lives. >> translator: i think something should be done to reestablish the peace process. we all live opportunity same flag. peace and sphra alternate fraternity is what turkey needs. when people get more powerful sometimes they do not keep their promises and the akp disappointed us. . though the image of hdp leader is woven in carpet and hang for sale along other kurdish heroes is an indication of how many hope people have in this bl leader.
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>> we have economic problems here in towrk. turkey. >> minority groups and ethnic turks were also persuaded to throw their support behind the hdp. that's how it won 80 parliamentary seats. to get 18% at the first vote is remarkable. the no government is formed there will be fresh elections and the hdp will have to pull off the same feat again. working hard to make sure be be democracy in the turkish parliament is not lost forever. >> activists say the injured are being shifted to turkish hospital he but since march
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turkey closed all entry points. osama ben javid reports. >> a bomb has just been drochtd on thisdroppedon this neighborhood in northern syria. dozens were killed. the government of bashar al-assad has dropped dozens of barrel bombs on the area in the last few weeks. people escaped from the nearby city, the injured were taken to hospitals in turkey. but that's been difficult to do since march when the turkish government closed all entry and exit points from syria. fighters say there have been exceptions for seriously wounded. from northern syria the only way out of the conflict remains shut. only ones under the control of
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syrian rebels. they are considered vital for supplies for northern syria opportunity control of northern fighters. >> translator: border crossing has been closed by the turkish authorities who only told us one day before the closure. relief materials cannot go through. passengers cannot travel or go anywhere. >> it is hard for many people to return to the border. syria's main opposition group says they are hopeful the crossings will open soon. >> there are promises from the turkish government to order the border crossings after the parliamentary elections. >> besides security there are also concerns about people joining islamic state of iraq and the levant. and i.s.i.l. fighters returning through the turkish border. but border closure means civilians are stranded. in addition to the government's bombing in certain areas
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opposition held areas north of aleppo and idlib. across syria only shells remain of what were once busy town. this is near the capital damascus. it's been bombed for months. out of the hundreds of thousands of people here just a few dozen families are left. and they haven't left because they have nowhere else to go. >> this building was targeted twice by resistance. all of jabba has been targeted not just this. >> similar scenes all across syria. what syrian government governs has been mostly turned to ruins. osama ben javid, al jazeera. >> yemen's president hadi says he won't be talking about reconciliation with houthi rebels at u.n. brokered meetings on sunday.
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instead head says they will be calling onabd rabbu mansour hadisays they will be calling on houthi forces for cessation of violence. almost 5900 migrants were rescued from the mediterranean sea over the weekend as they traveled from north africa to europe. 60 children traveling without a parent. there have been similar scenes at italian ports as the rescue ships come to shore. al jazeera's hoda abdel hamid is in the italian city of catania. how are the italian authorities coping? >> reporter: well, the short
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answer is that they are overwhelmed. just this ship alone the hms bullwark has docked just afternoon hour ago with 1900 migrants. they have to go into be be these services, about 600 of them will be flown to mainland italy today, after they go through this process here, which means that they get some treatment if they need, they get shoes they get water and they get fingerprinted, and immediately they will leave sicily. the rest will remain here. as you mentioned lauren, this is happening around several ports of sicily and the mainland as we speak. so if you can imagine just all these people arriving each with different needs each wanting to go to a vision location and the burden of this, yes the eu is
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helping with the initiative, 26 countries and not any of them take them back to their own country. everybody comes to italy. >> children traveling without a parent. it seems staggering that they're making this journey on their own. >> absolutely. i have to say i saw that. i saw children really as young as 12-year-olds traveling alone and it was quite shocking to see. they were -- they are very vulnerable. they were completely dehighhydrated. oosms the the reason they travel alone they are hoping by sending the children alone they could get refugee status quicker. miles an hour according to international law cannot be sent back home even if they're only economic migrants they are not escaping a war. so you do have that happening and then you have simply
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orphans, people who lost their parents along the way or people who were orphaned in many of the war zones these people come from. it is a very heartbreaking situation. these are obviously the most vulnerable when they land, and you have ngos here like save save the children if these minors are not taken care of from the minute they touch land could end up in very bad hands. >> hoda abdel hamid thank you very much indeed. list part of the united nations report on young people in conflict around the world our diplomatic editor james bays is at diplomatic headquarters in new york. >> behind the scenes there has been a very serious controversy going on here at the eunt about united nations about the annual report
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that scoreless out each year, at the end of that report there is a list of shame of those countries and groups that violate children's rights. i am told that the draf version ofdraft versionof the report included israel and marinian palestinian groups. the final report does not have israel and palestinian groups in it. the report original draft was produced 50 office of the special representative for this issue, leila zarugi. >> this is not my report, this is secretary-general's report on children in conflict. >> but your recommendation ves beenhavebeen overturned by the secretary-general. >> no, where did you see that report. >> i heard the report original report had the israel and palestinian groups on the report. when it came back it did not
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have it on the report. is that true? >> yes but the decision of the secretary-general we are supposed to prepare the decision of the secretary-general. we are not one who decide. and i think that we discussed thoroughly this issue and i would advise that you list the report. >> so no listing for israel or palestinian groups despite the fact that 540 children died during the gaza conflict. i'm told although it is thought in the listing it is mentioned in the body of the report, one u.n. official telling me that israel may have scored a victory not getting it listed but there are going to be damming information in the report about that situation. >> james bays there. children who have walked for weeks to escape violence in
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south sudan. and the para paralympian paralympian who suffered from his girl friend's death.
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>> hello again a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. turkey's major party has suffered a set back at the ballot box now it faces weeks with rivals to try to form a stable government. houthi rebel forces, the country's president abd rabbu mansour hadi says he won't be talking about reconciliation with houthi rebels.
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and over the weekend an estimated 5900 migrants were rescued from the mediterranean sea as they traveled from north africa to europe. authorities warn that ukraine could suffer further without disabilities in the conflict. be the russian president wasn't invited to the g7. >> we condemn unanimously the seizure of crimea which is against international law. we're saying that the conflict in southeastern ukraine could only be sofd solved politically based on the minsk accord. we are also ready should this be necessary although we to not want that. to toughen sanction he.
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s. >> president obama conceded that antii.s.i.l. strategy is not yet fiengzed. >> we want more iraqi security forces trained well equipped and focused and if the abadi wants the same thing. when a finalized plan is presented to me by the pentagon then i will share it with the american people. it's not -- we don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the iraqis as well. >> our correspondent dominic kane has been monitoring events at the summit. >> as day 2 of the g7 suvment summit drew to a close the communique that encapsulates the agreement of the g7, it is clear that the things that dominated the talks was the islamic state of iraq and the levant and expressing
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strategies they discussed and perhaps agreed upon in their deliberations. we know that the iraqi prime ministerhaideral-abadi had met president obama on the sidelines and went through the strategies and president obama talked about sealing off borders through which foreign fighters do get into rawblg. andiraq. and then the ukraine crisis, russia has been excluded from these talks for two years and there's been strong words from the german chance of legislator and particularly president obama, which said that the russian he have to choose between a dream of another soviet empire or a dream of a stable economy. climate change and climate change and an agreement on it
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found its way into this communique and there will be more on that at the u.n. climate conference in paris at the end of the year. >> eritrea accusations are quaibd in thecontained in a u.n. report, expecting the government is encouraging the use of torture. >> we seldom see human rights violation of this scope and scale as we see in eritrea today. it is not surprising to us that these days, a large proportion of those crossing the mediterranean and using other irregular routes to reach europe are eritreans they are fleeing a country ruled not by law but by fear. >> teachers in afghanistan are threatening more action if the government doesn't increase
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their pay. schools have closed just weeks before exams. nicole johnson reports. >> 18,000 students go to school here but for the last eight days all of the teachers here have been on strike. and they're not the only ones. this industrial action is spreading. in at least four provinces 200 schools are now on strike. the teachers say they don't earn enough money enough salary to live on and that the government has failed to deliver on its promise he. >> translator: the president promised increased salaries and land and to change the timetable. if nothing changes the strike will get bigger and more schools will support us. >> translator: teacher salaries are low and we can't afford rent, food for our children but we are still motivated to teach. >> these teachers say they are the poorest paid government employees in all of afghanistan.
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they earn around $120 a month. now the government is urging them to return to work and says it will look into their demands. >> we are telling them that they should be patient and the government is new. there are no, in our finding from outside now. >> for now there's no agreement between the government and teachers union. so the classrooms are empty an up to 200,000 students are sitting at home. >> thousands of south sudanese, have walked for hours to find shelter. be be catherine soycatherine soy reports. >> they avoided the main roads walked only at night when they felt safe and ate water lillies.
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no shelter not enough food. they're heading to this camp for displaced people. it's already crowded. and the living conditions are tough. this won her children and grandchildren are -- this woman her children and grandchildren are trying ocoach here she says before her house was abandoned she was raped. her grandchildren are both missing. both under ten years old. she asked us to not identify her. >> i compare my grandchildren's life to my own. life not knowing where they are is not a life. i need to go back to see if they are zed or alive and hiding somewhere. >> children here cope any way they can but it is not easy. most who are coming are women and very young children. most have been in this u.n.
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registration area have been here for days. therethere is no shelter. sometimes it's rain, sometimes it's too hod the sanitation is very bad. 60% of the people in this camp are children. aid workers say there are worried there are very few teenage boys and girls among the thousands who are arriving. >> we are particularly concerned about the adolescents, many many young children but nowhere near as many adolescents as you would expect, we don't know why based on the stories we have been hearing those have also been killed. >> accusing government troops of murder as well as looting and burning homes. belonging to the sudan people's are liberation party spla. >> because there are forces the original army you see even they
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are not protecting the life of civilians. >> almost all the children here have been through so much. for now this scamp the safest place theach managed to they've managed to find. catherine soy, al jazeera. >> authorities have recommended that oscar pistorius should be released from prison because of his good behavior behind bars. culpable homicide for shooting his girlfriend. computer coding to be made compulsory in schools. sarah clark reports literacy for the 21st century. >> it's a saturday morning and school may be finished for the week. but this class is still in session. and the lesson today is computer
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coding. >> coding is like building stuff. different games and designing electronics. >> reporter: joshua lane is more than 700 students who are part of this coding academy throarng createlearning to create computer apps and games from scratch. >> i make lots of games and i always wanted to make games. >> coding is no longer in the domain of computer science. it is actually a very important general subject that all young people should learn. so i think that's the earlier the better. >> john wayne is the founder of the academy and a man on a coding mission. he studied engineering at the university of hong kong and won a scholarship to oxford university. he turned to computer education and believes that digital literacy is now a core life
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skill. >> i think this is a very meaningful mission for me to teach our young people to learn programming which i think is the 21st century literacy. >> reporter: with apps, smartphones and digital literacy so much a part of our lives it is not a surprise that here in hong kong there is a campaign to make coding a mandatory part of the school curriculum. united kingdom and estonia have it on the curriculum. it's still not on the major curriculum of the schools. this year a group of 1,000 students from hong kong broke the world record for the most people coding at the same time. and now coders want the government to commit. >> i'm a believer of coding being something that every kid should learn at the early stages. so hong kong schools are far from having something like that in the curriculum. >> right now i'm telling them
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the computer what to do. >> for those parents who aren't aren't waiting around there are more options than ever to teach computer literacy. >> more for you on our website the address is aljazeera.com. >> president obama says he is taking a new look at the american strategy in iraq. comments come at the end of the gefn summit. g7 summit. a supreme court vicity for president obama ability to make decisions. and policeman caught pulling his