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>> turkey faces weeks of instability after opposition parties say they won't help the akp back into power. hello there i'm barbara serra you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up in the next 30 minutes. more government air strikes stranded syria so turkey will open its border crossings now that the election is over. the u.n. accuses eritrea of widespread human abuses. and hong kong, we witness
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the campaign to get kids coding. hello there thank you for joining us. turkey faces weeks of uncertainty and political instability after voters stripped the ruling ak party of its parliamentary majority in sunday's election. turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan concedes he needs a coalition to form the new government. >> the morning after historic parliamentary elections in turkey for the first time sing since coming to power in 2002, the ak party found itself without enough votes to form a government on its own. but its leadership and supporters call sunday a victory not only for them but for
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turkish democracy. >> translator: the decision of our thaition is the final decision. the -- our nation is the final decision. here i am addressing you from the balcony of the ak party the platform of democracy in turkey and the will of the nation will be put into practice, nobody should have any doubt about that. >> the ak party needs to find a coalition with one of the other parties if it wants to form power. >> motte chesmost of the ak party should consider a coalition with the mhp. >> up tra nationalist mhp
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success story for the akp. >> the reason the ak party government managed to make progress in the peace process was a strong single party government. with osh without the coalition the peace process will be affected by the election results. >> reporter: it's not only the ak party that finds itself faced with strong decisions narrowing the political divide that has gripped the country for so long now. failing that however early elections could take place and that has the potential of increasing the current state of polarization. jamal al shael, al jazeera ankara. >> recep tayyip erdogan's situation needs to be addressed osce has been evaluating the parliamentary election process and it also says restrictions on
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media freedom need to be looked at. >> the active campaigning of the president whereas the constitution obliges him to be nonpartisan and to form his duties without bias. and the increasing pressure and intimidation on media and journalists critical until the until now political party by public figures and actors. >> well meanwhile government air strikes have killed 31 people in northern syria. activists say the injured have been taken to turkish hospital but since march turkey has closed all encumbrance and exit points osama ben javid reports.
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>> a bomb has just been dropped on this neighborhood in northern syria. the dense smoke and dust made the search for dead even harder. dozens were injured and many people killed. the government of president bashar al-assad has dropped barrel bombs on these areas for weeks. the town has a large number of people who escaped from the niche city. the injured were taken to hospitals in turkey. but that's been difficult to do since march when the turkish government closed all encumbrance and exit points from syria. there have been some exceptions for the severely wounded. the only way out of the conflict remains shut. out of nine crossings these were the only ones under the control of the syrian rebels. they are considered vital for supplies from northern syria for
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the rebel fighters. >> the border crossing has been closed by the turkish authorities who only told us one day before the closure. the relief materials can't go through and the travelers cannot go anywhere. >> reporter: it is hard for many people to return to the border. hopeful the crossings will open soon. >> translator: there are promises from the turkish government to on the border crossings after the parliamentary elections. >> reporter: 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 bother crossings mean civilians are stranded. increased bombings in areas north of aleppo and idlib. across syria only shells remain of what were once busy towns. this is neighborhood near the
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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 left to go. >> this building was targeted twice by jeements regimes here. not just one place but all of the area. >> what they govern has been turned mostly into ruins. osama ben javid al jazeera. the u.n. envoy to libya has unveiled the draft peace plan which he is going to present to libya's rival governments. one is backed by the u.n. while the other has support from libya's supreme court. militias loyal to the two governments have been fighting for control. >> this is not an agreement of winners or losers but one in which the only true victors are
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the people of libya. ladies and gentlemen you have before you a unique have opportunity to pull your country back from the brink of conflict and an endless cycle.violence. the only viable way for work is for you to join hands and work side by side in shaping the future and giving an opportunity to the people of libya. >> well joining us live now from irvine in california to discuss the libya peace talk in more detail is omar turbe a former advisory to the national council in libya sir thank you so much for joining us on al jazeera. we have certain similar talks before trying to get all sides across the negotiating table. do you have any hope that this
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time will be different? >> it is always hopeful to have any kind of agreement. the only way forward is to have an agreement. the only problem is that when you rush through an agreement it's not likely to be the kind of agreement that you wanted and wished for anyways. a agreement would only hold if it's backed by muferl of the securityby muscle of thesecurity council. the members of the security council have really not decided to support or throw their muscles behind any kind of agreement. libyans in general have lived through decades of lack of agreements. they're not likely to abide by it or work by it, that's the unfortunate part. in my opinion the united
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nations -- go ahead please. >> foiferg forgive me for interrupting you sir. we have seen immigrants coming to the european shores, something the eu is very worried about and many of them do come through instigate way that's been created by libya being in such disarray. do you not think the eu and the key countries there germany france the u.k. italy could now play a pivotal role and have the will to do so? >> we would love to see them do that. i think if we have five members of the security council push forward with a decision, is backing an agreement with force if the parties do not abide by the agreement the united nations is going to step in. italy in particular has been hurt by the migrants from north
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africa from libya. to give you bluntly the bad news i feel an agreement without the international military muscle is not going to go anywhere. that's unfortunate and then libya is in a lot of chaos right now. >> sure. >> tremendous amount of chaos that's happening on the ground. >> and because of that chaos not officially perhaps but certainly in the press and quite a few european countries the idea of sum kind of military intervention has been raised especially whether we see i.s.i.l. taking hold in parts of libya. do you think that would be a good idea, some kind of military action if the diplomacy ultimately doesn't yield any results? >> it has to be in concert with
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timed agreements if certain steps are not met there will be a military action, but the components and the makeup of any kind of support is not in the horizon, unfortunately the u.n. and whoever is at the u.n pushing for this agreement is not bringing about any steps to enforce it. there isn't any conversations or discussions with the international court of justice stepping in and actually helping the new government, if there is any new coalition government to go through the war crimes that have been taken place enforcing any kind of laws, you know what mechanism do they have going forward enforcing the resolution i believe it's 2174 that the u.n. issued several months ago. definitely an agreement is important. having an agreement take place is good. pushing it before the holy month
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of ramadan is not exactly something that the u.n. should be actually dealing with, they think that they know the psychology and the makeup of the region and the libyan people and maybe they're going to sign something and they may be in a more conciliatory feeling now to go ahead and sign an agreement. but i think rushing an agreement before june 17th simply just to have an agreement in place is not necessarily going to yield any good agreement that we should all hope for. i do want to go back to having the council of the united nations stand up very clearly and enforce any kind of agreement. >> it would be very interesting to see -- >> the disagreement in a forceful way. >> it would be interesting to see what would happen once the agreement would be passed which bernardino leone himself would be just the beginning.
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thank you for sharing your views with you us. now still ahead in this half hour. >> i'm nick clark in cuba, home to some of the world's most intact marine environments including spectacular coral reefs. >> and science fact borrows from science fiction how a space capsules borrows for space exploration. ploration.
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>> al jazeera's investigative unit has tonight's exclusive report. >> stories that have impact. that make a difference. that open your world. >> this... is what we do. >> america tonight. tuesday through friday 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> now a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. turkey tries to establish a
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stable government. and northern syria and u.n. envoy to libya has presented the latest peace plan to rival governments. meeting in morocco to try to solve months of fighting. it is estimated that almost 5900 migrants were rescued from the mediterranean sea over the weekend as they traveled from north are africa to europe. 9 pregnant women were included. government there keeping its people in a state of fear, in eritrea, through what it calls a pervasive control system. being so widespread that the government enormous it.
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eritrea effectively enslaves people with a system known as arbitrary service and anyone who be tries to leave the country is considered a traitor more than 5,000 5,000 flee every month. >> we seldom see hiem human rights violations of the scope and scale as we do in eritrea these days. a large portion of those crossing the mediterranean around using other irregular routes to reach europe are eritreans. they are fleeing a country ruled not by law but by fear. >> u.n. chief ban ki-moon has decided not to include israel and hamas in a list of parties that kill or injure children in
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armed conflict. that's despite the recommendations of some u.n. officials. from new york, james bays reports. >> reporter: the evidence is overwhelming. the aftermath of much destruction of children last summer in gaza was recorded on video. in total 540 children were killed yet u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon on his annual report to the council security council has not included israel and palestinian state on that list. original draft drawn up by the u.n. special representative. >> the draft report had israel and palestinian armed groups on it the report you sent up stairs and when it came back downstairs it did not have them on anymore is that true? >> yes but this mean that the decision of the secretary-general we are
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supposed to prepare the decision of the secretary-general we are not one who decides. >> reporter: al jazeera has thrernd was high level lobbying by israel and the u.s. to keep israel off the list. >> there is really no explanation for it other than a political decision. the overwhelming evidence should trigger a listing. >> member states have never been shy in expressing their opinion to the secretary-general about what should be in or out of the report. whether it is this report this year or the previous years ultimately it is the secretary-general's report. he stands by it. >> reporter: you just need to read this full report to see the obviously contradictions. the report says the number of palestinian schoolchildren killed in 2014 was the third
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highest in the world and the highest in 2014. then you look at the annex the list that's supposed to summarize it all listing in all ways countries that kill or maim children and israel's name is not there. james bays, al jazeera at the be united nations. >> survivors of an israeli attack on a u.s. naval ship have marked the anniversary of the incident by calling for another inquiry. from arlington cemetery in virginia allen fisher reports. >> walking through graveyard looking for skipper richard returns almost every year to remember his shipmates and mark the anniversary of the attack which killed 34 of them. >> when they said stand by to receive torpedo hit and it
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picked up this ship and the ship started rolling over, i said i'll never get out of this mess alive. we were running because i shut myself off i said i with would never get out of this. >> when the u.s. liberty was attacked a spy ship, it was hit with rockets and cannons and missiles then torpedos you cut a hole in the side of the ship. 171 sailors were injured. israel claimed it was a case of mistaken identity. but richard brooks does not accept that. >> it was not atragic accident, it was a deliberate attack. they knew who we were. they wanted us out either to bring the americans into the war or we picked up some information
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about their war plans. >> every year on july the 8th the survivors gather to mark the attack, to remember the names of the dead. every year the numbers who attend the service may be going down but the passion to find out exactly what happened to the u.s.s. liberty that remains undiminished. this year seven survivors were present with family friends and supporters. one of them, ernie gall gallow, says, it's time to come clean. >> when you apologize you apologize by saying it's a law. you respond with the truth. and our government is just as bad, having gone along with it. >> reporter: that this was simply a tragic mistake. the loudest voices of dissent
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are those that were there that deserve the truth before they mark another anniversary. allen fisher, at the arlington national cemetery in virginia. computer coding compulsory in schools in our part 1 of cracking the code series, lit literacy for the 21st century. >> it's a saturday morning and school may be finished for week. but this class is still in session and the lesson today is computer-coding. >> coding is like building stuff. different games and designing electronics. >> joshua liang is one of seven students in this computer academy learning apps and computer games from scratch. some are as young as four but
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all have the same goal to become digital entrepreneurs. >> i made lots of games i always liked to make games. >> it is a very important general subject that all people should learn the early the better. >> john liang is the founder of the academy and a man on a coding mission. he studied at the university hong kong and won a scholarship toto harvard. he believes computer coding is the essence of 21st century literacy. with apps smartphone and digital literacy so part of our daily lives now, there is no surprise there's a campaign in hong kong to make coding part of the
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curriculum. here it is still not not a compulsory program. >> for most people coding at the same time. now coders want the government to commit. >> i sam a believer of coding being something that -- i am a believer of coding being something everywhere kid should learn at the early stages. hong kong schools are far from having something like that in the curriculum. >> right now i'm telling computer what to do. >> for those parents who are not waiting around, there are more options than ever to teach code literacy. sarah clark, al jazeera, hong kong. in nigeria millions don't have access to the internet.
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it's world oceans day in cuba tough conservation measures have great results. nick clark is there for us. >> wherever you go in this extraordinary island nation you'll see things had a riz necessitate from a long sometime gong. travel two and a half miles from havana and you'll come to the bay of pigs, rooted in memory but here too another legacy of cuba's history in years of isolation, pristine coral reef. around the earth 50% of coral reefs have disappeared. it is a different story in cuba. where marine ecosystems have had the opportunity to thrive.
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>> here in cuba they're protecting 25% of their waters in marine protected areas. and that compares to maybe about 9% currently in the united states and only 2% worldwide. >> the lack of chemical fertilizers in agriculture has also meant there's very little toxic runoff into the ocean. >> it's almost like a time machine going back in time to see what these coral reef ecosystems used to look like and that really gives me hope for the future. >> reporter: the further out to sea you go so the abundance of marine life grows. >> i see this as a great opportunity at a very opportune moment in history to help cuba leap frog over all those mistakes the rest of us have made. >> reporter: right here is another pris steen pristine ecosystem.
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intact and unpolluted. the wetlands are an extensive area of biodiversity that remain. shallow waters act as a nursery of marine life. >> it's huge. >> it's huge and here, this is a very small area, you go there you have kilometers on kilometers of the same environment. we see very shallow waters so it means the seaweed receive plenty of solar energy. this is a very inaccessible area so it's well protected in general. >> the wealth and beauty of cuba's natural environment is staggering. it is a huge source of potential revenue especially from ecotourism but a trick will be tapping its wealth without destroying its integrity. nick clark al jazeera the bay of pigs cuba. >> now there's a flying saucer currently skies over hawaii but it's a close
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encounter of the nasa kind. yes, the u.s. space agency is testing a saucer spaced craft designedspacecraftdesigned from be computers millions of miles from earth. lots more on our website aljazeera.com. jazeera.com. this is techknow. a show about innovations that can change lives. the science of fighting a wild-fire. we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists.