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>> the number of migrants reaching sea this year, passes 100,000. hello there you are watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up. for a unity government as isil seize as power plants. another set back, asaad rebels say they captured a major military base. hong kong issued a red alert against travel to south korea asmirs kills a second person
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there. plus. >> has now passed 100,000. that's according to the latest figures from the international organization for migration. the data shows more than 55,000 migrants reached italy. 46,000 reached greece, after setting off from turkey. the i.o.m. reports points to an increase in a number of people traveling to greece. more have arrived in the first five months of 2015, than in the whole of last year. and the i.o. m. also warned that these numbers are just a prelude to what is expected to be a surge in arifles over the calm months.
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just in the past 24 hours the italian coast guard has rescues hundreds mores from three rubber ding gis. 447 people were taken to the port all of them were from sub a hair ran africa. hundreds more have reached the eastern islands in the past day. most people rescued by the italian coast guard are then taken to italy. the island to find out what happens to them once they have landed. >> they arrived in the darks not knowing exactly where they were. they left war behind them. >> they came back a few days late tore check on them, see how they are settling in and also to see how they are here that some have already moved in. >> many who were rescued just
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a few days ago have already been relocated to another center. they hope to join them soon. >> it is over she says thanking god. the water was coming in and the boat was rocking. >> i kept my eyes closed the whole time. >> they had been stranded for 20 hours. they wereser fied and dish yearented when the rescuers found them. he has been smiling ever since he came to their rescue. at a time he said he would celebrate drinking ten pepsis.
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he didn't, but is happy anyway. >> no pepsi? they were very scared in libya. they were forced to drink fuel and sometimes had foot once every three days. >> he shows us the marks on his back, he was repeatedly beaten with a electrical rod by the smugglers. his friends have masked on his stomach cigarette burns by the guards at the libyan detention center, aid workers say they have seen several similar cases. >> and he says he did not have a shower for 40 days. as soon as they will move again. >> but he wants to stay in italy, in rome. >> i still don't know what freedom means exactly. i have to discover it. i need to learn the language,
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the laws of the country. it's traditions and how to treat people, how to respect them and how to be respected. >> he left his wife and two children behind, he hopes to bring them over soon, by plane, not by sea. ♪[music]♪ >> he brought these young men together their dramatic ordeal created a bond they say can never be broken. one that gives them strength to face the uncertainties of the future. >> well among those brought ashore in italy was a woman called s ama what made the perilous journey with her cat lola. these films show distraughting not to be separated from her cat. which was taken into quarantine. she had taken lola with her across the dessert from sudan to libya before stowing her
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in a travel bag for the crossing. officials have promised that she and lola will be reunited. >> fighters from the islamic state of iraq say they have seize add major power plant west of the libyan city. the plant supplies central and western libya with electricity. isil now fully controls, that's the hometown of the former libyan leader. and the group is continuing to make gains in other areas exploiting a power vacuum left after gaddafi's fall. isils reach also extends east and it claims to have a presence in benghazi and tripoli. two growing concern can is that isil may use it's growing foothold on the coast as a launch pad to europe. meanwhile, libya's prohas rejected the proposal to form
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a unity government. the self-declared government in tripoli. representatives fromty electricked parliament have also withdrawn from the u.n. brokered talks aimed at ending the cripple power struggle. syrian rebels say they have cap can churr add major army base in the southern province. it's thought members of the western backed free syrian army launched an assault on the base just outside the village. the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says around 20 troops and 14 rebels have died so far in fighting at the base, which is the largest in the province. the iraqi military says it has recaptured key parts of the town with the help of shia militias. the iraq kay flag had been raised over a local government building and that troops are in control of central beijing. their success should make it easier to regain control of
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iraq's largest oil refinery. well, it is a year since isil attacks the northern city of mosul, and the countries have retreated. a closer look at why the group is proving so hard to defeat. >> the speed with which isil took huge parts of territory surprised and shocked many. in mosul iraqs army, isil fighters faced little real resistence. the city was under their black flag, and the impact was felt across the world. >> it was a huge shock to the government and it's people when isil took mosul. it exposed a lot of trust on security issues between the people of rack and the government at the time. that hasn't changed even with a new government. many people began to blame the former prime minister. policies that the next prime minister has found difficult
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to remove despite prompting to do so he tries to control the power in iraq, and that alienated many people including the sunni community. abadi is more neutral but he lacks power because he has been left with many problems including a massive budget deficit, and a powerful lobby, lit be tough to run things around. and face great challenges in defeating isil. when the capitol of anbar province fell in may, it exposed how tough and far from over this fight is. there is a lack of command and control we don't have discipline within the ranks. the lack of reinforcement and strategy to win the fight we neat better coordination over air strikes and better equipment. they are using it to reiterate their motto which
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is remaining zeb panning their territory however there are others that say they are just taking advantage of a very disjointed international strategy on isil. here in baghdad people are very worried that the current way of dealing with isil isn't working. >> the groups territory is a concern because it can use it as a base and send reinforcements it is increasingly obvious without a solution isil will remain a problem in iraq. am al jazeera, wag dad. >> hong kong and taiwan have issues red alerts for south korea, because of middle east respiratory syndrome. seven people have now died from% in south korea making it the biggest outbreak outside of saudi arabia. the acting prime minister has promised an all out response with the aim of ending the outbreak this week. south korea is worried about the effect thymiers is having
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on it's economy. hers. merse. >> but while we don't exactly is the mace to ourself, this is pretty much as you get in a congested city. local tour guides say about 30 to 40% fewer visitors are coming here than normal. and that's been the case across the sector in south korea. baseball games are seeing about the same drop in atone dances even for more essential things like the weekly shop we are seeing a falling off the two biggest super market chains 12% at their stows but at the same time the on line grocery shopping has gone up, sales
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going up 50% as people stay home and try to avoided unnecessary travel. all of this is having a significant impact, the government says the president says that the first priority of the government is to address this as a public health concern and eradicate the virus and eradicated the crisis as a whole will only have happened when the economic impact has been addressed as well. >> announced almost 50,000 job cuts as part of plans to combat sluggish growth. europe's largest bank to safe $5 billion by getting rid of a fifth of it's work force and closing it's businesses in turkey and brazil. the bank is also reviews whether to move ed quarters from london to hong kong. women in the city have been banned from going out alone after 11:00 p.m. they won't be served in restaurants, sports centers internet cafe or tourist attractions, unless they are with their husbands or
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another male relative. the mayor says the curfew is designed to reduce sexual violence against will, critics have described it as discrimination. anger in egypt as families demand justice for their loved ones kills in the worst football violence. >> where an election year, argentina powerful trade union is in dispute with the government.
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>> america tonight. tuesday through friday 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. a we minder of the top stories here. the number of migrants making the perilous journey has passed the 100,000. that's ray cording to the international organization for migration. the data shows more than half of them reached italy after departing from almost exclusively from libya. >> it was hoped an agreement could go some way in helping to end the chaos which has gripped libya since the fall of gaddafi. and the u.s. has progress is being made against isil fighters which is home to a huge oil refinery. iraqi government troops are said to be in control of part of the city. >> egypt has sentenced 11 men to death in part for the uncan's worst football violence. many were injuries in the
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riot of 2012. they have been waiting for justice for over three years and they are angry at the verdict. these are the relatives of some of the people. some accused the judiciary of trying to cover up stain punishment who took part in the 2011 revolution. many still accused the police for failing to stop the worst football violence. we were told that since his arrest the head of security has not spend an hour inside the cell. he has been staying at the academy hospital. he enters the court in front of us. >> today the police says only a few more months, they are the ones that are banded the stadium and didn't make a barrier, when we went to get the bodies of our children, we saw that the army was securing the area you should have secured these kids there
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is no government, or president, not the previous or even next. 70 fans were killed and over 1,000 were injured at the stadium. most of them happened in a symptom pead when thousands of people tried to leaf, and now they are being criticized for sparing those that were meant to protect them. >> on monday, human rights groups called the presidency a year of abuses. the government has described the report of lacking in objectivity. a call for objectivity from the government almost certainly doesn't do much. due to start in switzerland in a few days but the general
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people's congress party says it hasn't been formalin sited to the negotiations it supporters rebelling fighting the government. which lost it's parliamentary majority at the week end. leaders reinforced their position and their headquarters on tuesday. unofficial elections show that the party is set to take eight of 550 seats. turkey's president hasn't been seen in public since the results came through. >> iran's vase president has signaled a blanket ban on women watching men's sporting events will be relaxed. he says a limited number of women will be ail to watch the men's volleyball world league games in teheran later this month. that will extend to allow
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women to watch basketball, handball and tennis. a british iorainian woman was arrested after she tries to attend a men's volleyball match. the proposal to delay a presidential vote until next month. they say they will continue protesting until the president gives up his bid for a third term. reports now. some of these journalists journalists have been accused from the government. they say arabia and tv stations was destroyed by police officers so they are working online from another location. it means being in danger.
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>> you can still see the battle scars. >> that's the radio station that was with destroyed the police aren't allowing anybody inside. some have left the country others are in hiding. >> government says things are different now and that journalists shouldn't be afraid. >> we really want -- the government is ready you know. to allow them to do their job as they used to do before they are destroyed. we continue to build that this is a country for all of
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it's citizen including journalists. >> other independent plead yeah houses were targeted before and after the failed coupe. most people especially in rural, the president's strong hold can only access from the state media. independent journalists say they won't be silenced hoping the few can get the other side of the story. at al jazeera. >> the leaders of the country battling against boko haram are meeting in nigeria to set up a closely coordinated task force. they have been fighting the group since the start of the year but they have only been losely coordinated because of nigeria's concerns about having foil troops on the soil. they say they hope the new president will be open to a joint military force. fighting in south sudan -- the international committee of the red cross says nearly
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100,000 people have fled the town and surrounding areas in the past couple of weeks. forces were advancing on the area the staff also had to leave resulting in a disruption of food deliveries to 120,000 people. now we are going into the rainy season, until now they don't have any food stocks for the coming month. we are going -- it is a very very difficult series for the people here, and coupled with an economic instability. three firefighters are misses after a powerful explosion. servicesservices have been battled overnight to try to control the deadly blaze, which injured 11 people. one person layer died in hospital officials are
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worried that the fire can spread to a neighboring facility. causing chaos in argentina bus, train and subway systems came to a standstill, unions set up blocks forcing to rent vehicles. flights have been canceled with ports rubbish collection and fuel deliveries also paralyzed. the strike is the latest opposition to president's government. not all unions agree with it, as daniel reports now from ben necessary airies. this is a show of force who held their own action the week before the general strike. they are out again and airport workers bringing an
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too large that to a virtual stand still. however, many you i don't knows remain loyal to president kristina's government. >> we with believe that to hole this strike is to give or try to give the workers over to those who want to return to the old politics. for and against the government already emday on the streets. battling for influence and a share of decreasing funds. the party in power was built largely with the backing of the workers and sustained in
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power by a powerful trade union movement. now, in election year, with inflation and security rising they find themselves in conflict. >> instead lit be left to the argentine electoral to make sense of the movement, and it's relationship with the government. >> when there's inflation the unions want their salaries to go up and you have this conflict all the time the policies where you attend to this group and that group and nobody is quite happy. the uncertainly is as the elections approach, argentina will be faced with more strikes and protests like this one. al jazeera web necessary airies. >> a u.s. company wants people to start making room in their garages for the next auto innovation, the 3 d printed car. two body takes 44 hours to
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construct, and it is still being tested, customers may be able to get behind the wheel as early as 2017. this could be the shame of things to come. the car is created entirely out of carbon infused plastic. and that is why j rogers believed he is in the midst of transforming the auto as much as henry ford did. >> he never had an internet. nobody has the ability to actually be able to design with tools the way we have today. if you had those tools back at the time when they created the industry, they would have with created it totally differently. >> the car with a motor and suspension base is expected to sell for somewhere between
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$18,030,000. it faces big speed bumps in the road ated. >> it is a bit more like a toy, it is a car can size and something you can drive around in, but i don't know how many people would be lining up to do so, at least out in an environment. >> they say that misses the mark the whole point is that it is merely a way of speeding up design and manufacturing. this car happened to be a two seater electric model but the advantage of having a 3-d printed car is that it could be inning you can change the cup holder, you can change the power train and the manufacturing is faster, when it is all over it is recyclable so you can melt it down and build another one. >> rogers and a former u.s. marine officer foreseed an
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expanded array of styles we are pretty quick at making a single europe and the next unit. we can roll them off the line every 17 seconds. it takes us about 24 hours to make it through the whole line we are adding that tool to make so it that instead of seven years we can change the model line time to change over down to about four months. >> if that happens perhaps one day individual car owners could be able to customize not just the option os inside but the design of the car itself. al jazeera, knoxville, tennessee. >> and nasa's test run of a mars landing system came can to a disappointed end late on monday. >> here it goes. yep, the parachute tore away after partly unfurling high over the pacific ocean a similar problem happened last year they will head back to the drawing board on the project which has cost about
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$230 million a bit of of a disappointment. it is aimed at landing bigger spacecraft and eventually astronauts on mars. two address aljazeera.com. today we are not taking action we are taking actions for the people. >> activists in cleveland ask a judge to bypass prosecutors and charge the officers responsible for shooting tamear rice. authorities receive hundreds of tips for two convicted killers that escape add new york prison, now police are asking if a woman who worked at the prison helped the men get out. the p
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