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this is al jazeera. >> this is the news hour live from london. coming up in the next 60 minutes. the number of migrants reaching europe by sea this year passes 100,000. libya's elected parliament reject as u.n. proposal for a unity government as isil seizes a power plant. the people of ireland backed gay marriage now and the abortion ban amnesty international message to the irish government. and the 102-year-old woman
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gets her phd 77 years after it was blocked by the nazis. >> with the sport, two weeks after escaping the fbi over breakfast, one of the wanted men gives himself up to police. hem low there, thank you for joins us, the number of migrants reaching the sea this year has now reached over 100,000. the data shows more than 54,000 migrants reached italy almost all of them departing from libya. 46,000 reached greece after setting off from turkey, the report points to an increase in the number of people, moat of them from syria traveling to greece, more have arrives in the first five months than
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in the whole of last year, and the i.o.m. also warns that these numbers are just a prelude to what is expected to be a surge in arrivals over the calm summer months. well the greek island is already struggling to deal with all the people being smuggled from turkey, and hundreds more have reached the eastern islands in the past day. these pictures show the dire state of an abandons hole tell. the toilets lax running water. every day they crowd outside the local police station waiting for emergency papers that would allow them to travel to the mainland. in the past 24 hours the italian coast guard has rescued more off the coast of libya, 447 people were taken to the port all of them were from sub a hair ran africa. most people rescued by the italian coast guard are taken
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to italy where they are assessed. to find out what happens to them once they have landed. >> share first steps on european soil, they arrived in the dark, not knowing exactly where they were, haggerred, tired hungry, and very relieved they left war behind them. this is the center they were brought to on that night when they got off the ship. so we came back a few days later to check on them, and also so see whether they are still all here or some have already moved on. >> many of the women were rescue as few days ago have already been relocated to sitly to another center. she hopes to join them soon. it is over she says thanking god. >> i was really tired the water was coming in and the boat was rocking.
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>> i kept my eyes closed the whole time. i had a headache, and i was dizzy. they had been stranded on a rubber ding gi for 20 hours. in the quarter we meet face and his travel companions. he has been smiling ever since he saw the italians come to his rescue. at the time he said he would celebrate drinking ten pepsis. he didn't, but is happy anyway. >> they were very scared in libya. they were forced to drink fuel and sometimes had food once every three days. he shows us the marks on his back, he was repeatedly beaten with an electrical rod
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during his transit. his friend has marks on his stomach, cigarette burns by the guards aid workers say they have seen several similar cases. and he did not have a shower for 40 days. soon they will move again. >> but he want withs 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, the laws of the country, the traditional zipses and how to treat people how to respect them and how to be respected. >> he left his wife and two children behind, he hoped to bring them over soon. >> by plane not across the sea. >> fate brought these young
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men together. their dramatic ordeal created a bond they say can never be broken bun that gives them strength to face uncertainties of the future. effort today restore ordeal createdner libya have hit a stumbling block after the u.n. barks parliament reject add proposal to form a unity government. that sparked chaos to the country. the news that libya's elects parliament has rejected a united nations draft proposal to form a unity government a blow to hopes of peace the united nations envoy was hoping to bring tot the country's rival factions to negotiate a deal. the frame work called for a national unity government, placed in tripoli but it
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also recognizes the house of representatives based as the legitimate legislative body. the deal created a state to serve as libya's highest body with a power to resolve disputes. it is also creates a national army calls for the disarming of many library shas and the drafting of a constitution. militias. >> on new in the gulf, that you say your country and your people from conflict. >> but the kings rival factions remain skeptical. each has it's own government, parliament, and army, the based government controls more territory as the government that has the backing of the united nations. this is a man at the center
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of the political divide, general is the most powerful and military commandner the east last year, he launched operation dignity the major military offensive against a coalition of militias who went on to form libya dawn, which is backed by the tripoli based general national congress. >> for tripoli a deal will only happen if he is sacked by the government. but most of the army universities based in the east are loyal. they say any move against their leader would be met by force. >> as libya's quiet deepens groups are affiliated with isil expand in the east, raising fears of more violence and instability in the oil rich country. al jazeera.
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fighters linked to isil say they seize add major power plant west of the libyan city. the plant supplies central and western libya with electricity. isil now fully controlled which is of course is the hometown of former libyan mom mar gaddafi and the group is continuing to make gains exploiting a power vacuum left after the fall. east of the city and it claims to have a presence in benghazi and tripoli. the growing concern is that isil may use the foothold as a launch pad to europe. it speaks mow the libyan journalists whoa joins us life, thank you for joining us here on al jazeera we are just explaining there how isil does seem to be making the most of the power vacuum to certainly consolidate around some cities. how influential would you say that isil is right now in
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libya. >> well, isil has been quite -- has become prominent in libya since 2013. it has put a strong hold on the city first and then earlier this year, it started to expand it's forces in ever the former libyan strongman mom mad gaffe dad gaddafi. because setter has been left with a lot of damage after the fall of gaddafi the state was almost in existence there, so there was no police to secure the area, the city was left to was left to those extremist groups that have become red callized especially with -- were with the current conflict.
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opposing both and libya dawn. and so the situation has become nor serious earlier this year, when cops were killed in the city, and blast month, in april when workers were also killed it made things more difficult for libyans to try and see some solution to the problem of those radical groups that have come out of control in the end. >> and obviously the country has been pretty much split since the fall of muammar gaddafi, we can see the two rival governments we have heard that they are not now going to even try to come to any kind of agreement is there anyway, that you think of eradicating isil from libya, which some countries especially european countries
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are already thinking of trying to do if there isn't some kind of unity government among the libyans themselves? it cannot right now beeradicated because it is taking some of the power from other groups some of them who the leaders to isil in libya so for the time being there needs to be a containment so they won't expand into the rest of libya within tripoli or even south of libya. i don't think that the
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military operation against isil will work, because it will unfortunately lead to more -- humanitarian catastrophe, because what we see right now is that isil is using some of those smuggling boats to smuggle some of those african illegal immigrants into europe, so that will make things more complex. so the only way to eradicate i mean the expansion of this group is to try and -- they need to come together and try to find a truce so that they can find a way of uniting themselves against this group. >> joining us live, madame thank you so much for having joins us. >> meanwhile the iraqi military says it has recaptures key parts with the help of shia militias.
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a military commander told the t.v. it has been raised and that troops are in control of central beijing. their success should make it easeger the regain control of the largest oil refinery. and it's been a year now since isil attacks the northern iraq ski city prompts the army to retreat. a closer look at why the group is proving so hard to defeat. >> the city was under their black flag and the impact was health across iraq. >> it was a huge shock to the government and it's people. it expose add lack of trust on security issues between the people of iraq and the government at the time. that hasn't changed even with a new government.
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policies that the next prime minister has found difficult to remove, despite promising to do so. >> maliki trying to consolidate power and that alienated many people including the community, it is much more neutral but he lacks power because he has been left with many problems including a massive budget deficit, and a powerful lobby, it is going to be tough for him to run things around. they face great challenges in defeating ice skill. when the capitol fell to the radical group in may, it exposed how tough and far from over this fight is. >> there is a lack of command and control.
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we don't have discipline within the ranks. we need better coordination, and better equipment. they are using it to reiterate their motto which is remaining and ebb panning their territory. however there are others that are taking advantage of a disjointed strategy on isil. here in baghdad people are very worried that the current way of dealing with isil isn't working. teenager girls are being sold in slave markets. visited iraq and sir is yeah, and spoke to women and girls who had eskated in isil
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control areas she says in the markets girls could be bought for as little as a pack of cigarettes. a u.n. team is due to travel to the region to discuss how to help the victims. hezbollah tv station says the group repelled an attack between syria and lebanon, it is thought isil fighters had tarted several positions outside the border village. the channel said the ensuing fighting left them dead or wounded. it didn't say whether any hezbollah fighters were among the casualties. it is thought members of the western backed free syrian army launched an assault on the base just outside the village of iraq at dawn. the u. k. base says around 20 troops have die sod far in fighting at the base, which is the largest in the province.
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>> still to come in this news hour. >> anger in egypt as families demand justice for their love ones that were killed in the worst football violence, plus. surrounded by high-rise buildings and on prime land, we found out how this village, the last of it's kind has survived. and in sport moving quickly after defeat in the champions league final. the party of the former president has welcomed peace talks. but the general people's congress party says it hasn't been formalin sited to the negotiations.
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sam la was president for more than 20 years. and spain top prosecutor has asked for an investigation into suggestions that yemen knew about a suicide attack before it happened in 2007. eight spanish tourists died when a car bomb exploded. an informant told the investigative unit that he warned security agencies before the attack, but he says he was ignored. spain closed the case in 2011 when yemen didn't provide the information it had asked for. more than 70 people were killed, psalm reports. they have been waiting for justice for over three years and they are angry at the select. these are the relatives of some of the people killed in 2012, some accused the
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judiciary of trying to cover up state punishment, who took part in the revolution. we were told his since arrest, the head of security has not spent an hour inside a cell. he appears in his adidas shirt and nike shoes and enters the court in front of us. >> today the police have only a few more months to go until they are released they are the one whose abandoned the stadium and didn't make a barrier. when we went to get the bodies of our children, we saw the army was securing the area. they should be secured this area. not the previous or even next. >> 70 fans were killed and over 1,000 were injured at the stadium a riot began during a match between traditional rivals.
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most happened in a stampede when thousands tried to leigh. and now they are being criticized for sparing those that were meant to protect them. and accused of not calling standards. on monday, human rights group called the presidency a year of abuses. the government has described the report as inaccurate and lacking in objectivity. for the families of those that say the trial hasn't been fair, the call for objectivity doesn't seem like much. al jazeera. two people have been killed in the kurdish southeast after an islamic aid leader was shot dead. he was killed as he left his office. and this of course comes two days after the curds won with seats in parliament for the first time. and leaders from the pro kurdish fight very again ruled out forming any
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coalition with the ruling ak party, which lost it's parliamentary majority. unofficial results show the party is said to take 80, or 550 seats. turkey's president hasn't been seen in public since the results came through. hong kong and taiwan have issue red alerts for south korea, advising against nonessential travel because of middle east respiratory syndrome. seven people have now dies from mers. and there have been 95 cases making it the biggest outbreak outside of saudi arabia. south korea's acting prime minister has promised an all out response. in sought korea is particularly worried about the effect that mers is having on it's economy. from one of seoul's wealthier areas. ands a lovely day, one of the fanniest districts.
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plenty of foreign tourists as well but while we don't exactly have the place to ourselves we -- this is pretty much as close as you get in a congested city like seoul. even for more essential things the two biggest super market changes reporting a week on week drop, at 12% at their stores but at the same time the online grocery shopping that they provide has gone up. as people stay home and try to avoided unnecessary travel. this is all having a significant impact, the government says the president says that the first priority of the government is to address this as a public
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health concern and eradicate the virus and eradicated the virus as a whole will only have happened when the economic impact has been addressed as well. europe egg largest bank aims to save $5 billion. but getting rid of a fifth of the work force and closing the businesses in turkey and brazil. women in the indonesian city have been banned from going out alone after 11:00 p.m. they won't be served in restaurants "sports center" internet cafes after that time unless they are with their husbands or another male released tiff, the mayor says the curfew is designed to reduce sexual violence against women critics have described it as discrimination. over the next 30 years the
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urban population is expected to more than double to 6.5 billion people. a summit on how to deal with such rapid growth is getting underway while some resigned to rise in cities other are battling against it. from afar this seems unremarkable you have to walk around it's winding lanes to understand the areas unique history. just ask any of the shopkeepers like this one that has lived above the store for decades. >> when i moved in there were dairy stores nearby. this was the size of hong kong's first dairy farm, which employed thousands until it was shut down 30 years ago. some peaking are saying it may have been there in the
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1700s. >> tony still lives in a home which has been divided among his brothers. he is part of the campaign group which managed to get the village on the internationally acclaimed world monument watch list as a threatened culture heritage site. >> here a 45 square meter apartment goes for about $1 million. fewer than 3,000 people live in the village and many feel it's days are numbered. >> many are targeted this spot of land. if they actually remove the village, for them, it will be a golden opportunity. >> the government bureau responsible for land development has acknowledged the villages cultural value but currently has no legislation that can save it.
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disappointing at the moment, we only preserve moments. it is important for us -- to introduce the concept of a special protected area. >> this is the only surviving indigenous village in hong kong, with it's pattern. in a sense, it is these narrow alleyways that are protected the village. construction is almost impossible as there is no way for vehicles to get through. but the conservation group said the government has already approved planning documents. and the buildings are a constant remind tear development may not be far away. al jazeera hong kong. >> still to come in this hour, we will get a look at the impact of war on gaza's children as the u.n. takes israel off it's list of country which is violate children's rights. argentina is brought to a
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>> you'll see a show that has an impact on the conventional wisdom that goes where nobody else goes... >> my name is imran garda i am the host of third rail and you can find it on al jazeera america time now for the top stories on al jazeera. the number of migrants making the perilous journey this year has passed 100,000. that's according to the international organization for migration. libya's u.n. backed parliament has reject add proposal to form a unity government and suspended it's participation in peace talks. and the u.s. says progress is being made against isil fighters in the iraqi town which is home to a huge oil refinery. the u. n. secretary general has been criticized for leaving israel and hamas off of a blacklist of states and armed group which is violate children's rights. the u.n. special envoy for children has had included them in her draft list, but ban ki-moon removed them.
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more now from gaza. ali was injured nearly a year ago during the 50 day bombardment, after an israeli rocket struck the building next to the family's home. >> it was a big explosion and that's when ali fell and fractured his skull. at first he was in a comb mae, and now he can't move his body, he is receiving some therapy and we are supposed to also give him medicine, but it is too expensive, so four months ago we had to stop buying it for him. >> more than 2,100 palestinians mostly civilians were killed during last year's war between hamas and israel, 560 were children. in an annual report on the impact of conflict on children, the united nations secretary of general sharply criticized israel for the
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deaths describing them as unprecedented, and unacceptable. but they kept israel and hamas which controls the strip off the official list of violators because of apparent pressure by israeli and american officials. instead of going into a diplomatic fight it's better that it's a ballpensed position, and nobody takes the blame for the war, which was unnecessary and everybody agrees that it was an unnecessary war that is small comfort that says no only will her son never be well again, they will never see justice either. >> the u.n. in favor of israel because israel is a state that is above the law no one can punish it, and that's why it continues it's crimes. israel killed children, and puts them in jails and no one
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can stop them. >> human rights groups have near unanimously condemned the u. n. secretary general decision to remove both israel, and hamas from it's list of countries and armed groups which vie hate the lights of children. saying ban ski moon put politics ahead of the needs of the most vulnerable. al jazeera, west jerusalem. >> the leaders of the country are meeting in nigeria to discuss setting off more closely coordinated task force. troops from nigeria chad, cameroon, have been fighting the groups since the start of the year. buff they have only been losely coordinated. those are pending that they hope the new president will be more open to a joint military force. fighting in south sudan is
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just many the past couple of weeks. it followed reports that warring forces were advance in the area. the staff also had to leave because of food deliveries to 120,000 people. >> now we are going into the rainy season, if they have the chance to plant the seeds until now they don't have any food stocks for the. cog months, so we are going toward as very very difficult period for the people here. a 24 hour strike is causing chaos in argentina. bus, train and subway systems came to a standstill, unions set up roadblocks so car pool or rent vehicles. flights have been canceled
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with effort power vacuums and fewer deliveries al paralyzed. not all unions agree with it as daniel reports now from buenos aires. >> the powerful truck drivers union. who held their own action a week before the general strike. they are out again along with bus and train drivers. bringing them to a virtual stand still. >> we are holding it with hope it will generate expectation and population. and be a show of force to the government but we are not prepared to sur render and will keep fighting for what is right. >> however many trade unions remain loyal to the president government.
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saying things aren't that bad. and the problems they have are not the government's fault. >> we believe that to hold this strike is to give or try to give the workers over to those that want to return to the old politics. >> battling for influence and a share of funds. >> it was built largely with the backing of the workers and the power by a powerful trade union movement. now election year, with security rising they find themselves in conflict. instead lit be left to the argentine to make sense of the divided movement, and it's relationship with the government.
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the unions want them to go up. they want this to go to the stop go policies that you tend to this group and that group, and nobody is quite happy. >> the only certainty is that as the elections approach, argentine that will be faced with more strikes and protests like this one. >> al jazeera, buenos aires. >> three firefighters are missing after a powerful explosion at a fuel depo in ukraine, emergency services have been battled overnight which injured 11 people. one person later dies in hospital. officials on sight are worried that the fire can spread to a neighboring facility the own ever says it was the result of an arson attack. >> voters in the republic of ireland recently voted in favor of same-sex marriage, now amnesty international is pushing the government to change the country's restrictive abortion laws.
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it says the abortion legislation puts the lives of pregnant women at risk, bosser is of course a deeply divisive issue what the state calls the destruction of an unborn life carry as jail sentence of 14 years. abortion was completely banned until 2013, when 31-year-old died after miscarriage, being denied a termination even the doctors knew her baby would not survive. protests followed and in response legislation was tweaked to allow abortions but only when a mother's life was at riffing. one woman forced the travel to england after she was told that her baby had fatal fetal impairment, she joins us live now, thank you for speaking to us. especially because this is obviously a very sensitive issue, now you like many thousands of other women in
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ireland had a termination went to england and whales to obtain a termination obviously still a very painful thing for you to have to go through how would things have been different if you had been able to stay in ireland and have the termination there. >> well, the problem with having to travel was that first of all i didn't have the normal support you would expect to have around you by husband traveled with me, but my friends and my extended family have no idea what i went through. and secondly, continuity in care my medical team my doctors midwifes and so on in dublin, were precluded from even making a phone call on my behalf. there was no exchange of information. so when i went so the u.k. hospital i had to start again from scratch. relive the story go through the diagnosis again. and it was only at that point
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that i could discuss options other than continuing the pregnancy. >> people are changing their attitude to this issue. >> i believe that the -- irish public are more sophisticated than our legislatures give us credit for. i think that the irish public is the head of the legislature, and i think they would appreciate the opportunity to have a mature and rational discussion about this ultimately leading to legislative change. >> ireland is of course a catholic country but many others even in europe spain and italy actually legalize
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abortion decades ago so even though the catholic church is perhaps unlikely to change it's stance, why do you think the government is so set against it, do you get a sense that public pressure will make a change. >> i believe that it is only public pressure that can lead the government to change. there is a small -- very vocal and well funded minority that have been putting pressure on -- up to this so it is up to us the irish public, to show that we are more mature than that, that we are -- we are ready to have a more complex and more nuanced discussion about this admittedly very devicive topic. >> gay edwards speaking to us thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. >> thank you for having me.
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has become the older doctoral. 77 years after she was denied it by the nazi regime. find out her story. ham burg university honors it's graduate. but this 102-year-old has wait add very long time to receive her award. as a young woman, she was enviewed with the desire to help others by becoming a doctor. but in 1938, the nazis anti-similar metic meant she was classified because of more mother's jewish faith. being labeled of mixed race, denied her the chance to get her degree. until now. >> this is a hopeful sign of a new spirited university. i am happy that it happened in my old hometown.
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>> the nazi crack down on the uses prompted her to leave germany and seek safety in the united states. there she was able to complete her studies and meet the man she would mary. but the couple had idealistic view which is were unpopular in the u.s., of the cold war era. so they left for east germany. but it was only in recent years that her alma mater in ham burg realized she had never been allowed to graduate. so they offered her a chance to go through a hearing to win the award. >> what really impressed me, is perhaps the doctoral that is sis is how lucid she remains and clearly enganged with the subject, despite her advanced age. >> everything i could ask she
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was telling me, so i could -- her time for self-reflection and sought sometimes unbelievable so i have education giant. so friendly. so focused. and in such precise academic tradition, that was really remarkable. >> for today's generation of young doctors the idea of what happened to her was unthinkable. >> in our time it is inconsiderable that you couldn't get a doctorate because of such bases. >> however belatedly perhaps ham burg university has shown there is no place for those motives in modern germany. dominic cane, al jazeera, ham burg. >> incredible story. let's get to sports now one of the top fifa officials on the run from the authorities after the u.s. investigation
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into corruption. that football's world governing body has given himself up to police in northernistly, is accused of paying bribes in exchange for media contracts. he reportedly walked into a police station accompanied by two lawyers. he has been on the most wanted list. he believed to have escaped the raid because he was out of his room having breakfast when fbi agents arrived. on monday the president of the international committee urged fifa to clean up it's act on the two day meeting in switzerland, the main purpose of the i.o. c. meeting was to hear the presentations from the two cities aiming to heed the 2022 winter olympics. ahead of the vote at the end
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of jump. they were given 45 minutes to present their case to i.o.c. members behind closed doors. beijing has been criticized. although they are confident of their financial position. >> it is easy, we have money. we have money i would like to end speed bumps it for sport i would like to bring it to the world society. this is a clear answer it is easy to say the f you have money you have money if you don't have money you do enter have to say. >> we have a very comprehensive plan, as a combination of a perfect temperatures auto supply and reliable snow making abilities. and also initiatives to make the whole area more sustainable, and long term sustain enter is one of our priorities planning for the
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games. two days after losing the championship final, they have moved quickly to strengthen their squad, misfielder has agreed to a four year contract and will complete a transfer on the first of july 28-year-old since the turn of the year, when his contract talks broke down, the signing could mean they are ready to sell fellow midfielder who is wanted by a number of top clubs. the football association has determined their world cup qualifier can eventually be played at home despite switching the first match to the saudi city. players will now travel to saudi arabia for thursday's match. over the saudi squad passing through israeli chien points to reach the national stadium in the occupied west bank.
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saudi arabia has no diplomatic ties with israel, but the palestinians are still confident the return can take place. >> we agreed to a saudi request under conditions that we swamp home and away, on this bases we contacted if i facility, and i think the saudied also contacted fifa, we are determined to play one leg at home. >> contenderred for next month tour de france are taking part -- one of the traditional warm up events for the tour, which started in 3 1/2 weeks. stage three of the eight day event saw riders tackling the team for the first time in the 35 years of the event the tour de france will feature similar time trials in it's second week. the racing won a stage by four seconds. takes the leaders yellow jersey. >> professional cycling is
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strongly based around a road and track racing, all overshadowed the growing professional mountain biking circuit, on thursday, one of the most prestigious mountain bike events getting underway, but reports the sport is still trailing way behind when it come today exposure. >> set against austria's the tour is one of the most scene zych toughist events. but despite the locations you won't hear much about it. because this is mountain biking not road cycling. riders here are faced with sloping normally occupied by world cup skiers. but they have to go up, as well as down. these riders have generate a huge amount of power on these claims and at the tour, there's four days of them more than 200-kilometers and more than 6,000 feet and once they are up there there's no time to enjoy the view one
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tonight mountain bike world with champion is a master at keeping rivals at bay on treacherous downhill sections. but with little money in the sport compared to on the road, he is one of the few who can make a real living. >> since world champions i am also learning good money that's -- but less money to earn in mountain bike sport it is all about the money. >> good money can mean $1 million a year for some, but the average pay is more like 10,000. and olympic status hasn't taken it out of the shadow of road cycling. one reason, most budding bikers have access to a road but not a mountain. and bring them cycling together especially for girls the women in mountain
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biking is so small. >> it is very important to bring mountain biking into television as ports won't be -- the public view without the media. >> but it is also a question of time. roadside can you think about tour de france, exists more than 100 years. and mountain biking only exists in 25 years so it is not a traditional road cycling. >> even in rio 2016 provides the latest boost, mountain biking may have to be content with a steady climb to it's popularity. india in bangladesh for a shorter tour of one match up, and 3-1 day internationals. the first test just south of the capitol gets underway on wednesday.
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and that's it for me. >> a u.s. company wants people to start making room in their garages for a new auto invasion, the believe d. printed car. yes, the body takes about 44 hours to construct, and it's still being tested but as john reports customers may be able to get behind the wheel as early as 2017. >> with his mass produced model t more than 100 years ago. >> henry ford never had an internet. nobody had the ability to design with tools the way we have today. if you had those tools back
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at the time when they created the industry, they would have created it totally differently. >> the car with the motor and suspension base is expected to sell from somewhere between $18,030,000. it is not yet approved for public roadways and it faced big speed bumps in the road ahead, including become taken seriously by critics. >> it seem as bit more like a toy, i have seen the car being printed out, it is a car size, and something you can drive around in, but i don't know how many people will be lining up to do so, at least out in the open environment. >> at local motor shorts they say that misit is mark. the whole point of 3-d printing is that it is merely a way of speeding up design. this design is one of an infinite array of possibilities. >> this happened to be a two seater but the advantage of having a 3-d printed car is it can be anything, kit be a four seeded car you can change the cup holder, and the power train and the manufacturing process is faster and when it is all
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over, it is recyclable so you can melt it down and build another. >> rogers the grandson of the indian motorcycle company, and a former u.s. marine officer foreseed an expanded array of styles. >> we are quick in the auto industry of making a single unit in 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 from start to finish. quo are adding that tool into the kit bag to make it instead of seven we can change the model time down to about four months. >> if that happens perhaps one with day individual car owners can be able to customize not just the options inside but the design itself. knoxville tennessee. that is it for the news hour, much more on the website aljazeera.com. and lauren taylor will have more news for you in a few minutes. stay with us.
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