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>> he was electro-shocked and tortured. >> decades of corruption abuse, and torture, by chicago police... >> you think people make a distinction between cia, black ops sites, verses torturing a thirteen year old kid from the south-side? >> people realize that torture is torture. >> lisa fletcher brings you an in depth report chicago torture only on al jazeera america pakistan accuses save the children of spying. they are giving the charity 15 days to get out of the country. ♪ ♪ e8 owe there welcome to al jazerra live from doha. also on the program. child labor in cambodia. we find out what's being done to help these youngsters get back to school. australia is accused of paying people smugglers to return migrants. the country's prime minister says he will do what he has do to stop illegal votes. >> reporter: i am in baku for the first european games.
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it's the hype here in asker by jam balky clippingsed by controversy. pakistan's government as ordered save the children to leave the country. they have sealed their offices in islambad. they have accused the organization of working against the interests of the country. the government has linked the chair toy a fake vaccination scheme used by the cia to track down osama bin laden. they have been working for 35 years and they: >> ca mile hider joinskamal hyder
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joins me now live. pakistan says this country is working against the country what do they mean? >> reporter: if you remember, as you mentioned the doctor who ran that fake immunization program was linked to the charity. he was recruited by the cia and after the operation against osama bin laden the foreign staff the charity was told to leave the country. since then the local staff of over a thousand people have been working the organization as we mentioned has been accused the by the government although they say that they were involved in coordination with the local government, ministries and all of that. so they are staying away from this. but the suspicion started after the attack on been laden and the organization since 2012. when the government of pakistan put them on the watch list.
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in 2012, they also claimed the organization was was doing espy imagine and spying. >> the organization says this is all than sense what kind of reaction is this likely to have in the communities and where they work? they have been in the country for more than 35 year old now. >> reporter: indeed there will be many question marks. but lately the government is mulling over plans to introduce legal solution in parliament. if that that is approved it will mean more stricter control on the nongovernment the organizations and charities. there has been deep suspicion by the government that they have been acting in collusion with foreign powers so that is of course a very strong charge and save the children has been here for a long time as you mention the. so it definitely will have implications but the government says that they have -- that
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everything to suggest that these people were not working what they stated they were doing. >> kamal, thank you for that, kamal hyder in pakistan. cam bowden says it's on target to eliminate the most horrible formsal child labor an theft the 120 million children go to work. rob mcbride reports. >> reporter: the arrival of the truck at this field in northwest cambodia marks the start of the working day. and no one is too young to work. with children only able to earn a dollar for a day wielding a chopper, the smallest of fingers are needed for families to mike enoughmakeenough to live on. you can see the family groups
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working together. we have come here with world vision, one of the organizations helping cambodia realize its goal of hutting children like -- putting children like this in school full time. it's also his dream. i prefer being in school he tells us, but we need the money. across cambodia, child lake or is still a problem. it is most blatant in the countryside. recent efforts to clamp down in the cities have largely moved the problem from view. but in the brick factories outside pa pa no ma'am pen you just have to look harder. in this slum area half of the children work. as the eldest of five children, he is often the name -- she is often the main income worker when her mother isn't working. >> it's dill. sometimes i find work on construction sites. >> reporter: a local nongovernmental organization wants to bring her to the
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protection of its center. for full-time education. but it is a hard job to convince the parents. >> they want money to get money immediately to provide for their family. some people say they cannot get money without. >> reporter: in its commitment to irradicating child labor the region of the world most affected by the children. the goal is to end the most has does forms of child lake or labor by 2016 despite the challenges giving all children access to full-time education is seen as the solution to break the cycle of poverty-driven child labor.
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>> actually, it's become a national price although there is international commitment. but we take our own fault. whether we can reach 2016 or not, it is our priority that we have to reach our commitment to the international organization. >> reporter: but those children carrying the burden of work may be this will be the year their lives change. rob mcbride, al jazerra, phnom phen. >> a senior specialist on child labor at the international labor office and joins me live from bangkok, good to have you on the program. give us the global picture on child labor what kind of numbers and age groups are we talking? >> okay, we are talk -- thank you for having me on this important occasion, we are talking about 168 million children across the world in child labor. and that is up to the age of 17. and here in asia pacific where i
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work, we are talking about 78 million children in child labor. >> what kind are work are they doing? >> we are seeing commerce. more girls engage in services and commerce while boys remain in agricultural and very difficult and hazardous forms of work. >> i can see that this is a huge concern to a lot of people. how difficult is this to stop given that many families, you know reluctantly make their children work because they simply need the money? >> very good point. and i think that the solution lies in creating the right kind of choices and responses for those families. it's not a matter of putting a child in school and that the problem will be solved. it has to be multifaceted.
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you have to deal with the supply and demand side of this issue. starting with school as an extremely important step because it equipment children especially if they are receiving a quality education with the skills to move on in life. but if the child when he or she leaves school, which is what we are finding especially in this region at the age of 14 or 15, they are not continuing with their studies but they are entering what we call very hazardous work and it's an alarming number and they are entering in the labor mark and it end up being one where they are more vulnerable and perpetuates the life cycle of recycling of this problem. >> isand is anything changing? it's the world's day generals child labor. has anything changed since the last day against child labor? >> well, certainly things have changed over the last four years. we have this annually. and we highlight different aspects of the child labor challenge and this year was very
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pertinent. we are talking about quality education and no child labor. but let me say in the last four years we have seen some positive movement. we have seen a decline especially in those under 14. and i think a lot of that can be attributed to the immense effort that many countries have made in educating young children. but my concern and our concern remains very much those that leave at the age 12, 13, 14 and unfortunately are illpared for the world of work and enter the world and work in hazardous and exploitative forms of work which sets up a lifetime pattern of discrimination and inequality and perpetuates that for the children they are coming as well down the road. >> yeah, it's clearly a huge problem. thank you very much indeed for discussing this with us from bangkok. now australia's prime minister has dodged accusations that the australian navy paid
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people smugglers to turn their boats around and take migrants back to indonesian waters. indonesian police say migrants are reporting the australians offered crew of their boats $5,000 to turn back. but tony ab you had says australia has to be creative to stop the flow of asylum seekers to its shores. speak on the ground australian radio, abbott said what we do is we stop the boats by hook or by crook because that's what we've got to do. that's what we have successfully done. i just don't participant to go in to the details of how it's done because like a lot of things that law en in accordance. agencies have to do it's necessary, it's difficult and at times i suppose it's dangerous work but we deal with it and we stopped the boat. david lee joins me now from melbourne, what do you make of tony ab cut's statement. he doesn't confirm or deny that the australian government paid those boats to turn back.
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>> first thing the government must do is confirm deny or investigate whether they paid the evil trade of people snuggling to turn back. they have to say whether they paid smugglers that they call dangerous criminals to turn back people seeking refuge. and and do to not do so say matter of very profound concern. >> does tony abbott have a point when he he is he is defending national sovereignty and saving lives at sea? >> the first and fundamental on obligation that australia has signed up to with the international community in a global compact under the refugees convention is to protect people fleeing there
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persecution from further harm. this by hoo being or hook or crook approach is an unacceptable thing. our government at the highest levels is suggesting, it seems when it comes to asylum seekers as sea there is no moral compass and no moral limit. and that's not only astonishing and appalling but completely unacceptable as a position take. >> david good to get your thoughts there, thank you very much indeed for that. david speaking to us from melbourne. >> thank you. still to come on the program a u.s. judge rules that there is enough evidence to charge two policemen over the shooting of a 12-year-old boy. plus franz opens criminal inquiries in to the germanwings crash to decide if mistakes were made in screening the copilot's mental health.
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♪ welcome back. the top stories on al jazerra pakistan has ordered the charity save the children to leave the country. the government has previously linked the charity to a fake fashion nation scheme used by the cia to track down osama bin laden. australian's prime minister dodged allegations buys i understandindonesia that they are paying to return migrants. cambodia says it's on track to meet an international
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eliminating child labor. the international labor organization has to make 120 million age five to 14 go to work armed the world. a judge in the u.s. state of ohio has ruled there is enough evidence to charge two police officers one with murder over the killing of a 12-year-old african american boy last year. tamir rice was waving a toy gun when he was shot by police in cleveland. >> reporter: thursday's decision by a cleveland judge comes just days after a group of clergy and activists used a little known law asking the court to order the arrest of the police officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old tamir rice past november. >> the people have decided to take the opportunity to make the government work for them. this is not a contradiction this the no not a suhr company
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vince it's simply applying the law that's available so your government is responsible and accountable to us *678 the boy was playing with a pellet gun in a public park when officers timothy low man and frank pulled up. the shooting caught on surveillance video. the judge released his opinion thursday stating that he found probable cause that officer frank be charged with negligent homicide and dereliction of duty. the judge also said officer low man who fired the fatal shots should face the same charges including murder, involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide. >> this is more than about the law, it's about a moral obligation to. [ inaudible ] the folks in power when they refuse to. it's about a moral obligation for my little nieces and nephews who are on the streets of cleveland every day and i fear for their life. >> reporter: cleveland authorities said the officers mistook the weapon if a real gun. it took the sheriff's department more than six months to wrap up
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its investigation. the case was turned over to prosecutors last week, community leaders took advantage of an ohio law that allowed them to bypass prosecutors and go directly to the court. >> it's absolutely legal. there is an obscure provision in ohio law that allows an average citizen to file an affidavit with any reviewing magistrate that could force them to file a warrants in this case. >> reporter: the judge noted in his order however that, his role was advisory in nature. and he did not order the arrest of the officers. the judge's opinion is now in the hands of cleveland prosecutors. a french court is set to rule on whether formerism m.f. chief is difficulty of aggravating pimping. he faces up to a decade behind bars in the judge holds that he profited from and procured prostitutes for sex parties. the main prosecute never the case has called follow him to be
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acquitted finding lack of evidence. the former french presidential hopeful has always denied he knew the women at the parties were prostitutes. french prosecute versa nounsed investigation in to the germanwings plane scratch. it will examine whether anyone should be held criminally responsible and if mistakes were made in monitoring the mental health of the copilot. new evidence has a merged, prosecutors say lubitz feared he was going blind and was suffering severe depression. the doctors couldn't report that to the airline under the law. >> translator: the head of the marseille court will appoint very soon next week or the following week three investigating judges from marseille's collective accident center after the opening of an inquiry against unknown parties for involuntary homicides. this investigation has to clarify the balance between patients confidentiality and the flight security. it will have to explain how and why a pilot can be in the
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cockpit with the intention to lead to the loss of the aircraft and passengers advertise bite the rules that impose medical standards for flying technical staff. the international monetary fund has pulled out of talks with greece on its debt repayment siting major difference with his agent edges the european union warned greek government that the time for grahamgambling is over. the prime minister is trying to find an agreement. >> reporter: unscripted, the presenters faltered at the end of their countdown as if unsure they were real on error perhaps overwhelmed with the emotion of the moment. two and a half thousand people were allowed back to work.
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but it's a different count down that really concerns greece's creditors. the country will become inning is off vent after the end of june when it has to pay them billions of dollars in debt. the prime minister was in brussels making a last-ditch attempt to bridges differences. >> especially the differences in the fiscal and finance issue. and we are work to go insure an agreement but it will assure that greece will recover with especially education and viable public debt. >> it's my opinion that the greek government has to be, i think a little bit more realistic. there is no more space for gambling. there is no more time for gambling. the day is coming, i am afraid, that someone says that the game is over.
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>> reporter: even if he strikes a deem the prime minister may have serious difficulty selling it at home. communist worker union occupied the finance minister on thursday saying he is about to become the third prime minister to sell greece down rear. >> reporter: cash for austerity deals is political poison in greece. sharpening their lives by half. socialist and conservative government lasted a little more more than for years now that the poison challis sits before a left wing government, almost 4 in 10 greeks say they want the prime minister to turn way from it. including back benchers that could bring the government down by voting against any deal in parliament and splitting the proceeds. making good on moral policies such as relaunching the national broadcaster can only take the prime spinster so far he has to fix the economy and to do so he has to convince creditors do it. greeks are choosing sovereignty over prosperity.
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the u.k.'s terror laws watchdog is to recommend a new bill on monitoring online threats. new legislation would bring the u.k. in line with other major powers which give judges the power to approve electric surveillance jonah hull reports. >> reporter: the british government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation the barester david anderson is scathing of current laws governing the monitoring of private commutations on the phone, via satellite and on the internet. incomprehensible he says, offering inadequate protection to individuals intolerable. >> the law has been on the road for too long it's like an old car it's been patch up probably one too many times and now skat early all over the place, there are 65 different acts of parliament that govern this whole area. i think that should being reduce today one. >> reporter: mr. hands son's report is titled a question of trust. it was commissioned by the government and comes just as the government is planning new legislation here. among a great number of key recommendations, is one in
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particular the senior ministers be stripped of the power to authorize surveillance warrants and that that power instead be given to senior judges, mr. andersen believe that his among other things that may encourage foreign based u.s. based internet companies to divulge confidential information about users including on platform like snap shop. what's app and skype. areas that intelligence services feel very much in the dark. twitter's chief executive is stepping down after five years in the job. the boss of the social media company had been under pressure to resign after it posted big losses this year slowing growth. the cofounder will take over in july. in iraq at least 100 people are dead after air strikes on suspected isil positions iraqi military planes hit four targets in the district southwest of kirkuk. the planes attacked a crowded market where ice sill believed to have a security compound.
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isil says many of the dead and wounded are women and children. military sources in saudi arabia say two soldier says have been killed in a cross-board air tack by shia houthi rebels in generally. it happened in the saudi city. there have been reports of a number of clashes crows to the border in the past 24 hours fighting in taiz has left 27 houthi fighters dead, seven fighters lawyer to the effect president hadi have also been killed. the death toll from south korea's percent outbreak has respite tone 11. 126 people have been infected by middle east respiratory syndrome since the first case was diagnosed three weeks ago. thousands of schools have been closed and over 3600 people are in quarantine. the health ministry there says the number of potentially deadly case is his decreasing. >> translator: as the w.h.o. and the joint assessment team have recommended, since schools in other regions are not affected by the mers infection the
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schools should consider resuming classes as they have strongly urged us to reopen schools especially considering the number of confirmed cases is decreasing and the mers virus is unlikely to be an airborne disease and transmitted community wide. we ask the public not to worry as much and stay alert while they practice every-day activities. excitement if building in azerbaijan as it prepares to kickoff the first ever european games on friday. the government hopes to use the events to put the oil-rich nation on the map. but now it's facing criticism in the buildup to the games robin reports. >> reporter: for a small country better known for its oil reserves than its hospitalities these young volunteers are the -- of the first european games are feeling euphoric. >> translator: i believe the games will change opinions about azerbaijan in europe. and azerbaijan will become recognized around the world because athletes are coming from 50 countries. >> reporter: 6,000 of them, in
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fact competing this 30 events in this new olympic spinoff. the official price tag for these games is around a billion u.s. dollars, but that's just a fraction of the amount that's been spent transforming the capita baku in recent years. the government wants to create a big impression internationally image is everything. last month a fire in this residential apartment block took the shine off the celebrations. 15 people died. it raised questions about members of the jury. the building was one of dozens given a face lift ahead of the games using a highly flammable material. and nepotism, the contractor is rumored to have close links to the president. he lost everything in the blaze and whose grandchildren are still recovering from smoke inhalation, says he wants to know what happened to $15,000 worth of promised compensation. >> translator: the president has
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given the order for us to receive this money but somebody is not listening to the president. if he find out we didn't get it, he will punish them hard, i know that for sure. >> reporter: his concerns speak volumes about corruption and accountability in azerbaijan. popular cartoon on his social media have lampooned the authorities for lavish spending on the games, at the expense of safety. angered by criticism officials have banned some western journalists and n.g.o.s from attending the games. >> translator: they have just one person to cast a shadow over the success of azerbaijan, it's not just disrespectful towards us it's also disrespectful towards european sports and society. we will show them that their p.r. campaign to blacken our name is meaningless and won't damage the image of azerbaijan. >> reporter: the president will be hoping to show that the dazzle with these games is more than just a facade.
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