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sudan's president is banned, from leaving africa as the international court considers his arrest. hello, i'm barbara, you're watching al jazeera, coming up, yemen's houthi's fight for peace hours after they are near the saudi border and those groups making gains in libya. and, deadly floods leaves zoo animal roaming the street, the
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comet lander wakes up, and sends a long awaited signal back to earth. thank you for joining us, a south african court has ordered that the president be prohibited from leaving the country and that he should be arrested. a judge is due to rule, whether he should be handed over to the i.c. c which has issued two arrest warrants for him. they indicted him in 2009, and he's wanted for alleged war crimes genocide, committed during the darfur conflict, which left 300,000 people were killed, and, it is deeply concerned about negative consequences if the arrest is not carry had out and they accuse of court of unfairly
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targeting africans. and now more details. much of the focus on sunday has been around the sudan president, and he is wanted by the criminal court on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes stepping back to fighting in darfur. they are saying that, as the head of state he should be attending the summit, and also, they have agreed in hosting it, that they will not arrest him. however, the government has been taken to court, by a civil society group and human rights watch to adhere to their obligation, from the i.c. c. the statute which established that court so we are seeing a fallout between south africa and the i.c.c. and there are
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concerns about the high court having to enforce whatever verdict they do come up with later on monday. worked with the institute for international affairs and he explained the wider concerns for african leaders,. it's not good for south africa. and the leaders and what happened between now and tomorrow. the international court has questions of power politics, and, it's not just south africa, that comes into question, and why it is proceeding on this occasion and now we find on you u ourselves, i cannot understand but it would be interesting to see what comes out tomorrow, south africa has
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an obligation to fulfill whatever obligation is done, and they have concerns about the way that this has been carrying out its business, and, a lot of the people here are after photgraph can and, the leaders have been very clear i will be watching clothesly to see whether they fine some sort of creative political solution, that allows him to sneak quietly back home, and the law and, it would prevail, and he would be held to account to answer to a lot of the charges that have been leveled against him including the crime against humanity.
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the armed group has launched a attack, in kenya two soldiers were killed and 11 fighters local media are reporting the group raided the nearby town. this happened during the anniversary of attacks which killed 100 people, and its surrounding villages, and catherine reports. he has just started rebuilding his hotel a year after it was gunned down, 11 pm, and, repeated gunfire, and the town was under attack. the gunmen were in a nearby police station and started hunting for men. and by dawn 50 men were dead and the town was terrified. the gunmen could have been paid by polytugss and they were
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claiming that they are fighting for the rights of muslims. before they could bury their loved ones, there were more, soon close to 100 people have been shot, they claimed the attack and kenya's government blamed the political network. this was one of the more popular guest houses and it was destroyed. many people who lost their property and loved ones are yet to recover. they're still waiting for compensation. margaret husband's was killed, he left her with nine children twelve grandchildren and, no job the government gave her $500, to bury him and promise he had $1,000, and she's still waiting. that money would have gone a long way, i can get my children to school, feeding them is a problem, we just live by the grace of god.
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many are frightened here, despite the security, and, they were ambushed before and they have mandatory police escort. the police, they're in charge, the intelligence was there is for them to act. he welcomed a new addition, her grandson is named after her husband, who died after last year's attack, the baby is a joy but an extra mouth to feed. the war in yemen and houthi forces, have seeded the capital after large desert province. a houthi delegation left, bound for u.n. brokered talks in geneva and they were joined by the allies from the general
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people's congress, led by the former president. well, the discussions are due to begin on monday, and they can't come soon enough. the saudi led coalition has kept up the strikes against houthis and the humanitarian situation deteriorates. the u.n.'s general is rallying support for an end to. and the u.n. was hoping to announce a cease fire before the start of the talks, and that seems unlikely. we still know that party will observe a humana tar ryan and create a climate conducive to moving forward. and it might drag on which might lead to more violence.
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in regards to the u.n. talks in geneva, we hope that something positive will come out, between the various parties because we want the war to be over. i believe the u.n. talks arwaste of time because the u.n. was behind the unjust resolution 2216 and they are behind the major failure in safeguarding the stability and security in yemen. saudi arabia launched airstrikes against the houthi fighters in march and they accuse the rebels of de stabilizing the region, the u.n. resolution passed on april called on houthi fight attorneys withdraw from all yemen cities, and they insist, that it will end only if that happens. when they started this, they are in it for the long-term to
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achieve their goals however achieving the goals is more, more casualties and i think they see good results and good compromise, i think they'll jump on board. the province is where there could be more fighting if the peace talks collapse. the houthis have gathered forces, an area rich in oil and gas. we know that the houthi are planning a major offensive and they're spreading on the outskirts and they can't control it. thousands of yemen people have fled their homes the lucky ones escape to neighboring countries and many are stranded. the only hope is an into the fighting. no one expects a breakthrough, but the u.n. hopes to get the feuding facts to start a political process which might
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take a long time but it's the only way to stop violence and put an end to the suffering of civilians. the rrkky military says, fighters, have blown up three car bombs at at army base in the village south of fallujah, and 13 soldiers are reported had to have been killed. in syria two bombs have exploded indeed government held neighborhoods injuring 30, the first one went off in a busy street and, other other on the city's outskirts. almost 350,000 syrians are living in turkey, and offers are struggling to survive on their own.
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this is one the lates businesses and most are syrians. he is catching up with his family before going back to his new job. he is taking a break from his turkish language course. the government defines them as guests. rather than refugees, they're expected to go home. but learning turkish is one example of how they're having to put down roots here. as long as there is no international way to remove isil despite the hundreds of thousands of people,
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tune knee shans have been kidnapped, and that's after the abduction of ten
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. people here are afraid, and put up roadblocks, to stop advances and more than one dozen people have been killed and, declared war for terrible and criminal. four months, isil has been trying to bolster itself with attacks and, the prop propaganda showed the christians being beheaded. and they are taking on the fighters. groups aligned to isil be trying to take control from libya who back the government, in tripoli and, it also carried out a suicide attack. it's a very interesting scenario, and you have the territory, and, the control of the city, and versus the
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national picture, and warfare between the operation dignity and, international level you have isis versus the different governments, and the arab spring and very, very dangerous. the council four months it's been battling forces, and the general considered the military chief. hard line groups are also part of the coalition and one of them led by him a former inmate of guantanamo bay and the martyrs brigade, one of the strongest members. and the government, in charge of the whole of libya and, representatives of rival governments have met, and are considering a u.n. plan.
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but, with one side saying, he was backed must go, and the other side refusing to share power, isil taking advantage of power vacuum, many find it hard how hawks and doves will ever reach agreement. people have been warning a palestinian man, in the occupied west bank, there are conflicting reports about what happened, the military says the driver lost control when the man threw a fire bomb, and they say he was walking to work when he was struck. last year's war in gaza was legal, that's according to a new report from the israeli government published ahead war crimes investigation, the report says the soldiers did not commit war crimes, it accuses hamas of causing high numbers of
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casualties as human shields it launched operation to stop rocket attacks and stop the tunnels, and, they were killed in the 50 days of fighting. there's been reaction, from the israel prime minister, and here's some of what they said. whoever wants to know the true them read the report and by the senior general and whoever wants to continue with blaming of the state of israel, let them waste time reading the report by the commission. they will conever continue protecting us. israeli report, in which it tries to protect itself, is an attempt to control the opinion and a report of the international counsel of human rights and the gaza strip and this has no value because, it is
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obvious, and directed. there's been another set back in talks to, reach a last-minute deal between greece and its lenders, the form, submit had by agrees was deemed inadequate. they have refused cuts to pensions and increases in return for more bailout funds and the break down would mean it cannot secure the money it needs in order to not to the default. atiger and ally on and hippo have been roaming the streets of georgia. at least twelve people have been killed in the flooding, three workers at the zoo. the hippo wanders the roads, and free from captivity by a deadly storm. elsewhere, a brown bear
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takes refuge on an air king unit and, big cat luxuaround the building. heavy rainfall, sent flash funds, and dozens of properties have also been destroyed leaving many homeless, and they suggested the repair bill will go into the tens of millions of dollars and with large parts of zoos under water, it's unclear how many are per rushed and on the loose. that will only be known after all the modern debris is clear. the water killed all the monkeys and three lives have been drowned. it is completely destroyed. one by one, they are being cornered and some killed and others recaptured, using tranquilizers. animals have been captured, we were forced to kill some of them, and the area was huge, two
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small bears have been found ever found 15 kilometers from the zoo. no report that they attacked humans. among them a zookeeper who lost an arm in, a tiger attack last month. the one million residents have been warned to stay indoors, and until they can be found and recaptured. ititaly's coast guard has rescued more migrants and a group of 75, including 20 women and, 15 children, were intercepted on saturday, in another operation 34 migrants were rescued, and two ferries carrying about 2,000 syrian refugees have been captured. calls for a boycott of the games, because of the country's
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human rights record. 6,000 athletes are competing and dozens of journalists and activists are said to have been jailed. away from the games, on the other side, is the detention center many prominent critics of the government are locked inside. he she is one of them. still embarrassing the president, even as he hosts the games, colleagues abroad continue the research, into billions of dollars that they o in assets and off-shore accounts. her mother is proud of her daughter. she loves me very much, and she will not give up her fight
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to protect me. when i was in prison, were grieved, and she said she would not give up her fight, and i said, i know that. relations between them and west will have become strained, over the imprisonment over 80 people. one opposition activist was given refuge here for ten months, and now, free, by the swiss foreign minister, and he was here to attend the opening ceremony. the authority's have resisted calls to free so-called prisoners of conscious. we ask that john be released. there are no political prisoners, there are people who are in prison for criminal offends and, they take decisions on these cases and no state can
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interfere with the decision of the courtes and changes. though the union leaders have stayed away, it is still a valuable energy place, that is unwilling to exert its will. it suggests, they are partners. briton's sunday times newspaper is reporting that u.k. has withdrawn agents working overseas of a russian sha and china, have looked at the documents, by snowden. left two years ago, after leaking details of phone surveillance by american intelligence. and now outside the headquarters in london. well it's two years since snowden fled the united states
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after downloading 1.7 million secret files and he resides in russia, and now, russia and china have accessed a million of those documents and, this has forced them to pull agents on you of the field for fear of their safety. we know russia and china have access to snowden's material and, will be going for it searching for clues to identify potential targets snowden has done damage, and they have been forced to lift their agents from operations to prevent them from being identified and killed. now, the prime ministers' office here in london, are not commenting on these reports but they are saying there's no evidence that anyone has been harmed and the supporters have always maintained he acted in the public interest, in the
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revealing mass surveillance programs and these latest accusations will strengthen the argument among his critics, that income, he's always posed a threat to an interest in countries such as the u.s. and britain,. the comet has woken up, and made contact with earth, it was the first to land, when it touched down back in november, three days later the contact was loss when the batteries ran down scientists weren't sure if they would ever hear from it again, and now it started to work again,. transmitting data, for just 85 seconds. it's operational and, we will work now, in the coming days on getting communication slots, and then, we'll command
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