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migrants ban ki-moon calls for ceasefire in yemen as talks get underway in geneva. cuban art a thumbs up and benefit from political reform on the island. ♪ so we begin in south africa where the high court is about to decide if sudan president bashir should be handed over to the criminal court and expecting a vote in a moment and attending the summit in johanesburg for crimes against humidity and said should be arrested by sudan government is confident that bashir will be allowed home. >> yes, of course the president yuma declared this president bashir is our guest in south africa. he can stay whatever time he
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likes and leave whenever time he wants and he is under the protection of the south african authorities. >> live at johanesburg and what are we to make of claims in the minister in cartoon that he received assurances from pretoria that president bashir will be allowed to go? >> well the south africa's department of international relations and cooperation has reiterated its commitment to immunity for sitting heads of state and heads of state that are attending the african summit in johanesburg and made assurances that bashir can leave south africa and they are concerned about that and wouldn't pay attention to the court order that is in place at the moment. the high court in south africa had on sunday said that bashir
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should not leave the country until this matter is finalized in court, adrian. >> so basically what we are saying here is that the rule of law doesn't apply what the court decides here if it decides that president bashir should be arrested then he will still be allowed to go free the court has no teeth? >> well that is a dilemma that south africa is facing with the justice system in the country. the high court is tackling the issue of whether or not instructions by the icc that south africa should arrest el bashir if it takes president or the commitment to the african union and deal struck with regard to immunity so south africa justice system is facing a big dilemma with rule of law and what would take precedence if el bashir should be arrested
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or whether or not he can leave the country and the high court has adjourned for about an hour for the judge to look at the arguments with regard to this case and we are expecting to hear more from them in just over an hour, whether or not the court will decide if he should be arrested. of course that only has value if el bashir stays in the country. >> how big of a deal is this in south africa? what do people make of it? >> reporter: well, there is concern around south africa's approach to justice as well as the war crimes that have allegedly been committed by el bashir in sudan. south africa is concerned about south africa's place in leading the continent and also the place in the african union and maintaining this commitment to international law as well as obligations to the international criminal court. south africa following the leadership of nelson mandela is expected to be an example in terms of protecting its
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constitution as well as abiding by international law and protecting human rights so depending what comes out of this court case and whether or not el bashir leaves the country south africa could possibly face a lot of criticism, adrian. >> many thanks live in johanesburg. opposition leaders in australia demanding if navy commanders bribed people smugglers to take migrants back to indonesia and a boat with 65 my grants on board were stopped last month and said they were paid $5,000 each to return to indonesia. australia's prime minister tony abbot is refusing to confirm or deny the statements and sarah is a senator with the australian green party and says turning away migrants is a moral question for the australian government. >> we believe there needs to be an investigation about this but
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the bigger issue of course is one not just of legality but also of moral code. is it really right for australia to bribe the boat crew of asylum seeker vessel with thousands of dollars to send them back to another country like indonesia? there is a question of legality but there is also a question of what is rite and wrong. >> let's get an update from al jazeera andrew thomas in sidney. >> reporter: there are three central questions, did this payment occur, did australian officials pay people smugglers to take asylum seekers back to indonesia, if they did is that legal and what is all this doing to the relationship between indonesia and australia, to take those in turn did it happen and tony abbot prime minister was asked repeatedly on monday and refused to engage the question, will not confirm or deny saying this was a matter of operational
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security and it wasn't in australia's national interest to reveal whether it happened so on that basis we are none the wiser although there are growing voices in indonesia saying $30,000 of u.s. dollars did take place, if it did is it legal? legal expects in australia say probably not and they have strict andty people smuggling laws and to pay people smugglers can have a long prison sentence or a big fine and take australia's government the attorney general to mount the prosecution, is that going to happen of australian government officials is unlikely and third what is all this doing between the relationship between australia and indonesia and the government has made representations to the indonesia government. the ambassador to dakarta was called in to explain what was going on and promised to go back to cambra to kind out and indonesia is offended by this and offended they are not
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getting answers as well and the police have been asked by green party to investigate and considering to investigate as well and this is frankly a pretty opaque mess at a moment but in the coming days we may get a few more answers. >> reporter: amnesty spokesperson on refugees in australia and joins us via skype from sidney and what do you make of all of this? >> this is an extraordinary situation really when we are looking at a global refugee crisis where we have record numbers of people displaced and the highest number of people displaced since the second world war and what is australia doing in terms of trying to help and trying to sort out, you know people who are on the move people who are dying on the mediterranean and dying on the sea and hearing stories they are actually paying people smugglers not to come in this direction but to head back towards indonesia and we are not saving
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lives, we are not rescuing the families and the children that were on board that boat and we are actually putting them back into the hands of the people smugglers potentially as we are hearing and if the reports are true we are actually giving the people smugglers money. this is an extraordinary situation for a country that helped right the refugee convention. >> we don't yet know whether money was actually exchanged. it is as you say at the moment just a story but amnesty has in the past been pretty critical of the way that australia deals with refugees hasn't it? >> well, we still have a number of people detained on our route. we have hundreds of people still detained on the island. these conditions have been investigated by amnesty international and we believe they are cruel inhumane and degrading and just had reports from the government commissioned
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a report looking at abusive women and children on naru and found, yes, there had been sexual abuse committed against women and children and australia's watch which is just extraordinary in terms of the gain of a government supposed to be protecting refugees and asylum seekers and now we have a situation where they are not just turning boats back but as you say the stories are just extraordinary. >> do you think australia voters approve of the way that the australia governments have dealt with refugees? >> well unfortunately in australia, number of countries around the world the issue around refugees and asylum seekers has become a political one and hated split one and needs to stop the message was a major factor in the last election and it does play out unfortunately with the australian public. what the australian public
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doesn't see is what happens to those people who were turned away, what options do they then have in terms of trying to seek protection and as we are seeing record numbers now heading across the mediterranean because people who are in need of protection have to go somewhere so stopping the boats and we have not stopped the boats as we say the boats are still there, we have just stopped them by any means arriving in australia but, yes, unfortunately this is a very political issue in this country. >> many thanks indeed from amnesty international there. >> thank you. u.s. military commanders have not confirmed whether a u.s. air strike in libya killed one of their most wanted targets, libya's internationally recognized government says that former al-qaeda commander mokhtar belmokhtar died in such an attack, it was the first u.s. air strike in libya since the revolution which toppled gaddafi for years ago and mokhtar belmokhtar travels to
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afghanistan in 1991 to fight against the government. he was 19 years old. after returning to algeria he joined an armed group and later a leading figure with al-qaeda in islamic m arc grid an ordered an attack on gas plant two years ago and held more than 800 people hostage, 38 workers and 29 fighters died when algeria forces stomped in to end the siege and daniel has more from washington. >> based in tobruk in the neighborhood of that strike did say the target had been mokhtar belmokhtar the algeria and said if it had been successful and he had been killed along with a number of others mokhtar belmokhtar if it's confirmed it's a significant development because he has been involved in violent activities in the sahara for quite some time and united states he faces terrorism with the attack on bp gas place in
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south southeastern nie nigeria and u.s. killed there and others with mokhtar belmokhtar and his death has been reported before on at least four occasions so it's important to keep that in mind as these reports come in and as more confirmation is forthcoming but the united states has said an air strike has taken place in libya, the first since the fighting against the forces of colonel gaddafi in 2011 and believes the air strike was successful. news hour from al jazeera and still to come on the program thousands of syrian refugees rush into turkey to escape fighting in their home land, we will be live at the turkish border with the latest plus. i'm nepal and suffered a huge setback after april's earthquake. in sport all the action from the nba finals as one team moves closer to glory.
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♪ war in yemen and talks to end the conflict have begun in geneva and u.n. secretary-general called for immediate humanitarian pause and wants armed groups to withdraw an orderly and inclusive political transition. >> today yemen's existence hangs in the balance and why parties bicker yemen burns. the parties have a responsibility to end the fighting and begin the real process of peace and reconciliation. >> reporter: yemens foreign minister responded to ban ki-moon's plan and says there won't be a ceasefire until houthis withdraw from captured areas but a houthi spokesman says that is unlikely to happen. >> translator: we are not happy with this version of taking the
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security matters in our hands, who is going to fill in that vacuum? the state institution, police and army are not able even to protect themselves and when they speak about laying down arms giving up arms to whom should we give arms and we should hand over their arms to the state authority, yet, the state authority is absent. >> reporter: to geneva and al jazeera is there and a lot of optimism surrounding these talks. >> well you have the statement of the yemen foreign minister who said it's not going to be any ceasefire any time soon unless houthis pull out from areas they control and houthi spokesperson saying that this is something that will be dealt with the international community. that gives you an idea about the growing political divide and the
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mammoth task facing the international community and trying to bring together the two to bring out a political settlement and this will definitely take quite sometime because of huge problems we have. but going to attack on some issues in geneva and particularly trying to find out how to deliver aid to those who have been stranded and effected by the fighting then talk about security arrangements and particularly whether the houthis are willing to pull out of the areas they control and third will be to start a political process. this is something which is not going to happen any time soon because we have to wait and see for the houthi delegation to arrive later today and whether they are going to talk face-to-face with representatives in the government in the coming days. >> in the moment that is not the plan and the u.n. is going to shuttle between the two rooms, the two camps are in and as you say it's a very delicate thing if the government in exile is not happy it's warned it may
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even boycott the talks almost before they have begun. >> the problem with the representatives of the government is the following and they say that we don't want this to be portrayed as political tort and it should never be seen as government talking to houthis. it's a legitimate government talking to the international community with representatives of a group which they do not consider as a general partner in the political set up. they say the houthis launched a coup and therefore they are the ones to blame for what happened to yemen. i think the international community and particularly the u.n. envoy will try to narrow this between the government and representative of the houthis but now when you look at the map on the ground houthi and representatives of saleh the opposed president is talking about an area from sada sanaa,
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and also thai and it's a very delicate situation and say we have the upper hand and have a bigger say, therefore we to have to bigger political representation in the future something which is rejected by representatives of the government who say that the narrative should change. the whole problem in yemen is there has been a government, a legitimate government which was forced out of the office by coup leaders. >> many thanks live in geneva and in yemen itself more violence and 27 houthi rebels killed in fighting and intense battles in other cities like aiden and thai and adds to the suffering of course of civilians. the u.n. says that over 2 1/2 thousand people have been killed and 11,000 injured in the conflict so far, 21 million people in deed of humanitarian assistance, that is over 80% of yemen's population and half a million people fled the country and a million more have been
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internally displaced. joining me now in the studio is director of the gulf study centers and it's hard to see how these talks are going to make progress where given as our correspondent was saying just at the moment the houthis i can i suppose claim to have the upper hand in yemen. >> it seems they do and this is what they believe. the operation desert storm operation, the saudi-led operation has not really achieved what they said they would achieve, three months of bombarding of yemen has not moved the houthis a bit. they seem to be controlling more territory territory. the systems on the ground are not supported and not being able to get their arms and not been coordinated either so there is a really problem here that no one can really win this war and bombardment is not going to end the war and gulf states and
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coalition is not committing any ground forces so yes we are in a conundrum and the only way out is to have a peaceful resolution. >> houthis, you say we have the upper hand at the moment and support for them is not as universal in the tribal areas in yemen in particular people are beginning to turn against them aren't they as lack of supplies and lack of food water, electricity begin to impact upon people's lives. >> well, the houthis themselves are minorities and i think they are not in any way going to be able to form a government that is going to be inclusive and it's going to be accepted. it's not the houthis themselves in this case it's saleh the former president of yemen and his support that created all this problem with houthis being part of it >> that is the elephant in the room, had the houthis negotiated
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with geneva but who they need to talk to is the former president. >> he is not accepted by the coalition or the yemen government. he is a person who has been supporting all of this because of his tribal link and because of his financial support and because of the deep state he left behind. so unfortunately it's a very difficult situation. i think the best we can hope for is cessation of hostilities and stopping of this war, at least during the holy month of mamadan. >> is the government willing to make compromises to the houthis? listening to coverage the government exile making demands of houthis and must do this and that, is the government going to have to make some concessions to the houthis? >> i believe they have even before they came to geneva and houthis also made some concessions and yemen government made concessions and they expected that the houthis will
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accept the u.n. resolution which they didn't. and yet they decided to go. i believe that both sides now have reached fatigue and need to negotiate, there is one way out and everyone is playing hard to get but at the end of the day there is no military solution to this and i think this is now the reality and the only way out is to find peaceful solution and negotiate and at least come to a cessation of the hostility at least during the holy month of ramadan and not only yemen people but muslim people in particular and also the international public opinion will go against this war and it's not helping anybody and it's not achieving a thing. >> good to talk to you and thanks for being with us, the director of the gulf study center. >> thank you. at least 13,000 syrians entered turkey in the past week to escape fighting with kurdish
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malitia and i.s.i.l. and thousands made the crossing on sunday after turkish guards opened the border and closing in on the outskirts a strategic i.s.i.l. held town near the turkish border and talks with greece and european creditors in brussels ended without agreement on the debt crisis and european dismissed proposals promising fears that athens is getting closer to leaving the euro zone and the government is refusing to implement large-scale spending cuts in order to secure emergency funding from the eu and talks are set to resume in luxomberg on thursday. students returned to class despite the mayor's outbreak in south korea which has killed so far 16 people and 2 1/2 thousand schools have now reopened but 440 of them remain shut. with exams coming up, soon
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students are wearing masks and taught how to prevent the spread of the disease and from the capitol seoul we report. >> reporter: monday morning and it's back to school for these children living in the outskirts of the capitol, the mers scare forced 3,000 schools, colleges and universities to shut their doors as a precaution and some parents remain anxious about taking their children back to class even if they are wearing protective masks. >> translator: i'm a little worried about classes resuming but hoping children can enjoy school life in a secure environment. >> reporter: every pupil is checked for temperature before they are allowed in and teachers looking out for other symptoms too. lessons begin with introduction to the reason they have been off school and the aim to reassure both children and parents they have nothing to fear. >> translator: parents concern by taking precautionary measures in every school and if schools
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closed too long that will pose difficulties in running the school curriculum. >> reporter: not every school reopened and many like this one kept their doors firmly shut. this is one of 400 schools that is closed across south korea and mers reported in educational institute and while it's looming some are taking no chances. it's here where focus remains and medical center in seoul one of south korea's largest, busiest and most prestigous center and the spread of mers the respiratory syndrome. the city on high alert every pro caution being taken to help contain the outbreak using hand sanitizers and face masks and some sports fans were undeterred watching a baseball game. >> translator: i'm not worry because no one has mers around me and young people would not be
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easily infected. >> reporter: it is confined to hospitals, medical staff, patients and visitors. the world health organization says there is no evidence to suggest that mers is spreading in the wider community or the virus is mutating in one more easily passed between people. while doctors keep a close watch on all infections everyone young and old can do is try to carry on as normal. robin with al jazeera, seoul. nepal is hoping to welcome back tourists after the devastating earthquake in april and heritage sites expects to reopen soon including historic duba square or nobel court which are badly damaged. the u.n. cultural organization, unesco is questioning reopening due to safety concerns but safety concerns are being issued by the nepal government. the whole country is trying to rebuild the ruins of the quake, the health system there is in
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tatters and in rural nepal people helping to care for new months and babies as we report. >> reporter: she is a broken woman. she had single handedly been taking care of more than 100 women and childrens health but can no longer even talk about her work. and the earthquake hit nepal in april she lost what was dearest to her, her grandchildren and one was newborn. >> translator: i was so happy to be working with child health i used to go on house calls but this is what god did to me. >> reporter: she is a community health volunteer, one of the 52000 women who ensure that pregnant women, newborns and children under five are healthy. now, she feels lost. community health volunteers are
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said to be the backbone of nepal's health services and now many of them are struggling with their own losses leaving the entire health system broken. nine community health volunteers in this village of 600 houses she did not make it. her husband says she was buried with her two children as she was running to save them. 16 people in this village died. >> translator: i feel like i've lost half my body she tells me. >> reporter: the health posts has walls that rattle and cracks on the walls scare patients and health workers. the government says it might take at least four years to rebuild but that is if decisions are made fast and the moral of the health workers stays high. but with so many health workers facing their own battles and with the monsoon season expected
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to cause landslides and bring disease people in villages like this expect more suffering, al jazeera. look at weather the weather is helping or hindering masses in nepal and richard is with us. >> reporter: that time of the year and monsoon across to nepal and this time of year you do get revenue rain coming in so 300 millimeters of rain plus. we look at the satellite imagery and we can see shower clouds and more down to south across the eastern states we will come back to but certainly eastern nepal and showers and big thunderstorms building up during the course of the day and when it starts to rain the risk of land slides as well and as we move the forecast you can see it largely to the east of kathmandu and we see particularly heavy showers and notice heavy rain across bangladesh and it's here we have seen some real problems
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and look at the south asia monsoon and we will come back to that and up to nepal and more particularly to bangladesh where we had very heavy rain and eastern states of india and the shots come from where we had a lot of flooding across pretty valuable farmland and a quite nasty situation and it's that time of year and monsoon has sizable rainfall totals here too and mumbai will be wet and bangladesh and more heavy rain to come adrian. still to come here on the news hour the sky is the limit of this year's paris air show and why airlines are keeping their purse strings tight. and brazil played their first international tournament since the humiliating defeat and how they got on at corporate or copper america here in 20 minutes.
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♪ here with the news hour with adrian and top stories sudan information minister told al jazeera that south africa reassured him the sudan president won't be sent to the international criminal court and el bashir is there for a summit and wanted by icc for alleged war crimes. opposition leaders in australia demanding a government inquiry into whether navy commanders bribed people smugglers to take migrants back to indonesia and tony abbot is refusing to confirm or deny the allegations.
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u.n. brokered talks to end the war in yemen have started in geneva but houthi rebels from the government are refusing to talk directly, more than 2500 people killed since saudi-led air strikes began three months ago. more on our top stories south africa high court decision impending decision for sudan's president and joined by david howel in johanesburg and he is an expert in sudan affairs and good to have you with us this is a no win situation for the south african legal system really and it's going to be damned whatever the decision is, isn't it? >> well this was right from the beginning and president bashir arrived on saturday evening and stayed sunday and he left about a half an hour ago as planned from south africa on the last day of the summit.
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so it cut away a lot of the wishful thinking here and would have been illegal for africa to have arrested bashir because in terms of u.n. and convention on immunities like head of state he has immunities and that is the first issue and icc arrest warrant is actually invalid inasmuch as article 98 of the icc's own roam statute says if a state has the preceding obligation bilaterally to another state or organization, that obligation precedes its obligation to the icc and the governor of south africa is bound by several african union heads of state resolutions which say no african government will assist corporate or work with the icc so on a wide range of real legal issues the arrest
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warrant would never be in force. >> you are saying you have information suggesting that the president bashir has actually left south africa in which case against the court order which was banning him from doing so and the law is that isn't it? >> well the law in this instance is actually very very questionable if it's based on the icc arrest warrant. with politics aside, sorry, it's breaking up. >> that is okay. >> for, i think at the end of the day the blame for this fiasco lies with icc and icc attempts wasted valuable time which was dealing with important issues to the continent and icc is nothing more than a european funded and directed of european foreign policy. there is no place to actually
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play with african affairs. >> what does this tell us about the south african judicial system? >> well, that is an allegory at the end of the day and the government signed a officialn official african union which granted to reenforce the concept of heads of state sovereignty and heads of state and delegates visiting at this au summit, just as the case within u.n. general assembly summits in new york and that is a binding legal obligation on the part of the government of south africa. >> david many thanks indeed and david is loyal in johanesburg. jailed leader has been on hunger strike for three weeks and some sleeping rough and taking only water and lopez jailed 15 months after anti-government riots last
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year, the former mayor and critical of venezuela socialst government demanding release of political prisoners and a date for elections. hundreds of ex servicemen in india holding a hunger strike to protest against their pension entitlements and want the government to pay uniform for the same rank regardless of when they retire and we have the latest from new deli. >> reporter: these former indian army servicemen say this hunger strike they are on is their last desperate measure and for 40 years many have been campaigning for what they call one rank, one pension which means they want offices or serving personnel who retired at the same rank to be paid the same pension. they say this was a key promise by the bjp party during last year's election campaign but they are still waiting to receive their dues. >> we will turn education. we will definitely go for action
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and that is in the interest of the nation. >> reporter: consecutive indian governments have renegded on agreement with servicemen and woman and now this is particular significant political ramifications for bjp party and keeping in months in vent months it alleviated millions in the country with controversial proposals for amendments to the land bill and now we have millions of former men and women saying they have not fulfilled a key election process and between them they are millions of voters and millions of them with bjp and modi to power last year. high flying executives and of course the latest and greatest in all sorts of flying machines are on display from shiny new airliners to lethal military craft and missiles and a whole lot more and the show
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started five years after the write brothers made their first flight in 1901 and day one have orders by boeing and air bus, the top aircraft manufacturers and a new airliners is making a debay from canada and finally showing off the new c series after many delays and cost concerns. al jazeera's santa maria is a man with the best job in television today in the suburbs of paris at that air show so tell us about the civilian orders that are coming out, kamal. >> reporter: you are jealous, adrian and has been an interesting morning here in the sense of this and you can go to the air show and the last one i went to was dubai and they were ordering hundreds of planes at once and that is not happening
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here but one was from indonesia put down 16 aircraft, 30 of them being boeing 787 dream liner but that is only intent to purchase. you also have saudi arabia airlines ordering 20 of the new air bus 8330 regionals and if you don't know they are small order for small planes and not seeing big orders for boeing 777 which can fly 17 hours nonstop, air bus said it doesn't ex spoekt -- expect any orders for the jumbo 380 and it's proudly displayed here and there is a slow down at the moment and no one is going for the big, big planes at the moment. the point i would make though is we are only five months or so from the next big air show in dubai and maybe we would see more orders particularly from the gulf and cutter and emirite
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and it's a quiet start but plenty of people here for day one. >> let's talk about the military side and military orders and also seen a 400 flying again there in paris after that crash in seville last month. >> exactly. a month and three of the four engines on that military aircraft failed resulting in the deaths of four crew members and the flight was grounded across five different european nations and france uses them on emergency bases so similar boticily it was important to get that plane up in the air today. president was here to watch as well and when it goes up in the air and i think you have pictures of it as well it's extraordinary to watch the acrobat the plane can do and it's heart watching and it's close to the ground doing it but important to get the a-400 m up in the air again. military side of things it's
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actually bigger than civilian side of things at air shows and a lot more money is spent and france's jet there is talk of a fourth major deal of an unnamed country buying more of those jets. there is a lot of money involved here but it is kept quiet because of the various parties it can be sold to so we will find out more about that hopefully perhaps on day two. >> many thanks and the second of the two aircraft we are showing you there while he was talking and santa maria at the paris air show and still to come on the news hour, foot fall wilderness and indonesia team has a pretty uncertain future. ♪
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♪ hello, many mexicans apply for asylum in the united states every year but few are getting there, 124 of the nearly 9,000 who said they feared for their lives were actually granted a right to live the u.s. last year and adam has been speaking to someone who said his life depends on his escaping mexico. >> reporter: the stories in this soup kitchen are about abuse in the hands of smugglers and the police and this man says he and 30 other migrants were robbed and beaten by federal police and most bear their miss treatment silently afraid of
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what might happen if they speak out but after years of repeated beatings and kidnappings he has had enough. he wants to apply for assume lumbar in the united states recently reported from there he was forced to dig tunnels under the border and managed to escape but he cannot escape his fears. >> translator: i have not been able to sleep well, my nerves are shot. i'm afraid they are going to kill me. >> reporter: lieutenant can't confirm if migrants built the tunnels but he has seen many over the years. >> we have found a lot of tunnels that had been connecting from mexico into the u.s. >> reporter: his boss said there is only one word to describe the way migrants are treated by cartels. >> slavery definitely slavery, there is no two ways about it what happens after they dig a tunnel is unknown, maybe they disappear because they become
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witnesses, right. >> reporter: that is why he is most afraid of and just made a formal complaint about the abuse he says he suffered from the police and the cartels. now he says he must leave mexico. >> translator: i'm suffering persecution from the government the police and the criminal groups they can't control. i fear for my life. i just want an opportunity so i can carry on living. >> reporter: he is about to cross through the mexican to the u.s. side and apply officially for asylum now and most of these cases are rejected and there is a possibility he will be detained by u.s. authorities for several months. this is what hoe -- he is fighting to return to his home in america. >> translator: it frightens me more the idea of letting him go in mexico because that would be more dangerous right now than if he is locked up and inside he is okay and guarded and detained and alive and they have their father there and they can visit them but if you send back across
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the border his life is at risk. >> reporter: lawyers told us the best hope is for his case to go on for six months then authorities will allow him to go home to his family until an immigration judge decides his fate. adam with al jazeera, u.s./mexico border. time in the news hour for sport and here is joe. >> adrian thank you, golden state warriors on the brink of nba title and took advantage of the cavs despite brilliant performance from lebron james and sarah reports. >> reporter: electric atmosphere in oakland for game five often nba final series and despite their injury woes the cavs went through the first three quarters causing big headaches for golden state. >> last time he turned down the open shot. >> reporter: the contest was just ramping up the regular season mvp for another year.
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>> warriors back by one. >> reporter: lebron james who carried the cavs through the series brought them back again playing the single best game of finals with 40 pounds 11 assist and 14 rebounds. >> lebron james from way downtown and cavs up by one. >> reporter: that would not be enjoyed by long because just 14 seconds later kerry. >> kerry had magic. >> reporter: there was simply no stopping him. kerry firing off 36 points, 17 of those in the final score alone to cook the cavs 104-91 at full time. >> we know the sense of urgency of the moment and it's a good feeling to get a win in cleveland and understand we can get it done and how we need to get it done and ready for the
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opportunity. >> we don't mind celebrating at all, no matter if it's on our floor or their floor and we have come this far and have been very good at home and we have to understand why we were not good in game four and had a lack of energy and effort and a lot of areas in game four and cannot repeat that or they will raise a trophy for sure. >> leads three games to two leaving just one more week to claim their first nba title in 40 years. sarah with al jazeera. now you may remember brazil's humiliating 7-1 defeat to germany in last year's semi final and playing the first official competition since that experience in copper america in chile and opened with victory over peru caught off guard with opener less than three minutes into the match. and missed the ill-fated semi
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final with injury and equalized brazil on this one and phillip douglas for injury time winner 2-1 the final score and giving brazil the 11th straight victory under the coach. in sunday's other match venezuela stunned columbia in the first victory over opponents and headed in the winner in the 60 minute and 1-0 is the biggest upset of the tournament so far. indonesia played their last game of international futbol until indefinite fifa experience is lifted and not how they wanted to go out and vietnam a thrashing on games on monday and four goals and another in the 71st minute feeling convincing win for vietnam, sending them home and in the futbol world. [cheers] morocco-futbol denied they paid
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a bribe to fifa executive to host the 1998 world cup and u.s. authorities investigating claims they paid a bribe to trinidad and chief jack warner he is denying it and allegations from another fifa executive chuck blazer who said he took a share of alleged bribe and morocco lost from france in the bid to host 1998 tournament in a statement the federation says they deny the accusations against the officials of the country's organizing committee of the 1998 world cup. regarding efforts morocco deserved better treatment instead of unfounded rumors. meanwhile one of the fifa officials for 2018 and 2022 world cups says qatar should keep the tournament and have raised concerns about conditions in the country and spoke about
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the fifa crisis and qatar's 2022 world cup. >> what it means to logistics and we think qatar is in worst position than other countries bidding that is why we say here we will face trouble. anyway qatar has the right, they won it and i think we can only expect that they will do a wonderful world cup a beautiful one and unless they discover something really, really wrong but before that i don't see how they can just take it out from that country. it's a country, i'm sure they will do their best to have a wonderful world cup but unfortunately controversy they have been unable to stop it. >> one of the fundamental values that fifa needs to rediscover to make it truly representative of world futbol and overcome this scandal? >> it's a very sad moment. and the first one is
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transparency 100%. i don't know how they would do it but they need to do it. for instance it's for me it's very clear. and it must be public. the second thing i think we need to improve our democracy. if we don't make changes, we will still be number one sports because it happens on the field and has nothing to do with what happens in the offices but the credibility of the big organization will be every year will be worse and worse and suddenly there will appear a second and another one and then it will be very difficult to recover. >> reporter: south korea park has reaffirmed her place as the best golfer in women's game and 26-year-old won pga championship for a third straight time on sunday with number one ranking and tied the score with lowest
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score in major and finished 19 under par and the most successful south korean golfer winning six major titles in her career. australia wrapped up a 2-1 series lead on sunday after declaring their second on 212 for 2 on the fourth day and proceeded to rip through the home site line up and josh hazle wood taking five wickets out for 114. australian won by 227 runs and the next test against england is july the 8. >> good for both test matches and batters make the runs and ballers and i think the ballers were exceptional throughout the series and wickets were quite slow and not much pace and bounce there for the fast ballers but i thought they worked really hard. >> reporter: we will see when
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it comes about adrian. >> joe great to see you and many thanks indeed and cuba 12 exhibition is attracting art lovers around the world and how reforms on the island are making it possible for artists to earn a living and collectors are buying up cuban art like never before and we have more from havana. >> reporter: ice skating rink with pr pretend ice in havana and a fake beach on the main coastal drive. these installations and other works of art are part of cuba's highly anticipated art show which is an international event but this year as never before cuban artists are taking center stage in these times of change on the communist island. >> translator: there were so many regulations, prohibitions and these new freedoms we are
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seeing is like throwing a drop of water on a dry desert and being absorbed at lightning speed. >> reporter: ten years ago he barely had enough room to paint on the floor in his tiny apartment, today he has the freedom to buy and build his own studio. his latest paintings with the seductive relationship with foreigners and especially tourists. >> she is pure, beautiful but dangerous like a jelly fish and the gestur can greet you in five languages and can sell you cigars and women. >> reporter: auctioned at sotheby's and collectors to beirut and this is called project salvation and refers to the cuba relationship with the ocean and neighbor just 140
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kilometers away, of course it also refers to the tens of thousands of cubans who tried to cross these waters to try to make it to the other side. michael uses american and cuban flags with empty bullet carterige and the birth of a new relationship. >> this is called fiesta because we live and prepare for a par if i adjust see if it's possible to be friends and not enemies. >> reporter: the paintings are also exhibited in his own studio showroom and selling for tens of thousands of dollars. for proof that cuban art like cuba itself is becoming a focus of world attention. al jazeera, havana. and that will just about do it for this news hour and stay with us here on al jazeera and i'll be back with today's top stories in just a few moments.
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♪ a south african court considers whether to am comply with ic krchltc for crimes against humanity and this is al jazeera live from doha and i'm adrian and also on the program australia accuses indonesia for failing to manage borders and allegations they paid people smugglers to turn back migrants. u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon calls for immediate humanitarian serious fire in yemen as talks get underway in geneva. the sky is the limit at this