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♪ taliban target afghanistan parliament with a bomb and gun attack. ♪ hello there you are watching al jazeera, i'm laura kyle and also coming up, al jazeera journalist ahmed mansour begins a third day in german detention and the growing call for his release. greece makes a last-minute offer with the international creditors ahead of an emergency meeting in brussels. and there are pests and can be
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deadly and may hold the key of keeping those mosquitos away. ♪ a bomb attacked and open fire on a building while politicians were in session and five died and 31 others injured. afghan police say seven attackers were also killed and jennifer glasse reports from kabul. the parliamentary session was just getting underway when this happened. there is confusion and it's just an electrical problem says the sneaker as m.p.s flee from the champ chamber but it was a bomb going out and they went across the street firing at the entrance to parliament and police and special forces quickly arrived to move the senators and m.p.s
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and fight attackers as people looked on. taliban attacks are not lemented to limited to the capitol and northern afghanistan they control two districts just outside the preventel capitol and 40 kilometers away. thousands of taliban fighters are involved and the government has sent in more than 7,000 soldiers and police and tens of thousands have been displaced and more than two months of fighting where the spring offensive started with assaults all over afghanistan and afghanistan forces are struggle without the air power and heavy weapons and logistical support they had last year and it has seen a direct challenge to the afghan department who was scheduled to talk about the defense minister. berlin reviewing detention
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papers about ahmed mansour and protesters are back on the streets again to demand his release. and ahmed mansour is spending a third day after being detained at berlin airport on saturday and asked germany to extradite him and 20,000 people signed the petition demanding his immediate release. erdiwa erdiwan is criticizing for holding ahmed mansour and says the act was politically motivated. >> translator: european states which leave turkey alone in fighting terrorism and terrorism people behave differently by request for coup stages. >> reporter: we have this update from berlin. >> supposed to be a crunch day for ahmed mansour and the attorney general for berlin is considering the documents submitted to his office over the weekend after ahmed mansour's
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arrest at the airport and hopes and expectations indeed for a swipt conclusion appear with fate because of the complexity and international aspect the justice ministry and foreign minister now taking an interest and because of mr. ahmed mansour british citizenship the uk is also monitoring affairs and considering the documents has large amount of leeway and can throw out the case if it's without merit and it's also possible he finds the paperwork in order and simply needs more clarification and could drag on for days or weeks but the reality is if the paperwork is in order and decision is made to send mr. ahmed mansour back to egypt it could be overruled by the foreign ministry because they already said today if there is any possibility that
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mr. ahmed mansour may face the death penalty it would block the extradition. >> reporter: we will talk to a former appeals judge and he says ahmed mansour has been wrongly detained. >> he has been holy wrongly arrested torture is a false charge which is demonstrated false and they have to speak to the german government immediately and point out the legal error. he cannot be extradited. he is a european union citizen and as such he is protected by the european convention of human rights which protects his freedom of speech and protects him against wrongful arrest and that is what he suffered and ignorant hand of the german authorities. if the justice minister knows anything about international law
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quite apart from justice he will be advised immediately this is not torture and extradition warn is bogus and it's certainly invalid. >> reporter: the greek prime minister has made a last-minute offer to his international creditors and he is meeting eu leaders for a debt deal and has to come up with $1.8 billion by the end of the month or default on its debt. let's take a closer look for you of what exactly is at stake and want to impose budget with cuts and increasing taxes so the government has proposed to end early retirement from the start of 2016 and it will spend lesson sanctions and slap firms with a profit of $560,000 and with that the bank has agreed to stop helping the banks stay afloat
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and greece is fast running out of money what are the options? they could introduce capitol controls to stop people from with drawing too much cash and use those funds to repay its debtor it could print new cash but that would mean leaving the euro zone and going back to a devalued one. and i spoke to an economist at the eu and foreign policy and says they do not address some serious issues. >> the real problem with this crisis do not realize the extent to which the greek political personnel has not moved to implement serious factual adjustments which would have brought about growth and jobs so what we are essentially doing time and time again is protecting the public sector from serious adjustments and not
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removing barriers or with what do you get in the end? more austerity and worries me about the new plan and i have not heard a word on competitiveness unless greece changes economic models and the presence in the eruo zone it will not be sustainable. if no deal happens it's down the line a greek exit from the euro does take place what does that mean for greece? >> we hope it will not get to that and we hope reasonable people will prevail from both sides but this would be detrimental to the country and leading to its economic marginazation and privitazion
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and we will see high unemployment and people purchasing power and serious shortages in basic products so it's a nightmare scenario and i think that i hope that mr. cyprus is looking at it very, very carefully and trying to avoid it. to syria now where at least ten people have been killed by what activists say were barrel bomb by forces loyal to president assad. syria's government repeatedly denied using the large containers filled with explosives. syrian activists say i.s.i.l. fighters plan to land explosives at the world heritage site and captured the ancient city last month and not fear if they will use it to destroy the site or
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stop forces from trying to advance. two prison guards arrested accused of torturing inmates at a prison and built to hold 1500 but now holds more than twice that and high-profile prisoner with linked groups to syria and i you may fine some pictures here disturbing. >> reporter: these pictures of inmates being beaten in the prison have shocked many. it leaves the crowd angry. the northern tripoli supporters of the movement are protesting and say torture is common and accuse the military courts for belittling their sons and some rights groups say what was in the prison shows the level of abuse that goes on in prison ps.
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>> translator: there is a prison who lost his sight because of torture and an inmate who was forced to rape his fellow inmate. the majority of lebanese people do not know these things. >> reporter: lebanon's government says a full investigation is underway and the prime minister and six policemen involved in attacks and two has been arrested this is the biggest in the country and over crowded and some inmates charged with terrorism are in jail and there was rioting and released videos showing what happened at that time and release of video could be political to score points within lebanon political system and also highlighted the plight of cherrism and those suspected of having links to al-qaeda and say their trials are delayed because of sectarian reasons.
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120 people died in intense heat wave in the province and most in the southern port city of carachi and temperatures shored up to 45 degrees celsius and we have more from islamabad. >> the temperature this time of day is nothing unusual before the southwest monsoon hits this mra particular reason it has broken a ten-year record and led to deaths of heat stroke and putting strains on the hospitals as well as the morgues that have been receiving dozens of bodies on a daily basis. according to the pakistan metrologist department the southwest monsoon is likely to enter the country in the next few days and that would reduce the problems of karachi and also
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exacerbated by the fact the city is suffering major power outages and that of course is one of the causes for the heat stroke and the number of cases that are reported from that southern port city. still ahead here on the program we report on the thousands of people in nepal who are at risk from atlanta slides following april's massive earthquake and jordan spieth in the history books and the u.s. open. ♪
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♪ hello again, the top stories this hour on al jazeera, five people have been killed in a taliban attack outside afghanistan's parliament in kabul and another 31 people were wounded and police say the seven attackers also died. parliament was in session at the time. protesters are back on the streets in berlin to demand the release of ahmed mansour, the al jazeera journalist spent a third day in custody after being detained at saturday and egypt asked germany to extradite him. greek prime minister is meeting european leaders in brussels to try to end the debt crisis with a last-minute proposal. russia prime minister preparing to respond to eu decision to extend sanctions and eu made a
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decision over military actions in crimea and will continue until january of next year and have not stopped russian involvement in eu countries and we report from london. >> reporter: list of people subject to sanctions in the united kingdom and some are ministers involved in ukraine and crimea and east of the country and the aim is to freeze assets they may have in london and how this would effect someone like for example the education minister of the donetsk republic is hard to see. people like this corporate lawyer who had a long look at how sanctions have been enforced here says the aim was to be a warning shot against ukraine. >> president obama said it to change the calculus, to make the rationale within russia considered the economic cost will be outweighed by whatever
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benefits could be seen by either destabilizing ukraine and gaining crimea and potentially gaining to new provinces. >> reporter: this year is set to see record amounts of money invested in london and appears many extremely wealthy and well connected russians see little risk of having their efforts frozen through the program and the banking system is helpful for russians who want to move their wealth through tax shore havens. and others continue to be listed on the london stock market without any apparent threat the sort of thing that would really hurt moscow and it's clear when the government started constructing its sanctions program that really big russian money was going to be effected and designed to protect british interest in russia against retaliation and one assumes in
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the interest of the financial services industry here as well the big question is whether the right people the most important people have actually been targeted by these sanctions. the u.s. has take enina tougher line and his employer takes the view that the european line on sanctions has proven ineffective. >> we start with the herding cat problem which means there are too many voices and you add on to that the corruption problem, the corruption problem being that there are certain people in europe both in the eu parliament and governments on the payroll of russia. in resent months france and germany suggested that it may worsen with russia leaving the uk as a supposed hawk and given the way that it rushes through the city of london the program doesn't look particularly
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threatening. lawrence lee, al jazeera, london. two more people infected with the middle respiratory disease have died. thousands of people in nepal are at risk of continuous landslides after the earthquake weakened mountain sides and entire villages have been asked to move but without concrete relocation plans people are living on the edge and we went to one village in the district. >> reporter: driving to the village is not easy at the best of times. along the way small landslides and flattened villages look like wounds on the mountain side. this is a little market where the dirt road ends and four villages further up can only be reached by foot and the furthest takes five days to reach and
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they walked for days and we are the first media team to arrive four months after the quake. since the quake locals here are very nervous. on april 25 as villagers scrambled out of their houses they found the ground splitting beneath our feit. >> translator: i was afraid i was going to be buried here. >> reporter: along the village a deep crevace appeared and has been falling continuously. as you can see the mountain side has come crumbling down on this section where i'm standing used to be a level land and it too has come down and the government has instructed the villagers that this one and the ones around are way too dangerous.
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43 have to be relocated and at least 17 villages are from here and the government's survey team has not completed the final report yet. across the river villagers from higher up mountain sides have set up temporary camps. she had no time to mourn her four-year-old daughter. her village is unlivable and landslides have blocked trail and she made a journey and the ones left have gone further up the mountain where there are trees. i don't know where to go she says. we thought about building here but the landslides are continuous. besides the aftershocks, the locals say that loud bangs of falling rocks wake them up at night. residents here have the memory of 97 people being swept away when a landslide went through it
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and took their village and with continuous landslides and monsoon around the corner they now fear for their lives once again. africa for migrants say a plan by dominican republic to deport noncitizens is discriminatory and tens of thousands of haiti people were told to apply or leave the country and we have more from the haitian/dominican border. this is the friendship bridge that connects the dominican republic and haiti and will deal with defortys out here and will build a detention center here and on the other side the haiti government said it will build reception center and asking the government only to deport suspected migrants to two major points of entry and one further south of the capitol
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santigomingo and no deportations by the government and would create havoc on the country since it relies on the workforce that the decendents and 200,000 people at risk of deportation of people unable to file paperwork by the wednesday deadline and see cases of deportation but not at the scale that is possible at this time. canadian city of winnipeg are trying to combat what they think is the worst mosquito problem in america and it wages a war with the bugs every year spraying them with pesticides and they are trying to control the pests by changing their genes and we explain. >> reporter: win pig capitol of the mosquito haven. >> we are building a screened in
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gazebo. >> it's an awesome city but the mosquitos did drive us out. >> reporter: and clay soil that traps standing water on the surface they call in the north american capitol of that buzzing, bothersome pests. >> there will be just times i'll be covered. >> reporter: it's not just a nuisance, the mosquito is the most deadliest and killing them infecting them with malaria and another 25,000 with dengae fever and they make a science of killing them and have cars and trucks and 160 control workers and a bug chief. >> i'm really encouraging residents to please help fight the bite. >> reporter: he has press conferences that make front page headlines. >> the first priority is larvae
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and if we are unsuccessful we spray with an insecticide where they land on it and they will die shortly there after. >> reporter: if it doesn't work they spray a controversial compound but the world health organization says that probably causes cancer so while they disagree they are working for new ways to banish the bug and they call this summer and the airforce and they call in the preventel bird. >> they have a necessary evil which we injury and cope with. >> reporter: steve occasionally terminates pests the old-fashioned way but he has made his life's work targeting them with bio technology and blocking the gene allowing males to reproduce so when they mate they are sterile. is this the most promising technology out there? >> i do and it's focused at
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controlling the pest and not effecting all the nontarget species and it's a bio method and doesn't use the chemicals we are worried about to effect other spee spees species and he might write the next chapter on the man versus bug. jordan spieth cemented himself as golf's newest super star after the second major and won the u.s. open at chambers bay by a stroke and the youngest to win. 2-2 in government majors this year and all of the age of just 21 historic moment for jordan spieth but one that was never assured and he started in a four-way tie and faced an early challenge by mcilroy and had a
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72 foot putt to highlight. jason day battled vertigo throughout the tournament leading to a dramatic collapse on friday and he couldn't retain his share of the organized lead he completed the final round and he is five shots off the pace. laying down his challenge was south africa who produced arguably the shot of the round and six birdies in last seven holes gave him the clubhouse lead. in the end it came down to a jewel by spieths and dustin johnson and the birdie put on the 16th hole put spieths in the out right lead. [cheers] a double bogie on the 17th and
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missed eagle putt on the final hole and he started five under but with this johnson would force a playoff. a fatal miss has golf's new u.s. super star and the youngest u.s. open winner since 1923 and the first since tiger woods to win the first two majors in a year. >> every single thing i'm able to do somebody seems to find a history lesson on why i was the youngest to do something or as young as somebody way back when and for me it's my life and i have been doing it a while and do not think of my age and think of us all as peers. >> reporter: chapter three could take place with the open championship at st. andrews next
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month still a week before spieth's 22nd birthday. u.n. has just released a report detailing its finding after the inquiring of the 2014 gaza conflict. the commission says israelis and palestinians need to demonstrate political leadership to prevent in fighting hatred and a culture of violence and must review policies governing military operations specifically the use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas and not targeting civilians and must end all rocket attack on civilians in israel and wants israel and gaza to cooperate with investigations by the international criminal court. let's go live now.