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♪ ♪ ♪ fighting back, suicide bombers attack the syrian city, close to the border with turkey. >> hello, there. this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up, south africa's president released a report into the police shooting of 34 striking miners. edgingrd twos the abyss, european leaders fail to agree on a deal on greece's debt, plus. >> in the occupied west bank, as palestinian officials submit their first complaints to the international criminal
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court, we look at the key issues. hello there has launched a counter attack on two fronts. where the group suffered recent defeat. fighters entered the order town for the first time since they were driven out in january by the kurdish ypg the syrian observatory says 35 people were killed. they have been gaining ground in the area in recent weeks taking and cutting off the main rout from turkey to the capitol. in a separate attack further east, isle sill has driven forces out of the district of the city, which is partly government held and partly under kurdish control. osama reports.
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others are again being brought against the border for medical care in turkey. suicide bombers hit forces in the town, they struggled to fight off fighter whose disguise themselves in uniforms in the people's protection units. fighters have been fighting for control since last year. isil also launch add simultaneous attack under the control of the syrian government. >> there have been clashes between the military against islamic states in our district ands home to many who came this comes as the state terrorists enter turkey. >> turkey's government denied fighters crossed the border and say isil fighters entered
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from the western side of the town. cames that the group crossed in from turkey are just lies. we strongly deny that, it is just not true. isil has had serious set wacs. fighters have taken control. the capitol of isil's. they have lost supply lines on the border as well as influence. >> isil as a result needs to show that it still has incompliance, and that's why it is on the offensive again also, we have the regime itself retreating from some areas because of the overstretched and this is giving isil a big opportunity to advance, and finally we have the anniversary coming up on monday, and isil also needs to show that it is still very influential and powerful on the ground. >> they are again caught up in the fighting including syrian families displaced.
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the families have also been forced to leave their homes. around 8 million have been displaced inside syria and there seems to be no end in sight to the fighting. as for the various groups who say that isil has been pushed becoming a flash point again is a cause for concern. by south africa has been handed down, the president is talking about it now. we will hear what he has to say in a minute, 34 minors were shot debt, in august of went 12, today's report is the result of a three year long inquiry shows us the scars oif injuries he suffered when she was shot eight times and beaten during one of the most violent protests.
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>> what is important and that when you have wronged someone, especially if you have taken a life, even though one cannot buy life, you need to confess and ask for forgiddiness. they are still making their life miserable. >> set off commission to investigate what happened before and during the killings. months after the conclusion of the commission of inquiry into who is responsible, for the death of the miners their families are still waiting for answers. continuer to struggle, now a migrant worker husband was killed. she is not hopeful the report will bring closure. >> we don't know they kill
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people are part of the government, so we don't know what it will say. this is effecting our mines because we know that it is police that caused these problems. when we look at the videos it is clear that it is them who killed people. this was not just any over process, where people are being stooped for purchasing or whatever. but people are actually targeted and massacred. there is no sense of self-defense, which the police allege that they are under. >> meanwhile, they continue to work and live at the mine to pay. she says it has been unbearable being apart from her children, with constant reminders of how her husband lost his life.
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algae. >> until then, let's just listen in for a moment to jacob. it also did not respond appropriately to the threats of and the outbreak of violence. also failed to employ sufficient safeguards and measures to ensure the safety of its employees. and employees that are not striking should come to work, despite the fact that it knew that it was not in a position to protect them. from attacks by strikers.
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the commission also. >> our con respondent joins us now from doha. we heard jacob just there he seems to be concentrating on long mapp, what is it that people are expecting from this report? i am guessing quite high expectations? >> well, as we saw there earlier in that package after having spoken to a miner who was injured in that -- in the strikes in 2012, as well as the wife of one of the decreased the people there involved in that strike they do want blame to be layed at someone's feet, whether it is the government or the police. most of them are putting the plame at the feet of the police ultimately what they are looking at, they want to
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lay civil claims against the government, or the police depending on what the president says this evening. so far, he has spoken about the responsibility of the mining company. saying they didn't put sufficient measures in place to ensure miners were kept safe during that strike action, and often during the strike action, you do have workers who aren't striking, they are often vulnerable in situations like this and of course ultimately we also had the strike action in the week leading to those deaths there are also ten others killed beside the city. so this report looks at all of those steps. does hold the deputy president responsible as he was -- he was a board member as well as the deputy president so of course his influence as to what he had
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police do. also, so parroters indicate that the commissioner she may be held accountability will be waiting to ski what the president says and if any jobs would be lost at this point. >> . >> he shows me how it prevents him from asks ising his property but says he hasn't lost hope of regaining his land one day. >> we had this land from our grandparents and we want to
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cultivate it. i want a solution that will put an end to the israelis occupying. >> they make off key component to the commission of the criminal court. dozens have been built across the territory and are now home to more than 600,000 the key argument in the complaint against the settlement is based on article eight section two of the i.c.c. statute. which states that the transfer of a population into territories that it occupies is illegal. >> the file is broken down into three main categories of complaints. the first is deals with these illegal settlement which is you can see here. steal is seriously accused --
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of the strip and more than 2,200 palestinians mostly civilians. a u.n. report published this week. into the allegation as process that will no doubt be
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long and complicated. only individuals can be indicted by the court not state. which means prosecutors will also have to determine which israeli military government officials can be prosecuted for war crimes, or not. al jazeera in the south hills. at the international criminal scouter, everyone welcome to the program, thank you for being with us, how much evidence is needed in something like this? i know there are literally legions of evidence, but that's what needs to be put in front of the i.c.c. are you hopeful they will get a result? they only need a reasonable bases so she doesn't have to prove the case. from the united nations, from various reports that have been prepared over the years from ngos and on the basis of
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that an investigation should be open, i would hope, very quickly. >> now the israeli say that they don't consider palestine to be a state, how much of a stumbling block is that? well, the prosecutor has found she had jurisdiction to look at this case that's why she has opened a almost examination, of course that will p a matter that's looked at further, but the key finding that has been made is by the u.n. itself, so it is not likely to be a stumbling politic, although it could be raised by israel with those who support israel. but steal hasn't at this stage indicating that it is even going to cooperate so it is not likely to prevent things moving forward swiftly. >> now the u.n. reports accused both sides of war crimes does have that any significant impact on what can happen, do you think. >> it can be evidence as a
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starting point, it is very timely that it has come out now, be uh the problem for so long has been that nothing has been done. with the recommendations of these reports. that would be a deterrent if people knew they were being scrutinized but the ultimate goal must be for charges to be layed. they have waited too long, and it is imperative there are no more delays and that
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charges are delayed and we have actual trials in the future of people who have perpetrated the most horrendous war crimes. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> still to come here. thousands of homes on the island have been evacuated as the mount volcano continues to erupt. >> plus, anger on the streets of paris, a french cabdriver show their frustration over uber taxis.
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killing 35 people, the group was driven out in january by kurdish fighters. in the last few minutes south africa's president has release add long awaited report into 33 striking miners. during a news conference, the commission blamed the mining company longman for two unions and the miners for failing to respond to the threat of violence. they are also hoping to bring war crime charges against israeli officials. now, a solution to the degree debt crisis seems no closer with the meteorology if euro zone finance ministers. germany's chanlor says there's been no further progress on talks to finalize a deal and time is now
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running out, lawrence lee reports. crunch time, came once again to meet the creditors to whom his country owes so much money. making people work until they are older but all intents and purposes they could not break them down, and so they all left with no deal done. it seems many degrees before admiring the will of their lead tore stand up to constitutions they regard as having impoverished them. i think he must not back down, when people have been suffered, the prime minister who got elected must not back down it is unfair he voled drop it and walk away what do they want from us? they should leave the euro
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and let god help us. >> one step back, and you fall in the river. >> but in brussells the finance ministers were left to work out how they could find a way of creating a bridge between the rock and the hard place. in the end they couldn't do it, once again they ended without agreement pushing the talks back. >> well, we have been working for two days two nights nonstop, we were given a proposal by the greek parties at the last hour and we need to do more work to exam the proposal to see how kit be reconciled. the door is still open. except what is on the table. but i am going to inform the governor leaders first. >> the prime minister turned up again talking about compromise. in truth, many in his party feel they are being set up to fail.
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by the creditors. facing the euro zone in order to trigger a fresh election, in agrees, and that could report a new governor there. >> half of the households in freese rely on income from pensions just to get by, barnabie phillips spoke to people struggling to survive. >> when we ask about
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negotiations the replies are weary, and even defiant. >> it doesn't matter to us. the euro, it makes no difference. we won't have much. >> you will see people rifling to pick up whatever food we throw out. >> no signs of panic outside the bank. but their pal lance sheet are looking increasingly alarming. >> degree banks are in a critical condition nervous depositors have taken out billions and the banks are relying on support from the european central bank. of course, the debt crisis has dragged on for five long years but it is the condition of the banks which now makes
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the need for a solution, so urgent. just a trickle of people. mind you the cynics say the clever investors took their money out long ago. and then there are the degrees that have no savings anyway. maria is a widow. her daughter is unemployed. so so her husband and their two grown up children, so the entire family lives off maria's pension. half of all greek households rely on pensions to make ends meet. if it wasn't for my mother, i wouldn't be alive right now i would have put an end to it, so i am not a burden, do these people care about me, do they come to my house to see what i am going through i don't want to beg, i have never done that, i have dignity.
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brooks do have dignity but litter else to negotiate with u.n. envoy is warning the country is close to famine 21 million people are now in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. and their allies frequent air strikes are targets further indanger civilian lives. now the u.s. supreme has upheld tax subsidies crucial to health retomorrows. cheers erupted for the a.c.a. or the affordable care act outside the court as the announcement was made it is a big victory for the president that obama care can now proceed, it is the second time in three years that the court has ruled against major challenges to the healthcare act. >> the affordable care act is
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here to stay this morning the court upheld a critical part of this law. >> if the partisan challenge to this law had succeeded millions of americaning would have had thousands of dollars worth of tax credits taken from them. for many insurance would have been unaffordable again many would be uninsured again everyone's premiums could have gone up. america would have upon backwards and that's not what we do, that's not what america does we move forward. >> he says he was threatened after denouncing the president for a third term in office, at least 77 people have been killed in the two months of violence protests sparked by the announcement
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which his opponent says is unconstitutional cars have been overturns in the streets of paris, as they protest against transport system. french cab byes claim the old prices are undercutting their business. lee reports now from paris. >> the streets of paris are significantly quieter the metro noticeably busier because of this, a major strike by the city official taxi driver whose have come out in force politicking what is normally a very busy intersection, in the heart of the city, they are angry with preorder prepay taxi companies line uber they feel are taking their jobs and not paying their taxis what we have seen here, are running battles between the police, and taxi drivers certain cars that are been parked around here bore the punt of their anger. there have been suspicious these vehicles have been
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preorder taxis and many have. upturned and some of they have smashed. uber ha no business here, in france we have regulations right up to here. police are here on stand by, there are some concerns. what we are seeing when french ferry workers held a strike there, they were deeply worried about job cuts.
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>> you won't see it if you look down some of the areas here, which is usually beautiful lush green everything is turned, and very sandy dull color. >> it is incredible my scary when you see this come towards you, really does highlight the power of mother nature. and it makes you realize
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there is nothing you can do. >> over 10,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. no one knows when the mountain will go back to sleep. >> you can find out much more on our website aljazeera.com. >> this is al jazeera america, live from new york city.