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♪ eu leaders agree to relocate thousands of migrants who arrived in italy and greece but hitly says it doesn't solve the problem. ♪ hello and welcome i'm nick clark and you are watching al jazeera live from headquarters in doha and coming up in the program ramping up the pressure euro zone give greece a ultimatium and they may leave the euro. criminal investigation with an
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inquiry into the marikana. volcano erupts again and thousands have been evacuated. ♪ so european leaders agreed to relocate record numbers of migrants who arrived on european shores in the last months and thousands who came to italy and greece will be sent to other countries and a meeting in brussels went late in the night and the quota was rejected and aimed at speeding up the relocation of migrants in italy and greece and are the first destinations for people making the journey across the mediterranean and the plan will be carried out in the next few years and thousands of migrants who fled from the countries to go to italy and greece will be relocated to other european states.
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20,000 people mostly syrians and iraqis living in camps outside of europe will now be resettled within its borders but these numbers pale in comparison to 153,000 migrants who already landed in europe this year, that is an increase of 149% when compared to the same period last year when just 61,500 migrants have entered europe and president spoke after an agreement had been reached. >> translator: the fact we took hours to agree about the system to be set up obviously shows that europe is not living up to the values it promotes in each and every occasion when it speaks abroad. >> reporter: italy prime minister was scathing about proposals he was quoted by sources from saying if that is your idea of europe you can keep it either give us solidarity or
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don't waste our time. however after the meeting he was a little more diplomatic. >> translator: we reached an agreement which is based on the initial proposal from tusk and it is the first to save european policy rather than one policy of one state. >> we go live to brussels and could have been more ambitious and talked about 40,000 people but the problem is way bigger than that to say the least. >> frankly it could be less ambitious given the size of the problem and in the numbers game which is how europe sees it there are 28 countries in the european union and if you split them equally between the 28 countries that would total 1428 refugees by country and smaller european countries have four or five million people and not like you notice them that much or
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have been some enormous drain but it's really about a question to do with moral responsibility and increasingly what you see is a large number of european countries which don't feel they have any moral responsibility to address this and human rights groups and aid organizations say over and over again for all these countries this was an idea of looking after refugees and people fleeing persecution is increasingly being blurred with economic migration and people simply wanting a better quality of life. so what you get instead of a conversation about moral responsibility is a shifting of the entire dynamic to one which says we need to find better ways of keeping people out and border of hungry and serbia they are building a fence to keep people out and between bulgaria and turkey, in the mediterranean the uk for instance which had hms bull walk there for a little bit
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that rescued 3,000 people very quietly with no fanfare, that now has been replaced by a different ship called hsmsn surprise and each is a patrolling one and part of a search and destroy mission for smuggler's boats and the whole dynamics has to do with stopping people from getting in rather thaen looking after them. >> we will stop it there and thanks for reporting. the greek finance minister says he will not accept any solutions of the country's debt crisis he considers unvialable but insist a deal must be reached this weekend or greece could face an exit from the euro. if greece cannot reach agreement with international lenders athens will not be able to make a $1.5 euro payment to its creditors. and they want greece to bring in more spending cuts and tax riders for the latest loan payment. >> translator: we agreed that
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there is a need for further work with the three institutionss, the meeting on saturday with the euro group and greece is of decisive importance and bearing in mind time is very short and everyone in the european council agrees a solution must be found on saturday. >> so i think that european is full of disagreement and negotiations and compromises so after the comprehensive proposals i'm confident that we will reach a compromise that will help euro zone and greece to overcome the price. >> reporter: the head of trading at a london-based brokerage firm and says greece is unlikely to exit the euro zone. >> i think if a deal a not reached we will get a technical default and don't think greece will leave the euro over the weekend but there is a possibility it's in exist but i
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don't think that will happen and i think we will see a possibility of a technical default and missed their repayment of $1.5 billion back to imf, imf declared a default in bond and issues there but i don't think we will see ap cataclysmic effect next week just more the same and more delay and more talking and the negotiations has been a joke between both sets of parties and should have been dealt with some time ago and coming down to the wire because no one wants to blink but if i think you step back this would be a lesson on how not to negotiate an international bail out and how there could have been a more sensible and timely approach to this. so i think this will probably we will probably get a deal on saturday of some kind and it may require the intervention of the euro zone leaders but merkel says it should come down to finance ministers but it's not a
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long-term deal and talking about this in two week time again. >> we shall see. a hospital in yemen and southern thai has been hit by houthi forces and nearby mosque has been damaged and fighting between the groups and hadi are backed by air strikes of saudi-led coalition. injured in shelling in the port city of aiden and u.n. urging the warring fractions with peace talks saying 21 million people need humanitarian aid and the country is close to an famin. thousands trying to three to saudi arabia after forces loyal to hadi took over a border crossing and houthis and alleys control the other side and half a million people have been displaced since the saudi-led air strikes began in march.
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>> translator: we are working around the clock to ease off the pressure and over crowding thankfully it's getting better and people are showing up without any documentation and now the crossing is functioning better for people going both ways. south african commission recommends an investigation be opened into police over the deaths of 34 striking minors three years ago and officers always claimed they were acting in self-defense when they opened fire on the miners but they say video evidence shows police heavy handedness and we have more. >> reporter: a horrendous tragedy that has no place in a democracy. those are the words of south african president jacob zuma describing the deaths of 34 striking miners at americana almost three years ago and taken that long to determine who is responsible for deaths and zuma
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set the blame on police who opened fire on workers and says there was complete lack of command and control by police. >> the commission found that the police operation should not have taken place on the 16th of august because of the defects in the plan. the commission has found that it would have been impossible to disarm and disburse the strikers without significant blood shed on the afternoon of the 16th of august august. the commission also wants the country's police chief investigated to determine if she is fit to hold office. one of the miners injured that day says he is lucky to be alive
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and he was shot eight times and says the investigation is not enough enough. >> translator: what is important is that when you have wronged someone else if you are taken alive and if you cannot buy life ask for forgiveness and the sad thing is they do not want to ask for forgiveness and making our life miserable. >> killed at amer iana and lives and works at the mine and the constant reminders how her husband was killed have been unbearable. >> translator: this is affecting our minds because we know that as police we cause problems. when we look at the videos it is clear that it is them who killed people. >> reporter: but mine bosses and unions have not escaped criticism and continues to be concern around workers living conditions and the role unions played in provoking unrest. now the report is finally out. the families of those killed are
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preparing to make civil claims but now it will never bring their loved ones back. al jazeera. rwanda intelligence chief released on bail after court and arrested by british police acting on a european warrant and wanted in spain with connection with war crimes after rwanda's 1994 genocide. news coming into us now from france and getting reports that man has been found decapitated at a company near the city according to the reuters news agency, a french local newspaper and reporting a loud explosion has been heard in the area and hearing the interior minister is heading to the scene, we will bring you more on this as we get it. still ahead on the program the only lifeline out of and bar and
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iraqis tree to flee i.s.i.l. stronghold plus. outside a hospital in honduras how corruption is costing lives and millions of dollars. ♪ >> bold... >> he took two m-16's, and he crawled... >> brave... >> ...do what you gotta do... >> then betrayed... >> why do you think you didn't get the medal of honor? >> a lifetime without the honor they deserved... >> some say that it was discrimination... >> revealing the long painful fight, to recognize some of america's bravest... >> he say.. be cool...be cool... >> ...proudest moment in my life.. >> honor delayed
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♪ welcome back the top stories on al jazeera european leaders agreed to relocate record number of migrants crossing mediterranean and grease and will be sent to other countries and the quota for the eu has been rejected, greek finance
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minister will not accept deal on debt crisis he considers to be not viable and says a deal must be reached this weekend or greece could exit the euro zone. hit with shell fire and homes and a nearby mosque damaged. alliance of 51 rebel groups in syria try to push troops out of the city and the syrian government has been dropping barrel bombs in the area. control of it is split between government troops and rebels. dozens of people have reportedly been killed in the fighting. syrian activists say nearly 150 civilians have been killed by assault by i.s.i.l. fighters in the northern city of kobani and came six months after they were driven out by forces and attacked government held areas, the largest city in northeast syria. the number of people displaced
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by i.s.i.l. in iraq topped three million and counter offensive in and bar is pushing more people from their homes and with i.s.i.l. controlling almost all of iraq province there are few options for those wanting to leave and we are on bridge on the outskirts of baghdad has has become almost the only way out of and anbar. >> reporter: those who cross the bridge a painful journey, on one side is i.s.i.l.'s biggest stronghold in iraq. on the other side are the outskirts of baghdad and they left fallujah three months ago for the countryside and now they are heading further to the kurdish region. >> translator: they were ready to attack from if first day of ramadan and aiming missiles at
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fallujah and everyone is leaving. >> reporter: no doctors in fallujah and no government resources and the decision to leave is almost as difficult. iraqi security leaders worry that i.s.i.l. fighters will infiltrate baghdad, just ten kilometers from here. to get to baghdad those escaping anbar need someone in the capitol to vouch for them and controls 80% of anbar including almost all of the border corrosioning and almost all highways and this small bridge has become a lifeline between anbar and the rest of the country and the only way out for many families trying to escape the expected fighting. for security reasons cars and trucks are not allowed to cross the bridge without special permission. this crossing on the river is the only route left to eastern anbar, everything comes across
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by cart. and he had to leave his cart behind but lost so much more than that. their tent collapsed two months ago killing his young daughter. >> translator: a stone came up at 10:30 at night and we felt the bars of the tent falling down on us and there were six of us and four of us survived and one died and another one had a broke end spine and broken hip. >> reporter: some say it's easier to settle in kurdish region than baghdad and some will try their lick in turkey or other countries and also traffic going back to anbar including some returning for the final time. a year ago few people set foot on this bridge now tens of thousands of iraqis walked across it. each step taking them further and further from their homes. jane at the bridge in iraq. students protesting educational reform have fought
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with police in chile santiago and transparency and wider reforms than the government says and it was peaceful but became violent after students went off the route. antiprospecters later in friday over corruption in the healthcare system and officials accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars crippling the health service and adam reports now. >> reporter: died two years ago and doctors say it was lung cancer but her daughter says there was no conclusive test and her mother under went chemotherapy treatment and died after a few sessions. >> translator: it's medical negligence and malpractice on the part of social security. >> reporter: blames the social security system for her mother's death. the same system that is at the center of a corruption scandal here. officials allegedly inflated costs, cut deals with vendors
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and made off with some $300 million leaving the system short of medicines and services. at least 11 women are reports to have died after taking faulty drugs. this is the hospital where her mother died and one out of every eight honduras people relies on social security for healthcare and in this hospital people are struggling just to get the basic care they need. inside long lines and only a little medicine. patience is wearing thin. >> translator: we come from far away to get medicine and when we get here they don't have any, it's like they think we don't have anything better to do with our time. >> translator: constantly having to buy own medicines and they gave me this prescription for my son and they do not have it. >> reporter: lawyer viktor is pressuring the government for more information on cases.
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>> translator: to assure this is not just isolates to the social security system it's a criminal structure and also drained funds from other government institutions. >> reporter: the scandal has reached all the way to the highest levels of government. earlier this month thousands of protesters called on the president to resign after he admitted his campaign took donations from companies tied to corruption allegations. the vice president of the country congress has been charged with fraud too. the army has taken over public hospitals while investigators build their case. both antiand pro-government protesters are planning mashes for friday. marches in a country marked by a 2009 coup are standing a stand and often lead to violence honduras. nepal they marched against parents to be nepal for children
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to be granted citizenship and forcing 4 million to become stateless and we have this report. >> reporter: should nepal mothers be able to pass on citizenship to their children? well, these activists here say, yes. but the constitutional deal made by the major parties says no which means as many as four million nepal and four million people residing in nepal could end up being stateless. citizenship document is needed for everything in nepal from opening a bank account to get a job and citizenship have nepal being able to pass on document to their children and there was hope the constitution would be more progressive and politicians have promised that either parent could pass their citizenship to their children. the clause that has been passed is not either parent has to be a
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citizen and this group has been fighting for citizenship for their daughters for a very long time. what is the new constitution doing in terms of getting this done? >> the new constitution has clearly said that the father and mother must be nepal to acquire citizenship any more. so for people like us with my daughters, myself, i'm not associated and i do not want to associate my name with any other person because now for my children to be considered as a human being and practice human rights, the simplist of human rights needs to produce citizenship and to produce citizenship she has to produce her ghost father who is not there anymore. >> reporter: citizenship and
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chaos of the earthquake to make this deal and hoping people would not notice that and many of the other agreed it has been overturned and for now the supreme court has an interim one but activist worry that at this time it will be institutionalized, al jazeera. bangladesh in an ethnic minority known as baharis living in refugee camp since it was independent in 1971. in 2008 some were granted bangladesh citizenship but little changed for them and struggling to obtain basic documents like identification cards and we have this report. >> reporter: at the top of mohamed's bucket list is a trip to india. and while thousands of muslims make the pilgramage there he cannot. his application for a passport has been rejected three times
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and because he is a member of the ethnic minority group he is worried he will not be getting one any time soon. >> translator: when we apply they tell us because we are not bengoli and live here in the camp we cannot get a passport. >> reporter: it came to what was then east pakistan from central and eastern india after partition in 1947. but since bangladesh became independent from pakistan the groups have been viewed with suspicion and labeled as anti-independence. it's about more than passports. discrimination in most aspects of life. they are denied government jobs and are barely represented in the police force and the army. about 300,000 baharis live in 116 crowded refugee camps and this one geneva camp in taka is the largest with 28,000 refugees
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and live in squaller conditions. >> translator: the camp is basically a slum and the population is increasing the space is not. young people are not getting married these days because where would they move to raise their new family. >> reporter: this is another long time resident of geneva camp except he does have a passport but getting it wasn't easy three of his friends had their passport applications rejected so he had an idea he somehow managed to rent a room outside a camp for a few months and promptly received his passport passport. >> translator: one of the special branch offices himself actually suggested i use a different address but why should i have had to do that this address is my actual home if i die abroad this is where i should send my body. >> reporter: the special branch officer-in-charge of passport approval declined to be
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interviewed by the story and they are indeed eligible for the documents. but for people like mohamed who are still waiting to be treated as equals it's actions, not words that count. al jazeera, taka. a flood emergency has been declared in the russian resort of sochi and drenched with ecclenlt of two months rain in one day and rivers burst banks and wrecking homes and carrying cars away. more than 10,000 villages have been forced from homes near a volcano in indonesia and asing from mount sinaburg has fall end 100 kilometers as we report now. >> reporter: the army has come to some of the villages just outside the danger zone to hand people living here masks and these masks are supposed to protect them from the air which is quite thick with ash here it's quite hard to breathe and you see it if you look down some
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of the areas here, this is usually lush and green and everything has turned a sandy, dull color. as we were interviewing a military commander something seems to happen. it was quite an intimidating sight. and so we decided we would leave the area. a big eruption of the volcano and talking to people in the village up the road and driving to get away from it and it's incredibly scary seeing the cloud coming towards you and moves fast and highlights the power of mother nature and makes you realize there is nothing you can do and try to get out of its way as fast as you can. over 10,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. no one knows when mount sinaburg
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