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closures no. monday as alexis tsipras proposes to make work outare agreements to brussels. according to the united nations, the largest refugee creasesrefugeecries in 25 years ago. lebanon has nearly 1.2 million. more than 600,000 in jordan. egypt is hosting more than 130,000 syrian refugees. in addition at least 7.5 million people are displaced inside syria. from these last three refugee camps in jordan.
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>> 4 million and counting. didn't think the conflict in syria would last this long or force this many people out of their country. one of the camps oldest residents says two and a half years later he's finally adjusted to life as a refugee but had this reaction when we told him the number of refugees in the region had reached 4 million. >> translator: this is a disaster. it means the entire population will eventually be displaced. this makes me feel our conflict will drag on for years and a return to syria soon is impossible. junior from the camp's newest arrivals, survive on his own in the jordanian border town, but he returned to the camp two months ago. >> i left the camp because my children couldn't survive the scorching heat in a tent. i had to pay for rent and it was
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so expensive so i was forced to return here. >> when they are asked what they want many of the refugees say they want an end to the carnage in syria. the worst humanitarian disaster in recent history almost half of all the people in syria have been displaced including 4 million who have been forced to leave for neighboring countries like jordan. and according to aid agencies there are no sign when these refugees will be able to return home. the international community has been generous but the scale has been so big that donors think of how funding can be sustained as the crisis continues. >> there are already agencies having to cut back on sninls. it's pushing them back to the camps which are funded entirely by the international community or pushing them even to return
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to syria. when you have families telling you, i'm going to go back because i can't make a living here, you know how desperate they are. >> around 80% of syrian refugees are living below the poverty line. another 70% are sending tear children out to beg or are engaging in degrading or difficult work. >> after government forces dropped barrel bombs on the city of aleppo, the strikes hit a residential areas. the government has been divided between rebel and government fighters since 2012. an iraqi court has sentenced 24 people to death over the murder of mainly shia soldiers
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last year. i.s.i.l. killed more than 1700 soldiers many were killed were fleeing from camp spiker. didn't say whether the group was connected to i.s.i.l. series of conditions that are unacceptable to houthi rebels, they want the houthis to withdraw from areas where there's been heavy fighting including ta'izz and aden. asian stock markets have had a jittery launch, since mid june chinese share prices have had a melt down losing a third of their value. china has banned large shareholders from selling their stock. china has also pumped billions into the market to help the
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market. now up by 1.3%. japan is's nick is'sappjapan's nikkei is up 7%. lot of individual investors like pensioners have the most to lose. >> this is not a story just of the stock market drob. really you need to think about two things. one is winners and losers as the stock market has risen and fallen part way back.in terms of the winners and losers it's been an abrupt drop, between the shangshanghai and schengen stock
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market. the real economy story the people need to be concerned about is the individual investors usually in china not very sophisticated investors and a lot of pensioners who got in late. they're people who joined in march, april and may as the move up in the stock markets became evident. they saw the move and wanted to join in. china does not have a strong pension system so this is a vulnerable group and it's also a very important consumption group that a lot of businesses strategy group really depend as their customers. >> joel, what is this slide the slump all about? is it about concerns over the chinese economy the china securities regulatory commission spokesperson says this is an irrational selloff and now the
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chinese chinhua agency says this is a potentially malicious shift. >> we look across economies to see where the fundamentals lie. the stock markets are pretty overvalued in relation to any benchmark. it's fear the 2010 levels that had a significant selloff. the thing that is notable in china is these are small and medium sized companies that are fueling this. shenjen, entrepreneurs were getting a lot of capital but they've often overborrowed on the basis of their share prices in order to fuel further investment and if they can't pay that back now that their stock has devalued there could be a crash in the viability of those
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small companies and that could be bad for business. may be good for some of the big established players who trade in hong kong and still actually are quite healthy and not partaking in most of this but it's going to be a big shakeup. >> there's one issue that added to the market instability on wednesday. trading on the new york stock exchange was stopped for several hours in what was described as technical difficulties. internal not the result of any cyber-breach. banks in greece won't reopen until at least next week. the closures have been extended while the government attempts to negotiate a new bailout deal from its creditors. alexis tsipras says he plans to submit credible budget plans in the coming hours. >> translator: these are crucial times and it's necessary to provide proper information to the political parties so there are no misunderstandings. further to this i think we're proceeding with what was the
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framework of awhat what was agreed yesterday and the timing is crucial. >> decision in south carolina follows the racially motivated murder of nine people. confederate battle flag which is a imol of the slave holding south during the civil war is seen by many as a racism symbol. the flag could come down within days. pope francis made a four hour stop in the capital of bolivia la paz, where he met with the president and thousands of followers. jesuit priest was murdered in the 1980s. luis espinal fought for the rights of miners. many miners don't feel the
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catholic church don't support them this the same way the report does contain some graphic ings. >> reporter: bolivia is a predominantly catholic country. yet rituals are widely practiced in thein the silver mines. >> tio protects us in the mines and helps us find the silver vein. >> catholic support outside the mines is not as strong as before. >> translator: it would be good if the priests would support us so we can get a bigger percentage of our earnings for our work. right now most of what we extract goes to the government. >> reporter: during the '60s and '70s a wave of socially active police redefined the
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church's role in bolivia. on his trip to bolivia pope francis will be visiting the site where espinal was brutally murdered in 1980. conditions have improved little since espinal's time. the city, once the wealthiest of the area, is on verge of collapse. this would leave thousands of people here without a job. miners here feel that a church that was once very involved in helping them fight for their rights have become increasingly distance. many hope that the pope's visit will somehow bring back the type of enjoyment they had in the past. yet for many here the biggest concern is the large scale of environmental damage caused by mining. for them it is as much social as environmental crisis.
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>> as long as economic interests determine what happens here in the mining industry we'll never take measures or seek responsibility for the death of serro rico. >> pope francis's encyclical has indicated that the world is looking like a pile of filth. the church seems to be uniquely poised to exercise croaz. control. vehenia lopez, al jazeera bolivia. still ahead fishermen are high and dry. and nigerians look to milk the most out of their cows.
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start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. >> it's good to have you i'm elizabeth puranam in doha. the u.n. says the number of syrian refugees exceeds 4 million. making it the biggest refugee crisis for over five years. and 7.5 million are displaced inside syria. shanghai's stock market has opened for the first time since emergency measures. lost a third of its value since mid june. legislators in south carolina have agreed to remove
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the be confederate flag from the capital building. and tbarchtion had greece will not reopen until -- and banks in grease will not reopen until at least next week. the closures are being extended while the government has agreed to renegotiate a new deal. prime minister alexis tsipras says he plans to submit credible budget plans in the last few hours. south sudan riek machar has asked the international community to withdraw its support of the government. accusing them of undermining the peace project.
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correspondent catherine soy has the story. >> ongoing battle between their fighters and government troops in part of the country. generals and other influential individuals from both sides of the conflict have often been accused of being hard liners and hampering negotiations brokered by the intergovernmental government but have yet to achieve any peace. >> we who is the he, is he salva kiir or riek machar? somebody kill somebody, somebody run away? >> you don't consider yourself hard liners or spoilers of the peace process as a general on the ground? >> yes, because i don't even know the reason i was just in juba myself. >> they all say they want peace but fighting is still going on despite a ceasefire.
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according to the u.n many peel have been killed, homes burned, women raped tens of thousands of people displaced in unity state. rebels are also on offensive in the openal state. both sides blame each other for starting the fight. >> translator: we are not the ones in the rejecting peace. let me ask you if i kill two of your children how do you start peace? the only thing that can stop war in south sudan is salva kiir's removal from the helm. >> what followed after was an attempt to ethnically cleanse the tribe second largest in the country. peace talks expected to resume there will be a new proposal on a transitional government, they say they will not accept
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anything less than separate armed forces for at least three years. this general says 18 months is not enough to heal wounds and build trust. >> to organize, to come together national army of south sudan that one will not be enough. and it will force people to fight again. >> reporter: these men are all important advisors to their leader riek machar. won't accept a deal that doesn't properly address the root cause of the conflict. catherine soy lks lks al jazeera upper nile state. >> baltimore's mayor says she will replace the police
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commissioner after riots surrounding the death of freddy gray be commissioner let the be riots spin into looting. during a march to demand fair elections in nicaragua barrels were pushed against protesters, the current rules favor the ruling party. next year's election will guarantee president samelle ortega a third term in office. 8,000 men and boys in bosnia was a genocide, but united nations security council would
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not agree. glue be u.k. sponsored resolution calling the 1995 killing of thousands of muslims an act of genocide was rejected by russia using the veto granted to permanent members of the council. >> the draft submitby the united kingdom turned out to be unconstructive confrontational and politically motivated. the blame for the past is placed basically on one people, you single out one responsible party for a war crime is not legitimate and can result in a more heavy subdivide among bosnian community. >> 20 years ago u.s. ambassador samantha power was working as a journalist.
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her guardianship of the serbs was clear. >> why would russia vote to deny recognition of the srebrenica genocide? today's vote mattered. it mattered hugely to the families of the victims of the srebrenica genocide. russia's veto is heartbreaking for those families and it is a further stain on this council answer record. >> bozian seshes kill nearly 8,000 men women and boys, after undermanned peace keepers were overrun. international court of justice both determined mass murder was genocide. and the international community and the u.n. itself came under intense criticism for not doing more to prevent the killings. many hoped this resolution would
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give some closure to victims' families. still one provision laid bare those deep divisions even years later. gabriel elizondo, al jazeera united nations. court in italy sentenced sharifsilvio berlusconi to life in prison. sahil raman reports from the gulf of thiemed. >> they're lined up and there's no sign they'll be moving. unregistered fishing boats and those who own them are
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shore-bound. all these fishermen can do at the moments is mend their nets. docks that would have received tons of fish stock are now abandoned. the authorities are crack being down over the fact that thailand didn't take action. that could cost the thai industry up to $8 billion. the naval police are here to ensure no laws are broken. >> most are abiding by the new registration. we are proalg and we have some information that some fishermen are rung from sea. when they do we will arrest them. >> those that do go into the open water are bringing back
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smaller hulls less for the consumer. the rice in the fish is prices in the domestic market, for businesses like this one price increase is inevitable. but its effect often the is issue is be noticeable. she's reluctant to pass on prices to her customers. >> i don't know how long we'll keep the price down. if it gets wowrs we'll have to worse we'll have to invest more. >> we my get more work such as vegetables milk an children. su many e-of the varieties of
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mackerel are barely making it to shore. thousands are affected. many here say for industry to survive these measures have to be in place or scenes like this may soon become this. and thailand's tape of l food may not be rarnd around for much longer. be al jazeera. >> dairy farmers say the government is failing to help develop the industry. farmers say they face major problems getting their products to market. yvonne ndege looks at the problem. >> jamil farms is one of the dairy operations in the country.
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grvmentakuba mol e-hnchesammaz. the farm only produces only about 1 thousand small to issues as well. >> translator: we face a problem of having very bad roads. it's a huge issue to get our products out of here. we also desperately need medicines and vaccines for capital. being they are very deceptive. we need help in that regard and we need that too. >> once again workers use some hand held method because of the lack of machinery. dairy mouse uh producers say if they could overcome,. >> the government forecast the attention solely on the patrol
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yum. >> nirnlg spens spend 95 wers of what's available hire is similar to those affect being other projects cks e too which are produced here too. lack of storage facilities which makes it increasingly difficult for producer to bring their product to market. >> what i do is improve the process and then the establishment of this consensus to bring the mail going forward we finally establish the washers and we are gradually increasing our imports. >> but the dairy industry must
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help be the officials. >> just a reminder, you can keep up with all the news on aljazeera.com. >> i'm david schuster. "on target" a a tonight, choins is china is far from new york but its stock market crash. , a message to the political establishment. as the greeks sing the blue of a possible exit from the euro zone the financial pain will
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