tv Weekend News Al Jazeera July 11, 2015 4:00am-4:31am EDT
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just hours after it is instituted. and a powerful typhoon bears down on eastern china. those ofthousands of people are gathering in bosnia to mark the 20th anniversary of the srebrenica massacre. it was in 1995 that bosnian serb forces killed more than 8,000 muslim men and boys. two international courts have deemed the action a genocide. let's cross live to nah diem baba in srebrenica. a very emotional day for people today. >> absolutely. i don't know if you can hear
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behind me the koranic recital. the many, many thousands of bosnian muslims who have come here to remember the dead. over the last 24 hours there have been a huge number of different groups some have come by bike, some have walked here and of course they're joined by dignitaries from around the world. before the burr yams of the latest 186 victims being identified. it is always emotional at the cemetery but there is feeling that the world has failed to grapsgrasp what has happened, the 8,000 men and boys killing was a genocide. or the the whole population actually to accept that fact. >> translator: lives in
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srebrenica and to call her determined would be an understatement. her husband two sons and her two brothers were killed in 1995. she told me how her street's now virtually empty. like her most bosniacs moved to other countries. but those who are still implicated in the massacre are still at large. >> translator: if people like me wouldn't return, it would put the issue in question. so i came back to my family home to live for my memories of my family and my loved ones. >> she teaches relatives just buried at potachari. huge burial site it is not hard to find people living here that not only deny the crimes of 20
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years ago but reject the label of genocide which has been accepted by the peundz united nations. in the town itself when the this bosnian serb official says attending the anniversary events is out of the question. >> translator: i understand the feelings of everyone who hasn't found the remains of their loveed wudges. thereones. there are on each sides. the problems that happen here during the commemoration come from outside. >> reporter: this bosnian academic agrees with him. there is emphasis placed on the situation for different reasons. >> as if it's a separate entity that is kind of you know exists in vacuum from bosnia and
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hercegovina. 1992 hate prosecution is problem offing in the trials of k-arad ifertionchkakaradichand mladic. >> nah dixnadim. the thing that everybody is talking about here is, just seems to be take a very long time. how is -- how can this be sped up so that the process of reconciliation can start? >> reporter: well, it's very difficult to envisage a situation where it will become much quicker. it is a continuing cause of pain here in bosnia because as the commentator in my report referred to the political
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leaders as karadich and military leaders like mladic people still live, muslims who still live in this area see people they say were involved in the genocide still living here, in some cases still holding senior positions. there's a lot of hurt caused 50 fact that moves by russia for example in the u.n. security council can block a consensus view that there was a genocide. that would arrest certain action which would see a lot more people in court wherever that might be. here in bosnia as you see in my report, it continues to cause division with the bosnian serb leadership saying there was mass acers on bothmassacres on both sides
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tending to down play the situation. >> al jazeera has launched an interactive website. picture galleries maps videos and award winning short stories all on this one interactive platform. the address of that is srebrenicasrebrenica360.com. you can see that at the bottom of the screen. a car bomb last killed at least one person in downtown cairo and injured at least seven others. the explosion struck outside the italian consulate in one of the busiest intersections in cairo. there is been no claim of responsibility. jarrod tan explains. >> the raw explosion happened in
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the middle of cairo. people had gathered at the scene within minutes. >> i live in the neighborhood and was sleeping. at 6:30 a.m., we woke up to a explosion. all the windows were broken. we stayed for ten minutes until we were able to see the damage. >> reporter: the explosion also ruptured underground piems flooding the area. it is unclear who was behind the explosion caused by a car bomb. the president, abdel fatah al-sisi, then pushed through tougher security laws in the face of what he calls terrorism. the military's already engaged in the heavy pain against fighters based in the sinai
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peninsula. one calls itself "province of sinai" and is focused on the islamic state of iraq and the levant. there is increasing concern the groups are widening their reach beyond the sinai. saturday morning's bombing in cairo adds to these fears. jerald tan, al jazeera. >> a u.n. backed truce has been violated in yemen. there's also been reports of fighting on the ground. the truce is supposed to last a week so that humanitarian aid can be delivered to civilians. at least 21 million people in yemen more than 80% of the country's population are needed for immediate help.
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u.n. representative joins us now via skype in sanaa. julian how bad are things? >> the situation for women and children and the population in yemen is catastrophic. and 20 million at least people need some form of assistance and we have people who can't get access to clean water a major epidemic of dengue in coastal areas and it's really terrible. >> a big part of your program is immunization. why and what are you immunizing against? >> well up until the last months we had a fairly robust immunization system, within the country. however with the fighting bringing other surprises to the unthe immunization system is becoming weakened.
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parents are scared to get their children vaccinated and the chain is under significant pressure. we need to get vaccinations way back up. if we don't children will die of measles whooping cough which could cover 400,000 children under 2 if there is stopping in the fighting. >> you are in yemen at the moment that is right isn't it. >> correct dmm sanaa. >> where can't you get to what's stopping you? >> we can deliver supplies across the country. the diment is not delivering the supplies, the difficulty is for parents and children to come into health sthers and other places they can get assistance. we can get vaccinations at
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health center but if the mother and father are too afraid to come in, that ul will increase the danger. parents an people need to come in and get assistance. that is particularly the case in aden k dali and ta'izz. and also across the country. >> that worst case scenario the issue of famine is being discussed. would you agree with that? >> well, we're experts in mal malmalnutrition. malnutrition will kill children and stunt their growth. that's a big big problem only getting worse.
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>> the top stories on al jazeera. 50,000 people including world leaders are expected at a memorial service in bosnia for 20th anniversary of srebrenica massing kerr. massacre. saudi led air strikes reported in the capital sanaa and ta'izz. the truce is expected to last for a week in order to let aid get np more than in. more than 800,000 people have been moved from the east coast of china to avoid the largeest
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typhoon in 50 years. rob mccowie, where is the typhoon? >> it's a category 2 storm declining slowly as it moves forward. >> you can see it on the screen here. >> we can. the eye of course is quiet but 100 kilometers from the east and south are where the winds are. gusting 170 180 kilometers. the worst damage has been done to the province to the south where nearly a million people have been evacuated up to 300 meters of storm still at the moment it is circulating just to the east of shanghai. >> let's see where it's going to do, what is the track of that storm doing?
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>> that swicialg is center swirling center is going to go north to east, north korea is suffering a drought so that's good. but bad weather still to happen over shanghai. not just the wind and rain but the storm surge and the height of the waves. ten meter waves are reported out at sea. they will go into the shallows actuaries. shallow estuaries. it will come up about the speed of the movement of the storm which is 20 kilometers per hour. the dome of the water will rise. you won't be able to stop it, you'll see it rise. it depends on the pressure of the typhoon the high ter dome of water is now a category 2 but it was a 4.
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significant dome. >> in terms of the typhoon is it a fast moving typhoon slow moving typhoon? good bad? >> it's about where it should be. straight for china for the last four five days. started near guam. has just not wavered. it's been a very well forecast storm. >> meteorologist green this happen. thank you rob. we're watching this closely and we'll bring you the latest. european finance ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss the latest greek proposal. the mps in greece have backed the reform. the ecb and the imf say the reforms are a starting point for negotiations. economic problems in greece have led to many of its youngest and brightest leaving to find jobs
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elsewhere. one of the most popular destinations is australia which has had close ties for decades. andrew thomas now reports. >> greek language newspaper in melbourne. good life section until a year ago she lived in greece editing online magazines but her life there was not good. when advertisers stopped paying bills and her paycheck didn't arrive on time, she knew she had to survive. >> i love greece, i'm one of the lucky one. my mom's an australian citizen and i could come here and get a job. >> the greek exodus has a precedence. nearly 200,000 greeks got
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passports away, athens now has more than 100,000 people with australian passports. the collapse of the greek economy has led to the change of the migration again. more than 10,000 have thought to have left greece for australia in the past ten years. >> that's the biggest problem in my opinion. the people that are productive, young educated and in the right age to create the appropriate conditions for the country to go forward are not there to help that system. >> it's not just young people, two years ago tassos left his wife and three children to come to australia. >> it is hard, very, very hard for both me and my family as well but this is what had to be and this is what we're doing at the moment. >> like other recent migrants,
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he was sending money home, but the freeze and uncertainty on deposits on greek banks is now on hold. he is thinking of bringing his whole family to australia where international airports are seeing a lot more greeks coming than going. there are no direct flights to australia but by connections greeks are arriving here every day, and no plans to go home. andrew thomas, sydney. detonated car bombs in mogadishu, they dealt debt debt detonated bombs before using artillery.
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iraqi authorities now say that they're worried i.s.i.l. fighters will be using to come into baghdad. the top psychological association in the united states has admitted helping cia agents interrogate suspects. an association inquiry found that ethical guidelines were used to support abusive techniques. they included water boarding and sleep deprivation techniques. explains how the medical code of ethics has been abused. >> it's been violateso badly that one act performed by the detainees called rectal rehydration when detainees decided to go on hunger strike, physicians for human rights and
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other medical associations considered that medical act to be a complete act of torture of sexual assault actually. so the psychologists helped in things like rectal rehydration and other horrific tortures act and should be held accountable at the very least by their ethical board but perhaps criminal charges. families are mourning the dead of the first anniversary of the shooting down of an malasian airlines flight. the memorial service has been held in kuala lumpur as krishna vias reports. >> reporter: a year on and the feelings are still raw flight 17 when it went down in kuala
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lumpur. the prime minister tries to comfort the next of kin. >> closure is absolutely vital so the next of kin can continue with their lives. therefore the ultimate action of finding who were responsible and bringing them to book and to justice must be carried out. >> reporter: the plane was flying from amsterdam to clmple whenkualalumpur when it went down. many accused the russian soldiers of firing ton aircraft.
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a claim russia denies. >> we want to know whose fault is it, and we want this -- i mean, for him to be at peace. >> reporter: the results of a dutch led investigation are due to be released in october. but many countries are already calling for a u.n. tribunal to prosecute those responsible. russia has dismissthe proposal. >> justice in terms of people people going to jail for this in terms of a legal sentence. i don't think so. i don't think so. there is so much really fraught politics involved in this. >> in malaysia, as families try to come to termination with their loss, there is little to console them. despite a year long investigation the families of victims still don't know how or
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why their relatives died. all they can do is wait and hope for justice. krishna vias, al jazeera, kuala lumpur. >> pope francis was greeted in the capital of paraguay, and praised what he said was paraguay's solid and stable democracy. paraguay has a long history of unequal land distribution which has led to long established poverty. lucia newman has the report. >> fricke-year-old echeverria goes through the same ritual a day. the mother of 8 had no choice but to migrate to this inner
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city slum. >> we had no money only $4 a day. >> now her husband picks through rubbish in this ever-expanding waste land where one man's waste is one pan's ticket out. land owners have turned to highly mechanized export crops that have put land owners out of a job. 20% live here, children, parents even their grandparents living from the rubbish and in the rubbish. that's why the pope is coming here to show his support for the landless and the dispossessed. father jose luis is one of many
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catholic priests who work with the peer and fight for better land distribution. >> translator: the powerful land division, i hope francis seriously criticize hes our government. as the accumulation of wealth in few hands grows. >> reporter: in 12, president fernando lugo was impeached. paraguay has a long history at theaments at better land distribution. that's why here, the pope's visit, to take notice, would truly require a miracle.
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>> don't forget, it's the twiment anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the srebrenica massacre. all for you srebrenica 360.com. wanna paint this rosy picture. >> often described as neurotic and angst ridded lewis reflects on his rise from early stand up comedian, to becoming a household name. >> i was broke for a long time. but i was still-- felt like a million bucks, broke living in horrible places, come-- going into a club and
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