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we will see you live for special coverage at 6:00 eastern coverage of scott walker's announcement. be. >> thj. >> this is al jazeera. >> hello, i'm lauren taylor, this is the newshour live from london. coming up. no grexit. alexis tsipras comes back from brussels with a tough package to pass. deal on iran's nuclear program is looking unlikely before tuesday. forced from their homes a
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u.n. team investigates the deportation from dominican republic. >> be a spending spree in the city of manchester. 80 million of sterling from liverpool. >> after 17 hours of marathon talks in brussels a multibillion be euro be bailout deal. athens would receive over 86 billion euros in return, greece has to make tough reforms which include tax hikes privatization and austerity. be tsipras has until wednesday to overcome be opposition in
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parliament. without that the package dies. first al jazeera jacky rowland reports from brussels. >> reporter: a deal at last. after talks that lasted all night, eurozone leaders emerged atthat they i avoided the worst scenario a greek exit from the euro. >> today we had only one objective to reach an agreement. after 17 hours of negotiations we have finally reached it. someone can say that we have an agreekment. >> no laughing matter for the greeks. they need to agree to a large package and agree to sell off 50 billion of state assets. an exhausted alexis tsipras tried to put the best possible gloss on it. >> translator: the deal is difficult. but we have prevented the public
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property abroad, the plan of financial ax fiction yaition ax asphyxiation. we tried in this hard fight a refinancing of the debt and secure in the meantime. >> chancellor angela merkel was groil thatcategorical that it not be written off. >> the most important currency, trust, was lost between us. as we know, paper is patient. going forward what's most important is to implement what we've agreed to during the night. >> these were grueling talks for everyone who spent the night at the european council but there process is far from over.
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the idea is half of the the money used to recapitalize the greek banks. a quarter would be used to pay off the greek debt and the rest of it would be reinvested into greece but eurozone leaders have made it clear that talks on the bailout cannot even begin until greek parliaments passes the whole package of measures into law. so the european leaders drive away into the gray light of morning. most of them can now catch some badly nighted sleep but not the greek prime minister. for sure the night was brooding for him and he can only another bruising whether he faces the parliament and the people of greece. jacky rowland, al jazeera brussels. >> in athens antiausterity protesters are gathering. these are live pictures in
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santagmus square. >> the vat increases the tax rises, the privatization all of the rest of it. everything you insisted upon if the bailout is even discussed. it's going to take four weeks to confirm the details should the greeks pass all those testings. he is meeting with the junior coalition ally, and they are talking negatively about whether they are going to support the deal or not. and tomorrow early he's going to have a meeting with the rowdier elements of his own party syriza 148 seats in parliament but some of them far to the left
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of the political spectrum. they 2 dozen and counting are already saying they will not support it. only eight days ago 61% instead of greek people voted no to more austerity in the belief he would negotiate a better deal than the one that was on the table then. well that hasn't happened and to get a sense of how the greeks are feeling my colleague mohammed jamjun took to the street to determine. >> reporter: the deal may be done but so far: this is worst day i've had in 30 years christos tells me. christos tells me says now things have changed. there's simply no justice. that these days, life in greece
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has turned into one big bad bet. the big fish eats the small fish he tells me. poor tsipras went to stand up to merkel but with germany it's not possible. he like the majority of greeks thought austerity measures were off the table for good. the lottery is more reliable than german government. that sentiment that germany was enthusiastically hauling greece over the coals was baddied about on the square. >> we have to put mr. schaeuble with the euro.
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>> yanis varoufakis, was the loser. >> in the game of poker you may lose dimes or dollars or euros but in europe you might lose more than that. >> reporter: a healthy doas of dose of pessimism. >> did they just agree to disagree? nothing is finished yet. >> reporter: it's become little more than a numbers game. here outside parliament there is a sense of spase a greek word, that means stagnation. people here feel stuck tied to forces wholly out of their
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control. life seeming more dependent than the luck of the draw than ever before. model jamjun, al jazeera athens. >> the banks have been closed. what's happening with the banks now? >> well, no change there. i think some greeks might have secretly hoped that had they agreed with this deal there would be some flexibility some easing of the pressure on the bank system.no chance of that. we have an official announcement that the banks will be closed at least through wednesday so 60 euros remains the limit there. then threr there are payments that the greeks must pay. 3.3 billion euros back to the central bank and this 86 billion euro deal doesn't take into account any of that so the european creditors are having to get together twefn between now and
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then to try to work out a bridging loan of eight million or so, and even then there's no deal on that unless there is capitulation and passing of the laws through parliament on wednesday, and empty that they won't get that either. >> neave barker is in brussels, clearly they are waiting to see whether tsipras can push this through parliament. talk us there what the european perspective is on this deal. >> reporter: well, a little earlier on i was at a press conference owner jeroen the
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full eurozone is holding its breath where the hope is for many within the eurozone, if that is the case there will be a collective sigh of relief before eurozone countries then ratify the be agreement within their own respective police departments. once that happens the message will then go to the european stabilization mechanism to release the funds a process that could stay many weeks and months. but the first hurdle of course is that wednesday midnight deadline. >> neave meantime, the discussions in the eurozone and how to deal with this, there are still schisms there if things start to unravel. >> reporter: absolutely. there is no doubt there are
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still tensions within the eurozone. we have seen throughout the last couple of days, negotiations, friction between the likes of frarches and italy who have -- france and italy, baltic states germany and finland, the only hope of greek financial support is if they promise to pay debts and come up with a workable strategy for being able to do that. one can't imagine that now that an agreement has been reached that these divisions will disappear overnight. but the hope is that they won't rear their ugly heads before that crucial deadline on wednesday. >> neave barker, thched. thank you very much indeed. now the iraqi government says it is gaining ground on i.s.i.l all taking part in the operation to retake iraq's largest
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province from i.s.i.l. fighters. imran khan reports from baghdad. >> reporter: the announcement came early on monday morning. an iraqi spokesman said the forces were taking a new be campaign to restay the anbar province against i.s.i.l. the. >> now waging pitched battles and advancing towards the targets. >> reporter: military operations have been continuing in bawsh anbar for months but have been primary focused on ramadi. by retaking fallujah iraqi military commanders hope to often a corridor to cut offs
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i.s.i.l. from ramadi. they control border crossings in the town of trebil. allowing them to use safe havens to a great advantage. iraq has a real challenge on its hands to defeet i.s.i.l. but progovernment sunni fighters. >> the prime minister has control of the army units and the interior ministry runs the police units and the individual militia leaders run these individual militias, there are a half a dozen really big ones and several spall ones. what the administration is trying to do is capitalize on this, essentially make the best it can over a very disorganized situation. >> the iraqi air force has just been given a boost. it received the first four of a consignment of 50 from the u.s.
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the iraqi air force will be hoping they will help deliver a decisive blow on i.s.i.l. fighters. but in anbar province i.s.i.l. fighters have sympathy from some of the residents there and they have proved to be a very tough process. >> still to come, ngos attempt to stifle dissent. no sign of a truce in yemen as saudi air strikes and houthi ground forces claim more victims. in the last hour the white house has said that significant issues still remain at the iranian nuclear talks taking place in vienna but genuine progress has
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been made. talks are expected to continue into tuesday. world powers are trying to reach a deal that would limit tehran's nuclear program in the exchanges for easing of sanctions. diplomatic editor james bays is live in vienna. what points are they trying to work out at this point? >> reporter: this is a complicated long deal, this is a legallily watertight deal that has to last for ten years and beyond. that's why everyone is very concerned with the precise details of this deal. we don't know the exact sticking points. in fact the statement that came out in the white house press conference was really the only ton record statement that's been made to reporters. we've been shouting questions to people that go in and out of buildings but not a lot of detail coming from them. a great deal of meetings taking place with seven foreign
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ministers all in vienna for these talks. optimism at the beginning of the day that perhaps there could be agreement by monday but one conversation 50 minutes of length, and with the chief u.n. minister frederica mogherini. i tried to find out what happened. >> is there a chance for a deal today her representative? are you making progress? >> and james if they don't manage to do something by the end of monday, how long do they keep on extending these deadlines and self-imposed deadlines, how long do they go on with this? >> that's not at alt clear. first thing to tell you is that there's the interim deal done in november 2013. that's been extended lots and lots of times. but the latest deadline for that is today.
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so if they don't reach a deal by the end of monday, they will have to put out a statement as they have done already three times to extend it. beyond that how long can you keep all these foreign ministers in vienna? they keep leaving and coming back. obviously they have to be here if they have to get a deal and how long can the u.s. seacts seacts stay here? seacts secretary of state and the iranian minister stay in vienna? >> civilians are among the dead,
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erica wood has more. >> reporter: saudi coalition air strikes over the capital light up the night sky. a clear sign for the residents that the humanitarian ceasefire is not protecting them. by morning, they try to find bodies under the rubble. many homes whole streets and families destroyed. >> translator: just after midnight they struck us with a missile. they hit a house which was completely destroyed with the family inside. my cousin and my sister and my niece's houses were hit. ten house he were struck and there's nothing left. >> one report suggests 10 people were killed in sanaa alone. >> translator: they killed my brother and sister and son. this is tragic. how is this the children's fault? >> east of sanaa gun battles between houthi and pro-government fighters continue in the desert rocks of mareb.
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>> the popular resistance committees are committed to the truce but the houthis violated it in the early hours. the resistance fighters have a right to respond and defeat the attackers because they invaded our areas. >> translator: we welcomed the truce but the houthis didn't abide by them. thank god we repelled them. repelled them. >> the u.n. says 80% of the population needs humanitarian assistance. aid agencies say they are getting supplies through to some areas during this shaky truce. but if the ceasefire keeps being broken some region will be too dangerous to reach. eric aherica woods, al jazeera. >> down to both sides to adhere
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to the commitments of the humanitarian truce. >> we've seen weeks and weeks and weeks of yemen people suffering. by all counts close to a humanitarian cat voaf. catastrophe. the special envoy received the commitments that he felt were necessary for us to come out with this statement. it is incumbent on all the parties involved to abide by those commitments. >> activists in syria say at least 35 people have been killed after the government bombed the town of albab 35 were wounded. this video allegedly shows the aftermath of the attack. bombs hit a market area and isolated parts of the rebel held town. near the border with lebanon, syrian forces are trying to push out al qaeda
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linked fighters from the el nusra front. policepeople in police custody are being tortured. jamal al shayal has the story. >> these are the last breasts he took on friday. the 48-year-old was held in a detension cell inside a cell in cairo. dozens of prisoners piled on top of each other in a tiny cell with no ventilation. aden suffered from chronic asthma. his lawyers say despite proving his medical condition and despite no proper paperwork to transfer him to a hospital. the police officers say they wanted him to die here. death in prison is common here.
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279 have dyed in custody, more than half died since abdel fatah al-sisi became president. 40,000 people have been thrown into jail in the past two years most for their political beliefs. prison authorities and the police have been accused of intentional negligence when it comes to dealing with political prisoners. in may faidistai ishmael died because officers denied him his medicine. conditions inside egypt's jails mean other prisoners may also face death without even being sentenced. jamal al shael, al jazeera.
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attack targeted u.s. army base, afghan troops and civilians are dead including 12 children. jennifer glasse reports. >> reporter: women and children were killed alongside afghan men and security forces. the injured are recovering in several hospital he, an attack took them by surprise. after a long day of ramadan fasting. >> translator: i was on my way home when suddenly in the middle of this. >> the intended target was camp chapman. the site of the worst attack ton central intelligence agency, the cia in decades. this attack, like so many others
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in afghanistan, it's civilians who suffer the most. the united nations say casualties in the first half of this year are up 16% compared to last year and that's before the fighting season began. fight without the substantial support they used to get from nato. jennifer glasse, al jazeera. >> escaped prisoner joaquin guzman. and anticorruption are crack down. in support why two of cuba's footballers won't be going home after their team is knocked out of the gold cup. bls
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bailout program that will bring further austerity. and iraqis push to recapture anbar province from islamic state of iraq and the levant. it is confirmed an interim deal remains in place on the iranian nuclear deal. let's get on to the story of the day, the greek finance bailout. hoda abdel hamid has part of the story. >> one unemployed man that voted no in the referendum said he knew some sort of compromise would be reecht with the eu reached with the eu but didn't know it would be so bad for greek. he was hoping to find a job pain now he says that his future
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looks bleaker than ever. others are willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the prime minister, as one woman put it, he's going to have to come back speak to the greek people and it will be the most important speech of his career. part of the deal is for the port of thessaloniki to be sold off. they have been hearing about it for such a long time but nobody gave them details of what this privatization would mean. if they're laid off then what happens with the social security and their pensions? some of these workers have been here for 20, 30 years ago and they wouldn't have another option to find a job elsewhere. a lot of hanging in the air for them. they are worried. there are more than 100 islands in greece, and most of them live off tourists. so far the islands had lower
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taxes than the mainland. under the new deal, hotels restaurants and catering businesses will face an increase in taxes that in some cases could reach 23%. that would translate in higher prices for tourists. now this comes at a time where the industry is about the only one functioning in this country providing up to 15% of the annual e-jdp . they are concerned that greece will become a less attractive hol did i destination. do you think alexis tsipras can get this deal through parliament? >> well, i hope that the unity of the government and the party is going to be conserved. because you know, it is not an easy deal. it is a very harsh deal, we have tried to defend a different version of europe a social one
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versus the liberal orthodoxy. but we have been greatly outnumbered and we had to choose between these harsh measures and the lack of liquidity and the continuation of closure. we have a -- >> your responsibility this was in part mismanaged by the government. for example be many syriza government has tried to plunge greece back into a crisis. creates a precarious humanitarian situation. surely the government has some part in the way this has been handled. >> no. we have tried exactly to defend a different approach that these continuation of austerity which feed each other the liberate
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strategy of partners to quawft time and use the lack of liquidity of our economy as political weapons during the negotiation because exactly the disietion of [simultaneous speech] >> two week delay and you've ended up having to agree with a deal that was worse than one you had two weeks ago. >> uh-huh. they have presented us with an ultimate mawmultimatum. then they have to used their big weapon which was exactly the closure of the banks. that was a deliberate decision of the european central bank not to increase liquidity. i'm speaking about a deliberate preliminary decision exactly because the greek banks did not face a solvency problem. they had just a liquidity problem that would be easily remedied by an easing of
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liquidity. they had to keep the pressure on our electorate first of all to extort favorable decisions of the people on the referendum and then to keep the pressure on us exactly because the fear of a real december of a real economy was imminent. >> so did you think -- some would describe this as a form coup is that something you agree with or that language is too emotive? >> well, it is strong language but it is for sure, that they have used the lack of liquidity as a political weapon to exert pressure. they were willing to kill the economy of a spall country to concert their political -- exert their political ends. we are a small country. >> do you think that tsipras can survive a lot of this politically? a lot of the people our
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correspondents have be spoken to on the ground feel they have been lied to, thinking they have to take austerity anyway. do you think tsipras ought to go? >> i think that the prime minister has showed that he wanted to give a fight. and as i have already said it was a very unequal one at this moment. but we hope that we are going to see a shift of the balance of forces in europe, because new elections is paying going to take place and exactly this has stance of our partners is view to be very efforts to avoid this political contagion to show to europe that we are not an example to be fold. in order thatmentodemos, the other progressive forces, to look back and reexamine their stance. i hope the counter is going to happen. that the people of greece can
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understand that austerity is not just only bad for greece, it's bad for everybody. >> enough to stabilize the economy in greece they simply did not do enough. >> but if you look at the social and economic indicators, of this counters that are spoaived to spoafs supposed to be a big success. the unemployment is very high, so the only, that maybe they have again from these are the economical lifts that is why we see from europe, it is not just greece it is everywhere, it is as if a battle is rising against middle class. >> thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk to us. appreciate it. >> it's a pleasure.
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romanian prime minister ponta has been charged with corruption dissents any wrongdoing. causes a serious blow to a country that has been trying to clear up any corruption. charlie angela has the story. >> victor ponta denies any wrongdoing. >> we will meet again in august. >> hopefully his expertise can shine a light on the charges he faces. document forgery 17 counts, accessory to tax evasion and money laundering. all relating to his time as a lawyer and politician before he became prime minister in 2012. ponta hasn't been seen in romania for nearly a month.
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he disappeared to turkey for knee surgery failing to notify president or parliament. he will step aside as leader of his leftist psd party. questions remain about the stability of the be government. an image he's worked hard to change np. in bucharest many are ashamed but not surprised. >> i'm ashamed to be romanian and have this leadership. >> i think national anticorruption office are too slow. they should work on corruption cases much faster. things are so bad that it's not possible that politician he and members of our government can be not guilty. >> victor ponta denies all the allegations against him insisting they are politically motivated but if prosecutors find reasonable suspicion they will ask parliament to approve a
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criminal investigation. charlie angela al jazeera. >> the collapse of a military barracks in russia has left several dead and injured. caved in late last necessitate. investigators say one line of inquiry is that repairs on the building two years ago may not have been carried out to a high enough standard. flielts have been cancelled and travel delayed after protest on the runway of the heathrow airport. around a dozen people cut through a wire fence and then chained themselves together on the tarmac. they were protesting the building of another runway at heathheathrow. >> representatives from the offerings american states have been be meeting at haiti.
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adam rainey has this report. >> reporter: you can see dozens of people behind me holding i.d. cards like this, small once of ones, be asking for permission to stay nut dominican republic. those who applied applied were told they would not be deported during the process, despite that, many holding these cards say they were deported. others came voluntarily say they faced death threats from an angry population that just wanted to see them go. either way what you have are hundreds of people amassing at this camp and others on the border because they literally e-literalhave nowhere else to go.
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until the report is published the organization of american states says that many of these people perhaps will be living in limbo. >> there is a massive manhunt in mexico for the man joaquin guzman. the second jailbreak for the head of the sinaloa cartel. mexico's president on a trip to france has ordered an investigation. >> translator: i have given instruction he to the attorney general's office of the republic to carry out a thorough investigation to determine if the officials were explicit or involved in this incident which allowed this criminal to escape. >> be draft law critics say gives the government unusual
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powers. little tolerance for dissent. the european union could withdraw development aid as a result of the vote. rob mcbryde mcbride is in no ma'ammen. >> this is as close as the demonstrators are allowed to get. police have cordoned all around this area. they believe it is an attempt by the long time prime minister to try to stifle dissenting voices ahead of national elections a few months from now. the government denies that. they are simply trying to regulate an unregulated sector which comprises hns of ngos. the european parliament passed a motion condemning introduction of this law a couple of days ago. and there is a feeling that after billions of dollars spent by the international community here that cambodia is fill
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falling far short of the idea of a -- is still falling short of the liberal idea in southeast asia. sri lanka will soon have an election. be manuel hernandez has more. >> a bament for political power. district administrative centers like this one in colombo were the height of activity. vidz lan ca's political elections next month the polls follow jan's race two years ahead of schedule a gamble he lost to opposition candidate. raja paxa was accused of many of fostering a culture of corruption and cronyism.
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>> corruption when selecting candidates to give clarity to professionals and academics and the people. be have a clean sheet. >> reporter: the main ruling party says it will fight for an extension of the mandate given president serasena. >> for good disciplined government it's important. >> reporter: the political landscape has shifted dramatically. switched allegiances. ally of the former president has crossed sides. he says it's to complete the work started in january this year. >> we hold to our kind of political reformation. otherwise we can't move forward. >> still recovering from civil war sri lanka is ah at a critical phase. like the january presidential
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poll the upcoming parliamentary election is likely to be dominated by issues affecting individual elect ram districts may take a back seat. >> we are nothing having the serious conversation that we need to have on the key issues facing the future of this country. >> reporter: campaigning will continue until 48 hours before the election. manel fernandez al jazeera colombo. >> after weeks of political violence in breundz's burundi's capital the military says it has killed 31 people and arrested 142 following clashes. the army has told al jazeera an operation is continuing to find other gunmen hiding in a forest.
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catherine soy reports. >> this is what the military's saying that the men here are part of a larger group that the troops have been fighting in forests at a province called kayanza. most of these people seem to be speaking from the same script. they are saying they were forced into a movement they know little about. some are saying they surrendered themselves to the military but most of what they're saying leaves more questions than answers. >> translator: i don't know this group. we were just taken for training. it was hard to understand who was leading us. people would just come and go. >> reporter: these are some of the weapons that the military says were in the possession of throws they exurt. it's very worrying development for many people in burundi and outside of the country. there's a general who has said to have participated in the foiled coup and who escaped from the country.
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he's on record as having said he is going to wage a war on president pierre nkurunziza should he stand for a third term. the elections have been postponed to july 21st but there is no signs of the president stepping down despite pressure for him to do so. >> at least 12 civilians and a chadian civilian have been killed near an army camp in the town of photokol. the boko haram has increased attacks in the area in recent months. thousands dead farmers say cattle herders attack them and their animals to eat the farm crops. grown on areas designated for grazing. >> offering prayers for dead. more than 60 people were buried
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here. many were burned beyond recognition. 40 of them close an extend family. the farmer says it's difficult to pick up the pieces ever their lives after they attack. >> i'm afraid for all these when it brought them, crisis was started again because i don't know how see somebody destroying your property and you talk they going to shoot you. >> blames these men. cattle herders who have lived side by side with indigenous tribes for generations. cattle herder lost six members of his family on an attack he blames on indij just indigenous farmers. preparing to take their cattle to graze.
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>> our homes and cows were burned and cattle were either killed or stolen. i think there is more to the conflict beyond a fight over land. >> reporter: every year, attacks and reprisals between cattle herders kill thousands across the country. thousands of displaced persons across nigeria. at the center of all this is the issue of access to land. farmers blame cattle herders for allowing them to eat their crops. community leaders don't know how to deal with the dispute. hundreds of idle young people have taken the law into their hands. >> we are still using the same laws. the relationship between a farmer and a cattle rearer and we have not saying that these a
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result were a prop of our government and they're still in existence even now. >> the persistent attacks are being investigated by a government panel of experts. both sides to the conflict say they hope for peace to return. however, it seems right now a little spark is all that is required for another explosion in violence. mohammed idris, al jazeera bondon nigeria. >> we are getting reports that israel is rearresting the person on hunger strike, transferred to hospital last month after going on a tbiech-day hunger strike in am. a member of the islamic jihad movement he has been held in custody 16 times in the last ten years. still to come on al jazeera
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he said, i've grown crowser to ivan over the past few weeks this is terrible influences, british rider chris frume is in the lead after nine stages. a second cuban footballer has defected to the united states. mid fielder ariel fernandez disappeared, the rest of the players are now heading home after the group stages with cuba eliminated at the group stage after losing to trinidad tobago. didn't even make it to the u.s. because of visa problems. this 2-nil win puts trinidad tobago into the semi finals. joining into an $18 million
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deal to become the most expensive player in english football history. agent having said he wouldn't sign a new contract even though it was for more than $1 million a week. liverpool in thailand preseason tour, sterling is is the main topic of conversation. >> probably in terms of what was written be he and i have always remained very strong in our relationship. and have been right up until we left. so there's no issue there. >> the great rivals of both liverpool and manchester united, for a reported $23 million. schwe beingshwein steiger.
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in a 39 million deal. striker robin van percy completes his istanbul cup manchester united nations won the title in 2013, 39-year-old dutch international strierk strike i. the famous old scottish course at st. andrews players rory mcilroy ruled out because of that fluke ankle fluke ankle injury. jordan spieth the clear favorite. the 21-year-old american won the john deereejohn deere following a
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playoff. he has only played st. andrews once before, that wasn't in a competition. >> starting to get there. it's yielded very low scores. that's why i think this was advantageous to feel like you're making a lot of birdies. feel like you need to make a lot of betteries. it is important to get over there establish a game plan. when i played it three and a half years ago i was in a very much different position and could take more chances. >> it's also been quite a year for novak djokovic 24-year-old joko vimp isdjokovic is using 33-year-old
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federer. >> i want to use that for as long as i can. how long i can go i really can't predict anything. roger as you mentioned is 33 and he doesn't also think about how many years he can go. many people would a few years ago when he had i think the first season that was below his standard, i think two years ago people were already sending him to retirement. but next year he came down to one or two matches he was fighting for number 1 in the world. >> just the father of strickland formal 1 driver is less optimistic he will make it. nine months now and he has still not woken up. not significant progress. he told a french radio station. lauren. >> thank you very much lee that's it for this news station
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