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ews continues next live from london. ♪ >> this is al jazeera. >> hello i'm maryam nemazee. greece german chancellor angela merkel says chaos. six people are skilled in egypt as police open fire on antigovernment protestors. remember the victims of mh 17
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shot down a year ago. >> day 2 of golf's open championship. an unfamiliar name and a rather more familiar one teeing off for possibly the last time after 40 years. >> it's the engine room of europe's economy so getting its approval was crucial. a fifth of mps from angela merkel's resuming party voted against that move and as agreeing to more money but merkel successfully argued the alternative was chaos unless germany backed the plan. al jazeera's dominic cain is in berlin. >> reporter: less than a week
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after the marathon talks and the bundestadt is asked for its approval. usually, legislation is easily passed but not this time. friday was angela merkel's 61st birth day but potential for rebem i don't rebellion. she wanted to soothe the fears of those who did not want more money to go to greece. >> translator: i know there are many doubts and worries that this path will be successful and if greece will have the strength to pursue this path. my sincere conviction we should at least try this. >> there is a advocate am minority in the bundestag. they say this vote represents an
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affront to public opinion in greece. chief among the opponents is kregor giesen. he says the effect of the issue would be the end of greece. >> translator: the imf and ecb only after this can they discuss it then they need another permission to bring it before parliament for a vote. that is the abolition of parliamentary democracy that you have. >> recent opinion polls suggest nearly three quarters of germans do not trust the current government in athens. >> i don't trust them much. if you take the last little incident into consideration. i feel sorry for the greeks but i think it's hard to sort out.
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>> translator: i must honestly say that i doubt what has been agreed on is been has been be enacted. >> now the government will flesh out the details of the bailout before bringing the ensuing document back for final approval. dominic cain, al jazeera berlin. >> well, founder and director of the global public policy institute joining us from berlin. good to have you with us. this vote in the german parliament would suggest that at least for now germany would continue to stand by greece. >> yes, today was are angela merkel's birth day it was a very sunny day but the word is
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not is a lute tri in salutary in berlin. >> why? can i ask you you were just saying that there were very few people that believe this bailout is going to resolve the wider underlying problems in the eurozone. what's behind the skepticism? >> behind the skepticism is that previous packages have not worked. behind the skepticism is the fact that greece is only 2% of the gross domestic product of the eurozone yet we're fully consumed by the problem of greece yet what needs to be done is to strengthen the institutional setup of the eurozone towards more fiscal
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consolidation and more fiscal union. these are the topics that germany needs to tackle together with france but there was nothing in mrs. merkel's speech today in moving the setup forward. >> but at the same time, the institutions in the eurozone are also strong enough, some would argue stronger than they were a few years ago than to withstand greece leaving the eurozone, aren't they? >> the institutions are a lot stronger but the fire wall that the european central bank has signalized that's there and saw the 2% gross domestic product that is gross will not jeopardize the whole eurozone. but it's still a truth of the overall weakness of the setup when this summer we're calling everybody back from vacation to deal with another immediate crisis in greece, as we should be dealing with other problems,
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russia, climate change, and the like. and we should be -- >> speak of the importance of -- smoops. [simultaneous speech] >> fiscal as well as a monetary union being in place but how much democratic support particularly in germany is there for that given recent opinion polls suggest nearly a quarter of the german public truchts trusts the european central bank. would they want to close the union? >> they wouldn't want a full fiscal union but a full banking union in germany's interest that europe-wide finance union is in place, without a formal institutional setup without parliamentary backing and the like. so i think the german public could be convinced that short of
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a full cal union we do need an institutional strengthening of the eurozone. >> thank you for getting your thoughts on this founder and director of the global policy institute joining us live from berlin. well in other developments in the greek capital athens, the greek prime minister has just announced some changes in his government. mohammed jamjun joins me. mohammed what has the prime minister said taken place? >> well, maryam, what we know is that ten members of the cabinet have been changed included are three, minister of energy, minister of labor and the alternate minister of finance she resigned the other day and has been replaced. this certainly has not come as any surprise. prime minister tsipras has made
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it clear in order to govern correctly and make sure those in his party from whom he faced rebel beyond, that there was going to have to be a reshuffle. when the vote took place on those austerity measures, 38 members of his party syriza voted against it. you had 32 members outright vote no and six members abstain. that was more than expected. going into the vote we expected only 30 to vote against it. so this was a rebellion. from members of the very far left side of of his coalition. the prime minister wants to make sure he has people around him who will act in order to implement the measures that have been put in place. again not really a surprise but certainly something that needed to be done for prime minister to more effectively govern and make sure that these very contentious and very unpopular measures were
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going to be enacted in a very timely manner. maryam. >> it is not just the cornlting economic conditions that the prime minister is ft. dealing with. but also wildfires. how sterve are extensive are these wildfires? >> as if greece doesn't have more challenges. you have wildfires that are raging in other parts of greece. maybe dozens of places across the country. in some areas including here in athens those fires are still going on. behind us here, you still have fires that are ongoing this hour, even though the firefighters have been out bamentingbattling them the whole day. wildfires in greece were common this time of year but the fact
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of the matter is this has been a very challenging day for the leadership, for citizens. we were hearing just a couple of hours ago that there were houses here in athens in which the fire had gotten maybe 100 meters away from. so even here in athens many residents were asked to evacuate. the prime minister did come out pretty quickly asked people to remain calm. greek officials have asked for assistance from countries such as italy and france to try to bring planes in here to douse these fires. the fires are still going on and because there has been such powerful wind, whipping up behind us even on the rooftop we're on because of that that has made the fire spread a lot quicker than they normally would. with the proclaims flames of its financial crisis not yet extinguished, greece is in more fires. blanketing parts of athens in
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smoke. the strong winds have made the situation even more dangerous. ensuring those fires spread more quick than they ever would. fires are inching closer to residences and citizens are being asked to evacuate. it was not just part of the capital set aplays. laconia in part of the pelaponesia. fire officers discuss the options. urged the public not to panic. >> translator: everybody needs to stay calm. obviously we'll require volunteers, wherever is needed. we need to keep calm and a collective effort in order to face the different fires. >> already greece has applied for assistance from italy and france and may seek help from
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other european countries too. while forest fires are commonplace in the summer months here it hasn't yet been determined what caused these. what is known is this: they couldn't have come at a worse time. mohammed jamjun, al jazeera athens. >> moving on to other stories police in egypt have shot zed six antigovernment proartors afterprotestersors, after eid prayers. >> squaring off with security forces on friday morning. demonstrations against the rule of president abdel fatah al-sisi erupted after eid celebrations. in giza province at least six people including one woman were shot dead. they were among hundreds of so-called anti-coup activists
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who took to the streets. the banned muslim brotherhood was blamed by the government for the protests. 15 members of the group were arrested. >> any elements against the protest, we knew after the prayer which is a time when a lot of people can gather and take to the streets so they were really trying to send a message that we are not tolerating any kind of protest. >> president mohammed morsi was forced out the country has been hit by a series of high profile attacks. egyptian naval vex in the mediterranean sea sy anyway peninsula affiliated to i.s.i.l. launched the missile. it came two weeks after a major
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battle against the ypt army in the self proclaimed sinai province. but the violence hasn't spared jcht'segypt's capital. just last week, another powerful blast hit the italian consulate in cairo. under president sisi, thousands of muslim sympathizers have been jailed but the instability and violence continue. nadim baba, al jazeera. >> they've gun fights have been taking place between saudi backed fighters and houthis. and 25 fighters have been killed in the mountain oust yemeni city of ta'izz.
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casualties for both you houthi fighters and fighters loyal to the 61's president. inphil traitioninfiltration attempt. more to come on the newshour. banging of drums but calling for peace in burundi where the political violence continues. inside iran, to see what life after economic sanctions might look like. and in sport why this olympic stadium will never be built causing major problems for the rugby world cup. raul has more, later. now, u.s. investigators say there is no evidence that the man who carried out a gun attack in tennessee was working with anyone else. a vij it has been held in the town of chattanooga.
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the gunman 24-year-old mohammed yousef az aziz. is there a picture of what took place? >> police here are investigating the latest information they can find spending most of their time the fbi is combing through computers, personal devices like phones of mohammed of mohammed yanis varoufakisyanisyousef azidisfertion.
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the firstaziz. that is where this 81 mang young man straifd thestrafed the area with gun fire and killed four marines. as people mourn those marines here, in about four hours the fbi will hold a news conference. a couple of hours from now a vigil will be held and we'll continue to report back to you with the latest details. so far the big question was what was the motivation of this young man and did he have any ties with any organization or did he simply do this on his own? >> all right thanks very much for now john. john hendren watching development for us from the city of chattanooga in the u.s. state
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of tennessee. a triple attack in northeastern nigeria has killed at least 13 people. partinged muslim worshipers. be yvonne ndege is in the capital of abuja and sent us this update. >> according to people on the ground two female suicide bombers were behind the explosion. they apparently arrived on a commercial vehicle and in connection to one of the other blasts apparently it was a male suicide attacker who was carrying a device which went off, in a small commercial vehicle that people use as taxis across the region. so far there's been no official response to the nature and veracity of the attacks from the millmilitary.
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muhammadu buhari the new president did come to power promising to defeet boko haram. since being sworn in the end of may he's done a lot politically to try and show the nigerian people he's doing his best to defeat the club. he moved the command control plant to the northeast earmarked over $20 million to support soldiers who are fighting boko haram there have been a lot of diplomatic effort too. he went to the g-7 meeting in jemplegermany, the african union meeting in be south africa. south africa. he's going to meet president barack obama and the peace in the area will be top of the agenda. seeking military equipment and intelligence gathering. there is a feeling on the ground
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that even though there's a lot of political effort to sort out the boko haram crisis, much is not sorted out on the ground because boko haram is a force to be reckoned with when there are reports of attacks almost day in day out. >> memorial services are being over mh 17 shot out of rebel held ukraine. nearly 200 of the victims were dutch. their prime minister led the netherlands, in their service. charles stratford was there and sent this report. >> reporter: the day of mourning for a community that will never forget. the service was held in
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remembrance of the 298 men women and children found dead in the surrounding fields. >> translator: we want peace so badly we feel such sympathy for the families who lost their loved ones here. we must end this hatred. life is so short but it can be so beautiful. >> reporter: the prees led the congregation up -- the priest led the congregation up the road. some held flags of the countries from where the victims came. as music played, they quietly thought about the horror they had seen on a similarly sunny day one year ago. >> translator: i could see a seat with a person sitting in it falling from the sky. we found out it was a woman passenger, my neighbor found four bodies including a child in the garden. i cannot control my emotions and tears even now.
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>> reporter: the leader of the self proclaimed donetsk peoples republic said the search must continue. shot down the passenger airliner. he says ukrainian forces are to blame. the people let go of the symbols of the dead that they had been holding in their hands. the white balloons released in the sky symbolizing the 298 people that femme otheir deaths surrounding fields and country sides, hundreds of people have come out to take their respects. and mourn the dead. the hills are quiet now. the fighting in this area at least has stopped. flowers lie by a marble stone. it reads "in memory of the dead 298 innocent people victims of civil war." charles stratford, al jazeera
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eastern ukraine. >> meanwhile, russia denies any involvement in the downing of mh 17 and a u.n. tribunal isn't necessary. russians have gathered to show support of the victim as emma hayward reports. >> reporter: we have seen people to lay flowers to light scanned les but also to leave these paper planes and each one has the name of one of the victims of the mh 17 disaster. now this event was organized by a group called open russia which is in opposition movement, saying they're not trying to make any political point here but many of the people who come to lay flowers say they just wanted to come to pay their respects. >> translator: it was impossible to stay hoanl on the anniversary of this tragedy. the children's faces and debris, people who didn't get to their holidays never came home, i
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wanted to show what happened a year ago. >> translator: i came here to commemorate those who died and i also came to bring attention to the fact that this catastrophe is still not being investigated. we don't know who did it and i think this is important for the relatives of the victims. >> reporter: a real sense then here of people wanting to stand in solidarity with the families of the victims of mh 17 just at a time when coming up scrutiny because of the allegations that russian separatists brought down the plane over ukraine they of course deny that but the mood here is very much one of reflection. >> former brazilian president de silva is to be investigated while in office. prosecutors are trying to find out if de l silva influenced into rewarding a multibillion dollar contract for a construction company.
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the form he president denies any wrongdoing and that the investigation took him by surprise. kimberly halkett joins us from be be brasilia. it seems another high profile politician is also being investigated. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: i tell that you it really is stunning. in just 24 hours on the heels of the revelation about the government investigation into the former brazilian president lula we now have the very high profile speaker of the lower house of congress here in brazil. allegations that he also allegedly accepted money in exchange for contracts in helping to secure contracts for a very prominent brazilian construction company. so it's just stunning revelations that just continue to unfold. this has been going on for weeks if not months. there have been dozens of high profile executives linked to the state run company petrobras
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even dozens of arrests that have taken place. many of these people have strong ties to the president dilma rousseff. now said that he will leave the coalition and is now part of the opposition calling for resignation of dilma rousseff. this is in addition to calls of ordinary brazilians on the streets, adding to the political instability that exists inside brazil. >> speaking of dilma rousseff she is holding a summit in being brasilia. has she said anything about the latest scandals? >> she had an opportunity maryam and turned it down.
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brazil is leading that up, she had an opportunity to address reporters but that was abruptly cancelled. instead the only address she made was to say good-bye to the argentinian president christina kirchner. she was so sad that kirsh fler would nokirchnerwould no longer be part of the summit. >> still ahead on the al jazeera newshour, innovation amongst the world's displaced. knowledge ah and nasa releases more pictures of the most distant planet in the solar system more details than ever before. and in sport australia continued to lord it over england. raul will be here.
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you're watching al jazeera newshour. let's take you through the top stories. the german parliament has voted to allow its government a further bailout worth 86 billion but some members of the government voting against it. yemen is to longer under control of houthi rebel fighters but reports of fighting in some areas. and u.s. investigators say that there's no evidence that the man who carried out a gun attack in tennessee was working with anyone else. a vigil was held in chattanooga for the 4 quild killed was head on thursday. the holy month of ramadan the holiday of eid has been held. >> getting new toys and playing
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with their friends. they're celebrating eid the end of the holy month of ramadan to make the day special. >> translator: this is their childhood. do you want us to deprecise them of their life? you cannot. whatever the child asks for you should provide it with every means necessary. >> a camp they experience, the heat and lack of water they get out to get entertained and to experience the atmosphere and remember the days of eid in syria. >> to some eid is a birth sweet time. mohammed came to jordan two years ago. he is among the four million people who have escaped the war in syria and gone to neighboring countries. >> we feel that during this eid
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we are very far away from our children. far from our country. far from our siblings. >> life here at the camp is not always easy. power cuts are common. social services are basic petty crime is on the rise. three years since it was opened, the camp is looking looking like a pitiful compromise. the only place they can call home. be al jazeera. >> more refugees displaced around the world than at any other time since world war ii pfn rather than constantly being in need of help, report from oxford says, rather than waiting for aid bottom up innovation, a range of architectural improvements at the be refugee camp in jordan, or revenue
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generating sectors which benefit their communities. one school in south africa, educate students to be more innovative. as anita miller reports. >> if it were not for the school in johannesburg, emma would have nowhere to go. she began attending classes at albert school. >> my father decided me to come to albert so i could continue the same curriculum with the one at zim. >> one of the founders and a refugee himself william says they had to find a way to keep refugee children in the classroom when they could not attend local schools. >> there was a lot of demand from the parents who are refugees in south africa, and were having difficulties of
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registering their children in the local schools. was when they got this need of a better certificate need to transfer late, there were a lot of potentialities. >> the school has grown to ten times its original amount. the school's dependency on donor funding and a lack of resources are challenging. despite those obstacles the school has had a 100% pass rate for the last two years. some of the highest results were achieved in mathematics and sciences, subjects schools in south africa are having trouble with. they graduate with a an oxford certificate. rather than a south africa
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certificate. >> they deliver to the economic development of their country. >> schools across south africa are officially closed. senior students at albert school know already they have beaten the odds. al jazeera johannesburg. >> earlier i spoke to louise bloom. one of the authors of this report on refugee innovation and i began asking her about the different projects that refugees are involved in. >> the syrian refugees, in the north of jordan, this camp is home to 83,000 refugees. and they're syrians displaced nearly four years ago having been in the camp for years using the small material, limited materials they have
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there in the camp for recreating their syrian cowrmt cultural identities to reconstruct the community groups and families they lived in back in syrian. they also had decorated these shelters in really beautiful ways to escape camp life if you like. we met lots of entrepreneurial refugees, there is a market, lots of syrians have created their own opportunities to make small amounts of income. another thing interesting was creating for their social well-being as well, many refugees were keeping birds as pets and the song of the birds was a way to escape and find peace again. that was a really interesting example sphwhrp there.
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>> there was somebody in uganda, could you tell us about him? >> a somali refugee living in a big settlement in the south of uganda. he has collected old television and old play station games to open his computer game shop. lots of refugee children and adults come to his shop to play the play station. he makes a great business and has a generate to power the tvs. he is an example of someone who has made do of limited resources in a quite rural area. >> the idea of bottom-up innovation sounds great but how realistic is it, when you think that refugees don't have the freedom of movement or freedom to work. >> that is of course a challenge and there are challenges to be able to create solutions like abde in uganda. but even with limited resources
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people have skills and talents and are being creative and we are arcing arguing in our report that was published today that the international community could do more to exhibit that creativity. >> the sort of thaings would allow themthings had awould allow them to create the solutions for themselves? >> i think there needs to be more focus on creating enabling environment, perhaps business skills training, access to financing is a thing that is really lacking. so many refugees don't have the right to open bank accounts, they constant save money necessarily, if they don't have source to access loans. so the capital piece really is important and as you mentioned access to internet. so working with governments to create infrastructure or thinking about that infrastructure where refugees are living and importantly argue
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about a better regulatory environment where refugees might have the right to work. so thinking quite systematically about that, system that surrounds refugees, there's not one silver bullet but it's going to be this systematic change that's required. >> moving on to iraq now where at least twin people have been killed at a ballast in the marketplace. the scar bomb exploded just outside the town of conbonisad. the celebration was at the end of the muslim month of ramadan. u.s. president barack obama has been meeting with owner saudi owner leader.
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there was be what do we know about what happened as this meeting? >> we're just now starting to get a little bit more information. the press was not allowed into the meeting between the president and the saudi foreign minister. but the white house just put out a statement detailing what they talked about. both of them welcomed the joint plan of action, basically the iran deal, that's the americans saying the saudis are on board. we haven't heard from saudi officials just yet but it would be very unusual for the white house to put out that statement if they didn't think they had the endorsement of the saudi rulers. what this is about we kind of suspected this to hatch when the foreign minister met with the secretary of state john kerry, they want military equipment and agreement what we think they're looking at is giving them with boats that can deal with interdiction, if they
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think there is iranian opposition to the fighters, and helping the entire gcc build some kind of missile shield. that was on the table. white house press secretary did spoke to the press and didn't make it sound like the deal was locked up or finalized. both the secretary of defense and the secretary of state are going to be visiting the region later on this week. >> thank you patty culhane. that's the view of the u.s. capital or straib but how straib. straib.
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descraibl. saudi arabia. >> iran needs to move away from its oil exporting dependency and more to an equities port based economy. >> one of the largest in asia in terms of production output it's second only to iran's oil and gas industry. he said the sanctions forced him to make parts instead of importing them. now that sanctions are about to be lifted he thinks iran is ready to export cars to the world. in addition to oil and cars, sanctions have taken a bite out of the carpet industry. few years ago business was so good he was sending a shipping container full of campts to the unitedcarpets everyweek but the sanctions
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disrailed that. >> when we can't export our product abroad we have to depend on local demand which is impossible to rely on by itself. if sanctions get luforted lifted we'll see the results swiftly. >> let me give you an example. in my hands i have 3 million reale, three million of the currency units divided. this was worth $250 three years. now it's worth $100. one way to hedge against rampant inflation is to buy gold. that's why jewelry business tends to do well in good or bad. but still iran's plungeing currency.
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>> sometimes in one hour we have so many different prices it causes us many problems. >> despite the hardships sanction he pose for most iranians, local high technical entrepreneurs told us they offer opportunities that otherwise wouldn't have been there for him. >> mohammed is founder of sava idea, a firm that has taken off and is a hit you with iranians online. >> sanctions cost us for research and development because we weren't able to collaborate with be forces abroad. they forced us to develop products and services on our own. once sanctions are lifted we will be able to provide our project with more efficiency. >> many in iran are hopeful for the chances of economic prosperity will only grow. ali velshi, al jazeera.
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>> move in, tried to flee the western chinese region of chinjuang, the wiegers say they are being persecuted. as jerald tan reports. >> a new home, where they can freely practice their religious. wiegers settle into the city of central turkey. they come from sinjung the indifnlg news portion of western china. >> we were oppressed we had to hide our faith our beliefs we had to move through a rough mountainous forested past. some didn't make it and decide. we hid ten days to the thai forests and were taken to prison. >> many had to leave their husbands behind.
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>> translator: we don't know where they are. thailand or china. we don't know if they're alive. if they're handed to china it's basically to kill them because the chinese know very well how to torture. >> the wiegers say they had to leave china because of economic discrimination and religious repreps. the restriction thefer got tighterthen gotstricter. >> translator: all types of worship was banned in east turkistan. now considered an element of terrorism. >> the chinese foreign ministry says wiegers who leave the 61 for turkey are a security threat adding through southeastern turkey, they head to holy wars in syria and iraq,
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receive terrorist training and bide their time oreturn. because of a shared cultural and linguistic heritage to flourish pnl people in this weetion culture dress and eat the way they would in sinjung but free of persecution. jerald tan, al jazeera. >> now the fossilized remains of what's been hailed as a dragon is being dugd up from dug up in western china. 1.8 meters long it's the largest dinosaur with wings. despite all of its plume an it was incapable of flight. coming up we will have the late
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latest in sports. raul will have that for you stay with us.
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>> welcome back. raul is here for sport. >> maryam thank you. the second round at st. ann descreus, coming to an end. big namings to miss the cut. typical scotland weather
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england's danny willits was one of the earlier finishers, giving him the under par leader. dustin johnson was 9 under par jordan spieth is currently 4 under. tiger woods is struggling to make the cut five over after 74 holes and one of the greatest players in open history teed off at the tournament for probably the last time after 40 years tom watson won the open five times in his career but the 65-year-old looks like he will be going home six over after nine holes. hard out of australia the aussie captain was dismissed for 215 becoming the third australian to score a test century, awfort eventually declaring at five 66, england
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lost four quick wickets 30 for four, here is how it's looking going into day 3. england recovering to 85 for 4 thanks to an you defeated 55 partnership, al stair cook and ben stokes. they still need 282 runs, that's if australia decides to enforce it. england's most expensive footballer raheem sterling arrived in australia to link up with the preseason tour. manuel peligrini confirmed won't play against melbourne most likely make his debut in tuesday's game also in melbourne. >> he has a lot of things to improve. i think it's important for him to have a new challenge in our team where he will play with
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great players and improve also his game. he will improve as of this. >> you'retour de france, race leader chris froom achieved his very large lead, very difficult for his rivals to overcome. japan's government has bowed to public pressure, a decision which also has a major effect on the 29 team rug biunion, world cup, the cost had soared to nearly double the estimate at around $2 billion in a major reversal shinzo abe says the main design needs to be totally redone. world rugby is now seeking
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urgent talks with the japanese government after the announcement. >> translator: the construction cost have been greatly inflated and there were criticisms from the public including the athletes on the plan which maybe believed it would not bl able to host a game. >> rugby world cup will take place in england retain the trophy, they won four years ago the all blacks, started the defense of the southern hemisphere rugby union. be captain richard mccall scored the about first of their try. australia preparing to host south africa, in the surprise rush to wallabebe cps after a trublgd 2014, captain to make a
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fresh start. >> we've got a reputation that we want to stand for. until we get out and play and people can actually watch us, we want that to come through how we play. anyone who wafns us on tv-who watches us on tv, tomorrow won'ting the finished product but we'll give it a crack. >> former soviet republic is on the verge of making its first ever appearance in the semi finals of the davis cup. in the first day of their quarter final in czar 1 won both opening singles rubbers while 4-1 be visibly unhappy at his defeeghts. nowp need to win all three remaining matches in this tie to keep their hopes alive. now the last surviving
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player from uruguay's team has died. on the 65th anniversary of his most famous goal. scored the winner, at the famous stadium in many rio. uruguayn most famous are are along with frank sinatra and the poem. >> in good exaggeration company. be nasa has released pictures of pluto. new horizon propose passed some 12 and a half thousand kilometers from the planet. nine day fly by. new horizons is heading to the cooper belt and due to arrive there in four years.
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>> this is al jazeera america, live from new york city. i'm david schuster. we're expecting a news conference in just a couple of moments from chattanooga tennessee, that's where investigators will be giving us an update into their probe into the shootings yesterday at two different facilities, four u.s. marines have been killed. the shooter is mohammed yousef abdulazeez.