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iran's supreme leader accuses the u.s. of arrogance and says there are still vast differences between the two countries. >> you are watching al jazeera coming up in the next half hour: three days mourning are declared after a huge isil car bomb kills more than 100 people in iraq. trucks and cars in flames after a wildfire in california blazes across a busy highway.
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formula one mourns the death of jules bianchi, the 25-year-old driver who never recovered from a crash at last year's japanese grand prix. in his first speech since a historic nuclear deal was signed with world powers iran's supreme leader has accused washington of airrrogancearrogance. ayatollah khomeni was speaking before tennessee ofs of thousands of supporters who chanted death to america and death to israel. he said iran would not change its behavior and support honest fightners lebanon and palestine. >> of course we don't welcome a war. we won't begin or pre-empt a war but if a war does happen here the one who will ex i will the
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war is the atrocious america. >> i spoke with a political science professor at tehran university. again, my asking him who cam ane khameni's message was aimed at. >> i believe he was aiming at his hardline supporter because you must -- you must realize that the back boyn of the support comes from the hardliners and the historic agreement, nuclear agreement in vienna was, in a sense, a tremendous blow, a defeat for the hard liners. so in a sense, the ayatollah was trying to keep them happy, keep their morale high. he was saying while nothing has happened important, united states is still our enemy, et cetera, et cetera. and i think that he was aiming
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at regaining the support and give them a morale boost if you like. >> the hardliners musting questioning their role in iran now that this deal has gone through. do you see the hardliners' influence being affordable if or when these sanctions are lifted and when the country becomes more open? >> well, i believe, that the hardliners politically, they are in decline. they might sound more rhetoric. they might see more rhetoric coming out of hard liners but i think they are in decline. we have parliamentary elections in about seven months' time and i think they are quite worried about their chances of winning that election. >> as you say, the hardliners' influence are in decline and now that we are about to see the sanctions being lifted iran is going to be a very different conducts country to the ones that we are
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used to before the sanctions. >> yes. but you mustn't -- you mustn't expect the ayatollah to change his words and his look overnight or for that matter the hardliners. it's only natural to expect them to carry on with the same rhetoric, but in reality, i think moderate reformists are -- have a better future. >> the nuclear deal with iran is seen as a major success for u.s. president barack obama and one of a string of reece event achievements which will help to secure his legacy. white house correspondent patty culhane takes a look at what's next. >> you can see it in the way he walks. suddenly for u.s. president barack obama, fired up seems like more than a campaign slogan.
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>> that's clear after he explained his mood in a recent radio interview. >> i know what i am doing and i am fearless. >> to many it seems, that the president has had a picture-perfect last few months. reacting in the oval office after the supreme court kept his signature health insurance legislation in place he lit up the white house when the court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, reestablished ties with cuba after 5 decades and has an international deal on iran's program. he has defied what the pundits have been saying for years. >> is obama a lame duck president? >> this makes him a lame duck president. the jobs will be tougher in the next two years. >> is he already a lame duck? >> it seems the president would disagree. he is speaking out with more force on some of the most toxic political issues in the u.s. like gun control. >> i have had to make statements like this too many times. >> and on race. ♪ amazing grace. snoedz. >> i united a congregation in song after a racially motivated
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mass shooting. ♪ how sweet the sound. ♪. >> i has been a defendant bit blunt when he thinks he needs to be? >> that's nonsense. you should know better. >> his on to do list isn't done. it's possible he will be able to get through criminal justice reforms and he is still working on finalizing the transpacific partnership, a free trade agreement that would impact 40% of the global economy. analysts say what the president and the staff have probably figured out by now that often presidential legacies are shaped by events outside of their control. >> when it comes to foreign policy, obviously everything is completely unpredictable. there is so much out of his control, what other world leaders do is out of his control. terrorist attacks are out of hi control. >> i faces challenges the fight guess isil the rebuilding of iraq, the civil war in syria, the stand-off in ukraine and he needs to get the iran deal past congress and figure out if he will do more than just threaten
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israel with the possibility of supporting palestine at the united nations. this is a president who realizes the clock is ticking, hoping he can tick off a few more accomplishments in the time left. patty culhane, al jazeera, washington. >> security has been stepped up in diyala province. the governor has closed public parks and entertainment venues and declared three days of mourning. imran khan reports. >> reporter: the governor of diyala province called for three days of mourn after the most serious attack there this year. the explosives were detonated as people celebrated the eid religious fest vavl. a suicide bomber drove into the middle of the marketplace. you can see buildings have been damaged. ideal would anyone ever do this? this is terrible on the mourning of eid when everyone should be
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celebrating. >> bodies were being pulled from the rubble angry crowds destroyed property and cars in protest. social media accounts linked to isil claimed responsibility saying sshia muslims were the target. isil said it was revenge for the iraqi government's campaign against the fighters and the death of sunni muslims. as three days in morning are declared, public places have been closed to try to prevent further attacks. imran khan baghdad. >> a shopping mall in kenya has re-opened two years after thebeing attacked by al shabaab fighters. four men with grenades and automatic weapons took over the westgate mall. >> we willlet's hear from one woman who was inside sher shop in the mall when it was attacked. >> my name is nadia, and i am from the frankrance lounge. we are ready to open back at the
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westgate. on that day, he was here. i ran out in a very very bad state. it was the worst day ever. i had to come back into the mall after a few weeks to recover the stock. initially it was very hard for me to come back in. i came to terms with it. we are ready to open. we are ready to sell. are people going to come in? we feel comfortable but we invite people to overcome the fear. for people who are hesitant coming into the mall i feel like we should come together as a community and support because as a country, we are going through this as a country, we are not going through this as just westgate because it can happen anywhere at any time. it's not because it happened here it's going to happen again. it's because we are back here.
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we have overcome it. we are ready to do what we are supposed to do. so we urge everyone to support us. the security is -- yes, we have moved from where we were. we are much better than what we were two years back, but i think we have a longer way to go. >> yolanda buckhar is from the institute of securities studies and she says there is room to improve coordination of security services in kenya. >> there has been various attempts to change the past leadership in the military and in the security. but beyond that, it's very difficult to say what has been done concretely to instill more discipline. i think another issue with regard to the response to westgate was the fact that you had two security institutions competing for the leading role on the scene. you had the gsc and you had the military. there needs to be a clear stanchion in the future. i think the government has been working towards that on clear
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chain of command, when you have domestic terrorism in an urban setting, do you send the military or do you send a counterterrorism unit? this is one of the reasons why the westgate event was so problematic. i think the government has been trying to approach that much more systematically. >> administering the university of sudan are trying to figure out how to prevent students from dropping out of their studies to join isil. and as al jazeera's natasha gname reports, more than 20 students are believed to have joined the group. >> reporter: together for a better future is the motto of the university of medical sciences and technology until
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khartoom. >> in the suburbs of west jerusalem where black israelis say they will continue to protest against widespread racism and discriminaltion after earlier protests ended in violence one step at a time the high altitude porters bringing quake relief to nepal's isolated villages.
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>> government committees. >> they're spending money, they're not saving it. >> costing millions and getting nothing. >> it's a bogus sham. >> america tonight investigates. money for nothing. >> they've gotten away with it for years.
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welcome back. a recap of al jazeera top stories. iran's supreme leader says the historic nuclear deal will not change iran's opposition to what he calls the arrogant policies of the united states. iran has agreed to limit nuclear developments in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. security has been stepped up across diyala province after at least 115 people were killed in a massive suicide bomb explosion. diyala's government has closed parks and entertainment venues and declared three days of mourning. a shopping mall in kenya has re-opened two years after being attacked byshabaab's fighters. 67 people died after four men with grenades and automatic weapons took over the westgate mall. investigators in the u.s. are looking into the international trips taken by the men who killed four u.s. marines in
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tennessee. they still don't know why 24-year-old mohammed yousef yousef abdul aziz opened fire on two navy recruitment septembers on thursday a report from chattanooga. >> reporter: vigils for four marines gunned down on american soil and roadside prayers. at the site of the first sheeting, a military recruiting center a witness recalls a calm killer who stopped to reload. >> i reached down into the passenger's seat and started pulling out the rifle and i saw the black handle come out and he then he picked it up like this and he just went back and forth like this unloaded the cartrinal, put another .1 in and went back and forth again. >> mohammed aziz was born in kuwait. the nabors remembered him as a smiling, typical american boy, a good student and a mixed martial
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arts fighter and a devout muslim. in april, he was arrested for drunken driving. as the f.b.i. continue their investigation, they are coming through the computer looking into clues to what turned a mild mannered young man into a killer. authorities say they are treating it as a terrorism attack but found no link sglfrnz. >> because the investigation is in early stages, it would be premature to speculate on exactly why the shooter did what he did. however, we are conducting a thorough investigation to determine whether this person acted alone. >> the shootings began at this military recruitment center and ended at this naval reserve complex. they say he was carrying two rifles and a hand gun was shot dead as a police officer after killing .4 marines and wounding two other people. you face some one else who had
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homicidal intent targeting members of the armed services because they were in the armed services and no reservations aboutac attacking and trying to kill police officers and chattanooga police officers confronted that threat and insured more people were not harmed in this or any other community. >> at the chattanooga mosque where the gunman prayed there is bewilderment. his father called the mosque chairman saying the motive was a mystery even to him. >> he is as shocked as we are. he was in the dark on what his son has done. he is very devastated, and he actually apologized for what his son did to the community in large and to the muslim community. >> those communities in this southerner state have been left wondering why a man who grew up with them could have turned to violence with such devastating consequences. chattanooga, tennessee. >> a wildfire has destroyed cars
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and holmes and closed a major road. gerald tan reports. >> serious an fast moving the flames caught motorists by surprise as the fire swept across this packed road along the kahone mountain pass drivers and passengers abandoned their cars and scrambled to safety. >> my husband said get your stuff and go and we did. >> all the sudden, a huge fire just started coming over the road burning the cars. people were running up the him. older people couldn't walk. they were dragging them up the hill. it was just a nightmare. >> the wildfire started in surrounding footed hills before bearing down on the main highway linking southern california to las vegas. the area is a tinder box. vegetation is parched from prolonged drought.
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flames land was burned within hours. several mountain communities nearby were evacuated. local t.v. staksz fichld aircraft dropping water and flame retard ant. on the ground more than 1,000 fire fighters tried to contain the fire. vehicles have been destroyed. so far, no injuries are being reported. gerald tan, al jazeera. >> the greek prime minister alexis tsipras has sacked those who voted against a new bail-out deal. two were members of his own party. new ministers have been sworn in. the economic and finance ministers are saying but the labor and energy ministers have been changed. people on le sp o say more and more migrants are arriving on their shore. boats with at least 40 people each landed on friday. they had crossed from turkey. the united nations says more than 77,000 people have arrived by sea to greece so far this year. more than 60% of them are
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syrians. israel's prime minister has been meeting black israeli leaders after continuing protests against alleged discrimination. been ming netanyahu says racism has been elim nad. he set up a committee to combat it. many black israelis believe little will change. >> an anti-racism protest in the heart of israel's most liberal city. blackisitsis and their supporters gathered in tel aviv to call for an end to discrimination, something they say is institutionalized. we have been experiencing race tlichl for years. we are demonstrating because we want equality initionis. >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu says racism needs to be eliminated from israeli society and that he is fed up with a government and ministerial schmidt aimed at trying to combat it.
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few here believe much will change. protests like this first erupted last month by video which went viral of a black israeli soldier being beaten by police. the rally did were largely peaceful until police fired tear grass and stun grenades at protesters, a show of force rarely used against israeli citizens who are not palestinian. >> there is this huge amount of this divide and conquer that goes on. there is a lot of inhifrnt racism that is legitimate. so we shouldn't be surprised when this racism toward palestinians is also kind of pushed by the government when it has racism to other groups. >> this is receptione. within the suburb is a neglected neighborhood which isn't just one of the poorest in the area but in all of israel. it's where we met s on mak mak gozak: he shows me around his home which is inside one of
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several socialized house can blocks. he says you know employment here is more than double the navy aefbl and residents complain of fred harassment by police. >> i thought lyst work better in israel. in ethiopia we could earn money. here, we are nothing. >> block israelis have complained of discrimination of years despite having been in israel since the 1980s, rights groups say they consistently earn far less than the general population, face limited educational opportunities and are more likely to end up in prison something benjamin netanyahu hopes to change. sona goza thinks it's too little too late and he doesn't expect life in israel to improve for him over other black israelis no matter what the government does. ays, tell aviv.
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nepal's earthquake lot many out of work. some are putting skills to humanitarian use. they are carrying food to thousands of people in inaccessible villages from central nepal, the story. >> reporter: local porters have gathered for their day's work to carry food and other essential items for the u.n.'s world food program. many of them high-a lotltitude porters have been out of work. a porter with a trek can agency before. >> my house was destroyed. we cannot afford to sit around. we need to work. >> more than 7,500 porters have been employed in this program. the trekking agency has been handling the logistics. >> we are trying to prove.
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we are not doing other activities. these porters are going to walk for three days and cross a pass to the village in neighboring tading district. they earn $15 a day to carry 30 kilos. from the air, landslides appear like scars on the mountainside. the team has to fix the trial as they walk. most of the houses in this picture picturethises ue village. >> their crop has been desnated by an insect which has made them completely rely ant on food distribution. >> going to see the maize plantation? >> after the earthquake some
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kind of insect started eating it up. look at what it did. they used fertilizers for some of the crops. the maize should have been ready by now he tells me. the fields are plush but the cob is not well formed. more than 200 metric tons have been carried by porters to 83,000 people living in villages like these. for the people who are still recovering from the earthquake the aid comes as a welcome relief t al jazeera, nepal. >> formula one drivers past and present are paying tribute to jules bianci who will died of severe head injuries after crashing at last year's japanese grand grand prix. he has been in a coma for the past nine months. a statement from his family says, jewels fought right to the end as he always did. his battle came to an end.
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the pain we feel is i am men's and indescribable. sarah coat the s looks at the high-speed crash that cost his life. >> last year's japanese brandfree, formula one entered its darkest chapter in two decades. french driver jewels bianchi lost control of his car and crashed into a recovery vehicle already assisting driver adrian suttle which spun out the lap before. he was unconscious when taken to hospital. he never recovered. this was a 2 knife-year-old frenchman's second f-1 season after progressing through ferrari ferrari's young driver program. rating for morusia, he scored his first ever point with the grand pre. he began like so many other f-1 drivers, competing and excelling in car racing. >> i met jules when he began at
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this track, when he was with his father. he drove particularly well. after that, everyone knows how his year and performance evolved. >> as well as his personality, which was particularly attractive. >> reporter: the investigation following the accident found bianchi did not slow sufficiently to avoid losing control in the bad conditions. the findings prompting f-1 to alter its rules allowing stewards to force all cars to slow and go through the pit lane instead of continuing to lap the circuit. start times were also moved preventing drivers from racing that by it's very nature formula one is a sport involving risk and reward. it's the dynamic that makes it so intoxicating for drivers and fans. early in his career he was asked if he was worried about racing at high speed. >> it's normal.
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it's racing was his reply racing feels anything but normal at a time like this. sara coates al jazeera. >> more sports news as well as the latest news on our website. that's aljazeera.com. explorer and environ mentalist jean michel cousteau. >> we're the only species on the planet the only species on the planet that has the privilege not to disappear... it's our choice. >> he spent more time under water than any living person. as the son of the legendary jacques cousteau he was drawn to the ocean at tan early age. >> i would take my bag and i would go to the coastline, almost everyday, on my way to school. and one of the things i wanted to do was to catch octopus. >> h

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