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>> hello and welcome to the news hour in doha. coming up over the next 60 minutes, voting in burundi's controversial presidential poll. we'll be live from the capital and in neighboring rwanda. >> new picture emerge of a suicide bomb attack that killed more than 30 people in a turkish border town. >> a top aid of china's former
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president is arrested and accused of accepting bribes. >> the hottest year on record as calls heat up for a global deal on climate change. >> people in burundi are voting in a controversial presidential election. one person died in violence leading up to the poll. the elections being boycott by several opposition leading parties. the u.n., e.u. and african union have all said they won't recognize the results. they urge the president not to go ahead with the vote, but he refused to back down. these are pictures of him casting a ballot. there's been months of violence since he announced he was staying for a third therm.
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critics say that violates the constitution. >> it's another great turn in democracy in the country so we allow the burundian people to vote or to choose someone who they believe in, then the leaders are the authorities they trust and also to choose from the many programs that feed them. >> we have two correspondents monitoring events. catherine soy is in eastern rwanda where refugees blue fled the violence are seeking shelter. first let's go to the capital. we have seen some violence leading up to the polls opening. are people there worried about voting? >> >> they are worried about voting. in the capitol the urban areas very low voter turnout. this is a typical polling station. you can see there's no one waiting in line. election officials say they've been sitting in these rooms for
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a long time and very few people have been trickling in. in volatile parts of the capital, some people did try to come on the streets because they were angry. a man was killed overnight when there was gunfire and explosions. they want to know what happened. he was an opposition member and they were angry about that. the police tried to push them back and disperse them. it is quiet now but tense. people are going home early. they worry once the polls close there could be violence overnight. in the countryside, it is different, the president is popular and long lines of people have come to vote. >> there's been so much instability of his standing for another term, there's been violence, people have fled the country. are they hoping this will draw a line under everything? >> the ordinary person you speak
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to say just get this over and done with. hopefully there will be peace in the country. there are other hardliners who say no, he should not be running for a third term. it's not right to violate the constitution, he should leave. people are concerned that if he does win if he is sworn in, how is that group going to react. in the back of their minds that failed coup, they know some of those generals, some soldiers have left the country. they are hearing murmurings that those people may try to come back and forcefully remove him. people are concerned that this country could be on the brink of the civil war if those people make good on their threats. >> there could be more trouble ahead. thank you for that. let's cross to catherine in the reef gee camp in eastern rwanda. that's where thousands of people have ended up after leaving
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burundi because they were so frightened by the violence. >> absolutely, 70,000 is the number of people who have crossed into rwanda to burundi from april when the conflict broke out, 35,000 people are here. it's quite for from the border with burundi because of security concerns. 34 those people are here in rwanda refugees. these are politicians university students, university lecturers, people who escaped from being intimidated. it's putting a strain on aid agencies who are working to provide basic services not only to the people in the cities, but to the people in this camp, as well. and just to add on top of this, these people, before the people came there other refugees were
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here from the department republic of congo, 75,000 refugees, some have been here for two decades. on top of that, there is a new influx of refugees, quite a strange to aid agencies, joining us to discuss this is the individual in charge of 16 terrible relations. we've seen people coming in in the last few days. what are you hearing? >> we are getting 100 new arrivals every day sometimes more sometimes a bit less, but it's fewer than expected, fewer than a couple of months ago. the new arrived refugees telling us they're having trouble traveling in burundi. they're having trouble getting up to the border area, they're being stopped, their possessions are being confiscated. they're being threatened and
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intimidated, so they are not able to get across the border freely, and so we have the sense that there's a large number of people in burundi who want to flee but have not yet been able to get across the border to reach safety here in rwanda. >> that's a big number, 34,000 here. this camp was set up in april just for this. what are your priorities right now? >> this camp is 91 days old. there was nothing here 92 days ago. now it's a small town with all of the challenges of that. the number one priority we have is trying to race against time to prepare for more refugees still coming, thousands maybe tens of thousand us. we don't know how many and we don't know exactly when, it makes it difficult to plan. for the refugees still here already, the number one priority is water. you know, more people die from bad water lack of wore in
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refugee situations than any other single cause so clean water, adequate water is important. we even have some young children who refused to go to school because they say their clothes are too dirty and they don't have water to wash their clothes. there's a water shortage that is very serious. we're trying to bring river water from nearby into the camp, trucking water from 60 kilometers away every day. we are drilling bore holes to try to improve the water. all this has been a challenge and so far the water is in short supply. >> thank you very much. it's not an ideal situation. it's never an ideal situation living so far away from your home. a lot of people here want to go home. they've been watching and following closely what's going on in their country.
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they say an election and polarizing one would not guarantee their safety should they go back. >> very interesting to get a glimpse of how they're living day to day. catherine, thank you for that. >> in somalia at least 24 people have been killed in a town where residents accuse african union forces of opening fire without provocation. they say soldiers came to a sports ground and shot at a group of young men playing football. they went to neighboring homes where they broke down doors and dragged people out. >> >> video has emerged of monday's blast in turkey. [ explosion ] >> pictures showing the suicide take detonating a bomb in the mostly kurdish town. the funerals are some victims of taken place in the nearby city. 32 people were killed, nearly
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100 injured in the explosion. we have the latest. >> the turkish prime minister announced that a suspect has been identified and the links are being investigated. that hasn't alleviated the sense of anger here at this cultural center. you see people that have come to pay their respects. they're leaving flowers even children's toys here. the volunteers who were attacked yesterday, this youth group were planning to go to kobane, a syrian town across the border. they were plan to go donate supplies, to help children, help the needy. they were going to go and try to rebuild hospitals. a lot of the kurdish folks we've spoken with today feel that the turkish government hasn't done enough to protect them. they feel they are being made victims and are demanding that they get more protection from these kind of attacks in the
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future. >> and inner net video is said to show the damage caused by syrian government airstrikes. 26 people were reportedly killed. the town near aleppo is controlled by isil fighters. it's not clear who died in the strike. >> a group linked to isil has claimed responsibility for an attack on a mosque in yemen's apartmental sanna. it happened close to a houthi rebel leader's home. seven people were killed. in sanna, six were killed in a shooting at a checkpoint and five others dead at a car bombing at a police station. >> in south yemen an international aid group said 100 people have been killed by houthi shelling in aden. many civilians were among the dead. the rebels and their allies attacked the neighborhood on sunday. >> in aden, a united nations ship arrived in the port to deliver aid. it's the first to dock since the
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war began four months ago. it's carrying 3,000 tons of relief supplies, enough to last one month. the world food program warns it can't fill the gap in yemen's food needs. yemen's transport minister announced the airport in aden will be open in 24 hours. local fighters seized the airport from houthi rebels last week. >> five people have been killed during u.s. led airstrikes on fallujah in iraq and to the east locals are still reeling from the after effects of the largest attack in the neighborhood that killed 115 people and injured more than 100 others. we have a report from people who say they have been left to fend for themselves. >> this is where the bomb went off on friday during the festival. the islamic state of iraq and the levant quickly claimed responsibility for the explosion. mobs of angry young men in this
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shia muslim down have been on the streets since the attack protesting what happened. >> no one cares what happened here. our government hasn't even visited here. even president obama has sent condolences. no one cares. >> their anger isn't likely to go away soon. they blame the sunni muslims for allowing isil fighters in, an allegation sunni leaders denied to al jazeera but refused to say on camera because they fear revenge attacks. >> people here have lost all faith in the government to defend them. they say the only people that can protect them from these attacks are the shia militias. they say they're the only ones that have the power to be able to take revenge and that's what they want, revenge against the people who perpetrated this attack. >> the local mayor is a man under pressure. as the representative of the government anger is directed towards him. he is lying low and increased his own security, fearful of the
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mobs outside. >> we need more of everything to protect ourselves more bomb detecting equipment, more cameras, more local police and soldiers who know the area and can protect us against isil. >> members of several large shia militia groups have visited the town. one of them have warned they will get revenge for this attack. for isil, it's a big propaganda victory, demonstrating a vacate attack at will. that has residents scared and angry. al jazeera. >> coming up here on the program, cooking the books the scandal that's forced top executives at a japanese corporate giant to step down. >> we report from bolivia where thousands of striking miners have taken their dispute to the center of government. >> in sport, find out if the most expensive english footballer in history got off to a winning start with his new team.
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>> a top aid to former chinese president has been arrested and expelled from the commune it party. he is to face trial accused of accepting huge bribes as well as keeping mistresses and stealing party secrets. his arrest is part of an anti graft campaign launched by the successor. he wants to restore public confidence in the ruling party. we have more from beijing. >> at the center of power, he was the top aid for the former president. now these charges against him read almost like a soap opera going from trading power for sex to sharing core secrets of the party, for huge bribes. the beginning of his downfall was in 2012 when there was a high speed crash a ferrari
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sport vehicle driven by his son was card. his son was killed. he was with two women in the vehicle. one later died from injuries. that was of the beginning of the downfall. it's this pattern we've been seeing over these former high ranking finishes going through corruption charges. first they are sidelined in their political career. seems like the trial starts to get their case against these individuals and what happens is what we saw today and that is that he's kicked out of the party and these charges are formally brought up against him. over the coming months, it will be interesting to see how high profile this case will be. it falls into the current penalty's campaign against corruption. this is something that he said right from the beginning when he came president in 2012, that he wants to make that a top priority for his presidency, it will be interesting to see how quickly they can get these charges together. >> the chief executive of toshiba is stepping down over a
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major account be scandal in another blow dew corporate japan's image. we have this report. >> the toshiba boss seen here in the middle bows out after a $1.2 billion accounting scandal. he says he's deeply sorry for mistakes made. >> the responsibility lies in the management, including myself. as a response, i am stepping down from the post of president. >> independent market regulators found when they investigated the balance sheet the company had been systematically inflating profits for years. the findings mean toshiba will have to restate six years of profits. the japanese government said toshiba needs to clean up its act. >> there's very little that corrections had to be made to toshiba's security report. we will strongly urge toshiba to correct the information. >> the scandal is another blow to japan's corporate image.
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financial fraud at olympus was another embarrassment. the prime minister has proposed a series of reforms but they're in early stages. toshiba share prices dropped 25% since it first disclosed accounting irregular lants in april. it may have implications past shareholders and undermine confidence in japanese companies. >> a new poll suggests three quarters of the united states approved the restoration of dip ties between the u.s. and cuba. monday, the embassies of both countries were reinstated and flags raised to mark the end of more than half a century of hostilities. the u.s. cut off ties with cuba in 1961, two years after the communist revolution. last december, the two opportunity tories greed to
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reestablish relations encouraged by pope francis. travel restrictions imposed by both countries remain in place. after talks with the cuban foreign minister, the u.s. secretary of state said he'll visit havana in august. >> the united states welcomes this new beginning in its relationship with the people and government of cuba. we are determined to live as good neighbors on the base of mutual respect and want all our citizens to look forward to the future with hope. >> many u.s. politicians oppose the decision to move closer to cuba. that means that any attempt to scrap the economic blockade will face tough resistance. >> you are going to continue to see pushback from congress, so if anyone thinks that the sanctions are going away, that the so-called embargo is going to be away, they have not been paying attention.
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>> however cuba's foreign minister understands the easing of relations will only work if those sanctions are removed. >> only the lifting of the economic commercial and financial blockade which has caused so much harm and suffering to our people, the return of the occupied territory in guantanamo and respect for cuba's sovereignty will lend meaning to the event we are witnesses today. >> we have this report from the newly opened u.s. embassy in havana. >> it may look exactly the same, but this is no longer a u.s. intersection under the care and protection of the swiss embassy. that flag is now gone and the building you see behind me that was constructed in 1953 is now once again the u.s. embassy it was always meant to be. the american flag is not flying here at least not yet. that will wait until u.s. secretary of state john kerry
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comes to oversee an official ceremony. from the tiny flags the embassy staff were carrying to the number of tourists and americans carrying passports and flag, they marked the day. >> i'm hoping that this brings about changes. >> cubans who went inside forar visa say requisiteles have not changed, but the staff was more friendly than before. clearly the reestablishment of diplomatic relations has a much bigger impact here than in the united states. generations of cubans grew up preparing themselves for a possible u.s. invasion. now u.s. counselor stay of will be able to travel around this communist island freely. of course, both countries have a long way to go to really normalize ties. >> it has been an exciting day here. in fact, many are probably remembering former president fidel castro's words when in 1973, he was asked when he thought that cuba would restore
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diplomatic ties. he answered when the world has a latin american pope and the united states a black president. he probably didn't believe it himself, but that day has come. >> striking miners in southern bolivia are back on the streets after a lull in their two weeks of protests. they say they won't go back until president morales fulfills promises of investment in the reasonable that. we have this report from la paz. >> twoics on and protestors are pressing their demands. on monday, they set up dynamite in the streets close to the presidential palace. >> listen to us, how are you going to forget the promises you made. >> prosecutor toasters say the city is underdeveloped and one of the poor evident in bolivia. they want the government to build hospitals roads an
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international airport and to preserve the silver mine, active since 1545, among other demands. >> we have fair demands. some professionals here are miners, because there is no work but the mine. we want industry. morales said 98% of the issues have been resolved. she says more than $1.3 billion have been invested in the region and there is a plan to invest $700 million more. critics say that is helping industry, but not the people. >> 58% of mining royalties go. it's a lot of mining, but only a few profit mining it. development continues as it was 500 years ago. >> two thirds of the people in the mine rich area continue to live in poverty and infrastructure projects have been delayed. >> several thousand people have come to la paz the capital
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among them miners, teachers and businessmen. they say they will stay indefinitely until we speak with president ava morales face-to-face. >> the interior minister said the president won't meet protestors. >> it's an argument to tom flak a political agenda. the doors are open for talks with state ministers. >> now with access roads blocked, it is isolated and paralyzed. protestors say the city is running out of food, mid 16, money and pet troll. people have been demanding changes for more than five years. they don't want to wait any longer. al jazeera, la paz bolivia. >> ever to know's here to tell us about the flooding in brazil. >> that's right. some really nasty weather cross southern brazil recently. the satellite picture big
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massive cloud here. very active weather system, 114 millimeters of rain in only 24 hours. it is much to in the process of making its way further eastwards. with that kind of rainfall coming down in a short time, it causes problems. 47,000 people were affected by the very heavy and steady rain that came in across southern parts of brazil. it is now in the pros of making its way further east wards. we need the rain, so that's no bad thing. we go on through wednesday it does make a slight return going through thursday. wet weather never far away. on the other side of the pond, we've got bands of rain streaming in from the atlantic across the northern parts but further south, we see very, very hot weather extensive heatwave
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coming uncouth southern europe, 36 celsius. many of these areas seeing temperatures remaining five or six degrees above average. >> thanks for that. scientists say we've had the hottest month of june since 1880. it's the fourth month of this year to break temperature records. climate experts say 2015 is on track to be the hottest on record with global warming being blamed by some scientists. >> ireland's president said climate change skeptics should be reject. he's been speaking in paris. world leaders hope to have an agreement on greenhouse gas emissions. the french president said reductions offered by some countries aren't good enough. >> we know that we must limit global warming by the end of the century.
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in order to succeed we need an agreement on climate change. if nothing is done, it wasn't be two degrees, it's four degrees that will be the indicator for global warming. >> pope francis is hosting talks on climate change at the vatican. mayors and government from major word cities are attending discussing how human trafficking i guess linked to changes in the earth's climate. the vatican wants high income countries to help people to migrate from poorer nations due to drought and natural disasters. >> still to come here on al jazeera, liberia discharges the last ebola patients, we talk to children who lost their parents in the outbreak. >> divers at the click of a button. women's right groups demand changes to laws governing muslims.
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>> welcome back p.m. the top stories on al jazeera the president of burundi has voted in his controversial bid for reelection. he is running for a third term, which critics say vital the two term limits. >> turkeys prime minister said the government's investigating a suspect it believed carried out a suicide attack in the kurdish town. 32 people died in the blast.
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>> in somalia at least 24 people have been killed in the town where residents accuse african union forces of opening fire. soldiers shot at a group of young people at a sports ground. >> israel's prime minister urged members of the u.s. congress to reject the nuclear deal between iran and six word powers. benjamin netanyahu made the appeal after meeting with u.s. defense as he can ashton carter. carter's in the middle east to reassure middle east allies about the landmark agreement saying.he will travel to jordan and saudi arabia next. let's speak to an israeli analyst, co authority of the nuclear spynx of iran. good to have you with us.
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the israeli prime minister urging u.s. congress to reject the iran deal. it really doesn't look at though the u.s. defense secretary that managed to calm his nerves at all. >> not at all. i think to be saying that while the defense minister of the -- of president obama i think shows how much which a combative mood prime benjamin netanyahu is. nobody expected one visit to change netanyahu's attitude, but what's important to note here is that although majority of israeli's are against the deal, the reason why the opposition is against the deal is because it's worried about iran's support for militia in the region against israel increasing. but coming to the state of israel, i think the defense minister is reaching out to the opposition also in israel, which is worried about that. another reason why i think it's
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positive his visit relations must be improved now more than ever, because in order to confront any potential threat from iran in the region, we must have our relations to america back to where they were before the prime minister entered the crise with his congress speech. >> israel is worried about other things apart from iran getting hold of a nuclear weapon, because a lot of people are saying israel are being paranoid, iran agreed to curb its nuclear weapons, it is going to be monitored very closely from now on under the international agreement and the general consensus that israel has its own nuclear weapon. what exactly is he worried about? >> if we look at the general israeli view of the opposition
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and prime minister benjamin netanyahu, although they differ on addressing the issue as an iranian who lives in israel, the constant threat for elimination of the state of israel really of course all these years created a very negative image but what really change would was the new strategy of the iran regime to deny the holocaust. when you put those two together and the fact in the past iran did not live up to its commitments when it secretly had to enrichment centers that has created a very negative image of the iranian regime here, a regime which nobody believed. it is paranoia in the state of israel. i think people have a right not to trust such a regime, but he is playing politics with the game with this issue and really exploiting it. for years, he said iran is a regime which it isn't.
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>> the u.s. defense secretary is traveling to saudi arabia and jordan. do you think the iran deal also impacts relations between them and the u.s.? >> president obama recently hosted a summit of the leaders of the persian gulf states, including saudi arabia. we saw that the people they sent to that summit were junior. bahrain preferred to go to london for a tennis match or was it horse racing, something he was quite a let's say quite a strong message from bahrain to the united states, and other countries did not send senior
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slider ship, showing they do not support the iran deal. what worries them is the more money iran has the mother it will support bashar al assad or hezbollah, now taking on some of their sunni allies in the region. i am not sure the visit by mr. carter is really going to improve the situation there. >> it's good to get your thoughts. thank you for joining us. >> the u.n. warned that the ebola outbreak in west africa hasn't yet run its course. more than 11,000 people have died since the outbreak began late 2013. the african union is holding a conference to discuss the post ebola recovery. the virus created 5,000 orphans in liberia alone. we have more. >> like many teenagers, even when she is doing chores, she's
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inseparable from her phone. she is grounding this for a meal for her large extended family, which lives in this one room house. later, as she prepares to go out, her oldest sister does her hair. ask her about their parents and she breaks down. her mom and dad along with at least eight other adults in the compound died from ebola last year. the sisters haven't just lost their guardians the community that lost some of its main bread winners. now, food comes from charities and neighbors.
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they fill the kitchen before the family meal, but behind it is grief. most of the people who died were brothers. living in such a knows knit unit is what made the tragedy worse making it easier to pass the virus from one another. with more than 20 children to feed, they are finding it hard to cope. >> that i can god for the president who helps us fix our leaking roof, but we still need help. we have the youngest orphan here. while people is talking about how he is the youngest survivor of the treatment unit, we still have no aid. >> she desperately needs regular meals to be provided and wants to send children to school. for now, they are getting by as best as they can on the support of an extended family circle.
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al jazeera. >> the u.n. envoy for ebola said there were still around 30 new infections every week in west africa. the three main countries affected guinea, veer loan and line about her i can't have seen a slowdown in case is. liberia was declared ebola free in may. 11,000 people have died since the outbreak began in december, 2013. >> a communications officer at the world's health organization joins us now from geneva. good to have you on the program. we've been battling ebola for a year and a half now. it's still not under complete control. does that seem slow to you or is that about par for the course? >> obviously we would all like to have seen it to be well and truly over by now but this is a completely different ebola outbreak from any we've seen
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before. it's been much larger and weaver seen the tail end even in liberia, which as you quite rightly said had managed to stop transmission in may it took them a very long time to go from a few case to say zero cases and again because they've had so much ebola we've seen that it did recur again in july. it's a very different sort of outbreak from the one we've seen before. the good news is certainly in sierra leone, we are seeing the cases come down, and we are seeing that the measures needed to really bring it under control are in place. >> there has been success with the testing of ebola vaccine in monkeys. how soon before vaccines become available, do you think? >> well, in fact, there are two huge trials going on right now one in sierra leone and one in guinea. in guinea, they've been doing a
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trial when wherever there has been a case, they've vaccinated the people around the village to see if it's effective. the results of that preliminary results of the first studies they've done are likely to come out next week. even though they probably won't tell us enough with that trial going on, it is certainly showing that this is a safe vaccine. there don't seem to have been problems in humans, so we could have a very definite answer very very soon and if we do have that definite answer, obviously this is a tool we will want to use. >> that sounds very encouraging. one of the problems that emerged trying to get to the ebola outbreak under control was the fact that cultural practices were contributing to the spread of ebola. do you think lessons have been learned to prevent this happening again?
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>> you're right the cultural practices play a terribly important part. i think that would be anywhere in the world because it's a terrifying thing suddenly this virus arrives in your village people suddenly die and then you have people turn up in full protective gear who take your family members away. it was always a very terrifying experience bud ad to that burial rituals are extremely important in different groups, so more important often than life. it was more important to put your loved one to rest in a certain way than to actually protect your own life. getting around that has been difficult. it's required a lot of study and understanding on the part of people like us who come in to try to help. we have to understand how to help best, not to simply impose a thing on a group. those lessons have been learned and must continue to be applied when we have an outbreak of any kind, not just ebola so that
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defense against the disease comes from the people who are affected by the disease helped by people like us, but really, it's the people who have the disease who need to want to fight the disease for us to really have some hope of really strong victory over the disease. >> thanks very much for updating us on that. >> euro tunnel train services are delayed by striking french ferry workers. the latest protest against expect job cuts blocked access to the channel tunnel which connects france with england. previous protests saw migrants jumping on slow moving trucks to get to england. >> the first anniversary of economic sanctions being imposed on russia by the united states and the european union moscow denies backing the war by pro-russian separatists in
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eastern crane. it appears to be hurting the people more than their leaders. >> the shelves are full, but polish apples have been replaced by those from chile. there are no fresh cheesing, nor meat or dairy products from the u.s. canada or australia. it's costing more to feed a family than it used to. >> the prices have gone up and i think many people like me find any deals helpful. all categories of food have gone up. >> like many other russians, she has fewer rubles to spend than before the war started in ukraine. the e.u., u.s. and other nations wanted to punish moscow for its past in the crisis, imposing financial and trade sanctions. in turn, russia imposed its own measures including a blockade on many agricultural products. coupled with a drop in worldwide
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oil prices, the ruble has slipped against the dollar, making everything more expensive and the market more volatile. what has according to the polls, remained steadfast throughout is support for the russian president. his gamble in ukraine appears to have paid off. >> if the west was hoping that the sanctions would hurt vladimir putin personally, then they haven't worked. his popularity rating is a sky-high bolstered boy the crisis in ukraine. >> with a growing sense of isolation, old fears have come to the surface and different relationships are being worked on. >> russia actually as i said is the european minded country. we feel alienated. subject to a new sort of crusade and that definitely backs up the policy called the pivot to asia.
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>> no one knows how long the effects of the sanctions will last or what the ultimate price will be. al jazeera in moscow. >> women's rights groups in india want a ban on instant diverses by muslim men. they can divorce their wife by saying a word three times. some accuse men of using facebook and skype to do it. >> looking for answers, her husband who was working in saudi arabia phoned her one night and said the word three times. that was all it took for him to divorce her. >> it's not fair that men say it and it's all over. the wife should also have a say. ending a marriage by saying a word isn't right. >> islamic civil laws protected you are not the indian constitution so the indian government recognize's it even if it comes by an email or text
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from overseas. >> ref families we are working with. >> women's groups say that needs to change. >> there are many such issues involved. when you just say it abruptly, there is no possibility of settlement and any livelihood choices, options for women are alone, single, without any support system, it's a single right given to men. it couldn't be worse in this system where men can decide, choose, deliver at their own choice. >> slabbing scholars differ on how it should be are practiced. some say there should be a waiting period before such a divers becomes final. whatever the interpretation, indian muslim groups say it should be dealt with at a community level. >> it should be discouraged at all costs but we cannot say it is bad. it is the option of the girl and the people from the girl's side in fact that can put up the
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conditions that it will not be effective unless these things are being taken care of. >> slack civil law is open to in they were rereaction which is the reason there are such debates. many have bond the practice as a means of divers. many don't believe it will go much further than that as politics and religious will stop any real change. >> changing the way doctors are trained. we check out the latest in lead to printing. >> to walk away from a shark attack with not a scratch on you, it's like -- it's a miracle, really. >> mick fanning arrives home after his close encaughter with a shark. find out if he'll ever go back in the water again. stay with us.
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based on c.t. scans of people colored within a computer to create a file to send to a 3-d printer. it builds a block of powder in thousands of incremental sweeps. it injects colors into just a tiny proportion of the powder. as the block is lowered a 10th of a millimeter for each sweep, a detailed limb forms within. >> we had a head, we printed a face, head, all the muscles around it. it was very eerie, but amazing. >> the parts aren't suitable to implant in people. the bio compatibility is decades away. replicas of parts can be used for training doctors. traditionally, students learn from books, crude molded models or occasionally from parts dissected from dead people's bodies, cadavers. >> it's great having the cadavers there to have that 3-d
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aspect or practical aspect to what you're learning in your textbooks. i suppose you could argue that it is a bit less than we would ideally want. >> cadavers are rare and expensive and in some cultures they're taboo. >> there are cultures and religions which frown upon interference with a dead body. i like to think with teaching, this could fill a unique niche. >> the accuracy makes them special. so far there hasn't been a complete body printed. there isn't a machine big enough to do it. this is a mix of body parts based on scans of different people, a modern model frankenstein.
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>> though this isn't the start of being able to print something that could be given to life, for science teaching, it is a big foot step forward. >> let's get all the sport now with andy. >> sterling made an immediate impact at manchester city, the $18 million signing from liverpool scored within seconds of starting his debut game. sterling and city were a taking on in a friendly match in australia. the 20-year-old is the most expensive english player in history, so a lot more of this will be expected. three minutes in this 2-2 draw. man united said off-season spending is no guarantee of success. the team is in the united states for a series of friendly games. they spent more than $100 million on new players. >> the premier league is a different league.
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it's the highest pressure on the ball and game is very different with other leagues. therefore, you have to wait and see. >> the head of european football is emerging as the favorite to become the next fifa president. the current head of the world game seth blatter confirmed his name won't be on the blot paper at february's election. he hasn't yet confirmed that he'll be standing, but the boss has good levels of support and at least four footballs, six continental con if he would reactions. >> he has been pleased to hear a lot of words of support from some of the world's leading football decision makers and it has not gone unnoticed, so he will have to make a decision rewarding his next steps. he is not ready to make that decision now but has been impressed by the fact many people could see him as a
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possible successor. >> trim world champion surfer mick fanning said it may be months before he gets back in the water after a close encounter with a shark during a competition. the 34-year-old was competing in the final of the open here when a great white hit the back of his board. life t.v. pictures captured the incident. speaking now on his return to australia, fanning said he's still unsure how he managed to escape. >> to walk away from, you know, a shark with not a scratch on you, it's like -- it's a miracle, really, you know, i spoke to different people. i actually had dinner with a guy who had been attacked three times. you know, it was just like yeah, you don't know, there is someone out there looking after us, thanks, you thank your lucky
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stars. >> jordan speith coming closing to a championship, instead jack johnson won his first open title. we have this report. >> the final day at st. andrews but weather meant this was only the second monday finish in 155 years want open, historically beckoning in mother ways than one. hoping to become the first amateur winter since 1930, but he couldn't keep up his stunning run of form, slumping to six over par 78. what about jordan speith? the american prodigy won the first two majors of the season, and only one man has ever won the first three. speith started the day one stroke off the lead, but despite impressive putting that was exactly where he was going down 18. this birdie putt to make a
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playoff. so the grand slam dream over, but still what a we're speith is having. what would he give for this zach johnson birdie putt on 18, enough for the american to finish in a three-way tie with the lead with ooze highsen and leishman. johnson birdied the first two holes of the four hole playoff. despite bogeying a third ooze highsen did sink this putt. zach johnson at 39 years old open chan, 2015. >> it's an honor to be part of the history of this game and to don my name on that trophy, especially with the names before me is humbling.
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>> a second major championship win for zach johnson after the 2007 u.s. masters another triumph for one of the unsung champions of world golf. al jazeera. >> formula one has been paying respect a the a funeral service in the french driver's hometown of nice. former world champion just one big name from the world in attendance. he died on friday from injuries sustained in a crash at last year's japanese grand prix. his racing number of 17 is being retired from f1 in his memory. that is how your sport is looking for now. >> we'll see you a little later on. thank you. >> do stay with us here on al jazeera. that's it for the news hour. all the day's news can be found on our website aljazeera.com. i'll be back after the break with more news. see you in a moment.
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burundi's president casts his vote in a controversial election. the opposition says he has got no right to stand. ♪ hello again i'm shiulie ghosh with the world news from al jazeera. also coming up on the program. new video of monday's suicide bomb attack in turkey as funerals are held for many of the 32 who were killed. a top aid of
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