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>> funeral for a palestinian baby killed if an arson attack thought to be carried out by israeli settlers, calming it an act of terrorism. hello there i'm felicity barr, and this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up: malaysia's top air crash investigator heads to san francisco to examine wreckage from possibly mh mh370. executives in charge of
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fukushima are taken to task in japan. controversial mining practice known as fracking may be causing a rise in earthquakes. hello, hundreds of people have attended the funeral of an 18 month old palestinian baby died when an arson attack suspected of being carried out by israeli settlers. parents and brother are receiving treatment and israel has condemned the act as an act of terrorism. stanford hasstefanie dekker has the story. >> ibrahim heard screams. he said he saw the two attackers standing over the parents who
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were lying outside with their clothes on fire. >> smoke was coming out of the house i saw the four-year-old child, i pulled him out. they told me there was another baby inside, but the flames were so big. there was another blast and no way to saif the save the baby. >> this is the room where 18 month old allie was found. the rescue workers described him as a lump of coal. the neighbor's house was also set on fire but no one was home at the time. the attackers left behind a message, it says revenge in hebrew. allie's parents have been taken oa hospital in israel. >> the government of israel unequivocally could be dems condemns
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this heinous crime. we will fight terrorism no matter who the perpetrators are. >> but mahmoud abbas condemns the ak, no matter act no matter who the perpetrators are. >> attacks happen often but never have had such an outcome. hundreds showed up for baby allie's funeral. his parents in too critical a condition to lay their son to rest. not many believe promised justice will come. >> and stefanie has been at the baby boy's funeral and posted this report. >> occupied east jerusalem, what happened here namely in hebron,
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nabla, we're not seeing human huge numbers. people here are shocked but there's a real sense that they are help tolls try and change things, certainly when it comes to trying to change this israeli government settlement expansion policy which has been active over the last few years. >> the israeli prime minister has visited the boy's family in hospital near tel aviv. benjamin netanyahu says the government is committed to finding those who are responsible. >> we have to calm the spirit and recommit ourselves to our joint battle against terrorism and extreme i about something all parts of israeli government and all parts of israeli society agree on. it's important that we make common cause with our palestinian neighbors to give ourselves a better future, a future free of violence free of terror and set for peace.
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>> condemning the attack through his spokesman. >> continued failures for settler violence have led to another horrific incident involving the death of another innocent life. this must end. the absence of a political process and israel's illegal settlement policies as well as the harsh and unnecessary practice of dplol irk palestinian housings have given to violence on both sides the legitimate aspirations of the palestinian people and the people of israel. >> for more on the story we're joined by sheris natashibi. i was wondering had a you thought of the israeli government reaction, it's lard to remember an attack on a palestineian group described as
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an israeli terrorist aarticulate. >> it's lard for them to say they genuinely did abhor the attack. the actions on the ground belie that. israeli encourages the population of settlers an the west bank, giving them a sense of impunity. settlers are treated preferentially to palestinians. and this sense of impunity, specifically said that today that such an attack as hamed now was just a matter of time given the sense of impunity. so israel encourages this kind of behavior and its army acts little better. >> critics have in the past accused the israeli authorities of not staying or not investigating attacks on palestinians seriously enough. do you think the outrage in the wider community is likely to change anything? >> i don't think so. this is certainly not the first heinous acontaminant against the
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sthaifnlscivilians that have resulted in death -- >> you don't necessarily see the astack on a palestinian. >> the government as recently elected is probably most extremist in israel's history. it comprises settlers in israeli government. it is highly unlikely given support base among settlers that it's going to act other than in a intommic way. >> most sft protocol applied is going to are applied internationally. when the u.s. has basically said point blank you've got to stop doing this and israel doesn't. is it likely to change anything? >> there's two issues at rest here israel's allies do not
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replies jurisdiction how much you should. there last to be punitive measures. if israel doesn't stop this what should happen? there should be some sanctions or resume is the punitive measures to make it stop. words are not enough and this is why i think you are seeing the boycott and other grass roots initiatives because people are not using that influence. >> thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. is. >> preparations are underway for the transfer of debris which could belong to the missing flight mh370. the wing component washed up on reunion island in the indian ocean earlier there week. french officials will spend the weekend trying to verify the wreckage. tai page has the story.
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>> this rocky beach was where the wreckage was found. police walk its lernght and watch from the sky. perhaps there's more to find philippe answer workers found this debris. now they found a water bottle. >> i have 30 walkers and every morning before we start we will check the sea and if we find something we'll call police. >> the discovery of wreckage has maid the small island in the indian ocean an important place mh370 disappeared from radar when en route from kuala lumpur to beijing. coordinates on it show it's part of a wing of mh 370 the boeing
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777ness77 that disappeared. the deep sea search continues. it may not reveal why the plane changed course less than an hour after takeoff or anything about exactly what happened on board. bit it does confirm they're looking -- but it does confirm they're looking in the right place. thousands of kilometers to the east of reunion island. looking out over the vast atlantic ocean it's a mucialg that anything is found at all. it could be the only part of it ever found. now beach is attracting curious locals. they watch and speculate. the wreckage may reveal some answers but the mission tri is far from solver. tanya page, al jazeera reunion island. >> al jazeera has been talking
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to the nuclear negotiators you president obama has hopes for the deal to be confirmed by the congress. patty culhane joins us live from washington. patty, is the obama administration worried they can't get through to congress at the moment? >> well felicity, the signs of what they're doing is very unusual. we heard u.s. president barack obama host a conference call. he did that on thursday night in it he admitted he felt congressmen and women were feeling squishy in his words because of this intense lobbying. trying to get their people to tell their congressmen around women to vote against the deal
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he is urging his supporters to supporters just as forceful just as swroakal, sending letters and making phone calls to their members of congress. i did have a chance to speak with ernie moniz. are these sanctions if they are not lifted, is everyone going to walk away from the nuclear deal? the question i put to him was why would iran walk away when they could keep the deal with the rest of the world and only u.s. be isolated, this is how he answered. >> the other countries of p-5 plus one they came along with the sanctions regime with the idea that the objective of the sanctions was to bring iran to the negotiating table. well, iran came to the negotiating table reached and agreement and as you can see
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there would be a very, very messy situation with the united states and the allies and iran still on different pages. >> so patty culhane what happens next? >> they have 60 days to look at it. they're not going to be in town. they're going to take summer recess that's when they go home in be and if you look at polls the american people aren't really into this deal, they don't know any details. we know he's going to give a speech to the nation, and also another unusual move, the director of the iaea is going to come and testify before the senate next week. they're trying owoo senators with the deal and also with public pressure but if he's going to succeed it appears they believe they need to get the
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be a service for palestinian beach that died in an arson attack in the west bank, israel has called it an act of terrorism. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has visited the family in hospital. and says he's committed to finding the people responsible. the debris of what is felt to be from mh370 on its way to france for examination. 11 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in anbar province in iraq. using a military vehicle the convoy was in the el sacre region. seven others were injured in the attack. fighting between government forces and i.s.i.l. continues near the country's largest oil refinery in beji.
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one of the groups on the front line says it's not getting the support it needs to defend the area. imran khan reports from baghdad. >> pushing slowly this publish gentleman group inches forward in begi beji town. this is not an ordinary town. things aren't going to plan. first sown south sunni groups complain they are not getting what they need. >> nothing tangible so far just empty promises, we want weapons to fighten the front lines. we are not at these camps to just eat and sleep. >> sunni fighters may be the key to fighting i.s.i.l. in anbar a mainly sunni province. >> we didn't get any useful
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weapons from the central government nor from the u.s. the u.s. have only trained 200 troops with live weapons so far. we need at least 20,000 well trained fighters to fight i.s.i.l. >> there has been a lack of trust between the tribes and the central government for a number of years now. there is a precedent to all of this. it was the sawas the american backed sunni tribal fighters that defeated i.s.i.l. in be are in iraq. imran khan, al jazeera baghdad. libya's internationally recognized parliament in tobruk. 18 others have been believed to be captured by the fighters.
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turkish government says there will be no let up until the be pkk leaves the country. cover for attacking kurds. al jazeera bernard smith reports from istanbul. >> this is the aftermath of the latest turkish air strikes on the pkk in southeastern turkey. f 16s have been targeting i.s.i.l. and the pkk for the last week bit most of the bombs have hit the pkk. that's made the kurds suspicious that the real government agenda is to suppress kurdish territorial ambitions. >> translator: a night pass been waged against i.s.i.l. but listen as if we are responsible for all of the terror attacks. we know they have a political agenda. this operation is a political
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operation. >> reporter: the government says the pkk must leave turkey. pkk youth wings have been setting up roadblocks in kurdish majority areas. they have been accused of kidnapping and killing turkish police officers. should condemn the pkk. >> translator: you were elected to the assembly with the votes of this nation's citizens. you didn't stand on a platform of advocating resistance. how dare you support resistance. >> along with the air strikes talks on forming a governing coalition don't seem to be getting far. if there's no deal by the end of august president recep tayyip erdogan could calm call new elections. that would give the party he helped found regain a parliament
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majorities it lost in june. bernard smith, al jazeera istanbul. a vaccine against ebola which last been be 100% is effective, ebola is spread quickly by human contact and 50% of those who contract the disease die. the outbreak spread from guinea to owner sierra sierra leone and liberia. andre helaparesh is also welcomed the news. >> it's a fantastic development. really it's a game changer. having this tool as part of our tool kit to fight the epidemic, to bring it down to zero cases. we really hope to see that this trial is expanded. we'd like to see it used, this vaccine in new areas.
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>> the chadian army says it has killed 117 boko haram fighters, it carried out an operation against the armed group in the area separating nigeria chad and cameroon. regional fighting against boko haram. in nigeria a suicide bomb are has killed at least five people and injured many more. happened in an area outside mied plaidmaiduguri. be three officials of the be power company should face charges of professional negligence. be radioactive material contaminated food air and water supplies following a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011. harry fawcett has this update
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from the japanese capital. >> thousands of fukushima residents tried to bring a class criminal action against over 30 tepco executives. there was not enough evidence, a panel be determined. and they recommended a prosecution should be brought against three tepco executives. but it was unreasonable to expect those executives could have foreseen the scale of tsunami that hit the fukushima dieshdaishdaiici plant. the court will appoint eight ross coourts outside the tokyo prosecutor's office to
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adjudicate on there case to bring this case against the three tepco executives including the chairman at the time of the disaster. they all face charges of professional negligence leading to death or injury. >> british prime minister david cameron says sniffer dogs and further provisions will be sent to france. as migrants try reach gland true the channel tunnel. barnaby phillips reports. >> bad news for british economy and for anyone hoping to cross to france in the holiday season. so the british prime minister is under pressure. >> we're going to take action right across the board. starting with the french on
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their side of the border. we're going to put in more fencing more resources more sniffer dog teams any resistance in terms of resources. >> over in calais the situation is complicated by french ferry workers, they're on strike protesting job cuts. they have blocked entrance into the ports. meanwhile, more chaotic scenes as migrants in calais succeeded in getting around barriers. given how many are going elsewhere in europe. >> what we're seeing is the world is in a situation be as bad as in the second world war.
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crossing the mediterranean in search of safety in urine and a tiny tiny proportion are trying to reach the u.k. >> reporter: europe's politician he are in a quan dri. a quanquandary.it's set to be a long tense summer. barnaby phillips, al jazeera. >> be earthquakes in oklahoma could be linked to fracking. at least 600 earthquakes of magnitude 5 or larger last year. >> why isn't there any law out there to protect us? >> ang la spot had hoped for a peaceful -- angela spot had hoped for a peaceful retirement. >> this one gets wider. >> but with oklahoma's earthquakes growing in number and in intensity spots fears
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the next one to bring her home down. >> it takes your breath about a away inbret away in away, because you can sense how it's going to happen north to south, east to west. >> the state averaged less than two magnitude 6 earthquakes a year. now they have two or more a day. >> we're having more in oklahoma than in say california. >> austin holland says the explosion of earthquakes is both unprecedented and man made. >> when we're more than 600 times the normal rate, we have moved beyond had a could be explained through a natural process. >> he says disposal wells are most likely to blame. in this part of country each barrel of oil pulled from the earth comes up with as many as
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20 barrels of naturally occurring saltwater. officials reinject that saltwater into the ground and that could trigger an earthquake. >> what's the worst case scenario you could see? >> the worst case scenario is we have many faults within oklahoma that are capable of producing a significant earthquake, even another magnitude 5.6 5.7 or 6 could be quite significant. >> and that could happen here in oklahoma. >> absolutely. >> with one in three jobs linked to oil and natural gas the tide has been slow to turn to a disposal well moratorium. he says the state's current restrictions on just 15% of the wells is not enough. >> it appears that at least from the state's vantage point that we're waiting for a catastrophic loss of life or property.
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