tv Weekend News Al Jazeera August 1, 2015 1:00am-1:31am EDT
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>> international condemnation after a palestinian baby is killed in an arson attack. coming up in the next half hour, progress but no final agreement on one of the most ambitious free trade deals ever attempted. and a scramble for the basics, food shortages push people to the limit in oil rich venezuela. plus -- >> this could be the future where robotic arms are whipping
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up a cream bisque. >> palestinian president to file a complaint over the killing of anan baby. some of the protesters clashed with the israeli army and one teenager was killed. the u.n. security council called for calm. they condemn all acts of violence. and encourage all sides to work to lower tension reject violence avoid all provocations and seek a path towards peace. the wide spread international condemnation is of little comfort of the people.
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>> reporter: the family shared the only bedroom. they would have been fast asleep when the window was smashed and this small space set on fire. he saw the attackers standing over the parents. he went to get help. when he came back, the two men were gone. >> translator: smoke was coming outs of the house. i saw the child. i pulled him out. they told me there was a baby inside. then there was a huge blast. there was no way to save the baby. >> reporter: this is the room where 18-month-old ali was found dead. we spoke to the ambulance worker. the way he described what was left of the baby was as a lump of coal. relatives laid pictures on the burned out floor of the bedroom. he hadn't finished his milk yet. the neighbors house was o set on fire but no one was home.
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the parents and four-year-old brother have been taken to a hospital. israel has been quick to condemn the attack. >> the government of israel condemns this heinous crime, this act of terrorism. we'll fight terrorism we'll defeat terrorism no matter who the perpetrators are. >> translator: when the israeli government encourages settlements, they build settlements in the west bank, they encourage flocks of settlers to do what they do every day. >> reporter: people say the same thing, attacks happen often but they have never had such an outcome. hundreds showed up for baby ali's funeral. his parents in too critical a condition to lay their son to rest. it will bring the terrorists to justice. not many believe that promised
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justice will come. talks to secure an ambitious free trade pack that would cover 40% of the world's economy have ended. trade ministers have been negotiating in hawai'i. but a standoff means no final deal was reached. new zealand has said it would not support a pact that did not significantly open dairy markets. >> i do not want to answer the question in a way that would cause difficulties for my negotiating partners by being too precise. what we have agreed on, what our leaders have agreed on is commercially meaningful access. we can't look that up in a dictionary and find a definition. it will come through the negotiation process. and that has not quite been achieved at this meeting.
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>> let's go to maui where andrew is standing by. a lot of disappointment from this no agreement. >> this was billed as a make or break summit. the deal hasn't been made, i'm tempted to say it broke. it was a break. unfortunately for the ministers involved, they have to go back to respective countries no deal is going to be reached out the ministers. the timetable is running out. these talks have been going on for more than five years. the negotiations have lasted for more than five years. there is an unofficial deadline looming. while president obama has been proactive pushing this deal forward, it's unclear what the prospective candidates will make of it once u.s. domestic politics gets involved and starts muddying the waters. certainly disappointment. you heard the new zealand trade minister talking about his
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country's dairy. it's not just dairy. the mexican minister wanted to make sure he safeguarded the car industry. australia was talking about its sugar cane industry. this huge great deal, all trying to get their issues. the ministers at the table each has a knock-on effect. this is an all or nothing deal. it has to all go through or none of it goes through. that's why it's so complicated. not everybody is disappointed. there are plenty of advocacy groups who say that this deal was bad for consumers great for big business, but bad for the ordinary man in the street in the 12 countries involved. they say it would have damaged environmental, the labor laws in the countries involved and also that public health would have suffered. this is what one campaigner said immediately after that press conference. >> for us this is a victory. what we have seen is several
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countries, australia comes to mind standing up and saying we are not going to trade away health this week no matter how hard you lean on us. that makes a big difference. glad to see that outcome. >> there is a hint of what was going on inside the negotiating room. it wasn't about one industry versus another. it was about the architecture of trade, making sure that the rules and regulations were set so all countries were happy with. it might have given ground on laws they don't want to see extended. they don't want the price of medicine to rise. they didn't get what they wanted on agriculture. you can just get some idea of how complex this negotiation was. there is no date set yet for further talks. the ministers were saying they have made progress, they are going to be talking. unofficial deadline with the u.s. presidential election looping, it's hard to see how
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they will get it through in time. >> thank you. reporting from maui. let's get more analysis on the maui meeting with roger the asia pacific chief economist for ihs. thank you very much for being with us. obviously, optimism turned to disappointment. the obama administration had been touting the maui meeting as the final summit on the tpp. does this mean the deal is dead in the proverbial hawaiian waters? >> well, it certainly is a big disappointment because there had been hopes they might at least hammer out a broad agreement at this meeting. that clearcally hasn't happened. there is still significant sticking points in the area of dairy access, particularly into the canadian and u.s. markets in the area trade data protection
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and the biologics industry and a number of industries who have sticking points. the key issue now is that the political head room for getting the tpp through is rapidly running out. particularly because of the upcoming u.s. elections next year. and really, unless a deal can be done in the next few months, it really will then become hostage to the u.s. elections. so i think the time window is closing very rapidly. although there is talk that they might want to push this back to the next negotiation at the apex summit in november, i think that will be too late. they really need to make much more progress in the coming weeks. >> if we know canada, new zealand and australia had major reservationings over the deal, which nation stood to win from the tpp? >> well, i think if we look at some of the big winners
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certainly for australia and new zealand, greater dairy access into the u.s. and canadian markets would have been important. they would have also got more access to japan which has been agreed from the japanese side. so they would have won on agriculture if the tpp had been concluded already. but i think also within the asia region particularly in vietnam sense, they are a big winner. the deal that has already been agreed in terms of textiles would have given duty-free access for vietnam into the u.s. market. the garment industry would have been a big winner. that's a major export for vietnam. malaysia would have got much enhanced trade access in north america. >> much of the discussions have been behind closed doors. what i find interesting is for the first time, we are getting a
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glimpse of some of the details of this deal, among them is a deal to protect wildlife and the environment. it isn't often you get ministers agreeing on environmental matters tied to trade deals. >> well, the scope of the tpp is very wide ranging and it's covering a whole range of areas that aren't often covered under trade agreements. one of the areas that's in focus is intellectual property rights which has been covered by tpp and has been one of the controversial areas because the u.s. has quite strong requirements from its point of view in terms of the copyright laws that are much stronger than what have already been agreed in place at the moment in many of the tpp countries. there is other areas as well which are outside some of the
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normal scope of such trade agreements. in particular, one area that's got a lot of attention has been the investor state dispute resolution clauses that have been part of the tpp negotiations which would in the view of some critics create a back door to domestic legislation in tpp countries. that's been quite controversial because critics are saying that that's supporting big business and is against the interest of the domestic population. >> we have to leave it there. thank you for joining us. a lobby group in the u.s. is spending millions of dollars debating over the recent nuclear deal with iran. congress has 60 days to review the agreement before sanctions can be lifted and the obama administration is pulling out all the stops to shore up support for the deal.
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patty sat down with energy secretary ernest moniz. >> reporter: he's considered the secret weapon. the man who helped negotiate the iran deal. the administration put him in front of the media on friday, but only al jazeera was given an extended interview. he painted a dire picture if congress doesn't vote to lift sanctions. >> is there any evidence that they have a weaponnization program? >> as you know, in the past, the iaea has put out reports that in fact identified activities that were undeclared, that they reported that up to 2003 at least that there was a structured program in iran that was looking at various technologies of relevance to a potential weapon. and so obviously that's why we
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have all these sanctions. why there is a tremendous amount of distrust. >> the obama administration has until september to shore up support. barack obama joined a conference call with the same grass roots supporters that got him elected. >> they are feeling political heat. you have to counter act that. >> the lower chamber has gone home. the senate will leave for an extended recess where they will see a lot of this. the white house says groups linked to the current israeli government are expected to spend $20 million on television ads alone. they are pushing hard behind the scenes. >> congress should reject a bad deal. >> apec is threatening these with cut off of jewish money a cut-off of other sources, they are going to make a lot of trouble. the supporters of apec tend to have a lot of money and
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influence. >> this deal prevents iran from producing a nuclear weapon. >> there are some groups running ads in support. but theythe white house has a two prong plan. the head of the iaea is going to sell it to the public. the president is going to do that with a speech next week. a plane carrying debris found on the french island of reunion has arrived in paris. aviation experts in france will investigate if the debris belongs to the missing missing malaysian airlines flight. the debris will be analyzed. the malaysian transport minister says the search for more debris will continue. >> less speculation on this, we
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wait for the result of the verification whether it belongs to 777 or belongs to 370. i think that's yet to be verified. although from the pictures, they say it looks like the platform from the boeing 777 from the view, they didn't go into the detail until the technical and detailed investigation. so i think we are sending one team to france and another to reunion island to look for more debris and more wreckage. >> osama bin laden's half sister and step sister were among four killed in london. it overshot the london when trying to land.
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the plane which was flying from milan, crashed into a car auction site next to the airport. still to come on al jazeera a scramble for the basics. food shortages push people to the limit in oil-rich venezuela. great time for a shiny floor wax, no? not if you just put the finishing touches on your latest masterpiece. timing's important. comcast business knows that.
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his set on fire reportedly by israeli settlers. talks to secure a free trade pack that would cover 40% of the world economy have ended. they have been negotiating the trans-pacific partnership ended in hawai'i. but no deal was reached. a plane carrying debris found on reunion island has arrived in france. investigators will see if it belongs to the missing flight mh 370. there have been rallies in iraq against electricity cuts with an intense heat wave. they voiced their anger. the government ordered regular power cuts. this is despite soaring temperatures that are expected to rise above 50° celsius. the electricity grid has been
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damaged by years of war. the turkish government is accused of using strikes against isil as a cover to targeting kurds. we report from istanbul. >> reporter: this is the aftermath of the latest turkish air strikes on positions of the kurdish separatist group pkk in south eastern turkey. f-16s have been targeting pkk and isil for the last week. but most bombs hit the ypk. >> translator: a so-called operation is carried out against isil. pay attention to what the president and prime minister say. they start and finish their speeches talking about the hpt as if we are responsible. we know they have a political agenda. this operation is a political
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operation. >> reporter: but the government says that the pkk must leave turkey. pkk youth wings have been setting up road blocks. they have been accused by the government of killing or kidnapping soldiers and police officers. the prime minister says newly elected pro-kurdish mps should condemn it. >> you were elected with the vote from the citizens. how you defend legitimate armed resistance. >> they were called on both sides to stop fighting. the political tensions have increased along with air strikes. talks on forming a governing coalition don't seem to be getting far. they could call new elections. that would give the party he helped found a chance to regain the parliamentary majority lost
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in june. japanese police arrested the head of the collapsed bitcoin company after $400 million of virtual currency disappeared. he's suspected of falsifying data. in 2014 the system froze withdrawals because of what the firm said was a bug in the software. the man accused of killing nine members of a black church in the u.s. state of south carolina has said he wants to plead guilty to the federal hate crimes charges against him. in a court appearance, the lawyerthelawyer said not to do until they find out if they are seeking the death penalty. firefighters are trying to
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contain a series of wildfires in lake county. the fires in the northern part of the state have spread to more than 7,000-hectares. one firefighter died on thursday while battling a blaze. hundreds of people have been evacuated and the governor has declared a state of emergency. there's been rioting and looting in venezuela. >> reporter: dozens of people looted this supermarket warehouse and other stores in eastern venezuela friday. another sign of the worsening shortages with locals struggling to get their hands on everyday products such as milk, rice and flour. demonstrators clashed with police. a 21-year-old was shot in the chest and died.
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demonstrators say he was killed by the police. but the government says it was an arm protester who pulled the trigger. >> the situation is under control, but it's clear that this looting was politically motivated. one of the looters shot one of the workers in the store. he died. we have arrested 27 people and we are investigating further. >> venezuela is a major oil producers, but it's suffering shortages and triple digit inflation due to a currency crisis which is a result of failed socialistic policies. but the president blames on the war raged by his right wing opponents. >> translator: today we had a planned attack. there are 60 prisoners. we were checking events like this and other states, we have kept our eyes on the right wing. they want to fill the country
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with violence. >> reporter: on thursday the government imposed another crackdown on distributors accused of hording goods. soldiers occupied the warehouse of a food provider. the economic problems are affecting people's ability to call abroad. they have cut telephone service to foreign countries. >> i have a friend in ecuador. now it's impossible, she says she has a lot of problems calling me. >> reporter: last year there were deadly protests across the country. and with the president's popularity sinking and people's frustration increasing, the government may be less struggling to keep control. in salvador bus routes have returned after gang threats to attack drivers. police and military were
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deployed to keep gangs from stopping public transportation. they resorted to violence to be included in talks with the government. last week seven bus drivers were believed to be killed by gang members trying to enforce the traffic ban. now for many people cooking dinner is a daily chore. more about putting something into your stomach rather than creating a memorable meal. but now robotics experts have come up with a solution. the world's first robotic kitchen. >> reporter: it's time for dinner in the first robotic shift is hard at work. every movement comes from a real chef prerecorded as he made his specialty, crab bisque. they seem to represent the way a normal chef would cook dinner.
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this is a prototype installation. it will go on the market in 2018 priced at $75,000. the designers of this unit suggest that could come down substantially if the idea catches on. >> reporter: as futuristic as it may seem, the country imagines all kitchens will come fitted with robotic arms. instructions will be bought on-line. >> you have success to the recipes which is intellectual property of a hundred thousand different chefs. and in this case you can enjoy any kind of this dish today if you have the same ingredients they use for the cooking process. >> much of the robot skills come from its hands. >> what we have done, we said let's replicate the capability in a machine. so where we need to copy the
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human hand down to the last detail we have done. in other areas we have taken engineering compromises that give us the same performance but without complication of things like knuckles. >> they are looking at how they can be used at the food preparation stages. it could als other uses. >> this could have enormous social impacts as assistants for elderly or infirm people. we have a crisis of not having enough carers in this country. and having a system like this to prepare fresh and high quality meals would be fantastic. >> the making of the crab bisque goes without a hitch. and what the robot sears up is the same as the chef's real dish. years of development are needed. but the robot kitchen has the potential to change the way
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