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i'm david schuster, the news continues, live from lorched. london. remember you can get the news any time day or night by going to aljazeera.com. >> this is al jazeera. >> hello there i'm barbara serra. this is the newshour from london. coming up in the next 60 minutes, the united states and russia aim to calm fears. a syrian fighter jet crashes into a packed market killing at least 27 people. a major resignation in the afghan taliban.
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barack obama releases his plan to tackle world climate change with less than two years in power. >> this sport could be the victim of a conspiracy. >> the u.s. secretary of state and russia's foreign minlts has minister have offered their support to the gulf states, as they deal with the threat from i.s.i.l. and the fallout from the west's nuclear deal with iran. u.s. secretary of state john kerry and foreign minister sergey lavrov met in doha. hashem ahelbarra reports. >> reporter: a delicate mission for u.s. secretary of state. john kerry is trying oconvince
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long standing allies that iran's deal with world powers will bring peace and prosperity. >> translator: the five other european countries have technologies on what john kerry demonstrated about iran's development of nuclear weapons and also we hope for more than this. not only for iran but to remove them from fears, the u.s. has offered to sell advanced weapons and upgrade the region's defense capabilities. >> today my counterparts and i discussed the steps that we will take. and how we intend to build an even stronger more enduring and more strategic partnership with particular focus on our cooperative counterterrorism,
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counterinsurgency and also, on our cooperation in countering the destabilizing activities taking place in the region. >> reporter: the predominantly sunni muslim gulf countries need other than just reinsurances. reinsurance -- reassurances. accusations dismissby iran which has recently called for more cooperation with its neighbors. russia could be the country to bridge differences between iran and its arab neighbors. foreign minister sergey lavrov says russia is willing to help negotiate political deals in syria and yemen. >> translator: we have always been in favor of this bloodshed stopping in syria and we are not giving any kind of unconditional support to anybody except to the
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syrian people. and the main threat in that country to our mind and in the middle east as a whole is that which emanates from the so-called islamic state. >> reporter: an agreement between all sides in doha could put an end to the long running civil war in syria and increased fighting in yemen. >> reporter: the policy of the united states with respect to syria is clear. we believe that assad and the assad regime long ago lost legitimacy. in part because of his regime's continued brutality against the syrian people themselves. and that has been a magnet for foreign fighters. drawing them to syria. fueling rise of daesh and other violent extremist groups. and since there is no military solution to syria's challenges there has to be obviously a political solution. >> the u.s. says iran's nuclear deal is a good one but arab
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leaders feel opposite. their biggest concern is iran building strong ties with the west and repositioning itself as the most powerful country in the region. saudis have said they would do whatever it takes to match their capabilities. hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera doha. >> we're going to speak to rosalyn jordan in washington with us. >> you listened to the news conferences, to you think the gcc leaders now have the assurance of the u.s. and i guess from russia that they were hoping to get from the start of today? >> at least in terms of the right things were said by both the russian he and the u.s. as far as allaying the fears that the gulf countries had yemen
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syria and even one of the gulf countries, bahrain the messages at a came out publicly from sergey lavrov and john kerry were the right tone if you will of gcc states would have wanted. the main concern the u.s. was trying to put to bed was the military threat that iran could pose and that's why it spokes about wanting to sell antiballistic missiles with regard to syria the russians said whilst the their support to syria would continue, however there wasn't maybe a strong enough message from the russians that something had to -- some sort of pressure had to be put
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on the assad regime to ensure that this four-year-old civil war that's essentially killed more than a quarter of a million people is put to end. >> jamal el s shael from de la. rhyme us roz the details going on in the region. >> reporter: barbara the support from the gcc is extremely important. it is a key endorsement iran's extent of influence across the middle east they have been looking to washington for reassurance that their political influence in the region won't be compromised. they have also been very concerned. that because of the nuclear deal which was struck between iran
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and the p-5 plus one that the u.s. would be trying to attain some sort of rapprochement some sort of warming of relations with tehran, at the expense of these countries in the gulf area. so what the meeting brought out is a sense that the u.s. is not abandoning the members of thegc c, that it is going to be standing with these countries as they deal with their own concerns over security, the ongoing are unrest in yemen and elsewhere are resolved to everyone answer satisfaction. >> rosalyn jordan, thank you. let's go to yemen where antihouthi informs have taken control of the al an anad base.
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fighters are attempting to take a nearby base from houthi rebels. a syrian fighter jet has crashed into a busy market in idlib province leaving at least 27 people dead. the war plane went down in the rebel held neivet port of javea. in chaos of the destruction, their helpers didn't know for sure where to take them for help. >> translator: it is a popular market that is packed with vefneddors. who you can see are under the debris. the plane and its rockets hit the market and damaged it completely. >> reporter: more than a dozen were reportedly killed and many more wounded. >> translator: when it carried out the air strike the airplane
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immediately went down. bodies are still under the rubble. >> at a makeshift hospital nearby the injured were treated. caiforts say it is a deliberate tactic by the government. when the charity doctors without borders visited the area they saw a real disruption. rebels posted messages that they shot down the plane. some witnesses think they definitely have developed a fault. >> translator: when the pilot fired, the aircraft got technical problems so it fell where it carried out the air strike. >> reporter: it crashed in the center of the town and left a trail of destruction. homes shops and market stalls were all destroyed. >> i was with my nephew on the sidewalk.
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then i felt myself under debris. >> much like the northwestern province of idlib now controlled by option fighters, that's why since may couple government attacks have intensified and others have been killed. osama ben javad, al jazeera. south african julius modela calls for justice.fest and sport with andy. the u.s. president is about to unveil new plans to tackle climate change.
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it won't be an easy feet to pull off. as rob reynolds now explains. >> reporter: the american west is burning. 20 wildfires have scorched large swaths of northern california, causing hundreds to flee for their lives. in alaska, forest fires have destroyed nearly 2 million heck hectares. years ever relentless drought have left western wood lands tinder dry and led to emergency conserve-water orders in several states. against this back dron u.s. president barack obama is unveiling aa sweeping new energy policy that would sharply reduce
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greenhouse gas. >> climate change is not a problem not anymore. that's why monday my administration will release the latest report on a clean powerpoint. >> key points of the plan include, requiring existing power plants to cut emission by 32% from 25 twiefer indiv states a target of drawing 28% of their energy from renewables by the 2020s. .powerpoints spew about 20% of the u.s. greenhouse gases. with just 20 months left, the plan is sure to set off a political fire storm of its own.
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the opposition republican party which controls congress is staunchly owned calling the plan a job-killer and an abuse of presidential powers. conservative groups plan to challenge the issue in court. many of the 17 republicans running for president in 2016 question the scientific consensus that global swarming largely man made. and losing the vote for the democratic nominee hillary clinton in key states like ohio with large coal plieng industries. rob reynolds, al jazeera, los angeles. >> we can go straight now to washington d.c. and listen to the president as he flounces his plan. >> good afternoon everybody.
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gina i want to thank you not just for introduction but for the incredible work that you and your team have been doing. not just on this issue but on generally making sure that we've got clean air clean water a great future for our kids. i want to thank all the members of congress who are here now who have been fighting this issue, sometimes at great odds with others but are willing to take on what is going to be one of the key challenges of our lifetimes and future generations. i want to thank our surgeon general, who has been doing outstanding work and making the connection between this critical issue and the health of our families. you know over the past six and a half years we've taken on some of the toughest challenges of our time. from rebuilding our economy after a devastating recession to ending our wars in iraq, and
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afghanistan, and bring almost all of our troops home, to strengthening our security through tough and principled diplomacy. but i'm convinced that no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a change in climate. and that's what brings us here today. is now not everyone here is a scientist. but some of you are among the best scientists in the world. and what you and your colleagues have been showing us for years now is that human activities are changing the climate in dangerous ways. levels of carbon dioxide which heats up our atmosphere are higher than they've been in 800,000 years. 2014 was the planet's warmest
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year on record and we've been setting a lot of records in terms of warmest years over the last decade. one year doesn't make a trend. but 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have fallen within the first 15 years of this century. climate change is no longer just about the future we are bringing to our children and grandchildren, it's about the reality we are living right now. the pentagon says the climate change poses immediate risk to our national security. while we can't say any single weather event is entirely caused by climate change, we have seen stronger storms, deeper droughts longer wildlife seasons. charleston and miami now flood at high tide. shrinking ice caps forced
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national geographic to make the biggest change if its atlas since the soviet union broke apart. climate changes puts greater risk those of landing in the hospital. we're the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it. and that's why i committed the united states to leading the world on this challenge. because i believe there is such a thing as being too late. most of the issues that i deal with, and i deal with some tough issues that cross my desk. by definition, i don't deal with issues if they're easy to solve, because somebody else has already solved them. and some of them are grim.
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some of hard, some of them are truss traiting. but most of the time -- are frustrating. but most of the time the issues we deal with are you one that are temporally bound and we can anticipate things getting better if we just plug away at it, even incrementally. but this is one of those rare issues because of its magnitude because of its scope that if we don't get it right we may not be able to reverse. and we pay not be able to adapt sufficiently. there is such a thing as being too late when it accommodation to climate change. [applause]
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that shouldn't make us hopeless. it's not as if there is nothing we can do about it. we can take action. over the past several years america has been working to use less dirty energy, more clean energy waste less energy throughout our economy. we've set new fuel economy standards which say that our cars will go twice as far on a gallon of gas in the next decade. these standards are set to save drivers an average of $700 at the pump this year. we've doubled down on renewable energy, we're generating more wind power 20 times as much solar power than we did in 2008. these steps are making a difference. over the past decade even as our economy has continued to grow the united states has cut the total carbon pollution more than
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any other country on earth that's the good news. [applause] but i am here to say if we want to protect our economy and our children's health we have to do more. the science tells us we have to do more. this has been our focus these past six years and it's particularly going to be our focus this month. in nevada later in august we'll talk about the extraordinary progress we've made in generating energy and the jobs that come with it and how we can boost that even further. i'll also be the first american president to visit the alaskan arctic where the communities have seen riseing waters,
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shrinking ice. and how we can deal with the risks of climate change before its too late. today we're here to announce america's climate plan. in the fight against global climate change. [applause] >> right now our power plants are the source of about a third of america's carbon pollution. that's more pollution than our cars our homes produce combined.
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that contributes to climate change which degrades the air our kids breathe. but there have never been limits on the amount of carbon plants can put into the air. we be regulate be sulfur and arsenic, but we haven't regulated the amount of carbon into the air for health and safety of our kids and the sake of all pairns, that has to change. for sake of the planet that has to change. so two years ago ago i directed gina and the environmental protection agent to take on this challenge. the epa is setting the first ever nationwide standards to end the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from power plants.
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[applause] here's how it works. over the next few years each state will have the chance to put together its own plan for reducing emissions. because every state has a different energy mix. some generate more of their power from renewables, some from natural gas or nuclear or coal. and this plan reflects the fact that not everybody is starting in the same place. so we're giving states the time and the flexibility they need to cut pollution in a way that works for them and we'll reward the states that take action sooner instead of later. because time is not on our side here. as states work to meet their targets, they can build on the progress our communities and businesses have already made. a lot of power companies have already begun modernizing their
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plants reducing emissions and by the way creating new jobs in the process. nearly a dozen states have already set up their market based plans to help reduce pollution, more than 35 have set renewable energy targets. over a thousand mayors have signed an agreement to cut carbon pollution in their cities and last week 13 of our biggest companies including ups and walmart and gm made bold new commitments to cut their emissions and deploy more clean energy. so the idea of setting standards and cutting carbon pollution is not knew, it's not rad -- not ne today washington is starting to catch up with the vision of the rest of the country. and by setting these standards we can actually speed up the transition to a cleaner safer
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21st century carbon pollution will be 32% less than it was a year ago. >> we've been listening to president barack obama unveiling his plans to be approach climate change. never too late when it comes to climate change. we'll cross to washington d.c. and patty culhane. give us an yowfnlt outline of what the new plans calling for patty. >> by far the largest provider of energy is coal fired power plants. what it tells those power plants is that they have to cut their carbon production by 32% in the next ten years.
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he's kind of pushing behind the scenes of cap and trade deal but the states don't necessarily have to do that but they do have to act. one of the questions has been, some of these states, particularly republican governors, said, we're not going to do this and if that is case and the federal government is going to impose this if a court doesn't stop it that is. >> how much opposition could he face overall over all of this? >> he's facing huge opposition especially from the republican opposition party in congress and some big businesses. what this comes down to is there is not a thereto congress can do but it seems like the u.s. supreme court is going to have to have the final say. all of these issues, mercury they had to roll on that. there has to be four years before a case comes before the supreme court until the supreme court can hear it. think about where we're going to be in four to five years when
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the supreme court gets the case, there is going to be a new president. it won't have to go to the courts because when they get here they will simply change the rule when they get to the white house. >> patty culhane, thank you. the u.k. has announced new measures to crack down on illegal immigrants. landlords who don't check their residents immigration status could face stiff fines. 1700 new attempts to storm the channel tunnel which links the u.k. with france. immigrants are actually making it into britain. thousands are gathered in a squalid dplample calais.
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charles stratford is there. >> the tunnel is in that direction and the trains as they move slowly through here migrants at night try and hop this fence try and cut through it at various different locations in this area. and try and literally grab hod of the train as it goes by in some instances. and that's why we've seen so many deaths in recent months. now we were here last night and there was quite a heavy police presence there were quite a few migrants that were eventually dispersed. the french authorities have just put in extra lighting, we've just heard a helicopter go over and there are police scattered around this area. i spoke to an knowing worker ngo worker and i asked her what needs to be done, who is responsible for these migrants as they sit on french soil? >> why is it that the french government has the
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responsibility of stopping people that don't even want to be here. it doesn't make any sense. really it doesn't make any sense. it should be the job of each country to, in a sense to stop people but the idea is that we don't want to stop people. we want to see who wants to come and who has legitimate rights to come. and you know, deal with that in a humane way and not make people wait months and months before the asylum requests are looked after. it's such a waste of human potential. you know you think about people who have to live in conditions like that for six eight months, they cannot work, you know they can stay a few french classes but that's about all. they don't develop their skills. >> reporter: certainly the focus of attention for the u.k. and france at the moment seems more on security and meanwhile the people in camps like this one they have nowhere to go and the conditions are getting worse by the day.
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>> charles stratford reporting. let's hear more about this from an international lawyer on integration. >> thank you for inviting me. >> welcome to al jazeera what do you make about the where proposals? >> the government is absolutely entitled to act in this way because every country has a sovereign right to protect their sovereign territory. to enter any country you have to go through immigration passport visas and things and thereof the government to words the country is not paved with gold and the minister saying, to think the land of milk and honey, when you come to the u.k. you get a lot of benefits. is there truth in that?
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>> there is some truth in that. we have afternoon immigration department too in my firm and the immigration departments the immigrants say is it true that we will be looked after we will be granted asylum. there is a lot of that. >> u.k. compared the rest of europe we have europeans coming here as well there is the language problem here. >> they can come here legally provided they qualify and the employer applies for a work permit you can't come unlawfully because then you are encroaching on the sovereignty of the country and no country will permit that. britain is not part of the arrangement and therefore, is able to pass its own law yard to immigration. >> how do you think 38th should be handled then when it comes to processing any of these
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applications, who is a genuine asylum seeker, how would you say would be the best way of doing and crucially where? >> i think one has a sympathy for those in calais but we as a country which is ruled by principle, ruled by law. the best way to control that is to filter those who land in grease or in italy and then affiliate ter what genuine athen filtering what genuine a sigh lum seekers under the european treaty where the asylum seeker lands, that country has the duty to look after him. one has to review the whole situation. >> the other countries are not being forthcoming our immigration expert thank you very much for coming. >> thank you for inviting me. >> much more to come on this newshour from london, including
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choosing love over hate. hundreds pay respect to the teenage girl stabbed to death. and andy is going to have sport details in just a few minutes. is
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f this prosecutor. >> courageous and in-depth. >> it's a target you can't get rid of. >> the untold story of what really happened in ferguson. >> they were so angry because it could have been them. >> what did you see when you went outside last year? >> there was a dead body in the middle of the street... for 5 hours. >> there's a lot of work to be done. >> they need to quite talking about what should be done and do it. >> there's clearly an issue and we have to focus on how we bridge that. >> a lot of innocent lives are still being lost.
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>> and now a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. russia's foreign minister, sergey lavrov, has reiterated his country's commitment to help gulf countries deal with crises. earlier in doha the u.s. secretary of state john kerry promised more weapons intelligence sharing and special forces training to gulf states. and u.s. president barack obama has thownsed plans announced plans to cut carbon emissions in the u.s. he says there's no greater threat to our future than climate change. let's go back to our top story the u.s. and russian
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reinsurances. reassurances trying to reassure the gc c states, the six gulf nation from what you heard do you think the gulf states will be reassured? >> obviously the gulf states don't have many choices. they are coming to the reality that the iran treaty is a done deal just last week, saudi arabia and the united states signed an arms deal almost $5 billion which includes qualitative and strategic weapons. this is what the united states is trying to say we will deliver. so this is one way that the americans are saying to the arab allies we will help you against any aggression in the region.
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and obviously from public statements the gulf states are trying to come to terms with this particular reality. >> interesting would was there. obviously the foreign ministers from the gcc nations the russian and united states secretary of state. obviously they are looking at all the problems in the middle east including obviously syria. >> to my mind the presence of lavrov is especially interesting. >> is that the -- >> yes, most interesting. even over yemen what has happened we think is the trilateral meeting between kerry and laive lavrov, that the russians
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are concerned about the syrian government might collapse or could collapse. the meeting with saudi arabia, obviously they are trying to find ways and means to reach a political settlement. >> it was interesting, sergey lavrov mentioned syria they wouldn't unconditionally support the government but will continue to support it, but criticized the u.s., it wasn't important to have the geneva accord without all the parties. that main stumbling block is still there. >> to suggest a break through has happened, that is not question. obviously there is some movement and back channel between the americans and the russians. these are not my words. barack obama is saying, the russians are moving on the
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eastern front. saudi arabia is a key player, as is qatar. the next question is how will the americans respond? iran would play games inside syria we shall see. this is not end this is probably the beginning of finding a way to deal with the presence of assad because this is a major thing. >> i suppose that might be considered an optimistic point of view but it could be an arms race between the gulf states and iran. >> if you look at iran, you see the gulf states are the biggest purchasers of be weapons. for more than four years it has given basically voice to militants, extremists such as el nusra and i.s.i.s. this could be a game changer i'm not suggesting we are that but serious discussions taking
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place between the americans and the russians behind closed doors, bringing in the saudis is another factor in the equation sphwhrp good to. >> thank you for joining us. group's new leader, mullah muktar mansour, this is a great i historical mistake he added it was needed that the leader of the islam emirate his resignation is the latest sign of the deep division of the replacement of mullah omar. jennifer glasse has the story. >> they say the new leader has
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sent letters out to taliban commanders asking for their support in his new leadership or if they don't support him suggesting a new leader for them. while some taliban leaders have accepted mansour as the not. most notably in hellman problems of, not only do they not sell aktar, they will tifl fight anyone if a political situation is not come to very quickly. this all comes at a critical time peace talks with the taliban and the government were to be held friday acknowledge when news of his death emerged they were put on hold. the afghan governmental is commitcommitted to peace talks. more difficult for the afghan government to have any sort of
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comprehensive peace talks and this is against the back redevelop where the taliban has been fighting very heavily. splits in the taliban commanders on the ground here over whether they should support the new taliban leader in the wake of the news of mullah omar's death and the peace process thrown into a state of uncertainty. >> hundreds have held a scanned l light vigil in support of a girl's death. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has described the attack as a hate crime. stefanie dekker sent us an updecade from jerusalem. >> the attack took place here but also people gathered in tel aviv and basheba saying she was
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killed basically because she supported people's right to live as they please. she was there supporting her friends when she was stabbed in the back. they also say they will be donating her organs to save another life. they lit candles they played her favorite songs. really pressure coming out on the israeli government to do more to tackle these jewish extreme is. this man who did it carried it out a similar attack ten years ago. questions are asked how he managed to break the security cordon around this gay pride parade. a separate attack on the occupied west bank. very strong language from the israeli government calling this terrorists acts of terrorism. they would do everything to bring them to justice. the israeli security cabinet
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convened and said they would be passing administrative detention for israeli terrorist suspects. what does it mean we spoke to human rights lawyer she told us that it'salities been the case, they just haven't the really implemented it. we will have to see what the details are when it goes to the knesset, the israeli parliament. they will be convening on tuesday to discuss the higher issue of israeli extremism and how they are going to counter it. >> worst damages in the states of west bengal, odesha and manipur. particular concerns for people in myanmar's western regions. plus heavy rain in northern vietnam has flooded coal mines spitle toxic mud into people's
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homing. caroline malone reports. this i sagang province, what used to be agricultural land has become a lake. the high water levels push dams to a breaking point and that's contributed to floods in bake are region. >> translator: there is too much rain here this year and the dam let out water so it is flooded because of that. >> reporter: thousands of people have been driven if their homes. there are fears more people are cut off from help. roads are submerged and bridges have been washed away. >> this is affecting a wide range of country so it's access to assessments and to get supplies in. the government has been working
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on preparedness because natural disasters are part of the life and the environment here and this time round the government has reached out and is accepting support, encouraging support from all humanitarian actors, the united nations and other partners. is. >> reporter: people affected in india particularly those affected by flash floods, say they need more rep from the help from the government. >> we have no help from the government and heavy rain. >> toxic sludge from coal mines an entire community was buried next week. >> my house is buried under mud soil and rock. i don't know if we can go back there. the flooding has been going on for a long time.
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>> health and the environment. back in myanmar people say it's some of the worst flooding in decades and many regions have been declared national disaster zones. caroline malone, al jazeera. >> amnesty international, report published a year before the rio de janeiro is due to host the olympic games the group says police oftennen use unnecessary and excessive force. victims were wounded or already surrendered when police officers intentionally used firearms to execute them. let's go to daniel schwindler, in rio de janeiro over to you. >> reporter: well, you know this report they were members of families of some of these victims that you've just mentioned, those victims of
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extra-judicial killings by the police. amnesty talked about more than 1500 victims in the last five years. they say these killings are very rarely investigated and it is rare the policemen to carry them out to be brought to justice. it is a situation that's been going on for some time. they're obviously hoping with the time of the report this one year and two days ahead of the olympic games the authorities will be forced to get their house in order to try to face some of these accusations against them. most of the victims are young black men who live in shanty towns or favelas. as long as the victims are in the majority, young black men. they want to see focus by the
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authorities, the government, put on them. investigators arriving here on wednesday to look at recommendation is for the games a year ahead much their start and focus will be put on them to be able to address this issue but certainly to raise awareness in wraz and around the brazil and around the world what's going on here. >> daniel schwindler, thank you. time to get all the sports news, here is andy. >> thank you barbara. head of olympics claims his organization has been lacking with drug testing. answering allegations made by british newspaper and german tv documentaries. they gained access of blood tests by 5,000 athletes which is
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suggesting highly indicative of doping. >> when people say there are medals to be disgusting, it's a farce. it made me laugh when i read that the iaaf didn't want to carry out testing. when people say this there is something behind it. >> let's hear from hayer dabelt, my colleague began by asking him his reaction. >> i think reaction of the iwf president is from my opinion ridiculous. he has received several years ago, a warning from the ioc because of of alleged taking money
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for very strange reasons, to be careful, we have presentlied so much clear evidence in our documentary in regards to russia in regards to kenya. what we just said with regard to the big data about blood tests of athletes, 12,000 blood tests of deletes from all around the world. we never claimed there was legal truth but there is so much evidence so much cernts that we have to consider a big part or larger event the olympic games have been contaminated by doping. >> you made allegations of corruption and doping against officials and runners in kenya your report is an attempt to
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smear their athletes. what do you have to say about that? >> i have the same to say as in the russians. this is ridiculous, we are not interested to blame kenya but come forward with facts. this is a story which is based on clear facts and clear evidence and we are not prosecutors, we are journal journalists. it would be much better for them to react under real evidence and to tell us why for example the officials took the money in cash from the account accord to the bang accounts statements we have have, why doctors in kenya obviously dope athletes, maybe they can give us answers on that why is it possible in cefnl yah thatkenya that a person be who tests positive is authorized to
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compete in physical activity and it is obviously to report what we have reported about. >> how do you keep the olympics clean? >> i think you should take away doping shows from brcial international sports organizations, they are in a clear be conflict of interest. they have to promote sports think have to gain money they have to get a g good relations from their sponsors, they want to have a good marketing deal. they want to negotiate efficiently the tv rights and for this they need a clear and good image and they want as i said to gain so much money as possible. on the other hand they have to fight against doping. and if they have too many dopers
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which are published this is not good for the image. so there is always a kind of risk that the federation is hesitant to really fight hard against doping because it could damage that i image. >> players from an israeli football team had to make an incident what triggered the result bad center game with this crais with sefia. .the players just about managed to came unharmed. now an indigenous footballer is expected to return to the field indefinitely. after several months of abag from hisbooing.returned after that
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game. american pharoahs is dominanting the haskel international in new jersey, in front of 60,000 people in monmouth park. >> not just sharks you have to worry about a man on a motor bike is known for his trim events he was taking on the seas of ta tahiti. >> it looks amazing. >> that's i.t. >> i'm going to see you tomorrow thanks for watching, bye-bye.
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>> comedian mo amer. >> are we filming a short? what's happening? >> confronting stereotypes. >> i was afraid to be myself. >> mixing religion and comedy. >> get over it you know who i am... got the chuckle, now let's really address it. >> and challenging islamophobia. >> i was performing and would say "i'm an arab american"... and you could hear a pin drop.
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is. >> side by side, the u.s. and russia try to reassure gulf gulf nations about regional conflicts and the deal with iran. hi i'm maryam nemazee houthis take control of an important air base in the south of the country of yemen. also. >> no challenge face a