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. >> us announcer: this is al jazeera. hello, welcome to the newshour. here is what is coming up in the programme - civilians target when a truck bomb rips apart a place in the iraqi capital baghdad. dozens are killed and injured. many dead and missing after two massive explosions rock china's port tension in myanmar, soldiers
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lock down the headquarters after two senior politicians are moved from office. >> i'm bernard smith on top of istanbul's top bizarre. decades of neglect. with one earth tremor, the entire route comes crashing down i.s.i.l. has claimed responsibility for a bombing at a crowded vegetable market in baghdad which killed 55 people. police and medical workers say a suicide bomber driving a truck detonated explosives in the district of the iraqi capital. it is one of the biggest to strike baghdad since prime minister haider al-abadi took office. attacks escalated in recent months as government forces moved to drive the group out of its strong holled.
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-- stronghold. an attack in july killed 86 people. many of those killed were women and children, celebrating gathering to mark the end of a gathering, marking the end of ramadan. according to the u.n. 15,000 civilians have been killed in iraq since the start of 2014, crossing to mohammed joining us from baghdad. civilians are caught up in the conflict. the question is how i.s.i.l. can strike hard in the capital. >> here is something that underscores how tenuous the security situation remains, even in the country's capital. sadr city is a shia dominated neighbourhood. it is densely packed. the attack meant to capitalize on the fact that so main civilians will be out shopping. a suicide car bomber drove a
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truck into a crowded vegetable market around 6 o'clock, when people shopped for their daily food. he flew himself and his car up. 55 people were killed, there are concerns the numbers could rise and 200 have been injured. all the accounts we heard - let's say this was a horrific attack, and there's a lot of concern as to if these ties or attacks will continue. as you mentioned in your lead in to me, there are two other attacks in shia neighbour headlines. in the attacks, dozens killed, dozens wounded. it means the fight is not going nearly as well at a time when they are making gains against the group. it's trying to deepen sectarian lines at a time when so many are
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trying to get past sectarian lines. the fight against i.s.i.l. continues in many other parts of the country. >> absolutely, we had a tragic reminder of that. we are told my medical sources that in fallujah, earlier in the day, which is encountering a fight against i.s.i.l., that as a result of government shelling in that city, medical sources are telling us that 23 civilians killed, and most were women and children. we got another set of talking points from the government today. council ministers coming together saying that the phase 2 of the offensive in anbar province started. now they are going to try to cut off supply lines that i.s.i.l. has been using to defeat the group. a lot of what we speak of here in the capital, they are wary about what the government said on this front. they think a lot of that is
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propaganda. they don't believe it. they think the fight is harder going for the government and the coalition parties against i.s.i.l. thank you are for that update from baghdad two huge blasts rocked one of the world's busiest parts in the chinese see. look at the aerial pictures. they are going to show the scale of the explosion. 44 were killed. hundreds injured and 36 firearm are reported missing. the blast so powerful it registered on the earthquake scale. adrian brown has more from the site of the explosions. >> reporter: the heart of one of china's most important economic hubs, torn apart by multiple blasts. fires burnt throughout the night. there were further explosions first afternoon. as the pool of toxic smoke billowed across the city.
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locals concerned not for the first time, about the air they are now breathing. >> translation: we are very worried, very worried about what chemicals are in the air, and what might be toxic. the scale of the destruction is difficult for survivors to comprehend what happened, and why. >> translation: i thought it was a gas explosion. my bedroom wall was hit by a shock wave that blew me out of bed. >> reporter: others thought it was an earthquake consider or nuclear explosion. windows were shattered in homes 2km away. foreseeing the evacuation of hundreds of families. debris sliced through vehicles. temporary housing for migrant workers bore the brunt of the blast. this is a worker's dormitory,
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it's been shredded. the damage is it testament to force of the explosions. the people here lucky to get out alive. the number of dead continues to rise, many were firefighters. hundreds were freed in hospital. mostly cuts, caused by flying class and concrete. >> translation: my first reaction was to run. i got blood over my body. >> reporter: authorities say the blasts were caused by chemicals stored in a warehouse. an investigation into how that was possible has begun two of myanmar's country's senior politicians have been removed from office. soldiers surrounded the ruling party's headquarters and stopped
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mps leaving. there has been tension among military leaders over selection of candidates ahead of the general election. veronica pedrosa has more from bangkok. >> it looks as though the reason it happens is friday is the deadline for submission of candidates for elections in november. the military offered a number of candidates that the former leader, speaker of parliament, rejected. the list was not to the militaries liking. it appears that the tension building up over the last few months came to a head, and that's why trucks surrounded the stp headquarters at around 10 o'clock wednesday night, local time. the speaker of parliament and
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the chairman have been held in what is disackto house arrest. it should be noted that the president of myanmar closely aligned with the military, has also reshuffled the cabinet, and the minister and deputy ministers of both border affairs ministry and defense have been let go. 10 others have been allowed to resign. what you are seeing is a dramatic shift towards the leverage, within what is nominally civilian government. don't forget, 25% of the parliament is allocated to the military. there many positions that are appointed by the military, and unaccountable to the civilian government. this should be seen in the context of the november election, insofar as the u.s. this is, saying that this will be a lit mass test to see
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whether the remnants of the military dictatorship that ran myanmar for decades is willing to let go of power south korea's government is monitoring reports that the north korean vice premier has been executed. he was killed by firing squad in may. several high profile political figures have been killed this year. south korea says he was last seen in public in december. . >> the u.n. secretary general, forced the head of u.n. mission to resign, following allegations that peacekeepers have been involved in the killing and sexual abuse of children. gabriel elizonda reports from the u.n. headquarters in new york. >> reporter: anguished, ashamed anger, ban ki-moon's response after allegations that u.n.
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peacekeeper raped a girl and were behind killings. >> i believe what we have seen in the central african republic, in the period before u.n. peacekeepers deployed since speaks of the need to take action now. enough is enough. >> reporter: allegations of wrongdoing started last year, when french troops were accused of the sexual misconduct before the peacekeeping provision began. it prompted ban ki-moon to create a panel to look into it. the peacekeeping mission was set up, and has been in operation for a year and a half, made up of 10,000 troops and police from more than 45 countries. the spokesperson for ban ki-moon announced wednesday that there has been 57 allegations of misconduct by u.n. peacekeeping troops in the central african republic, including 11 cases of possible sexual abuse.
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a far higher number than what has previously been made public. u.n. peacekeeping operations started three years after the u.n. was founded in 1945. to date there have beeb 63 missions around the goal. peacekeeping missions won the nobel peace prize in 1998. there's been notable failures? in the democratic republic of congo in 2004. there are allegations of sexual exploitation and rape. in the 1990s, there was reports of u.n. peacekeepers in bosnia and kosovo participation in trafficking and prostitution. the peacekeeping problems have gone beyond sexual transgressions.
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there was accusations of nepalese causing cholera, killing 7,000, infecting over a million. ban ki-moon was sorry they could not stop the genocide when 800,000 were killed. in srebrenica, dutch peacekeepers forced muslim families out of the compound, they were rounded up by the serbs and massacred in what international courts described as a genocide. with the latest scandal. top diplomats stepping in to show accountability and change still to come - how hillary clinton's handling of sensitive emails could hurt her chances to the race for the white house. >> i'm in argentina, where thousands have been forced out of their homes by the flooding. in sport, the world's two best golfers go head to head in the final major of the year. we hear from the both of them later this hour
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first, the president of the west african nation ever guinea dismissed the government making the announcement in a laidio address. the president since elections in june, but there have been months of in fighting between the prime minister over the division of power. donors have previously threatened to withhold a billion in aid if leaders fail to maintain stability. since 1980, guinea has undergone nine coups or attempted coups. let's get more from radio international guest - when the u.s. warned that the main risks for guinea basal is a risk of tensions between current leaders, this is what they were talking about? >> yes, of course. since we can say last may,
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there's a misunderstanding between the prime minister, all of them belonging to the same political party. and the head of states had this problem of rampant corruption, and is still talking about the misunderstanding about the comment about asylum. and he was talking about nepotism and a lot of things that make very difficult the relationship between the two men and the head of the state. yesterday... ..the country is really a matter of burning concern, because it was coming from the roundtable, where the donors arrived to give more than a billion dollars.
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in this condition, for sure, they'll postpone. it will be very, very, very difficult or very tough time for the guinean people, and for the country also. >> but the country managed to make a few gains under civilian rule, in its recent past. how is it that this power struggle still exists, and this happened? >> i think the main problem is between the ruling party. where there are many clans inside fighting. and the other is what needs to be reviewed. we have a parliament which gives force to the prime minister, white the head of state wants to have a review in management of
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the country. we came back from brussel and want to know where the money is used. that's why he was talking about the correction and so on. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> you're welcome. presidential contenter hillary clinton handed her email server to the justice department. she's been under fire for using her private email as secretary of state. >> reporter: while hillary clinton was campaigning for president her lawyer was talking to the fbi about handing over emails and the private server used during her time as secretary of state. in an unusual move she used a server stored in her home, and not a government account. she said she didn't want to carry two phones. it made it possible for her to avoid handing over
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correspondence to congress and journalists. she gave the state department 30,000 emails to review and release. her team decided which were work related, deleting 31,000 personal emails, and wiped the server that she has handed over. cyber security experts say there's a good chance the fbi can recover those. >> data stored is harder to delete. by default when you drop it in the trash or click the delete key. data has not been erased. choint made one -- clinton made one point. >> there is no classified point in this letter inspector general said of 40 emails he was allowed to see, two contained top secret information, so sensitive it couldn't be shared with foreign governments. the state department is trying to explain it as a problem with
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labelling. >> it was not marked. >> mishandling classified information is a crime, a serious one, that can carry with it 10 years in prison, it's impacting her campaign. long-shot candidate, self-described socialist is beating her in a new poll, and the majority of voters say she is distrust worthy, and some analysts say she has time to turn it around. >> voters are forgiving. if there's not much there, people will look at this as a media driven scandal that the clintons are dealing with, and they'll get back to looking at the issues and the candidates. >> the remaining question, is there much more there. for the first time someone outside the camp will be able to find out. the answer could have an impact on much more than her candidacy for president well the former american president jimmy carter announced
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he's suffering cancer. the 90-year-old nobel laureate was in hospital to have a tumor removed from his liver. doctors found the cancer spread to further parts of his body. he'll undergo further treatment. since leaving the white house he travelled the world, supporting humanitarian projects and fighting for human rights u.s. scientists sigh the colorado river is showing signs of improvement after the toxic contamination. the head of the environmental protection agency is facing criticism over the way it was handled. the agency may be sued by those affected by the spills. the farmers here are angry. >> due to the fact that we are denied fresh water and arrived to water with toxins, we are in a world crisis. human rights, the basic human right is to have fresh water. >> reporter: this chapter of the
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navaho nation rely on the san juan river for crops and livestock. the anna lift river runs into the san juan. the leak occurred on wednesday. the ship rock chapter was told thursday afternoon, and not much. >> they did not tell us specifics as to how much waste was coming our way. or what was contained in it. we apparently were supposed to do our own research. >> ship rock's livestock has to rely on one water tanker, circulating the 42 squarekm reservation. as for the crops, there is the rain. >> it would have to come on a regular basis once a week. and it would have to be substantiation rain to soak into the ground. >> the or the season is lost. >> or the season is lost.
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>> the environmental protection agency released some results. into levels have returned to pre-event conditions. >> the navaho will await results of their own independent toasts before they take the e.p.a. at its words. there is criticism of others too. this is the little town of silverton. it's long resisted a major federally funded clean up of leaking abandoned mines. it was from here that the toxic waste entered the river. >> it was based upon reduction of property values and tourism. silverton is a community that would like to mine, and there's a reluctance about having a federal agency taking control. for decades, a few hundred meters from tourists, toxic metals were making the same journey in the river. will last week's spill mean
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action is taken to address 100 years of waterway pollution from unregulated mines or will the e.p.a. take a fall for a clumsy attempt at mediation, and things returning to other conditions. the e.p.a. caused the spill. it did not create the problem well, more rain and strong winds are expected in argentina buenos aires province, where there was a series course of flooding. thousands were forced to leave their homes, three died. trying to take assistance to those cut off by the water. volunteer firearm are working day and night to help those in need as the river and streams in the northern part of buenos aires flood the area. experts say 35 sent meters of water fell in a matter of days. this woman lives in lieu
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handwritten and is trying to save what little she has left. >> i have never seen anything like this. last year something similar happened, but not like this. this is a disaster. thousands of people have been affected. at the university of lieu handwritten, 80 of them took refuge. hundreds of others have been placed in schools around the city. that woman and her daughter say they have nowhere else to go. >> translation: we lost everything, all our belongings, we are trying to get clothes and food here. i'm not sure how we are going to go on. this is the second flooding in the last year, the sixth in the last four. >> people have been living in the city for almost five days, and most of them have been victims from flooding in the area in the past. that's why they are demanding more government action. >> the government says they have invested a million dollars in the area.
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this person claims more floods are needed to prevent the river flooding again. >> we understand that large scale development needs to happen here. they need to open the river so they increase water levels. after six floods precautions need to be taken, that can only be done by the federal government. many live in the cities areas, near the river. they claim they cannot afford to move. they hope action is taken to the next storm doesn't force them out of their homes now, the weather with robin, we survey in south america where bolivia, chile and others are affected by the one weather pattern. >> it's one weather pattern were one coast to the other. it's heavy. you expect this to be a dry period - june, july, august, mid point.
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60mm of rain. but there's four times that amount. so unsurprisingly flooding is the result. in the last 24 hours or so, that streaking has been further north of both places we have been talking about. it's been in concordia, near the border with uruguay. as the rain stays out there, it relevels the flood for the time being. the system goes to chile and bolivia. three days ago this is the mud slide trapping the german tour bus. has it been pulled out. i don't think it's been pulled out by this machine. rescues are still gloing going on. and la paz is above it. the first real winter chill. there's snow and fog at height. it's part of the same streaky system, from one coast to the other. 2-4. will it last? well, for the rest of the day, yes, it will rain in la paz, but
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not much in buenos aires. at the statement it will regenerate, i think, by luck, the rain will be north from the counter flooded area in argentina. >> thank you. still to come on the al jazeera newshour. a painful pass. no apology. women used as sex slaves by japan during world war ii. >> coming up, we'll look at what a wash out of the parliament means for the laws not passed, and people and issues affected. >> in sport. celebrations in seattle. japanese pictures mash their place in baseball history. sanaa with all the details.
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the top stories on the al jazeera newshour. i.s.i.l. claimed responsibility for the deaths of 55 people in a market in baghdad. at least 44 people have been killed by two huge explosions in a busy port in china, hundreds injured, 36 firemen injured. the blast was felt miles from the scenes. in myanmar, two senior politicians have been moved from office. soldiers surrounded the ruling party headquarters, and are preventing mps from leaving to the political infighting in india.
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m.p.s failed to pass new laws on a range of issues. the parliamentary session is involved. >> reporter: this is the scene inside india's parliament since the session began last night. opposition members disrupted proceedings, demanding the resignation of senior ministers over their alleged involvement in several scandals. it failed to find agreements, and the issue remained. one of them looked at amending the child labour laws by illegally allowing children to work in the family business outside school hours. on the eastern edge of the capital this woman's children work alongside them. this piece of embroidery makes a day to make, and earns the family $3. had the bill passed. she could legally put her children to work.
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>> my husband works but makes little. if kids don't works, it would be hard to get money to raise the family. >> reporter: it is seen as a loophole to legitimize child labour. >> we found 8,000 children, who are working in these establishments when this is not legal. imagine what would happen, how companies might like to push manufacturing and outsource more of the world into homes if we had a law in place. >> reporter: because the bill is postponed none of the issues have been addressed or debated. >> besides creatin a headache for the government. they do in the pass the session, one on juvenile crime, the risk of being delayed or abandoned, even if the bill makes it to the next parliamentary session, they'll have to compete for time and attention. >> reporter: parliamentary
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experts warn pushing the bill to the next session not only potentially waters down the bim, but legislative process. >> legislative process will be reduced. important issues, wonderful highlight would be reduced, and the government would be under pressure to get legislation through because they have lost four months. that means for now the people goodnight the issue, the bills address remain in limbo joining me now is a former indian government advisor. thank you for being with us. so the child labour law bill is one of many, as you know, that hasn't been passed. as a former government advisor, what would your advice be? >> well, i think you know
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parliament, the two sides don't talk to each other. competitive politics. parliament has broken down. parliament is a discourse. i think the prime minister, they should take the initiative to talk, have a dialogue. it's never happened before. the leader of the house maintains cooks, social contact with the other leaders. you can't - he was in parliament. he is a shooter - if there's no discourse in parliament, they take the initiative.
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>> what is this inability, the infectiveness of modi to pass through reforms. it affects most. in parliaments, institution of parliament, the ability of government to get things down. all of this happens. it is whether to invest in india. we appreciate your time with us on al jazeera. thank you very much. >> u.s. aircraft - first manned
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strikes on i.s.i.l. from turkey's air base. they agreed to open the air bags to coalition planes, the coalition has flown unmanned missions. iran's foreign minister met the syrian president bashar al-assad in damascus. mohammad javad zarif did not go into detail on what was discussed, but described the exchange as good. there has been no let up in fighting in syria. zeina khodr reports. >> reporter: the rebel stronghold of duma was one of several opposition-held areas targeted by air strikes. many were killed and injured. the military regularly attacked the region in retaliation for assault on the government seat of power. casualties were caused as rockets landed. rebels fire mortar into the capital, the countryside. the barrage was intense and lasted for two hours. many say the attack was the
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message for the syrian government and the ally, whose main foreign minister was expected in damascus later. he has been in beirut as part of the efforts to promote peace. zarif called for talks with gulf arab lead erls, worried about -- leaders, worried about iran's growing influence in the region. >> translation: we want to extend the hand of cooperation to all in the region. we are ready top exchange ideas for joint action to combat extremism, terrorism and sectarianism. >> there are a few details about the proposal. iran's meter reported that it would involve a ceasefire. the forming of a national government, amending the constitution and holding elections understand international supervision.
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the main problem for the opposition is bashar al-assad. >> the issue today is the fate of the president bashar al-assad. this iranian initiative is faced with what we call saudi condition, and number one saudi condition is that no deal is to be - no place for assad in any possible solution inside syria. saudi arabia made it clear after the foreign minister met the russian counterpart in moscow. >> there's a push for the diplomatic solution between the syrian conflict. it is led by the backers in iran. the international community agrees on the need to find an agreement but forming the pieces of negotiations. forming the pieces of negotiation proves to be difficult. >> reporter: some opposition leaders believe iran and others
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are pushing for a deal because syria is facing economic pressures. but they are not looking at a compromise on what they senior their strategic goals pro-government forces in yemen are gaining ground from houthi rebels and are 125km from sanaa. troops loyal to the exiled president abd-rabbu mansour hadi have tain six taken six districts in the city of ibb. most of the south is held by pro-government forces and are backed by saudi arabia strikes. haider al-abadi is on a visit to the united arab emirates for talks. they have been a key military back ir, attempting to roll back the houthi advance civilians in yemen caught in a crossfire in what the u.n. calls an overwhelming humanitarian crisis. yemen, the poorest country with 21 million people dependent on foreign aid, the u.s. estimates
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13 million yemeny do not have access to a reliable food source. since the conflict began, two sets of civilians died. >> steve is the emergency relief coordinator for the u.n. and says the need for humanitarian aid in yemen has never been greater. >> i was able to see for myself the destruction from the fighting. and the rebuilding that you can see which is destroyed or seriously damaged had people living behind them. we need to get them to sanaa and other areas of yemen that i have seen. it's clear to mee whether talking to a blind 6-year-old waiting in line for food - and they have done that -
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since 6:00a.m. watching for food. these are human stories, all of us have a joint reason. to be concerned about the conflict. 80% of the yemeni, accessed to each and every one of them. now is the time to scale up. now i have seen it for myself, it is time for me to ramp up pt interest of the security council in new york, and capitals of the world where donors generously give, and we need a lot more to meet the escalating emergencies in yemen we are getting breaking news to tell you about, according to sources at al jazeera. p.k.k. fighters d kidnapped a turkish soldiers and civilian, and that happened in experience turkey, from what we understand, on app broad linking bengal to
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the province in the south-east of turkey. according to sources p.k.k. fighters kidnapped a turkish soldiers and a civilian. more on that as we get it. what is happening in china, it's trying to alleviate fears that its currency will not fall further. a drop to 1.9% after a move in exchange rate policy. it fell the following day, leading to fear of a courage si war. china's trade partners accused beijing of dropping the yun to make exports cheap a german teenager swilling while on -- swimming while on holiday in bavaria found a solid gold bar at the bottom of a lake she was swimming in. she handed it over to police. they say it is worth about
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16,000 euros, if no one claims the gold, the girl will probably be able to keep it japan's prime minister is expected to apologise for the part his country played in world war ii. shinzo abe is looking for his cabinet's approval of a statement. harry fawcett reports. >> reporter: every wednesday outside the consulate, a history plays out in the minds of the young. >> lots of time has passed since liberation, japan has not settled past issues and offered an apology. >> they are here to support these women. two of the 47 surviving southe koreans women forced into prostitution. the army used up to 200,000 asian women. united states a key ally called it a violation of human rights. this woman was taken from her home
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she was aged 14, told she would be sent to a factory, but snelled was shipped to brothels throughout asia instead. >> people talk about august the 16th. even now we are still fighting against japan. conflict between career - the hit tv show, charts are repelled invasion. a screen show on south korea's tv charts japan's 20th century record colonial rule dominates current relations. koreans were forced to adopt japanese names and language. punished in prison if they dissented. the president called on tokyo to confront the past. the catalogue of horrors during the colonial period, it explains a lot of political animosity between the two countries, the history can be drawn on to serve present day political differences as well.
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>> for some, south korea relied on historical grievance to build the national identity. with regular military exercises, and a campaign to have the waters around them, it recognise the east sea as well as the sea of japan. >> if south korea stepped back, it would strip away the fig leaf. it puts the onus for change. others say it is refusing to deal with the japanese pass. as he looks to free it. in the core of all of this is to discourage the japanese pacifist constitution, and realise that collective self -defence and the starting point is to deny the past history of aggression. south korea marks 70 years freedom from japanese rule. it looks down on its nags ail identity and international relationships. still to come on the al jazeera newshour, going green, the environmentally friendly gel
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is using a new cooking fuel that helps her breathe easily. she suffers asthma is is environmentally aware and is grad to have found a gel coming from a sustainable source. >> if the end production is oxygen, it will be good for me, which means my future is oxygen, which gives life. >> reporter: the gel releases carbon dioxide but is less toxic than the fews produced by burning wood and charcoal, using the leftovers of sawdust and mills that would go to waste. and a weed that is a fast-growing plant. they absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, making biofuels better than fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide linked to global warming. >> it releases so much that we could create a wand that has
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helped my thinking in ways by way i want to invest, and we want to put my money to work, and the legacy i want to leave behind. some other biofuels create ethanol from crops, denying people food sources. to make clean fields accessible they need to be reduced. like the sawdust used by nigerian start-ups. >> the amounts you need for a sustainable solution for africa in the next 2-3 decades are significant. and, therefore, it's important to start already now looking at such - much more advance fuel. >> the biogel is produced in nigeria, and sold in ghana. it requires a special stove costing the equivalent of $14. a litre of fuel costs $$0.05 and is selling to $350,000
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households. cooks have converted to the green gel with a promising future time for the sports news with sanaa. >> final major of the year tees off later on thursday. the 97th u.s. pga championship takes place at whistling straits. the top billing, it will be jordan spieth who has won two majors this year. open winners, and the returning reigning champion rory mcilroy, 22-year-old jordan spieth failed to make the cut in his two previous appearances at this event. >> i still haven't accomplished the goal set at the beginning of the year, with i said i wanted a cut in all the majors, i wanted to contend and have a chance to win one of them. certainly very have gone
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according to plan, i have work to do. >> will adjust and work our butts off to get a third major, which will be a cool place history. >> jordan spieth will replace rory mcilroy as world number one, if he wins the third major, rory mcilroy has not played since the u.s. open two months ago, the northern iranman injured his angle while playing football with friends. >> i'm looking forward to being part of the crip. being in the major winner's grip. obviously it gets me into the grouping on thursday. something i'm excited about. i knew i was not having a low-key return to the came. and definitely this is not it. >> tennis - rafael nadal is through to the third round of the montreal masters, the 14th grand slam winner made his
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appearance since march. he beat his opponent in straight sets, 7-6, 6-3. >> not easy conditions. not a lot of wind. a player who don't want to play a lot of tennis. we play the point shots, going to the net. it was not an easy opponent. and happy the way that i manage the match. as i say, it's that game, 5-4 with the serve, the rest was positive. also through to the third round, andy murray, number two completed his match. against robredo. going on to win in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5, next up for the scott is mueller. french open champion stanislaw wawrinka called for nick kyrgios to be disciplined for comments
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made during the match. nick kyrgios was caught on camera making a remark about the swiss players' girlfriend. stanislaw wawrinka retired from the match with a back injury and said the australian had major behavioural issues the international olympic committee says they'll continue to test rio's waters, but not for biokinees sis on the advice of world health organization. the i.o.c. completed the inspection ahead of next year's summer games. the final press conference was dominated with questions about water pollution, and comes days after 15 u.s. royals fell ill after a test event in rio. >> they have stated na bacterial testing is the measure that has to be used and will be used by the authorities. as far as we are concerned, we have received confirmation from them that it will continue to be
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the case if it is the best measure to be used. we have asked whether with these measures and testing we would ensure the quality of the water for the athletes, and preserve safety and the answer is yes cricket and centuries have put the first test to sri lanka. they scored 134, kohli had 103. india are 345/8, in a first innings of 162 the second japanese pitcher history scores a no-hitter in major league baseball. hitters in the 3-0 home win over the orioles. he struck out seven and walked three. an american league pitcher in
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nearly three years. he is the only other japanese. >> poolo decided to resign as football coach of costa rica, he was involved in a brawl with a security guard at the end of the olympic qualifier. he had only been in charge of his country's national team since february. >> 1,000 apologies to all of panama for this incident and costa rica for what happened. i've been characterised for defending my country and behaving in the best way. we are human being, and reacted in a way that was wrong. >> for more on that and the rest of sport, check out the website. we have blocks and videos from the correspondent around the world. that's it for me thank you sanaa.
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istanbul bazar is 6,000 years old, hundreds of thousands walked through it. the roof needs repairs and it could crash down without restoration. >> reporter: above the half a million shoppers and tourists walking through istanbul's grand area, emergency welded supports is all that is stopping the ancient roof crashing down. decades of neglect and water damage left brickwork crumbling. istanbul's chamber of architects is shocked by the danger the roof poses. >> translation: right now safety is at stake. istanbul is in an earthquake zone, are expecting a quake, we don't need to wait for a quake, it could collapse at any time. the building is barely standing, and reinforcing that which is
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taken. >> a few days after our interview, a torrential rain storm exposed how vulnerable the roof is. the roof of the grand bazaar was covered with led. but 30 years ago in a botched restoration, the led was stripped and replaced with files and cement. this man represents the grand bazaar's traders. they also wander the bazaar has not gone up in flames. >> we had our own small firefighting team. these days fires can spread rapidly, igniting at night, in these structures. if that happens, we don't have pipes to circulate. we need chimneys and smoak detectors. >> reporter: the renovation work should begin by the end of the year, two years behind schedule. it's been slowed down by
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bureaucracy and the fact that the business has a say in the prospect. >> when the renovation works started, it takes 5 years. until that work is finished, trade is taken, and the only hope is that there'll be no earthquakes. >> for 560 years, deals have been made and bargains struck in the grand bazaar. if the repairs are delayed for longer, it will be the traders and the city's cultural heritage that pay a heavy price. part 2 of our global heritage series on friday. we are in the west bank where palestinian archeologists discovered the burial place of st. steven, believed to be the first christian martyr. that will happen. next - a full bulletin of news coming your way. stay with us.
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