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>> iraq's prime minister orders army commanders to face trial for bungling positions in ramadi hello there, here from doha with the world news from al jazeera. also, the death toll in china rises after the explosions. there are fears toxic chemicals are leaking tempers player as frustration turns to anger and protecting heritage, we
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follow the trail of poachers in senegal's vast parks well, first, let's start with news coming in from iraq. an i.s.i.l. suicide attack killed at least 17 security personnel in anbar. it happened in harari, up to the village of fallujah. two trucks with explosives targeted explosives and shia militia men. iraq's prime minister haider al-abadi ordered military commanders to face trial for abandoning positions in ramadi this year. i.s.i.l. took over the city in may after months of fighting. we have more. >> haider al-abadi came out ratifying recommendations that has been made to him, and members in iraq's military that conducted an investigation into officers abandoning their post when i.s.i.l. took over the city
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of mike amadio last year. the prime minister is dagreeing with the assessment of the military officers saying any of them were in the army, abandoning their posts, must be court marshalled. it's not clear when they'll happen or if they have happened behind closed doors. this is following up on hours, and hours of investigations by members of the iraqi military. they came up with the recommendation, and it was approval recommended that the previous prime minister and members that abandoned their post should be court martial led and that may happen soon children are among dozens of migrants boarding inflatable rafts in turkey hoping to reach cos. emma haywood reports it's unclear who started it.
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but there was no holding back. with anger, frustration and suspicion boiled over under the intensity of the summer sun. many had come hoping to get the papers to leave cos for the mainlands. the police station was closed, and disappointment and desperation turned to chants of freedom. some here say others are getting preferential treatment. >> no papers. what happened? please. please can you help. >> reporter: the situation on cos is becoming urgent. a loaf of bread is precious. some people have found shelter and even a shower. but the facilities are
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criticized. >> in camp there is no electricity. no water, and no food. no food. there is in camp, women and boys. they are not giving us food. >> hundreds of migrants are moved on. the boat left for athens on friday. a passenger ferry where syrians will be given priority started to operate. it will act as a floating reception center. every day there are more arrivals many crossing from turkey. greece was not prepared for this, and athens called for help from the outside world. it is, though, still waiting meanwhile, 300 migrants rescued off the coast of libya are on their way to italy. 40 on the vessel were suffocated below deck. it's believed they were overcome by engine fumes.
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it was trying to reach the italian island of lampedusa. >> there has been desperate scenes in macedonia, where hundreds of migrants are trying to board a plain, bound for serbia, which borders hungary. migrants are trying to reach there before a fence is built to keep them out. >> in china, 112 are confirmed dead in explosions on wednesday. there are fears that toxic chemicals are leaning into the area. a house is said to have been storing up to 700 tonnes of cyanide. 70 times more than what it should have been holding thousands of volunteers are helping those affected by the blast. >> reporter: well, the volunteer machine is a well-i would one. thousands came to the city to help, and here they are handing out clothes, bottled water,
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food, and the most important commodity of all, and that is gas masks. some have been handed out a short time ago. we are inside the exclusion zone, and the epicentre of wednesday night spds multiple explosions is about 1.8 -- night's multiple explosions is 1.8 kilometres. here you see some of the apartment blocks where they catered for people, people are hurriedly evacuated thursday, and late on wednesday night. more than 6,000 people have been moved. many are not housed in temporary shelters across the city. this morning some of those people came to protest outside of a news briefing in a building given by government officials. they are demanding that the central government do more to help them. saying that only the volunteers have been giving them any assistance at all.
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and are saying that government leaders should come to the city to see for themselves the scale of the destruction, the devastation. the death toll, of course, is continuing to rise. we know that 95 people are still missing. 85 of them are firemen and 58 people remain in hospital seriously injured. it is shaping up to be, really, one of the worst accidents in chinese history we have been getting some information coming to us. we don't have a lot of details yet. indonesian care craft with 54 people on board has bon aniesing in the -- has gone missing in the papua region, according to a tweet from the state search and rescue asian. an indonesian aircraft with 56 people on board has gone missing. we'll keep you updated as we get more details. in pakistan, a home minister
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has been injured in a suicide attack on his home, which killed four others. he is reported to be in a critical condition. dozens were in the building in the town at the time of the blast. no one claimed responsibility staying with pakistan, a case of child abuse turned attention to the plight of the street children. nicole johnson went to lahore to hear some of their stories, and sent this report. >> reporter: as dusk falls an lahore, a park near the central train station fills up. men and young boys hang around. every evening is the same. then the men that offer massages arrive, with their bottles of oil. you can hear this all over the park. street children give massages too, in a city with thousands of homeless kids, it's a way to make money. it's how some of these children
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are sexually abused, after being sold to sex with customers by so-called facilitators. >> translation: they are of different ages, starting from 7, 8, nine years. they abuse them. sometimes they are paid, sometimes they are cheated. that is what is happening here. this is what the area is famous f for. this has a bad name. >> some are children that run away from home. they give them gifts and then abuse them. later they are sold for sex through their teenage years. a lot takes place here in the streets around the training station. that is it what happened to ali, we are not using his real name. he's 21 years old and has lived on and off the streets since he was 7. >> a student and a friend
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betrayed me. after my parent found out, they disowned me. i didn't want to become a prostitute. but now i'm in, i'm stuck. i want to leave. there's no other options. >> ali says in pakistan many boys and girls roam the streets without their parents, and end up in trouble. >> translation: the kids can be protected if parents supervise them. if not, they become wasted. they'll end up in this business. >> reporter: there are some organizations trying to protect street children by reigniting with their families or taking them into care. the government-run child protection bureau looks after 1,000 children. they've been removed from the streets or rescued for homes, where they've been accused. >> no one is looking after them. the government needs to.
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the children - we took them from the street, and they came here. they have school. they have facilities. we are trying to concern the social needs. >> reporter: this is the only province in pakistan with this refuge, with the scale of the problem so great, staff realise that for every child they help, many more are on streets and on their owns still to come on the programme, with political scandals overcoming the election, guantanamo puts it on top of their agenda. >> can you be too connected. he book at the downside of technology that tracks what you
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do. welcome back. a remind ir of the top stories - iraq's prime minister haider al-abadi ordered military canneders to -- commanders to face trial for abandoning positions in ramadi. i.s.i.l. fighters took over the city after months of fighting fights on the greek island of cos. syrians seem to be getting priority access to a ship leaving to the mainland and in china, 112 people are confirmed dead in wednesday's explosions in teenin.
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there are fears that toxic chemicals are leaking into the area pro-government forces battling houthi rebels for control of the third largest city. fighters loyal to haider al-abadi say 50 houthis have been killed in fighting south-west of sanaa. the main security headquarters was retaken by pro-government forces on saturday. pro-government forces are in full control of a province, which has the oil reserves. they hold five of yemen's six provinces in the south guatemalans will head to the polls in september to elect the next president. the series of corruption scandals threatened to overshadow the vote. a u.n. backed investigation reveals the depth of corruption within the system. >> reporter: it's saturday morning in antig u and hundreds take to the streets. they show their political colours. elections are less than a month
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away. and supporters are out to rally new recruits. campaign science boast of honesty, transparency and honour. these elections are overshadowed by guatemalans biggest crisis. at the root of the crisis, government corruption. over the past four months, they faced a pair of million dollar corruption scandals. high level officials were arrested. and cabinet ministers, including the vice president, lost their jobs. the united nations backed commission, whose investigations led to it says criminal groups gain a foothold. in general, corruption is at the root of financing. this has produced an explosion
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in organised crime. criminal interests have become involved, coopting the state. >> months of anned corruption protests. a poll showing that while 13% trust political groups, two out of three have confidence. the last says the protests are a sign guatemalans are waking up to the political power. what happened since the first protest shows that there has been a growth in people's participation for public affairs. a citizenry, active in impunity, for a better political system and greater conclusion. on september 6th, guatemalans will vote for the men and women that leave the country.
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many say the potential for change has rarely been so close. one year ago indian prime minister narenda modi made a promise - all schools would have separate toilets for boys and scirls. this one simple thing will be a huge thing to keeping girls in place. we have a report from the northern district. >> reporter: they are learning the bark lessons -- basic lessons, now the students can take care of basic needs at school, thanks to this newly built toilet courtesy of the indian government. it doesn't look like more than a hole in the ground, but it's making a world of difference at this school. the old toilet was unusable at times. this new one is better than the one she has at home. >> translation: the toilet before this didn't always have
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running water. this one does. the old toilet smells bad. not this one. it has the proper wash basin, unlike the old toilet. >> school officials say the grant from the government to build a toilet means students don't leave class. >> girls had to go home to use the toilet. that's why we needed one here, so they wouldn't have to leave school during the day. girls benefitted from this it's a different story several kilometres away, at another school in the same district. here there are separate toilets for girls, but a lack of maintenance makes them less than ideal to use. >> many existing toilets are in this condition, or worse. with unreliable plumbing and smelling of sewerage. some organizations that for years build separate titles for girls. governments pledge the right idea, hard to achieve in a year. >> sanitation experts say another year is need the to
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ensure no schools are left out, and to guarantee the quality of construction, and say the prime minister's support made a difference. >> i never saw high officials to get it into the schools. everyone is trying hard to do it at the earliest. on the one hand it's encouraging. that it is being built and that is important. i agree that this is more time. >> female attendance increases at schools, that have a clean, separate toilet. >> the drive to finish the rest and maintain them has as much to do with education as sanitation. now, strong winds fan wildfires across the united states. one of the largest is burning in the state of idaho where
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thousand of acres are burning. firefighters in washington and california are facing heat and gusty conditions as they try to douse the flames nicola and senegal started out as a hunting reserve. things this attitudes towards hunting changed and the illegal trade in wildlife is worth billions, leading to large-scale peaching. the final part of our series, we join rangers trying to protect species. >> this is an exceptional provision inside an important world heritage sites. it is under half the side of belgium. finding butchers is difficult. this morning rangers receive a tip-off. the grounds send clues.
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fresh tracks and signs of the animals, these are the latest pictures from a camera used to track movements. here the west african lion, virtually extinct, worth hundreds of thousands on the black market. take a look at the last picture. barely visible. one of the poachers standing in front of a camera. >> local tribes were forced out of the area. rangers say some tribesman are known to work with traffickers. >> reporter: we are not surprised, locals have the best knowledge, it's so lucrative, they want to hunt here. >> we approach the spot where the pictures were taken. poachers are probably armed. rangers worry about a gunfight as well as being attacked by dangerous animals near. suddenly, she spots them. they launch an ambush.
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as expected, local villagers. >> on them weapons and food rations. he says he was hunting bush meat, but the bushrangers don't believe them. most of what they hunt are smuggled out of the country to asia. rangers found this panther when he was a baby after poachers killed his mother and siblings. >> despite the efforts put in place to prevent poaching, there's a number of animals that are on the verge of extinction. and so the united nations says this world heritage site is in danger. rare ant lops, elephants, lions,
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primates - none are spared. rangers say poachers kill indiscriminately, even using automatic machines. >> it's disgusting and we feel responsible. we are supposed to protect sites. >> an estimated $19 billion, the global trade in wild animals is booming. despite local efforts like this, it continues to grow now, hopes are fading that somali will hold full elections next year because of continuing violence. the government insists some voting process will still be held. there's no voter registration system, so they have to rely on traditional ways of choosing their leaders. >> reporter: it's election time in somali's state. in the port city, members are voting for a regional president.
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the public has no role to play in this process, so the four candidates make policy speeches and ask for votes. >> one man, one votes needs security, legislation, and full voter information awareness. i think all the infrastructure pieces have to be built up. we are willing and ready. >> not the president. three years ago he was elected by a parliament and his members selected. he then promised to complete the transition to democracy by 2016. the next president of the somali, he said, will be elected through popular elections, but he announced it would be difficult to hold such elections after all. the council plans next year, for progress on security and threat from al-shabab fighters has not been as quick as hoped for.
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now the government has been under pressure to come up with a plan to select members of parliament. they have to come up with a system, other than the straight leaders selecting the next parliament and those elected. that system is no longer acceptable for the public. government officials say they are sticking to a process next year. this is an affairs minister. >> if they are elected to parliament, maybe 20,000, 20,000, the whole country. and that is 80,000 electing the president. >> reporter: back in the parliament, the winners are declared after one round of
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voting. interim president has retained his seat. members of the public in attendance celebrate the outcome. they may not have a say in the pause, but their role got them invited now, the collection of online data from hundreds of millions of people globally proved valuable to all kinds of businesses and raised concerns over privacy. it's part of the series backing the code. we look at ways to protect the online activity a wearable fitness monitor like this one provides personal information, and not only for users. >> you'll see more of what your friends are doing, compare with them, and share your progress with them. >> that device is an example of how interconnected we become, and the personal data collected from hundreds of millions proved
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val tubal to all -- valuable to all kinds of businesses. >> companies are creating single identifiable trackable users to connect the online, email and digital interaction. request >> reporter: aside from guiding and targetting advertising, it can help consumers make smarter choices. there is a downside. >> it's under the hood and we as a society have no idea about what is going on, what control we have, and down the line what the implications will be. >> a survey found when it comes to online activity three in four adults say they are not at all confident that website advertisers will keep activity private or secure. consumers can track the
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trackers, identify who has been watching online searches, and if they choose, to block the data. >> it doesn't block anything by default. the point is to enable consumers to see how they are tracked. u.s. national security agency whistleblower edward snowden uses it to prevent anyone from tracking his own online activity. but the popularity of adblocking is proving a threat that depend on ad conflicts for income. some websites are using software to block readers who try to block their ads. >> for those that believe governments should referee the conflict. the c.e.o. said that would be a bad idea. >> because privacy is inherently subjective and dependent on the situation. what any one person would say is a dangerous privacy situation, some could find not to be a big
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deal. >> reporter: big deal or not, growth is pound to make treatment of privacy an issue for anyone that touches the internet and you can keep up to date with all the day's news and sport on the website. aljazeera.com. >> i'm nidhi dutt, in indonesia, where orangutan conservationists are climbing to new heights. >> and i'm russell beard in flanders in belgium, to meet to meet the urban miners turning rubbish into raw materials.

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