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bangkok bombing thai police this is the person that set off explosives killing won't two. i'm lauren taylor, this is al jazeera live. also coming up, for the first time more than 100,000 refugees and migrants at the borders in just one month. new elections look increasingly likely. plus. >> to export their tactics to other country when it comes
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to crowd control, few can say they can do it better, the question is when does crowd control become suppression. >> . >> hello. police have relegalled security video of the man they believe is responsible for monday's bombing at a bang con shrine which killed 22 and injured is about 100 others. the prime minister has called for calm after a second bomb went off at another population tourist destination. vironica is in bang come. >> picking up the pieces. this is a shopping district in bang come, that scenes of political conflict several times before, but nothing like this. >> dozens of people were killed here on monday. among them, victims from malaysia, china, hong kong, and singapore. many more were injured. it was an attack apparently designed to kill as many
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people as possible. at a high profile target. the shrine. the government acting urgently to restore a sense of security, for the public and millions of tourists. >> in our country, there are individuals or groups of individuals who are seeking to destroy the country. the on going attempts of destruction might be politically motivated. targeting the economy, tourism, or for whatever reason. the government will work to find these perpetrators and bring justice upon any network involved as soon as possible. >> thai authorities have now released pictures of the man who they believe to be the main suspect behind the bombing. wearing a yellow t shirt, he is shown in the images carrying a backpack, to the shrine. later on, he is seen leaving the shrine, without the backpack. a man hunt is underway. >> this dash cam footage shows the moment the bomb
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went off. five-kilograms of military grade explosives that sources have told al jazeera was deliberately detonated. within hours of the blast, the military run government was blaming it's political enemies. now it is asking the country to unite, and stay calm. >> we would like once again, assure the public that right now, look at what has been done. but after this, the thai government will do our best in order to make sure that everybody is well looked after. >> but within an hour of that speech, this happened at the main river transport. another high profile tourist target. >> the grenade landed in the water and no one was injured. back at the shrine, things are slowly getting back to normal, the roads have been reopened but this is as close as we can get to the shrine itself. secure has been tightened as
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promised. but we have seen teams arrive as they try to get to the bottom of how and why this brutal attack happened. >> taye authorities won't say how soon they will be able to announce the results of their investigation. vironica al jazeera, bangkok. >> e.u. boarder control says the number of refugees who reached the european borders last month has more than tripled compared to the same month last year, in july 107,500 people reached entrances to the continent, the highest monthly total ever recorded. meanwhile, italian police have arrested eight suspected human traffickers in connection with the death of dozens of people. 49 have believe to have suffocated while in the hold of the vessel and the e.u. has promised greece more money to help cope with the refugees arriving there. one of the islands on the
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front line, al jazeera is there. >> if this is a promised land, then for ms. it is proving to be a fast one, every day they. co, sometimes in the hundreds refugees and those seeking work. seeking the waters from turkey, that's the town, in the distance. and every day, they wait. for paperwork, that allows them to stay or move on to another parts of europe. >> many people. it is here. africa is here. but there is a little -- this day. >> other people have been waiting much longer. >> much longer. >> how is this? >> 23 days. >> yes. >> and nobody has helped you in that time? >> i want with to go. >> and why what do you think you will find in germany.
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>> >> because i think my future is there. >> we have here some survival keys. some hygiene kits. >> do you feel the local authorities are in control? >> basically they are tired. they can't control something that is 100 people, and something 1,000. >> in order no not really. >> things have been worse, in recent days the government tried to passenger ferry across the town. providing temporary accommodation, sanitation, and documentation, to 2 1/2 thousand people. >> they are exclusively syrians onboard, who having fled the civil war a given prity here, and certainly the presence has eased the crisis for recent weeks but for many others who aren't allowed onboard like these people living on a beach in the center of town, very little has chained. >> a group of africans from cameroon nigeria, and congo, say they are being
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discriminated against. >> we are angry, and we are tired, we have made -- we have lodged the complaints to almost everybody here, most of them laugh at us. and that is horrible. >> you think that is specifically because you are africans? >> what i see. they laugh at our conflict, you should know it is because we are africans. >> on the greek shore, they may be safe prime minister the hard shes they fled. but even here, floating on a holiday they are far from secure. jona hull, al jazeera on the island. >> turkey's prime minister says he has failed to form a new governmenting coalition. that means turkey is almost certainly going to have new elections. this comes amido a turkish military campaign, and the islamic state of levant. the meeting between the president has just begun. for more on this, bernard
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smith joins us life, bennard, how do we get to this point try to form some sort of coalition, they lost the majority because mainly because the prokurdish hgp party won 13% of the vote. so in that period, the a.k.p. has been trying to form a coalition, it is failed. it was in talks with all the various opposition parties. and the mhp, but they have not been interested in joining the coalition for various reasons. so what happens now is that they are meeting to hand back the mandate to form the government. >> so what are we looking at then tonight? >> bell, century what happens is they go through the
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motions of constitution nally handing back this mandate. he could, give the mandate to the second largest party, the secular opposition chp, they won the second largest dunk of the vote, he could give the mandate to them, and ask them to try to form some sort of minority, some sort of government, that's extremely unlikely. >> we hope that we might find a little bit more out this evening. in that meeting. but turkey looks like heading for more elections after the inconclusive results after the failure to form a government following the june . >> all right, thank you. >> the results are in for sri lanka's elections and the ruling party has won the most
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seats but not a majority. he is likely to remain in office, with his united national party on course to form a coalition government. and the ruling party called 106 seats. the closest rival managed to get 95, that means the former president has failed in his attempt to become prime minister. this update from the capitol. >> the are yous are finally in in the parliamentary elections with the alliance put together by the prime minister. surging ahead with 106 sees of the 225 member legislature, that just leaves 95 seats with former president alliance, the united people freedom alliance. now basically what will happen is the prime minister is expected to be invited to form a government by the president. which he must do one once all the procedures are completed. the official results are needed to be gathered the exact sort of preferential
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voting for the candidates names and this must happen with prime minister then having to negotiate with the partners who came together to help him bring this victims fromly for the alliance. so a few days we have before the future face of the government here. and that also leaves questions much more ahead, including. >> i am jennifer glass, where afghan miners are making a 30-year-old mine field safe. one reason why afghanistan is the most dangerous place in the world to be a humanitarian worker. >> and clowning around, how circus release opportunities to ethiopia's poorest children.
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to discuss the crisis in the libyan city, it says only air strikes from arab states can prevent the full takeover, which is largely controlled since may. iraqi government says it has entered the second phase of a campaign to retake an bar province. on the front lines iraqi security forces battle isil one shot at a time. despite the promises to recapture quickly, the battle has so far been slow. >> while the defense ministry insists things are going well, and have moved on to
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phase two there, part of the largest anbar offensive some are skeptical. >> i believe isil and ramadi is still strong, and the joint iraqi forces are still weak. they haven't been able to put an end to that organization in the 70 days since the start of the anbar offensive. but scenes like this, in which a shoulder which are helping the government, seem to underscore questions regarding how well trains these men are. >> still, no matter how competent they are at were fair, the intensity of this struggle leaves most worn out. these days iraq government faces a convergence of crisis. one on the battlefield.
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the others in the court of public opinion. and demanding a return of basic services including electricity, and air conditioning. while iraq's prime minister have been quick to pass measures many iraqis say that's not near enough. protestors have vows to keep coming out in the streets no matter how long it takes. it seems like the reform list by the government is like egg on paper. if no action is taken. and prime minister isn't just promising to cut corruption, he insists he will also improve security.
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by court marshals officers when they stormed the city in april. it is not clear yet what effect they will have. >> popular resistence fighters took an area, overlooking a military camp. in other parts of the city, rebel shelling is said to have killed four civilians while clashes reportedly killed several fighters on both sides. it is seen as a gate way to the rebel held captor. all par toys in the civil war have displayed a flagrant disregard to civilian lives that's accord toeing the haw moon rights group. a new report, they accused both the saudi led coalition, and fighters on the ground of leaving a trail of destruction, which may amount to war crimes.
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ingboth groups have launched attacks in densely populated areas, and saudi led air strikes have hit civilian areas where there is often no military target nearby. a yemen research of amnesty international, she explains more detail the allegations of war crimes. >> all sides of the conflict -- the arms group gros now the anti-houthis fighters are operating out of civilian areas. it looks into 80 different ache streets just around adan north of adan. they don't seem to differentiate between civilian objects and military objects. it is not quite clear what
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words objectives are targeting things such as mosquens, schools and markets. for example, we visited one school where 60 families of personally displaced people were living and trying to escape the conflict. >> . >> there's no military objective as far as we can see near that school, and it is not clear why it was targeted. >> a political insecurity analyst based says it is bias against the kingdom, which is leaded the coalition air strikes. saudi arabia and the coalition, they are welcoming the united nations. they are part of the storm, and they work on this approval, and with the international community. there is no doubt ha saudi arabia would work with the united nations, and the amnesty to define and prove that the houthis and the people are responsible for
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killing those innocent people is not saudi arabia and the coalition party, and this is one that like saudi arabia and the coalition party by the amnesty. >> this wednesday is united nations world humanitarian day, a day of remembrance for aid workers killed in the line of duty. afghanistan is the deadliest place in the world with 57 kills in 2014, and 37 so far this year. reports on how despite the dangers many continue their jobs. >> this is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. looking for mines rockets and other unexploded devices in afghanistan. they call what is below ground the hiddennen my, but there are plenty of other dangers too. working on a hillside, surrounded the whole team and captures us and beat us, and said bad words. than they threatened to kill us. >> that time they were released, but 12 colleagues
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and southern province weren't as lucky. they were shot dead last december. because the nature of their work means they are often in tested areas these men are some of the most targeted aid workers in the country. operating in difficult places. >> there are thousands of battlefields like this all over afghanistan, yet another danger they face here. >> the head of the mine coordination says one of the big probables is there are so many different groups fighting, that it is hard to know who is the best local contact. and the government isn't much help. >> in some cases if you ask the government to support us, it's counter productive. because they can't provide enough security, and then you are in and out with being one sided and then that makes our life more difficult. a german air worker. they continue here.
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they say 37 have been killed so far this year. >> jennifer glass al jazeera, kabul. the official reason behind the visit is to promote tourism, but the president has warned that the further stir up tensions in eastern ukraine. down to the wreck of a 1,000-year-old trading ship. >> there war with so many interesting things down here, so many objects, ancient pottery just scattered on the seabed, the view of the ship wreck is so clear, they say they have a lot of work to do. >> a norwegian court has sentence add co-pilot to six months in jail after it shows heed ha been drinking after due to take the controls of a plane.
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to flight attendebs were also convicted. rescuers have now seen in sunday's air crash, and they say they found the bodies of all 54 people onboard. they have also confirmed they found the black box air recorders. it is in the remote part of the province. southee has launched what it is calling the k police wave. the government is trying to export it's policing techniques in the way it is exporting it's entertainment. it doesn't come without controversy. >> protestors almost part of the national dna, seems like this rally against the government handling of last year as disaster are a willing feature of life in downtown.
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as other tactics and response. barriers, and impassive mass ranks, used to keep protestors the designated areas. it is a far cry from how things worked 20 years ago. now the tier gas has been banned, offensive measures replaced by defensive ones, the watch word no casualties. >> in the past, there was direct confrontation between protestors in the police, resulting in karmtys now thanks to the installation of things like walls this has been prevented. >> . >> it is a transformation the police say. for instance including dna investigation, all of it with the promotion overseas what is being called the k police wave. part of the national brand. south korea's police this is just one element of the police wave that the techniques that they are exporting to other countries, nonetheless, this kind of
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crowd control is probably the most controversial of that entire program. protests end up coming those just inside the wall. citizens feel separated and feel those people inside are different from them. the nature of protests is openness, but the walls seem to communication with society the police university are trained in cyber crime techniques. the police emphasize that the program which is seen exchanging with 69 other countries is about sharing all kinds of expertise, but they also admit that for some of the patners particularly middle eastern ones the greatest interest is in equipment and tactics for maintaining public order. >> gunning or chemicals were used in the past, i don't have precise knowledge, but the concept of human rights is rising. as such, countries recognize that the techniques are not appropriate, and they are seeking for us more humane ones which can stop people getting hurt. >> the police is unbeatable
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array of measures provokes praise anonviolence and criticism of the unbending way in which decent is managed and sometimes stifled. the k police wave is likely to export that mixed reputation, as it breaks on foreign shores. al jazeera, seoul. in ethiopia despite an increase in children going to school, it remains one of the poorest in the world. now a circus is given some a reason to stay off the streets. charles strait father has found out more. >> these children come from poor families. there are few have even lived on the streets. they come to this training center every day. which means blooming flower, is a charity that runs it, it relies on private donations and also has helped by an italian ngo. seven-year-old showed no fear
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as a trainer lifted him high above his head. he is here with his sister, who is practicing herbal lansing skills. >> i love to come here, she says. i want to be good at the circus. organizers say the activities and training gives the children self-esteem, and keeps them off the streets. they have confidence, and we also have they don't only come here to do activities they also come here to have fun. to learn more, to bring out their hidden talents. they take us to their home, they live in an iron shack. life the difficult, but my kids are good at the circus. i encouraging them to try
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their hard zest they usually listen to me. >> they don't have to be on the streets. there are thousands of children across like these. this is a typically poor neighborhood. it's name translates to wiese is tears. ethiopia has made impressive gains. but it remains one of the poorest in the world. 30% of the population liver in poverty, and it has a massive impact, when 50% of the population are under the age of 18. government health programs are sek seeded in decreasing chile mortality rates. school enrollment is around 90% but there's a long way to go. it is hoped the children that will come here, will get the
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opportunities they deserve. just a quick reminder you can catch up on all the news. the address for that is aljazeera.com, and you can also watch us on the watch now icon. aljazeera.com. there a key democrat, this hour is explaining why he is voting no as well. police say the man in this video is the bomber. and china stock market dives 6% over currency fears will the roast of the world follow suit?