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this is al jazeera. this is al jazeera. >> hello everyone i'm felicity barr and this is the newshour live from london. coming up: hundreds of refugees pass from police lines on the hungary, serbia border. desperate to continuin county tr journey through up a. two british nationals die in drone strikes on i.s.i.l. in
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syria. alwayalleges crimes against humidity. and super-hedge discovered buried under fields in southern england. >> in sports, roger federer and andy murray are heading towards final spots in the u.s. open tennis championship. san vavrinka is already there. >> hello, european politicians are scrambling to come up with solutions to the biggest refugee cries since world war two. united kingdom has agreed to take 20,000, france's francois
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hollande set france will take 24,000. angela merkel says refugees from safe countries will have to go back. hungarian president says they have have a fund to help turkey cope with mass migration and help his country to protect its borders. hungary's foreign minister quit as tensions boiled over with situations near serbia. many have been there for days without shelter waiting for buses to ferry them onwards. aal jazeera's andrew simmons reports. >> families following in the wary footsteps of thousands. they are coming across the
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border from serbia to hungary. any hope there will be another refugee exodus like the weekend are diminishing. nothing chairchtio changes here. it's getting worse. waiting for buses to take them to a camp to be registered. the police are refusing to move but there's real anger here not just amongst the men but frustration amongst the mothers. children have been here for three days and it's really cold at night. eventually they're lined up preparing to board a bus then this. consume, thiexcuse me, this is s children. what do you make of this?
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>> we are not acting as human. they are just doing like animals. this is not a human being. >> reporter: nearby, syrians are gathered. this man complaining that he's been stuck here for two days. >> should make faster, the take the people to although village or another camp. >> reporter: scuffles break out after the people decide to protest, trying to break away from the assembly point. this woman says she was beaten with a baton. then, a disturbing sight. a sick child in the arms of an exhausted syrian who had run along the rail track shouting for help.
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the limp figure of a five-year-old. he had passed out either with heat exhaustion or fever. he's five years old and his mother fears worst. yet the boy called hamza was revived. tirs bfirst by a doctor and then paramedics put up a drip before taking him to hospital. not first, not the last, cacials of thicasualty of this . the refugees are allowed to march to the registration camp. dozens ran away, some chased away by police. there will be more scenes like this. hungary's government will soon be introducing new laws to clamp down harder on it calls illegal migration. andrew simmons, al jazeera, rushka, hungary. >> and andrew sent this update from rushka a short time ago. >> reporter: this carriage way of a motor way is closed. police are here in large numbers. buses have arrived. refugees have two options, go
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back to rushka camp sleep overnight get fed and registered or they carry on walking. that's what the police have told the organizers. the organizers are saying they have no other option but to carry on walking. >> we walk one day and two days and three days and we want go to to the camp. this is not camp. this is land really land not a camp. >> reporter: but these people are exhausted. the strain of this journey and the walk up this motor way is too much for them. they've disagreed with the organizers, they've boarded the bus, they want to go back to the camp. the main grup of the refugee grs going back. they are doing nothing more than playing a waiting game. people are tired. they do have the buses as an option to turn back if they want to.
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>> well, al jazeera has been speaking to people about the difficulties they face trying to enter awenter awtz rah u.s.a au. mohammed jamjoom has the story. >> fathers and mothers are in as much need of comfort and compassion as their sons and daughters. i wanted to protect them, how could i have known we would be treated the way we were in hungary? as they depart nicholsdorf on austria's bownary witaustria's n hell now we're in heaven ah la
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tells mallahtells me. they slammed their doors in the faces of all syrians. allah who fled war ravaged syria last month, explains why he has never been treated worse than in last month. >> translator: swear to god, hungary humiliated us, says allah. refugees aboard this train while relieved are also thoroughly exhausted. all the ones i've spoken to have said they wouldn't believe their journey to this point could have been so hard. for some though moving ahead allows them a moment or two to drop their guard. i didn't believe it at first when they told me we would finally get on the train. i didn't believe it would happen but it did. my niece says it is the first
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time she has seen me smile in 15 days. little amia echos her uncle telling me just how happy she is. life got better for us, she tells me. arriving in vienna, the refugees know that true healing has yet to begin but this is as good a start as any. today they may have reached their destination unobstructed but this journey is far from over. mohammed jamjoom, vienna, austria. >> greek island of lesbos is near explosion, according to foreign minister. refugees have clashed with authorities for the past three days. the greek government is ferrying people from its islands to the main lands but unregistered people aren't allowed on board.
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some refugees have been stranded for two weeks and have run out of money. nighttime there, boats carrying refugees are continuing to land. hoda abdel hamid has been speaking to some of the newest arrivals. >> they are volunteers giving them water and fruit. as you can see, there were a lot of children on this boat tiny kids. these children as young as two years old. and the other two babies are less than one year old. and it's the birthday actually of the little girl in yellow who's holding the apple in her hand. now they have arrived on this wooden boat here. it is actually one of the largest boats we have seen arriving, on this coast, usually
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they arrive in smaller rubber dinghies and in much smaller groups. >> british mp andrew mitchell, is the former undersecretary of state for international develop. he says setting up in home countries is one of the most important things the international community can do. >> there are many of us who believe that while treating the symptoms of all of this we're not properly addressing the causes. and the idea that i'm very keen to support is the idea of an international enclave, a place where people could go within syria under united nations auspices heavily defended of course but preferably by troops from the region, given air cover and airs support as well. so the idea of having some safe havens inside syria, i think would provide what is so far not been available for syrians displaced.
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and a country where nearly half the population is displaced or indeed dead. and the international community must take far greater action to help address the causes of this and not just leave it to the symptoms. >> and with me in the studio is maya nayla, aid group oxfam. thanks for coming into the studio, what does oxfam believe is the best way to deal with this crisis? opening the european borders fully or more managed migration? >> there's not one simple solution but of course a part of it is resettling and some of the most vulnerable refugees from the region. so from the camps but from the broader region itself, most syrian refugees aren't in formal camps, they're scattered across lebanon and jordan. and the region is buckling under the strain. you've got close to 2 million
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refugees in turkey, 600,000 in jordan, 1 million in lebanon, a tiny country the size of wales, where one in four is a refugee from syria. you have to share the responsibility globally and the european union and the u.k. must do more to resettle some of those refugees. so the announcement today from david cameron was welcome, but it's a first step. >> the reality is though, i mean, is europe ever going to accept, as you pointed out just in lebanon 1 million refugees, scattered across the country, not just in camps, is europe not able to take in every single one of those refugees, how can a resettlement program be managed? >> of course europe can't take all those refugees and all those refugees don't want to go to europe. when i was recently in lebanon
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and jordan, some said they wanted to stay in hopes of return. others said they were saving up the little money they had to pay for smugglers to get to europe busy a very hazardous crossing. you have to provide a safe and legal route without the tragic consequences we've seen last week. and then each country works with the u.n. refugee agency to help resettle those refugees, so there are processes in place to manage resettlement from the region to countries within the european union. but also, globally. so australia, canada, the u.s., golf states also, have their part to play. the worst refugee crisis since the end of the second world war. so there has to be -- the responsibility must be shared across the world. >> you see what life is like for those people in the camps in both jordan and lebanon.
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some of them have been there for several months maybe -- >> years. >> years exactly, and then they decide, enough is enough, we're leaving we're going to try to find a route to europe because it will be better. why are those conditions so bad, because people can't work and earn money and get out of the situation they're in? >> it's a combination of many factors. many people left with literally the clothes on their back because of the brutality of the conflict in syria thinking that they would be in the camps or in neighboring countries for weeks and months. but they've now been there for years. in march next year we're marking five years of the conflict in syria. and there are big restrictions on their ability to work. so they're scraping to get by. there has been a big aid effort and that has absolutely paid a difference. i've been to the zatarie refugee
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camp in jordan, there is some relief for kids. but the scale is absolutely enormous. the world food program has said it had to cut its food aid in half in lebanon. refugees are telling us they have to make really, really tough decisions, do i eat or clothe my children? you get to a point, a point of desperation where you feel the only thing you can do is to leave. in the hope that you have better future for yourself and for your family and that decision is different for each individual. but it's that combination of the time that they've been there, the restrictions and the fact that actually the aid effort isn't being fully funded. >> really good for your thoughts, thank you so much for coming in, thank you. >> thank you. >> and still to come on this newshour. thousands gather for the funeral of a palestinian mother who died
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a month after her 18 month old son was burned to death in an arson attack. european farmers demonstrate outside brussels parliament. and prince al hussein of jordan believes he can be the king of football at next year's presidential elections. first, i.s.i.l. fighters have captured parts of the last major oil field that was under syrian government control. just north of the ancient city of palm raz. close to a regiopalmyra. >> the u.k. says it's used a
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drone to kill three members of i.s.i.l, two of them were british nationals. it happened in raqqa in syria more than two weeks ago. the british prime minister has called it an act of self defense. emma hayward has more details. >> reporter: when i.s.i.l. released a recruiting video last year, raid khan appeared calm and spoke calmly. >> woo we ask yourself what prevents you from came to the land of izra. >> reporter: he appeals for others to join him in syria. another man is now dead, killed by a drone strike carried out by the british ministry. >> after an act of self defense and meticulous primming, a remoitlremotely directed aircra.
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two i.s.i.l. associates were also killed. one of whom, raul amin has been identified as a u.k. national. >> the strike was approved by the attorney general, the main legal advisor to the u.k. the first ck acknowledged strikn syria by the british. two years ago, britain's politicians narrowly volte narrd against carrying out military actions in syria. two years on, i.s.i.l.'s campaign of violence has escalated. the legality of killing two british nationals in thi this wy will be justified.
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>> it's been characterized as nationalism, there's a question of the timing of self defense as well. the u.k. has been opposed of preemptive self defense. the only way to justify these strikes is on that basis. so it would have to be a pretty profound change in the u.k. stand on self defense. >> the killing of ryad khan and raul ramin will raise questions about what threats they posed and how to stop men and women from traveling to fight with i.s.i.l. in the first place. emma thompson, al jazeera. aims is to regain control of al jos province under houthi control since 2011.
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accidental air strike on sunday. egypt's agriculture minister has been arrested over corruption allegations. detained on monday shortly after his resignation was announced. the prime minister's office released a statement earlier saying his resignation had been accepted. thousands of people have attended the funeral of a palestinian woman who's died five weeks after an arson attack on her home. her 18-year-old son was killed in the arson attack of their family home. her husband died days later. scott heidler has more from duma. >> she returned to her home city of duma. she succumbed to these injuries early friday afternoon. her body has returned here. third member of the family that's died of the arson attack
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that's believed to be carried out by these israeli settlers. her son died that evening, then her husband died eight days after that astack and now five weeks later she has died and the village is going to say good-bye. the family's oldest son ahmed is in hospital with severe burns. >> the israelis will not terrify us. that's when they tried with this attack. we are staying here. we are not leaving. >> reporter: they're now buries her body, the same cemetery where her son was buried and the same cemetery where her husband was buried just a few weeks ago. palestinian officials call this arson attack a terrorist attack. prime minister benjamin
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netanyahu also called it a terrorist attack. they say there is a gag order. we spoke with some villagers here and they're afraid there could still be more attacks in this small villages. iraq's defense secretary has come under attack. progovernment forces retook the city from i.s.i.l. in april. al jazeera's imran khan has more from baghdad. >> khalid al abadi was in southwest of tikrit when the attack occurred. he does visit troops on a number of occasions, this was allegedly an assassination attempt. one shot was fired, one of his guards was slightly wounded. this tikrit was a success story for the iraqi people and for iraqi government.
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as an operation that got rid of i.s.i.l. fighters from one of their strongholds. it goes to show you there are probably antigovernment forces in that area and still capable of mounting attacks. >> turkey says its jets bombed kurdish fighters. armed kurdish group the pkk says it killed 15 soldiers in fallujah on sunday. recep tayyip erdogan said there would be a strong response to the attack. >> the information from our chief of general staff is very sad thing. i hope that with the statement of the army a new strategy will be adopted in the fight against terror. we will continue to fight against terror with determination. >> scuffles have broken out in brussels, where farmers have protested against the government
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setting quotas lower than before. jacky rowland watched are their protest turn sour. >> the country side has come to the city and they brought their tractors with them. the farmers have traveled from germany, france and other parts of europe and they united in their message that enough is enough. >> the public is getting low, a lot of farmers getting in very difficult situations. >> they lead us to overproduction. and amid our overproduction they now say you have so much to produce we cannot pay you for that. >> they reckon that 50 euro cents or half a dollar is the right price for milk. they have timed to protest to coincide with the meeting of the
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european agriculture mints. they want the eagricultureminis. >> they have drafted in units from the netherlands. what begins is a faceoff against the barricades soon degenerate. the farmers are armed with eggs. the police are armed with water cannons and tear gas. aid will address some of the farmers' problems sphwhrp what >> what we would like to see is a culture change. farmers could get a fair result for what they produce and to make sure that consumers are
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getting safe and affordable food. >> reporter: so the farmers can return to their fields feeling had wasn't wasted journey. but embar go will not be resolved so quickly. jacky rowland, al jazeera, brussels. the test that could determine whether you are old before your time. >> and in sport find out who won't be on boards for wales at the ruk by world cup.
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drone strike on i.s.i.l. in syria. and a day of rage to be held on friday after a palestinian woman died five weeks after an arson attack on her home which killed her 18 month old son and her husband. more now on our top story, the european refugee crisis, thousands of refugees have been pouring into germany. many living in makeshift shelters. they are planning their move into further partle o parts of . roblesdrob reynolds has more. >> each region in the country is assigned a quota of refugees to
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take in depending on its population and economic health. some of the refugees are making their own way out of munich, from idlib in syria. >> i want to go to per lin right now anbers lynnto berlin rightnn berlin. >> i have a brother and sister in spain in bilbao. >> engineering student ahmed from aleppo has no family anywhere. >> my mother my father my brothers, i don't know, dead or live, i don't know. >> where will you go right now? >> now? frankfurt, to camps. >> you have friends there? >> yes. syria finish because no house. my house it's finish. >> reporter: it's the same for many of these refugees.
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they're heading for anyplace where they have some personal connections. as the people here begin moving on to other cities, and other countries, there were reminders that many people in germany do not want hem to be here at all. two fires burned houses assigned to asylum seekers in germany on sunday night. police say one was a politically motivated arson attack, the others are investigated. others express doubts about how they would fit in to jersey man society. >> if we get 8,000 refugees every day, very soon we will reach our limit. then the germans will not be so friendly anymore. >> there are going to be more and more refugees, i ask myself how are we going to be able to
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handle those? >> reporter: german chancellor angela merkel says other countries have got to take their quotas. rob reynolds, al jazeera, europe. >> red cross representatives there both countries met in the border village of pan moon jon. >> translator: the state did not severe sacred family ties. i came here in a sincere hope that the south korean red cross tells the north korean red cross about my story so my families living in the north can at least see my face in the village of pan moon jam.
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>> harry fawcett has the report. >> brought to an end of serious tensions between north and south a couple of weeks ago, it's questionable though whether they will be able to make good on a plan to get this event arranged for the end of september which would coincide with the important harvest festival period across the peninsula. however, it is very much the intention according to the southern side's lead delegate that they will work as quickly as possible, because everybody is aware there is a fast moving fast shrinking group. nearly half of the applicants have died, or in their 80s or over. there have been times in the past when even on the run up to meet long separated family members. what we also know is if it does happen in october as is deemed more likely that coincides with
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the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the workers party in north korea, the ruling party of that country. there is scheduled to be a big military parade. should there be something else and there has been in the past to commemorate big events in north korean history such as a rocker launch that could put asunder the warming of relations between north and south korea and could of course affecting this planned event. family members are very much hoping that not be the case. the suspect detained at the thai border, has admitted to possessing exploifepossessing c. >> 30 years on, and a french flair has apologized for
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planting explosive devices. joining a protest against french nuclear testing in the pacific. jean luc kusta says he and his co-conspirators did not plan on killing anyone. >> i thought this was the occasion to express my deep regret and my apologize to the e family. i also wanted to apologize to the members of greenpeace who were on board the rainbow warrior. dragged into court in senegal for the resumption everf former president habre.
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charges he says are politically motivated. >> rachel said she was gang raped and she watched her father being killed by chadian security forces. she was 19 years old. howa says she was abducted and used as a sex slave for chadian soldiers. she was 13. along with fatima, and others, they want to tell their stories, murder, torture starvation and imprisonment. 25 years later they are walking together into the extraordinary chambers, to be tried for crimes against humanity. former chad president hissene habre, they say he is responsible for the atrocities committed against him. >> translator: it is important for me to see habre, that he listen to what his men have done
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to us. >> reporter: the trial started in july, but it was suddenly adjourned on the second day. habre was escorted out of the tribunal calling it a masquerade. he refused to recognize the court or the lawyers appointed to him. habre's wife feels he is not getting a fair trial. >> translator: when there's such political pressure to discredit hissene habre, there is no justice, the trial is completely fabricated. >> reporter: when he was in office he had the support of france and the united states. he fled to senegal where he has lived in quiet life. universal justice accessible to all. by giving a voice to the voiceless, this trial may bring
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an end to crimes committed on the continent that too long remain unpunished. at a media conference before the trial, brahim moaba and sakim say they speak for the dead and those alive but are too scared to speak of the past, haunted by unspeakable acts. they want their pain and loss recognized as crimes against humanity so that perhaps others, whether in chad or anywhere else, might muster the courage to speak out. and seek justice. nicholas hak, al jazeera, dacca. >> now a huge monument dating back thousands of years has been discovered buried in fields in southern england. nicknamed superheng superhenge,s
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have disorder that the stones form part of a c-shaped arena. close to the world heritage site of ston stones stonehenge. did you always. this was here. >> absolutely not we have been working for five years now doing geophysical surveys along the entire area of stonehenge. we literally started finding this in the last period of work. it was a real shock. >> huge surprise, huge excitement and hugely significant. >> yes, it is. i think indeed in the last week we begin to suspect that there may have been up to 200 stones
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at this site and to put that into context, stonehenge, when it has its most actual individual stones only had about 90. so this does give you some idea of the scale we're talking about. stonehenge is about 110 meters across. this thing is nearly 480 meters, one and a half kilometers in circumference. >> that is quite extraordinary. i've been to stonehenge myself and it's quite an extraordinary site, these enormous stones standing upright, and you wonder how anybody get them to stand in that position. these new ones of a similar time, do we have any idea again how they were put in place? >> they are approximately of the time when stonehenge is entering into that final phase, the great trilion this that people aronit.
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, and putting this thing up at stonehenge and this mont unanimity is an act of faith i have no doubt about this. >> is it a mystery now stonehenge and superhenge came about, the reasoning behind it? >> certainly they have ritual value, in the case of stonehenge, they are astronomical alignment, the solstice, when the sunrises on the solstice, in case of them it's a bit different because this early monument that we're talking about is actually replaced with an immense henge monument which is put on top.
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these stones are pushed over and a huge banger is put on top of it. and that has an alignment on the mid winter sol cities when the sun rose. -- solstice when the sun rose effectively dismantled and incorporated later on with astronomic significance. you know, if perhaps it's not surprising over such a long time, and in the case of stonehenge at all, about a thousand years of development just like the great cathedrals or religious sites of more modern times, you know, huge changes take place. and it's reflected in building and rebuilding. >> stonehenge of course stands upright, as i understand it these stones are all lying down, somehow they all got pushed down. are you going to excavate, are people going to see these knowns fulthese stonesin full glory?
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what's going to happen? >> we have huge amounts of information on thousands of archaeological features we've identified. we'll be published that. we don't know what type of stone it is, are they local stones, blue stones which came from southern wales transported across hundreds of kilometers? geophysics doesn't really tell us. at some point i have no doubt archaeologists will have a desire to look at them. >> thank you for joining us. my pleasure. >> a team from researchers from the u.k. sweden and the u.s. have developed a new blood test which they claim accurately determines a person's biological age, more accurate impression of how people are aging on their date of birth.
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scientists believe doctors willing be able to use the procedure to predict the onset of dementia and help them to screen for cancer and other diseases earlier in life. can be carried out with a simple finger prick. spoke to al jazeera earlier about allow the test can be used to help medical patients. >> 70-year-old men who are born within months of each other their biological age is dramatically different, a magnitude of four fold. there is a real disassociation between the molecular sitting if you like and what it said in our passports. , finding people at risk, it is not if you like a dying not ti f
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alzheimer's. that happens going to accelerate research in that field . it is really going to be applied to people in the middle ages and on wards and might even schedule when you get a checkup. and may catch for example for example a particular age related illness sooner. >> plenty more to come on the program including, why usein bottle has decided to turn his back on running for another year, we'll explain why in a couple of minutes.
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>> hello again.
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guatemala is to hold a runoff election after three remaining candidates split sunday's vote. jimmy morales came out ahead but not clear who he will be up against. s daniel schwindler ha against. daniel schwindler has more. >> jimmy morales finished ahead but not enough to avoid runoff election. he'll be against manuel desales or the former first lady sandra torres. the people have chosen but have they chosen wisely? >> we guatemalans are going to have hopefully better
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politicians in the next four years. >> the man they elected as their last president, otto perez molina will be appearing to hear whether he is tried or the a scandal. >> translator: i'm voting but at the same time, i don't agree with any of the proposals put forward by the candidates. but the people have spoken and have a much clearer idea of what democracy is. >> the anything my family asked is the new president is not as bad as the last one. he damaged us and i don't want that for my children or grandchildren. >> the new president will not take office until january. in the meantime the country's being led by the interim leader, alexander maldonado. later on monday he will appoint another government, tasked with
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leading guatemala out of the last few months. judicial system fighting corruption and bringing politicians to court, as signs that the country is moving forward. the election result is a step towards greater stability. but guatemala full of surprises and uncertainty. daniel schwindler. al jazeera, guatemala city. >> time for latest in sport, andy. >> thanks felicity. world cup winners made to work hard for a win against scotland. glaglasgow's hamden stadium, thy do stay top of group d. poland were 8-1 winners against
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gibraltar. the third place team will be go into a playoff and at the moment that is republic of ireland, scotland are fourth just two games left to play. group i portugal has closed in, netting the winner in stoppage time. group f is in northern ireland, they have never made it to the euro finals before. roe main yay, third call in a row against a greek team that failed to win in qualifying. >> now pri prince hussein has gn strongest indication that he will stand for the fifa presidency. speaking in manchester, pris ali said blatter should be held responsible.
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sincblatter has since decided to quit the job. >> right now we knew candidate who is forward-thinking who brings a new idea who is not tainted by the past as well. and so what i'll say for you to you right now is just stay tuned. >> so that sounds like yes. >> stay tuned, proceed. >> in tennis five time winner roger federer takes on john isner. right now andy murray is playing south africa's john anderson. stan vavrinka is already through to the last day. america's donald young in straight sets to reach quarter final. in the woman's draw, second seed is into the quarter finals. the romanian did need a
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physician assistance on a thigh problem but a match lasted over two and a half hours. former world number 1 victora azerenka, beat in straight sets. world has received a huge blow, lee halfpenny will miss the event. ruptured ligaments means he won't be playing. ness campaign against uruguay in carr dicardiff in september. olympic titles at next year's re oh games. optimistic the league finals in brussels on friday. said to be taking a break before returning to training in
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october. one year to go until the start of the paralympics in rio. 4,000 athletes from more than 170 countries are set to compete in those games next year and the heavy weights of power lifting are hoping to make an impact. the sport faces an ongoing challenge to report chiefs. it's a fight organizers believe they are winning. >> reporter: raising the bar to reach rio. some of the world's best power lifters are trying to put their place at next year's power olympics. many athletes continue to be caught for doping. >> there's a argument for my side that say we're actually clean because we do 35% testing. people say it's a dirty sport. there are athletes that decide
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to go on the other side of the line. we don't want them in the sport, we don't like to see them in the sport. >> proud paralympian. to raise the bar. >> paralympic values and also engage each other. >> this program, it is been about the values of the antidoping, where to check history and where to find the best information about the anti-doping. >> on the bench, the clean athletes can continue to focus on re. one of the most successful nation in power lifting is iran. they have won 25 paralympic medals including four goals in 2012. >> all are factors in prepare
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the team to win good titles. >> world and olympic power lifters has done it eight times in the last year and a half. and now stands at 295 kilograms, there is a feeling he can lift even heavier. >> that's a secret. but i think i would like about 300 kilos at the paralympic game. >> team member took the silver. don't be surprised at seeing the flag raised again. >> okay, that's your sport, hand you back to felicity in london. >> andy thawchtandy thank you vh indeed for that. the address to click on, aljazeera.com.
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>> making a break for the european union. hundreds of refugees crossing police lines on the hungary, serbia border. hello there i'm felicity barr and this is al jazeera, live from london. also coming up: two british nationals die in a u.k. drone strike against i.s.i.l. in syria. activists call for a day of rage in a funeral for a palestinian mother who died