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>> tension in jerusalem as a second palestinian man is shot dead bipolice for stabbing israeli citizens. i'm fauziah ibrahim. you're watching al jazeera, live from doha. president barack obama offers his sympathy, after a suspected american air strike on
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a hospital in kunduz. plus. >> we were characters from star wars. >> a man who aims to wipe out corruption. a palestinian who stabbed an israeli teenager in jerusalem has been killed by police. hours similar a similar attack killed two others in a city. rising tensions in east jerusalem. >> unpress precedence it shock in the old city as gun fire rings out and people scatter. [ gun shots ] >> reporter: this is a normally lastic tourist haven,
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where christian pilgrims watch the steps of jesus christ before his crucifixion. this is a rare part of which this old part of the city eresults in chaos. attacker was identified as mohammed kalabi, a 19-year-old, soon characterized in the israeli media as a lone wolf attack carried out by one person with no coordination or control. but it came during a time when tensions are mounting in the region, following killing of two israeli settlers by unidentified gunmen on thursday. and in the wake of the old city attack, erupted in outrage on social media, none on camera
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because it's an important jewish holiday. this is what losing control and deterrence looks like, and the leader of the israeli union says scheduled losing control over the israeli citizens and jerusalem. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is due the return to israel in the afternoon, spokesman says he will meet immediately with the army chief staff and will hold a full cabinet meeting at the end of the holiday on monday. there have been repeated clashes overnight between palestinians and the israeli army at the scene of the 19-year-old's house
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in ramallah. mike hannah, al jazeera, east jerusalem. let's get the lateliest from mike in jerusalem. describe the situation for us. >> unrestricrestrictions have bd on the area, restricted to residents and business owners in the old city. the access to the al-aqsa compound itself will be restricted. far wider than has been imposed before given that it vos t invos the whole of the old city, fawses yah. >> ifauziah.
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>> process of tension that has been rising over recent days in particular since the prime minister last been in the united states, attending the united nations gathering there. so certainly he will be discussing far wider issues, remembering as well that there was an attack in the west bank on thursday in which israeli citizens were shot and killed, and events around the al-aqsa compound where there has been mounting tension throughout the week. netanyahu coming up strong attack by israeli citizens who claim he being controlled over the situation and importantly, attacks from his own government, government is not doing enough in her words to control terror. so certainly, netanyahu looking
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at the wider security situation and considering a widening tide of criticism of his handling of the situation there. >> give us an idea what the reaction has been like from the general public in terms of in relation to the rising tensions. >> well, there is an immense air of tension around the old city itself. there is also an intense amount of anger from palestinians in east jerusalem, especially those attempting to get to the al-aqsa compound for prayer. there are a series of reports of violence in various parts of the west bank and confirmed reports ever violence. reported clashes between army and palestinians near the 19-year-old attacker's home just on the outscir outscirtsdz of o.
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>> mike hannah there giving us the latest from jerusalem. the number of dead from a landslide in guatemala. david mercer have ited the site earlier. >> i saw not a single survivor brought out from underneath the rock and dirt but i did see a number of bodies brought out. i talked to a number of family members who say they are not going to leave the site until they see their loved ones either alive or dead. and a lot of them were resigned to the fact that they may not in fact see them alive.
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buried by as much as 45 meters of rock and dirt. 125 meters of rock covered these houses, so certainly, these rescue workers have their work cut out for them in this case. national disaster relief center, they said seven years ago they approached the municipal authority and said, people shouldn't be allowed to live in this area, it is at the bottom of a steep ravine and a river runs right through there, as well, so a real recipe for disaster, especially in guatemala which gets hut by torrential rains every year, mudslides are very common. people who have been there for ten years said they received no warning from the municipality so they are certainly in the weeks to come, there is going to be
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some finger-pointing an they are going to come up with i imagine a solution to prevent disasters like this from happening in the future. >> president barack obama has extended his condolences to the suspected victims of an area near kunduz, a hospital run by doctors without borders. nick copisk has more. >> they describe a terrifying sustained attack that continued for an hour and a half. the main operating theater, the emergency room and other parts of the medical complex were all hit. doctors without borders say several of their staff were killed and dozens injured. it says gps coordinates of the facility had been given to
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american officials as close as a few days ago. they say we urge all parties to respect the safety of health facilities, and staff. officials from the afghan interior ministry said the hospital had been infiltrated by taliban fighters. >> they came and you tack, all of them were killed but we also lost doctors. we will do everything to make sure the doctors are sav safe ad they can do their jobs. >> this was not confirmed by sources but american authorities issued condolence he to the afghan government. the strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby
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medical facility. this incident is under investigation. in the past, collateral damage has referred to accidental killing of civilians. after taliban forces captured the city earlier this week, afghan force ves been trying to regain control in the last few days. nick toksvik, al jazeera. >> john hendren, from washington. >> a statement by the u.s. embassy in kabul mourns what it calls a tragic incident. the general on the ground, general john campbell says he had spoken with ashraf ghani, the afghan president, about what had happened. calling tao a tragic incident, saying it would be investigated. however none of these statements were apologetic and none of them
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said exactly what happened, other than to say that there were u.s. troops assisting afghan forces on the ground, that there were taliban forces there as well. this makes it much more difficult for u.s. government to operate in afghanistan and put ashraf ghani in the position of his pre predecessor. perception of course is devastating, and the taliban don't have their own planes so it's known that it is only the u.s. and the coalition that are committing these strikes. and that makes it much more difficult for u.s. to operate in afghanistan. >> one man who was in the hospital with his two children at the time of the bombing gave al jazeera his account. >> translator: from the first day of fighting my two sons were injured and my two other nephews were killed. i brought my injured sons to the
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nsf hospital. suddenly in the middle of the night hospital was being bombed. i grabbed my sons from the bed and we hid unit a table. the building was on fire and the roof collapsed. the hospital was totally destroyed. thank god, we survived. >> still ahead on al jazeera. the preparation for the 2020 olympics in japan, run into problems plus. >> for a few weeks each year people flock here to risk it all, for ride of their life. i'm gabriel elizondo, that story coming up. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,
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up. >> welcome back. the top stories here in al jazeera. israeli police have restricted the area of old jerusalem. hours earl yerm similar attack killed two people in the city. that assailant was also shot dead. the number of dead from a mudslide in guatemala has riz torisento 85. u.s. air strike on a hospital in the afghan city of kunduz.
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saturday attack on a doctors without borders hospital has left at least 19 dead. syrian observatory, russians targeted nine positions held by i.s.i.l. including its main stronghold, raqqa province. the there have bens n been p of refugees through macedonia, jonah hull has the report. >> last train station in macedonia on the serbian border. nothing's changed, day in day out they keep coming.
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the weary, relieved, the hopeful. >> we have around eight trains per day, depending, sometimes more sometimes less in 24 hours. >> do you see any sign at all of this flow of people slowing down coming to an end? >> thinking october is slowing down but we're nothing like that. >> this young man is an english teacher from raqqa in syria. do you feel your spirits are high? >> yes yes, i think my morals are high to travel to a different country. different places and different people and like my friends. they are having a honeymoon. >> they're on their honeymoon? >> yes, newly married? >> bride and groom. >> very active sightseeing
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honeymoon adventure you're happy then? >> yes yes. >> congratulations. i want to ask you about the russian activities now in the last few days in your country, do you think that it's going to help to end the war? >> no. i don't think so. it will be worse. >> it will just get worse? >> yes get worse more and more. >> after a few kilometers walk, people are arriving in serbia. the spotlight is still very much on syria. it's about the russian bombing of syria now of course but there aren't many people here who seem to think that that is going to make much difference condition. but in the meantime, this miserable journey through 21st century europe goes on. a lot is said in parts of europe about these people, who they
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are, what they want, the threat they pose. most are ordinary people beginning new lives in a world that has changed i don't know recognition. jonah hull, al jazeera on the macedonia serbia border. at least 12 have died in flooding around the french riff areriviera. in the philippines more than 70 fishermen are missing. on saturday emergency workers reported that 24 boats had disappeared. more than half of those vessels are still unaccounted for. the coaflght an coast guard ande conducting search operations. typhoon, set to hit in area
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bracing for possible flooding and high winds. kuala lumpur's annual marathon has been cancelled due to health and safety concerns. indonesian forest fires have left the capital trapped in smoke. stadium design in j.p.'s olympic organizers are also searching for a logo. the road to 2020 is far from easy. >> organizers are still dealing with the international embarrassment of scrapping the
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original plans. likened by some to a giant cycling helmet, turtle or toilet seat, the stadium was scrapped due to cost. but many do not agree to how it was handled. >> the architects and other companies have been working on this for two years and for all that work to be wasted is such a shame. >> reporter: the olympic organizers insist the 2020 games are still on track. >> there is no delay in the games preparations, except for the emblems. >> now hanging in their offices, the logo that was used in the bidding process are not that other emblem. >> the controversy over the stadium comes amid of th the continuing controversy of the stadium itself, amid corruption
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allegations, over what should take its place. social media outpoker of creative suggestions in japan and abroad. the designer is something of an olympics logo expert. >> translator: from the 1960s to the 80s the designs were minimalist with simple designs coming together. then more freehand and the tokyo looked like the old style and did not feel modern. we shouldn't use an emblem the people don't love. >> we should, for the next selection of the embless, we are going to make the process as open as possible and transparent as possible. >> with a new stadium design and new logo for the tokyo loiks, os
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they are hoping for agreement. rob mcbride, al jazeera. salva kiir from south sudan, say it will delay the peace deal the end a civil war that started in december of 2013. jaime rodriguez has vowed to end corruption in the region. lucia newman went to meet the man who is challenging the elite. >> jaime rodriguez's heroes are
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zorro, riding an almost identical black stallion, he was passing the hat to get himself elected as mexico's first ever independent governor. >> people want to know how we managed to defeat the system and i tell them we were characters of star wars, defeating the empire with a legion of citizens who organized. it made them more powerful than the political parties. >> reporter: a social conservative who curses and rarely takes off his cowboy boots, el bronco vows to launch a new mexican revolution. rodriguez belonged to the pri for 33 years until he resigned a year ago to run as an independent. running against all odds to take
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over the governor's office. as mayor of garcia on the outskirts of monterey, rodriguez took on organized crime an purged corrupt police with a network of citizen informants who reported critical network on social media, his method of choice. >> i'm addicted to facebook. (f) photograph of 22-year-old son who died when drug traffickers tried kidnap him. rodriguez himself barely escaped two assassination attempts. i have a network of 78,000
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volunteers on the web. only i manage it. only i control it. all of them will monitor the government and the public servants, including me. >> reporter: some describe rodriguez as a naive eccentric with an oversized ego. yet in nue nuevo leon, he's considered . lucia newman, al jazeera, mexico. >> with paddles in hand they are geared up to face one of the world's wildest rivers. it is the galle and it's
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particularly ferocious, because for six weeks of every fall the flood gates are opened wide, sending a huge amount of water gushing down river. >> it makes the rapids optimal for white water rafting. >> it is a challenge for us. >> the reason we're doing it for challenge and the thrill. >> a few minutes and the force of the galle rapids are evident. the guide shouts out commands because every paddle stroke is critical. it's they make it out, but there's more to come. rabirapids are ranked on their difficulties. here on the galle, there are four class 4s and six class 5s. they say it's the 10 most
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exhilarating seconds of white water rafting in all of america. it hasn't always gone as planned, since since 2010, there have been fatalities but not all were with guides. guiding at least 10,000 people down the galle this season alone, they say the guides are the key to safety. >> with every company ton river, these guides are highly trained, know the river backwards and forward, they are adept to reading the water, when situation change, they can adapt to it. >> the river is more than 41 kilometers long, nearly 100 rapids in all. after a couple of hours on the river they take a break. and it's all smiles. >> it's really good.
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the waves flushing your face. >> on a river where the only guarantee is that everyone will get wet. gabriel elizondo, al jazeera, on the galle river in west virginia with. >> the reminder, you can get all the latest news at aljazeera.com. >> oh, this is so great! >> um hmm. >> annie! >> it is a video that is extremely personal. >> our fears are dancing between us. >> yeah? >> a woman's private pain examined for scientific research. >> it's so healing. >> instead of holding us down. >> she's on one of america's most popular party drugs. forget what you've heard about "molly", "x" or "mdma".

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