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>> and the walking fish that are among hundreds of new species discovered in the himalayas. >> hello the islamic state of iraq and levant said it was behind four suits attacks. at least 15 people are killed. 11 yemen troops and who are fighting for the saudi-led coalition. the targets were hotel being used by the yemen government as it's infortunately headquarters and sill la occupied by coalition forces. isil had carried out attacks before. but these are the groups first known attacks on the yemen administration. the group claims to have carried out a suicide-bombing at a mosque in which 7 people were killed. >> these are the four suicide-bombers isil says were
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behind the attacks. they drove cars packed with explosives into a hotel where government leaders had faced their headquarters. this is the moment that the hotel was hit. a compound used by soldiers from the united arab emirates was also targeted. >> i have huge explosions and rush to the area. i was drove two armored vehicles drove through check points. >> earlier government and coalition forces led by saudi arabia blamed the houthi fighters and troops loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh for the attacks. isil has emerged as a force in yemen over the last year. in this video posted on sunday it's fighters are shown distributing pamphlets in aden and fighting in different parts of the country.
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isil also claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that targeted shia mosques like this one in the capital of sanaa last month. isil is expanding in areas under the the control of aqap. aqap has suffered major set backs losing top leaders due to u.s. drone attacks. it's not the first time that forces have been targeted. last month dozens of coalition soldiers were killed in a missile attack. it was the highest number of forces killed in a single attack since the start of the military campaign in yemen seven months ago. many are now worried the attack in aden will further inflame the war in yemen.
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>> israel has announced the lifting of restrictions on muslims entering the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem. >> the crackdown in the occupied west bank resumed before dawn. they ransacked several houses and arresting two people in the city. the resistence was fierce but limited. then in occupied east jerusalem the homes of two men who had allegedly been involved in attacks against israelilys were demolished. an act of cruelty it is described as of yet another illegal act of collective
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punishment. >> yesterday at midnight army forces came and raided houses aggressively. started hitting people and evacuating without any warning. we were evacuated from the street. >> while in bethlehem the funeral of the 13-year-old who was shot and in a nearby refugee camp. his family adamant that there were no protests taken at the time of the shooting. >> my son went to school lake all the other kids, then he finished school. but he never came back home. they shot him and there were no clashes under way inside the camp. >> then in ramallah protesters dispersed gunshots were also fired. as palestinian frustration mounts, so, too, political pressure on mahmood abbas. there are questions from the
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hamas leadership in gaza about the security operation with israel and questions from within his plo factions as to whether he intends to abandon the oslo accords or not. the fundamental framework for whatever relationship exists with israel. >> mahmood abbas made clear his belief that under occupation palestinians are forced to defend themselves. >> when a group of settlers come and attack a village, what do you expect our response to be? leave us alone. we're not the one who is started it. israel has to stop and reach out a hand in a peaceful way and not in another way. >> another day of rage, and another day of israeli occupation. mike hanna, al jazeera, in the occupied west bank. >> well, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has increased the security measures in the west bank and blamed palestinian
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incitement for the recent violence. >> using additional security forces they have clear instructions to act against any danger. and to innocent people we're taking other steps. and unfortunately a lot of this goes back to the enwhitement from hamas, from the palestinian authorities, from the movement in israel itself which spread and tried to change the status quo to hurt the sacred sites of islam. we're the guarantors of the sites of islam. we're the reasons that they do not look like-- >> the united states general in charge of coalition troops in afghanistan has admitted the decision to bomb a hospital in kunduz was made by u.s. forces and not afghan forces as
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previously claimed. patients and doctors were killed in the attack. there is a demand for the investigation. roslind yard has the latest. >> the "doctors without borders" hospital is still closed after u.s. forces bombed it on saturday. it was called a mistake. >> on saturday morning, to be clear, the decision to provide aerial fire was an u.s. decision made within the u.s. chain of command. a hospital was mistakenly struck. we would never intentionally target a protected medical facility. >> dollars without boards wants an outside probe was it abuses the united states and afghanistan of an u.s. war crime. >> is there an independent investigation or another independent body of what happened? >> ma'am, i have trust and
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confidence in the folks that will do the investigation for nato, the folks will do the investigate for dod and the afghan partners. all of the very tough questions that we're all asking, they'll get after that. >> the hospital bombing has reignited questions about the afghan forces readiness when u.s. troops leave. >> as we continue to pull out the taliban are going to increasingly undertake high level of attack and probe for weakness. once we have stepped off the battle field, the question is whether the afghans will be willing and able to fight without us there to reinforce them. >> the first reports on the hospital bombing should be completed by the beginning of november. but they won't answer the larger question of whether the u.s. should grow more involved not less in afghanistan's efforts to protect itself.
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>> let's go to kunduz, speaking to afghan officials about that attack. >> we have conversation with afghan security officials. they're telling us that they're denying any involvement in this bombing. they have said that it was not them that caused the bombing, and it was not them what did the coordination with. they said that u.s. officials were in the ground with them and they did the bombing and did that coordination in that bombing. well, nato issued a statement that they will send us wider in the ground to assist and coordinate without afghan forces. they called them advisers, but they're really also happen to coordinate support. so armed security forces are
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another side of whether it is impossible to push taliban back. in the meantime they're not taking responsibility for such a mistake as was was there mistake. but officials will confirming in that particular compound in a hospital it is a big hospital, it has a big compound. and in the corner of that there were some taliban at the time, and they were getting shot at. >> prosecutors in the united states have announced corruption charges against united nations officials including the full head of the u.n. general assembly. the officials are accused much being part of a bribery scheme. from the united nations james bays reports. >> it is a largely ceremonial and prom job presiding over the general say systembly, chairing
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meetings, including those involving the world leaders. >> the assembly will now hear and address his excellency barack obama. >> but it is alleged that john ashe as faking more than $1 million in bribes from a chinese billionaire property dealer. >> mr. president, president secretary general. >> sometimes for than cash. sometimes he was paid in other ways. he also allegedly had the bribers pay for luxury vacations for himself and his family and paying the hotel in new zealand anew zealand--in new orleans at $850 a night. >> like all presidents of the general assembly. >> we obviously just learned of these series allegations this morning. of course, the secretary general was shocked and deeply troubled to learn this morning about the
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allegations against john ashe the former president of the general assembly, which go to the heart of the integrity of the united nations. >> when he finished his term as the president of the generalcy systembly, john ashe told me that the u.n. needed major change. >> any organization, including this one, has to reform. >> some say his arrest and the allegations against him make that reform more urgent than ever. no one was given advance warning of the arrests. ash had previously served as the ambassador for his country here at the united nations. he was highly respected, and in fact, when elected as president of the u.n. generalc general assembly, it was said that we could not be in better hands, and now it's charged that those hands took bribes. >> but the investigation into bribery is not closed. the u.s. attorney office warning
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there could be further arrests. james bays, al jazeera, at the united nations. >> nato has rejected russia's explanation for why it ventured in turkish air space. russia said that the incursions were a mistake, but others say it does not look like an accident. we have this from moscow. >> russian bombs fall once more. 15 were flown on monday, 10 airstrikes are carried out. on the ground syrians have been filming and up loading footage that shows the explosive work of russia's air force and the diplomatic fireworks are continuing, too. nato's secretary general doubts russia's explanation of the incursion into the air space stating bad weather. >> i will just reiterate,
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restate that this is a violation of turkish air space that should not happen again. >> on a visit to nato's home city of bruce he wills also hit out at the campaign. >> russia is still there. it's trying to create an air base in syria, and at the same time they violate our air space. we cannot tolerate this kind of thing. nato has taken a very tough line against this, and i'm convinced that it will continue to do so. an aggressioan aggression against turkey is an aggression against nato. >> washingto
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>> they told washington all it has to do is pick up a phone. >> they can always call us and allay their concerns and then announce accurate and clear testament in public. it is after these conversations, which can take place at any moment you still have any concerns. you may then speak about them. but first you should check this with us. >> despite both russia and the u.s.-led coalition insisting their bombing campaigns targeting isil, the prospect of anything more than the merest of cooperation look slim. moscow says that the coalitions campaign is illegal under international law because it was not requested by the syrian government. the coalition says that russian planes are there to prop up a brutal dictator. >> despite the warnings, moscow is still ruling out any sort of
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>> while we were able to the nutrinos change from one time from another as they christian the core of the sun that is not possible unless nutrinos have a mass greater than zero. at the same time we were able to measure very accurately the numbers of nutrinos were you dued in the core of the sun. >> a particle physicist describes the nutrinos. >> the first thing to understand
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about them is they're fundamental. they cannot be broken in smaller pieces. they're one of the most common particles in the universe. what we saw with the oscillation is that nutrinos come in three different flavors. aan electron, and the three different flavors of ice cream if you want. they are changing between these through identities. this is very interesting and very mysterious and still don't understand why. this fundamentally changes the understanding of matter in the university. previous that they oscillate, we thought they had no mass. just like photons have no months. they're dictated by the theory of the university. finding out that they do oscillate this means that they must actually have mass.
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this is changed everything in the standard model of particle physicis physics. >> facface harbor was made to guarantee the personal information of europeans. >> every day billions of dollars of electronic businesses are conducted between the united states and europe. legal contracts, personal data, commercial deals and social media all suppose supposedly protected by safe harbor agreement. now the justice has decided that safe harbor cannot be trusted. >> it impacts all aspects of business. essentially anything can be identified. that ranges from something as simple as the e-mail signature block to details of a library
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database. >> in 2013 former cia contractor edward snowdon revealed the snooping by u.s. intelligence agencies. they would bring this case to the european court. they focused on facebook, which has it's european hk to transfer data from the u.s. to e.u. >> whether it's information or credit card details or militariy million dollar deals, all that data is stored on servers like this. they're usually stored in the united states. they promised to match the european union privacy rules, but if america spy agency routinely override and ignore european privacy rules safe harbor is worthless. facebook said it has done
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nothing wrong and operates within current laws. the company declined an interview request but released a statement: >> alternative to safe harbor, model contracts. binding corporate rules or our own consent for data to be transmitted. of course another solution would make the u.s. spy agencies more accountable. >> if i get spied on by the nsa there is no way for action. there just isn't there. that's fundamentally imbalanced. if the u.s. can perform its privacy acts so either european citizens can have rights of action under that legislation, or that levels up the playing field across the atlanta. you can see that would be one way. that's going to be enormously
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controversial in the u.s. >> penalties run in seven-figure sums and new rules that impose up to 5% of the company's final turnover. this european ruling would find new ways of doing business. paul brennon. al jazeera. >> now online sports gamble in the sift after allegations of insider trading. >> it's a wildly popular online sports betting company called draft kings. television memorials tempts sports fans to win big money in american football. >> everyone knows draft king makes more millionaires than anyone else. >> it's called fantasy sports. and here's how it works. fans pay an online entry fee anywhere from $1 to $1,000 to join a pool. fans pick players, assembly a hypothetical or imaginary team,
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then win or lose based on how the players perform each week. lots of money is involved. it's a $2.5 billion a year industry, and expected to grow to $14 billion by 2020. but now there is scandals of an employee betting on football with a rival company based on information not available to the public. it's being called a case akin to insider trading or cheating. >> when you play poker, you figure no one else can have access or see your cards. that's what is at question here. what data and what information could people have access to and what protection is on that? >> draft king and fan duel issued a joint statement denying employees had insider information that helped them win and said, quote, nothing is more
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important than the integrity of the games we offer to fans, but both companies have put a ban on employees participating on online fantasy sports contest while the investigations continue. in america, unlike casino gamble or online poker, fantasy teams are not regulated by law and has many reassessing that they should be. there is no third party. no government oversight. that's where the question comes in. that's why people want answers about what is going on. >> fantasy sports fans expecting to be betting on a level playing field now wondering if that was not fantasy in itself. gabriel elizondo. new york. >> the world wildlife font announced the new species describing it as unique treasure house. among the discoveries is a blue
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walking head snake fish that can survive on land for four days. another species including plants, amphibians and insect breaks. there is much more on our website. that is at www.aljazeera.com. the millennium development goals have run their course. the plan to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty. now the nations of the world are embarking on an ambitious new sort of targets hoping to make the world healthier and wealthier in a cleaner, greener, and more sustainable way. get rich, not dirty. it's the inside story.
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