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♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the al jazeera news hour and i'm julie in doha and coming up, on the program. >> the nobel peace prize for 2015 is to be awarded to the tunisia national dialog quartet. >> the tunisia group wins the prize for paving the way for democracy in the country. a top iranian general advising government forces has been killed near aleppo.
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another stabbing as tension heightens across israel and territories and u.n. proposes a unity government to end the problems in india but the parliament still needs to approve it. ♪ tunisia's national dialog quartet has been awarded the nobel peace prize with the contribution of building democracy after the revolution in 2011. >> the quartet was formed in summer of 2013 when the democratzation process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest, it established an alternative, peaceful, political process at a time when the country was on the
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brink of civil war. >> let's tell you a bit more about the quartet, it comprises four important groups, these organizations represent different sectors and values in tunisia society and members work to protect the rights of the entire population irrespective of gender and religious belief and the quartet was formed in 2013 when tunisia was on the brink of civil war and counters the spread of violence through dialog and let's speak on the line from tunis and just give us some of the reactions from tunisia because this will be seen as a huge victory for them. >> very symbolic for many tunisia people who see this as a symbol of hope for the country which is going through another crisis. now this relates to what was a very deep crisis in tunisia at that time and tunisia was on the brink of civil unrest.
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the democracy and the democratic process that was underway after the revolution was under threat and these groups of people, civil society stepped in really and brought about national dialog and really it was an example to the rest of the arab world that national dialog bringing in different voices from different perspectives can work so the new constitution and elections and the people here are really pleased, surprised as i say with nominees and 200 and people were not expecting tunisia to stand out for the win but they are extremely happy about this. >> yeah, the prize was a surprise and but not to take away from what tunisia has achieved but democracy is still at quite an fragile stage,
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wasn't it? >> back in december and january of the presidential elections and they went quite smoothly but there have been security issues and the rise of extremist groups which have been operating in the country, groups with links to i.s.i.l. as well as al-qaeda and carried out attacks on tourists and led to a severe economic problems here in tunisia with basically tour rhythm being effected by what happened in tunis if you remember but the political process is forging ahead. the enacted party which was in power when the national dialog took place is still in coalition government with tunis and other parties so it's a cohesive government trying to go ahead and carry out democracy with the idea of revolution but has a long, long way to go. >> news of that prize welcomed
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by the u.n. and the eu and sherry in tunis there. iranian killed in syria advising president bashar al-assad's army and confirmed the death and said he died near aleppo and said to be helping the syrian government in its fight against rebels. it is widely believed that iranian troops are on the ground supporting government forces and we will speak to zaina live from beirut and are we getting more details about how this general died, zaina? >> well, the official statement said he was killed by i.s.i.l. terrorists in aleppo. they make no mention of where or how he was killed but according to the syrian observatory for human rights they have information suggesting he was killed in battle at the front
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line close to the military airport. we do know that there has been a lot of military activity there, it's a front line between the government and i.s.i.l. and the government has been trying to make advances as of late so that is the information we have but no confirmation from the iranian side. we all know that iran doesn't shy away from the fact and saying that they have military advisors in syria at the beginning of the conflict they said they were sending there to protect the shia holy sites and later on said the advisors were helping the syrian army on the ground. but what the iranian government doesn't say is that troops are taking part in battles even though the opposition has long insisted and provided evidence that iranian forces are battling alongside the government but a close ally of iran, the lebanese shia movement of hezbollah makes it very clear that thousands of men are in syria helping the government and hezbollah
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undoubtedly helped the syrian government even the syrian president himself a few months ago said they were suffering from man power problems and the army was over stretched so vital support from iran and hezbollah on the ground and as of late support from another ally russia which has militarily intervened in the conflict by providing air cover. >> zaina thank you for that and updating us from beirut there. well france says its fighter jets targeted an i.s.i.l. camp in the strong hold of raqqa and says more strikes will follow and france joined the u.s. led coalition against i.s.i.l. last year and expanded the campaign to syria last month and sources said 80-90% of russian strikes in syria are not targeting i.s.i.l. russia continues those air strikes in syria, this video is said to show the aftermath of strikes in hama and they said 27
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were hit in the province of hama, homs and raqqa and israeli police say four abrabs have been stabbed in the southern city of damona and attacker who is israeli has been arrested and a wave of violence in israel and occupied territories in recents week and been benjamin netanyahu said we will talk about this. >> translator: actions do not have results like magic but with determination we will prove we will defeat it. >> reporter: mike hanna joins me from the occupied east jerusalem and mike there seems to be an increasing number of stables with revenge attacks everyday and news of another
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stabbing. >> yes, indeed. that report about the stabbing in damona there, a 17-year-old israeli youth apparently attacked four arabs, two of them were palestinians from the west bank, the other two were palestinians from the nearby town. then within the last hour there has been two stabbings, one close here in jerusalem, west jerusalem, in fact, in a religious neighborhood and palestinian wounded a child and in the occupied west bank their police say a palestinian tempted to seize a weapon from one of the guards. he was subsequently shot by a number of policemen, the guard himself was likely wounded so tension continues to rise and here outside the old city of jerusalem and the compound in occupied east jerusalem the crowd as you can see behind me here have been kept back way beyond the barricades and there
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was a brief demonstration, at least one person was arrested in that demonstration and during the prayers in the compound the crowd here behind the barrier also joined in the prayers beyond the line of the police. there has been closer once again or restriction on the compound and if we move the camera around to the main access gate to the compound that is damascus gate you can see the streets immediately adjacent to the old city are virtually deserted and this is as a result of roadblocks and checkpoints being arrested through occupied east jerusalem and being erected and anybody who has got to this particular point is within the age limit that is above the age of 45 imposed by israelis or else can prove evidence that he or she is a resident of the old city. so we have a situation where ongoing stabbing attacks as we have heard, also there has been a rise in israeli right wing
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activity, what we saw overnight in jurisdiction lumbar was a massive right wing demonstration and derogatory insults and police broke up the demonstrations and a number of arrests were made but once again tension running high within jerusalem and within occupied east jerusalem and indeed throughout the occupied west bank. >> mike thank you for that, mike hanna in east jerusalem. more to come on the show, tensions between north korea and its closest ally china ahead of a major military parade. eastern kenya and telling you about this invasive weed and why malaria researchers here are so worried about it. south america chile have a major reach for the cup and all these are coming up, in sport. ♪
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after months of talks to end the conflict in libya u.n. has a deal that includes a national unity government and proposal still needs to be approved by the rival parliament and country defended violence after moammar gadhafi in 2011, one of the two governments is the general national congress gnc which op rays out of tripoli and came to be known with libya dawn took over the capitol city last year and drove out the internationally recognized government which now operates out of eastern city of tabrook and recognized by u.n. and arab league and by the general who commands an alliance of factions and diplomatic editor james base reports from the u.n. in new york. >> reporter: there were smiles when after talks that had lasted
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over a year the u.n. mediator announced his plans for a unity government in libya and leon said it had been a difficult process. >> this was not an easy task. we have been listening to many people inside and outside the dialog, finally it will be six personalities. >> reporter: at its head prime minister sarage an architect from a prominent family in tripoli. the challenges facing a new unity government remens, it's now almost four years since the death of libya's former ruler moammar gadhafi and the country has been racked by turmoil ever since and they reluctantly agrees to the deal and so much blood shed and political bad blood there are many who oppose it. there are fighters and militia who are unlikely to obey the new
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government, particularly attention will be on this man, renegade general. they will take on i.s.i.l. who have a major foot hold in gadhafi's hometown cert and the country is not secure and washed with weapons and major route from migrants and refugees who make the way to libya's coast. so many people have died at sea making the journey from libya to europe and for months the eu has been proposing the idea of a maritime operation to intercept the votes and now on friday a resolution to authorize that operation will come before the u.n. security council for a vote. james base, al jazeera, the united nations. australian government has begun assessing applications by syrians and agree to resettle 12000 people escaping fighting in syria and priority given to
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women and children but it's war refugees against making the journey by sea to try to reach australia. it's also negotiating a deal with the philippines to transfer asylum seekers indefinitely in detention centers and many are in naru but they have banned journalists and raised concerns about conditions for refugees and andrew thomas rerts. >> reporter: this footage is three years old, al jazeera was invited to naru to watch australia soldiers to build what they called a detention center for asylum seekers but now media is banned from visiting here and journalists needed to pay $6,000 to apply for a visa but in an e-mail from the government al jazeera has been told now that all media applications are being refused. naru's government claims what was effectively a prison for refugees is now an open
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facility, the president wrote recently that refugees were regularly seen swimming, dining out and enjoying a lifestyle that is safe but banning reporters cast doubt on that. >> the allegations we are hearing are very serious and it involves sexual abuse of women and children, the young children inside the center, we are hearing allegations of rape. >> there is no independent scrutiny of what is going on. naru's government has also backed away from a commitment it gave at the beginning of the week to give asylum seeker as decision by this weekend as to whether they would be recognized as refugees, one to two hundred of them now will have to wait a lot longer. those naru are not genuine refugees and face deportation to the home countries, the rest will either stay in naru or resettled in a third country, not australia, in the u.n. last week the foreign minister met with the philippine counterpart
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and discussed paying $150 million for the philippines to take its refugees. >> i will not publically comment in relation to where some of the negotiations are at, i think we are best to discuss those issues in private with those partners and if there is an announcement to make we can announce it. >> reporter: australis tough poll gets towards refugees have stopped the vote, this is old footage too but where refugees have been sent are places hidden from scrutiny and australia is struggling for a next stage in its policy, andrew thomas al jazeera, sidney. the international organization for migration says there has been a surge in the number of refugees arriving on greek islands in the past week, 7,000 people landing each day this month up from 4 1/2,000 the end of september, iom says people are trying to make the journey to europe before the weather worsens. eu nations agreed to speed up the deportation of refugees
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whose asylum applications have been rejected and met in luxenburg and saying illegal migrants will be sent home to countries and many come from poor african countries and are not escaping war. the eu policy chief says countries and those in the western balkins showed a new political will in tackling the refugee crisis. >> the meeting tonight is somehow a new starting point because i registered around the table especially from our friends eu and non-e u states from the western borders the willingness to have a sort of new start in relations that need to be cooperative in managing the flows and managing the borders and reception and managing the existence and managing the phenomenon that doesn't stop at borders and that involves the old regions. back on the african mainland libya authorities arrested almost 300 people preparing to
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board boats to europe, a third of them were from sin gal, the men transferred to a detention center in tripoli and war ships launched an operation to seize traffickers boats this week an effort to stem the flow of refugees. let's get the weather now with everton and how is it looking for japan after that typhoon? >> well, i think it should be something of an improvement at least in the weekend and by the end of the weekend we are looking at heavy rain coming through and one thing we won't see is the really strong winds we had. as you can see we got this massive cloud just around hikada and going northward and that is the remnants of old typhoon and now just positioned just to the north there and still tightly packed and still some brisk winds at least for a time, that will continue to make its way further north anas you can see as we go on into saturday we will see a few showers across the far north of japan and eastern russia seeing very heavy rain and also got this area of
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rain making its way across the peninsula and 13 celsius and the rain setting in big and heavy downpours into much of japan as we go on through sunday. as you can see that line of cloud and rain, that stretches its way down into central parts of china and joins up with this massive cloud we have over toward the southwest and again we have seen some rather heavy rain coming here and over 100 meters of rain in the space of 24 hours and that rain is going to become a feature as we go on through the next day or so and temperatures struggling to get into double figures for saturday, the main making its way south on sunday with possibility of flooding with southern china >> thanks very much indeed, north korea preparing to celebrate the 70 anniversary of the founding of ruling party on saturday. the satellite images show hundreds of trucks and armored vehicles and troops and horses gathering for a massive military
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parade and workers party is expected to go the extra mile to project strength and patriotism after resent tension with china, the biggest ally because of a wave of cross border crime by hungry soldiers and we report. >> reporter: north korea is tantalizing close here and a peek in the her mitt kingdom, the industrial city just meters from the chinese border, the river marks the front here between two supposed allies, but it appears relations are not what they were. a police roadblock outside the chinese village of ninping where four people were murdered last december, we were turned away. china ease government blames north korean soldiers who came looking for food. this local man says more needs to be done to protect the community. >> translator: of course i worry about my safety, but there
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is nothing i can do about it. i live here. >> reporter: like most people here mr. lee is an ethnic korean and he lives in the village where three police surveillance cameras have now been installed. in total ten people have been murdered in this remote region since last december, chinese government officials confirm another citizen was shot in the area two weeks ago but they won't say if they think north korea is to blame. in response to the murders, some have moved away but villagers have already begun to empty as younger generations left to find better prospects, only the elderly remain and they feel especially vulnerable now. >> when they cross the border looking for food we give it to them and you will be fine, if you don't they might take revenge on you. >> reporter: the security fence is more than three meters high here but some worry that the
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barrier is not enough to protect them. just across the border a glimpse of everyday life in north korea and as you can see here there is a gap in the fence making it very easy for a north korean civilian or soldier to slip into china, the government has willingness to publicize the murders, a sign of beijing's growing anger and structures with tianjin. >> it's not at a tipping point but worse than it has been and ties with south korea have rarely been better and he was a guest of honor at last month's military parade in beijing. >> beijing is trying the to present itself as super power and interested in north american prosperity and north america is a blight on that sort of agenda. >> reporter: for now china remains north korea's most
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important and far richer friend but the tensions it is provoking along this border could put that friendship at risk, adrian brown, al jazeera, on the china, north korean border. let's go back to our top story now and the winner of this year's nobel's peace prize is the national dialog quartet and joining me from tunis is zaina a researcher at the tunisia league for human rights and one of the members of the quartet and welcome to the show, congratulations, how are you feeling? >> i'm happy about this and after this accomplishment and they know how to overcome every common political crisis with
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having such a total and that. >> lit be a boost to the process going on in tunisia and welcomed by bodies like the u.n. and european union, do you think this win sends a message to the rest of the region about what dialog and negotiation can achieve? >> yes, i think when we turn our heads around with the media and all of what is happening in libya it's malitias and i think that when libyans can see that tunisia won for the first time, this achievement, first of all, the national is over coming social and political crisis in a
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time that was political assassinations and it was a social unrest and now when libyans just see we could welcome our own crisis i think that they could do as well and every place where the military conflicts especially in the south africa, sorry in north africa, they can see that the civil society can do what they can do. >> great to speak with you, thank you very much indeed for that, zaina there for the tunisia league for human rights one of the members of the tunisia's national dialog quartet. in guatemala it has been a week since a landslide killed more than 200 people, families are still burying their dead and the rescue operation over many are now asking if the disaster could
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have been prevented and david mercer reports from the outskirts of guatemala city where the mudslides happened. >> reporter: he and his family are trying to come to terms with their grief, last week a deadly landslide on the outskirts of guatemala city buried his sister and 11 other family members and bodies of 8 relatives identified and laid to rest in the cemetery and still have not recovered the other four. >> translator: it brings great pain to my family. we have such sadness in our hearts. we ask god to take this pain away. it hurts so much to hear the tears of so many people. >> reporter: weeks of near constant rain brought down part of this mountain side, bearing 125 homes under a million cubic meters of earth and more than 220 people have been found dead and hundreds more are still missing, in resent days
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authorities have identified fractures that could lead to more land slides and some people have been evacuated. this house beside me is on the edge of a ravine and in guatemala city alone more than 300,000 people are living in risk zones and now the public prosecutors office launched an investigation trying to determine responsibility for the latest disaster there is hope there will be more protection for people living like this. but municipal authorities warned in 2008 that the ravine was a risk zone say there is no simple solution. >> translator: the people living in the ravine arrived here before there were the types of laws we have now, there are people who live here and consider this their home. it's very difficult to tell these people they have to leave their houses. >> reporter: with the fourth highest risk of natural disaster in the world guatemala say it's crucial that better systems are
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put into place. >> translator: we have to act now. we can't let this happen again. and unfortunately this disaster needs to be used to strengthen our institutions and our laws to prevent more people from becoming victims. >> reporter: a tragedy that could have been prevented and left some of the country's most vulnerable to pay the ultimate price. david mercy, al jazeera, guatemala. still to come on the program evidence of european governments have been paying ran some to free hostages abroad plus in sport the major league baseball tournament with toronto for the first time in 22 years, details coming up, ♪
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welcome back, i'm julie and the top stories tunisia national quartet awarded this year's nobel peace prize and it's a victory for tunisia and democracy suffered and killed 60 people and devastated the tourist industry. confirmed the death of a top military journalist and killed near aleppo and syria while advising president bashar al-assad's army. palestinian shot after he stabbed an officer in the occupied west bank and four hours early others were stabbed
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and attacker and israeli were arrested and a third incident they stabbed a teenager in jerusalem and attacker was taken into custody. let's go back to our top story and the nobel peace prize and program director of the democracy transition center and joins us now from tunis and good to have you with us and this is good news for tunisia and what is your reaction? >> it's very good news for tunisia and it's the first time that nationals from tunisia win nobel prize and there is a nobel peace prize and quartet has played a big role in tunisia and now it looks like it is let's say recognition, one of the most press tee -- prestigous in the planet. >> and the economy and building up the tourism industry, what
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impacts do you think winning this prize will have on winning tunisia's future? >> they face a lot of challenges and they are common challenges to countries in transition and we have gone let's say out of the critical moments and now we are trying to build this, democracy trying to build the steps of transition, economy is one of the most important steps of this transition, this nobel peace prize would give recognition to tunisia and give some kind of authority that we hope will help international community and people in other countries see tunisia differently and see tunisia as successful and going through a successful past towards a democracy towards the kind of peace we want to have in tunisia. >> and do you think it
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highlights the way ahead for other arab nations and shows how unity and dialog can be the way forward? >> of course, of course, we have seen from other countries going through a transition on the arab region and looking into tunisia and let's say steps to the tunisia experience and transition and one of the most important transition has been dialog and dialog is overrated by the quartet and other forms of dialog that are still going on, it looks like dialog is one of the keywords to transition and we hope other countries choose this path. we keep an eye on libya who are let's say politicians in libya are going back to the dialog table. yemen for the same thing.
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we hope that syria shows this in the past of dialog of accepting mediation to succeed in this transition, very difficult in these times. >> amen thank you very much for joining us from the democracy transition center. european governments often deny they pay ran some for hostages but the safe return of italian captives say there may be more to the story and al jazeera investigative unit may have uncovered that they are doing deals with kidnappers and we report. >> reporter: italian citizen bruno and his girlfriend debbie and released by somali pirates linked to al-shabab after two years in captivity. they were told the couples' release was a combination of diplomacy and western backed
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somali military forces. >> thank you all, we love you. >> reporter: but secret intelligence documents obtained by al jazeera's investigative unit revealed this was a lie. the italian government, in fact, paid over half a million dollars as an ransom and his sister who negotiated for the family was told to keep quiet about the details of her brother's rele e release. >> we were told either to disclose they actually paid. >> we were debriefed on certain things but not allowed to speak about and that was one of the things we were not supposed to even think about. >> reporter: they are convinced the italian government saved her brother's life. >> they would have buried my brother. >> reporter: despite the denials al jazeera has uncovered evidence that these same tactics were employed by the italian government to secure the relation of their hostages held
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in syria. when they were released after several months in captivity in syria, there were again rumors of ransom payment and al jazeera spoke to eyewitnesses who saw the cash handed over. >> translator: i was present when the money was delivered. it was me and the italian person who brought the money. >> translator: the money consisted of packs of $100,000 each in a separate plastic bag. >> reporter: the italian government said the $4 million ransom was provided by the family of his hostages but said his family did not pay but dominick said he is unaware of any family payment al jazeera has obtained exclusive evidence that the italian government is even willing to pass millions of dollars of ransom to al-nusra, a group once linked to al-qaeda
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and these two were released in january of 2015. these exclusive pictures show the $11 million handed over to representatives of al-nusra for the two women. the italian government declined to comment on our allegations saying their policy is not to pay ransomes, simon bowsman with al jazeera. you can watch the whole documentary the hostage business from monday at 2000 gmt on and on al jazeera.com/investigations. police in lebanon made arrests after a demonstration in beirut turned violent and hundreds took to the street for corruption and wanting change and unhappy about the inability to solve a rub bish disposal crisis. pay $6.5 million in compensation by a black man shot by a white
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police officer and scott was shot in the back as he tried to escape traffic police in charleston last year and michael is charged with murder, the shooting in south carolina reignited a national outcry over the treatment of minority groups. volkswagen is to recall 90,000 cars in australia fitted with decides to cheat emissions tests, the chief executive of the company in the u.s. has testified at congressional subcommittee and michael horn apologized for what he calls a deeply troubling fraud and warned drivers it could take one or to years for their cars to be fixed. india's foreign minister joined an outcry over an indian woman who had a hand chopped off in saudi arabia and being treated in hospital in rhiyadh and says she was mutilated by her employer after complaining of not being paid and has tweeted her objection to the brutal and
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unacceptable treatment in saudi arabia. now a stark reminder of dangers of smoking from the british medical journal, a study carried out by british and chinese researchers claims one in three young men in china will die from smoking-related diseases if current trends continue, rob mcbride reports from hong kong. >> reporter: in a country where two thirds of men start smoking mostly before 20 the dangers of tobacco have long been known and this report spells out out in the darkest terms and by 2010 china was recording a million tobacco deaths per you're year and if it continues the figure will be 2 million a year by 2030. what gives the findings such weight is the breath of the survey they are based on, a quarter of a million men were monitored in the 1990s and an even larger group of half a million men and women is being studied now to determine the scale of the problem across
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china. as china has become more affluent so the smoking population has ballooned helping grow one of china's biggest industries. >> translator: for china the antismoking campaign is facing a big economic challenge, china has a huge population of smokers and tobacco is one of the top ten industries. >> the problems are well-known but so are the solutions and shown in places like hong kong where public health campaigns have had longer to work. >> we have legislation to stop the tobacco industry to advertise and promote as product and create many smoke-free areas that can create a very favorable environment to develop smoke-free lifestyle. >> reporter: in a bleak report one positive note is the falling smoking rates among women with their reduced risk of premature death, it's the men who have the problem and the excuses.
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>> translator: i'd like to quit but the best i can do is smoke less maybe. >> reporter: for millions of chinese men the clock is ticking. rob mcbride, al jazeera, hong kong. scientists fighting may malaria and researchers have found it's attracting mosquitos and we report from western kenya. >> reporter: scientists at the international center of insect ecology are looking at the every move of the mosquito which transmits malaria and trying to find out how much gains are made in the battle against may leia and they are attracts to the nector and keeps them alive if they cannot find blood to suck
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and the research started in 2007 and it's still in its early days but say the preliminary findings are worrying. >> they can live very long because they get their resources here and it just tells us that when the mosquitos are carrying the parasite they can survive longer and if the mosquito is not infected with a parasite what does it mean in terms of impact on the mosquito? that we don't know. >> reporter: this weed originally from north and south america was introduced to east africa in the 1970s and has been spreading fast, displacing many other plants and it can grow in any environment and any weather. a big concern for scientists studying the weed and what it could mean with may malaria and it keeps the mosquito parasite
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alive longer and could potentially be a big problem here and malaria is in kenya and public awareness programs and other preventative strategies helped ease the burden, despite that about a quarter of the people who live here have been diagnos diagnosed malaria and others need to be aware of the weed's danger. >> and when the government takes over people know the plant because it's common but some people don't know the affects it has on humans and on animals at all and on mosquitos. >> clearing the weed for years but it always grows back, he doesn't know about the link with malaria and does know none of his other plants can grow when it's around. >> when there is rain it grows up very faster, yeah, and we don't know what we can do about it but we are trying to cut it
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when it comes up. >> reporter: back in nairobi scientists try to solve the puzzle with mosquitos carrying malaria and the weeds they love. still to come in the program in central malaysia and will tell you the rare oil from the trees is big business for poachers and how it effects indigenous communities who depend on the forest. in sport a football team in south africa trying to restore hope to a community. ♪
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♪ good to have you with us and poachers in cambodia and tie land are threatening forest hunters in malaysia and trees and they use their nose to sniff out a particular tree because the bark is used to make a popular pur fume and we are looking at the way of life for tribes people and the trees they seek are in danger. >> reporter: two thirds of malaysia is covered by forest, home to more than 1500 species of animals and many plants, indigenous tribes lived off the land for generations and tribesman know the forest well and know how to harvest without causing permanent damage and the arger wood as it's known is
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plentiful and with a fungus dark is processed within it and it's used as a perfume especially popular in the middle east. it takes a trained nose and eye to locate the right trees and there are others who don't care about the trees, only the profit to be made from them . >> translator: we are sad when we go in the forest and see poachers cutting our trees because they come and take the trees and we have very few left. >> reporter: 80 members of the community harvest the resin that comes from the trees but that is not the case for poachers that enter malaysia and sell these trees whether they have resin in them or not, one kilo of wood can be worth $30,000 and why the market is growing. and production is supposed to be regulated and locally made perfume is difficult to produce
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and expensive to buy. how much? >> 1,000 or 2000 sometimes but no. >> reporter: it's very expensive. >> yeah. >> reporter: malaysia government needs to crack down on foreigners poaching the wood in forest reserves and needs to come up with a scheme so that only genuine malaysia collectors are allowed to collect the wood. >> reporter: the malaysia government did not respond to requests for comment and the wood is being licensed and it is hoped farms like this one will deter poachers from the forest and they are not just nurturing but local people who depend on it to survive. local people such as this one who lives hundreds of kilometers to the licensed farms is depending as his tribe always has on the forest to survive despite the new threat from poachers to their traditional way of living, al jazeera, central malaysia. let's get the sport now.
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thank you so much, arrived at his new futbol club after signing a deal worth $25 million and 48-year-old is in good spirits despite sitting tenth in the league and already causing drama and the germans are mocking him and who often calls himself the special one. >> totally obligated and my mother may be in front of the television and watch this press conference and doesn't know until now but she is very proud so i'm totally honored and i'm the normal one after this. brazil lost their opening world cup qualifier going down to south american champion's chile. the chile fans celebrated long into the night in santiago and
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2-nil goals and the star man sanchez and chile knocked dead of the last world cup by brazil. argentina also kicked off their campaign with a loss, ecuador stunning them 2-nil and no such problems with the other big sides with columbia and iriguay winning and the next president hussein of jordan watched his country stun champions australia in world cup qualifying and the last hurdle trying to win and losing in an intercontinental playoff and beat australia 2-nil and a draw in group b and result is top one point ahead of ozzi. world champions germany beaten going down in a 2016 qualifier against ire land and beat the germans 1-nil thanks to the
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second half and guaranteed a playoff from group d which germany remains on top of. >> you would think beating the germans and not been beaten by them at all and taking the war champions you would think that would be at least deserving of winning the tournament but it's not the case. we have not even qualified and a great effort in the players very briefly and showed great courage. >> major league and they beat the blue jays to win one of the division series and they had a 2-1 homer and added an solo home run for the rangers 5-3 win over blue jays and take control of best of five series and game two is in toronto on friday. >> they play very well together and love to play the game of baseball together and find a way to meet the demands of the game and so they don't really listen
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to what is being said about them, all they know is they want to go out and play baseball. >> reporter: over in kansas city the astros defeated the royals to take one game in the series and scored a home run and drove in another to lift the astros to 5-2 win. boston celtics geared up for the new nba season beating madrid on thursday and made the 2015 playoffs and beaten in the opening round and they looked good so far in preseason and beating madrid 111-96 for the second win in a road and celtics have a campaign on october 28 against the philadelphia 76ers. phil mickingson may be the most experienced in south korea but doesn't know one of the rules, during his four match he used a different ball at the 7th tee and wrongly told by officials he
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couldn't complete the hole and that ended up costing him and his partner zach johnson a two hole penalty but with the help of his eagle on the 12th they drew the match with scott and dey and team usa have 5-4 lead over the international team. >> he played 18 different balls, brands, whatever on 18 different holes during the pga championship and rider cup and we had a one ball rule and never had it and didn't think about it but it's my responsibility to know that. i should have at least asked before i tee'd off. it never had been a thought for me. but as a player you -- that is your job to know that. >> reporter: small local football club in south africa is trying to erase members of a tax on immigrants in the country and as miller reports the team's nobel efforts may just fail at the final whistle. >> reporter: it's sunday morning in the johannesburg here
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and matthew is getting ready for a game, he joined local football club four years ago in an area with residents from across the continent. >> i love soccer so to go there is like i know i'm going to get what i love, what i love to do most. >> reporter: the team organizers wanted more than fun out of the team. they wanted to restore hope to a community riddled by deep divisions and seven years ago in may 2008, 62 people were killed in attacks against foreigners in south africa and particularly targeted migrants from other nations and mozambeke had the idea of bringing players of different nationals together and made up many of immigrants and also five south africans. >> they could enjoy being together and it's the only place and decided that people are
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always fighting. >> get together once a week. >> we are here as africans, you have joined us from different countries here and defeat and humidity and also with our victory as well. >> reporter: the team had to get special permission from the local futbol association to take part in the league because of ethnic makeup. >> our team got so many people as you can see all from different countries. but it's good and we elaborate together. >> reporter: organizers are proud of what they achieved so far. >> the migrant fields in the foreign country, this is very painful so we feel that what we are doing here in some way has healed that pain. >> reporter: the team has been promoted four times since starting at the bottom of the local league and the futbol club progressed from a local community futbol to divisions of semi competition but further
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advances could be hit by a snag and rules stipulate all players have to be south african. >> it's tragic but that is the nature of the rules and we will abide by the rules. >> the futbol club said it will have two teams, one made up entirely of south africans but for this team the greater price is a strong community helping each other, miller with al jazeera, johannesburg. >> reporter: much more sport on our website, for all the latest check out al jazeera.com/sport, we also have blogs and video clips from our correspondents around the world. that's it for me for now and back to you. >> see you a bit later on and thank you for that, all the sport there and that is it for this news hour but we've got updates on all our top stories, the nobel peace pry prize has been awarded and more violence in israel and do stay with us
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the nobel peace prize for 2015 is to be awarded to the tunisia national dialog quartets. >> the tunisia group wins the prize for paving the way for democracy in the country. ♪ i'm julie gosh in doha and advising syrian forces has been killed near aleppo. another tension heightening in israel and occupied palestinian