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israel's prime minister promises tough measures against palestinian offenseers after more stabbing attacks against israelis. after violence escalates we are in the occupied west bank where there is now daily fighting on the streets. this is al jazeera live from doha. i am adrian finnegan. also ahead a report on the crashed mh17 over the ukraine, but it won't answer a question key. plus. >> reporter: and here is a giant machine gun made from water pipes and a lawn mower engine.
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>> what can did you do with a 200-dollar film budget in uganda? well, a lot if you have the know how. and it's pretty action packed. ♪ ♪ we begin in israel where police say a palestinian man has cared off a knife attack injuring one person, it's the latest in stabbing incidents since the begin being of october 27 palestinians and four israelis have been killed in violence across israel and the occupied west bank. andrew simmons reports. this is the ugly reality of what's happening here. a young palestinian in agony. shot by police who say he's just been part of a random stab ago tack on two young israelis. in the background a crowd goading on the police, one man is shouting shoot him in the head. the teenager is in hospital with serious injuries.
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along with the two israeli victims. police say they shot dead his accomplice, another palestinian teenager. this is one of the trail of knife attacks and police shootings. monday was one of the darkest days in occupied east gentleman russ legal since the cries began. it started with a 17 year olds man shot dead. police say he tried to stab a border policeman. later another 17-year-old, a school girl is shot and injured. police say she stabbed an officer. israel's prime minister called it all knife terror when he addressed the ca net us back from summer recess. he said tougher measures against offenders, including minimum jail sentences for stone throwers will be part of the fight back. >> we are added forces and border police in jerusalem and all over the country rich. we are taking responsibility on ourselves, destroying terrorist
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houses, we are wiping out the people who are against us and the islamic movement. we are fighting against the molotov cocktails and the stones. and taking revenge for the people who have been killed. i expect the support of the opposition party in establishing the law against this wave of terror. >> reporter: israel's opposition, while agreeing tough action is needed. accuse netanyahu are failing to take control. as the politicians debated their next moves, came another attack. this time police say a palestinian stabbed and wounded a soldier on a bus in west jerusalem. accord to this police he tried to get the soldier's gun and civilians grappled with him. the bus stopped and police boarded it opening fire and killing the palestinian. there is a deep set fear that pervades every street here. this isn't about suicide attackers or car bombs it, could be anybody with a grudge, a short notice, pulling a knife, crude, random violence.
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questions over the tougher measures police are using increase. palestinian leaders believe the police are using summary justice, killing when there are other alternatives. no one is sure how or when this cycle of violence will end. al jazeera, west jerusalem. a 13-year-old palestinian boy who was shot dead by israeli forces on sunday has been buried hundreds of palestinians attended the funeral procession. at the refugees camp in the west bank. he was killed when an israeli soldier fired a rubber-coated steel bullet. in the occupied west bank there are now daily clashes between palestinians and israeli soldiers. the violence is happening right on people's doorsteps. al jazeera went to see how some people are dealing with the violence. >> reporter: it's a lone house in a strategic location often
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one side, the headquarters of the israeli forces in the occupied west bank. and on the other, the road that has become the epicenter of the daily clashes. the house house is offend surrod by the black smoke of burning tires mixed with the white fumes of tear gas, sometimes ambulance have his to extract him. but he always returns home shortly after. he has been living here since 1978 and won't budge. >> translator: where do you want us to go? israel wants us to leave. but i live here with my daughter and i won't leave my house. even if it collapses our on heads, this is my land. who would i leave the house to? i told the youth, don't come here, the israelis are looking for any excuse to come here, so please go. >> reporter: he and his daughter is located in the so-called zone-c. according to the as low accords
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it's under full israeli civil and security control. during the fighting the soldiers surround it and often come onto the property. >> translator: they come in to our garden and take position along our fence. they won't allow any of us to move. we are under psychological pressure. with each battle there are more spent bullets and empty gas can tears laying around. here in bethlehem which is the flash point where there are day will be confrontations lately just at the foot of the separation wall and then the refugees camp nearby. many of the young protesters come from there. now, all of the shops and the restaurants in the area have closed down. the instability is take a toll on those that live and work in the area. sami hasn't opened his restaurant for two weeks. >> we want to stay in the area, we believe the israel hes will take this land as well. many people have already left. if the area is deserted it will be occupied. >> reporter: the only one to open, but just in the morning.
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he won't be able to sustain this for long. him and his neighbors complain the local government is not doing anything to help them survive. and there is no sign the tensions are easing. nearby some teenagers are getting ready for a new round of confrontations. they are picking up marbles from the day before. they say it's more about getting their frustration out. and shortly after, the grocery shop shuts down and the street turns in to a battle zone once again. al jazeera, in the occupied west bank. dutch investigators are due to publish their final report in to malaysian a irrelevant lines flight mh17 which was shot down over eastern ukraine last year. all 289 people on board the both 777 died in the crash. the report should answer some questions like why the plane was taking that route. but as neave barker reports, it will not apportion blame. >> reporter: it was meant to
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have been a routine flight between amsterdam and koala lumpur. one of many airplanes traveling high above the fierce fighting in eastern ukraine. but for the passengers of mh17, this is where they lives ended. 298 people were killed, including 15 crew. most of them were dutch. >> there are so many questions at this moment. >> reporter: dennis is among hundreds of family members desperate for answers. his brother-in-law donnie was killed. he was on his way to the far east on holiday. >> we have lost so many lives and, of course, a lot of families have -- they have not been the same anymore. the whole families have changed and that's something that is -- that will stay forever. >> reporter: soon after the disaster the netherlands ordered an investigation. an early report concluded that the plane broke up in midair after being hit by high energy
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objects. it didn't explicitly say the plane was brought down by a missile, but it ruled out virtually everything else. ukraine and some western leaders accused pro-russian separatists of using a bu k surface to air missle supplied by moscow, russia denies it, blaming the ukrainian military instead. the reports will be announced at this dutch air base and will focus four key areas, the underlying causes of the crash, the last moments what they were like for those on board, were they conscious or not. and why the families of dutch victims had to wait two days before receiving any confirmation that their loved ones were on board. >> reporter: the report will try to answer why mh17 made the fateful decision to flyover a war zone. >> in the weeks leading up to the shoot down of the malaysia 17, there had been military planes shot down at greater altitudes, so it was already an indication that sophisticated rep are you was in the conflict
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zone. >> reporter: one thing the report will not answer, is the burning question of who is responsible. a separate criminal investigation led by dutch detectivedetectives will reports findings at the end of the year. evidence that could lead to charges of war crimes, and murder. we know where the plane crashed and investigators are about to reveal their final thoughts on why. but we don't yet know who beyond reasonable doubt is to blame. neave barker, al jazeera, southern netherlands. the u.n.'s refugees agency says that more than 5,000 refugees are arriving in serbia from macedonia every day. and that there is no sign that the flow of people will ease. the u.n. says that 13,000 people have entered serbia in the last 48 hours alone. it's predicting another surge in the coming days. more than 170,000 people have passed through serbia on their way towards europe this summer.
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and refugees are continuing to arrive in italy. more than 700 people mainly from syria and eritrea were rescued off the libyan coast on monday. a group doctors without borders picked them enough two separate operations. they have been taken to the italian island of sicily. germany's chancellor angela merkel says that her country can't handle the refugees crisis alone. she is heading to buts follows a european union summit on thursday. where she will appeal for help from other states. merkel is under pressure from her coalition partners to limit the number of asylum seekers entering germany. jonah hull reports now from bavaria. >> reporter: when chancellor angela merkel delivered what appeared to be an open invitation to refugees earlier this summer it is likely that even she did not foresee the effect germany would take in 800,000 people this year, she said. the real figure could be almost double that. well, here we are in a small germantown on the bank of the
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inn river on that side there, austria, this is the point where picture postcard meets the face of human traged tragedy. how long do you think you will stay here? >> for life. >> reporter: the rest of your lifes? >> yes. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: but there are sign that his germany's generosity is wearing thin. last week, mrs. merkel was tipped to win the nobel peace prize no for her humanitarian leadership. dishe didn't. and even her closest political allies are turning against her policy on refugees. how many more people can germany take? >> translator: one of our main concerns is the unlimited migration could recreate insurmountable problems. >> reporter: already problems are mounting. videos posted on social media show fights breaking out in overcrowded reception centers, as frustration rises, state
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governments report a shortage of winter housing. >> i think many people here. >> reporter: too many people. >> too many people. are just waiting. just waiting. >> reporter: waiting for what? >> i do not know. >> reporter: they don't tell new. >> no, no no, just waiting. and eating and sleeping. >> reporter: so so what do you think will happen? >> i don't know. >> reporter: perhaps most significant is the change in public opinion. half of germans now fear the refugees influx, up from a third during the summer. >> i think we can take a lot of them. but not all. we have no houses, no flats, we have no jobs. first they have to learn german. it's a problem. >> reporter: do you think chancellor merkel made a mistake? >> we will see. we will see. >> reporter: so the finger pointing has begun and while chancellor merkel insists the right to asylum has no upper
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limit, germany, it appears, just might. jonah hull, al jazeera, in southern bavaria. just adhere on al jazeera, we are in turkey where some people are questioning security following saturday's bomb attack in annika rah. and giving a voice to the people. we'll look at what the grassroots alternative to the u.n. climate summit aim up with in bolivia.
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man has carried out a knife attack at a bus stop in tel aviv. it's the latest in a series of stabbing incident. dutch is about to release its final report on mh17 which was shot down in eastern ukraine last year. all 289 people aboard the going 777 died in the crash. the u.n. refugees agency says that more than 5,000 people are arriving in serbia from 345s down i can't every day. it says that 13,000 entered the country in the past 14 hours alone. and that another surge is expected. turkey's deputy prime minister says that several people are being held over saturday apt bombing attack in ankara that killed 97 people. the government believes that isil is behind the attack but many people blame the government and are questioning security arrangements. mohamed jamjoon is in annik an .
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>> reporter: you can see it in their faces. you can hear it in their sighs. with each passing hour, sadness deepens. with every passing day, resentment grows. >> translator: in the heart of capital in ankara and these explosions occur. this just raises so many questions. >> reporter: since the attacks near ankara's main train station on saturday. two of his nieces have been missing. she was mother to three children. seen her on the right, she was the mother of two. both were attending a peace rail when the suicide bombers attacked. in the painful wait to locate their bodies, he and his relatives are as angry as they are sad. >> translator: how can anyone say there is no security weakness when it comes to this situation? how do these people bring the bombs here? how do they enter the square? how do they detonate the bombs? >> reporter: as questions pile
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up, satisfactory answers have yet to be found. these tents were set up immediately after the attack. to accommodate families of the victims. now, most of the people we have spoken with today are kurdish, they have donated dna to help authorities identify the remains of their loved ones. family members wait outside ankara's medical forensic authority complex. farmer had been working the fields in her vellum when she heard the news. >> translator: my daughter came here for a peace rail, did she have a gun in her hand? no. she came empty handed. she just came to answer ask for peace. >> reporter: like many other kurds, she accuses the government of treating her like a second class citizen. >> i have been here for the last three days and i have gotten no information whatsoever. is my daughter dead or alive? if she is dead then showed me her body. show me my flesh and blood. no one here is helping.
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>> reporter: at a time of great tension here in turkey it's clear more of the population feel targeted. >> translator: we have lived here for within thousand years, how come today they call us sip tests. we are living for peace, dieing for peace. we are just asking for peace and peace only even in death. that so many people were killed at a rail where they were demanding peace only makes it hurt that much more. with trauma this severe, these wounds will be extremely hard to heal. mohamed jamjoon, al jazeera, turkey. in australia, a parliamentary inquiry will investigate the government's offshore detention camps for asylum seekers. more than one and a half thousand a sigh land seekers are held on two islands by australia. andrew thomas has more for us live from sydney. andrew this won't be the first inquiry of its kind, will it? >> reporter: no, adrian, there have been previous inquiries and they have disclose some pretty
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shocking allegations in terms of the conditions in these camps in in nauru and pap what new guinea. the rape the women and children in the camps. the physical beating by their guards. these allegations have come politicians or charities like amnesty international from people who have worked inside these prisons. inside the camps. what changed in may of this year, is that australia's government to try to crack down on whistle blowers in many people's eyes they brought in a new law that said anybody who disclosed anything that happened in these camps and weren't going through the proper channels as defined by them, could be impressed up to two years in prison. now, as you can imagine that's had a pretty chilling effect in terms of people coming forward with allegations and it's gone fairly quiet. well, what is being suggested now is a parliamentary inquiry held under the conditions of parliamentary privilege. that means in theory that anybody giving evidence to this inquiry will be protected or
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have immunity from the law and be able to come forward with their allegations freely in a way that they can't at th at the moment. they can't to journalists, charities or everybody to politicians without risking the 2-year prison sentence. >> andrew, of course, australia has a new prime minister s there any indication that he is going take a different approach which it comes to the treatment of asylum seekers? >> reporter: well, the previous government was very dismissive of previous reports. the immigration minister, for example, dismissed an earlier report by politicians from opposition parties as a dodgy kangaroo court. the previous prime minister, tony abbott, tried to force the resignation of australia's human rights commissioner had when she brought out eight report looking at allegations against children in these camps he said it was a political witch hunt and she should go and didn't engage in the substance of her report at all. malcolm turner the new prime
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minister is less hard line. he said that he third australia's -- australians concerns about what was happening inside these prisons. he said they were legitimate concerns. but will that lead to any practical change in policy? probably not. he's also said that he stands by the government's policy of effectively offshoring its refugees to papa new gainey and to that raw and that i nauru, a. tuesday save the children who have staff working there. had their laptops and other equipment seed lie the nauru police, there is a belief by them that information has been leaking from nauru to journalists and australia, and they want to find out where it's coming from, they think it could be men. >> andrew thanks. india is in the grip of its worst dengue fever outbreak in years, case have his hit a 19 year high in new delhi with over 10,000 people testing positive
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for the mosquito-born disease, a long summer with patchy rain has meant that the season has lasted much longer then usual. bolivia's president has said class licks are the reason for climate change. he said that it the a grassroots summit. so those most effected can have their voices heard. a report now. >> reporter: the three-day conference ended with bolivia president able morales calling for the world to protect what you calls mother earth. and a 10-point plan to send to paris, a plan representing different interests, agreed upon by delegates from far and wide. it was his fear their voices won't be heard. >> mother earth, you know, she has certain things that go on when you start going against
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that, it's -- you have -- there is no -- i can say there is no penalties or fines, only consequences. when you go against natural law. >> reporter: paris is where the world' politicians and scientists will negotiate over how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but people like her that are afternooned by climate change that came to have their say. >> translator: in my town my little place in the world we are seeing climate change, the water is drying up and the cattle have nothing to drink. it's very worrying. what should we do now? >> translator: we hope the world's presidents listen to our proposals. from organizations, movement, people who are demanding our rights. >> reporter: president morales called for one voice to emerge from diversity. these are just some of the voices that will be clamoring to be heard in paris, often those those -- offense to those who
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will not listen. these people live the consequences of climate change, they don't have the answers but they say they have some solutions that should be considered. among the items on the 10-point plan sent to paris, it calls for industrialized countries which bolivia says he mets most greenhouse gas to his divert military spending to fight the effects of climate change and for an international tribunal to try those who commit crimes against nature. but some here have criticize the bolivian government for not adhering to their own promises, by allowing mining and deforestation. >> people have come from all over bolivia to tell us what's really happening. for instance the case of an indigenous community being repress today opposing a coal mine being created without consultation on their lands. >> reporter: the effects of climated change hit rich and poor, those in the cities and those like her from the most remote communities.
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they are all demanding their voices are heard in paris. daniel, al jazeera, bolivia. zimbabwe has drop aid legal case against the u.s. man who killed cecil the lion. the governmenting it's no longer interested in seeking extradition for dentist walter palmer. it says that his hunting papers were in order and that he didn't know he was committing an offense. now, ugandan film director is getting worldwide recognition for his low budget action movies. one of his films has been viewed 2 million times on loan. malcolm webb visited the set of one film. >> reporter: the rescue operation gone wrong. but the rescue i rescuers fight. it's the plot of his latest action film. he makes almost one every month. here at his studios in uganda's capital. >> many people in uganda come from the ghettos, from the slums here, so i normally focus on the
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life we go through in the movie we put it in the movie plus some fiction it becomes a move foy them. >> reporter: and they are popular. extraordinarily all drama in familiar settings draws crowds in the neighborhood sin los masd since isaac started putting the trailers youtube. it's attracted fans from all over the world. this one went viral and had more than 2 million views, the theatrics are made possible by the creatively resource. crews behind the scenes. all of the equipment homemade them camera tripod is made from a car jack. over here, there is a crane, this is made from bits of scrap medal we would the together. the biggest problem a life size model a helicopter that the technicians are still building. here say giant machine gun made from water pipes and a lawn mower engine. the sound of gunfire is added
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after. isaac taught himself to use graphic software downloaded from the internet and his wife harriet has become an expert in special es. this man is about to get shot. >> with mixed food color, red color, we put in a little blue color. and then we put it in to the condom. >> reporter: the actors mostly trained on the job say they are here for the love more than the money. the entire budge feed each film is about $200. >> i like acting because i need to be more famous. yeah, that's my dream. so that's why you see i act all the time. if directe director tell me do , i can do. >> reporter: everyone here is dedicated. a torrential storm end filming for the day and cuts off the electricity.
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but isaac won't stop. heed it's using a battery backup. this is his 40th move and i as soon as it's finishes he will start on the next. malcolm webb, al jazeera, uganda. much more real news from al jazeera. >> this week on talk to al jazeera - the president of liberia ellen johnson sirleaf. >> my life story of fighting and getting up and being beaten and rising again and fighting for the things i believe in. >> the first woman elected to lead an african country has spent almost a decade rebuilding post-conflict liberia. >> people were tired of war. war was seen as something that had been initiated and carried
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