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the shabal shabaab armed groupattacl mogadishu. and kills two.i'm shiulie ghosh. the russian airliner that went down over the sinai peninsula, there was no distress call. the turkish ruling party.
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and new zealand, is the rugby world champion and first team to win back to back world. world cup. two explosions have gone off in a hotel in somalia's capital, mogadishu. killing at least 15 people. one car bomb exploded outside the sahafi hotel. security forces say they regained control of the hotel and it is now completely secured. at least one mp and owner of the hotel was killed in the attack. al shabaab has claimed responsibility. says they are now in control of the situation. >> the somali national security forces are there, also forces are on the ground. they are right now combing through hotel, to see whether
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there are any pockets of resistance. we have walked the first three floors and they are in control of the situation, they are coming through the place after which now we will be able to give a confident reports. we don't have any numbers or any identity so tar, there are a plot of rumors flying around. but filled with seats that we are in right now. >> it is a day of national mourning in russia for the 224 people killed in saturday's plane crash poop shrine to the victims have been set up in the city of st. petersburg where the airbus a-321 was heading. an investigation is now taking place to find out why the plane came down in the sinai peninsu peninsula. peter sharp has the update from st. petersburg.
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>> reporter: across the city of st. petersburg they will be remembering those who never returned from that holiday and died in the crash yesterday. there is a small shrine here at the airport and there's a steady trickle of people, many of them young children coming in and laying flowers and candles on a table outside the arrival entrance. in the field, three aircraft, russian aircraft have arrived in cairo with a full complement of air safety offices including the transport minister. now they'll be at the site in the next few hours overseeing the removal of the bodies and really their first priority is going to try and be to have some idea that they can tell their family and friends what possibly caused this crash. there was no distress call from the pilot. what happened happened very, very quickly. and as far as these almost
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inevitable communication he from i.s.i.l. affiliates that they brought down the plane, a careful forensic examination of the plane should give clues over the coming days. >> voters in the country of turkey are in election. bernard smith has the story. >> there's really been an explosion of violence in turkey since then particularly in the eastern part of the country, here in the eastern part of the country where the effective ceasefire has broken down. there's been three separate bombings since june and the victims have been kurdish.
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nevertheless, all the polls are suggesting that the result we had in june would be broadly similar this time around in november. here in diabakar, there are ten seats, one seat in the hands of the akp. now in june the socially conservative kurdish voters, once voted for the hdp, will be hoping to get those volts. the akp hasn't done a lot serving this part of turkey to try to win back those socially conservative kurdish voters they lost. >> the top court of guinea has confirmed the results of the election, and opposition claims fraud.
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jerald tan is there. >> there is little to wonders how these guineans. felt about the election results. >> the rpg party won 57.84% of the votes and is elected as president of the public starting december 1, 2015 and disone, 2020. >> but complaints of vote rigging and trawd. thfraud. the court found those allegations baseless. >> we are happy with this result, happy, alfre is not a
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thief and he won at the behest of god. >> violence in the week before the polls had marred campaigning but there was high turnout and little incident on election day. >> i'm proud in the fact that the election did take place in very stressful manner and he appeared after the election, boat had the concern of. >> the eeivel outbreak continues to linger and a slump in global metal exporkts will do for now. but for now, citizens will celebrate five more years under his leadership, jerald tan, al jazeera. >> al jazeera is gaining rare
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access, osama ben javad reports. >> another generation of afghan children is being brainwashed. this is the province, and the men who have helped to train them can now islamic state of iraq and the levant, where it says it's gaining growrchtd an anding decided to stay. i.s.i.l. fighters seem comfortable in the village life, there's a constant fear much droafn trieks. athank god there is a caliphate on the ground. we are fighting the holy war under the kalive's leaders. >> facing conflict from not only
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the citizenry but the i.s.i.l. government. >> translator: the taliban are already here. if there is no need why should you join them? >> al jazeera was given access to. >> there are many fighters all over this province. a large number of foreign fighters who have come from saudi arabia and europe. they are heerl but canned talk to you about their faces. >> they say they have been trained by foreigners and don't fear giving up their lives. their declared target is commander gendad, a former commander, who is notorious for his ruthlessness.
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thousands more has been displaced as i.s.i.l. joined the government, in large parts of mountainous averages, siel is using forts to more. >> you can reach the full documentary i.s.i.l. and the taliban, on al jazeera. leaders meeting in seoul. and in nigeria why the demand for these african threads is so high. high.
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>> hello, welcome back, i'm shiulie ghosh. let's remind you of the top stories now. al shabaab has attacked the somali capital mogadishu, a hotel. security forces have regained control of the hotel. saturday's plane crash in egypt, a shrine has been built in st. petersburg, where the airbus was due land from sharm el sheikh. after the akq party failed to form a coalition in june.
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i'm joined now by joseph contreras. what are you hearing? >> we are also getting conflicting reports some suggesting that the fighting continues at the hotel, others indicating that government officials have regained control of the building. >> we know that al shabaab has claimed responsible for this attack. does the ability to carry out such big attacks undermine claims by authorities that they are winning the war? >> well, it's clear, if you look back at events in somalia over the past six months, that al shabaab still has the capability to organize major terrorist attacks in the capital. there was the case of the
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jazeera hotel that was attacked. but any pattern in the last two years would yield a conclusion that al shabaab has been losing territory steadily to government forces. supported by the african union peace keeping mission in somalia. as you know 13 months ago the leading strong being hold of al shabaab, bernawe, fell to government forces, kuswae fell to government forts earlier. sporadically the government's forces are clearly in the offensive and have the momentum. >> nevertheless, an attack like this clearly is going to shape the government. we know that somalia is due to
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hold elections in 2016. how will the security situation impact on the elections next year? >> well, i think it's generally acknowledged that on account of a security situation, and many others, a one person one vote election is not going to take place in splafl ya somalia, at r regional level ato determine what sort of electoral college will be put together next time to enact a new president a new parliament and a new prienlts. >> thank you, josep yost josephs
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joinings us there. >> relationship marred by territorial disputes. let's get the latest from our exofnlt harry fawcett. those talks now over oso what have they been saying? >> well, that's right. these were the first of these talks that were supposed to happen every year but they haven't happened for the last three and a half years. so significant that they happened at all. indeed at the news conference there was no questions asked but the three leaders did read out their statements and there was a good bit ever commonality as you would expect. restarting the trilateral summit process could be a catalyst to imrorvcoalesce, as someone who s
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he over japan's actions before and during whoort world war ii. >> they talked about north korea and there was some admonishment from the prime minister, he repeated those issues, a clear direction that he expects more from shingz abe on that front.
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>> now in myanmar, it is the first properl properly her partl face mortgage alliances and form a government, florence looi joins us. what are the chances for the nlb? >> well, if this rally is any indication of popular, they are expected to do quite well. there haven't been any polls rung up to the feat of the list. in june it estimated inaccuracies between 30 and 80%.
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branded as a pro-muslim party and in a country where the exploited detriment mowz in response to that the party hasn't felt there's any muslin candidates and that has caused it to be heavily protected. the third -- >> okay, we're obviously having problems hearing florence, that line very bad indeed. let's leave it there, florence myanmar, reporting on the nld meeting in myanmar. >> faisal, roy was an atheist and critical of islamic groups
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in the please area. >> strongest typhoon in record so far in the arraignan seas. almost 7 inches of water, fell on houston over the past weekend. detroit in the u.s. state of michigan has experienced, economic shardships have left the city depressed. he realize you glrks are this is detroit's wall of shame. when teresa moved here 26 years ago, blacks were on one side, whites on the other. >> the purpose was to separate the white community from the
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black community. i don't like it but it's part of my history. >> a developer wanted to build middle class homes for whites, reasoning that separating the races would protect the seablght's involvement. yet while those oppressed by the berlin wall tore it down, this wall has allowed to stand. >> this serves as a memory how things used to be and how perhaps in their mind things have gotten better. >> reporter: it wasn't designed as a fill brairier, it was designed for those on the black side of the wall. that message says keep out. since 1461 gloria johnson has lived with that symbol, of triex
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and work. >> it didn't work. the people are still here, the people they tried to oppress and he keep out of there. on the other side of the wall they are all over the city. it just can't box people in. judge one of of the most remarkable feechtion stands, partly painted, the rest a white-washed remnant of racism. john hendren, droid. >> violence broke out after the foourch rals of five teenagers who were killed by israeli forces. thousands turned over. after being impris oftenned. >> only 20 years since the fest
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assassination of rabin. in 1995. he was killed by the palestine palestine. formepalestinianliberation army. >> children were entitled to the same possibilities in life as his own. the third thing that i learned from him most important for you tonight in this complex and challenging moment. is he refused to guc give up his dream of peace in the face of violence.
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>> new zealand has been the first team to successfully defend the rugby world cup. lee wellings reports the show. >> the final for the first time. in weather more familiar to the southern hemisphere than london in the month of october. now that we're here, can't wait to might them. they went about young bucks in australia. record run of 13 world cup victories. australia hoping to peak when it mattered most. dan carter had a chance to open the scoring and his world cup final but last international. crucially broke the resistance at the earned of the first half, a deserved 16-3 hafl haft half:.
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this australian team would not giver up, particularly not in a world cuch. the easy conversion, gap down to just four points. fittingly it was carter, a superb point goal, long distance kick. by the time bode and bairlt broke through, he was even the first nation to retain the wormt. which he lifteworld cup. >> it's not been here so much,
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been doing the job as good as you can acknowledge you want to enhance it. >> new zealanders say they have a team that can be call greatest in history. there was no surprise who has ended up still the champions. lee wellings. 26intwickingham. >> yvonne ngz rowrlt oon what makes this so dealt? >> the designer is using a certain technique done by hand. it comes from swefnlt nigeria
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and practiced for thousands of years. mackie is looking to using it in her own designs. >> i'm really concerned about massive importation of dutch wax and the chinese wax and turkish and english. because these fabrics, this is what is seen as african now. >> plaqueia has been receiving positive publicity. michelle obama has worn at the white house. one dress could cost up to $2,000. these dyes in abakuta, is behind the art form. they leave them to dry in the sun. the leaves are then boiled in a natural solution and the dye is
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tasted to see if it is ready. the dye textile has to be cleaned several times before it is ready to wear. making one pees t piece to creae than ten days. international demand there might be. fashion week organizers say the use of the independent goaz dye fabric such as macie o a call to international fashion investors to use addire. >> it is about craftsmanship something that has been passed around from generation to generation. it's about commune. it's about an impact. >> plaqueio says, if these are
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imported they will show hand made clothes instead. >> and can you keep up to date with all the day's news, on our website, all the sport also. at aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. a a >> the financier had a spectacular rise with his investments quadrupling - but then browder began calling attention to corruption and crossed the wrong people. >> i was locked up overnight. and then i was deported the next day and declared a threat to national security, never to be allowed back into russia again. at that point it became obvious to me that putin's interests

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