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♪ turkey's president says the world should respect the results of the election which returned the ruling party to majority. ♪ hello there i'm julie and you are watching al jazeera life from do what and bodies from the dead of the crashed russian plane arrived home and they say the plane broke up in mid air. try to resolve under comfort women of prostitution in war time and u.n. marks the day to end impunity for crimes against
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journalists. ♪ turkish president erdogan says the whole world should respect the result of sunday's general election and the ruling ak party received nearly 50% of the vote regaining parliamentary majority and president erdogan says the people voted for a stable turkey. >> translator: the national wheel manifested with stability and after the short term developments the national wheel says there is no way out instead of choosing stability and they chose in favor of stability and hope the outcome will be good for our people and our country. >> so let's look at how the votes have been spread between turkey party and the ak party secured 49.4% of the vote and that is enough for a majority of 316 seats in parliament.
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the main opposition chp won 25% of the vote or 134 votes and nhp party secured 11.9% and that is 41 seats and the htp party claimed a little over 10 1/2% under turkey election rules that just enough to keep seats in parliament against 59. we have correspondence covering across the country and we will hear from omar in istanbul. >> reporter: results have shocked many people in turkey including supporters of the ruling justice and development party as well as the main opposition parties, now the leader of the ruling ak party was trying in his reconciliation speech saying i'm not a leader of a party but a prime minister of all the turks and says we are trying to end the polarization. how will that translate into
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practicalities remains to be seen because given the fact the ak party won 49% of the vote it still has to reach out to the other 51% of the work and main opposition and other opposition parties as well as many within the turkish society miss trust dependencies by the ruling ak party so the next few days and perhaps weeks or months are very crucial to end the political polarization in turkey. >> the pro-kurdish htp party finished with the worst result and during the election in june and bernard smith reports from the city. >> reporter: we know that here in the southeast of the country the htp lost ten seats, eight of those went back to the akp. now, the htp was campaigning in a very different environment since the june election, the break down of a ceasefire between the pkk and the turkish state created an unstashl environment here and htp did try
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and persuade and call on pkk to lay down its arms and wasn't successful in persuading the pkk to do that so there are suggestions that the kurds freightened about the out break after 2 1/2 years of peace decided to put their support back with the akp and also in the secular minded areas and liberal voters seeing their sums go to war on the eastern side of the country perhaps felt they should go with what they would perceive as a safer option in return of what they thought was stability that turkey had before the june election. >> reporter: russian airline and flight crashed on saturday in egypt is insisting that a technical fault can't be the cause. russia says the plane broke up in mid air over the sinai peninsula and so far hasn't named possible causes. the remains of some of those killed have been returned home and the bodies were brought to a morgue in st. petersburg where
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the identification process will begin and the plane crashed minutes after taking off and all 224 passengers and crew were killed. official mourning events will continue in st. petersburg until tuesday and flies were lit and flowers laid as people gathered in palace square and moscow is an it will compensate families and help with foon ral arran-- funeral arrangements. >> reporter: recovering bodies following the crash on saturday and overnight an aircraft from cairo brought back 144 of the victims. now they will be taken from the airport here to a special purpose built mortuary in the north of the city and matched with dna samples that were taken from their families and it should result in positive
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identification of the bodies. meanwhile the investigation into the crash goes on but it's going to be some time possibly months before they come up with anything definitive. what we do know is that this aircraft broke up at very high altitude, possibly around 30,000 feet from some catastrophic effect and the whole area of debris stretches over 20 square kilometers and they are still searching that at the moment. >> the leaders of south korea and japan agreed to speed up talks on so called comfort women, south korea has insisted japan compensate women forced into japan military brothels before and during world war ii and harry faucet reports. >> reporter: this relationship has been in a deep freeze since these leaders took office and handshake and smiles hardly brimmed with warmth but this moment may start the thaw and the president talked for the need of sincerity to help and
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spoke of a new era and future orientations and they want the prime minister to address the past, in particular the section enslavement of tens of thousands of young korean women by the japanese army before and during world war ii and compensate the dwindling number of survivors of the so called comfort women system. perhaps the bear minimum was agreed a promise to speed up talks on the issue. >> translator: in order to build a forward looking relationship we should not leave obstacles for the future generations for the comfort women issue. >> reporter: pressing for sincere language from the prime minister on the comfort women issue and the stance on history and his policy of losing restrictions on the present day military were factors in the president parks earlier refusal not to meet him but at last the impasse has been broken and fewer happier is the united
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states and tokyo and seoul to move beyond differences and a ashton carter is there to talk about the two essential regional allies. there is still plenty of repair work needed. president park pointedly didn't offer japan's prime minister lunch before his flight home and he took his entourage to a tradition traditional korean restaurant. no problems in the south china sea after they called for cooperation with south korea and the u.s. >> translator: there is a saying in china which means to be afraid of something that does not exist. i don't know what the reason is for this kind of concern. you say it's freedom of navigation but every year more than 100,000 ships from different countries freely and safely pass through the south china sea without any problems at all. today november the 2nd is the u.n.'s international day to
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end impunity for crimes against journalists and secretary-general ban ki-moon says the right to speak must be safeguarded and are under harassment under an up surge of violence in israel and occupied territories and stephanie reports from jerusalem. >> reporter: this is outside of ramallah in the west bank and this is one of the journalist filming what is unfolding. >> translator: we moved to the injured to film. at that moment the commander came and threatened he would spray us with pepper spray so we moved back about ten meters then he began spraying at all the journalist. >> reporter: he said he did nothing wrong and moved back. >> translator: i said to the commander what are you doing to the journalists? you are attacking us. >> reporter: the police issued this statement in response to our request for comment, during violent confrontations and while the forces were handling attack
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scene the emergency medical services risked their lives and forces when they refused to move back to a safe security distance and confronting forces and refused to answer requests and pushed back using reasonable force and the commander has instructed to investigate the incident and lessons learned if it's required. he says he is accredited by the israeli press office. >> translator: the government treats any attack on a journalist, a photographer with severity, any journalist who is injured or felt he is attacked he is given a response after a thorough investigation. >> reporter: another incident at the end of september shows iz -- israeli officer and they say a deputy commander common was dismissed and he is not sure if he will press charges.
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>> translator: i would like to file a complaint against him but i will keep working in the field and afraid he will be there again and once he finds out i filed a complaint he may target me specifically and i don't know how a journalist is supposed to be protected in the case. >> reporter: u.n. declared international day to end punty for crimes against journalist and calls on member states to do the utmost against media workers to ensure accountability and bring the perpetrators to business, stephanie decker, east jerusalem. 86 journalists killed so far this year and 85 were targeted or killed in cross fire and one killed accidently doing their job and international federation of journalists says last year 135 were hospitalized because of the work they were doing and u.n. says 700 journalists have been killed in the last decade and committee to protect journalists says between
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1992-2015 the deadliest were iraq, syria and philippines, algeria and somalia and we are from the international press institute, he says violence against journalists must be stopped. >> in many cases the governments are covering up for those who are carrying out these events. sometimes the governments themselves are behind or instigating attacks against journalists and in other cases the governments have no interest in investigating them because they are supported by organized crime or by groups that maybe the government doesn't want to invest dpat -- investigate and nobody is protecting the journalist and nobody is standing up and parliament says not to investigate and governments get away with murder literally in these cases because they are not investigating them and i would put a big question mark about the government's
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intents by covering up for these killings governments themselves are either directly or indirectly responsible for these deaths and whenever the government acts in impunity those who are killing continue to kill journalists as we have seen in the years past and know they can get away with murder and need to stop the impunity. >> reporter: coming up, here on the program why indonesia paper industry is being blamed for the toxic haze effecting millions of people in the region plus. >> i'm in argentina where people having barbecues like this one say they are not afraid of the implications that beef and processed meat can have on their lives. ♪ the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,
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our world what it is. ♪ welcome back, i'm julie and let's remind you of the top stories, turkish president erdogan says the whole world should respect the results of sunday's general election and won 50% of the vote and can now form a majority government. the russian airline whose flight crashed on saturday in egypt is saying a technical fault cannot be the cause and russia investigators say the plane broke up at high altitude and so far have not named possible causes and all 224 people on board were killed. leaders of south korea and japan agreed to speed up talks on so called comfort women and insisted japan compensates those who were forced in the brothel
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before and during the second world war. houthi fighters in yemen killed by saudi-led coalition air strikes in the southern province where several camps belonging to rebels and forces loyal to saleh were targeted. syrian activists say government helicopters have dropped barrel bombs on civilians in the western outskirts of the tap toll damascus, attack reportedly happened in the suburb of dari and al jazeera continue independently verify the video. fighting forced many syrians to make a periless journey on rickety boat and 250,000 arrived in october and that is a record for for any month and the same as the whole of 2014. and 50 refugees including children drown trying to reach greek islands. >> reporter: biting wind and
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choppy waters as the european winter sets in. these boats almost didn't make it, after periless journey across the aegean sea and arrived on the greek island of l -- lebos. >> three boats consider low and sinking and rescued by boats in the harbor. >> reporter: rescued bodies that washed up overnight and what is at stake for those trying to escape conflict at home and europe is trying to cope with the crisis and many trying to reach germany who opened the doors to him. >> i have many friends who went there and others went there and as they always tell us there are good people. >> reporter: to get there they
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have to pass through countries and croatia wants to speed up the process and registering across the border and are set to unveil a camp this week. >> this is a place which is now totally created with everything that we need from showers, tents, heated tents, containers for our groups and we are not expecting progress on this position. capacity is 5,000 people. from croatia the people will most likely go north to slovania and austria before reaching germany. at each stop they face yet more difficulties, for the country the issue is numbers, more than double they face than previous years. for the refugees it's about doing whatever it takes for a chance at a new life. gerald tan, al jazeera. some of the world biggest
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paper making companies are creating a health hazard for millions of people and vast land is on fire in indonesia and smoke across the land and flying across the land we sent this report. >> reporter: epicenter of indonesia's fire disaster and thousands of hectors used to make paper are on fire. an inferno contributing to the toxic haze affecting tens of thousands in indonesia and neighboring countries and pulp and paper is one of the largest produces of paper and packing. the company's officials took al jazeera exclusively on a helicopter ride through the worst hit plantation. a lack of visibility makes clear how efforts to control the fires are being hampered and they say the blaze started outside the supplier plantation. >> roughly around 90% of the
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fire are coming from outside, yes, there are fires coming from insee as well, a lot of them we have investigated so far are people coming into the conservation areas, hunters, gatherers or people who just went past. i mean, it sounds so easy to me blaming other people. >> i'm not blaming other people. we have responsibility to make sure areas of our suppliers are protected. >> reporter: this appears to have failed and company blames extreme drought condition because of el nino and fires to spread rapidly and supermarkets in nearby singapore are boycotting products made by asia pulp and paper blaming them for the fires which are also effecting the city state. three years ago they said they would stop converting forest into plantations. asia pulp and paper scrutinized
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for years over the foreststation and contributing to the haze and despite government promises to bring those involved to justice this company has not been investigated. the government said it wants to focus on fire fighting efforts before taking legal steps against anyone found responsible for starting the fires. >> i think we will investigate very much detail. we don't want to hurry through this and like to do it very steady here. >> where we can get away with it, right, and they get home? >> i don't think so but we will solve this for them i promise because the impact of this is really huge, 43 million people in indonesia and a particular area affected by this. >> reporter: slash and burn practices which involves burning down existing vegetation before planting new ones will be ban and the government also says it
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will take back hundreds of thousands of hectors of converted feed land from companies and restore it. and as the fires continue to burn asia pull m and paper says it it can only be stopped when the rainy season starts in three to four weeks, al jazeera, indonesia. australia, prime minister malcolm scrapped the national honor system of knights and dames and says the titles are not compatible with modern australia. >> the most important issue in australia today but it's a change as you know removing nights and dames from the australia honor system was a decision the cabinet has taken and her majesty agreed to amend the order of australia and this reflects modern australia and knights and dames are titles that are out of date and not
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appropriate in 2015 in australia. >> reporter: now, after trying and failing three times nigeria is launching a new national identity database, critics say it's a waste of money but leaders say it will lead to improved services and we have the story from abuja. >> reporter: filling out application forms to have their names included in a new national identity database and also get an identity card. it's an attempt by the government to collect data for planning and to improve public services and security. and he is applying. after filling out the form he needs the biometric details taken. >> and they don't want to bank and help us in our job and secure a job. >> reporter: the project was launched in august of last year but only 7 million people's names are on the database so
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far, that is less than 5% of nigeria's population of 170 million. the government says a lack of internet in rural areas, poor power supply and lack of money have been factors but in january a law will come into place making it difficult to get certain services without a national identity number known as ni number. >> you can't open a bank account without an ni number. you can't deal in transactions on land would an ni number. you cannot deal in pensions. you cannot deal in insurance policies. you cannot deal in tax matters and you cannot obtain a driver's license or your electronic passport. >> reporter: since the 1970s there have been three attempts to produce a national identity database and biometric identity card, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent and there are over 20 government agencies already collecting
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biometric data. >> it's a waste of money. i think that ideally if you are to have a national data coalition system then it should serve a variety of purposes including being able to extract a voter registration and including providing database for the driver's license. >> reporter: civil society and human rights organizations say there is a lack of government transparency about how people's personal data will be used and back at the application center he like many who shop to apply will get his card in three months and the hope is database and identity card will have improved services the government is promising, al jazeera, abuja nigeria. argentina love a nice juicy steak and sausage and any meat on the barbecue usually wets their appetite and what do they think the world health organization linking red meat to
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cancer? we have been finding out in buenos aires. >> reporter: kilos of red and processed meat in this barbecue in buenos aires. he says he loves his sausage sandwiches and is not too worried about the world health organization warning. >> translator: but to take a look at all this food and you are going to miss this amazing sausage sandwich, you cannot leave this life without eating this. >> reporter: according to the world health organization processed meat increases the chance of getting cancer and red meat could be a cost too and eat 100 kilos of meat a year and you can include this that you see and kidneys and red meat. barbecues like this one can be seen all around the country and people here said that never minding the risks they won't stop coming.
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argentina is famous for football, tango and beef, the first cattle were introduced by the spanish in the 16th century and soon became a feature. and this is a sky of slowing grilling vast quantities of meat over an open flame and based on the tradition of the cattle herders who once worked in the grass lands of central argentina. >> translator: latin america we eat a lot of meat, it's our tradition and culture and maybe we have to take mary care about what we eat but i believe illness is caused by stress. >> reporter: argentina breast cancer is the most common cause of death among women and lung and prostate cancer are the main causes among men and says they are trying to raise awareness. >> translator: the reports sent a message and it has raised awareness. we recommend not to eat red meat
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more than twice a week, it's about having a healthy lifestyle and we are clear about prevention and to have primary care is important and you can reduce cancer by 40%. >> reporter: even though awareness has increased in argue argentina in years they try to convince people to lead a healthier life, al jazeera, buenos aires. now the day of the dead has been celebrated in mexico. women and girls dressed up as katrinas and skeleton lady of katrina was a criticism of the upper classes and day of the dead festival stems from the ancient aztec belief the dead return one day every year to visit their loved ones. now the kansas royals ended a three decade wait to win the biggest prize and beat the new york mets 7-2 to wrap up the world series and were trailing
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much of game five and five innings in the 12th and secured the first championship since 1985. and you can keep up to date with all the day's news and sports on our website, al jazeera.com. >> i'm ali velshi. on target - justice for all. meet the court-appointed lawyers who made it their mission to expose crooked cops and prosecutors. and the critics that say it has nothing to do with justice, and everything to do with politics. anyone like me watches a lot of cop shows can revit the miranda warning na police officers must read to suspects. you have the right to remain silent. anything you can and say will be