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have the latest on our top story, the university of missouri president stepping down. >> this is al jazeera. >> hello there i'm barbara serra. this is the newshour live from london. coming up in the next 60 minutes. an your honor precedented scandal in the world athletics. calling for russia to be suspended from all competitions. barack obama meets israeli prime minister for the first time in over aier. the u.s. promises a full
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investigation after two of its officers are shot at a training center in jordan. myanmar early election results shows a possible landslide victory for angst anc's political party. plus. >> i'm jessica baldwin, a showing of alexander caldwell, the artist who invented the mobile. >> russia could be banned from olympic stlect athletics f aften accusation from wada. money demanded from top athletes to bury medical results showing drug use. far as to say that russia appears to be running a state supported doping program.
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the report also implicates athletics world dworchg bod gov, i.waf. paul reese reports from geneva. >> in the swiss sunshine a dark day for the sport of athletics. an independent commission set up by the world antidoping agency wada to investigate claims of systemic doping in russia, that russia should be immediately banned from the sport and if it doesn't fix the problem, no russian athletes at the 2016 olympic games. a deeply rooted system of doping programs, the comploitatio explf athletes, and results at london 2012 called into question and the world governing body the
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iwaf failing to act. commissioner richard pound says the problem goes beyond one sport and one country. >> it simply can't be only russia and only athletics. we know there's a problem of doping, just from the positive tests, in lots of other sports and lots of other countries. so we just wanted to make it clear that our manned was pretty narrow. russia athletics. but there's po reason to believe it's only athletics and no reason to believe it's only russia. >> the allegations within a film in germany a year ago, the results overwhelmingly vindicated. >> we just did our job. obviously some sports federations are not as interested as we have been in researching the systemic doping in russia. but obviously has to see there's an interest of conflict because
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the sports federation wants to gain sponsorships, wants to earn a lot of money and also fighting against doping at the same time, that may lead to some conflicts of interest. therefore, it's the best way to provide independent investigations, against doping, we need investigative adjournment because we can spend our money in focusing only on this. >> you iwaf president sebastian coe may not thank seppelt but the investigating body can push into this. >> paul, what are the ramifications of this scandal? >> well, the ramifications are huge. russia is a big, big sporting country. one of the most successful in olympic history. hosted the sochi 2014 winter
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olympics, last year. those results are obviously called into question. but it does go beyond russia. the chair of this independent commission dick pound said during the press conference that he did believe that there were other countries, other sports involved, and we've already seen how the former president of the iwaf lamina diak has been investigated by french prosecutors, last week.that is ongoing. he's suspected of taking more than $1 million to cover up russian doping tests. and ongoing as well, we still not have the results of an investigation into leaked documents from the iwaf, with hundreds of abnormal blood levels from athletes from around the world. so the dust is settling here in geneva but it will certainly continue to fly at the head
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offices of the iwaf as they figure out how they can clear up the sport. >> paul reese from geneva, thank you. as we've been mentioning, russian athletes are heavily implicated. let's talk to our russian correspondent, rory challands. running a state supported doping program, what kind of reaction have we had across the spectrum really in russia russia to the accusations? >> the first response we heard was from a russian state scientific agency which said the wada report was politically motivated and not based in reality. slightly less belligerent were comments from the sports minister, vitali mutka that said yes, russia has had a doping problem, never tried to hide it,
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and as a justification or explanation of why russia tried combat this, he gave a whole list of the names of athletes who have been accused by russian anti-doping agencies of using banned substances. but rasada, the russian antidoping agency is actually at the center of the report from wada. wada says it has been deeply compromised and is not doing its job properly. that is not true he says, he says this agency was set up according to wada specifications and he wants to see some detail of what it could have possibly been doing wrong. it does seem to suggest though that muka has not quite read this report properly. he says it will have to be translated into russian first before it can be properly responded to. and in general what he has done is asked for detail, he says is
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lacking, but actually, the report if you read it does go into quite specific detail about a lot of the things that he wants detail on. now, russia is saying that it will fulfill any of the recommendations made to it by the iwaf. but richard pounds who authored this report and preventing it in geneva does not trust russian sports minister. when asked whether he was directly implicated, richard pownpound said as russian sports minister he must have known what was going on and by not knowing, he is surely implicated in it too. >> lots to come here in al jazeera including failing a
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generation. hundreds of thousands of refugee syrian children are missing out on an education. more violence in the palestinian west bank, a palestinian woman is arrested for a stabbing attack. allegations payments were made to bribe officials to vote for the twick world cup. >> the u.s. president and israeli prime minister are holding their first face to face talks in more than ayear. the meeting will be at the white house and combating israeli and syrian security. during the past five weeks, relations betweening u.s. and israel have been strained after the u.s. backed a deal to lift sanctions on iran allowing it to continue to develop its nuclear program. president obama gave more details about what was the two
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leaders would be talking about. >> in light of what continues to be a chaotic situation in syria, this will give us an opportunity to discuss what's happening there. we'll have an opportunity to discuss how we can blunt the activities of i.s.i.l, hezbollah, other organizations in the region, that carry out terrorist attacks. >> let's get more on this from our correspondent patty culhane in washington, d.c. the two have thought seen eye to eye even before the issue of the iran nuclear program. barack obama last less than a year left in office. what is benjamin netanyahu there to achieve? >> reporter: exactly barbara. in the last seven years there's definitely been more downs than
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ups in the relationship. it's clear when they allowed more into the meeting, which went longer than we expected, two and a half hours, we just saw the president's convoy pill pul outpull out, that it's timet the past fights, especially the iran nuclear deal, behind them. we heard the president say exactly what the prime minister would have wanted ethical say, condemning insurgency which leads to violence and two state solution. what this is mostly about is a memorandum of understanding basically that is something israel gets with the united states. ten year long agreement about how much money the u.s. is going to provide israel in security money, every year. right now it's just over $3 billion. there are reports that israel was going to come here because of the iran deal and say okay now we need $5 billion. now we didn't expect that they were going to come out and announce any kind of agreement but that was definitely the key
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focus of these negotiations. >> but so far you mentioned that the two leaders sort of said the things the other one would want to hear but realistically is there going to be any movement at all on a two state solution or at least calming down the tensions we're seeing and the violence in the occupied palestinian territories? >> i think that last part is really the goal that the obama administration has set. they want to hear from the prime minister what steps you can set to take the temperature down in the president's words things like possibly easing checkpoints and doing more things around the compound. the moscow compound but they to hear an american administration say this but in speaking to top aids they tell me they really don't believe there is even the remotest possibility there can be a peace deal in the president's time left in office. they're not saying that there even will be talks. they're taking a step back and
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saying to the prime minister what kind of steps can you do to build confidence that even the potential for peace talks whoever takes over the white house a year from now. >> patty culhane with the latest from washington, d.c, patty thank you. >> israeli security forbes have shot dead a palestinian woman during a checkpoint check in the west bank. palestinians feel increasingly frustrated by the lack of political progress made by the international community. >> reporter: in the heart of bethlehem, asam barakat manages his shop the same as he does every day. he expects nothing from the meeting between the israeli prime minister and the u.s. president. >> translator: the palestinian cause is maybe the last topic they will discuss. there are other concerns for u.s. and israel in the region,
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syria, iran, they have different priorities. >> reporter: by chance we bump into the u.s. consul general vistaing the mayor of bethlehem together with officials from the u.s.a.i.d. u.s. funds various projects here but despite the efforts of u.s. secretary of state john kerry over the years to move forward with a peace process nothing has been achieved, ve vera says that leads to protests on the street. >> the peace process means a decision for a state of palestine. for many, it might be nothing but for us, which we live here, it means ability to live, ability to lead life. within a statehood. up until now, liberally speaking we are still under occupation. >> reporter: this street has become a stage for daily
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confrontations with israeli forces. the overwhelming feeling among palestinians here is frustration with the international community which they say is not putting enough pressure on israel to end this occupation. for asem is through a peaceful solution. >> stabbings are carried out by individuals who live under occupation. i don't know what the end of this is, but even if hundreds are killed on both sides you will still have israeli palestis liviniansliving in israel and is living in the west bank. >> seven years on the white house recently announced that there will be no two state solution during the rest of obama's term. it hasn't surprised anyone here. stefanie dekker, al jazeera,
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bethlehem in the occupied west bank. president barack obama says a full investigation is underway after two u.s. citizens are shot dead at a police training center in jordan. security force he say they were shotten alongside three others buy jordanian police officer who was then shot dead himself. rosiland jordan joins us from washington, d.c. rosiland what else do we know? >> what was the motivation that a plan, why he would suddenly turn his service weapon others who were there to train police officers, for iraq, for palestinian authority and for other arab countries? this was at a facility that hasn't seen this kind of incident before. it opened back in 2003, so that the u.s. and jordan could train members of the new iraqi
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civilian police force. they have trained tens of thousands of people at this facility and sent them back to their home countries to act as local police officers. but they've never had anything like this. and of course it raises the idea or the fear that this could have been some sort of green-on-blue attack, some kind of insider attack where people who are supposed to be work together then suddenly turn on each other and you have a fatal incident such as this. we don't have the names of those who are killed in monday's incident, as i said the investigation is just getting underway but the families of those who were killed, two americans, two jordanians, one south african have been notified. and certainly it is not clear whether operations are going to continue at the training facility for the foreseeable future. >> rosiland jordan with the latest from washington, d.c, thank you.
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death, displacement and now falling behind in school. these are just some of the problems being faced by syria's vulnerable children who are struggling to get their lives back together having fled to safety in neighboring turkey. al jazeera's omar al saleh report. reports. >> he left school last year to help a single mother and sister. he earns around $3 a day working 12 hours as a porter. his mother is looking for a better job for him. he tells me misses his schools and friends. he wants to be the man his mom can rely on. u.n. and turkey government statistics say there are more than 2.1 million syrian refugees, at least 100,000 are school age children. charity organizations have set
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up extensions but only 20,000 attended classes last year. many become illegal workers in are bazaars. mainly because of the insufficient number of arabic speaking schools. but sending the children to schools, in fact a lot of them rely on their children to work to provide a living. education is not a priority for many year. earning an income and sustaining a living are the means to survive. human rights watch warns of dire consequences and urges the international community and donor states to do more. >> there is a risk of a lost generation. if you look at the syrian children both inside the country and outside the country who are now out of school, the numbers really are staggering and compared to the numbers of enrollment in syria before the war it's quite stark, the difference. in syria before the war began
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primary school enrollment was 99% which was behavioral universal, gender parity was very good. so the risk of all of these kids who have their futures laid out before them that are very uncertain i think you see an entire generation that is being decimated by this war. >> syria's war has forced many to put their future on hold. omar al saleh, al jazeera, istanbul. conceded defeat in the nation's first properly held election in decades, in myanmar. placed the main opposition party on course to win by a landslide majority. figure head afghans angst is the lead of the national league for democracy and with a clear victory the party would be able to form the next government. it needs around 67% of seats to
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take full control of parliament and choose a president a role though that aung san suu kyi herself is not allowed to hold. myanmar's ruling party said it will respect the result. the final tally is not expected for days and then it could be followed by weeks of political wrangling. the new president would take office at the end of march. florence looi now reports. >> bold predictions the day after a landmark election in myanmar. authorities are predicting a win for national league for democracy or nld. people on the streets of yangon are not shy to say who they want for government. >> i want to see a lead in government that's 80 voted nld. >> i want to if aung san suu kyi
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leads us the country would be better. >> five years ago when myanmar was still under military rule, people would have dared to mention the political leader aung san suu kyi now her party could form the next government. >> until this time the election results have not been declared. i think everyone has already known or guessed what the election results are. >> myanmar's elections commission is expected to announce the final results in two weeks. >> 2015 election was a peaceful one and it can be seen it was held peacefully and successfully. >> some question whether these complaints will be properly handled. >> there is a lot of concern about the uec, particularly its impartiality. as you know the chair is a former military man, form he usdp mp, who is openly hoping that the usdp would win the election.
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>> as the votes are tallied it will be clear in the coming days whether this election is carried out in a clear way. vote for the candidates of their choice. it's already been seen by many as progress for a country that only five years ago was a military dictatorship. florence looi al jazeera yangon. >> joining us vie skype is dr. lynn kwok, brookings institution think tank. madam thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera. so what we do know, it does seem that aung san suu kyi's party the nld has managed to gain the 60% of seats for a majority in parliament. so now we're looking ahead to months of political wrangling. how difficult do you think it will be between now and march when a president will be announced? >> well, obviously, there are lots of issues to be sorted out and how easy they're going to be sorted out will depend of course on her margin in parliament. you mentioned 67% as the magic
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number for her to be able to successfully push for her candidate as president to become president. however, there are other issues such as who, you know, the new president will appoint in the administration in key positions. and this isn't very clear, considering especially because the nld doesn't have very many second tier leaders, they have aung san suu kyi and aung san suu kyi alone. that is enough to lead the opposition into power. however it might not be enough to form an effective government. >> and just to explain to our viewers, aung san suu kyi cannot herself be president because of a constitutional detail because her children are foreign. how complicated is it going to be? as you mentioned there are not that many second tier leaders within the nld. it is aung san suu kyi and very
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few other leaders. so how difficult is it going to be to have a president but really all the shots still called by aung san suu kyi? >> well, we don't know whether that's going to be happening. what she has said is that she has plans in place. we -- plans in place to lead the country despite there being a separate president. we are not sure how she's going to carry this out. and that -- how this can be accommodated constitutionally. i think the problems go beyond that. there are many intractable problems facing the country, it's got a civil war that's still continuing although several ceasefire agreements, as well as a national ceasefire agreement has been recently concluded. there are other problems as far as how political settlement can be reached with the ethnic minority states. as well, on top of that we have
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problematic relations between the majority buddhists, as well as the minority muslim population in myanmar. so quite apart from how the future government is going to be balancing between aung san suu kyi and the actual president, we're going to have the nld face all these separate issues which really need urgent addressing. >> obviously it's easier i guess to be an opposition party and eventually have to rule and deal with many of the problems that you have mentioned. one thing aung san suu kyi has been criticized for is not speaking out for the rohingya. do you think that when she -- when her government, is in power, it's going to be a more inclusive party that one that will speak out for injustices like the ones faced by the rohingya? >> well, i certainly hope so. and perhaps she hasn't spoken out in favor of the rohingya or
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favoring the rohingya very strongly because she was worried about political repercussions. however i think at a her world view may also be different. she recently came out to say that we shouldn't exaggerate the problems of the rohingya. these people live in segregated camps, with little access to health care or educational opportunities. it is rather dire straits for them. and it is a disappointing remark she made about not to imajt theiisexaggerate the problems. with violence happens we can stop it but it doesn't deal with the root problem, which is an animosity between the two communities which will need very careful planning and
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nation-building. i think the tremendous challenge is on this front, it won't be that she won't slowly find her feet with respect to this issue, but the problems are there. >> they are indeed, lynn kwok, from the east asian policy institute of the brookings institution. witch hund whic hunt which is tg kenya's most vulnerable. why indian noodle wers were band for years. >> and that will affect the credibility of sport. >> investigation into corruption and doping in world sport.
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on al jazeera. russia has been recommended to be banned from international events after allegation he of doping. conceded defeat in the inflation of myanmar's first held elections in decades. barack obama and benjamin netanyahu hold talks at the white house. let's speak to al jazeera's senior political analyst, marwan, this meeting happening now, past five weeks we really have seen i guess a spiral of violence in the occupied palestinian authority. i guess behind the scenes everybody knows that that's not really the main topic of conversation.
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>> baix, president obambasicalla has given up on providing the type of freedom the palestinians need to form their own state, to deoccupy palestine. the kind of pragmatism we are seeing from washington now adays is unprecedented. the israelis have been hailing insults on their american counterparts for many many months even calling president obama anti-semite, and calling secretary of state john kerry having the mind of a child. once upon a time boasted of being a cold war ally but today as everyone knows is either useless to america and greater middle east or an embarrassment to america because of its occupation of palestine. >> yet as you mentioned there
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continues to be support for israel. i mean obviously barack obama is now in his last year and relations between the two men soured long ago anyway. there is going to be a replacement come this time next year. who do you think is watching this meeting particularly closely and perhaps of building their own relations with the israeli prime minister? >> yes, this is very important. the elephant in the room is hillary clinton. and certainly, president obama wants to leave the kind of white house that is conducive to good relations with israel. and hence friendly to the influential israeli lobby in washington and in the united states. hillary clinton would like to see obama not sever relations with netanyahu, indeed the campaign of the candidate hillary has just written in the jewish publication forward saying she wants to bridge the differences with israel and with prime minister netanyahu. so it's once again that kind of
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prag that tix that yopragmatisme that is being decided by politics, a politics that basically awaits the election, politics that turns its back to the very human rights, to the very issue of freedom, that america talks so much about. but that doesn't fulfill whether it comes to the palestinians. >> senior political analysis marwan bashara, thank you. people in the afghan province of lahor, say they have been neglected, gov one of the isolated provinces in the country. its isolated terrain and harsh winters, doesn't mean their problems are over. war lords with their heavily armed fight verse had free rein,
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to impose their laws. women in particular have suffered their abuse. jennifer glasse spoke to women who are fighting to improve their lives. >> she's the first female governor of gore province. she wants to bring more prosperity and accountability and improve women's rights. she knows to do that the province needs proper and adequate security. >> translator: you have encouraged us that with your help we can build, develop, promote education and improve the lives of the people of gore province. that helps us work. >> reporter: and she welcomes the fact that there are women forces present. they appreciate her too. >> translator: we were in our homes a few years ago.
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we could not go out. now that we have a female governor she should honestly serve us. >> on this day the soldiers demonstrate how they would get hostile fighters out of an afghan home. joyanda says many hide within the population. the governor says she tries to get out amongst the people as much as she can, coming to things like this, her first police exercise or walking with people in the market not just staying in her office. she makes surprise visits to ministries to check attendances, to make sure people are doing their jobs and as winter approaches she checks that shopkeepers aren't overcharging for food and clothes so the people of gore can afford them. >> even though she's a woman, we're very proud she cares about the problems of our people and our home land. >> but joyanda also has her opponents. several demonstrators have called for her to be fired.
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she says that's because she's a woman, the head of the provincial capital denies that. >> we hope this governor will he replaced. she's not patient, she's a governor that don't want any advice, she does everything her own way. >> she says the officials oppose her because they want to build shops on government land and she refused. >> translator: they decided before i scale they didn't want me. after i came the main reason they opposed me is because of their illegal demands that i wouldn't accept. they never gave mee me any advicme any advicefor the good . >> joyanda is from gore, she says she will do her best despite the challenges. the critics will say if she fails, she fails because she's a woman. jennifer glasse l al jazeera, central afghanistan.
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>> billions of dollars have been spent in aid in afghanistan but not much of it is seen in gore.we'll take look at that on the second half of our series, tuesday at 0200 gmt. a university president in the u.s. state of missouri has quit over his handling of racial students on campus. black students say they have endured racial slurs and favoritism of white students over them. president tim wolfe resigned. since the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager last year. al jazeera's andy rosegen, explain to us what tim wolfe was accused of doing or i guess also
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not doing? >> well, that's the nail on the head barbara. he was accused of not doing much. in fact protesters have long said they would go to talk to them and woe say certain things to placate them but he seemed cold and indifferent about their calls for racial justice on campus, seemed like he didn't care, then they would come to him and he would say the right words and then they would go away but not in their mind. the use of the n word on campus and it all really boiled over when these football players at the university of missouri a big revenue generator of the school obviously tweeted they were not going to play or practice again until tim wolfe resigned, and that probably what threw him over the cliff on this one barbara. >> andy is there any way of knowing how these racial
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tensions can be handled not so much in the state but in other colleges? >> reporter: well, you know, there's been a lot of talk over the years from the black students here. it's overwhelmingly white campus. and the student body president himself who is black had said that he had the n word hurled at him outside a fraternity house here on the campus and also the n word was used a lot. other students have said there were incidents involving a swastika painted on a wall, things like that that started to add up. again maybe not so much the heaviness of each incident themselves but the weight of all of them combined over the years, and over the weeks and months. and that is what led to one student here, a grad student named jonathan butler who a week ago went on a hunger strike, said he wouldn't eat until the president tim wolfe resigned. again his beef with the president was that the president wasn't really hearing the students when they made these
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accusations. when he went on hunger strike the football team tweeted out they were in support of him, wouldn't practice or play until tim wolfe resigned. >> andy, in the u.s. state of missouri thank you. hundreds of elderly people in kenya are being murdered every year after being accused of witchcraft and often by their own relatives. our correspondent malcolm webb has been to one place where they're finding refuge. >> reporter: three hours drive from the nearest town this remote village is a shelter for all people who have been accused of witchcraft. they come here to hide from their neighbors who threaten to kill them. it is a governor problem in kenya's kalifi county. charities say over 200 people are killed every year accused of
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being witches. she was accused by her own relatives. >> it was some of my family members who chased me from my home. i have some problems with my joints. they found it strange and they said i was a witch and sent me away. >> reporter: for the people who run the shelter they believe in witchcraft, too. dumwa along with everyone who comes here has to go through this ceremony whether they believe in it or not. those who do think the saving cleanses people who were witches. people hold traditional beliefs very strongly in this area and to be allowed to come inside this enclosure, to witness this ritual we have to wear these outfits. but it seem the old story over witchcraft there is a dispute over land and livestock and behind that is a context of extreme poverty. in jomo's case she inherit100
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acres of land from her late husband. she thinks some her children want to sell it. a lack of education and jobs have made people desperate. >> because somebody want to inherit the land and he find a way so that the moment we move, we kill this person, then we shall be free. the land will be ours. you see? so they find some ways of eliminating the elders. >> jomo said she didn't know what happened to her land since she fled but she wanted to come with us to find out. this is all that's left of her house. the grass roof burned. the walls pushed down. next door, she finds some of her grandchildren and her daughter-in-law. one of her sons is here too. he didn't want to talk to her or about who was responsible. the police who came with us said i.t. was not save for jumwa to
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stay here. before we left she spent a moment with her grandchildren. she said when she was their age old people always cared for their family. now she doesn't know when she's be able to see them again. malcolm webb, al jazeera, kenya. maggie noodles were banned in may after it was found they contained dangerous levels of led. fez jamil has more. >> maggie noodles, they are incredibly popular and cheap. 20 cents for a serving. but in june the product was banned after government testing found higher than acceptable lady limits in several samples. that led from the product being
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withdrawn from the shelves, nestle india suffered. just last month the product was left back in but that gave the company onew problem, giving the product available back on the store shelves which they plan to do by next week. but on monday, nestle india announced that the product was available, so the people can cash in on dawali celebrations. >> much more to come after the break, including, in sports, sana will have details about the match between egypt and saudi
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>> and now it's time to get all of the day's sports with sana hamoush. >> thank you very much barbara. in the past fuse hour the president of german football federation, has resigned over fifa payment scandal. taking political responsibility for the affair, german prosecutors are investigating a pavement $7 million the federation made to fifa in connection to the twick world cup in germany which was allegedly used to buy votes.
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plus, saudi arabia rescheduled afc world cup qualification match in amman jordan. access required entry it threw an israeli border post and saudi arabia does not recognize israel. while saudi arabia had a number of changes but couldn't convert, unlike the last time they met in june when saudi arabia won, 3-2. report into allegations of widespread doping in russian thricts athletics sayathletics l sport, russia could be suspended from all athletic competitions. the independent reports commissioned by the world antidoping agency, found evidence of systematic doping, destroyed positive results and that there was a deeply road rooted culture of cheating. last time bans have been ordered
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for five athletes and coaches, details of alleged corruption within athletics governor body the iaaf, so as not to block an ongoing investigation. >> that affects the credibility of sport. the acts that affect the outcome of competitions on the field of play are particularly serious. if you can't believe is those results, then it's a serious credibility problem for that sport and by implication for other sports as well. >> well the athletics is a sport with the history of doping the 1970s saw germany leading a state sponsored doping program and as i speak the country won 40 gold medals at the 1976
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olympics. ben johnson won the 100 meters at the 1988 olympics in seoul, in world record time. two years later he was stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for steroids. the california laboratory balco was providing drugs to athletes, including marion jones. russia to be suspended from competition due to systematic doping. while the former head of world athletics, lamine diak is already under investigation, new commissioner sepp coe, gregary after these recommendations, what the the process now? what's next? >> good evening, it's going to
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be complicated process, simply because of the sheer volume of evidence, that i suspect there is currently in front of the independent commission that was assigned to actually deal with this situation. the iaaf must straight away must consider the evidence and obviously must take action against those who are allegedly breaching anti-doachg regulationdopingregulations andr regulations. the regulatory authority of the iaaf. >> they found wada's reports deeply shocking and will take the necessary structures. can the ioc do this? >> i suspect they can do this. particularly if we actually look
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as to who has responsibility and jurisdiction over the olympic games. for example, if there is a recommendation for russia to be banned from the olympic games it is the international like committeinternational olympiccoo ban the russian federation. >> we know that russia is a big sporting country and we haven't seen any reaction yet from them. how can they come out from this, how can they defend themselves? >> there are ways they can actually look at this. obviously we don't really have the evidence in front of us we can actually make an informed decision as to what are the dangers that can come out of this evidence. what we need to remember here, in this situation, is that if the allegations are going to be proven, that evidence needs to be corroborated and it needs to be reliable. i suspect there is a sheer amount, a big volume of evidence in front of them at the moment
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so they must be considering it. so it will take a few days i suspect before they can make a statement, official statement that is. >> gregory loanndis, sports lawyer, thank you very much for that. two of the biggest names in basketball face off on sunday. as new york nick nick schifrin n 99-95. australia's cricketers have taken a 1-nil series lead. australia needed seven wickets on the final day, unlikely
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target of 504. australia wrapped it up before lunch with new zealand all-out for 295. and that's all the sport from me. hand you back to barbara in london. >> sala, thank you. a show opens, devoted to andrew fouler. >> they barely move in a museum where the windows are closed, the environment are controlled, the no breezes wafting by. alexander calledder wanted his mobiles to stir gently unpredictably like clouds in the sky. there are over 100 works by the american artist, looking from his wire sculpture to his signature style, kinetic objects
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that move around. >> he is credited with inventing the mobile. calleddecawldercaulder took it d solid he brings it out into the gallery, out into the space. >> he was a gregarious larger than life character. his grandson remembers a very intense artist. >> when he was at work he was deadly serious. the studio was silent, worked by himself, he never had an assistant in his entire career. he never played music, he didn't kid around. he was very focused. >> that has earne earned cauldea
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place. the show ends in 1948 with black widow. but caulder carried on working until his death in 1976 leaving a legacy of 6,000 works all carefully balanced to glide in the air providing hours of entertainment. jessica baldwin, al jazeera, london. >> much more than that and everything else that we have been covering on our website, the address on your screen as usual, aljazeera.com. one of the main stories is our lead story for past few hours and that is that russia has been facing world athletics expulsion because of the publication of a report on doping. now in the next few hours we hope to be hearing from sebastian coe the president of the international association of athletic federations.
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