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the u.n. ? >>. two americans are shot dead at a training camp in jordan. >> we begin with the election in myanmar. european observers say on the whole, the vote counting has been transparent. their main concerns are the low number of muslim candidates and the low participation candidates of women. members of myanmar's ruling party have been conceding defeat. it's predicted to ends up winning about 70% of the votes. florence looie reports from langon. right. we will come back to that story a little bit later but the russian sports minister rejected allegations of running a states-sponsored doping program. there have been calls for russia to be banned from next year's olympics after a damming report detailing accusations of drug cheating. a report from geneva.
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>> reporter: in the swiss sunshine, a dark day for the sport of athletics, an independent commission set up by the world anti-doping agency, wada, to investigate claims of systemic doping in russia returned its verdict? >> our recommendation is that the russian federation be suspended. >> if it doesn't fix the problem, no russian athletes at the rio 2016 olympic games. >> this report says there is a deeply rooted culture of cheating among russian officials, coaches and athletes, some of whom who are coerced into doping programs and financially exploded. a lab is accused of destroying samples on the country's own anti-doping agency seems to have helped dopers descape detention richard pound says it goes beyond one sport and one country? >> it simply can't be only russia and only athletics. i mean we know there is a problem with doping from the positive
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tests but in lots of other sports and lots of other countries. so we just wanted to make it clear that, you know, our mandate was pretty narrow. russia athletics. there is no reason to believe it's only athletics, and there is no reason to believe it's only russia. >>. >> the commission was only formed due to a documentary on german television a year ago. the allegations within that film have is seen the report overwhelmingly vindicated. sporting authorities have denied it's evendemic. this is an attempt to make all of russian sport. it is one of the leaders in the world in fighting doping. >> the iaaf. has begun to take action. i have asked the federation and my counsel to convene on friday
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of this week. we will review what they have said then we will look at the next steps which could include sanctions. >> with questions about how widespread the problem is, coe faces a battle to lead the sport of athletics back into the light. >> geneva. >> russia's anti-doping agency has rejected the reports saying the accusations are unfounded. rory challands has reactions from moscow. >> reporter: the first official response we heard came from a russian state scientific agency that said that wada's report was politically motivated and not based in reality. slightly less belligerent were made by the sports muenster who said russia does have a problem with doping. it never tries to hide this. as an example of russia doing its job properly, it gave a list of russian athletes, russian anti-doping agencies have
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accused of using banned substances. rassada, the russian anti-doping agency is at the hard of the wada allegations. wada says that rassada has been compromised and wants it to be declared code non-commentent. may. uco defends this agency saying it was created under the specifications stipulated by wada, itself. now, buka says russia will comply with any recommendations that are made by the iaaf, the international athlet he can if he hadration. but it is also, i think >> fairlyo obvious that richard pound, who was the head of the wada investigation, does not actually trust mucko. when asked by a reporter what he thought of this man, the russian sports minister said, he must have known what was going on
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russian doping, and if he knew about it, then he was complicit in it. >> the international olympic schmidt says it will act on the doping report. it released a statement saying: this is a deeply shocking report and very saddening for the world of sport. the afc will carefully study the report with regards to the 0 lum pick games. if any infringements on the anti-doping rules by athletes and their enterage should be established, the i if c will result with its usually zero tolerance policy. >> the united states human rights chief warned the ongoing political violence in bur. ndi will turn into an ethnic conflict. searching hopes for illegal weapons, bur underis pittsburgh steelers president won a controversial third term to disarm by saturday or face police action. a day after that deadline passed, nine people were shot dead by unknown gunmen in a bar. the u.n. execute council has
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been discussing the unrest. kristin sal e-mailey has more. >> it has been warmed that bur underi could desends into full-scale violence amid hate speech and incendiary language that some say was reminisce he want of the genocide. violence in the capitol has been continuing on an almost daily basis after the president of the country set a said deadline for people to give up their illegal arms or be treated as enemies of the state. amid that threatening language, the high commissioner for human rights warned that burundi could be at a dangerous tipping point. >> recent inflammatory remarks by members of the government suggested this crisis which has involved targeting people for perceived political affiliations could increasingly take on an ethnic dimension. the president of the 7 gnat
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recently ordered to report elements not in order to the police for them to be dealt with. he also called on the police to get ready to finish the work. >> u.n. secretary ban ki-moon announced his intention to announce a special ver eyesor for burundi while the security council is considering a resolution. it would support the u.n.'s mediation efforts in the area and, also, threaten sanctions but we know from speeaking to te russian delegation, the russians not yet on board with sanctions. the negotiations will continue. >> all right. let's return to our stop story and that election in myanmar. european observers say on a whole the vote counting has been transparent. their main concerns are the low number of muslim candidates and low participation of women in politics. me yanma myanmar's ruling party has been conceding defeat: the
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opposition is expected to win about 70% of the votes. florence looey. >> bold predictions. the newspapers are already predicting a win for the main opposition party. the national league for democracy or nld. the streets of yangon, people weren't shy about with saying who they want in government. >> i want to see it. that's why i voked nld. >> i want anti-su to leave this country. >> if chi leads us, the country will be better. >> five years ago, when myanmar was understand military rule, few would have dared to mention the name of former mrij prisoner an sun su chi. now, her party could form the next government. >> until this will time, the election results have not been declared. i think everyone already knows or has guessed what the election
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result is. >> myanmar'see lex commission is to announce in two weeks. >> the 20s 15 general election was a peaceful one. 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, former mp who has openly proceed climbed he was hoping the usdp would win the election. >> reporter: as the votes are being tallied, it will become clearer in the coming days whether this election was carried out in a credible way. >> the fact that the election was carried out smoothly and people were able to vote to the candidate of their choice has already been seen by many as progress for a country that only five years ago was a military dictatorship. florence looi, al jazeera, yangon. >> wahei joins us outside of the house of the leader of the mld.
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bring us up to date with what results we know so far. >> reporter: yes, darren. page slow process, those results coming out from the union election commission every few hours or so. there is a live broadcast. a very brief update from them with the official results coming out. most of the results so far have been for the regional seats for the regional parliament. but we have had the results announced for 28 seats in the lower house of parliament so far. the national league for democracy, the party of an su an sun su chi has won 26 of the 28 seats in the loir house. a slow process, too slow for her and her party and supporters. they want to see these results come out quicker so they can get the formal celebrations underway because it looks like they are heading for a very large win. >> yeah. what's the mood there amongest supporters of the nld?
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wayne? >> certainly over the last few days, we have seen quite a few people at the fronts of the head quarters of the national league for democracyo also outside chi's house here in yangon. it's a public holiday today. i think the mood is a lot more subdued. certainly, there is anticipation, the celebrations have begun among the supporters. they can sense there is a very big victory coming here. much more subdued from the actual party, itself. they are not getting carried away just yet. no major statements coming out from chi, herself, just yet. she is preparing to wait until the final results are released. >> could be many days away. and then, of course, as you know, we won't know who will be the next president of this country until next year. so, it's a very slow process. >> all right. wayne hay there in yangon. thank you. barack obama says a full investigation is underway.
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a south african and two jordanians and two americans were killed. officials say the attacker was a jordanian policemen shot dead at the scene. king abdullah visited some victims in hospital. >> members of the tribe that the attacker had belonged to was wondering what was behind the incidents? >> this young man only used to pray and fast. he had a good relationship with his parents, relatives and his brothers. he was a ver peaceful man. something provoked him to carry out such an attack. >> the president of the university of missouri has stepped down following months of protests calling for his resignation. african-american students allege he showed little concern about racism on catchus but when the football got involved, and his position became un10:00 a.m. >> it was a great victory of a nationwide activism that has intensified sense the shooting
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of a blacking man by appear policemen. >> i am resigning as president of the missouri system. the moechation in making this decision comes from love. >> weeks of protest of what was perceived as indifference from rachel slurs to a swastika have yielded little. when a graduate steward event began began a hunger strike, there was only muted official reaction. there was a response from the missouri tigers, the football term. the team's black players, many of them, the university's star athletes, went on strike. they were soon joined by their white teammates and had the support of their coach. >> i did the right thing, and i would do it again. >> it's estimated that millions of dollars would have been lost, had the tigers not played their southeastern conference match on saturday bone in fines and to
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the local economy. the university hired former tech exec tim wolfe to run the university like a business, to/student welfare costs and increase revenue. >> clearly, the potential loss of money contributed to the board's decision that wolfe had to go, but it was the campus protests that got the tigers to act. >> in a post ferguson world, that administration refused to step in and do things they need to do to make sure that black students, brown students and all marginalized stud incident are included on this campus this is a victory based upon protest, solidarity and big money. however, the fight here is not over yet. al jazeera, columbia, missouri. >> time for a short break here on al jazeera. when we come back, we tell you why some of the candidates for the u.s. presidential nomination believe some baenz babies are one of the country's biggest threats. >> they are d printing something
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welcome back. european observers say on the whole vote counting in myanmar has been transparent. the opposition led by chi is on track for a landslide victory. the world anti-doping agency is calling for russian athletes to be banned from next year's olympics. it released adaming report.
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the u.n.'s human rights chief has warned the ongoing political violence in burundi could turn into an ethnic conflict. nine people were shot dead by unknown gun men in a bar on sunday ours after the president's deadline calling on his opponents to disarm. let's get more on the election in myanmar joining me from australia is the former ambassador to myanmar. the in the yanmar constitution bans chi from ever being president. what do you think the results mean for her and the inform ld party? >> reporter: the result is there is a tremendous vindz indication from the confidence and support they have from the people. they will have to form a government either on their own or with support from a smaller ethnic party if they need that support. they seem to have won a tremendous, overwhelming
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victory. they do have to contend with the 25% of seats that are reserved for the military in all of the seats of parliament n all of the houses of parliament. so that means they will have to be dealing with the military all the time. >> we will come back to the military in a second, trevor wilson, but with this win now by the nld, what does this -- what is the region and regional players expect of myanmar going forward in respect to the wider picture here? >> that's a very good question. i don't think there is going to be a great deal of change in myamnar's relations with its neighbors. its biggest, most important tained action of course, is china. and china has always taken a very pragmatic approach to myanmar politics and did so with this one. and they -- china invited chi to
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visit china a few months ago. and so they have certainly been communicating directly with her about what her intentions andie are about the future. so i don't think there is going to be any particular surprise for myanmar's neighbors. >> okay. >> but they were all going to have to be patient to see how it spins out. >> just a final thought from you, charlie will s.o.p., the military holds 25% of the key port portfolio. how do you see them consolidating their offense there? >> well, the military have been basically withdrawn from internal security tasks and con7 traded on national security matters. so they still are fighting insurgencies in the north and in the east and in kachina and shan
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states. this is a media problem that any new government in myanmar would have to deal with. the military have the right to oppose those ministers. >> okay. so they, in a sense, have a very important role to play adjusting national execute. >> trevor, wilson, thank you very much indeed for your time. the plight of thousands of refugees is sunday scrutiny in hong kong. a record number of people are facing years of living in limbo and refuse the basic rights of asylum seekers the approval right is less than 6%. >> a long way from her home, the philippines, but susan nollentino was forced today flee when her husband was killed and a bounty was put on her head. her identity is being hidden for her protection? >> it's horrific ific. it's not easy to leave your
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friends and family: especially my kids 4iers later, she remained safe but unhappy. her status as a ref uming e was recognized but hong kong won't allow her to work or volunteer and her future allowance is the equivalents of 1 usd per immediately. >> we experience being homeless. homelessness. we don't know where to go and we experience to sleep at the park. you can feel that sometimes the whole world is against you. >> there are now more than 10,000 refugees in hong kong. that's an increase of more than 70% over the last two years. in a city where accomodation is expensive, many are forced to live in slums and tiny flats. >> a majority of them are living on really, a very small amount every sing month so what they can afford are, for example,
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their room's right behind the staircase. some are living in that, in coffin homes. >> christian action is one of the groups help to go house and feed the growing number of refugees fleeing persecution and seeking protection in hong kong. >> basic needs are taken away from alternates of these people. that's really where the refugee community has to depend upon organizations like ours. >> the government wasn't available for comment. >> unlike most other nations, hong kong is not a signatory to the u.n.'s con ven on the status of refugees. china is but it has' been expended here the united states convention which prohibits. the approval rate is less than 1% with just 11 out of 13,000 cases here since 1993 that compares to a global average of around 27%. even if they are successful and recognized as a refugee, the government in hong kong doesn't
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offer most of them the rights they would have under the refugee convention, including the right to work. >> the best they can get is temporary permission to work but that's only after years of misery and delay. and there is no, you know, proper status. >> the increasing number of refugees now living in the city, some who fled persecution, the situation offers little hope to those wanting a new starts. sarah clark, al jazeera, hong kong. >> republican candidates have declared war on so-called anchor babies, u.s. children of immigrants. >> this is the face of what some u.s. presidential candidates call america's threat . >> i am 100% american, but i mean like i feel myself as mexican, too.
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>> janet e and fatima were born here under the u.s. constitution, that makes them a citizen. republican is thecial candidates has a word for that? >> anchor babies. >> the anchor baby comes first. then comes the rest of the family? >> people are bringing pregnant women in to have babies to get birth right citizenship. >> we now take care of that baby, social security, medicare, education. give me a break. >> there are cases of foreigners bearing children in the u.s. for citizenship but in reality, children like janet and fatima cannot help their family c real citizenship. it takes years more if they are undocumented. the girl's sister cannot apply to college? >> thes not allows to be in college because she needs to be registered as an american here i believe they shaz been
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struggling a lot and working hard. >> advocates for immigrants say the stalk talk in the race victimizes a minority. >> it speaks to what we are seeing a lot. scapegoating. you are, unnarrowly, i believe, demonizing a large segment of the position which are not just latin 0s but immigrants from all over the world. >> the 14th amendment to the islamic state constitution said tall born ornalized in the united states are citizens. it was added in 1868 after the civil war. at the time the u.s. did not limit immigration so there was no concern about being entering illegally. slaves were not considered citizens. this guaranteed their children would be. janet and faftima's parents face daily dmortation. >> it affects us because we go to work and don't know if we are am coming back. we pray every day we can go to work and come home.
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>> each year, immigration people deport september,000 paper with u.s. born children. al jazeera, child chicking ao. >> the dubai air shows, this year, it's not the big ticket purchases that are making the headlights bcutching edge these day because. >> after two days of the air show here in due by, the odd books have been quiet. not to be fair, two years ago in 2013, it was a record number of orders: $206,000,000,000 spent on new plane orders. this year, jet airways from india spending $8,000,000,000 on set up 75 new 737 planes and emirates from due by spending $16,000,000,000 on new zenz for the triple 3 when they arrive. for the a 380, forget about it.
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hasments' been a defendant new order for one of those in two years. >> with not so much happening, the focus has shifted to inside. this is the first time at due by that would see one entire section detindicated today 3-d printing. this is a big past of the industry. air buses a350 plane which only started buying last year has a thousand parts on board which are manufactured through 3d printing. >> what we have here is completely different. the world's first flee d printed drone or uav as they call them which hwhat they have managed t do is construct it or print it from a material that can withstand the heat a jet engine puts out. this is being pulled at 240 miles per hour. imagine how that would change the way drones are used. it's only a contest. it's not something that's going to be mass produced or what it
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