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from paris where the eiffel tower continues to be a symbol of freedom. this is al jazeera. >> this is the al jazeera news hour. with you from the studios in london. and this is some what we have will be examing in the next 60 minutes. france and russia take the first steps toward an alliance to take on isil. israel cracks down on a propalestinian group accusing of it of encouraging violence.
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the firefighter that has had the world's most advance face transplant. welcoming the french just days after the game of germany was targeted in a paris attacks. france's president called for countries to form a grand coalition to defeat the islamic state of iraq. he has ordered the navy to reach with french forces. he has made the announcement on the same day that he promised to exact revenge for bombing a plane in egypt. >> meanwhile, they have
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launched another round of air strikes be evens the strong hold in northern syria, france also reaching out to the union allies. and jona hull reports from paris, the u.s. has offered it's own message of support. john kerry met the president to discuss what monday described as a franked coalition against isil. >> we have to step up our efforts. to hit them at the core. where they are planning these things. and also obviously to do more. but the level of cooperation can no be higher. >> france is rallying the allies abroad. while at home the president continues to strike a consistent chord, of defiance. they thought by targeting a
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restaurant, an american rochon setter, and an international football match, locations frequented by people of different nationalities. and among the victims of the drummer on friday night, they thought they would weaken the passion to welcome the whole world. they have already lost, and today by standing upright, we want to mark our attachment. to freedom. >> french war planes carries out a second night of bombing raids hitting isil without mercy as the president has promised, but france is heavily stretched in operations from north africa to the middle east, and now also at home. the country has called on it's neighbors for help invoking for the first time the union's mutual assistance pack. what is this going to mean in practice? well, i will be taking part
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in syria or iraq, or by easing the load or providing support for france in other operations. so lightening our load elsewhere. what i have said is that france can't do everything. almost 300 separate raids have been carried out to two in the sought, seizing weapons and making ares. it refers to a ship at sea, but unsinkle, and so is paris herself. still very much a float. paris is the city of light, it is a city of the brightest philosophers of the city of
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liberty. and paris is also multiculture city where we are all grieving but we are all uniting in front of the threat and with that the city prepares to end. three days of official mourning. jona hull, al jazeera, paris. swooped on two locations in the town near gemny's border the netherlands. live for us, i know you are outside, and we have been told that all the frenching people have been told they can't go out and start their lives once again. we will talk about that in just a moment. but the investigation itself, what more can you tell us.
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what we heard about in the direct aftermath of the attacks is that there is a very important belgium angle to the case. the fact that the cars used in the attack has been rented from a belgium car rental and track down the people that rented the cars well during the course of the day, a third car, was found it was found in the 18th hour, to the north of pair, so that's three cars now and at police have been interesting in speaking to three brothers. now one of those brothers was released after questioning very much clearly not a suspect. his name is mohammad and he has been calling for his brother. french police have issued an international alert saying that this man is extremely
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dangerous hess believed to be involved in manning and executing the attacks. his brother now appearing on television asking to give himself up. >> in other words, the message from the french president to the people of france, is go out, go and return yourself, return to conversation in the street cafe, that's where you are what sort is sovereign is there, it is still pretty early isn't it. >> it is early. but it is warming up. it was kind of half a business strow, now it is three-quarters and it is quite a large mix here. young crowd and some older people when some of the cafes
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has opened and people were out, there was this false alarm. and people started to running in all directions and people were jumping and the owners were closing the shutters. and although it was nothing, it does give you an indication of the people that are extremely nervous. to have jeff hitting the floor again. they want to carry on with their ordinary lives nonetheless, the atmosphere in the city is by no means back to normal. >> quite understandable, thank you for that. now to the offer of cooperation with france, in the offenses against isil. revenge against the armed group which claims to have downed a russian plane in egypt. al jazeera reports now from moscow recording the day
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before as broadcast on russian t.v. s have mitt putin was briefed by security service chief alexandar russia's foreign and defense ministers. according to an analysis a home made bomb can contain up to one kilogram of tnt. we can say it was a terrorist act. and then the man rose for a moment of silence. we should know them all by name, we should search for them everywhere, wherever we are finding. within hours of that broadcast, he was taken to a new military command center, there he was briefed on a doubling of strikes. and signed of an emerging
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partnership with france. they say that putin and the french president agreed to coordinate their syria strikes. they have instructed the navy to work with french ships in the mediterranean. >> i think he has the opportunity to improve the international standing here. he was regarded prior to the downing of the jet and the airliner. because of the way he got into syria, and because of what he was doing in there. >> isil's early claim that it kills the 224 people inside this plane, was initially scorned. a technical fault was can concerned more likely, but in the days following the disaster, more and more countries started to doubt the mall fung theory. >> the u.k. suspended flights the u.s., and said that it was pretty much certain.
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that it was brought down by a bomb. but although russia too suspended flights giving every impression that it was working for the same asung, it is still publicly insisted that there might be other explanations. that was before following the attacks. it is now calling for the very thing vladimir putin has been requested for some time. a grand coalition to take on isil. al jazeera, moscow. let's talk about that, the think tank to jackson society. he advocates more action and simon lancaster university, where he believes in order to defeat isil the roots of the
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group need to be targeted. the military action it is something that the public may well be crying out for. why do you think it is the wrong idea? >> sure, and i can entirely understand why a lot of people would have that initial reaction to be striked on this group. this conduct is such barbaric attacks both across paris, last week, and also generally across the past year or so, but i think to understand how the group came about, we go back to the invasion of iraq. can we see that this is all built on the idea of military action and military intervention, so in order to defeat the group and this type of once and for all, we sneed to have a different approach, and i am not convinced that military action is the way to go. >> how do you convince the public that that is the right idea? not take them out on the ground. well, i think a create i
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response is needed and that might involve some strikes on kooistra teakic targets. and look where it's got us. look at what has happened to the chaos, in syria, and iraq, and the emergence. which was born out of al quaida, and into this beast that we are dealing withed too. >> you say go and hit them harder than before. >> i think it is quite a confused picture we have seen. simon agrees we have to have some strikes but also have to see how this came apart we have a -- what has happened there is you have this basic cooperation. which is able to exert extraordinary brutality, hit
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us at home in a way here in europe, and it has been clear from the very beginning that we are going to have to smash that and so that it doesn't exist any more. so it can't have the organizing debt to the organization. >> perhaps it is a little bit like squeezing the air in a balloon. you put pressure on 1 point, and it simply moves somewhere else. it is invisible in it's own way, and it is hard to take on. >> i don't think it's worth wile dealing in these ideas in that way, whatever it might be and whatever comes afterwards right now, you do have that sense of gravity. of the unprecedenced kind of vie len that they are exercising that is dangerous to us at home here. so let's deal with that, the the way to deal with that is not through about what has happened in the past or whatever else, the way to deal with that is to hit them hard and destroy them. >> how do you avoided
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civilian casualties. it can also be like the presence campaign of the second world war, where the civilians of the actual targets. >> we should be cautious of those comparisons. there were nor civilian casualties after isis have been hit in that yea. but the reality is there is a question here between the kinds of drove that isil is committing. look at the maz graves of the women, and whatever else, and balancing the appropriate legal cautious military action back to you in just a moment with the practical ideas you want to put forward.
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how to you bring douse isil. >> it is a tricky thought. there's a huge number, people that are living there aren't all supporters of isis. there are a number of people -- i am getting to that, the number of people many syria and arrack, who were following this group, not necessarily following their ideology, but following them because they offer a degree of protection, and you defeat this group by removing this huge level of support. by bringing peace to syria. by providing these people with a voice, in the lives and in the states. by making them feel security in their very identity, so a real question. >> which can take years and
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in the millions hundreds if not thousands of people are you prepared to lock back and watch that happen? >> sure, but the consequences of bombing a city like racca that has a population of half a million, a large number of which aren't hard core, will be catastrophic, it will pray into isis's hands. buying into the narrative that the west is meddling into the region, and that it is manipulating events. >> let me ask you, davis, in practical terms what do you do? do you need foots on the ground? do you need to send in ground forces? >> in terms of these confused ideas there has to be concrete steps in order for the threat. i think the argument is not
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the main argument. you have to hit them first of all and all of their nerve centers and it is really quite troubling that the french found it so easy after paris to find so many targets that hadn't been hit before. who on the found, who are your allies going to be, and there are some very very important regulars. do not fall into the iranian trap. will not help us through the situation, number two, do not allow the curds have been giving excellent work to draw into other areas where they might diminish the anti-isil coalition in terms of introducing more factors there. number three, make sure you have the right kind of advice and the right kind of support. number four, be serious about
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what you want to achieve, you want to achieve the destruction of isis. and you have to hit them where it hurts physically. >> yeah. i agree. i can understand where my colleague is coming from with his points but then what next. this is all well and good saying we will destroy everything, but then what. and that will lead to more turmoil. that will lead to further states across the region, it will lead to increased competition, increased competition between the americans and the russians.
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here with me here in the studio, appreciate your contributions. >> you are watching the al jazeera news hour. the offer of help to seal out all of the borders with syria, plus. >> south africa relacking it's strict rules on children, traveling to a country we will tell you why. do not get a warm welcome, in their world cup qualifier in hong kong. in the north of the country, as a lucrative smuggling rout. more from instan pull. >> turkish authorities are
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much more rettty santo talk about matters than americans. >> about 90 west, the other side is controlled by isil. it is perhaps the weak link turkey has been working to strengthen the once porous border. it is harder to come and go than it used to be, but it is still possible if you intent on getting across there. the area we are talking about is already being secured with a mixture of trenches, fencing, and patrolling. it is not a particularly adder rouse difficult terrain to get through to not mountainous really, it is fairly flat and hilly.
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so we understand that the work that will be going on will be to strengthen already existing measures that have been taking to make it much harder for people to come and go freely. saying members would be arrested if they violated the ban. >> the match of the islamic movement, ray cross israel. >> we are looking for financial informing. computers documents and funs were confiscated and premised seals off. the security cabinet decided
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on the closure of the movement two weeks ago, but this was only made public after the rates took place. the branch of the islamic movement is an essential step. in maintaining public security. democracy must see itself. the northern branch undermines the state. have close relations with the hamas organization, and they undermine the state with the aim of replacing it with an islamic effort. the islamic movement has grown substantially over the past decades. this main slogan is that it is in danger. the organize has set up groups of young men and protect the mossing and the conflict sur rounding it. israeli leaders claim the movement is inciting and spreading rumor maz the government wants to change the status quo of the mosque
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compound or 10 mount as uses refer to it. as the core of the current wave of killings and the occupied west bank, is palestinian anger of what they see as continues provocation by far right groups who have recently increased the access of the compound. he does face jail time where he was found guilty of incitement. al jazeera, west jerusalem. >> the compiled president has returned back home from saudi arabia. began an offensive in march. remain loyal to him as well as oversea, and campaigns retake the third biggest city in the country. mohammad has that story.
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it is not clear how long he intends to remain in the country his arrival on tuesday following a series of set backs for the saudi let campaign to reinstate him. offenses are faltering. after landing in the capitol hadi went straight to the palace the offensive taking tides. the houthis right now are in anger because they did not want him to be part of the political scene of the future, and here he is now back showing that he is the
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with they like it or not. >> the intensifies civilians are paying a heavy price. >> this young boy entered injured by a stray bullet. the challenge of residential as the lose. they are peter with them in the coming days are more decisive. the allied launches a war, where hadi left to real. although the war began with air strikes it began to provide ground forces. 5,000 people more than half of them civilians have been killed in yemen since the
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saudi led campaign began. designed to combat child trafficking just five months after their introduction. as too many young tour is were getting caught up in the resulting bureaucracy. new immigration laws required that all minors entering or leaving the country have to have permission from their parents and a birth certificate stating the names of both their parents. i am not in contact with my dad, so i had to track him down, and it turns out he works in switzerland, so luckily, he was home for the weekend. so i managed to get him to sign it.
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we have seen a decline in the number of children traveling. and if we extrapolate to land, it is over half a million we lose. >> while the government has had to reconsider it's stance, amendments to the laws are minimal, minors traveling still have to provide the necessary documentation. for those that don't, carrying a birth certificate is no longer mandatory, but still advised. >> screen market scare is one of the most visited tourist destinations. trade is here say tourist numbers far lowerren that what they should be. she has minute waiting for a
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birth certificate for almost a year. without one she can't apry for a passport. with her father gravery ill, she chose to stay in south africa with her son. >> to not be able to bury your father, i just neff imagined it would happen to me. and i think the first has all come out -- i am just pushing forward. i am not giving up. >> when the new laws were implemented the department of homeland affairs said it had a backlog. for detail certificates. but they want them toker chew it. but for people like area dean it is more than just an inconvenient, it is a constant reminder of a los. we have this story, protesting their anger after two. das burst in brazil.
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keeping his semifinal hopes alive at the a.p. world tour finals.
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these are the national headlines. to establish contact with the french as we step against isil. the wake of the attacks in paster, to never before used yemen's president his return to the country from exile for the second time to rally support. >> riverring to france, the government officials say muslim religious leaders preaching radical views will be expelled in their mosque will be shut down. worried they will further be marginalized, from there mohammad reports. a mournful gathering meant to
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showcase unity. but a tiny town in southern france even this small crowd has difficulty truly bridging their differences. only a small group of fundment lis they want power, they want to flood the planet, but i do have a problem with migrants they are like a trojan horse, some are trained and they have contacts to get weapons. >> attend dees were somber, many had been worried about worsening attitudes toward them. even before the attacks in paster, now, they say they are as scared as they are sad. >> every time someone looks at me in the street i feel they think we are at fault. but we have nothing to do with what happened in pair. we are heart broken for those who are living this tragedy.
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25-year-old who grew up here, tells me it began sending in last year once it was severalled that young men hadn't just been radicalized they had at gone to wage war. there are many young people, who joined up to fight with terror is. we don't understand why they did that, and we don't want to be associated with them. with want people to know that we are above all else, french. >> towns folk are still at pains to comprehend how a community of less than 30,000 people, and postof views like this, could have become a possible proceeding ground for radicalization. with the french government stated aim of both expelling radical and dissolving radical mosques houses of worship like this one that have been under
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investigation. almost certainly will come under more scrutiny. >> six men who died fighting in syria have attended this mosque. they have been instructed my police. it is why so many of the faithful here continue to pray for guidance, even though mosque officials are at a loss on how exactly to proceed. i am concerned about how to follow our religion. we are all french. during these times many muslims here, wonder if that one commonality will ultimately continue to be enough to get them all through this.
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this is of interest, we are looking into it, apparently there was to have been a football match tonight a friendly between germany and the netherlands. in happen never in germany. we tuns game has been canceled. there's been a announcement over the loud speaker it is being canceled and the stadium is being evacuated. aimed at preventing what he called terrorists, meant for the u.s. with refugees. a number of state governors are also tried to block syrian refugees from entering their states.
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protestors have been showing their anger against barack obama. activists were holding halles. >> in the asia pacific meeting the chinese president is also many the capitol. there were fears he would boycott the summit because of tensions over a territorial dispute in the south of china sea. at least 70 people have died in severe flooding of india. as many as 10,000 were forced out of the homes. demonstrators have gathered outside the headquarters of a mining company. protestors are calling for what they say would be justice after two dams burst. as an iron ore mine owned by the company. they have unleashed a wave and contaminating a local
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river. the damage can last for years. the governor of brazil has already hit the company with more than $66 million in preliminary fines. the world's most advanced face transplant has been declared a success 150 doctors and medical staff were involved in this life changing operation. when they lost to hospital in august, he put on his ears and took a courageous step into the unknown. he was seriously burned while working as a firefighter. 14 years and more than 70 operations later, it is time for the big one, but his doctors have proclaimed is the most comprehensive face transplant in history.
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their waited for just the right donor, the 26-year-old who died in a cycling accident in july. >> 150 medical stall works for 26 hours on this complex dill kate surgery. >> they split the skin of the back of the donor's head peeling each side forward and cutting key possessions of bone. then draped it precisely over his face. it is a difficult operation, one they couldn't be sure he would survive. make sure we transplant them in the their entirety, so he can blink normally. this procedure changes the spire trajectory. >> it is a major change, one that can be a micked blessing, the first person to undergo a partial face
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transplant said she struggled with looking into the mirror and seeing someone else's face look back. there will also be more operations. but after three months in hospital, they say he is making remarkable progress and plan as reunion with his family. he says the doctors haven't just given him a new face, he now has a new life. al jazeera. >> the axford dictionary has announced it's word of the year for 2015, and it isn't actually a word. it has been chosen officially known as the fay with tears of joy. shared between people as they
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use online messaging services this was the most popular one. the mood, the preconfirmed paces of the year. we ask add few people what they thought. >> ask you what you think that is? >> say -- how would you use this? >> can youty me what that is for and how you may use it? >> that would be cheery. >> what is the a generic name for the icon. >> it's like the smiley face. >> but they are called. >> emogi.
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>> yes. >> can i use it? i use my -- maybe. joining us live now, you are a writer what would you will be writing about this, what may already have you written about this? >> as you say it is not technically a word, but it is an expansion of texting and oh online forms where it is not actually replacing language, but it is supplementing it in very interesting ways. it is something that take seriously, and i think that a lot of language scholars are looking and trying to understand exactly how they work in our communication needs these days.
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>> are you serious, they are sitly little pictures they are not words call me old, you can't go in cubs j with this, chap. >> well. you can do quite a lot, and people are being very createny the way they are exploring the usage of these. it is the combination of words tot, that show exactly how they are being used. it sum implements to add an emotional stance, which is difficult to convey and many forms of online communication. it riches our interaction by being able to have this as part of our arsenal. >> we are just going back several thousand years to caves and drawings on the wall. and buffaloes and happiness,
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and rain, and things like that. it is not going forward it is going backwards. >> one could argue that. it is an old impulse, but it is interesting to see it in this new guise. and again, it shows the way that we can combine these resources whether it's text, or pictures together. to forge new kinds of communication. >> wouldn't you like any young person, my children for example, their children, wouldn't you like them to come one a word that is gathering dust somewhere, that we can throw into our every day language? >> rather than this. >> oh, absolutely. and i think that it should in no way replace our very rich
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vocabulary. and as you say there are words from the past that can be dusted off. i think they can co exist together. it can survive any kind of emog joy. >> with my u withdraws skills y to write one, it can't be done. good to talk to you, thank you very much. indeed, lovely to hear your views. coming back in just a moment, with this story among others. >> the work seems to make cities smarter. are they come propleasing your privacy? and why a super hero may not expect an appearance in this changing room.
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their citizens too to stay connected. who will own the data that is generated. the newly crowned world smartest. it may look like a normal point, but inside this landmark, senses monitor and feedback are continuous flow of water quality data. nearby still, it sends out an alert when it is full.
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along with smart streetlights and traffic senses these help those that the city central control room managed the demands and dangers of urban life. data comes after from the city's people, more than 45,000 were reports last year, from a smart phone app which allows citizens to locate, and even send photos of problems. >> it is estimated cities around the world, will invest 100 billion-dollars in smart technology. potential profits from large technology companies. with so many large technology
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companies eager to be involved there are concerns over how who will control these systems and who owns the vast amounts of data that they generate. i can switch only lights in a town, right here in spain. i think we do need a central standards for managing this city services. >> there are also privacy concerns and a lack of clear standards with each city decides for itself how private data should be used and shares. the ever the people and the citizens. >> building and maintaining the trust, is a vital part of any smart city system.
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without tut technology is unuh likely to realize the full potential, to enhance the lives of billions of people. we have the sport now in doha. >> the international football friendly between germany and the netherlands has been called off for security reasons. it is due to kick off in an hour, but the stadium is evacuate add short time ago. they have been due to attend that game, of course they were playing during the paris attacks more on that stair later on. themself germany, it was targeted in the paris attack.
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his cousin is one of the 129 people killed on friday. sport has always been representative, it is represented many things more than ever now, sport knows no color, no religion, all are welcome. sport brings people tot, it unites people and needs to continue to do that. >> it is hard for everyone. including ourselves. we have to try to be respectful as we can. and it is -- i am sure the french players and but i am sure it will be a chance for them to end do the country proud.
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>> late on monday night, the desick was taken for the game with spain to be called off due to security concerns. the government advised him not to proceed with the russells fixture. >> i am busy with the trainings and the preparations and then there are people that go a big job. who are at the decision, and i accept it. there is a sporting level, and a football match ukrainians for the second round of their match, they have a 2-nil lead, while sweden they are playing at neighbors denmark, they have a 2-1 advantage.
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the skit manageser looking forward to it. there he is celebrating the super human effort. in their playoff finished on monday night. china world cup has been dented with hong kong, despite being ruled by china, they are still allowed to compete as an international football team. and this result means the chinese may fail to reach the next round of qualifying. rob mick bride has more. >> you wouldn't know it from the celebrating being done by some of the hong kong fans in the streets. afterwards they regard this as a victory. if this match means an end to giant rival china's world cup, the china coach said arriving here in hong kong, that reneeded four straight
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from his remaining matches. it was a fairly ill tempers affair. relations between hong kong and mainland china. they feel they are being overwhelmed economically by their much bigger neighbor, but at least on the soccer pitch, they are their equals. two hong kong fans were warned not to make this a political event, to leave their placards at home. but there was the booing that we have heard when the chinese national anthem is played. they have been warned about it, so a number of fans turned up. they remained silent and held up pieces of paper.
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they went on to win 4-nil, for their fifth victory in the second qualifying round. australia's have 15 points from six games. japan secured 3 points for the 2-nil win. atop of the group 1 point ahead of syria, syria beat singapore 2-1. roger federer will resume their rivalry in an hour's time at the world tour finals that are taking place in london, in the same group. a three sets win. 75-36-6-3. >> of the tournament.
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and australian fast baller has retires from international correct. following his sides draw new see land in the second test, the 34-year-old took a couple on the final day, and johnson is australia's fourth highest taker of tests in all time. i am happy with my decision, and it's just -- i just lost that hunger. i guess in the end, to play on those tough days i think that's where my decision came, and that was something i used to enjoy. was those challenges of those difficult days out there, and just wasn't enjoying it. >> thank you very much. indeed, thank you for watching the news hour. that's it from me, felicity in just a moment. see you next time.
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>> the scenes to make city'sd smarter, but are they making privacy