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why would he do that? why would he do something like this? shock and disbelief, an armed couple suspected of killing 14 people in a mass shooting in california are identified. hello. this is al jazeera live from doha. also ahead on the program, brittain launches its first air strikess in syria just hours after green light from the parliament. brazil opens impeachment proceedings over the president
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over allegations of corruption. an unlicensed cambodian doctor was sentenced to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty of infecting more than 200 people are hiv. police in the u.s. are trying to determine the motive for a shooting attack on a social services center in california which left 14 people dead. it happened in san bernardino. that's about 90 kilometres east of down town losangeles. the two heavily armed attackers were socked by police. they have been named at 28 years safil and 27 tashfeen malik-- syed farook and tashfeen malik. >> reporter: a pivotal moment of a mass killing in san bernardino. a bullet riddled vehicle and two
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suspects shot dead inside. the suspects were dead at the scene, one a male and female. they were dressed in assault-style clothing. they are both armed with assault rifles. they're both armed with handguns. >> reporter: a third person was detained running from the scene but police aren't sure if he was involved. several hours earlier shooters burst into a luncheon of the employees of a local health department. they opened fire killing 14 people, 17 were wound elide, some critically. david johnson was walking nearby when the shooting started. that was going on for, like, a couple of minutes. it was like bang, bang, bang for a while. it wasn't continuous shooting. that's another thing. this got to, it wasn't just one
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sound. it was like be that as it may be that as it may and then-- bam bam and a different pitch >> reporter: none of the disabled clients or the staff at the center were shot. meg an shy was one of those evacuated from the inland regional center when the mayhem erupted. we were told to come out with our hands up. that was scarey, but we were all togetherment we cooperated just because we - we wanted to get to safety and wanted to get out. we didn't know for sure if there was anybody inside. >> reporter: acting on a tip, police and f.b.i. agents went to a residence in a nearby town. the people inside fled in a black suv and began exchanging fire with police. police blocked them in and the deadly shoot out followed. one police officer was wounded but his injuries are not life threatening. the motive for the killing spree is unknown, but police are investigating whether it originated in a workplace
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dispute. there was some type of dispute or something when somebody left that party, but we have no idea if those were the people that came out >> reporter: the f.b.i. and other fed ram state and local law enforcement agency are investigating. is this terrorism, and i'm still not willing to say that we know that for sure. we are making some movements that it is a possibility we are making some adjustments to our investigation. it is a possibility, but we don't know that yet. >> reporter: the investigation is continuing with police processing multiple crime scenes, interviewing witnesses and chasing down leads rob reynolds from san bernardino where he has been gathering more information on this as it continues to develop over the last few hours. there's still a lot of pieces, a lot of things we don't know. what do we know? >> reporter: that's right. the biggest piece of in puzzle is the why.
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we know the who now. we know that syed farook and tashfeen malik both in their late 20s, police say they were in some kind of a relationship. they don't know exactly what that was, but we don't know what it was that led them to commit this act allegedly and why they had planned in advance apparently carefully by storing up weapons and tactical gear and outfits that they used during the assault. it's all still a mystery at this point. police are going to be probing into that. it was equally a mystery to syed farook's brother-in-law, the husband of his sister, who appeared at a press conference earlier tonight by the council of american islamic relations here. here is what he had to say. this is farhan khan i spoke to him about a week
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ago, yeah. was he a religious person?
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this may not result in a prosecution. it will certainly result in a comprehensive investigation. police have followed us that they're going-- told us that they're going to scour every inch of material that they can get from the crime scenes and look into the background and contacts and friends, relatives, what have you of the two deceased suspects, but you're right, this whether-- whether to call it terrorism. is it simply someone with a political motive, is it someone who kills a number of people for motives that are unknown, school shootings, workplace shootings. these things happen all the time in the united states. there have been 360 mass shootings this year alone. so more mass shootings than there have been days have passed in 2015 one of the most troubling parts of that debate is what
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role does one's ethnicity label play in that. thank you very much. the u.k. has launched air strikes on i.s.i.l. targets in syria hours after parliament backed the government's plan to expand its mission. the vote in favor followed bitter division against many in the capital. more from london. >> reporter: it was a decisive victory for david cameron. more than half of brittain's mp voting for air strikes on syria. it was a noisy stage. at times it was fiery, fuelled by questions on how this strategy would work. this is a debate which has divided political opinion both inside and outside the house. no-one doubts here that something needs to be done to
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tackle i.s.i.l. how to do it, though caused political wrappingss. -- fractions. the it is becoming increasingly clear that the prime minister's proposal for military action simply do not stack up. >> reporter: many in parliament wanted to know more about the claim that there are some 70,000 moderate opposition forces willing to fight i.s.i.l. on the ground. i'm not arguing that the 70,000 are ideal partners. some of them do have views that we don't agree with, but the definition of the 70,000 is those people that we have been prepared to work with and continue to be prepared to, would with >> reporter: even before i.s.i.l.'s attack on paris, mr cameron was steering his government to make this choice. a vote on attacking president
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bashar al-assad's forces in syria failed to pass in 2013. since then brittain has carried out more than 380 air strikes on iraq, but brittain, like many other nations is war wary. the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan still loom large. several hundred people had gathered outside parliament to protest against air strikes. past experience has shown in iraq, in afghanistan and libya that bombing these people does no good at all. there should be a cease fire in syria. there's no doubt about it. the international community has got to get together and stop automatic this bickering. -- automatic this bicker-- all this bickering. >> reporter: britain will take a bigger role in the coalition of nations trying to strike i.s.i.l. in both iraq and syria. here, at least, there is an acknowledgment that it could take months or even years to
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achieve military success authorities have arrested more senior football officials in zurich as investigations continue into the corruption of the world governing body f.i.f.a. the executive committee was due to discuss reform. the president is already serving a 90 day suspension. he was not a target in the latest rounds. on the phone from london, lee tell us what we can expect to happen >> reporter: the american and swiss attorney-generals working so closely together on this case had promiseed there would be a new wave of arrests at some stage. their work was far from done. it still isn't done despite arrests at 6am at the hotel in zurich today. these arrests were slightly surprising, is that there are as
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many as 12 at least. it's nearly on the scale in terms of the people involved of the sweep that happened in may which, of course, started so many of f.i.f.a.s problems and currently leads to the situation where the president is suspended and, indeed, platini the other big figure at f.i.f.a. is suspended too. two of the names i can give you quite somewhere figures are howich and napu. they are both heads of their con federations. this is really targeting the american, central america, south america, the caribbean. this is where a lot of money laundering are said to have happened. these are both on the f.i.f.a. committee. it's day two. they're trying to reform.
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it is going to be completed done brazil's president is facing impeachment for allegations that sympathy illegally manipulated government accounts last year. opponents say this masked the extent of the country's budget deficit. the speaker of the lower house launched the process at the request of the opposition parties. he denies any wrongdoing. >> reporter: in a very brief address to the nation and looking serene flatly denied any wrongdoing and said the charges against her were unfounded. she called for people to recall calm and have faith in their institutions. she said she never stolen money or accepted bribes which was a clear jab at the president of the lower house who had earlier
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accepted the opposition's call for an impeachment proceeding to begin against the president. what comes next? this it goes to a special committee of all the political parties in the lower house which must decide whether the impeachment call has any merit. if so, it then must go to a full vote of the lower house and that's not a given. it has to be passed by two-thirds. if this happens, the president would have to step down while a full inquiry takes place in the snit. all this could take months and will certainly increase instability in south america's largest economy which this week fell further into recession according to the latest data a cambodian doctor has given 25 years in prison for infectioning more than 200 people with hiv. he used dirty needles on patients in the remote village in the western province. several infected people have died. he was facing a murder charge it
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but it was reduce to the lesser charge of manslaughter. an update. >> reporter: the unlicensed doctor at the center of this scandal was working in an are emoat village in the west of the country. he was actually facing murder charges because several people died afternoon becoming infected with hiv because he was using dirty needles at his clinic. he had those charges down graded to manslaughter manslaughter and he has been sentenceed to 25 years in prison. he still maintains his innocence and there still could be an appeal. it is a big problem in cambodia, this issue of unlicensed doctors, particularly for those in remote rural parts of the country. they really have no other choice but to go to see these unlicensed doctors because there is a massive shortfall in cambodia of licenced qualified medical practitioners still ahead, thousands of
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iraqis in the war against i.s.i.l. struggle to get treatment. plus. >> reporter: jennifer glasse in zan where solar power is bringing electricity to aafghan homes that have never had it before.
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welcome back. the top stories. police in the u.s. are trying to determine the motive for a shooting attack on a social services center in california which left 14 people dead. the two heavily armed attackers were shot and killed by police.
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they've been named at syed farook and tashfeen malik. the u.k. has launched air strikes on i.s.i.l. targets in syria hours after parliament backed the government plan to expand its mission. it followed bitter protests and opposition. unlicensed cambodian doctor has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for infecting 200 people with hiv. he used dirty needles on people and several people have died. there are reports that al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula has consolidated its grip in southern yemen. there are fighting between houthi rebels and pro-kurdish forces. >> reporter: another casualty of the war in yemen. the city has been under siege
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for weeks. houthi fighters backed by loyalists of former president are trying to maintain the control. their enemies are soldiers to the president trying to retap tour. civil-- recapture. civilians are suffering. yemenis run from one area to another. some neighborhoods are controlled by the houthis, others by government forces and there is fighting everywhere. >> translation: i have nothing to say but may god take revenge on the houthis. >> reporter: the houthis also control the capital for now. people are desperate for food, fuel, supplies and health care. lack of governance and security. its fighters have reportedly captured more territory in south yemen. there are reports of differences
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in government over the appointment of a new foreign minister. some believe the reports are being leaked deliberately to undermine the government. a lot of interest groups that will benefit from a weak government and showing that this government is weak, they are now fleeing the country-- fleecing the country, including the petroleum industry, refine finery. a lot of revenue areas that they are benefitting from. these are the ones who are fuelling these kind of leaks to continue the status quo as it is right now, but i don't think this would continue for a very long time. >> reporter: for many yemenis it has been a long time. all attempts at a peaceful solution has failed. an agreement would not just need
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the support of the troops on the ground by others. many have been killed in the war. there isn't much hope of a peaceful solution any time soon it's the international day of persons with disabilities. we look at iraq where thousands have been left permanently disfigured in the war against i.s.i.l. many of them struggle to get the essential treatment they need. >> reporter: this person was caught in a blast of an i.s.i.l. bomb. he was on a kurdish peshmerga patrol a year ago. it is a moment he remembers like it was yesterday. >> translation: there were three of us in our vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded next to us. we have cleared the village of i.s.i.l. fighters. in the days after, i lost hope that i would ever walk again.
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>> reporter: this injury rehabilitation clinic is a private foundation and a life line for in man and a handful of others. he has also received aid from the peshmerga ministry to pay for his treatment. most injury victims are not so fortunate. even here the conditions are far from ideal. just getting into the building requires effort. one of the founders of this institute says it is not just soldiers that need help, but also civilians. he says the biggest challenge is no-one knows how many injury victims there are. i'm telling you, in the past nine months i saw more than myself and the crc. maybe more than 200 people. i don't know what is the numbers. this is what we saw because we are new now. we started three months before, four months before. maybe we will receive 2000 per year. i don't know >> reporter: registering and getting an accurate figure for how many war injury victims there are is important.
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aid in government agencies can then provide services and have an idea of how much money is required. most injuries, people get basic treatment and left to fend for themselves. all across iraq and the kurdish regions they're brought to hospitals like this. they get basic treatment and let go. rehabilitation offer hope and a way of living with disabilities. foe for every 300 people being injured, there might only be one place in a rehabilitation clinic. imran khan the israeli military have demolished the home of a palestinian man killed by security forces last year. the family home located in the refugee camp in the occupied west bank was blown up on wednesday. he was accused of killing an israeli border policeman and another israeli pedestrian after
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driving his car into them. >> reporter: it was terrifying for the women. why do women have to experience this. they have no humanity australia says it is confident in the search area for the missing malaysia plane. new analysis confirms they've likely been looking in the right place. the searchers have been coming 120,000 square kilometer part of the indian ocean. the airliner disappeared last year with 239 passengers and crew to beijing. the new research that is being released today further emphasises that we are searching in the right direction, uses different methodology and has come to the same conclusions and that give us real encouragement that every effort has been made to make sure that the search is
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well focused and well targeted and hopefully, therefore, we will achieve some day a satisfactory result parts of southern india has been deluged with the heaviest rainfall in more than half a century. a rescue is underway on flooded areas. homes have than than inundated and transport being suspended. afghanistan is a world leader in solar energy. it has the biggest solar project in central asia for providing power to more than three thousand homes and businesses. many residents believe there is potential for much more. >> reporter: the solar arrays on the hills here have made life better for some in this ancient valley. for this man, the electricity means he can work longer hours and make more money.
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>> translation: when we didn't have electricity, we used a generator. we had to wait until 10 in the morning to use it because we had to let it warm up. that wasted a lot of the day. now we have 24 hours worth of electricity. >> reporter: the solar power costs about half what he paid for diesel fuel and the steady supply means he can operate sophisticated printers that wouldn't have worked with his generator. this solar project has brought power to homes and businesses that never had it before. there is not enough electricity to go around and only a small fraction of the people here have access to it. >> reporter: such is the hussein family who live a few kilometres from the solar arrays but the electricity lines don't come out here. the government want the residents to pay for the airlines. the cost is out of reach for this poor neighborhood. >> translation: we would really benefit with electricity, like having a light to study by at night. we could use a washing machine.
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we could watch tv and see the news. >> reporter: even some businesses in the main market can't get power because the system here is already working to full capacity. so we we extended the diesel generator, but if it is very expensive. we wanted to get the power from this company, but they do not have the capacity of this thing. >> translation: we feel the shortage seriously. right now we have only one megawatt of electricity, but to provide 24 hours of power for the center of the ski, we need five more meg watts. >> reporter: the electricity chief says the central government doesn't have enough money to implement expansion planss which can include power plants. this area is the most effective in pakistan tan, but the coast
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is tiny compared to the more than 100 billion dollars spent on international aid here. despite its limited success, there are still many here waiting for the lights to come on. jennifer glasse pakistan has hanged four men for their involvement in last year's taliban attack on a school in the city of bashara. more than 150 people were killed, most of them children. the attack on the army run school in december led the government to lift a 2008 moratorium on the death penalty. scientists say they have been confronted by apocolyptic scenes along the coast where 337 dead whales have washed ashore. they were found beached in a hard to reach area of the south of the country tree. the national fishing service is investigating this. they don't believe that humans are behind the deaths.
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