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talking face-to-face russian and turkish foreign ministers are due to need in belgrave over mounting tensions over a downed jet. hello. welcome to al jazeera live from doha. also to come in the program british war planes attack i.s.i.l. targets in syria for the first time. just hours after mps give the go ahead. why would he do that? why would he do something like this? shock and disbelief after a mass shooting in california.
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a couple suspected the murdering 14 people are identified. we take you to the world's most famous glacier in the alps that has become a symbol of what climate change is doing to the planet. first, the russian foreign minister says he's ready to meet his turkish counterpart as a stand-off continues over ankara's downing of a russian jet near the syrian border. the russian president vladimir putin is due to mention the issue in his annual address to the nation, which is about to begin any moment now. our correspondent live from moscow. as soon as we see president putin take to the pod um and start his address, we will go to that and find out what he is saying, but in the meantime let's talk about the spat, the
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continuing spat, between the foreign ministers as we speak. there we see president putin then striding into this hall and about to start his annual state of the nation address. we're going to listen to this and find out what he has to say. members of the state, citizens of russia. >> translation: i want to begin this year's address with words of gratitude to russian servicemen fighting terrorism. today in the hall the history or historical hall honoring russian bravery, we have par advertise pants present who fought in the
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anti terrorist coalition. they are particularly remembered here, particularly those who fell in combat. we honor you, you and all your families. so i would ask you to rise and honor the memory of our so soldiers, all those russian citizens who died, who perished at the hands of terrorists. thank you. distinguished colleagues, russia
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has long since been in the forefront of the fight against terrorism. it's a fight for truth and for the life of our citizens and of all civilised people. we know what aggression means from terrorism. it started in the mid-90s and many of us have experienced terrorist attacks. we remember many, the explosion of blocks of flats, the explosions in the moscow underground and the airport. these tragedies cost us hundreds of lives and their memory will always be with us. they were innocent victims. it took about 10 years to break
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the backbone of these terrorists. since that time we have been fighting the vestages of that terrorism. up to the present time, there is still here an attack recently and others. it is impossible to conquer alone. one country is incapable of that. there are huge immigrations afoot throughout the world. these terrorists are receiving financial aid from all over the world. this is a great threat. there's the threat of afghanistan as well and it is alarming and no way optimistic. iraq, libya, syria, countries
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which were traditionally quite prosperous and quite stable have now become chaotic and they have become a threat to the whole world. we know why that has happened. we know who wants to create regime change, who wants to violate the rules. they have made a complete mess, they have destroyed states and they have opened the road to extremists and terrorisms, particularly dangerous for us are the concentration of milita militants in syria and they are infiltrating russia and the cis. they get money, resources and if they become stronger there, then they will certainly be a threat to us and they will torment our people and we are obliged to do away with them, to eliminate
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them. this is essentially why we started to help the low jet mate syrian authorities-- legitimate syrian authorities with their fight against terrorism and we did that in the interests of first and foremost russia to ensure the safety of our own citizens. modern russian weaponry is very effective and we have helped syria in this respect. the very valuable experience of it in combat will be used for further improving our combat readiness and our capabilities in war. russia has demonstrated in
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fighting terrorism its responsibility. there are decisive actions determined by russian society and i think it reflects the public opinion that terrorism is a real, real threat. we are absolutely convinced that national interests, all our values, historical and cultural, must be safeguarded. terrorism has really become priority number one, or fighting it has become priority number one for the entire world and it has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. today we are once again up against a devastating ideology and we simply cannot, we haven't got the right to let this
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obscure activity to achieve its aims. what we need is an iron fist, an anti-terrorist coalition which is based on international law and the theory of the united nations. every country must make efforts towards this. specific actions. we must not give them at all any kind of safe hafen, these terrorists. we cannot afford their success because they're criminals and blood thirsty. we know that they are lining their pockets on the proceeds from oil. with that money they buy weapons
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and then stage terrorist acts against our nation, france, libya and so on and so forth, and we know also that turkey has provided military assistance to these terrorists. we note that. at the same time, however, the turkish people, good, talented, creative people have been reliable friends. i would like to stress that they should know that we are accusing them at the highest level of killing our servicemen. we will not let terrorism banquish us. we will be resolute in
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conquering it. let turkey know that, those who stabbed us in the back, and those who tried to cover the actions of these terrorists. i simply don't understand why they did this. any problems, any contradictions or clashes could have been solved in a completely different way. moreover, we were prepared to cooperate with turkey on the most sensitive questions, and we got so far with them that we considered them to be close allies. only alah knows why they did that. clearly alah decided to punish the turkish people by depriving it of its reason.
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but, of course, we shouldn't be nervous in our reactions here. we shouldn't panic. we won't do that. our actions will be responsible, responsible to our people and to the rest of the world. we do not intend to give them arms. if they think that they can send us tomatoes and murder our people there, they are mistaken. i am sure that they will regret what they have done. we know what we have to do.
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in order to repulls these terrorists forces, we have mobilized the army and special forces, but all government, all political parties and the media must be mobilized as well. the strength of russian is that it bringings together many ethnic groups and many nations and many cultures. orthodox, muslims and jews and so on are all united. we have to fight against all forms of extremism xenophobia. under the historical foundations of our society and of the russian state in general, it is
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harmony between creeds. in 2016 there will be elections to the state duma and addressing all political forces i would like to quote nikola karin zchlt in, the leading his tore i don't knowian. he who does respect himself cannot be respected by others. no-one should blind us and persuade us that we are better than anyone else, but russians know their value. so we have to make sure that we stand together, we work as a team and that the main thing for us is russia. the election campaign should be
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honest and transparent, it should be conducted in the framework of the legislation of the country and if we don't do that, then we won't have any confidence in the results. colleagues, i think that the program of members of parliament will be focusing more and more on corruption. corruption is very important here, it's a very important issue, and mps will have to declare their assets and incomes, including income from abroad. information about contracts, subcontractors and so on will have to be included. everything will have to be revealed. situations where there are conflicts of interests must be in the full focus of the law
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enforcement agencies and, of course, of the public in general, our social civil society. i have been told about real violations of the law, by people who are in charge of contracts and we have to react very promptly against such information. we lose people that way. it is detrimental to the interests of society and of the nation as a whole and virtually one in every two criminal acts are of a petty nature. and many of these people are imprisoned. let's be clear about that. ladies and gentlemen, corruption has a terrible negative impact
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on our future, so i would like to request the state duma to make sure that there are certain laws which are decriminalised and that more administrative penalties are imposed. but with a big reservation because major crimes must remain criminal. we have to ensure the objectivity of the judicial process. we have to extend the purse of jurys. we also have to be mindful of the fact that jurys, composed of 12 people, it is very often difficult to come to a considered opinion, but let me just remind you that it's not
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easy to actually come up with these juries and they cost a lot of money. we must ensure that they are totally independent and impartial. colleagues, last year we experienced serious economic threats. they fall off the oil prices and imports, and they are lessoning our presence on international markets. the position is difficult and this has an impact of standard of living on ordinary russians. i am often asked when shall we overcome these difficulties and what can we do to remedy the situation. the situation is, indeed, very complex, but i want to repeat it is not critical, it is not
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disastrous. the rate of the national economy has increased, and in comparison with 2014 we have actually closed off the outflow of capital from the country, but we have to-- we will leave president putin there as he delivers his state of the nation address. he is now talking very much about domestic issues. our correspondent is in moscow and has been listening to this. he didn't waste any time, did he, appear and got straight on with business at the top of his speech and repeated those allegations and accusations against turkey, so continuing this quarrel with turkey. >> reporter: yes. it was interesting, wasn't it, because in the run-up to this address the kremlin was asked specifically by journalists whether the city would make the
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main topic of this discussion and the kremlin spokesperson said, "i don't think that's going to be the case". it absolutely was. this was the first thing that he discussed. he came into the hall, he stood up there and he has first of all said, squaw eti would like all-- "i would like all the members of this hall to rise up and have a moment of silence to honor the servicemen who have died in syria". he framed what russia is doing in syria as a fight against terrorism. he said that russia has been combatting terrorism ever since the 1990s. he mentioned beslam, the moscow theatre siege, the airport. what he says is going to now is essentially a continuation of this and it is not possible for one country to defeat what he called terrorism by itself. so that was why heepeated
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something that he has been saying for quite some time, that he calls for an international coalition to take this on. he said we need an iron fist, we don't want declarations. what we want is specific actions thank you for that. we will continue listening to president putin as he delivers his annual state of the nation address, but in the meantime we will look at some other news. u.k. has launched air strikes on syria just hours after the vote to do so was passed by the parliament.
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there was quite a lot of support for any possible military intervention in syria, but even in the past week that support was dwindling from the
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public. it makes you understand why david cameron was keen to push this vote through as quickly as possible. some of the newspapers here in the u.k. this is the newspaper, one of the most read in the u.k. it is making the point that the tornados were roughly an hour after the vote went through. this is very telling, i think, quite reflective of the debate right now. after the bombs, what comes next. that is really the question that a lot of people are asking themselves here in the u.k., how long will the u.k. have to take part in these strikes nor and also crucially how effective are they really going to be in destabilizing i.s.i.l. in syria thank you for that live outside the houses of parliament. the police in the u.s. are trying to determine the moative for a shooting attack on a social services center in
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california which showed 14 dead. it happened in san bernardino. they have been named as 25-year-old syed farook and 27-year-old tashfeen malik. rob reynolds reporting. >> reporter: a vehicle of two suspect suspected dead. the suspects that are dead at the scene, one is a male and the other a female. they were dressed in kind of assault-style clothing, i think is probably the best way to term it. they are both armed with assault rifles and they're both armed with handguns. a third person was detained running from the scene but police are not sure he was involved. several hours earlier shooters
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burst into a holiday meeting being held on the grounds of a center that serves people with learning disabilities. they opened fire killing 14 people, 17 were wounded, 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. it wasn't just one sound, it was like, bang, bang and then a different pitch, so that sounds like a different weapon being used >> reporter: none of the disabled clients or staff at the center were shot. one of the woman spoke to us. we came out with our hands up. we were all together. we cooperated because we wanted to get to safety and get out. we didn't know for sure if there
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was anybody inside. we wanted to get out to our family >> 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. police later named the suspects, but said they were not sure of their relationship with each other. police emphasised that the pair's motives are not known. i spoke to him about a week ago. is he a religious person?
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investigating. is this terrorism? i'm not willing to say that we know that for sure. we are definitely making some movements that it is a possible. 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, viewing witnesses and-- interviewing witnesses and chasing down leads an unlicensed cambodian doctor has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for infecting more than 200 people with hiv. he used dirty needles on patients. several of the people who were infected have since died. he was facing a murder charge but it was reduced by the court to the lesser charge of manslaughter. >> reporter: the unlicensed doctor at the center of this
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scandal was working in a remote village in the west of the country. he was actually facing murder charges because several people died after becoming infected with hiv because he was using dirty needles at his clinic, but he had those charges down graded to manslaughter and he has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. he still maintains his innocence and there could be an appeal. people have no other choice to go see these doctors because there is a massive shortfall in the country for licenced, qualified medical practitioners police have arrested two more f.i.f.a. officials as part of the corruption scandal. the men are from parguay and hon debrox uras.
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they're expected to have received bribes. the arrests come before the executive committee is due to meet to discuss reforms. you can find more about that ongoing scandal and, bead, more about president putin who continues to speak in his state of the nation address. hello again. these are the top stories hears at >> we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity but we're doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science, by scientists. tonight: trash. it's everywhere. >> what's the out put of this facility? >> landfills overflowing. >> it just smells so bad.