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russian president vladimir putin's strong words for the u.s. and turkey. >> ankara will regret what it did. the russian president vladimir putin vows to impose more sanctions on turkey over the shooting down of the russian jet. >> hello, welcome, my name is peter doby. i'm in doha. u.k. war planes attack isil targets in syria hitting their ole folds. plus. why would he do that? why would he do something like this? >> shock and disbelief after a mass shooting in california. the couple suspected of
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murdering 14 people have now been identified. fifa's corruption scandal continues. swiss police arrest two more officials. >> we begin in moscow where the anti turkish rhetoric continues to catcher chet up. the russian president vladimir putin said ankara will regret the shooting down of a russian jet near the syria turkish border. he accuses turkey of supporting terrorism and promised a tougher response. he was speaking at his annual state of the nation address. >> we are not planning to engage in military saber rattling but if anyone think that is having committed this awful war crime, the murder of our people, that they're going to get away with some measures concerning unit mate items or limit other sectors, they are deeply mistaken. >> we'll have the latest out of
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moscow with rory challands. >> it's very, very clear from vladimir putin's tone in this state of the nation address that even though more than a week has passed since turkey shot a russian bomber out of the sky from over the turkish-syria border, vladimir putin's anger is still burning very very hot. he's using language again like being stabbed in the back, that russia has been betrayed. he has started using language like well maybe this is allah's revenge on turkey, maybe allah has made turkey lose its mind. he's talked about more measures against turkey. we don't know what these are going to be yet. there may be some people who could take heart from the fact that vladimir putin said he wasn't interested in saber rattling. perhaps what we're going to see are more economic measures and in fact on thursday, the russian
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energy minister did announce that the negotiations for the turkish stream pipeline project, huge infrastructure project that would have piped billions of cubic meters of gas across the black sea from russia to turkey, negotiations for that are being suspended. that effectively for the moment at least is dead in the water. >> putin's been calling for a broader coalition to combat isil. here is what he was saying on that. >> we need to create one powerful fist, a united anti terror front which will act within the international law and other u.n. mandate. every civilized country should contribute to the defeat of terrorists and to confirm it's solidarity not about declaration, but with specific actions. >> meanwhile, the u.k. has launched airstrikes on isil tares in syria just hours after parliament gave the green light for the use of air power there. britain defense ministers said
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the omar oil field has been hit to curtail isil revenues from illicit oil sales. british jets took off shortly after that parliamentary vote. the vote in favor of the airstrikes followed bitter divisions among politicians, as well as big street protests. we have more from london. >> it took 57 minutes from the vote taking place here, the houses of parliament for the r.a.f. tornadoes to take off from the base in cypress and start their strikes on isil tares in syria. they think about 10% of the total revenue that isil makes from oil comes from these oil fields. less than 24 hours after the vote passed here in parliament, airstrikes against isil very
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much underway. the debate may be over among politicians, but it's still very much continuing in the u.k., among members of the public and certainly in the newspapers. the main question is well what is the plan b., what is the actual plan for these airstrikes. the foreign minister has been questioned about it to ask for a sort of time frame. he mentioned of course, the importance of these 70,000 troops that david cameron spoke about that what he termed moderate troops that the coalition could work with on the ground, as they bomb from above. then when it comes to any kind of time frame, the prime minister spoke about the agreement made in vienna a few weeks ago. among all the parties involved, all the nations involved in syria, and according to this agreement in sienna, there should be elections in syria under u.n. supervision in about 18 months, but when the foreign secretary was questioned what happens if these ground troops don't materialize and this time
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frame doesn't materialize either and both of those options are imminently possible, it didn't sound like the from had a plan b. in mind. barbara in london. >> prosecutors in. we jump charged two more suspects in connection with last months attacks in paris. that brings a eight the number of suspects arrested over the attacks on the french capital in which 130 people died. israeli police arrested several people in connection with an arson attacks that killed a palestinian family, the home of the family in douma in the occupied west bank was attacked and set on fire last july. israeli police say the suspects belonged to a terrorist group. the youngest member of the family burnedden to death. the mother and father died later. the brother is being street for
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his injuries. >> a home hob destroyed by the israeli military. it was destroyed early on thursday morning. he is accused of involvement in the shooting of an israel couple in october. they were killed driving through the territory. in separate operation, the israeli military demolished another home in the occupied west bank on wednesday. that had been the home of al akari, accused of killing a policeman and pedestrian after driving his car into them. >> it was terrifying for the women. why do palestinian women have to experience this? they have no humanity. >> a retrial of the outlawed muslim bother hood was ordered. he was sentenced to life in prison for murder and inciting violence. he also has two death sentences in separate cases. rights groups criticized the
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government for its on going crackdown on the group sings the president mohamed morsi was ousted in a coup in 2013. police in the united states are trying to work out the motive for a shooting tack in california which left 14 dead. the two heavily armed attackers were shot dead by that the police, they've been named at sayed farook and tashfeen malik. we have the latest. >> a pivotal day, a bullet riddled vehicle with two suspected killers inside after a gun battle with police. >> the suspects that are dead at the scene, one is a male, one is a female. they were dressed in assault style clothing, i think is the best way to term it. they were both armed with assault rifles and handguns. >> a third person was detained running from the scene, but
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police aren't sure he was involved. several hours earlier, shooters burst into a holiday banquet for employees of the local public health department being held on the grounds of a center that serves people with learning disability. 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, man. it was like bang-bang-bang bangladesh for a while, you know, it wasn't continuous shooting. that's another thing. this got to be and it wasn't just one sound. it was like in a different pitch, so that sounds like a different weapon being used. >> none of the disabled clients or staff at the center were shot. megan was evacuated from the in land regional center complex when the mayhem erupted. >> we were told to come out with our hands up. we were altogether, we just came
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out. we cooperated, because we wanted to get to safety. we wanted to get out. we didn't know whether there was anybody inside. we wanted to get to our families. >> police and f.b.i. agents went to a resident ins a nearby town. people fled in a black s.u.v. and began exchanging fire with police. police blocked them in and the deadly shootout 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 emphasized that the pair's motives are not nope. >> i spoke to a mob like a week ago with him. yeah. >> i have no idea. i have no idea, why would he do that? why would he do something like this. i have absolutely no idea.
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i am in shock myself. >> the f.b.i. and other federal state and local law enforcement agencies are investigating. >> is this terrorism? i am sometime not willing to say that we know that for sure. >> rob reynolds, al jazeera, san bernardino, california. >> this latest incident prompted an angry response from the u.s. president, barack obama, and once again, he asked congress to pass tougher gun control measures. >> for those who are concerned about terrorism, you know, some may be aware of the fact that we have a no-fly list where people can't get on planes, but those same people who we don't allow to fly could go into a store
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right now in the united states and buy a firearm, and there's nothing that we can do to stop them. that's a law that needs to be changed. >> you're watching al jazeera live from doha. still to come on this program. wounded in the war against isil, how survivors face a lack of specialist care in iraq. a space mission seeks to better understand gravity in space. sure, tv has evolved over the years.
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you're watching al jazeera. the top stories: the russian president vladimir putin said turkey will regret more than burns the shooting down of a russian jet. he accused turkey of supporting terrorism and promised to tough response. british bombers attacked oil fields in eastern syria hours after airstrikes were approved on isil target by the m.p., striking revenues for isil. >> detectives are trying to find the motives for a mass shooting in the united states. a man and woman armed with rifles attacked coworkers. police in send dern then killed the attackers. >> the russian president vladimir putin's address today,
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his choice of language is key. >> this is not another speech. this resembles speeches we heard from bush after 9/11. the underlying tone is look, there are russian values. there's russian culture and there is us versus the terrorists, and you are either with us, with russia, or with the terrorists. that's a message to turkey. that's a message to the united states. suddenly, president putin is borrowing the language of the war on terror in all its forms, embracing it and making it into his own. that's first of all dangerous, because we've seen what happened when president bush embraced that language, very insecure way of seeing the world also threats, as terror, as an assault on our own national security, our own values and likes. putin deployed his forces, his missiles, deployed his jet fighters into syria and is
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escalating the war in syria. it really is frightening to be honest with you, to see putin dashing forward instead of accepting some of the con as i will laatory language coming from ankara to say this is fine, this was an assault on us, but let's move forward into an international coalition. >> turning our attention to europe where swiss police arrested two more fifa officials as part of the corruption scandal at the home of world football. they are from paraguay and honduras. they are expected of accepting bribes for world cup qualifying came. the arrests come before fifa's executive committee is due to meet to discuss reforms. >> the u.s. and swiss attorney generals who have been working so closely on these corruptions allegations and investigations for so many months vowed there would be a second wave of arrests after the dramatic arrests at the hotel that was so memorable in may.
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this has been the time for those arrestsest again, when the fifa executive committee get together for a meeting. yet again, big figures from that executive committee are arrested. the head of the concacaf region, the third canning da calf president to face arrest. the head of the south american confederation was arrested. two empty seats at this executive meeting. they were trying to make it business as usual, trying to press on with reform, coming up with the idea, controversy one of expanding the world cup from 40 teams to 32 that they would look into all the while when there is going to be a verdict on sect blatter and suspended president and others arrested or
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suspended, more shame for fifa. >> south africa's top appeals court has today found the paralympic athlete oscar pistorius guilty of murder, overturning a conviction of a lesser charge of culpable homicide. pistorius killed his girlfriend in 2014 after shooting her through a locked door, saying he thought she was an intruder. he faces the minimum prison sentence in south africa. >> brazil's president is facing impeachment proceedings accused of manipulating accounts last year. rousseff denies any wrongdoing. our latin america editor has more. >> in a very brief address to the nation and looking serene, president rousseff flatly denied wrongdoing and said that the charges against her were unfounded. she also called on brazilians to remain calm and to have faith in
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their institutions. she added that she had never stolen money or accepted any bribes, which was a clear jab at the pot of the lower house who hours earlier had accepted the opposition's call for an impeachment proceeding to begin against the president. now what comes next? first it goes to a special committee of all the political parties in blow our house which must decide whether the impeachment call has merit. if so, it any of the go to a full volt of the lower house. that's a given. it has to be passed by two thirds. if this happens, the president would have to step down while a full inquire retakes operation in the senate. all this could take months and certainly increase instability in south america's largest economy which this week fell even further into recession, according to the latest data. >> portugal's new prime minister in tends to free the middle classes from what he calls suffocating taxes.
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antonio costa outlined his plan to increase the economy by increasing household spending. >> hundred was thousands of people in the southern indian state remain cut off by severe flooding. relief and rescue operations are being scaled up, but there are growing concerns that conditions may worsen as dams and rivers continue to overflow. we have this report. >> one of india's biggest cities is submerged. for many people in the southern state, rooftops are the safest and dryest place to be. after days of heavy rain and flooding, food is scarce. the only way to get essentials to those stranded is from the air. >> 2,400 people have been rescued so far. thirty of our teams are on the ground. we have deployed 110 boats of equipment like life jackets.
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we will send some more teams. >> this is the worst flooding to hit here in 100 years. coastal areas were drenched with a month's worth of drain in a few days. aerial pictures show the extents of the devastation. >> in addition, as you are aware, the whole area is battered and no aircraft can take off. our air base 60 kilometers as the crow flies away has been activated, and all the relief material, as well as the civil flights are operating. >> there are growing concerns about the spread of water borne diseases, damaged electricity and phone lines are maybing the crisis worse. >> around 20% of land line
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connections have been lost. the death toll has reached 269 as per the latest reports. >> the full extent of the damage is still unclear. what is already clear is that this is not a natural disaster, but a man made one. government critics are blaming poor infrastructure and urban planning. al jazeera, new delhi. >> an unlicensed cambodian doctor has been given 25 years in prison for infecting more than 200 people with h.i.v. every used dirty needles on patients in raqqa president western province. several of the people infected subsequently died. the case has highlighted cambodia's underfunded health care system where many rely on unlicensed medics to receive treatment. we have this update from phnom penh. >> the unlicensed doctor at the center of this scandal was working in a remote village in
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the west of the country. he was facing murder charges because several people dialed after becoming infected with h.i.v. because he was using dirty needles at his clinic, but he had those charges downgraded to manslaughter and he has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. he still maintains his innocence and there still could be an appeal. it's a big problem in cambodia, this issue of unlicensed doctors particularly in remote rural parts of the country. they really have no other choice butting to see these unlicensed doctors because there is a massive shortfall in cambodia of licensed, qualified medical practitioners. >> thousands of people in iraq have been left disabled in the war against isil. many of them are struggling to get the treatment they need. imran kahn reports now from erbil as the world marks international day of people with disabilities. >> he was caught in the blast of
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an isil bomb in northern iraq. he was on a kurdish peshmerga control in the town a year ago. it's a moment he remembers like it was yesterday. >> there were three of us in our vehicle with when a roadside bomb exploded next to us. we had just cleared the village of isil fighters. in the days later, i lost hope that i would ever walk again. >> this injury rehabilitation continue nick is a private foundation and lifeline for him and a handful of others. he received aid from the peshmerga ministry to pay for treatment. most injury victims aren't 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's not just soldiers that need help, but also civilians. he said the biggest challenge is no one knows how many injury victims there are. >> i'm telling you the past nine months, i saw more than myself,
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maybe more than 200 people. i don't know what is the number. this is what we saw, because we are new now. we started three months before, four months before. maybe we will receive 2,000 a year, i don't know. >> registering and getting an accurate figure for how many war injury victims there are is important. aid and agencies con then provide services and have an idea how much money is required. most injury victims get basic treatment and then left to fend for themselves. >> all across iraq, and the kurdish region, the injured are brought to hospitals like these. there they are given very basic treatment and let go. rehabilitation centers offer hope and a way of living with their injury to allows you to lead a fulfilled life. one doctor told us for every 300 injured, there might only be one place in a rehabilitation
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clinic. imran kahn, al jazeera, erbil. >> everyone and everything on planet earth feels the force of gravity, every moment of every day that our lives, but very little is known about how gravity actually works especially in space, so that's why the european space agency has launched a new research spacecraft into orbit. as our science editor explains, it will have a special experiment onboard. >> launching from europe's space force, the craft will orbit earth for two weeks and make it towards the sun, stopping 1.5 million kilometers away. the sun's gave takessal pull is canceled by the earth, making it ideal for testing the technology. >> the purpose of this
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spacecraft is to start testing in a differently way and trying eventually to detect something that the einstein's theory of general relativity predicts and hasn't been detected yet, which is grave takessal waves. >> the spacecraft has onboard two identical cubes of solid gold platinum alloy. these free-fall through space as the same speed of the craft while the laser is used to measure with unprecedent accuracy, movements as small as a billion have a millimeter. >> we have a large mass of sun or air through a black hole. it really doesn't want to start changing say. when it is produced when two super black holes smash into each other, it creates ripples. they aren't very big. we have to have a very precise instrument which allows us to
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pick up miniscule changes. >> while they might confirm the existence of gravitational waves, it will help scientists in their approach. >> gravity is only one component of the universe which is the most mysterious one. it is a common force, all around us. we know very little about it and the results of all these experiments will have enormous implications that we cannot even imagine. >> if this test mission is successful, a large scale experiment involving three salt lights placed a million kilometers from each other is planned for launch in 2034. it is hoped they will reveal details about the formation and structure of gravities, the early universe, behavior of black holes and possibly confirm what einstein predicted, the existence of ripples in the fabric of space time.
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>> if you're away from the t.v., you can get more on our top stories, including the latest on that relationship spat between moscow and ankara on aljazeera.com and what's going on in the skies over syria. aljazeera.com, you can also talk to me on twitter. [ siren ] >> searching for a motive after the worst mass shooting in america since new town leaves 14 dead. >> why would he do that? why would he do something like this? >> police want to know what led a young couple to caulk into a social services agency and open fire. >> common sense gun safety laws, stronger background checks. >> now president obama is calling once again for changes in how
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