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>> announcer: this is al jazeera. welcome to the news hour, i'm in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutes fragmented, divided and under threat from russian air power and serious opposition seek unity and a meeting in saudi arabia. a message to turkey, russia reenforces its military base in armenia and sends cruise missiles to the mediterranean. donald trump calls muslims be ban from entering the united
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states, leading republicans say he is unhinged, bigoted and fascist. the champion league need a win to go ahead and we will look ahead at all of tuesday's ties. ♪ over 100 delegates from more than 20 different syrian rebel groups and political factions are meeting in the saudi capitol and their task is to agree a common position they can then take to talks with the regime and they are meeting as russia attacks them from the skies and the west's focus turns to i.s.i.l. and we turn to the challenges facing the summit. >> reporter: they fought together on the front lines with the offensive and allies and apart from that the political and armed opposition lack a
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unified command and have different visions for the future of syria and need to come together as international peace efforts gain momentum and have a gathering to unite the opposition ahead of possible talks with the syrian government. world and regional powers who recently met in vienna agreed that peace talks and the political process should begin but there was no agreement on president bashar al-assad's role in that process and that is one of the issues dividing the opposition. >> majority within the opposition have maintained that assad is part of the problem and there would be no change, no solution unless he gets out. there are some members of the opposition who are based in damascus and they are under in many ways under the influence of the regime. >> reporter: on the ground armed groups don't share similar
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ideologies and one of the most powerful forces al-nusra front will not be attended and disease nated by the u.s. and u.n. as a terrorist organization and asked al-nusra to disassociate itself from al-qaeda and so far it has not been allies on the battlefield will be attending the meetings in saudi arabia. >> everything is going to be all right in that meeting so my understanding is that some of the groups are going to try to stand with al-nusra and not an easy thing to do but there may be a split with al-nusra. >> reporter: if saudi arabia succeeds in getting opposition to speak in one voice some in the delegation may not be acceptable to russia, the syria government main backer and does not want to associate with two groups and wants them added on the terrorist group and for opposition backers they are the
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backbone of the rebellion and on the ground could be further conflict with a split of decision of saudi arabia not to invite the largest kurdish group the democratic party pyg and pyg and the syrian forces and are with the u.s. in the fight against i.s.i.l. and turkey considers thermometer risks and are holding a separate meeting in the northeast province and the alliances in this conflict are a complicated maze and no clear way through as this new diplomatic attempt gets underway in saudi arabia. >> let's get a better idea of what is happening with the summit with dana who joins me now in the studio and there is a lot raiding on this meeting and groups have to overcome sectarian, rel us and ethnic as well as political differences, all this before the next vienna
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meeting, how confident are you they would be able to do that. >> i spoke to people from the opposition and they are saying this is not going to be easy and we have to remember this is not the first time they tried to unite and come together with the first vision and visions say the president bashar al-assad should immediately leave office and others say to stay on during the political process and we can decide later and we have armed groups and they have no way over the groups and some believe in a civil state and others do not and bringing them together is going to be difficult but it's not just that, if they overcome this will the delegation, the opposition delegation that emerges from this meeting be accepted by russia, the main backer of the syrian government because russia has named a few groups who are attending the meetings in saudi arabia as terrorists and want to see them on a terrorist list so even if
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this list comes out will russia accept this so this peace process can begin but we do know the international community is working very hard to get the political process back on track and set deadlines but will these deadlines be met and like you said different ideologies and bringing them together is going to be very hard. >> one glaring instance i find is the kurdish faction that makeup a large part of the syrian population particularly ypg with success against i.s.i.l. and also allies of the united states which just to remind our audience is with alliance with saudi arabia and why do you think the kurdish faction has been ignored? >> we have not heard from saudi arabia, no official statement but ypg made it clear and believe the reason they are not there and not invited is because of objections from turkey. it's an open secret turkey considers them a terrorist
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organization and think they pressured them to be kept out of the talks and they held their own meeting in the northeastern countryside to discuss how they see the new syria, a decentralized country, a country where kurdish rights are respected is what they are saying so you have this split but this split already existed. in the past the opposition, the main opposition groups in syria they look at the ypg as a force working with the regime and accused them of ethnically cleansing areas and what is more dangerous the ypg as well as opposition have turned their guns on each other in the northern aleppo countryside which is going to add more pressure on the opposition and further split the ypg from the other mainly arab opposition groups in syria. >> israeli high lights the complexities that have been brought up in the region and we will have to leave it there and thank you so much for explaining
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the situation to us and that was zaina speaking to us. fierce criticism of republican presidential contender donald trump after he called for muslims to be ban from entering the united states. the former governor of florida jeb bush said donald trump is unhinged and his policy proposals are not serious and democratic presidential hopeful martin o'malley tweeted at real donald trump remove all doubt, he is running for president as an fascist-demogog and lindsey graham said he is putting at risk the lives of interpreters and supporters and diplomates and troops in the region by making these bigoted comments and president barack obama sent advisors to reassure leaders that their religion is not being targeted and our white house correspondent patty has more.
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>> reporter: the u.s. secretary of homeland security jeh johnson sent a message to the muslim community they are not the enemy but in an exclusive interview with al jazeera he admits islam phobia is on the rise in the u.s. and growing concern of the potential of a violent backlash. >> we have seen incidents already, i heard about incidents in the meeting i just had here that were just horrible and so i am concerned. >> reporter: one reason comments from republican presidential candidates like donald trump who is now calling for all muslims to be ban from entering the united states. >> it's common sense and we have to do it. >> reporter: the chief at the adam center believes islam phobia is worse than it has been and worse than september 11 attacks and muslim children are paying the price because many of them are being bullied. >> what i'm worried about, this kind of talk is impacting the
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original man who does not know us and the children go to the same school as our children. >> reporter: another presidential candidate rand paul is stopping this in 34 countries all muslim majority countries except one and that proves it is not profiling. >> because north korea is on the list shows we are not. it may not fit your logic but my logic is if you have a country in there which there are no muslims it's not just based on muslims. >> reporter: at the mosque where they have increased security there is growing concern but also hope. >> some people have said the same thing about jewish community. some people have said the same thing about president kennedy. can he be trusted? where his loyalty is? america had went through that before and america is going
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through this now but we shall overcome. >> reporter: a hope for an end to the politics of fear, the one that apparently won't be realized in this election cycle, patty with al jazeera, sterling, virginia. american rock band performing during last month's attacks in paris made an emotional appearance at a u tube concert. the eagles of death metal performed to a packed arena in paris once again. the state of emergency has been in place since the coordinated attacks three weeks ago. most of the victims died at the bataclan venue where the band had been playing. >> emotion, a lot of emotion which was very good. >> bad things happened three weeks ago and to see them live making rock and roll it was kind of strange. >> translator: kind of a relief for people, for everyone, life
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continues, music is a way for people to relate to each other. still to come on al jazeera a daily dose of antibiotics keeps business good for many farmers and widespread use is making humans even more resistant to the drugs than we already are. plus i'm andy gallagher in aruba and by 2020 it will run 100% on green energy and we will show you how. begin the fight to clear his name, all the details coming up. ♪ u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon warned of serious consequences as a new deal on climate change is not reached at the parrot summit and a draft signed on saturday needs to be finalized by 195 states and it's hoped that the agreement will
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reduce global warning by cutting dependence on fossil fuels which produce greenhouse gasses. china's capitol beijing has the first red alert for air pollution, that is the highest possible warning level, schools have been advised to stay closed and millions of private cars have been banned from the streets, let's cross live now to adrian brown standing by for isin beijing in the evening now and adrian what has been the reaction from the general public to the highest level of alert? >> what really happened today is this, the chinese government has finally recognized what we all knew that this country has a serious pollution problem although the government is not accepting accountability, there has been a fair deal of reaction, the world health organization was very favorable and said it showed the red alert that had been issued by the government demonstrated that
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china's government recognized the threat the pollution posed to its citizens and environment group green peace not always a supporter of the government environmental policies calls it a positive step and they have been mixed in verdicts and some say the government was shamed into taking this action and the coverage on state media has been expansive and unstinting and in the past they often shied away from the issue because it was simply considered too sensitive and the sense today was a milestone moment by a government that has finally begun its long war against pollution. employing into a city that feels under siege and where the enemy is everywhere. poison in the air reached dangerous levels and such pollution is not rare but the government's response was although it didn't go far enough for some. >> translator: to wear a mask or not is a personal choice but
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i think the government should have more control on the pollution instead of making us take the responsibility. >> translator: i had to cancel my football class because of this smog. >> reporter: the measures are unprecedented, schools advised to close, work halted at thousands of construction sites, cars are now restricted from roads on alternate days depending on their odd or even license plate numbers. the pollution is serious but not nearly as bad as it was this time last week when the government issued an orange alert, the second highest of its four-tier warning system leading some to wonder why red alerts are huge now but those often critical of the government are now applauding. >> this is the first time we saw a red alert and it's a sign of a different attitude that governments want to sell the problem and take care of the public health. >> reporter: the pollution has been blamed on the burning of
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coal and car exhaust fumes and chew i that is the biggest e mitter of greenhouse gas emissions and want to peek by 2030 and the code red alert is the first step towards meeting that challenge. well on a night like this you can see the pollution and you can taste the pollution. right now my eyes are stinging, my throat is pretty sore and i have a bit of a headache. normally when you stand outside on a night like this you would bewaring a face mask but if i wore one now you wouldn't be able to hear what i was saying and when you go home you cannot simply close a window and shut a door to keep the pollution out, it's insidious and they seem in your home and office and why they have been leading beijing the past few months and like living and working here but simply feel the pollution levels
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are posing too great of a threat to their health particularly those with children but today we have finally seen the government is prepared to begin the difficult and also expensive task of finally dealing with this problem once and for all but it's going to be a very long battle. >> let's hope the action results in something good, adrian brown speaking to us from a smog filled beijing. one of the challenges many nations face is energy dependent and few are closer to the goal and aruba and best known for the beaches and sunny weather is being hailed as a leader in green technology and andy gallagher has more from aruba on the island of clean initiatives. >> they call aruba the happy island and depends almost entirely on tourism and it's an adept nickname and a reputation that visitors are not aware of, if all goes well this tiny
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nation will be energy dependent in just five years. >> a whole section here that takes care of all the water. >> he has been promoting this for years and his hotel on the edge of aruba's pristine beaches is like it comes and helps his business and the environment. >> i always say to my customers feel good because you probably wasting less energy in coming on vacation to aruba than probably spending it at home. >> reporter: the past of independence has not been easy and energy prices very rising steeply and thousands of barrels of diesel were imported daily to generate power and the local oil refinery closed its doors in 2012 why aruba began to consider alternatives. off the coast of venezuela aruba has its fair share of potential
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sources and the sun is an obvious one but by the end of 2016 half of the electricity to the island will be supplied by wind power and that says the government makes them a leader in green technology. the aruba government says changes such as scrapping old turbines and embracing solar power costs $300 million but say the global partners made all the difference. >> in support of what aruba does and basically adding their message to an effort that is not only for aruba but for the world. >> reporter: since the move to greener technology electricity prices dropped 25% and inflation reversed and aruba close to paying off the money it borrowed to make the changes and by 2020 it may be the nation others turn to as an example of what green really means, andy gallagher, al jazeera, aruba. let's check on the weather
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now and richard there is one bright spot and it's all that severe flooding in the uk. >> that is right and i told them to make light of it because it's terrible for people and thousands of homes are flooded and many homes without power but we do have some pictures that are good and come from the late district region of the uk and come from madam cove and some of you may remember this from the deathly hollows and i vaguely remember before i fell asleep and it's the tallest straight water fall in england after it flowed for 200 years because of the extent of the water that was coming down and impressive elsewhere and it has been a familiar picture with an aerial shot with sways of farmland under water and not just farmland but urban areas have been inundated and it's going to take quite some time for flood waters across the uk and the
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republic of ireland with one weather front going through now and another system going to the northwest and you can see as you run this system through we have the rain clearing from the southeast and more rain pushing up to parts of ireland and through and towards northwestern parts of the uk and so still some wet weather to come but nothing on the scale that we have seen so as we head through the next 24 hours we should see wet weather and elsewhere in the region and should be largely dry. >> richard thanks very much, a report into antibiotics are worsening situations and given to animals and humans and looks at results of 139 studies of the use of antibiotics in agricultural and found a strong link between the drugs being given to animals and resistance to antibiotics in humans and
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they warn that some so called last resort drugs normally reserved for fighting the toughest of bacteria are being fed to animals. let's get more on this with jim o'neal who is the chairman of the review on antimicro resistance and jim make sense of all of this for us, the more drugs given to farm animals the more it affects human health, would the solution be to stop giving antibiotics to animals? >> i don't think we have to stop completely, we just have to be a lot more careful. the under lying problem is the all 7 billion humans used many antibiotics and we treat them like sweets and the problem is compounded in some parts of the world even worse by the same behavior with animals and from what we have researched and show in this report the misuse in animals is probably worse than
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it is in humans and we need much more stringent measures and in some key parts of the world and notably the united states and also many parts of the developing world especially the large populated countries such as china and india and as evidenced as your brief reference there just in the past fort night coincidentally it was a very scary report about a last-line defense drug called kalistin having more evidence of resistance of overuse for injecting in pigs of all things. >> i want to pick up on one particular point you said the real problem is of course as you mentioned in the developing world where there is a growing population and of course a growing demand for meat but then there is poor infrastructure as well as access to good medicine so paint for us a picture what would happen if this practice continues in the developing world. >> so crucially linked to your question and recommendations we
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are suggesting a ten-year timetable for introducing a global limit and one of the reasons we say that is due to awareness and sympathy for the challenges in the emerging world. as these countries get well think and people have more incomes they want to eat better foods and we should not stop them having that right because of we had that right with the rest of the world but they need to develop much better health systems in particular, much greater surveillance techniques as well as the way to deal with the waste which is coming out of animal excretion and the disposal of unwanted drugs, much of which is going into our water systems which compounds the problem for all of us and because we all connect together all over the world even the best practicing countries we highlight denmark in this regard can do the right thing but unless they split themselves off from the rest of the world they still suffer the consequences
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and growing resistance because of the bad behavior elsewhere so it's important that we all do the right thing. >> jim, of course it is important for all of us to do the right thing but we all know the pharmaceutical industry and the meat industry are two powerful industries there, how much support do you think they will give to you and your recommendation of this ten-year plan? >> so this is one of a number of reports we are publishing leading up to our final, specific recommendations in june of 2016 and during the time as we travel and especially the last six months we are speaking to pharmaceutical companies all over the world and speaking to policy makers and speaking to agricultural industries, speaking to the fao and we are trying to build a consensus with concerted action and i have to say we are reasonably encouraged by the project and the finished
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g 20 summit made a brief reference at the end of the communication to do things to stop the micro challenge and it's quicker than i thought something like that would appear so under chinese leadership next year it's really important we bring all stakeholders together for solving this overuse adjust in agricultural but also as we have shown in previous reports just as importantly if not even more the misuse in humans as well. >> jim, it's great getting your insight, thank you so much for joining us and jim o'neal on the misuse of antibacterial drugs. more than 8 million people in ethiopia are in need of emergency aid according to the u.n. and parts of the country are experiencing one of the worst droughts in 30 years and charles stratford has the story. >> reporter: she and her children struggle and perhaps proof that climate change hits
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the world's poorest people the hardest. she says she and her eight children are waiting to receive humanitarian aid. winds of el-nino over the pacific ocean the effects of which scientists say are being made worse by global warming have destroyed this year's harvest in parts of ethiopia. the u.n. says there are 8.2 million people who need emergency aid. it says that figure could rise to 15 million in coming months. >> translator: we have nothing this year. we have no plan. it's up to god. after the harvest failed the men and children who are strong enough left to find work. >> reporter: ethiopia government has $192 million but say $600 million may be needed and donors have been slow to respond and u.n. says around 350,000 children are expected to require treatment for
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malnutrition. but ethiopia has plenty of water. this is the worst drought to hit the ethiopia since the 1980s but it's important to recognize this country has vast water resources. this is the lake and the surface area of that water covers around 440 square kilometers, the problem is the lack of irrigation infrastructure to get that water to some of the effected areas close by. farmers lucky enough to be near the lake pump water from a stream into their fields. >> translator: it's difficult for us because the pump is so small and the pipes keep breaking. >> reporter: virtually no irrigation infrastructure to get water from lakes and rivers to some of the remote areas hit hardest by the drought and aid agencies say irrigation has been slow because drilling boreholes is so expensive by the government is trying to get water to some of the worst
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effected areas. >> translator: we are trying to reach every farmer giving them access to water for irrigation using different methods which is rain walt harvesting and the government is investing heavily and some projects are supported by donors. >> reporter: around 80% of ethiopia's approximately 96 million people work in agriculture and farming generates around 40% of the country's gdp and with access limited access millions of people can only hope that next year there is a lot more rain, charles stratford, al jazeera. still to come here on al jazee jazeera. [chanting] half a century after a civil war that tore nigeria apart separatist movement gains new momentum plus. >> they are thinking about social and political issues and using art for one of the main reasons that it exists. >> reporter: we meet art's
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capit capitol rahad and talks with the government. presidential hopeful donald trump is calling for a ban of muslims entering the united states and it was swiftly condemned of leaders in his own party and described him as unhinged and a biggot. china's capitol beijing has issued its first ever red alert for air pollution, it is the highest possible warning level, schools have been advised to stay close and half of the city's private cars have been ban from the streets. while the syrian opposition meets in riyadh they are moving to the region and equipped with cruise missiles arrived in the mediterranean and a russian base has been reenforced with attack and transport helicopters and joining us now is a political
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analyst, he joins us from moscow and dimitri help us make sense of these and what is behind these russian military maneuvers? >> well, it looks like the stake is rising and all the players in the syrian games are rising their stakes so russia is doing the same. the submarine which is formally announced that it was on a tour around the world so syria was just one of the places they would visit but it was stressed by the officials that it was carrying the same missiles which were able to have the territory of syria from the caspien sea, which is located hundreds of miles from syria so obviously i think the intention is to show that russia is present there and not just the american war ships, not just the french aircraft
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carrier and also some powerful russian ships including the famous cruiser moscow which is also carrying powerful antiaircraft missiles. >> how much is russia flexing its muscles or will we actually see missiles being launched from the mediterranean? >> well, i don't think that they will be used unless something really dramatic happens. and it looks like all sides are showing their capabilities, for example the russian crews that i describe it has been closely watched and followed by an american destroyer named carnie and looks like all sides in the area are showing that they are ready to defend their principal. i think this is not so much mr. assad who is important to moscow but the principal and if you can topple the government by
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supporting the territory the same may happen tomorrow of the territory over the former soviet union so for putin it's a matter of principle and not personal relation to us or to the syrian government in total. >> clarify this for us then dimitri is this a message to turkey or is this a message for the syrian opposition? >> i think it's more of a message to turkey and probably most likely two of the so called islamic state because the modern syria opposition they visited moscow many times and they are welcome here again and the russian foreign minister keeps inviting them, the problem is usually they come, they meet with the syrian government officials and there is never any compromise that gets out of the meetings, this is really unfortunate that the situation is becoming worse and worse every month because this
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inability for compromise. >> thank you so much for sharing your insight and dimitri the political analyst in moscow. the u.n. refugee agency has appealed to jordan o -- to allow people across the border between the two countries and speaking in geneva and u.n. hcr spokeswoman says the lives of refugees will be at risk in the coming months. yemen's government has accepted a u.n. backed ceasefire scheduled to begin during peace talks next week but as rob math son reports there are concerns the latest truce may fail. >> reporter: yemen's president abd rabbuh mansur hadi says a ceasefire will begin in a few days and coincide with u.n. sponsored talks and conflict meant to take place in switzerland and in a letter to u.n. secretary of state general
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moon talks about the ceasefire on december 15 lasting until december 21 and coincide with the start of consultations and automatically be renewed upon commitment by the houthis. u.n. special envoy to yemen no had is optimistic. >> we have a number of good signs we will have a ceasefire with my discussion with president hadi and also my discussion with the other two parties and everybody seems to be welcoming the idea to have a ceasefire. >> reporter: saudi-led coalition has been conducting strikes in yemen for nine months and they tried to mediate with the government and houthi forces and allies but negotiators walked out before talks began and refused to withdraw from territory they seized and saudi coalition said the bombing campaign would continue unless the rebels pulled out. in july a five-day ceasefire
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ended in hours because of air strikes and attacks and the latest in a series of broken agreements. the saudi-led campaign was expected to be short lived but it still continues and the cost has been significant for the mainly arab coalition partners as oil prices continue to fall and humanitarian cost is higher and 2000 civilians have been killed since march and around 1 1/2 million yemen people have been forced from their homes, rob with al jazeera. south african athlete oscar pistorious las been granted bail awaiting sentencing for murder and faces 15 years in jail for killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp in 2013 and last week they changed his conviction from homicide to murder and under house arrest until sentencing next year. a cameroon says none of the 900
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boko haram hostages it freed last week include the school girls kidnapped last year and they were rescued in an army operation near the nigerian border and boko haram had taken 200 girls from their dorm last april from the town in nigeria and those girls still have not been found. nigeria government accusing the leader of a separatist movement of terrorism and wants an independent state in the southeast. the region experienced a bitter conflict in the 1960s which hundreds of thousands of people died and we report now from abuja. >> reporter: the last time people from eastern nigeria tried to break away and form an independent country led to a civil war between 1967 and 1970. today in arc buja a number of southeasterners are trying again. the leader has been in prison and charged with criminal
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conspiracy and intimidation and supporters say it's because he is fighting for independence. they believe under the new government led by president mohamed bahiri a muslim from the north things are getting worse for southeasterners. >> the south is mainly christians with many muslims and we are not together and do not share values, that is why we don't get along and marginalized and we don't have good roads and bad universities and you understand and graduation, no job. >> reporter: since october without trial has sparked resent protests and several demonstrations like this calling for the release of part of the southeast region to break away from nigeria and several have been killed and injured and military commanders saying any efforts to what they try and dismember the country will be crushed. the government defied three court orders to release him supporters say. >> nigeria is one country and
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the president would champion before said they were dead and buried and if you look at the leaders from that part of the country they are not part of this. >> reporter: human rights activists say they are worried about the government's handling of the protests. >> the government has said we are, i am presently with democrats and the democracy is the rule of law, separation of powers, independent of the judiciary. >> reporter: protesters say they will not stop demanding nigeria's break up. >> we are doing everything we can to realize the effort, that is what we are doing today and we will continue to do so. >> reporter: the independence movement does not represent the entire southeast, a region of more than 12 million people, complaints about neglect do exist but some say the gripes can be addressed without splitting up. the city is cleaning up
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after its worst flood in more than 100 years and now attention is turning to why it caused so much damage. critics and environmentists are blaming the government for not being prepared and we report. >> reporter: lived here for as long as she can remember. there is not much left of the place she causes home but like many of her neighbors she is not surprised. then the neighborhood is in a low-lying area and right in the path of last week's floods. >> translator: why did the government build us a house in this low-lying area? to give one to those who didn't have a house they built houses in the river bed and we came here and if the lake is open it will flood this place then where will we go? >> reporter: as she picks through the remains of her home across her neighborhood there are signs of why she wasn't able
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to cope and like many indian cities it doesn't have the capacity to deal with the crisis of this magnitude. >> taken in line with bad and good waters and didn't mix in the roads and not ready for this calamity and more damage than what is already done. >> reporter: last week areas received a month's worth of rain in just a few days. experts say this devastation is not only the result of unexpectedly heavy rainfall but also poor city planning. >> if you go in the city, the flooded areas of the city, you will see most of them are in the low-lying area are by a lake or marsh land, wet land so most of these areas are affected only because of this and the authority should have taken enormous caution before giving
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license for construction of buildings and in most of the places and areas as i just mentioned and all kinds of buildings have come up. >> reporter: one of the country's most developed cities but this flood caught authorities unaware and unprepared. these scenes of chaos and destruction are a timely reminder to the rest of india of the need to do more to prevent such disasters so millions of people can live without fear, their homes will be flooded, al jazeera, new deli. brazil's congress will meet on tuesday to discuss whether the president dilma rousseff should be removed from power and accused of manipulating the accounts to hide the extent of the budget deficit but supporters say attempts to impeach her is political lick motivated and sent this report from the capitol.
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>> reporter: this is the presidential palace and on monday dilma rousseff said if the impeachment proceedings are going to progress she wants them to progress quickly. she says right now she has enough support to block it but this is her concern the congress is about to go on a recess. it would last from a few days before christmas until early february and it could give her rivals enough time to garner support both within the congress and on the streets. in an economic and political crisis like the one the country is going through i believe it's important that the congress is convened. >> reporter: the quest to impeach the president is dominating media coverage, on this magazine cover the man leading the effort and the president, the words frustration and revenge as the government focuses on political in fighting the country is in the midst of a depression and people are suffering. >> translator: this is the worst crisis in the last few years. the brazilians are very disappointed with the
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politicians. >> translator: we are this volatile moment and that stops the congress. >> reporter: at the congress they will form a committee to explore launching impeachment proceedings against president dilma rousseff and accused of misusing money from state banks to fill in budget gaps and the man behind the political crisis is the speaker of the lower house and he is facing political trouble of his own. a general prosecutor says he hid the existence of swiss bank accounts, something he denies, and now there are calls for his ouster. also on tuesday lawmakers could determine his fate. coming up, in sport three teens have the chance of taking two places in the champion's league later on tuesday and we will be looking ahead to group b in just a moment. ♪
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britt tin's prestige award have gone to 19 artists to regenerate the houses in the city of liverpool was described as transcending traditional ideas of art and charlie has the story. >> reporter: architecture, psycholo psychology, opera and fashion, these are the pieces nominated for the uk's top contemporary art award, an unusual line up even by turner price standards
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but the ones that really stood out for the judges. >> 2015 winner is oh, wow, assembly. >> reporter: assemble a group of 14 designers and mostly unqualified architects and together transformed a street of derelict houses in liverpool and turning them into homes for the people and do not consider themselves artists and not sure whether to accept the nomination so the prize has come as a shock. >> it's safe to say the nomination was a surprise to all of us and the last six months has been kind of super surreal experience but it's allowed us and mainly it's an opportunity to start something and the workshop which we hope will live on for a very, very long time. >> reporter: the collective was socially engaged and when i
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interviewed them i found them unpretentious and a rare fine in the art world and here is a replica of their workshop showing what was used in liverpool and available online and for 12 you can own a tile made by a prize winner and that is cheap because it can transform careers turning artists into multi millionaires and he is the richest living artist and their favorite nominee has won big. >> couldn't have been another winner really. they were spot on. first of all they are thinking about social and political issues and using art for one of the main reasons that it exists, it's not about painting pretty vases of flowers or kittens playing with balls of wool, it is about speaking to people. >> reporter: in awarding a design collective this prize will shake up the art world but
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it shows the best of what art can be. charlie with al jazeera. time for sports now and here is rual. >> thank you very much the man who runs european futbol will begin the fight to clear his name and head to the court of arbitration for sport in a bid to have his 90-day ban from fifa overturned and given the preliminary expend shun of the payment of blatter and ban from all futbol related activities and will face a fifa ethics committee hearing next week and the trial will determine whether a permanent suspension of up to seven years will be imposed. for more on this i'm joined by sport correspondent lee weldings from london and this is the latest stage of what is the complicated legal process and what does this specifically mean for him? >> it's complicated and he is
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halfway through his suspension. now the 90-day suspension that he is trying to have lifted is the first part of the process but of course he does have to face that fifa ethics committee hearing next week and could get a ban for as much as six or seven years so his lawyers say they are confident they have the document that will clear his name and yet what has got him in the mess largely is that there was no document between him and sepp-blatter and accepted as a verbal agreement and he will continue to fight because he wants to be back in the presidential race and whether or not it ends up back at the court of arbitration for sports can he really now be fifa president because some of the reputational damage that has been done. >> great stuff lee and thanks for that. well the round of group matches
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for champion league gets underway on tuesday and three-time european cup winners need a win to be absolutely sure of qualifications from group b and a draw could be on his side but that is only if pse beats moscow at home in the other group b. >> now we are in the qualification group that is in my opinion different. you have to prove as a clerk, as a team, as a player you have to prove yourself that you conti e continue. >> translator: i don't feel any pressure just now. i am really looking forward to the game and know our team will continue with the hkic path and we want to play went enthusiasm and have the players behind us and will do everything to win the group. >> quite a night at the phillips stadium as they end an
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eight-year knock out and no dutch claim has done it since 2007 and a win against moscow will mean they go through with manchester united. >> translator: you can sense what we are going through and we have hope, you see the feeling in our players and supporters at the stadium, we have to do all we can, it's up to us to make this an unforgettable night. >> reporter: 13 teams are in the running for the seven remaining places in the knock out stages and tuesday we will see all the qualifiers from groups a-d and let's head to this group first and madrid with perry and we mentioned three are three teams in group b vying for two positions and most of the take on manchester united will spare and the only progression with just a draw and group c host atletico and decide who
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tops the group and number one sport in group d will go for manchester city if they can defeat and coming into this with a little bit of form and beat them on saturday in the league. >> i think we must continue winning the most amount of game playing. that is more important to be consistent team and have peaks of europe performers but i repeat once again in the way the team plays i will not change it because at this moment i think we are the most successful team here in this division. >> reporter: six goal in five games had 1-1 draw to crystal palace in the england league and was at the park and the point was good enough to move the london above live pool and six on 23 points and everton are a point behind in ninth.
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>> perhaps the goal we could have done that but they worked us hard and had tired legs and a little tired to slip in at that point but you know as i said to the t.v. a reflection, i thought a draw was a fair result and we are very pleased because obviously it takes us to the sixth place and going to try to capitalize on that. >> reporter: to the nba and the los angeles clippers tied their franchise record with a 13th straight win against the minnesota timber wolves and the first of five games on the road for the clippers and call for three points on the half time buzzer, wow and had a rib injured and 24 indianapolis and blake griffin took the game 110-106. in the nfl the dallas cowboys
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lost 7 games without romo but had a 19-16 victory over old rivals with nine seconds to go being the difference and the cowboys are one game behind in the nfc east and cricket test positive for a ban substance and has been sent home from sri lanka and the 29-year-old has been proofficially suspended pending the results of a test. that is all your sport for now and that is it for me for now. >> thanks very much and we have more news for you right at the top of the hour and don't forget you can always get the latest news at our website, the address is al jazeera.com. ♪
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