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>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the al jazeera news hour i'm in doha with the world's top news story, coming up, in the next 60 minutes police are interrogating passengers from an air france flight forced to make an emergency landing in kenya after a bomb scare. spanish voters go to the polls in what is expected to be one of the most closely contested elections in modern history. >> we also need to make sure that the really discriminatory messages that trump is sending
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around the world don't fall on receptive ears. >> united against one rival, the democratic candidates for the u.s. presidency gang up on donald trump. and 27 people are missing in a landslide that buried buildings at an industrial park in southern china. ♪ but first within the last hour or so we discovered that an air france flight that was traveling from mauritius to paris had to make an emergency landing and a senior kenya official told us at al jazeera that the devices found on board this flight adding that this device has been deactivated. now the plane as i say was traveling from mauritius to par 'tis and diverted to mombasa after this suspicious device was discovered in the laboratory in the toilet of the plane.
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apparently six passengers are being questioned and can get the latest from journalists who is talking to us from mombasa and what can you tell us, what more can you tell us about them si landing? >> yeah, the airport was seized up by security personnel, and the flight landed and made an emergency landing at the mombasa airport. the evidence secretary mr. joseph was there when he arrived at the mombasa airport and gave us a briefing they had found a device and is currently looking into the device. however he could not confirm to us whether what sort of a bomb was it but it was found in the
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laboratory and had to tell the pilot, the pilot on board air france had called the kenya authorities for getting clearance to have an emergency landing and that is what happened. as we speak the passengers -- >> please continue. please continue. >> currently as we speak the passengers have been in the hotels in the north and some are in the continental and he visited all the hotels to console the passengers and saying kenya authorities will look into the incident. >> and how long was this plane in the air? how far is it between mauritius and mombasa where the plane had
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to land? >> the plane left 2300 hours which is kenya time 8:30 in the evening and it almost landed after four hours past midnight yesterday. but due to security reasons the passengers were not allowed until this morning around 7:00 in the morning and the passengers started coming out from the airport. >> i see. >> they came all their luggage is still there. >> so basically kenya officials are now confirming that the suspicious object that was found on board this plane was an explosive device of some nature. >> yes, it is an explosive device but the minister would not confirm to us if it was a grenade or what sort of device it was but is going to be there tomorrow. >> thank you very much, talking
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to us live from mombasa and of course he will keep us up to date which is an investigation into this explosive device that was found on this plane. but now let's hear from some of the passengers who were actually on the plane. >> to be able to recover our luggage and we cross our finger make the next flight come back to take care to our trip to france. >> i can't understand what they say. this world is crazy. >> that is the story obviously we will be following here at al jazeera but in the meantime we look at another major story and that is in spain where people have been voting in what are called landmark elections that could end the two-party system. newcomers which is an antiausterity party and a liberal party they are challenging the ruling people's
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party and socialist who dominated politics for decades, no one party is expected to win a majority. unemployment, corruption and independe independence are the top iks that seem to be dominating this campaign. now opinion polls say the prime minister people's party will be the single largest force but won't get a majority and up against the main opposition socialist party led by pedro sanchez and a former economics professor and more or the newcomers. the leftest which means we can in spanish is a party as i say which is opposed to austerity and led by 37-year-old academic pablo english and the other force is the center right which means citizens in spanish and led by 36-year-old albert rivera who pledged to crack down on
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corruption. live now to our correspondent david chaser who is in the spanish capitol madrid and we have outlined what the major issues are, david, that most people in spain will be focusing on today but what about turn out because of course that could really make a difference, couldn't it? >> marteen that is right and there are around 36 million people in spain eligible in this vote and the average age of the voters is 50 but what is making a real difference is the younger generation, these are the people that are like if you like feeding these two new parties, let's have a look at exactly how these elections are shaping up today on polling day. there is a pivotal time and tide in the affairs of all men especially politicians, the thought on which perhaps the spanish prime minister was
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morning exercise with his people's party struggle to keep ahead of support for two new parties, two new kids on the block. there is no such thing as certainty in politics but one thing can be guaranteed today, the prime minister is about to lose his absent majority in the congress of deputies, that could mean many months of negotiations between the coalition is actually decided and who will rule in spain. his hand has guided his country through some very rough economic waters but at least nobody is now talking about bailouts so why the erosion in his support? >> translator: corruption scandals mixed together with the economic crisis has created this cocktail and provoked people to ask what is being done with their money so people are now paying close attention to the party's platforms. >> reporter: the citizen's
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party could yet prove to be the king maker as spain steps into its first politics in the 21st century. it is pablo english and the party that is exciting speculation and he has antiausterity stance and may make him a socialist and may take seats and sanchez is trying to bring the party a new future and distance it from its past but the spanish prime minister it will be a different place when he takes his dog for a walk when the polls close. marteen it's clear with five days in the run up to the election any opinion polls being band we really don't know what the stated player will be in the lower house of congress of deputies but there is one area which has been taking polls and
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that is andora trapped between france and spain in the parneeze and has late votes led by pablo english and a bit of a falling away by the citizens party led by albert rivera and we don't know, nobody really knows what the shape of the parliament is going to be but it does appear very clearly now that the absolute majority of course will disappear for the people's party and the prime minister rahoy but where the coalition forms its main base we simply don't know and those coalition talks if you like could go on for up to two months under the constitution and have to come to a decision by march but could be long and deep negotiations between all the parties. but one thing is clear as i have been saying the two party system, the socialist workers
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party and the people's party have lost their grip on spanish politics. >> thank you very much, david our correspondent there live in the spanish capitol madrid and we will keep you up to date with the results of that landmark election in spain. now to the u.s. where foreign policy and national security dominated the third t.v. debate between the democratic presidential hopefuls hillary clinton and bernie sanders and martin o'malley and laid out plans for presidency and have been united in their contempt for republican hopeful donald trump. kimberly has more from new hampshire. >> reporter: hundreds stood in the frigid new hampshire weather for a seat at the third democratic debate and convinced another democratic in the white house is what is still needed in the united states. >> better economy and better job creation and i think if you look at just the general policies the
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republicans have been trying to push especially in the house and the senate the past several years i really don't want more of that. >> inside the debate the candidates also worked to convince voters of the same thing. distancing themselves from comments made by the top republican presidential candidate donald trump who believed the solution to u.s. security problems is to ban muslims from entering the united states, comments third-place candidate martin o'malley calls. >> fascist with big mouths. >> the really discriminatory messages that trump is sending around the world don't fall on receptives and he is becoming i.s.i.s.' best recruiter. >> reporter: clinton's plan to defeat i.s.i.l. includes a u.s. led air campaign with ground troops leading to exchange highlighting the differences between clinton and her top challenging. >> if the united states does not lead there is not another leader, there is a vacuum and we
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have to lead to be successful. >> go ahead, senator sanders. >> the united states must led but united states is not the policeman of the world and must not be involved in perpetual airfare in the middle east. >> reporter: and talked about income and highlighting another difference between himself and the frontrunner, clinton accepted political donations from corporate donors, sanders has not and reign in wall street banks if elected president. >> hillary and i, the ceo and large multi nationals with hilly ain't going to like me and wall street will like me even less. >> reporter: despite the hacks against the delveic frontrunner there is little time to close in on hillary clinton's commanding lead, the nation's first presidential nominating contest will be held in less than two months at a national poll
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hillary clinton leads as much as 30 points ahead of her nearest competitor. kimberly, al jazeera, manchester, new hampshire. now to china where a gas pipeline exploded areas after a landslide in the south of the country and 27 people are missing after dirt and mud covered buildings outside of the city and we report. >> reporter: the landslide buried more than a dozen buildings on the outskirts of the city. a blanket of mud and soil flooded roads and parts of the district. two workers dorms in an industrial park were also covered with dirt and mud. police say most workers and residents escaped to safety before the disaster. between 200-600 rescuers are said to be on the scene to help anyone who is trapped. the area has been a large construction zone for more than two years, soil that had been
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excavated and stored on the hill turned into mud after heavy rain causing the landslide. paul with al jazeera. now almost 80 ferry passengers are still missing after its engines failed in eastern indonesia and relatives hoping more survivors will be found just off the island here and 39 survivors have been found along with three bodies. here is our correspondent. >> east of indonesia rescue operations still on going to fight survivors of the marina to be a ferry that is going to the south and hundreds of relatives waiting in the harbor to find any news of their relatives if they have survived this accident. the accident happened on saturday when the boat suddenly started to get into trouble with high waves up to three meters high and the engine broke down
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and the boat was drifting and communications until saturday evening but after that all communication has been lost. so far some survivors have been found but many more are still missing. >> staying in indonesia two pilots killed in an air show disaster and south korean jet spun out of control and crashed at an airforce base. no one on the ground was injured. they were helping to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the airforce flight school there. malaysia tourist killed in a bus crash in northern thailand, 11 of 21 tourists on board died when it lost control, hit several cars and overturned near changmi. the youngest to be convicted for 2012 gang rape and murder of a medical student in the indian capitol has been reportedly released. local media is saying that he has been placed with an unnamed
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ngo for security reasons and the victim's parents have been leading process in the capitol calling for harsher punishment and he was 17 when he was arrested and has served the maximum term of three years for a juvenile. plans to amend this juvenile justice law has been stalled in parliament. let's get the very latest talking to our correspondent in new deli so the youngest man who is now around 20 or 21 we understand is being released but he is not free. >> that's right. as you mentioned marteen media reports suggesting he has been relocated to an unnamed ngo at an undisclosed location but should remember here we are yet to hear official word from the authorities on this technical release so we are waiting for that information to come through to verify that this is actually taking place but media reports and prime time this evening and
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in india certainly running that as the top story. this particular news story however has not just raised questions about this case and this convict but also about issues of sexual violence in india and as we have found that three years on from the 2012 gang rape this is still a very, very big issue in india and a problem that many people as we have heard from say there is no sign of it ending just yet and much more needs to be done. is doing what many young women do, she is out and about enjoying her day off. but with personal safety a big concern she says having fun is limited to day times. >> it's too difficult to go out without a family member or without friends. day time it's safe but at night you cannot hang out with your friends because, you know, of
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security. >> reporter: lack of safety for women spilled on to the streets of new deli in 2012 after a woman was gang raped in a bus. the indian government says it has since taken action to improve conditions for women but according to official crime statistics nearly 100 women are raped in india everyday and experts say this figure is grossly under reported. the attack three years ago provoked millions of indians to talk about sexual violence and women's safety and experts followed and documented the issues for much longer and warned they have been india's secret national shame. and it's blamed on social and cultural norms and encourage men to assert power overwhelm. >> there is a large patriarchel
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mindset that is in operation and which has manifested themselves in many ways including sexual violence against women. >> cultural. >> reporter: the doctor has studied sexual offenders for more than 20 years. he says the lack of accountability at all levels of indian society is a big reason why sexual violence is so prevalent. >> i can get away with what i have done, the crime i have done or my offense is something increasing in the minds of the average person and especially the offenders that know about it. secondly the criminal justice system is falling apart. >> reporter: outside the market she is shopping in a group of men hand over to police a man they accuse of assaulting weapon. safety in numbers provides little comfort to women here. they are counting on the good will of people around them to ensure the fear of sexual violence doesn't get in the way
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of their lives. as you see this is a long running issue in india and one that many people are saying that despite the legislation that has been introduced in ionia for stronger rape laws as well as more better reporting norms that this continues. now all attention though however is on the supreme court of india set to hear a petition by the deli women's commission on monday who are asking for this offender to, in fact, for this case to be relooked at given they are saying he is not yet fit to be released into society and that proper psychological assessments have not been done and still a lot to come with this story here in india. >> for now thank you. lots more to come here on this al jazeera news hour including. [gunfire] a rare glimpse of the front line fight against i.s.i.l.,
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peshmerga forces say they killed more than 100 fighters plus. >> we have no blanket, no clothe, no food, no water, we are humans, we are humans. >> reporter: thousands of refugees continuing to arrive in athens after being turned away from the macedonia border. and in sport find out where pep is due to go next or will he stay at bar munich? ♪ syrian state t.v. says israeli air strike which killed a former hezbollah commander was a terror attack and he was among nine people who died on the outskirts of the capitol damascus and spend almost 30 years in jail for the infamous murder of four israelis including a four-year-old girl and among prisoners released by israel seven years ago in exchange for the bodies of two israeli
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soldiers. turkey president has criticized russia for the role in the syrian war and erdogan says moscow is targeting moderate rebels and not i.s.i.l. relations have soured since they shot down a plane last month. >> translator: look at a neighboring country bombing syria and see it's targeting 10% i.s.i.l. and 90% muslims including the turkmen brothers, please let's not trick each other any more. >> reporter: russia's president says he is ready to use more military means in syria if need be. putin says they are using modern weapons and has more in reserve and has been lunching air strikes in syria since september. well, russia and syrian government forces accused of using internationally ban cluster bombs against civilian and human rights watch
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documented use at least 20 times since september and says at least 35 civilians have been killed including at least two attacks on camps of displaced syrians. the report says the cluster weapons were manufactured in the former soviet union or russia and many have ban them but russia and syria have not signed the convention. now turkey says it has killed 102 suspected members of the kurdish workers party or pkk over the past few days and separatist fighters killed in a large scale military offensive in the country southeast and close to 10,000 turkish groups are in the province to try to flush out what the government describes as terrorists and there have been months of fighting between the turkish army and pkk which is demanding more autonomy for the kurds. neighboring iraq kurdish forces say they killed more than 100
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i.s.i.l. fighters, i.s.i.l. has been launching attacks from the stronghold in mosul in the northern part of the country and there have been weeks of intense fighting between the armed group and kurdish forces known as the peshmerga and al jazeera has obtained some rare footage from the front lines and we report now from irbill and warning some of these pictures may be disturbing. >> reporter: these kurdish peshmerga soldiers just reported an i.s.i.l. attack. approach the body there the soldier can be heard that is a dead suicide bomber. they say most i.s.i.l. fighters are foreigners and take drugs when they attack peshmerga positions and later they drag a body on a military and this is the future of da'esh which they call i.s.i.l. this is our land and we will
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defeat i.s.i.l. [gunfire] these are some of the most intense attacks faced by peshmerga in resent months. i.s.i.l. fighters hit six front lines. the kurdish fighters say they have been able to defend their positions. i.s.i.l. knows about the peshmerga and come prepared with ladders to storm them and these were left behind by i.s.i.l. fighters with attacks on the 60 kilometer line. soldiers say they killed more than 100 i.s.i.l. fighters in less than a week. an officer told me that the number of suicide attackers used by i.s.i.l. shows that it is desperate but the velocity and frequency of attacks has taken the peshmerga by surprised and they pushed the group back. attacks are also taking a toll on the peshmerga, more than two dozen fighters have been killed and more than 120 injured in the last few days. the continuing conflict is concerning human rights
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observers over the treatment of the dead and how kurd soldiers are treating captives. peshmerga fighters say after battle they dispose of bodies in a humane manner and i.s.i.l. never shown interest in any prisoner swat. [gunfire] as the fight with i.s.i.l. intensifies the main priority is to keep i.s.i.l. at bay for these fighters, irbill. elsewhere in iraq i.s.i.l. fighters killed at least 13 police officers in a suicide car bomb attack and happened in the village east of ramadi the capitol of anbar providence and over run by i.s.i.l. earlier this year and parts of it have been retaken by iraqi forces in the past few weeks. time now for the weather with everton and some mild weather in north america and will be glad for that won't they. >> snow and certainly the ski resorts are also happy about it
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but very mild and mild in the atlantic marteen and 17 celsius south of england and about 7 degrees. similar mild weather across this eastern side of the u.s. as we are saying there and that has kept that snow at bay. we saw a fair amount of snow making its way into buffalo, new york at long last on friday and that is the latest arrival of snowfall on buffalo since records began way back in 1899 so it has been a long time coming and have seen a fair amount of snow at long last but this time last year we had about two meters of snow in buffalo and look at this we barely have two sent meters and what snow we do have is not going to last and we have mild air returning to the eastern side of the u.s., new york around 6 celsius and north of the border minus four degrees up around freezing and see how the snow has made its way in ontario and go further
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eastward and here comes the next pulse of mild air and what snow we have will quickly turn to rain and slush, on the ground and not good and 6 celsius here and it will get milder still on go tuesday. temperatures then getting up to around seven degrees. 13 celsius in new york and up to 15 in d.c., that warm and wet weather will continue marteen. >> everton let's more to come on this al jazeera news hour including find out how plans for a new dam on the river could be a disaster both for the environment and the local people plus singing for their supper find out about the theme helping families stock up for christmas in south africa. >> i'm dan daniel and in havana and work being done here with
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hello again you are with al jazeera and here is a reminder of the main stories, kenya are investigating a suspicious device that was found on board an air france jet flying to paris from mauritius diverted to mombasa and six passengers being questioned after the device was deactivated. voting underway in spain and could mark the end of a two-party system, the newcomers and the austerity and center right are expected to do well.
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protests in the indian capitol against the reported release of a convict in the 2012 gang rape and murder that shocked the world. the man was 17 years old at the time and has served the maximum term for a juvenile. local media is saying that he has been placed with an unnamed ngo for security reasons. now thousands of refugees arrived in the greek capitol athens after being stranded for weeks on the border of greece and macedonia and arriving there after taking boats from turkty to the greek islands but worried about people sleeping on the streets and we have more from athens. >> reporter: on europe with big hopes and dreams, the refugees arrived in the greek capitol after risking their lives crossing the aegean sea from turkey and landing on greek islands. this iraqi refugee says he had
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no choice. >> translator: i would definitely die if i stayed in iraq. that is why i took the risk. i want to feel human. >> reporter: the syrian couple says their one and a half-year-old son has eye cancer and want doctors in germany to treat him. i asked his mother if she was happy to be in europe. >> translator: no, i'm not happy. i want syria. i want to return there. i want forget it. >> reporter: most of these refugees will take different routes to germany and elsewhere in europe, many won't make it. greece is under tremendous pressure and is overwhelmed by the sheer number of refugees arriving on the islands everyday, hundreds of thousands of people have been registered and are allowed to continue their journey to the rest of europe but because other european countries have tightened or closed borders thousands of refugees are stuck in athens and that is worrying the local authorities.
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many parts of athens scenes like this are common. desperate people with no shelter, many with no money either. and met outside this temporary center are told by police they lack necessary papers to be allowed in. they returned from the border to the north. hungry closed its borders and macedonia and other balkin countries imposed restrictions on who can enter. only syrians, iraqis and afghans are allowed in. the rest are seen as economic migrants. at another refugee camp in athens allocated to families and a new group desperately seeks help. >> we sleep on the road in the camp. >> reporter: these pakistanis are tired and hungry. >> it's not paradise. last night we sleep on the road. we have no blanket, no cloth, no
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food, no water. we are humans. we are humans. >> reporter: the mayor of athens is worried the refugees are trapped with no means to live and work. >> my concern because we see so many people going here and there without an organized structure to receive and guide them. it's a problem that concerns first of all every city in greece but at the same time every country in europe. >> reporter: this is the biggest strategic crisis in europe since world war ii. there are no indications it will be over any time soon. al jazeera, athens. drones in the united states now have to be registered in a government database, the smaller aircraft so far have been allowed to fly unregulated and causing a bit of a headache for aviation authorities and lisa reports from washington d.c. >> reporter: with drones flying off the shelves this holiday season faa moved with lightning
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speak to require drone registration, the online process will be up and running monday, owners of recreational drones that way a half of a pound to 55 pounds will need to register. previous owners have until february 19th, new owners must sign up before their first outdoor flight. there is a $5 fee but free if you act fast within the first 30 days. owners will get an unique identification number that must be marked on the drone so it can be traced back if it ends up back where it shouldn't be and that has been the problem. air and drones turned up on the white house lawn in the stands at the u.s. open, they have halted aerial fire fighting efforts and come dangerously close to airplanes. a new study fines that in the last two years there were 327 close calls in the air. 90 involving commercial jets, 38 with helicopters.
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>> it's a nationwide issue that a lot of airports are experiencing and certainly this is not -- we are not just talking about commercial airliners necessarily, we are also talking about even crop dusters, medical air lift helicopters, pilots of all scale and every level of the scale have experienced some kind of interference with the drone. >> reporter: there is already resistance from a hobbyist group, the academy of models calls the faa's move an unnecessary burden for drone owners. it says educational campaigns like this one are key to keeping the skies safe. >> do you know how far away you can fly this thing for you? >> you still have to be able to see it. >> i'll get some glasses. >> and also no more than 400 feet above ground level. >> the faa also says education is critical but with so many alarming incidents it wants accountability from owners who
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could now face stiff fines for failing to register their drone. lisa stark, al jazeera, washington. environmentists in southeast asia opposing plans to build 11 dams along the mekong river and say the projects are a threat to life and one of asia's longest waterways and the first of the dams is being worked on in louse and the rivers on the series reports from neighboring cambodia where the next dam is being built. >> reporter: it's known as the mother of water and flows for almost 5,000 kilometers through six countries. the lower mekong river is the largest fishery in the world and vital source of food and income for the tens of million whose depend on it, cambodia and over fishing is making life different in some areas. >> translator: i don't catch as much as i used to and there are fewer fish, before i might get
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10-20 kilograms and have been out here since this morning and only caught one. >> reporter: about to get worse and a few kilometers up "the stream" one of to huge electro dams on the mainstream is considered by the cambodia government and initial estimates had it created a 620 square kilometer reservoir and displacing 20,000 people and blocking migration paths for some fish and there is some hope the government is taking notice of the potential impact. >> translator: the government is cooperating with development partners to study different locations and new engineering to find out how to minimize the effects before a decision. >> reporter: the government ignored calls for a ten year moratorium for the dam on mekong and build it years ago and american footage by research
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shows how big the project is and louse planning a second one near the border with cambodia. >> the region is at a crisis point and it's clear we need better institutions in place and need better governance and transparency and decisions to make better decisions over the river. >> reporter: the proposed cambodia dams are also close to the home of the mekong dolphins. the dolphin population has been in steady decline for years and more recently the rate of decline has fallen thanks to conservation work. the concern is the construction of dams could undo that work. it's thought there are only around 80 left in the mekong and changes to an already fragile eco systems could wipe them out and turning to electricity is essential to help develop economies and alternative argument is the price for that development is too high.
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wayne hey, al jazeera, cambodia. and in the next of our series rivers of life we will be in nigeria looking at how the worsening state of the country's waterways is having a real impact on people's lives. now christmas can be a really expensive time of the year for many people who are buying gifts and cooking for extended family but in south africa there are saving schemes known as stocks who are taking pressure away from low-income homes and here is tonya page. >> reporter: steak and chops and barbecue is the flavor of the month in this happy home and they are part of a stock savings scheme and putting money aside all year for the christmas shop and it is organized and added to each woman's pile and takes financial pressure off on what can be a very costly time of year and organized chaos but
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everyone is happy. >> it's hectic because we cannot afford and kids have to buy them clothes and snacks and buy this and groceries on top of it, it's not going to workout so if you know you have something on the side it's helpful. >> reporter: he makes sure his stockpile customers get the correct order and most south africa supermarkets and banks offer special services for members including discounts and became popular in apartheid when people were excluded from formal banking and not just for christmas, they are for weddings and funerals and they are big business. there are 420,000 stockpiles in south africa, one in five adults is a part of one and they are worth about $1.7 billion to the economy. >> well it's all better to us as a business and a store as we are talking now, we are looking at the stockpile that is right
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there which is worth $20,000 to one stock fair and remember we are doing stuff everyday from now until the 27th of december. >> reporter: back at the house the first pile of groceries is about to be taken home for these families and millions more like them, the stockpile savings scheme means meeting the cost of christmas will be a lot easier this year, tonya page south africa. now for the first time in almost 40 years iraq had a national beauty context with the glamour you expect and the back drop of continuing war and the first in decades is 20-year-old from kirkook in north of the country and promising to push forward education initiatives in the country that has been racked by violence and the competition started in 1972 when the country was prosperous.
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14th in ethiopia. meanwhile the saudi-led coalition has been carrying out more air strikes in yemen. the latest raids targeted the outskirts of the capitol sanaa and saudis say they struck a camp run by the houthi rebels. now rio is preparing for next year's summer olympics but the brazilian city is not just improving the location of the events themselves some of city's most neglected parts are getting a face lift and now we report. >> reporter: the future flower jetting over the peer of the port of rio is the newly-opened museum of tomorrow. >> translator: when i arrived here i had the impression i was in a different country. it's so clean and pretty. >> reporter: the exhibits are intended to be a poetic and forceful fusion of science, philosophy and art. the curator hopes a journey here
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will come peel visitors to ask the big questions about mankind and remind us we are caretakers of the earth. >> museum, it is around philosophical concept that tomorrow is not ready and not done and tomorrow will be built. >> reporter: the museum has become an iconic symbol of the port of rio and left to deteriorate and since 2010 in the midst of a major make over. this is now the largest urban development project in the country. benefitted from the influx of investment, money that poured in for the 2016 summer olympics. >> we have a lot of synergy between the two interventions that is making us to have advantages and take advantage on this process because the visibility at this moment. >> reporter: has worked in the port of rio area for years and has watched the transformation.
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>> translator: i used to be scared walking in this area, no one used to come here now you can come any time of day and you will find lots of people. >> reporter: a light rail will soon run through the area and are plans to development apartment buildings kate tear catering to low and high income people and also building a legacy of integration. al jazeera, rio, brazil. time for the sport news proper, here is fara. >> thank you so much and munich confirmed that they will leave the german champions at the end of the season and replaced, the three-year contract expires at the end of the season and 44-year-old departure has been wildly expected as top premier league clubs are interested in the former barcelona coach. during the time in germany he had plenty of success winning five trophies and two league titles. he also made the league history
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becoming the fastest coach to rack up 50 wins doing it in just 61 games and despite winning it with barsa twice the champion league with the reign he could change that though this season and they are into the last 16. one club reportedly interested is manchester united and current manager is fearing for his job following another defeat on saturday and watched his team lose 2-1 and united slipped to fifth in the premier league table and without a win in the last four-league games having also been dumped out of the champion league. >> yes, of course, i'm worried about that because i know that believe in a minister is very important and then you lose the games you play, then the belief
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in the minister shall increase or decrease. decrease. so that is happening now. >> reporter: the team that reached the champion's league last 16 ahead of united continued their good form on saturday. and won 3-2 result putting them level on points with dutch leaders. barcelona won the fifth trophy of 2015 and they beat argentina river plate to clinch the world cup in yokahama and mesi going on the first half and then scoring twice after the break to seal it 3-nil and the third time barsa won the competition and champion will miss the rest of the season after crashing in a race on saturday. he broke two vertebrae after falling during a down hill world cup event in italy and doctors
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say it could have been worse if it had not been softened by an airbag and in the hospital for the next ten days. memphis grizzlies beat the indiana pacers on saturday to ease the pressure on the coach david who lost four of the last five games and matt barns finished 15 points and ten rebounds for the grizzlies and the star was mark who had 19 points and 12 rebounds leading memphis to 96-84 win and pacers dropped to games behind the cleveland cavs in the eastern conference. french open is looking good ahead of the new tennis season and led the singapore slammers in the premier tennis league and won the final two sets for 26-21 over the indian aces in singapore and the highest ranked player and beat thomas 6-3 and teamed up with brazil's mellow
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to clinch the win. cuba has produced a remarkable number of sporting world champions, that is largely down to the rigorous state sponsored training programs but as the country slowly opens up it's feared that the brightest talent will be tempted abroad and we report. >> reporter: this is the boxing gym in the heart of old havana, nearly all of boxing talents passed through here in the past 50 years to go on to win gold, silver and bronze at world and olympic games and dominated and the ring is precarious. >> translator: they start at eight or nine years old in boxing. it's the age at which they take everything in and when we spot the talent in the child. >> reporter: that potential talent is then nurtured with intensive training and privileged treatment at specialized schools and in baseball athletics as well as in
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boxing. there is no hidden formula and no secret plan to cuba, it begins here with this raw talent and plenty of hard work. the hopes and dreams of the national pride and specialized coaching, all that comes later. dominated world high jump in the 1990s. his talent was identified when he was eight or nine years old. >> translator: i always liked sport especially running and then hurdles and triple jump and it's hard to do high jump and high jump is the one i liked the least and wanted to leave the school when they told me to do high jump but with trainers and family i was doing better and at 14 i was jumping two meters. >> reporter: went on to win the gold in barcelona in 1992. the following year he broke the world high jump record, two meters and 45 sent meters or eight feet and quarter of an
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inch a record that still stands and that is what cuba is proud of be but can they keep producing world beaters? >> translator: nearly all athletes retire and become qualified and continue studying and getting qualified and keep working on science to achieve better results. >> reporter: that way talent and experience are kept in the game boosting national pride and sporting tradition. sporting success is always offered potential escape from the grind of everyday life and cuba athletes now retain a larger share of their prize money. traditions for youngsters like brian to continue winning metals, daniel with al jazeera, havana, cuba. that is all your sport for now and more from me a bit later and back to you. >> thanks very much. twitter, facebook and other social media in nigeria say they
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feel threatened by a proposed new law and may be sent to prison and fined if they are convicted for spreading what the government calls false information. and yvonne has more from the capitol abuja. >> reporter: hundreds of people demonstrate outside the nigerian parliament in abuja and say they want to stop the so called antisocial media bill becoming law. if it does nigerians could face two years in prison and a $10,000 fine for making what the government considers false statement about government officials and public institutions on social media. citizens would have to produce a court affidavit along with their petitions saying they are telling the truth. she is against the proposed law and has been critical of the government response to the kidnapping of more than 200 girls by boko haram last year who still have not been rescued. >> it is not a bill that is in the interest of the people. it is a bill that is in the interest of this and social
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media is a tool that citizens have been able to be used for their voices to be heard. >> reporter: senator is behind the proposed new law. he says millions of dollars in public money has been wasted by the government investigating false and frivolous accusations by citizens on social media. >> we want to curtail that situation and say okay fine if you believe in what you are doing you can have freedom of information which entitles you to look for whatever facts you want from any government office and if you have those facts we have no wisdom allowing you to continue to do this. there are tons of lies in social media against the public. >> reporter: most social media users like these young people in abuja who run a club say the new law is to stop citizens from exposing corruption and miss management and started an online campaign using the hash tag no
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to social media bill to fight the proposed legislation. >> the law in itself has the potential to violate so many human rights that the nigerian constitution protects and nigeria has signed up to the regional and international levels. >> those against the proposed new law say it will be impossible for the nigerian government to enforce it. >> reporter: before the bill can become law it has to be approved by the house of representatives and sent to the president. if he doesn't approve it senators say it can still become law but given what it has generated many civil society groups say it's unlikely to pass in its current form, al jazeera, abuja. do stay with us on al jazeera, another full bulletin of news coming up, right away and the latest on the air france plane which has made an emergency landing in kenya. ♪
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