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at least 60 people near baghdad killed, isil has claimed responsibility for the attack. you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up on the program: smallest needs of life i don't have. desperate and trapped on the border, now europe's migration commissioner said there could be 100,000 people stuck in greece by the end of the month. >> ted cruz and bernie sanders scored victory is in the race for the white house, but donald trump and hillary clinton remain
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favorites for their parties' nomination. >> the smart phone addicts trying to break digital dependency in south korea. >> thank you for joining us. at least 60 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in iraq. dozens were wounded in the blast. isil said it carried out the attack. we have this report from baghdad, not far north of where the attack took place. >> the tanker truck blew up at one of the busiest checkpoints on a main are the. isil took responsibility for the attack. this is 90 kilometers north of baghdad on the main road leading
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south. iraqi soldiers and police man the checkpoints. many other casualties were believed to be civilians, including families heading south or returning to baghdad. iraqi security forces have driven fighters out of rimadi and recently captured hundreds of kilometers of desert north of baghdad. as isil loses more territory, it seems to have stepped up attacks. >> many iraqis will be asking how a truck full of explosives managed to make it all along that road with multiple checkpoints. iraqis remain vulnerable in the cities. al jazeera, baghdad. for refugees fleeing isil and other conflict around the world, escape routes are becoming increasingly restricted. after 14,000 people are now
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stuck on the greek side of the frontier with macedonia and there are warnings that the situation is about to get much worse. by the end of this month, there could be 100,000 refugees and may go grants trapped in greece. that's the prediction of the e.u. migration commissioner. europe nations can't agree on how to handle the crisis. we have a report now from the border crossing. >> it has become the symbol of europe's failure and disunity when it comes to refugees. the border that remains more closed than open. the latest selection system to cross into macedonia dependency on the date of arrival in greece. those waiting here landed on february 17. these, the following day. >> i've been here 16 days. i've no more money. i never thought it would be like this. my son went to germany. the whole trip took him 10 days.
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>> the daily cap of 500 to be allowed to transit to the balkans has been rarely met. the fields have become hardship and frustration where people roam around in search for answers. over the past three weeks, the camp spread from a transit one designed for 1500 people, that's where the big tents are, to this ever-sprawling multi-colored tent village. the makeshift camp stretches across both sides of the rail track. the long queue on the right is for food. the area of highest tension is to the north at the crossing point, a double fence separates both countries. the macedonian side empty except for security forces. the greek side is crowded with
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more tents and anxious people. it's in the midst of all this that this 9-year-old and his parents pitched their tents. all five sleep in this space. >> it's not safe. it's not fair. >> perhaps there are no better words to express how most feel. >> i'm very sad. >> why, explain it to me. >> because to get anything, smallest needs of life, i don't have. even drinking water, i don't have. i am hungry, also. i don't have anything. they must live here so they can feel what we are having. >> about one third stranded here are children below the age of five. many suffer from diarrhea and fever. aid workers fear that soon measles and scabies could spread if their living conditions don't improve. the people here are in our waiting for the eu summit with
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turkey to announce clear guidelines about their future. for those here, it's already too late. >> hodor is still on the border for yours and joins us live now. obviously everyone there under extreme pressure. tell us about what's going on where you are right now. >> well, you probably can see here behind me, some people are already preparing for the night because the temperatures drop very quickly, so all they have to do is go total woods and try to get any kind of es and light their fire. there are a lot of people who arrive simply because that big new truck there is actually a truck of food handouts by volunteers, people who are greek people who are helping out. the people here in the camp who have been here so long, many have finished their cash. in the past few days, they used to say we are afraid of running out of money, now it's happened.
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they will rely very much on this kind of handout to get food, to get supplies for their children and many are so cold, they ask for blankets and tents. this is all they can do at the moment. in the meantime, they are waiting to see if after the e.u. summit with turkey on monday there will be clear guidelines on what they can do and what they can't do and who can go through and who can't go through. >> in the meantime, even with resolution from the summit, it's going to take time for people to go through. explain to us. germany criticized greece for not having enough in place. what is the actual system? you mentioned that there's charities bringing food, but how regular is it, does most come from the government, who is actually there to help these people? >> what really happened is that this situation here, the bottleneck happened suddenly. ever since austria decided we're
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going to have to move a little bit -- this truck is coming here. i'm going to continue. austria unilaterally decided to cap those traveling and that had a domino affect all the way here. five centers are opened here, but the big issue is that the refugees didn't want to stay there, so even though they were bussed there, many after that decided to leave and make their way by foot here. some of them walked as much as 80 kilometers to reach this point because of all the rumors around that border, the opening and the closure rumors, the restrictions and the limitations. now what is really the big problem at the moment is that every day, they found out that there are new restrictions. for example, today, people from damascus or baghdad were turned back. also, no entry for those coming from raqqa, two isis strong
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holds in syria. for security reasons, authorities say they need to screen them a bit further. now even those who make it through do not actually, it's not guarantee that had they will reach where they are going in western europe. we do know for example that 500 are stranded on the northern border of macedonia with serbia. the macedonia authorities say they don't know why serbia didn't take them in opinion serbia said until they hear about what's going to happen next along this balkan route, for the moment, they will remain there. >> thank you for that. >> let's go to turkey now where the biggest newspaper published its first edition since being taken over by the government. police raided the offices of the
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newspaper on friday, a move met with protest where crowds were dispersed with tear gas. journalists described what happened to the paper, which was often critical of the government as a dark day for turkish media. muhammed has more now. >> the scene outside of the newspaper headquarters a stark contrast today to the past few days when there were protests yesterday, protests and dispersal of the crowd by water cannon and tear gas, scene that is turned ugly and violent through the evening. today, calm but a very stepped up security presence. we have riot police, undercover policemen, plain clothed policeman. essentially they are trying to cordon off the area and ensure that no protestors access this area throughout today. it is much calmer than it was yesterday at this hour. >> another stark contrast to talk about between the newspaper
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as it was yesterday and before and as it is today. yesterday, the front page essentially said the constitution has been suspended. today, let me show you the newspaper that has been published after it went into trusteeship. today, a very different newspaper. first off, the size, this is about 12 pages. typically on sunday, this would be three times as large. also, a much softer editorial stance toward a.k.p. party, the president, the prime minister. here for example, you said a picture of president erdogan in which he is smiling, standing close to a turkish woman. it is saying he will be celebrating international turkish women said day. this is not typically the kind of picture you would see. up a headline in which a construction project, the third bridge is being praised.
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a very marked difference between the tone editor ally of this newspaper, which has been an opposition newspaper yesterday and now today, when it is in trusteeship after these headquarters have been seized and it really goes to show how much different a day makes when it comes to this story here in turkey. still ahead on al jazeera, the victims of an archaic childbirth practice in ireland criticized the compensation scheme. operating for his safe return, the family of a political activist in myanmar call for his release. >> that harmony, that politeness and that equilibrium that japanese people call "wa". at the other side of history, fukushima's heroes were not enough. people have lost their trust, especially in the authorities. the myth of nuclear energy,
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of it being economic, safe and clean has been swept away. >> "fukushima: a nuclear story," narrated by willem dafoe. v
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>> at least 60 died in a suicide attack south of baghdad. isil claimed responsibility. europe's refugee crisis continues as 100,000 predicted they could arrive in greece by the end of the month. the turkish newspaper seized by the government last week has resumed publication with a notable change in its editorial staff.
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he solidified himself as the only republican capable of surpassing the new york businessman on the way to nomination. >> it would be a disaster for donald trump to be our nominee and we're going to stand behind the strongest conservative in the race and also the candidate who at this point demonstrated, assuming the kansas and maine race holds up, we have beaten donald trump seven times. >> marco rubio was big loser, failing to win a state and finishing last in maine behind
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john kasich. as for trump, he won louisiana, the state with the most delegates at stake and remains the republican front runner and had a message for one of the losing candidates. >> marco rubio had a very, very bad night and personally, i'd tall for him to drop out of the race. >> on the democratic side, person sand might have rejuvenated his campaign, showing that while he trails clinton in the delegate counted needed to support the nomination, he still has wide support. >> we are doing what i wanted to do, energize people, bring them out. >> it was the republican race most shaken up, still saturday's results a warm up for march 15.
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if marco rubio isn't able to deliver florida, he's out. if john kasich is not able to deliver hit home state of ohio, he's out, leaving only trump and cruz. >> in this most unpredictable election, voters continue to surprise, sending a message that they are not yet ready for any candidate of either party to run away with the nomination just yet. >> gabriel is live in washington, d.c. donald trump always accuses marco rubio of not winning anything, so is ted cruz the only viable candidate that can oppose trump now? >> that's what ted cruz thinks and hopes that the voters agree on, as well. i can tell you it was a very good night for ted cruz. he did very well. in the two states that he won, he won big and the two states that he came in second to donald trump, he kept it very close, so there's a lot of pressure he's keeping on trump. it really was a battle on what
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candidate would be the alternative to trump and on saturday, ted cruz made a big statement that he thinks that based on what the voters did on saturday, that he is that person. marco rubio and john kasich did very poorly. what you have now is you have the race really coming into focus on the republican side with donald trump still the front runner, but ted cruz number two and those two really pulling away when it comes to the race to the nomination. >> gabe, bernie sanders still a thorn in the side for hillary clinton. >> he is. he won two states, but here's the deal with bernie sanders. he gets a little momentum, but when it comes to the delegates, and that's what really matters, hillary clinton is still far ahead. bernie sanders that less than half the delegates that hillary clinton has, and even with bernie sanders' two wins on
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saturday, hillary clinton won louisiana, so a saturday, she actually picked up more delegates than bernie sanders, so bernie sanders gets a little bit of momentum, but he's still far behind hillary clinton. >> thank you. >> a compensation scheme for women who were crippled during childbirth in ireland has been condemned by legal experts. hundreds underwent a procedure which involved sawing through their pelvises as an alternative to a a cesarean section. >> ever since the medical record tells the story of women ruined by doctors in maternity hospitals in ireland. >> this woman had her procedure in 1964 after a doctor couldn't deliver her baby with forceps. instead of performing a cesarean
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section, he opened her with a saw and the pain is etched all over her face, even today. >> oh, pain, right up through your back passage was unreal. when i get out of bed in the morning to go out to bathroom, the water just poured from me. i never made it to the bathroom. it just came from me. i had no control over it. >> it wasn't only monica who was injured. her baby boy was brain damaged, a product it seems of the doctor's refusal to get him out quickly enough. she spent many years and much of her own money treating him as he grew up and feels his pain every bit as much as her own. >> he liked to play football, but he couldn't. he wanted to play football with the boys in the school, and things like that was hard, but i
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had a little girl after that, and then she would be jumping or doing something and he'd say why can't i do that? >> the compensation scheme offered her nothing for her son's disability. for herself she received a total of $54,000, the baseline offered in the payment schedule drawn up by the irish state. >> the departments of health and the judge administering the compensation claims have simultaneously refused ever to grant us an interview but have also condemned media criticism as lacking objectivity. they do however seem to take the view that the scheme is the best, fairest and simplest way of compensating women for many years of pain and suffering. >> the scheme seems to bear no relationship to recognized payouts. one woman took her case to the high court and got well over $300,000. >> it can go up to $70,000.
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>> in ireland, there's a small book telling lawyers what they can expect for clients if they hurt a knee or ankle or other part of their body. even then, the payouts were higher than these victims have received. >> it's predicated on the presumption that all -- a lot of them suffered was simply an operation that shouldn't have been performed, but that they suffered no injuries afterwards, that they carried on their lives like everybody else, that it was just an inconvenience at the time. >> the injuries were done to the women not by accident but on purpose by doctors, who it appears wanted the mothers to be opened up simply so they could have more and more babies regardless of the impact on their health. >> i was never the same person, that's what i could say, never the fully same person as i was. >> how many like monica believe their small compensation, the letters from the state
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advising them to spoil themselves with the proceeds do nothing but belittle everything they have gone through. marking two years sings the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. balloons tagged with the names of those presumed dead were released. families of the 239 people onboard are pushing for that to be extended. hopes are renewed of finding out what happened. the plane disappeared in march, 2014, shortly after takeoff from malaysia. a prominent political activist from myanmar denied bail after being arrested in january. a former monk, he spent four years in jail. >> in recent years, he has
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called thailand home. the former buddhist among volunteers at a temple, teaching english to migrant workers. he has made regular trips to myanmar where his family still lives. >> for our family, living here is very bad compared to other place. even if we go for an eye checkup, they still follow us. they are always following us. >> in january, he crossed the border and traveled to the city of mandalay where he was arrested on charges of entering the country illegally. he was going there to collect a new passport. his family believes the case against him is political and is another example of harassment that's seen him jailed several times. he played a leading role 11 illusion. thousands of monks protested against the military government at the time. the following year, he was sentenced to 68 years in jail.
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he was eventually released in 2012 but suffered mental and physical health problems ever since, and needs regular medical attention, something he's not receiving now. my brother was tortured a lot in prison. the guards locked his arms and chained his legs. for a month, they covered his head with a black bag and hit him with a metal stick that was covered by rubber until his bones broke. >> his family homes under the new government, the situation for activists like him will change, but his case may highlight how difficult it's going to be to completely reform myanmar. bain hey, bangkok. >> the rise of the smart phone globally that given children access to knowledge at their finger advertise. some are unable to give up their
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advises without getting anxious. we visit add pilot project where teenagers are encouraged to read a book instead. >> there aren't many places where you can cut the invisible ties to the internet. this rural school is one. every week, teenagers are stripped of laptops and smart phones and encouraged to read, play games, interact in the real world rather than the virtual one. >> while they are here, they get to experience the fact that they can live without their smart phones. we believe this can give them the ability to exercise self control. >> sessions last up to four weeks and are split into boys and girls groups. they each receive one to one counseling and are encouraged in group classes to think about careers to plan actively for their futures.
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>> one 16-year-old said he was spending 12 hours every day on his phone, playing games, messaging, watching videos. even now, after more than two weeks at the center, there are times he craves it. >> usually when i am about to sleep. i feel like i want to use the phone. it's about time to use the phone. i want to do it. such thoughts occur to me. as we all live together here, i can manage without it. it's ok. >> tensions do boil over. he had to be separated from one classmate. those are often young people with poor communication skills. the withdrawal felt can lead to aggression. some try to escape. staff simply walk with them until they're tired and bring them quietly back. >> there's no question that this is shock therapy. several weeks without access to the internet of any kind. the question is how long its effects can last once these kids get back to normal life. >> for the staff here, that
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depends largely on the parents. they say some are dedicated to making changes, some see the camp as child care, even promising a new smart phone at the end of it. >> our expectation is that the that they would not use the >> our expectation is not that the that they would not use the internet or smart phone again. they are living in environments where they can't help but to use them in daily life. we expect them to use them in moderation. >> childhood is often marked by loneliness, intense school pressure and absent parents working brutal hours. this breed are addiction will still be there when these students get home. >> a scuba diver in florida said he is lucky to be alive after being sucked into an intake pipe at a nuke power plant. he eventually emerged from the
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