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♪ >> the suicide bomber kills more than 60 people near baghdad. isil has claimed responsibility for the attack. >> hello. i am mariam. you are watching live from london. also coming up. >> i would like with no one cares for me desperate and trapped on the border. now, europe's migration commissioner says there could be 100,000 stuck in greece by the end of the month. >> it would a disaster for donald trump to be our nominee. ted cruz and bernie sanders
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score points but hillary clinton and donald trump remain parties for their -- parents for their party's no, ma'amnution. tribute to nancy layingan after the first lady dies at the age of 94. at least 60 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in iraq. dozens of people were wounded in the blast which happened in hillah. isil said it carried out the attack. jane araf has this report now from the capitol, baghdad, not far north of where the attack took place. >> tanker truck blew-up. instead of fuel, it was carrying explosives. there was almost nothingl left here isil took responsibility for the blast north of hilla close to the ancient city of
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babylon. this is almost 90 kilometers north of baghdad leading to the shi sidelines. in the coastal city. iraqi soles and policemen police manned the checkpoint. many other casualty were believed to be civilians including families heading south or returning to baghdad. >> the blast has completely destroyed the checkpoint at its buildings, more than 100 cars have been damaged. we and residents have strongly condemned the attack. >> iraqi security forces have driven isil fighters out of ramadh and recently recaptured hundreds of kilometers of decision we can north of baghdad. as isil loses more territory, it seems to have stepped up its attacks on civilian targets. many iraqis will be asking how a truck filled with explosives managed to may make it that far along a major rode with multiple checkpoints while skraek security forces are making
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progress on the battlefield. iraqis remain vulnerable in the cities. jane araf, al jazeera, backgroundad. >> for refugees fleeing isil and other conflicts around the world, escape roudz are become can increasingly restricted 14,000 people are stuck on the greek side with masdonia. they are warning the situation is about to get much worse european nations still can't agree on how to handle the crisis anga merkel has criticized greece. from the border crossing. it the symbol of europe's failure. more closed than open. the latest system to cross into
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macedonia depends upon the date of rival until agrees. those waiting here landed on february 17th that's the following day. >> i have been here 16 days. i am no more money. i never thought it would be like this. my son went to germany. the whole trip took him 10 days. >> the daily camp of 500 to be allowed to transit through the bal kaningz is rarely met. it is aby word for frustration where people rope around and search for answers. over the past three weeks, the camp spread from a sdrit one, for 1,500 people where the big tents are to this ever spraling multicolored tent village. the makeshift camp stretches across both sides of the rail track. dot north of the crossing point, a double fence separates both
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countries. the greek side, it's in the midst 9-year-old joann and his parents have pitched their tent. all 5 of them sleep in this space. >> it's not fair. it's not, not fair. >> perhaps there are no better words to express how most feel. i can't get anything. smallest needs of life, i don't have i don't know who doesn't offer it. whatever. i don't have anything. must live here. so they can fit. i don't like to get thrown just like this with nobody cares for me. >> about one third of those stranded here are children below
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the age of five. many suffer from diarrhea and fever. aid workers fear measles and scabies could spread. they are waiting for thesie to announce guidelines. hoping that the cessation of host tilties in syria will hold and system the human waste -- stem the human waste. treat 25 refugees including 10 children have drowned in the agean see turkish state media say wooden boats sank near the town, 15 people were rescued while the turkish coast guard pulled the bodies of the dead from the water. turkey's biggest newspaper has published its first edition since being taken over by the government. police fired tear gas at protesters outside theoff offices on saturday.
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journalists have described what happened to the paper which was often critical of the government as a dark day for turkish media. frommistal bull, mohammed jamjoom reports. >> reporter: on this street the day may have changed but the headlines stayed the same outrage. the free press can't be silenced, they chanted. some of them almost seeming to hold newspapers up as shields. >> i came here to support the newspaper which has been unlawfully seized by government. >> on friday, a turkish court appointed an min straighter to run the newspaper all were linked to the president's enemy, the u.s.-base muslim cleric. the takeover is considered part of a weider state crackdown on this movement while turkish prime minister defended the move as legal, not political, critics
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say this is just the latest in a long line of troubling actions taken against journalists perceived as critical to the government. one reporter described how scary things had gotten for her and colleagues. >> it makes you sick. we feel the police are watching our every step. they shut down our e-mail accounts yesterday. they shut down the internet. they are doc everything possible to intimidate us and entirely present us from. >> while police kept tro pesters away from the front of the head quarters, they had no trouble converging on a side street a few hundred meters away. >> hundreds of protesters behind us are refusing to leave even though security officials are telling them repeatedly now that they must go. what they are doing here on is
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illegal. they are blocking the road. they will be dispersed if they refuse to leave. >> this man angry lee con fronted police, furious not about the threat they face today but rather the brutality demonstrators faced 24 hours earlier when scenes like this played out. eventually the crowd heeded the warnings and began to leave. the fitch of their anger hadn't lessened, tone of the newspaper they were defending had changed drastically. >> what a difference a day makes. yesterday's edition of the newspaper had the wofford, the constitution is suspended em blaze oned across the front page. today's edition is far thinner, the front page features a picture of a smiling president erduwan and the paper, itself takes a far softer editor stance for the akp. >> as for the continued protests, they received no mention whatsoever.
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al jazeera, a few days ago, you may have been forgiven for thinking it was a done deal but on super saturday in the race for the u.s. presidential nomination, there were a few epsets with ted crus putting dents in the race. bernie sanders is winning support from washington, d.c. a report. >> nice to have you all. >> a night where frontrunners for both parties were humbled in an alternative to donald trump, emerged republicans. >> let me say, god bless kansas. >> and god bless maine. >> texas senatorted cruz won two of the 4 states and is now defeated trump in six states in the primaries. includes said he solidified himself as the only one capable
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of the new york businessman on his way to the nomination. it would be a start disaster for donald trurp to be our nominee. we will stand behind the strongest con sentive and the candidate who at this point has demontraded assuming the kjts and main results hold up we have beaten developmented not once but, not twice but essentially times now. >> marco rubio was the big loser failing to win a state and finishing last in maine behind john kasich. as for trump, he won louisiana, the state with the most delegates at stake and remains the republican frontrunner. he had a message for one of the losing cab dates. >> marco rubio had a very, very bad night. pevenling, i would call for him to drop out of the race. >> on the democratic side, bernie sanders might have rejuv operated his campaign after upsetting hillary clinton in two of the three states that voted. showing while he trains lington in the delegate count needed to secure the nomination, he still has wide support.
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>> wish doing what i want dodd, xoot people. >> it was a republican race most shaken up still saturday's results a warm-up of sorts for march 15th when sprotters will cast ballots in delegate rich states of florida, rubio's home state and ohio, where kasich is governor. >> march 15th is going to determine where this race is going. if marco rubio isn't able to deliver florida, he is out. if john kasich is not able to deliver his state of ohio, he is out. >> would lead trump and cruz. >> in this most unpredidn'table election, voters continue to surprise sending a message that they are not yet ready for any candidate much either party to run away with the nomination just yet. >> let's speak to gabe yell now in washington for us. sir gabriel, trump is very much in the lead on the republican
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side about you ted cruz has the advantage over marco rubio? >> a 4 person after results on saturday, it's clear donald trump and ted cruz are the two that are pulling away from the rest of the pack. ted cruz had a very, very good saturday no matter how you cut it. he had very big wins in two states, kansas and main where he had double digit wins over donald trump and then in the two states that he lost to donald trump, it was very competitive. it was within a 5-points or so. so, clearly ted cruz doing very well and he's really separated himself based upon the results on saturday from marco rubio and, also, to john kasich as well as being the key person that will be the alternative to donald trump. at least that's what the voters indicated on saturday. of course, we go in to the big march 15th votes that will
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beshire and florida and as we mentioned in that story there, both kasich and rubio need to do well on march 15th to see any sort of path going forward. >> meanwhile, on the democrat side, bernie sanders seems to be regaining some momentum but hillae clinton still in the stronger position. >> she is, but bernie sanders clearly is not going away. he has hillary clinton has more than twice the delegates. the way delegates are broken up is because hillary clinton won louisiana, she actually ended up getting more delegates anyway on
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saturday. so, bernie sanders and his supporters have a very high hill to climb. hillary clinton still very much the frontrunner there. >> gabriel in washington, d.c., thank you. >> still ahead for you this half hour, the victims of an archaic childbirth practice criticize the compensation scheme. iran sentences a big yon air tycoon to death for corruption. 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, of it being economic, safe and clean has been swept away. >> "fukushima: a nuclear story," narrated by willem dafoe.
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stories. at least 60 people have died in a suicide attack south of baghdad in iraq. isil claimed responsibility. europe's refugee crisis continues as the eu's migration commissioner predicts another 100,000 could arrive in greece by the end of the month. at least 25 refugees have drowned trying to reach grease. another 15 were rescued by the turkish coast guard. now, a compensation scheme for women who were crippled during childbirth in ireland has been condemned by legal experts. hundreds under went a procedure which involved sawing through their pelvises as an alternative to a cesarean section. a report now on the women's fight for their suffering to be recognized. >> every set of medical records tells the story of women ruined by doctors' maternity hospitals. >> that's as i felt. >> this woman had her procedure
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in 1964 after a doctor couldn't deliver her baby with forcepses. instead of performing a cesarean section, he opened her up with a saw. the pain is etched all over her face even today? >> pain, right up through your back passage was unreal. when i would get out of bed in the mornito go to the bathroom, 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. the product, it's seems, dr.'s refusal to get him out quickly enough. she many many years and much of her own money treating him and feels his pain every bit as much her own. >> he was a good boy. he liked to play football, but he couldn't, you know. he wanted to play football with the boys in school. things like that was hard.
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i had a little girl after that and then she would be jumping or doing something and he would say to me, why can't i do that? >> the conversation scheme offers her son for her son's disabilities. for herself, she received a total of 50,000 euros. the baseline offered in the schedule drawn up by the irish state. the department of health and the judge administering the compensation claims have simultaneously refused ever to grant as an interview first of all condemned media criticism the scheme as blalacking objectivity. they seem to take the view that the scheme is the best, fairest and simplest way of compensating women for many years for pain and suffering. >> the scheme seems to bear no relationship to recognized payouts. one woman who refused the state offer took her case to the high court and got well over
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$300,000. >> up to 70,000. >> in ire land, there is a small book telling lawyers what they should expect to get for their clients if they hurt a knee or ankle or some other part of their body written in 2004. even then the pieouts were higher than the vict ims have received now. >> predicated on the presumption that all of the -- a lot of them suffered with 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. >> of course, the most striking thing about these injuries that were they were done to the women not by accident but on purpose by doctors who it appears wanted the mother's to be opened up simply so they could have more and more babies regardless. impact on their health. >> i was never the same person. that's what i could say. never the fully same person as i was. >> for how many like monica
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believe the small compensation, letters from the state advising them to "spoil themselves with the provides" do nothing but belittle everything they have gone through. >> lawrence lee, al jazeera, in did you believein. >> egypt has arrested 14 people accused of killing one of the country's most senior state officials public prosecutor died in a car bomb in cairo last june. the egyptian government says members. banned muslim brotherhood conspired with palestinian group hamas to carry out the attack. both groups have denied the accusations. seen as the person leading a crackdown on some groups following the overthrow of the mohamed morsi in 2013. hundreds of people gathered in kuala lumpur to mark two years since the disappearance of malaysian flight mh 370. balloons tagged with the names of those presumed dead were released. the search for the plane is due to end in june. the families of the 239 people on board are pushing for it to
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be extended. debris discovered off of the coast of mozambique has renewed hopes of finding out what happened. >> now, a billion air tycoon in iran has been sentenced to death for corruption. zen jani fraudulently pocket about $27,000,000,000 as well as facing the death penalty, 41-year-old must repay the money to the state. two other people who stood trial with the bill yon air were also convicted of corruption. >> he had used iran, economic situation during the sanctions years to add to his wealth bhe was sentenced to repay the em belled money and, also, sentenced to death. but still, he can appeal and the ruling is open for appealing and i think he will do that. >> west african countries are creating a rapid response fighting force to combat al-qaeda and isil.
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chad, niger will contribute to the force which is being financed by european union. solids local receive training and support from spanish and french security experts. now hundreds of native americans languages used to be spoken in the u.s. state of calendar. one tribe is fighting to keep its language and culture alive. in this part aboof our series o languages at risk, rob reynolds reports from california's hooper value. ♪ >> you are listening to an ancients lang, once nearly wiped out but determined to survive. these children arelering hoopa, or as its properly called, hochi under native american reservation in northern california. hoopa's very existence is heying by a slender thread, says teacher salish jackson. >> there are three elder fluent speakers. there is a handful of people my age or older who have come to a
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level where we can teach and understand and have conversations. >> the hopa have lived in this beautiful place of forest forever. the government took most of their land in the early eth 20th century, they began forcing their children into boarding schools where their languages and traditions were banned. hoopa children were beaten for using their mother tongue. you would actually get punished both in the school and in the actual community at times or get turned in so the indians had to go underground. >> amid those deliberate efforts to stamp it out and the onslaught of american culture, the hoopa language dwindled almost like losing a finger or part of your -- part of your body so that really, the men were sick. in this case, the world is sick.
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>> now the tribe is making a determined effort to bring it back. in this classroom, tribal schoolteachers are learning basic hoopa in order to teach it themselves in primary and high schools eventually there will be total immersion hoopa classes for children up toage 6. like many native american, the hoopa suffer from poverty, climb, alcoholism and drilling abuse bringing back the hoopa language and culture can help heal historic wounds. >> so many feelings of despair with the language comes the culture, with the language comes the tradition. this is something that is valley vital to the survival of hoopa people. >> restoring the language won't be easy. it's a project that will span generations. the goal is for these kids to become fluent hoopa speakers and then, years later, to pass on the language when they have children of their own.
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>> a language that refuses to die and the people who have survived against the odds. flowing on like a mighty stream. >> rob reynolds, al jazeera, hoopa valley california. >> president obama has ledtributes to the former u.s. first lady nancy reagan who has died at the age of 94. ronald reagan's widow had suffered ill-health in recently years. a white house correspondent looks back at her life. >> in this moment, nancy reagan symbolized the group of a nation, burying her husband after a long battle with alzheimer's. her deaf ocean to ronald reagan was clear. it was the constants theme of their long marriage. born in 1921 in new york, ann robbins was actually a nickname. she became an actress. when she was manyly put on the black list as a suspected communist, she turned to the president of the screen actors guild, ron reagan for help.
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they married a few years later. >> the admiral should have told me not to worry. >> they did one movie together. they raised their 2 children and to help his mrirl political career from govern of calendar to u.s. president elected in 1980. >> i think i may have helped a little maybe. >> there were often questions about how much she helped. this incident reinforced the idea that she was really running the show. >> doing everything we can. >> thank you, sir. >> she denied having that much control, but later admitted she did play a role in her husband's presidency. >> i was more aware always of people who were inrunning him and he wasn't. so she often clashed with his staff, much more so after this assassination attempt when she demanded final say over his schedule. it made headlines when it was
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revealed she was consulting an astrologer first. as a first lady, she was often controversial raised in the life of privilege, she was often portrayed as an elitist targeted for remodeling the white house and replacing the china. the money was donated like many of her expensive designer gowns. >> didn't stop the criticism. as first lady, she championed pairing the elderly with at risk youth and famously urging kids to: >> just say no. >> her anti-drug mexico brought the usage down for a bit but in the long run made very little difference. out of the white house, she did impact the debate over stemsell research convinced it could provided health to her ailing husband, she pushed republicans to abandoned their moral objection. it was enough to force president george w. bush, to find a compromise allowing some research to be done. her life, she said, really began the day she married her husband. her intention love and did he
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have devotion to him and his legacy will in many ways define her own. >> nancy reagan. so more on everything we are covering right there. comment, analysis and video on demand, you can find it all on aljazeera.com. out of some key places. like ramadi in iraq and aleppo in syria. what's more, i.s.i.l. last lost some key road connections, linkining the iraqi city of mosl
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