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from london. >> this is al jazeera. >> and this is the al jazeera newshour, with me david foster live from london. let's take a look ought some of the items we will be discussioning at the time next 60 minutes. crossing the aegean if the eu doubles the money it's currently offering. a shootout with gun melon near the border of libya.
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(f) the mh 370 malasian airlines, tearing a family apart. and: >> peyton manning is due to foirnl announctoofficially annos retirement. we'll hear from one of the nfl greats. >> turkey wants the european union to actually double the money it originally offered in exchange for refugees crossing the menders. mediterranean sea. made by ahmed davutoglu. taking tougher action, and take back those whose asylum claims are rejected.
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3.3 billion was offered to keep them in turkey, turkey's already home to as many as 3 million refugees, the vast majority of them from syria. we have correspondents jonah hull in brussels where the eu summit is taking place. moasmed jamjoomohammed jamjoom l and hashe hoda abdel hamid. >> turkey's prime minister sphalsignaled an optimistic sta. >> the only way to respond to
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these challenges is solidarity. solidarity, today our continent is our continent altogether and we have to see the whole picture, not just irregular migration but the whole future of our continent is on the table. >> reporter: the european union had hoped that turkey would agree to readmit economic migrants. that and the announcement of the so-called balkan route, were meant to be the two pillars of success at the summit. not so fast. turkey did not come here to can a pitccapitulate. more access to eu visas for citizens. and if turkey wants the european
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union the help relieve it of some of the many thousands of syrians sitting in turkish camps. eu leaders have had their own unexpected announcements too, from no less of a figure than german chancellor angela merkel. >> translator: in response to how we can reduce migrants not only a few countries but all countries including greece it can't be about just closing something. we need a sustainable solution together with turkey which is what we will look again at today. >> despite closure, well-known to the germans in advance, mrs. merkel, the original author of the open door policy some iss she won't hear anything about closed borders. with that, success is in doubt. jonah hull, al jazeera,
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brussels. the turkish prime minister ahmed davutoglu. >> our desire is to rescue the likes of the refugees, and discourage those who want to use and disploit th exploit the ref. if a nato vessel is close to people in stress at sea we are obliged to according to international law to help those people. and then they will be helped and we agree that the defense minister on meeting will be sent back to turkey if they come from turkey but this has to be done
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in accordance with international law and international regulations. >> let's bring in jonah hull live from brussels. this meeting, i'm sure the words blackmail and bribery won't come up at least in open conversation but in fact saying, given us double the money or we won't play ball. make sure we have good talks joining european union or we won't help you out, one in the same thing, that i just pointed out. will eu roll over because they don't have a choice in this? >> reporter: you won't hear the word blackmail but what we will hear is horse trading and turkish bazaar, something like that is going on here. mr. davutoglu is back in this building, having been over at nato, he is turning that screw here, and he knows that turkey
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has something of an upper hand here. eu is somewhat in a desperate crisis, turkey sees an opening and is demanding a much stiffer bargain. we understand going into the evening there might be a draft proposal, reuters has put it out and here's what it says essentially. it says that turkey will agree to take back all irregular migrants, that's the term being used to cover everyone crossing the aegean sea. turkey will take them all back in return for more money, double the figure they've already been pledged, another $3.3 billion, to help aid for those refugees in turkey, and schenge schengen.travel.from turkey, and
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a one to one resettlement plan as allegedly part of this resettlement plan. eu will agree to admit one syrian refugee if camps into turkey for every syrian refugee that turkey takes back from grease where of course, all of these people are pooling in increasingly squalid conditions, turned back from macedonia, that's the draft proposal. we may have a long night waiting to find out what everyone makes of it. >> okay, jonah, thank you. turkey's already the largest host as we mentioned there to refugees anywhere in the world. mohammed jamjoom my colleague is in the turkish coastal city of ismae. not all of them make it. turkey has basically been saying listen we can only help you if we get the extra money. even if it gets the extra money how sit going to cut the number
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of refugees leaving its shores in a peaceful straightforward manner? >> that's the key point here david, even if they do get these promises, even if they do get this extra money it is going to be difficult to staunch the tide of refugees that try to cross or cross from turkey into greece every day. where we are standing, every day hundreds if not thousands of people cross in these rickety makeshift boats, to greece. 15 kilometers behind us it's about a half hour boat ride from here. it's been extremely tough until now for turkey to stop these crossings. there's a vast and thriving human smuggling market that is going on here all the time. those smugglers are powerful. in order to lessen the number of crossings every day you're going to have to see much more increased patrol by the turkish coafg ancoast guard and by the e
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gendarmery. considering that thousands cross every day. even though the extra money comes, you're going to have to see a testimony up efforts not only from the turks. they want to see that the millions of refugees to live here to work here to get work permits to get education for these refugee children to make sure that they have access to health care. that's something that turkey is really going to have to guarantee about they want to try to get these funds that they are now demanding from the eu in the very hard negotiations going on. not a surprise that this is happening in brussels considering the rhetoric we heard earlier in the day from president erdogan here. he said he was irritated by the
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fact that the funds promised four months ago haven't yet be arrived in turkey. he wants to see davutoglu wrurn areturnwith at least 3 bruce drn billion euros. >> mohammed, it sounds pretty windy. of course the seas will be whipped up off the coast of turkey. three million stuck in greece, humanitarian crisis unfolding, the border with macedonia and hoda abdel hamid is there. >> reporter: now very miserable weather that probably would reflect the miserable mood among the nearly 14,000 people who are stranded here, some for as long as two to three weeks, i'm just going to show you here
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behind me now, it's raining quite heavily. we've heard some thunder. beam are tryinpeople are tryingr tents, these tents summer tents. everybody has asked us, do you have any news about brussels, is there outcome yet, have we heard anything? people are petrified that they will be sent back to turkey. anyone coming to us. also whether the restrictions at the moment at the macedonian border, restrictions become more and more on a daily basis, will still hold after this summit. all questions that go unanswered for, at the moment, while the living conditions are becoming worse and worse. >> people moving up the line from there, which is the greece-macedonia border, many of the refugees eventually make it to germany. more than a million are there the majority from syria.
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they arrived earlier in the year. dominic cain has that story, he's in berlin. >> reporter: the late winter sun has brought out the customers to the market. the main parties vie for top spot. the opinion polls suggest angela merkel's popularity is waning but what do people here make of her policies? >> translator: i was surprised by the course of the government, as they're known for being conservative. so i was pleasantly surprised by the humidity. humanity. >> the chancellor has lost my support 100%. i used to be a real fan but in this instance she has totally gone in the wrong direction. >> reporter: the problem for angela merkel and her christians democrats are views like that are becoming increasingly common
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in germany. some of her senior parliamentary colleagues are now becoming increasingly concerned. wolfgang is an outspoken member. he has been receiving, he says, more and more letters from constituents about the refugee policy. >> translator: we are seeing that one country after another is closing down around us. as long as we carry on our current practice, others say if germany is happy to take them, why should we take them on? >> and angela merkel's position is increasingly questioned. at a recent crisis meeting in vienna, the austrian hosts did not even invite the german government. where she says they should not close their borders to refugees, they disagree but she is defiant. >> translator: those who need protection and seek it out should get it. despite all criminal polls, more
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than 90% of the german population don't say those who fall from terror war and persecution should be protected. i think that's wonderful. >> reporter: whether people agree, it is another question. dominic cain, al jazeera, berlin. the tunisian government is saying at least 53 people have died following a gun battle between an armed group and security forces in the tunisian border town of ben gazan, on the border with libya. it is felt the fighters came in from libya, the military managed to repel the attack, killing 28 and arresting seven more. ten members of the security forces and seven civilians were also killed. border is now closed and a
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curfew is imposed. nazanine is live. >> many people have been told ostay home. checkpoints like this behind me, just behind this particular checkpoint, we've seen this body, armed fighter one of the people who carried out this attack. we understand it was extremely organized pnl some report. some saying carrying out the attack on the army barracks close to where i am right now. our understanding is they also sprid out in variouspread out is neighborhoods. things seem to be calm right now but there is a big question, where are these armed fighters?
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and also, is the border area, we're very close to libya's border about 30 kilometers, is it safe? we don't know whether those men were already in tunisia or infiltrated the border. the tunisians have wall around the border to prevent fighters from moving in and out. but it does seem that fighters as well as arms are able to infiltrate the border coming into tunisia. >> a group affiliated with pakistan's taliban says it carried out a suicide attack which left 13 people dead among them children. the suicide bomber had explosive strapped to his chest, and detonated them, at least 26 were hurt. the jamat el arra faction says it was responsible. confused of killing a provincial
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governor. arkamal hyder is there. fest. >> a splinter group of thegroupr the attack, saying this was a revenge attack for the killing of a police commander mr. kadri who had killed the governor of the punjab who was critical of the blasphemy laws. action taken by that group, of course this was not the first time that this has been targeted because of its proximity to maman. >> that was kamal hyder reporting from islamabad.
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stay with us, weaver got this brewing, concern over one of the world's largest tea-growing women. and in sport, maria sharapova makes a an important announcement. more in sport in a little later. (t) u.s. military claims to have killed more than 150 al shabaab fighters. the number 27, the number two died, 27. the pentagon says a training camp used by the armed group, about 120 kilometers north of mogadishu, was attacked with bombs and missiles. responsible for numerous attacks
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in east africa, including killing 67 civilians in a shopping mall in the kenyan capital, nairobi. that was three years ago. let's go to kimberly halkett. live if washington, d.c. this has been alive for about an hour right now. tell me kimberly what the pentagon has foicial officiallyn saying. >> as you point out it occurred at a training camp for al shabaab fighters. we are told there could be more than 200 fighters present and according to u.s. intelligence, there was training away to launch an imminent attack against u.s. as well as somali and african orion union resistance. a decision was made to launch a drone strike, 150 we are told by the united states as the number of fighters killed.
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the u.s. saying this was as a result of intelligence that they received that the u.s. acted on, in training for an imminent attack. to put it into context, the u.s. has been conducting these strikes for a while now, september 22nd, an al shabaab leader was stain out, the u.s. has stated in fact its goal really is to continue to dismantle al shabaab particularly when it threatens u.s. as well as somali interests, in any mea possible, diplomatic, financial, as well as militarily. >> that is kimberly halkett. russian air strikes have committed what he's describing as a massacre of civilians in
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idlib province. riad hijab says it is a pattern of the ceasefire, whether or not to go to the talks next round, in geneva. monitoring groups say war planes bombed a fuel depot in idlib killing at least 12 people. our diplomatic editor james bays joining us live from geneva pep on the one hand you have this james, but mr. hijab says, you have got these all going apart and all things considered it's not too bad. so what is the general state of play? >> reporter: well, i think it's worth reminding everyone, david, that the syrian talks were supposed to be restarting right now. they've been delayed for a few days. the u.n. still saying that the official start is wednesday. but then you hear the comments
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there mr. hijab who represents the main opposition block and it is not clear yet whether they will come and certainly they won't be here on wednesday. he says they'll make a final decision on friday. the opposition says there are several reasons why they are worried about the situation. these violations of the cessation of hostilities, certainly there is reduction, but all sides say there have been violations. he has said there needs to be a release of prisoners and he's saying there needs to be more humanitarian supplies arriving at some of the besieged areas. i think there is definitely going to be a delay and of course the problem for delay for the international community, there's a real risk this could all unraffle if there are further violations of cessation of hostilities and perhaps a major incident then there's real problems that this process could unravel.
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that's why the u.n, knowing it's not actually going to get underway with all sites on wednesday wants to say the process will begin again on wednesday. >> thank you, that's james bays in geneva. thousands of palestinian streemption beepalestinianteacha strike. millions are out of school because what's happening there, nah diem baba is our correspondent. nadim baba is the correspondent at that point. >> the teachers are angry because they say they haven't been given a pay raise for years. some are getting by or trying to get by on just 500 u.s. dollars a month. they have second jobs to make things meet, some say they have
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to to rely on charity handouts. >> translator: if my two girls relied on me, they wouldn't get hardly any new clothes. but the neighbors give them hand me downs. that's the definition of bitterness. >> reporter: there were talks between a temporary committee representing the striking teachers and politicians but crucially the government wasn't involved. it says it will only deal with the official teachers union but many of the striking teachers say it is too close to the palestinian authority. the head of the union has accused some of those mobilizing these protests of being politically manipulated by different parties. but many we have spoken to say they are not interested in politics, just a decent wage. what is clear is this is largest grass roots mobilization of palestinians for a long time.
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>> do stay with us for this in just a moment. the legacy of a man whose name you don't know, ray tomlinson, but you do know what he invented. stay with us for that. and that nuclear testing ground for more than a decade, the steiny island in the pacific taking the world powers to court. and we'll tell you how fiji's hopes for a world championship lie with the rugby team. in a moment. moment.
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>> celebrity chef, marcus samuelsson. >> i've had the fortune to live out my passion. >> his journey from orphan to entrepreneur. >> sometimes in life, the worst that can ever happen to you can also be your savior. >> and serving change through
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his restaurants. >> we hired 200 people here in harlem... these jobs can't be outsourced. >> i lived that character. >> we will be able to see change. >> the hid lines. turkey is asking the european union for an additional $3.3 billion. and intense certifying turkey's border with syria. gun battle between an armed group and security forces in the tunisian town. somali officials say number
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is 27, fighters were killed by a drone strike on a training camp north of mogadishu. as the european union leaders get together in brussels, hundreds of refugees is been moved to a better camp, claiming better conditions for those who have nowhere else to go. al jazeera reports from a place just outside dunkirk. >> reporter: all day there's been a steady line of people waiting to board these buses. parents and children, groups of men. in all more than 400 have made the short join to what they hope will be a better life. and it could hardly be worse than how they've been living until now. tents and sheets of plastic, sinking into the mud, on this scrap of waste land. the locality mayor has played a
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key role in rescuing the refugees. >> translator: whether you like it or not, these refugees are here. we are not allowed to send them back to where they came from because they are escaping from war. they have to be another place to live. >> and these collection of cabins, the state has failed to act, the voluntary sector has taken the initiative. access to this camp is based mural on need. msf says it's not imposing controls or restriction on who can be sheltered here. that is in big contrast to a container park set up by the french officials in calais, where members have to register their palm print the they want to get access. aid workers reject the idea that providing decent living
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conditions will attract more refugees. >> translator: this camp is not a ma magnet. that's what people are afraid of. fleeing persecution. >> reporter: the authorities are expected to start clearing out the old camp on thursday. by then, the vast majority of refugees should be safely installed here avoiding the kind of confrontation witnessed in calais. jacky rowland. al jazeera, grand cinq, france. alex bazay, denies taking $1 million and buying a mansion in beuj. abuja. missing malasian airlines
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flight 370, 239 people on board went missing two years ago on the way from kuala lumpur to its destination, beijing. adrian brown reports now from northern china. >> the world's greatest aviation mystery has touched so many communities, rich and poor. the velg is one of them. adverts still encourage local men to apply. that is what he did. he was 1 of the 154 chinese passengers on mh 370. last march on the first anniversary of the jet's disappearance, his younger brother told me believe the plane had been hijacked. he still believes this today. >> this has had a huge impact on our family. this is endless store chur and pain. we will remain in this abusive
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pain unless the truth is discovered. >> a year ago, we also met his missing brother's wife and their young son. the family home was adorned with happy memories. but she has since left the house after a row with her inlaws over the airline's compensation offer. the vult th result is that the s a pawn. >> she wanted to accept the compensation but my parents did not want to. we grabbed the son back. >> reporter: this means his sister-in-law could now end up with nothing. time has almost run out. the deadline for families to file a claim against malasian airlines is march the 8th, two years since the plane disappeared. now on the eve of this anniversary the fannie mae has finally lodged a claim, seeking
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compensation of at least $1 million. claims have been filed in australia, malasian and u.s. courts. compensation has taken its toll, on families who may never know the cause of their grief. adrian brown, al jazeera. >> strikes against australia and u.s., annually exercise which would include more than 300,000 south koreans and 17,000 u.s. troops. pyongyang says the drill which will last until the end of april is an excuse for holding invasion rehearsals. thousands of displaced people on the island of mindanao is, holding truce, rob mcbride
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went to the province to speak to those affected. >> reporter: life is getting back to as near normal as this troubled part of mindanao will allow. neighbors return to their homes for the first time since an tack two weeks before. they come to inspect -- an attack two weeks before. with a family to support, hurriedly collecting clothes and possessions. >> translator: my only concern is getting back into the house. we have a tire repair business and it's our only source of income. i have certain children and i'm really afraid for their future. >> reporter: but she won't be moving in back yet. what was woouns bustling once ag community, allegiance to i.s.i.l. it points to graffiti and
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propaganda materials the fighters left behind as proof. also abandoned a makeshift workshop for improvised bombs. 20 people mostly fighters were killed in the fighting. >> translator: most residents are traumatized speacials the ee women and children. >> muslin fighters have been fighting for independence for years. a peace accord meant to bring an end to hostilities in mindanao was signed two years ago between them and the government but its failure to be passed by politicians in manila says analysts is leading to an increase in violence. family connections between some of the fighters and members of the main separatistis separatis. they have dissented any involvement and a truce still holds, looking uneasy.
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also putting pressure on the peace is the presidential election campaign, turning up the political temperature in this sensitive region. it doesn't make for a happy or safe homecoming for people of butik town. rob mcbride, al jazeera, philippines. unprecedented legal case to be heard in the netherlands. failed legal obligations on disarmament. lawrence lee reports. >> reporter: people pay a lot of money to go on holidays in places like this. but in the years past, capacity for global destruction. >> the united states government now wants to turn this great destructive power into something
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for benefit of mankind. >> for one, the u.s. went to these islands to try persuade these island dwellers that the tests would be for the greater good. there were 67 tests along the chain of islands. the marshalees islanders have suffered the effect. >> i can just go down the list of my wife's family, you don't have to go very far and almost every marshal islander ask do this, my wife's mother died from cancer of the uterus. >> the hague has to decide whether the marshal islands has a case against the united states. the u.k, india and pakistan on the argument that they breached a legal duty to disarm. similar logic is be used against
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u.s., russia and china. >> what the nuclear arms states are currently doing and for decades, is that a good faith implementation of their disarrangement many obligations? the fact that in this country the united kingdom there are plans to renew try dent for decades to come? very little if any willingness of these states to participate in multilateral disarrangementmendisarmamentneg? >> do the nuclear powers believe they really have a case to anxious. in india for one it seems apparently not. >> it is difficult to establish, that what india and pakistan are doing, away we could say what they are doing during the nuclear test, hurt them. what india and pakistan is doing
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now is going to hurt them. >> reporter: nowadays the marshal islands have other things to worry about, rising sea levels and climate change are threatening their entire existence. winning their case in the hague is hard enough, lawrence lee, al jazeera. >> try imagining a world without e-mail if you can. whether you using it for work or to keep in touch with friends and family, whether you're just swamped by spam and marketing messages. no matter what your position, e-mail is probably a pretty big part of your leave. now world is saying good-bye to the man credited with actually inventing it. ray tomlinson was his name, he was 74. caroline malone has more. >> reporter: ray tomlinson inis vented the first messaging
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program in 1971. he also worked on e-mail standards and to avoid confusion chose the at symbol to separate the user name from the host name. it became a while before the situation became popular but now over 200 bill messages are being sent every day. he was indeducte inducted into e technology hall of fame. >> did i know what i was doing? yes, i did, i had no notion whatsoever what the ultimate impact would be. what i was doing was providing a way for people to communicate with other people. >> he certainly did that and his work has inspired others to create yet more messaging systems giving us is many options we have these days to communicate with people all over the world. >> from electronic to the physical type of invention now,
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what have doctors come up in bolivia has provided a relatively inexpensive way to treat people who have congenital heart conditions. babies born in the andes mountains, holes in the hearts pnl be disnldaniel schweimler h. >> the be condition that failed to close up after she was born. >> after the operation, everything was better. i eat better, it's easier to walk up the hills, the stairs. >> the problem occurs at altitude. la paz is 3,000 feet. >> two months after the operation everything was better. i could breathe better and do
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things i couldn't do before. >> his solution is simple, a stent is inserted with a catheter, and then resumes its original shape to plug the hole in the heart. with local anesthetic, the procedure lasts about half an hour. >> translator: as soon as we're happy that the deposit is in the correct place we simply pull out the wire. >> developed procedure as a young doctor using sheep and stents of anniversaries sizes, sown bsown sewnsewn by women in. >> the solution can be very small and very simple. this small and simple. these tiny things are used to
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block holes in the heart and can give patients an active and healthy life. the hospital has treated more than 500 bolivian patients and 50,000 from around the world. the doctor has received international awards and his product is distributed globally by a german company. but he's frustrated he can't do more. >> translator: there are a large number of people at altitude in the mountains suffering this problem who don't have the money. we need to focus to ensure that this technology reaches all of the children not just some of them. >> the doctor is critical for bolivian authorities for not investing more in health and to the medical community, for investing in what he believes is a simple solution that hits bolivians more often than most. >> we've got sports coming up in a minute, from two wheels to
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four legs. an olympic champion. and: >> i'm haru mutasa, i'm e-i'll introduce you to a community trying to keep a language alive. alive.
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>> people who are in remote parts of zimbabwe are struggling to keep their languages alive. 16 languages are recognized in the country's constitution, but not widely taught in schools. latest on our series of
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disappearing language, haru mutasa is seeing how the cha dialogue is dying out. >> reporter: these men are in their 70s. they are speaking cha, which last various tones and click sounds one of 16 official languages but facing extinction. >> currently there are 11 speakers between the ages of 4597. and we can say the slang critically endangered because there are no young speakers at the moment only 11 elder speakers. >> he's teaching why young people in the community. >> we use it to stay mountain bush. cha was all we spoke. we never mixed our communities but today our children grew up in societies where there are
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many speaking many languages. our language is dying. >> in the colonial years, white settlers forcibly moved them from their habitat. they married into other tribes such as the n nabele and kalang. >> it's too late for me to learn how to write it but i really want to speak it. if my children also learn maybe we can speak it more. >> cha has no written record, it is a marginalized language that is not taught in schools. the vocabulary is also limited. the elders are creating a dictionary, there are no words are in cha for the fork spoon or the car. telling stories and singing old songs is one way of passing the language from one generation to the next. the elders want the language taught in schools. the government says it is working on that but even though
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11 fluent cha speakers don't have much time left, they want to keep their cultural identity alive so it will still be spoken long after they're gone. haru mutasa, al jazeera, zimbabwe. here is jo in doha with sport. >> david thank you very much. he dominatethe nfl for 18 years but peyton manning's career is finally at a end. he has confirmed his retirement at the age of 39. final game with the broncos last month, named lead mvp and made $400 million in career earnings. >> i stayed at it for 18 years. and i hope that old number 19 is up there, with its flat top and maybe his black high tops on and
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i hope he knows that i have stayed at it, and maybe he's even a little proud of me. there's just something about 18 years. 18 is a good number. and today, i've retired from profootball. pr prpro football. >> no man has thrown for more yards than peyton. more touched passes than any other player, 539 and involved in the most wins, 200, including post-season win. and that win number 50 against carolina. >> he's a trend setter. a guy that so many players look up to. you talk about nfl greats this
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time, tom brady, and he continues to look up to but peyton manning continues to set the bar. he is a quality football player and he will be sorely missed. i miss him already because he's my favorite player in the nfl. >> governing body says it will investigate russia continuing to break doping rules. russia needs to meet a series of antidoping reforms, if it is to be allowed back into the rio olympics in august. still working with russian athletes. adam scott has made back to back win as he prepares for the masters. scott won at augusta in 2013,
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against rory mcilroy. trouble on the final home but the australian pulled off a superb recovery, when mcilroy failed to make the championship his. adding to the honda classic award he took the week earlier. delayed by blizzards, the largest sparing event ever held by greenland is getting underway on monday. are from across the world's most isolated regions, there are nine teams from scandanavia siberia canada and alaska, taking partly in traditional events unique to their regions. paul reese has more from greenland's capital nook. >> reporter: now, the arctic
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winter games are tiny when compared to a winter or summer olympics but the mere fact that it's in the arctic, makes it a unpredictable situation. there have hardly been athletes. there are no roads going between the towns and city in greenland. the only way into nook is by boat or plane. on sunday a huge snow storm blew in meaning the athletes from northern russia, scandanavia and north america were unable to get here. that's why the games are so important to people in the region. athletes would not normally get a chance to compete against their peers. they live thousands of miles apart yet share the same culture. the weather now has cleared up so planes are coming in, bringing athletes bit by bit, if it stays like this, then on
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monday they will get a chance to compete be that for most of them will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. >> for a pacific island of fiji the sport their best chance of winning their first ever olympic medal. they won the las vegas 7s, and beat australia 21-15 in the final. it was fiji's second win of the series and lead south africa in the overall standings. barely a year after sitting on a horse for very first time double olympic cycling gold medalist victoria pendleton says, she will ride, she landed her first race a jockey last week. critics say it's an accident waiting to happen.
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and that is all the sport for now. back to david in london. >> you have to start somewhere jo, thawmed. thank you very much indeed. since the u.s. and cuba restored diplomatic ties, lucia newman joined the young set. >> reporter: another sign of the changing times. thousands of young children the most popular american electronic music stars perform in havana's eanlhavana'santi-imperial tribu. right in the space of the u.s. diplomatic mission. this is furthest things from the minds of these young people today.
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there is a new president both here and in the united states and the things that bring the young generation of both countries together like this music are what are taking the center stage. >> translator: i've come to the anti-imperialist tribunal without caring what's behind it. i love electronic music. >> this is something we have been waiting for, for a long time and thank goodness they have come. >> i have come here to enjoy diplo. >> all these just days before u.s. president barack obama comes to havana. young ones who haven't been born at the height of the cold war, what will become the norm rather than the exception? >> it makes your eyes go funny doesn't it, and your ears. lucia newman, from havana about that's it.
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we're handing it over to the young set with maryam nemazee. thank you.
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