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this is al jazeera. >> hello. this is the news hour live from london. coming up in h the next 60 minutes. as the u.n. questions the health workers say 70% of the children in the greek camp are sick. israelis stabbed after a day of attacks. to over 28 missing minors and president's right to rule. in sport, maria sarapova
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talks about her failed drug test. ahead of her doping ban. and u.n. is questioning that would see refugees and migrants sent back to turkey, the agency says it is concerned about the face guards in place to protect people after a night of talks the e.u. in turkey reaches a tentative agreement that was the refugee migrants arriving in greece, sent back. and for each syrian refugee returned, a syrian in turkey would be resettled in the e.u. that leaves more than 34,000 refugees trapped in greece, as they try to reach e.u. country. many are in the refugee camp where health workers say 70% of the children are sick. diplomaed it editor reports from geneva.
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>> the european union has had plans to deal with the crisis before, they have all failed. h is more than 140,000 people have arrived by sea. that going much further than anything tried before for the first time they say those that arrive will be september back. it is controversy, already the refugee agency has expressed concern and questioned it's legality. do you fear that currently the proposal in this shot the european convention of human rights. on the agreement that would be tantamount to blanket return of any foreign news to a country that is not consist. is not consist with international law. >> even tougher criticism
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which was negotiated in the early hours of the morning is come from human rights organizations. it is an extraordinary idea, a deal that may sound good, but in the light of day it is fought with problems. the f the idea of taking part in the global responsibility, global sharing of refugees is to make the number of syrian refugees it takes in conditional and the number of syrians prepared to risk their lives in a boat, well when that is decision making from the heart of a moral. >> e.u. leaders meet again in just over one week and the u.n. wants clarification by then about the new plan. there are just potentially legal problems the e.u. knows the world is watching and picturing of desperate people have been moved will be deeply controversy. >> james because al jazeera of the united nations.
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meanwhile, the greek coast guard continues to pick up hundreds of refugees crossing from turkey on their way to the island. mohammad is there and september this report. bun by one, they stagger off the poet and on to the island. men, women, and children, exhausted by relieved their journey from turkey to greece may be a short stretch of water, but it is a dangerous one. hundreds have lost their lives this year, when their boats capsized in h the sea.
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boats go out to rescue the refugees. >> this movement, facilitated by smugglers, is happening because there aren't any credible alternatives. >> from the port the refugees are taking by bus, here they are registered and given temporary accommodations. the greek government is trying to reduce congestion, by putting them in camps like this one for as long as they can. they also stopped giving the refugees special ferries. >> greece, the stop in the european union on the rout from turkey is now with the refugees in a humanitarian drama that follows five years of nonstop crisis. >> open the borders. and open your hearts. and open your eyes. and look around you.
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open your ears. listen to people. >> e.u. leaders are taking the solution to the refugee crisis on persuading the turkish government to stop letting refugees across the sea, to enter greece. it will be a while before the impact is fete's. there are growing concern for the health of the 14,000 refugees in the overcrowded camp on the greeces that done yeah border 70% of the children there are ill. little have more than a at the present time to shelter them from the rain and cold, and the camp has poor sanitation. the health ministry has sent a team of disease control experts to the camp in what it says is a precautionary measure. the refugee at that camp in greece is saying they are determined to continue with their journey, and not return to the country they left.
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>> we are going to stay here, we have nothing left there, we will stay here and go forward and hope that germany or sweden will accept us. >> some people like turkey, and some people don't want to go and some want to stay here, and some say that no, if we stay here we don't want to stay here, they should deport us i appeal to the entire world to see us and the conditions that we are in, and have compassion for us, it is enough, enough, have some compassion for these children for the women, have compassion for all the sickle mothers in the turkish coastal city where many of the refugees set off to europe. also where the greek and turkish prime ministers have been holding talks on the crisis. we know that cooperation between greece and turkey
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will be crucial if the e.u. deal is to work. what has the turkish prime minister been saying about that? >> well, the press conference was held a few minutes back, and in that they emphasize that one of the key things that greece and turkey want to do now is to cooperate. they said that they had agreed on a frame work to try to stop the flow of refugees, to tackle the refugee crisis, they didn't really devil into too many specifics they left it to that generality, but said they would be cooperating more soen in the future at the prime minister had said that they were issues a common response to those in europe who would say that the refugee crisis was the responsibility of greece and turkey to bear alone. obviously this was going to
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be high on the agenda coming as it did a day after the meeting in brussells. which prime minister and greek preen minister have attended. the day of talks today took much longer than originally anticipated. we expected to hear them really address the situation with a bit more clarity, as far as what the two countries were prepared to do. one of the things that both prime ministers said they didn't want to do was to crack down on the human smuggling rings and it was interesting today, that this meeting took place of course the headquarters just behind me there, one of the prime marries year that is -- that the refugees utilize to try to take these makeshift boats and make that perilous journey across the sea into greece, and where we are standing is really just a few minutes from the part of the
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city where any given hour, of any given day, you will see a thriving human smuggling market. that is going on. dozens of smugglers, hundreds at any glymph moment, prepared to fork over their money smugglers to try to get them from turkey into greece so clearly even nose treatments have been made, lit take a lot more of an effort on both countries to try to stem the flow of refugees thousands of whom are still leaving turkey to get into greece. >> in the coastal city thank you very much. now for more on this story, i am joined by alexandar bets he is from the refugee study center. thank you very much for speaking to us, so quite an extraordinary plan being agreed here between the e.u.
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and turkey in return for some of the refugees that are currently in turkey, what are the problems you foresee with this plan? >> on a legal level it is unclear whether it is passable with international law. with transferring responsibility for protecting asylum seekers to a country that has an appalling human rights record, that this week closed down one of the newspapers that attacks it's own population and e assuming that turkey can be the warehouse for the refugees. it is likely to be politically unworkable, because it resets from turkey to europe and not clear that the political will is there. it is unclear how those that return that may be regular migrants will be treated. will they be deported it is ask appalling proposal on all grounds and it is likely that
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it is illegal and unworkable. >> the commission is says that this is a legal system, and i suppose that the main reason he is saying that is because from europe's perspective, turkey is seen as a safe country to send refugees back to how problematic is that. >> they claim that they are a safe country is dubious, assay lum procedures there is a mechanism to transfer responsible but it accepts up criteria, that means that the country has to guarantee the right to what is called nonreform, the right of those people not to be returns to a country where they face persecution, and that haw moon rights to be respects, but in previous submissions and arguments the european union has suggests that turkey doesn't comply, it has a dysfunctional system. ever it can't guarantee the
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human rights of it's own citizens. that extends the frame work of the 1951 convention to people who come from outside europe, so othere are no guarantees that turkey can protect people so in that case, let me ask this the other -- crucial dimensions to this, which is 3.3 billion in cash that is going to turkey, which is double what was initially pledged late last year, is that like oily to go some way towards improving the asylum system, so that it is more transparent, and it can be reforms in the way that you described and secondly emaking the lives of refugees better in h some way, those that are currently in turkey, will you be looking for clarification around those issues a we hear more about this the president will delights with the concessions he has extracts including the money. he says will it be go towards
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builting capacities pop we need to see a system that can guarantee the protection of refugees rights. we need to see ointegration, before we start sending people back to turkey, it is very well saying the money is there to maim improvements was we have to make the improvements before we sent people back, there's a lot that has to be resolved the real questions and international organizations like the u.n. refugee agency have to ask those questions there's a lot that needs to be done to refine this deal. and elements that need to be considered before it is workable, viable, and consist with international law. >> good to get you analysis on this, from the refugee studies center. there's more to come for you on the news hour, tub knee sha says the attack on the border was brought by the islamic state. a somber anniversary, otwo years on the families of
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those on the malaysia flight are still searching for answers. and in sport, record goal scorer has upset his clubs fans ahead of their latest champion league game.
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the fighters are blamed for several atracks includin inclue shopping mall attack. >> moving to a developing story in occupied east jerusalem. an israeli man was stabbed in a suburb of tel-aviv. the alleged attacker was killed by police. and then in a separate incident two israeli policeman were shot near damascus. a palestinian man allegedly opened fire from a motor bike. he was killed by police. police have shot dead a palestinian woman. the palestinian witness says the 50-year-old was not carried a knife, when police opened fire in occupied east jerusalem. al jazeera nadine barber reports from west jerusalem. >> these attacks on tuesday are a reminder of the low levels that on going violence
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increase in attacks on individuals which really started in earnest last october. and started in the east jerusalem, and sparked some say by the increase visits by right wing jewish groups to the al ac a mock. interestingly, tuesday's attacks didn't just happen in occupied east jerusalem, but in different parts of israel as well. on tuesday, evening there was what is israeli media are calling a stabbing spree by a palestinian attacker. in the port city of afterfamily which is proved fatal. the attacker himself, has been shot dead by israeli security forces. just a while before that, east of tel-aviv in a place a palestinian attacker stabbed a rabbi inside a store.
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there are some reports that the rabbi actually wrestled the knife off the attacker and stabbed him to death, other reports saying that the attacker was killed by theless. and then in east jerusalem, in occupies east jerusalem, a palestinian on a motor bike fired shots at a member of the israeli police, who was seriously wounded, he tries to escape but then shot at one of the police who were following him. shot dead, and just hourswas before the police had killed a 50-year-old palestinian woman within the walls of jerusalems old city, they say she drawn a knife and attempted to stab one of the police officers. a palestinian eyewitness disputed that version. all of this really comes against the back drop of the
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israeli palestinian peace process going absolutely nowhere the vice president of the united states joe biden has arrived in israel on tuesday. he will be meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu on wednesday, as well as going to a few hours later to meet palestinian president. but many analysts here are really saying they are not expecting any concrete decisions or even calls for talks to come out of his visit. the peace talks the peace process is at such a dead end, that many people are looking to alternatives such a the recent frenching initiative. in israel there's a lot of cynicism about whether the situation really can change any time soon. south korea has announces sanctions against north korea an it's recent nuclear tests and rocket launch, individuals and organizations
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accused of being spotsble for developing weapons of mass destruction will be placed on a blacklist. >> now the family of the missing passenger whose were onboard malaysia airline a flight have been holding a vigil to mark the second anniversary of the plane's disappearance. white balloons with the names onboard were releases in a vigil, and in the malaysia parliament stood in silence, meanwhile, families of the missing demanded answers as they protested outside of a buddhist temple. bound for beijing in 24 teen. about an hour later communications from the crew creased and the aircraft disappeared from civilian radar. milt tray radar tracked it
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for another hour as it turned from it's scheduled rout and then vanished from the radar over the sea transmissions indicate it talent flew possibly for hours towards the southern indian ocean, following this arc off western australia which has become the focus of the search effort, lawrence lee has more now on the investigations and the anniversary the second anniversary of the disappearance of the flight was mark in a rather low key manner, politician held a minute of silence behind me, to remember all 239 people who were onboard the plane when it disappears. a team of investigators has also issued a report according to the organization, an interim report has to be issued on each anniversary until the final report has been issued
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unfortunately it does not disload any new information, or information that isn't already in the public domain. the prime min steer issues a statement, on tuesday, on the officialsy saying officials are all they can to find the plane and to solve owhat is being described as the biggest civil aviation mystery in history. now two rather encouraging possessions of evidence have been found. two pieces of possibly plane debris, were found, one on reunion island, and another now investigators will try to determine if this is indeed come from these missing 370. investigators have also said that they expect the third operation, which is on going in the southern indian ocean to come to an end in july sometime in july this year, and at that point, 3 countries china, australia, and malaysia will make a
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decision whether or not to continue the search operation. >> venezuela is serging for 28 gold minders who fails to return home from work. air force troops are looking for the men who are reported missing on friday. there are conflicting reports but they are saying there was a clash of gang members after a significant gold deposit was found, so far investigations have failed to find any bodies. the congress which is controlled by the opposition will discuss whether the state agents may have been involved. let's get more from the capitol and initially the state governor was denied the disappearance of these 28 miners what are they saying now? >> yes, the state governor who is a pro government leader has said that he doesn't have the evidence to confirm that these men were killed, but that he is willing or open to further
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the investigation into their deaths, but originally he had said that this was being used by the opposition politically motivated conflict to stir up discontent in the streets. however, he is now changes his position and also the only obuds men is scheduled to visit the town, so clearly there's been a shift in positions and they are willing to investigate these deaths. they have also said the opposition claims that these deaths were the result of criminal gangs that have control over these mining deposits. and that often times these criminal gangs operate in cohorts with the military. the only way that they can explain that the criminal gangs are so heavily armed and they seem to operate with complete impunity. >> the opposition has launched a campaign to effect ily oust the president what does that plan now? they have said that they need to put in place a sweep plan.
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they have talked act calling on people to take to the streets peacefully, to demand that the president resign, but they are also saying that they are going to pursue a constitutional amendment that shortens the terms as well as initiating the steps to put in place a revoke referendum each of othese plans has dent immy cases because they hinge possibility the fact that the constitution is president nuclear were to leave the coast before the second half beginning then the vice president could take over instead of calling for a new presidential election so again, they are going for the three prongs approach because they claim that the government has sequestered or kidnapped all of the institutions and that any attempt to try to modify the constitution would be blocks by the supreme court. so again, it is still unclear
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as to what exactly will develop but they are saying that a change is needed and that they are going to go all out and with all types of efforts. >> thank you. french researchers say the zika virus has now been p linked to a paralyzing disorder. a 15-year-old girl diagnosed in january had high levels of zika in her spinal fluid. it's the first ever published proof of a link between the virus and the disease. zika is also suspected of being microcephaly, a disease which called brain defects in newborn babies. voters in a number of u.s. states are going to the polls on tuesday. michigan and mississippi are both holding their democratic and republican primaries while in id citied hawaii, republicans there are casting their votes. michigan is really the big prize. with hillary clinton and donald trump, both ahead many the polls. >> still to come for you this
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hour. >> in northeast india, where the mine owner is still using children to extract coal. >> and in sporting find out which country have made a winning start at the world cup.
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anybody's done this. >> i really feel my life changing. >> techknow, where technology meets humanity. only on al jazeera america. to know more about thewants safeguards in place to protect them. the health of the 14,000 refugees at the overcrowded camp on the macedonia boarder is causing concern. one charity saying 70% of the children there are ill. and three palestinians have been shot dead by police after allegedly trying to kill israelis in occupied east jerusalem. seven israelis have also been stabbed in tel-aviv. >> now the obama
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administration is facing criticism about whether it has abandoned efforts to broker a peace deal. it did not cot out of the meeting in late november, a presumption of the peace process. >> the obama administration denies it's given up. and this motion that it's more about giving it up, and something that needs to be quick started would be conveys this idea that we just have thrown up our hands or that we did at some point. and that's just not the way we look at this isil, syria, north korea, some experts say that the president has given up on the mideast peace process.
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there haven't been face to face talks in several years. and then secretary of state hillary clinton launched the administrations first effort in 2010. john kerry tried again in 2013, both attempts fell apart, and a new effort has not been made. the former mideast advisor recently wrote that the lack of u.s. focus is putting the vision of a two state solution at risk. especially in the occupied west bank, and a tack on the palestinians. ross' solution, try one more time to reach a deal, but don't put so much pressure on the israelis to stop settlement building right now. laura freedman of american's for peace now, which opposing the construction called the use laughable. >> what this really is saying is we want to fundamentally,
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change the entire concept of israeli palestinian peace, we want to erase all of the understanding that both sides have agreed on since 1993. and we are going to start over, in the situation today. and we are going to do that in z the palestinians just have to accept it. >> in the end some say until they see a willingness from both palestinians and israelis to return to talks all they can do is wait. >> rosalyn dan, al jazeera, washington. >> there are reports they have started talks in an attempt to end the war. the talks coincide with an apparent lull in fighting oen the border between the countries and in saudi led arab coalition air strikes on the capitol. the houthis delegation are making the first visit of it's kind to saudi arabia since the war between the two began last year. knobben refugees in algeria
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are marking humanitarian day despite being able to return home. their celebrated their role in the fight for independence. 165,000 live in camps in southwest algeria. this woman's day would be beautiful if i could celebrate nit my country, and could raise my flag despite the mock ron cans, i have lived all my life as a refugee, and i will celebrate the day women in this country as ask occupied refugee. >> one british group is reveling in the push for gender equality, called the women's equality process. the goals are clear, more women in politics and equal pay. jessica finds out more. dozens of women gather on a
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rainy evening in a london gym. the equality party is choosing the candidate from london mayor. speeches, yes, but that's where similarities ends. no spoke filled back rooms but women who want to campaign and can't afford a babysitter. it is a game that basic clay favors people with time and people with money women have less time and less money. >> the money comes from the 45,000 members they have attracted in the last since months. sophie is visiting young entrepreneurs as she campaigns to be the next mayor of london. like many her motivation is frustration at the lack of progress in getting more women in positions of power this is really hard, it is
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terribly hard, terribly complicated, we will get to it when we have don't everything else, just wait. that's not good enough. >> the party maz a simple message, equal pay, equal opportunities and they don't mind as the more traditional parties take that issue over. >> what they want to do is if they are invited to participate in debates, invited to participate, is to force the other candidates to address these issues as well. not just about getting elected it is about shaping the agenda. >> there have been laws on the books of this country protecting the equality of women. that's find in theory, but in practice it doesn't look like that they earn far less money than men, and in parliament, only a third of the lawmakers are women. >> britt stain has one of the oldest elected assemblies in the world. but the lack of women up side parliament, the lack of voices being heard, challenging the country's claim to true democracy.
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>> al jazeera, london. >> now the united nations body responsible for emication is using international women's day to try to eliminate sexism in school textbooks, this is what they are talking about. in this example from zimbabwe, the father of the family is shown wearing a suit and counting money. while the mother looks after the chirp. in another from cambodia the father is seen reading to children, while the mother is sowing in the babb ground. inesse imageslize these reinforce negative stereotypes and undermine the education of girls. and it's not just limited to the developing world, this image from france showing a pair of children in a rowing boat, but the boy is in control, with the girl a passenger. they want to see more textbooks like these from norway, a father and daughter setting the table together, while a boy and girl prepare a meal side by side showing
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that household tasks are not depend on gender. a good lesson in there isn't there. i'm joined who is a policy analyst for the global emication monitoring report, thank you very much for speaking to us. i will start by asking you about the images we have seen in these books and cambodia that we were just describing there, perhaps the images that reinforce the negative gender stereotypes is there a scientific study about the impact that has on children particularly girls as they are growing up? >> yes, the issue of gender balance in textbooks is important, and it has been of course studies by a number of researchers, however, the power of the images that we have released today for the international women's day, is exactly that directness, what you get, by actually looking at these textbooks and the
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unfairness that they portray. >> what -- how come these books haven't been updated presumably, will be in touch with the authorities that organize and drive education in some of these countries is that conversation going on? are these textbooks permanently in place? >> well, these -- the textbooks have been around for a long time. under the education campaign since 2000, there was a lot of pressure on government, from many partners to really update this, and get rid of the biases, however, we did observe that after 15 years there are still persistence biases in several countries. and as you said, in the introduction, these also have been p in countries. >> yes, exactly, because we were just talking about images from countries like perhaps, as well.
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but let me ask you about the -- how much importance, how much significant should we attach to these images? even if you perhaps change what some of these textbooks are depicting, if attitudes within the classroom, within families and particularly in the home, don't change, then how much impact will a textbook have? >> for several years we have been monitoring parenting education, that means how many boys and girls go to school, and it is true we have seen a lot of progress in many parts of the world. however, what is much more important is actually what is going on in the classroom. and we believe that stereotypes and discriminating norms discouraging girls in the classroom, and limit their ambition for what will happen after they leave school.
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that is what we wanted to draw attention to. >> fascinating to get your thoughts on this, thank you very much. now three years ago, al jazeera filmed children working in coal mines in the indian state. a year after that, report the government -- the government banned coal mining in the area. so we went back to the state to see if the ban had any impact. he and many others switched to farming it makes much less money but says he is happier. >> mining definitely pays more, but if i think about my health and safety, farming is better. secure rounding his films we
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see eight active mines. the ban has had little effect, we investigate further and find al jazeera filmed him three years ago when he was a child miner. he was rescued by a charity, but his back to working in the mines. people like me don't have an education, who will give me a job? allky do is manual labor and rely on himself. >> he confirms mines are still operational, and that chirp are still being used as labor. he takes us to meet some of them. the smaller one is his brother he says hess 13. >> coal is very hard, sometimes when it break stones like it crew yeas a spark. my pick ax has broken, what scares me the most are the ghosts down there. >> these boys make five times more than the poverty line here. but the mine owner offers them no protection if things go wrong, and it's dangerous work.
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not fit for children. may also have to buy all their own equipment, no one wears a helmet. >> this mine is too large, it continues to extract coal in violation of the court order and using children, these kids and their families are calling the cycle because mining is all they have ever known. they just don't know what else to do. coal is extracted before the ban went into effect, was allowed to be transported, all new mining had to stop. but that was two years ago, that transport of coal from these mines goes on. >> we showed the evident to a local member of parliament, who also used to own mines in the region. >> i don't believe there's no violation, so many kids have been fired people have been arrested, but you see, when you are building the business for so long, and people are -- >> all the ban seemed to have done is force the smaller
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mine owners to clench down while the bigger ones owns by the political elite have continues to operate unchecked. and the children who work in them seem to have no other alternative. al jazeera. east hills in north eastern india. >> more to come for you, a computer to south dreian who is trying to do just that. also. where the arctic games are bringing competitive sport to the most isolated communities. find fantasy shows. when it comes to the things you love, you want more. love romance?
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now a battle of man verse maz sheen is about to get underway in south korea, the best professional player of the chinese board game go will take on an artificial intelligence system created by google. harry faucet explains the outcome could say a lot about the future of a.i. it was hardly las vegas caliber, the current champion didn't sound too aggressive. but if the style was low key, the substance was a match for any big name. i won't let my dad down, but given the time constraints but i think i am better. my predictions is either 5-nil, or 4-1. >> from south korea is the dominant figure in the ancient chinese game. his opponent in a best of five tournament, worth more
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than $1 million is an about official system. it beat the european champion last year. now it is designers say they want to learn by playing the game's great etc., either that or they want no arguments once they have beaten him. >> we want -- we think this will be a very historic match, so we wanted a legendary historic player, somebody who has been at the top of the game and acknowledged as the greatest player of the last decade. >> the game is similar, black verses white, equal value players places turn by turn. the complexities specially for a computer lies in the zero number of options open to each player. and how to determine what make as good move. to win a game you want to try to control the maximum amount of territory that you can on the board and so you choose the intersection of the lines to place your pieces strategically trying to avoided them being surrounded
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by your of point, because at that point they vanish. >> among these young enthusiasts there's no doubt about the likely winner. >> i think it is more about technical moves. >> i think he will win, because when it comes to go humans are more intelligent than computers. >> they have tried to find a way to combat human intuition, rather than trying to computer possible outcome of every move, a second one evaluates them where one or other side is winning at that moment. so what if alpha go wins? >> if a machine can do that, they can be kind of a different paradigm of computation. so really human line the people of deep mind are hoping will it be a historic moment in the development of
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artificial intelligence. al jazeera, seoul. >> here now with sport. >> thank you so much. well, maria sarapova is starting to count the cost of her failed drug test, as big name sponsors cut ties with the highest paid female sports star. she has admitted to testing positive for a banned substance. richard parroters. i made a huge mistake. i let the sport down, i let my fans down. that i have been playing since the age of four, that i have loved so deeply. >> they have shockerred the world of tennis. >> i wanted to let you know a few days ago i received a letter from the i.t.f. that had i failed a drug test. i did fail the test, and i take full responsibility for it. >> the drug is sarapova says
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she knowed and her family doctor has prescribed it for her for the past ten years for health reasons. >> we are happy that she was upfront and very honest, and show as lot of courage to admit to what she had done and what she had neglected to look at in terms of the list at the end of the year. >> the substance is mainly used for patients with heart conditions as well as alcoholic seizures. it is one of the biggest exports but it is not licensed in many countries including the united states. it's been on the world anti-doping agency watch list for more than a year, but only became a banned substance on january the first. sarapova says she didn't know it had beened ad to the list. >> the substance that has been mentioned is a particularly serious substance. it comes under the classification of hormones and hormone modulators, and it's considered to be a
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substance where there would be perhaps the most serious penalty applied which could be up to four years, of course, for a first offense. >> sarapova has won five grand slam titles and the sports star. the swiss watch maker, ended their contract, thought to be worth millions of dollars a year. >> many were expecting the 28-year-old to announce her retiement, but she has no planned to walk away from the game. >> we are all used to maria being a fighter on the court, and that's the way she is. so i think that maria will fight on after. whether it is handed down. >> sarapova will be suspended whatever her punishment will be, along with the recent match fixing it is another call for tennis. richard par, al jazeera. >> champions league games coming up in the next hour,
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madrid coach isn't about to be sold, he was booed by fans during saturday's 7-1 league. even though he scored four times comes after criticized his own team mays. renaldo and real back at the bout for their game against -- they lead 2-nil from the first leg of this last 16. regarding the boo, i was booed too and i think all of us were. i don't think it is something focused on one player. i think that's something good for the players. to make them improvement and always give their best. i think the audience really loves these players. >> the game leading this 13-2, victory would see the germany team reaching the quarter times for the first time in their history.
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this is the preliminary phase when the games top teams enter the competition, afghanistan scoring 117, in 20 overs, scotland calling 14 runs short. zimbabwe edged past in the tournament opener, hamilton getting himself run out for 20 after he failed to ground any part of his body there. some late hitting from elton, scored 158 for the eight. jane atkinson hit a quick 15, but hong kong always struggling to keep up with the run rate. zimbabwe going on to win by 14. the winter gales wasted little time in living up to their name. snowstorm threatens to keep athletes away from the event in green land, around 1,000 athletes have flown into compete. reports from green land.
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green land has no onational road system, so boats are the only way to get through towns through tiny outposts like this. just 56,000 people live in is this vast country, a third of them in nook the worldest smallest capitol. you can really see how isolated and inhospitable green land is, with a population that would fit incited an english premier league football stadium, in a country not that much smaller than india, that's why it is so rare from people across the arctic to come together and meet in one place. >> that's where the winter games come in. medals competed for in sports in the summer and winter olympics. as well as traditional sports rarely seen outside the arctic circle. inging but the real victory
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is bringing together young people who share the same culture but live thousands of miles apart. in places like canada, russia, and scandinavian. >> it's been a hard fought victory with a storm closing the airport and strands hundreds outside until just before the first day of competition. >> we are supposed to come here three days ago and we were stuck back home. we are the arctic, and we need to be somewhere where it is the arctic to experience arctic winter games. >> sports med dis carrying the hopes and quite literally carries green landers, vital in getting athletes to the game. >> it is not like denmark or oany other country where you can drive a car, two hours three hours here we need to spend a lot of money just to see family. when you get to see the others it is nice to see that even though we are isolated and we think oh, it is only
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us here in the north, but we are not. >> the games finish on friday when they will begin the job of getting the pet eve get com. that is your sport. >> andy thank you very much. now an elephant has been saved after it got stuck in a well in central kenya. rescuing the 20-year-old male from the mud of the dried up watering hole was no easy task. conservationist shoveled mud to solidify the mud, and then dug around him, and pulls him out if hole with the aid of ropes and three cars it looks like they are throwing mud on him, he is been nothing tors and he said to be in good health. >> more on everything we are covering right here, aljazeera.com, that's it for me but my colleague will be with you with a full bulletin, stay with us.
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