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you can imagine. thank you for joining us. i'm richelle carey keep it here. the news continues next live from london. ♪ this is al jazeera. ♪ hello everyone i'm felicity barr and welcome to this news hour live from london. coming up in the next 60 minutes. a suspect is wounded and arrested in brussels in the latest of a series of raids after tuesday east attacks. two turkish journalist go on trial in turkey behind closed doors. they say they are [ inaudible ] freedom of the press. and a fleet of buses arrives at the greek border with macedonia to transport refugees
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to camps, but many don't want to go. and it's all over for pakistani cricket. the champions beaten by australia mean they can't now reach the semifinals. ♪ hello there. there have been raids in belgium and france as police try to break up the network behind recent attacks in brussels and paris. belgium police arrested three men in several parts of the capitol. two were shot in the leg during the raids. france's interior minister says an imminent attack was foiled in a paris suburb. and the identities of the 31 people of the people who died in tuesday's attack is still being established. >> reporter: police move in to
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apprehend a suspect. the man had refused to comply with their requests to remove his sack, and so they shot him. afterwards a robot was sent in to investigate. the man was wounded and arrested. those who witnessed the incident gave their reactions. >> translator: we heard a boom. we thought it might be a car accident. we then heard a second boom and saw heavily armed police. when we tried to get close, they told us to get out of the way. >> translator: we were asked to stay in doors all of the time it was going on, because the police were worried there might be another shooter. >> reporter: on thursday the authorities reduced the threat level. but as these events show, tension in this city is still very high. the incident was not the only one in brussels on friday. other people were picked up by the authorities elsewhere in the
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city. the investigation into the bombings now shows that one of the airport bombers was a man who's brother has now spoken to the media. he told reporters he had had no contact with his brother since 2013. >> translator: why did you stop contact with him? >> translator: because he was in syria? >> translator: did you try to get hold of him twrn he was in syria. >> translator: was it his choice or your families? >> translator: no it was a technical choice. our choice. i have no idea. there were no more contacts. >> reporter: friday is the last of three days of national mourning for belgium. but while the official period of condolence is coming to aengd, the official search for answers goes on. dominic kane, al jazeera, brussels. >> paul bring us up to date with the latest on this police investigation. where are we at right now?
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>> reporter: well, where we're at is a very fluid situation of police activity across the city. reports are coming in of raids happening in multiple areas. the prosecutor's office which generally issues media releases after the event, basically collates all of that, and we haven't had any confirmation yet, but we are hearing that the steady progress of the police over the past 24 hours continues. we heard of raids during the course of friday in three areas, and in two areas, two suspects arrested in each of those locations were wounded as a result of very robust police intervention. the police are not taking any chances. they are going in fully armed with full protection. i can just tell you by the way, the reason why i'm almost being
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invel .ed is there is going to be a moment of silence here. these are the first responders who went to the scene on tuesday morning. they have been commoned by facebook. the other thing that the prosecutor has revealed and it's really interesting, is that one of the three bombers at the airport it turns out his dna has been discovered both at addresses connected with the paris attacks and his d na has been discovered on explosive belts which were used. so the authorities and intelligence services have come to the realization that the cells are not two distinct cells, one for the brussels attacks, one for paris attacks, but one larger conspiracy.
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>> what about the people of brussels? we have seen of course there have been impromptu memorial and three days of mourning. what is the atmosphere like now in the capitol? >> reporter: it is shifting from the initial shock and grief that was felt tuesday into wednesday, three days of mourning coming to an end today friday, more to a sense of defiance and unwillingness to let fear be the prevailing mood. people here -- you can probably hear over my shoulder people have clapping, they have been gathering here to show solidarity. but they are coming out and not refusing to mingle in large numbers was the initial advice. they are coming out and hugging each other and showing each other support. >> paul brennan thajs so much. let's take the story now from brussels to france where
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the government says it has avoided another major attack there after police raided an apartment and found explosives and weapons. nadim baba reports from paris. >> reporter: the day after the dramatic raid in a paris suburb and france is wondering how close it came to suffering another major attack. security forces moved in on thursday night to secure an apartment here. they found both explosives and weapons. they were still there when france's interior minister addressed the nation. >> translator: this operation follows an important arrest this morning which has enabled us to defeat a perspective terrorist attack in france that was at an advanced stage. >> reporter: and this is the suspect. he was jailed last year by a belgian court for being part of a network sending fighters to syria, and was the suspected organizer of the paris attacks.
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inevitably many people in europe are wondering how such people can avoid capture and carry on planning these attacks. president hollande called for better information sharing between e.u. states. >> if we have this shared intelligence strategy, knowing where they might be, knowing where they can use their, quote, skills learned in syria, learned in yemen, better we have the capability of preventing these attacks. >> reporter: here in france politicians from the ruling party accept there have been security failures. >> translator: we did not do enough, and we did not act quickly enough. there were a number of measures
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that have been planned for sometime, and that need the european parliament's approval, especially the system to record air passenger's details so we can keep track of people's movements. >> reporter: hours before thursday's raid there was an outpouring of anger in paris. the issue that is bringing people on to the streets to protest might be changes to the country's labor laws, but many people in france are very worried about security, and more and more are asking what politicians can do to make them safer. and that's a question echoing around europe right now. nadim baba, al jazeera, paris. and we want to bring you breaking news out of iraq. reports are suggesting that at least 29 people have been killed and another 60 wounded in a suicide bombing at a football stadium south of baghdad. so at least 29 people reported to have been killed in a suicide bombing at a football stadium south of the capitol, and we'll
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bring you more as and when we get it. the u.s. says it has killed the man in charge of ill's finances. the u.s. defense secretary ash carter refused to say how or where he was killed. from washington alan fisher reports. >> the momentum of this campaign is now clearly on our side. >> reporter: the u.s. claims this is a significant step in the battle against isil, the killing of the group's main money man. >> we are systematically eliminating isil's cabinet. the u.s. military killed several key isil terrorists this week, including, we believe, hajy iman, who was an isil senior leader serving as a finance minister, and who is also responsible for some external affairs and plots.
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>> reporter: this is that man. a former number 2 in al-qaeda, he transferred his release to isil on his release from prison in iraq. in the days after the attacks in brussels, the u.s. believes this is an important victory. >> if they are directed we want to get at the people and eliminate the people directing them. but even if it's just inspire ration, it still takes you back to iraq and syria, and the need to eliminate the sources of that inspiration. >> what we're seeing in the last couple of months was offensive attacks. these are signs of a group in retreat and signs of a strategic change, and for that end, eliminating more leadership becomes increasingly important as the group rethinks it's targets and strategy going
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forward. >> reporter: the operation to retake mosul from isil is gearing up. it's unclear whether the intelligence came from that allowed the americans to target this man, but he has a $7 million bounty on his head. and isil fighters are losing ground in both iraq and syria. the iraqi army says it has begun an offensive against the group in mosul. mosul fell to isil forces in june 2014. and in this syria government forces backed by russian air strikes are battling to retake palmyra. isil fighters took over the city last may. state television says the army is now inside the ancient city and is shelling parts of residential areas. palmyra's recapture would be a significant victory for president assad's forces. thousands of iraqis have been rallying in baghdad to urge
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the prime minister to form a new cabinet. supporters of a powerful cleric are calling for annen to corruption. tens of thousands of people turned up. they are demanding the prime replace some of his ministers. >> reporter: this is the main gate of the green zone which holds the offices of iraqi authority and western embassies. tens of thousands of protesters of the cleric and also civil society gathered here calling for reforms. flags, banners, and slogans were raised here saying there will be no retreat unless the iraqi prime minister makes real measures to fight corruption. the protesters want those who they say are corrupting officials appointed by previous governments to be dismissed. the protest comes at the time when iraqi prime minister is about to announce a new cabinet.
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he has said in this long-promised reshuffle, he will bring in specialists, ministers, and figures not aligned with any political party. we have plenty more still to come on this al jazeera news hour, including the latest on the investigation into the killing of an italian student in egypt. we'll tell you why protests have resulted outside of a paris police station. and two of barcelona's best are set to collide on the international stage. details with andy in sport. ♪ first large numbers of refugees on the greece macedonia border are continuing to defy orders to move to shelters despite worsening conditions at this makeshift tent city. about 10,000 refugees have been living in camp at the border for weeks hoping it will be opened. the greek government has now sent a fleet of buss to move
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them. zana hoda is there. >> reporter: this time the government in greece has been able to convince migrants and refugees to move from this area. some people are now convinced that the border with macedonia will not open. police and workers explain that the evacuation is volunteer, and the conditions are better. but the majority of people are still refusing to go. they prefer to stay here where they have been for weeks. for now they are blocking the railway tracks leading across the border. they are hoping the blockade will help persuade the authorities on the other side to let them in. >> translator: people came here to cross not stay in camps and some have been separated from their families. i have two children in germany. what if the relocation program sends me somewhere else? what do i do? >> reporter: they fear the program to relocate them will take months. we are human beings, they say.
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it may take some time to end the suffering. >> there are challenges in this relocation program, and they are due to logistical issues, the capacity is limited, so even the government is now scaling up. we know for instance that they are recruiting more people and so we know for sure that in the next days, the capacity will increase. >> reporter: greece is now home to 50,000 migrants and refugees. people are confused here. there is a lot of uncertainty, and the conditions are getting worse. according to the united nations, among a population of more than 12,000 people, 4,000 are children, and the tents have done little to protect them from the rain and cold. hussein and his family are so desperate, that they say they want to go back to syria. they have no money left.
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he sold all he owned to reach here. now they find themselves sharing a tent with dozens of others. >> translator: going back to syria is better than staying here. even though our house has been destroyed and we sold everything to pay for our journey. here we are dying. send us back. >> reporter: this is the latest flash point in the european refugee crisis. for now this has become their final designation, with more and more losing hope. in turkey the trial of two turkish newspaper journalists accused of espionage against the state has been adjourned. the editor in chief seen here on the left arrived earlier at the istanbul courthouse surrounded by supports. the paper released a video claiming to prove turkey was smuggling arms to turkmen
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fighters in syria. they say they are defending their right to practice free journalism. >> translator: we know that we are right. we stand by our story. we believe that the real culprit should stand on trial. we'll ask for our acquittal. >> translator: journalism is not a crime. today in a country where tensions are still rising over basic human rights, we will tell the court that journalism is not a crime. we will explain this for you, for me, and for all of us. this is a must. the only words i can say is we didn't commit a crime. >> our correspondent harry fawcett went this update from istanbul. >> reporter: an inconclusive end to the first day of this criminal trial of these two newspaper journalists.
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mr. goel when he came out said since they were released they have been experiencing a kind of half freedom. he said that they would remain in that state of half freedom for another week now while they awaited the next trial date. this centers this case around the two men's publication in their newspaper last may of a story and indeed video. the newspaper said, showing that the national intelligence agency was transporting arms into syria for use in the syrian civil war. the newspaper said it was -- they were being transported to jihadi fighters. the government denied that, saying the cargo was destined for ethnic turkmen. there was a furious reaction from the government, especially from the president, who said the
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journalist would pay a heavy price. he and his colleague are charged with trying to overthrow the government, with espionage, and committing a terror act. they said they were simply performing journalism. >> thanks for being with us on the program, and i guess no real surprise that this particular case is going to be held behind closed doors. >> no, it's -- it's a real travesty of justice. these two journalists were doing investigative reporting. they come from a newspaper which has a long history in turkey, and they have been accused of espionage. if they are convicted, what you are doing in turkey is criminalizing investigator reporting.
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>> there has been concern about press freedom in turkey for some years now. do you since it is getting worse at this point? i think the president said he would extend the definition of a terrorist to both academics and journalists. >> yeah, the situation has been bad for many years, but now it's getting really bad, and we have seen an increase in prosecutions of journalists, and just the very repress i atmosphere and climate in which journalists are operating. it really took a turn for the worse after the press came out with accusations of corruption against the president and his son. >> what is interesting, though, is that the constitutional court has said that the men's rights have been violated and they are journalists and not terrorists. that goes against everything, of course that erdogan is says, so in some respects he is not getting it all his own way.
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>> no, but immediately that ruling came out, erdogan shot back and said he didn't have to agree with the constitutional court. now you have the president of the country, who is bringing prosecutions against journalists for insult. he has brought 1,800 such cases against journalists since he became president a few years ago, just totally disregarding the highest court in the land. >> why do you think he feels he is talking here from a position of strength when it comes to the way journalists are treated in turkey? >> well, he has used his powers both as prime minister before and now as president to co-op the press, the press in turkey is owned in very few hands, and they have been intimidated for many years. there are independent journalists, and courageous journalists, such as the ones on
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trial now, but for many years erdogan and his party have had the upper hand. and when they don't like what a media outlet is producing, they take it over. just this month they decided two newspapers were not reporting in a way they deemed fit, and so they -- they engineered a takeover of that newspaper group, and silenced that voice. from one day you saw headlines in the paper that were critical of the erdogan administration, and the next day, suddenly the paper has become a booster for erdogan and his government. >> things right now certainly very difficult for turkish journalists operating in turkey, but is it the same for foreign correspondent coming into the country? >> it depends. i think that most foreign correspondent that are based in istanbul, and there are a lot of
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them, know exactly what they can and can't do, but it is difficult for them when they go down to the southeast of turkey, and try to report on the fighting down there, the pretty vicious fighting between the pkk and the turkish army, and several of those have been detained over the last few months. some have been expelled from the country. so it is difficult for the international press too, but it's the turkish journalists that are bearing the brunt of this, and they are the ones going to jail. >> good to are you with us. thank so much. police in egypt are blaming a criminal gang for the torture and murder of at italian student. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: egypt's interior ministry says gang members posed as police officers, and this is what they say they found at the scene identity cards, a
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passport, phones and a bag bearing the italian flag all belonging to this murdered italian student. the 28 year old went missing on the 25th of january. the fifth anniversary of the uprising in egypt that toppled the president. the student's body was found in a ditch on the outskirts of cairo ten days later. autopsy confirmed he has been tortured his body beaten, burned and electrocuted. his friends and family have been holding rallies and vil ijs ever since to keep up the pressure on the investigation. the cambridge university student had published articles critical of the government of the president, and was researching egypt's trade union movement. rights groups blame security
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forces. the government has consistently denied the allegations. >> translator: it's very annoying and frustrating to hear of accusations and rumor about the involvement of security agencies. >> they have a long history of unaccountability and i believe this has to do with the way the police -- police force and police -- policemen are being trained right when they are cadets. they -- they are trained to disrespect human rights. >> reporter: an exchange on egyptian state tv two weeks ago does little to dampen suspicions of a government coverup. he says we haven't found a scapegoat yet. the tv host responds this is
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funny and sad at the same time. egypt's interior ministry says all four members of the alleged criminal gang were shot dead on thursday, the same men now being claimed for the murder. all right. as this al jazeera news hour continues we'll tell you why chinese authorities are believed to have detained at least 20 people for publishing a letter. the philanthropist of north korea, why the secretive state leaders are opening their checkbooks to fund a cambodian museum. and in sport football figures and fans worldwide pay tribute to the man who changed the sport.
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>> from rural midwest to war-torn mideast. she went for the money and found a greater calling... ♪ welcome back to the news hour, and reminder of the top stories. three people have been arrested in brussels in the latest police operation linked to tuesday's suicide bombings. mobile phone footage shows
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police shooting a man in the leg. u.s. government says a senior isil leader has been killed in a raid on thursday. the pentagon says he was in charge of the group's finances. and syrian government forces say they are closing in on the ancient city of palmyra which has been under isil control since last may. more names are emerging of some of the hundreds of people killed, injured or missing following tuesday east attacks in brussels. friday's prayers were dominated by the attacks. jacky rowland reports. >> reporter: a solemn moment of commemoration. students at this islamic school in brussels have just learned that their gym teacher was among those killed in the metro bombing. the school of governors are still digesting the news. they are shocked and angry.
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>> translator: we can't be anything but angry and reject the beliefs of these people who claim to be muslims. there is no religion in the world that advocates killings of human beings. >> reporter: she was a young mother with three sons. at school she was popular with students and teachers alike. several people we spoke to said she was like a sister. her students have been encouraged to express themselves in drawings and poems and messages. the other teachers hope this will help the children come to terms with their loss. in mosques around brussels the attacks have dominated friday prayers. muslims have been thinking about their place in belgian society, and they are worried about the future. >> translator: it's totally natural that we are afraid of what is happening. we have part of this society. >> translator: my son asked me,
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dad these things that are happening, does islam permit that? i said no, religion forbids that. >> reporter: this muslim member of the brussels parliament says the actions of a few radicalized young men have overshadowed her whole community. >> i hear that of my own children, it's like can we still say that we are muslim, shouldn't we be secret about it, or can we say it allow. it's like, really? everything that has to do with religion has become contaminated. >> reporter: events of the last week show that muslims are just as likely to be victims of attacks as other members of society. they also know that the perpetrators have hijacked their religion to justify these acts of violence. jacky rowland, al jazeera, brussels. protests have rerupted outside of police stations in paris after a video emerged of
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an officer beating a teenager. students reacted angrily pelting two stations with stones, and setting off tear gas canisters. the reporting took place at an anti labor reform demonstration on tuesday. and shows two policemen holding up a 15-year-old boy while another punches him. the serbian government has accused the war crimes tribunal as being biased against serbians. the former serbian leader was convicted of genocide and found guilty of ten charges, including the genocide in 1995 in which 8,000 muslim men and boys were killed. >> translator: the serbian government equally condemns crimes committed by members of the serbian unit, and condemns the crimes committed against the serbs.
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each crime should be punished as well as each individual who took part in it. we will not allow anyone to use the verdict against the former president of the republic to point their fingers at us and our compatriots, and this verdict must not be used to jeopardize the freedom and survival of our people. chinese authorities are believed to have detained at least 20 people in connection with an open letter criticizing the president. threater was published earlier this month on a state-backed news site. florence looi has more. >> reporter: a chinese dissident living in the united states says his parents and younger brother were taken by police on tuesday and haven't been heard from since. he says police have been harassing his family members for more than a week after he was ak soussed of helping to circulate a letter publiced online. he denies any involvement in this.
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according to him, several employees of the website that published the letter have also been detained. now this is also being reported by a news agency who say that at least four employees of that website, including the ceo and the a managing editor have been missing and out of contact for a week. these developments come about ten days after a prominent journalist disappeared just as he was about to board a plane to leave beijing. it is widely thought that his disappearance has to do with the letter as well. the letter was first published on a news website. the letter was published anonymously, the signatoriries only calls themselves loyal come communist party members. but they accused president xi of concentrating power in his hands of abandoning the principle of collective leadership, and of cultivating a personality cult around himself, and it also urged him to resign for the
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future of china and its people. the these recent developments suggest that the authorities in their eagerness to get to the bottom of this, to find out who authored the letter have been deepening and widening the crackdown to the extent of detaining and arresting family members. this is a worrying trend for activists, because it suggests that not only is the government very intolerant of criticism, but there seems to be pattern of going after critics. the united nations have condemned what it calls the gruesome alleged killing of a wounded palestinian by israeli forces. the palestinian stabbed an israeli soldier on thursday. the video has mermed purportedly showing him being shot in the head after he was incapacitated. the israeli army arrested one of the soldiers, and is examining the video. the u.n. coordinator says the
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act would increase tensions in the area. government leaders in ethiopia are promising to address demands made during recent protests. rights groups say at least 200 people may have been killed in a crackdown by security forces. john stratford sent this report. >> reporter: this two children say they were shot in their legs it happened during a crackdown during an anti government demonstration near their house last month. >> i was in the backyard when i was shot. i couldn't walk. then i was hit again. when i was on the ground, i felt the pain, then my brother came
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to help me, and he was shot too. >> reporter: despite the government crackdown, sporadic protests continue. anger among the people ethiopia's largest ethnic group was sparked by an integrated development plan. the government says it wants to improve roads, development, and services in the region. the people say it's land grab. the government has now canceled the plan. it says it wants to consult the people on how to move forward, but people in have for decades accused the government of corruption and ignoring their rights. there have been protestings in towns and villages across this region. it that's largest region in ethiopia, stretching hundreds of kilometers around the capitol. local and foreign journalists have suffered intimidation and been detained. human rights investigators say
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they are literally putting their lives at risk trying to gather accurate information. this investigator insisted we hide his identity. >> translator: it's very dangerous. everybody is living in fear. they imprison people every day. people have disappeared. doing this work is like selling my life. >> reporter: this lawyer describes what he says are testimonies from families of the dead. >> many of those people were killed after the protests took place. many of the people were shot in the back. some were shot in the head, which shows [ inaudible ] demonstrators, and that corroborates the reports we had from the victim's familiar list. >> reporter: the government says the government says the claims are exaggerated. >> those involved in excessive use of force, for example, will
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be held responsible. >> reporter: the two recover at home. young people who so many say suffer the consequences of demanding a better life. charles stratford, al jazeera. microsoft has been forced to withdrawal an artificial intelligence chat robot from twitter. the chat bot was only launched on wednesday, but within hours it had gone rogue. in one tweet it wrote: referring to the former u.s. president, george bush. and then it said donald trump is the only hope we have got. most of those tweets have been deleted and microsoft says it is now making adjustments to the
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chatbot. amy is the president for the foundation for responsible robotics and joins me via skype. thanks for being with us. why did this particular bot start tweeting these inappropriate remarks? >> right. well it certainly wasn't a malicious attempt on microsoft's part for the chatbot to engage in these kinds of conversations. it was actually learning how to have successful conversations with other individuals based on the kinds of twits that were sent back and forth to the bot and the users. so really all of the data that it was collecting taught it how to engage. there was a coordinated effort of individuals to send these offensive, racist, discriminatory tweets, and this is how the bot was actually learning, and thought this was
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part of its successful conversation. >> to me it seems -- i'm not an expert, but it does seem rather strange that microsoft didn't predict that when you start using something like a chatbot with young people, because i think it was 18 to 24 year olds, that actually they might attempt to sway tae to the wrong side? >> yeah. there is a systemic problem at this stage in robotics that there is no joined up thinking between the computer programmers and the social scientists. something like this could have been mitigated. we could have taken steps to avoid this kind of negative ethical consequence. >> do you think we'll see the bot back online shortly? >> i'm not sure if we're going to see it shortly. i think microsoft will go back
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and hopefully have a sample size of millennials from a variousty of religious backgrounds or other affiliations or interests, so that tae can learn from the cohort, and then maybe go back on twitter and try to engage in these conversations again. >> i guess the sad side of all of this, is it proves humans have this propensity to go to the worst side of things rather than the best. >> right. and this is also something that is important for us to acknowledge and recognize. when we are going to have artificial intelligent agents in our homes interacting with our children, senior citizens, and with us, we need to understand that there are virreds out there that want to hack the system and make these kinds of adjustments. so we have to have private sa and security measures put in place before we have the wide-spread introduction of these sort of systems?
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this >> we have been talking about ai for years, but i think many people would be surprised that it is becoming a reality. >> absolutely. in japan they are working on a receptionist that is embedded with ai, or you have a barbie that uses ai to interact with the dhirn users so the barbie can learn more about the child it is playing with, and taylor its behavior towards that child. >> fascinating stuff. amy thanks so much for joining us, thank you. >> thank you. north korea is renowned for many things, but cultural philanthropy wouldn't be the first to spring to mind. however, government leaders have given millions of dollars in funding to a museum in cambodia.
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with 45,000 figurines this is the main attraction at the new museum in see 'em reap. the center pays homage to the ancient civilization that built cambodia's famous angkor wat complex. but this museum is entirely built and funded by north korea. the museum certainly has some interesting features, but the question is, why would the north korean government spend millions of dollars building a museum in cambodia about cambodia? the management here says the project rejects the close ties between the two countries. north korea even sent more than 60 of its top artists to paint the panorama. >> translator: i think that they spent 24 million to show
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goodwill and because they see the potential for tourism here. secondly they appreciate the culture and history in angkor wat. >> reporter: but some analysts have a different theory. for the next decade all revenue from this museum will go directly to north korea. observers believe this is a new way for pyongyang to circumvent international sanctions, and bring in much-needed funds. >> this is a business venture. i think it's one of those things where they are experimenting. they are in desperate need of hard currency, and this is one way of doing it. >> reporter: the museum certainly isn't advertising its north korea connection to visitors. when we told tourists where their dollars were going, they weren't impressed. >> translator: i don't think it's fair for cambodians it's on cambodian land, so cambodians
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should benefit. >> it wouldn't be a government that we would be supporting really, but that might be in question. >> reporter: it's unclear how lucrative the museum will be. right now business is slow, and at this rate, the north korean government will have to way a long time to get a return on thank -- their investment. still to come on the program, all of the sport including the man everyone in basketball wants to emulate, finally meets his match. ♪
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hello again. in a few hour's time the rolling stones will take to the stage i concert. it is a significant moment for a country where rock music was banned for decades, but now the stones are ready to show cubans what they have been missing. lucia newman is in havana. >> reporter: until recently this was the closest that a legendary british rock star had ever come to cuba. now the countdown has started for what promises to be the most exciting rock concert in this country's history. the rolling stones are coming and no one wants to miss them. >> translator: when i was her age i dreamed of going to a concert like this. but it was never within our reach. >> translator: it is the first time we will see something like this. and maybe the last. we want to travel abroad to
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stheem. >> reporter: the famous british band has brought in some 500 tons of equipment and will be playing before an estimated crowd of hundreds of thousands. ♪ >> reporter: this will be the grand finale of the rolling stones latin america tour, but only here are they performing for free. ♪ the stones sent a message on youtube to the cuban people with mcjagger speaking in pretty good spanish, saying this was an historic concert and that he hopes the cuban people will see it that way too, but practically no one has seen the video, because internet access here is so limited. still it will be an extrordanaire event in so many ways. >> translator: cuba is not on the circuit of major music tours, so you can imagine. also the stones span three generations of fans. >> reporter: it's also worth
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remembering that for decades rock music was banned by the cuban government. president barack obama's visit here earlier this week was always historic, but now cuba is being embraced by a rock band that is a living legend which would seem to indicate that cull turley cuba has come full circumstance income pakistan have been knocked our of kikt's 2020 world cup. australia beating the 2009 champions by 21 runs. it's a win that strengthens the aussie's chances of reaching the knockout phase and elise holman reports. >> reporter: nothing short of a win would be enough for both australia and pakistan. the aussies were batting first and lost early wickets.
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but captain steve smith began to swing momentum back in the australian's favor. [ cheers ] >> reporter: he would hit 7 boundaries in an unbeaten inning of 61. shane watson who announced he would retire at the end of the tournament also proved crucial. they help set a victory target of 194. [ cheers ] >> reporter: james faulkner would be the destroyer with the ball for australia. [ cheers ] >> reporter: this player was on for 14 for what could prove his final game for pakistan. but this day longed to faulkner. as australia won by 21 runs.
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>> we had to really dig deep and think about -- and think about it next time going forward. i think that needs to be addressed that when you pick someone you have to really look at the fielding aspect of the game also, which i think we lack. >> let's have a look at the qualifying group. two teams progress from each group. new zealand are already there. they played their last game against bangladesh on sunday. strayia now must beat india to reach the knockout phase. and the west indies has a narrow win against south africa. chris gails early exit gave south africa hope. and with 2 overs left, 20 more
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runs were required, but this 6 in the last over, eased the team's nerves, and the windies closed out a 3-wicket win with 2 balls to spare. the windies likely to face [ inaudible ] or australia. england can end the mathematical pondering with a win over sri lanka. >> we have obviously not performed at our best throughout the whole competition yet, which in a way is quite exciting because we know that's still to come. and the really pleasing thing to me is we're finding ways of winning cricket. as long as we continue to do that, you know, that's all we can really worry about is making sure we get that win tomorrow, and give ourselves the best chance of qualifying. >> reporter: netherlands's is
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celebrating the life of johan cruyff. the game will be paused for a moment of silence. now a similar tribute was paid on thursday night during this game between the dutch sides. cruyff is credited with revolutionizing the game. he died on thursday at the age of 68. >> translator: he was also a great coach. to begin with, but of course above all at barcelona, where the brought the playing philosophy. he has succeeded throughout his career as a coach in winning great trophies. aragain
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now brazil are currently fifth in the qualifying standings and will be in action a little later on. they will be taking on uruguay. suarez expected to make his international return after the ban he received of course for biting during the 2014 world cup. now it's pretty hard to get tickets to see steph curry and the golden state warriors in the nba this season, but if you are in san francisco you can see his new wax work. it took a group of sculpt ters four months to finish the piece. that's it for us.
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>> solidarity in the sent of brussels, as the city mourns, three more suspects are taken into custody. very good to have your company, i'm david foster, you're watching al jazeera, live from london. also coming up in the next 30 minutes. two turkish journalists are taken into custody, defending they say the freedom of the press. transporting refugees to camps, many say they don't wan