tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera October 16, 2017 2:00am-3:01am AST
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holders era food in world news. this is al jazeera. jane doesn't this is the news live from coming up in the next sixty minutes as kurdish fighters mobilize in kirkuk iraqi forces advance towards the city. anger and sorrow two hundred seventy six people are killed in the deadliest single attack in the somali capital. last year looks set to elect one of the world's youngest leaders in a vote that marks the country's shift to the right plus. i'm not in california in
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a moment i'll explain why the government is looking at smacking something my size into something that size to save the earth. we begin with breaking news of the advance by the iraqi army towards the kurdish held city of kirkuk the reuters news agency is quoting iraqi of tenant colonel salah saying the objective of the advance is to take control of the k. one airbase and oil fields located west of the city and this comes as kurdish peshmerga fighters gather to the south of kirkuk as tension rises over the disputed region the peshmerga took control of kirkuk in two thousand and fourteen when the iraqi army was pushed out by eisel forces baghdad now wants it back rocks kurdish region held a secession referendum last month and its leaders are pushing for independence but
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these developments came hours after kurdish leaders meeting to discuss the crisis they've rejected demands by the iraqi government and now the outcome of the independence referendum. we are ready to start a dialogue with to solve problems between us your ject use of weapons according to the iraqi constitution weapons can be used as a means to solve internal problems we hope that weapons will not be used in any areas including in kirkuk puzzle is about is director the center for the study of the middle east at indiana university joins us on the phone from bloomington very good to have you with us so it seems that iraqi forces are on the march why do you think this is happening now was it inevitable it was inevitable yes after the referendum of the offices of the from. so long as the kurdish leadership moved to
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make a compromise which is why the united states the united nations the european union and the entire international community urged the kurds to delay the referendum so long as the kurds were willing to remain within iraq who control who and the oil fields in kind of cool was not as critical an issue after the referendum on their independence while there was a de facto kurdistan the presence of. the stakes became much much higher and the sun fortunately as a result i mean it could be an extraordinary battle couldn't we hear that kurdish forces are mobilizing we heard that the governor that advised people to grab their weapons whatever weapons that they have i mean what are we looking at here. it could indeed be a case. could be that iraq will descend into some sort of the pre hobson's state of
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all against all i pray that we are able to avoid that we have also just just as i was getting on to your program i saw a report i do not know if it is true that the governor of critical to the net to be right now i don't know if that is true but i did see such a report coming across so the situation obviously has been some chaos but i am hoping that saner heads will prevail that the united states will in particular the united states will intervene i'm going to ask about the united states i mean we can assume that same they must still be u.s. military advisers sydney at the k. one military base so what sort of role do you think they would be playing here. well i hope they are playing a role of a mediator i actually don't know why but that didn't sit on a renunciation of the referendum because the position that it is unconstitutional and the and illegal and the international community's position that it is
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illegitimate means it is in fact unlucky so there's no reason really to have insisted on a the numb see action by the kurdish side of the referendum but at this point the role of the united states needs to play with its allies in iraq is that a mediator and facilitator of a dialogue making it clear that the iraqi constitution which calls for the unity of the country within a federated system. that is u.s. policy and that is what the united states has a problem and the solving of the problems between the two parties including some legitimate grievances that the kurds have a book about but this is not the way to solve that yeah i mean to to be seen as an extraordinary measure to take a last sort of desperate measure considering that they were recent talks clearly which have failed well look problem of course that the president of the kurdistan region was refusing to hold negotiations with before the referendum. that
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has now reciprocated by saying we will only speak with you now after the referendum if you renounce the results of the referendum and there was a lot of responsible talk from the kurdish thought before the referendum about drawing the borders unilaterally. as well as drawing them in blood and so on so there's been both sides i think of escalated and the united states has not appeared to have been engaged or at least has certainly not been successful in deescalating the crisis between and how engaged is iran in all of this. iran has been engaging in shuttle diplomacy between appeals to name a new book that iran is a really engaged one might think that is not in the interest of the united states nor indeed of iraq's arab neighbors. but i must say saudi arabia has also attempted
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to play a role as well as some of the other arab states of attempted to play a role mediating but this is something which really requires. the weight of the united states to come in and to make it clear that it will not allow this sort of chaos i must say what is occurring now been indicated what the united states' position was before the referendum that the referendum would be a distraction from the fight against i think we can see precisely what the united states meant and how right they were saying well let's leave it there five zero is your body as the iraqi army moves towards the kurdish held city of kirkuk good to talk to you shock disbelief sorrow somalia is in mourning after two hundred seventy six people were killed in a massive suicide bombing in the capital mogadishu the blast being described as the deadliest single attack on record has also left hundreds injured it's still not clear who carried out the carnage somalia's government is blaming al shabab but
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a senior member of the group has denied any role catherine so i reports from nairobi in neighboring kenya. when people in somalia's capital mogadishu are trying to come to terms with one of the worst car bomb attacks ever a truck bomb exploded outside a hotel at an intersection lined with government offices restaurants and shops hours later a second blast struck another business district in the city most of the buildings in those areas have been destroyed still being pulled out of the rubble president mohammed up to live visited the scene his government has declared three days of mourning and you know. the target of these terrorist is not government officials but civilians as you see here there are no government buildings only civilians who are going about their daily life we have to come together and fight these monsters until we eradicate them from our country. speaking to al-jazeera the united nations
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deputy special envoy to somalia say despite such attacks the security situation around the country has improved a great efforts have been made by the government to particularly secure city but also other areas in in the country but nevertheless when one is desperate enough to get through these kind of things do happen and we've seen it yet again into mali and fortunately doctors are doing their best with limited resources to deal with the many people who have been injured dozens are in critical condition several have lost limbs so. what happened yesterday was incredible i have never seen such a thing before and the death toll is uncountable corpses were burned and no one could recognize them. attacks on soft targets like markets and restaurants have become common in somalia says this in a part is just how large it was and the devastation it has caused right now people
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are in hospital supplies like blood are i did he needed many are wondering how someone was able to drive a year called path to the. plosives into the heart of the city katherine zero nairobi kenya. hundreds of somalis have marched on the streets of mogadishu to voice their anger against the bombing some of them said they have lost faith from the state's ability to protect ordinary citizens so it is a growing targeting somalis foreign ministry has been seen as an attempt to destabilize the government of president mohammed abdul he from recently announced a military campaign against armed groups including al shabaab which has stepped up attacks across somalia in recent months the effort is being supported by the u.s. which is also stepped up drone strikes against the rebels the head of the u.s. africa command met with in marjah just two days before the attack that meeting
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coincided with the resignation of both the defense minister and army chief without giving any reasons. summertime is a somali scholar and professor at the university of minnesota and he joins us now from minneapolis it's very good to have you with us else about hasn't claimed responsibility for this at this stage can we assume that it would be are there any other groups who are capable of conducting such an attack the scale of mobilizing so many people to do such a thing. i don't think the claim by al shabab is true because the truck came from a region of the country west of mogadishu were they control and as you said there is nobody else who has those capabilities and shabaab has done something like this but only smaller form i was more in mogadishu in two thousand and eleven giving a lecture at one of the local universities when they blew another of this kind but that one killed maybe
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a third or fourth of the population that is so in my mind there is absolutely no doubt that it's al-shabaab and we've seen an increasing amount of attacks over recent months it seems that al-shabaab is it is indeed al-shabaab has been severely underestimated why is that is it because it is seen as being mainly localized. i think what happens both with the african union force including the support by the united states and the european union that morticia has been by and large freed of control and therefore they assume because they have lost some of the other cities they have been weakened but if you are dealing with a guerrilla war. using the regular conventional military strategy that won't work because they can easily hit as we saw today or yesterday anywhere at there are there will the somalis soldiers who patrol those roads are so poorly paid that the
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able to control these things because they are struggling to live and to put food on the table for their children and the pay they get which is quite irregular is not insufficient enough for the international community's agenda is absolutely dead wrong in my opinion including the united states yes i think in the united states radar you can see that have never come earlier on donald trump interrupting opened the door for more military intervention in somalia are we likely to see an increase of that now. i don't think we'll see any more than they have already done what needs to be done in my opinion is to provide the resources necessary to mobilize ten to twenty thousand somali security forces that are highly more wild that are professional in nature and who have resources unlike imus some of those people in my opinion will be able to drive into the sea but as long as the amazon forest african union force and the american sort of drones and all of that stuff
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will be able to stay in power in the countryside where they run roughshod over everybody else that's the policy you are getting in that area and when i said well also ensure that they remain in power well i mean it's a perfect breeding ground or absolutely so what you need to have a highly more while the somali security forces supported by the international community or somebody else the arab world particularly the muslim arab world have never really come to the help of the somali people over the last thirty five years or so and so what you have is an incompetent by and large government that has doesn't have the resources and international world that just simply wants to contain somalia to itself an african union force and the african union itself in essence who really pays the least amount of attention to this problem and poor somali folks have been in this stall drum for almost thirty years now so it seems to me unless the somali people themselves wake up and the movement that you saw
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today in the mall the three streets in the streets of more dishes seem to be suggesting that the people are beginning to get fed up unless that happens i don't think the current strategy which is only military and that legs a political agenda to bring some of the people on board under some other political process unless that is done i think we will see more of the same hopefully not in this magnitude all right at the summit or thank you good to talk to you. the final assault has begun to root out the last fighters in the northern syrian city of rock up u.s. bacteria and opposition forces say almost all the civilians and about two hundred seventy five i saw fighters have left iraq under a deal brokered by tribal leaders on saturday between two and three hundred mostly foreign fighters are still thought to be inside said this update from kentucky in turkey's had to power. fighting in iraq is confined to a few areas in the center of the city the s.d.f.
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which is a coalition of kurdish fighters backed by the united states of america is shelling those areas with the hope to try to evict eyes of fighters from from there now there's been an attempt to back to buy time for a deal backed by tribes and you know how to convince i said quietly and work with draw but that didn't work some of the foreign fighters insist that he would like to stay and fight to the death but this is why the significant development here the sense that i said is goosing ground is losing their self-proclaimed capital in iraq . but also in this suffering some major setbacks the loss the city of. pulling out towards areas on the border with iraq in two thousand and fourteen or fifteen was hoping to use iraq as a platform to expand. and. that is now
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being with us. meanwhile government forces have retaken the town of maya deen in eastern syria after intense fighting with i saw my dean had become a refuge for i saw fighters forced out of areas they once held in syria and iraq the syrian army now controlled several roads leading to i still controlled neighborhoods within the province. and to my head on the news including. venezuelans vote in a regional election that has been seen as a test for nicolas maduro embattled presidency plus. some of california's worst wildfires are now known to have killed at least forty people. and in sports roger federer gets the better of his fierce rival rafa nadal the shanghai marks.
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austria's conservative leader sebastian kurtz has claimed a victory in the general election just thirty one this will make him the world's youngest leader his people's party won more than thirty one percent of the vote but he will need to form a coalition government as david chase reports the results marcus shop shift to the political right. and emphatic victory for sebastian kurtz just thirty one years old and already the chancellor of austria in waiting his first call to party headquarters of a thank you to supporters he described as making the impossible possible. today the voters men and women in this country gave us a great mandate we must be aware of this opportunity the women and men are putting their hopes into this movement we will use all our strength and all of our fight to bring about change in this country i invite you to go on this path with us there is much to do to establish a new style a new culture
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a politics political analysts say his victory makes it clear the turbulent rise of right wing populism is far from over of course this is of course. so. labeled the whiz kid joined the campaign the leader of the conservative people's party achieved his ambition by being tough on what he called illegal migration curt's has been accused of ruthless opportunism vie his former coalition partners stealing the clothes and the policies of the hard right. no one party has an absolute majority in the national parliament sir coalition will have to be formed but who will kurtz now choose as his partner. most bets are on the hard right freedom party led by heinz christian straka it's been more than a decade since they've been in a governing coalition but tonight they were celebrating a significant surge in support the little people called the club people see this
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shows the tree as it looks who will be able to celebrate the best result in the history of the party and it also shows that the wish for change is strong in austria. that feeling might not be shared by austria's muslim community the card of islamophobia has been successfully played in this election leaving them more isolated and vulnerable david chaytor. vienna. a former governor of aden who is leading a movement for southern yemen secession says a referendum will be announced soon. as the baby set out is to say she has plans to thousands of supporters and supporters in yemen's main southern city they were marking fifty four years since the october nine hundred sixty three uprising against the british it's a baby as previously formed a council that wants south yemen to secede so if yemen was an independent state from nine hundred sixty seven to nine hundred ninety one and merged with the north
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. israeli army is confirmed that at least two rockets were fired from egypt sinai peninsula towards the region near gaza on sunday a code red mist warning was sounded after the rockets were detected but the army reported the missile apparently exploded in gaza airspace there's a geisha has been started by israeli authorities but it's not known at this stage if there are any casualties the egyptian army says it's foiled an attack in northern sinai killing twenty four members of an armed group six egyptian soldiers died defending it against a raid on a checkpoint in the area near the city of russia gyptian troops say they searching the area the bodies of twenty six people thought have been killed in an ambush last week have been found in eastern democratic republic of congo the victims disappeared after they were attacked by fighters in north kivu achieve in the area says most of the bodies had their hands tied and then next broken more than eight
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hundred people were killed in a series of massacres in the area between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen. south african president jacob zuma is visiting democratic republic of congo where he held talks with these counterpart joseph kabila the leaders discussed regional stability in the great lakes countries and the security situation in d.l.c. more than a million people have been displaced in the region with civil armed groups waging attacks against state and international institutions malcolm where has more from goma. the security situation here in the democratic republic of congo has deteriorated in recent months in the southern cosign province a conflict between local armed groups and government forces killed thousands more than a million people have been displaced the army has been accused of abuse isn't much because which it denies here in the east last week attackers killed un peacekeepers and civilians near the town of benny the week before an armed group attacked the
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town of the vera always comes in an absence of presidential elections which were meant to happen in november last year at the end of president joseph kabila second constitutional. electoral commission says it needs more resources and more time to be able to prepare the election for the opposition say president kabila is trying to over stay in power and he's now ruling illegally the international community has expressed concern that a lack of a democratic process could lead to an escalation of congo's conflict but a lot of the people here in congo think it's the other way round a lot of people think that powerful politicians are deliberately escalating conflict at this time to create a state of conflict so bad that it's not possible for elections to go ahead. fire officials in california say they've turned a corner in the battle against wildfires that have killed at least forty people thousands of firefighters are working with special aircraft to tackle sixteen major blazes north of san francisco's rob reynolds reports. ten thousand firefighters are
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now battling what have become the deadliest blazes in california history the fires have burned approximately eight hundred sixty square kilometers in the wine country north of san francisco since october the eighth one hundred thousand people have been forced to evacuate and more than five thousand buildings have been destroyed dozens of people are still unaccounted for this is truly one of the grace if not the greatest tragedy that californians have faced the devastation is just unbelievable it's a horror that no one could have imagined high winds on saturday fanned the flames the winds intensified and. the fire just grew in size and quickly those conditions forced some families who had just returned to their own to flee once more and huge sea of police officers from all over the state basically
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came in with their bill horne's mandatory evacuation leave immediately amidst the devastation one family unexpectedly found life if you can maybe. the weaver family's house was destroyed but their dog izzy somehow survived unharmed after running away as the flames approached it was one of the greatest moments of my life it was elation came off here on the corner and we can expect to see here we are just there at. the house my parents and see what we can find and. praying that you know she came bounding out. tears and officials say firefighters are making good progress in containing some of the sixteen separate fires burning in the area aircraft have dropped nearly eight million liters of fire retardant on the flames there is rain in the forecast for later in the week which will greatly help firefighters in their efforts to control an extent.
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