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for happens we have this little story crawling on the seat which we believe any model or scavenger but certainly of a fish crawling into fish with poison we don't know yet so that's quite amazing just to see that the same the exciting to see new and surprising behavior and nature for the first time the significance of this is much greater antarctic so a fish frequently feed on the surface so in a brittle star in the bottom those traps the carbon in the bodies on the sea floor this idea has implications for understanding how carbon is being removed from the atmosphere it's a process that could be playing a role in slowing down manmade climate change. kurdish fighters say they feel betrayed as the iraqi army claims all of kirkuk
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province from peshmerga forces. welcome to al jazeera life or my headquarters in doha would be in the purana also ahead. so aside bombers target two mosques and have gone a fan can in more than seventy people plus still the ritual. they have broken the rule of law a basic principle of the european union. and in just a few hours spain's expected to unveil details of its plan to take control of caution and. i'm andrew thomas in sydney all australians right system a recent survey suggests as many as one in four people here are that's despite this country being on paper one of the most multicultural in the world.
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iraqi forces have claimed control of all of coca province after intense fighting but kurdish peshmerga forces the army says they captured the last play which is situated at a base and with the help of shia militias stephanie deca reports from the front line with some peshmerga to fill the been betrayed. the new front line opened early friday iraqi forces together would have still shabbier shia militias move towards peshmerga positions. in kurdish it's around thirty kilometers south of erbil on the road to kirkuk. yes they are attacking in out and play another attacking from dbase also and there's nothing we can do about it. the coalition forces to come in and help as it hit the peshmerga no doubt we have martyrs. a steady stream of reinforcements were sent throughout the day blankets and mattresses packed in with the soldiers ready to defend their positions many here
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feel betrayed by iraqi government leaders in baghdad some fellow kurds and the international community. in reality when we used to fight i saw everyone used to plays the peshmerga they are brave they are fighting for the world and now they have done this plan they are attacking us as i see right now everyone is turning their backs on us. mortar shells machine guns were fired throughout the day well it's going to everyone here is tense. there's a heavy presence of ambulances here waiting to take any of the injured. back to our . prime minister has ordered iraqi forces not to enter abele and to stick to what he called the two thousand and three lines this is all about disputed territories longstanding on resolved issues between baghdad in or below. about who controls
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what the peshmerga gained more territory since two thousand and fourteen is pushed out of many areas the iraqi army used to control and last month's referendum on secession seems to be the final straw for the iraqi government to neighboring countries who oppose kurdish independence the irony there were very similar scenes just a year ago as the peshmerga iraqi government forces and shia militias moved in to ward a common enemy i saw but now their guns are turned on each other stephanie decker al jazeera on the road to kirkuk well kurdish peshmerga forces continue to hold positions on the outskirts of all phone company they say they're ready if the situation so the escalates nobody at all. they're on the other side of the river and the shelling our frontline from their side and we're defending we don't care about them as they cannot be more aggressive than saddam's regime i've been a peshmerga for thirty seven years my hair has grown gray while being
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a peshmerga god willing we will break them but when michael prays and as a former advisor to the forces and more and he says the latest fighting shows that hopes for an independent kurdish state might be a thing of the past. this is a very serious situation. this is actually a tree the kurdish population of iraq likely or their isis they're actually conducting military operations against. there so isis lockett's in and around. so this is this is this is a move. to to contest the kurds for this peaceful and they're surprised that the united states. or as i was are you surprised at the pew k.k. . or kurdish regional government. you know of course we keep hearing horses are going. you know but when you do find
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these sort of forces there counterterrorism forces and hostages shall be are just impact. not just sheer malicious but commanded by causes you don't want to extend it's funny along and how many on one hand there's so how do we use counterterrorism forces against the kurds and then the u.s. state department we're not taking starts well if you're not taking sides you're actually taking a side you're taking a good side and you're actually taking to the wrong side. if they want to other news now and i so has claimed responsibility for one of two attacks targeting mosques and of the on a far more than seventy people have been killed and one attack a man who walked into a shia mosque in the capital kabul and detonated an explosive vest killing at least thirty nine people and injuring dozens of others the mosque was packed with worship as attending friday prayer as the second attack happened in central gold province where a suicide bomber struck a sunni mosque more than thirty three people were killed including a rebel commander who was apparently. the target of the attack then we thought.
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right after the cleric started the prayer as i was passing by the mosque and an explosion happened there was chaos amongst the people all the windows of the mosque were shattered the police from a nearby checkpoint arrived to try to control the crowd all the wounded victims injured by the shattered windows were taken to hospital by ambulance and the dead bodies were lying there. jennifer glass has more from couple of. the attacker made his way into the in mom's arm on mosque in the middle of friday prayers he placed himself in the middle of those prayer growers' now that of course is a shia mosque in western kabul and then he detonated his bomb killing scores of people injuring scores others this is one of a number of attacks that have happened against the shia population the vast number of these attacks though against shia have been claimed by the islamic states in the increase as the kind of increase their offensive here in afghanistan at the same.
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time as that was happening here in kabul in central afghanistan and province another attacker another bomber detonated a bomb in another mosque this is a sunni mosque now his attacker his target quite different a local militia commander and his men but these two attacks kept off a very very bloody deadly week across afghanistan where we've seen not only these attacks on friday but across afghanistan the taliban have killed at least one hundred fifty people in the north in the south in the east in the southwest of afghanistan give you an idea of the challenges the afghan security forces face the afghan government determined to bring the taliban to the peace table but not only is the afghan government facing a resurgent taliban you also have other anti-government forces as well creating unrest in afghanistan. well let's take a closer look at the recent attacks and of gonna stand forty three soldiers were killed on thursday after the taliban stormed
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a military camp in the my one district setting off two suicide car bombs before a gun battle front was also attacked a police headquarters in the southeastern province of gazan the on thursday the group was responsible for an ambush in the northern province which killed six police officers on wednesday on tuesday thought of suicide bombers carried out a wave of attacks targeting police compounds and government facilities killing at least seventy four people but omar samad is the former afghan ambassador to france and canada he says the attacks showed that afghan security forces have been ineffective. the afghan issue is becoming more complex there are more regional players and i think there are reports that the russians have a new agenda. now creating more heat from washington may also alter some of their agenda in the back is there is a how to make many years which has not how can stand crimes that we didn't security . and what the afghan government is on one hand to
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make sure that there is better management and better leadership at the head of the security forces and also in middle management. the commanders need to make sure to protect their forces to protect their bases i think that is absolute. in the same time the project of strengthening the african pauses in order to protect afghanistan and to stabilize afghanistan needs to go on at least thirty police officers have been killed in the shootout in egypt the attack took place at the al body a district in the gaze of governor at southwest of cairo the interior ministry says a number of suspected militants were also killed the more information on that as it becomes available. the u.s. will shift its counterterrorism strategy to focus more on africa defense secretary james mattis met with members of congress on fire to explain the change that comes
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as the white house has been under pressure to be more forthcoming about the deaths of four american soldiers in the share two weeks ago senior republican lindsey graham talked about the u.s. strategy after the meeting. the war is morphing we're going to see more actions in africa and. you're going to see more aggression by the united states toward the enemies not less we're going to have decisions being made now in the white house but out in the field now support that entire construct so the rules of engagement are going to change when it comes to counterterrorism operations we're going to move. status space targeting so if you find somebody who's a member of a terrorist organization then we can use lethal force they don't have to present an immediate threat lawrence korb is a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense and he says there needs to be more transparency about what happened in the chair and why this is something that certainly the congress should have been made aware of it's certainly something that the american
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people should know because if you send their sons and daughters into battle we ought to know exactly what's involved and what other countries are we talking about i doubt that most people even knew we were in the jr and according to the pentagon they were the troops were an advise and assist mission it was not a combat mission we didn't have any air power we had the french was supposed to come and help us out but they couldn't drop bombs so it was run very very chaotic leave there why did they not get all of the dead soldiers out you know the military is very strong about you leave no one behind you know how did how did that happen what was the role of contractors that ended up a contractor not a u.s. military person or civil servant was in there and you know on how many of them are there i mean and how much are we spending on this we have an africa command why didn't they call him and tell us right after this happened what was going on. still
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ahead on the bulletin want to have an. eighty percent of total recall is without power and the island is in ruins and why campaigning for sunday's congressional election. suddenly stopped. lots of pleasant sunshine now across the middle east a chance of a little bit of cloud just spilling out of russia just pushing down towards the black sea towards the caspian sea that could be just one of two spots of right as we go through saturday and sunday elsewhere the sun will continue to be down warm sunshine there in kuwait city thirty three cells just thirty three celsius to four karate so it's warmer than that's across the raven peninsula here in doha of around
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thirty seven degrees on saturday similar value as we go on into sunday so you can see that i see sunshine continuing its present sunshine out of a little on the human side as we go on into the evenings meanwhile a fair amount of sunshine into southern africa but a fair amount of rain as well just around the sting pushing up into southern parts of my big heating up into southern areas of zimbabwe we've seen some very hot weather into zimbabwe recently easing a touch over the next dials but on this we are getting up into the low forty's so that's something of a change from out of cloud there into botswana and also into namibia with a chance of some spotty right coming through meanwhile the showers continue across central parts of africa even further southwards a few showers for kenya and also nigeria. the red sea storage of clean water act is
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a global problem and the major but enjoyed this theme of change to the pics of the himalayas where water conservation looks like. to save the world's most precious resource and the next right we look at what is being done to stem what prices. have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories the iraqi army has claimed control of all of kirkuk province from kurdish peshmerga forces the army says they recapture the last three which is situated. with the help of shia forces.
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has claimed responsibility for one of two attacks targeting mosques in afghanistan more than seventy people have been killed in the twin suicide bombings the attacks happened in a shia mosque in kabul and a sunni mosque in the central province of course. the u.s. defense secretary has told senators that the military's counterterrorism efforts will focus more on africa james mattis was meeting senators to discuss the deaths of four u.s. soldiers in an ambush in the share earlier this month. now the king of spain felipe the six pairs attacked what he calls an acceptable secession attempt by. his comments come just before the spanish government office details of plans to take back some of the region's power. in recent decades spaniards have altered our history and our sovereign decision to. live together in democracy we've lived and shared successes failures triumphs and sacrifices which
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have united us in joys and sufferings we cannot forget it we do not want to give up what we have built together. long separatists and i'll call in for a new kind of protest and reports from barcelona. an online message from a pro independence campaign group saying peaceful direct action shows the power of the people. the core was to take some money out of banks that are moving their registration out of catalonia in case of independence withdrawals of one hundred fifty five euro the number of an article in the constitution being triggered to impose direct rule on catalonia by madrid why because this spanish dictatorship is unbearable limited look at the minneapolis bridge and i think putting pressure on is a good move with thousands of people doing the same thing if there is one program in some ed symbolic the government still has no mood for any compromise.
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in catalonia there are movements that want revolution so they want civil disobedience today there was a call to withdraw money from banks. then came a message from the prime minister himself saying the crisis was at a critical point and his party in the main opposition were agreed on action. they have broken the rule of law a basic principle of the european union they have deprived the representatives of the opposition of their right to exercise control and government imagine if i decided to close parliament so nobody could question me it would be a scandalous situation. article one five five from the one nine hundred seventy eight constitution will take power away from the regional government here it could mean elections it could mean a formal deck or. of independence it might lead to public disorder in barcelona and
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now you really sense a fear of the unknown on both sides of the divide in this crisis shared by politicians and the people alike we fear that we are going to need. so too near us a danger and that maybe we will not be able to push back when we are there and that's a feeling that they sing we all are in barcelona half right now. on saturday will hold we will hold an emergency cabinet meeting it's unlikely to calm the situation right now and there's a risk it could mean calls for peaceful direct action could turn into something more dangerous andrew symonds al-jazeera. to somalia now a government officials say the number of people killed in the country's worst attack has risen to three hundred and fifty eight the president says al-shabaab is behind last weekend's twenty bombings but hasn't claimed responsibility that is prompting fears about al-shabaab future tactics mohamad the reports from market
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issue. some of the seriously wounded in saturday's bombing in mogadishu are being airlifted abroad for treatment somalia hospitals have received much needed medical supplies patients turned away but one place patrols in the hours and days after the talk are finally getting attention. but talks become more lethal medical workers say they are forced to improvise their treatment plans for the maimed and wounded. there were many. is the time when you can see. how extended is. the. blast a yet to be published u.n. report says al shabab has introduced new ways of constructing improvised bombs and increase. their destructive falls it says the wait till the explosives has also increased and along with military good devices the group uses for. but also fuel
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and gas canisters to ensure maximum damage i'll. look at issue in two thousand and eleven yet they continue to considerable influence and help with all that complex the election system in which many businesses give them monthly contributions and without the rock that europe will become nothing powerhouse collecting millions of dollars for their campaign of violence. the united nations says illegal taxation schemes involve extortion and other so-called fees on a let's say it's not the strength of al shabaab but rather the weakness of the somali government that's helped the fighters succeed so modest need to be as angry and i stress and it. seems there's a huge amount of you know you know the band and the you and the e.u.
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and i'm so on and that is if you want to. be free for a long time ago somalia as president say it's time to act i believe it's time for us to come together and. to unite against this foreign ideology which we have which has nothing to do with islam. which has nothing to do with our country. doesn't solve somalis remain missing and many families are in mourning for them is a massive blow in the war against al shabaab. mogadishu somalia. to brazil now where police have arrested more than one hundred people in a nationwide bust of a pedophile ring these are some of the suspects detained in the operation that reach most of the country including the capital brasilia some of the charges
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producing and sharing pornographic material of children over the internet more than a thousand police officers took part in the operation of a six month period. and argentina it's been confirmed that the body found in a river on tuesday is that of missing activist santiago maldonado his father says you identified the body as disappearance and all this led to protests around the country daniel swan the reports from when a site is. there were demonstrations across argentina and huge social media campaign asking a simple question where is. the twenty eight year old activist disappeared in or ghost during a protest in support of indigenous rights in the south of the country. i want to ask those who lead our country's president maurice your mockery and his ministers who.
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was here. and i want to ask them where santiago is it is urgent that he be alive we need him for the wellbeing of everybody and for all the santiago's out there. slick elation was rife opponents of the government generally believed he'd been beaten possibly killed by the police and his forty hidden they're asking why it took seventy seven days to find the body then the area that was searched three times other speculate. he drowned or disappeared voluntarily perhaps crossing into neighboring chile pressure was on the government especially the security minister to provide conclusive answers. i will not allow you sen to compare our government to their dictatorship that's an atrocity if that uses have been committed by security forces you should know that those involved will be sanctioned accordingly. memories in argentina are still strong from the one nine hundred seventy s.
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and eighty's the time of the so-called dirty war with an estimated thirty thousand people were kidnapped tortured and killed by the military authorities both the main parties fighting sunday's legislative elections have suspended campaigning where this sensitive case and human rights the top of the political agenda. whether cyrus perot's conservative congress has passed a bill to legalize medical marijuana that was passed by a wide margin after a police crackdown a group of mothers making cannabis oil in a makeshift laboratory to treat their epileptic children. today congress has taken a historic step towards a more just society today we've given an example of how empathy information and compromise can overcome fear and prejudice this is the great lesson of today. now it's been one month since harken maria head to puerto rico and eighty percent of
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the island is still without power crews are working around the clock to try to fix hundreds of kilometers of power lines the governor of puerto rico says it could be another two months before full power is restored the u.s. government has been criticized for its slow response to the crisis alan fisher has more from san juan. this is normally the convention center in san juan the capital of puerto rico but for the last month this has been the coordinating hub of all the rescue efforts across the i. and the federal emergency management agency the department of defense a number of local agencies and a number of charities are all based here trying to coordinate relief efforts but one month on after the hurricane many people are saying they're seeing nothing nothing from any of these agencies coming into their communities to help them there are many people here still without food still without electricity still without drinking water there are real health concerns as well because people are turning to polluted water just to try and slick their thirst or even doing simple things like
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washing their clothes in water that is highly contaminated so there's a real risk that there's going to be another health problem just a few weeks down the line that the people here aren't on realistic they remember hurricane one thousand years ago and said that they expected things would take some time before they even started to get back to normal but they're deeply concerned that it's taking longer than any normal expectation they are saying they expect to see a lot more of the government they realize that they can't just drive trucks here that you've got to bring things in by plane and by boat but they say they feel they're being neglected one example of that is that someone from fema said recently that they do so many blue tarpaulins catering for the hurricanes in florida and texas there simply weren't enough to bring here to puerto rico and the people here believe they are being forgotten and they want that to stop and to stop no. now a strain a is one of the most multicultural countries in the world yet the latest figures show that a quarter of the population has intolerance towards other cultures and ethnicities
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and thomas reports from sydney. in one commercial a white man holds open the lift door for a white woman but let the door close on a black one a white woman steps out discussed it in another taxi driver tries to pick up a white passenger before an aboriginal's one has been waiting longer the white passenger refuses to jump the queue but does a strange one of the world's most multicultural countries really need like these more than other places organizers call this the believe in bendigo picnic an annual day of inclusive in a country town when my kids were growing up in melbourne to the big market to say people of any other ethnic origin you know because they just want those kind of people and so now that's changing and more people are coming to live here but the main idea is to hold an event which contrasts with another held in bendigo in like
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twenty fifty hundreds protested against plans to build a mosque the ugly images tapped into a perception that australia is and australians are racist australia certainly has a racist he story with a colonial past and an explicit white australia policy on immigration until the early one nine hundred seventy s. . today videos like the easy to find online. research is recently surveyed more than ten thousand people in australia they concluded that about a quarter also questions in a way that showed them to be intolerant of other cultures and ethnicities the same survey asked people if they'd experienced discrimination in the last year thirty nine percent of people originally from china and india said they had sixty nine percent of people from c. done and fifty nine percent of indigenous australians in australia at the moment we don't even really want to acknowledge that racism exists institutionally systemic
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implicitly and explicitly. but australian society is diverse and is getting more so net migration adds one percent to the population each year one of the highest rates in the world twenty eight percent of australians were born in other countries with the biggest numbers recently coming from india and china surveys suggest about eighty five percent of australians think multiculturalism has been good for the country and the prime minister regularly calls australia the most successful multicultural society in the world some though say that is a claim too far if you kind of crow about being the most successful it can kind of paper over the fact that there are problems as well bendigo is mosque is going ahead it's difficult start potentially the positive opened up a conversation and that's something that was probably missing before then nationally to an increasing conversation about racism could have
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a beneficial effect andrew thomas al-jazeera sit. with the headlines on al-jazeera the iraqi army has claimed control of all of chemical problems from kurdish peshmerga forces the army says they captured the last town which is situated at a bail with the help of the shia forces the u.s. has urged the iraqi government to avoid further clashes eisel has claimed responsibility for one of two suicide attacks targeting mosques and. more than seventy people have been killed the attacks happened in a shia mosque in kabul and a sunni mosque in the central province of. right after the cleric started the prayer as i was passing by the mosque and the explosion happened there was chaos amongst the people all the windows of the mosque were shattered from
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a nearby checkpoint arriving trying to control the crowd all the wounded victims injured by the shattered windows. taken to hospital by ambulance and the dead bodies were lying in. the u.s. will shift its counterterrorism strategy to focus more on africa the fence secretary james mattis but met with members of congress on friday to explain the change comes as the white house has been under pressure to be more forthcoming about the deaths of four american soldiers who were training soldiers in that. two weeks ago the war is morphing we're going to see more actions in africa and less you're going to see more aggression by the united states toward our enemies not less we're going to have decisions being made not in the white house but out in the field now support that entire construct so the rules of engagement are going to change when it comes to counterterrorism operations we're going to move to status based targeting so if you find somebody who's a member of
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a terrorist organization then we can use lethal force they don't have to present an immediate threat. that's been a month since hurricane maria hit puerto rico and eighty percent of the island is still without power cords are working around the clock to fix hundreds of kilometers of power lines those are the headlines on al-jazeera prize is coming up next. in slave abuse a mommy read. the plight of too many families. after a lifetime of service a remarkable young woman breaks free. to lead the abolitionist movement of electrifying force. written by her vivid recollections of circulation but in my memory is my power with this documentary this time on a. year in the himalayas we made.
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