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protests against austerity and the cost of living is still happening on water is the seventh anniversary of the revolution which overthrew president ben ali tonight we're looking at where the tune is here really is the success story of the arab spring also on the grid a new twist in the gulf diplomatic crisis a member of the qatari royal family says he's been detained while visiting the united arab emirates is. tiny living in saudi arabia since the start of the blockade and had been presented by the saudis as a potential to cut as a mere gold a new check on the summa electronics show in las vegas do we need to think a little more about the risks connected time. but it might just be leaving us more open to a sign that. imagine if you lived in hawaii and you got a text message that said there's a missile heading towards your state well that's exactly what happened causing widespread panic but it wasn't true. with us using.
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you know what the news great live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and al jazeera dot com protests in tunisia we were saying it seventy years ago on this day and we're still saying it now the difference is seven years ago they were the protests which overthrew a president and started a region wide revolution but wellstone is here in the fall of ben ali have been hailed as the lone success of the arab spring progress has been slow yes these thousands of people have been out on the streets remembering that day in two thousand and eleven but they also are protesting against the government's plan to increase taxes and prices of everyday goods at least eight hundred people been arrested in the past week and the government has announced some social reforms following these demonstrations. firstly providing a minimum amount food to museums families secondly guaranteeing health care for all
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tunisians with no exception and providing or helping to provide appropriate housing to alter newsy and families on the seventh anniversary of the revolution the government has adopted a number of procedures during the meeting as we were just in going in this direction and providing a base for this national social protection so off we go to tunis now here is hashem a whole bara who's been one of those protests all day what's it been like today. well basically come out you get mixed reactions here in tunisia you have those who say this is a moment of national pride the need to all of the memory of those who were killed in two thousand and eleven to and autocratic rule and build a vibrant democracy where freedoms of expression are respected by the constitution and by the political establishment by the same time there is this frustration over the track record of the government and the worry about the future they say the austerity measures the broken promises of two thousand and eleven about the need to
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reduce poverty and unemployment has never been implemented so you get basically two things here today in the capital tunis. national pride about what happened in two thousand and eleven but at the same time loads of anxiety about the future all those concessions that the government has offered its plans and programs to help the poor out how will they go how have they been received cash. well basically come out of which you can about something like thirty five million dollars the government has promised to. help those. in need and basically the mostly affected by poverty so we're talking about basically families that would end up having something like fifty dollars and people say this is just like tin tuna round the as well they would like to see is a genuine reform of the economy so that poverty and unemployment permanently tackled by the government here lies the problem of tunisia which is basically it is
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not rich in natural resources the main sectors are ugly culture mining and tourism and they were affected in the past by instability and the armed groups which launched attacks against tourist into his ear plus the fact that international markets have been on the decline so the government now is turning into a different alternative which are basically increasing taxes to be able to balance the finance sheets now the government has it also been asking the international community for help but they say you know what you'd rather sort out your own problems particular when it comes to the public sector which consumes something like twelve percent of the g.d.p. of tin is yet the government says they willing to move that direction but you know what's come out the problem with a genuine reform of the tin is in economies that you would end up firing more government employees and this is something which is definitely going to drive people to text to the streets more protest is one instability this is the delicate task the government faces interesting stuff live in tunis for us let's take
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a little deeper on this what exactly is facing to these days well for a start it's had nine governments since the overthrow of finale in two thousand and eleven and all of them of struggle to tackle that high unemployment especially among the youth that unemployment rate is running at more than fifteen percent and more than a quarter of young people are without work tourism accounts are eight percent of today's economy thousands of jobs there too but the industry struggled off. two gun attacks in twenty fifteen killed thousands of people and on the budget side of things will the deficit's ballooned it's up to six percent of g.d.p. last year the government has promised to cut spending in exchange for a loan from the international monetary fund but with us here in studio mohamed chicago who is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university also contributes to the al-jazeera center from studies and has written a book called what is in life in mint continuity or rupture in the wake of the arab uprising so i think perfectly placed to talk to us three here seven years later is
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it and i said so many governments later as well is it almost a situation with some of the banality elements are coming back and people are thinking oh we felt this before and we don't like this one it's a mix of trigger events in the last one was the government's decision to impose and tax that sort of blew up the whole situation three months earlier we had three failed or three controversial decisions one of them was the return of at least four figures from the benignly era to serve in the government number two was the announcement of what is called the economy could constitute a huge role which basically part of them some of those individuals who embezzled money from the government then you have also the problem to me as a conflict analyst the main. issue here is when you have this.
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divergence of expectations and deliberate you know there was there is this dip and in this articulation between society and state and i think the need that government have been won the argument but in two thousand and fourteen have become overconfident that they already have been the islamic therefore now they are better positioned to tackle those issues but there is a lack of pragmatism and that is the lack of wisdom in tackling those high expectations of young so as you explain all of that and as i look at those pictures again of the people in i wonder they're out protesting on the streets again and i suspect won't be placated easily by this government government is making some concessions as we said but probably not and to turn a little too late it seems that this is a pattern now in more than history and governments are three steps behind the expectations of the streets so it's basically by a piece of
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a meal you know. reforms that are not tackling the real issues tunisia's need jobs security health and some dignity and for a nation of less than seven million individuals it's not that drastic however the issue or the the recrimination by i'm f. to tackle inflation has gone too far and therefore the government now is between. a rock and hard place does any of this diminish what was achieved seven years ago today because i know it's cliche but we always hold to nazir up as the the beacon of the arab spring the one that worked basically. i wrote a book last year arguing that we need to be extra patient with this dynamics of high and low points in the performance of forced so-called arab spring governments however a seventy period that puts the banally back into history has not shown
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or has not convinced tunisians that there is a real change and this is where the little performance or d's concessions are not really taken seriously and you have. a deeper wave of protest because now there is a lack of legitimacy and it's not just the constitutional or the electoral legitimacy is the popular legitimacy now that mother was in tunis and cairo and all the capitals that were the cradle of these protests how much the county thank you for coming in i said to you can i see that i was well much of the picture as always the picture that we see of the protests comes from social media so how are people reacting. well tunisians are also celebrating revolution and youth day online so you can follow that conversation by checking out a couple hashtags tunisia used day and fourteen january i must say that reactions have been mixed while many are taking
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a moment to celebrate what happened seven years ago others are focusing their criticism on the government today now this is what some tunisians observing the holiday told a local station but never let it though does it accomplish that i we came here to celebrate and to meet the president because we love our country and those who are burning and destroying tunis are destroying their own country i have a sum of twenty four years old just sitting home with no work and leaving one bedroom apartment and i came to seek some help for what might not be might not might not be good people and we love our country but life is expensive and old prices have increased and i hope the government will deal with this the unemployment is high i have a son who's thirty six and he confines a job i don't want to go home or my father and i. we need help my mother is taking care of us i'm here to. leave. now as we mentioned it's been seven years since the revolution and marina here says it's sad
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that little has changed in city busy that's the central city where the revolution began and other uses says the only success story that the arab world has is tunisia where people think economic prosperity is more important than democracy if a lot of people talking today online about protecting the revolution is here says no matter what's happened and will happen nobody will make us hate our revolution meanwhile. we had some of her thoughts tweeted out on her behalf you could say she told a forum of victims of the dictatorship last year that we should be thankful that the revolution rid us of ben ali what came after is still in infants we must protect and nourish it finally here criticizes the media coverage of the protests and the narrative of the crisis which has shifted in his. security terrorism and the parties blaming each other he says near liberal economic policies are the problem here they in his opinion are designed to impoverish tunisia if you're into nisha and celebrating revolution we'd love to hear from you you can share your
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thoughts on the revolution seven years later connect with us using the hash tag a.j. news great or you can tweet me directly i'm at and thank them and now is a good way to look at tunisia at al-jazeera dot com lot of new content up to date a month day seven years first as enters talking about city busied with the protests began for other people maybe things changed since the revolution but nothing for me says one person and we've also got all this which is a q. and a with one of the leaders of today's protests in the movement called fitness than though which means what are we waiting for if you just search for two news here at al-jazeera dot com change the filter to latest and you will find those articles both of them by julian kessler. and you can get in touch with us as andrew said here comes your contact details now hash tag news grid and i've had some comments already mamadou hello on facebook who said tunisians are on the street to demand something that is minimum. very feasible demands all of them he posted that facebook of com slash al-jazeera the live stream which is up and running the
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what's at number is there as well plus months of a full five hour one triple one four nine for your comments your questions your contribution it's now a new development just in the last hour or so concerning the gulf diplomatic crisis a member of the qatari royal family. says he is being detained in the united arab emirates a nonstate in a video statement on social media and he said if anything were to happen to him that qatar is not at fault what's crucial is that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. had earlier presented shaikh about a as a potential turn of civ to cut as a mere had been living in saudi arabia himself remember this is all in the context of saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind egypt passing their ties with qatar last june accusing its government of supporting terrorism denies this here is check of the video. so. hello i'm currently in abu dhabi i was hosted by sheikh mohammad bin saeed i'm now confined to my residence i'm not allowed to leave i fear anything may happen to me
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and then the blame is put on qatar therefore this is to notify you that in all cases i suffer any harm qatar cannot be blamed i'm currently hosted by ship mohammed and he shall be responsible for anything that may happen to me finally i want to salute the qatari people saudi people and everybody in the u.a.e. and all the people of the gulf of the laws as a whole with me here is a cut the reactor dimmock and research i mean this is an interesting twist isn't it i wonder if you could explain to our viewers first a little more when i say that he was presented as an alternative to cut of the media can you put that in some sort of context actually the toys to create an opposition form within the. family and they choose shihab develop an alley to play this all but you know if he doesn't have the convention he doesn't have the charisma to play this all and they thought so hard to do this but without
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a real success and it seems out now they are adopting this call but they want him to be. like the leader of a government in exile or something like they're all that sort of thing to actually come here to don't you know i mean if you read this in the context of detaining before as hariri members of voile family visit turns to mecca and medina. government officials businessmen use you can see that it's becoming like a pattern it's becomes like a behavior to some of this book aiding countries. mean for me i think this is really very very strange behavior in this region. it's blatant as well that they're not trying to hide it or anything it's not happening in the shadows i mean as he said hariri just brought him out but exactly exactly and if you form a form of human rights from illegally why is it's really an acceptable to
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detain somebody against has a wall this is what they have done this is what they are doing today and i'm not surprised if they do it with somebody else in the future where do you see the go for us at the moment it feels like we haven't really talked about it that much recently because things went quiet until at least today has there been any real developments and yes actually it's not only today actually if you follow the in news a few days ago or the united has penetrated the exactly the fighter jet and the. airspace twice not not one time it's really it was this is a serious escalation no it should not happen and this is a new development and even in the sport tournament the g.c.c. tournament they tied to separate the tournament and it was a really tasteless tournament i guess the point i'm trying to make is what about
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developments in the. any possible resolution kuwait is is the mediator i don't think that we haven't heard much about about things moving along on that front actually yes i agree with you however still kuwait is trying to mediate still qatar as willing and extending its arms to positive dialogue and communication and this will not be really finish without setting on the table for a positive two ways dialogue and communication so dialogue and dialogue and dialogue of this does not to start will this will not. see and after that is a whole thank you for. coming think thank you my pleasure thank you let's move on to kay legislative om of the palestinian liberation organization the p.l.o. is meeting in an hour or so expected to firm up a response to donald trump's decision to recognize to resume israel's capital but
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more than a month since that announcement sparked protests in the palestinian territories and across the world questions are being raised about the relevance of the p.l.o. so far it's been the only internationally recognized represented evolve the palestinian people and since they also accords were signed back in one thousand nine hundred three the payloads remain committed to finding a two state solution through negotiations with israel but after trump's unilateral decision that agreement is in doubt there is also anger about israeli crackdowns on palestinians and their illegal settlements encroaching on their land which is meant for a future states in london it is now and bashar al senior political analyst to talk through this one what's your expectation from this meeting do we well do we keep expectations low perhaps. well of the p.l.o. p.l.o. leadership is in a bind it's in no easy. corner here whether it
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corners itself or whether the twenty five years of a failed process cornered it. remains to be seen but it's still it's basically standing at a crossroad it can't turn right it can't turn left it won't go in reverse and it won't get out of the vehicle so all in all with the arab european american and israeli pressure it's finally get difficult to change course after twenty five years of more of the same failures it is also an old leadership old meaning age wise this is a seventy's average while palestinian people are on average you know less than thirty years old so so really the leadership in a bind finding it difficult to find its way finding it difficult to think. in any or regional way and finding it difficult to break out of the impasse an impasse
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where the united states basically has abandoned all pretenses and pretension that it is a fair broker in this process so does that all amount to maulana lack of relevance for the p.l.o. and if the p.l.o. is no longer relevant what's the alternative. well you know and so many ways it is still relevant and believe it or not that unusual at this point in time needs to come from the top because the palestinians as a people the palestinians. as people under occupation have basically committed to renewal and and have showed willingness and great sacrifice to resist israeli occupation but the palestinian leadership as i said although as it is is not really willing to respond to people's requests it's more of
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a hostage to american and israeli and arab women you know with the so d.n.a. gyptian pressure from the right and israeli pressure from the left and american pressure from above it's just feeling it difficult to change course it's basically as i said hostage now it would have to break all sorts of rules in order to. listen to the people's voice that will mean among other things breaking away from the osce the process breaking away from security coordination with israel breaking away from the american aid to the palestinian authority that is a huge step forward and if it's willing to do it it will find that the people are behind it and it will be able to forge the way forward with change but is it really willing is it able as a leadership that's where the doubt these are more from own bashar
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a little later and of course on twitter as well at now on sharia. and actually jerusalem here we go is it the make it or break it that's the words of her son's on that was the head of the pillows delegation to the u.s. he reckons the two state solution from the u.s. point of view and from mediation is pretty much did he was a headliner an up front with matt the hot sun late last year you find that in the show's section at al-jazeera dot com also it for zob. and as i look here at the live well i can see the associated press and reuters by flagging up sixteen thirty g.m.t. for the speech from president abbas which is a little over an hour from now live on al-jazeera of course when it happens off we go to london now here is sue turton with more international news for us and so. i come all the iranian oil tanker that's been burning in the east china sea since last week has sunk these pictures broken by chinese state t.v. show the ship barely visible above the water twenty nine crew members are missing
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of iranian officials say there is no hope any of them will now be found alive the tanker was carrying nearly one million barrels of oil when it collided with a cargo ship on john with a six adrian brown has more from beijing. well according to chinese state controlled television the senshi sank at around noon local time on sunday before it went down there was a large explosion and also a large plume of smoke more than a thousand meters high these pictures were recorded by china's coast guard now the century was involved in a collision with a hong kong registered freighter the crew of that freighter all survived all twenty one crew members sadly the crew of the century were less fortunate so far only three bodies have been recovered the senshi was carrying a cargo of one hundred thirty six thousand tons of ultra light crude oil known as condensate what concerns groups like greenpeace is how much of that crude could potentially leak over the coming days weeks and months we know that some of the oil
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has been burned off but not all of it now this vessel has gone down in waters that are part of japan's economic zone so presumably japanese authorities will now be investigating to see how much of their waters have now been contaminated because of course fishermen in that area depend on those waters for their livelihood. aviation officials are investigating why a plane skidded off the runway at an airport in turkey and the current hours the earth. and the back assess airlines flight had just landed when it came off the runway and stopped just meters away from the shoreline in travis down in the black sea and and sixty eight passengers and crew are on board no serious injuries have been reported the airport has been temporarily closed. at least eight people have been killed by a fire in a community building in portugal around fifty more are being treated for their injuries many of them crushed in
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a stampede to escape the blaze police say they gathered to watch a car tournament in the social center in the northern portuguese town of villanova directly into the fire started when i would burning stove exploded in the two story building liberia's ruling unity party has expelled the country's outgoing president after an internal rial party members accused ellen johnson sirleaf of not supporting the candidate chosen to run in december's election the vote was eventually won by george weah a high profile former footballer he said to take office later this month because of the unity party candidate joseph klock i claimed sirleaf favored where which she denied actor mark walberg is donating one point five million dollars to the time's up campaign legal defense fund for victims of sexual abuse that's the amount paid to reshoot scenes for the movie all the money in the world while his costar michelle williams received expenses of less than
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a thousand dollars scenes had to be reshot after kevin spacey was removed from the project amid accusations of sexual misconduct. that's all from me for the news grid back to doha thanks so just a couple of comments coming in so far on the hashtag a journey is good. the situation with the gulf diplomatic crisis someone not holding back here is saying saudi arabia and its allied despotism should be in control or should be controlled by the arab league and should not be in complete control this may be to devastating results in the middle east regions and certainly that's what i guess was saying that the behavior of the saudis recently politically has been extraordinary certainly in this region to say the least your comments your questions keep coming in the hashtag is a.j. new scrooge if you want to us live on facebook hello first of all we've got the story of a greek couple for you coming up in a moment giving refugees free hot meals and positive story there and still had twelve million boxes of baby milk in eighty three countries we are now starting to
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see the true scale of the sound monella contamination that plenty more ahead. hello there we've got a fair amount of cloud of rain still affecting us in turkey you see this swirling system here that's trying to edge its way eastward and its own plenty of cloud ahead of it it's moving through pretty quickly though so it does dry out for many of us here on monday instead that cloudy wetter weather is across back and stretching all the way across towards there minus three is the maximum and do expect some snow further south fine dry no problems for us q a city there getting to around twenty one the winds will pick up though we head through into choose they said the temperatures easing a little bit and those winds are heading towards us here in doha they will be with us quite yet as we head through monday say twenty six degrees it will still be
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quite warm but then the winds will hit and twenty three degrees this time will be the maximum for us further south of course no problems it's the law and all temperatures twenty eight down towards the southern parts of africa and here we're seeing a fair amount of wet weather mostly in the northern parts of our map stretching from angola all the way across towards madagascar a few showers around madagascar some of them are likely to be heavy around the coast but the wetter weather is around the coast of mozambique and into tanzania as well further south largely fine a draw except for durban hit twenty nine degrees will also be accompanied by a few outbreaks of rain. i'm counting the cost of oil hit seventy dollars a barrel week sam and the drivers behind the rise one of the economic reasons behind the rest into next year and we look a little closer at the whole straight being between us i'm not counting the cost at
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this time on al-jazeera. when diplomacy fields and fear sweeps in our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's ill to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on al-jazeera.
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the headlines from al-jazeera dot com man what's trending as well what is expected to prime minister netanyahu his visit to india this has been an interesting story today on top of the list at al-jazeera dot com and the what's trending sections well in that number five the exclusive pictures we have of a missile attack hitting a refugee camp in syria and syria time is rolling as it happened it's quite
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extraordinary and worth a look at what's trending on al-jazeera dot com. so we all know the world is in a bit of a heightened state these days what with the talk of nuclear ambitions and the like but for nearly three quarters of an hour talk turns to reality tells andrew chappelle this story made me feel sick when i heard about it because i thought oh my goodness wat of those poor people in hawaii come through here it's kind of crazy . just to take you through it i'm an emergency alert sent by the hawaii emergency management agency let's a thirty eight minutes of panic across the state over fears of an imminent north. korean missile attack now we're about to play the message so if you happen to be listening to us on radio calm down don't be alarmed but just imagine tuning into the tottenham versus everton football match and seeing this.
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the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes this is not a drill so that was on in b.c. same terrifying alert on c.b.s. if you were watching florida state take on ole miss in the in a basketball game from we will announce when the threat has ended and i went out on radio stations instructing drivers to pull to the side of the road and seek shelter in a building or lay on the floor now the system is designed to reach all of hawaii's one point four million people so it was also sent out as you can see by text message as an extreme imminent threat alert so these notifications lets you panic as some people ransom shelters and sent goodbye notes to a loved one this man here hid his daughter in a storm drain. at the a little and then i went into a serious mode and decided that maybe it would be a good time to meet underneath our staircase it was here just hero it wasn't
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my. time. it was and it was more. like. she immediately. knew it was important for us to be together. so the system works when a message needs to go out but emergency management officials say shortcomings in this system make it difficult to send a cancellation message that's one of the reasons it took thirty eight minutes to send out a follow up message that certainly upset a lot of people across hawaii some were able to see tweets like this message from congresswoman tulsi gabbert but for those who aren't clued into twitter it took longer to be notified of the false alarm now the governor has apologized to all residents of the state and offered this explanation. it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift where they go to to make sure that the system is working and pushed along by. push the wrong button the
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federal communications commission or f.c.c. has launched an investigation here in hawaii senator bryan shots says the system failed miserably and we need to start over now with the threat of north korean rockets on hawaii and the u.s. mainland and the alerts going out on television radio and social media people immediately wondered where is president and what will he do it received criticism for not going on to twitter right away it's a calm people down but others like this former defense department official under president obama reacted by simply saying thank god the president was playing golf. if there's any good news to come from this false alarm the nuclear air raid warning sirens didn't go off as well last month why it tested them for the first time since the cold war so you can imagine how tensions with north korea and warning siren tests have added to the anxieties there it's about five something in the morning in honolulu so let us know what you think about this story especially if you're
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watching us from hawaii you can tweet us your thoughts using the hash tag a.j. newsgroup or message me directly i'm at thank you andrew i want to know what happened to the person who could press the wrong button like goodness now syrian government forces i was mentioning this in the what's trending before aided by russian air strikes a causing a new wave of displacement about one hundred twenty thousand people who fled their homes in the province in recent weeks but rather than finding places of sanctuary many continued to face danger that this. is no law you know a lot of what i don't know what to do you know that's i don't know if they're paid a fee to play if they're very good you know look. well that will be a real straw dinner isn't it that is it was in al jazeera crew which shot these
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pictures filming in a makeshift camp and it was an attack happened they tell us that a missile hit very close to civilians who had fled from earlier bombing attacks in a nearby how my country side al jazeera conner's correspondent milad fattal can be seen among those men women and children desperately trying to take cover. on top of all is a day agencies say they are overwhelmed by the scale of need in syria and they are warning if the bombardment continues a million displaced people will amass near the turkish border simcoe celia reports now from northern italy in syria. up to your e-mail her mood lost his home when the syrian government bombed aniston hama in december he arrived in ram a refugee camp in adler province fifteen days ago with his wife and five children the fifteen year old former stays he had very good business back home but he had to leave it all behind the family went to singe or first taking refuge in a cave but the safety they found there didn't last for long as government forces
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were advancing on the area abdel and his wife shammy assaye they were afraid of being killed and i'm not happy i'm not used to living right this here you don't feel free we are sleeping with our children one now we were hiding in a cave when the regime forces advance towards our lads were afraid they would kill us and left us in the after the bombardment in east hama a lot of people moved to sunder who faced few bombardments of deisel of the regime started their fights we had to leave again and stay out in the wild sleeping under trees aid organizations came to us to this camp but you see this is not home. was built only a couple of weeks ago and is already full five thousand people are here but still more are arriving every day most of them are poor families from missed and how much as the weather gets colder the main fear here is illness hygiene is
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a major issue so much of the prevention falls on the women here as they are the ones responsible for feeding and cleaning in dire conditions. the primary needs are tents and things like marshes blankets and carpets also items that are specially needed by children and women you name it people and syrian leaders even finding a nail clipper is an issue. so a viable mother to cation is the priority here many of these children have been on the run from the bombings for some time some of them haven't been to. they're left . and i've said reality of their homeland people have managed to escape the regimes and strife and the fight against our still they were able to find a reference here in these camps in northern live for now they're safe but no one knows what will happen if or syrians come to the region. so all of al-jazeera
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northern and let. it may unfortunately come as no surprise to you especially after that report that there are more displaced people around the world than ever before this is from the un refugee agency which says more than sixty five million people have been forcibly displaced more than half of them in the middle east and africa twenty two and a half million are refugees most of them of late syria's war that's been going on almost seven years there are other states as well ten million people not considered to be citizens of any country and we are including of course the more than six hundred fifty thousand revenger forced out of me and violence and atrocities since august and one of the most dangerous places for migrants and refugees is the mediterranean sea where many risked their lives to reach europe more than fourteen thousand people have died in those waters since twenty fourteen strewed me the leader of the catholic church is mutual fears between migrants and their host communities should not lead to hostility though pope francis speaking at
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a special mass where he invited refugees and migrants to some pages basilica of it to be a team already known a don't like having doubts and fears is not a sin the sin is to allow these fears to determine our response is to limit our choices to compromise respect and generosity to feed hostility and rejection daniel garvin is from the norwegian refugee council and spoke to us earlier he hopes the parts message will have an impact on a world with more borders and less compassion. well i think the address by the pope is important for two main reasons the first is that we've seen all too few world leaders willing to stand up for refugees in fact have seen quite the opposite over the course of the last two years we've seen a hardening of the refugee rhetoric which the pope references in his address so i think that it's important that he is. standing up for that record number of
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people that are have been forced to flee their homes i think secondly i'm probably more importantly is this this rhetoric and this which is driven by this fear is leading to policies and practices which are affecting millions of people negatively so those more borders are being picked up. refugees in some cases being sent back to unsafe countries and life for those refugees who have made it's other countries it's becoming increasingly difficult harsh so. just by the pope is is important and the question is whether politicians will but when he does words the french dairy company lactulose has revealed the extent of a global salmonella scandal after the firm was accused of trying to cover it up at least eighty three countries have been affected by a salmonella outbreak at one of the world's largest dairy firms like that he says that twelve million boxes of powdered baby milk cow being recalled more than thirty
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children have been poisoned in france alone the french government is closed at the factory until further notice natasha but with more now from paris. well there's been a growing sense of anger among the families whose children have been affected by this contaminated milk a sense that perhaps lacked alyssa's french milk firm just hasn't been transparent enough about what has been happening and that perhaps they were even trying to hide or cover up some of the facts and once contributed to that as well is the fact that the c.e.o. of the company has not responded until now emmanuel pena has now given an interview to the demarche a french newspaper here and in that interview he denies trying to cover up anything he says that a large investigation has been moved in the company and that all the families will be compensated but there's no doubt there's been a lot of pressure on like this over the past few weeks and the french government is now using saying that they are considering penalties against it and we're talking about a situation a scandal that was thought to just affect fronts but now it's much bigger than that
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more than eighty countries around the world have been affected there is contaminated milk possibly in some of those countries and also talk about twelve million boxes of this product having to be recalled by like tillis now in this electronic age we're living in there's a lot of talk of hacking whether it's phones or computers or elections what a phone note front of us about what if your home could be added to that list cyber security experts are worried the so-called internet of things could make our houses more vulnerable to tampering reports from the c.e.o.'s the consumer electronics show in las vegas. really by now you've heard all about the internet of things or io t. so-called smart homes feature internet connected t.v.'s washing machines thermostats door knobs and locks all controllable by smart phones there are web link security cameras smart showers and yes you guessed it online toilets
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the internet of things also includes underthings as neema model of a sheet of spider explains simply put it right here the gizmo attaches to your bra or your briefs and gives you feedback on your health incidentally our clothes are going to be informing us about how to make the small baby step micro decisions that actually lead to better health by twenty thirty the io team a and fourteen trillion dollars to the world economy according to the management consulting firm accenture sounds great doesn't it but the more connected people and their products become the more at risk they are for a digital attack it opens up the possibility for risks of security and a chance at these are computers that have some computing power always on always connected and they're very appealing to the bad guys and the problem is as you're
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rushing to put the stuff on the market sometimes you use products off the shelf and they have bugs in them and you could distribute those bucks to your customers in recent years we've seen how vulnerable even formidable institutions are to hackers like the credit reporting agency equifax the movie studio sony and the us super spy bureau the national security agency big defender is marketing a box that will defend all your systems and online connections it's a complete solution it's a multi think of it like a sandwich at technologies that basically employ our machine learning in ai. to understand the behavior of connected devices and figure out when something nefarious has happened unfortunately cyber security is not the top priority for many device makers or it seems for many consumers at this point the convenience and wow factor and excitement of new electronics are essentially winning the day consumers might want to consider whether smart devices are making
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their lives better or putting them in their families at risk robert oulds al jazeera los vegas via the magic of skype from augusta ga we've got brandon accredit c.e.o. of rendition info to say a cyber security firm brandon literally yesterday i bought a google hard speak and i think it's fantastic and i hate google what's the weather and hey google turn on the lights and turn off the lights and it's fantastic have i just made a terrible mistake well i wouldn't go out and say that so you know consumer demand and really the big money in i.o.t. results in this or breeds rather this insufficient product testing and in secure code reuse listen everything you connect to just expands that attack surface that's an attractive for a hacker. you can bet your money in their pocket we are targeting io t. devices there are sites out there like showdown dot io that can actually let you see io t. devices and services that are available on the internet i have
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a top three list that really consumer should worry about here and do your initial research right quick google search will tell you a lot about the device also consider support of the of the item if there is a critical vulnerability how are you going to update this do you really want to and then lastly as this is a commodity product we're seeing things from egg timers to shower heads that are now wife i connected really consider the secure disposal of that product right make sure that your personal information is not available on that device when you go to sell it or throw away and presumably pos words i mean i know that is the most simple thing but surely that's the first line of defense right absolutely. yeah we see everything from hard coded passwords on some of these devices which make it extremely easy for an attacker to get in it's nothing the consumer change to yes if you're setting up your own accounts make sure you have a very strong password we have a password phrases really my dog jumps in the woods is a it's a far more mathematically complex and secure password than than something that's
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eight characters or less what do you i mean i know this is your business but what do you actually think of the the internet of things as they as they call it you know the amount of things that can now be automated socially speaking for us as people as communities is it a good thing i think so i think connecting people together connecting cultures is the most important thing here you have to do it safely you have to really understand your surroundings and understand the risks to you and whatever environment you're in obviously for in a business environment think about the rest of the business as well but just be safe online connecting overall is a great thing good to talk to you brandon across from rendition infrasonic in augusta georgia likewise thank you sill ahead for you on the news good pages here with the sports news celebrations in fact as the reigning super bowl champions the new england patriots take a step closer to defending their title the latest n.f.l. playoff action in just a moment for us there a quick look at your world way. it
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that for you come all right now though whenever we get close to the super bowl the name of the new england patriots is seldom far away that appears to be the case again this year the pats have reached the a.f.c. championship game for a seventh straight time that's an n.f.l. record in itself now new england played the tennessee titans in the divisional playoffs and set a forty year old quarterback tom brady threw for three touchdowns and the titans really had no answer to that has they went down thirty five fourteen and every tree like that in next week's title game would see the pats play for a record equalling sixth super bowl title. i think the thing is we don't really take it for granted around here. i know hard it is to get to this game and you know we're very blessed to do it takes a lot of things a lot of good fortune lot of hard work but obviously a lot of a lot of great blessings and i think you know our team's proven over the course year you know we can win important games against good teams and we did that tonight and that's why i keep moving on here's
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a post-game message from patriots defensive back to ron holman who expresses his excitement for the next stage via twitter account. we got to. see you there indeed in the n.f.c. the philadelphia eagles hung on for their first playoff win in nearly a decade they beat the atlanta falcons fifteen ten on saturday to reach next week's championship game. and you may as well sing when you're winning eagles owner jeffrey lurie here doing the happy dance with these players off of it which. is a look now at a heat map showing how much interest the n.f.l. is getting on social media some of the most popular hashtags and search terms being used hash tag go pats you'll see if they're in red close to seventy thousand tweets in the past twenty four hours and that number is rising as well hash tag n.f.l. playoffs have already had over eighty thousand tweets and also fifty six and
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a half thousand read tweets but the search that tops them all is brady you can see it popping up there in purple the surname of the quarterback of the new england patriots has been used in over one hundred twenty one thousand tweets over the past twenty four hours and look at that spike right over there a huge amount of interest generated. philadelphia eagles are hoping to reach the super bowl for only the third time in their history they actually played in the super bowl in one thousand nine hundred two thousand and five and they have never actually won it they did win three n.f.l. championships the pride of the super bowl era which first of placing nine hundred sixty seven the eagles will face either the new orleans saints or minnesota vikings in the n.f.c. championship game the saints are past super bowl champions but the vikings have also never won it and the a.f.c. player of contest on sunday will see the jacksonville jaguars at the pittsburgh steelers the jags have never even played in a super bowl while the steelers have six championships that's more than anyone else
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the winner of this game will play the patriots for the a.f.c. championship and their right to contest the super bowl. and there were also painted all over twitter activities as you can well imagine some fans were angry at what they perceived to be preferential treatment for the new england patriots by the mets officials this one from joe presents that very argument after a penalty reversal decision in favor of the pats well joe is a steelers fan so some might argue he could be getting his excuses in a little early that wasn't the google home page of course well he is someone who certainly would agree with joe same time and for the record jeff also hails from pittsburgh much of that's coming up on the screen or not. yeah you can kind of see it and we're going to show you a funny one as well from the david feeling as if the last time the patriots failed to reach the a.f.c. championship game life was shall we say a little less expensive and maybe a little less complicated as well through my technological point of view come on i've got more support in the eight hundred g.m.t. lovely thank you. that's my google i'm. still ahead or something anyway.
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thompson johnny cash fans of the late singer are remembering the concert he recorded exactly fifty years ago in front of an audience of inmates at one of america's toughest prisons event highlighted the hoss conditions they endured and made cash a country music legend atomic on reports. i'm johnny cash johnny cash said prison audiences were the best and not just because they were captive listeners the song folsom prison blues won him many fans behind bars if you don't. play in the sun. i don't. know. you know. in one nine hundred sixty eight cash played the song before more than a thousand inmates and guards at the maximum security penitentiary in northern california the album he recorded there sold more than three million copies and
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revived cashes flagging career one that had been hindered by his it. addiction to prescription drugs half a century after his two performances on that day the inmates at folsom still appreciate cash his appearance their side he looks at us like below the low but little things like that kind of get your mind out of the you know the audacity of prison life despite his outlaw image cache never spent more than a few nights in jail for petty offenses but his sympathy for prisoners was the theme that also ran through another hit san quentin blues legend what good do you think you do. do you think i'll be different when you're through. my and then you wore. your stole walter love blood a little gold. gas went on to perform in prisons across the us and campaign to
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improve their conditions a cause that still resonates in a country which incarcerates more than two million people and has the highest prisoner rate in the world tom ackerman al-jazeera quick movie recommendation walk the line and the johnny cash buy a pick you don't even need to be interested in country music to enjoy it it's fantastic right that's how you touch us you know what if i see what's happening hashtag is a genius for it we're back here in studio fourteen fifteen under joust g.m.t. tomorrow monday.
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the street is quiet the signal is given. out so it's safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty murders in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships and kept our children sometimes it caught in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking us to try to take them to violence i lost my son cooking weyland door years ago i also lost my there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working
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