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really a nightclub but it's a bar and or a lot of college students are so we actually are going to get more sound from eyewitnesses who are at the same let's listen to some of that as have friends come here frequently so. we we actually were just passing by on our way home we were here exactly a week ago at the state bar borderline. we spoke to someone who had their shirt off we're just trying to consolidate people she was going on the scene and told us. she hadn't managed to escape yeah or you know when he was surprisingly calm the kind of in a state of shock she. told his story how he broke windows you know helped him and her friends helped push women out save them for still his hand was kind of bloody blood on his knees his friend was shot in the shoulder. i spoke to a woman who was devastated from other someone. and.
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as i was consoling her her daughter called and said she was a hiding out at someone's house but her friend was still in the trap. was not ten minutes ago and said the shooter so long. and again when we get into another official update from law enforcement we will effort that but we'll get that to you as soon as we get more information about what it is that is actually happened at this country music bar popular with college students in the thousand oaks area just northwest of los angeles there has been a mass shooting incident we do not know yet of any fatalities but so far police have said there are at least six people that have been injured one of them being law enforcement so we will stay on top of that and please to keep it here.
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as president says he will have a much stronger opinion on the case of jamal khashoggi next week it's heidi journalist was murdered in saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul last month under the matter of more than a month since the death of mr show you know journalist very sad thing very terrible thing do you think saudi arabia is guilty of of having to murder and if so what kind of martial your opinion on that subject over the next week and i'm working very closely with congress we're working together some very talented people and we're working with congress we're working with turkey and we're working with saudi arabia and i'm forming a very strong opinion and joins us live now from istanbul so andrew. there was not very specific about what he plans to do but obviously he did mention turkey mentioned istanbul how might turkey respond to this. well we're just getting some reaction now over this remark of
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a strong opinion from the president is isn't so much a strong opinion that the turkish leadership want here is a strong action from the united states and they're very concerned about the time it's taken it's now five weeks since the murder. it was three weeks after the murder that the cia director heard reportedly the tape of which the turks say gives absolute evidence of a murder by the saudis which they say was state sponsored what we're hearing is this from newman to merge who is the deputy leader of the ruling party it goes in line with the sentiment of every single leader of the ruling party including the president in terms of their feeling it says there can be no coverup absolutely no way whatsoever the has to be justice this cannot go down as a simple political crisis this is what mr. has said he said that we will keep
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pressing for justice we are pushing the saudi officials to cooperate and we will continue to rally international support now that will be summarizes the turkish position on this they will be pushing for action from the united states so far the president has basically initially stated asserted which we've not heard a lot of recently that the arms deal with saudi arabia was paramount for for jobs and that was one of his first actions as president to visit saudi arabia and do that arms deal with the saudi leadership mohammed bin sound man the crown prince now what the turkish leadership is also saying is categorically that there is every sign that this operation was ordered from on high within the palace itself in riyadh. assertion was not aimed at king solomon president
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president said on many occasions here and also his deputy on the foreign minister all asserted that it wasn't king selma and there was no naming of mohammed bin set of the man but the indication was that the think it was pointing in his direction so anything short of action against the the good leadership itself in saudi arabia would be ok to the feeding of turkey right now everything appears to be coming to a head in a meeting which is shared jeweled to take place between the president of turkey and the u.s. president in france this weekend the teetery of the armistice day the first world war three on sunday anderson is live in istanbul andrew thank you. pakistani christian woman acquitted of blasphemy has been freed
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from prison asa bibi's acquittal after eight years on death row sparked a nationwide protest by hardliners local media say she's on the way out of the country despite a supreme court ruling that would bar her from leaving pakistan has convicted in two thousand and ten on charges of insulting the prophet muhammad after a dispute with must one fellow farm workers hyder joins us live now from islamabad what do we know about about whether she actually is going to be able to leave. well that's an interesting question that nobody. saw. baby was released from a prison. job. where a woman women pregnant she would then move. the destination. that led to wider speculation that she had flown out of the country however the
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foreign oil first spokesman mom. saying that she was very much in the country. board in islamabad. movement and that she would move to a safe location amid tight security the government denying that she left government and the information minister. in the media of spreading fake news by saying that there was no confirmation from the government on this and that the media should act more responsibly what we do know is that she's now in somewhere in islamabad but being kept at a maximum maximum security area where life is safe because she had of course. from the religious extremists who have disagreed with the word from the supreme court all right come all. tell us you know there
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were these protests how has the pushback against her release. has it been tamp down at all. for the last few days thing they've been quiet after that got me intrigued in a gay man but. the religious party that bag. which was. behind. just on that broad life. is holding a meeting to come out with their own reaction there is also a march in the region expected to be a piece for the margin by the religious party line the. taking place just about now in the southern port city of karachi we're going to be important to see where they. are not afraid of more productive than just on
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ordered the government going to be able to handle it this time around all right come on higher life. thank you fourteen soldiers have been killed and eight others injured after the taliban attacked the afghan national army base in the. district at a car. and i had a news conference on wednesday night president obama talked up his republican party's gains in the senate and tuesday's midterm elections turnout was unusually high across the country and the night off for good news for both of the main political parties the democrats have claimed two hundred twenty three seats so far in the u.s. house of representatives handing them control there was the republicans have picked up seats in the senate their tally now stands at fifty one it could be several weeks before we know the final numbers for both houses of congress supports who is a big day yesterday white house spin zone despite the mid-term loss of the house to
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the democrats president donald trump declared victory citing republican gains in the senate they did focus on the senate and we had tremendous success with the senate democratic house leader nancy pelosi said the democrats victory was an opportunity to work together with will strive for bipartisanship we believe that we have a responsibility to seek common ground. well we can but we cannot we must stand on the control of the house gives democrats power to block much of the republican legislative agenda and launch investigations into trump's russian business dealings taxes and other ethical issues dogging several senior officials yes democrats are here to strengthen the institution in which we serve and not to have it be a rubber stamp for president shop. many democratic voters
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believe the house should begin impeachment proceedings against trump but the senate republican leader had a warning for democrats drawn from republicans. let's listen to the official update on the shooting so i've heard of smoke bombs by being at the presser earlier reporter mentioned that but i don't know that i thought levin shot you know that coming out as i have them i don't know i don't have the status of any of their injuries including the deputy you don't know how they're doing i don't have the status of the deputy you know they don't have a good clear now it's a location clear we heard there might be people hiding in the attic and i we have deputies going through it now my understanding is that there is i didn't know about people hiding out of haven't heard that at all techniques but you never going to leave in your ranks it's king u r e j i e n my first name is garro g. a r. oh i'm a captain with the ventura county sheriff's office there was one of your colleagues injured or killed tonight we understood that deputy or someone in law enforcement
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may have been badly my deputy was shot i don't know what his condition is which agency with the ventura county sheriff's office uniquely missing on going to see her yes they were responding to the scene within some i'm going to gauge the suspect i don't know that but i assume so but i don't know that we heard reports of a security guard at the. security guard and so this is i don't mean. that's all and you don't have any questions on that and i don't even if you got a lot of. us are you expecting a number. i would if i would guess if anything that number would go up these are again like i said earlier they're pulling every numbers i want to give you guys numbers as opposing several and that number could change just like what i said earlier six that number has gone up to eleven that number could change and that's all that i can say he is going to live and that have not been transported there and he wants to see that it's not going to get i don't have that information i don't
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know of anyone that that is deceased or not transport as far as you know eleven people are in the hospital. i don't know if they were transported or if they are here are what their condition is i don't know that answer when you say to the families who are current start because there are so many people friends and loved ones worried about the status of their people removing their body be able to get inside it's that will take some time it's not a scene that is safe where people can go in and out at this point we have investigators that are looking to make sure that the scene inside the nightclub is safe and it's going to take some time i don't have a time estimate. for that you know how this whole thing with someone in the florida call for how someone left how did i do that. i don't know where the call came from what i can tell you is the call was shots fired and that's what our deputies responded to that's what they in fact heard when they arrived on scene he checked
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with security guard to underwrite with him or deny him that their ability to reach a trainer and there is an education might be right that somebody coming back to work i don't have that level of detail i mean since it's so rapidly unfolding at this point we're trying to get as much information to give you all about this statistics of what it what has happened i don't have that level of detail i haven't been able to talk to investigators to that level yet the sort of the shooter is like. we're going to do some work on we don't feel that the shooter has left the in the morning room so whatever it is was contained inside the barn where we don't feel that there is a threat to the public outside to the neighbors outside we were there as he was inside the building your fears it's going. to be that if you don't. know if he's been transported or if he's been captured what i can tell you is we don't feel that there's a threat to the residence of siberia you know we're looking for any scare for
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weapons on petering in. it or will you begin taking my call somebody else over to speculate what you're going to. do you think you're putting yourself in syria listening to an official with a ventura county sheriff's department ventura county being the county in california where thousand oaks is just outside of los angeles where there's been this shooting at the borderline bar and grill make a country music bar lots of college students apparently go so what happened at about eleven fifteen pm local time is there was a shooting the information that we got that's an update as we had we were told there were six people injured until the county is now saying that at least eleven people have been injured we do not know the status of their injuries we do not know if there's any fatalities this official also saying that there is no threat to the public so that seems to indicate that the shooter either has been apprehended
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we don't know if the shooter was injured but this official was very clear that there is no threat to the public anymore so that is the latest that we have on this shooting at a thousand oaks at the waterline bar and grill. so we will get you more information on that as soon as we can. soldiers from the u.s. have started installing razor wire at a bridge connecting part of the country's border with mexico the donna rio bravo international bridge leads from donna and texas at the city of rio bravo and northern mexico the u.s. president trump recently ordered the deployment of an additional five thousand troops to the border the move comes as thousands of migrants flee several central american countries to make their way north through mexico to the united states. and migrants who arrived seeking a job in better life are now going back and it's langar minutes repatriating them for free or so largest group of migrants are haitians more than a thousand have signed up for the program. c.n.n.
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explains why the government is flying them home. these haitian migrants are leaving chile with a bit more than with what they came but with their dreams shattered. what we thought we were coming to do doesn't exist we came here for a better life for decent work but there's nothing there the first one hundred seventy six beneficiaries of a government humanitarian repatriation program for migrants who can't afford to leave they've been given a free flight home in exchange for not returning to chile for at least nine years. since they could not adept well reality in their expect a sions were not mitt they asked the government's help to return home. the vast majority like they. say it's because they can't survive here. their mom i christened chile two years ago when i came it was easy to find a job but not now another thousand haitians are on the list and an undisclosed
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number of colombian migrants are also asking for a free flight home it is an unprecedented offer unique in a world where many more migrants are deported against their will but the very fact that this program exists draws attention to the exploitation and abuses that many many migrants in chile face. thousands of haitians live in appalling conditions employers often under pay them others complain of racism you know we asked the interior minister what the government is doing to help migrants stayed rather than leave but we're working to police and control employers and landlords and we've introduced measures to ensure that migrants obtain proper residence documents so very complex and can access public services here too late for these migrants. they've given up any hope of making chile their home as they return to haiti to an uncertain future you see in human al-jazeera santiago. so
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this is the breaking news that we are continuing to follow and update for you thousand oaks california just you can see lots of police personnel on the scene at this shooting police are saying about now at least eleven people have been injured at this shooting it happened a few hours ago now being about eleven fifteen at night it's a country music bar and thousand oaks were a lots of college students go apparently there were two universities having a party there thousand oaks is just north of los angeles just north and ventura county so there's your map right there to give you an idea thousand oaks is is really it's technically its own city but it's basically considered part of the greater metro area of los angeles so this is some of the information that the police updated us with a little a short while ago that let's listen to that. people were injured inside. the bunker with the shooters there with you tell us
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i can't tell you much about the shooter at this point we're still looking for the shooter we can't confirm the shooter in custody at this point number one because we're hearing mathematic anyone living. in their days for what i'm hearing is about six. you don't have the. i would see hundreds but i can't confirm the exact number . and again we will get you much more information on that but that particular law enforcement official also saying that there is no threat to the public so we don't know exactly what that means we don't know if he's actually been arrested the shooter or if he was entered but what we're hearing is that there is no threat to the public so just to recap. just to recap what we are saying right now is the aftermath of a shooting and in thousand oaks california. police are saying that at least eleven people have entered we don't have any specific information on what those injuries are or at there have been any at talladega and we'll get you much more information
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keep it on al jazeera right now we're going to take you to people and power hitter . china could be facing a debt i suppose that's according to s. and p. global trumpet ministration just been insisting towards the saudis and other uses that they want to have more production to cool down the prices we bring you the stories that is shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost zero. like many countries around the mediterranean greece suffers from dangerous summer waterfall but the one that tour leverage after coast in july twentieth teen was the worst in the country's history claiming ninety nine lives and leaving thousands about them scrutinised and homeless so why was it so deadly dull to every come in
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to investigate. it's way down the mountain like a vengeful god to power was overbearing people was in power he will wear easy. it will take a yes man if. it's a resort town just thirty minutes drive from athens we're going to fade over a single part that went right through since i was there one wonders that there were not more people. ninety nine people
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died with no warning of the danger and no attempted evacuation was it an unstoppable freak of nature or staggering incompetence this was an all of cost at a time of peace it was not an accident it was a crime and it is a crime demanding justice and punishment. it's how war zones look when the fighting stops. the red cross patrolling the scorched earth tending to survivors. were loaded with. every day medical teams visit victims like zahara yes constant talk of still living in his ravaged home if i was. going to think you didn't know maybe you know getting
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range the. moon. this year right here i don't know much but boom bum bum bum bum bum who is going to go mark the guys i got the eighty four year old air force veteran raced over a burning beach of men that melted his shoes to bring two children to safety. so low you do a lot in your head. there's no more clothes. you build up you go is the whole lot of talk about you. getting mad at. every home every family here has a story of survival you know this as he thinks i was out there on marx who may honestly. believe it's cover not dollars nearly died writing his motorbike through flames to find and rescue his mother. how is your mother now. the fine.
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but. i will try to fix my. the bill is i will put something is. something where. i live so. good. i feel very legit. way to get. into was a small but i know it's just so. angry. as in of the north wind blows almost incessantly on shore. but for days the bureau of meteorology had warned about unusual wind in the opposite direction sweeping down
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from the hills to the coast. on the morning of july twenty third many of my aunties firefighting resources was sent to a blaze sixty kilometers away. but it full forty nine pm a second fire broke out in the hills above. it was more than two hours before a fire brigade helicopter was diverted to tromp water. unit commander your. says by then the wind speed was more than one hundred kilometers per hour. yes think of me. there was a. it
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was already too late the fire had reached the karst suddenly residence and daytrippers was surrounded by smoke and flames the roads were soon gridlocked then blocked by burning cars the only hope of escape was the same. money that. they tried to jam. like one jam from the. schoolteacher maria does illy lives on the waterfront but even she figured she'd die. marcy is built on cliffs with few puffs of the water and almost not a marked getting in the water but this mild all around us fired their hands around part of it larry i find it a day i can say you knew that there was that down the back you don't because you are like them because i live here mind you so how many people were sheltering here
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on this beach where around thirty people thirty it's a whole area yes we were like sardines yeah did you feel safe once you were down here no forced all through it if i'm out and people were around you crying here people were asking for their families there were mothers kurang for their children it was a case of stood over there we can see the force everything you know with the tourists there is time ago when i was young could you call the folder thirty you. told them what had our moment we called them again and again and we called our families to inform that but they didn't and. so who finally rescued you just a small say same boat. almost seven hundred people were eventually picked up by a flip tiller of small boats and the coast guard many drowned or died of birds as
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they waited. oh i hope. this small community gathers in a church that was somehow spayed by the infant to farewell nearly one hundred loved ones. undressed dimitri who was one of the firemen battling the blaze as soon as he heard the flames would be his home he raced back to try to save his family. he found his wife margarita dying by the water's edge she was alongside the body of their six month old son. is on the up or the. as wrote them up or the calls for free up or a cute thing like a month off or more roll gave on is this. going on
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in a god. of the borders or if this law you know got throw people the dog. in the got the f. yes and i'm the. crown in the south of us with or false. this all happened in the midst of a horrid northern hemisphere summer temperatures off the charts across europe but grace was the exception this was an unusually mild summer with more rain than normal this was not a file links to climate change it could have happened any summer the authorities knew that they just weren't ready for it. so how did the greek government at its emergency services fail so comprehensively i've come to
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greece's most pristine just research center to make the one man who i have answered this well conversely welcome to the government coming nice building we're going to be coastal city lucky says a crisis management expert and a member of the academy of accidents for he was commissioned by an opposition party to interview survivors and to piece together what went wrong. critically surprised and shocked by the stories were people and. what what happened there was absolutely no pre-planning in greece because there is no culture planning for big public emergencies most people including the government are in complete denial things don't happen here. one of his most disturbing discoveries was that police had directed intimacy believing the coastal highway behind the town would act as a fire break. and they said they've heard the traffic through the smaller streets
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would see him and in effect block that created the gridlock so even the people who tried to evacuate from the smaller streets. and other people who had absolutely nothing to do with my going live there there. actually diverted into harm's way that made the absolutely no sense. even more surprising but the actions of the coast got it not only failed to send rescue boats in time for hours it allowed to rest ferries to continue arriving the coast guard did not stop ferries the old coming in the port of the free now which is very close which was again horrible mistake because ferries unload a lot of cars it is odd to the traffic load you do not at that moment you do not want to have more cars from the road you want to hug him of the roads open us open as possible because you want to move traffic away where is the government in all of
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this i mean the number one responsibility of coming government is protecting its citizens this is the number one responsibility everything else comes second and here. the government failed completely. the. wrong careless three layers. weeks on the survivors a demand in the government pay for what happened if you like he lived with optional became a regional middleman up for the night. exam i think she died . by this was actually meant to be a night of celebrations here in the parliament because this is the official end of the day here by laos it's mips to be a milestone symbolizing a new beginning for grace but maybe the by is the real symbol of what greece has
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become up to date he's been focused also different on. the monks of greece's long economic crisis that are etched into the streets of athens. you know the new rule. huff a million people from a population of eleven million have moved to brood in search of jobs since. they've left behind a nation crippled by debt now running up one hundred eighty percent of g.d.p. . you'll most of thought as was economics minister in the left wing serious a government that swept to power three years ago. how much has society be hood by those ideas have been forced austerity i think it will
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be here more on the other side there with the exception of world wars that there is. a lot of there's regard shall refer to the big twenty five but sir. that's a huge through the actual times of this we had forty percent decline in the amount of jacobs wages salaries thank shows so the cost was huge you know. emergency services have been hit as hard as any firefight as it had wages steadily cut they even have to buy their own uniforms. this unit is based in a complex that was the pride of the two thousand and four athens olympics they were called out until nine pm long after the fire had destroyed the town.
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demetrius stuff thoughtless is a senior fire officer and president of the firefighters union he says ten of the station's fifteen trucks are out of actual. was. also hired out of nothing on the market. obviously to me but i love it got us where what you want to put off more of a cup and that's a good thought or not marks you on in there does it do us gallon of a cup at that circuit or when you get off one of those when i came out on bent over against us in the year of your team there. at the corner us to put us in the business i won't talk to a human up out of. their skin i think you have to view them as this and i know my son to be here. he says the national firefighting budget has been cut by twenty percent since two thousand and ten. autonomy on
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a day or except yours was my support from you on the tarmac so must the betterment of all those we're going to get out of this was. the blame game starts it even before marty stopped smoldering the heads of the. national police and fire brigade was sacked the minister for public goal to resign and some claim that's not enough the politicians and a u.s. officials have blood on their hands. zooming constanta pooler was serious a speaker of parliament and a close ally of prime minister alexis tsipras until they split over austerity cuts i think it's very very clear that austerity measures imposed upon our country have led not just to misery and suffering but also to deaths when you remove seventy mccown tree when you demand rats.
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and illegal debts is repaid. by the blood. of the people because this is what has been happening we've been paying with our own blood for a debt that they created and when i say they i'm talking about the governments the greek governments but also the european governments that the creditors governments and the german and french banks which were those responsible for the larger part of greece's so-called current debt whether there would come to be a better outcome. if. you know under different circumstances. with without use there would be. it's hard to say. defense is you know lucky since it's cutbacks would no excuse for the lack of
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planning all coordination. he believes they had enough water bombing a craft to slow the blaze they just didn't say but. i think certainly if we had really and what my research shows is that if we caught fire fighting. operational. without delay the spread of the fire by your least an hour an hour and a half some of those you can see through an hour would have been enough to cut carbon recreation to help save the world if. it wasn't just the failings on the day that killed so many it was government policy stretching back decades. of all the terrible sight see this unremarkable property that's now sealed off is the most powerful because a crowd of people came running through here trying to get to the say blinded by smoke they found themselves trapped the edge with no escape twenty six people
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including parents and their young children died and. each other's arms. allegations would later emerge that the property and fence should not have been there like many waterfront homes it was built without permission on public land and this is unique phenomenon in southern europe where a lot of brits areas were. the were looked in the sixty's in the seventy's with mean once the houses are built in defense of their member government comes in and builds. reverse unfortunately they're on their own way of going about. illegal construction was tolerated in part because the builders paid heavy fines and taxes income desperately needed in the financial crisis this government which is trying to blame it on those illegal houses was the government who
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photo in two thousand and seventeen a law to legalize all illegal constructions. the first demolitions of fire damaged houses many were riddled with as best as a staged as a media event. the government now says it will demolish more than three thousand homes built of legally on beach fronts and in forests. the buffer against will be there for the. first approach workable or scorpio. with none of the promises preventing people from their particular verse three or four groups greece's infrastructure minister christos spirits is concedes austerity has affected fire readiness but he argues this fire was so exterior no amount of
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technology could have stopped it. in the congress we have phenomena a time there and i could ask you how man is one of the from the grocery in the middle overs and again with the one on the good recent then it off if you prefer the be careful read the source of it's christmas because your struggles and i make it worse wonderful remember us and i'm never going to go to the group of people and . it's pain and humiliation for a country that prides itself on being a cradle of civilization. greece didn't just give the world democracy in mythology its cults brought forth five. murals in the academy of athens tell the legend of per be theists who defied zeus
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to get the lights of fire and learning to the people it was for gives permissions and certainly scorching it frees him from the mountain but i'm going from his particular case zeus is going to forgive the people who are responsible for what happened. like everyone in this tight knit community helios covered up on the skis trying to come to terms with the loss. of form a d.j. he was famous for his parties and his homemade sound system. and music is my life i mean this guy has to look like at this club to look like a clown. but tame that his friends died in the flames music has become his salvation.
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they would listen to music i was very calm but. yes i think. i am one. and i would feel that they would be with us but the memories would have to forget we have to leave i mean the monster love. making songs. i was. in the back yard of the fun and i'm dressed to me trees home there's a shrine to his wife margarita and the sun i had to get named. then the four north up with a novel should do i think several jennifer mosul and i for most of my for most will
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not sell for opals not for muscle up enough formal for most. small i get to think several. cept showing up to finagle from almost all of thoughtlessness the motherboard's reform that i don't know if the support from all the blackened landscape is a daily remind of the catastrophe that took them from him still in deep shock he somehow finds the strength to carry on. for one of your future you're going to continue to be a fire fighter. in a venue up will the man on the phone about having. it on a performer you know before and then bring him up. in a got the pre-modern are the farmers
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with. the from the carter center. al jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from headquarters and i'm dead coming up in the next sixty minutes new developments in the murder of a saudi journalist. the attempt to cover it up
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a discovery at the console general's residence a mass shooting at a california nightclub packed with college students the gunmen may still be on the loose donald trump fires u.s. attorney general jeff sessions his replacement is called for the russian investigation to be scaled down. there are three armed groups and they deny people returning to their homes and no escape from violence we report from a refugee camp in the central african republic where thousands are trapped following sectarian unrest and i'm leah harding with the sport including a sensational u. turn by boxer floyd mayweather just days after announcing his fight against a japanese kick boxer he's now pulled out and claims he never actually agree to it in the first place. hello we begin with new developments out of istanbul in the murder case of saudi
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journalist. turkish sources have told al jazeera that new evidence has been found at the saudi consul general's residence that's where investigators believe these body may have been disposed off andrew symonds live in istanbul what more do we know about this new evidence. well the source from the prosecutor's office is told that there have been chemicals and hydrochloric acid samples taken from the residence the consular residence which is two hundred meters away from the consulate straight down this road that was the building that was searched by the turkish investigators two weeks after the killing of on october the second so this was a major operation mounted by the turks but in the late stage it would appear
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according to this source that joining that two week period the acid was used to dispose of the dismembered body of g. in that period of time now we know from the that night the long night of october the sixteenth seventeenth when the turkish investigators were working in the residence and wanting to get full access to the garden and the well shaft they weren't given access to the welsh after they were able to briefly take some samples from it's they were sort of put down with rods from the top we understand those samples have been analyzed and they include some proof that there was hydrochloric acid and other chemicals and a suggestion which we don't have full power for cation on just yet that there were some chemicals which show human remains were a part of the swill of of liquid going into the sewerage system there were other samples taken from the sewer system the drainage system around this diplomatic
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district and they were also showing up. a confirmation that acid was used what we're not entirely clear on is the sequence of events the timeline for this as to why the source is releasing it this information this explosive information really confirms the suggestions that this this was actually take. place the reason why no remains of a body was found because it was acid used to dissolve it people were working out timeline some forensic scientist was suggesting it could be twenty days slightly shorter but we do know that a chemical expert visited istanbul that not only that there were other clean up experts where they clean up experts a word they people of months this what was supposed to be the search and investigation team which arrived here in istanbul on october the eleventh were they there to finish off this destruction job the disposal of
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a body through this this this means that would actually clean up any possible doubt possible possibility should i say of a body being found so really this does link in to the increasing frustration of turkish forensic scientists investigators politicians the whole leadership in turkey the frustration with the saudis saying they wanted to investigate jointly but weren't gauged according to turkey they would engage in any sort of investigation really they were engaged in a cover up operation a disposal job that was ongoing throughout this whole crisis developing but without throughout the whole issue moving to the united states and being not ignored but certainly not treated as seriously as the turks would like to have seen it so now hang. in terms of this breaking news on this information hang on a second andrew because speaking of the united states so trump says and he just
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said this less than twenty four hours ago he says that he will have a much stronger opinion on the case of the next week or so as we know the saudi journalist was murdered in saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul more than five weeks ago now let's listen to what trump had to say. on that matter even more than a month since the death of mr show you know journalists are a sad thing very terrible thing do you think saudi arabia is guilty of of having to murder and if so what kind of motorcycle your opinion on that subject over the next week and i'm working very closely with congress we're working together some very talented people and we're working with congress we're working with turkey and we're working with saudi arabia and i'm forming a very strong opinion of what turkey be happy with what trump out to say about forming a stronger opinion next week. well this this is the point the timing of all of this this drip feed of information which has come stage by stage that could this be the for one of two that meeting or is there more to come it would certainly seem that this information if it's been handed to the
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americans now as i was saying earlier the cia director was in facts briefed fully on october the twenty third in istanbul of the situation regarding the tape the audiotape in the consulate behind me which proved beyond doubt according to turkey that there was a murder committed by a saudi hit squad which was sanctioned from on high and every single turkish politician from the ruling party has been categorical the louder and louder in this narration and of course also coming from the very top with president obama saying that as far as he was concerned this murder was ordered at the very top of the tree in terms of the royal household not king king started man but the indication the implication was that some had been sighted man the crown prince was engaged in it
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not a direct allegation that has to be said but took his frustration is that there has not been real traction from the united states in terms of action rather than opinion or criticism now that of course just to remind you the u.s. president initially was more concerned he said it was an appalling thing that happened but the reality of the situation was defense contracts for for arms sales to saudi arabia were important for us jobs that whole debate involving the commercial influence saudi has the political influence or has in the middle east snowballed and snowballed and it got to a stage now where turkey there's they're almost quietly screaming politically on this that they want to see justice done so whatever the situation really politically right now. so the key is in far as they're concerned go to continue with this dynamic of pushing forward more information and challenging the united states to take action rather than just make remarks and formulate some sort of
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thinking in terms of of in terms of sanctions all right because both sides of political opinion in the united states favor some form of action andrew symonds thank you for that update from istanbul the other breaking news we're following is a mass shooting in california just in the past two hours so a day after the divisive midterm elections the issue of gun control is set to be pushed back on the agenda police are saying they're still searching for a gunman after a shooting at a bar latest reports or at least eleven people have been injured police saying at least thirty sots were fired at the borderline bar and grill in thousand oaks emergency response teams as you can see from those live pictures they are still on the scene there so that incident happened at a bar and a thousand oaks california and it's about half an hour drive from central los
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angeles within the last hour local police have spoken to reporters at the scene let's listen to what they have to say the shooter is confined to with the end of his silly so there is no threat to the general public outside the. the bar and grill i don't know what the status of the shooter is if he's been captured or if he's been neutralized but what i can tell you is we don't feel that he's out of. the bar and grill our correspondent rob reynolds joining us on the phone so that was the update that was given just about an hour ago rob what are you hearing about the situation right now. well that's about where it stands right now you just heard there from captain gar reggie in the ventura county sheriff's office he also confirmed that as of the this moment leben people have been injured some of them transported to the hospital. that number eleven includes one
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police officer according to the accounts from eyewitnesses the gunman burst into the bar this was a little after eleven pm local time deputy so arrived about ten minutes later and exchanged gunfire with the suspect one of the deputies wounded at that point officials have not given any official confirmation of the condition of any of the wounded or the. condition of the suspected gunman just imagine this was a very large venue. popular with college students and it was college night at the borderline bar and grill there was country music playing and college students eighteen years old and dancing when according to eyewitnesses this individual barged in carrying
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a large handgun shot the bouncer security person was at the door of the bar and then. shot a young woman who was behind the reception counter at the bar whites and then apparently up to thirty rounds were fired off. pictures from the scene college students comforting one another some people being treated with blood on their bodies being treated by medical personnel. think of the gunman as you said it known but we do know that the f.b.i. joint. terrorism task force is on its way to the scene quoting two f.b.i. spokesperson. and representatives from the u.s. bureau.

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