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the story is the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost. zero. effort in. a fire sweeps through buildings housing people and chemicals and at least seventy are killed. and michelle carried this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the pope calls on bishops to take concrete steps to end years of sexual abuse by the clergy at a global summit. depleted but not defeated the afghan army prepares for an offensive
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to recapture territory from the taliban. talking fine to politicians but will voters in senegal have the last laugh when they elect a new leader. at least seventy people have been killed in a large fire that ripped through several buildings in the bangladeshi capital dhaka a fire broke out in the congested old city in a multi-story residential complex which also housed a chemical warehouse alexia brian reports. says and dhaka struggle to bring the inferno under control battling a wall of flames amid the chaos of crowded anyway. the blaze broke out on wednesday evening in the area of the bangladeshi capital in the cramped old city.
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it quickly spread to surrounding buildings fueled by plastics and chemical warehouses. witnesses told local media that gas cylinders in the buildings exploded one after another. and vehicles gridlocked in nearby streets were soon caught up in the flames. if i saw with my own eyes that a sudden massive bang with fire and shock waves totally destroyed the right side wall i was on a rickshaw when the explosion took place i don't think my rickshaw driver is alive anymore. this mangled wreckage is all that's left now as emergency workers calm the rubble for bodies they don't expect to find any more survivors. in the hospital nearby distraught families crowd around lists of the living and the date it's a saying that's been repeated far too often in bangladesh where large building fires a common because of holy and forced regulations for hundreds have been killed in
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recent years this latest only adding to that tally. on al-jazeera. has more from dhaka. at denver started singing choctaw just dhaka in the old city behind me is the house you want your mansion this is where the story is for the perfume chemicals right there which led to the main explosion but there are some concession as to how the fire started local people we interviewed say that it started from a pickup truck which was running on natural gas the cylinder explorer and that spread across on the left side there were restaurants and the restaurant a gas cylinder at those exploded and the fire spread all across from the other side to haji mention and because of the chemical is spread all across i spoke to the disaster specialist for the fire department major shock illinois this is what he had to say i want people to really go for the investigation and through their investigation they will find
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a lot of clues. those clues and. what is the reason for the five so we have done one of the from the investigation team disaster like this are not uncommon in bangor this particularly in this old city which is very densely populated and from just that with living for other shops and all combining wrong place now in two thousand and ten at least one hundred twenty three people died in a similar white house explosion which contain a lot of chemicals i spoke to a lot of the locals why they're not doing anything about this and compel the government to move these warehouses from their living quarter areas this is one of the personal what do you have to say basically our government is doing well dear they have just. tell us to do what you do want to do but it's it's about us it's about people must people all the mess people it's not ok those that i'm the land owner so if i'm not i'm letting them to their works here. in our
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government made a lot of promise that since two thousand and ten in clearing up these areas obviously that is not happening it needs a lot of public social awareness and enforcement otherwise clearly dangers like this still exist within the old city corridors. the head of the roman catholic church says the religious body needs to heal the wounds after decades of sexual abuse by priests that francis has been speaking at a meeting of bishops to address the scandal and call for concrete and effective measures and he this abuse by priests around the world are also attending this event at atic and city or a challenge joins us live from that instead and so this is a four day event what is the pope hoping to achieve how is this event organized well i think the pope knows what is at stake here what he says about this event is that it is going to be an attempt to recuperates will restore the
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credibility of the catholic church he knows that this is a serious serious issue and something has to be done at least in his opening remarks to the hierarchy of clergy that have being told from all across the world he told them to listen to the cry of the young who want justice and seize the opportunity to transform this evil into a chance for understanding and purification the holy people have go to watching and expect not just simple and obvious condemnations but efficient and concrete measures to be established so i think that's what he would like to come out of this it happened immediately we're not expecting a final declaration or documents after this summit is finished there is going to be another meeting with the organizing committee meeting again with high members of the coptic church that is where they will be concrete measures are going to be
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drafted and hopefully put into place or why now obviously this issue these crimes against children the covering up of these crimes this is something that the church has been happening in the church for for quite some time do we know what prompted frances to do this. well i think it's just the escalation of this scandal over decades and sometimes that you reach a tipping point basically and you know we were speaking to survivors of sexual abuse yesterday who could come here they were hoping to speak to the pope himself in a meeting they were very disappointed when they turned up and he wasn't there they felt that this was a disrespect that he is not actually listening to them as much as he says he is but they were telling us. a man from england said that he had started to be abused by
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a family member of the age of seven and then when he went on to a catholic school he was abused by two men there was a jamaican woman who was speaking to us who said that in in her youth she was impregnated by a catholic priest who then paid for her abortion to cover it up so it's stories like this that kind of bring home the past and all tragedies that have taken place to thousands and thousands of people over many many years and it's these stories coming out this kind of drip feed of revelations and scandals for a long time now that i think finally come home with this pope and he has decided that this is the time that he is going to try at least to do something about it ok right sal and that's the vatican city thank you. army commanders in afghanistan say they're confident a spring offensive will help in taking back large areas of terror territory from the taliban twenty one districts have fallen to the armed group in recent months
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the fighting has resulted in the army's highest ever losses all its strength as fallen to its lowest level in years turning berkely reports from kabul. this remote afghan army outpost is one of thousands nationwide often isolated and in inhospitable areas they are the first line of defense against taliban and i saw fighters as well as the most wonderful flags the grays of fallen soldiers since the u.s. pulled out its ground forces three years ago the afghan army has borne the brunt of the fighting with the taliban and the casualties inflicting ever greater casualties to the forces who are now the number of casualties or dozens every so people have lost. the meaning of body counting we have become indifferent officially the government says forty five thousand members of the security services have been killed since two thousand and fifteen and officially afghan analysts say that number could easily be doubled the overall army strength has dropped to its lowest
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level in years as the military confronts his biggest ever crisis but army chiefs maintain that morale remains good. we have a volunteer army it's their own choice to serve is no doubt that we suffer a lot. of disabled but our morale is high because the goal is freedom and to serve the people of afghanistan and. in the past few months the military has lost control of more than twenty areas to taliban fighters who seem able to strike anywhere. in total we have lost twenty one districts in all over afghanistan it is because of the change in tactics on the ground so we are planning a spring offensive where it will take two to three months to retake all these districts from the taliban but real reimposed the rule of law. eight thousand recruits every year pass out of this training center in the capital kabul most of
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them are trained by afghan instructors taught by western military experts who despite the high casualty rate young men are still volunteering to fight it's partly out of a sense of pattern to see but it's also because of the dire economic situation here they face the stark choice either stay at home and enjoy your poverty or face the taliban and risk death or injury and that from the e.s.m. it's my duty to fight for my country to win our freedom and i'm not afraid of the taliban for the magazine other stuff if i hadn't gone to the army i had nothing else planned professional soldiers say ideally training should last a minimum of a year in afghanistan it's three months that. we would like more time but we make the most of what time we do have and when. leave here they are able to fight the taliban. but the question is how able are they to fight effectively army pay is low the conditions poor and since the american ground forces left backup is limited
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recruits are taught to shoot but equally importantly they are taught emergency battlefront first aid increasingly important because of the shortage of medivac helicopters. was a bomb disposal experts for seven years until an explosion blew off both his legs he's one of a growing number of disabled war veterans discharged from the military and one is the most. i have no regret i am proud that i have contributed to the fans of michael three and my second fires was in pursuit of peace my people and my country but there is little help for heroes in afghanistan the father of four receives a meager disability pension of two hundred seventy dollars a year but he hasn't received any money for eight months and he can't afford further medical treatment the afghan military has come a long way in the last eighteen years but is it far enough and if and when the u.s. forces finally withdraw completely will the afghans be able to stand alone tony
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berkeley al jazeera kabul. a u.s. foreign woman who joined i saw has been barred from returning to america or to madonna says she made a mistake traveling to syria four years ago and wants to return with their eighteen month old son a secretary of state that pomp aoe says the twenty four year old has no legal basis to claim citizenship peo did not explain why with ana is not considered a u.s. citizen a lawyer says she was born in new jersey and held a valid passport so she's absolutely american national she's absolutely an american citizen she was born in the united states in new jersey and she did not do anything to renounce her citizenship and all she's asking right now is for due process the president of the united states does not have the authority to strip citizenship from those born on u.s. soil and she's willing to pay whatever debts she has to society she's not asking for a free pass we were you know on behalf of her family we were the ones who contacted
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the f.b.i. when we first learned that would i went to syria this is something that we absolutely condemn in the strong this of terms and the families always wanted her to come back and to face the legal system that we all believe in and now she's willing to do that and the government of i think is missing out on a tremendous opportunity to one gain intelligence from her and to really be able to utilize her as a strong voice against a monstrous groups like isis that are brainwashed many individuals and manipulated them to do horrible things and i think somebody like renouncing isis speaking out against them at great risk to her personal life is a sign a victory for the u.s. but more head on al jazeera it's compact and perfectly portable but when the device opens up your world those too. so it's called a fold but this latest phone will cost you a few thousand dollars plus. on the road to nowhere twelve hundred meters underground line david chain john on the out.
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how i was there got flames here spring like weather across here but we got a little bit of a change coming in across these northern areas could see this big area of cloud where the systems are rolling through scandinavia northern posit jamey and out towards the baltic states that pushes its way through cold ahead of it minus two celsius their fists with some snow on the leading edge still behind barely getting up to about eleven cells just clear skies just not going back a bit as this system makes its way further south what's in a swiss boys or a china be some snow coming down towards ukraine towards hungry some wet weather ahead of that clear skies come back in behind little on the freshest side but you know five celsius there for warsaw with those northerly winds monistat in moscow so
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when today isn't quite done with this here yet but spring's firing quite nicely into the north west london at fifteen paris at sixteen but great it's up to seventeen celsius little bit of cloud just around the far west of the iberian peninsula and that will roll its way towards the the north of iraq some places of crowds here into northern areas of algeria but it's all the fair weather variety so they will be fine and driver back gets up to twenty three celsius or pleasant sunshine coming through here lots of sunshine across northern parts of africa cari with a high of twenty degrees. at the time it was the worst environmental disaster in brazil's history but it was also a tragic for taste of war to follow. people in power investigates claims of warnings that. i'm the disturbing between lawmakers and the mining industry to.
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be on trial. just brazil. you're watching our top stories right now at least seventy people have been killed in the large fire that ripped through several buildings in the bangladeshi capital dhaka. on a residential complex which also housed a chemical warehouse that of the roman catholic church says the religious body needs to heal the wounds after decades of sexual abuse by priests francis has been speaking at a meeting of bishops to address the scandal and call for concrete and effective
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measures. has been barred from returning to america but she made a mistake by traveling to syria four years ago and wants to return with her eighteen month old son. on independence protesters have blocked a motorway and southwestern spain had burning tires on the road connecting the city of barcelona as part of a general strike against the ongoing trial of cattle on separatists and former local government leaders are facing up to twenty five years in prison for their role in a failed two thousand and seventeen and dependants. the trans out and will be one of europe's most expensive train lines once it's finished costing a staggering ten billion dollars rail link will reduce travel time between a la milan and paris from almost seven hours to just over four but the tunnel could now fall that into heightening tensions between france and italy to reports it's europe's most ambitious engineering project
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a high speed train link being cut beneath the alps separating fronts in italy but as diplomatic relations continue to unravel it's proving to be a tunnel too far at the heart of the ten billion dollar peroration is this drilling machine two thousand four hundred tons of steel churning to the rock nonstop towards italy greece and over here in the levees if this is really the project of my life i hope to keep on and finish this tunnel. but emerging from a citizen's guard house on the italian side of the border it's full vias a lifetime ambition to make sure the tunnel never breaks through. for years now thousands of locals here have been taking part in demonstrations against it than the see me laurie that we do really have so many things to be down at things attributed to the community and let's say for progress what is being done with this tunnel is a waste of frowns we waste
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a montane of found wasted with and fulvio has some backing in high political circles it leads deputy prime minister luigi did my oh head of the populace five star movement he's done most afraid relations with paris by meeting with members of the end of best rebellion besieging president macron. the five stars deputy mayor of children described the project as insanity mr pays enough to pay them at the program you know or con three hundred fewer of them friends with a get a vest is that their recent need for public investments but they must be for what are the united states in its must back in france president emmanuel makkal is struggling to keep dion taunt cody he didn't help when he described new populist movements as a form of political leprosy less than us to do to how it will be any transport link between the west and the east and that's why it is creation and strategic once it's finished it will connect all the countries between putsch calling east and you're
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at it's like a small reconstruction of europe's version of the silk right. let the italians pick up that the other end that will take it all the life five. dollars a year or if you run a profit take it like that for the whole of europe but at the moment they're. fighting to keep it in the town every day telling you know where. each slide. inserted into the tunnel was meant to cement relationships between france and italy instead a fiasco is in the making in the heart of europe david chase al-jazeera under the french out france's president has announced new measures to fight anti-semitism after a series of incidents speaking at an event organized by that u.s. community that anti-semitism in europe has reached its worst level since world war two legislation to fight hate speech on the internet will be introduced in may it
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comes a day after thousands of people rallied across france to denounce hostility towards . palestinians are marking the twenty fifth anniversary of a massacre and had brought much demonstrations on friday training palestinians were killed when an american israeli settler opened fire inside a mosque on the twenty fifth of february one thousand nine hundred four and it's possible ports from the occupied west bank the consequences of that mass shooting are still being felt even from a hillside overlooking hebron city it's clear that this is an ancient place rich in human heritage but also a visible fault lines of human conflict hooting to the traditions of the abrahamic faiths judaism christianity and islam abraham himself along with his wife his sons and their wives are buried in the caves above which the bahraini mosque now stands since israel occupied the west bank in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven jews and muslims have prayed here separately divided over the past twenty five years the division has deepened in the muslim side the call to prayer requires an israeli
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soldier to unlock a door israeli army cameras survey the interior of the mosques in mom says more than half of what he describes as an exclusively muslim site has been cut off. totally reject the division which isn't meant for protection the real protection comes from the fact that this is an old islamic mosque and the settlers to live. on the twenty fifth of february one thousand nine hundred four an american israeli foreign settler goldstein into the mosque during prayers and started shooting he killed twenty nine worshipers and wounded nearly two hundred he himself was chased down and beaten to death the violence that barak old stain on least here may have been over in a matter of minutes but its consequences still deeply felt this was a seismic event in the history of this town and from the epicenter here the fissures of that politically psychologically physically have spread out throughout . the immediate military lockdown forcing the palestinian market to close amid
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other restrictions was followed by the hebron agreement of one thousand nine hundred seventy eighty percent of the city is known as h one mostly the urban sprawl of the west bank's main economic center and of the palestinian authority the remaining twenty percent home to several hundred israeli settlers and forty thousand palestinians became h two under israeli military control the illegal settlements have swollen attracting some of the most right wing settlers in the occupied west bank some eight hundred and are registered as living here the crisscross intimate nature of the division heightens the friction hebron is often a flashpoint of violence jews here remember an early a massacre in one thousand twenty nine when sixty seven people were killed the small jewish community forced from the city. kamin what's happening now is a religious and historical homecoming under the protection of the israeli army they're just doing their job to try to keep the tension. down because without them it would probably be much more tense so there we see that we see them of the
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positive presence a few meters away a very different perspective run the gate has seen her home and her freedoms ever more constricted for the last two years by a reinforced fence and a gate that soldiers can look at any time we used to come and go now they have is innocent and. we say prisoners are in prison but wait in a larger one twenty five years on from one of the deadliest days in the israeli palestinian conflict its legacy is undimmed in the daily reality of hostility disposition and division are a force that al-jazeera hebron in the occupied west bank. others in senegal are turning to satire to find out more about the candidates for the presidency a nation goes to the polls on sunday now and other african nations comedians making fun of politicians night end up in jail that is not the case and senegal parts of the capital dakar thank you thank you thank you there may be no
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televised presidential debate but there is special election coverage. this is a comedian is impersonating all five candidates including president mike you saw on the campaign trail. thanks for those cells every move poking fun at the president who for now seems to be the favorite in the race. but the problem is he got so fat that it's not easy to run a race when you put on so much weight if he wants another five years he's going to explode and so for his own well being he needs to pull out of the race thanks laughing at a sitting president is no joke in many african countries and beyond it could land a comedian in jail but not in senegal political satire has a longer tradition than democracy itself none of the five candidates have complained about the skits because humor is part of the campaign. to get on with
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the daily news in iraq the political satire show on the election the aim is to hold to account each promise made by candidates a reminder that people not politicians are in charge ahead of the polls you can live people just the chief of your gold in the stand what. are we not we're not. we're not running for governor we're not running for mayor will run for the wind for the people. as each candidate tries to stand out comedians bring them down to an even footing where they're powerful president or a candidate running for office in the seems to say out loud what many politicians perhaps think but wouldn't say in public. nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car is now a smartphone that you can bend and half and next generation of device promises to open a new world for your fingertips but will galaxy forward help the industry leader
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overcome a shrinking market or stone salumi reports from new york. the next generation samsung smartphone will also serve as a tablet which is folded and has a four point six inch display it's compact and perfectly portable but. when the device opens up your world does too not surprisingly samsung's newest device is called the fold and it was unveiled with all of the fanfare you've come to expect from the world's leading smartphone maker. but shares with things we call it goes on sale in april but it and samsung's new as tannen as ten plus are being released amid faltering worldwide sales people have a little bit of phone fatigue all the phones look the same they feel the same this new galaxy s ten is not really going to break the mold but we've seen some hints of things that are coming in the future that might get people really excited the issue whether buying samsung or an apple device is increasingly price with the fold
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costing about two thousand dollars samsung will have to convince consumers that they just have to have it pretty much all of the price to perform the performance of their own looking for. a replacement phone every three or four years i'm not within the eighteen to twenty four month update cycle i'm not rich enough or that the global smartphone market is shrinking after years of rapid growth with consumers waiting for the next game changing feature and major markets like here in the united states that saturation still smartphone sales are a vital part of the global economy. in two thousand and seventeen smartphone sales reached nearly four hundred sixty billion dollars but the rising price tag for the better known smartphones is not just an issue in the developed world and there is heavy headwind against the high and smartphones we saw that the i phone and the sales but not that great some macro issues as well china is slowing down. but
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europe is slowing down with the release of the full industry leaders seem convinced that continuing innovation and the ability to access five g. data networks in the near future will be enough to keep smartphone consumers coming back from. more christian salumi al-jazeera new york. and the shock area let's recap the headlines on al-jazeera at least seventy people have been killed in a large fire that ripped through several buildings in the bangladeshi capital dhaka a fire broke out in a residential complex which also housed a chemical warehouse temperature has more from dhaka. what happened yesterday we have some conflicting reports from the witnesses in the neighborhood this said that there was an explosion in a pickup truck most possibly the cylinder because a lot of the cars and trucks run on natural gas that exploded and spread the fire
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into a nearby restaurant which also had a natural gas cylinder and that explosion caused this. which boards a lot of chemicals for perfect. spread fire all across that of the roman catholic church says the religious body needs to heal the wounds after decades of sexual abuse by priests francis says in speaking at a meeting of bishops to address the scandal and call for concrete and effective measures any of those abused by priests around the world are also attending this event is happening in vatican city u.s. foreign woman who joined i saw has been barred from returning to america but i'm with ani says she made a mistake by traveling to syria four years ago and wants to return with her eighteen month old son secretary of state might pompei o says the twenty four year old has no legal basis to claim citizenship a lawyer says she was born in new jersey and held a valid passport. a pro-government sunni tribal leader in iraq says one hundred
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fifty eisel fighters detained in syria have been handed over to iraqi security forces and over happened in our province surrender to the kurdish syrians in a crowd of forces and meant that i saw in the s.t.'s are still fighting for control of a sliver of land and eastern syria. cattle on independence protesters have blocked a motorway and northwestern. part of a general strike against the ongoing trial of cattle on separatists doesn't former local government leaders are facing up to twenty five years in prison for their role in a failed two thousand and seventeen and dependents bid. tech giant google says it made an error after failing to inform users of a hidden microphone inside its own security device and was only found out about the nest guard's built in microphone the google announced it was updating the product and he says it was never intended to be a secret so the headlines keep it on al-jazeera people and power is up next.
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