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in the future. the jew political. story will be. told. this is due to the news life for at least twenty three people are killed in our tornado in alabama the storm has caused devastation in parts of the state emergency workers are still pulling bodies from the wreckage authorities fear the death toll will rise also coming up. a little in algeria as thousands protest against the president's decision to run for
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a fifth term the ailing leader is offering to step down within a year if we elected but will that be enough to appease the protesters. the u.n. has spent decades bringing measles under control but the number of people affected with the disease has suddenly begun to shoot up to what is behind a surge in cases around the world. and in the bundesliga with ten matches left fired munich are once again favored to win it all find out what happened over the weekend in germany's top league including the collision between boston and bremen a painful clash and ending for both teams. almost got to thank you for joining us at least twenty three people have been killed after a tornado tore through the u.s. state of alabama tens of thousands of homes are without power and many buildings
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have been destroyed the death toll is expected to rise as rescuers search through the rubble. to nato films from a far as it wreaks havoc in alabama. and this is what it left behind. the devastation it is all too clear to see in the small community of god one of the areas west hit in the county. here the violent twisted destroyed everything in its path. the damage here is significant i would put it in the category of catastrophic based on the destruction of the homes we sing. for those in the eye of the storm it was a terrifying experience. and
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we've come out of the community as we were just trying to get out of this area right here and you mentioned it's often debris as you were driving yes ma'am coming up around the corner as i was making a left right up there around thirty eight and this whole area right here. is very much you know. as state of the merge and see already in place in alabama last month funding has been extended with many people having suffered serious injury in the storm the authorities are warning the death toll may rise. well did abuse all of our salat is following the story for us he sent us this update but here you know affected we're talking about it live on how to my wife several miles long and if you look at the pictures of the record be area where the tornado touched on it shortly after you can really tell what one power of this
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tornado markers that you see hundreds of trees tree condone like matches. that were devastated literally chopped into pieces and there's one area that was true. thank you already affected it is. pretty awful pillory joe and alabama where twelve people are police are reportedly killed survivor describe the situation is something we have seen in his whole life search and rescue still going on night find there in alabama right now. the rescue forces there are problems carrying on survivors are taking to the hospital some have very serious injuries were reported we people are still missing not all all. have been identified and sort of the situation in flux but one thing used sure you know this is one of the deadliest tornadoes hitting the region in a long time. all of our salary porting their forests now to algeria where
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new anti-government demonstrations have broken out after a president until as he's put to sleep to announce he would run in elections next month people have been taking to the streets for the last ten days to protest the president's plans to run for a fifth term with a flick of says he will step down within a year if he's reelected but it's unclear if that will appease the demonstrators i didn't stray sions are officially banned here but that didn't stop thousands of people from taking to the streets these protests have been going on for almost two weeks now most of the demonstrators are young and they want an end to the beautifully which has lasted twenty years. chipping i think i'm curious have gotten over their fear on the streets to show that we reject the system of government we're calling for freedom all kinds of freedom including freedom of the press that's why we hear that they were on the phone
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a lot for them we're here to denounce this mafia our government these criminals with taken the people hostage she wants to make a man whose parody a life president again gee i know i'm keeping. even for. the man the protesters are unhappy with president putin registered on sunday to run again in the upcoming election or more to the point he had his team register for him the president himself was in a swiss hospital in geneva officially just for a routine check up he's been in a wheelchair since suffering a stroke in two thousand and thirteen and rarely makes public appearances his reaction to the demonstrations is what he's always done when things get dicey trying to reassure the public he's promised to call for early elections should he get reelected whether that would be enough to calm the unrest is far from certain. the only thing that would work to get the people off the streets is if the president announced his candidacy so that could be done on medical grounds.
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however at the moment that doesn't look likely geria is in fact a resource rich nation with large gas and oil reserves but recent drops in the price of crude oil has hit the economy hard every day life has become a struggle for many algerians almost half of the population is under age twenty and unemployment remains high people are frustrated and the government seems to be paralyzed to see the people outraged with the president who has become more authoritarian yet he himself has barely been up to the task of ruling and his closest allies have gotten rich over the years the people don't know whether beautifully to himself has decided to run again or someone else decided for him. to cross the country protesters are demanding a new better future bob beautifully may very well be coming to an end what happens afterwards raises many questions opposition parties are hopelessly splintered and powerless these are indeed decisive days in algeria. and we can talk to
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a journalist sophia philip nasr he's covering the protests in algeria has been the center of algiers the capital and he joins us on the line sophia tell us what you've been seeing what you've been witnessing while covering these protests over the last few days. right now i'm going downtown houston there's a lot of police to close in the streets but it's quiet right now because after yesterday when the feature campaign manager handed in the paper for all the candidacy people went to the streets again at night and protests and staged protests and marches countrywide. the focus on soon since they started. impressively peaceful. from both sides actually like we have to we have protesters who are marching in all over the country and you want your case and what it would have been a sort of confrontation between protesters and security forces when i was here is
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what protests are effectively banned from tripoli and one but it's in the it's an impressive and cheap full atmosphere best on the market full to last friday when we've seen the children time of these two women taking to the streets knowing that they can actually do it right now tighten yes this is a factor for you than a protest yes ok and why has the government allowed these protests which are unprecedented as you said in the in their size in their strength why has the government allowed these to take place. this is an interesting question indeed but what we've heard what he's getting with you know she really is the family ultra particular gene. and to all those protests what ben bernanke used there was simply too many people in the street and when it comes to the ruling elite with getting with a fragment appreciate we have several traction for the part of the routine with each and since the oil revenue is down and fulfilled in fourteen there's a clash of clans so there are several students within the region fighting against
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each other and it's quite likely that we have certain groups within the regime quite happy to get goods to come. doesn't explain to us how algeria got here president with a black eye he's eighty two years old he's in poor health he's rarely seen in public why is there no alternative. there i am from the troops of course but it's not known which person might be the outcome of the ongoing on refs. diyala tribes went on in two thousand and fourteen acutely sound within the regime tried. to leave and successfully to mobilize political and economic power and as a dim focus enough land is the dominant attraction off the east which made it apparently quite impossible to find someone who could romney and get him told the region were frankly not able to agree on the content for granted but to repeat that what's the secret event for now all right journalists offensiveness are speaking to
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us from algeria thank you so much for your insights. for your. now to some other stories making news around the world while ways chief financial officer man one joe was suing canada over her arrest back in december the move could delay her extradition to the united states where she's set to face charges of violating sanctions against iran her case has heightened existing economic tensions between washington and beijing. venezuela's opposition leader one boy though says he is returning to his country despite the threat of arrest on sunday he left ecuador after touring latin american countries that support him he called the venezuelans to join protests on monday against president nicolas maduro. the world's biggest religious festival is drawing to a close in india officials estimate as many as two hundred fifteen million people have taken part in these seven week long hindu male us celebrations in the northern
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city of. induce believe bathing in the waters of the ganges river at the festival brings salvation. you're watching news still to come cleaning up the carnival it is known for excess and decadence but now evangelical groups are hoping to use the event in rio to convert people to christianity. but first a deadly disease seeing a global resurgence missiles the world health organization says the number of cases doubled last year to almost two hundred thirty thousand and that is just reported cases the actual number could top two million over a third of cases were reported right here in europe with the biggest outbreak in ukraine this year it's had twenty thousand cases as well as eight deaths of the conflict in eastern ukraine has contributed to the spike a low vaccination rate of just forty two percent is another factor a further epidemic is underway in the african nation of madagascar which also has
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a low vaccination rate more than nine hundred people have died there since september and an additional hotspot is the philippines where more than. two hundred people have died this year most of them children deaths that could have been prevented by safe effective vaccines but there as in other countries mistrust of vaccines is rising of the government has responded by launching a major immunization drive. i spoke to mohammad money or a viral infections and vaccine expert at lancaster university in england and i asked him why there is such a surge in measles now well there are many reasons but the primary reason as you briefly into it is really the low vaccine coverage and that is mainly attributed to day that the law overall vaccine contains not only within your but also around the globe so for instance we have message number new cases
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and ninety five percent of those cases are one which are not vaccinated so basically lack of vaccine or the vaccine coverage is the main driver for increase in the cases of the measles you touch on the anti-vaccination movement that we've seen growing here in europe for example why has that been so effective i mean these are diseases that could be prevented with a safe effective vaccine. absolutely maxine it is very effective against new zealand just to highlight that the disk fast rate of the current vaccine is ninety nine cents or ninety nine out of hundred people who are vaccinated will be protected against disease but that is not really working very well no only in europe but around the globe it's mainly because of that i'm going back to compare compare notes and those have been very successful because of probably feel more use of the media because i would like to highlight that there is literally no credible studies that link any complication with the m.m.r. vaccine although studies that have been kind of conducted before have been
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discredited and there is no reliable studies of prevention there is no link between any complication that is being reported so far and now we're seeing measles in areas that weren't even measles free what are the consequences how serious is this a tech. disease could be even more. severe in the area where the disease has not been there before is because the lack of the immunization already in there so for instance people who have not been vaccinated and the disease has not been they are they do not have a pure immunity so if the disease come into those areas it will be more lethal compared to the area where the disease has been endemic so we really have to emphasize on the fact of human eyes ation of have given our stations that we need to accident around ninety five people out of hundred in a given community to get protection against a disease disease outbreak however that is not the case at the moment it in many e.u. countries. twenty seven twenty out of twenty seven in the. e.u.
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states the vaccine coverage is less than ninety five percent which is required what effective in isolation right there is much to be done mohammed money or fun lancaster university in england thank you so much. now it has been eight hears since an earthquake and tsunami destroyed the fukushima nuclear plant in japan the disaster sent radioactivity over a large area forcing tens of thousands of people to sleep the government says much the land around fukushima has since recovered but the nuclear plant itself still poses massive challenges our reporter went to look at efforts by the operator tepco to clean up the site. tepco wants to persuade us that it has the situation under control. we're not allowed to film everything here but at least we get a glimpse of what they think control might mean the building containing its nuclear reactors continues to emit radiation the whole way is take us into another building
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away from the reactor in a labyrinth of car doors once flooded by the tsunami we have to change our shoes several times as a precaution against radioactive dust we get to the control room of reactors three and four eight years ago this is where stuff desperately trying to prevent the meltdown of the reactor core. which i think that. two weeks ago a tepco robot for the first time reached the materials which were produced in the in a court during the meltdown. no one knows exactly where all of the estimated eight hundred eighty tons of this material. at chernobyl the material was incased in concrete but tepco wants to extract it completely. it's. goal of thirty to forty years is not based on exact information but is instead
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a rough estimate in order to get a more exact time table we would have to gather even more data. is another problem is disposing of the contaminated water about one million two hundred thousand cubic meters of contaminated cooling and runoff water are stored in these tanks but time is of the essence as the tanks can only hold another two hundred thousand cubic metres. the water is not clean despite extensive attempts to decontaminate it. radiation levels are still too high fishermen and farmers in the region are worried that in the end the. water would just be dumped in the city. now thousands of dancers from brazil's elite samba schools are taking part in this week world famous rio de janeiro carnival fourteen of the top schools are parading along the main procession route each featuring as many as four thousand performers and a labrat floats as well it is
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a first carnival since the election last year of the right wing president charbel cigar he came to power on a wave of support from conservative and evangelical groups traditionally those groups i don't approve of carnivals excesses but this year they too are joining the fray. members of one of rears evangelical churches praying ahead of carnival. like so often we're also going on the street today to tell all the people that jesus loves them that he wants to enter their family's lives and that god loves them. it is indeed an unusual samba school gathered it could pick about no peach they're part of the charismatic ball of jeanette a cool snowball evangelical movement. no skimpy costumes here and also no alcohol that's to boot this church its minister says they want to celebrate it clean carnival. you see you can have fun without
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alcohol without disputes without all the things that you usually associate with conical like having a fish is for people getting killed not. everything is better with jesus they saying even jelly calls are a growing force in brazil and they have powerful allies in politics some ministers evangelicals timed event gena cool strongly support the recently elected right wing president job also narrow a short distance down the street another sound the school is getting ready at the name of beach rio's gay community also sell. bridge carnival. they're deeply concerned by the election of polls so narrow who's repeatedly expressed homophobic views. to diffuse the crowd in that we're going through difficult times with all these crazies who have just come to power in prison but will have to stand up to them and that's why there's a carnival. they've got not always. but they have nothing
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against evangelicals getting into the carnival spirit. the way that we need religious and social freedom the evangelicals don't drink and i want you to today this is water i'm sure this was the main thing is that everyone feels good and happy. the evangelicals at copacabana have a particular goal for carnival they want to convert nonbelievers. but i think we want to reach those who don't yet know jesus christ who can also be happy without alcohol drugs and those kinds of things in this world we don't need them we've got jesus now that is not exactly the usual carnival slogan. time to talk football now the latest from the blender sligo weekend we have every howard from good use forte's with us hi anthony so there was some big news over the weekend but it's like a byron catching up to dark and i do want to ask you about that in
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a moment but first let's talk about what happened on sunday the best of sunday's games was very different i'm playing now both teams of john great improvement this year and they are a chance to make the champions league places you make the top four you find the champions league and you get a big big payday and that's so important to compete in football these days that in itself might be a hearty topic to talk about and an interesting game to watch but there was something else bubbling but meet the surface here and it's coach from. and the chance that he might get poached mid-season to go in coach an entirely different club that being shelter so with those two reasons in mind this kind of itself and for those to raisins had an interesting story line and attention bubbling away of anything. bruno lab is clearly still loved by the fans old school sporting director york's muscular had caused a stir by describing their personal relationship as frosted during the week ahead of contract negotiations the green and white affair started off with a bang visiting goalkeeper usually puzzling to collided with me
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a math maybe and the twelfth minute both players received treatment and were able to continue in the fifty fourth minute a maximum of an arnold free kick found john anthony brooks to give both ball the lead is two teammates rough side but not judged to have interfered play well spoken have the majority of chances on the goal stood. twenty minutes later braman hit back captain march through with his fifth of the season brilliantly set up by a cross from maximilian it is starting to make it all the much finished all square with liberty a clearly the more frustrated coach i suppose will drop out of the top six. disappointing result for both teams i didn't get what i want and that really the stories elsewhere in the bundesliga now yeah that's what i want to ask you about a setback for dortmund they lost to oxford on friday and then byron one of they beat the clock but where does that leave the title race leads us re working this narrative of the season i'm going to pitch you an elevator pitch one unique of the
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death star they've won the last sixty. years and i win everything it's hard to stay excited so i'm doing my best about the bundesliga once i love started they've got their own gravitational pull a bank vault full of money that attracts the players the players when the trophies this year are supposed to be different or they've got a new coach some of the players are getting a little older and that left don't want to play the role of the jet i hear that though the young up and comers the rebellion stay with me if you can but and at christmas time this script was sold it was looking fantastic they were leading by nine points a christmas dortmund overbought and we were thinking finally we're going to get something different but as we take a look at the table with ten weeks to go we say after the results you talked. about dortmund losing ball and winning a six point swing and now the two sides a label on top of the title and the story of romance suddenly looks like a horse so what's going to happen to the death star the jet i can dormant actually bounce back from the lake and it's going to be difficult suddenly got the sound of a neighbor debility to it that the young kids are struggling in the spotlight of
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the old the old horses the old stars are coming up for bond and they're playing better football. it's hard to believe i want to believe we're going to say something different but in my heart i think oh not to prepare for the worst we have to see how that plays out before we go i want to ask you about a social media moment mario balotelli in the top french league this that was really making the rounds on social media tell us what happens ok so if i'm going to draw you a picture of a playboy superstar striker who scores goals and have fun i'm going to draw you a picture of mario balotelli he is the poster child for the troubled star the man with so much talent he drives a lamborghini posset on the pavement outside the nightclub he comes back from the summer holidays light and gloriously fat he is my hero and he's also playing football in my sight but he always schools goals this is why he keeps collecting the paycheck so that's why we're talking about him today because he scored a goal for my site was a wonderful well that's what he did next he goes to a cameraman behind the goal takes
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a telephone presumably he's on an instagram long lives the moment of goal celebration with his teammates to his i point to the being followed was being watched one point nine million times since and in a drive world of football was rooting cliches than dribbling on this man is a right of sunshine and long may it continue i can tell you're a fan of the. policewoman done all right anthony howard from date of use for thank you so much. now the prodigy front band keith flint has died at the age of forty nine british police say the singer was found dead at his home in essex they're not treating his death as suspicious so into saying lead vocals on international hits like fire starter and brave of the band was about to kick off a major tour to promote their new album no tourists. our mind on our top story here and g.w. violent storms and at least one tornado of swept through the u.s.
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