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>> a now"bbc world news." >> thenternational rognid president o the iry coast cas for the un t rease te sancons this country. natoas apologized for an r strike tha kild thnumber of rebels by mistake at lea children are shot ad at a schoo in a rio the neiro. stl no deal beten psident obama and republicansoverhe u.s. budget rent a government shutdown may be on the cards. e da and don't of a modern marriage.
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ivory coast recognized presidt has urged t eu toift sationsn itwarnings of a epeng humanitarian crisis. there is no running water o power and hospitals a shops are csed. people a runng out of food he has made a televisio appearance. >> the outing psident deant as close to the ci of abidjan for a week w, the residents have been trapped in thromes inear. i did lt the european union's sancon to fly it to the pos of abidjan because of e illetimas regime of ggbo.
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>> mr. ouattara saithe aa was been cordon offnd secud. >> the fir picres of the sie. the are e forcesryinto drive ouattara out ohis pridenal bunker. >>e arhere to destroy his pala, says one soldier. t we seriously failed, said another. the fight continue . gbagb' has had enough. the brges e just next door. today, the fhting flareall over tow
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asor the local residents, a handful are alsoakina run foit. >> there is no water, she says. we do nodrin we doot e. fo the fst timeoday, we're starting to see civilians escapefromhe city by s buried the is been about 10 of these bus thi morni. as you can seehey're stopping th and questioning l th young men to make sure tre are milant on board. anyone suspectedf bng a pro gbag fighter idetaed and questioned we found the priners in a car wash. once dared womain. -- o that scared oman. she w lat released. into a dgeroity,he
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milias a still on e rampage, the death toll is rising. >> thewereilling a shooting in reighborhood st night. i saw 10 dd. >> you could argue that there in the moppingp ste of this nflict. how lonthatasts depends heavy on one defiant man in a besieged bunker. >> in libya, the commander of rebel forces saynatoas apolizedor mistakey attacking a column of rebel tanks inhe et of the couny. the nerasaid the air strike, which killed several rebels, had occurred despite natoeing rnedhe tanks were being moved to e front line. our corresponde hasiledhis port from the scene. >> after a long stalate, and a big push to thfron today,
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doze of rel tankand cket launchersheadgowards ddaf troops. theato planes dottac but apparently against therong side. casualty's ll soon brushed backrom e front lines. every other available crt w toldf the wounded. many of the dead have en lt at the scene of the aack. the rebel commander td me tt theen sod no chance. least fo of ckets were red a monk's them no one he understand why. there is a lot of anr. ty ar talki of. -- they are attacking us. they should rogni i. doctors try to save two of eir ownolleues trade
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inred with an ambulance and thchao othe fron there is nhing they can do. this was a disaste for the bel fort. finay,odayheyent ll- equippe soldiers intocti, but with terrible conseence the leaders desee an exanation from nato. on theround,adda troops took full advante evyoneas snn the iran ade bel forces firing missiles as they le. -- everyone was soon on te ru rebel forces fing mssil as th left. e rebel army is n fleng. scheng along e dert roads to t eas a the las stronghold of benghazi. hundreds o civilians escaped the fighting after a y of a
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huge setbacks foraddafi pones. >> a spokesman for an organization tt cal itself the libyan freem grp spoke to mearlier from the cy. he described t latt situion ere. we do not seenyombing fromheseebts. as rs the figing, who are theebelfighting agast gadha'troops? are ey military people? or are they rmal citizens wi guns? >> norm cizens with guns. most of them are engineers just uipped with guns.
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ey a usi themgainst gaafi rces. >> as farshe ehth shipment that has arred, w it easy is t distrite t aidwoul gaddafsnips insidehe cy? caeverybody that needs it get it? >> side thecityhey e only cated in the downtownf the city's great e noal civilians --nd -- downtown of the cities. the normal cilia have evacuatethe ty. its ea t gefood and suppes, but i do no tnk it wi last for long. >> isy sea thonly way the
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can g assistance? your city is practicly surrounded yes the oy way to get food and help is sea the sea borr isecured. it is still prettyecur >> that ispokean for the libyan freedom group. the formeribyaforeign minister has been inrvied by scottisholic invesgati the bbing. arrived i britain last week, he w no longer willing to work for colonel gaddafi. emgency services in pan say
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two people were killed and 100 jured in this perfu aftehock on thursday. the 7.1 eartuakeas the mos of the numerous aftshoc that t jan sin the masve earthquake triggered a msive tsami st month. a guan had shot dead ateast 12 chiren in rio the jeiro. he wt in the building carrying two revolvers and a suicide note. some viewers mayind me of emages distressing. >> people in rio ar no stngers to crime and volence, but one was expecting anything quiteike thi >> it was a catastrophic sne. it was like in thenite stas wheneopl go wn anstart ooti. a lo gunman walked into this school in a pr surb of the citynd oned fire
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against school ildr aged 9 to15 years old. relatives could no belie what wahappening. >> the gmanas a former student in this school. the witnesses said he arrived smartly dressed, but he wantso give a lecre to the students. he uld en havealked to teacrs beforeoing onis killing spe. hehot d reloahis weapon a number of times fore the first policeman arrid. >> when i arrived at te school, i heard the shooting. the gunnunday and a gun at me. i sh him and theegs d then he shot himself in the ad.
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bzil's president cried a called for a moment of silence for the children. >> to te, have to mourn what happened. this kind of cre is not usuly here in our country. that iwhy thinkverye must unite to condemn this act of violee. to condemn this vlence agast unprotectechilen. his is th kind of trady thatrazians have only seen in other countes bore. hiss thfirstime an event ke thisapped in this school year. investigators e examining evidence left by the gmen tryo find cls aso at made him dthis but thpicte remains very
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unclr. >> ts ia bbnews. advice for willi and kate on how to make the very best start in their broil mared life. -- royal rried life. for t eldly canion sid we torted b british officials ha a centurygo he started thr claim for compention at the high court ilond. they are old now, veteransf the confli tha ended ha a centy ago. ey hav led longer lives they want an aolog from britain and compensation. >> t past kg -- was taken to acreening cab. -- cp. immediely,here was psica
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violen, sealiolence. >> the reblion was 10-ar ng armed uprising agast coloal re. e rels attacked and killed farmers as ll as thousands of their own who fought witthe. ainsthe upring. many said the rebellion led direlyo independence. tens of thousands ofenyans we detained in prison cam. ma died the, many more were tortured. >> people were dying aa result of ing bten. >> he lived in kya in the 50's. heaid the rels not derve an apoly. >> they started thafigh th broug it to us day-by- da night byightand they killed numbers of peoe in ivews. >> this habrout to lht the istence o hundreds of secret cuments reled to the rellion.
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for half a century, tre were thout to belostr destroyed. it turns out they haveeen here at the feign officell along. britain says its gernmt cann be ld liae under lock and will oppose the rebels' claims in cot. >>his is abc ws. -- b news. ouattara h cled for the european union to ft sation agast t cntry. nato has apolozedor an air strike that kill a nber of rebel figers by mistake. re now on the iry coast. i joined no by a vgini who harelaves who live in abidja. hen was the last timhe spoke you family meers? >> i spok to them up today and
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ey we telling me that all thear is guhotspeople scaming. hey do not have any water, no access tfood >> are they too aredo leave their house? >>es, ey are. they are lightkinn and apparently at is moment,he african people do hav hostity toward theight skinned people. that is what the mority of them have been kied ohot at bat -orthey have been escorted out byhe french troops. ty are the only ones whare left in adjan oncegain they cno go out because the fear for the lives. we do not wanthem going out if anye finds out that they are lht skin, i am prty sure
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thathey will be kill. >> do they have foreig friends inhe se situationou le nearhem? >> they have been livi the for about 10 years. thewere awaiting their visas to cada. e ki of kept to thselv. th did not speak the language. they do t ha any fends they'reaiting toet out. day-byday, it juskeep ttingorse >> what have they id to you about their livesnt abidjan forehese troubles beg? did they enjoy thei lives there? >> no, not reay. we disithe abo four ars o becse ty were sufferg om depression because they d notnow anody. they did not speak theangue. i did feel ba for them. did go vishemnd
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honestly i not know how theyivedhere. e porty is very saddeng. on top of atomme -- its obvious tt th live there because they are angst the afcans. soo atheyalked out, a eyes are on you. it is unsafe. >> thank yu ve much for your time. president oma and congssional leaders are loed in a crisioverhe u.s. dget republicanare pushing a far larger sndin cuts than democrats are wilng to can se if they fa to agree b midnig on fday, mh ofhe fedel govnmenwill shut down, iluding natiol parks an museums. president obama has said tks are progreing ande hos a de cane reached on friday. >> wmadeome ogress day. the dierences have been narrowed. once again, e staff wl be
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rking tonight around t clk in order to see if we n finally close the deal. there sti a few issues that are outstandg. theyre difficultssue eir importance to bothides am notet prered to expreswildptimism. i think w are further along today than we were yesrday. > goverent utdown will come bla game beten parties. >> if the gernmtoes shut down,the game wille, one of blame forhe docrats wl porty th government shut down as the flt ofhe publicans. reblicansill portray it as the ult of democrats. is that there is plenty of blamtoo arnd. it is n jus about money, it is aut pitics. the republican want cuts
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spending on ay gornment ndinof abortion services. but at cs i enviroenta protecon measures tade very ideogical, very pitical ings and the democrats a refing. the pside seemedo give off an era of muted optimisthat perhs aast-nute deal could be dragged out of t pasto avoia shdown. as of now, we still do n have a u.s. government budg. >> how serious would shut do be? it depend onhe tk to. we've had them before. the rld did not come to en it was very embarssin for america. thitime around, it may be me serious. we are in the ver --e are in the middle of a ry fragile economic recovery. the ta system wi sto workin the governme wilstart -- stopendi tomall busisses.
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vernnt workers will havto stayt home. itillot hp the recovery. anthe en thewillrobably come to a dget agreement. aovernment shutdown mit lt aeek, it might last tape. sooner or later, itightome ton en >> the democratsre blaming the tea party. w much doou think that could be true? many republicans want ake de, but oneing of their rty will not let them break> that a winof t republican rty is influtialnd it is the most vally cmittto very deep endi cut it is the on -- is the most opsed to the version of what th democrats wanted to be. the republicanartys bng dragged tohatosition for a mber of reans. e reblican leadersp is
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ving to listen to them. >> now to the roy eve which all e world will be watchi in three wee. it is being anned down to the very lastetai while e couple - britain's royalty has not alwaysaidhe mark direct hoday william and katevoid the pitlls the pa? how hard can it b to shake hands, gatred the case,e gracious? do welis much harr than it looks great will even kate must foll a set of critical roles. here i the first. did note flhy. princess dian was a royal aberration, quitout of sos with the dow t atte of the windrs. keep itsnderated.
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>>hey nt them to be grted when it is calledor. to represent sethi very grant what they doot like is the roiled lk, -- royal look. soar, ke is succeing. a hi-fason photographer took her gagement photograph. do be frugal. table on's breakfast the approvi tal of britain wh an dercover repor revealed thait bil cn flak are prented to r majesty no on expensive silver platters,ut in cheap tupperware boxes. >> she is clearly -- sheoes not spend $when shean spe
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a nickel. she sits there in ont the levion with ei plastic tray keang aery spartan meal. opleike r for it. do feelhe people'sain. e not the bombsrain -- raedown. deructionas a ance tohow that theyared. >> they went out into the rbble ofast ldon and they were with their peopl get emotional just tnkin about . sobody shouted out, you ar a bloody good king. >> ow eathy is prized, but pect in return is more complicated. di not getoo etional.
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>>hereere three of us in this marriage. it was bitcrowd. >> princess dna w very divive. she talked about r feings. in an american way. she s not discreet. some pple led her for it. other people we rit about it. wliam and kate are following all the les. they're setng o to be quite perfect british royals. >> othe 29th of apr, yocan gemuch more about it on ou website correct - bsit log o and have a look. ouattara has urged the eu to lift sanctions against his
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