Transcripts For ALJAZAM World News 20151212

I. S. I. L. An israeli perspective. We need altogether. To drive out. Dploadiplomat zippy livny. Are. Good evening, im antoniomor. We begin this International News hour with increasingly Strong Language coming out of iraq and syria that includes new calls for turkey to withdraw its troops from iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister haider alabadi, has called, president Vladimir Putin said anything threatening its forces in syria will immediately be destroyed. And syrian leader Bashar Alassad is now drawing a line in the sand. He is refusing to negotiate with any armed groups. Assad called them terrorist groups, the only thing he would discuss with them is their disarrangemendisarmament. Rosiland jordan has more. U. S. Is cautiously welcoming the syrian oppositions decision to form an Umbrella Group that will try to negotiate peace with the regime early next year. There are some questions, and obviously, a couple of, in our judgment, kinks to be worked out. And im confident theyre going to be worked out. Reporter what could hold up the talks, the oppositions demand that president Bashar Alassad quit before a Transitional Government takes power. Thats what rebel fighters in aleppo want. Translator gol god wilinge will not be negotiating with killers. Translator our first goal is the removal of assad. Not surprisingly, russ russia rejects the withdrawal of assad. It brings into question the priorities that guide our partners. Rorter assad is going further suggesting the opposition isnt a legitimate representative of the syrian peoples will. Translator it depends on the definition of option. Option for everyone in this world doesnt mean militant. Reporter so what could compel him to step aside . Better deal on the table than they will on the battlefield. They have to be afraid to lose and the only way you make a guy like assad afraid to lose is putting him under significant military pressure. Translator use of the most modern High Precision weapon systems allowed us to cause serious damage to terrorist infrastructure and to radically change the situation in syria. Reporter u. S. And British Military leaders said, they are expecting mosk to d moscow to dt said. Stop bombing the opposition groups that have been opposed to assad. Trying to wage war against one enemy, while trying to broker a ceasefire with another. Rosiland jordan, al jazeera, washington. Two syrian nationals are under arrest in geneva chem Security Forces in switzerland had been on high alert, officials on the lookout for possible i. S. I. L. Operatives after the two crossed over the border with france, not clear whether todays arrests are related to that alert. The European Commission wants to set up another coast agency to help the blocks movement. Refugees and migrants entering europe, france and Germany First proposed it because of frustration of greece to stop influx of people. Threatening open border schengen zone and the idea of a single united europe. A major step towards peace in libya. Brokered deal, to form aunified europe. Zeina khodr reports. Italy is where World Leaders will meet on sunday, for a decisive effort to bring about a National Unity government in libya. A u. N. Deal has been on the table for months, but negotiators say it will be signed on december 16. This latest announcement was made in tunis by u. N. Special envoy mar martin kobler. Even kobler said, the way forward cant be easy. Thats what governments are there for, thats why the Implementation Phase will start with many open problems and United Nations is always ready to support the new government of national accord. Reporter libya has been at war since the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi, it is not clear if all of them are backing the u. N. Deal or whether the members of the two arrival parliaments wilrival parliamentswill lend t. The west is growing increasingly concerned about the glowing strength of i. S. I. L. Some Officials Say libya is becoming what theyre describing as a fall back position for the armed group since its been, use libya as a transit point to reach europe, but eump is only a few kilometers away. International community hasnt ruled out the option of concerted military action. For now there is an agreement. The days ahead, however, will give an indication on whether the u. N. Last the quorum to form what can be called a National Unity government. Could be a recipe for even more violence. Zeina khodr, al jazeera, rome. Former british Prime Minister tony blair assisted that he did not try to save the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi at the height of the fighting in libya. Questions for former british Prime Minister tony blair. Tried to save mr. Gadhafi as a civil war fell in around him. It wasnt my concern wasnt for his safety, my concern was to get him out of the situation so that a peaceful transition could take place. Reporter blair brought gadhafi back into the international fold during a meeting in 2004. Gadhafi agreed to give up his weapons of mass destruction. They also struck oil and trade deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars. At what price adjustment, the victims of libyan crimes and the murder of Yvonne Fletcher in london. We didnt set any of these aside but we believed there was a huge prize in bringing them in a position where they were sponsoring terrorism, to a position where they were cooperating this in the fight against it, and secondly creating the circumstances in which they voluntarily gave up their chemical weapons and Nuclear Weapons program. Tony blair flos a thin knowsr two. I can tell you today, obviously, libya is a security problem actually for us here, but i dont think you can make the judgment as to whether it would be better if we hadnt intervened because then you have got to say how would that have played out as gadhafi tried to cling on to power and others tried to remove it. And syria by the weigh where we didnt intervene and its even worse. Jonah hull, al jazeera. Official issues warning on friday attributed it to ongoing safety and security concerns. Cross border conflicts with syria and israel, the state Department Says the government cannot guarantees the safety of vistaors the lebanon. According to special forces who are now clearing the compound, earlier one Spanish Security officer was killed and at least seven other people were injured. After taliban fighters detonated a car bomb. Al jazeeras Jennifer Glasse reports from kabul. The attack started with a car bomb explosion that could be heard all around the city. It went off by the spanish embassy. At first i thought i. T. Was a gas explosion. I saw two wounded. Taliban fighters exchanged fd fire with Afghan Police and Security Forces. The car was blown up. Right after the blast happened, we turned off the lights in the area and our night operation special forces started searching the vicinity and nearby houses. Reporter the area is heavily guarded, home to senior government officials, ngos medical clirchtion. Thclinics. In this case it was not an attack against the spanish embassy. Reporter this was the talibans third high profile attack in four days. Jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. The United Nations Security Council condemned coordinated attacks in burundi today. Gunmen launched attacks in the capital of bujumbura. Latest of widespread violence this. United nations ambassador splant power. Al jazeeras malcolm webb reports. Gun fire and explosions shut down burundis capital bujumbura friday morning, checkpoints and military paroles. Violence in the land locked east african country has intensified in the last few days. Military exchanging gun fire for several hours. The attacks have mostly taken place in areas where theres strong opposition to president Pierre Nkurunzizas third term in power. Vims were takevictims were taker homes and executed at point blank range. Translator the police entered and took my probably phone. They found a man in there and took him to the road and shot him. Conducting house to house searches looking for weapons. Cache of weapons was found just this week. President nkurunziza announced he would seek a third term in power. It is disputed whether or not the constitution allows it. The Peace Agreement that ended burundis 12 year civil war and put the president in power. More than 300,000 people were killed between 93 and 2006. The Ethnic Violence pitted hutu rebels against tootssi. Putting burundi on the brink of another civil war. Malcolm webb, al jazeera, kampala. Piracy is a real threat in Southeast Asia thats having repercussions around the world. And later, researchers are saying melting glaciers are affecting the rotation of the earth. Impoverished setting had a major impact. But with looks, charm. I just wanted to take care of my mom. And no remorse. She giggles every time she steps into the revolving door of justice. She became legendary. The finer the store, the bigger the challenge. In context tonight. Piracy and where its on the rise. Pirates off the coast of somalia have made impact. But off of east africa has dropped to almost zero. This year more than 60 of the worlds sea crimes have taken place in Southeast Asia and surrounding waters, compared to 22 in 2010. Unlike somali pirates, these pirates capture ships for oil. Communications equipment and sometimes abusing crews, the boats are released. Pirates have attacked 124 ships in Southeast Asia, more than 16,000 tons of oil has been stolen and that was all just through early september. More than half the worlds oil supply passes through southeastern nations or seas consume. One big trade choke point is the straight of malacca, al jazeeras step vaessen reports. Reporter armed guards to protect ships against pirates. Security companies are flourishing because of the rise of the number of hijacks and robberies at sea. The weapons have ton locked away, a singapore based Security Company says it regularly provides armed guards to shipping companies. Easily about 55 or 60 in this vicinity, when they are traveling south of singapore towards the islands or away from the Singapore Island towards south china sea. Shipowners pilots have been attacked by pirates. We have started our own sop in how to deter this. The ship owner is reluctant to carry armed guards. He relies on the malasian army to protect his ships and crews. But ship owners should be more alert. Zero regard to piracy. I request all mariners out there please observe the good practices. Should any suspicious contact approaching you at any time, days or night, we must be alerted. Reporter the sites armed gart Security Firm is offering equipment to scare off pirates with sound or water. Patrols have been stepped up but theyre not allowed to enter each others territory. While joint sea patrols are seen as an important solution to combat piracy in Southeast Asia, experts say the biggest threat is on the land. Three months ago, police in dmeervindonesia detained a suspa singaporean businessman has yet been arrested. Not responded to questions from al jazeera. Perhaps singapore wants to deny that its citizens are involved in piracy activity. Quite strong quite influential and its always been slightl sly autonomous. Lack of sharing of information, thousands of sailors who pass through Southeast Asia every day. Step vaessen, al jazeera, singapore. Carson von hosslin is manager of special activities, joins us from cambridge, england. Carson, good to have you with us. When you talk about modern day piracy, most of us think of somalia and captain phillips but Southeast Asia has a ship pirated every three days. It is not about ransoming for people. Carried out buy boarding team similar to somalia in a fast boat, they board the vessel and another tanker comes alongside and siphons and lifts the stolen cargo off and sold on wards in the black market. A lot of what theyre stealing is oil and if they are using tankers thats evidence of how this piracy is quite sophisticated. Is it most ofly organized crime . Absolutely. I would more specifically call it transnational organized crime. I define them as networks because they are involved in piracy and hijackings, involved in cargo theft, cigarettes, electronics, quite a Diverse Group that carry out a number of tactics for a revenue stream. Is there complicity of the governments . Indonesia has a significant navy as do others in that area. Corruption is one of the three main facilitators, and there is a degree of insider assistance by some of the agencies as you mentioned indonesia, another major issue would be face and simply just image, indonesians for example have said 90 of the cases are false and there is scam, insurance scam. Singapore is relatively reluctant to admit that perhaps some of its citizens and residents are involved at the senior levels. Well to your point to my surprise ive also read there is no Worldwide Organization dedicated to tracking and combating worldwide piracy. We dont know how much there is, or these efforts to combat piracy are coordinated at all. There is the International Maritime bureau, it is quite active in providing guidelines and recommendations as well as collecting the data. There are regional organizations but i would say that theyve underperformed in their time there, such as the regional agreement on combating piracy. We expected more from them. Ive read the majority of the big ships use armed security. That hasnt worked much as a deterrent. Why have the efforts been so successful around the horn of africa but not Southeast Asia . Around the horn of architecture, they were successful in implementing breakfasts. Implementing best practices. They were quite good in implementing controls, and following the money on land. In Southeast Asia it would be very, very good and ive been saying this for two years now that for best practices they need to improve their operational security. They need the make sure that Sensitive Information is not leaked because a lot of these cases begin with Insider Information and inside jobs. As for governments it would be very helpful if the governments improve their human intelligence tactics, if they shared more information, and they simply had a more proactive stance towards targeting pirate groups and following the money on land. And the costs are estimated to be in the billions with higher shipping cost, lost car go. Carson von hasling thanks for being with us today. A unique view, former Opposition Leader zippy livney joins us. On the fight against i. S. I. L. The time is quickly running out for the negotiators at the Climate Summit in paris. We are scared. Have an organized rightwing movement trying to kill others. Welcome back to al jazeera america. Im antonio mora. Coming up in this half hour of International News one of israels top leaders joins us to talk about everything from the conflict with the palestinians to the conflict in the middle east. But first a look at the stories making headlines across the u. S. In our american minute. Protesters are back on the streets of chicago demanding the resignation of rahm emanuel. La quan mcdonalds family spokes out. The trial of the First Defendant in the death of freddy gray, each defendant is being tried separately. Porter is accused of manslaughter. Most powerful politicians guilty of bribery and extortion. Asenate majority leader dean skelos, forcing companies to pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Conviction comes two weeks after Sheldon Silver was found guilty at his corruption trial. Three palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli Forces in gaza and the west bank today. The israeli army killed one, and another was shot dead during a violent demonstration also in the west bank. And army gun fire killed one palestinian and wounded another. Were going to discuss the ongoing violence, with israeli politician zippy livny. Widely recognized as the most powerful woman in israel since the death of golda me inkr. Entered politics after the career in the army. A protege of ariel sharon, he gave livny her first cabinet position, a staunch, she followed him and was soon appointed foreign minister. She became vice Prime Minister under the next government led by ehud olmert. When he resigned, livny became the party leader. Unable to cobble together a coalition, the job of Prime Minister went t Prime Minister. Left wing party labor to form the zionist union. We are joined by zippy livny who has served as vice Prime Minister and a whole bunch of other position he. More violence on the west bank, also on the border between israel and gaza. What needs to be done to stop this evergrowing death toll . Basically, terrorist, terror acknowledge and they need to be dealt according to what need to be done in order to protect life of human beings. Israelis. Is the violence going to continue . The palestinians are especially upset about the ongoing settlement building in the west bank and you also have on the other side, you have the Palestinian Authority unwilling to condemn much of the violence thats been going on. After understanding there is no just cause for terror and this is a meafnl hefnlg that she hearmessage that should behearde palestinians, been the Palestinian Authority, that is one thing. Then there are some things that we can do to maybe change the atmosphere. But when it comes to gaz strip or hamas, they represent the religious conflict, not fighting for creation of a state or better life but they are fighting because we there are and this is something that we cannot you know so you are saying a peace deal will not even solve a problem like hamas . No, hamas doesnt want to be part of a peace deal. For many years hamas has not been willing to accept the former agreements that were signed between israelis and palestinians and therefore there is no hope for peace with them. I do support the negotiations and hopefully peace treaty between israel and the pa. I believe they represent the National Part of the conflict and therefore i believe that this should be the conflict should be solved in accordance to the state of two peoples. In the peace deals, peace negotiations the problem youve got now is youve got Benjamin Netanyahu saying he is willing to have talks without cons, and mahmoud abbas, who says he is willing to have talks without conditions. They dont want a state next to israel but a state instead of israel. Saying that israel has violated agreements stopped negotiations, erased principles of the two state solutions and he is as negative as he has ever been,. The blame game serves leaders, the way of leaders is to find the way forward, to do the right thing. Are you implying that both leaders are not doing the right thing . Yes, i believe that in order to relaunch negotiations, there is something that serves the interest of both peoples. It is not about whom to blame but about how to move forward and unfortunately we had an american framework that the american worked with us and with the palestinians in 2014. I believe that they should have put it on the table but they didnt. But basically, mawbd mahmoud abs didnt give an answer to this framework. Instead of blaming i believe the right thing to do is to sit together and decide allow to move forward. I believe israel can take some steps on the ground to ease the tension and to change the atmosphere. Some that can serve also our interest. When you talk about the interest of both peoples. Yeah. Palestinian authority seems not to have majority support among the palestinians themselves. You were ahead in the polls earlier in the year calling for a two state solution and pushing for Greater Peace and Prime Minister netanyahu ended up winning again and getting a coalition. Declining number favor the two state solution and a slight majority favoring it but its gone down. So are the sides getting further apart . Yes, this is the situation. And as i said i believe that the responsibility that lies on the shoulders of leaders is to america the right decisions. Not according to polls. It is not about what do people think, its what people need. This is responsibility of both leaders on israel and the palestinian side. This is something you said, israel needs peace and needs borders. What is the borders of israel and palestine look like . Now were negotiating. No support to cut a deal, do you you dont want me negotiating. I stopped being a lawyer many years ago. I was one too. I know you were one too. Lets move on to i. S. I. L. And you have said its not fluff to defeat i. S. I. L. Political mill tailor. You believe the process is necessary to begin defeating international terrorism. No. In our region we have the extremists. These terrorists represent the religious part of a conflict. It is not the israelpalestinian conflict, it is their fight against infidels, and this is what they said after the attack, the horrific attack in paris. And unfortunately, religious conflicts are unsolvable. While with the palestinians we have the International Conflict between two peoples and leadership that we need oreach an agreement with. The israelipalestinian conflict is not the reason for extremism. It is an excuse for some. I. S. I. L. Is often brought up as afternoon excuse. They want to ignite the region, they tried to bring it about with temple mount, but eventually with the support of secretary kerry, this insightment that is connected to temple mount, therefore we need altoe to fight these terrorists. And whether i say we its not only israel, its the u. S. , the entire free world and also other pragmatic regimes, arab regimes in the region but yet we need to find a way to solve the conflict with the palestinians because it serves our interest. Therefore we need to do it this way or the other, this is our interest and i believe this is their interest as well. So what do you think needs to be done immediately in syria . And in iraq for that matter to defeat i. S. I. L . This is another thing you need to take in account. I. S. I. L. Is not only syria or iraq. It is something which is bigger than that. We saw the situation in europe last time in the u. S. Basically we need to understand its not a local problem in syria and when you solve the situation in syria, i. S. I. L. Will disappear. Thats not the situation. The International Community need to understand. The solution in israel is not to interfere. Sidelines avoiding adding fuel to the fire. The last thing we need is to contribute to opinions in syria but it is important to say that solving the situation in syria is not going to solve the situation or the threat coming from i. S. I. L. I believe i had also some talks here and i brief that most of the intrrnts community understands this. But the answer this i got that lets solve the situation in syria so we could have broader Coalition Fighting i. S. I. L. But we have we dont have much time to do so. Finally, you have often been listed as one of the most powerful women in the world, you have twice about become israels Prime Minister. Like to stop this negotiation. This was part of the demand that i was asked in israel and they said enough is enough. I mean i was willing to pay i was willing to accept maybe, i was willing to be flexible but it was during the annapolis process, to stop the negotiation, one demands too much. Do you still plan to be leader of israel one day . I still hope and believe that the future of israel is connected to our vision of israel as a Jewish Democratic state and reaching peace by the palestinians based on two states for two peoples and i lope i can are helpful on this. Zippy livny, pleasure. Thank you. Ill have more of my interview with her, about the iran governments legitimacy around the world. Pristine caribbean beaches, some governments are raising a stink into the investigation into seaweed. Where can you go to see the museum fab 4 memorabilia . The answer lies 11,000 miles from liverpoo liverpool. Coming up. The u. S. And cuba have announced a deal to reestablish direct mail service. It was stopped in 1963, the height of the cold war. Several aspects still need to be discussed. A week ahead of the announcement of normal relations. English language newspaper the south China Morning post. Ali baba importance to world stability. Ali babas chief executive, jack mau, is an advisor to xi jinping. Deal to fight global warming, money remains osticking point in the paris talks. Reduce the use of coal and other fossil fuels. Countries would replace those facilities with clean power. Calling on wealthier countries to help finance the shift to Greener Energy sources. I think were in a pretty good place. It is a struggle. We can do it. There are positions that are quite hard to get to. Its very political at the moment. I think weve moved past the substance, weve got a good text. There is a lot we can live with, weve got to push the bar a bit and not make it the lowest common denominator. Laurent favr fabius says governments are very close to agreement. Each day slightly longer, Scientists Say water from the glaciers is raising global sea levels and that the movement of water and ice is making the north pole migrate. Scientists believe if the glacier melting continues the impact on the earths rotation will grow. Countries are fighting an invasion of sorts. Piles of smelly decomposing seaweed has been choking beaches. Governments are scrambling to stop it. Are Jonathan Betz has more. Across the caribbean its become a daily ritual. Raking the beach clean. Whether by machine or by man. Tons and tons ever sargassum, a variety of seaweed has been washing ashore and panicking tourism boards. By the time we flowed it was a problem it was already a big problem. Denise jimenez and his wife can barely stand to live in mexico any more. What does it smell like . Like rotten eggs. Its fouling beaches on the gulf coast to the caribbean. Mexico, protecting its 8 billion a dwreer tourism industry. Our economy rests on the productivity of the tourism industry. Either directly or indirectly. So its very important. This is the tips of sargassum. Brian has studied it for 30 years. In the beginning i. T. Wasnt a problem. It was an academic exercise. Pint noticed a spike. Hes stunned by how much he has seen. No one can remember seeing so much sargasum. Experts say its likely of a long time fertilizer runoff. If you ask explain why were seeing so much seaweed out there your answer is part of it is due to human activities on the planet. Item of offshore booms to catch it before it arrives or broats to skip it up, once it hits the sand the cleanups can touch water and wildlife. For me its not weighs, its just resource. Its material we use and its good for using it, so why not use it . All of it helps but so far there is no me solution. We are going to have to worry the whoafl world, Climate Change is everybodys shoulder. And here its under their feet. A sign of a changing planet. Jonathan betz chem al jazeera, there mexico. Awarded the permits in an Historic Supreme Court ruling last month. Their victory has prompted others to seek are, decriminalizing emergency will help dr drug violence. Now to our global view segment with a look at how news outlets across the world are reacting to various events. New zealand post writes. Muslims and nonmuslims it says the greater problem is i. S. I. L. s mysterious pull on young muslims around the world, it writes, quote, jihaddism, they have as much if not more than we do. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Benjamin Netanyahu who is i breathing the call of the greatest relief. A meeting with trump would have been disastrous for israels image. t jam an times writes, a new day dawns for venezuela. The tight has turned but warns that Nicholas Maduro is not likely to give up and the opposition needs to remember that ties ebb and flow. Assessor to parliament in ukraine got out of control. The Prime Minister was addressing the Prime Minister said of the incident, quote, all is well but there are many idiots. A picture of steve jobs, it depicts mabls cofounder as a refusing and oduffel back and thats, family history, jobs was the son of a syrian immigrant to the u. S. Who gave him up for adoption. 50 years ago, the world was gripped by beatle mania, echoes of that origin era can be found. Mandaniel schweimler last the story. Began conflicting when john len onwas killed 35 yeerlings. It was a revolution that exceeded Fashion Design and art. The beatles had that look of freedom about. The only one outside of liverpool, atracking several throughout the years. It is the music. Kids know how to sing beatle songs. From primary to secondary, they have got something. Are 45 years after the band split up, they are as popular as ever before. Beatles striking a coshed not like any, this was the 15th beatles week in buenos aires, a celebration of their work bringing together bands, and first prize at this continual test, first prize. For me, from the point of view of the composition, the instruments, the voam always but more than anything, overall quality. And the fans, it was our time. Ive liked them since i was a kid, thanks to my parent and because of this fashion, i study music. Reporter culture, language and distance are no obstacle it seems but lati Latin Americans e together in buenos aires. As len onan lennon and mccartne, all you need is love. Daniel schweimler, al jazeera. Before the world knew about blue eyes, there was old blue eis. Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary, more than 27 million sinatra am bums have been sold just since his death. Thats it for fest the clock is still ticking, ill be back in two minutes. He i good evening, im antonio antoniantoniomora. Unanswered questions in san bernardino. The evidence the authorities are still searching for at the bottom of the lake after last weeks deadly rampage. Also. If you are not adapting,