Two weeks after an avalanche kills 16 sherpas on mt everest, their families are still waiting for compensation. The biggest rape trial in the history of democratic republic of congo is about to reach its conclusion. 130 women that say they were raped by government soldiers are waiting to find out if theyll get justice. A special military court is considering its verdict. Malcolm web reports. Reporter this woman says when she was 16 rebels abducted her and kept her prisoner for six months, raping her repeatedly. When she escaped she was pregnant. In november 2012, a few months after giving birth, things got worse. Translation we heard government soldiers were coming and looting. 16 came to where we were hiding. There was 14 of us. They raped all of us. They took my baby boy when they were finished. I found him later, but he died. Reporter the soldiers retreated along this ride, after being defeated by the m 28 rebels. After reaching here they went on a spree of looting and raping, lasti
Colorado legalized marijuana this year. I hope it doesnt lead to a lot of paranoid people who think the federal governments out to get them. From commander in chief to comedian in chief. The lighter slide. What we are doing now is helping facilitate the needs of around 700 families, more than 4,000 people have been displaced either directly or indirectly by what happened. A spokesman on the fall out from a catastrophic land slide. Hello and welcome to al jazeera. Its a national day of mourning in afghanistan where nearly an entire village was buried by a wall of rocks and dirt. 2,000 are dead. Officials say theres no hope of finding survivors after the mud slide. Our reporter reports that there are safety concerns for residence of the village. Reporter a mass prayer for a mass grave. These afghan villages have given up on finding survivors of the land slide. Now they want to locate bodies of families and friends. A focus has moved to helping hundreds that lost their homes. Translation
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Real madrid in the finals. Ukrainian authorities are gradually losing control of the east of the country. About one dozen towns are now partly controlled by prorussian groups. Armed separatists seize government buildings and there are maximum alert but it is unclear what may change. In donetsk, we report on the gradual takeover of these sites. You see the chipping away of control of kiev of this situation, these eastern regions of the ukraine, the luhansk regi on where i was yesterday, and the Donetsk Region where i was right now. We see the same scenario over and over, they fall to the hands of separatists. Separatists or taking control of strategic building sites, local Administration Buildings and tv towers, police stations. They arrive on the scene usually in a large crowd that will gather in front of the building, and they will start shouting prorussian slogans and youll have a smaller, core group of armed men often in military fatigues, often carrying weapons and assault weapons
Publication of photos from inside abu ghraib, we speak with al jazeera journalist salah hassan who was held by u. S. Forces inside the iraqi prison. To date, no highranking official has been held accountable for the torture at abu ghraib. Salah hassan and other prisoners are attempting to see one of the private companies, caci, which helps run the prison will stop then, Condoleezza Rice is back in the news. Therell always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons, but we dont want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. This was president bushs former National Security advisor Condoleezza Rice in 2002. This weekend, rice backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University in new jersey following protests over her role in supporting the iraq war and u. S. Torture practices. We will speak with student protest leader Carmelo Cintron. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy go