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ALJAZAM News June 22, 2024

A man was pictured at the scene in bangkok before the explosion. First we have this report from bangkok. Picking up the pieces, this is a shopping district in bangkok that has seen dramatic political conflict before, but nothing like this. Dozens were killed here on monday, among them victims from malaysia, china, hong kong and sing pouring. Many more were injured. It was away attack apparently designed to kill as many people as possible at a high profile target, the shrine. The government acting urgently to restore security for the public and tourists. The ongoing attempts at destruction might be politically motivated, targeting the economy, tourism or for whatever reason. The government will work to find them and bring justice to any networks involved as soon as possible. This dash cam footage shows the moment the bomb went off. Five kilograms of military grade explosives that sources have told al jazeera was deliberately detonated. Within hours of the blast, the military run government was blaming its political enemy misthat now its asking the country to unite and stay calm. We would like to once a day assure the public that right now, look at what happened after this, what happened is bygones be bygones, but the government make sure everyone is well looked after. Within an hour of that speech, this happened at the main pier for river vans port, another high profile tourist target. The grenade landed in the water and no one was injured. Back at the shrine, things are slowly getting back to normal. The roads have been reopened, but this is as close as we can get to the some ryan itself. Security has been tightened as promised, but we have seen forensic teams try to get to the bottom of how and why this brutal attack happened. Thai authorities wont say house theyll announce the results of their investigation. Al jazeera, bangkok. Just on 8 00 p. M. In bangkok, we join our correspondent, wayne haye. Are police saying this is a person of interest or that they rock ken that is their guy . The initial comment came from the Prime Minister earlier on tuesday, sake that the person in that video footage seen leaving behind a bag moments before that blast could be a suspect. Now weve heard from a Police Spokesman who has gone a step further saying that he is no longer simply a person of interest, that is the bomber. Weve seen comments from a government spokesman not going quite as far as the police are, but the statement from police show they believe this is the man who is responsible for the explosion. Tell us what it is like today, the day after. I School Security has been stepped up and that people are pretty much on edge there. Well, yeah, a strange feeling, certainly people on edge as night has fallen now. Weve just gone 25 hours since that blast occurred at the shrine. Theres definitely a dealing in the area, it is very quiet this evening. There certainly was a lot of police and military presence first and tuesday morning, leading up to lunch time when the road reopened. They were still busy collecting evidence as you saw in veronicas piece there. As far as visible sign of increased security, we havent seen too much. That may become more clear in the days ahead as concern grows that there could be more attacks. I was going to ask about the next to you days and the government reaction to it. People feel that the government has stepped up quickly enough that theyre doing Everything Possible to stop something happening. I think there is a sense from the military, the government that is in power at the moment, that they would like to find someone responsible for these attacks extremely quickly. It was a very quick statement from the Police Spokesman saying that he believes that this man is the bomber and we havent even gone through the pros, they havent caught the guy yet. Hes said that there may be more than one person involved. There was also speculation coming out that this was a foreigner, the man caught in this Security Camera footage, the Police Spokesman now saying that he believes that the people involved in this are thais. Some mixed messages coming out from the various government agencies. Hopefully well seear clarity in the days ahead. To other news in sri lankas alliance, the poll that pitted the Prime Minister against the president was hoping to that i can some political comeback. Tell us about the results that have come through and what theyre indicating. The results that weve heard essentially puts the Ruling United National Front appliance ahead of the party and Partnership Coalition of the former president. It is still a very close race. Were talking three or just around three percentage points, the difference between these two groups at the moment. Now, we are still waiting on a final election result. We have started hearing the result of prefer she will board, the system here in sri lanka, you vote for the party and you have a preference vote that you cast for each candidate. Those results, in terms of how many parties would have in the legislature we hope to be hearing fairly soon. This surely has to be the end of the political road for him. He was ousted, he couldnt win election as president. He cant win election as Prime Minister, it seems, either. Has he said anything about his future . Essentially in the early hours of this morning, when hardly, you know, a big proportion of results had come out, we did hear reports that he had accepted that he would not be forming a new government here in sri lanka. It is quoted that he is saying that his dreams of becoming the Prime Minister had faded. Later on, there seemed to be backtracking by the camp because there was a certain amount of uncertainty rewarding the result, but generally speaking, it does seem after the second defeat that the fortunes of rajapaksa are beginning to take a tumble. Lets talk about the people. Its people who voted in this election. I wonder if its stability for the country, ongoing stability after so many years of upheaval in sri lanka. Thats right. I mean, people we spoke to during the course of voting yesterday both after and before they cast their ballot essentially talking about the need for the country to get back on to an even keel. Now there had been obviously continuity, he was president for 10 years. There has been increasing allegations of authoritarianism, which dogged his regime and his rule. This vote, in fact the Prime Minister in a Statement Issued earlier today did comment that the results were very much a consolidation of the revolution of change, that his alliance hat broad in january. It is hoped to continue along that path and that they can get on with the business of government and good governance. Thank you, live in colombo for us. There is plenty more ahead in this news hour. From the rooftops of rimadi, trying to take back the city is a slow and tough battle. Reporting from south africa on how difficult it is for a disabled child to get an education. In sport, a Major League Baseball suffered the nasty strike. The details are coming up a little later. All parties in yemens civil war have displayed a flagrant disregard for civilian life according to amnesty international. Both the Saudiled Coalition and fighters on the ground of accused of leaving a trail of destruction which may amount to war crimes. More than 4,000 people have been kid in yemen, half civilians. Houthi rebels and anti houthi armed groups have routinely launched attacks in residential areas. Sawed Coalition Airstrikes have hit civilian areas where there is often no military target nearby. The armed groups on the ground are launching attacks in civilian areas. Now the anti houthi fighters are operating out of civilian areas. They lunch these attacks. We looked into eight different airstrikes just around taiz and aden and north of aden and these attacks could amount to war crimes, because the problem with the airstrikes is they dont seem to differentiate between civilians objects and military objects. Its not quite clear what were the objectives of targeting things such as mosques, schools, and markets. For example, we visited one school, where families of internally displaced people were living and trying to escape the conflict. That very school they were sheltering, that was targeted by Saudiled Coalition airstrikes. There is no military objective as far as we can see near the school. It is not clear why it was targeted. We heard from a political and security analyst based in saudi arabia. He said said the report is biased against saudi arabia, which is leading the Coalition Airstrikes. What was amnesty need to spend more time on the ground. I think it was on the ground when these strikes were happening. Its not enough. They cannot make these assessments from sitting in the United Kingdom and the am mess city, they should actually make these same reports that they are accusing the Saudiled Coalition by doing this, killing innocent women and children, they must in this interview, were talking saudi and talking about yemen. Would you welcome United Nations International Commission of inquiry if you admit these are simply mistakes. Saudi arabia and the coalition, they are welcome, the United Nation are part of this dome and work under this approval and with the international community. There is no doubt that saudi arabia would work with the United Nations, would work with the am mess city to define and prove the houthis are responsible for killing those innocent people. It is not saudi arabia and the coalition party. The United Nations Security Council has given unanimous support to a plan to get peace talks done in syria. All 16 members approved a statement that paves the way for a special envoy to progress with his plan to find a political solution to the conflict. Inside syria, more airstrikes were launched near damascus. On sunday, more than 100 were killed at a bombing in a marketplace, one of the worst since the war began more than four years ago. The arab league is holding a meeting in cairo to discuss the crisis in the libyan city of sirte. The meeting was requested by libyas internationally recognized government in tobruk. It said only airstrikes from arab states can prevent a full takeover of sirte, which it largely controlled since may. Canceling the contract of some government advisors. Not sure how many would lose their jobs as a result of al abadis decision. Speakers will be limited to five advisors each in sweeping reforms announced last week to reduce corruption and to cut spending. Le Iraqi Government is in the just facing Major Political upheaval, its fighting the war against isil. There is skepticism about how well the battle is going. On the front lines, isil is battled one shot at a time. Despite the governments promises to recapture ramadi quickly, the battle so far has been slow. While the Defense Ministry insist things are going well and has moved on to phase two of its strategy, part of the larger anbar offensive, some analysts are skeptical. I believe isil in rimadi is still strong and the joint iraqi forces are still weak. They havent been able to end that organization in the 70 days since the start of the anbar offensive. The Defense Ministry maintains its Security Forces are fighting as effectively as possible, but decency like this with a shoulder rocket propel grenade larger is made popular by the forces seem to maintain a question of how well armed they are. The struggled leave most fighters worn out. These days, the Government Faces crises, one on the battlefield, the other in the court of public opinion. Tens of thousands of fed up iraqis continued demonstrating against corruption and demanding a surgeon of basic services, including electricity and air conditioning. Iraqs Prime Minister abaddi and its parliament passed sweeping reform measures, but many iraqis say that is not near enough. Protestors vowed to keep coming out into the streets no matter how hot it gets and how long it takes. Many say its actions and not worst that ultimately count. It seems like the list and decrees and radicalization of these proposals by the government is like ink on paper. They are waiting for implementation of these reforms. If no action is taken, the protests will develop. Abaddi said he will Court Martial officers who abandoned ramadi in april. Its not clear what effect that will have on these weary fighters and a wary public. Al jazeera, baghdad. Lets go to london and talk to the director of the expertise foundation. What do you make of whats going on in anbar at the moment . The government is talking about moving into the second phase. Certainly our report would suggest otherwise. Whats happening in anbar is something normal whats happening in all of iraq. We have two fronts, isil and the other fronts there is not one front against isil its supposed to be the government, the Political Parties and the iraqi, the people of iraq. The people of iraq said we need to remake huge reformation for our internal situation, which means that fighting corruption, get rid of the corrupted persons inside the cabinet and so on. Now, abadi made his actions by making reforming actions, reforming details on his cabinet and also outside his cabinet, outside his authority. On the sum of all whats happening is that the other front actually it is not unified. They have so many differences, especially on the corruption issue, especially on the ethnic issue. Its supposed to be now for abaddi to do his best to change things inside the whole iraqi state, which means that until now, he didnt manage to get rid of his corrupted ministers. What he has done with replacing ministers and changing things, do you believe this is going to be useful in the fight against isil, is it just cosmetic, doing it for the sake of it . What genuine impact will it have on iraq . Until now, its only on economical base. Its not Going Forward for the political base. Why economical base . Because iraq has a crise, a huge economy crise, and the army, the militia, name it as you want, who are fighting isil need money for the weapons and also for the mission. Whats happening now is that we are all seeing economical reforming, not political reforming, because little the base, it is the effect on this front. Before two days, there is a report, mosul report about what is happening after one year after attacking of isil and attacking mosul. The first one he accuses is mr. Maliki. Thats right. The cabinet headed by al abadi makes the accusation, the first one is maliki going to the court and making as an example of whats happening in the whole year of the invasion of isil to the iraqi territory. Bottom line, all these issues which iraq has, internal problems, corruption problems, isil problems, all these, can iraq do this on its own . Im not suggesting that forces come back in or Something Like that, but can it fix these problems on its own . I dont think so. It needs the help from everyone, from this the regional countries, from the international community, actually, and frankly speaking, i think the best way to fight isil now with whats happening on the iraqi situation on the other front, on the governmental front is the help of the americans on the land, on the ground. Isil until now, its strong and the iraqi forces, militia, iraqi army, Security Forces cannot really doing the actual action, because they dont have a real airstrikes. They cannot manage to get in war for a long period, because it will make the economical crisis more base. It will not make advantage for isil. We thank you for your time and thoughts today. You are most welcome. Search crews in indonesia have found the black box and recovered all bodies from the plane that card in papua on sunday, carrying 54 people, including five crew when it went down 10 minutes before landing in the remote settlement. Bodies have had to be transported by helicopter because of the remoteness of the site. Bad weather hampered recovery efforts. The head of chinas top work safety wash dog is under investigation following last weeks explosions which killed 114 people. They gathered oh remember the victims of the blast. Firefighters and police were among the mourners who held a moment of silence for those victims. Seventy other people, mostly firefighters are still missing six days after the disaster. Those blasts originated as a warehouse used to store highly toxic sodium cyanide. The worlds firstever fully solar powered airport has been launched in southern india. The solar panels not only provide enough energy to run the airport, but also feeds the state grid. The airport is no one for its temple like architecture and being the fourth largest airport in terms of international traffic. Ask anyone about its latest environmental breakthrough using solar energy and this is the reaction youll get . [ laughter ] im still laughing. Youre serious. Wow. Im very surprised. Im very happy for the indian people. Even the man behind the idea was unaware what he was doing was unique. The project took six months to set up and cost 10 million. The airport expects to recoup all costs within five years. Next to the airport in an area for a proposed cargo terminal are more than 46,000 solar panels. The 12megawatt plant will provide 50,000 units a day to cover all the airports electricity needs. The Carbon Footprint goes down. Very good. This is to be practiced in almost all places. The solar panels are expected to last 25 years and will cut 300 metric tons of carbon emissions, the equiva

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