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Transcripts For ALJAZAM News 20240622

Including Manchester United back in the Champion League and look ahead to the club. The worst ever attack on thailand is how the countrys Prime Minister described the blast in bangkok which killed 20 people and they released security footage of the man who could be a bomber and apparently left a scene minutes before mondays explosion and veronica is in bangkok with more. Reporter this is an evening that has capped a day of trying to clear up the mystery of who was behind the attack and indeed clear up the debris. Im about well a few hundred meters away from where the bomb went off on a balcony overlooking downtown bangkok. There is a fraction of the traffic and people that would normally be bustling in the streets on a tuesday night in this city of 12 million people. The mood has been very subdued despite the fact that there appears to have been a breakthrough as you mentioned. The picture of a possible suspect in all of this. The government is trying to play down expectations, trying to say that they are keeping all possibilities open. And the emphasis of their message has been on calm on keeping the country united. This has been a difficult day for bangkok. Picking up the pieces. This is a shopping district in bangkok that has seen dramatic political conflict several times before but nothing like this. Dozens of people were killed here on monday, among them victims from malaysia, china, hong kong and singapore and many injured and designed to kill as many people as possible at a high profile target, the shine. The government acting urgently to restore a sense of security for the public and millions of tourists. Translator in our country there are individuals or groups of individuals who are seeking to destroy the country. The ongoing attempts at destruction might be politically motivated targeting the economy, tourism or for whatever reason. The government will work to find these perpetrators and bring justice upon any networks involved as soon as possible. Reporter this dash cam footage shows the moment the bomb went off. Five kilograms of military grade explosives that sources told al jazeera was deliberately detonated. Within hours of the blast the militaryrun government was blaming its political enemies. Now its asking the country to unite and stay calm. We would like to once again assure the public that right now look at what happens after this, but after this we will do our best in order to make sure that everybody is well looked after. Reporter but within an hour of that speech this happened at the main pier river transport, 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 shrine itself. Security has been tightened as promised but seen forensic teams arrive as they try to get to the bottom of how and why this brutal attack happened. Thai authorities wont say how soon they will be able to announce the results of their investigation. We have spoken to sources who are familiar with the investigation and they have told us that this bomb was placed in a pipe that was tied to a post and it was there for two hours before it was detonated. And it was deliberately detonated. It was set at a level of about chest height in order to maximize the casualties and thats why there was so much damage and so many fatalities. Absolutely unprecedented here in thailand and one hates to do comparisons but the level of shock and the challenge to security in the country does make one tend to wonder whether this is thailands 9 11 moment. Lets move to other news turkeys Prime Minister failed to form a new government. He said he has exhausted all options to form a coalition after elections which happened in june. That means the country is already certainly headed for new elections, Political Uncertainty comes amid rising violence and tension with turkeys kurdish minority and we will talk to a turkish political scientist joining us by skype from istanbul and can you explain to the viewers who dont know about turkish politics why he has struggled to actually form a government here . Well, this is a long process of polarization in turkish politics. The party has long claimed to have the legitimate access to power but they lost about 10 of points and they are allotted policy positions impeded them to cooperate with the left wing Main Opposition Party as well as the nationalists and turkey nationalists action Security Breaches and increasing talk and uneasiness on the economic side so we still have at least two, three months until the next election and until then it may sway peoples voice to akp or further from akp leading them to lose even more 10 compared to other levels. We thank you so much for your time and thoughts, thank you for joining us. Thank you. In srilanka the ruling party won parliamentary elections and final results show the United National party got almost half the seats. Lets go to where this is covered in the capitol columbo and talk us through the numbers, the break down and how it will work for the returning government it looks like. What it means the results that we have heard the United National front that essentially the alliance put together by the Prime Minister singer who spotted a unp forms the biggest grouping of that alliance but they have brought back 106 seats of the 225 member parliament. Now, the party, the alliance of the former president could only imagine 95 seats. Given this obviously the expectation is that Prime Minister singer will be called on by the president to form a government. Now, he does have a coalition of partners that all came together essentially to take on the upfa so what we are going to see is some negotiation in terms of who gets what role in the coming days. Thank you for the update for us from columbo. Thank you for that. Plenty more ahead on this news hour here on al jazeera. One startled by heroin addicts are offering a different kind of help to overcome their habits that plus. Im andy in the mississippi delta, a place where ironically its hard to buy fresh, healthy food, we will show you how one community is fighting back. And in sport one of the top two athletic legends go head to head in a bid to become president of world athletics cup. Now, libyas internationally recognized government has called on arab countries to arm its military in the fight against i. S. I. L. Affiliates. Foreign minister mohamed made that appeal at an emergency Arab League Meeting in cairo. Only air strikes from arab states can help them control cert which they largely controlled since may and we are in the studio who has covered the story extensively from libya, what realistic chance could this happen and arm us and help us this way . The chance is for the time being because you are talking about divided libya with to governments and many malitias on the ground and they made it clear past that its not going to lift the embargo they emposed in libya in 2011. Their biggest concern for the time being is to have the different warring factions agree on forming a National Unity government. They dont want to give one party weapons. Right. How important, again, some background for viewers who dont know this, how important is this and getting it back . Because the city of cert has fallen in the hands of the Islamic State and this is a huge problem for the International Community and for the region its own and the gnc is sending more fighters and weapons to try to recapture that city. But the problem you have in libya for the time being is that you have armed groups now expanding and the council is taking control of them and Islamic State in control in the eastern part of the country. The International Community is seeing now potential for those radical groups taking over more territory over them. What is the solution, a military option or a political option . Many now are in favor of a military option but the biggest obstacle they have for the time being is who are you going to side with, is it the internationally recognized government of tobrook or gnc and the central part of the country might just feel alienated and join the radical groups. When you talk about Islamic State or i. S. I. L. Is this the same i. S. I. L. We are talking about that operates in syria and iraq . It is and has allegiance to abadi and people think that is because of the intensified air strikes against iraq and syria. They think that i. S. I. S. Is looking for platforms and safe havens where they can further expand and their choice now is libya for the obvious reason there is no central authority. It has been you have many armed groups, many affiliations, many loyalties in libya and it looks like an i deal for i. S. I. L. To reign and further expand and if i. S. I. L. Is given a chance to expand in libya it can use libya as another platform to launch targets against western europe. Thank you for that and talking about libya. Now the Iraqi Government says it entered the second phase of a campaign to retake anbar from i. S. I. L. Fighters but we report from baghdad many say the claims of progress is little more than propaganda. Reporter on the front lines the Security Forces battle i. S. I. L. One shot at a time. [gunfire] despite the governments promises to recapture him quickly the battle has so far been slow. [gunfire] while the Defense Ministry insists things are going well and moved on to phase two of its strategy there part of the larger anbar offensive some analysts are skeptical. Translator i believe i. S. I. L. And ramadi is still strong and joint iraqi forces are still weak. They have not been able to put an end to that organization in 70 days since the start of the anbar offensive. Reporter the Defense Ministry maintains its Security Forces are fighting as effectively as possible. But scenes like this in which a shoulder mounted rocket propelled grenade launcher is handled incorrectly by Mobilization Forces which are helping the government seem to underscore questions regarding how well trained these men are. Still, no matter how competent they are at warfare the intensity of this struggle would leave most fighters warn out. These days arox Government Faces a convergence of crisis, one on the battlefield, the other in the court of public opinion. As tens of thousands of fed up iraqis continue demonstrating against corruption and demanding a return of basic Services Including electricity and air conditioning. While they have been quick for sweeping reform measures they say its not near enough and protesters vowed to keep coming in the streets no matter how hot it gets and no matter how long it takes. Many say its actions and not words that ultimately count. Translator it seems like the reform list and the decrees and the ratification of these proposals by the government is like ink on paper. Protesters are waiting for implementation and if nothing is done it will develop into citizens. Reporter he is not just promising to cut corruption, he insists he will also improve security by court marshalling officers who abandon posts in ramadi when i. S. I. L. Stormed the city in april but its not clear yet what effect that may have on these weary fighters and a weary public. Al jazeera, baghdad. All parties in yemen civil war have displayed a disregard for civilian lives according to the Human Rights Group Amnesty International and released a new report which accused the Saudiled Coalition leaving a trail of destruction which may lead to war crimes and 4,000 people have been killed in yemen and civilians and Houthi Rebels and armed groups retained the attacks into densely populated residential areas and Saudiled Coalition strikes hit civilian areas where there is no military target nearby and we heard from amnesty who is a yemen researcher there and she explains more about the apparent war crimes which may have been committed. All sides of the conflict have not respected the humanitarian law and on the ground they are launching attacks like Houthi Rebels attacking civilian areas and you can see the fighters are operating out of civilian areas and this is in thai and aiden and north of aiden and these attacks could amount to war crimes because the problem with the air strikes is they dont seem to differentiate between civilian object and military object. Its not quite clear what were the objectives of targeting things such as mosques, schools and markets. For example, we visited one school where 60 families off eo people were living and trying to escape the village and the very school they were escaping and targeted by a Saudiled Coalition air strike, no military objective as far as we can see near the school and not clear why it was targeted. A political and security analyst based in saudi arabia and laura kyle spoke to him and asked him firstly to his reaction to the amnesty report. Well, of course, we are all saddened about this amnesty report and i agree this measurements need to be stepped up and we need to protect or they need to work on protecting more civilians and this is unacceptable. Saudi arabia and the left coalition, they are not in the business of killing innocent people. I think the houthis who are to blame and who are liable for all these children and women deaths. Okay you say the Saudiled Coalition are killing innocent women and children, however, they are amnestys question there put to you, why is this Coalition Targeting with air strikes mosques, schools, marketplaces where there obviously are civilians . Well, this is no stranger. Saudi arabia did not invent that or saudi arabia is not in the business of actually going into there and bombing innocent people and saudi arabia and the coalition the accuracy is much bigger and better than the American British Led Coalition on iraq in 2003. That is not enough clearly. Well, there is no war that is Accurate Enough when you have the houthis actually hiding women and children and minor people and weapons in a mosque or in a school or starting putting all the 50 millimeters weapons on top of the roof of a mosque. There were no obvious military targets at any of the sites, were they mistakes to bomb and target these sites . I think in everywhere there is a mistake but the mistake in this case is very minimal. The major thing is that you need to understand that the houthis they are very good in hiding their weapons, their military putting some weapons on the roof and starting shooting on the planes of the coalition. Of course when you get attacked by ground. 141 civilians, i wouldnt say that is minimal. Well, the Saudi Coalition they did not kill 141 civilians. Thats what amnesty says in its report. Well, amnesty needs to spend more time on the ground. I think they were on the ground when the strikes were happening. They cannot make the assessments sitting in the United Kingdom and the amnesty should have actually made the same reports they are accusing the Saudiled Coalition by being and killing the innocent women and children they need to look at more regions in the world. Okay but we are not here and this interview is three minutes and we are talking about saudi and we are talking about yemen. Would you welcome United Nations International Commission of inquiry if you admit these are simply mistakes in the thought of war . Saudi arabia and the coalition they are welcoming the United Nations and are part of this and work on the approval and with the International Community. There is no doubt that saudi arabia would work with the united nation, work would with the amnesty to define approve the houthis are the people responsible for killing those innocence people, its not saudi arabia and the Coalition Party. And this is one like saudi arabia and the Coalition Party by the amnesty. Indonesia found the black box and recovered all bodies of the plane that crashed on sunday. It was carrying 54 people including five crew when it went down ten minutes before landing in the remote settlement and bodies are found to be transported by helicopter because of the remoteness of the site and bad weather hampered Recovery Efforts as well. The First Solar Powered airport has been launched in southern ionia and as we report it produces so much electricity it is even feeding the national grid. Reporter the airport is known for its temple architecture and the fourth largest port in terms of international traffic. But ask anyone about the latest environmental breakthrough using solar energy and this is the reaction you will get. You are serious . Wow. Very surprised. And im very happy for the indian people. Reporter even the man behind the idea was unaware of what he was doing was unique. We thought why not we go for the green part so the whole idea came in and worked out and we consume about 48,000 of units a day so why not we produce almost equal to that. Reporter the project is six months to set up and cos

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