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ALJAZAM News April 25, 2015

Our homes. We have lost everything. Forced to evacuate, as chile prepares for another eruption of calbuco. Building up better students, the brains behind the top Educational App in the world. Good evening, this is Al Jazeera America, im antonio mora. We begin tonight with the sen centennial of the armenian genocide. A candle procession follows in tribute to the over 1 million armenian turks killed during world war i. Protestors in major u. S. Cities including los angeles called on president obama to keep his Campaign Promise and classify the massacre as a genocide. A continual denial of turkey, denying these atrocities and not returning the lands of armenia and not paying reparations is just continuing the crime. In a statement, president obama avoided using the term for the seventh time in his presidency. And in turkey, protesters argued against the word genocide. Not part of an organized campaign no evidence that orders came from ottoman authorities. Paul teterjan reports. 104yearold antonic watch his great great grandchildren play. He was six when they left armenia, he was warned they would be targeted. My mother dressed as a kurd. If they found out he was armenian he would have been killed. Antonin and his parents walked 30 kilometers to safety. He says he will never forget seeing parents abandoning their children along the way. When they got tired they would throw them in the river. Throwing them in the river was better than laying them on the ground where wild animals would eat them. These halls have are photographic evidence archival footage and eyewitness testimonies, of the ottoman atrocities committed against them. First time that is mat killings of armenians is shown in the wider context. Armenian genocide is not just part of armenian history, it is also a reliable part of the turkish history and memory. He says in addition to remembering the past, armenia is also looking ahead. Thats why its not putting any precns withpreconditions of establishing relations with turkey. Translator our position is fair and constructive. In the open air market many are still demanding acknowledgment from turkey. They have to admit it. They actually have to admit it. Im a witness. To go on as a nation, the wounds need to be healed. The Armenian Apostolic Church has cannonnized the saints. The pontifical ceremony has not been seen for over 100 years. Armenias message is its important to recognize the acts and not condone it in the future. Paul torjuvian, al jazeera. Italian authorities arrested several men suspected of planning an attack on the vatican. Authorities say nine men were arrested in raids across italy. The men are also accused of carrying out and financing attacks in afghanistan and pakistan. Claudio lavagna has more from rome. On friday, Police Conducted an antiterrorism operation that led to the arrest warrants of 18 people across italy. Now nine of those people were arrested who two of them are suspected of still being at large, seven have believed to be returned to pakistan, moved to italy in 2005 about they blended in with local communities most of them were business men well regarded. But behind the scenes investigators believe that these people were raising funds to finance terrorism operation back at the border between afghanistan and pakistan and even took active part in some of the terrorist attacks including the bombing of a market in peshawar in 2009 which killed more than a thousand people. Believed to have close ties with those who protected osama bin laden, telephone conversations where two people were asking about his health, in particular. Investigators believe this network was organized some kind was planning some kind of attack to the have it vat vatican, at the time Pope Benedict xvi. Saying that of course was a long time ago five years ago but nevertheless italy and the vatican included are still targets of organizations such as i. S. I. L, and therefore the state of alert here is still very high. Claudio lavanga in rome, thank you. Facing homicide and Human Trafficking charges accused of being the captain of the migrant boat that sank in the mediterranean, where hundreds died. Al jazeeras Barnaby Phillips reports from sicily. Is this the face of a human being in misery . Mohamed ali malek says he was only a passenger on the migrant boat that capsized, loss of hundreds of lives. Others say he was the boats captain but even guilty he would surely be only a small cog in the huge business of taking people across the mediterranean. We travel to syracuse, there are migrants in the squares bus stations bored frustrated, planning their next mooch we spoakd tospoke to julia never imagined she would be an aid worker in her home town. People dying in the sea we cannot understand it. Its crazy. I mean, people should have the right to move, to ask for asylum asylum. Its not possible to die just because of their need to escape from war or poverty. I met sara and raod, who asked not to show their faces. She arrived this week after eight days at sea. They paid about 3,000 u. S. Each to the smugglers. Theyre not bad just trying to make a business. Because i think very big business to take from one person 3,000. You dont feel angry towards them they are dining business. They are just a business. They did not force you to go on the boat. They did not mistreat you on the boat . No no. A group of daies are sudanese who try to cobble together the money to go north. They think of sweden United Kingdom as the countries they want to get to. In other words sicily is one stage in their long and dangerous journey. More all the time are arriving at sicilys shores. They celebrate their survival but they know they face many struggles to come in europe, a continent that does not want them. Barnaby phillips, al jazeera sicily. Tough words from angelina jolie. Ballasted the Security Council for failing to end the fouryearold civil war. Diplomatic editor james bays has the story. Every single month the situation is getting worse its believed 220,000 people have been killed in the conflict. The u. N. Says 7. 6 million syrians have been displaced. This month they decided to talk about all of this in an open session to try and get the world to take notice. Just listen to the words of the u. N. Humanitarian coordinator valerie aix amos. The government continues to kill maim rape and take syria to new lows that seemed unimaginable years ago. People become numb, to numbers that should shock us into action. Sitting next to ms. Amos, including the special envoy of u. N. Hcr who maps to be actress angelina jolie. Torture starvation, the targeting of schools and hospitals. But these crimes are happening every day in juniors. The Security Council has powers to address these threats to International Peace and security. But those powers lie unused. She was there i think because the u. N. Know that the media are not covering every twist and turn of the juniors crisis in thesyria crisis isdoing in the way the al jazeera is doing. James bays. 500 people have been killed since the conflict began 140 child soldiers have been recruited. Resources there are now stretched to the limit. There is a semblance of law and order here. Despite no clear governance in yemen, a bomb Disposal Unit has come to work. Not far from here is a military base that was hit in in an air strike this week. Spent ammunition litters the streets. The area is now free of chemical substances. We have examined the whole area with detectors. We have collected the remains of explosives and are moved to be disarmed somewhere else. Residents say it was the largest blast they heard since the saudi led campaign began. Look around and you see hundreds of lost man hours the thousands of dollars that will be needed for reconstruction. Although none of this is as urgent as caring for the hundreds of people hurt in that one bombing. A 20 minute drive away is the largest hospital in sanaa. Its intensive care unit is where some of the most serious cases will be seen. The hospital director says that may not be the case for much longer. Translator electricity supplied by the government has been cut off. Were using generators. Theres not enough fuel. This has been going on for a week. If it continues im afraid the hospital will have to close. Reporter it is not just this hospital in trouble. The World Health Organization is warning that yemens entire Health Care System is on the brink. Meanwhile the red cross director in sanaa believes keeping the hospitals running is even more pressing than the need for food. If we dont find a quick solution now, it will be a catastrophe in a few days. Hundreds of people can die because they dont have their medicines. He says that while medical aid has started to arrive, his staff face yet another pitfall. Delivering them to the hospitals in places where theres fighting. Emiko moli, al jazeera. An iranian negotiator says efforts are being made to hammer out a final deal on the nuclear agreement. Three are working to fill in gaps in the Framework Agreement announced last month. Negotiators have set a june 30th deadline to reach a final deal. Saudi arabia is pointing the finger at i. S. I. L. For killing of two saudi policemen. Investigators say the suspect in custody confessed to carrying out the driveby shooting of the officers earlier this month. Saudi officials believe i. S. I. L. Provided the suspects with the weapons, ammunition and money. Questions tonight about the drone strike that killed two al qaeda hostages in pakistan. Italy wants answers and president obama does as well. And fear tonight in chile of another massive eruption of the calbuco volcano. Calbuco volcano. Only on Al Jazeera America. Italy wants more answers from the u. S. About the drone strikes that celd killed two hostages. Italys foreign minister complained that it took too long for officers to verify la porta was dead. What went wrong during the january strike. President obama told american intelligence chiefs today that he is looking at whether the u. S. Needs to change the way intelligence is gathered. We all bleed when we lose an american life. We all grieve when any innocent life is taken. We dont take this work light. And i know each and every one of you understand the magnitude of what we do. And the stakes involved. These arent abstractions. We are not cavalier about what we do. An independent investigation is underway to determine what went wrong. A filipino woman facing Death Penalty in indonesia was moved to where she and nine others are about to be executed by firing squad. Despite protests and claims of innocence in manila, the indonesian government vows to carry tout executions but have not said when they will do so. Much of southern chile is on alert mid bracing for another eruption from calbuco. Geologists cannot predict the next round of volcanic activity. Lucia newman reports. Whether its going to blow any houses down like the restaurant you see behind me that collapsed under the weight of ash not just ash but stones, everybody in this town about 4,000 people have been obliged to evacuate. In fact some of the authorities allowed some of the people to come back during the course of the day to check on their animals, to try to clear the roads to their houses. Its really quite amazing the scene here. In fact this ash is very very thin, it is in the air its very very thin, most people are wearing these masks to avoid breathing disorders. But the real problem is we dont know when this will end. There havent been any more major eruptions but the seismologists who are keeping close tabs say there could be another one as absolutely any time. Lucia newman in chile. Calbuco has blanketed parts of argentina causing airlines to cancel flights to the argentina tienargentine capital. The ring of 5 25,000 mile long horseshoe shaped region that follows the rim of the pacific ocean, Indonesia Philippines japan russia down the webcast of north and south the west coast of north and south america. 90 of the earth worlds earthquakes happen on the ring of fire. Pat, very good to have you with us. You have been to chiles calbuco island calbuco volcano one of the most powerful of the countrys 100 volcanoes. How significant is this eruption . It is routine, in the sense this is ideal kind of eruption. We love to have all that gas and energy go straight up into the atmosphere because thats where it does the least amount of damage and not causing deaths. As opposed to mt. St. Helens when the blast was horizontal. Could there be any connection between the eruptions any wider increase in volcanic activity . Well, were looking at one of the most volcanic active areas in the world. If we look at countries in the world and how many active volcanos they have, chile is number two after indonesia. Its a very unusual shape very long north south and narrow east west and they have volcanoes all the length of that nation. We geologists like to talk about plate tectonics. Thats what causes the earthquakes and volcanoes. Put it another way if somebody really wanted to watch an explosive volcano work then chile would be a good place to go to see one. As you said, this is a good eruption as things like this go but how dangerous could this volcano get anyway . Even though were not seeing the horizontal eruption or lava flow how more dangerous could it be . As long as it is pumping stuff up into the air fine. But if the gas weakens this happens frequently, this is the deadliest behavior of the volcano, if the cloud collapses and falls back to the ground and rolls over the Ground Surface we call them pyroclass pyroclastic flows. Temperatures of a few hundred hundred degrees you cant breed breathe them. I say its common for that eruption cloud to weaken, moment airline, collapse and little bits of angular glass and thats the biggest threat to the humans. We have seen pictures and the incredible lightning had a can be generated. Lets talk about the ultimates yellowstone cal caldera, could be 1,000 times for stronger than yellowstone . At yellowstone you have the massive lake yellowstone thats the volcano. The blasts are so big they are bigger than the mountain, they leave huge holes in the ground. Yellowstone, being the biggest a third one in the the caldera in new mexico. Hundreds of years between eruptions. Lets put it this way. The human race has yet to experience one of those we know what happens when they do happen. Humans havent been around since one of those blew but the most dangerous to people in United States is mt. Rainier near seattle . When we look at those volcanoes from shasta to mt. Rainier, they are very active, they are active volcanoes, near Large Population centers. For st. Henls you helens, and rainier they are preparing in the region in such event. And mt. Shasta, in california you see beautiful little towns just growing and gross and growing until that inevitable day when mt. Shasta erupts and destroys those communities. Pat abbott good to have you with us. Thank you. Good to be here. Walking the fine line between different interpretations of history. Up next, the mass killing of armenians and the politics of genocide. Genocide. And marking another world war 1 event gallipoli event. O. Welcome back to Al Jazeera America im antonio mora. Coming up in this half hour of international news, southern chile is on edge bracing for another volcanic eruption as we just told you. And first a look at the stories making history around the u. S. In our american minute. Baltimore police want the answers to the arrest of freddy gray who apparently received fatal injuries while in custody 25 days ago. Gray suffered a severed spine injury and died a week after his arrest. Police are also bracing for what is expected to be a massive demonstration in baltimore on saturday. In orlando today three former florida a m students were convictof manslaughter in a hazing death of a drum major four years ago beaten to death on a band bus after a football game. A total of 15 students were originally charged. Brought attention to hazing deaths in colleges. Outgoing attorney general eric holder is saying goodbye today, in an emotional 15 minute speech he told his people that they were part of a golden age. Marking the armenian day of remembrance, from beirut to a soccer field the country has one of the largest armenian populations in the world. President obama issued a statement observing the anniversary of the massacre of more than 1 million armenians. The president avoided using the word genocide for the seventh time in his presidency. On the campaign trail in 2008 senator obama said the facts were undeniable and promised to stand with the Armenian Community to call it a genocide. Mike viqueria looks at the power of the word. Reporter the ancestors of many of these victims were victims of the 20th centurys first mass atrocity. They want what happened to be called what they and others believe it clearly is, a genocide. Its been too long that the government of the United States and the government of turkey have denied the truth of the armenian genocide. Reporter the facts are not in dispute. The wholesale systematic slaughter of 1. 5 million armenians by the turks that ruled them. Nearly a year into world war i. The controversy now over that single word. The modern day turks have made it clear. What they dont do is to use the g word, the genocide word. They have this allergy to the word genocide because of its association with the nazis and with the idea that it is the kind of ultimately evil crime. If the u. S. Used the g word it would risk enraging turkey. So has the german president and the eu both drawing sharp rebukes from ankara, even after as candidate for president as obama would. For those of you who are aware, there is a genocide that did take place against armenian people. President obama said woe say the g word but hasnt. Hes not alone. Every other president since reagan has also shied away for fear of angering turkey, a secular society. Turkey hosts insurlik air base. That we will not speak the word genocide even though thats the word of exactly what happened to the armenian people because we dont want to oofned ally. Thats a far from courageous stand to take on a seminal human rights issue and it is not something america can be proud of. Reporter friday, turkish supporters staged their own demonstration. 100 years

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