Transcripts For ALJAZAM Weekend News 20150420 : comparemela.

Transcripts For ALJAZAM Weekend News 20150420

Week ahead, the debate on the Environmental Impact and the recovery a search for survivors off the coast of italy, with 700 migrants missing are feared dead after a boat capsized. Two dozen deaths have been confirmed. There fears that a mass migration in iraq will lead to mass deaths. They fled and are homeless in the middle of a war zone in south africa, the government vowing to protect newly arrived migrants. President zuma saying hell end attacks claiming the lives of many first the deaths of hundreds in the see. Italian Prime Minister matteo renzi saying his country cant be alone in dealing with the situation and is calling for an International Effort to stop Human Trafficking from africa. The boat overturned 120 miles south of lampedusa. One of the main routes across mediterranean, paul brennan has the latest. The search and rescue effort is supported with aircraft and helicopters. Coast guard and navy ships from malta and italy have been joined. Planes crisscrossed the sea scouring the waves for signs of life. As the hours past, the likelihood of finding more survivors is remote. The sicilian port of catania is the drop off point for tens of thousands of migrants. The towns mayor was in brussels last week, demanding e. U. Assistance last week. I banged my fist on the table and told them its dishonorable that a continent like europe turns its back. Its a drama of these proportions. Its not a temporary emergency, but a problem to deal with for years. There needs to be a european policy and help for the desperate people asking for asylum. Reporter in the vatican the pope asked europes leaders to recognise the migrants not as numbers, but humanbeings. Translation i make a heartfelt appeal to the International Community to react decisively and quickly see to it that such tragedies are not repeated. Reporter the italian Prime Minister was briefed and gave a news conference, his words aimed not just at the italian public, but directed towards fellow e. U. Leaders. We think the fight against Human Trafficking should be a problem for the whole e. U. Reporter his appeal produced a response. The e. U. s Foreign Policy chief weighed in saying the influx of migrants and proposals for tackling t migrant issue will be discussed known. On monday at a meting of e. U. Foreign ministers in luxembourg, and the need for progress is recognised. With darkness fallen the hopes now of finding more survivors and bringing them to sicily is fading. Completely accurate figures that lost their lives may not be known. The estimates of survivors paints a picture of a horrible loss of life. It seems a Tipping Point has been reached at an international level. Nonetheless, converting genuine sorrow, turning it to progress is far from easy in iraq the u. N. Is calling ramadi a ghost town. After advances there, more than 90,000 fleeing the fighting. Omar o salah has our story. Reporter a sea of people on the run. Escaping i. S. I. L. , they have been walking and driving for the last two days, taking what they can man, woman, young and old. This is a terrified population, with no place to stay. Some have been stuck near this bridge in southern baghdad. They are angry with politicians and tribal leaders. They dont care about us. Look what happened to us, our conditions. They sold us, they are traitors. They are cow wards. We slept on the streets, and in the open. In miserable continues. We left everything behind. The sheikhs fled. Sitting in hotels and homes. Reporter people who fled speak of fierce battles. Some say bodies are scattered. I. S. I. L. Fighters are making gains, closing in on the city center. More than 75 of anbar is under i. S. I. L. s control. The government sent reinforcements. It will be a long battle. Mosques across baghdad opened their doors to sheltered the displaced. This is their new home. Everyone here was allowed to enter baghdad only after being sponsored by the highest sunni religious body. More than 250 people live in the building. They are scattered in rooms like this. We are not allowed to film them for privacy. They are scattered over the compound. There are mattresses. They are living in tough conditions. They were allowed in, after being sponsored by the sunni endowment because the government is imposing restrictions on them. The number of people coming to the capital made the authorities nervous, the families need a sponsor to get in, some accuse the government of baj indifferent. Security Officials Say i. S. I. L. May have infiltrated the crowds, and they need to crosscheck. Those that are stuck feel not welcome. They want a sponsor to let us in. Arent we iraqis if you dont want us, hit us, kill us, throw us away. We are iraqis. The parliament called on the government to lift restrictions, and removing i. S. I. L. From the province is not going to be easy, and probably will take a long time. These people are likely to remain displaced. Not knowing when to return home in nigeria, boko haram is forcing the people to flee. More than a million. U. N. I. C. E. F. Say 800,000 are children. Boko haram have been attacking the region since 2009. The violence is frequent more brutal. More than 1,000 deaths children the targets of the attacks, including the kidnapping of 276 chibok schoolgirls, many of the children have been forced into sexual slavery and made to fight for the Group Migrants have been met with resistance in south africa the Largest Catholic Church holding a service calling for an end to xenophobia. There has been a series of attacks against foreigners. They are blamed for high unemployment people saying they are taking their jobs. People attacked jobs in johannesburg. Ministers called for peace and solidarity. Six people have been killed 300 suspects arrested for xenophobic attacks. 20 years although two u. S. Army veterans set you have a massive explosion outside a Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 168 died that day, hundreds gathered to commemorate the anniversary. They began with 168 seconds of silence. Heidi zhoucastro spoke to some people inside the building the day it was attacked but somehow managed to decide. She brings their stories. I ask all americans tonight to pray. To pray for the people who have lost their hives. Lives. To pray for the families and dead of the wounded. Pray for the people of Oklahoma City. Reporter the sun sets on 20 years of grief and reflection on the wos acts of terrorism in u. S. History. Richard was a coworker. Dennis walks among the 168 chairs marked with the names of those killed in the attack. 16 were his coworker in the Social Security office on the first floor of the alfred mora Federal Building. This is about where i was sitting. He was at a computer at a row of offices furthest from the bomb. There was a flash on his screen. I saw a yellow flash. Everything went dark. The next thing i knew i was on the floor trying to figure out what happened. On top of him was a 5 foot by 5 foot ceiling tile. A coworker helped to free him. He found himself uninjured. I decided to walk through the space and see if i could find anyone. For us it was pitchblack. The dust was terribly thick from the concrete dust and everything else, it was pulverized. Reporter he saw a woman, a coworker behind help and tried to free her body. He found another woman, alive but disoriented on top of a cabinet. She did not have shoes on she was blown out of her shoes. So i managed to lead her out that way. By this time almost an hour had passed since the explosion. And he was still inside. During this time you, yourself, had not tried to get out. No no. Reporter what made you stay . Well initially i could hear people yelling for help. After a while i didnt. Some of those yelling for help i know survive, and some didnt. Reporter eventually he made his way to an exit a rectangle of light in the darkness. Here is the door that most of our staff got out from. There was a door there that went up to the street. Thats where they got out. Despite his protests an emergency worker refused to let him in to continue searching for others. There wasnt anyone that took out and ran out the door. Everybody was checking around for people around them. So survival instinct is there, but also is that need to help other people. Two floors above the glass walled in area. Reporter the third falled window frame of an office where susan worked across the parking lot from the building exists. The records journal building housing the Oklahoma City Bombing Museum was damaged in the blast. We were yelling to each other, to see if everybody was okay. And so we kind of all got together as a group and tried to go out one of the exits in our suite. There was too much debris. Reporter she had severe cuts to her neck and legs. I didnt realise that i was severely injured until i started into the stairs to go down and i started to feel weak and there were a couple of young men that worked on the floor below us. The two of them got me carrying me to the street. Thats the stare well. Where that comes out, thats where we came out. Reporter this is where you all finally were able to escape the building. Yes. And do you remember what she looked like at that time . Yes, yes, i do. Its okay. I was a mess. Reporter it took five surgeries to remove all the glass in hatias body. The small office of two men and five women survived all leaving the building together. More than 12,000 people participated in the relief and rescue operations in the immediate days following the bombing. Today the memorial date of healing, timestamped with the minute after the bomb went off marks the moment the recovery began. The act of terrorism doesnt work. Two decades later, its the lives lost, and the selfless acts that are remembered. And we are also marking another tragic anniversary. The Bp Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill occurred five years ago tomorrow. The gulf coast recovery is the subject of the week ahead. Theres studies out showing a new cancer immunotherapy drug benefits patients sung melanoma lung cancer and another. A wildfire in Southern California burning more than 300 acres, Officials Say the fire another corona, southeast of los angeles, is spreading fatter than usual because of the drought. Evacuation orders have been lifted, but it is 15 contained. As of this morning, 800 firefighters are bringing it under control next the death of one of americas most wanted iraqis. And the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Well talk to experts about this time history and why the term genocide is rejected by turkey. Officials think they know what is behind a mysterious disease that been killing patients in nigeria, in less than 24 hours. Al jazeera america, weekday mornings. Catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. Get a first hand look with indepth reports and investigations. Start weekday mornings with Al Jazeera America. Open your eyes to a world in motion. The former righthand man of Saddam Hussein is dead. According to d. N. A. Testing. The body will be held over tomorrow. He was killed in an ambush in the mountains. The u. S. Government considered him to be among one of the most dangerous and wanting iraqis he was the highest ranking person close to Saddam Hussein at large in afghanistan fighters armed with guns and explosions attacking a Police Station in helmand province, a suicide bomber detonating an explosive allowing the gunmen to burst in. Two police many and a civilian were wounded, following attacks in jalalabad leaving 35 dead, and 125 wounded. Islamic state of iraq and levant has been blamed for the attack. Jennifer glasse has more on whether i. S. I. L. Is in afghanistan. Reporter these are some of the victims from the bomb g recovering in a hospital. They heard those affiliated with i. S. I. L. , called d. A. E. S. H. Are to blame. People are angry the government cant provide security much translation such incidents are not acceptable. Reporter political fighting delayed planned government reforms. The taliban filled the vacuum in some areas. In ghazni province, the taliban and murdered three men. Villagers came to the execution and said the Taliban Group is needed because taliban courts dont work. Other than the i. S. I. L. Claim of responsibility for the jalalabad attack theres no evidence that the armed group has a widespread support apart from this attack. Theres potential for it to grow. The Building Blocks of d. A. E. S. H. Exists in afghanistan. We have radicalized youth, a spread of weapon and ammunition in afghanistan. Its easy to recruit people for d. A. E. S. H. Even if there is recruiting going on, some say afghanistan doesnt have the sectarian history allowing i. S. I. L. To flourish in iraq and syria. Afghan Security Forces are facing the first fighting season where they are fully in charge. A small nato presence remains, mainly to train afghan troops. The afghans received new helicopters this month, but the small air force covers a fraction of the country, they need to improve intelligence, logistics and medical skills. The u. S. State Department Says any i. S. I. L. Presence is a rebranding of the marginalized taliban, and it is working with the Afghan Government to counter a threat. President ashraf ghani said he warned for months about a fledgling isil presence, but said afghans will not allow the group to grow here meanwhile, i. S. I. L. Releasing a video showing what appears to be the execution of ethiopian christians. They were held in libya before being killed. Ethiopian officials are working to confirm the nationalities. It contains official logos of the screen the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire is commemorated on april 24th. The use of the term genocide is is rejected by turkey and its allies, including the u. S. Courtney kealy has more. Reporter as the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide draws clear, pope francis held a mass. Translation in the past century our human family lived tragedies. The first struck the armenian people. Reporter turkeys reaction was swift, saying the statement was unacceptable, far from legal or a historical reality. Translation we call for religious leads to stay away call for peace. It is wrong, inconsistent and unfortunate in its timing. Reporter the Prime Minister called the European Parliaments recent resolution urging turkey to recognise the mass killings of genocide a sign of racism in europe. Turkey maintains the killing of hundreds of thousands of armenians and turks at the beginning of the 20th century was due to a civil war, ottoman forces fighting Russian Troops during world war i. Historians agree that after the ottoman territory lost territory, they were desperate. Worried that the christian armenian population would align with russia, Ottoman Turks set out on a deliberate campaign of annihilation. Beginning on april 24th, 1915, now the official commemoration day, when officials rounded up dignitaries. Over two years, 1. 5 million armenian men, women and children were killed. Some in massacres, some in forced marches through the desert. More than 20 counties acknowledged the genocide. But turkeys allies do not. In 2008, before his election. President obama called the genocide a widely documented fact. Now he avoids the term. In 2014, for the first time, turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered condolences to the grandchildren of all armenians that lost their lives. Regardless, armenians will commemorate the 100th anniversary of a dark moment history earlier tonight erica pitzi talking with armenian u. N. Representative and with a representative of the near east foundation, and asked if the world is acknowledging the Armenian Genocide. I think the question of the Armenian Genocide has been with the world over the past 100 years, its not a question just for the armenians. Its a question about standing up against impunity, and it is a question about preventing future crimes against humanity. The messages that we have been receiving over the past week, the message of the pope, and the resolution of the European Parliament are very much about the connection between what happened 100 years ago, and the atrocities we have faced over the past 100 years, and impunity breeds new crimes, it is, i think, the most important message. Do you feel the support stayed with the armenian people over the last 100 years, until this point in time. Yes, i think we have been consolidated by the support of the International Community, and it is a big message an armenians found shelter. In many parts of the world, in the middle east in europe in every condinent. Lets talk about turkeys response reacting to the comment, recalling the ambassador. It is regrettable. I think the resolution of the European Parliament is good in that it underlines the way the european continent came out of the world war ii and the creation of the European Union was a reaction to the atrocities and calamities of the war and reconciliation is not possible. Why do you think the turkish government is adamant not acknowledging that emphasise genocide. Thats a complex questio

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