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giving testimony against her husband, a court in china hears from bo's wife. plus british wine taking on champaign? we will take a taste test a little later in the program. ♪ hello, president bashir's most powerful ally russia is pushing the un to investigate an alleged chemical attack in syria. russia's foreign minister also asked rebels to guaranty un inspectors safe access to the area. meanwhile un secretary general says the use of chemical weapons would constitute crimes against humanity. but the government of bashir denies it was behind wednesday's attack by the capitol. and charles stratford has more. >> the pictures shocked the world. hundreds of people killed in an apparent chemical weapons attack on a damascus.

and they are in syria and staying at a hotel not far from the scene. they arrived in the country three days before the alleged attack but the limited mandate means they have not been allowed to the site and limited to visiting locations previously agreed upon with the government. three places where alleged chemical weapons attacks took place. united nations secretary general says the team must be given access. >> once again i call for immediate investigation of this latest incident. >> reporter: diplomates hoped once on the ground the un team would be able to broaden the scope of inspections. and time is not on their side. >> all the indications from the symptoms and the casualties and everything else we have seen over the last 48 hours lead us to believe it's some sort of chemical agent, probably a nerve

agent and it has been used in syria before and not persistent agents in effect. they kill people very quickly and then dissipate very quickly. so that evidence will not remain on the ground for very long. usually hours, possibly days, at the most a week or two. so the inspection team needs to get in pretty soon if they get the evidence. >> reporter: and pressure to allow the un team access to the site is mounting. [froze up. ]

and so is that report and the report says there are a million two million replaced and in refugee camps and worried about child trafficking and worried about the psychological effects on children. now i spent the day in the camp and spoke to one child who told me his story. normally described as one this a million is a complement and here it's anything but, for a million syrian children this is now their life. he is ten years old and likes to tease his sister.

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how do you deal with their needs? >> that is a big question and most of the children arrived in the last week or so and currently we are looking at scaling up our response in many sectors and there is no infrastructure for services and the school year is starting in one week's time and looking at building a school and training teachers and other things to find education for many of the children as possible. also health and nutrition services. it's critical we provide access to healthcare and also what is

very particularly important is child protection. many of these children have seen extreme violence in syria. they are experiencing trauma as a result of that. they are stressed from their displacement and the long journey it has taken to get there. it's important we provide them safe places where they can be a child. recreational activities where they can start to recover from the stress they experienced. >> reporter: what kind of psychological effects are we seeing in the children? you clearly have been to camps not just this one that is set up but camps across the region, what are the psychological effects they are using? >> children cry frequently. they cling to their parents, bedwetting is a frequent symptom and fearful and shy and disengaged socially and basically they become a shadow of their former shelves. the more extreme violence they witness the more detached they become. so really it takes a lot of effort to engage with them, to carry out activities such as drawing, singing, playing,

activities where children can become children. what we actually see is often when children have seen extreme violence they draw pictures of extreme violence and bombings and people being killed and dead bodies in the street but after some time, 3-6 months after they settled, we see pictures of sunshine, playing with other children and things like that. so that is the type of recovery that can happen. >> reporter: a million children refugees, two million children displaced. do you have the money to be able to deal with the crisis of this size? >> it's a huge crisis and the largest crisis in the world today and the largest humanitarian cities in decades. the un issued a humanitarian appeal for $4.4 billion and currently the just the refugee part of that is 40% funded for the entire un and the needs are, immense and need more money. and 3,000 people are arrived everyday and the needs are continuing to grow. >> reporter: so there you go, a

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blocking any protests that might materialize. >> and mike reports of some members of the muslim brotherhood arrested on thursday. is this still contentious at all? >> they have been on going arrests of members of the muslim brotherhood and there are reports of alleys or members of the organization being arrested and there are sometimes where people have been missing and their colleagues or friends suspect they have been arrested as well, remembering the state of emergency is in place, so unless people are arrested in terms of civil law it's likely that friends and families may not know that people have been detained if it is under the state of emergency but very clearly there has been a sharp crack down on members of the muslim brotherhood and

specifically members of the guidance committee and members of the various organizations that have been coordinating the activities of followers on the ground, so this is clearly a tactic, a strategy that has been directed at infringing on the brotherhood's ability to be able to organize and we will see on this day whether this has had an impact in terms of the scale and the size of the demonstrations that are supposed to be taking place. >> we will. mike, thank you, that is make hanna reporting from cairo. tourism has long been one of the pillars of egypt's economy and the industry took a hit after the 2011 revolution but was slowly recovering and that was until last month's coup. the number of torists drop this week and we report from cairo and people depending on this are struggling. >> these boats have never been

docked for so long. until a few years ago they have been packed with tourists sailing up and down the river nile. there is no other work for him in cairo and shows up at the dock everyday hoping to find some work. >> before the revolution i would never use the boat for just one customer. this boat can take around 50-60 people and i used to charge everyone about 50 cents. >> he says he doesn't care for politicians and they have other things on their mind. >> i want the situation to be better. most of the people on the streets now are trying to make a living and want a better environment for making a living, that is it and don't think of politics, they live from one day to the next. >> reporter: on the banks of the river hamid and horse have no customers either. he has been doing this for 20 years. he says the curfew is scaring

away even local customers. under marshal law businesses like his must stop when the sun sets. >> the curfew effects my business because some customers are afraid to go out during the curfew. if some customer comes and the curfew is about to start, they prefer not to take the cart. if someone stops us during the curfew it might be a problem. but we depend on god. >> reporter: for those in egypt who relied on the tourism industry for years the revolution was a huge disturbance to their business but since then the ongoing political violence and turmoil has only made that situation worse. people here who work with tourists don't know when they will come back. with little or no income people like mohamed cannot wait longer and it has always drawn visitors and the modern history however is driving them away. jane ferguson al jazeera cairo.

>> as the fukushima nuclear plant grabbels with crisis they owners are accused of carlessness. israeli allegations into allegations that palestinian children have been beaten in detention. that is coming up, in sport and find out who reached the final of the top cricket competition. japan's nuclear watchdog says the operator of the fukushima plant is failing to properly monitor the storage tanks containing radio active water. and anita is in the town outside one of the exclusion zones set up around the fukushima nuclear plants. >> it would be fair i think to say that japan's nuclear regulators were shocked at what they saw at the plant on their site visits and words like

disappointed and careless emerged at the press conference but some direct sense of the plant's operators of the tokyo electric power company responsible of what is left of the six nuclear reactors for their failure to properly inspect and detect these leaks, the leaks of potentially hundreds of thousands of liters of radio active water so contaminated it's not safe to stand next to it, leaks that could have been going on for as many as two years. they say the press conference and leaks that the company perhaps should have definitely picked up but certainly didn't have any kind of an inspection schedule to show the inspectors who visited that they were taking the issue seriously. the problem seems to be almost too big for the company to get on top of and the idea, the creative ideas to get rid of that water, the company seems to be running out of. >> reporter: members of the south korean red cross are holding talks with counterparts in the north of reunited long

lost families and they met on the border village, and hoping to bring together relatives separated since the korean war and we report from seoul. >> reporter: retired business man shim has been doing this for years, fielding requests for people looking for relatives in north korea and helping them meet. he had a reunion 20 years ago arranged through a chinese broker. >> the south korean people asked me to arrange other trips but i had to run my business but i started this as soon as i stopped working in 1998. i helped more than 100 people find their relatives. >> reporter: the meetings he helps arrange can be risky for north koreans who have to slip illegally into china. such meetings have become more expensive since north korea tightened border controls.

the only other way for families to meet is through the official channel. the south korean red cross keeps a database. as of july there were more than 70,000 legible names but only around 100 are chosen each time by ballot. the last official reunion was in 2010. they are always heart wrenching affairs with every one getting on in years there is knowledge this meeting could be their last. and such reunions depend on the state of inter korean relations. friday's talks will be where north and south korean officials iron out where the meetings will take place and how many people allowed to meet but both sides said they would like them to take place around the korean festival in mid september, traditionally the time when families get together. but for those separated by war it's hardly a time for celebration.

>> separated families do not know where their mothers and fathers tombs are located or alive or dead and we just shed tears looking at the sky in the north. >> reporter: and he works untirelessly driven to help others like himself even though he believes his organization will become irrelevant in the coming years because by then those old enough to remember their relatives in the north will have passed away. florence al jazeera. >> reporter: the chinese court hearing the case against disgraced politician bo released a videotape testimony from his wife. it's day two of bo's trial on charges of bribery, corruption as well as abuse of power. he is also accused of trying to cover up his wife's involvement in the murder of a businessman and we have the latest. >> day one of the case was dominated by the extraordinarily

charges against him, day two is dominated by a dead man the british businessman who death in november 2011 triggered this entire political scandal and bo's wife was convicted of his killing last year sentenced to a suspended death sentence. in testimony from her played to court today she says that her son bo had felt threatened by neil heyward and this is passed on that he was aware that neil heyward's name was on a police black list as a result. the police chief in the city where bo was party secretary a key ally of his also gave testimony today and saying that he was extremely unhappy with neil heyward over his management of a property that she had illegally corruptly obtained in the south of france in caan. and also we heard from a french architect also associated in that deal who said neil heyward demanded 1.4 british pounds in compensation for his work that he felt had gone unpaid. so that sets the scene for the

killing of neil heyward according to them and as far as bo is concerned his wife's testimony should not be believed. he says that he was aware that there was some talk about this villa in transcript and seen pictures but no approval for it to be bought and he says that in essence his wife's testimony is not to be believed. >> the u.s. soldier who killed 16 afghan villagers last year apologized for what he called a quote act of cowardess and they are deciding if he should get payroll during his term and we are more from washington state. >> i wish i could take it back said sergeant bales i wish i could take it back but i can't. speaking in a low, halting voice bales apologizes to the families of the afghan civilians he murdered and said he had disgraced his own family. his voice quavered as he

apologized to fellow soldiers. what i did was an act of cowards ess he concluded behind a mask of bravado. he plead guilty of killing 16 afghan civilians and mostly women and children during a nighttime shooting spree in march of 2012. he does not face the death penalty for those crimes and is trying to avoid life in prison without the possibility of parole. bales did not describe his actions in detail. he said he had asked himself why he killed but said he couldn't find a reason. under military trial rules the prosecution was not permitted to cross-examine bales. bales described mounting feelings of range, anger that grew over the years he was deployed in combat. three times in iraq and final tour in afghanistan. he said during home leave he drank heavily and would get furiously angry during routine household chores like washing dishes. >> i think he passed on the

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he says he only signed a confession after being beaten by interrogators. >> whenever i said no he beat me. he grabed my shirt and hit me and asked me the same question again and i said no so he beat me again. he hit me with a stick on my head and body and i said no so he threw me against a chair. >> reporter: he was questioned

here at the police station in the israeli occupied west bank and local boys are regularly brought here after clashes in the town where violence is common after funerals. and he has been locked up three times in the past 15 months. do you throw stones? never? >> no. >> reporter: he is not the only boy to complain of beatings in detention. and personal testimonies have been examined by israel's police investigation's department. >> complaints are put forward and that is why they are being investigated. we will see if there is evidence evidence and if it is they will get to court and there will be trials and we will see what the results are. >> reporter: his family doesn't expect anything from this investigation. his father says how can you get justice if your judge is also your persecuted. the number of cases of alleged violence against minors here at the police station points to a systematic abuse that must be

stopped. >> it can go from ill treatment to things that could be considered as torture and slaps and punching, kicking, more severe violence, different threats, sexual threats, threats on the life of the interrogated person and these are all things which obviously should not happen during interrogation. >> reporter: boys grow up fast before their 13th birthday and childhood is short lived and al jazeera is the occupied west bank. >> more on the news hour including. >> i'm rational in mexico once the poster child for the drug war, coming up, i'll tell you how some people feel caught between a painful past and uncertain future. >> all americans and citizens of the planet need the same basic things which is freshwater and which unfortunately is in a dwindling supply.

>> star power backs the gas extraction method in the u.s. and we will hear what the u.s. open champions say about their chances this year and details coming up. ♪

you are with the al jazeera news hour, the top stories from around the world, syrian president bashir's ally is urging to cooperate with u n inspectors and forces must give the team access to the site of an alleged gas attack outside

damascus on wednesday. a chinese court hearing the corruption case.

they said the u.s. should not give money to a military to do this and fighting that aid was being stopped the white house admitted in a remark that went unnoticed the u.s. is still giving aid to the egyptian military. >> they announced the answer to the question is yes. i don't know the nature of the assistance. >> reporter: department of defense did not announce anything and refused to answer questions about exactly what they have been buying the egyptian military. by law all military contracts have to be listed and if you pour through all of the documents you can find that since july second the u.s.

military agreed to buy egypt use military and 8 maniel border systems and spent million to train officers and signed a contract for more than $13 million so egypt can replace engines on the f-16 fighter jets. at the same time halting delivery of jets they have already bought. when asked about that, the department of defense says ask the state department. the state department has been saying ask the dod. >> i don't have a break down of the specific examples and dod has good ones they put out there. >> reporter: what officials will say and have repeatedly said is the u.s. is not taking sides but they are still spending money to buy the egyptian military u.s.-made equipment, whether they will give it to them the departments had the same message on that, it's under review. and al jazeera washington. >> the government announced new policies to boost.

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in one year the number of arrests shot up from 1,000 to more than 13,000 and murder rates are still dropping but police tactics remain controversial. this sign says we demand justice and stop the abuses and these protests against the city police are happening almost on a daily basis and all of the people hearsay that members of their family have been detained and thrown in jail without evidence. one active duty officer who asked not to be identified said the force remains above the law. >> torture included suffocating with plastic bags and a wet rag and beating and electrocuting. >> reporter: not trusting the police is part of the legacy that the father worries about and says every adult must leave

by example. >> we told the children they will be able to earn money honestly and to say no to corruption and though to drugs so what happens if you can't sustain this, you kill hope which is the most important thing. >> a warning if ignored and forgotten the city and country will pay the price again. rational. >> reporter: a state of emergency for a wildfire of yosemite and they are trying to control the fire which covers about 200 square kilometers, protesters are gathered outside of the white house and voicing anger against fracking and involves sand under ground to extract oil and gas tropicaled

in rocks and they say it's helping the u.s. economy recover but activists are saying it's too dangerous and dominique cane reports. >> reporter: a small and vocal protest gathers outside the white house. at the head a hold wood star determined to get a strong message across. the u.s. government's plans to extract shale gas and a process called fracking must stop. >> all americans and citizens of the planet need the same basic things, uncontaminated pressure water which is in a dwindling supply and a climate that is stable enough that we can actually survive in it and thrive in it and president obama and the blm are planning to fracture the public lands. >> reporter: in the computer animation we can see the process in more detail. it involves blasting a mixture of water and chemicals into the ground in order to split shale

rock and re-lewised as fuel, the gas and traditional methods of getting this out cannot exploit and it's so popular around the world that two thirds of all the new oil and gas wells in recent years have used fracking. large energy firms point to the economic benefits that tapping into this previously unusable element can bring. but opponents say it's dangerous both to the people who live near fracking sites and to the environment both below and above ground. until a few days ago hundreds of campaigners staged protests at the exploratory fracking site in balcum in the south of england and attracted celebrities like vivian west wood to vent anger at exploitation of nonrenewal sources. >> they are working with energy companies at the expense of not concentrating on renewable

things. >> reporter: last year president obama promised to take actions to develop natural gas safely promising it would add hundreds of thousands of jobs to the economy. but while that may be music to the ears of large -- [frozen again] hi, my name is jonathan betz, and i'm from dallas, texas, and

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to germany where members of a right wing cell killed ten people over never been caught but police dramatically under estimated the neo-natzi threat and we report from berlin. >> it examples what went wrong and tries to ensure it doesn't happen again. the parliamentary committee

looked at how a near nazi gang carried out so many killings over so many years without the authority suspecting or perhaps really caring that a far right group was involved. it is said the committee a story of failure by the police and intelligence services. >> not as professional as it should have been and directly linked the background to organized crime. mafia structures and so on. it's not to criticize they look in the direction but we criticize they only looked in the direction that the possibility that there could be a racist background to the murders was completely out of the picture. >> reporter: these two men are thought to have been the leaders of the gang and killed themselves in 2011, apparently fearing they were about to be arrested. this woman, now on trial in munick is thought to have been their accomplice and these are the victims, ten of them, 8

tushish and shop owners and locksmith and shot in the head at point blank range. and security agencies work better together, that the police have to look for political motivations when a serious crime is committed against an ethnic minority. many of the people who live here come from immigrant backgrounds. it's in places like this that people feel most bitter about how the security forces responded to the near nazi killings. to many people here it's evidence that they are not yet equal citizens in germany. a turkish leader told us he was shocked by the killings but also by what he calls the impotence of the police reaction. >> my confidence in the security

authorities and law enforcement disappeared and i must honestly say i no longer feel safe. >> reporter: they are used to soul searching and looked at the past with honesty and courage and examples what has went wrong today and how the country can be a safer and fairer place for all its citizens from berlin. >> reporter: as many industries fall on tough times across europe there is one that is rapidly growing. wine makers in the uk are doing a brisk trade annumer of vineyards is growing and should the likes of france and it will be worried? and phil investigates. >> the uk is known for many things like buckingham palace and the beetles but wine. >> we make a fantastic sparkling wine in the country. >> reporter: he swapped the corporate life for quiet life

and this is his yard in england, a rapidly growing number springing up and less gold crush and more grape rush. >> winning top awards internationally and the reason is because of the quality of the product is fantastic. >> reporter: you see the level of investment here and lots of new equipment and lots of opportunities to convince them british is best and his first batch goes on sale to the public if a matter of days. conditions for growing grapes are perfect and the country has gone through a heat wave and is it climate change and some say yes and some say no and that is a question for another day but what everyone is aware of is just how unpredistrictable the british weather is, last summer it was cool and miserable and the yield as a result was pretty horendous. 2013 got off to a better start for the uk wine industry is tiny compared to others with 420 vineyards and around 100

wineries, neighboring france has 110,000 vineyards and 27,000 wineries, more history, more experience and for the uk that means there is still a lot to learn. >> we are going for 60 years. they are growing grapes in some parts of the world for thousands of years and certainly since the 8, 900s and don't have the experience and not the perfect answer how to get good commercial yields. >> the rest of the wine making world is unlikely to be too concerned about a relatively tiny competitor and the uk's wine makers will host small successes and big ambition. phil in southern england. >> reporter: 750 kilograms of cocaine is seized by australia and u.s. agents from a yacht in the island, it's worth $330 million was hidden throughout the boat's, engine compartment and yet to be arrests in the

hall. and time for sports. >> the cricket is hoping to make a push towards the first series against england and they just started day three in london of the 5th session, a very strong position and england on 32 and the loss after australias first innings total and the home team are holding steady and england have a 3-0 series lead. the caribbean competition is nearing the climax and trinidad had home advantage for the semi financial but the batting line up completely failed in this game. they were out for 103. gianna with a wicked win and dilshan for a scoop of six and jamaica and barbados will meet in the other semi. and it has gone quickest in the

first practice and this is with filipe in a 1950s film shoot and third in the world championship and the third fastest for red bull in friday's opening session. now thursday saw the final winners of the ties will go through the group stages and english swanzie and beat them 5-1 in the first match. this was his first year of the match in more than 20 years and the game is on sunday and they did great. late consolation with the goal of the game. 30 matches in total were played and big win and moscow was 1-1 draw and turkey lost 2-1 and

spurs put the new signing and still no news exactly when garath bail will be heading this up. >> the team is changing and it's adapting to new plays and i think it was good to test a few things as well. and you know in the end we wanted to get a result here. [cutoff again]

and my edge and amount of years on tour and it's not even you get new experiences so i don't know exactly how i will deal with the pressure and how i will feel on monday. i'm expecting to be nervous, but

this week it has been a bit different. >> it's important when i come here to feel really good and i'm definitely feeling better than i have, you know, in the past but i also always want to just improve and have fun. that is what i want to do this year is enjoy myself. i tend to do best when i enjoy myself and have fun. >> six of the top swimmers have been given a warning of the olympics and investigation said they could be band from the rio games and the swimmers find and bans for behavior and a training camp ahead of the london games and they took a particular brand of sleeping pill and criticized by the report for the attitude towards female teammates. >> the bonding session was disruptable and against the best interests of the australia team and found the later conduct with behavior toward female swimmers in the team was quite borish,

selfish obnoxious and disrespectful. >> reporter: they were at the meeting in stockholm and he was almost the second down on the winning time for moscow and kenya had the first ever win with another victory in the 800 meters. more from that later but that is it for now. >> thank you and to news we have to bring you from lebanon, we are hearing two explosions have been set off in the northern city of tripoli and happened five minutes apart as people were coming out of friday prayers, one bomb went off from the mosque on the square and the other one went off in the mina area of tripoli so the bombs five minutes apart and following the story, bringing you more details, we will have much more in our bulletin that is coming up, with elizabeth, stay with us.

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jazeera.com. >> good morning, this is aljazeera, i'm richelle carey. these are some of the stories we're following at this hour. mounting international reaction as the civil war in syria escalates. some are calling for the use of force after this week's deadly attack. the u.n. now calling it is refugee crisis a shameful milestone. >> san diego's mayor bob filner expected to resign in disgrace today. the settlement deal is fueling a whole new controversy. >> a wildfire is getting worse near yosemite, tripling in size. >> banks under new scrutiny after an intern works himself