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philippines continues as army tanks move in to take on fighters. ♪ in the past hour the french foreign minister announced that his country will present a new resolution to the u.n. security council on syria. the goal is to force syria to make the chemical weapons stockpile public and put them under international control and destroy them. >> translator: we have decided to take the initiative. france will submit a resolution for the u.n. security council and the process will start this very day. and it will be assessed by our partners and the security council. on a very practical level france will today submit a proposal to the security council members to put these ideas into practice immediately. >> reporter: the proposal for, syria to give up the chemical weapons came from russia russia

and he is selling the plan to the syrians. >> translator: we are currently working to prepare a workable, precise and concrete plan with the syrian side, we are hoping to present this plan soon and we will be ready to work with the u.n. secretary general and the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and members of the u.n. security council. >> reporter: and importantly all permanent members of the u.n. security council have given initial approval including china. >> translator: we welcome and support the russian proposal if it helps the tense situation there is beneficial to maintain peace and the region and also provide political resolution and the international community ought to have positive concentration. >> reporter: another one of syria, allies is holding back the plan saying it will avert more violence in the region.

>> translator: we say moscow's initiative and a strategy to stop militaryism in the region and the country opposing the use of chemical weapons we demand the region to be free of weapons of mass destruction. >> reporter: we can now get the latest from jackie roland in paris for us, there she is, france wholeheartedly backing the idea of handing over the weapons to the u.n. >> well, i say that the french were more cautious than whole hearted and certainly the french foreign minister has interest in the idea and sees it as a positive step, a step in the right direction if you like by the russians but caution bearing in mind the way the russians have continually shifted position in his view on the whole issue of chemical weapons in syria. he said above all he wants to be certain that the new proposal by the russians is not simply a diversion and take they

attention away from the idea of increasing and maintaining potential military threat as fresh on the syrian regime. once the french said they are going to on tuesday already present a draft resolution to the u.n. security council, now the fact is there will be five main points to the resolution. first after all the security council members would condemn the massacre that took place on the 21st of august on the outskirts of damascus. secondly, the syrians would have to give control of all their chemical weapons stockpile to international control. thirdly that syria would then have to submit to an international regime of controlling and destroying chemical weapons, fourthly the u.n. security council would have to agree that there would be serious consequences for the syrians if they failed to keep in line with the program and fifthly and i think quite conversely from the point of

view from some members of the security council an under taking to find and bring to justice those responsible for that attack on august the 21st and the french are playing a clever game saying russia will take you at your word and calling them bluff to see if they go back to the u.n. security council and deal with the whole crisis through the security council channels. >> reporter: so the french are cautious, they were at the time maybe being discussing the idea of intervention. will that still be a point of discussion? >> during the news conference that took place in the last hour, they maintain all options were still on the table including the threat of military action. but obviously for that threat to be credible and the pressure maintained it has to look credible. what he said earlier speaking to french radio he said that this

development in the russian's position vindicated the french and proved the tactics are very hard and maintaining this tough stance has paid off. in the longer term i would say that maybe the russians have actually offered a very convenient way out for the french president. he was beginning to look a little isolated and the only country in europe left and apparently committed to military action, even the americans after the decision to give that vote to congress they seem to have backed down. and the president was left standing and climbed up to the top and the russian proposal in a way enables the french to make an elegant back trap in line with french public opinion which is not keen on military intervention and make a slight backtrack without losing face. >> reporter: jackie roland live from paris and thank you very much. well, david owen is a british diplomate and foreign secretary and eu peace negotiator and we

are live from london. so the british parliament had categorically been against intervention, now with this possible new resolution on the table, does that take the pressure off the uk from having to make further roads into syria? >> i think they can rightly claim that they have managed to arrive slow the drum beat of war and almost certainly ensure a peaceful way of resolving what was a crime, which was the use of chemical weapons. if it is not rated like that, the most certainty was this a few day's time that weekend there would have been an attack and also gave president obama time to say he would consult congress and to give diplomacy its chance which obviously

started at petersburg and gone through the russian prime minister, direct to the syrian government and now we have what we have long wanted, a u.n. resolution and it will go before the u.n., that resolution from france would obviously be adjusted over the debate and discussion, but i think it will be probably unanimously accepted. >> reporter: there are questions though about barack obama and as we heard our correspondent say in france skepticism how open they will be and whether there is a delay in tactic, is that a concern? how much can we rely on this as a solution? >> well, we have to be cautious and i think it's reasonable to say that diplomacy is usually helped by the readiness in the last analysis to use force in circumstances like this. so i'm not and never believed in the diplomacy without enforcement but i always believed diplomacy has to give every chance to succeed and i think now it will. there was a premature rush to

war and the british prime minister was rightly checked by the parliament and need of the opposition and the other party did well to give the priority to diplomacy and the u.n. france now has also an opportunity not to test the assembly, just no vote in congress. so president obama will not risk being disowned by their own democratic assemblies like what happened to david cameron and one should give praise to russians but clear and careful u.n. inspection and i believe it will lead to a cease fire and i believe it will lead to a conference in geneva and settlement of the dispute. >> indeed and that would be the ideal situation but facts remain and it's hard to predict what will happen in syria and according to the green cross,

who are experts on chemical weapons, this is going to be a very long and costly process. so what happens in the interim, how do you reign in what is happening in syria? >> well, i don't agree with that solution. i think that it is much more likely that what we will see is a -- that the chemical weapons have already been concentrated in probably three, maybe four sites. i believe they will be clearly guarded by the syrian military. the actual way in which they are removed from there and destroyed will take perhaps some time. but i think the effect will be we will have inspectors into those main centers as soon as the resolution has been passed in the security council. >> reporter: david and good to speak to you and thank you very much for coming on the show. >> thank you. >> reporter: syria's top commander accused bashir assad

with deceit and said syria was lying when it welcomed the proposal to hand over the chemical weapons. >> translator: the offer of the regime to put the nuclear weapons under international inspection or the like is an entirely new lie. we don't trust this regime that destroys our country and continues killing our families. we warn the international community not to believe such promises. it's another conspiracy planned by russia in cooperation with iran. we stress the need and renew our request for such attacks against the criminal regime that has crossed all red lines. they are lying and we in the fsa together with the syrian people don't trust the group which only markets lies. let's move away from diplomacy and let me be very honest when i say that russia and its terrorist president, iran and bashir together with allies inside syria are the ones who market these lies. >> reporter: omar is live from turkey. so omar while the rest of the

world is reworking their plans for, syria, the opposition are straightforward in what they want, what are they saying? >> they are not happy at all after the russian proposal. a statement from the syrian national coalition says the call made by a level of overt responsibility in killing his own people are calling on the international community to stand by it's international norms and deliver a tough response to the crimes against humanity committed by the syrian regime. they say this russian proposal is a political maneuver aimed at giving more time to the syrian government to clear its own people and this is according to a statement received by the syrian national coalition.

>> reporter: and turkey of course has been quite involved for many reasons and both diplomately and because there are plenty of refugees crossing the border. what is the reaction from them? what kind of a solution are they looking for? >> well, turkey is the most vocal critic of the syrian regime and they are calling on the u.s. and the west to intervene to launch a wide campaign that forces the president assad to leave power and turkey welcomes the fact any country will on its own will surrender chemical stockpiles of chemical weapons. however, the turkish foreign minister --. >> reporter: omar is live in turkey, thank you very much.

>> and still ahead in the program i will tell you about the power of education. we will visit a school in the west bank that risks being demolished. and a happy reunion of female afghan politicians speaks to al jazeera after being released from captivity by the taliban. and coming up, in sports, they have a come back in new york against djokovic and we will be back with that story. ♪ kenya's deputy president william ruto is on trial at the criminal court at the headache and ruto and the kenyan president are accused of insighting violence after disputed elections in 2007. kenya will go on trial separately later this year. and both men deny the allegations.

we have comprehensive coverage on this story and kathryn is in the ruto stronghold in kenya and we will speak to her shortly but let's go to tim at the hague and has been following this trial. so, tim, take us to the proceeding so far. >> at last this trial has began. it has been a long time arriving here at the criminal court in the hague but the prosecutor is outlining the evidence against the two men in court today. they are accusing of crimes against humanity in this terrible post election violence that took place in 2007. more than a thousand people killed as a result, 500,000 deported, fled, made homeless. now, what happened was the election was disputed and william ruto and his co-defendant, a radio boss,

joshua sang turned to violence to get their own way. and these events mainly took place in the rift valley and attacked the ethnic grouping not of their political persuasion. the evidence has been alarming on occasions and a church set on fire in a village and people trapped inside and burned to death and others crushed to death as they tried to escape. those who managed to escape were killed anyway. each attack was preceded by the war crime and that ethnic grouping. the young men were dressed forward with bows and arrows the court heard and other weapons and they went this to attack. those who refused to take part were flogged and taken from them. the climate of fear was absolute and complete. young people, children, women,

old people were killed or forced to flee. that is the kind of evidence we have been hearing in court at the hague. >> reporter: tim at the hague and we will speak to you throughout the day to follow this case, thank you. we can now go to kathryn who is in the stronghold. kathryn, we heard those charges being laid out, tim has been outlining them for us. what has the reaction been from the effected victims? >> yes, i have been talking to the victims, a lot of victims today on a very rainy day here. this is where the violence started many, many people were killed and others were displaced. some of the people have gone back to their family and others like this here are still in displacement camp and they are telling me that they just want to see justice. they want to know the truth. they want to know how this

happened that their life was disrupted so much. they just want to know that. but they are also conflicted on where they feel that this trial should be held whether it's the hague or close to home. most of the people who are affected here are of the president's tribe and kenya being blocked as it is they are obviously naturally supporting the president who is the tribe and saying he has no business being at the hague and say the deputy president has no business being at the hague and they did speak to victims away from here and they will tell you they do not trust any local mechanism which to try the suspect because it's subject to manipulation. >> reporter: and kathryn so a lot of witnesses have been withdrawing their testimony. what can you tell us about that? >> yes, this is really worrying

the prosecution and it's not new. witnesses have been withdrawing with william ruto since he won in march and the victims in the last two weeks the victims in the last four weeks four witnesses of this case withdraw and two have came back to kenya and held a press conference on monday and told journalists that do not want to pedal lies and they were coached and some of their statements were a narrative that incriminates the suspects but then the prosecution said this is not true, that some of witnesses have been bribed, some of them have been threatened and others are too intimated to testify before the establishment and william ruto and a lot of fears. >> reporter: okay, thank you very much. to both our correspondents and

kathryn is there and william ruto stronghold and tim and a friend at the hague following the proceedings. now, at least 60 people have been killed in gun battles in the central african republic since saturday in the western town. and gunmen loyal fought with the group that over through him and 30,000 people have fled the region. and indian court convicted four men for gang rape and murder of a woman on a bus in new deli last december. the arguments for sentencing will be held on wednesday. defense lawyers say they will appeal against the verdict. >> translator: they are accused from poor families and lack political and financial and that is why they are subject to the verdict and it is under pressure from the ruling government to

gain mileage. the verdict is pleasing the consciousness of the masses and they are innocent and should have been acquitted. >> reporter: we have more from new deli. >> nine months after the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old physical therapy student in new deli a fast-track court announced the four remaining accused in the case are convicted of the crimes. they have not announced sentencing and may do that later this week but there is tremendous public pressure to the maximum death penalty. as you can see behind me there has been intense public interest in this case. in india and overseas. under this pressure the government has changed several laws relating to sex crimes in india, stalking and sexual harassment has been criminalized for the first time and increased punishment for convicted rapist but many activists say the changes don't go far enough,

they say that the marital rape for example in india is still not considered a crime and they are asking the court and the politicians to do more to make india safer for women. and in the philippines 150 people are being held hostage for a second day by fighters who want an independent muslim region and six tanks going to the southern port city of zambalonga and bernard smith has more. >> reporter: the army is surrounding 6 villages where 300 gunman from the liberation front are held up, 170 people are held hostage and used as human shields according to the mayor in the south of the country. the standoff began on monday when the military arrested five mnlf members wearing combat uniforms and carrying pistols in a suburb. at least 8 people were killed in the gun battle that broke out on the streets of this crowded port

city. more than a thousand residents fled their homes. the mnlf want an independent muslim region in the south of the mainly roman catholic country and the attack was when they were about to resume talks with the muslim liberation front and mnlf felt left out of the negotiations. rebellion has been going on for 42 years and claimed more than 150,000 lives and they are sheltered in a sports stadium and others spent a night sleeping on the streets. bernard smith, al jazeera. >> reporter: and we are joined live from zambaranga city and tanks surrounding the area and set the scene there for us, are they making any headway? >> well, it is not easy to know for sure since the -- fighting

broke out between the philippines government and the liberation front early monday morning. it's still unknown whether negotiations are underway between the two sides but one thing is for sure, there has been no let up in the standoff. basically there is all day today and even last night fighting is on going and early this morning more civilians were taken hostage and a few were released and behind me is the last part of the city where actually the philippine government and military and military forces have control and mnlf fighters and snipers have taken control and taken over 180 hostages and right now the city remains on lock down and the local government has imposed a curfew and the schools and hospitals said they are secured but basically the streets are empty. >> reporter: the americans have been training security forces in

the philippines to deal with situations like this. and obviously the fighters are quite fractured and splintered, why are the troops having such a hard time trying to contain them? >> actually that is a very good question. there were discussions earlier that yesterday they were waiting for proper instructions from the top and the office of the president and took so long to decide. and they are saying it was also an intelligence lapse a few months ago, the founder of the liberation front actually declared independence and he said he wants a separate state for the people of the philippines and obviously this fell on deaf ears and the local government was asking for protocol, what should be done in the wake of that announcement. and now, yesterday, at the fight what they wanted was to go to the heart of the city and slant an independent flag and that is when actually the standoff

started. the founder of the liberation front has always said he is against the on going peace negotiations between the philippines government and the islamic front seeking economy for the people. and what is clear it seems as though what peace agreement there will be between the philippine government and break away actions it seems this won't actually mean an end to the fighting and rebellion and war in the southern philippines. >> reporter: it's one of the areas that is largely christian and so most people are not involved in the conflict and being displaced and moved out. what is happening to them? >> well, initially according to the red cross and local government about more than 2000 people have already been evacuated. the unhcr released a report last week saying there are 27 people that are being displaced every

hour of everyday and this is actually a staggering number and that goes to show the number and impact of this rebellion, this war, and actually affected everybody, not just muslims but christians obviously and this doesn't really choose anyone, everybody becomes affected with this fight. >> reporter: and we will be updating us as the situation develops. thank you. okay we can go to the weather with everton. >> reporter: thanks very much. what is an early start to the brush fire season in australia this year, emergency warnings in place for two areas in western sidney and the fires have fanned by strong warm winds coming in across the region. around 45 out of control across the south wales at the moment and sidney had 27 dry days in a row and that has of course exacerbated the poor conditions we have.

500 firefighters are battling against the flames and the rain is not actually too far away. you see the northern part of tazmania, 71 millimeters of rain coming down in 24 hours and the wet weather is in the process of pushing across to new zeeland with stormy conditions and damaging winds and winds gusting to 140 kilometers per hour and heavy rain and parts of the north could see as much as maybe 300-400 millimeters of rain and flash flood and damaging winds a possibility and stay with us toward the later part of the week and for sidney temperatures 22 celcius. debates over who is allowed to use the word ala plus this. >> reporter: i'm in san francisco with a look at why americans work longer hours than just about anyone else on earth.

>> reporter: and in sports we will see the legacy of the former sailor who has the olympic movement into a new era and paul will be here with that story. ♪

♪ hello again, you are watching al jazeera, we will go through the top story, the french foreign minister announced the country will have a new resolution to u.n. security council on syria, the goal is to force syria to make the chemical weapons stockpile public and under international control and destroy them. and indian court convicted four

men for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a bus in new deli and sentencing held on wednesday and defense lawyers will appeal against the verdict. and kenya president plead not guilty to the charges of crimes against humanity at the international criminal courts at the hague. he is accused of insighting violence following the disputed elections in 2007 and staying with the story, so how did we get to william ruto being brought to the international criminal court at the hague? this is what happened. his charges stem from the disputed 2007 kenya elections. that is after we had another winner and protests led to fighting across kenya and more than 1,000 people died and 6,000 were made homeless. current president and opposition candidate was accused of

insighting violence against rival ethnic groups and accused of targeting communities. and we have a kenyan np and reporter and live from the hague and thanks for talking to us today. do you think ruto will get a fair trial at the hague? >> well, we will wait and see how things go. and so far it's really not convincing and especially in spite of the evidence and what is new evidence. >> reporter: and part of the issue with that evidence from the prosecutor is that a lot of

witnesses have been withdrawing their testimony. now, our correspondent said they are being intimated and even bribed not to give their defense and their testimony, what can you tell us about that? >> well, it comes from the prosecutor and need to confirm. they had questions and nobody give their story and the questions should be asked and why are they doing that at the last-minute and somebody coached them or told them what to say and they need to say what they

know. so basically it's intimidation or by the prosecutor so we will wait and see and the prosecution will close their case and say they also will give evidence and why witnesses are rejoined and waiting to see the results. >> reporter: do you think ruto should be tried at home instead like kenya is calling for it, do you think that is where he should be standing in front of court? >> what was that? >> reporter: do you think william ruto should be tried at home instead? there are allegations against him. there was a large number of deaths and violence back in 2007. so fingers have been pointed at him. do you think he should be tried at home instead? >> well, that would be better. and we have a constitution where we have a constitution and

judicially and we have the supreme court and even so after the general election they go to court and the supreme court ruled and the people of kenya and the supreme court, so that is an indication and their deputy president should actually be tried in the country. and members of parliament we accompany them to court. tell current level of parliament and judiciary and the bottom line is for the victims and to be fair and until proven guilty and if it's possible this is taken back home which will be easier for everyone. >> if it's taken home or if it's

here or possibly of a danger if it is back home, kenya is very much divided along ethnic lines and part of the problem and why we see william ruto in court today, is this going to cause more ethnic tension? >> well, i think kenya learned from their own mistake. and i don't think, i don't foresee the future. and kenya is now, they know it's about the leader and i think we are now having good neighbors and kenya are no longer thinking along the particular lines so for us we are united and not seen as that country that is different in the groups and there is a good example of a general election. and they are brought together and a goal for the country and what we are saying is it's not good to open the wounds that

have been there. the best thing is the consolation and the best use for the country to work together and we pray for people in kenya and grateful to god for it and do not see a lot of that to them. when the issue referring to them with kenya we want our country to grow once again. so basically i would say we are heading in the right direction. >> reporter: so thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. >> you are welcome. >> reporter: the taliban released a senior female mp after kidnapping her last night and al jazeera has the video and in the exclusive report james furgeson caught up with her. >> i'm brace of her children and she was the first female mp to be kidnapped by the group and

the most senior. speaking exclusively to al jazeera she described her experience. while it was traumatizing she was surprised she was never sexually assaulted. >> translator: they wouldn't respect even their mother or sister. in reality it wasn't that way. the taliban were people who with the women and living with the miss conception about islam. >> reporter: it was a dramatic effort headed by senior politician and afghan intelligence services and those in charge of the rescue visited her in her home to celebrate in kabul and the government said there was exchange of prisoners to get her back and taliban claimed four of the female relatives were given back. she was ceased from her car with her children, after a few days the children were released. this video shows the dramatic hand over in a strong taliban area. their mother would stay on with the capacitors for weeks being moved to 12 different locations

in afghanistan and pakistan. despite their strengths however she noted the difference in various fighters ranks. >> translator: their leaders were educated people and everything. and the taliban didn't have a clue what this holy war is about, who it is against, why and how. >> reporter: she has no intention of abandoning her career in politics and shaped and influenced of a glimpse inside a fighting force that peers considered the enemy. jane ferguson in kabul afghanistan. >> using the word ali and god in arabic is battled over and a 2009 ruling said they had the right to use the word for christians but government is appealing it and saying muslims have the right to use it and a hearing will be expected with a decision in a few weeks.

so the assad government never confirmed it has chemical reactions but the reaction to the proposal the international community should control its chemical weapons and appears to be a mission that it does have and last week france published evidence that proves that syria has been harboring chemical weapons for years and developing the programs since the 1970s and details have stockpiled tons which is massive and did diverse and one of the most toxic agents on the planet and several hundred tons of sarin gas and says syria is capable of firing chemical agents up to 500 kilometers away. for more on this let's go to the chief executive officer of bio

limited which is a bio weapons consultant in london and thanks very much for coming on the program today. as we said there, syria has been -- not been transparent in any way in declaring chemical weapons or how much it has. now, if this negotiation or this resolution is to go through where syria is to hand over its chemical weapons to the u.n. how sure can we be we will be getting all of it? >> well, that is a huge challenge of course. i don't think there is any doubt he has a large stockpile and i think you described pretty much that. there are 10, 11 sites around the country where it's stored and activists and opposition members tell me it has been moved around and there is a possibility that some of it has went outside the regime and it's a huge challenge and that is going to be one of the key areas that the international team that goes in to secure the site of

the weapons will need to do. we expect to see as you describe up to a thousand tons of sarin and vx. >> reporter: when we spoke to david owen earlier, the negotiator, he was saying that it could be quite clear where these sites are as the syrian army would be guarding them or would have some kind of indication of where they are and location wise. how much do you agree with that? >> well, i think you know that is a hopeful idea and i hope that david is right. we believe the sites are well guarded which is why there has not been any reason why bombing would be counter productive so i would hope from what the regime let us know and the intelligence and what they collect we can

pinpoint most of the sites and chemical weapons and it's a task of making sure we have any that proliferated out of the regime. >> good for your thoughts and analysis, thank you very much. >> pleasure. >> reporter: and coming up, in sports, could the world record holder be put in as the president of the olympics committee? setting a high bar and paul will be here next. ♪

♪ it's a month when children in

the world begin a new school year but in the occupied west bank a village school which is built with recycled materials is under threat and paul brennan explains. >> reporter: the children are bright and willing for the start of the school year, despite the dust and heat they keep the uniforms clean and tidy and a thirst for learning. she loves school, i can learn and have a future she says. i want to be a dentist. but these children know their school could be bulldozed at any time and that ambitions bulldozed too. i want to be a doctor he says but if there is no school i will end up a mattress choufeur, when it opened in 2009 it was famous of an eco school and the walls built with using recycled car tires and mud. despite the constant threat of demolition it has thrived.

>> it alleviates this and the other school is 35 kilometers away and the children would drop off. >> reporter: the classrooms are 8 and 10 teachers and 122 students. but this is area c, occupied territory under israeli control. and with no hint of irony the residents of the illegal israeli settlement nearby say the school is an illegal structure and they are demanding that the army flatten it. >> they are claiming that it is a settlement and we are teasing and filtering them as palestinians and of course what is happening is the contrary. >> reporter: what makes the place so important is not the fact that it's a concept building, mud covering car tires, but also the concept behind it and power of education and a challenge for the culture, mixing boys and girls in the same place and a project gaining

international recognition and you see from the plaques behind me. while we were filming a man from sacramento united states arrived giving books. >> providing education is important to give them a chance to go to university and give back to their community. >> reporter: the israeli settlers have not given up, another hearing will take place in the israeli supreme court next month, the argument will revolve around legal points. but it's the life prospect of the children which is really at stake. paul brennan al jazeera the occupied west bank. >> reporter: the biggest labor organization in the united states is holding its annual convention in california, among the issues being discussed is the long hours that americans are working which are in fact some of the longest in the developed world. and rob reynolds reports. >> reporter: ran together in a tiny office scott thompson and randy spend more time on the job

than they do with families, friends or having fun. >> we are working 40, 50 hours in the office and another 20, 30 hours outside of the office networking, meeting, skyping, bringing our computers home. >> reporter: when is the last time you had a vacation? >> four years ago maybe. what is a vacation? >> reporter: the pair is emersed in a start up venture to aid developing world farmers, a sustainable concept they call farm from a box. it's a labor of love but it is all consuming. >> we know that we are driving towards something that is going to make a big impact. and that is so fulfilling in and of itself that that is a big motivating factor. >> reporter: they are to out of millions of americans who work almost nonstop. the u.s. is the only industrialized country where workers are not legally guaranteed minimum vacation time.

the idea of working long hours is deeply internalized in the american psyche. >> we work an average of two months longer than europeans and a couple weeks longer than the japanese. we tend to think of our value as associated with performance. >> reporter: many employees feel pressure to put in longer hours to compete with fellow workers and hold on to their jobs. surveys also show 91% of american workers do work-related tasks during their time off. scholars who studied the american way of work say putting in longer hours and bringing work home doesn't necessarily lead to more productivity or greater success. >> we are forced to work a lot more hours but that doesn't necessarily mean they are good hours or quality hours. productivity can drop up to 50% in the hours that are over time hours. not to mention the fact that stress-related costs for business is $407 billion a year. workers at google, apple and

oracle are encouraged to merge their personal lives with work to a degree earlier generations might have found baffling. >> they require as much work as any job ever has and the gadgets themselves are meant to monopolize their employee's lives so you can have fun and work in the four walls of facebook or drop box or where you work in silicon valley and containing the employee. >> reporter: and there is no decrease in hours soon in a country where unemployment is still high, few workers would risk their employee's disapproval by asking for more time off, san francisco. >> reporter: here is a man who is not afraid of putting in the hours for the next few minutes and paul with the sports. >> someone else is putting in hours as well and nadal the 30st grand slam title after a victory in the u.s. open, and it was

summed up by 54 shot rally in the second set. the longest of the tournament by 20 hits. the match went to four sets before nadal had the second title in new york, and they saw him come back from 7 months out with a knee injury and he won the french open. >> and that made me happy, yes, but it's what i did with me. so that is an emotional moment and working hard in past moments trying to be positive. >> reporter: the international olympic committee will have a new president on tuesday ending the 12 year reign of jacque and we look at the legacy left as he departs world sports highest post. >> translator: it's 12 years since he was in power by his

long serving predecessor and he was president of the european olympic community he had stability at a time when harmony did not linger and it included ten members and this was against ethic violations and the number of tests conducted at the games doubled along with more rigorous out of competition testing. the olympic symbols may spread their wings to south america for the very first time and many would claim last year's london games the greatest achievement of his tenure. >> i would say the quality of the games were well organized under my watch and the summer games and winter games and olympic games, all of which were the highest qualify and this is

business. and it's difficult for the athlete. >> reporter: undoubtedly there are big challenges with the new president and criticism of the stance of sexuality guaranteed that next year's winter olympics will be a hot bed of politics. there is also a concern of the construction for rio in 2014 and race failed a test in athletics said keeping the games clean will remain as central as ever. >> i am confident that the olympic move is very strong and the future is bright. >> reporter: i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: lee is live from london and what can you tell us about the candidates to replace him as the olympic president? >> eyebrow raising and thomas barker, 59-year-old german lawyer and he is the frontrunner

for a while and very close to jack and would be seen as a safe pair of hands to take over in the mold of him. the key european candidate he is. and one of the other candidates criticizing him and said he was building alliances which isn't bad but harmed oswald more than it has thomas. and booker who constitutes so much in the vote over so many years and the problem here may be he is too young and raw at the age of 49 and he has good ideas over the two asian candidates and of singapore who is very well thought of at ioc as a businessman and richard crow of taiwan has done good work with the boxing association but more of an outsider and richard carry, the ioc finance chief from puerto rico and he has a chance and who gets the

job will be in charge for 8 years, not 4 years and there is an option for 4 more and looking at someone in charge of the ioc, a huge job for considerably 12 years. >> reporter: thank you very much. well, on sunday olympic officials voted to keep wrestling in the 2020 games and lenny reports. >> reporter: victory on the wrestling mat, these young athletes are the future of iran. now with the ioc decision to retain wrestling in the olympics, that future looks brighter. >> translator: when i heard i was so happy. there is a hope for the olympics and restored and the first sport for iran and if it is not included we have no hope for the olympics. every four years this is what we wait for. >> reporter: in february wrestling was talking about ioc

decided to scrap the sport leaving iran program in limbo but they formed an unlikely alliance with u.s. and russia to save the sport. >> translator: authorities from different countries contacted iran, the u.s., russia and turkey, these countries have good reputations in wrestling. so we contacted the wrestling organizer fila and told them to retain wrestling, all of us sent our objections. >> reporter: they love it and won and it's the best news for wrestlers who is representing the country internationally and he didn't want his dedication to go to waste. >> translator: i just want to see a gold olympic medical on my chest and it takes a lot of effort if you want to win. >> reporter: iran practiced wrestling since ancient times and with success of the 60 olympic medicals, 38 are for wrestling including a gold

medical for iran's national hero and hall of famer and his photo takes quite a place over the wrestling mat where many of these young man hope to be olympians and maybe one day have their photo hanging beside his. al jazeera, tehran. >> reporter: the two nations are usually divided by north and south korea are brought together by weight lifting and they go tuesday to compete in a regional competition and the north promised the south korea flag will be raised and the national anthem played if one of our athletes takes gold. first time for south korea athletes. >> interesting, thank you very much, that is paul with the sports. stay with us now, plenty more ahead and it is good to have you on. ♪