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and twitter is on the stock exchange and some investors think it may be worth $10 billion. ♪ john kerry and sergie are known to get along well and paying off in geneva and will meet in new york to revive an effort to end the syrian crisis and talking about how to get rid of syria's chemical weapons arsenal and this is what they said in the last hour. >> i will say on behalf of the united states that president obama is deeply committed to a negotiated solution with respect to syria. and we know that russia is likewise. we are working hard to find the common ground and be able to make that happen. and we discussed some of the

homework that we both need to do, we are not going to go into it in any detail today. we both agreed to do that homework and meet again in new york around the time of the u.n. general assembly, around the 28th. >> translator: the russian president from the very beginning of the syrian conflict have been promoting a peaceful resolution. we have strongly supported the league initiative and observers and the u.n. observers and we were one of the initiators of convening geneva one. >> reporter: not everyone is so optimistic and the emergency director of human rights watch is in geneva and this is his view. >> the announcement that russia and u.s. are talking is a green light for, syria to kill its own people and the worst is for blue helmets on the ground looking for chemical weapons at the same

time the syrian government continues to kill it's people with more conventional weapons. >> reporter: we are at the talks in geneva for us and there seems to be a lot of enthusiasm on the side of u.s. and russia to try and reach some kind of agreement but where do things really stand right now? >> you are absolutely right, a deep commitment coming from both russia and the united states. and this is all very much diplomatic talk. they know it's going to be difficult and extremely hard to find common ground primarily because there are so many clear-cut differences between russia and the united states and a version of events of what exactly has been going on in syria. russia believes the august 21 chemical attack against syrian civilians in the suburbs of damascus was covered out by the opposition whereas the united states eu, arab league point a figure at the assad leadership. the united states has said they feel they need to hold on to the

threat of possible strike against damascus to make sure that assad is towed to the line and complies with the international demand placed upon him and gain access to his chemical weapons locations within syria. whether or not the russians and americans can work through these differences is yet to be seen. but if there is a breakthrough it will have a major impact on the situation in syria. >> reporter: and also planning to meet again in new york later this month, they are talking about trying to revive geneva two. >> well, that is the hope. of course, the event taking place here is going to be very technical indeed, focusing on mainly allowing those hundreds of signtives in the country to locate assad chemical weapons locations, to be able to eventually pave the way for the

removal and destruction of his chemical weapons arsenal and the hope is it will pave the way for an effort and kick start, return to the geneva to talks that stalled earlier on in the year. clearly one day of talks in geneva is not enough and more to come clearly in new york as the hopes for finding a peaceful solution to the situation continue. >> and thank you once again. and neve at the talks in geneva for us. and syria's president assad has been talking about syria joining the international convention banning chemical weapons he said his government will start submitting data on the chemical stockpile one month after signing the convention. >> translator: in the next few days syria will send an appeal to the u.n. and the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. in my opinion this agreement will come into force one month after the signing. syria will then start handing over data to an international

organization about our chemical weapons stock. but i want to make it clear to all of the mechanism also not be fulfilled in a one-sided way but it also depends on how russia's proposals will be received. when the u.s. stops threatening to attack and stops supplying weapons to terrorists and the process can reach a final stage. >> reporter: and for more joining us now we have a visiting professor of political science at kata university and welcome and thank you for coming in to speak to us again. are you convinced the syrian government is serious about giving up its chemical weapons or is this a delaying tactic? >> it could be serious or could be delayed and it could be buying some time for now. i think as everybody knows by now i think with the expert this will take a few years and a lot of bureaucratic negotiation between the syrian and

international organization so that we give them a lot of space to breathe and go around and continue what they are doing. >> you know, the syrian president saying government assad submitting data on the chemical weapons stockpile a month after signing the convention. a month after signing and why would it take so long? surely they could come up with a list of weapons sooner than that. this would seem to be an obvious delaying tactic. >> they give up chemical weapons to save them and they are not rushing because they want to make sure this is the threat of a military strike by the united states will go away and i think they will have more time to talk with international organization and international terrorists and the russian and international system and give them i think more space to maneuver and go around. >> reporter: from where you sit, can the assad government be trusted to carry out what it says it will? >> this government -- this

government cannot be trusted, assad cannot be trusted and shrewed and smart and got his way in the system in fooling the united states and even i think the russians but the regime survival he will do whatever it takes and he killed his people and used chemical weapons and may give it up but it's not very hard to remake it again. >> reporter: so again thank you for your time. and we are speaking in our studio. and vladimir putin has been praising for sign up to the ban on chemical weapons. >> translator: i believe we should welcome the decision by the syrian leadership and i'd like to express my hope this would become a serious step towards the resolution of the syrian crisis and confirms the serious intention of our syrian partners to follow this path. >> reporter: and we will have more on syria a little later on

the program. and other news four men convicted of gang raping and killing a woman in india have been sentenced to death and it happened on a moving bus in new deli last december and triggered weeks of protestings across india and we are live from new deli with more on this and the men being sentenced to death as prosecutors had called for. >> that is correct, the prosecutors have had called for the death penalty so too have the victims and that sentence has been delivered. we should say that this will go to an appeals process as the defense is suggesting, but right now, today's news is that sentence has been handed down. we have seen a situation here of protests as well as celebration on all fronts outside the court. it's been a long afternoon and some sense is the end of this case but in many ways just the beginning as well.

>> what does this mean in terms of wider women issues and sexual violence in india? >> absolutely. that is the big issue. how much longer will the spotlight stay on women's rights in india particularly when it comes to safety and public places and in the home where people are talking about domestic violence. the issue is this case has in many ways set the ball rolling and the question is how long will it go and what kind of permanent and action and change will result from it and that is an unknown but this case has come to some kind of end today. >> reporter: are these men the first to receive the death sentence under the new laws which were introduced in march which allowed the death penalty to be handed down for rape? >> right, there was a case some years ago in calcutta where a man was sentenced to death for a rape. that in terms of the crimes we have seen today, the legislation that they have been tried under

is a new set of legislation and it's unclear that we should keep in mind going forward when it comes to the death sentence and rape whether it will pertain to rape or an instance where a victim has died of her injuries and of the crime. so that is still unknown. but when it comes to this new legislation, yes, these are the four men that have gone in light of the new perimeters. >> thank you very much, and we are live for us from new deli. the taliban carried out an attack on a u.s. consulate building in western afghanistan and 12 including 9 attackers were killed and we report from kabul. >> the attack began with an explosion and gunfire. taliban fighters attempted to enter the u.s. consulate, a capitol in the far west of the country. >> translator: an explosion took place at the gate of the u.s. consulate. then a number of insurgents

enters the gate and don't know how many there were. >> reporter: it included a car bomb, civilians and security forces were among the casualties and quickly rushes to a local hospital. guards took the force of the blast at the compound. >> translator: my brother was a security guard at the u.s. consulate and injured as a result of today's attack and is now in the hospital. >> reporter: the taliban says the consulate have been an intended target for some time. american diplomatic missions have been, targets for years and it has largely been considered secure and the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan issued a statement saying the united states government condemns the terrorist attack against the consulate and the consulate staff performs superb and thankful for forces who secured the facility and kept our personnel safe. >> no areas in afghanistan are

completely secure from taliban attacks. the groups control large areas of the country. the u.s. military will pull out the troops by the end of next year and it's unlikely they will leave behind a defeated taliban, jane furgason, al jazeera kabul afghanistan. >> the president of the philippines is in the city of zambuwanga where they are fighting rebels for the 5th day and the government is ready to crush the rebels and unless they end the standoff and 200 people from the national liberation front are holding 100 civilians postage. and we are in the city and joins us from an army camp there. and has the fighting intensified today, what is happening now? >> well, we are in an area at the center of i don't know if you can see behind me but 200 meters away we were positioned a

group of 200 soldiers and several tanks and they were trying to move in closer to an area where they believe the leader of the national liberation front group that led the assault is hold up together with majority of civilians held hostage. unfortunately a few meters away from us a mortar fell and exploded and we saw several red cross volunteers injured and brought to the hospital. this brought everybody actually scampering and retreating, the military had to retreat and now basically it seems that the area that the military wants has control over since yesterday has now been lost again. it's unsure exactly the turn of events exactly on the front line but what is for sure here is there has been no let up in the fighting and going on nonstop for five days and the president arrived today and no talk of a peaceful solution and no talk of

the political solution to the crisis but said there are lines that shouldn't be crossed and so many of those lines have been crossed by the national liberation fighters he says here and these have and should be dealt with by security forces. >> reporter: is there any word on the hostages still being held? >> we have spoken to human rights, they fear that actually many of those hostages are in fact severely injured in there. they are hoping they will be able to open a channel and have a channel with the commanders especially the leader of the group and allow the aid and rescue to be brought in but it's becoming increasingly different because it seems that the philippine military is tightening the noose around the area where more national liberation front fighters are so unsure what is going on in there and what is for sure on the ground fighting has been continuing nonstop since five days ago.

>> reporter: thank you, and we are bringing you the latest from the city in the southern philippines. still ahead on the program, more than 20 children are safe from a suspected child trafficker in nigeria and voyager one is the first man-made object to leave the solar system and lance armstrong and details coming up, later in sports. ♪ 37 people have died in a fire at a russian psychiatric hospital and happened in the region in the town of luka and the second fire at a russian psychiatric hospital this year. a blaze in april outside moscow killed 38 people and barney phillips is in moscow and sent

us this update. >> we understand that this fire began in the middle of the night, one official saying that it may have been started by one of the psychiatric patients lying in their bed, but obviously rescuers are looking for more evidence now, looking also sadly for more bodies, it should be said that russian and state medical institutions have a pretty poor safety record. you might recall a similar fire in a psychiatric hospital also in the middle of the night just outside moscow back in april that killed more than 30 people. in that case it was blamed on electrical wiring. again, in this case we are hearing of officials talking of possible negligence but it was an old wooden building and under those kinds of circumstances in the middle of the night it was likely to go up in flames very, very quickly. >> reporter: to egypt and prosecutors there have extended the detention period of the

deposed president morsi by 30 days and he is facing several criminal charges including that of murder. for more on this we are joined on the phone from cairo by our correspondent who cannot be named for security reasons. has any reason been given for the extension of morsi's detention? >> the detainee and keeping the extension rolling essentially for security reasons as they prevent it, there is not really much information to put morsi on trial soon. if you look at it from the interim government perspective and the military, they see they have broad public support at the moment and see that the muslim brotherhood has been decimated to detentions. the anti-coup alliance protest

is losing steam and one is today and we will have to see if it big and there is something regarding sinai so the trial of morsi would risk explaining things and might bring more protesters out on the streets for the muslim brotherhood and might inflame the violence in sinai further and there is a new amendment to a law which eventual means anyone investigated for crimes and might involve a life sent tends sentence or life can be held indefinitely and probably refers to morsi today. >> we are from cairo. 25 children are rescued from a child trafficker in nigeria and they were kept in all appalling

conditions. >> these are some of the 25 children who were rescued from a suspected child trafficker according to the state government. the house where they were kept was raided by child welfare officials on august 17. neighbors were suspicious about the number of young children in the building. the woman holding the children has been charged and jailed for running an illegal orphanage and suspicion of trafficicing, she was using it as a cover to traffic the children. >> yes, we believe it was child trafficicing and we have children that are from neighboring countries like gana and they were not properly fed and looking sickly and they were hungry, some of them were crying. and we saw them and then we have to remove them from that environment and in protective custody from what you have seen today. >> reporter: some rescued children are as young as three months and the oldest is 12 but

the state does not know their identities or where they come from. they are appealing to the parents of the children come forward for weeks but so far only one parent has. this is where they were rescued and considered a crime scene so we cannot go in. investigators are searching for clues that may lead to identifying the children's parents. so far no identity documents have been found here. the woman who has been charged denies trafficicing the children and they are thought to be one of the causes of human trafficicing in nigeria and the government body set up to find it says the children could have been handed over legitimately to the woman. >> the parents and how can parents hand, over children and was there any particular agreement signed and we need to know because currently now what is trending in nigeria is

selling babies illegally and essential criminal process. >> reporter: and they say anyone claiming the children will have to do a dna test to prove they are related, al jazeera. >> reporter: let's get the latest weather with everton and not too long ago we talked about flooding across japan and i believe there is yet more heavy rain on the way. >> yes, i'm afraid that is the case. we have a developing tropical storm out in the open waters of the northwest pacific and that storm is called nanyee and by the time it goes to southern japan around monday it may reach typhoon status with winds of 120 kilometers and gusting to 150 kilometers per hour and damaging winds and potential for flooding rains. heavy rain already in place at the moment, stretching across

northern japan and across eastern china and bringing extremely heavy rain into south korea through saturday, so the chance of some flash flooding coming in here, so that could cause some problems. and you can see the outer bans of the next system, this is the outer bans of this coming in as we go to sunday and indeed monday. the outer bans having an impact on southern parts of honshoo for sunday, the other weather front will make its way across much of honshoo for sunday and heavy rain in place and that is ahead of our storm and that will cause some problems. brighter skies behind it and eventually by the middle of next week we will sebrighter weather making its way into japan and a good part of china and decent sunshine coming through here, we have got heavy showers across the far south of china, hong kong looking disturbed with highs of around 30 degrees

celcius and vietnam and it's the case of sunshine for the philippines and manila with a temperature of 29.6. >> reporter: thanks very much. twitter announced that it plans to go public, the stock offering is the most anticipated since facebook listed its shares last year and we explain why. >> these days you have not really made a point on the web until you add the hash tag. welcome to the world of twitter. news out let and advertising platform and real time communication forum. in just over 7 years it has transformed from micro blogging site to a core engine of social media and poised to grow bigger by going public. in true twitter style it was a tweet and short and suscinct and

people can post text or pictures as long as it's under 140 characters. add a hash tag and the message gets group with similar posts to create what is called a trend. twitter says they are more than 200 million active users collectively and putting out some 400 million tweets everyday. and those millions of tweets translate into billions of dollars. specifically more than $10 billion. twitter's estimated market value. the decision to offer stocks is generating excitement especially because investors now know what to expect after facebook's own experience last year. >> twitter won't have to do quite the same education but will have to prove the business model which consists right now of very small sponsored tweet advertisements which they hope that just like their small messages add up that the advertisements will add up as

well. >> reporter: the sheer traffic on twitter has made it indistensable for governments and people and celebrities a like a source for news and entertainment twitter changed the way we learn about the world. once it is listed people will be able to buy in and capitalize on this. one hash tag at a time. gerald with al jazeera. >> reporter: more than three decades after taking an nasa probe is the first manmade object to leave the solar system and this was launched in 1977 and sent to study the planets in our solar system, during the 80s the probe surveyed jupiter, saturn, uranius and napoleon tune and looked at earth after 36 year journey it's 19 billion kilometers from home and has records and music and images from earth in case it is found

by intelligent life. a dr. ed stone is a chief scientist of the mission and said the probe is teaching us about the furthest reaches of our solar system. >> the sun creates a bubble around itself with the planets and provides sort of a shield between us and what is outside and inter stellar space with the stars and this is the first time we had it leave the bubble and enter space so we can determine what is really out there, trying to get in to this bubble. we were very fortunate there was a large storm on the sun which like a tsunami wave problem propagated out where it is and we are 125 times as far from the earth as the sun is. and we are headed in a particular direction toward inter stellar space where we

have now arrived. >> reporter: photograph taken at the launch of an nasa rocket has been leaping about the internet. it shows an unsuspecting frog propelled into the air by the force of the rocket's, engines and they said the photo is real and taken at the launch of the orbitar in the state of virginia last week and we suspect the frog probably croaked it. poor frog if he wasn't killed he must have been severely traumatized by the experience. there is lots more ahead here on al jazeera. we hit the campaign trial in the german city of hamburg to check the mood of voters there and the new u.s. open champion nadal goes to spain for the first time in two years and details coming up. ♪

welcome back, reminder of our top stories, u.s. secretary of state have met in geneva and trying to reach a deal over syria's chemical weapons and on thursday they said they want to join a treaty banning use and john kerry says he will meet later this month to discuss an effort to try to resolve the syrian crisis. four money convicted of gang rapping a woman in india were sentenced to death and it happened last december and the men will appeal against their

convictions. and the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on a u.s. consulate in afghanistan, iraq providence and 12 including 9 attackers were killed. human rights watch has presented new evidence of mass killings in syria, the report says government forces killed 248 people in the villages of vida in may and the number is even higher, and we have this report. >> reporter: rebel fighters attack government positions using mortar and say they won't lay down their arms until president assad's regime is toppled. but they remain widely out numbered and out gunned. here is the outskirts of the capitol damascus and representel stronghold and government forces use massive fire power to

recapture the area. it's a war that shows no signs of letting up. the u.n. estimates more than 100,000 people have been killed since the start of violence. but a new human rights watch to report accuses assad forces of executions in the coastal province. last may activists posted videos appearing to show women, children and elderly lying in pools of blood hours after a progovernment militia stormed the two villages. this is commander of the syrian resistance, and mainly progovernment militia operating in northwest syria. and he is filmed here talking about plans to attack the village. >> translator: this is an access to the sea and you need to cleanup the area. our existence is based on liberate and do the cleanup.

>> reporter: efforts underway to get president assad to hanover syria's stomach pile of chemical weapons and opposition said that won't be enough and once the international community to use force against assad but assad's main allies warn a military strike will create more chaos and strengthen radical groups, al jazeera. >> reporter: for more on this we have joined of the deputy director of human watch and middle east and north african division and welcome to al jazeera. first, what evidence does hr w have of these two massacres in may and can you say for certain from that evidence who was responsible? >> definitely, it took us a few months but we tracked and found survivors from bida and from the russian neighbors in banyas who sought shelter in neighboring

countries in turkey and lebanon and many were women who saw husband's and children being taken away and saw them shot or saw them in the room next door or in the street below the building. we collected testimony and we collected video footage and some of it was filmed by survivors after the killing and some of the footage was filmed by the perpetrators themselves who are either government forces fighting along progovernment forces known as defense force, the footage was actually posted on youtube. we went with the survivors identified each person appearing in the video and slowly rebuilt exactly what happened on that fateful day first on may second and may third. >> reporter: we discussed what happened there as one of the deadliest instances of mass summary execution since the start of the syrian war, is it even possible to say how many mass executions have been

carried out? >> well, the ones we were able to document by name and by detail and by -- in the afternoon of may 2nd between 1-4:00 p.m. 167 people executed, men, women and children in the span of three hours and publish all the names. there are a number of people from the village who have disappeared since that time. their relatives fear they were killed and there is also a possibility they were detained and did not include them and on may 3 there were according to local activists 200 people killed. based only research we were able to confirm 81 names but we believe the number is actually much higher. and it's difficult to document because it's a bit more urban and everyone knows it's other and more of a village adjust easy to double check names and images and when you find a relative you find others to have a picture of exactly what happened. >> they are calling for the u.n.

security council to make sure there is accountability for the crimes. and joe stoshg the acting middle east director at hr w points out while the world of tension is ensuring that the government can no longer use chemical weapons against the population that we shouldn't forget that the syrian government forces have used conventional means to slaughter civilians as well. is it possible to estimate how many people have been killed by conventional weapons? >> the overwhelmingly majority and more than 99% of the victims were not by chemical weapons and there is -- while it's important to deter future use of chemical weapons it's very important to deter conventional weapons, it doesn't matter to them how they are killed, it's the end result that matters and the responsibility on u.s. and russia and security council to findly act to deter killings and mass killings in general and not just focus on chemical weapons

even if it's a very important issue. >> so is hr w calling for the u.s. russia and security council to try and get a cease fire then in syria, what are you calling for? >> justice is essential in syria for victims of government and rebel abuses and we want referral to the international criminal court which the security council can do. if russia really cares about the victims as president putin likes to say he should support it. there has to be humanitarian assistance increase from all countries and to facilitate that we need the u.n. security council for cross border aid to go through. a cease fire would be essential but we need to also see the security council acting on justice. >> reporter: okay, thank you for speaking to us, and we have the deputy director of human rights watches, middle east and north african division.

and many opposition activists feel the up rising against the assad regime has been hijacked and we met with activists who are among the first to challenge the regime. >> this opposition activist says he is wanted by the syria government for helping to start the up rising and even though he left his country over a year ago, he doesn't feel safe here in lebanon. >> like in damascus. because the regime in damascus is strong and beruit it's strong. >> reporter: one is an armed group and it's that support as well as the backing of iran and russia that this activist believes helps keep the regime of bashir assad in power. >> i don't think it's a revolution any more because there is so many hands now

playing with the revolution. some are giving arms for the opposition for poor conditions. >> reporter: this is what the revolution now looks like. the uprising in syria started with peaceful demonstrations here but over two years later it is one of many battle grounds. many syrians are frustrated that the international community has not resorted to military action against the regime. >> it's clear that bashir assad will keep using it and if not chemical, scuds and missiles and every possible gun he has and still killing people everyday. >> reporter: the regime lost territory to the armed opposition but it still has the upper hand militarily, for some the battle has become a proxy war. >> we have to go to moscow and,

tiran and the opposition in paris and i believe very much that they are in the hands of syria. >> reporter: and people talk, this is what is left of many syrian neighborhoods and many activists who were among the first to challenge the regime now feel they have no say in the outcome of a war that neither side is winning. al jazeera, beirut. >> reporter: there has been a fourth night of protests in turkey after the death of a demonstrator on monday. the family of atikan was killed by the police, about 250 people were involved in last night's unrest in his hometown of hatie. in cuba the number of people leaving the country is at almost a 20-year high. most migrants are heading to the u.s. in search of better opportunities despite government attempts to improve the economy at home. and we report from havana.

>> she is ready to leaf cuba for good and not seen her daughters in four years, both of them live in the united states. >> translator: i have sold everything i own, my house, my car, my daughters have work in the u.s. it hurts to leaf my land. >> reporter: government figures show that almost 50,000 cubans migrated permanently in 2012, the largest figure since 1994 after what international observers found the crisis. for decades cubans tried to leave the country using all ways and they are where they came to sale to the united states but earlier this year the government lifted most of the restrictions for leaving the country freely. now it's much easier and less expensive for people here to travel and to return once they

immigrate and choose to go to the united states where they are granted residency if they enter the country illegally. washington recently announced it was lengthening the visas from 6 months to 5 years allowing them to make multiple u.s. visits. >> translator: in five years you can go and come as many times as you want. my sister lost her daughter and i want to go and visit. it's not like in the past when you left and could not return. both sides are making it easier. >> reporter: many of those leaving are young and educated. a problem for a government that is facing a demographic crisis. where fewer young people have to support a growing older population. >> translator: the situation now is different than in the past because people are leaving with visas and not rafters, those who are leaving are educated. the only way to prevent this is by improving the economic situation here. >> reporter: and that is what the government is trying to do. they have announced a series of

economic reforms to adapt to soviet style economy to current times and people see the real benefit and the tide will still carry people towards the u.s. and this is al jazeera havana. >> reporter: still ahead, germany is just over a week away from its general election. we checked the mood in hamburg. the death of ray dolby good-bye to the man who revolutionized sound and tiger wood shoots 66 at the championship in ohio but it wasn't good enough for the lead. all the action coming up, with rahul. we will be back soon. ♪ ç]

♪ hello again, advisors to the operator of the nuclear power plant in japan say leaks at the facility are not a major concern. the two former officials at the u.s. regulatory commission were brought in by tepco after it admitted it needed help with the cleanup process, hundreds of tons of radioactive water are leaking from the plant everyday but the advisors say it's nothing to worry about. a german parliamentary elections are heating up and merkle and sine brook have nine days to win over voters and the parties are

strong on social justice but as al jazeera nick spicer found out when he visited hamburg even the party's usual supporters are skeptical this time around. >> on this part of our tour of germany as it prepares to vote we are going toward the city of hamburg and a stronghold of the social democratic party and looking at why some of the voters are beginning to feel a bit adrift. these days fisherman is like a social democratic party or spd. over the years the daily catch he gathers with his son has been getting smaller and smaller. the same goes for the spd and their hall of voters and used to vote for the party, no longer. >> translator: we are no longer the party of the little man. all they are interested in is power. >> reporter: hamburg is an old city of sailors, dock workers

and the tradition of left wing politics going back to the 19th century and the creation of the modern welfare state so you think of a social democrats campaign promises of instituting a national minimum wage and taxing the rich and social spending would find a lot of support but there are problems. >> translator: their leader, he has come under fire for making paid speeches for big business and then making repeated gafs in the campaign. many party followers had already lost the faith when the last social democratic chance had job market reforms in 2004 and they are bearing fruit now but the chancellor is getting the political benefits. in this campaign she is borrowing minimum wage to win over voter whose are typically working class. trade unions close to working

class say the spd may only have itself to blame. >> translator: from my perspective there is a lot of criticize. but the spd is still the lesser several especially for workers. but i just think the party should defend worker's rights more and not just claim they do. >> reporter: and paul suggests voters trust them at least as much as the spd to bring about social justice. and to win voters back the social democrats need to cast the net wider by wooing big business and hard to do without being seen as losing your social democratic soul. and next we will visit a town in the region of meklenburg to look at voters tempted by political extremes. >> reporter: it's time for the sports news. >> thank you very much. and lance armstrong is returning

the bronze medical he won and he was stripped of that honor after he confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs during his career and this is him in sidney competing in the individual time trial on the way to claiming the bronze and they said it will not reallocate armstrong's bronze metal and this is what has been a truly dramatic fall from grace, this is a recap, the u.s. antidoping association released a report charging him with systematic doping, in august of that year the american not admitting guilt chose not to fight the charges and he was also ban from cycling for life but in 2012 and stripped armstrong of 7 tour de france titles and lost sponsors and in january this year he admitted in a tv interview that he had done drugs the same month they disqualified him and wiped

his results from the record and they asked him to return the metal and we just heard he has finally done. now, moving on to football, and they told al jazeera they will appeal the decision to have the 2014 world cup for an allowable player. they had beaten them 2-0 to qualify from the qualifying group and go to the next round of playoffs but they ruled cape verde should have been suspended and it was a blow since it will be in brazil, a country it has close links and both nations are colonies from portugeeze and they will go in playoffs. >> and i hope the decision will be a new breath we lacked against cape verde, against that match there was no will to win. >> reporter: and the most expensive football has admitted he is struggling to be fit in

time for madrid's game on saturday. the 124 million signing trained with his new teammate and going to an event showing off the 24-year-old played 30 minutes of football since july. >> i feel good and i've been training last week with whales and two good sessions today and half an hour, 40 minutes game time for whales and feeling good and obviously i'm a bit behind physically but hopefully i can catch up as soon as possible. >> reporter: and bale holds hands and he is getting use for his new surroundings and this is the final day of the transfer window of $66 million, that is the most they ever spent on a player and largest fee paid for any english league and the

influence was key in him joining. >> translator: that was very important for me, how he thinks about me and what he wants to do with me. i have decided to come because i have the trust. respectful togetherness and respect and family surrounding and this was very important to me. he told me his opinion, what he thinks about me and that is the reason i decided to come here. >> reporter: and they lead the bmw championship by one shot after the first round in chicago, the american leads the third event in the fedex cup playoffs from 70 players down to 30 on sunday after an 8 under par, 63 was the 7th straight birdie and tiger woods who is second in the race for the $10 million bonus is in a four-way tie for third after shooting a 66. >> i'm not exactly real happy. i played well.

and i didn't get much out of the round so as i said there were short ones and played par fives even par, that is not very good. >> reporter: and tennis u.s. open champion nadel will be for their countries and nadel will make the first cup appearance since 2011. and spain play ukraine in a world qualifier and they will claim the opening rubber of the semi final against canada and making the switch to the clay four days after playing on the hot courts of flushing meadows and the czech republic hosts argentina. >> not easy, totally different conditions and played indoors last match and in the 0-2 arena last november. and plus it's clay. but again it's not the first time i am facing this kind of

circumstances. >> reporter: and new zeeland increased the lead over team usa and 34th cup in san francisco and that is despite the oravcle recruiting ben, the most decorated player of all time and they will be challenger quicker in rate 6 and 7 on thursday to finish the day 3 points short of winning the title and now lead 6 points to minus one, this is after oracle was docked two points before the event started. pittsburgh pirate and the cards on top of the national league central division after 3-1 win over the cubs on thursday and to more weeks of regular season left and the pirates and rbi from bird and alvarez. the new york yankee looking for a spot and four home runs scored and it was this homer that

caught the eye, randy and the batter looked to reduce the deficit to two but look at that, he is robbed of the home run to the delight of his pitcher. very nice. more on our website and check out al jazeera.com/sports and there is details to get in touch with the team using twitter and facebook, that is it for now, more later. >> reporter: thanks very much. well the event of a sound system which reduces background noise and revolutionized the recording industry died at the age of 80, ray dolby founded the company in 65 and it's widely used in homes and cinemas and we report. >> it used to be difficult to play recorded music without hearing a hum or noise. >> reporter: ray's noise reduction technology is an industry standard and his professional career began

working on the world's first videotape recording systems and after he completed his ph.d. at cambridge he formed his own company and started looking for ways of reducing noise on audio recordings. we will adjust your tv set because this kind of hiss or noise was normal on audio recordings before ray dolby put his mind to the problem and he separated quiet noise like the hiss and the higher ones like talking, and he can manipulate both of them and remove the noise. >> this whole scheme worked together in a hand and glove way such that i could get the noise reduction i needed when the ear demanded it and didn't do anything to the signal, when the ear said i can't hear any noise anyway. >> reporter: surround sound was the other great achievement, it revolutionized the recording and viewing of movies. >> may the force be with you, in

star wars. >> reporter: and the technology was used in the first star wars film and it was fast in cinemas and later home theatres and once again he separated out each sound and replaced it in a 3d virtual space. this made the sound track more realistic and gave viewers the sense they were inside the movie. more than 50 of ray dolby's inventions have been patented and he is over $2 billion. he won emmy's and oscar and more than awards he had pleasure at helped millions of people to enjoy the music, films and now video games they love. i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: thanks for that, may he rest in peace and stay with us on al jazeera. good-bye for now.

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