welcome to our viewers in the united states who just joined us. live coverage here on al jazeera from pretoria in south africa. just moments ago we saw the aircraft carrying the casket of nelson mandela take off beginning the final journey to now nelson mandela's ancestoral village ahead of his funeral on sunday. these pictures coming from the air force base in pretoria where earlier in the day members of the african national congress

gave nelson mandela a final farewell ceremony. a day of pomp and ceremony, then, and that memorial service led by the party that the man led and loved. here to tell us more about that aspect of today's events, al jazeera's tanya paige live for us at the airbase. tonya. >> this is a day where the party head has a personal opportunity to pay trub tribute to the greatest leader. they went into detail about his political career and the early leadership qualities that he showed that shone out from a

very young age. they went through the critical roles he played at very important times in the anc's growth and development, too. we're talking about things like the formation. he was one of the founding members of the youth league. he was also one of the leaders of the defiant campaign putting himself in jeopardy, if you'd like, and risked arrest and was arrested leading that campaign. he broke ranks, if you'd like, with the body of the anc, which had always been espoused the virtue of resistance. every time they went to the street and tried to protest in soweto -- >> we seem to have lost contact with tonya paige. this was just a few moments ago at the airbase where tonya is.

the plane carrying the casket of nelson mandela flying to the eastern cape. a flight that will take around 1 hour, 45, perhaps two hours. live in the eastern cape we'll have an idea what will happen when the aircraft lands there. >> the airplane will land and certainly official things will take place. the family members drove past the vehicle in the body of the airport behind me. everybody is getting ready and they've been told the plane is taking off and on its way. people talking about from the village is they've been told that the funeral is private.

normally you don't get invited to a funeral. you get up and go and a your respects. a lot of people are trying to understand or take that in. officials said you will go to certain areas and you will be part of the audience. 70s and 80s want to know why they cannot wear their traditional morning gear and say good-bye to nelson mandela, the man i know and love. it's interesting how the western culture and the traditional culture are trying to find the middle ground here. it's not easy for people, you can understand, but i think now what they'll wait to see is the casket landing here when it finally arrives. it will be the first time many of them from the villages would have seen these kind of scenes because they don't have television and won't see what the rest of the world are seeing

in pretoria when he was lying in state and people filed past of the casket. the scenes will be new to them and maybe exciting and shocking so they'll wait for the scenes come sunday at burial team. they say stay in the villages and watch the proceedings on the screen. the older generation says no, you don't get an invite to an african funeral. you go. some people with still trying to grapple with that and can't get as close as possible. >> for the benefit of those that just joined us who may have missed your conversation earlier, give us a sense where it is in relation to south africa's. we hear of nelson mandela's home village described as remote. >> reporter: well, look at it. minus the soldiers and the cars. if you look at the hills in the background here, those clouds.

those hills are beautiful. that's where nelson mandela spent his childhood herding cattle and sheep and goat. he said that was one of the most interesting and most wonderful times of his life. he really enjoyed doing that, and that's how people here really live. they are part of the eastern cape that have the big cities like port elizabeth and the ports there. then you have matata here, but most eastern cape is remote. you have dirt roads that aren't hard and traveling can take hours to go a short distance with a really good 4 by 4 people to get to certain areas. it's one of the least developed provinces in south africa. people live in african huts, which is fine, africans do that. in terms of toilets, you have pit latrines instead of the toilets we know. children use candles late at night.

there's a lot of poverty here and a lot of development needs to be done. that said, the people seem happy. when you meet the young boys herding the cattle and run around herding the cattle, they're singing and happy and spend the whole day out there doing that. the elders in the villages sit and discuss things in the community. this person saw that. that person is having problems with their marriage. can we do this? it's the whole community setup. the thing about the community is that everyone knows each other. you know who your neighbor is. you say hello and good afternoon to them. if someone is sick, you fw and see them. if someone dies, you go to the funeral. there's a community sense here. it's one big family. the tribes are enter interconnected as well. it's one big family. like i said, people are a bit confused as to why those from nelson mandela's tribe and clan are told to stay in your village and watch the burial on the

screens. they've done this for generation, that is, when someone dies to show your respect you go up and go to the funer funeral. they're trying to grapple between western and traditional right now here. >> for the moment, many thanks. hara is live earlier the anc said its last good-bye to nelson mandela as you saw. al jazeera's tonya paige was there. >> reporter: a memorial service from a party nelson mandela lived and loved. the african national congress was his political home for his entire career. he played pivotal roles at crucial moments, helping to shape the anc. current president jacob zuma paid tribute to the anti-apartheid struggle's

greatest icon. >> madiba, the man of reflection. he combined two things that is not easy to do, to combine theory and practice. he did it more than many. >> reporter: zuma and all of mandela's grandsons have already stood in his shadow. some may possess his physical stature, but the void left by his loss will never be filled. >> it was true monday that the world would lend the spirit of endurance and the triumph of forgiveness and the beauty of reconciliation. >> reporter: he detailed his grandfather ascension from the ranks of the anc, from the founding member of the youth league, founding member of the

armed wing to the treason trial and eventually the country's first black president. criticism of zuma is mounting after he was booed in front of dozens of world leaders earlier this week. some say life hasn't improved enough for enough people in a free south africa. as the anc moves forward without its most beloved son, it's time for the party and country to reflect on how far south africa has come and how far it still has to do. tonya paige, al jazeera, waterkloof airbase, south africa. >> his body is due to arrive in to his ancestor village. it's being flown from pre tiara and then a herself will take the coffin to the village of qunu.

there's a seven now that this long good-bye, south africa's long good-bye to nelson mandela is finally coming to a close. >> yes, it's reaching its conclusion. we're going to see or what happens not see the rituals of the burials tomorrow, but certainly we know he'll be laid to rest tomorrow. so it is coming to an end. i think everybody who has anything to do about mr. mandela's passing has said his spirit lives on, so that's the message we need to take from here on out. >> one development news-wise we heard this morning is that nelson mandela's good friend, arch bishop desmond tutu will not be attending tomorrow's funeral. he hasn't been invited. >> yes. an apparent snub to the former arch bishop, and certainly a very long and enduring friendship between the two friend.

his first night after he was released he stayed with the arch bishop and his wife. they're both very good friends. mr. tutu has been quite outspoken about the corruption in the ranks of anc and the need to return to the old values of mr. mandela and to stop betraying the people of the country really. as we saw in hara ahara's broad. a lot of people live in poverty. >> what would nelson mandela have wanted for his home village, given so many people are still living in so much

poverty but where a lot of the culture is still vibrantly alive? >> i think he would have wanted to reclaim the culture, preserve it as much as possible and yet still move the people forward in terms of their socioeconomic standards and their quality of life and standard of living. he said poverty like apartheid, like slavery, is a manmade problem. therefore, the solution of provrt is -- poverty it in the hands of human beings. >> all right. always great to talk to you. many thanks indeed for being with us here at al jazeera. we'll hear from you again in the coming hours once that casket -- the aircraft carrying the casket arrives there. here with the al jazeera news hour, still to come in the program we're live in kiev where government supporters are

planning a show of force to counter opposition protesters, later in sports, after a good morning session, england undo all their good work against australia as the series continues. the united nations says several peacekeepers were kimmed in a bombing in mali in the northern town of kidal. it exploded in front of the only bank there. the building was being guarded by the u.n. the leader of thai protesters who want the removal of government will meet with top military leaders. more than 1,000 protesters are camping out near government house in bangkok. they're calling for the prime

minister to resign. they also want the election system to be suspended. that's go live to bangkok. florence lui is there. what are we to make of the fact that the military it seems is willing to talk to the leader of the opposition? >> reporter: well, the fact that they have this meeting does not come really as a surprise. the military has so far tried very hard to remain neutral. this meeting was no different. the supreme commander spoke and said because we love the country, this meeting has no final conclusion. we're here to exchange ideas, and anything anyone does has to be within rules and regulations. now, thailand's military had a coup in 2006 when it removed the former prime minister and the brother to the current prime minister. now, that has led to an endless

cycle of political upheaval, so they're keen to avoid that. they're keen to avoid repeating the same mistakes. i spoke to an analyst about the significance of this meeting, and he said what we have to look at is the fact that the military didn't -- it wasn't just a meeting between the generals and the protesters. the military invited a cross-section of civil society as well. so it shows that they're very keen to do everything above board. they invited academics and businessmen. it was a forum to exchange ideas, really. >> i know that the prime minister has called their actions for early next year, but if an election were held today in thailand, who would win it? >> reporter: well the perthai parties have won elections easily in the last ten years. a lot of political analysts say

if elections were held, that party would win it easily. the attention moving forward is on whether the opposition democrat party will take part in elections. they're due to meet next week and will decide whether or not to boycott the elections. anti-government protesters say they don't trust elections anymore because they think the rural population can be bought with policies. so they want an appointed body run the country in the interim while reforms are being made. >> florence lui is live there for us in bangkok. thank you ifrments . anti-government protests continue in ucontain a day after talks. government supporters are planning a counterrally in the capital. it was afterian the president

otted against working with the europe union. two big rallies planned for this weekend. >> reporter: the demonstration behind me is what it is, a very pub within about what these people feel and how strongly they feel it. hundreds are spreading that message to the wider world. the government is aware it's losing this image for a moment and that's why it sets up a rival demonstration just 300 or so meters down that direction to my left. there are what could be about 20,000 people by the end of the weekend gathering. the permits gives them 200,000 capacity. they're being bussed in, trained in from all over the country.

my colleague spoke to some of the them yesterday. off-camera some were told they were paid to be here. what the people here in independence square are worried about this weekend is that there might be a few provoke fors that will instigate clashes between the two rival groups of protesters and that might give a pretext to move in a more heavy-handed way than we've seen them act in the last couple of days or so. we'll have to see how that transpires over the weekend. >> to muddy waters further, senator john mccain is flying into kiev. why? >> reporter: that's a good question. basically, i think the u.s. is stepping up its influence and how much sway it can have over what's going on in the ukraine

in the moment. john mccain coming in, he has used some very, very strong words to describe what's going on in the ukraine at the moment like appalling and despicable and talked about violence and oppression. i'm going to hazard to guess and say at some point in the weekend we'll see him down here in independence square. that seems to be the form that visiting diplomats from the west have established so far. the u.s. doesn't really have a carrot like the eu or russia does. so that's why so many strong words are used by the u.s. at the moment. it's using a stick approach, because that's all it has. that's why we're hearing talks about future sanctions from the u.s. if the violence gets worse. >> live there in kiev. many thanks. japan's prime minister says all nations must comply with international law regarding the

east china sea. shinzo abe made the comments at an asean summit in tokyo. they have a territorial dispute with china over a chain of islands. >> reporter: regarding the issue of the south china sea, we all agreed that all related nations shouldn't attempt to change the status quo by force and should comply with international law. we also confirmed the importance of freedom of flight over international waters, which is considered a general principle under international law. in iraq masked gunmen have killed 18 people working on a gas pipeline near the northeastern town of muqdadiyah. they were laying the foundation for the pipeline. an armed student opened fire at a school in the u.s. state of colorado wounding two students before killing himself. police say he entered the

arapahoe high school in a denver suburb armed with a shotgun. the teenager was looking for a specific teacher before being confronted by another student. saturday marks the first anniversary of the killing of 20 elementary school students in the state of connecticut. a man plotting a suicide attack in kansas. he is accused of planning to drive a car full of explosives into the airport terminal in wichita. standard and poor's cut the ranking of venezuela by one notch to minus b and warning of a further downgrade because of erratic government policies. president in this canicolas mad forced them to bring down prices. standard and poor's says it

depleted reserves leaving the country vulnerable. tens of thousands gathered in the colombia capital. the mayor has raised questions about the ongoing peace talks saying it's a serious blow to the government's credibility. al jazeera has more now from bogota. >> reporter: the mayor needed a strong show of force, and that's what he got. in the largest demonstration since the removal of pedro by the country's conservative inspector general for his perceived mishandling of the city's garbage collection system. what started as a practice against a decision has turned into a movement in defense of democracy. >> translator: i'm here to defend the collective interests and a personal one. i voted, and i demand that my vote is respected. it's that simple. i think the majority of the people are here for this reason.

it doesn't have to do with a political belief or the other. >> reporter: for the former rebel fighter turned politician, his removal is an attack on the future of the country. >> translator: what we are defining here is if peace is possible in colombia or not, if real democracy is possible or not. >> reporter: he was seen as a presidential contender and an icon at the left but he had a hard time running the city losing allies and favorability in the polls. while most agree on his shortcommings as a mayor, even his critics were troubled by his removal. political science professor arlene tickner says the decision doesn't bode well for the ongoing peace process. >> it's not a very good message to those members of guerrillas

who aspire to participate in politics legally towards the future. the question that remains based on this case and others previous to it is what constitutional guarantees are there that the political left will be able to participate in the legal political fold. >> reporter: he knows the demonstrations alone won't be enough to change the inspector general's ruling. they have filed 500 legal complaints to the constitutional court, and on wednesday he flights to washington to meet with the head of the international commission of human rights. he needs his supporters to deep the pressure on back home. al jazeera, bogota. it's been snowing across great parts of the middle east, and in some places that's a pretty rare event. here is to tell us more. >> it's been terrible across much of the region. cold air driving down from way up north. really, it's been a combination of some torrential rain.

this comes from gaza city, where i assume they haven't been coping with 50, 60 millimeters of rain falls. temperatures drags down but not as much as elsewhere. we have pictures from jerusalem where it said the snow was the heaviest in probably 60 years. certainly heavy snowfall caused widespread disruption. we also have snowfall reported in cairo for the first time in possibly more than a century. these come from back of the valley where syrian refugees are struggling under severe conditions here. we see an improvement across the region. we're getting slightly less cold air coming in, but it's a slow process. beirut has highs of 14 degrees. if you go to jerusalem, 7 degrees is the maximum. should be right about 15 this time of year and through thursday you see temperatures at night getting down to 2 and 3 degrees. in aleppo a high of 9 on monday.

those nighttime temperatures likely to be down to around about zero degrees. no sign of of it getting higher than that for at least the next week. as we move through, where does the cold air something? the big question and answer is towards the arabian peninsula, because we have much colder air coming down. sunday we have a high of 17 and on monday we have a screaming northwestern wind and temperature is 13. here in doha it's 19 degrees celsius. adrian. >> many thanks indeed. sri lanka's long war with the tigers killed and injured people. until now the exact cost of it has not when known. sri lanka is now starting a nationwide survey to try to find out. we have more from sri lanka. >> reporter: he has lots of information for his census

officer. hi wife and two sons were killed during the last months of the war between the military and tigers. >> translator: my wife was killed by shrapnel by the explosion. my first son died the same way and my second son was injured. >> reporter: they will visit each household to the country to record who has been touched by the conflict and how. she's waitings for some news of her elder son and daughter. her son was forcibly recruited by the tigers in 2006. two years later, they told her he had been captured by the military. during the last battle, the tigers took her daughter. she never saw them again. >> reporter: we have lost our lives, our children in the war and our suffering is burned into our memory and playing over and over like a film. >> reporter: that's familiar to

another mother across the country. her son was declared missing in action 15 years ago. he had been on his first tour of duty in the army. >> when there's someone missing, every day day and night, 24 hours, every moment you wait for their return. >> reporter: as international pressure mounts on the government to investigate the last stages of the war, the census will reveal what happened. although many welcome the move, this census has limitations. information on those killed and missing including from here in the final no-fire zone will only be accepted from immediate family, which means entire families killed in the war like that of ltt leader will not be counted. the department of census and the statistics, dhs which is carrying out the exercise, says information is the core family unit to avoid double-counting. >> according to that procedure,

this data they're collecting. so if no one is in the family, we can't collect that information. >> reporter: while the census will come up with stamm sticks, thousands of families across the island struggle to cope with the pain of death, the uncertainty of the missing, and the difficulty of caring for the disabled. still to come here on the news hour, germany's political future hangs in the balance as they decide whether or not to join the governing coalition. and in sport, english premier league leaders are still trying to end matches in cities with home record 100%, 100% home records, and the details are in 20 minutes.

adrian filling in here. the top stories. the body of nelson mandela is flown to his ancestoral village of qunu. the anc party earlier held a farewell ceremony. the united nations says several of its peacekeepers have been killed in a bomb explosion in mali. the incident happened in the northern town of kidal after a car packed with explosives detonated in front of the only bank there. thailand's opposition protest leader has been meeting with top military leaders to

outline his plans for reform. more than 1,000 protesters are continuing to camp out in bangkok calling for a resignation of the prime minister. back now to the preparations for nelson mandela's funeral on sunday. al jazeera's jonah hall joins us live from the eastern cape close to where mandela's village of qunu is located. is that right? >> reporter: it is, adrian. i'm about halfway along the route from mthatha, the capital of the eastern cape area here, and qunu, which, of course, is where the mandela home is and where nelson mandela's final resting place will be. the plane carrying his body is on his way here. we expect it to land in mthatha in a half hour so. after formalities are completed there, a drive through the streets of the city of mthatha. elbegin his final journey along this 30-kilometer route to qunu.

already in this rural area among the hills and homesteads, pockets of people are gathered waiting as long as they have to wait, perhaps two hours, to catch a glimpse of nelson mandela's cortiege when he passes about. this is the place he called home. he wrote about it as having been the place where he spent the happiest years of his childhood where nature, he said, was his plays it ground. after his relief from prison he walked on the hills here. he's remembered here as a humble man as well as the global icon and struggle and liberation figure he's best known for ever are. let me give you a flavor of the sentiment here, adrian. you step in. this is 16-year-old nana here to see madiba's coffin as it passes. what will that mean to you?

>> he's the one that gave us freedom today. >> reporter: born free, meaning you were born into a free south africa and never lived through apartheid. is that something you feel grateful to madiba for. >> that's why i'm here to pay the last respect to him. very grateful to be here. >> reporter: what sort of future do you feel you have in south africa now as a result of what madiba and all the other leaders, of course, did? >> all the leaders that were with him in jail, they are an inspiration to us. so we are willing to take with it -- we're willing to take things forward. they never lived this way because they wanted, but it was because of the circumstances they went through. >> reporter: thank you so much. nana and her friends have sang for quite some time but went quiet for our live shot here. they've been singing a song that's an old song well-known

here. it was sung why mandela and the other leaders were in jail. it means we still can't see him. here they are on the side of the road waiting to see him for a last time. i'll step up. nana, can you get them to sing? ♪ >> that's jonah hall reporting live there from the eastern cape. let's stay in the region for a moment and hear from al jazeera's andrew simmons. he's been looking at what life

was like for nelson mandela growing up there. >> reporter: amongst poor people in a remote land. this is where nelson mandela started out in life. not much has changed in a place where children play freely and safely just as mandela did in his early years. back then, like now, people lived in beehive-shaped huts. here the foundation stones of his birthplace. his father was a chief who was part of the royal household in this region. his mother was the chief's third wife. she moved her family to qunu, the place of mandela's earliest childhood recollections. at five years of age he was a cattle herdsman. on seven on his first day of school a teacher gave him the english christian name of nelson. this was the young mandela's favorite past time, stick

fighting. the sparring with hard branches is still popular in rural south africa. the young mandela played it. they were both the same age and used to lay together. the young mandela showed qualities of determination that were well beyond those of his playmate. >> translator: madiba was quite stubborn in his hay day as a stick fighter. in the unlikely event you defeat it, the following day he'll be in your village challenging you to another round of stick fighting. i was quite heart-broken at the time when he left us. because we're always together at all times. >> reporter: that togetherness with friends was broken by the death of his father. he had made precise arrangements for the future of his brightest

son. the cause of nelson mandela's life was changed drastically by the death of his father. at the age of 9 he left qunu. i left my father and i left my world behind. this is where he was sent. the court of the royal timbu household after an emotional journey with his mother handing him over to live under the care of the regent. the school may look modest, but this was a place where youngsters were groomed for greater things. >> he came from qunu as a single boy like any other young boy. to him it was really excitement when it comes to the greatness where he stayed, because the enlightenment was quite greater than at his home. >> reporter: as nelson mandela moved on through education, guided and supported by the

regent, his home in qunu was always highly valued, particularly the mother he left behind. more than six decades later as a president, not a stick-fighting young boy, nelson mandela was to have one of his homes built here. it was in qunu where the mandela family burial plot was established. he's expected to be buried near his father and his mother along with one of his sons, tembi, killed in a road accident in 1969 while mandela was in robben island prison and macador who died in aids in 2005. qunu will be the final resting place for nelson mandela, a serene humble land. the place of his carefree early childhood. andrew simmons, al jazeera, qunu. >> later on saturday germany may well get finally a ruling coalition out of three months of political deadlock. if the social democrats join

angela merkel's party, the government has to commit to new policies, and one of those policies would allow the children of millions of immigrants dual citizenship for the first time. we have the report from berlin. >> reporter: in berlin's neighborhood, he works as a tailor just as he's done ever since he came from turkey more than 40 years ago. he had to give up his turkish passport a long time ago to become german, and that still hurts him. >> reporter: my roots are my roots. i'll always be nostalgic. i don't understand why it's wrong to belong to two countries. >> reporter: the turkish came in the '60s and '70s. labor for germany's post-war economic miracle. the germans call them guest workers. the assumption was they'd go home one take, but most stayed and gradually they have been

given greater rights in general. now they're on the verge of another important step forward. a new grand coalition will allow children of immigrants to hold dual citizenship. until now most had to choose whether to become germany or take the original nationality of their parents. for germany's turkish minority in particular, this is a very significant change. we also met the person that helped to negotiate this deal. >> i would appreciate it if the germans would say, yes, you are allowed to have both citizenships because you're a germany, but at the same time you have other afill yeaings with turkey. i think that could be a very respectful political symbol. >> reporter: not everyone is happy. outside the headquarters, a

demonstration by some in the turkish community. they complained that the new law is a messy compromise, because it won't help people aged over 23 who already had to choose their sit sfwlcitizenship. >> i belong to both cultures, and i want to have them because i should have rights because it's the right thing. >> reporter: the sbd say the changes will help integrate minorities into german society. now everyone has to wait to see whether the party members have voted yes to a grand coalition. >> he joins us now live from berlin. what do we expect to happen with this vote, and assuming it's a yes, what will that mean in policy terms for the new germany government and for the rest of the europe? >> reporter: it does look, adrian, as if it will be a yes. we've just been told we can expect a result sometime in the middle of the afternoon here in berlin. that's earlier than had been

expected. i'm speculating that that, i think, means that the party leadership are confident. more than 300,000 members of the party voted across germany. the reason why the party leadership was able to sell this as a good deal was that they won some important concessions from angela merkel in those post-election talks. not just on dual citizenship as you saw in my report, but also the introduction of a minimum wage, 8 1/2 euros per hour for the first time here in germany. important extensions on pensions as well. a reduction in the pensionable age for some workers and an increase in pensions. in fact, the kinds of reforms that may raise eyebrows in southern countries like greece, italy and spain which germany is urging to take harsh austerity measures over the past three or four years. in broad policy terms, the finance minister is likely to stay in his position.

that's key, of course. angela merkel will remain the chancellor, but we may see a slightly more moderate approach towards germany towards countries struggling in the euro zone. i mentioned welfare at home. i think people watching in greece, italy and spain how they get more flexibility, if you'd like, from germany in the continued negotiations as the euro zone struggled to emerge from its recession, which has bedevilled the area for the last three or four years. >> barnaby, many thanks. just ahead on the news hour in sports, the spurs upstage a great performance by the minnesota timberwolves. action from the nba is coming up in just a few minutes.

adrian, thank you so much. it was a day of mixed fortunes. the tourists have a good morning session as they took four wickets for 59 runs to bowl australia all out for 385. england failed to take advantage in perth. joe couldn't believe he was given out for an edge even after the review. england 180. smith could add eight more runs while captain cook was the best scoring 72. england now trailed by 205.

english premier leaders take on 2012 champions manchester city in saturday's early match. arsenal traveled to the stadium with a five-point lead at the top over liverpool and chelsea. they have won all seven of the home games this season scoring 29 goals. >> i am convinced that we believe in ourselves anyway no matter what happens. let's not forget as well, but if you're in this position, if they lose, they're nine points behind. so they have more negative pressure than we have. we have a positive pressure that we can make a big difference with them. so let's look at it like that. >> later third place chelsea hosts london rivals while ever ton faces fulham.

they host hamburg later on saturday. last week hamburg visited they thrashed them 9 hi-2. they head into the match on the back of tee defeat to manchester city and the champions league. normally keeping the team focused is easier after a defeat. for this match i'm surprised. i'm a bit curious about our reaction after the defeat against manchester city, but i hope for the best. >> in spain real madrid taking on the division. real struggled in the most recent visits only winning once in the last five. they had a goal in obtain. renaldo returned from victory to score in copenhagen on tuesday. he has 26 goals in 19 matches in

all competition. >> i think that we have 90 minutes, so we can't be discouraged in the beginning. i think that's true that barcelona is a difficult team and they had a fantastic game against barcelona, and barcelona didn't win. they had a good conversation. so they have to play 90 minutes and that's at the last minute of the game. it's important to be really focused on this game to know that it will be difficult and to try to do our best. >> friday's action they ended a four-game streak in the league. david came off the bench to score two headers and give lavonte a home win. jamaican sprinter usain bolt says his goal is to break his own 200 meter world record. he's in argentina holding a

coaching clinic for underprivileged children. he was the first athlete in history to win the gold medals in two consecutive olympics in the 100 and 200 meter finals, something he hopes to do again in 2016. >> for me this upcoming season my aim is to try to run -- break the world record and run under 19 seconds. so that's one of my goals. my last goal is to go to rio in 2016 and to try to win the olympics again for the third time. the san antonio spurs have kept on top of nba's southwestern division with a win against the minnesota timberwolves, even though the timberwolves kevin love scored a season high of 42 points, he couldn't manage to get past tony parker and the spurs. parker had a team high of 29 points. san antonio rallied for 117-110 victory. over in detroit the pistons

held off a determined brooklyn rally to beat the nets 103-99. drummond and monroe were the big scorers on the night for detroit with 22 points as brooklyn's three-game winning streak came to an end. the pittsburgh penguins beat the new jersey devils to continue their nhl winning streak. the penguins entered the game in pittsburgh winning 7 of the last 8. they wasted no time here. pasc pascal dupuy scored and fleury finished with 37 saves for pittsburgh as they held onto the 3-2 win. there's much more sport on our website. for all the latest check out aljazeera.com/sports. there's also details on how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook. that's all your sports for now. more later. back to you. >> many thanks indeed, during his fight against apartheid,

nelson mandela inspired countless others to join in the struggle and he won over many of those who didn't share his views. mike hanna is with two activists influenced by mandela during their time in jail on robben island. >> reporter: this uprising in 1976 when they protested and clashed with police and sparked off a nationwide revolution. within months of landscape of south africa had changed, and the process of achieving democracy had moved to another level. at that time nelson mandela had been on robben island for well over a decade. his fellow prisoners, all generally of the same generation. he arrived on the island in 1977, one of the group of student leaders sentenced to prison. >> the first time we saw mandela on the island was in the reception area, and it was my fellows and i.

we saw this tall figure walking along in a fairly stately manner, and a couple of us said, that's mandela. and others said, no, it can't be. he's not that old. he can't be that old. >> i think there was a sense of disbelief, a sense of confusion about what we represented because it was unusual for leadership to be in the hands of people in their early 20s. he couldn't really accept that the events that were unfurling in the country were as a result of youthful protests, youthful organization. >> reporter: yet says cooper mandela would listen. >> you could sense the resistance, but he would listen anyway. he was a very good listener, and he would try to insinuate his viewpoint through a carefully

considered question of clarification or possibly another position. he listened. he may not have liked what he was hearing, but he listened nevertheless. >> reporter: there was a political movement that rooted in black consciousness and vigorously aposed to the african national congress and the nonracial philosophy. so was another young student leader that met nelson mandela on robben island. but in long talks with mandela and others, he was persuaded to shift his political position and come to a new realization. >> the problems in the country were more complex than just the question of blood. as i came to understand that, i realize that now the correct approach was to fight on the struggle on a nonracial basis. >> reporter: in subsequent years he became a central figure in

the fight for a nonracial south africa and rose through the ranks to become the movement's chairman. >> you are all comrades. >> reporter: that all ended at a watershed anc conference in 2007 when he was booed by rowdy delegates and he was accused of acting unconstitutionally. it was, he believes, proof that people unlike mandela were not prepared to hear any view but their own. it was a time, he says, at which the legacy of nelson mandela was betrayed. >> this is not for which we understand we were struggle for years in which we learned about from nelson mandela and other leaders before him. >> the engrained culture of disrespect is so massive that we disrespect ourselves, we disrespect the institutions that we purport to uphold, particularly the constitution,

and our leadership. >> i do think that he would most certainly feel betrayed by those of us who feel that something is not right if we did not raise our voices to say, this is not right. we don't agree with it. we don't associate ourselves with it. i think you would still feel that he had not done his duty well. >> reporter: while some argue south africa today may not be what nelson mandela had hoped for on the day of his inauguration, those who once were in prison with him say his legacy of honesty and above all the ability to listen to the views of others remains and is not diminished. mike hanna, al jazeera. >> there's some live pictures from mthatha in the eastern cape. people there beginning to line the streets patiently waiting to see the casket carrying nelson

mandela's body, which is on its way as we speak from pretoria. that will do it for "the news hour." stay with us. reflects on the life and legacy of nelson mandela. >> that spirit of nelson mandela is embedded deeply in the heart and soul of the south africans... >> they worked side by side for freedom, now president carter talks about mandela's global impact. a revealing interview you won't see anywhere else. >> i've never heard him say, that he was grateful to the united states... >> talk to al jazeera with jimmy carter only on al jazeera america still experienced some racial tension. so my parents who both started out in segregated schools made sure i knew my history as a chk

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