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technologically advanced missions ever attempted. ♪ the syrian peace conference looks to be on the verge of collapse with both sides of the conflict seemingly as far apart as ever, the internationally recognized opposition, the coalition is threatening to pull out after iran was invited to attend in switzerland but bashir say it must focus on ridding the country of what he calls terrorists. >> translator: the most basic element which we continuously refer to is that the conference should have clear results to fight terrorism in syria and pressure on countries and sending terrorists money and weapon and saudi arabia and turkey and countries that have political cover for terrorist organizations. any solution not reached without

fighting terrorism has no value. it's possible for them to contribute to the battle between syria and there has to be a syrian process in syria and georgia th georgia -- geneva can support it. >> reporter: this is hanging over the geneva peace talks. >> the last few days had diplomacy over syria. this was moscow last thursday, a meeting of friends and allies. russia hosting the iranian and syrian foreign ministers. iran making clear that his country is ready and willing to go to switzerland if invited. and on sunday evening after a round of last-minute telephone calls, the u.n. secretary general made this announcement. >> pledged that iran would play a positive and constructive

roll. therefore as host of the conference, i have decided to issue an invitation to iran to participate. >> reporter: the syria national coalition reacted furiously, a tweet from spokesman said the snc would pull out from the conference unless the invitation to iran was withdrawn and stat in istanbul said the opposition despite substantial internal disagreement would talk to the syrian governmentment under u.n. auspices. >> absolute majority avoided for going to the negotiating table and of course we are all away that the regime is trying to find, you know, loopholes to try to get out of it's commitment. >> reporter: in syria all while the killing on the ground goes

on. this activist video was apparently filmed in aleppo on saturday, it purports to show the aftermath of barrel bombs used by the government against rebel positions. it means key countries linked to the war in syria will be among 40 nations at the opening of the conference in switzerland, if the national coalition pulls out it risks shouldering the blame and missing an opportunity to end the conflict that claimed more than 130,000 lives. i'm with al jazeera beirut. >> reporter: and al jazeera's anita is live from istanbul where they have been meeting to discuss the next steps and anit remarks where do the talks stand with opposition and will they send a delegation to switzerland? >> well, we don't know yet but what i can tell you is where the delegation is at the moment and the answer is istanbul and they

were supposed to get on a plane to fly to switzerland this morning. they did not do that. and we do not know yet if they are going to do that but we have a little more clarity about what they are asking and a little more clarity about their process. what they are asking is actually quite specific and issued two conditions that will put them back on a cooperation track and have them getting on that plane to switzerland. the first condition is that iran withdraws from syria. the second condition is that iran publically agrees to abide by the conditions of the geneva one protocols and iran can choose either one of those and if it does then the delegation of the syrian coalition will be going to geneva and that is hanging in the air. this afternoon we understand there is going to be another meeting of this political committee and you need to understand something about the structure here, the group that made the decision as a response to moon's letter which dropped

late in the evening turkey time yesterday is the political committee. that is a 19-member committee out of the 119, 120 members of the syrian coalition. it is a small body but an important body, perhaps the most important one in the coalition and on it is the president and vice president and secretary general and they have authority in the meeting of general assembly to take policy decisions and can pull the plug on geneva and they are speaking for 120 and knew from the lead up to the process that ended in a yes vote by the skin of its teeth on sunday morning that the broad sweep of the coalition has grave miss givings about this. it's wobbling. >> reporter: so what is happening behind the scenes, the opposition seems to be in such disarray and how will they

resolve this situation? >> well, what you're seeing now is the syrian coalition splitting along different lines and splitting on the iran line of fracture sure, there was a withdraw block of 44 who expressed grave miss givings about giving because they said they were railroading the coalition into a no-holes bar negotiation would real support for geneva one and they are saying i told you so. so what is going on behind the scenes now is that group is trying to assemble a rival syrian coalition meeting. they are trying to call in all the diseffected from the syrian coalition and they claim they have got perhaps half, maybe more than half of the numbers and they're intending to try and hold a competitive syrian coalition meeting which will vote to discover the whole process and going on behind the scenes as well. >> reporter: certainly very interesting develops happening in the last few hours and thank you and that is anita reporting

live from istanbul. u.n. have disconnected center fuges and the landmark into national assigned with six world powers in november and from the watchdog they visited the plant and now heading to the facility. and let's take a closer look at this deal. for the next six months tehran will stop enriching uranium to 20% and inspections on the nuclear sight and iran will not strap the enrichment program it will hold advancement only its facilities. in return the u.s. and eu will suspend sanctions on oil, god and automotive industry and spare airplane parts and medicines to iran and finally international community will not be allowed to impose any new sanctions on iran. and he is a professor of

politics at tehran university and says a nuclear deal will improve the relations with the rest of the world. >> on monday the historical date as far as the islamic republic of iran's history is concerned because for the first time they are observing tension, have been eased off and for the first time they are observing some kind of consolation, truth, cease fire, call it what you like with the rest. and as i said it's a historical moment for iran because it is the beginning of perhaps the end of hostility between iran and particularly with the united states. >> reporter: more troops may be sent to the central african republic, eu ministers are set to approve deployment of several hundred soldiers on monday, more than a thousand people have been

killed since the conflict began a month ago and sectarian violence is on the rise. an al jazeera news tomorrow was in the capitol bongi when a christian mob attacked two muslim men and warning you may find some of the images in the report disturbing. >> reporter: they are looking for blood. this crowd of christians want to get their hands on a muslim hiding in a house and say he was involved in the killing of a christian and now they want revenge. he is pulled from the house. it's too distressing to show you what happened next but after the man was hacked to pieces he was set on fire. a second muslim was murdered just nearby and apparently he had been hiding in a church. he too was set on fire and as the corpse are ritually abused the crowd celebrates.

>> translator: we will continue to do this for as long as muslims will go on. >> reporter: it's hard to imagine what impact these scenes will have from all those who watched. french peace keepers arrived but it was too late. african soldiers from camaroon also appeared. [sirens] they eventually moved into the crowd. it's a lawless situation here and yet we are right in the middle of the capitol bongi and under these circumstances the african and indeed the french peace keepers are struggling to keep a lid on the sectarian hatred which is bubbling up. >> reporter: this time the crimes were caught on camera but similar killings are happening on a daily basis and not just here in bongi but across the country. >> reporter: jackie roland is in brussels but we go to

mr. phillips and to bongi for an update on the situation there and the new interim president will be named on monday and will it be enough to calm the sectarian tensions we are seeing? >> it won't be enough by itself, no, but i suppose it's a start and everyone here will hope who merges from the protest and they will be discussed and voted over right now we understand and we hope it's somebody of great courage and integrity. they will have to be if they are to make a difference. but we have to be realistic about this. the state has broken down in the central african republic and not just that schools, hospitals don't visit but there is no police force, no judiciary so whatever emerges won't have the means at their disposal to reimpose law an order and to that and alleviating the

humanitarian emergency has to come from the outside and the international community. >> reporter: is the violence limited to the capitol? we hear and see a lot of what is happening in bongi but is it just bongi or is there violence elsewhere in the country? >> it's certainly not just in bongi. obviously we only get snap shots and i can tell you the red cross recorded 50 deaths in the last few days in the northwest and we just received a very alarming e-mail from a priest in the northwestern town of gwa who says there have been sectarian killings going around in and around the town in the neighborhood for several days and he is dismayed to see christians and muslims who live side by side killing each other and feels worst to come. another little example, a town that is an hour and a half drive from here, a couple people were killed there in resent days and hearing a very brave clergy man is sheltering 800 muslims in his

church there. so these are just anecdotes but the peace keepers here certainly cannot be everywhere at the same time and not in bongi and certainly not across the county. >> reporter: we are live in bongi and let's go to jackie roland in brussels and what do we think they will say about the situation in er is concerned? >> what barnaby is describing that they cannot be everywhere at the same time and we saw how they turned up too late and to prevent the incident of lynching on the streets on sunday night. the idea would be that the european force numbering say between 500-1,000 would be formed in order to take over the duties of securing the airport and there by assuring the safe

delivery of humanitarian aid and other supplies to free up the french to deploy further across the country with the african peace keeping forces to actually address some of the security issues in different sounds such as the anecdotes that barnaby was sharing with us and it would take time and if it's agreed in brussels it probably would be 3-4 weeks before we could start seeing the force on the ground in the central african republic. >> reporter: jackie in brussels and barnaby in bongi. ahead on the program. >> i'm in the south sudan houn of bor bringing you the story of a town devastated and burned to the ground by weeks of fighting. >> reporter: plus how roma communities in central europe are pushed out of the workforce and into poverty. and the shots keep coming at the

australian open and who is the latest to tumble out of the tournament? ♪ the taliban said it was behind a suicide bomb attack in pakistan and 13 people died in the blast, 6 soldiers and happened near the army headquarters in pindy and the second attack in many days and we have more from islamabad. >> a deadly attack close to the army's general headquarters as well as the armed forces institute of cardiology where the x former ruler of pakistan is recovering from an ailment and the suicide bomber is said to be on a bicycle and stopped at a security check force on the main road and that is when he

detonated his device and there were a number offensive yanukovich casualties as well and soldiers at the post. and taliban in pakistan was quick to claim responsibility for this strike. less than 24 hours after they struck at the town of banu along the afghan border and at least 20 soldiers were killed and that of course would indicate that the taliban in pakistan was now on the offensive and in the meantime pakistan's prime minister was meeting his cabinet to discuss the emergency situation of cancelling his rituals. >> reporter: the taliban has responsibility for attack on military base in the south, one nato soldier killed, the car bomb exploded at the gate of a kandahar base and nine attackers entered and a gun fight broke out. ukraine president agreed to negotiate with opposition leaders after weeks of protests in the capitol. this was the scene in the early

hours of monday monday following violent aton government protests in independent square in kiev, several people were injured including riot police. a palestinian fighter laid to rest in his hometown after his body was returned by israel. [chanting] and the funeral was held south of jeanene on sunday and 35 bodies will be handed over to pal stint families in the west bank and they had been held in israel for years and went through dna tests in november. algeria former prime minister put his name forward for the presidential election to be held in april and he held the position 13 years ago and left politics after losing the 2004 election and dominick cain reports. >> after ten years on the

sidelines, he stepped back into front line politics. in front of a crowd in algeria he confirmed what many in his country suspected. >> translator: with honor, determination and humidity i have taken the decision to be a candidate for the presidency of the republic this year. >> reporter: and he was once prime minister in the government of president and ran unsuccessfully against him in the elections of 2004. elections that some believe were not entirely free and fair. but he says he has put the past behind him. instead he says it's the future that counts. reaction to his announcement has been mixed. >> translator: this man says that he would like simply that every algerian should be open and honest to give the people a

chance to live with freedom but this man believes the elections will be faked and wants the old generation to leave. he says he wants to see a 40-year-old president. >> reporter: the big question is will the president stand again? in office since 1999 he is fated by some as a national hero for helping to end his country's civil war and the holding algeria together during the arab spring. but others accuse him of leading the state into stagnation, he will be 77 when the election takes place and his health has been poor for several years. last year a mini stroke forced him to spend months recovering in a french hospital. >> translator: it would be better if he does not stand again but there are people in the power structure saying it's a chance for them to maintain

stability and they should keep him in power. >> reporter: the announcement focused on the impact his return to the arena might have. as a strong supporter of human rights he performed well in the opinion polls. but it will be how he performs in the coming campaign with camps and dominick cain, al jazeera. >> reporter: china has announced the economy grew 7.7% in 2013. the data shows growth in the world's second largest economy slowed down in december and they say it's the price beijing is paying for production values. south korea has been leaked in the biggest breach ever and estimated a third of a population of 50 million could have been effected, an employee from a credit firm is arrested on ceding the data from three credit card firms and harry has

more from seoul. >> no question the credit card in south korea is definitely king and used for small transactions at a couple dollars at a time and highest rate of transactions and highest rate of car ownership with four per person and has registration and credit card numbers and phone number and marital status involved so many people, the entire working population of the country. >> translator: the card company says they won't replace the card unless each individual asks for it and it's really irresponsible for the company. >> south korea is not an it powerhouse. >> reporter: the credit card companies links to the bank as one of three that appears to have been targeted by a loans company looking for information about potential customers and a credit rating agency went to the three companies and seized as much information as he could

before passing it on, all three of the companies are in full damage limitation mode. >> translator: the possibility of a secondary damage is slim as the clients' information was not circulated but there could be attempts of financial fraud taking advantage of the current situation. >> so around the country people are logging on to their credit card accounts to find out what information has been stolen, name, id number, bank account, credit card limit and the rest of the information that has gone missing and very senior people have been swept up in all this and the president, and the hague and secretary general of the u.n., moon, the prime minister here says an investigation needs to establish exactly what happened and systems toughened up to make sure it cannot happen again. >> reporter: time for a check on the world weather with everton and flooding in southern europe and any respite in sight? >> over the next couple days, we

have seen revenue rain and flooding across western parts of europe and the mediterranean and clouds and rain making its way through here over the last couple days. you can see messy picture and rolling in from the atlantic and massive cloud and rain across a good part of italy and down to the balkin and led to very heavy rain. these pictures coming out of france and big downpours here went on through the weekend and it has been watching flooding across southern france and not just france and italy seeing nasty weather and these pictures out of northern italy and big downpours for the last couple days and looking at 60, 70 millimeters of rain per day coming in and led to the extensive flooding and people trapped in their homes as a result of the heavy downpours. the weather is going to continue making its way further east as we go through the next couple days. another wet one on tuesday there for italy and the balkin and

snow in the alps and pushing to the eastern side of europe and transfer east and we go through the course of wednesday, brighter skies coming in behind and more heavy rain for southern parts of the balkins. >> thank you very much indeed. for centuries roma people suffered discrimination and poverty in central europe and difficult to work and integrate into society. in a second part of a three-part series we go to the roma heart lands to find out more about what the future holds for the roma people. ♪ morning rush hour in the capitol and people hurry on their way, 2% unemployment in a thriving west of the country. but in the east where so many roma live there is nothing to get out of bed for. the european union paid for a road through the villain the

children can go to school without getting covered in mud. but for adults every job inquiry is a dead end. >> translator: at the beginning they say there is works but when they say they are applicants of roma call back later or we don't want roma workers. >> reporter: those who say they don't want to work forgot when the soviet union had factories around central europe and every roma man or woman had a job. it's all gone as they cross the border in hungry there are massive industrial relics of communism and he worked in his local steam works until the bell and ball came down and it was he says a golden time. >> translator: we had a piece of a life and in a state everyone had work and tens of thousands in the steel work and worked there 42 years. >> reporter: places where they lived have become breeding grounds for pessimism and had to put umbrellas up in their flats

because so much rain comes through the roof. and we went to britain and a couple thousand dollars and came back with it for electricity for mermom's flat but has a baby now and she is stuck. >> it's difficult because i'm gypsy. >> reporter: do they say to you you are a gypsy? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: faced with a choice of no work or immigration many young roma are trying to learn a trade at school but teachers found that organizing training ships has racism. >> translator: at the start we have mostly white students and it was easy to find them a placement. we just called restaurants or hotels and took two or three but as soon as we started training roma children the places dried up. >> reporter: now it seems even the benefits they have to rely on are under attack from governments pandering to increasingly aggressive social attitudes. the slovak government has rules forcing people on benefits which

is almost all roma to work for them, in order to do they have to sign in an office. well, the offices have not been built yet but if they have been clearly almost nobody here has a car and they have to borrow money off each other to get the bus fare and the entire system is designed to make life as difficult as it can be for them and people say they are lazy but they told us over time they have given up trying. and neither here or western europe is there much sympathy or understanding for the demoralized mindset. >> reporter: on the road as they try to/out rebel fighters in the east. and we are five months to go until the football world cup and we have a sneak peek in the stadium and find out if paten manning led denver to the superbowl for the first time in 15 years and stay with us, we

will be back after the break. ♪ >> translator: based on our medical records she was

♪ welcome back, you are watching the news hour on al jazeera with me and a reminder of top stories and he won't give up power and seek a term as president and dismissed sharing power with opposition and meanwhile a syrian national coalition says it won't attend peace talks in switzerland if iran also goes. the taliban says it was behind a suicide bomb attack in pakistan, at least 13 people died in the

blast and six soldiers and happened on the army headquarters in pindi and they will approve sending several hundred troops to the republic on monday to reenforce french and african soldiers restoring order after sectarian violence in the country. let's focus on iran's increasingly central role in the syria crisis and the nuclear deal that is taking effect this monday. joining us now we have a diplomatic correspondent for a weekly persian newspaper and thank you very much for being on al jazeera. we are seeing sanctions on iran being lifted and tie ran being invited to attend the syria peace conference, how important a moment is this for iran, are they back in from the cold? >> yes. this is a very important moment for iran. certainly there is a lot of optimism in iran itself that

once again iran would be legitimized in the international community. but not only that, the livelihood of the ordinary run-in people will be improved. specifically as far as the sang -- sanctions and medicine was never part of the sanction regime it was being effected by banking regulations and that is what will be facilitated, access to medicine, access to spare parts, for airplanes, iran always suffered from a lot of plane crashes because of lack of spare parts. so for the normal iranian and ordinary iranian man the street there is a lot of opposition and europe. >> reporter: this deal i mean wasn't well received by some in the iranian political establishment. >> you are very right. in the sense that iran in this six-month period will have

access to between 4.2-$6 billion of the frozen assets outside. but this is part of $100 billion of frozen iranian assets outside. and also this amount of money will come as the $4.2 billion will be coming in trenches, the first trench of $500 million will start in february. at the same time in the past few months, a lot of nuclear scientists and employees of these nuclear reactors have been laid off. >> reporter: right. >> their voices are being heard in the newspapers and those hard liners are questioning that what is it that in return for all of this that we are giving, what is it we are receiving in this six months? and certainly the supreme leader in the newspapers and in announcements that we are hearing is not very happy about

this deal either so there is news coming negotiations would be taken from the foreign ministry back to the supreme national council. >> reporter: that makes reactions on iran and regional countries very nervous about iran playing a big role and notably saudi arabia and there is talk about iran's presence at peace talks happening in switzerland in a few days and why is the iran president helpful and why iran part of the solution to end the crisis in syria? >> along with russia, the supporter of president assad and there are revolutionary guards operating in syria and taking part in the fighting and certainly iran's presence in these negotiations will help the

negotiations and the final deal if there is a final deal. >> reporter: iran did not agree to the steps in 2012 and setting up a transition in syria, how can they play a positive role when the peace conference is supposed to be a follow-up on geneva one and will not agree to setting up a transition, will they? >> what the point is that iran has a lot of troops on the ground and certainly if they are -- there is going to be a deal coming, iran, essence to the deal and control of its troops in syria would be necessary. and at the same time i think our countries, saudi arabia as you mentioned they are very upset about the issue of the vision of the islamic republic at a time when the islamic republic is still an actively on the

opposing side in lebanon, in iraq, in syria and elsewhere. so there is that kind of an opposition within the arab countries to iran's presence. >> reporter: thank you very much for sharing your thoughts there with us and this is our diplomatic respondent from the newspaper and thanks for your time. 20 people have been killed in yemen in violence between rebels from shia and it happened in the province in the western yemen and began after the shia tried to seized the strategically important mountain. in egypt deposed president mohamed morsi will stand trial for insulting the judiciary and the fourth charges against the president since being ousted in july and facing allegations he insighted violence and conspired with foreign militants against egypt. and due to appear in court later

this month. the leader of rebels in south sudan says he wants uganda to leave south sudan before agreeing with a peace deal with the government and they will redeal peace talks on monday and they have got bor from rebels loyal to the former vice president and as we report the town has been devastated because of fighting. >> burned to the ground. this was the central market in bor. now nothing is left intact. banks have been looted, shops set ablaze and once bustling now eerily quiet and soldiers captured the town late last month forcing thousands to leave their homes. south sudan government destroyed everything in their sights. we accompanied the governor as he drove around the town to

inspect the aftermath of what looks like a bloody battle and 30,000 people used to live here, we struggled to find any civilians. almost everyone had fled or been killed. and at the governor's office the scene was little different from the marketplace, trashed and ransacked and proof the governor said they are criminals and not interested in political reform as they say the way they destroyed this, they showed that these people are not responsible people. they don't want the system for the change of the system. they would not have made this destruction. >> reporter: a short distance away is bor's only hospital, it too was not spared. the ambulance was taken apart and inside the medicine store and almost all of the hospital's equipment were stolen. when the fighting broke out here

this hospital was filled with the injured being treated but when the rebels advanced here they spared no one, witnesses say they killed people in their betz, bodies still lie here, the smell is overwhelmingly unbearable and they are the only three survivors from attack in the hospital and this elderly lady is unable to move. the woman taking care of her is injured. she says a rebel shot her because she refuses to have sex with him. in another room there are five dead bodies and lays there for days. and the smell of death is not limited to the hospital. everywhere you go in bor it is there, everywhere you look there are dead bodies. >> we cannot tell the number of people which have been killed. >> reporter: and robert is one of those who fought for the government to recapture the town. he grew up on these streets, now all he has are memories of what they once looked like. i asked him if he knows any of those killed. >> my family members have been

killed and during the action people have been killed and innocent people at home have been killed. my grand mom is 96 years old and they kill her. >> reporter: some of the uganda army who helped south sudan government capture bor are still present but it's the south sudan who are eager to demonstrate they are in control. among the soldiers there is a mixed feeling of victory and utter shock. they may have retaken bor but bor itself has been reduced to little more than a name. and i'm with al jazeera, bor, south sudan. >> reporter: staying with africa, troops in the democratic republic of congo are against the rebels in the east of the country and drive out a democratic group called ally forces and we have been traveling with the government troops and sent us this report.

>> this main road runs north from the town of bennie and few roads in congo and it's parallel border with uganda which is over there, between the two lies a bush and forest and the adf rebels are hiding. the government controls the main road and put a presence of soldiers and vehicles moving up and down here but it's difficult for them to take more than that. we have now turned off the main road on to a dirt road that heads in the bush and territory and a handful of government soldiers around and on the bush makes it easy for them to hide and have ambushs to attack the in-coming government forces and several kilometers ahead is a base and not been able to contact them and it's not safe for us to go there. the people fled and the houses along the side of the road are

abandon and the people living in this one managed to put a padlock on the door before they went and hoping to keep their possessions safe and hoping there is no looting and must have left a harvest of palm nuts on the floor and they use it for oil and soap and this is someone's livelihood on the ground and put them out to dry and they will be hoping this is still here when they come home. but there is still no sign this conflict will end any time soon. >> reporter: and the secretary general is due to arrive in brazil to inspect royal cup football stadiums, five months before kickoff 6 out of 12 of them have been completed and we report. >> i'm here in the city here and outside of rio stadium and seats about 50,000 people and this said um is going to host several matches in the group stage of the world cup. let's go inside and take a look at how it's going.

one of the most striking parts of this stadium is actually the roof. and they have 66 of these panels and they call them leaves and what they do is they sort of provide a natural air conditioning to the stadium because the wind that blows off of the nearby lake sort of blows through here. all of these panels are fire resistant as well as they provide uv protection from the sun. certainly definitely one of the most interesting parts of the stadium without a doubt, it's something that right when you get here it immediately catches your eye. this is a stadium that is owned and managed by international, one of the two local club teams here and what is interesting is unlike some of the other host cities where the government funded the building of the stadium, not here, this was a partnership between the local club and the builders and it was supposed to be $150 million but now it will be $200 million and

this was supposed to be done in 2012 but delayed because of strikes and other things but it's almost done and the grass is completely laid, all of the chairs are in place. they say that this stadium is very close to hosting one of its first test matches. here's the pitch or the field and this is put in more than a year ago. it's one of the first stadiums that had the pitch laid. this is grass that was imported from the united states. they are very proud of it because they say that it's resistant to all sorts of different kind of weather conditions here, wind, rain, the heat. clearly this pitch is going to see a lot of football stars on it once the world cup rolls around. >> reporter: news of a vertebral in the brazilian league and up in sports a frustrating night in barcelona and the details coming up, with joe, do stay with us. ♪

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♪ teractive television. here is joe. >> thank you very much and the shocks keep coming at the australian open after serena williams was knocked out and the 2008 champion struggled with her serve and she lost 3-6-6-4-6-1. this was in the grand match. >> i think it's a success in terms of that i'm back and that i'm healthy. that's quite important. otherwise i would not give myself a chance to play so on

that note, yeah, i have to look at the positives and see where i have come from in four or five months and have not played a lot of tennis in those six months so i certainly, you know, would have loved to play a little bit more before playing a grand slam. >> reporter: but defending champion victoria heading to the quarter finals and went past stevens in straight sets. in the men's four time champion federrer, two sets to love in the fourth round and radel is through the course of finals but corey of japan and did not play last year because of knee injury but showed no strains and going all the way and winning 7-6-7-5-7-6 and going for the 14th major title. wimbledon champion run in melvin and four sets to do it.

murray wasted two match points and two more in a tie breaker and frustration got to him and there is one point. but he battled through the quarter finals, three sets to one. and the shocks continued in the men's doubles as the most successful tumbled out in round three and won 15 grand slams and the champions came against, eric and the broncos will face the seahawks in next month's sierp bowl and the afc game against the new england patriots pitted two of the quarterbacks in the game against each other peyton manning and tom brady and we report. >> john fox has been preaching all week to finish the ball game and what the broncos did, peyton manning and the broncos punched

their ticket to superbowl 48. >> it's exciting and i remember both times that we won the afc championship, i'm an afc guy and biased toward the conference and i think it's a hard conference to win and you feel like you have done something to win the championship. >> reporter: the broncos will make the 7th appearance in the superbowl and peyton manning is the first ever to lead two teams to superbowl titles, al jazeera. >> reporter: seattle beat the 49ers and the seahawks won 23-17 and seconds left and an interception and denied the 49ers a game-time touchdown and we were there. >> you heard defense wins ball games and not how you start but how you finish and both of these things were true for the seattle seahawks on sunday night and three quarters looked like

kaepernick found a way to win but at the end it was wilson in the defense that had the sea hawks to take home the title in front of the record crowd. >> defense was making plays one after another and richard sherman tipping the ball and picking it off to seal the game and doesn't get better. >> reporter: it's the broncos versus seahawks for superbowl 48 and the first appearance in the showcase show down since 2005 and reporting from seattle jessica with al jazeera. >> reporter: the spurs beat the bucks and top of the western conference and the thunder who was the rivals for the western title also not shuffle a win and beat the kings and always it was star man who did the damage and netted 30 points and 9 assists and 6 rebounds and it was

108-93. barcelona and chance to go at top of the league and the first league game after two months out with injury. but it wasn't sufficient to inspire his team to victory of lavante and 1-1 draw and andy richardson reports. >> back in august lavante was 7 loses coming up, in barcelona and surrounding yourself with a few home comforts can make the difference and he is making the lead and that is the great lake international first goal in spanish football and barcelona was on terms less than ten minutes later thanks to gerald-pk but normal service was not to resume and this was a sign of mere things to come and messi was starting the game since injuring himself in november and his efforts ended

in frustration rather than goals. and it was a rare under achievement for the defending league champions. and barsa dropping points for the first time in matches and finished 1-1 and that result gave madrid to go two points clear at the top with victory and looked on course to do that when david veer put them ahead and rather heavy-handed second half giving them a chance to equalize and taken. and athletico took a late punch and final score was 1-1 and stayed level on point with barcelona. andy richardson, al jazeera. >> reporter: and 7th place in the table and now unbeaten in their last 8 league games. and just a point behind the top

two after their 5-0 win on saturday. well the problems keep mounting for most united and manager david and lost for the 7th time in the premier league this season and the latest loss came at chelsea. and the hat trick helping them for 3-1 win at stanford bridge and they pulled one goal bait, later on for champions and united also had their captain sent off and 7th and 14 points off the lead and chelsea a third, just two points behind leaders arsenal. >> of course i love when one of my players become a special player in the match, is a fantastic moment for someone else for a hat trick against united. i think we deserve to win.

but we won't throw the towel in until we can't get there, the job is to try and finish first and i'll keep trying to do that and there are no answers except the next game and we come and lost one game and we can do whatever it may be and not a bad run. >> reporter: and they beat 3-1 to move with liver pool in fourth and this is for the new spurs manager tim. and worrying scenes in brazil as they prepare to host the world cup and a brawl broke out between fans at a league match. the police tried to stop the fighting with pepper spray but that blew on the pitch and effecting the players and interrupting the game. pakistan is still fighting for an unlikely win in the third test with shralanka and a draw

in the series, pakistan are 106 to 3 on the final day and meeting another 196 runs to win the decider, that is off to shrlanka would dismiss 214 in their second inning and pakistan a 341 and promises to be a thrilling final session and we covered athletes crossing from sport to sport in a fast but a top musician is heading to the winter olympics and venessa made qualified to ski for thailand in sochi and they are yet to confirm her place, that story is on the revamped website and check out al jazeera.com/sport and let us know what you any -- think of our new look. >> reporter: thank you, joe, a

european space craft has begun one of the most technologically advanced mission and the probe was launched a decade ago to chase down and land on a comet and we explain. >> almost ten years this has been traveling through space and using the planets of the solar system to catapult to a speed of 100 kilometers an hour and it awakes from hyper nation it's hoping that systems are intact. >> it made three fly bys of the earth, one of mars and two as -- astroids and takes a toll on probes and hoping everybody will be working and functioning for the main mission which is to orbit and map and even to land on a comet for the first time in history. >> reporter: they will catch up to this in may after circling the rocket using an harpoon

system it will bolt itself to the comet and analyze the surface and they are wondering go to high risk or an area where it willer -- erupt and get warmer and have a tail and maybe it will damage it and interesting but risky or land in a safer place where you can hopefully hold on for the whole ride and scientists are interested in the rocks and created 4.5 billion years ago when the solar system formed and have the space craft taking the first close up images of the surface and says the findings could answer if comets brought water and even life to earth. and i'm with al jazeera. >> and that's it for this news hour on al jazeera and stay with us more world news coming up, shortly with jane and thanks for watching. ♪

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