♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, i'm in doha, the world's top stories, attacks in egypt, three explosions around cairo and at least five people are dead. true shuffled diplomacy and the u.n. moves between the syrian government and the opposition, he will not sit in the same room. antigovernment protests spread outside ukraine's capitol and opposition says talks with the government are going no where.

and india's supreme court orders an investigation into claims that a woman was ganged raped on the orders of village elders. ♪ a series of eccmroegss have hit in and around the egyptian capitol targeting police buildings and killing at least five people. the last one happened near a police station in the neighborhood in geza and the first was the most devastating, a car bomb blast outside the main police headquarters in the heart of cairo and four died and dozens injured and state television said they say gunmen opening fire on surrounding buildings. two more explosions happened in quick succession and a second device near a metro station in geza and one person died in the blast and five policemen injured and no one has claimed

responsibility. now, our cairo correspondent and producers have been detained for a month now and unable to report inside egypt but we have mike hanna who has reported extensively from cairo reporting events from our desk in egypt. >> the timing of the blasts would not appear to be coincidental and it's the third revolution that brought down mubarak and the egyptian authorities have been warning of security problems over this particular period. they have called for those who support the interim government and its military backers to take to the streets in support of the interim government. however, opponents have insisted they will make this period assigned to show deep opposition to the interim government and the military that brought it into power. the blast would appear to be coordinated, the one as we heard

taking place at the main police station in cairo, the others at two separate sports in geza over the river of the downtown area where the police headquarters are. once again very surprising given the immense security presence within cairo and indeed other egyptian cities during this exceedingly sensitive time. this is what the egyptian interior minister had to say. >> translator: it's a desperate way to spread terror among the people but we are all kin to go on and continue our role, the egyptian people will continue supporting the revolution and complete the path of the roadmap and use of explosions will not let the people refrain from supporting the revolution. >> claim of responsibility for the first blast, the major blast outside the cairo police headquarters, that came from a group calling itself the answer bite people, the followers of jerusalem. this is a shadow group operating

out of the sinai region and pinpointed by the interim government a period of months ago who accused it of being responsible for the security break down that had been happening in the sinai and led to a massive police and army operation to try and combat that particular group. a shadow group and nobody is sure of the leaders and what their exact motives are but a claim of responsibility for the first of these explosions that have been occurring in cairo and the eve of the third anniversary of the revolution that brought down mubarak. back to you. >> reporter: as we say al jazeera cannot report from inside cairo because jurn lists have been detained, on thursday night they had detention extended by an extra 15 days. our producers may mom mahmy and

baher and peter getty have been there 27 days and acquainted of spreading lies and a terrorist group and allegations that al jazeera says are totally unfunded. two other journalists from sisterer channels are also held and a reporter and a cameraman and they have been detained for over five moves now. now, day one of negotiations between the syrian government and the opposition is about to begin. u.n. media brahimi is over seeing it and convincing the two sides to talk face-to-face. the government delegation is led by the foreign minister and he is consistently described the conflict as a fight against terrorism. and jaba is ahead of the national coalition and the obsignificants says it's the assad regime who are terrorists and that the president must go. in a moment we will speak to a correspondent who is in our cell

in lebanon but first let's get the latest from our diplomatic james who is in geneva and james there has been hope that the to sides would be meeting face-to-face for direct negotiations, that does not seem to be happening any time soon. >> and like brahimi, the man chairing all this said there would be bumps in the road and always bumps in the road and one of the bumps perhaps just a small bump before this is started because by now in the big building behind me in geneva the u.n. headquarters there was supposed to be the opening session. now, they were not going to actually speak together in the same room but they were going to sit together in the same room for an opening speech and after they they are going into separate rooms, the syrian government in one one, opposition in the other and mr. brahimi would shuttle and try to get progress on the key issues. that is not taking place. we have learned that is not going to take place.

what is happening now is the syrian government is going to meet and then in the afternoon the opposition will meet with mr. brahimi. what has gone wrong? we have the view of the syrian government on what has gone wrong. moments ago i spoke to the syrian deputy foreign minister mcdod. >> we had a good reason with mr. brahimi and i don't like to reveal what happens in these meetings, we agreed today morning at 11:00 we shall meet here and he will chair the meeting, the syrian government on one side, the opposition on the other side and will address both of us. >> and you have no problem with that? >> absolutely not. what are we coming for. >> you think the opposition has a problem with that? >> any change and it must be the other side. >> reporter: so the war of words and the blame game has started even before the talks

have started. the syrian government there saying the opposition have clearly some problems and that's why the talks have not started. now, i think it's worth reminding you what brahimi, 8-year-old diplomate who has done peace talks in lebanon and said it would be a rocky road and when he spoke to reporters he might not bible to get them in the room on friday and may take a few more days and there is a problem and problems on the opposition side to the initial plan and we will try and get comments from the opposition in the coming hours. >> reporter: well, we knew it wasn't going to be a smooth ride and james thanks for that and he is in geneva there and let's cross over to our cell in lebanon and i know you have been talking to syrian refugees and there seems to be low expectations of what can come out of the talks. what is the mood where you are?

>> well, people are, we can say are the most vulnerable and most destitute of syrian refugees living in lebanon. this unofficial camp has been set up three months ago, most of the families who live here come from areas close and they fled three months ago. they are very close to the syrian border. they are completely disconnected. they do not have televisions and no electricity and don't know the conference in geneva is taking place. this is how difficult the conditions are. this is amir's tent and set it up herself and made of plastic sheets and plastic bags and what she can find. she has an elderly husband who cannot move and he stays inside the tent all day, all they have in here is a heater. they bring their money together to try to buy flour and make

bread for the whole camp and next to them is a small tent you see is her grandchildren. she has got six grandchildren. her son is arrested inside syria. they don't really know where he is so the family fled here, six children living without a heater or any clean water. they're desperate to find a heater so they can stay warm because it gets very, very cold at night. >> reporter: so the mood here is that even if they did know these talks were happening they wouldn't be very optimistic about them, there is a lot of pessimism here and say a lot of meetings and and international conferences have convened on syria in the last three years and they saw no results. but as i said this group of

refugees is really desperate and very destitute and very disconnected in a very remote area with no access to electricity, newspapers or televisions, so they don't really even know that this conference is happening, it's quite sad. >> and yet their future could be in the hands of the people meeting, thousands of miles away in geneva right now. and thank you very much indeed for that. and we are near the syrian border there. now talks between the ukrainian president and opposition leaders so far failed to produce a solution to end the ongoing protests. opposition leader says negotiations with president viktor yanukovich are a waste of time and say the government is ignoring demands. protests are spreading out the capitol and demonstrators gathered in four cities and seized local offices in several cities in the west. the governor was seen writing a

letter of resignation after his offices were stormed and hundreds of supporters and the government later insisted he had been forced to write the letter. and we are joined live from kiev and initially the opposition leader was calling for a truce after talks with president yanukovych and seems not to have happened so what has gone wrong? >> well, i don't think that there has been a change in the truce of such because over the last few hours just down the road at the flash point since last sunday the front line in the confrontation between the protesters and riot police, we have not seen any violence. we have seen some burning of tires which has resumed since that stopped on thursday during the talks. but it is peaceful down there. behind me it's a peaceful scene but just down the road at the

agriculture ministry now several dozen people occupied the building and allowed them to go in and get personal effects but then are occupying a central kiev billing and that is highly symbolic and rather this side and opposite the stage there is a huge new barricade into this area, that has gone up overnight and took a few hundred people just a couple of hours and it really is an impressive barricade made up of bags of sand and they are still reenforcing that. so there is still concern about some kind of security force attempts to take this area of kiev. as far as how long it will last, it's hard to see. at midnight local time where opposition leaders came back here and told demonstrators what had been proposed, which was simply to release the detainee since last sunday but not to stop any prosecutions, to reject the opposition activists here made it clear they were not

happy so it's a kind of uneasy stalemate at the moment >> we know the protest started after yank decided not to seen a deal with eu and would go with more aid from russia, what is it that the opposition are now demanding, what concessions do they actually want? >> firstly they want those laws rescinded. the laws that were rushed through parliament last week impose prison sentences for some kind of protests and make it illegal even to attend a protest wearing a helmet or a mask and make it illegal to people to drive in convows of more than five cars in some situation and people say this is a very harsh move against the democratic right and what earned condemnation from foreign governments, in the last few hours we hear the french government is summoning the

ambassador to paris for talks. there is harsh words from merkel in the last 24 hours and breathe that catherine ashton the foreign policy chief will be here sometime on saturday, hoping to talk with president yanukovych but they condemned the opposition's lack of criticism of what they call extremist and condemn the occupations you are talking about, not just the west but some in the east where people are generally more inclined to support the opposition and less culturally linked to russia. but most of the occupations have remained peaceful but obviously a big sign that people are unhappy with the government. >> reporter: increasing pressure on the government as well. and thank you very much indeed for that and we are in kiev there. coming up, here on the program, good fellas nabbed police in the u.s. say they identified those

behind one of the biggest robberies in the country's history. plus it might be tough to swallow but it's helping to eradicate one of the world's most deadliest diseases. the sport and the men's semi final the open and barcelona president steps down following a transfer of a brazilian star and details later in sport. ♪ india's supreme court ordered a judge in the state of west bengle to investigate the gang rape of a 20-year-old woman there. it is alleged it was ordered by an unelected village council who rejected the relationship of a muslim men and 13 were arrested including the village head and no legal summoning and say she was raped because her family

could not afford to pay a fine imposed by the village elders and doctors treating her say she is stable. >> and she is normal and taking food. >> reporter: now, thailand's constitutional court has ruled that the upcoming election in february can be postponed. the electrical commission asked for a delay and says the situation in thailand is simply too volume tile. the government's position has been the king has signed the decree to hold the boat and it cannot be changed. so veronica is in the thai and what happens next? >> just in the last half hour we heard from the constitutional court they voted unanimously, that the date of the election can be moved. however, they also ruled on a

second issue and that is who should change that date and what they have done is they said that the power rests with the prime minister's office in conjunction with the electrical commission who had disagreed over this issue in the first place. so it's going to be interest to see whether they are able to work together to find a date that works for both of them, this doesn't mean necessarily at this point that the election date will even be changed. as a matter of fact, advanced voting is due to take place on sunday. that's for people who are voting outside of their actual home, provinces or districts and voting away from there. so that is going to go ahead. the next steps of the electrical commission is that they will meet with the prime minister and

parties on monday to see if they can find a way to agree on an election date. at this point there are 28 candidates missing. in other words, there are no candidates for 28 provinces because of mass demonstrations that have been going on. it's a massive logical issue. >> reporter: if the date is changed doesn't mean the protests will stop because the election date was only one of the issues, the main one is they want the government to step down. >> because of corruption and because of nepitism, surely, exactly. it's likely to make not much difference to be honest with you to the people who are just down the stairs from our office here in central bangkok blocking 7 major arteries, major government places including government offices across the city. in the last few days you will remember the government declared a state of emergency in certain

areas of the country. and we also heard today from one of the top police officials who said we reiterated that these areas need to be free for the public to move around and it's not clear whether that means though that they will enforce this any further. the government doesn't want to get into a confrontation because of what happened in 2010 when people were killed because of the confrontation. >> veronica thanks for that and she is updating us from bangkok there. the united nations says at least 48 muslims were killed by a group of buddhists in a village in the state in minmar and calling for a full investigation and the government denies the report of a massacre. north korea extended a branch to south korea saying it wants reconciliation and unity and

they called to cancel upcoming military drills for the united states and they said what is important for paving a wide avenue for mending north, south relayings is to make a bold decision to stop all military acts and the biggest is distrust and confrontation. south korea dismissed the letter with a hidden motives and said it's the result of the north korea provocations and he made threats against the south and u.s. following the joint drills. the central african republic's new program helped to intervene and end the violence and face enormous challenges with security and violence and looting continue to be in the capitol and we reports. >> smiles in bongi and there

have not been many recently but everyone is looking for a sign that the country might have turned the corner. it's all about this woman, catherine panza and she has the blessing of the french and several governments and she is ready to take a firm grip on power and need to be strong to convince muslim and christian malitia to give up their guns. >> translator: to the fighters of the antibalica i insist they should show patriotism and put down their arms. we will no longer column rate the continuing disorder in our country. >> reporter: but the disorder shows no sign of ending. not far from where the president spoke an orgy of looting, christians, stealing whatever they could from the houses of muslims who had fled. these are the people who drove

the muslims away. the antibalicas have special powers they say to protect them from bullets. the people here are not just looting. they are tearing buildings apart. it's as if they are trying to remove all trace of the muslim community that lived here and ensure that the muslims never come back. they dismantle shacks, they rip the metal roofing from a mosque. french soldiers watched all this happen. and it was left to rowanda peace keepers to try and scare away the looters. >> every muslim we have spoken to in the last few days wants to leave for chad and say we cannot live under this kind of violence, we have to choose between our country and our lives. and they are waiting among, with thousands of people are waiting to take trucks to go to chad and

leave after having lived in this country for many, many generations. ♪ so catherine samba-panza needs lots of help from abroad and courage. ♪ she carries the hopes of a country whose fortuning could scarcely sink lower and i'm in bongi. >> reporter: and this is the second most common parasite disease in the world after may -- malaria and effected in egypt and synagal and scientists have had a breakthrough in fighting the disease. >> reporter: these are dangerous waters infected with the deadly parasite and it's carried by small snails

invisible to the eye and penetrates the skin slowly destroying the organs and he comes here everyday to fish. >> translator: i know it's dangerous but we need the fish and the does doesn't really bother me yet. >> reporter: he is 13 years old and looks 8 and the devastating effect of the disease is visible in his growth and children are at risk and suffering chronic enemia and the disease is growing but he is not and there are no doctors to help him, just one worker and covering the entire district and this is a bitter tasting drug that kills the disease. >> translator: no one likes to take this medicine and it doesn't taste good and makes you nauticus and sick and people take it reluctantly and it's short term solution because villages continue to go to the river and get infected again and

again. >> reporter: this was built in 1986 to protect them from the water changed the river's eco system and as a result the snails only predator was wiped out and allowing it to multiply and effect hundreds of thousands of villagers and they are looking at enclosures and the results are astonishing. there are 20 prawns in the enclosure but can protect thousands of people and they want to expand the model but the prawns are endangered species. >> and it's blocking them to reproduce but are breeding them in a controlled environment but it's a challenge. they are difficult to breed and they are canabals and each other and we brought them from camron to boost the numbers. they have managed to secure $200,000 in funding and this is

what the u.n. calls a neglected tropical disease and receives little attention and yet 250 million worldwide are injected and mostly the poor communities like here where this is a slow and silent killer. nicholas hawk, al jazeera. >> reporter: it's time for the weather with richard and the million dollar question for you richard my daughter and husband both are skiing tomorrow ap what are snow conditions like in europe? >> off to switzerland and certainly some portions of the northern alps have had quite poor condition in resent weeks and exceptional here and berlin and normally you would expect to see a maximum 2 degrees and through the first half of january the temperature has been up to nearly 8 degrees and that effect is felt into the all bind region as well. these shots come from where they would normally expect to be

hosting some of the world cup skiing events and certainly not enough snow for that to happen and you see how bear it is across the region. same for the hearts mansion and also down in the black forest. well the situation i think will get a little bit better in the coming days. you see the areas of low pressure and there is snow around at the moment and certainly for parts of switzerland surely and indeed across the northern portion there will be some snow around and that tends to move further away towards the east during the course of saturday. so more eastern parts we see significant snowfall and dry conditions but really cold air across central parts here and maximum temperature of minus 6 for berlin and looks as though running to the end of the weekend we will see more snow pushing across the alps and skiing conditions will improve. >> reporter: thanks richard and still to come on the news hour, falling fast why argentina's

currency is in the worst state in more than a decade. plus, six seconds of fame, how the success of twitter is being replicated on video. and we will have the sport, miami heat proved too hot for the la lakers and that story coming up, later in the program. ♪

♪ hello and welcome back, a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, three explosions

around the egyptian capitol and the first hit outside of police headquarters in central cairo and the last near another police station in geza and getting reports of at least five people dead in those blasts. representatives from the syrian government and the opposition won't be meeting for direct talks in geneva on friday. u.n. negotiator are trying to confingers the two sides to meet face to phrase and tie e -- tyland asked for a delay and says the situation in the country is simply too volatile. and we have a senior lecture in the study of islam and the muslim world at the college, three explosions in and around

cairo, these are just the latest in several attacks we have been seeing, targeting the police and the military since the coup which unseated president mohamed morsi. >> it's too early to have concrete blame at the moment because i don't think there has been any claims of responsibility yet. what we can say from this is of course that three attacks in such a short time period and looking at the targets, this is clearly a coordinated attack. and what we can safely assume is if you look timing of these attacks right on the eve of the third anniversary of the 25th of january revolution in 2011 and on the back of last week's referendum with an outcome of overwhelmingly support for the constitution, for those who turned up, i think we can very safely assume that this comes

from circles that are very unhappy we egypt's current political course. >> indeed, how is the interim government likely to respond? because what they were saying is that egypt would become more stable as the government continued with its roadmap and it made a lot of efforts to crush the muslim brotherhood but security still a huge issue. >> yes. indeed. and it can be also anticipated that the interim government will have no hesitation to use these events to vindicate its policy towards the muslim brotherhood and use this particular occasion to probably come even down harder on them, even hardless of the fact whether there is a direct connection with the empty interim government voices and these particular attacks. what it does show of course is that in contrast to the unity that the egyptians showed three

years ago almost to the day, there is a tremendous pollinazation know in egypt which has sort of been building over the last three years but in particular since the ousting of president morsi in the summer and shows that egyptians are far from united in terms of where the country is supposed to be going. >> reporter: yeah, the timing as you said very interesting and when we looked at the scenes of unity in tahir square three years ago people must be wondering what on earth happened to their revolution. >> yes, of course, we have to be very careful in commenting on these kinds of things. it was very clear in 2011 that the egyptians were very much united in terms of what they no longer wanted and that was the mubarak regime and where it's different is where to take the country next. i think domestically in egypt

and probably also among observers on the outside, the expectations of real change were far too optimistic. these kinds of develops after decades of repressive regimes and having no experience whatsoever with the democratic process, they take time and it is almost unfair to call these regime changes and their aftermath a failure after only a few years. you are bound to have a very rocky transition period and unfortunately it seems that the egyptians and those involved in politics are getting in patient. >> reporter: thank you very much indeed for that, interesting to get your thoughts there and speaking to us from london. now, u.n. and brahimi is mediating talks between the syrian opposition and the government this friday and the national coalition agreed to

participate after international pressure and the decision that divided them even further and we report on how the movement has evolved since the start of the conflict. opposition to syrian president bashir started in 2011 and people paid with their lives with demand and change for reform. four months later it was though longer a nonviolent struggle, the people fought back. then came the first attempt not just to form a political leadership but a political body to represent the grass roots movement, the syrian national council was born in august of 2011 but it did not take long for internal risks to emerge and wasn't just that the council failed to connect with protesters on the streets. the west grew impatient and asked for leadership that could speak to every segment and every geographic part of syria. >> we have made it clear that the snc can no longer be viewed

as the visible leader of the opposition. they can be part of a larger opposition, but that opposition must include people from inside syria and others who have a legitimate voice that needs to be heard. >> reporter: so in november 2012 the syrian national coalition was founded in delhi and considered to be a more representative body and groups inside syria as well as the free syrian army were included and got international support, during the friends of syria meeting in morocco it was recognized as a legitimate opposition and despite this they faced the same problems as the council, according to the first elected leader it was influenced by international and regional powers and stepped down in protest a few months after taking office and the politicians in exile failed to get support in syria and didn't leave. to a certain extent the division

among the syrian opposition gave the regime a lifeline and failure of the political leadership to unite the groups on the ground and bring it under its wing created a vacuum and led to a new war. [gunfire] a war against the group islamic state in iraq within the rebel-controlled north of syria and allowed al-qaeda-linked groups to go in strength. that in turn effected the rebels and intensified effects for the political settlement and after reluctance and international pressure that the snc decided to attend the so called geneva two conference and boycotting the tasks would under mine what legitimacy is left in syria especially if nothing is achieved. they don't have much to fallback on, on the ground the regime has the upper hand and it has

repeatedly said it's not handing over power, this could be the sn krchl's last chance to assert itself policeicily because until now it's the groups with the guns who have the influence on the ground. and i'm with al jazeera beirut. let's go live to london and speak to the professor of politics and international relations at the london school of economics and we have just heard from the syrian information minister who is saying that damascus will not accept opposition demands to form a transitional governing body but wasn't that it of the geneva two talks? >> i think the agenda of the geneva talks is the most challenging. while opposition represented by the snc would like to put the future of the assad regime and future and political authority with full executive powers, at the top of the agenda, as you know, the syrian government basically does not accept the

syrian delegation does not accept to discuss in the future of president assad even the setting of a transitional authority of executive powers. this is the reality and huge divide between the opposition that would like to focus on transitional authority with full executive powers and a government that wants to discuss terrorism and how to fight terrorism. nothing surprising about the announcements of the information minister of syria today. this has been a consistent position on the part of the same government. >> reporter: okay but you also have got the situation where it's not even certain that the two sides are ever going to sit down and negotiate directly face-to-face. so what is the best that can come out of these talks? >> well, surely as you know there is a consensus among almost everyone that i don't think the odds are against a breakthrough. as you said, the very minute

details in one or two rooms at the table, they are not going to shake hands, this tells you about the chevages and hatred and the rage that exists between the delegation of the syrian government and the opposition. i think everyone know is becoming less ambitious and remember for your own viewers geneva two is a process, is a mechanism, no one expects that basically a peace process or a peace settlement to emerge out of it and a prolonged process, everyone is focusing now on being less ambitious and reality is everyone would like to shove the attention to humanitarian questions, to local cease fires, to basically providing food, creating humanitarian passages and the various besiege rooms so if the focus and two sides succeed in basically arranging

to improve the humanitarian crisis in some towns and cities in syria, this would basically provide more ammunition for the geneva process to continue because what we need is confidence building measures on those sides in order for peace talks to continue in the next few weeks and months. >> thank you very much indeed for that and we are joined from london. now, argentina's currency is suffering the fastest fall since the 2002 economic collapse. the peso slid by 16% against the dollar in the past two days and is feared this could worsen already high inflation, and daniel reports from buenes aires. >> reporter: it was on the hottest summer day for many years and temperatures of more than 40 degrees celsius and peso on the exchange losing 87 cents or 3% against the dollar, the biggest drop in 12 years and

trade on the black market also spreading against the battered peso. >> translator: this was not a situation integrated by the government. what we saw was the result of speculation by those who love dealing in exchange markets. >> reporter: and these are difficult financial times in argentina, the government introducing measures aimed at limiting the massive movements of our currency out of the country and earlier this week it was announced restrictions on intersunset purchases and controlling trading on the black market. >> translator: we will defeat whatever illegal activity with one tool, the law. and the law will not just be accompanied by executive actions but also with judicial power. those who under take illegal transactions will face the full force of the laws that govern this activity. >> reporter: the reappliance in public of the president on

wednesday for the first time in more than 40 days appears to have done little to quell the economic uncertainty. critics said she did not address any of the major issues including rising inflation and dwindling bank reserves. >> translator: it's a bias market with exporters and inporters and they are concerned about loss of reserves and if i continued like this i would lose hundreds of millions in a day and billions in a week. >> reporter: the country had seen continuous growth since emerging from an economic and social crisis at the end of 2001. but many of the wounds from that period have still not healed and they have been living with economic uncertainty especially in the financial district for sometime but nothing quite like this but the question is if it can be controlled or is it the beginning of something far more serious, al jazeera buenes ares.

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ho ♪ welcome back, now, it was one of the most worst robberies and the f.b.i. arrested five suspects in connection with that and we report. >> reporter: they are not saying much more than they believe it to be the largest robbery in american history.

>> reporter: 1978 at john f. kennedy airport and a half dozen masked gunmen made off with $5 million in cash and $1 million in jewels and bound or what was west germany. a daring crime known as the heist, at that time it was the largest robbery in u.s. history. >> nobody knows for sure how much was taken at the raid at kennedy airport and they say $2 million but some say $4 million. >> reporter: years later it was memorialized in the film good fellas and robert diniro played a character and believed master minded the plot but could never prove it. >> when we needed money we would rob the airport and it was better than citi bank. >> reporter: and a search of his home showed a body said to have taken place in the robbery

and it gave them the break they needed to tie the heist to this man. 78-year-old vincent who was arrested and charged with a crime and four associates arrested on other charges and all of them allegedly members of the crime family. prosecutors say neither age near time have dimmed the asaro's ruthless ways and there is murder to extortion charged to him and some of the crimes allegedly happening in resent months. >> we get graded on closing cases and the only way we close cases is through arrests so if you have the biggest heist in u.s. history still unsolved that is a checkmark against you. >> reporter: it may have taken 35 years but the f.b.i. believes they have the right man behind bars and a fraction of the money and jewels stole end was ever

recovered. al jazeera, new york. >> crime doesn't pay eventually, after years and years. and we have the sport. >> thank you, one of the greatest rivalries in modern tennis is taking place right now and number one radel is facing 17 times grand slam champion federer in the final and the winner of the match will play the final and federer is aiming for the 18th grand slam title and nadal after the 14th and he has not beat him since the wimbledon in 2007 and leading by two sets to love. spanish mid fielder is expected to complete a medical later on friday ahead of the news from chelsea, the 25-year-old is said to sign a 4 1/2 years contract at old trafford and the blues are on the verge of signing mid fielder from swiss side and london side agreed to pay $18 million to bring the 21-year-old

in and he scored in each of his last three appearances against chelsea. and barcelona president quit his job after being the focus of a criminal investigation and courts are looking into his involvement in the signing of the striker and accused of hiding the full value of the transfer in order to make a personal profit on the deal that was completed last year. in a press conference the 49-year-old said he had nothing to hide. and vice president will take over. >> translator: for a long time my family and i suffered in silence and threats and attacks that have made me ask myself whether being the president implies to put my family in risk and cause them anxiety. in the last days there has also been an unfair and reckless report on miss appropriation of funds that ended with a lawsuit against me in the national courts. i said from the very beginning that the signing is correct and

that it provoked the desperation and envy of our rivals. >> reporter: and they are level on points with barcelona and the spanish division and now they are focusing on defense of the title. first leg of quarter final against bill saw them winning 1-0 and with the only goal for athletico and return leg will be played next week and she confirmed she will miss next month's games in sochi after breaking her ankle and she is china's most decorated and she was injured last week and she won the relay titles four years ago as well as a 500 gold medal back in 2006. meanwhile three-time olympic ski jump thomas is confident he will be fit for the games and suffered a nasty fall in

training two weeks ago and spent a week in hospital with cuts and bruises and a broken finger but he is hopeful of being selected. >> translator: monday will be the deadline for this situation and i hope that i will be on the list of the ski association so that i can take part. for me personally i will work in this direction, there are two weeks left until february 9 and it will be stepping back on the ski jump before the olympic games and i'm feeling very positive to start there. >> reporter: the meet beat the lakers to trail and the indiana pacers by three games and chris bosch had 31 points. and lebron was second with 27. bosch and james scored the heat's final 8 points to edge them 109-102. la have lost 14 of their last 17 games. in the nhl the penguins and came

back with 2-all and pittsburgh scored four unanswered goals and 6-4 to penguins final score. stewart sink has a one shot lead after the first round of the farmers insurance open at the torre pines and a slight fog delay on the course but once it got going he birdied and ended the day on 64, 8 shots back and 7 time champion tiger woods who is looking for his 9th win here and made a 20 foot birdie on the 14th but managed to finish even par on 72. >> and par right now is probably put me maybe probably about 1 or 2 shots under par on the south course. but below the average. and i think probably over the

north course it's 3 under par or somewhere around there so i think it's going to be playing right around three shots easier so i will go out there and give it tomorrow and not be so far behind comsat or sunday. >> the sprinter has won stage four of the australia tour down under to increase the tally to 15 stage wins at the race and won the 148.5 kilometer stage and ending out the teammate and former tour de france had the lead and it was cut down for a mechanical problem during the race and that is all your sport for now and back to you. >> micro blogging see twitter launched video service a year ago and called vine and let's 40 million people capture and share videos on mobile phones but is it anything more than a gimmick? and we take a slightly more than

a six second look. >> from animal antics to practical jokes. >> that was a close one. >> reporter: video site vine is just a-year-old already making its mark on the world of social media. six seconds is the perfect amount and no one will stop the vine in less than six seconds and not watch it all the way through. >> reporter: vine let's you capture and share shorp looping videos and the brevity inspires creativity from independent film makers to big name brands and stop motions let you record chunks one at a time making it easy to share videos and it's owned by twitter and it's this platform with 645 million users where the videos are most often shared. ♪ but it has competition, facebook

owned instagram let's users share 15 second long videos and more than 150 million of users have signed up. >> some longer videos, around the ten second mark you see the first significant drop off in viewership. >> can we stop there? >> there is no way you are going to go get a job. >> reporter: videos can be streamed one after nothing as entertainment and fans say it represents an unfilter and sampling of the culture. >> things i want to say and 15 seconds i have too much time and i have things to say and the challenge is crazy. >> i like vines because there are no filters and if you ugly you ugly. ♪ the jury is out on whether it's a service you will be using in the years to come. >> it's hard to tell whether or not it's an integral part of life and 40 million users in the first year shows it's getting some traction.

>> reporter: more than a billion smartphones expected to be sold this year. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: and with more than 2 1/2 million people online we are using the internet to share life's moments. >> we ain't talking money. >> reporter: which service people choose to use will come down to personal choice and it seems our attention span. >> tickle, tickle. >> no, no, no. >> reporter: and i'm with al jazeera. >> now, nasa rover marked the 10th anniversary on mars with a mysterious discovery and the opportunity rover found a small rock shaped like a jelly doughnut on the right there. strangely it appeared in an area where there was nothing just a few days earlier and scientists say they have never seen anything like it on the red planet. very strange. and that is it for the news hour team for now and more news coming up, but for me judy,

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