>> syria third large he is city is an urban battle field for the past six years. many civilians are cut off with little aid, and they would agree to that on the conditions assistance needs to reach areas where they're also under siege.

the opposition tried to secure the release of prisoners. it presented the names of tens thousands of detainees. >> we give priority to women and children and the most vulnerable detainees. for example, the people who have illness or they need medical care. we give priority for that. given in return, as i mentioned earlier, the free syrian army has only fighters, they don't have civilians or -- >> reporter: there has been little tangible progress on the humanitarian front, and the toughest issue of political transition has still not been discussed. the talks over the past two days focused on what u.n. envoy brahimi called confidence-building measures. they were supposed to create a positive atmosphere before hard bargaining begins on monday. it's about full executive powers

by mutual content. it seems little common ground between the on posing sides, and the government doesn't believe it's negotiating with a partner with which it reach a political deal. now that the allegation is sitting with the coalition, do you consider them legitimate representatives of the opposition? >> i don't think anybody in the world considers them legitimate representatives of the position because they don't represent all the positions. we have national opposition, many believe from the syrian army. we believe other people will be invited and other sectors of the opposition will be invited later, and we are trying to press in that direction. >> reporter: for now a solution is not expected to come out of the first ever indirect talks. things may look unclear, but underneath there seems to be a strategy, an international consensus to continue with what will be a long process. al jazeera, geneva.

>> we're going to try for more on that story in a moment. first, we want to go to egypt. just in a second the presidential election will be brought forward. we'll bring that to you in a moment. as i promised we go back to geneva and talk to our diplomatic editor james, b bays. can you hear me? that's always a good start. th thank you, james. syria says it will allow women and children to leave the besieged city of homs. did it mention before males would as well? >> reporter: well, this is an announcement that's come from the media of brahimi and confirmed by the syrian deputy foreign minister. as we understand it from mr mr. brahimi, women are children can leave homs.

they can go from homs, and they will have safe passage out of homs or the city of homs. we're told that the men, the opposition are supposed to get together a list of the men so the syrian government can approve that list before they're allowed to leave. i will raise this question. those women and children have been in homs, which in many ways at the beginning of all this was a place that was a cradle of the revolution, and then around homs the syrian government very, very heavy crackdown and also shelling took place in homs, and the center of homs has been besieged ever since. i'm wondering whether the women and children in homs will take up this offer or whether they'll be too scared to go despite the desperate humanitarian conditions. they'll be concerned if they go towards the government side, there will be a reprisal against them. also, they might well be concerned to leave men folk behind there could be reprisals against them, too. it's not clear at this stage

whether the women and children will take up the offer from the government. in addition to this offer, we understand there are efforts to try and get a convoy into homs, into the old part of homs. that convoy of 12 trucks, we believe, is waiting somewhere outside homs. we understand from mr. brahimi that the governor is having final chats about the security situation with his advisers. he hasn't got the final go-ahead from damascus but that convoy with food items, medical items and other aid supplies is ready, we're told, to go. mr. brahimi is hopeful that convoy can reach homs on monday. >> that could be good news on monday. listening to mr. brahimi as you and i both did, he said it's extremely difficult. it's complicated. it's going from bad to worse. to bring syria out of the depth where it's fallen will take a long time. he's clearly going along the road of the tortoise and the hare and following the tortoise, isn't he? slowly, slowly for this

negotiation. there's no rush? >> reporter: yes, and he said actually if you were to run, you might gain an hour, but actually end up losing a week. that was another quote that he gave here. he gave us a bit of an insight into how he's going to run these negotiations. remember, this is probably one of the most experienced negotiators you've come across anywhere in the world. he's 80 yeer 0 years old and fo foreign minister of algeria and former u.n. troubleshooter and peace maker around the world in negotiations and he was involved in the bomb negotiations concerning afghanistan after the fall of the taliban. he knows the challenges ahead, and yes, we're dealing with very difficult life or death humanitarian issues. they've been talking about prisoners, possible prisoner exchanges. no deal yet on that, but he knows that these life-and-death issues actually in some ways given what they talk about here

are the easy part. the difficult part is the future of syria, the future governance of syria and that really difficult question about the future of president assad and those around him, which is the big divide between the opposition and the government here. we heard from the syrian deputy foreign minister in the last hour that said president assad is the president of syria, and he stays the president of syria until the people of syria decide on someone else in an election. worth reminding people, of course, there's not been a free and fair election in syria under the assad government and that of his father for the last 44 years. >> thank you, james. violence across iraq has left at least 23 people dead. a series of car bombs in the northern city of kirkuk. fallujah is under a total siege. the death toll is 95 there in

the past month, and there's several attacks in the capital of baghdad. inside the city gunmen killed two elementary school guards. a bomb under a car killed a driver of a contractor, and in the rashdijah neighborhood an officer and his wife was shot dead in their home. in tunisia they're getting ready to have elections. it's been vetted by the constituent assembly after tense negotiations between the ruling party and opposition. there's sek lags that army chief generally will announce his candidacy within days. dominick cain reports. >> reporter: a low-key introduction for a highly change of play. this was how state television introduced the president's announcement. >> translator: i have decided to amend the road map to start by

the early presidential elections first to be followed by the parliamentary elections, and today i will request the high commission for presidential elections to exercise their powers and authorities as given to them under the election act. >> reporter: this announcement came one day after the third anniversary of the start of revolution that toppled hosni mubarak. while crowds celebrated officially in stadiums and tahrir square on saturday, elsewhere sdmon straig demonstr have fought police and dozens were killed. that divided egyptian opinion which reflected on the streets cairo on sunday. >> translator: of course, this is a wrong decision. first there should be parliamentary elections, because they provide oversight of the president. he's supposed to swear the oath

of office in front of them. >> translator: the decision is correct so that the country stabilizes, and because of the people who are killing themselves. we want civility and not explosions every day. >> reporter: the man that many people called on to stand for the presidency is the defense minister, general abdel-fattah el-sissi. it was he who greeted mohamed morsi at his country's first democratically elected president in the summer of 2012. it was he again who deposed morsi the following summer. general el-sissi has not publicly confirmed whether elstand for president, but some analysts believe the change of the road map has made it that bit easier. >> at this point there's much to suggest that general abdel-fattah el-sissi will run. you see him often in civilian clothing. his charisma, his general support among the public is through the roof.

>> reporter: if abdel-fattah el-sissi is elected, he will be the third egyptian military leader to become president. dominick cain, al jazeera. al jazeera can't report from cairo because our journalists there have been detained. the producers and correspondent are in custody and have been for 29 days. they're accused of spreading lies harmful to state security and joining a terrorist group, allegations al jazeera says are totally unfounded. two other journalists from our sister channels are held. a reporter and a cameraman. they've been detained for over five months. still to come here on the al jazeera news hour, mass migration. hundreds of millions of chinese travel home from the big cities for the forthcoming lunar new year of the horse. plus, it's one of africa's poorest countries with an

outbreak of measles. in sports with the winter olympics 12 days away, we meet two hopefuls struggling to raise funds just to compete in sochi. to european news now. huge crowds have filled the streets of ukraine's capital, kiev, warning the death of an aents-government protester. the student was one of the three demonstrators to die during clashes last week. earlier opposition leaders rejected options to fill powerful positions in the government. they insist that they wouldn't stop campaigning into victktor yanukovych resigned. >> reporter: they cleared away the ice during saturday night's attack on the convention center. the aim?

to take the 200 police inside hostage to bargain the freedom of detained protesters, but the police kept them out despite repeated attempts to set the place on fire. events escalated into a much more violent confrontation. klitschko stepped in to organize safe pass onlyiage for the poli officers to leave. he was advocating peaceful resistance. it was after klitschko told the thousands in independence square that president yanukovych was still in power. >> our position is to rescind these laws. our demands are to hold presidential elections early this year. we're not stepping back. we're holding oppositions in the region. >> reporter: the leaders have been offered top government jobs, but yanukovych was to stay on as president. in independence square that's a

deal-breaker. >> translator: first and foremost, he has to resign. again, i will repeat this. resign, resign, resign. that's as much as i can say about it. >> reporter: we're not asking for anything unreasonable. we simply want a normal life. we think he's borrowing for his money and safety. >> reporter: they say it shows the president is rattled because of growing unrest outside of the capital. >> translator: when it was just kiev, he was feeling a lot mother secure. he didn't take it seriously and believed they could be disbur d disbursed. this regional support plays a huge role as it is destabilizing him. >> reporter: they have agreed to resume negotiations. the protesters' resolve is as strong ever as they believe the president needs to leave first.

>> let's bring in nick live from kiev. a huge turnout earlier on sunday for the funeral of the anti-government protester. tell us about him. >> reporter: well, he would have turned 26 today on sunday. instead, he was laid -- well, it was his funeral at st. nicholas cathedral. he'll be laid to rest later in his home country of bella bella russ. he was taking part in clashes earlier this week when he was found by the bullet near the region of his heart. there were thousands of people at the cathedral. there was not enough room inside, and the people we spoke with there, particularly the older people, said it was a shame that the young people of ukraine had to give up their lives for their freedom of their fellow citizens. others felt that the situation was one where the government's actions were only go to steel the resolve of the demonstrators

and not in any way intimidate them. >> nick, opposition leaders are still insisting that they won't join the government? >> reporter: yeah, that's just not going to happen. it's a poisoned challis, a trap in the estimation of the demonstrators themselves. it's a way for president yanukovych to stay in office by co-oping the opposition leaders. the opposition leaders are well aware that the street just won't follow them. the people demonstrating won't accept the deal. if you talk to the people here in kiev or elsewhere in the country, they want yanukovych gone. nine weeks ago they wanted him to reconsider a deal about joining europe, which he had said he had planned to sign and then suddenly abandoned in order to get closer to russia and get a $15 billion loan from moscow. now things have evolved particularly as a result of the clashes and the death of several

demonstrators. the cause of the death, people response for the death still hasn't been attributed, but the protesters certainly thing it's a consequence of police bullets. all of that made people focus less on europe and more on president yanukovych and to insist on his departure. >> nick there live from kiev with the latest. nick, thank you. i'll have more news from the ukraine and elsewhere in europe later this news hour. for now it's back to stephen in doha. >> thank you. french peacekeepers are struggling to control the level of violence in the central african republic. barnaby phillips reports from bangui. >> reporter: in the muslim neighborhood on the outskirts of bangui, people are hostile to the french peacekeepers. we don't want you here, he says. don't come any closer. many people here are armed, but they are also frightened.

they told me that the french have killed some of their people while making no effort to disarm the christian anti-balaka militia that hide in the hills nearby. they say they've had enough the french just standing by. all of these muslims camped out on the edge of bangui say they want to escape the capital and head north. as soon as they can arrange transport and they feel it's safe to head out on the roads. some of them say that the central african republic should be divided, and that muslims should take over the north. it seems that these peacekeepers are struggling to hold this country together. just a stone's throw away, a christian neighborhood. i walk there to ask them what they think of the french. we like them, they say. they're doing a good job. the french patrol bangui tirelessly, but they move through what is now a city of stark contrasts.

many christian areas are busy, and the french well received. muslim areas tend to be quieter. the people don't seem so happy. the french say they don't take sides. >> translator: we disarm the anti-balaka just as we disarm the ex-seleka. we're impartial to the two groups, and there's also self-defense groups that try to protect themselves. we treat them the same way. >> reporter: in the stcentral mosque the mood is tense and the imams say the french are complicit in the attacks. >> translator: how can they take a knife or personal weapon and leave them at the mercy of a hostile crowd? that crowd will steal all his belongings and kill him. >> reporter: we have seen the french take weapons by force from both sides. here they disarm a christian

youth. the french try to win hearts and minds, and in this christian area they succeed. but if they're not careful, the perception that they are more comfortable with one side than the other could become reality. they can't let things drift in these dangerous waters. barnaby phillipphillips, al jaz bangui. >> christians and muslims are under throat -- threat in two towns. tell us what you're seeing on the streets? >> well, today as we were driving up to the town about 400 kilometers northwest of bangui, we found a very large group, over 100, 150 anti-balaka militia, mostly youth, who told us that they were grouping threr

and planning too and attack the muslims the city, which was 5 kilometers away. when we got there, we found sheltering in the -- in one of the churches the muslims and christians. absolutely terrified, because just a few days ago on wednesday there was a major clash between armed elements on both sides and antibalaka and remnants of the seleka muslims, which resulted in the killings of several civilians. we are hearing reports between 50 to 100 killed, but the situation is so tense that local volunteers haven't been able to go and get all the bodies. >> can i ask you about

peacekeepers? peacekeepers were sent there, obviously, to -- with a clear mandate to protect civilian lives. do you see any evidence of peace keeping on the streets of those towns? >> reporter: no. i mean, this is the unfortunate thing. we met a large convoy of peacekeepers from the african union mission. we were coming down going to bangui, and they were on the main roads. they are not present in these towns where even a small contingent of the international peacekeepers would make a big difference. we have seen it in other towns where they are present, and their mere presence is keeping a lid on the intercommunal violence. it's so clear that the civilians in these two towns are at grave risk. they're absolutely -- they come because there are no vehicles that they can get, and the roads

are not safe. so they need to be kept safe here. this is the job of the international peacekeepers. they need to be where they're needed, not just in some places. the resources are there. it is not necessary for them to be present in huge numbers. a small presence can make all the difference between keeping the civilians safe and letting more die. >> donatella, many thanks. an outbreak of measles the threatening the lives children in guinea, one of west africa's poorest countries. 37 cases have been confirmed in the capital. al jazeera visited the main hospital in the city. >> reporter: her 9-month-old baby needs an injection to help him breathe. he's been diagnosed with measles. >> translator: i came to the hospital. they looked at my son, and they

asked me to bring medicine. i brought it. the fevers continued, and the temperature is high. i'm sorry i cannot speak. >> reporter: this baby has blood around his nose and mouth because he can't breathe. both need oxygen, but the conditions at the main hospital are dire. mothers have to fetch water in a bucket for babies, and some days there's no electricity. >> translator: here we have the babies suffering from measles who have severe complications. there's a baby laying over there with the same. they need oxygen. we cannot connect them because there's no electricity today. >> reporter: a u.n. survey shows only 37% of children in guinea get all vaccinations they need to stay healthy, making the majority vulnerable. one child has been confirmed dead since the outbreak began in november, but the real number may be much higher. >> translator: three babies died in front of me, and this one

here. some parents we met holding babies that already died here before i arrived with my baby. >> reporter: the u.n. says guinea's many years of political instability meant it was almost impossible to get funding or aid. even now with the western-backed civilian government in place, most people live on less than a dollar a day. in partnership with the government, aid agencies want to vaccinate children next week, but an appeal for aid earlier this week has been unanswered. they still need $1 million and more than a million vaccines. measles is easily preventible, but it very contagious, and many more children are at risk. nali's son died a day after we filmed him because he wasn't vaccinated and there was no electricity to give him oxygen. al jazeera. more to come on the news hours on doha.

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there are no international peacekeepers. one of the thailand's most senior opposition leaders has been shot dead attacked in his car. he was delivering a speech that follows another day of protests with demonstrators blocking access to voting stations. we have the report from bangkok. >> reporter: he was gunned down after he and fellow anti-government protesters finished their assignment of the day. he was in a pickup truck when he was shot. >> translator: when we turned the car, they shot us several times. bang, bang, bang they shot us. >> reporter: several other protesters were injured in the shooting. the concern is, yes, this violence, but what it could mean for the general election slated for february 2nd. the protesters were successful in shutting down most of the advance polling positions on sunday. in bangkok out of 50 districts the election commission stopped voting in a total of 45

districts. 33 districts in central bangkok and 12 districts in western bangkok. so the concern here is that more violence and confrontation will take place if the general election is held next sunday. the election commission wants it postponed. the protesters are demanding the resignation of the government and its care taker prime minister that they see as corrupt. so they're boycotting the election, and the government is standing firm saying the only way they'll postpone is if the protesters end theirs shutdown. they will hold talks on tuesday, but there's no indication either side is going to change its stance. six children have died in pakistan after playing a hand grenade they found in a feel. they suggest the children aged between 7 and 12 had mistaken the device for a toy. the reap john is close to the

afghan border. let's get more from europe now and across to our london news center for the latest. julie. >> stephen, thank you. returning now to ukraine where demonstrations have now spread to several cities outside of the capital. in lviv anti-government protesters have formed a people's parliament. here's the report. >> reporter: through the barricades and into the seat of power. when protesters took over the regional administration building in lviv and forced the governor to resign, it was the first time many had been inside. activists now run services like a food distribution center and medical facilities all under one roof. a local nurse tells me she spends her time volunteering here, part of what she calls a refuse lugs. revolution. >> translator: i came here to support the whole nation. we're fighting for truth, and

this building is very important for us. previously a normal personal couldn't enter in place. >> reporter: the man in charge here is a lawyer, but they call him commandante. they're not expecting to be here long. >> translator: we will remain until the lviv regional council can get this building under their control, and they can only do that when the problem with the regime is solved. if tomorrow we get rid of yanukovych, there will be no need for us to stay here. >> reporter: salow was the unpopular regional governor directed appointed by yanukovych. now the local council voted to scrap his administration altogether, surrounded by his own staff he told al jazeera the move was illegal. >> translator: tensions -- pensions are still paids and salaries to go and hospitals and

kindergartens are receiving. if the council's wants are implemented it amounts to succession. the situation raises questions for the whole couldn't. if president yanukovych does go, how ready are the protesters ready to run the places they live in and how much trust do they still have in their politicians? for now the revolutionaries say they can manage their own affairs. they hope a new partnership is within sight where they can trust the government to protect their rights. al jazeera, lviv. a snowstorm in romania killed two people and forced hundreds of drivers to evacuate their vehicles. heavy snow and strong winds created treacherous conditions when dozens of roads in the north. schools will be closed across the country on monday. a huge security operation is under way in the volatile russian republic of dagestan

where the sochi olympic torch will soon arrive in the capital. there have been threats to attack the games neck month. >> reporter: you may ask yourself why on earth would you want to have an olympic torch relay going through a play like dagestan? it's the home of the boston marathon bombers and it's the virtual center of running conflict between the russian security forces and armed groups that want to create an islamic state here in the north caucuses. for valid vladimir putin, these games are important. to cancel the torch relay in a place like dagestan we'll seen as a sign of weakness. there's no olympic torch relay here in the center of town. the game has changed really. it all takes place in a stadium, more of a fortress really about 15 kilometers away.

this will be a much more truncated affair. there will be with r about 65 torchbearers and the whole ceremony will be rushed through in two hours time. i think the sighs of relief among the organizers of the security here will be audible when the torch moves on to check nia on tuesday. >> reporting there. here in london supporters of the hungarian politician have been labeled nazi scum as he arrived in the british capital for a rally. he wants to gather support, but opponents say he should have never been allowed to enter the u.k. in the first place. we have the story. >> reporter: as for being forced to move their rally, they ended up at what's widely regarded as a symbol of democracy. they allow free speech even if the rhetoric doesn't always sit well with the majority of people. he is part of the hungariehunga

right part. they're thought of as an antisemtic. he's treated like a celebrity. >> it has nothing to do with any races or anything like that. what he said is actually the opposite. that we have to make a good relationship with every nation. >> reporter: many of us are not confident. thousands have signed a on petition calling for him to be banned from britain. antifascist pro tezers were ready to confront his transporters when they tried to meet earlier it the day. they ended up being brought inside an underground station by the police. the police are trying to keept the anti-fascist protests and anybody that came to heared leader from meeting one another.

they don't want any tensions to boil over. the event took place on the eve of international holocaust remembrance day, which for some campaigners the timing of it was pro vac active in itself. >> we believe this they got loose with the far right across the whole of europe. in the west they use homophobia against the muslims and in the east they use anti-semitism. it's important to do something to stop them to divide our communities. >> reporter: there are tens of thousands of hungarians living there, and the reason for the visit was to try and garner support ahead of the election. henrik sdz said he wouldn't get his vote. >> i don't support him at all. i cannot support it. especially not here in london. i don't understand the reason why he has to come here. >> reporter: he was ushered away

and set for display. some were hoping he will not return any time soon. 19 workers have fallen ill from carbon monoxide poisoning in the tunnel linking britain to france under the english channel. they did rail line maintenance on saturday. the welder became sick, and they went to northern france to get some treatment. during a march in paris, they gathered at the bastille to protest against a range of issues including the legalization of gay marriage and the new environment. hollande is dealing with the separation from his partner after allegations he had an affair. the strong earthquake rocked a greek island. the magnitude 5.8 tremor caused some damage to buildings and

roads. local media are reporting some residents suffered minor injuries from falls or falling objects. that's it. you're up-to-date with news from europe. now it's back to doha. one of china most prominent activists has been sentenced to four years in prison. they found him guilty of disrupting crowds and public order. he's campaigned for better access to education for rural children and high-level officials to dispose of their assets. thousands of motorcycle owners rode today on the streets manila in protest against a planned ban on tandem riding. they want to crack down on robberies and murderers linked to criminals rides bikes in tandem. there's a profound change as people move into city. the u.n. said in 1990 the region

had an urban population of a little more than a billion. by 2010 it was up by 75% and estimates it will be 2.6 billion by 2013. more than 1 billion people live in china, and that urbanization process can be seen very clearly at this time of year. they report on the annual last migration of humans on the planet from a remote part of province. >> reporter: this is spring transport when hundreds of millions of chinese migrants, students and families travel from the big cities and head to their home villages to spend chinese lunar new year with their families. al jazeera traveled with 50-year-old cleaner who brought us here to the small village where she and her husband grew up. four generations have gathered from around the country for the celebrations. eating is the best way to catch up. >> translator: all the food is grown by us.

we don't use fertilizer or pesticides. it's safer and tastes better. >> she works seven days a week in beijing. her husband and son also work in the capital. for most of the year the village is almost empty, abandoned for the promise of riches in the big cities. china's migrant work force is the backbone of the economic rise, but it comes at a cost. villages like this have been drained of lifeblood to provide cheap labor as school leaders trace their own economic dreams. at least villages like these almost empty. when the new year celebrations are over, only the very young and old will remain. his father is 82. he and his wife spend ten hours each day working the family's 3,000-square meter organic farm. >> translator: the young people all left home. my wife and i do the farmwork. young families don't want to do the farmwork at home. the village is empty.

>> reporter: lee's grandson left the village when he was 16. he has a daughter and infant son, paying a significant penalty to the government for the privilege under the one-child policy. working as an electrician in beijing means spending the year away from his family. it's a sacrifice he feels will be worth it. >> translator: i keep working hard in beijing to save more money so i can send my children to good schools there. >> reporter: many village families have left the countryside altogether. this loss of agricultural production and expertise is a challenge for the chinese government. she plans to eventually return to her village. >> translator: i'm 50 years old. i want to make money for a few more years, buy insurance, keep some cash in any pocket, and i don't want to become a burden to my children. >> she'll spend just 15 days with her family when her holiday ends she and her husband will once again endure another 36 hours of china's overwhelmed

rail and road network. craig leasen, al jazeera, china. still to come, we've got all the sports including the latest from spain's big league asthma drid tried to retain top spots. details are coming up. >> evey sunday night, join us for exclusive,

pope francis has offered prayers for resolution for a maritime dispute between xhil lee and peru. they're going to hand down a ruling in hours. at stake? a 38,000 square kilometers of

fishing water peru lost to chile. we look at the border between the two countries. >> reporter: this port. since the end of the 19th century it's belonged to chile, and so, too, the rich fishing waters that extend from these shores or at least that's how it's been until now. in all of chile but especially here, the international court of justice's verdict on neighboring peru's maritime border claims is awaited with anxiety. alejandro has been fishing these waters since he was 10. >> translator: this is absurd. this is always been chilean since our great-grandfathers won the war. you can't give it a what. >> reporter: in dispute are nearly 38,000 square kilometers of fishing waters off the coast of chile and peru, which the later wants to reclaim arguing there's no valid treaty in place.

to understand this it's to understand it's not just about fish but history. all this was once peru, until it lost roughly a third of its territory in the war of the pacific against chile in the late 1980s. we crossed over to the peruvia in side of the border. peru didn't even recover the city and region until 1930. during the war itself, chilean troops got as far north as lima that pillaged and occupied for four years. a bitter and humiliating chapter in history that left deep wounds. most people tell us they learn to live in harmony with the chilean neighbors. cross-border trade is crucial for both. >> translator: chile owes us a lot, but the court of justice will probably give back to us as a pittance. there's always a burning coal in

our hearts when we remember what they did to us. >> reporter: police have been put on alert in case there are disturbances in the hours leading up to and after the verdict. whatever it is, tlt not break or make the economies of either country but will weigh on future relations between two neighbors marked so heavily by the past. scientists have discovered a new species of river dolphin in brazil. dolphins have been named after the aragrea river where they were found. there are about 1,000 of them in the water that runs through the amazon rain forest. the it's the first discovery of a new dolphin in a century. good name for a sporting team. thank you very much. we're going to start with football, and athletica madrid can go on top. that game is currently at halftime, and it's the visitors

athletico that are leading. if they go to the top, they have 54 points. they could be joined by barcelona at the summit. that kicks off in about an hour. early at electrictics bill bauer maintained their bid for a league place. five and one away from home. that's five clear over real in set. they announced six points between the italian league winner after a 3-1 win. ac milan gets three points. in fourth place they hope to keep up their challenge for a champion leagues place where they claim genoa later. many spoke at stanford bridge. he scored a stunning first half free kick to seal a 1-0 victory.

they have the tie, and she draw 1-1 with philip. we move up to third in the world rankings when the new list is published on monday. it follows his win of raphael nadal won him in his first ever grand slam final. richard parr reports. >> reporter: before this final wawrinka hadn't had a match against nadal. wawrinka took the first set, 6-3. nadal appears to have back pain early in the second, and the world number one goes two sets down, 6-2. surprisingly nadal fought back in the third and taking it 6-3. wawrinka knocked out jovovich in the quarters last year.

and the eighth seed completed another upset by a set of 6-3 to become the australian open champion. >> your back is going to be fine. you're a really great guy, a good friend, and amazing champion. so you did an amazing comeback to come back, number one, and it's always a pleasure to play against you and play with you. >> very, very much not the way -- i'm sorry to finish this way. i tried very, very hard. >> along with roger federer, wawrinka is now switzerland's second grand slam champion. richard park, al jazeera. staying in australia the cricketers have colleged a win over england in the international series. the host beat britain. australia is making 217 for 9 from their 50 overs.

stewart broad and ben stokes taking three wicked, but england fell short in the match. simon gans has won the tour down under. gans is the first rider to win the game three times. the nhl has held its first ever outdoor game in warm l. the l.a. kings face the anaheim ducks at dodgers stadium in los angeles. 54,000 people witnessed corey perry scoring his 28th goal of the season for the ducks. he made 36 saves, and 3-0. the winter olympics begin in just 12 days' time, and making it to the games takes hard work, talent and luck and takes money. what some u.s. olympic hopefuls are doing to pay the bills. >> reporter: this is the view from snowboard crosser racer nick dierdorf's helmet as he

trains for the olympics. to do this winds down a frozen obstacle course at 40 miles per hour, you need to be a specific person and you also need money. >> i have to cover all my equipment, all my travel, coach fees, program fees. food it really adds up quick. >> altogether he trained for see cho. he needed more than help from his parents and saving from construction job, so back in may he went to gofundme.com. >> the hardest part was putting myself out there. >> that means asking everyone he knows, family, friends as well as perfect strangers for money, but it paid off. dierdorf has raised $15,000 and counting. 28-year-old mark urik is an amputee speed racer, but needing one ski doesn't reduce his

costs. >> ski is $5,000, outriggers $600, a boot $1,000 and to be part of my team is $4,000 a year and races are 1,000 to 1500 for race. >> reporter: he tends bar to cover part of the training tab but hopes to spend more time on the mountain, he told his story on go fund me.com and raising more than $4,000. >> they can buy you a helmet or new set of skis. i put up my race splicers on there and team dues. >> if he races well in aspen, he could qualify. nick dierdorf didn't make the u.s. team this year, but he's aiming for the 2018 games in korea. the crowd is keeping his spirits hite. >> i have that many people that want to help me out and support my dreams and make it easier for me to keep doing this. >> i can't believe this.

>> urick has been skiing for years. >> i want to go to korea in 2018 and bring home a gold medal, at least one if not all of them. >> the generosity of strangers and the tools of the information age helping to keep olympic hopes alive. paul beben, al jazeera, denver. a quickup date on the spanish on spaniard football. currently 3-1 at halftime. details on that and all the sports news on our website, aljazeera.com/sports. that is your sports for now. more later, stephen. >> one rugby result i've noticed on the website. >> the one we'll be waiting for. >> london welch is going tops in the dlish championship. lots more news, though, to come here on al jazeera.

good afternoon. i'm morgan radford live from new york city. here are the stories we're following right now. syria talks in geneva managed to get humanitarian aid into homs. demonstrators in ukraine reject the president's power-sharing offer and vow to keep on going. plus, police have identified the gunman who shot and killed two workers as a maryland mall yesterday before killing himself. and the real turf war. a battle bng