>> announcer: this is al jazeera. hello there and welcome to the news hour, i'm in doha and these are the top stories. a land marked case for the genicide, a former intelligence team goes on trial in france. a last-minute hitch in pakistan, talks to try to find the way to peace with the taliban have been delayed. stamping out the election results, the thai opposition marchs a legal opposition to have the vote declared invalid.

>> i want to tell them that your opinion is not opinion of all ukraine people. >> reporter: the monks and the people on the streets of kiev don't represent everyone. >> no, way. >> reporter: and happy birthday facebook, and ten years old and is it too uncool for the children at school? ♪ so a land marked trial focusing on the ruwanda again size is underway this france, the former captain is facing a paris court with crimes against humanity. 800,000 people were killed in the genicide, but france is criticized for helping the rulers at the time and we will

go live to paris after this report. >> they have made it their life's work to try to identify suspects allegedly involved in the ruwandi genicide, bringing the first case of its kind to france and he was part of a family. >> translator: it's the truly historic trial because it's the first one and secondly also because it concerns someone i would say was this a relatively high position. >> reporter: it's almost 20 years since rwanda decided into chaos and 800,000 people killed in just 100 days. rwanda genicide was sparked after the president was killed when his plane was shot down. what followed was unmanageable. ethnic tensions between the two main groups in rwanda had existed for years. but a systematic campaign of terror and murder began.

most of the victims were tootsie and moderate tutus. he was a former captain with alleged ties with the leadership and accused of complexity and genicide and complicity against humanity and he has denied this. >> reporter: they were apprehended on the indian ocean which is france territory and could be tried on french soil. in the past the rwandas tried to extradite people from france but so far none of them returned home. france is one of rwanda's main backers before the war and accused of provided the government military training. for years paris has strongly denied it was complicite in the genicide and under pressure to try to identify any suspects living in france. >> there was a total lack of

political will from the french authorities to prosecute the suspects for a lot of historical reasons including the position of france toward the regime and during and after the genicide and reluctance from the french judicial authorities to prosecute the suspects. >> reporter: 20 years after the atrocity in rwanda questions remain about how any of it could happen. the trial is expected to last up to two months. relations between france and rwanda have been strained for years partly because paris has been blamed for helping some of the genicide leaders escape and er escalations broken off in 2006. because a french judge blamed the current leader for the murder of former president in a plane crash in 1994. that sparked the genicide and he was a rebel tootsie leader at

the time and rwanda stopped teaching french in school and replaced it with english. in 2009 relations were restored and the following year the president visited rwanda and admitted that mistakes had been made during the genicide and tensions do remain and the widow of the former president lives in paris and in 2011 the french government refused to extradite her to face genicide charges. this is the latest from al jazeera emma hayward and in court this morning and what has been happening? >> in the last hour he has appeared in court, essentially he has sat behind a glass box and wearing a brown jacket and wearing a wheelchair and he was a paraplegic and the jury is being picked and we will find out more about the charges against him all of which he does

deny. his lawyer yesterday speaking to the french press said it's important this trial was a trial of a man, it was not a trial of the relations between france and rwanda or the genicide it side. >> nevertheless a very significant trial for both countries. >> very significant. i was talking to adjou journali before it started and he said it is being watched close back home and it has been a long time coming for the human rights activists have told us that this is very much a delayed case. but there has not been the political will in france for this kind of case to happen and this may in the end prove to be a precedent for other cases similar to this one. >> emma is live for us in paris and thanks. within the past hour it has been announced in pakistan that talks to set up a roadmap to peace with the taliban have been delayed and delegates from the

government and taliban were due to meet in islamabad but they need more clarification of the tall bad about the terms of this and who the delegation will represent. so just who was due to take part in the talks? well the government delegation includes two veteran journalists, a former diplomate and a retired major from the pakistan intelligence services. the taliban delegation consists mainly of religious leaders including a man known as the father of the taliban. the opposition leader was invited to represent the taliban but he declined. and we can speak to a former foreign affairs advisor to the pakistan government and he is live now from islamabad and good to have you with us on the program. the process has already been delayed. the government is clearly worried about who the taliban delegation is representing. what are the chances the process

will actually get underway? >> well, i think there has been such a sort of established and long now tradition of a political will to engage in talks with the ttp, that it seems almost inevitable they will eventually take place, but the big mystery for most pakistans is how long the timeline will be. for the talks to have been delayed at the 11th hour, the 11th hour and the 59th minute is yet another demonstration of the lack of preparedness of the pakistani state not just to deal with the on slot of violence they impose on pakistan but also the kinds of psychological warfare they protected in the last several years and this is one more indication of the preparedness. >> agree to go ahead with these talks and there was a suspicion and they were going to launch a

hefty military assault on the taliban. >> these speculations build up in the absence of any solid coherent statements from government. when this government took oath halfway through last year, it soon after taking oath it invited all the political parties to engage in a dialog and to agree the way forward and for several months more than six months these grieved people were going to be tossed with ttp and nobody heard anything about them. and so in the absence of the government announcing things and taking a proactive messaging sort of approach to this, all kinds of speculation had emerged and then all of the sudden the prime minister announced this four-man committee. so i think again there is a lot of lack of preparedness on the part of the government which was -- doesn't engender confidence

among pakistan. >> reporter: how difficult is it for the government to take concessions the taliban will agree to, there are demands circulating on the internet and whether they are demands but the implication of the law to the banning of women wearing jeans in public and those are demands the government simply are not going to be able to meet, are they? >> well, it doesn't seem likely especially on issues like civil liberties, pakistan is remarkably more diverse than it is often depicted to be in the international media. but, again, the point is that in a situation of talking to militants or talking to terrorist groups the government is the one that should be making demands of the militant group and not the other way around. the notion of imposing law in a country which is already an islamic republic in which the law of the land is in line with

the principals of islam, you know, i think that there is very little room, there is very little the government can give to ttp without actually under mining, its own sort of legitimacy and the states constitution constitutional cohearance. >> reporter: thanks very much indeed and pakistan there is near violence and four police were shot dead east of the city and the gunman escaped after the shooting and the police have been an increasing target after five months campaign to restore law an order. to thailand where the democrat party has filed a constitutional in the court to have sunday's election overruled and aty government protests were disrupted and not enough mp to elect a new prime minister and we have more from bangkok. >> reporter: regardless of what

the constitution court decided it will not solve thailand's political problems and may make the current crisis worse. one of the things that the democrat party is asking the court to do is dissolve the ruling for the party and if that happens it will be met with strong resistance from progovernment groups who said time and time again that any attempts to get rid of this government, to force it from office, any sort of intervention will be opposed and they will come out in big numbers to oppose any move like that. the court is also being asked by the democrats to rule that sunday's election was invalid. if that happens we could see a fresh election called and that will not lead antigovernment protesters on the streets and have been here for three months now trying to remove the government from office and don't want elections because they believe the government is corrupt and guilty of both of that so they will not go home and they will stay here until they achieve their objective of

removing the government from office. >> reporter: still to come on the news hour, thousands stranded as violence ranges in the central african republic. and internet laws and why the government is trying to silence it. and rivals in manchester city and full details for you in sport. ♪ ukraine's opposition is calling for a reduction in powers of the post, as parliament reconvenes and the aton government process continues and opposition leaders demand investigation by the hague for protests of deaths and injuries which they blame on the government and the foreign policy chief will attempt to solve the tension on tuesday.

and the foreign minister said there is room to negotiate. >> we can discuss some changes in the form of administration and the president confirmed he is ready to do this like changing a form of the administration from the presidential republic to the parliamentary and presidential. >> reporter: al jazeera is live from the capitol kiev and the protests continue on the streets but in parliament there is a new session that has been reconvened and what is happening and what is being talked about? >> well, right now mps are on a break for a few hours but this morning's plenary session was somewhat dogged by a characteristic clashes that have or dogged the parliament since independence. within minutes of the national anthem playing, members of the

opposition were chanting killers at other mps from the party of regions, very soon the cabinet who are also seated in the ukraine parliament walks out, another mp from the party of regions was shouted down because he was speaking in russian and the opposition demanded that he speak in ukraine. but when politicians stood up to share thoughts on how to solve the crisis the over all message coming from the opposition at least was that the leadership needs to change the constitution to reintroduce the constitution of 2004 that would see more presidential powers being handed back to the parliament. it's not yet clear whether or not this demand will be voted upon, whether that will take place soon, the indication from the ukraine foreign minister is they are prepared for a deal. they are prepared for more

talks. and this may be a step forward in bringing this 2 1/2 months standoff to an end, for saying that for those to continue to gather time and time again at independent square they feel the only reason they would go home is when yanukovich resigns. >> reporter: thanks so much. well, every city in ukraine has such a strong presence of antigovernment protesters and al jazeera visited to find out why. >> reporter: confrontation flairs in the city of odess and they come to blows with activists determined to stay with russia. in the end the anger is a snowball fight and tensions here are running high. outside the city hall a mirror image of the tents erected in kiev independent square and

manned by battle groups determined to stop the occupation of buildings here by antigovernment forces. the governor's headquarters have been barricaded, a small force of police guard the entrance and ready at hand. new volunteers arriving everyday to help them. they say they can sum up to 1,000 men within minutes if needed. >> yes. >> translator: i am a russian, in 1998 i came to ukraine and i'm still a citizen of russia and live in ukraine and the life here is good and my feeling is that ukraine and russia are two brothers, they is why i came here to support those who are protesting against western meddling here. >> reporter: the russian orthodox faith is rooted here for hundreds of years. the monks are appalled of what they see happening in kiev. >> these people may be used by

these extremists, by this armed terrorist, by this movements so i want to tell them that your opinion is not the opinion of all ukraine people. >> reporter: the city's port is now locked in a sheet of ice that has turned the black sea white. it's here on the famous odessa steps that the antigovernment forces are mounting their nightly vigil. famous because the battleship was shot here, scenes that inspired generations of film makers but there was nothing inspiring about the number of protesters on the night we visited the rally. it seems the capachino makers are not doing as much business as the people in kiev. the seeds of protest here are falling on frozen ground. david with al jazeera odessa.

>> reporter: a look now at the latest developments in the war this syria. russia foreign minister said the syrian government will be at the next round of peace talks that will take place in geneva in six days time and he said chemical weapon also be removed from syria by march. all of the most toxic chemicals were supposed to be taken out of the country by december 31 but that deadline was missed. the syrian opposition leader jaba is putting moscow ahead of talks in geneva and accepting the invitation from the foreign minister and russia says all parties helping to negotiate a syrian settlement should speak to all sides involved in the conflict. one of the armed groups in syria, has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in beirut, the bomb dead inseminated the explosives on a public bus and at least six people were wounded including the bus driver and the target

was a hezbollah check point. 38 days since egypt detained three al jazeera journalists and bahir and peter gres that are held without charge since december 29 and accused of spreading false news and having links to the muslim brotherhood which egypt classified as a terrorist organization and the government in cairo says the cases have been refers to the criminal court. the al jazeera network has not been notified of any formal charges and al jazeera condemned a linked video oon an egypt channel showing the arrest of two journalists and shot by security officials who arrested them and accusing the journalists and al jazeera of operating without a license. so we have a middle eastern coordinator of the committee to protect journalists and says the claim is baseless. >> there is not a need for licensing for anything.

national news broadcasters like al jazeera, it shouldn't be a requirement for journalists to be able to work in any country to get government approval. in a society where the government basically has a saying on which news can and cannot say would that be a requirement. >> reporter: humanitarian workers are concerned about the fate of thousands of people in the northwest of central african republic and people from amnesty international on the ground said thousands of people are trapped in the town and more forced from their homes and traveling in unprotected convoys. meanwhile the battle between rival is continuing across the country including the capitol bongi and we have details. >> innocent save yanukovichs run for cover as the fighting ranges

on in the central african republic. these french troops are trying to bring peace to the capitol. christian fighters from groups known as antibalica have been in the neighborhood for days. and loot what they can and burn what's left. >> translator: it's terrible. we are suffering. there is no peace. we are losing houses and people. we need to bring back peace. >> reporter: muslim fighters retaliated pushing christians back in the area and french troops found themselves in the middle. and the soldiers are part of the 1600 strong french force working alongside 6,000 african soldiers and the central african republic and called in almost a year upon rest and a muslim coalition known as the selica and the word known as union ceased control of

the country last march. and they started talks in christian civilians malitias were formed calling themselves antibalica or against them and both are accused of violent atrocities and as the fighting continues so do the number of people getting out of danger zones and a population of 4 million are thought to have been displaced and many escaped to refugee camps like this. >> translator: four of my brothers were there when the anti-balica attacked the town and had reprisal on civilians and in bongi when they arrived they retaliated and killed one of my brothers. this way my other brother was in the same area. in the end i have lost six brothers to the selicas. >> reporter: the interim president catherine samba-panza

called for international support but an estimated 2000 lives have been lost since december and the fighting still has not stopped. carolyn malone, al jazeera. >> reporter: the u.n. is warning that more people than ever are at risk of hunger in the region and says it needs $2 billion to fight hunger in the area and spans nine countries from chad to sanagul and 20 million people in the region are at risk of food and security and 2 1/2 million need urgent life-saving food assistance. there have been more protests in kenya after more than 100 people charged with terror offenses and unrest began on sunday after police raided a mosque and at least six people were killed. authorities in togo seized four tons of ivory and the tusks from 500 dead elephants were hid in containers for vietnam and $8 million on the international market and three arrested in connection with the seizure.

now the turkey parliament is considering a bill to give government an easy way to shut down websites and we report from istanbul and they believe their rights are under attack. after two decades working around the work for turkey television news he was happy to spend more time at home, running his internet-based tv news service. until the government shut off access without warning and without explanation. and the tv has more than 1 1/2 million visitors a month. >> translator: what is awful about the decision is it is preemptive. the bureaucrats who claim they can enforce the decision behave like a court. when i go to court the judge and prosecutors say they don't know about the decision. it's just a mess. a legal disaster. this is the justice system in

turkey. >> reporter: and the tv is a news and information site but it is news outside government control in a country that ranks number one in the world for jailing journalists. and now the government introduced a bill in parliament giving power to the internet regulators and these bureaucrats working in the telecommunication directorate, tib will be immune from prosecution under the proposed law. we first spoke with him nearly four years ago and back then 6,000 sites were blocked and now it's more than 40,000. >> no transparency. a group does making decisions and we don't know how they make decisions. and the bans they have done. and why they do it and they don't have an advisory board. they don't have any check and

balances. >> reporter: turkey people are heavy internet users and the coming months we will see three nationwide elections and the public is hungry for alternate sources of information and the law allows them to shut down websites within four hours and it used to take a couple of days. government says it's defending the citizens, reputations and privacy against webex pose ur and they say the government designed the law to silence the critics almost instantly. another proposal in the bill internet traffic records will be stored for two years. critics say the government is building a turkish version of the nsa and the government says it's just doing what other governments already do. anita, al jazeera istanbul. >> reporter: let's check out the weather situation and i hesitate to ask, is there an improvement in europe? >> not really, through the next

few days it will stay incredibly unstable for many of us and in the last couple days it has been a the cloud we have been watching and streaming its way across parts of italy and as you might expect have given us heavy and persistent rain and strong winds and the winds whipped up the waves as you see on the coastal stretches of italy and caused quite a bit of erosion around the coast and the problem is with the very heavy rain that caused a lot of issues there and further north where the rain has turned to snow as you might expect there the snow has been incredibly heavy. here are the latest pictures out of australia showing how deep some of the snow is and not just australia where we see the worst of it and surrounding countries have seen very deep snow as well. so that is what is going on over the central belt of europe but in the west we have been seeing a lot of flooding recently as well, just over the past few hours this is the satellite

picture and shows there is not a great deal of cloud around at the moment and there is a little bit of sunshine, however, this is what it's actually looking like there, there is still a lot of water on the ground and you don't normally have swans swimming around lamp posts but that is what we see in parts of summer set in western england at the moment. going through the next couple of days we will see another weather system scream in and bring a lot of heavy rain particularly to the southwest and parts of england exactly where we don't need it and we are going to see yet more heavy rain. >> thanks for that i think and still to come on the program, as cambodia and vietnam work to better the relations we will look to what it means to the people who live there. cars that communicate, the program in the u.s. trying to improve road safety. and find out how somalis use sport to skate their way deeping into sweden, details coming up,

in sport. ♪

♪ hello again, the top stories on al jazeera, a land marked trial focusing on genicide is underway in france. former army captain is facing a paris court charged with complicity and crimes against humanity. early talks to establish a roadmap to peace against pakistan and taliban have been delayed and representatives of the two sides were due to meet earlier but government delegations said it needed more clarification from the taliban

about the terms of the meeting. and tie land's opposition is challenging the weekend election in a constitutional court. the opposition democrat party is calling for the vote to be declared invalid. at least nine team have been killed by bomb attacks in central iraq and five soldiers killed by a roadside bomb at a check point and a car bomb near a shop in baghdad kills at least four people, more than 20 people were injured in those attacks. two soldiers have been killed and 12 others wounded in the capital of yemen moments before it was hit by a bomb and attack is one of many targeting the military and want to achieve a political transition that turns the republic into a federation. america's involvement in afghanistan will be on the agenda later when president barack obama meets senior

military officials and we report from kabul and why relations between the obama relations and karzai are at the lowest level. the war in afghanistan increasingly feels like a battle between kabul and washington. relations between the two supposed allies are in crisis. the taliban is undefeated and the u.s. mandate runs out in 11 months. if a security pact to keep some u.s. forces in the country is not signed they will all leave. on tuesday the u.s.'s top commander in washington will remind president obama his work is not done. afghan president karzai refuses to sign the agreement and speaking last month he was defiant the u.s. must bring peace first. >> translator: in return for signing this agreement we want peace and security for the people of afghanistan. without that it's better they

leave and afghanistan determines its own future. >> reporter: but the obama administration still hopes the pact will be signed. >> when afghan forces now in the lead for their own security our troops have moves to a support role. together with our allies we will complete our mission there by the end of the year and america's longest war will finally be over. >> reporter: continued financial support is also at stake. afghanistan's 350,000 soldiers and police officers are largely paid by foreign donation, much of it american. but its economy is propped up by aid. the u.s. congress recently cut development aid in half and moved as further incentive to sign the security agreement. >> i don't believe in aid. i have never believed in it. my colleagues know that. i have never asked any foreign country for assistance in my meetings.

never. i don't think afghanistan will ever be made with foreign money. i think afghanistan can only be made with hard work of its own people. >> reporter: but it's those people who continue to suffer. taliban suicide bombs regularly rip through targets in the capitol. a bus full of afghan soldiers was attacked last week killing several. as diplomatic differences continue between washington and kabul, the taliban will keep up its fight against both. jane ferguson, al jazeera, kabul, afghanistan. >> reporter: the obama administration says it could start defaulting on the government payments after it returns out of room to borrow money and due to reinstate the debt limit at the end of this week and jack said the administration can use accounting measures to stay under the new cap until the end of february, but it will be difficult. >> without borrowing authority at some point very soon it would not be possible to meet all of

the obligations of the federal government. given these realities it's imperative we move to increase boreroing authority and a mistake to wait to the 11th hour to get it done and whether it's the economic recovery or financial marks or dependability of social security are not things to put at risk. >> reporter: the first woman to take the bank has taken the office and yellen is the chair at the powerful federal reserve and will see the winding down of a stimulus package and keep a close eye on unemployment and inflation. birthday for you, facebook is ten years old and since its launch on february 4, 2004 its users have sent 8 trillion messages and shared worryingly 400 billion photos. but as rob reports some users

are logging off. >> conceived in a college dorm room a decade ago facebook is huge but a growing number of teenagers have lost interest. dj of i-strategy lab has studying facebook changing demographics. >> what we found was that in the last three years there are 3 million fewer teenagers and we define that as 13-17-year-olds with 18-24 being the next demographic up, there is a decline in both and specifically a 25% decline among address of all teenagers in facebook advertisin advertising. >> reporter: we went to the source of kids hanging out after school. >> where everybody can get ahold of you no matter what and they just know everything about your life like, i don't like it any more and i like my life and have the ability to choose who

comments on it or not, you know, i feel like with facebook you lose that. >> reporter: snapchat and pinterest is the choice for this generation. >> what are you doing on facebook and now they are part of it and they can see everything you're doing. while you are drinking here, yeah. >> reporter: , in fact, the biggest increase in facebook users during years is people age 55 and older. now, that is like totally uncool. >> i think of a huge part of that just has to be attributed to the rise of parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and photos that people are posting and engaging in the way that advertisers want to engage in facebook but that is not what teens are looking for. >> reporter: what teens are are looking for is a parent-free zone online. >> they want to know what you

are doing and want to know and check what you are doing if you are doing anything bad. >> reporter: and teens who still use facebook are careful to keep the grown ups out of the loop. >> reporter: i'm not friends with my dad on facebook although he does have an account. >> reporter: mom and dad now have facebook accounts but, as always, they have not got a clue. rob reynolds, al jazeera, los angeles. >> for more about the facebook phenomenon we go to london and join a freelance technology journalist and it's an interesting question, do you think the phenomenon of facebook has made us these days more or less worried about privacy and certainly many of us are prepared to share almost every detail on line? >> absolutely. i think certainly facebook is an ever encroaching effects people's privacy has caused people and the young are getting particularly concerned. and facebook over the years has

rolled back their privacy setting to expose more and more data by default to more users. and that has concerned people. and it is causing this. and this is a real risk and facebook is growing and it's a phenomenal pace and a year ago it had a billion users and now 1.23 billion in a year. and although america is the most important market and that is rapidly declining and it makes 6% and accounts for 6%, almost 6% of the world's advertising revenue and still growing but it is vulnerable. and with the young not so much leaving it, they are using it left and they still have a presence on facebook but not actively using it so much. but with the users looking for something else because just as facebook and other social networks have found that

students both at school and the university tend to follow each other in what they do and ideas spread very quickly in schools and campuses. it means that if those users are deserting facebook as the main social network there is room for rivals to grow and an internet market. >> reporter: how does facebook continue to grow itself then, presumably not obviously concentrating on the u.s. where it must have reached almost saturation point but other parts of the world? >> well, they are concentrating on mobile usage which is absolutely vital because that is the way more and more people are using this and accessing social networks. they are also just launched something called paper which is basically a redesigned facebook app with newspaper-style news. and so the next step really is for them to try and get people

to spend more time using facebook on their phone, not just for social networking stuff but also picking up their news and that is also where many other websites and social networks are also moving and there is plenty of competition in that area and really want more time on our phone. >> reporter: the final thought, are we prepared to put up do you think forever with these ads? >> it's a difficult thing, how intrusive do you make the advertising and they have fallen in this and back in 2007 they introduced becon and they withdraw two years later after a class action lawsuit and this was really intrusive advertising and when you visited a partner website it would post information about that both on other web pages you visited and on other people's timelines. so that if you were maybe buying a present for your spouse or a

surprise holiday they might get clues about that when they went to use the computer. so it's that and it's how intrusive in the timelines and stuff appears on the screen and sponsored advertising and sponsored ads and endorsement. so what they tried to do which really get people to backup is to say, you know, when you "like" something to then advertise that "like" to other people and although you might want to "like" something you might not want to actually be an unpaid advertiser for that company. >> reporter: that is a fair thought sir. >> particularly people you don't know. it's very difficult line. but they are doing well. i mean, you know, they are advertising revenue has doubled in the last year from 423 million to billions in a year. >> they are not struggling. >> they are not struggling. >> reporter: we will leave there but thank you for joining us.

>> pleasure. >> reporter: we will have the latest from the world of sport around the corner including iraq's win and said to make a historic return from the red cup and joe will have the details. ♪

♪ hello again, the government of cambodia and vietnam are working to restore their difficult relationship and it was caused after they removed the rouge and stayed in cambodia afterwards and we report from the capitol

and the task of getting the two sides to get along is proving difficult. this community along this river is celebrating the start of the vietnam new year and are commementarating. and she is preparing the food but says she doesn't feel like vietnam. >> i feel like i'm cambodian and have no problem with others in the village. >> reporter: but it's not that simple for ethnic cambodia who says they can spot an outside from vietnam. there are 1-2 million people living in cambodia and there are no officials because the border between their two countries is

quite porus. living side by side the two societies have long been interconnected but there is a history of animosity. and vietnam helped the regime 30 years ago and put the current ruling party in place but leaders are growing increasingly unpopular and does not help they seem to be favoring migrants to the sense of vietnam and for some an unfair accusation. >> translator: for the people who lived here for a long time they are the same as others. they help and participate in developing cambodia. >> reporter: the government has been getting controversial land rights to companies and it has become a political issue. for the opposition spanning anti-vietnam sentiment. >> i think unless both countries of vietnam and cambodia change their mindset to have a coexi

coexistance with the neighborhood for mutual benefits then they will stay that way. >> reporter: as far as many in this community is concerned changing the mindset is not an impossible task and life is fluid they say and they are proof that neither animosity near identity is set in stone. i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: and let's catch up on the world of sport with joe. >> thank you, we will start with football and chelsea has done what they have this season and beat manchester city at home. going into the english clash, second place city and won all 11 matches in the season and behind in the first half and the scorer, one-nil and the coach says his team still needs to grow before they can contend for the title. >> looking increasingly like a three-horse race for the title

when your record is head to head and superior and lost once in 20 games. >> the horse needs milk and work and two big horses and the last horse, a horse that next season we can race. >> reporter: and level points in the city and remain third by virtue of the better gold difference and both clubs a couple points behind the leaders. there is more news from the english league on our website. and the weekend madrid went top of the spanish division after barcelona was beaten and goes to the champion league places and 3-1 win.

and emanuel strike and brace from jeremy and seals the victory. so three points behind and fourth and athletico and madrid failed to win over the weekend. and stay in spain, nadal doesn't know when he will return to action following his injury during the last month's open final and attending this in barcelona and has not played until this contributed to the defeat in the melvin finals back in january. >> translator: i'm fine, improving day after day and under going treatment again after the treatment i had last tuesday when i arrived. i have not been able to pick up the racket again and not on the court yet because i have a few days left and see how it feels in a few days and still don't know whether i will make it to the next tournament but i think i can. if not it will be the next one. >> reporter: well four iraqi tennis players will try to make

history this tuesday after three decades away from the competition and they will represent iraq at the fed cup in a group to tie. the match itself takes place in kazistan and the tennis federation established in the 50s but in the last decade it witnessed this and led the way with success in regional tournaments. >> it's a big tournament and the first time we play in a long time and we should have the good impression like as an iraqi team we should leave a good impression, not as good players, as experienced. >> translator: this is the first iraqi participation in the fed cup since the 80s. we took part in the tournament in the past but did not achieve any result because of the top class competition from countries like india and kazistan. >> reporter: three days to go

until the winter olympics in sochi and forced to change the course after a snow border broke his collar bone on monday and they continue to arrive in the town and the china short track speed skating team but wang is absent and fractured her ankle and will miss the game. and the sport that will be demonstrated is bandi and could be a full olympic sport one di because now it's helping immigrants immigrate to society as we found out. >> it's a big match in a sport followed by millions in the heart lands across scandanavia and russia and this is ice hockey but on a rink the size of a football pitch with a ball instead of a puck and demonstrated at the sochi winter games and could be an olympic

event in 2018. here they take on bragging rights in the northern swedish province. >> being a match that is a lot of stake for fans and players but this type of ice hockey could have wide importance on the question of immigration and here in sweden they use it for a blueprint of how sport can help refugees go to society. introducing the national team of somalia and the sport was formed in june from refugees from a town in the forest a couple hours north of stockholm and they were competing in siberia and could go to the olympics for the first time and the 3,000 somalis in the town of 15,000 people. >> we will have an opportunity

of just sharing what, with the sweedish people and what they are proud of because playing on ice is not part of somali culture and creates a kind of platform where we can meet and then we have something to discuss together. >> if we did something that was strange and everybody seems impossible and we do it together, make it possible, sweedish together and came closer to each other and that bonding. >> reporter: they have not won a game but are struggling with the offensive. and it feels good we score goals and actually two goals and it feels awesome and now we end the game. >> reporter: victories await if they continue to show how immigrants can enrich life in

many homes. i'm with al jazeera, sweden. >> reporter: reigning nba champions and miami heat had the second win in a row. and oklahoma thunder also bagged a victory and beat the grizzlys and the star man kevin durant and the nba offensive leader and 31 points as oklahoma was 86-77 winner and broke the 30-point barrier in 13 of the last 15 games. new superbowl champions the seattle seahawks returned home to a welcome and crushed the broncos 43-# on sunday and seattle is the first superbowl and the first major men's sport championship and a celebration will be wednesday in the city

center. a stadium in minneapolis has been blown up. it's to make way for a new $1 billion home for the nfl team, the minnesota vikings and home to them since 1982. spectacular pictures there. good stuff, thanks very much. now, thousands of vehicles in the u.s. state of michigan are talking to each other. transport buses believe a pilot program could significantly reduce road accidents as al jazeera's john hendricks reports. >> reporter: u.s. transportation officials are calling it their moon shot. >> prospect of being able to cut according to a research perhaps 70-80% of the collisions and accidents that are happening around the country, that is a huge advance in safety. it's one that i don't think can be overstated. >> it's a moon shot where we are

already halfway there in terms of the document of the technology. >> reporter: a u.s. government study will take talking cars from the realm of fiction to reality. to date transportation safety has been focused largely on helping drivers survive accidents. but a new nationwide program aims to prevent accidents by equipping cars with mandatory precrash warning technology by 2017. >> potential of this technology is absolutely enormous. >> reporter: 3,000 drivers in ann arbor had it installed and communicating with other cars warning of unexpected movements such as sudden braking and u.s. transportation regular laters are now writing a rule to require vehicles to talk to one another by using wireless technology by 2017, i'm john with al jazeera. >> that is the news hour and join us in a couple of minutes for more news.

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