joining us and thanks for appearing on talk to al jazeera. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ i'm david foster, this is the al jazeera news hour and some of what we have coming up, in the course of the next 60 minutes. as the most vulnerable city of homs in syria discussions about the country's future are ready to restart in geneva. more violence in the central african republic, the country's new president says she needs help from the international criminal court. european union reviewing its

ties with swiss land after vote is there on eu michaels. >> i'm in heiti where people are recovering from catastrophes and we will show you a mental health some in desperate need of money and resources. another chance or the last chance. the syrian government and the opposition is said to start the second round of peace talks in geneva, the international brahimi has the difficult task of mediating between both sides and there was little to show after the first round of talks last month but agreed on a three-day cease fire in the city of homs and hundreds considered the most vulnerable did manage to leave the rebel-held city on sunday and the truce is extended

for three days to allow more aid to get in and to allow more people to get out. and we are in the beirut studio with james base is in geneva and first of all the three extra days presumably will allow people to do some of what they wanted to do in the first place was get more help and more people out. >> absolutely, david. we were just speaking to the governor of homs and said there was a meeting underway with the united nations team in order to discuss how they are going to enter the old city today because they are trying to go through a new entry point. they are trying to find the safest passage for both the civilians and the united nations' team. this will be a new entry point different from the ones they have used in the last couple of days because the plan is to evacuate a number of christian civilians who are stuck inside

the old city of homs. as you know the old city of homs used to be home to a large population of christians but only a few are left because many of them have fled. the governor said this meeting might be a long one and might take time to sort out details and logistics and if it gets dark they might not carry out the evacuations today, monday. they might postpone them until they are finished with discussing all the details and finding the safe entry points and carry out the evacuations on tuesday morning. now, we also knew from the beginning according to the governor a lot of the evacuees were going to go to a district in homs which is close to the old city and considered safe by the government. now we understand that most of the evacuees are now there surrounded by checkpoints and also now home to 400,000 displaced syrians and that is

the latest on the homs humanitarian operations. >> reporter: there is near time and thank you very much indeed. let us join our -- james is live for us in geneva, the peace talks about to restart, what do they have to talk about this time? >> well, this is just a restart of the talks that were adjourned for one week and we are before where we were on this, not a lot of progress made in the first week of talks but they did sit in the same room and right now they are not sitting in the same room the way the mediator is starting this is with a discussion with both the sides individually. he is sitting at the moment with the opposition. and their delegation arrived about an hour ago and then a little later on the government delegation will arrive here. we think it's quite possible both sides will be in the same room again this afternoon for talks, this round of talks scheduled to last about a week. among the things on the agenda,

well, what you heard from the operation in homs will certainly be discussed. remember, how that all started. and brahimi on the first round of talks said he had a deal in homs and taken this time, about two weeks to actually get the aid into homs, what was supposed to be confidence-building measure is actually an issue of contention between the two sides, david. >> reporter: other cities would like to see help in and some people take it out. will that also be on the agenda, what is happening in places such as aleppo and damascus and so on? >> i'm sure that will be discussed, the humanitarian track will continue here as will discussions about the political situation. just before coming here i was in new york. there there is also a great deal of effort on the humanitarian side at the united nations, discussions around the security council table and perhaps a

resolution on humanitarian actions and something the french foreign minister has spoken about in the last couple hours and didn't look like there was close to an agreement in new york on friday when i spoke to the russian ambassador said the text he had seen and i have seen a draft of the first resolution he said it was nonsense and didn't know why they bothered to circulate it. >> reporter: we thank you and james in geneva and we are reporting on the situation inside syria. to another conflict now peace talks between south sudan war and factions are due to resume and taking place in the ethopia and fighting began in december to people loyal to the president and supporting the deputy. despite a peace fire last month the conflict has not really stopped and we will go to south sudan capital duba and what are

they talking about, what are the details? >> this is the second phase of the negotiations. they signed a cease fire in january and now they should be tackling the issue of reconciliation and peace. however, there are a lot of sticky points still, very important sticky points. and the first part, the departing point of both sides is very different. while the government says opposition leaders were formenting a coup and said they are talking about the ruling party and there is talks about the troops and they don't want to negotiate with the government as long as there are foreign troops fighting on behalf of the government in certain areas of this country. so certainly some very, very difficult issues to deal with and that is coupled by the fact that the former vice president has announced he has formed a new resistance movement and he

says that that resistance movement is actually aimed at bringing democracy and good government in this country. but while this political is fighting and trying to find some sort of solution, the situation on the ground, humanitarian situation keeps on worsening by the day. and just arriving and she is exhausted and alone and wants food. >> translator: i am hungry and i walk day and night without food or water. the sun was burning my head. i'm old. six of my children have been kille killed. >> reporter: they complain their stomach rumbles with hunger all the time. they are dinkas and when rebels loyal to the former vice president attacked their villages and left everything behind and settled down where there is shade and almost every

tree from as far as the eye can see has a family living under it. humanitarian workers it's a huge challenge to figure out how many live there. >> we can say 150,000 but we don't know and still counting them and trying to estimate. but still it's not really easy to get the estimation, the financial estimation but there are a lot. >> reporter: overwhelming majority are women and children and the men stayed behind, some to protect the homes and some are fighting and many died. he decided to check on his home now that government forces recaptured them. >> people are killed including my four uncles of 112 years and they are all killed. so children are also killed. and others are robbed. >> reporter: journalists hoping

to be back before sunset. like many here he does not trust the cease fire agreement that was signed two weeks ago. >> reporter: agreement on cease fire, how is that holding up? >> well, i would say at best it's volitile and you hear of fighting between the two sides, deadly fighting i would say and people do not trust it will hold. who you speak to will point the finger at government forces or opposition forces and also reports in some states that the government forces are backed by the justice and equality movement, that is a rebel movement. so people don't trust at all what is happening. we do know the monitors and observers of egad groups the neighboring countries in the horn of africa arrived on the ground and assessing the situation and should also be reporting to the people meeting

in there about what they found on the ground. there is also some u.n. peace keeper whose are supposed to arrive here. they still have not arrived and they will have to be deployed around civilian populations and displaced camps that happened in various states in this very large country but at the moment you won't find anyone willing to go back home. >> reporter: thank you for that in duba. and religious attacks and looting are continuing in the capitol of the central african republic. ten people were reported of being killed over the weekend by vigilantes and lynch mobs. tens of thousands of muslims have left the country fearing for their lives since mid january. christians view muslims as supporters of the rebels who are accused of mass killings of christian and french and african peace keepers are on the ground.

while the central african's president called for help they try to solve the conflict and talking to al jazeera mike hanna they said there is no reason why they couldn't live together in the future. >> translator: the communities have lived peacefully together and never been problems of a religious nation there. however for political reasons people are quick to use things to their own vintage and have distortions like the so called christian muslim war and the situation we are now and communities living peacefully together start rejecting each other. >> you sound like a mother who wants to treat all her children the same. >> translator: i would like to treat all of them the same way and that is what i am doing. and they can call me. they all have my phone number and they call me and they talk to me about their issues.

the ex-seleka as well as took them in the government and cabinet because all are citizens of the country regardless of origins and religions and they are friend and as a mom i will not protect them. every one will have to account for action because if they make a mistake must be punished. >> are you looking at the international criminal court to play a role? . >> translator: i think that the procedure has already started. i received a courtesy call from the icc with opening cases in relation to 2010-2013 if my memory is good. she was counting on the support of my government which i confirmed and said i will not protect because of reconciliation. in the past we decided we should not pursue cases in order to block reconciliation and know it

does not stop and crimes are still being committed and atrocities against the people. i believe if we want reconciliation justice must be done and it must be made. >> reporter: uganda made an appearance at the international court in the hague about an hour ago. he denies charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity including allegations of rape, murder and the use of child soldiers. prosecutors say at least 800 people were killed by the uganda forces battling for control of a mineral rich region and they will have two months to decide if there is enough evidence to take the case to trial. coming up, for you on the news hour. >> i know the risks of taking a boat and have no life here. >> reporter: desperate to get to australia but they are a long way from gaza and we are on the hunt for people smugglers.

>> away from the sport venue there is a different side to sochi where sewage runs down the unpaved streets and the residents have regular power cuts. i'm at the winter olympics. >> reporter: we have the sport and in barcelona keeping them after float in the title race and we have that and the rest of the sport as well. ♪ the european union says it's taking another look at its ties with switzerland after there is limits on eu and they described the referendum result as worrying and not a member of the eu but it has allowed free movement of eu citizens up to now and catherine reports. >> in a country that relies heavily on foreign workers, a vote for immigration control is a contentious one. the proposal to limit the flow

of immigrants was brought by the right wing swiss people party and wants the government to abandon the agreement with the european union. the reason is, switzerland is too crowded and steep rise in houses and it points to a narrow victory. just over 50% support the cap, a difference of around 30,000 votes. >> people here feel light they press down the salaries, and raise the housing prices and pressure on the education system and criminality increased because of them and there is this perceived feeling that the immigration is behind a lot of problems in switzerland. >> reporter: switzerland is not a member of the european union but has policy including free movement and the open borders agreement to access the europe's

single market and it's not clear what the new quota will be and the swiss government has to renegotiate the deal it has with eu but several industries relying on foreign workers they say implementing a quota is a mistake. >> if you look at economic relations with europe where about every working day 700 million pounds worth of trade is conducted between switzerland and the eu, you certainly get the impression this won't be doing switzerland any favor in economic terms but could potentially have disaster consequences. >> reporter: switzerland cannot cherry pick aspects of eu policy but with the population divided with immigration caps this could be the first start toward a changing relationship with the european block and i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: joining me from geneva is professor of political science of geneva university. professor, we heard the guest in that package saying it could

have potentially disastrous effects on the swiss economy, what is the worst thing in your opinion that the eu could do in response to this vote? >> well, the initiative asks that the swiss within three years period find a solution with the eu on the agreement on the frame of persons. but i don't see any possibility to make the vote of yesterday compatible with the agreement under free movement of person. therefore, there will be a consolation of that agreement. it's already a problem because the economy grows and switzerland had over the last few years was mainly due to persons and possibility of higher hiring and workers in switzerland is the first problem. then secondly it might be the

case that the whole agreement with the eu will be in danger and with the vote of yesterday because there is a closed so called guiteen close and as a result of the close the whole bilateral treaties with the eu might be cancelled as a result of the vote of yesterday. and the bilateral agreements with the eu are very important for the swiss company. the eu is the main trading partner for switzerland and without an access to the eu market the economy might be in trouble. >> reporter: the economic argument was put very forcibly by those who didn't want this referendum to change the rules of workers. why do you think a small majority, only a tiny majority, but why do you think people weren't listening? >> well, this is a sensitive

issue in switzerland not only in switzerland by the way, immigration is a situation over europe and the political system that has the possibility to the citizens to voice their preferences in their democracy in popular votes. we already had two votes on the frame of persons in 2005 and 2009 and on these two occasions the swiss people supported the official line but yesterday it was not so. presumably because immigration has strongly increased in switzerland as a result of the frame of persons and even if switzerland is aware of the country, and even the unemployment rate is very low in switzerland there is a feeling among the swiss population there are too many migrant workers. >> reporter: let me just ask you this about europe as a

whole, not just switzerland and i know that is your area of expertise but there is a sense that is voiced by commentators across europe that what happened in switzerland is merely a reflection of what they describe as zena-phobic policies across the old continent before elections coming up, and does it give them a sense to push the agenda and antimigrant agenda and more roads into europe's politics? >> of course, as i said before immigration is a sensitive issue all over europe and yesterday it was not by surprise that the french party but also the two parties that are far right national public parties welcomed the swiss vote. so in a sense it's not a good sign for europe. it's not a good sign that the

swiss people gave yesterday. but of course it may have an effect on the forthcoming european elections. everybody expects in the forthcoming european elections the far right parties will win votes and seats and the vote yesterday in switzerland can be credited along those lines. >> reporter: well, professor, we thank you very much indeed for putting it into a context where our viewers can properly understand it. the swiss vote on limiting the number of migrants. thank you very much. now, south korea says it will press ahead with joint military drills with the united states in two weeks. we will report on the announcement that will likely to anger north korea who wants it cancelled and they finished preparations for another nuclear test. and al jazeera's harry faucet is in seoul. this is what he was able to tell

us. >> well, for some weeks now north korea has been opposing these military exercises, annual exercises carried out between united states and south korean forces here in south korea and two sets. the first is key resolve and computer situations of scenarios with thousands of troops and the second is drills in the field. again involving thousands of troops 7 1/2 thousand troops scheduled to take part in it alone and calls the acts of war for invasion and this year north korea is linking these to family re re-u reunions of 1953 and they offered to resume the reunions as soon as possible and suspended since 2010 and north korea rejecting the offer saying that could not happen at the same time as the exercises and

appearing to change its mind and agreeing to a date for those reunions, february the 20th to the 25th was agreed between the north and south. but the very next day north korea coming out with a very strong statement saying dialog and military exercises could not go hand in hand. so now the ball is very much back in north korea's court because the schedule started these military exercises is due to come on february 24th. >> reporter: harry faucet there in seoul and time for a glimpse of the world weather. >> thanks david. let's look at the weather over europe and hearing a lot about the flooding in parts of the ek but not only the uk we are seeing the flooding and this is the satellite picture and over 12 hours we seen a large system making its way in western parts of europe and brought rain to southern parts of britain and further south we have a lot of cloud with us as well. that brought a lot of rain over

parts of france and across spain and portugal here and in places it's quite deep and around the coast of spain with stormy conditions and this is what it's currently looking like at the moment. so clearly things are very unsettled and stormy and water logged over europe and stay that way for a few days. the chart on monday you can see the wet weather stretching through parts of spain and france and italy and monday and today is the northern parts of spain and italy where we see the worst of the weather. even as the system works eastward there is another one hot on its heels edging its way in again and will bring us very heavy downpours across parts of the uk and france where already we have flooding. >> reporter: thank you. brazil's football world cup organizers are trying to make

sure that thousands who come to watch are safe from a tropical disease carried by mosquitos. >> reporter: it's that time of year again and members of one of the oldest schools are busy going through their paces. carnival is weeks away and what is a long-awaited party for tens of thousands of residents and tourists is also a feast for an unwelcome guest. and the mosquito carries the denge fever and a disease and which there is no vaccine. >> translator: it leaves you feeling you have been given anesthesia and cannot move out of bed and it's incredible that a mosquito can knock a human

being down like that. >> reporter: they welcome the current campaign to eliminate the breeding grounds and not just of the carnival but of the world cup. >> if it's hot the mosquitos are more active and breed more, they feed more, so we have a bigger problem. but like in rio we always have a nice temperature for the mosquitos. >> reporter: professor david, an expert in denge says they are concerned about reducing the risk of the disease during the world cup and is mounting a surveillance program that includes putting out the mosquito trap and disease-prone areas. >> if we detect that the mosquito defected in one place we go there and try to eliminate the mosquitos. >> reporter: getting rid of the insects that can breed in a spoonful of water is impossible. this is ultimately the best way

to ward off those pesky mosquitos and disease especially before going in a football stadium. and the final of the world cup will be held. but fans who are planning to travel to the amazon state of manouse where there is malaria may need more than insect repellent and recommend anyone going there first get a yellow fever vaccination. as for denge fever in june and july it's lower in rio but higher in three northeast cities that are also hosting world cup games and the reason for authorities and fans to take precautions. and i'm with al jazeera, rio. >> reporter: we are off to another massive sporting event in just a moment where we see the russian president vladimir putin joining the down hill party in sochi and we go where the festival is full of eastern

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reviewing ties with switzerland after the vote narrowly banks immigrants and france says the vote result is worrying. lynch mobs and vigilantes blamed for killing ten more people in the central african republic and catherine samba-panza is blaming it for fighting between christians and muslims and there are reports of more killings in the country's biggest city, aleppo and activists say at least 15 people died when government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on who rebel-held districts and we report. >> these are the streets of a city under siege. for weeks the president al-assad forces dropped bombs on the neighborhood of aleppo and containers packed with fuel, met

m and hundreds of kilograms of missiles and the damage is clear so too is the trauma experienced by people caught in the middle of the conflict. >> translator: i'm 7 four-years-old. i've never seen anything like this in all my life. it's god's will. >> reporter: the neighborhood has been the target of some of the heaviest bombardment by government forces and the attacks are a part of a week's long campaign by the syrian army to retake control of the city. parts of aleppo were seized by rebels in 2012. >> translator: 5,000 people used to live here and i'm the last one left and shelling us with tanks, barrel bombs and rpgs. >> reporter: the intensity of violence forced two thirds of residents living in rebel-held areas to flee to government controlled parts of the region and around 2 million people have left aleppo since fighting began three years ago, i'm with al

jazeera. >> reporter: israel says it has targeted a palestinian fighter on the gaza strip and he was riding a motor bike in gaza and affiliated to a group that launched rocket attacks in israel. a second person was also injured. leading egyptian politician says that egypt has been turned into a republic of fear by the crack down of political activists and media. and he was part of mass protests against deposed president mohamed morsi and says he will not contest the presidential election and says it was while the country was being suppressed and it's 44 days since fahmy and peter greste were accused of spreading false news and a link to the muslim brotherhood and our sister channel has been in

custody since last july. and al jazeera rejects all of the charges and continues to demand the unconditional release of its staff. the un nuclear agency says progress has been made with iran over the disputed nuclear program but after talks officials from the international atomic energy agency say many outstanding issues remain and iran agreed to start addressing suspicions it has been designing an atomic weapon. tuesday is the anniversary of the 1979 islamic revolution and one story of an iranian who was born that year in his own words. >> translator: my name is abu and i was born 1979 the year of a revolution into a religious family and my family was a clecic and fought and i'm a

ph.d. student and got married in 2006. of course i don't remember the revolution but when i was in school we used to sing revolutionary anthems and one said they were established to make this world and the next one a better place. gradually after the iran, iraq war and the problems it created for people we realize that westerners were not happen with development and i don't think it succeeded economically. it's true we over through the shaw, a dictator but did we establish an ideal government that brought justice and freedom to all different classes of people? we need to think about that. when i look at my friends i see some that don't believe in the goals of the revolution and their lifestyles are different from what the revolution stood for. on the other hand i'm not happy with the way the country's problems are being managed. my father was a revolution and jailed and after the revolution he fought in the iran/iraq war

and he would go and comfort families. the country suffers from political disputes to get power and some of our politicians are not pias and this makes me sad. the islamic republic is the result of the revolution and supposed to fulfill dreams and goals and my concern is everything the people of this land gave to defend the country, their devotion, is in vain. >> reporter: a woman convicted of drug smuggling in indonesia is released after serving nine years in prison, she was granted parole early and convicted of smuggling more than 4 kilos of marijuana into bali in 2005. she was originally sentenced to 20 years in jail. she will have to serve out her parole in bali until 2017. australia plans to get two patrol boats to help fight people smuggling and malaysia is

a stop over from australia but some end up in limbo and unable to go home or indeed to go elsewhere and stephanie reports. >> on the look out for the people smugglers and the illicit human cargo and the maritime enforcement agency has patrols on the coast in hope of intercepting boats arriving or leaving these shores and 250 people are caught by the agency each year in the waters but the boat on route to a third country is hard to judge given the long coastline. with so many migrants making their way to australian territory in resent years the government there introduced a turn-back policy to try to deter the migrant boats. >> one thing which i see which is working so far is that australia have launched an

operation called to stop people from entering australia. >> reporter: unlikely to stop everyone a short dive from the center we found migrants and refugees who were desperate for help of any kind. the first question they asked him when they met him was are you organizing a boat to australia and has been here five years and in jail three times and is desperate to escape a life in limbo. his body has scars from wounds he gave himself to escape his jail cell. he lost all hope of a better life away from his native gaza. >> translator: i know the risks of taking a boat but i have no life here. i'm prepared to die to get away and find another life. >> reporter: he says he knows at least 20 others who would join him. malaysia hosted 100,000 refugees and takes on average 7 years for

them to be resettled. unable to work or build a future, the wait is often what drives people to leave by illicit means. it's difficult to tell them, no, you cannot do that it's too dangerous because they see themselves and their children as lost. like a lost cause. >> reporter: with conflicts an i cross the middle east and other ethnic disputes in nearby manmar it's hard to see this slowing down and after all no one chooses to become a refugee. stephanie, al jazeera. >> reporter: the government guatemala say the killing of children is unforgivable and don't know why the family was targeted and 20 gunmen and two cars opened fire on the family house. the government says mexico's drugs cartel operates in that

region. the earthquake in haiti, 2010 it was left the country battling disease, violence and understandably debt. not all the damage was physical. haiti's hospitals are now struggling to cope with tens of thousands of people who suffered psychological problems as a result. as part of al jazeera's hidden hurt series looking at the state of mental healthcare and we visited one hospital in one capital, porta-au-prince. >> reporter: they watch and takes hours to see a doctor or nurse and the line keeps getting longer and another man is brought in and hands and legs bound together, restained in the back of a vehicle. he is ignored for several minutes until someone notices he is thirsty. this is one of two psychiatric centers in haiti with a combined bed capacity of just over 300.

>> translator: we are overwhelmed. there are not enough doctors for the patients and only 30 psychiatrists in the country and 23 have a private practice, that leaves 7 psychiatrists for 10 million people. >> reporter: he makes daily rounds at the hospital and there are dozens of people in varying degrees degrees of distress and they are delusional and by popular and drug related illnesses and schizophrenia and it's related to the earthquake and most will go untreated. >> translator: people come for help that sometimes we cannot provide. >> reporter: the earthquake displaced around 1 1/2 million people and it's hard to get a handle on the numbers but based on research they estimate 70% of those people are in need of some

kind of help for mental health services. before the disaster there was no mental health system. most people thought being mentally ill meant you were crazy and the fall out from the earthquake forced the issue in the open and some of the shame went away but there is a long way to go and the government has 15% of budget to help and 3% is spent on mental health services. the other obstacle is culture and they turn to religious and spiritual leaders and not medical leaders. >> and they see a person of voodo and do not have the skills to follow-up with the person living the with issue. >> reporter: the neglect of the mentally ill population is another challenge for a nation still haunted by one of the worst natural disasters in history, porta-au-prince, haiti. >> reporter: data brokers in

the u.s. have a long time been selling people's private information to retailers and there is no law forcing this billion dollar industry to allow people to opt out of having details sold on to businesses. as we report the public appears to be concerned about how personal information is now being used. >> reporter: the major u.s. retailer office max new his daughter was dead and how she died. >> daughter killed in car crash or current business and this is my home. why would they have that kind of information? why would they need that? what purpose does i serve anybody to know that? how much more information if they have that do they have on me or anyone else? how do they use it and what do they use it for? >> reporter: these are questions that congress has been investigating. a committee concluding that billions of dollars are made each year by the data brokering industry, the selling of information about all of us

taken from online and off line sources. more over that there is no comprehensive way for us to find out what that information is, where it came from, how accurate it is, who is buying it and what inferences are being made from it. of concern is vulnerability-based marketing, lists of those either documented or inferred to be vulnerable, who would be interested in such lists and why? rachel lobbies on behalf of data brokers for self regulation. >> i think consumers are smarter than perhaps you are giving them credit for. i think consumers understand generally that we all live data-driven lives today and the economy is data driven and days are data driven and information is constantly flowing in all sorts of different directions and what we are doing here is making sure that it's only flowing in responsible directions for responsible uses. >> reporter: the federal trade commission is to reign them in and stop information from being

used to discriminate against us. it's asked how that can be possible when there is no requirement for transparency about what is being sold and to whom. >> if we don't know how the data is being used it can be used for any purpose. so it could be used for purposes to violate the law. >> reporter: we don't know if the data is used to market products to us we might need and cell phone technology and mobile apps provide an unprecedented level of individualized information about our movements and lives. as do the vast stores of information held only our behalf by companies and only the government access is widely debated and not the existence of unregulated, private database and i'm with al jazeera in washington. >> reporter: let's hear from john bigs editor of the tech website tech crunch. >> everywhere you go you give your address and your mother's

maiden is on database for the services we use. why is nothing done about it? there is no legislation in place in the states and europe is different and have stringent third-party data laws that don't allow people to use that information. i think the vast majority 'time when it works it works well especially if amazon knows you like to buy pampers if you keep buying them month after month, that is a good thing. the bad thing happens when this is used for bad. and this is in the case of governments as well well you have lots and lots of data. it depends how it's used at the end of the day. >> reporter: away from the glitz and glammor and the $50 billion there is a different side to the south sochi and we are there. >> several times a day she goes to fetch water. it's easy to slip on the muddy hill side especially when

bearing her heavy load. but the trips are necessary because the taps in her house are dry. >> translator: they keep promising and promising we will get running water. when we go to the house we put in a sink because we had hopes. >> reporter: this is a village 15 minutes dry from downtown sochi but residents said it might as well be in a different century. >> translator: we live in the middle ages, they come and promise everything before the elections, then they forget. . >> translator: i need to bath my babies everyday, how can i do it? . >> translator: we take our children to the main square to see the new sochi and enjoy the atmosphere and return to the homes and the excitement vanishs. >> reporter: you see the points and in the resorts with visitors it feels shiny and new and some

of the $51 billion the games cost have been invested. but even in the city itself just around the corner from our hotel there are neighborhoods where sewage runs down unfinished roads. this is something that people living in parts of sochi had to get quite used to, power cuts, the electricity has been off for a couple of hours now. there is a generator running downstairs and you might be able to hear that and keeping the hot water going. but look lights are off, nothing. last week foreign journalists arriving to cover the games reported stories of unfinished hotel rooms and accommodation in disarray. according to this blogger many were lies spread to reenforce preconceptions of russia incompetence. >> this is about rusty water from sochi problems and tells us

it's from sochi. yes, and but we can find that it's from ukrainian newspaper and it was two years ago and this article tells about bad water in ukraine. >> reporter: but he doesn't care whether foreign journalists are pursuing anti-russian agenda or not and just wants her taps to work. al jazeera and sochi. >> reporter: we will have the latest sport out of sochi in a moment and nba scorer dominates yet another game and stay with us if you can. ♪

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sports time and richardson is with us for that. >> they are getting back to something like his best form and scored twice and a crucial win for barcelona and not in peak condition after injury but he was afloat with his efforts and recovering to win 4-1 and that means that madrid and athletico madrid have the same points on the table with barcelona leading the way on goal difference and hoping i can show you the goals from the day but let's go to the english league for now where manchester david has said they are suffering mental softness after they dropped more points on sunday. and holding united to 2-2 draw

and united now 9 points behind fourth place liver pool for a chase for the champion's league twice. >> we have a second goal but we should have, if we had one feeling, it was we should have gone 3-1 where a couple chances after 2-1 to make it 3-1 and didn't make the moments count and that was probably the biggest thing for me. >> reporter: the action on day three of the winter olympics and mancooso taking the lead after the down hill super combined and competitors doing down hill and 29-year-old, 3 time metalist ahead of laura goots and tina maze and won silver four years ago. and five won on monday including the women's super combined title and coming up, the men's 12.5k

ilometer and on the ice there will be the men's 1500 meter short track final and 500 meter speed skating. we have pictures, austria has celebrating the victory in saturday's mentions down hill, the country's men's team was under pressure coming to the olympics failing to win a metal at the previous games in vancouver. >> how can you prepare for the olympics gold metal? it's amazing feeling. of course the winning ceremony was awesome for me and, yeah, i enjoy it and have a lot of fun. >> reporter: you can spot a photo opportunity with vladimir putin and he was watching the country win the first gold in

the team skate event. the head of pakistan cricket said the game made the wrong decision in backing radical reforms in the way the game is run and they abstained from the icc vote on saturday. it didn't prevent reforms being passed to give governing powers to england and australia. >> translator: the big three will increase their share of the revenue and the other countries will get less. they will take most of the money. this was the reese pakistan opposed it. but it won't effect international cricket revival in pakistan. if we provide better security then the international teams will come. >> reporter: kevin netted 41 points for oklahoma thunder as they return to winning ways against the new york nicks and the late leading scorer had ten rebounds and nine assists at madison square garden and lost

the last game by a point and coming up, a slam dunk helping them to 112-100 victory. and more from sochi coming up, later and that is all the sports. >> and more pictures of andy richardson. china has sights set on hollywood and they have a number of films up for top prizes at one of the world's biggest film festivals and al jazeera's phil is there. >> this is what happens when word gets out that a hollywood star is in the area, but hollywood is so last year or it will be if china gets its way because they are charges ahead this year. this is a festival full of eastern promise. there are three chinese movies in competition for the top prize alone, the golden bear and nine films are in screening here and this is a country and an industry that really means business. it's when you look at the

numbers you realize just how huge the chinese cinema industry is especially compared to say hollywood. you take a huge u.s. hit like zero dog 30 released in 2012 in 60 countries and it took $120 million u.s. dollars which is not an insignificant amount of cash. compare that to a chinese movie like lost in tie land. in one country that movie took $100 million more. there is so much money to be made in chinese cinema and so many people seem to want a piece of the action. a big film festival are not bad places to start. which is why he is here, premiering his thriller the midnight after and took him years to make not because he is slow but the process is. even though china may be changing the senses are still very sensitive. >> they are using at least six

months to center it. >> for the government. >> the government because they have to tell you you cannot do that, this part, can you change something to like this. this is a torture, period. >> reporter: china's richest man is currently building the world's biggest movie complex in the country and trying to launch a festival he says will rival caan and already calling hollywood. >> hollywood is interested in being to bed with china and we seen that in the last couple years with attempt to do more official coproductions and the casting of chinese actors in hollywood movies. >> reporter: the world is watching china in general and china hopes the world will be watching its movies too, i'm phil at the berlin film festival. >> i'm at the news quarters and i will be back with another news

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