are dead, walking around, like we don't exist. >> thank you for being on "talk to al jazeera". >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to this al jazeera news hour live from our headquarters in doha and these are the top stories, the free syrian army commander is backed for being ineffective. a pilot hijacks his own plane forcing it to divert to geneva. >> translator: we are on the right side of history, justice and truth, stay strong and don't lose faith. >> reporter: prepared to face

the opposition leader calling for more, demonstrations in defiance of jail cells and we will tell you who collected top honors just two weeks ahead of the oscars. ♪ leader of syria's main opposition fighting force has been head of the free syrian army and spent most of the last year outside of the country. more now and live to the correspondent omar who is standing by for isin istan bull and why did this happen? >> well, the supreme military council says that the address was ineffective and that they wanted to restructure the whole chief of staff to try and make

the syrian, the free syrian army more effective on the ground in syria. now one source at the supreme council says he lacks the military experience to run military operations on the ground. they did however point out the fact that he did not have good relations with other rebel forces fighting on the ground. and of course when you have the latest development inside syria, the roll of the embassy is almost absent. i think that is why the whole thing came into effect. if you remember, if you combine with the failure, if i can call it the failure from the geneva peace talks, for the last three days, the head of the snc was inside syria and he was promising rebels he met that more quality weapons will start

to come. so i think this is an attempt by the opposition and of course the syrian national coalition to restructure and to make the free syrian army more effective on the ground because when you compare it to other rebel forces fighting there is no role in the fight. >> reporter: and do we know who is replacing him? >> yes. his name is bashir, he is a brigidare general and he deflected from the army in 2012 and heads the operations on the occupying, israeli hides and said to be very experienced and popular with fighters there. >> reporter: many thanks, joining us from istanbul.

he fought a battle along soldiers and he said the fighters would only withdraw if other countries stopped their involvement. >> translator: why is it all right for the u.s., canada, france, britain, belgium, saudi arabia to be concerned of the presence of their own youth and these armed groups but it's not all right for us, the lebanese and the neighbors who are on the border with our future and security and destiny and food and life tied to what happens there. why aren't we allowed to worry, to take measures, to take preemptive measures and preemptive war, call it what you like. >> and u.s. secretary of state urged russia to stop supplying arms to the syrian government and speaking in indonesia they

blame bashir for the peace talks and stone walled and continued to drop barrel bombs on their own people and continue to destroy their own country and regret to say doing so with increased support from i ran, hezbollah and russia and kerry said russia needs to be part of the solution and not contributing so many more weapons and so much more aid they are in effect enabling assad to double down. and swiss police are questioning a pilot who hijacked his own plane, forcing it to land in geneva and the airline was going to geneva and he escaped down a rope from the cockpit and asked for asylum and no one was

injured but there are problems with the airline and it has been an extraordinary start to your week and tell us what happened. >> yes. now, we arrived at 4:00 this morning and the aircraft was hijacked. the airline was hijacked and wanted to land in geneva so we immediately put in place the creative organization. and wait until the aircraft arrived and the aircraft arrived around 6:00 in the morning, a little bit before, but it was this holding for a while and then land at 6:00 in the morning and shortly after that the pilot or the copilot went out of the cockpit with a rope and the police were there and he was caught by the police. >> reporter: why was the plane diverted to geneva? >> that i don't know. you should ask the pilot and i don't know why he chose geneva.

apparently he wanted to do that and geneva might be the right place. i don't think it's the right process but the population. >> reporter: it puts you in a difficult position because now you have chaos of flights that were supposed to take off and land from the airport. >> chaos is not the right one because the airport was closed. and it doesn't open at 6:00 normally and it was open at 8:00, 8:05 and it was only two hours closing. at 8:05 we have the first take off. 8:45 the first landing so of course we had some delays and some flights were cancelled coming from the states were diverted to milan or murick but i'm sure everything will be normal in about one or two hours. >> reporter: that is great for

travels, how prepared do you think geneva was prepared for this which was pretty much out of the blue? >> we were prepared for that time of incident at the airport and also the police that were there was prepared so at the end we are quite happy that nothing happened except airport closing for two hours, which is, you know, not very important. but all of the figures are fine. no one was injured. the aircraft land safely and that is good news for us. >> very pleased to hear it and great to meet you and thanks for joining us. now three u.s. diplomates have been ordered to leave venezuela and they say they were conspiring against the government and an arrest warrant after a fifth day of antigovernment unrest and we

report from caucarus. >> time and patience are in short supply for these people who say they are fed up with the president and his revolution. refusing to back down, they say they will continue defying a government on an unauthorized protest. >> translator: there is a lot of division right now but we have to be strong and not go into chaos or step in the boxing ring and fight against each other. >> reporter: but even as they stood together some question how united they really are. >> translator: we are tired of crime, censorship and people getting killed everyday. >> reporter: it could determine when they need it. the widespread antigovernment protest this week thrust lopez

in the spotlight and the government and former mayor helped organize the student protest on wednesday which turned deadly. hours after police raided his home on sunday looking to arrest him, he sent out a video to his supporters telling them to keep up the fight. >> translator: we are on the right side of history, justice and truth. stay strong and don't lose faith. >> reporter: his growing popularity is a challenge to opposition leader. on sunday the former presidential candidate called on the protesters to show restraint and called for calm. >> translator: we are losing our focus. we fought hard to get this far and try to have change in venezuela but we are taking a step backwards. >> reporter: with the two leaders and different views the opposition movement could be taking two paths.

>> translator: there is a division between the moderates and radicals and some believe the only way to fight against the government is win majority and elections and others believe the government is undemocratic and the way to bring change is to take to the streets. >> reporter: back at the antigovernment protest, opposition members all agree on one thing, that they want to see a change in the government. but with elections five years away, majority of venezuela supporting the president it's unclear how they will make it happen, i'm rachel in venezuela. >> reporter: the taliban in pakistan said they killed 23 soldiers in hostage since 2010. in a video statement they say it's in retaliation for killing of the soldiers by the government and he has condemned the killings and we are live from islamabad and saying the

government accepted the killings took place and whereas before it was denying it. >> well, it did not have the information because it is quite probable the killings took place on the afghan side of the border or along the region of pakistan and afghanistan. it's important to note less than 24 hours ago there was optimism that there would be some sort of a cease fire with taliban and pakistan and the taliban was meeting to give a reply to the government's committee on the demand. however, the faction of tab ban and pakistan led by omar hasini saying they were killed in retaliation of the killing of taliban prisoners and they said they have not killed anybody in

custody. >> reporter: this is a split in pakistan and taliban? >> it would appear to be a split because the current spokesman of the taliban and pakistan had said any statement attributed to anyone else would not be from them yet. we have been getting messages from the former spokesman of the taliban who is allied and very close to hasini so it would appear there is some sort of split. >> reporter: thank you for the update from islamabad. coming up, on this news hour, tales of torture and starvation in a camp. and he is expected-to-be named the youngest ever leader any time now. and in sport, find out what will

happen if the weather gets too hot during the games at the brazil world cup. ♪ to italy now where the mayor of florence arrived in rome and asked for a new government by napali italiano and he is 39 years old and the youngest and these are from the presidential palace and we will go outside that palace in rome. and explain who we are waiting to come out of the door and what they are likely to say. >> well, actually there were moments of tension here ahead of his arrival when not everybody is so happy to see him, to become prime minister even though he is out from the

italian electorate and they belong to the party of italian, who was in opposition in the last government and chanting elections now, elections now and they as many others in italy are disappointed by the fact that he is appointed directly by the president without going to a general vote. well, he is the third consecutive prime minister since 2011 in italy to be appointed this way and the italian summit and said they are tired and want to choose a prime minister. we spoke to other people who say actually what is the point to going to vote because the last vote we had in february 2012 did not produce any clear winner and through politics into a deadlock as finished now after one year and say let's just choose a young person a leader that has

fresh, new ideas to take italy out of the political crisis and they are divided and we will see when he comes out what he has to say. >> if he waited for elections he had been chosen any way and has quite a lot of support among the people, a lot of questions being asked why he was so quick to push out the former prime minister. >> well, he explained that he wanted to win outright the elections but he also said that before holding new elections the parliament should have introduced a new voting because the current low in italy was deemed unconstitutional by the supreme court because it does not allow italians to choose their own candidates and when they saw the prime minister was not doing enough about it, according to him of course he said, okay, enough of this, i'll takeover as a leader so i can push reforms more quickly

including the voting that is much needed for the next elections and we will see when the next elections will be called for. apparently the new government may go on in 2018 and we will see what he has to say about that too. >> reporter: okay, and we will keep checking back in with you and thanks for joining us from rome. 11 rescued, minors in south africa facing charges after rescue from an abandon mind in johannesburg. >> reporter: they are on a dangerous mission to get the people out of the shaft east of johannesberg. >> and rescue has ceased and the site has been handed over to the mine securities and 11 miners

have been removed and in each case we worry about severe dehydration but they have been cleared and indicated stable and from there they have been moved through to police custody. >> reporter: more people could have been trapped in the mine and illegal miners may be scared because of arrest and this ended several years ago and the miners are 30 kilometers east of johanesberg and when they come up what they make is enough to feed their families. illegal miners try to find the pieces of metal left behind like gold. this is the only way some of them can make a living. >> translator: when we try to call, there was no more answers and then we see the 11 people

that are there. >> reporter: mining, is one of the biggest industries and several abandon mines in the area. workers brave unsafe conditions below the ground and in crime and battles between rebel groups getting metal from the shaft and still illegal mining, for some seems to be the only way to put food on the table. al jazeera. >> reporter: in ukraine barricades are still blocking the capitol kiev after trying to drop criminal proceedings against protesters who were recently arrested and they will agree to amnesty after meeting opposition leaders late on sunday might. on the line from the university of kiev is political science professor here and thank you very much for talking to us. any sign there of this amnesty being signed? >> definitely, there is an interim result, 234 persons who

were arrested during the last months, during the evening and will not be prosecuted. most of them are ivy leagues or under home arrest and in the end the protesters agreed to leave the occupied, municipal and state buildings and also unblock the territories around them. and an interim good result but speaking the way how the opposition is speaking is threatening the government especially tomorrow by sending their thousands of people to surround the capitol and surround the cabinet of ministers and do similar things in the regions of ukraine. so it's not leading to any kind of peaceful solution. this peaceful solution means to start real negotiation and especially what is important to have the relevance.

in ukraine we have very poor kind of public administration culture. and strategic planning for culture. so we need assistance from the best experts on reaching national reconciliation. and foreign powers involved, the west, russia, but half of the people would think here with vested interest or russia has vested interest. i'm thinking maybe al jazeera and katar and other leaders of the developing world may play their world and sending here their experts on reaching national reconciliation and we really need it. tomorrow the situation in ukraine make go from bad to worst. >> reporter: sorry to interr t interrupt, isn't there foreign

interference already and isn't this part of the reason why we reached this state of affairs? >> definitely. foreign intervention, intellectual and international is one of important factors in the country which has poor public administration with corruption and inefficiency and so on but i may openly say mr. obama please look at what is your ambassador is doing here. that he wants to make the conflict more serious in ukraine and you need to know to have new approaches here. we really need america and russia sit and think what may happen with ukraine if the present foreign influences continue the way how they were. so for that reason we need really help from real experts in peace building. we need al jazeera's assistance. this is my sincere message to you. tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, things in ukraine may

go out of control and it's not just peaceful protests which are here. we have similar to libyan commanders. >> reporter: just to interrupt again do you think the president vikt vikt viktor yanukovich can continue? >> he has strong police force and army and will leave the reconciliation of conflict will lead to splitting country not even in two but in more. we really need now intervention and organizational intervention of experts, of spiritual and intellectual leaders and it's a dangerous situation. yesterday after the municipa mu building was held by protesters a gang of para military they bit

three policemen wanting to check work workers there and uncontrolled people there and it must be taken and good to leaders of opposition invited to germany to talk with the chancellor of germany. >> thank you for joining us there and it was interesting view points from kiev. and now time for all the weather with richard. richard it has been horrible times in japan, hasn't it? >> i thought we covered the story but they have more snow coming back again and this is the satellite and running the sequence and you see the clouds streaming across from china but the area to the north which is giving concern at the moment and snow across parts and not just the far north but further south and many central areas have been hit quite badly and like 25

centimeters over the course of the weekend and totals up to 80 centimeters and causing disruption and for the city you see this and a lot of traffic disruption and the death toll which is 19 at the moment and 1600 people injured as a result. so this is a situation we have at the moment. you see a lot of snow across more north in areas and i think another 25 centimeters easily across the region. further south is looking somewhat better here but across more southern areas we could see further snow coming in with 25 centimeters of snow developing. i think the next day or so. as we move through wednesday we see the snow tends to push away and we have problems for a while yet. on the other side of the pacific we also have a snowstorm coming on which brings mixed blessings really and the snow could cause problems across british columbia

and northwest of the united states. but having said that we need precipitation, whatever form it takes. it looks as though there is snow and the rockys and could look at half a meter of snow in places with a temperature of 9 degrees it could be a larger case of rain and portland, oregon we may see heavy rain developing in the next few days, laura. >> thank you very much. u.n. is warning about a disaster looming, in the desert region to chad and rainfall and food sources have effected 20 million people and we report from the remote village on the border of synagal. >> reporter: they know how to live on less but thises that been an exceptionally bad harvest, goats and dried beans and a plate of corn is all they have left to eat. >> translator: i'm worried for my people.

which had such little rain this year. our harvest was really bad and have to be careful with what we eat. >> reporter: adults eat one meal a day and for children this is lunch, crushed dried beans have little nutritional value but it fills the stomach and may get one or two. >> translator: we tell the children we are cooking dinner but actually we are boiling leaves and eventually they fall asleep with an empty stomach. >> reporter: hunger is not new to the region adespite the assistance it has doubled to 20 million people in the last year. >> behind these figures tremendous amount of human suffering and development, the wrong investments, the wrong policies, it's a message there

is nothing valuable in pointing fingers and what is important for the future is we have a plan. >> reporter: they are asking for $2 billion to fight food shortages in the region and people are hungry but not dying of hunger. this is not a famine and despite the appealed made by the u.n., for the government, this is not a crisis situation yet. >> this is the lifeline of this remote area and they travel hours to collect a few liters of water but there is not enough for every within and six months before the next rainfall the worst is yet to come. this is at the border. >> reporter: it's the third anniversary of the revolution with topples, gadhafi and libyans are out celebrating others are unhappy with the

experiment in democracy and that is next and jamaica and bobsledding team and we will have the latest from sochi.

♪ hello again and the top stories on al jazeera, the commander of syria's main opposition fighting force saying he was chief of the free syrian army and supplys and weapons are key for the dismissal. swiss police are questioning a pilot who hijacked his own plane in geneva and the airlines

copilot had the flight to rome after his colleague did this and no one with was hurt but caused chaos for others. the president ordered expulsion of diplomates and antigovernments had a fifth day of demonstrations in caracus. four people have been killed in a tourst bus bombing on the border of israel and a cc-tv recorded this when it happened and three koreans and one egyptian died and tourists are in the hospital with injuries and no one claimed responsibility for the attack. the trial of three al jazeera english journalists is to begin on thursday and 20 people charged and having links to a

group and greste and fahmy and mohamed had been held for 50 days and our sister channel has been in custody since last august and now on the 29th day of hunger strike against them and al jazeera rejects all charges and demand the unconditional release of its staff. thousands of libyans are gathering in the capitol square to celebrate the toppled moammar gadhafi. exactly slee years ago that mass protests against the former leader began and it was an evented the day of rage and sparked an eight-month civil war and john is live from the capitol tripoli and expecting

more people and will they be out in celebration or to tests? >> it's a bit of a celebration and a bit of a somber atmosphere. there is a lot of unhappiness about the experiment they had with democracy and hear from people of middle age and older and i'm here with mir who is the founder of the libyan youth organization and he is going to present to us the view of younger libya. i will ask you first of all, as a man in his 20s, the founder of the libyan youth organization are you optimistic about the future here? >> absolutely and a lot of drastic changes happened for youth across the last three years. only four years ago as a libyan man, as a young libyan man i could not envision what i was like to pursue academically over

the next few years but could not do my days. today the opportunities are endless. we have people who formed hundreds and thousands of civil society organizations through the country with people participating in political parties and we opened their own entrepreneurial businesses and corporations and what not. and it is the opportunity is out there following the revolution now, absolutely endless for the libyan and created a very, very positive atmosphere here for it. >> reporter: and those are fireworks and not gunshots in the background. let me ask you to talk a little more about how life changed for you and how was life under moamm moamm moamm

moammar gaddafi and how is it now? >> we have seen women in local elections and politics and civil society and see people raise their opinions and beliefs and the right to freedom of expression and right to freedom of speech and to organize and create physical parties and voice your opinions on various platforms if it's a tv station or a civil organization and we have seen everything from domestic abuse represented in such organizations to environmental issues and these things were almost unheard of in the previous regime and unheard of four years ago and as you hear the celebratory gunfire or fireworks and they are talking about the values that are going to last. the security situation is only circumstantial but the values and freedoms that come with the revolution is creating a very optimistic environment among the

libyans because this is what is going to bring us on to a very bright future. >> but let's talk about this, the security issue, for those of us and the rest of the world we look at libya and the security situation and you have violence occurring and you have attacks on journalists and the prime minister being kidnapped in october. you have a positive view of the future but explain, i mean is this just the messy transition from a dictatorship to democracy? >> yes, it's a transition and not transformation. there is a lot of weapons out there in libya. but given statistically if you look at it, the number of security issues occurring is absolutely minimal compared to the number of weapons out there. people want stability and people want everything to settle down. the issue with security is it's debatable if it's the government's fault but the lack of an official police force and

the lack of an army has of course allowed for a lot of these security, a lot of the malitias that were part of the revolution. >> you see this getting better. >> absolutely, i see this getting better. we have a lot of centers and a lot of institutions and a lot of plans put forward to absorb all of these circumstances, all these issues and security problems into the state and official body and into an army and hopefully dissolve such issues very soon because the libyan people are optimistic about creating opportunities for young men and women to create a better and brighter future for their lives. >> reporter: we have run out of time and i want to thank you very much for talking to us and that is the view of young libyans and back to you. >> many thanks indeed. now torture and starvation and murder and north korea told

amnesty of prisoners in the secret state and the u.n. is about to publically accuse the leaders of committing crime against humanity and we have more. >> translator: it's a place that would make your hand stand on end and no words to explain what the place is like. kim-un spent time in a prison camp. from sunrise to sunset you work and no hours and you get up at 3:00 a.m. and work until dark. >> she managed to escape the country giving evidence to the u.n. and the south korean capitol seoul for their year-long investigation into the secretive regime and according to a leaked summary of the u.n. report it accuses north korea of torture, widespread abductions and murder and defectors spoke of extermination camps.

>> translator: i have escorted a father and son to camp 16 and the whole family was sent and relatives would be sent to camp 11 and that is called the exterminating three generations of a family. >> translator: i have witnessed two killing methods, one is getting the prisoner to dig their own grave. the second method is the prisoner comes into the office and told to take a seat. behind the screen there are two people who are holding on to me what looks like a rubber rope and it gets wrapped around their neck. >> reporter: there is a guilt by association law and families can be locked up with no knowledge of their crime. >> translator: i maybe the culprit but the other six members of my family were forced to go with me to the prison camp without knowing the charge. >> reporter: 80 victims spoke during public hearings and spoke of the starvation of fellow prisoners. >> translator: people got so

hungry they would eat anything from dog food and cattle feed and beans left on the ground. i heard some people ate beans stuck in animal dung. >> reporter: more than 200,000 people are thought to be locked up in state concentration camps in the condition and north korea denies crimes against humanity taking place, this is al jazeera. >> reporter: a few hundred and 50 people are fleeing violence everyday in search of a better life and heading to kenya but the camp is almost full and as catherine sawyer reports they are looking for new land to house refugees. >> the rainy season is expected to start in a few weeks and south sudan people who arrive rush to beat the rain and they

construct the houses before then. the side of the camp floods and they arrive from duba two weeks ago and will not go back home any time soon. >> translator: i don't know where my husband is. i lost all of my property. i don't have a home any more. who will help me? >> reporter: 17,000 refugees from south sudan have come since december and living in very poor conditions and basic tents and the refugee camp, this is an extension to the camp that was set aside specifically for this. but now it's also filling up very quickly. with an average of 250 refugees crossing the border into kenya daily services at the camp are bound to be screened. >> what we have is protection and well-being of children. because they overwhelming majority of them are like all

women and children. >> reporter: here they are physically tired and emotionally drained refugees want to be taken to their new home and at the camp they live side by side and dinkas with the war in south sudan. back at the camp we method elizabeth and left a month and a half ago and told us how their living here shows the fight back home is not with them but between two people. catherine with al jazeera, refugee camp in northern kenya. >> reporter: still to come on the program, how china is dealing with the growing mountain of electronic junk. and find out who is the tallest in the nba all-star game. ♪

♪ more than 20 people have died from denge fever since the beginning of the year and three times more from the same period last year and we have an effort to control the mosquito-born disease. going into battle against a deadly enemy. regular fogging by teams of health inspectors is many ways to keep the denge mosquito under control but no amount of work like this can destroy them completely. >> this is unfortunate disease and not enough vaccine and no

antiviral treatment. so everything revolves around control. the entire management of denge resolves around control. >> reporter: what the health minister means by control is removing the sites where mosquitos can breed. anywhere there is stagnant water and can be private homes as well as outside. >> reporter: and discarded trash is where they breed and all they need is a small pool of water to lay eggs and larvae will appear within three days. door to door house calls are another means of geting the messages to the houses and if they are not home a leaflet is left at the door and once inside health inspectors will check any and every potential breeding spot and toilets and drip trays and kitchen sinks but it's not easy. >> people do not allow us to go

in to do inspection and do not check by himself, the potential places to destroy it. >> reporter: there are four times of denge virus people can be infected with but one strain is bigger than others and it was types one and three. this year however it's type two that is causing most infections. >> what we are seeing now is something different from before. in terms of the numbers and also the aggressiveness of the disease. the aggressiveness with a chance of mortality. >> reporter: the message health workers want to get across to the public is simple. your country needs you to cleanup, to stop the mosquitos and cover up to keep you and your family from being bitten. >> reporter: china receives two thirds of all the electronic waste the rest of the world

throws away and it's growing larger as they become richer and their society becomes a throw away society as well and this is a nightmare as we report from beijing. >> shipped in from around the world to one of the main ports for solid waste, millions of tons of scrap metal that china processes every year, among the most value scrap is e-generation from laptops to mobile phones. in nearby villages in this part of eastern china evidence everywhere of the hazards caused by recycling toxic components. a government crack down on unregulated processing has forced repsychers to take refuge in concealed yards. a potential resource but a pollution nightmare.

it is a nuisance for people lucky enough to live next to the fort. >> translator: the situation is worse compared to when we moved in a few years ago and the pollution is serious and bad for our health. >> reporter: two thirds of the scrap goes to china, increasing amount of e waste being processed here is homegrown and will continue with rising affluence. tv and computer monitors on their way to a new recycled existence. able to handle 2.5 million devices per year, this plant is operating at about two thirds capacity. but it won't be long before china's appetite for newer devices means the plant will be operating at full strength. >> translator: the amount of e-waste keeps increasing as chinese see their living

standards rise and buying wide range of electronic and dumping divided. >> reporter: it's a sector that is set to expand. a new growth business making a living from outdated technology. and i'm in beijing. >> reporter: they are happy with one of the unfinished stadium in brazil and they described the world cup venue as fantastic despite the fact it's still a building site and secretary general said it's 97% ready and should now be finished in march and the rain forest said they can pause games there if the weather gets too hot. >> they are saying it's too high and make sure the players are not in danger and make sure they

can start playing and they can drink. we are playing in beijing at the olympic games at noon time. it was very, very hot in the stadium and the games would play and play for 90 minutes. >> reporter: madrid are level on points with barcelona and athletico and had unbeaten streak to 14 matches and they had a second and a team that was without the expanded ranaldo in the second half and then they are a second behind barsa on a goal difference. in england they hit back about comments made about him and is embarrassed for the chelsea manager and speaking after his side beat liver pool 2-1 for the finals and next, everton and

said he is a specialist. >> i did not speak about you in my press conference. and let's focus on things that are worse in futbul and i'm disappointed. >> this is number one spot in the league game and the better side and i think our development as a team and to come here and virtually dominate most of the game and real slack going forward and this disappoints because it's a competition we wanted to do well in. ♪ well, folk is the story in opening day of day ten with out door events having to be delayed

and lacrosse is off and the biathalon will take place on tuesday weather permitting and russia leading at the halfway stage of the bobsled but team jamaica and they have returned to the games and going with dicksson and raised $80,000 to take part in these games but for now they are in last place, the third and possibly final run coming up, later on this monday. defending olympic hockey champions beat canada 2-1 in the group of the hockey tournament and the teams go straight in the quarter finals and united states beat slavonia and scored three goals and the u.s. won 5-1.

>> it was really big. we started coming to the game against russia did not mean anything if we did not win and continue to improve as the tournament went on. it's another step forward that we needed. >> reporter: australian-born irving is the all-star player from the best from the west and counterparts for the east took place in louisiana and he had 31 points and 14 assists as it was 163-155 and ended a three-game losing streak. >> just being out here with all these great athletes and playing in front of a great crowd in new orleans and the game got competitive and as athletes we want to make the game competitive as an all-star game and if you are out of hand and they compete in the end and the east wanted to win and took it personally a little bit.

>> and cricket captain and 281 and the first person to score a test triple and scoring 100 and the hung side will take 325 run lead into the final day. >> just took each bullet at a time and each error at a time and, yeah, i mean they came out hard and weathered the storm and i've got a few rounds away and keep trying to take them as deep as we could and to lose one today is pretty pleasing. >> reporter: hoping the weather will clear in sochi but that is it for me for now. >> reporter: andy thanks very much and getting news out of italy and we have been waiting to see the presidential palace open and we are hearing now, and waiting for it to open but we

are hearing the president has asked his mayor of florence and being the new prime minister and more at the top of the hour. a top race for the awards in london. "12 years a slave" is the best film but there was a best british film that went to gravity and there is clues to the winners of the awards which take place next month and we have the stars on the red carpet. >> reporter: the biggest movie stars of the world need help staying smart now and again and hollywood royalty were on the carpet and there is kate and she was talked about for blue jasmin and prince william turned up to make this woman a fellow and she

won an oscar playing his grandmother, the queen. gravity had hopes and up for 11 awards and best british film and best director both of which it took and had been one of the critic's favorite and the cast are american. the movie is set in space. yet this still counts as a british film and here is why. >> it was not filmed in outer space but here and film making is an international endeavor and these are international film awards and just so happened that british film making involves talent from europe and both sides of the atlantic. >> oprah winfrey is a famous woman and she missed out to jennifer lawrence for "american hustle." best supporting actor went to a person who played an somali

pirate against tom hanks and captain phillips was one of the four homes with nine nomination to "american hustle" ten and the prizes waited "12 years a slave" and steve mcqueen and has taken $30 million in the first week alone and missed out on prisons but took two of the big ones and this is the best actor and this was the best picture. that is it for another year. the first in many where there was not one, not two but four strong contenders for the up rises and there is not long to wait, the academy awards in los angeles take place in two weeks time, al jazeera in london. >> reporter: please stay with us on al jazeera, and our friend will bring you another full bulletin of news right ahead.

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