this is al jazerra. ♪ ♪ hello there, welcome for the news hour. in doha with the world's top news stories. crowds are still gathered in ukraine's independence square, a new interim leader has been appointed the whereabouts of press i can't think coach i have are unknown. freed ukrainian opposition leader yulia tymoshenko says she does not want to be considered for the post the prime minister. plus a reported million dollars birthday party for the 90-year-old president of zimbabwe, where most men are lucky to reach half that age.

>> and i am jonah hull with the other news from europe. no terror attacks and russia top of the medals table. sochi celebrates as the most expensive olympics ever come to a close. and people in the divided city boat voyt for a new mayor for the 40 time in four months. ♪ ♪ still mass protests in the ukrainian capital of kiev many people are demanding that those behind the recent violence space justice. even u. foreign policy chief katherine ashton will visit ukraine on monday for talks with key players. the parliament is trying to resolve the power vacuum left by the departure of president victor yanukovych. it appointed alexander as the interim president, he's a close ally of yulia tymoshenko.

but the former prime minister says she won't seek to be elected in any future government. and it's still not known where exactly yanukovych is. from kiev here is the latest. >> reporter: victory came at a cost. there is no euphoria in independence square. instead, we found grief. they have lost too much to celebrate. and anyway, they are too exhausted. ukrainian politics is upside down. former opposition leaders now hold power. they deny they stage aid coup against president yanukovych. >> translator: the government didn't want to listen to the people. it did everything possible to hold onto power and it crossed the line when it killed people. now we need a functioning state as soon as possible and parliament will work on this nonstop. >> reporter: and parliament has been business. dismissing yanukovych's minister one by one, setting election dates, a pointing the new speak are as an interim president,

consolidating the change in power. but what of yanukovych. these security camera pictures appear to show it's hopbt rog fleeing his residents in the early hours of saturday morning. they took off towards the east. where they went, where they are now, we don't know. in any way news over the new landscape. yulia tymoshenko from prison to power politics in just a day. i met a protesters who has been on the barricades and won't show her face but she wants a new type of politician. and is not convinced tim shank owe is the answer. >> i am not sure because she is the person with her own bad history and her own bag i believe, so we need someone new. not from old marc mps. >> reporter: with no police to be seen the protesters are in charge, they accused this fried

ended beat man to be a hired thug hired by yanukovych cause trouble they drag him way, we doesn't know what happened to him next. these people have chased a president from power. they are torn down a state but at some point they'll have to step aside if a new political order is to emerge in ukraine, they are not prepared to do that yet. ukraine's protest movement has seen many twists and turns and much is still unresolved. it's become a life and death struggle to shake the future of this country. barnaby fill it's, al jazerra, kiev. >> abdel joins us now from kiev. is it any clearer now where victor januar yanukovych is? >> reporter: no, it's not. the last time we have seen him is in that video message that came public on saturday morning in that message he said that he was victim of a coup and he

still regarded himself as the legitimate leader of this country. since we haven't seen him but did hear from the interim interior minister who said that yanukovych was trying to feed the country on a private jet from the eastern city that he was prevented by -- from doing so by the border guards but he actually fled the airport and has not been seen since, there was some illusion that he have fled the country by land but none of that has been proven. we also heard from one of his aids who actually said, no, yanukovych remains in the country. in the east part of the country. and that he will go and speak to his supporters and explain his position. so we really don't know where he is presumably somewhere in the east. but i think he is in a very difficult position at the moment because you also hear some very harsh criticism from his own party. we heard some m.p.s saying

that he had actually betrayed the country. that he has caused a lot of harm to the unity of the country rich. he is certainly in a difficult position. but many here would tell you that he hasn't had his last word yet. >> now, meanwhile, an interim president has been appointed. what happens for ukraine next politically? >> reporter: well, the interim president who is actually the speaker of the parliament said that he will be -- he's giving two days to all of the political factions to form a nationallal unity government so that should happen by tuesday. but this is a place where there has been so many turns and twists, things have been quite unpredictable so i think a lot of people would be looking at the political wrangler happening in the next two days to reach that national unity government that people here say that they

will stay, they have removed their president, but they want to make sure that what they have been fighting for will actually be achieved. and as i said before, you still have this unknown, what is yanukovych going to do. he said that he doesn't regard any of what has happened as legitimate. some analysts say that he could have a point because the way the parliament went ahead with -- what i would say deposing him and voting the speaker of the parliament as the interim leader so you have a lot of balls in the air at the moment and you just have to find away i for how it will all come together. >> now, we have heard yulia tymoshenko saying she will not run for prime minister in this interim government. but opposition leader vitale klischko has said that he will run for president. hasn't he? >> reporter: yes, he did. we did hear that in an interview that he gave just a short while ago.

and now, again, i would say that one has to really see how things will develop. the presidential elections are set for may 25th, that's still a few months away, and if we look at how things have been developing, we don't know how would that go on. will yulia tymoshenko change her mind and decide that she will run for presidency, that's something we don't know. many people here will tell i she's trying for stay away from the interim government it will be a difficult mission for whoever is the prime minister of the country for the next couple of months and maybe she will reappear and be a kansas dat. >> thank you very much. live from kiev. and there have been clashes in the region in eastern ukraine anti-yanukovych protesters fought with pro russian supporters. demonstrators also fought with police. those pro-russian supporters say

they want them to break a we from the ukraine after march to go city hall the protesters pulled down the ukrainian flag. the area is staunchly pro moscow, almost 60% of the population are ethnic russians. >> translator: we should raise the question of caesarian from ukraine. raise this flag over the city hall. i u.s. national security adviser meanwhile says ukraine must remain united. >> it's no nobody's interest to see try lens return and the situation escalate, there the no, sir an inherent difference between you crane that has ties to russia and a modern one that wants to integrate more closely

for europe. >> for the russian angle let's go live to moscow. fred, in that same interview, susan rice said in response a question about a possible scenario of russia sending in troops to ukraine to restore a government more friendly to moscow, she said that would be a grave mistake. >> well, they are not saying much this weekend. i think that's partly because the sochi olympics are closing today. and putin wants all of the focus on that. but underneath the surface, i think the russians are deeply alarmed and stunned by the speed of events. the way things have changed so radically in just a few days and they will be considering their options, but it is important to note that i think they still hope that russia's natural advantages, it's financial aid, it's gas and oil supplies to

ukraine, it's massive trade with ukraine, will prevail and be the bargaining chips that they can use on any government that emerges in kiev. and meanwhile, vladimir putin did speak with angela merkel the german chancellor on the phone today and they did agree that it's important to maintain ukraine's territorial integrity. so for what it's worth, right know the russians probably are not contemplating any direct intervention in ukraine. but they are watching with deep alarm. >> and, fred, is russia also looking to see who in ukraine, who is the most likely person to be the champion of moscow's interests? and might that person be yulia tymoshenko? >> well, yes. this is the irony, all i can't tim shank owe has a lot of bag immaterial, baggagey and part that have is that she was able to deal very well with

vladimir putin. in fact, the reason that she went to jail, the charge against her yanukovych put her in jail for doing ideal with putin that was supposedly against ukraine's national interest. so putin has always spoken fondly of all i can't tim shank owe and i think she might indeed be moscow's best hope. >> okay, fred, thank you very much. as ever, fred our correspondent in moscow. in other news at least two people have died in a granada tack at an anti government protest in bangkok. eights the second such explosion at the site since friday and the latest in a wave of politically related violence across thailand, veronica pedroza reports. >> reporter: police say the explores was caused boo i a 40-millimeter grenade fired from an m79 grenade launcher, this is normally one of the busiest areas of bangkok, the equivalent

of oxford street in london. >> translator: i heard one loud explosion i saw women and children lying down. i hemmed two women because the children were already being taken to hospital. >> reporter: as night fell and police began their forensic investigations the protests continued just meters away. she told us she already knows supporters of the government did it. >> i think they try to frighten us not to come to the protest sites. >> reporter: protesters want to replace the prime minister's administration, with an unelected government to carry out reforms before elections. it turns out that those who were killed or injured all came from the same family who were selling t-shirts at the store i can see behind me. no one has yet got around to clearing the debris, it's all exactly as it was when the bomb went off. this is the latest in a series

of increasingly frequent attacks on the protests. which the prime minister has strongly condemned as terrorist acts made for political gain. authorities have ordered security to be tightened as the divisions in thailand politics seem to be betting worse. >> veronica pedro, a al, bangkok. 38 suspected fighters kill in pakistan in the country's northwest and they were carried out early on sunday. close to the border with afghanistan, the pakistani military says some important commanders are among those killed. also in northwest pakistan, at least 12 people have been killed in a bomb blast at a bus terminal. more than a dozen injured government officers. police say the bomb was planted in a motorcyclized rickshaw, no one has claimed responsibility for that attack. 21 afghan soldiers have been

killed in a taliban attack on an army base in the countries' east, several others kidnapped. attack took place near the border with the pakistan, extra troops sent to the area. bernard has more from kabul. >> reporter: this predawn assault on an afghan army outpost in the mountain justice border region with pakistan was one of the largest taliban assaults in afghanistan in the last two years, security sources have told us that at least 100 taliban fighters made up of men from afghanistan, pakistan, and arab countries were involved in the assault. afghan president hamid karzai immediately canceled a scheduled trip to sri lanka on hearing of the attack and began pointing the finger of blame at pakistan, he called on the government to take on the fight against terrorism the afghans long and often have accused the pakistanis of not taking the fight against the taliban

seriously, though it should be said just last week pakistan suffered 23 soldiered murdered by taliban fighters in the border area between pakistan and afghanistan, owe pakistan also suffering from taliban assaults. still ahead in this program. the u.s. says it will seek the extradition of one of mexico's most wanted drug lords. meet some of the many syrian refugees children. and in sport canada main are looked to maintain the gold medal. later in the program.

>> study in the school in two shifts. around 200 of them work to support their families. he is a part-time waiter. >> translator: i work on weekend, only my brother and i work. all our family members have university degrees. >> reporter: there are no official statistics for the number of syrian children who are studying or working in turkey. but he was mats suggest that half of the 750,000 registered

refugees in turkey are children. many of them are out of school. he runs a school. it offers certaiers syrian chiln education for $200 a year, she says the costs are high and they are running out of money. >> this generation was the right for education, it is the duty of charity organization to his help us, this is saving a generation and the future of syria. unfortunately there are many children who can not afford the transportation costs. many also work after school. countries should solve the education problem and help the teaching staff economically as the load is too heavy. >> reporter: many students are happy to combine study and work. but syrian children and schoolteachers say they need help to go on.

al jazerra, istanbul. member of hamas are staging a sit-down protest on the palestinian border with egypt they are angry at the frequent closure by egyptian authorities, israel and egypt blockaded gaza in 2007, but egypt reopened the crassincrossing in 2011. palestinians say the crossing is often should making it difficult for people and goods to get across. mohammad marc morsi has beek in court it was over corruption and espionage while he was in office. he is facing separate prosecutions for allegedly inciting the killing of protesters and insulting the judiciary and also over a jail break during the up pricing that toppled hospital any mubarak in 2011.

al jazerra is still demanding of the release of. they are accused of having links with a terrorist organization and spreading false news. al jazerra rejects the charges. another al jazerra journalist of the network arabic channel has been held since august, he's been on a hunger strike for more than a month to protest his imprisonment. the sochi winter games have wrapped up with russians celebrating after topping the medal table let's get more from from now a. >> well, they were the most expensive olympics ever. and not short of controversy. but the sochi games have passed off without the terror attacks many feared and with plenty of medals for the hosts. and at the stunning closing ceremony, which is still going on now, russians a been reveling in their success. lets go live now to rory who is in sochi. so, rory, the russians in

celebratory mood then, are they? >> reporter: yeah, that's true. as you say, the ceremony is still going on, in fact, you can probably see there are some fireworks going on behind me shoulder that's come just in time. yeah, still going on at least another 45 minutes of the air money, we think of the it's supposed to be about three howarhourslong. there was a very nice moment in the ceremony if you watched the opening ceremony or read anything about it, you will know that there was a glitch where one of the olympic rings mechanical olympic rings failed to open. now, in this closing ceremony that glitch was mimicked by dancers forming the olympic rings on the floor of the stadium. and all these dancers forming the rings one of the rings again failed to each. it shows that russia say proud nation at the moment, a proud nation that can afford to laugh

at itself because they feel that despite all of the criticism. they have on put on a successful winter olympic games. the winter olympics finishing at they started, with a celebration of what it is to be russian. butt whereas the opening ceremony was russia self define the closing ceremony presented russia through european eyes the director and italian screen writer. foreigners had much to say about the orals olympics, for some the the home phone are phobi home fe can game terrorist games, the games costing $51 billion, even the dog killing game. it wasn't just foreigners, putt pussy try it's risked bippings .

it's easy to forget that this is a sporting celebration. on the sporting front it's the host nation who are on top of the world. despite the disappointments of russia's men's hockey teague and young yulia. russians finished in first mace on the medalled table so vladimir putin is proud and the russians are proud too. nothing like victory to boost the russian mood. >> putin made no attempt to hide it. he said that this is the olympics, devoted to the resurgence of the russian nation, so for him, it was an extremely important to do this sort of national building effort. through sports. >> reporter: global events can always spoil a big party, ukraine's ongoing crisis has so far shadowed the games to a certain extent.

and once the circus leaves town, it's the people who live in this region who will be best placed to answer the question was it all worth. it. >> so rory as you point out the russians are proud of what they have achieved even though the games were in part, perhaps, overshadowed by events in ukraine, how do you think they will be seen in international eyes among the guests and spectators and, of course, the athletes themselves from all overraover the world? >> reporter: well, we know that the german chancellor angela merkel was speaking to vladimir putin earlier on today by phone, they were in the main discussing ukraine, but angela merkel did say to vladimir putin, congratulating him, saying well done on what she called a sus successful olympiad.

there is a stop inning opinion over the last two weeks as they have seemingly become more and more successful. whether in the long run these are determined to be a good games or a bad games, i think depends on many factors, one of those is, of course, the legacy of this. because so much money was spent on this, there will be a lot of scrutiny about whether the facilities here end up slipping in to decline and starting to rot as facilities in other olympic cities have done before this. also i think people will be watching to see whether the the supposed soft power boone comes to countries who put on the olympic games is also felt by russia and that will be termed by how russia itself behaves on the international stage in the years to come. >> rory live for us in sochi, there, thanks so much, rory. now in a sign of the changing of times under italy's

younger prime minister ever he has taken to twit ter a day after being sworn in. answers questions from his followers the 39-year-old pledge today try to cut taxes and cutting pur bureaucracy would be monther of this all battles, he has 850,000 followers on twitter. one asked him not to disappoint the country's young people of his age, the new government face ace confidence vote on monday. and still in italy, pope francis has handed down a list of commandments to the 19 men he elevate to the rank of cardinal on saturday. he told the select group who hemmed run the roman catholic church to avoid behaving like they are in a royal court and he went onto specify what that means. no gossip, intrigue, power pacts, favoritism or preferentialism. he also told them that they should be saints. advising them to love those who are hostile or speak badly of them. and to smile at those who perhaps don't merit it.

pope francis outlined the code of conduct while celebrating a mass in saint peters with 18 of the 19 knew cardinal one couldn't attend because of illness. since becoming pope almost a year ago he has told his top aids not to behave like a privileged class, i'll be back later this news hour with more news from europe. as greece ice uses to propose cn i y are he minutes rules be relaxed for countries in recession. thousands see attacks by christian ma litschs a speaking to the united states nighted nations later about the situation. and in sport the goal that helped send real madrid to the top of the spanish table andy will be here with those highlights.

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protests are continuing in ukraine where the president's powers have been pass today speaker of parliament. spreed opposition speaker yulia tim schafer owe says sh shangtyt to be involved in the interim government. protesters have been occupying the site in the city centers for months. it's the second such explosion since friday. and the each see went olympics have wrapped up. all u.s. federal prosecutor says they'll try to have a suspected mexican drug lord ex-extradited to the united states, he was the leader of the

sinaloa cartel and had been on the run for 13 yards, he he was captured on saturday. adam is in mexico city. >> reporter: more details are emergeing about how joaquin guzman was caught by dozens of marines who surrounded the condominium building he was staying in mazatlan here in mexico. he was arrested before 7:00 a.m. on saturday. no shot fired, he tried to reach for someone of the arms he had massed in that condominium, but he was unable to do so. the marines subdued him. there were some blows exchanged and within a couple of hours he was flown to mexico city, paraded before the cameras and wisked off to a prison here, there is a lot of speculation about whether or not he will be extradited to the use, several indictments in cities there like chicago, new york, the department of justice is very keen to try them on charges we woulded to snuggling, killing and trafficking of drugs. so but right now, we have a word

from ambassador from mexico in the united states saying he believes that chapo guzman should be tried in mexico. there is no word yet from the attorney general here in mexico what the next step will be, you have investigators in both country ies eager and hungry to make him pay for the crimes he's committed over decade as he has been running the sinaloa cartel one of the world's most powerful and largest international criminal organizations. >> about a million people have been displaced by the con in i can in the central african republic. people are fleeing their homes after months of violence by both the pro come naturally muslim fighters and christian. tana paige has the story of one family's desperate attempt to leave the capital. >> reporter: this street is the haunt let muslims must run to leave. and some don't make it. peacekeepers only secure the

streets for a new homes while the red cross collects the dead. they are all members of the same extented family killed by christian fighters who have lost since melted in to the uneasy crowd. at the muslim camp the teenagers survivors of the attack are shaken, injured and lucky to be alive. they tell me the family was trying to get to a convoy for safe pass tomorrow cameroon. >> we left here in taxis, on the road we see guns and machetes. they drag us out of the car yelling they are muslims, they are muslims. my father and two brother says are dead but we imagine today run away. >> reporter: about a kilometer in that direction is the camp where the young men are sheltering and this is the street where it happened but just before the am berg another car carrying female family members got through to a safe so much on the other side of town. she is alive but now she's a widow.

her husband had all of the family's money on him so now she can't buy food. >> i want to find my family, my brother and mother are already in cameroon, if i can't go what will i do with my children? >> reporter: the money could have favored for them all to join the convoy to cameroon but the general here isn't happy, it's under the african union's protection but only for supplies not a humanitarian mission. he kicked some of them out but some people have already paid the individual truck drivers about $150. it's commerce out of chaos. as soon as the general is gone they reload their bags, they are stowaways heading for an uncertain future. it will be a long, hot, risky journey but at least they made it this far. it isn't safe enough for the surviving members of the is happen family to collect their dead. three more killed, a family torn

apart, a country in crisis. tanya paige, al jazerra, central african republic. >> a u.n. humanitarian coordinator and joins us now live. welcome to the program. now, you have been calling for increased security for muslims trapped in the capital being what is being done to try to protect people? >> yeah, what we were messing these days is just not zip tab table. i met a group of muslims who were trapped in their area for a long time. what they asked me to do is get them out of there. what we are there is happening in many parts of the country.

we need more troops on the ground and need to increase our final are financial support in order to on come the problem that we face here in central african republic. >> it's not just security that's a problem in the area, is it, sanitary, health and food is all problem as well, isn't it? >> everything is an issue here. that crisis is mult multifacete. the response are political. the response also is to do about military, the response is humanitarian. and another one that we may be facing in the next coming days is an economic crisis because that part of the group of the people were doing business in this country disappeared.

if you go to the market today you don't find the product or if you do, they are out of control. you cannot pay them. we need to have more troops on the ground and need more financial resources to address the difference4 problems we are facing today. >> is it just muslims who are under threat at the moment? >> not only muslim, areas where other groups who are not muslim are being also targeted by the celica, but in here of course, muslim are suffering, but in many parts -- we did a mapping on all of the vulnerable groupings in the country, they are all over and this is again reason why we are asking to get more security and time is against us we need to address

this issue you. >> thank you very much for speaking to us, a u.n. humanitarian coordinator live. thousands of people have turned out for the official birthday party of zimbabwe's preds president, he is 90 years old the celebration says were estimated to have cost $1,000,000.08 time which many are struggling just to survive. a report. >> reporter: africa's oldest leader celebrates his 19th birthday. he says he's still fit enough to carry on. he tells supporters he will keep pushing black economic empowerment policies. >> we love our freed immaterial think we love our right to say zimbabwe is ours. and everything in zimbabwe belongs to us.

and therefore we, as owners of everything in zimbabwe, shall say this is the way we want our resources to be organized. >> reporter: in the last decade land and companies have been seized from whites and given to black. a lot say they approve of the black empowerment policy just not happy with the way it's been done they say many are not benefiting. the unemployment right is 85%. the rise in poverty. >> i cannot afford to buy one loaf the bread to feed my children. i didn't finish paying. >> we were supposed to see a boom after the lex, but

unfortunately it's down the li line. vanvleet difficult. >> reporter: he has just returned from another hospital visit in singapore, this time for an eye operation. there is no clear succession plan, some say there could be trouble ahead for the country if the matter is not addressed. voters in the divided city have been back at the polls for a fourth time in as many months. voting in mayoral elections, let's find out why from jonah in our lon d london news center beg what's going on? >> the previous lexes failed because of i violence. the polls have now close where they have been voting for a new mayor for the area north of the river which divides the city.

backed by the government and oliver who is currently in prison suspected of committing war crimes against ethnic albanians in the 1988-1989 war. the serb candidate was shot dead last month. here is an update from there. >> reporter: this is the 40 time that citizens are going to polling stations trying to elect it's mayor. the first time members of organizations which are against these elections because they thinker i serbia is going to recognize independence of kosovo, stormed in to polling stations and the elects had to be canceled, now they are huge are huge security measures in 250 police officers stationed

outside of polling stowings. members of the police forces and the members of international military forces which are stationed in kosovo. these elections are important for immaterial police men station of bristles agreement. the agreement which was signed in april last year between belgrade, between the prime minister and members of local parliament which is elected in northern part of kosovo and the mayors will be a part of union of serbian municipality but one oautonomous region that can rule without interference. they are saying that maybe the majority will have all there. they think that all allegations that are put against him are some kind of a pressure toker is bean bein people leaving livingn kosovo. greece is using its

president to propose that carbon emissions be relaxed for countries in recession, about a fifth of the electricity comes from plants but they have to pay millions for plighting. john reports. >> reporter: this is one of europe's most polluting power stations. it produces about a fifth the of greece opens electricity laugh. year it also produced 13 million metric tons of carbon dioxide because it burns brown coal a dirty coal that's pulver icedded blasted in to the 30 store high furnaces, the they will face $200 million of bills if it continues to emit carbon dioxide at current rates account under even u. law they must now buy permits. the idea is to offset carbon

emissionses and encourage the ice of more environmentally friendly sources of general i. but skip stead of moving away, the public power corporation is investing $1.8 billion in a new cleaner plant. it's the only abundant greek fuel the country generates over half of its electricity from it and there is enough here to burn for decades it's also by far the cheapest form of energy, so if greece is to fuel an economic turn around it this may be its best option. and yet the fires of industry are going out. greece's biggest steel smelter used to employ two and a half thousand people, only 100 remain. >> translator: greek industry pays more than twice as much for electricity italy. spain and france are also cheer. they are the countries that we compete with for the north african market. >> reporter: and the cost of

electricity will rise with the price of carbon. >> now three to four euros per tonight where normally it's 15 or 20 euros per tonight. the power companies are taking advantage of that and the fossil fuel lobbyists 67 for security and economic reasons greece may have to use native sources but wind has suffered under the policy. government has protected neither the steer or the environment and both of running out of time. >> the last surviving member of the musical family whose end escape from nazr occupied austria was the story behind the sound of muse i was a tkaoeurpbgsmusic has died.maria.

r.atrapp died at the ageof 99 i. snow. the sound of news are music was loosely based on the book written by her father's second wife also voled c calls . two giant pandas have touched down in belgium. their names mean twinkling star and good good are on a 15-he year blown are lon from china but they have flown in to a political row. and that's all the news from europe. back to you in doha. thanks so much, joan actual coming up, after the break. how is everybody doing today? >> cooking for help cope with cancer. we'll report on the new food program hitting canada's

screens, and in sport we'll have highlights from the final day of the winter olympics.

take a new look at news. welcome to al jazerra america, i am morgan radford live in new york city, the closing ceremonies brought an end to the 2014 olympic games and rory is there with a lack at how they will best be remember remembered. >> reporter: when the sochi olympics finally burst in to life two weeks ago the event was already carrying huge burdens, for some particular knit west these were the homophobic games,

the terrorist games about to be blown up at any moment. the games costing a record demolishing $51 billion. they were even the dog-killing games. pussy riot risked whippings and arrest here for a punk protest music video. and a website shown a spotlight on the many allegations of corruption. but president vladimir putina was proud. and in the main russians were proud too. these olympics are theirs after all. >> putin actually made no, you know, no attempt to hide it. he said that this is the olympics, devote today the resurgence of the russian nation so for him it was an extremely important to do this sort of national buildingest through sports. >> reporter: armies are charming, smiling volunteers made sure that the visitors who had come felt welcome.

and despite the disappointments of russia's men's hockey team and young yulia, there was still russian gold to celebrate. it's often easy to forget that the olympics are actually about sport. particularly when they come with as much political baggage as the sochi games have. the athlete will be remembering their successes or failures long after the journalists have wandered off to find other things to report on. that's actually already happened. events in ukraine have overshadowed these games for a certain extent. and once the circus leaves town, it's the people who live in this region who will be best placed to answer the question was it all worth: rory challe address, al jazerra, sochi. >> and here is the medal count as the winter games wrap up. russia 33 medals and the host country claimed the most gold with a whopping 13 13 as for the

united states second with 28 total medals, nine goals and moore way is in third with 26 medals and canada is in fourth with 25. after today's hockey victory over sweden. the netherlands fifth with a total of 24 medals. federal prosecutors in new york say the united states will seek the extradition of drug quinoa keen guzman he was arrested yesterday in a joint u.s. mexico operation, details about the fight that took place during his capture are finally emerging adam rainy has the latest from mexico city. more details are emerging of how he was captured. he was staying in mazatlan here in mexico. he was arrested before 7:00 a.m. on saturday, there was no shot fired, he tried to reach for some of the arms that he had amassed in that condominium, but he was unable to do so.

the marines subdued him. there were some blows exchanged. and within a couple of hours he was flown for mexico steed paraded before cameras and wisked off to a prison here, there is a lot questions about whether or not he will be extradited to america. the department of justice is very keen to have try him on charges related to smuggling, willing and trafficking of drugs, so but right now, we have a word from the ambassador from mexico in the united states saying he believes that chapo does arguzman should be tried in mexico. no word from the attorney here in mexico, you have investigators in both countries very eager and hungry to make what coon guzman pay for the crimes he's committed over decades as he's been running the sinaloa cartel, one of the word's most powerful and largest international criminal organizations. >> that was al jazerra's adam rainy reporting from mexico city.

television food programs have long tempted our palate, but now a new canadian show is helping cancer patients struggling with making healthier food choices, al jazerra's daniel lack has the story from toronto. >> how is everybody doing to? >> reporter: cooking well to help cure cancer shot before a live audience it features food that's nutritiousing desirable and most importantly when cancer treatments cause lost appetites or fatigue easy to prepare. >> cooking doesn't have to be hard. chefs make it see fancy bus it's easy. i try to present that. >> we will get the protein. >> reporter: the hosts make the food. they explain ingredients and answer questions. a starter, breads, main course and desert. ale for a patient who might normally open a tin, defrost something bad for them or worse not eat at all. >> easy to make, ingredients are ease toe find and something that people see us do and think, wow, it's that easy, it doesn't have to take a lot of effort and it's

going to make me feel better. >> reporter: fussy eaters, food allergies, vegetarians it indicators to all with variation on his each dish offering replacements for most ingredients, they say both the chef and nutritionists have changed their lives. >> she's nee sneaking nutritionn to us and. >> we are listen at the same time, but it's not like it's just thrown at us. because you are already feeling sick, you don't want anybody to tell you, don't eat this and don't eat that and don't -- because you already are upset about everything else. >> reporter: time to eat. the best part of the show. not everyone tasting here today is a patient or a caregiver, some just like the food. but it's aimed squarely at those getting cancer treatment. getting new ideas in to them are them almost by stealth. >> they don't want to necessarily come to programs all about the cancer, all about the side effects, they want to come to programs that are going to

help them move forward with their life, improve their quality of life and live well. >> reporter: as cancer treatments improvement, medical science is looking beyond clinics and hospital beds, and finding that food can help people cope with the disease that was once literally a death sentence. daniel lack, al jazerra, toronto. >> many are asking what's up after what's app servers we want down saturday. the company tweeted it was restored and a al jazerra apologized for the three hour out i believe. the smart phone app is being bought by facebook for $19 billion. ceo mark suggester berg says their user will grow to 1 billion in a few years, that's for this hour, aim morgan radford live from new york city, the news continues. stay tuned you are watching or america.

welcome back to al jazerra america i am morgan regard ford live from new york city here are the stories we are following for you right now. ukraine in crisis, russia now telling the u.s. that ukrainian opposition is breaking the term of the peace deal and taking control by force. plus a polluted river in north carolina raising questions about the relationship between the governor and the come pa is responsible. and going strong at 90. zimbabwe throws a birthday wash in honor of its president. and as the 2014 went he games come to a closell