jazeera. ♪ you with watching the news hour live from the headquarters in doha with the top international stories, the parliament will not be forming a new government until thursday but says an arrest warrant for the fugitive president will be issued within hours. just a day after a top taliban commander was targeted dozens are killed by air strikes in pakistan areas. a new year, a new plan and she says how she will strengthen the

economy using $4 billion. [chanting] egypt's big challenge, why thousands of people are out on the streets and refusing to go to work. >> i'm allen efficient in hebron and 20 years after a massacre at this mosque people are still dealing with the fall out, paying the price. ♪ a top story, the ukraine is in desperate need of leadership and the same politician removed the president and working frantically to form a new government. it extended the deadline to thursday. the interim president hopes to have a national unity coalition in place by the end of tuesday and he explained that more time is needed for further constitutions. russian foreign minister says

they will not get in ukraine affairs and expects the west to do the same and added they are interested in ukraine becoming part of the european family but that it's dangerous to impose an either with us or against it choice on the country. meanwhile the european union is offering support to opposition leaders. eu foreign policy chief catherine ashton has talked about stabilizing the economy. ukraine prosecutor general confirmed that an official arrest warrant is due to be issued later on tuesday for the arrest of former president victor yanukovich. and yanukovich's whereabouts remain unclear. he has not been seen publically since saturday. and now there are to names being put forward for the post of interim prime minister and both well-known and established political figures and first is the economist and lawyer is a foreign minister and one of the

leaders of the father land grouping in parliament and also an ally of newly-freed former prime minister klitschko and the billionaire politician turned businessman is a former foreign minister but no longer aligned to any political grouping and he was once the head of the central bank. a new video emerged revealing more about the extent of violence that led to the fall of victor yanukovich and andrew simmons reports now from kiev. [gunfire] new images of last week's crack down in kiev, shots aimed at unarmed civ i don't knows and dozens of lives lost and the killings led to the down fall of a president. now victor yanukovich who is on the run, the latest reports saying he was last seen in crimea is wanted for mass

murder. ukraine's acting interior minister on a posting on facebook says yanukovich and others should face justice for ordering the killing of civilians. and one far right opposition leader is claiming russia may be about to take military action against ukraine as part of an attempt to rescue the former president. >> translator: we have information that a number of russian military ships arrived with russian marines on board and the russian federation has begun to act aggressively to the situation in ukraine and it could initiate a military intervention against us, and it's also possible that the ships are here to evacuate former president yanukovich and take him under its care. >> reporter: the sweeping changes that follow the violence have left a security void. self-defense units who have defended independent square are attempting to fill that void with work that includes guarding public buildings. it may look normal like the

center of any major european city but this is the capitol of a country that has no functioning police force. these people refuse to remove their barriers and insist the only way forward is the use of a network of self-defense groups. this is the commander of one group and he says for now they are managing well. >> there is no problem at all, look around you, is there something on fire? is there any danger for our citizens? >> reporter: his car is from a compound full of new and unregistered suvs and limousines and thought to be owned by yanukovich's two sons and they are working with the police alongside former protesters but after all the violence the police fear reprisals. >> translator: we are trying to protect them and they are citizens and need to do normal work and shouldn't be afraid.

>> reporter: the pace in ukraine is fast the start of the new policing will be much slower and the people of independent square are in no mood to hand over full control. >> it's talk to andrew now and andrew we do know the formation of the unity government is postponed until thursday. can you tell us what is behind the delay? >> reporter: well, really it was the overwhelming amount of business facing this parliament, this fledgling president trying to pave the way for a smooth process and it's not for the two candidates for the prime minister post. it's more a whole raft of portfolios for the entire cabinet which all, under this constitution, go through a vote in parliament. it isn't just the new prime minister to go away and form apparelment. they will vote on each of the portfolios apart from the

foreign minister and defense minister's post which is appointed by the president, in this case it's the acting president and then voted on by parliament. incredible amount of business and not only that and also an immense amount of business in terms of readying some sort of prosecution process for yanukovich if he is actually caught. >> that is the thing too, an arrest warrant we know now will be issued for yanukovich and that is expected to be issued a little later today. but he is still in hiding. >> most certainly. we do have these media reports of sightings in crimea but that is all, nothing coming through. russia repeatedly saying that as far as they're concerned what happened here was not legal, it was effectively an armed mutany and warning there has to be a carefully measured process and

also warning that the trench of financial aid which amounts to $15 billion u.s. dollars may not actually be handed over. it's in suspension right now. and we also, we have negotiations going on with the eu's catherine ashton over a possible bail out involving the eu, imf and the u.s. beyond that also a trade deal. so an incredible amount going on. but just to pick up on that point about the prosecution papers, what we are hearing is this, that in session right now is a hearing at the district court. it's likely that there will be the papers issued there, an arrest warrant for yanukovich. and this is the court by the way that actually jail ed him back n 2011 and something of an irony there but this court will issue

the arrest warrant because up until now there has been no official paperwork to backup the facebook posting by the acting interior minister which announced that the president and others were wanted for mass murder. after that, i'll tell you very briefly on this, the next move in parliament we are expecting is possibly a vote on this parliament actually joining and going to join the rome statute which would enable should there be an arrest of the former president and would enable an extradition to the hague and the international criminal court with possible charges of crimes against humanity. just imagine all of that business going on in that parliament and also the election process of a new prime minister and a new unity government but after all of that the presidential elections which will be taking place on may the 25th and now we can expect

nominations from any moment from today on wards for that posting. >> reporter: intriguing development, andrew thank you very much and andrew simmons reporting from the ukrainian capitol kiev. russian foreign minister warned the interim government no one should be left out of any constitutional reform and all regions and political parties should be considered and walker is in the ukrainian city in crimea and it's known to have close links with russia. >> because of a special agreement, ukraine's port is home to russia's black sea, navel fleet, that is just one of the many ties between russia and the crimea peninsula. many people here would describe themselves as russian and speak russian and although most people have ukrainian citizenship. victor yanukovich is rumored to have fled here but it's not

clear really how much support he really has. what is clear is his government collapse caused great anxiety among people here and may be political groups seeking to capitalize on that. and pro-moscow groups who organized protests here and lots of people gathering in resent days outside of city hall where they want to install their own mayor and raised the russian flags and there are ethnic tatas who are pronew government in ukraine so there is the potential for trouble there. the word succession is not a popular word. a lot of people say it's unhelpful and even unlikely but it's inflammatory and those are the kinds of words being talked about bit the russian media, by social media, the ukraine revolution in kiev is often been seen down here as an fascis tshg take over that was nasty and

violent and not to say russia saying they want to make it easier for ethnic russians here to get citizenship and describing what is going on as an infringement of their rights. then the u.s. saying it would be a grave mistake for russia to get militarily involved and that down here may well be seen as western meddling interference. >> reporter: pakistan fighter jets have bombed taliban hide outs in the northwest killing at least 30 fighters according to military officials who say the attacks targeted tribal areas of north and south and there is reports that a civ i don't know house was hit killing members of a family and two days earlier the commander was shot dead and it's not clear who killed him and we have more on tuesday's air strike. >> aircraft have been pounding positions in north and south

along the border region and the military says these are training areas for the taliban in pakistan and also been hitting ammunition that belong to the taliban, pakistan and all this is happening at a time when the cabinet meeting is underway to discuss what sort of policy the government is likely to adopt, whether it will go for a military operation or whether it will still keep the option of talks open, however, most political and military analysts believe that the military strikes in the area are softening. the hard points and strongholds of the taliban in pakistan and perhaps a prelude to a ground offensive. >> reporter: south korean president is marking her first year in office with a new push on economic reform. she is planning to speed up growth to 4% over the next three years and the president says the employment rate will also rise to 70%.

and she took office with plans to overhaul the economy but her program has made slow progress so far. harry faucet has more from seoul where a union demonstration is underway to mark the president's first year in office. >> reporter: the first anniversary as president is marked in the center of seoul by a very large demonstration, tens of thousands of members of the korea trade unions and upset and worried about the president's reaffirmed commitment on the speech on the first anniversary of her taking office and wants to take on the public sector and try and reform it, make it less inefficient and privatize some parts of this, something that saw a large protest and a rail strike towards the end of last year and a crack down against the korean rail union and she has been trailing this for some

weeks and since the beginning of the year she said there was be a three-year reform package announced and what she flushed out today and talking about rebalancing the economy through the real reliance on exports to more services and domestic spending and revitalizing the housing sector and building more houses and offering low interest loans and $3.7 billion fund for entrepreneurs trying to start up new companies. >> reporter: more coming up, including struck down by a serious illness and we meet the families in california who say their children are suffering from a suspect virus. a fragile trust and they are still struggling despite the help of french troops and coming up, in sport we will look how cricket can be nice in bangladesh despite all the troubles in the country.

♪ shrelanka accused the chief of inferioring with the internal inquiry of war crimes during the civil war and rejected a call from the u.n. for an internal investigation. the u.n. high commission of for human rights is questioning the independence of columbo's own investigation. chuck hagel is urging the pentagon to shrink the military and wants cuts in spending and reduction in troops, bases closed and for some airforce fleets to be scrapped and the proposal would reshape defense priorities for the united states after more than ten years of war. >> the strategic choices in management review and the qdr both determine that since we are no longer sizing the force for prolonged stability operations, an army of this size is larger

than required to meet the demands of our defense strat di. given reduced budge etc. it's also larger than we can afford to modernize and keep ready and we can reduce active duty in strength to a range of 440 to 450 soldiers. >> reporter: they have been hit by a wave of strikes and protests and thousands of people are angry overworking conditions and low pay and now the military-backed interim government has resigned and nicole johnston has more. >> reporter: the interim government had a tough time lately. workers the street calling for high salaries, better conditions and demanding the government to fix the economy. >> translator: we are on the verge of nothing and we have no money and we want to survive.

>> reporter: bus drivers and garbage collectors. doctors, pharmacists and police officers have also joined teams. in the northern city of malaha after 20,000 workers at textile factories started the sit in over two weeks ago but they are now back at work. >> translator: i'll i ask for is 7% increase which any worker can get and not have a decent life. >> translator: we were told a minimum would be set for our wages so we are demanding our right. >> reporter: it's been 7 months since the government of mohamed morsi was over thrown and not onni onning -- long after a temporary cabinet was appointed and they announced the cabinet was resigning and he didn't explain why but said right now running egypt is a challenge.

>> translator: during the last 6-7 months the cabinet took on a heavy responsibility and carried it out with a sense of duty and success and as with any other social project it can only be as successful as they can achieve. >> reporter: he will stay on as prime minister until a new one is appointed and the big question is what is this man up to, general cici was the defense minister and now the cabinet resigned we still don't know if he will be reappointed as defense minister in a new interim government. cici is head of the military and many expect he will run for president. if he does he just resign as leader of egypt armed forces. as for the strikes, it's too early to tell whether the government's resignation will be enough to end them. and a new cabinet will only have a few months to try and do a better job before egyptians go to the polls once again to vote in parliamentary elections,

nicole johnston, al jazeera. >> they want the staff released from egypt and peter and mohamed and fahmy have 59 days in prison and they are accused of spreading false news and alshamy from the network's arabic channel has been held since august and he is on a hunger strike to protest the imprisonment. tapes of the prime minister talking about getting rid of large sums of money are fake. audio recordings on youtube, he is reportedly telling his son to dispose of cash and this conversation reportedly happened with a graph inquiry and news broke and the main opposition says the prime minister should step down. the head of an al-qaeda linked

group in syria gave break away members five days to join talks or be expelled from the country and he is in charge of fighters like these, in an audio message posted on the internet he told the islamic state of iraq also known as the isil to join arbitration with leading clecics and some suspected suicide bombers were behind the assassination of the top envoy in syria on sunday. french politicians are getting ready to vote on extending the central republican they have 1600 troops supporting the peace keeping force there but despite presence the violence is continuing, displacing thousands of people from their homes and tonya page has more. >> reporter: it's tough for people to earn a living in bongi

if you are selling wood or bread it's tough and it goes on and this is p 12 district and hundreds are packed and ready to leave and to protect themselves. many people here don't trust the french because at first they only disarmed the celica fighters who mostly have been muslim and some feel they were left at the murder si of christian fighters and trust is so fragile that the local red cross is sent away and some would accept the help of islam. >> al-qaeda and even the devil, you come to help us welcome and you will enjoy, enjoy. because i'm in love with me now. what do i have? i have only 50 meters. it's better to be in prison. >> reporter: even with the french here people are being killed but he is cautious about

accepting help from anyone. . >> translator: if they come that will exterminate everyone and who will benefit, not the muslims, not the christians and we need the international community to protect us. >> reporter: antibalica christian fighters are getting organized and a spokesman says they want stability after liberating the country but on their own terms. >> translator: we know our strength. the peace keeper and force and we do it when we are ready, and i like to bring peace but there is none. >> reporter: thousands of christians and muslims live in fear a patrol can be a welcome sight and in a week they will be at home in france and many more may follow. this is a relatively new operation. the french leading a patrol that includes police from the central african republic to show the presence of the street. being seen together may help but

many people want food, not more guns, regardless of who is carrying them. there seems little doubt french peace keepers have saved lives and their presence in the central african republic may not be too popular here or at home. bongi central african republic. >> reporter: he is the head of the desk at the international federation of rights and is live from paris and thank you for joining us on the show. as i understand it you were in the car for two weeks and you yourself witnessed massacres and a lot of abuse that occurred there. no doubt there is a lot of anger and tension in the streets right now. just explain to us how with the presence of foreign troops actually help calm the situation. >> they try to do it, actually they are not a soldier there and that is why we ask for u.n. to

sound a peace-keeping mission as soon as it's possible but also to other troops and other country to support french and african troops in central africa because you have to remember that half of the country and the eastern parties to occupy by the former malitia celica and the western parts is under the pressure of antibalica and i heard in the report, the differences between christian and muslim and it's quite true but it's not totally true also. it's, first of all, it's a political conflict to get, to keep the poor and it's become more and more conflicting with the dimension and first it's a political conflict that produces all the massacre and all the human right violation and all

these aid and disaster. >> reporter: i just want to go back again to the presence of french troops in the car. now, some of those who are on the ground do not trust the french forces,, in fact, see them as foreigners invading their country and those who left communities vulnerable to the antibalica christian fighters there is a fine line here, isn't there, of foreign peace keepers and foreign invaders? >> it's a worse mission for these kinds of troops because they came with a special mandate to examine the malitia and came last march and balica and rised up and began a huge force attacking muslims, attacking now christians.

and so they are between two different forces and are against everyone and they try to be mutual and they try to disarm the muslim people. >> reporter: right. >> definitely they are not willing by any act of the violence, that is why the mission is so difficult. but french, as for african soldiers, peace keepers. >> reporter: mr. gil thank you for joining us on the show, the head of the desk at the international federation for human rights. moving on, japan government says it will continue to use nuclear power because it's an important source of electricity. the cap cabinet released the first draft energy policy since the army three years ago which damaged reactors at the fukushima nuclear plant and says nuclear and renewable and fossil file will provide energy until 2020 and have to meet new safety standards.

the world health organization says the level of air pollution in china should be labeled as crisis. dense smog has blanketed beijing for a sixth day in a row and they raised the alert to the second highest orange level. who says when pollution levels are high people should be warned about the dangers and should stay indoors. >> the crisis means we need to take immediate action to protect ourselves so in these days of course we have to recommend that people don't go outside to have physical activities. they stay in side and keep children in to the extent possible to protect them against the possible negative health effects we have. >> reporter: we have everton to look at the weather and possible snow may bring relief the to the smog in china. >> that is what it takes, changing weather conditions to clear the air and we will see that over the next couple of days. this is over a good part of the korean peninsula and i move out

of the way and you see the area of clouds making its way in from western parts. high pressure at the moment sitting there across a good part of northern china and through beijing and here is our weather system and increasing clouds and going east through the next couple days and the wind is picking it up and stir the air and beijing is around 14 degrees celsius and here comes the rain and snow and will make its way wednesday and thursday and falling back to 8 degrees celsius and conditions coming in long last and winter will go further east and drive its way across the korean peninsula through the weekend and temperatures ten above in seoul and around 14 celsius and clouds and rain spilling into a good part of japan and over the next couple of days. in fact, the wet weather links back to the unsettled weather that will push to the eastern

side of china and shanghai seeing some for a time and clearing its way through and stretching its way to southeastern parts of china. >> reporter: thank you and still ahead on this al jazeera news hour we will tell you why columbia is suddenly feeling the effects of antigovernment protests across the border. and two young to die, and they talk about infant mortality rates in nigeria and in sport the dallas mavericks leave it late to beat the new york nicks in the nba.

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welcome back and you are watching al jazeera and these are the stories making headlines, the parliament denied the new government until thursday and alexander had hoped to have a coalition in place by the end of tuesday. there are two names being put forward for the post of prime minister and that is klitschko is one of them. pakistan jets bombed taliban hide outs in the northwest and killing more than 30 people according to military officials and it's being reported two civilians were among those killed. south korean president has unveiled a three-year plan to kick start the economy. she wants to boost growth by 4% over the next three years, it has been a year since she took office. now let's return to our top story on the fast-moving events

unfolding in ukraine and the crisis has further damaged an already ailing economy and the new leaders say there is no money left in the treasury and that finances are in a catastrophic state. interim president alexander has warned the country is on the verge of defaulting on its debts. his officials are believes to be currently negotiating a loan from the u.s. and poland to stave off a default in the next two months. and he is a senior economist at the institute for public policy and joins me live from the ukrainian capitol kiev and thank you for being with us. as we have just heard the finance minister said the country is in need of $35 billion in aid, russia is holding a $50 billion loan. we just heard the u.s. may come to the rescue, but doesn't this come though with stringent

conditions? >> yes and no. i think that obviously there would be some strings attached and things ukraine will have to do to get the money and we also will say that ukraine can get a few billion dollars already now once we knew the new government because i mean we don't have much time. >> reporter: let's look at what needs to be done say few crane does get the loan. an aide. what sort of economic reforms do you see ukraine undergoing? >> it's not just reforms. i think it's more proper to talk about the anticrisis package and i think the imf sort of memorandum, the list of requirements that ukraine made a long time ago is valid like gas prices and making exchange rates more flexible. and doing things that would help balance public finance and then we can talk about reforms. >> well, let's talk about the gas prices as you mention them and russia is the main supplier

of gas and know ukraine is behind in its gas bill and are we likely now to see a repeat of the 2009 incident when moscow shot off gas supplies especially if political developments do not go russia's way? >> indeed the right chances that russia might increase the gas price because there was an agreement that there would be one made by ukraine and the previous government and if russia doesn't do that and i don't think russia is interested in just presenting it in a bad light of making ukraine suffer, even if russia does not do it further ukraine has a hard time paying for that because there is a debt of $2-$3 billion that ukraine has and it's already a difficult situation. >> reporter: thank you, sir, for your insight and this is the senior economist at the institute for public policy. a 46-year-old palestinian man

from occupy jerusalem died in an israeli hospital and he was serving a jail sentence in an israeli prison for driving without a license. he was apparently transferred from the prison to a hospital and israeli medical sources claim he suffered a heart attack but his family says he was beaten up in prison during clashes with police who stormed the jail after reports of unrest and palestinian sources however say he suffered a head injury and that is why he was taken to the hospital. a group of six palestinian prisoners say medical experiments were conducted on them by israeli officials and some sent a letter to families asking them to prepare their gaves and their relatives have been holding protests. and february 25th marks the 20th anniversary of the hebron massacre and 29 palestinians were killed when an israeli

entered a mosque and began shooting and he only stopped when the crowd over powered him and he has been there and found the city is still struggling two decades on. >> he bears the scars at the mosque and he joined them in hevron when he suddenly heard gunfire. >> translator: people were terrified and dropping on the floor and said the shooting came from outside and others said it was inside. when i turned to see i received a bullet and woke up four months later in a hospital bed. >> reporter: he went to the mosque with a rifle and a lot of bullets and by the time he was over powered he killed 29 and wounded more than 100 and it was condemned from both sides and the rioting on the west bank and he will never walk again, the wheelchair a constant reminder of the day he cannot forgive, cannot forget. >> translator: palestinians have been punished, the mosque

was divided and his fate was closed and stores were shattered and people were caged in their own homes. >> reporter: and every one bears the scars in a city where there is settlers and palestinians live side by side and both were touched by continuing violence and the street was the main road through the town and the israelis decided to act. in 1996 two years after the massacre the israelis closed the doors to palestinian traffic and 14 years ago they decided to close the road entirely to palestinians. the only way to be on this road is if you are an israeli or foreigner and for palestinians this is a no-go area and businesses ordered to close and all are shut to date. and he and his brothers used to run a tobacco and he is unemployed and he once worked in this part of the city. >> translator: living here we are in a prison except we don't know when we will be released.

i crossed two checkpoints on the way to my house. >> reporter: he has been back in the mosque twice since the shooting. it's too painful, too inconvenient in his wheelchair and today he would rather go home and he leaves and the memories and terror of that date never will. >> reporter: let's go to allen who joins us and allen no doubt many painful memories from the massacre and what is the legacy two decades on? >> let me give you a brief shot of one part and this is the populus city in the west bank, 99.5% of the population is palestinian and this is palestine army, and if you see that is a point and the building next to it has been taken over by israelis as well and there is a barrier which goes to the main artery through the city. some palestinians who live around the area can live in

there but there becomes a point where it's a no-go area, that's because that is where the israeli settlers live and if you are palestine you cannot go to that part of town. the israelis will say they were here from bible times but it was really only settered after the 1967 war and then the palestinians and israelis lived side by side and tense but they were there but after 20 years ago it all changed and israelis were worried there would be reprisals much worse in the massacre and mosque and put in security procedures and the palestinians believe not only did they suffer but many people being wounded and 29 being killed in the mosque that they are still suffering today because access in their very own city is restricted for 700 israeli settlers who are guarded by more than 3,000 israeli army troops. >> reporter: a gloomy picture you paint there and it was once

a bustling city and now it's a ghost town. are there any signs that might change at any time? will hebron and will life actually come back to hebron? >> when you talk about the street there has been a campaign and of course it has momentum with it coming up, on the 20th anniversary of the massacre that the street should be reopened but israelis are dead set against that idea. so that remains a ghost town. more than 500 businesses were ordered to close. many of the people who owned the businesses said, look, we would like to reopen. we would like to take our shops and see if we can get some business but the israelis have said, no. so the prospects of the street changing are very small indeed and no indication that is likely to happen soon and that is a huge scar on the center of hebron and because that doesn't change then the atmosphere in the city is likely to change and people would love to be able to

live side by side with neighbors but there is little chance of that happening and people remember the massacre of 20 years ago. >> thank you, allen, that is allen fisher reporting from hebron. a mystery polio like illness is bafflingly doctors in the state of california and neurologists say five children developed paralysis in one or more of the limbs between august 2012 and july 2013, after 25 more had similar symptoms. >> our suspicion is that it's a virus but that is unproven. there are other viruses that can do this. we know it's not polio virus. and the california department of public health as well as other investigators are really hard at work to try to figure out what is causing this. >> reporter: the deaths are 13 people in venezuela and they are setting up roadblocks in cities and calling on the president maduro to step down and placed

rubbish and debris by the capitol disrupting traffic. and promaduro bikers are riding around despite the barricades and burning rubbish and said the president can count on them and promise to keep their demonstration peaceful and legal and president maduro has this message for supporters. >> translator: it's not a conspiracy and it's not a protest, venezuela is basically an fascist coup in aggression and wants to put an end to the revolution and democracy. >> reporter: there has been more violence the streets of caracus and a small group of about 50 student protesters through rocks at police on monday night and responded by using tear gas and mad suching ro chaired a meeting filled with national dialog to resolve the crisis and opposition leader was invited but declined because another opposition leader has

been locked up. hundreds are gathered in the mexican state to mark the first anniversary of an uprising against a cartel. armed leaders march through on monday where the movement began a year ago and people took on the drugs cartel. nigeria has the worst rate of infant mortality in africa and the second worst worldwide and according to research by linsot and save the children one million babies die on the day they are born and half of them are in africa. and we report from the nigerian capitol. >> preparing to bring into the world another child. tammy travels 15 kilometers every week to get to the clinic for care and wants to avoid what

happened last time when she lost her baby during her ninth month of pregnancy. >> and my baby and my baby is okay. >> reporter: identical story paints a picture of lack of help by local authorities. >> facilities and personnel. you see you have one thousand doctors in the city alone. and if you go to all the area counsels, you may not have two, three doctors. >> reporter: complications during pregnancy and child birth have resulted in deaths of both months and babies. >> this complications we have

seen and some of them also come from the homes. >> reporter: specialized care like this is in nigeria and even where it is available there are challenges. every month this center for children records an average of 100 complications. and this shows how big of a problem child care is and the stress it puts on existing facilities. by the time many pregnant women arrive it's often too late for unborn children but the government said the miss wife introduced a few years ago reduced infant and maternal death. >> we infused in the system about 4500 mid wives nationwide. and the intervention league ensures to make sure they are part of labor and delivery. announcer: the scheme will run two years before local

authorities take over but with corruption and a shortage of facilitys in rural areas few pregnant mother can hope for change any time soon. i'm in nigeria. >> and catherine is an experienced mid wife based at the university teaching hospital in northern nigeria and currently in manchester and joins us now from there. catherine thank you very much for joining us on the show and there is an of course need for professional, medical care in nigeria and just explain to us what is behind this lack of professional care in nigeria. >> thank you. lack of professional care in nigeria can be due to the fact that many women go to their own skilled attendants for the

deliveries and this is official care and are not killed and that is why we advocate for the need to invest in mid wife whose are competent and know what they are doing, who have been trained in life-saving skills and who can quickly attend to immediate newborn care. >> there already is a mid wife program that is currently in place. what do you make of this scheme that is running now? how do you think it can be improved anyway? >> yes. and this is in process now in nigeria can actually be improved, if the mid wives are giving consideration and well paid and they are trained, you know, to deal with challenges that they face because of their duty. i feel that it's going to go a long way to help them. >> reporter: now, catherine, what about education for mothers

to be, is there much of that going on in nigeria and can that be improved? >> yes. and mothers can also be educated and also can be improved because many of the women have not, you know, gone to school, you know, for them to be smart to public enlightenment on what women should know by communicating to them in the community and strengthening, you know, the health so they can be convinced to come for care in the hospital. >> reporter: right. >> and also it would be nice if there is free medical so that these women can also have confidence to be able to access healthcare in all our different

healthcare sectors. >> reporter: catherine, thank you so much for joining us on the show, we do appreciate you taking the time and catherine, and she is experienced mid wife at the university teaching hospital in nigeria. still ahead on this al jazeera news hour, we will have all the sport including david moist who is feeling the pressure as united get ready for the champion's league the last of 16 times. ♪

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it's time for sport now. >> thank you very much. and south asia cricket tournament is on the way and they are in bangladesh to fight for the asia cup and as we say from ddoca last year they almos lost the event. >> a year of chaos left the country struggling with deep divisions but not here. like almost everyone in bangladesh the players have strong political views and once they enter the field they leave it all behind. >> translator: when we play cricket we are 100% together and forget the politics and are a family and that is why cricket is growing and growing in popularity. >> reporter: bangladesh is about to host two major tournament, the t 20 world cup and the asia cup which starts this week. but the images going around the

world last year were disturbing and burning buses and riots and patrols and put the changes of hosting in jeopardy and they can hardly wait. >> translator: we feel excited about seeing bangladesh play and we are here to encourage the kids to likely support our country and show their pride. >> reporter: at the height of the political violence last year countries considered pulling out of tournaments being held in bangladesh and seem like a dis-stant memory but they are taking it seriously. >> he works for the cricket council and the organizers of the asia cup. >> there was an issue that acc were thinking that the political part of the country is not really stable and a lot of

people were thinking that this tournament can go somewhere else. but bangladesh proved them and tried to manage it on the land and interested bangladesh can organize it at their facility and it's going very smoothly so far. >> reporter: cricket is the unifying force here and when they play it gives them something to get behind and the cup here and means for at least a few weeks bangladesh could be a nation of harmony instead of a nation of discord. and i'm with al jazeera taca. >> shrelanka are playing in the opening cup and they won the toss and will bat and he helped them to 225 for 4 after 39 overs. and united will be aiming to put their poor domestic form to one side as they return to european

action on tuesday. and rooney has done best to deflect the pressure from david ahead of their last 16 tie from greece and they say it's the players who are to blame for their league form and that the champion league offers a realistic means of saving their season. >> the feeling you get when you actually win this is incredible and so there is no way you would want to stop and you want to win every year and obviously that is impossible and we can go to the final one and it would be great and it's an opportunity to win a trophy and hopefully we can do it. >> reporter: tuesday's other types is last year's finalist and taking on the first and into in the match and far from perfect form and there are 3-0 to hamburg in the last game and trail the german and european by 20 points in the league.

they are up to 5th in the spanish lead to keep the qualification alive and are 2-1 to recover from successive and league defeats and they were only promoted back into the spain's top five of the season and trail 4th place and athletico by four points. the point guard raymond has been arrested for criminal possession of a weapon. and he was charged on three counts having turned himself in just hours after he had faced the dallas mavericks and scored 44 points for the knicks but was still on the losing side to manhattan because jeff sank a job shot on the buzzer to give dallas 110-108 victory. and they had a good start in his effort to win a record 6 championship title and here is the undoubted rally of the match in his first round concept with

germany's becca and the last won the title in 2012 and was to win the match in straight sets and top season defending champion gets going late on tuesday, between them the player has won the tournament in 9 of the last 11 years. minnesota vikings fans were the sense of nastalgia and you may want to look away and the home is no more as its demolition continues and it was voted one of the worst stadiums in the united states due to its inability to deal with bad weather. in its place it will rise an all new $1 billion stadium which should be ready in 2016. and there is more on our website and check out al jazeera.com/sports, that is it for me. >> thanks very much. and stay with us here on al jazeera, we have another full bulletin of news for you right at the top of the hour.

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