jazeera. ♪ hello again from doha, this is the news hour on al jazeera. more than 500 leaders and supporters of the muslim brotherhood are sentenced to death in egypt in a mass sentence on record. also u.s. president barack obama opens talks with eu leaders as ukraine pulls the troops from crimea. searching for the missing malaysia airliner and debris off the coast of australia and a quarter of a centsry after the

exxon valdez ran aground, they are coping with an environmental disaster. ♪ so the court in egypt handed down what is being described as the biggest mass death sentence in modern history, 529 people accused of being leaders and supporters of the muslim brotherhood convicted and sentenced to death in the south of egypt last year and we have the report. >> relatives in shock, moments after the verdict was announced. it's the largest number of people to be sentenced to death by a court in egypt in world history. the 529 defendants may have been supporters of the deposed president mohamed morsi were

accused of killing one police officer, seizing government weapons and damaging property when a police station in the town of batii south of cairo was attacked. [gunfire] it happened last august. at the time egyptians and security forces carried out raids on two large antimilitary protests sites in cairo. hundreds of people were killed leading to riots in other parts of the country. defense lawyers said they had been given no time to review trial documents. when the verdict and sentences were readout the defense lawyers were banned from the courtroom. and they criticize the ruling of presiding judge joseph. >> translator: the trial was eronous out of the defendants only 68 appeared before the court and the rest were detained in a central prison.

the presiding judge was angry and decided to hand down the judgment in two day's time. >> lawyers said the court decision has been too rushed. >> translator: we believe the trial is a right enshrined in the case was absent. >> reporter: crack down on opposition voices especially members of the outlawed muslim brotherhood. most of the defendants are from upper egypt, a conservative tribal area where blood-fuse runs deep and raising concerns of this verdict could lead to further instability and violence in the country. i'm with al jazeera. >> so let's talk about this and we have the professor of contemporary history at the university, 529 people, the numbers i have came from amnesty international last year and 109

sentenced to death through the year and 529 in one year, what do you think they are trying to not even achieve, tell people, say to people by such a bold move? >> two messages, the new regime they try to send, one, confirm to the people they are in a crack down and any kind of opposition to the current system. and basically they say to the people in the industry to some e egypt system, it's a political message and egypt is preparing itself to vote for one candidate and basically try to keep the sign of approach of demonizing one political group as a way to gain support from other people and more dehumanization and the muslim brotherhood means more force to cc in elections so i see this is what they try to send. of course, there is another

level that i saw in the last few hours and basically blaming the judge. >> and the lawyer told us someone who is a lawyer for ten of the defendants was saying the whole process was flawed in the court system and that might be almost the only sort of way of appeal or anything like that because a judicial process has actually taken place here and the sentence handed down. how come in after two sessions they decided to take all the people to the death so basically there is a big question mark and also a question mark how the judge decides to do so for, you know, as a result of killing one officer in the police station, rather, what are the details about the case itself? so basically there is a big question mark. those who are defending the current regime try to say the problem is in the judge himself. >> and this is 529 out of 545 who are on trial out of 1200 or

so. >> yeah. >> all told, what happened to the rest? >> in two weeks we will have another 700 people taken to the court. again, on the same, i would say, cases. so basically it's expected to see more tough, i would say more sentences by the current court system in egypt. >> thank you so much for that and we can talk more to amnesty later in the program about some of the numbers, thank you. also in egypt the trial of the three al jazeera journalists ended for the day and peter greste and fahmy and mohamed accused of spreading false news and rejects all charges against them and his brother went to the trial and peter is prepared for the long haul and remains strong. >> our expectations are not too high and hoping we will have another successful day defending

the charges and hopefully get another hearing date set sooner rather than later. given the strength of character that he has, he is coping remarkably well. he was in good spirits and looking forward to today's proceedings. >> reporter: this is day six of the journalist's detention and al jazeera rejects charges against them and demands immediate release and here is a report on the background of this case. ♪ the al jazeera english reporting team were detained at the hotel by egypt services on december 29th and taken to cairo's high security prison. egypt television broadcast this some weeks later showing the interior of their hotel room. initially the three men were held separately but now they share a cell together with

others. mohamed fahmy had a shoulder injury when he was detained, until two days ago he was denied proper medical attention and to the family can barely move his arm. and baher mohamed is able to see his wife and children only once a week with one extra visit for mother's day and peter greste's family is commuting from australia for the hearings. egyptian president made a statement last week delivered to peter greste's parents saying he will share no effort to work towards the speedy resolution of the case. on sunday mohamed fahmy received a letter from the president and he says. >> i stress and reiterate the egypt judicial and he will guaranty the rights and cherished by the law and directed the interior minister to follow-up on your son's

health condition and stress all possible care must be extended to him. >> reporter: the last court appearance the men spent the entire hearing in cages. they were able to call out, asking for international engagement to free them. a fourth journalist, al jazeera arabic has been detained since august 2013. he has been on hunger strike since late january and i'm anita with al jazeera. >> in the news ahead the slow invasion of salt and a report from low-lying bangladesh and fighters seized pour in central african republic and the changes since then and in sport a classic and they blow the spanish title race wide open. ♪

the word leaders are gathering in the hague to discuss security but nominated about talks of ukraine and president obama is there and the russian minister sergei fedorov will hold talks with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry and live to the hague and simon is covering this for us. anything to report as far as the ukraine side of the conference goes if i can say that? >> no new lines emerging so far but we understand of course the principal focus of the day now is very clearly on the crisis in ukraine and president obama's decision to convene a g 7, a very clear snub to the russians who makeup g 8 and the leaders will have a meeting at 6:30 this evening at the dutch prime minister residence and discussing what to do next with

response to g 722 and actions in ukraine is top of the agenda with a temporary ejection of russia from the g 8 and a particular blow to president putin because he at the moment shares the presidency of g 8 and looks forward in june to hosting the g 8 summit in soshy and that summit is under threat as well and an opportunity for president obama to pool ideas with other leaders on the fridges of this meeting to see how far he can bring them in terms of tough response imposing punishment and sanctions. he mentioned that earlier today when you met with the dutch prime minister. there is this notion that europeans are more reluctant to hit the russians hard with sanctions because they have more to lose. >> presuming with that we will talk about nuclear security at some point and feel sorry for the organizers because they are planning this a long time and ukraine conflict over shadowing things. >> yeah, there was a danger

there and i think the protocol demands that a fair amount of individual participants focus on what they are here to do in the first place which is this nuclear security summit. that too interestingly is a personal initiative of president obama and he launched this process, the basic premise being that there were too many nuclear weapons in the world and far too much highly enriched nuclear material and says that is terrorists getting their hands on it poses a significant threat to global security and driven the process forward personally and this is during the course of what will be a busy day for him and that will engage a lot of attention here. three basic principals at stake here, they are trying to reduce the amount of material available in the world as a whole and trying to improve the security and trying to make sure that it's not just up to the individual countries, all 25 of them who hold the material to

determine how they secure it and create a global framework. where you are in the world with highly enriched uranium or platonium and it's difficult in the process so far. >> thank you and live at the nuclear summit there in the hague. as we discussed the russian foreign minister sergei fedorov will meet the president and peter sharp has some reaction from moscow. >> well, of course, the russian prime minister sergei fedorov has not met the opposite number john kerry for ten days and things were very different ten days ago. this was in london and met six hours and could not come up with really anything but at that stage don't forget it was a will he, won't he, talking about putin go ahead with annexing crimea and two days later of course we had the referendum where people in crimea voted overwhelmingly to join russia, two days after that putin

addressed the kremlin and a few days after that the legal processes hurdled through parliament and now crimea is very much part of the russian federation. where can sergei fedorov and kerry go from there? well, it was kerry in london who said the only settlement of this is a political settlement so talks will have to start at some stage if they want a settlement between ukraine and kiev. and of course the sticking point is, and no secret here, is crimea. kiev says it will never accept the fact that crimea no longer belongs to the ukraine. >> reporter: a developing situation of course in crimea and we should talk to well with ukraine ordering troops to withdraw from there and comes as russia strength ens the hold on the region and raising flags overseas military bases and detaining commanders and earlier they used stun grenades to take one of the bases in the port city there.

ukraine says the troops and family based in crimea will now be moved elsewhere. and now let's talk to nick spicer and live for us and tell us the latest on the military situation with pull outs or otherwise. >> it appears to really be the end game here as far as the military conflict go with ukrainian defense ministry at least issuing orders for the redeployment of soldiers to mainland ukraine and commanders i have spoken to the past days have said part of the problem they have been facing is the orders simply have not been clear enough. quite apart from civilians entering bases first in many instances, preventing them from firing at the russian soldiers who were behind them. they now face, these ukrainian soldiers a difficult choice of signing up to the russian army and going back to the ukraine mainland, very difficult decision for many of them who have families here and their whole family histories here.

however, the russians are moving quickly forward on to streamlining the local administration along russian lines. and the russian speakers who voted to join russia have very high expectations. ♪ they are rocking in russian in sevastopol and nothing new in the russian-speaking majority here but with breath-taking speed they are ruling russian style too. people here are registering to get russian passports. the happiness and high expectations are hard to miss. the concerns do linger this re t retie tells me. >> translator: i don't know what we do with pensions and prices go up, but i think it should all workout. >> reporter: to administer crimea along russian lines top

officials from different ministries, defense and interior and fsb or the federal intelligence agency and highly symbolic move clocks on march the 30 will advance by two hours to moscow time. this young couple leaving from a maternity ward found out they will be parents, the birth of a new crimea is another source of joy and not concerned about rumors that the baby bonus to families will disappear. >> translator: the future mother says of course the russian government will pay and it will be more than before. her husband says russia supports young families and no doubt everything will be fine. >> reporter: a big change will be the shift to the russian currency starting in 2016 with a ukrainian is legal tender until then, what exchange rate for people's savings and pensions and salaries or money given to a band? possible source of discord in the future but for now russian

speakers in crimea are happy with the promises moscow is making. ♪ and can i ask you more on the military side of things, ukraine has said to its troops they should withdraw to the mainland, what happens to the soldiers now? >> well, on a personal level imagine being faced with a choice the russians are given and have to decide whether or not they want to join the russian army or the oath they pledge to defend ukraine still stands in their hearts and that they need to go to the ukrainian mainland and some may not have lived there, discuss it over with their families, pack things up if they do decide to move. the ukrainian government promised lodging and compensation and that as described the men as heros and not men who betrayed their jobs to defend ukrainian nation and of course comes a much more difficult, still military question of what do you do with

all the equipment, the russians are seizing war ships and bases and heavy artillery and ukraine soldiers said this is our equipment, we want to go out with it. if there is one example that might possibly serve in the future, it is a russian armed force which accompanied ukraine soldiers who left over the border and may see convoys with ukraine soldiers moving back to main lane ukraine and my suspicion is they probably will not be allowed to take a lot of military hardware back to the mainland. >> reporter: and nick is live in sevastopol and thank you for that. at least 98 people died after a boat capsized on lake albert between uganda and the democratic republic of congo, as many as 250 people may have been on board, the boat transporting refugees back home from the refugee camp in uganda and we

have malcolm webb on the line and anything more you now? >> they set off saturday morning from the other side of the lake and u.n. said it may have as many as 250 people on it at the time. police and survivors said it was chronically overloaded, refugees were all carrying possessions, mattresses and so on and about one kilometer from the lakeshore it capsized and talking to people from in land areas and as many of the refugees were and one of the reasons the casualty rate is so high. the police say the boat was overloaded and said they have since arrested the captain and one of the survivors and also they say at the time he was under the influence of alcohol and had been drinking and what some of the survivors said as well. >> reporter: the latest on the boat capsize and thank you.

there is hope for a missing malaysia jet and they have confirmation from china it spotted white floating object in the southern indian ocean and search teams are in the area to see if it can bring answers to the relatives of the 239 people. they simply disappeared more than two weeks ago. >> i cannot advise the house a u.s. navy poseidon, and the australia airforce o-ryan are in the search area and planes and ships continue to search the area for any sign of the missing aircraft. >> reporter: on board one of the australian plans was andrew thomas and has this update. >> this was an unusual search flight because crew on the plane did see objects in the sea and many military flights from the

air base over the last week or so. this, the flight we were on was the first one where crew spotted definitive objects in the water, at least four or possibly five and so low over the water the objects are at best fleeting and i must admit i may have seen one of them and cannot promise i saw that, they are that fleeting and professionals on the plane looking out of the windows saw four, potentially five objects and dropped flairs on the water and smoke and alerting other planes to where the objects were and a ship as well is on the way and should have arrived by now and should find the objects as we speak and bring them on board to see if they have anything to do with the disappearance with the missing malaysia plane, if they do that is a very big development but if they don't it's yet another false lead and shouldn't get too excited but it's the first time that we have

got objects on the surface of the water. >> let's get a check of the world weather with metrologist and steph and we are joined by the viewers and what do you have for them? >> in colorado we have seen dry conditions and taking advantage of this in order to do some controlled burning. what happened is because the fire has been so hot, we have seen a rising column of air that has begun to rotate and that picked up a lot of debris and not actually a tornado but it's still a pretty scary sight particularly when you have a lot of fire there as well. now elsewhere of course we have been hearing about the land slides and mud slides to the northwest in the states and we will see yet more rain over the next few days and that will help to loosen the soil a little bit further. so if we head through tuesday and wednesday we will see the next system pile it's way this

with rain on the coast and further inland over the mountains and bring us snow. elsewhere it's a different from with the weather and it has been cold for many of us in the northeastern parts of the u.s. over the last few months. in fact, four toronto it has been the coldest winter for the last 20 years. now unfortunately over the next few days it's still going to say bitterly cold and minus 2 is the top temperature on tuesday and really this time of year we should be near a positive 6. >> thank you for that, we will go further south to one of the busiest waterways in the u.s. is closed after a massive oil spill, a barge carrying 4 million crude collided with a ship in texas and cleanup started and birds in a nearby wildlife sanctuary are under threat. the threat and people living in alaska know about, it was a quarter of a century ago, the second largest oil spill

happened on their shores, the exxon valdez ran aground causing the longest environmental court case in history and daniel has a report from southern alaska on the lasting effects of that spill. >> reporter: they didn't have this 25 years ago, a computer simulator to teach mariners about alaska's tricky coastal waters and the desks appear to heave on the swell and no better way to practice on an oil tanker. >> as real as it gets without being in danger but it's hard to convince yourself sometimes you are not in danger. it's totally real. it's virtually real. >> reporter: when exxon valdez hit the reef in 1989, millions of liters of crude gushed into prince william sound. beaches were fouled, fish and wildlife coated in toxic tar, the cleanup and court cases went on for years. a quarter century after the

unthinkable happened the waters on the southern coast look clean and the scenery as splendid as ever but problems remain with the environment, animals and humans. thousands lost livelihoods as fish stocks collapsed, bob lynn ford left his boat to scrub beaches and fell ill from chemicals in the cleanup and it took a transplant to restore his health. >> i got an autoimmune disease and my bone marrow failed and two, three other complications from that and it was like 16 years missed for me. >> born in april and came to us with her umbilicus still present. >> reporter: and the doctor is a sea otter expert and helped rescue hundreds of them from the spill. thousands more perished and the animals are only now recovering

in the wild. this is exxon crude oil collected 25 years after the date. >> reporter: they are still finding oil on shore and rick worked on the exxon valdez disaster and helps cleanup spills around the world and learned transporting petroleum is risky and one way to lower the risk. >> more oil produced and burned in the world since the exxon valdez oil spill than all of human history up until that date. it's pretty stunning. so we have to get better at using oil more efficiently and transitioning to low cash and sustainable energy economy. >> reporter: until that happens those who live in the spectacular place can't help but worry about another spill. the wreck of the exxon valdez did lead to shape heirshiper here but ill effects still lingering and demand for oil growing by the day the disaster lives on in the minds of many,

daniel lack with al jazeera off of alaska. >> reporter: ukraine over shadows the talks but supposed to talk about dangerous nuclear materials and we will look at the risks. and in sport the champion to secure the world number one ranking by winning the invitational or would he? details coming up, a little later. ♪

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story, an egyptian court handed down death sentences to 529 people accused of being leaders and supporters of the muslim brotherhood and it's described as the biggest mass death sentence in modern history. leaders are gathering in the hague to prevent nuclear attack and talks looking like they will be dominated by the crisis in ukraine. they spotted debris in the indian oceans and new hope for the missing airlines plane that disappeared two weeks ago with 239 people on board. more on the summit of nuclear security and 50 world leaders are among those attending. while the talks are likely to be dominated by talks in ukraine delegates are trying to reduce the risk of attack and this report from simon mc-greger wood. >> reporter: the summit is president obama's big idea, in

2009 he called the danger posed by the world's huge stocks of nuclear materials the most immediate and extreme threat to global security. not all of it is well guarded and the word is closer than ever to nuclear terrorism. >> the biggest problem is the sheer amount of material in the world. there is around 1400 tons of highly rich uranium and 500 tons of plutonium there potentially used in a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: in the last two years countries given up stocks but much more needs to be done and today there are still 25 countries that hold stocks of weapons grade material and the worst case scenario is nuclear material falling in the wrong hands to make a nuclear bomb and it takes this amount of material to make a bomb the same size as the americans dropped only hershey in hiroshima and it is

read -radio activity and used for research and medical needs and say it's not necessary because lower is just as good and guarding stocks is a national responsibility but some parts of the world security is not good enough. >> people mentioned countries where in the past material control is not of highest standards and people mentioned south asia and including pakistan and india. >> reporter: a global regime is needed with high standards and regular inspections and not everyone wants to cooperate. it's not clear if new tensions of ukraine will hang out is good cooperation between former cold war enemies and the security after all is something that everyone should be worried about.

simon mc-greger with al jazeera, london. >> reporter: return to our top story, the death sentence handed down to 529 muslim brotherhood members and supporters and of them 68 appeared in court and defendants were not asked to enter a plea. defense lawyers are not given an opportunity to present their case and when they were complained they were escorted out and the judge brought it to an end without hearing all the evidence. we heard from one of the lawyers mahima and we will listen to the reaction. >> translator: a trial was small and eronous out of 118 defendants only 68 appeared before the court, while the rest were in a central prison. for trials to be valid as a procedure, all defendants must appear before the court. other errors were the failure to

record the appearance of defendants, denial of the right to verbal pleading and disregarding the defendant's right to proper defense, whereby defense lawyers were not able to exhibit defense or raise demands and no exhibits were on scene or witnesses heard. in short, there was no trial at all. lawyers moved to refuse the court and the judge ordered defense lawyers by force and presiding judge is anding are i and decided to hand down the judgment in two day's time. >> reporter: back to london and we go to the deputy director in the middle east and thank you for your time and we want to talk about what the lawyer was talking about in a moment and the number 529 death sentences in one part and how does this stack up to previous worldwide but particularly in egypt? >> unprecedented of egypt and

also in the world. we couldn't find any sentencing of such a large number of people in a single case, in any other country, bangladesh sentenced 150 people to death in one trial, but that was all we could see. but beyond the sheer numbers which are shocking, it's also as the lawyer was highlighted i think this trial and this ruling really exposes all the short comings of the justice system in egypt and exposes as well what could only be described as the politization of the justice system. >> reporter: that is the absolute key poert of the judicial system and external groups and countries i'm sure will talk about this and condemn it but can anyone do anything?

>> well, the first thing is that such a trial where fair trial concerns are just so huge, this sentence should be set aside and should be quashed and nobody should be sentenced to death. people should be given a fair trial and any politically motivated trial should be trumped like the al jazeera journalists or being left activists, we have a series of decisions and court prosecution that appears to be more motivated by politics than really by the fact and by the law. but the other thing i think it's important for egypt's partner to signal that this is not acceptable. as for the moment more than 1400 people have been killed this summer, reaction of the international community has been muted. most recently took all this time

for 27 countries to express some concerns that the united nations and egypt responded by some mondaying ambassadors and expressing their displeasure. >> another trial tomorrow and another 600 people linked to muslim brotherhood who go on trial? >> absolutely. and we have the worst to fear in light of today's ruling. so now this decision, the death sentences have been sent for ratification. i wouldn't put all my hopes in that. we have tried in the past as amnesty international to approach this. let's be clear about international law as well. the death sentence should -- can only be applied for the most serious crime and fair trial concerns should be strictly respected. and this is not the case here. >> reporter: we are from amnesty international and thank

you for your time. let's look at some other stories making headlines rounds the world, three senior security figures in yemen suspended after a check point in the southeast and 20 government soldiers were killed in the town of alrida in the providence and the gunman approached the check point at dawn in four cars before leaving the scene and the police moved to clear hundreds of students occupying government buildings in a protest against a trade deal with china. and a water canon was fired outside the cabinet offices. 58 people arrested and many more injured. activists say the agreement with china would damage the economy. nigeria police found bodies and skeletons in an abandon building and called the house of horrors and several malnourished people rescued in the state and it's not clear how they ended up there but bike riders passing through the area became suspicious and six people have

been arrested and it is like they were kidnapped for black magic rituals and a train derailment in chicago injured people and it jumped the tracks and up an escalator and it's not clear how fast the train was going or what caused it to jump the tracks. syrian rebels are reporting gains in a northwestern border town the day after turkey shot down a syrian jet in that area and antigovernment activists say muslim fighters are in control of this near the turkish border. well, it's been a year since the seleka over through the government and violence between christians and muslims killed thousands of people and many displaced. human rights groups are warning urgent action is needed and tonya page reports from the capitol of bongi and despite the

troops the situation deteriorates. >> reporter: a white sheet covers a body on the streets of bongi and may have seen what happened but no one is talking and french and african soldiers have slowed to the cycle of violence but blood is still being spilled. in muslim areas property has been ransacked and burned and the seleka fighters that seized power are weaker but have not evaporated. and militia are taking revenge of atrocities committed by seleka but do not differentiate between fighters and civilians and some take precautions when they come to pray. >> translator: we live in fear. we are prisoners in our district. we can only stay in our neighborhood when we try to go out they shoot us. >> reporter: and tens of thousands of muslims left in panic, scenes repeated so many

times the united nations is warning of a dramatic shift in demographic. there is not a fully functioning military, police or judicial system. so attacks are being carried out with impunity and the people need help but it has to come from the outside and so far there are not enough troops here to secure the country. central african republic is one of the world's poorest countries and a weak interim government but for some the international response has been inadequate and even unwelcomed. he says they are sick of it, the french seleka and eu forces should go away. seleka fighters shreded his arm when they shot him and it will heal in time but not sure his country will. >> translator: our country has lost too much, too many have died, there is no leadership so i don't know what will happen.

>> reporter: the funeral prayer where the muslim or christian is recited too often and many wish they could go back to the way it was and live side by side but where there is fear and anger of this magnitude there is death and the longer it continues the harder it will be to end. tonya page with al jazeera bongi central african republic. >> reporter: soldiers are part of the african union force in central african republic and they are accused of violating human rights and taking sides with the seleka rebels and james spoke to the ambassador of the u.n. about those accusations. >> translator: i think that this is a false trial that chad is put through. i don't think that it was only the chad contingent accused. there are others who are also accused so they are accusations without foundation. i don't think they justify practically anything but we know in our conscious we are doing our work in the various mixes we

are participating in, whether it be mico packs or miska or future peace-keeping mission. our soldiers are well trained and discipline soldiers. >> reporter: and this comes on the news report including the former world number one roger federer and sports in just a moment. ♪

♪ hello again, shrimp farming in

bangladesh and it comes at a high environmental cost, this is the final of a two-part investigation and we meet with farmers who say their land has been devastated. >> reporter: these farmers are casting their net for shrimp but not always the catch they are looking for, for decades he has bennetting freshwater fish in the south of bangladesh except today there is pretty much no freshwater fish left to catch and it has been flooded with salt. >> translator: it's really sad, the freshwater fish here have a great taste and very sweet and flavorful and used to be very easy to catch. >> reporter: activists say saltwater intrusion is arming the rain forest, the largest in the world. >> translator: shrimp farming ruined our environment and neighbors and destroyed the communities in the area. >> reporter: and the damage doesn't end there. many shrimp farmers have gas and

flood barriers like this one so water can flow in from the river to irrigate the fields. this weakens the barrier and making it more likely to break down when disaster strikes. he says all the salt in the area left her land useful for only one thing, shrimp farming. >> translator: all our rivers are full of salt. there is no option for us to grow rice on this land anymore so we have to farm shrimp otherwise we might as well sell off our land. >> reporter: and he is the executive director of the shrimp and fish foundation and lobbies for the city and say it's unfair to blame this for the south. >> for thousands of years this used to be the area, that was the environment. so at a point of time human beings in their own need made it officially pressed so when anybody says because of shrimp farming all these areas of the land, how can it be?

>> reporter: supporters and critics of the sector say there should be zoning in the south. the shrimp industry is not going away and the goal is to let it grow and preserving the fragile echo system, i'm with al jazeera in bangladesh. >> reporter: we are talking sport and assume you are talking about cricket. >> for a little bit for 45 seconds but first we will focus on the football and the race for the spanish league title looks like it's going to go down right to the wire and follows bars low -- barcelona 5-4 victory and the all-time leading scorer and we report. >> barcelona knew how vital a win would be in the crucial stage of the laleaga title race and their coach says his league hopes depending on the 90 minutes in the el clasico

against madrid and the first goal was early as six minutes and barcelona taking this. and then he hit back with two goals in two minutes to put rual back in the lead. and who else but messi to level matters and scoring his 19th el classico just before the break and tempers flaired in the midst of celebrations and they were booked. after the break they award the penalty and renaldo was brought down in the box by daniel and he slotted home for the spot kick and 3-2 for that side. and reduced to ten men when he got his marching orders for a foul. and nessi wasted no time in

making it 3-3. and 84th minute barsa on the end of a penalty decision and this time it was brought down in the box. and messi with pinpoint precision scores from the penalty spot, 4-3 the final and barcelona are one point off the leaders in third. top spot belongs to atletico madrid to over take the city rival and the men broke the deadlock in the second half to gabby and a double their lead in the 64th minute to wrap up victory and left 27 possible points in what is described as one of the most exciting and competitive la legua season in years and i'm with al jazeera. >> translator: we were aware of the importance of the game and the opponent we had in front of

us today, individually and collectively. and this possibility always exists, when madrid opened the score we had to come back and there was some game-changing moments but in general we were able to manage more of the game. >> translator: i've said lots of times that until the final game in this league is open we have to fight. we have to above all react to this defeat. on wednesday we have an important game and we need to get an immediate reaction and i think the team played well and tried evening and pushed hard, had a lot of chances and had a lot of opportunities. >> reporter: this weekend in the english league wayne rooney had a spectacular goal for mana manage -- majesty united and here is an australian player who scored from inside his own half. this man's name is orlando and

faces the melbourne and sunk the mariners but didn't stop them losing 2-1. golf scott squandered the chance to be number one and led by three shots in the final round of the arnold palmer invitational in florida and would like to see him in number one but chased by matt and birdie at 13 helped him to a two-stroke lead and the champ -- champion had a chance to tie for the lead. but as you are about to see he missed his eagle putts and ending in third place and it's in pga by one stroke from another former major winner bradley and the number one spot by woods will be up for grabs at the first of the season with augusta with woods, scott and stinpson vying for the top

position in golf. >> take a lot of positive stuff out of it and annoyed i did not cut it well today. it was poor, just a little out of sorts for whatever reason. but somewhat achieved what i wanted out of coming here and playing contention over the weekend was fun and identified a couple areas i'll be working on the next couple weeks and i'm looking forward to that. it was good to be back in the mix again. >> reporter: this is continuing in bangladesh right now and shrelanka take on netherlands and one run for the loss of three wicets and a hat trick and south africa had 2-1 victory of new zeeland in group one match and this game was 170 for 6 and top scoring with 86 in

reply and daryl took four wickets as new zeeland were two runs short as a colleague was upset. nadal will reach the open in miami and the defending champion andy murray and it was 6-4-6-1 and next is wolford and the fifth seed roger federer and over the netherlands and set up a meeting and the fourth seed joins them after a straight set win and they score 6-3-6-2. meanwhile in the women's tournament second seed has to overcome three set points, the australian with the stroke

there. and she came through the third round match with little trouble and the third seed meeting in straight sets as well. and the world champion mark marquez started the defense with a victory at the grand prix in catar and started on the failed circuit and held up a determined challenge from rossi to take the checkered flag and to swing more remarkable is that market is still recovering from a broken leg he got perhaps last month and kept him out of preseason testing. new york nicks had the streak halted 106-100 loss and delta blow to the slim playoff chances and dallas the mav victims fell 107-104 loss to the brooklyn nets and johnson scored 22 points including the tying lay up in regulation and the

go-ahead pointer in ot and he missed the chance to tie the game with a buzzer beating three pointer and it's the nicks fourth straight win and chasing the rafters for the atlantic division and lots of busy sport but that is it for me. >> thank you for that. the whistleblower edward snowden revealed millions of internet users around the world are monitored by the u.s. government and wikileaks says we have a future where every person on earth is digitally monitored and facing the regulatory body meeting in singapore today and joe has more on that. >> no one really owns the internet but u.s. government suddenly controls a fair portion of how things run. now in the face here it said it would give up regulatory role next year. >> i think there is no question that the concerns about u.s. government surveillance have really blown open the conversation around internet governance and who is important

and who has control over the pipes, over the functions, over the structures that run the backbone of the internet. >> reporter: so what is that structure? the internet began as a network linking computers and some american universities and government agencies. the project was funded by the pentagon and eventually the network was opened up to become the internet as we know it, connecting everything from computers and mobile phones to tablets and computer game consoles but there is still the physical net who, that carries the data track, the so called internet backbone has satellites and cables and wireless routers all transmitting signals and how these signals communicate and the language follows clearly-defined rules or protocols. one such protocol is the naming of web addresses suffix like .com and .net for assigned names

and numbers and although it's a nonprofit group, many of the decisions still require approval from the u.s. department of commerce. that will soon undergo reforms. >> the idea is to change the stewardship from the u.s. government to the global stakeholder process. >> announcer: straight to the prime minister mohd najib tun razak with major developments for the search of malaysia flight 370. >> this evening i was briefed by representatives from the uk accident investigate route or aaid. and they informed me that the uk

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i have already spoken to the family of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development. for them the past few weeks have been heartbreaking. i know this news most be hard. i urge the media to respect their privacy and allow them the space they need at this very