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anger and frustration at the malaysian government. hello, i am felicity barr in lon gone with more news from europe. including greece marks independence day. with memories of when the tanks were german. with towels for compensation. ♪ ♪ u.s. press barack obama has issued a warn to go russia, this far and no further. speaking at a security summit in the hague he warned moscow that more sanctions would farther if it further encroached ukraine's sovereignty. >> we are also concerned about further encroachment by russia in to ukraine. so what i announced, and what the european council announced was that we were consulting and putting in place the framework, the architecture for additional

sanctions, additional costs should russia take this next step. let's bring in nick spicer who is in crimea's capital. nick, tell us more about the additional costs, additional sanctions that owe about him aways referring to, what exactly are they? >> reporter: the americans and europeans have talked about three levels of sanctions, targeting individuals, targeting sectors of the economy and then almost the nuclear option if you will and it's really in the american hands. and that is targeting the banking system. if you can imagine the kind of sanctions striking iran for decades now, freezing the russian banking system. what is being talked about now is targeting specific sectors of the economy, oil and gas, heavy metal extraction industries and so on. should russia go any further. now what that means is an incursion in to southeastern ukraine and eastern ukraine,

which is what the nato commander has expressed fears about and with the americans and europeans are concerned might happen next given what has happened here in crimea. >> and, nick, what more do we know on the resignation over in kiev of the acting defense minister? >> reporter: well, he essentially had to bow to the will. there were two votes in parliament. he offered his resignation it was refused in the first vote in the second vote it was pass booed a slim majority. but he had been facing protests outside the defense ministry, many ukrainians on the mainland were angry, what they saw as the inaction and indecisiveness of the defense minister when bases here in crimea run by the ukrainian army were surrounded by russian soldiers, and taken over base by base, day by day. so he has been forced to resign, there is a new defense minister,

all of this as thousands of ukrainian soldiers based here who have decided to remain faithful, loyal to kiev have decided to start a new life. most are leaving for temporary house on this mainland. many will doubt russia will ever let them back in to crimea. 4,000 soldiers and sailors and 2,000 family members have started making the journey. >> translator: i have a feeling of disappointment and sadness at what has happened. >> reporter: many soldiers say the government failed to give them clear, timely orders. the defense ministry calls them heros for holding out without major bloodshed and the acting president of ukraine said they had done their job. but parliament decided the defense minister had not. and seemed his resignation by a slim majority. i have never held to my position and i think no the going to hold onto it. that's why in this situation, if the administration has a different view of events and other candidates, i have no objections.

i, act defense minister, resign. >> reporter: he will be replaced by a colonel general that was kidnapped in a base like this one in crimea before being released his nomination is a sign that the soldiers leaving will be treated well. not all are opting for that destiny, two-thirds of them have decided to join the russian armed forces. and the situation here is just more and more of the soldiers who are decide -- who have decided to remain faithful and loyal to kiev, packing up their bags, bringing their families together, tearful goodbyes, moving northwards and then the soldiers who have decided to join moscow staying behind. back to you in the studio. >> nick, thank you very much. nick spicer reporting from ukraine. the crisis in egypt and the conflict dominating the arab league summit in kuwait. the egyptian president said egypt would continue its crack

down on tower orists who threaten the country they have brand the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization. >> translator: a lot of blood has been shed in our country due to terrorist attacks from group that his go against religion. they never think about the victims of their attacks. the blood of the people who have lost their lives would will help up no nurse percent foy those ms that attack our nation and relidge day. >> let's crass over to james bays joining us from kuwait city. james the division of the regions we have zeina wrong the gulf countries including the issue you of egypt. he was speaking earlier on, what kind of reception did he get or did you get the sense that there was spirit of free speech among egypt? >> reporter: no, i don't think that there is. this talk of you at this, but i

don't think there is a lot of unity. people listen patiently to the egypt president or acting interim president, as they do listen to all of the leaders here bury think some will be remarking on some of the omissions from what he said. he said that egypt was on the road to elections. of course he didn't say that there is one group that won't be able to run in those elections and that's the muslim brotherhood the group that has won the last two elections. the apartmen parliamentary lexes president morsi was here last year and he's now in jail. he talked about as you heard there cracking down on terrorism, but president man sewer himself a former judge did not talk about what one of his fellow judges just handed down, that verdict, death sentence on 528 people, which has been condemned by the united nations, human rights commissioner as an appalling verdict following what

she said was say sham trial. quite a lot left out of the speech. >> james, what else are we expect to go see at the summit over there in kuwait? >> reporter: well, we are going to see he the final declarations of the summit which are likely to come out some point on wednesday. but as you say there are division particularly among the gulf country who his have an unprecedented split. there are so many challenges that the arab lying has to face, maybe in addition to egypt and syria, the obvious ones, lebanon, iraq, yemen, sudan, bahrain and so knowledge yeah, all countries. arab league where there is some disturbance and disorder, that's about half of the conduct riz of the arab league. >> okay, james, thank you, james bays our diplomatic editor reporting from kuwait. know world leaders have signs an agreements aim at

preventing tear offists from getting ahold of nuclear material. but not all the countries attending the talk on newer lack security in the next netherlands have backed that initiative. without that experts say stocks are vulnerable. >> reporter: on tuesday nuclear secure finally got the attention it deserved despite most of the questions at the final press conference focusing on ukraine. the three goals are to reduce stocks of nuclear material. improve its security and design a truly global system that everyone signs up to him the most significant achievement in the hague, 35 countries agreeing to use i8e8 guidelines to guard their stocks of material all legally enforceable. it's progress but more needs to be done. >> we still have a lot more work on do to full firm the ambitious goals we set four years ago. to fully secure all nuclear and radiological material, civilian and military so that it can no longer oppose a risk to any of our citizens.

i believe this is i sensual to the entirely world and given the catastrophic consequences of even a single attack, we cannot be complacent. >> reporter: there are almost 2,000 tons of i highly en wrenched you ar uranium and plum today. the challenge is to make sure it doesn't fall in to the wrong hand a dooms say scenario of nuclear terrorism. >> the fact of the matter is a nuclear terrorist event or a dirty bomb would have catastrophic consequences for the global economy, political order and the goble security arrangements. >> reporter: stocks of material are slowly being reduced and improvements in security have been made. but it's patchy and we are away for a system that's legally binding. since president obama started this process some have given up their material and others agreed

to improve their security but earn recognizes much of the world's stocks are still far too vulnerable the problem is in 2016 it's the last sum knit this process and no plans in place for move to forward. al jazerra in the haige. at least 40 a people killed in violence across iraq. 33 iraqis soldiers and three civilians were killed in and around the city, north of baghdad. eight other soldiers were killed by gunmen and that's insides baghdad as a car bomb left four civilians dead in a southern area off the capital. and there are also reports of a mass execution of civilians in there. let's bring in our reporter via describe from baghdad to tell us more about the a attacks that have taken place outside of the typical of baghdad but also insides. >> reporter: that's right, lets me take you through the four main attacks this very quick

succession, it was a very bold obviously coordinated attack on army convoys, check posts and a skkey strategic bridge where thy have been battling armed groups there. these attacks killed a at least3 soldiers, happened in very quick succession of each other, then like you say, all of those other attacks today. also have been political develops here in da baghdad the election commission are have resigned. and the elections are due april 30th that's another blow to the prime minister who has promised that these elections would be safe and secure and that they would happen on time. now, most analysts here, in fact most of the media that you speak to here will say that the elects will were always under a cloud of doubt because of the security situation and we are seeing that more and more. now, the elections are on

april 30th, not that far way. many iraqis don't feel that they are going to be able to simply go tout a polling station and vote because of the levels of violence that iraq is seeing over the last couple of years. so there is a lot of pressure, particularly this evening, a lot of politicians will be meeting right now to formulate what their strategy will be. clearly there will be emergency meetings taking place, prime ministerial level at the least. to try to figure out what happens next. a lot of people simply, if you speak to them and i ever been speaking to people, and they have been telling me, look, we are really scared. we just don't know what will happen. >> okay, thank you for that update. reporting from baghdad in iraq. now, a second mass trial has been taking place in egypt as parts of a government crack down on members and supporters of the plus lumuslim brother hood amonm was the spiritual slowed leader and several high level

officials. >> reporter: muslim brotherhood suspects escorts today court under tight security. this is the second mass trial of muslim brotherhood supporters. among the almost 700 defendants is the outlawed group's leader mohamed badir. police say he couldn't attend the trial for security reasons. they are all charged with attacking this police station in a town south of cairo, killing policemen and setting fire to the building. a conviction could result in the death penalty. defense lawyers boycotted the trial saying it was unfair. and politically motivated. the trial was presided over by the same judge who handed down an unprecedented fire hundred 29 death sentences to muslim brotherhood members and supporters a day earlier.

in a city south of could i try. the verdict sparked an international outcry. >> we are appalled by it. when to you yo you are talking e death penalty you have to have the highest due process and the possibility to defend yourself, preferably you don't use the death penalty at all. so to have a mass verdict like this, 528 death penalties in a trial that lasted two days, is quite appalling. >> reporter: families of those sentenced to death reacted to the verdict outside of the courthouse. they described the trial that lasted for less than an hour on saturday. as if punishment for protesters in egypt. al jazerra. gunmen in yemen have kidnapped two westerners in the capital. it's thought at least one them works for the united nations. they were captured in the relatively secure district close

to where several embassies are located. still ahead on the al jazerra news hour a frantic search for survivors in the u.s. after a land side buries dozen of riverside homes. plus no more tweeting in turkey. a ban on twitter. coming up later on the world 20/20 as the west i west i und is looks for their first win. a bomb in kabul which is on high alert ahead of presidential elections in april. the taliban has claimed responsibility for that attack. bernard smith reports. >> reporter: on the outskirts of kabul, the sound of gunfire reverberates around an office of the election commission.

the taliban is stepping up attempts to disrupt the afghanistan presidential election on april 5th. the assault followed a common taliban pack tick. a suicide bomb in a car detonated outside the election commission creating a hole for other attackers to then storm in. inside around 70 staff members ran for cover as the explosion and gunfire fly out windows and left the building park marked by that rap natural. it took security forces more than four hours to kill the attackers and free those insid insides. >> the election commission is committed to have this he collision and the afghan people are committed to this election, we are guarding the enemies and stability in this country.

>> reporter: campaign i go began in january, since then taliban fighters have attacked convoys and campaign workers, now only afghan forces provide frontline security. third handling of this period will prove how stable this will be. let's look at some of the other stories making headlines, sierra lyon is investigating two suspected y bola virus. the virus has killed more than 60 people in guinea's southern forest region, no treatment or fax seen is available for the virus. a core ca, for a van, five police officers and three civilians killed. a bus crash in northern thailand

left 30 people dead. bus was carrying workers and villagers on a field trip. the driver lost control. reports suggest the brakes failed. rescue workers in the u.s. states of washington are sifting through rubble in a desperate search for survivors of a devastating mudslide. the hillside collapsed on saturday and well over 100 people are missing. tonya mosely reports. >> reporter: a look at before and after of an area known for its beauty. a look at what was oh, so washington. >> it's muddy, in areas it's like quicksands. the debris field is like big berms of clay and quicksand. >> reporter: when the hillside gave way on saturday, families were home. contractors were out working. and drivers were passing through on highway 530. >> if this events was a weekday, chances are a lot more people would have been to work traveling other 530 headed out of danger.

>> reporter: 49 homes and cabins are covered by the massive mudslide debris. one rescuer said if there were holes here the conditions have made it almost impossible to find them. >> i don't think there is anything left. i have been told this place right in the middle is about 50 feet under. >> reporter: david and his wife were planning to visits their cabin on saturday. but decided against it. he's now searching for those he knew who lived nearby. >> we are extremely lucky. we are alive. >> reporter: the wet ground along with the history of previous sliding made this area especially susceptible. with the help of the national guard crews are working around the clock along with a hover craft, dog teams and residents who are still holding out hope. now air pollution is the world's biggest environmental threat according to world health organization. polluted air kills around 7 million people every year. more than half of the deaths are caused by indoor stoves. women and children are most at

risk that's because they spend more time inside the home. now air pollution is linked to an increase in heart disease as well as stroke and cancer and developing countries in south ear east asia and the pacific ae particularly effected. the newest mats are more than double the figures. maria is the world health organization director of had yoc health and environments saying people living in low income countries are most likely to suffer air pollution. >> we know the trends and the southeast asia and western pacific are the ones most effected. we know as well that the low and middle income countries are very much affected because of the combustion and the air pollution generated indoors and we know as well that those cities where there is now a very rapid, a very quick economic development in the foreign industrial masses production, they are the ones very much affected. i think we all have in mind those cities where there is a

rapid economic development now and where the cities are very much affected by these exposure to air pollution, but we are all exposed, we are all affected and this is a problem that is causing diseases that we are all very much concerned about. and the good thing is that we have possibility to make interventions that have proved that they work and then reducing the death of 7 million people annually if we take the right measures. venezuela's government has removed a prominent opposition politician from parliament. the national assembly says maria forfeited her seat after addressing the organization with american states, she could also face charges of trees un. taiwan's president has invited student leaders to talks. aimed at settling a week-long sit in at parliament. students are angry at a new trade deal with china which they say could undermine their independence. the united nations is

calling on turk toy reverse its ban on the social website twitter. the crisis has highlighted deep divisions in the leads up to local elections at the end of the month. ear is more from istanbul. >> reporter: he is a muslim scholar living in exile in the united states. he's also the spiritual leader for movement. hizmet says is promotes cultural and inter faith dialogue running thousands of schools andness and institutions in turkey and across the world. >> translator: his message based on volunteers, it's a civilian organization or network, we have activities in the areas of education, dialogue, media business and humanitarian aid. >> reporter: the group has many followers, but the turkish government says this is a closely connected gang that runs a parallelled state with power

in the police and judiciary. he is a pro government column i felt. he says that the other is dangerous. >> translator: he wants to be a religious leader staying out of politics. but he wants to control everything from the intelligence, police, the judiciary and the economy. this is his project. in that respect, he wants to be the idol of turkey. >> reporter: he says he opposess political islam and had different political allies between the 1980s and '90s his influence grew and many regarded him as a powerful figure. since taking power in 2002, the prime minister sided with the network and the jew dish air toy end the military's influence in tubbish politics. they turned on each other while the government wanted to curb the power and interests. blaming them for trying to topple his rule, the government

assigns thousands of -- reassigns thousands of police officers judges and lawmakers and took control over the judiciary body. further allegations come out including alleged week tapping s of the prime minister and his family. they deny it. >> this is to tarnish our image remember we don't have such power no one have used our name to commit illegal actions. >> reporter: local elects are due at the end of this month. and every side wants to prove its power. the government and the hizmet are going to continues. they say they are harming the image of turkey. still to come on the al jazerra news hour, after a confirmation that's missing malaysian airliner went down in the indian ocean, we'll examine how likely it is that searchers

will find the black box flight recorder. plus we travel to peru where a new program is helping 10s of thousands of poor farmers work their way in to the rural middle class. and in sport, bayern on the brink of history in the german bundesliga, robin will have all the details. ♪ ♪ >> join us on consider this... >> president jimmy carter joins antonio mora >> my administartion has a very strong human rights element. >> his perspective on the conflicts facing the world in the state of america. on al jazeera america

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the top stories on the al jazerra news hour. the u.s. president has warns russia weigh they will face more sanctions if there are any further encroachment on the ukrainian territory. reiterating that the annexation of crimea has not been recognized internationally. 43 civilian executes in iraq. at least 48 others have been killed in bombings in and around baghdad and the city. most of them were soldiers. in egypt of the trial of more than 600 people including mohamed bazir the spiritual

guide of the muslim brotherhood has been adjourned. the sim judge sentenced 500 people to death on monday over the murder i've policeman, a decision condemned by the united nations. family necks of those two died on flight mh370 have been demonstrating outside the malaysian embassy in beijing. they are angry at how the government handled the search for the flight. >> reporter: taking their anger to the streets. these relatives have passengers aboard mh370 say malaysian officials deliberately concealed information, wasted resources and delayed any possible rescue operations. >> translator: can the government understand, can they understand how we feel. if they could understand our feelings it wouldn't have come to this. does the malaysian government understand us? they dare criticize us, but look at what they have done. >> translator: if the 154 of our relatives have lost their lives, the malaysia airlines, the

government of malaysia and the military are really the executers. >> reporter: two weeks they waited for news and they feel the malaysians have shown them very little respect through that time. they are even more upset over the manner in whi they were told to consider their loved ones have gone. some received text messages in english from an unknown number. many were told to gather in a conference room and were told together. some said they only found out through the media. soon after the announcement, relatives aiming their rage where they said. others needed medical attention due to the strain. >> translator: i want to tell the journalists the information they just end it's just not true. >> reporter: the chinese government is also not satisfied with the recent announcement. >> translator: we are paying great attention to this and have

asked malaysia to provide all the information and evidence that led to this conclusion, the chinese search effort is continuing and we hope that malaysia and other countries will also continue the search. >> reporter: as conclusive as malaysia might say their findings are, they protesters won't be silences until there is what they see as more concrete proof, such as debris. only then, they say, will they accept what happened. but they won't rest until they also get the answers to why. margo ortigas, al jazerra, beijing. the relatives have finally been given some answers but the search for the wreckage does continue. debris has been spotted 2,500-kilometers west of perth. but the search area is massive. at kneel half a million square y nonautical miles. within this area is the black

box that can perhaps bring some answers. let's bring in james hall, the president of shawl and associates a safety consulting company. joining us live from washington dy, james, good to have you with us on the samardzija news hour, the race is onto find the black box, how difficult will it be in your opinion considering the weather conditions? >> well, the race has been onto find the black box ever since the aircraft disappeared. but it certainly is strange that there has been no confirmation that i know of of physical identification of any wreckage from this aircraft and it's certainly unfortunate that the way the information has been handled it just indicates that unfortunately the malaysian government is not competent to handle investigation of this magnitude.

>> james, just going back to the black box for a moment here, because what happens after 30 days? we understand that the black box sends the battery sends pings for 30 days, so if it's not found within that time period, what happens next? how does that affect the investigation? >> well, you still, if you have a good idea of where the wreckage might be, you continue to look for the wreckage. air france took almost two years to get one of the recorders. my experience with six under water investigations during my tenure as chairman of the ntsb it took several weeks to get the remote operated vehicles to the ocean floor and these are accidents where we knew where the wreckage was. so it's hard to put a time frame on this right now. >> so the debris that's been spotted by the australians and chinese search planes we understand two and a half thousand kilometers off the

coast of perth, it sounds like you have no reason to believe that this is related to mh370 at the point? >> well, i don't know that. we don't know that anyone has come one wreckage from that particular aircraft, if they have that information needs to be made available to the families and then made available in a responsible fashion through the media to the worldwide audience that's watching this disaster play out. >> and from what you were saying a few moments ago, you are quite unhappy with the way that the malaysian government has handled this whole situation, tell us why. >> well, in a normal investigation with the national transportation safety board and there are other independent safety boards in that part of the world, and australia, new zealand, japan, has an excellent

board. and i i imagine china has good investigators, but the accident investigators not the politicians handle the investigation and as information is identified, it is made public. so that it can -- it is a transparent investigation so that the world knows that the -- the facts that are being put forward are the correct facts, in this accident investigation, we have seen facts come forward and then only to be corrected. it's no wonder that the families have lost confidence. >> all right, we'll leave it there, thank you, james hall joining us from washington. now let's get more on our top story over the crisis over russia's an ex-action of crimea. felicity has more on that. >> rush happens about keen to

highlight extreme groups. now a prominent member of the ukrainian nation lift group has been killed in the west of the country during a police operation to detain him. say they have killed after being opened fire on police. but that is being denied by witnesses. right sector played a central role in the process that led to the overflow of the former president victor yanukovych. kiev says they knee montoya void a debt default and to pay for expenses including gas from part ukraine's future depends on getting bill i don't understandm international aid. a report now from kiev. >> reporter: the world outside may have altered dramatically, but behind closed doors life for

many is as hard as is ever was, the outlook extremely uncertain. >> translator: in our very poor economy, everything influences the family budgets. >> reporter: the price of household gas, for instance, has traditionally been low but to comply with the terms of international loans that ukraine now desperately needs, the knew government will have to charge far more. it's perhaps not surprising in this part of the world but it's all much to do with gas. supply, pipe lines crisscross ukraine, it's a transit country for russian gas to europe and russian gas accounts for well over half of ukraine's well bloated industrial needs. cheap household gas thanks to generous subsidies is bought by corrupt middle men and sold onto companies at much higher prices costing the state billions, and as international lenders appear certainly to demand an end to the domestic gas subsidy, so

too, us, rush has has promised to end its discounted gas price to ukraine a poe tone shaly disastrous double whammy and the prices could go up by a third and could be worse than that. >> in terms of threats we already had two gas wars the other one was in 2009 when russia interrupted its supplies to europe and we had this gas war goin going on for a month. >> reporter: many ukrainian appear to accept that things need to change and that those changes will be painful. >> translator: without question changes are needed but for the changes to be supported by the people, they must be properly explained watch kind of reforms will there be in what aim will they have and what will the results look like. >> reporter: those are open questions that depend in large

part on i crane's future relationship with europe to the west. and russia which remains hugely influential. able to wheeled its gin energy dominance to destabilize a country teetering on the edge. greece has been marking its independence day a midst tight security. a military parade in athens was watched by a select invited audience with thousands of police lining the route. thrill gents security put in place after previous parades were targeted by anti-protesters. and years of economic crisis have left greece with little to celebrate and with germany blamed by many for the measures that accompanied the european union bail out. calls are growing for pension for nazi war-time atrocities. john explains from athens. >> reporter: on june 10th, 1944, three columns of nazi troops descended on the village in central greece.

they were executing resistence fighters when they were attacked from the hills. he was working in his father's fields when it happened. >> translator: the german commander was shot and died here a woman game him water and she heard him give orders to kill everyone but her. >> reporter: what followed was one of the name infamies nas i a troughs tayes, soldiers went from house to house, he was eight and his mother told him and his father to leave home think women wouldn't be harmed. >> translator: when i returns i first sawed my gray thatter he was head. guy grandmother next to him dead. inside the house i saw my on mother. she had baked all the loaves see she needed that morning excepts one. they killed her execution tile from behind. her blood stretched in a line several yards long. >> reporter: for the loss of life and property greece sought

17 billion prewar dollars at the paris peace conference in 19 you are not six it was award 7 billion have received almost none of that. greece lost half a million people in the war, 7% of their population but only 30,000 were killed in combat. the vast majority were the victims of massacre like that, mass executions and starvation. occupation here proved harsher than the battle field. one of greece's top three courts is now consolidating greece's demands including damages from the occupation, repayment of two loans the nas i he is actioned from the bank the greece and the return of stolen action tick an. the head of the council is stepping up his demands for a formal peace it's treat we germany. >> the germans know as soon as they sign a peace treaty with grease they have to pay what they so so they won't sign they

asked to us sign a nonaggression pact which we unfortunately did. why won't they sane a pedroia treaty. forget everything else, as soon as they sign they have to pay: >> reporter: greece has reclaimed its independence but many believe its sovereignty is suffering while they try to get repayment of loans. thousands of spaniards that turned out in the capital of madrid for the former prime minister, suarez faced down a military coup in 1981, he died on sunday at the age of 81, spain has declared three days of national mourning. campaigning to reverse a ban on prisoners being september books in the post. regulation which comes in to force in british prisons this november stopped prisoners from

receiving parcels from the outside world. the government says the move will not stop prisoners reading as inmates can buy books and keep up 12 in their cell. but prison reform groups say it's a political decision. >> the government is very keen to be seen to be tough on prisoners and that's fair enough if it's done in an effective manner, we feel this is not effective. and actually, to sort of put any barriers up for literacy and reading and things like that which are so important, frankly just seems bizarre and seems to be going in quite the opposite direction in to one in which the government is trying to go, which is, you know, towards rehabilitation and resettlement, we think this is not in that direction at all. >> that brings you up-to-date with the latest news from here in europe. let's go back to doha. still to come on the al jazerra news hour a rather unusual football move robin will

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only on al jazeera america ♪ ♪ hello again, u.s. president barack obama is said to ask congress to end the mass deluxe of phone records by its spy agency the nsa. up under the proposals the phone records would remain with telecom companies only accessible by the government when it could prove a need. alan fisher reports. >> reporter: extensive re objections to the massive gathering of information, not omahas it been used to spy on foreign governments and leaders

its collected massive amounts of information about american's calling habits, back in jam u.s. president barack obama said it was necessary to the u.s. to continues data collection while respect civil the hub at thises, now he has a plan to for the records to be held by the phone companies and the judge would design if there was enough concern about the activity or any particular number to release details to the spy agency. but he needs congressional approval. speaking in the netherlands the president insisted his proposal makes sense. >> it allows us to do what is necessary in order do deal with the dangers of a terrorist attack but does so in a way that addresses some of the concerns that people have raised. >> reporter: the extends of the u.s. surveillance program was revealed in a series of leaks by former nsa contractor edward snowden, putting forward his own proposals to revamp the system the head of the intelligence committee said nothing that went before broke the law.

>> passionately believe that this program saved american lives. believe it was legal. was overseen. , it was passed by congress. >> reporter: one watchdog says the president's proposal is welcome but isn't enough. >> the law that the intelligence agencies use for bulk collection of telephone records can be used to collect many other types of records also in bulk such as location information, financial information and possibly internet activity. so while it is significant progress that we are to a place where we are focussalling ending bulk collection in a sensible what i for telephone records, the authority needs to end for all types of records. >> reporter: the obama white house has struggled to give any firm league between the surveillance program and a terrorist attack stopped or blunted. giving protection only to u.s. citizens in the u.s. and not to anyone any elsewhere. time for the sports news

with robin. >> thank you very much. the defending champions the west indies have claimed their first victory at the would 20/20 that were battling first, smith 10 fours and three sixes. with a total 171 for 7. bangladesh never looked in contention at all. they were bowled out for 98 as the west think is claimed a 73 run victory. >> my aim is to get off to a good start and that's how i play. it's just for me to keep scoring, it's of course it's working out. and at least it won't be enough -- there won't be no pressure on him if i am scoring freely. >> it's really disappointing as i said, but still i think it's coming and we feel really sorry for them because we didn't perform well for them the last few matches we we feel sorry for them hopefully we can come up with good officer op foremans in the next company days and that's the only way we can improvement.

we have to do that for them also. india's supreme court has requested the top cricket boss step down from his job, he's the president of the bcci indian cricket board the world's most powerful and rich cricket body. his son-in-law has been indicts odd charges of illegal bet and this court claims there can't be a ferrin choir i while he remains in charge, he's scheduled to take up the role of president of the it's national cricket council in july. victory could secure the bundesliga title in cor record . fans have start today gather for victory already. >> bayern sit 23 points ahead of their nearest rivals dortmund and unbeaten in 51 games, a single point now will clinch the championship with seven games to spare. they are still in convention

texas for a treble as well for t tension for a treble as well for the second consecutive season. >> translator: they can also play with the ball, have good organization and very aggressive. give no time to think, we have to prepare as possible. of course we have the chance to win the title. >> also in the next hour manchester city will be looking to close the gap on english premier league leaders chelsea on they are away to manchester nighted a trip to emirates to play arsenal on saturday. they have three games in hand. >> i know that we must go game by game. we don't know how many points we must have from now until the end of the season the important thing is in this moment just depends on what we can do in the future. it's important to try to win tomorrow. and then after arsenal saturday. we'll see after how many points we need to have or the team that will win the title will need. >> i think we want to try to

pour term better than we have. no doubt about that. but we don't go in as i mentioned daily, we don't go any to any game thinking this isn't the one that we want to win. we want to win them all. >> arsenal will also be looking to keep pace with the top three teams as they host swansea, sixth placed everton are awaiting newcastle. in egypt the president of the football club has been arrested and put in prison on corruption charges. he also made 450 appearances as a defender for the team in the '70s became the club's president in 2002. he denies the allegations against him. he said earlier this month that he would step down in his post ahead of the next club elections. police have arrested three people for a brawl at an eye own lower league football game of the investigators use third degree video to identify the suspects. what you are seeing right here now is a fight between the supporters of amateur side and the visiting opponents in naples

at the weekends. the players were forced to run off the field and hide in the dressing room. one bowler player suffered a nasty head injury. the draw for the 2015 asian cup will be held it the sydney opera house on wednesday. it's being lit up to mark the occasion, it's showing images of all 15 teams who have qualified for the con feds raise's biggest football event. australia is hosting the tournament. it will run from january 9th to 21st. world number two djokovic is the first man through to the miami master quarter finals beating in split straight, rafael nadal continues his impressive performance, in just 59 minutes, the spaniard has never won the miami title. venus williams missed out on the chance of joining her sister serena losing 61, venus having

her serve broken eight times in that match. the miami heat are within two games of clinching the nba's eastern conference title after a narrow two-point win over the portland trailblazers, gain wade was benched with the players fast approaching. chris bosh and lebron james stepped up early in the fourth quarter the heat led five teen but -- 15 but a late surge portland. 93-91 miami. we have own some unusual goal celebrations in years you can add this one, it came off a winner against the astonia team was the strike that wasn't very spectacular the celebration got all the attention.

that's it. >> all right being robin. thank you. to peru where to centuries perennials have used the mountains to cause out workable farm lan but because of the difficult terrain many struggle to grow enough food for their families but a new program is helping them work out the poverty. more on the emerging rural middle class. >> reporter: a day of supervision he is going around this community at this making sure hoses, tubes and battles are working the farmer thanks to rustic technology his lands is now filled with individual i >> we used tomorro to only grows now everything is organic, malnutrition is down. >> reporter: irrigation by sprinkling and dripping are some

of 18 different technologies farmers are use, greenhouses are a success. it's incredibly warm in here, but it's the perfect temperature for tropical fruits and vegetables to grow, avocados, tomatoes, strawberries peaches, even grapes, inning unheard of to find these kind of fruits at 3800 meeters above sea level. the program is called productive see era. funded by private businessmen, local authorities and european nongovernmental organizations. it gives pardon mors basi pardod knowledge to be pro tuck tiff and it has a multi flying effect. irrigation is also helping grass grow faster the manimals eat wet better, cows have increased their milk output five fold. taught to process mill income to yogurt, she has so many orders that she has to buy milk from neighbors. the benefits are trickling down on the community. >> now i have everything to eat or sale. i learned a lot of things for me and my children and no one can

take that away from me. >> reporter: part of the program is to encourage people to see their farms as small businesses. a leader of the farmers movement is one of the brains behind this project launched in 1992. >> translator: the key is poor people building their future their own. people from the food and agricultural organization agree. whenever there is small farming in the world, people can take the great leap like those in this project. >> reporter: the program competes with government hand outs, the program has turned more than 60,000 poor families in to a new rural middle class. people like francisco say they are proud they are did go it all on their own. that's it for the news hour team here in doha for a viewers in the united states it's back to your regular programming on al jazerra america for international viewers it's lauren taylor who will be with you from london with more news.

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