offend people, i'm here. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. >> this is the news hour on aljazeera. under pressure of a corruption allegation and crackdown on social plead, turkey's prime minister faces a test. >> count it out, oh first senses in 30 years doesn't include muslims. >> territory in the south china see, confrontation between china and philippines.

>> crimea moves clocks with russia. we look at the new reality for the breakaway region. >> not even standing, but the local elections in turkey have turned into a test of popularity for the prime minister in turkey. they are the first elections since mass protests last year. started over plans for a park in istanbul but grew into a campaign against what many see as his authoritarian style. by december, we had a corruption investigation, a high pro feel one, with the leading party under suspicion. an audio recording emerged, heard warning his son to hide large sums of money. he said the tape was a fake. that led to twitter and you tube being taken down more recently. his opponents he says use social media to spread lice. we'll find out what's happening

on election day. first this report from istanbul. >> a constant stream of voters eager to make their voices count. this is more than local politics and people are bitterly divided. ali is 85 years old and believes turkey needs a new political direction. >> the nation needs honesty, change. it is a sad situation. >> inside this polling station, people are waiting patiently and for some, it's a duty to support the government. >> there are internal and external forces that are trying to take turkey backwards. it's our duty as citizen to say come and vote. >> there are more than 52 million registered voters across turkey. around 10 million of them are registered in istanbul, but these elections or overshadowed by accusations and political in fightinging that's left turkey's society polarized. >> the build up to these

elections was tense, the first vote since the anti-government protest last summer. it's held amidst allegations of corruption at the government. >> at the center of this political storm is the prime minister, who was among those casting their ballots in istanbul. he remains defiant and blamed his enemies for orchestrating smear campaigns to topple his government. he says this day is crucial for turkey. >> despite the claims made during the election rallies by my opponents, today our people will expression the fact of everything. >> but the main opposition the republican people's party is hopeful about the time of change has come. >> my biggest dream is to pave all the way for clean politics, to hold all politicians accountable to the people, to prevent politicians from fooling the people. >> as the day goes by, there is a growing sense of anticipation

and unseize. the results could reflect turkey's appetites for change or a strong support for the prime minister. regardless who wins, turkey will probably remain divided ahead of presidential elections in august. aljazeera, istanbul. >> from istanbul, we go live to learn about turnout and how interested people are in this election. >> little a very large turnout here and that's the word across the country. turkey has an impressive rate for voter turnout. at this school where we've been filming and speaking to voters, there were cues from the a year hours amongst those casting ballots was the president who spoke to reporters after he had cast his vote, saying that these

elections were going to decide the coming fate of the country, and essentially underlining just how significant they are in terms of deciding what route turkey takes in the coming years. >> strange time, isn't it for all involved in this, because you've got people putting themselves forward for positions like mayor and counselor and people are perhaps not paying as much attention to them and they're paying attention to the party who aren't on the ballot paper. >> well, that is extremely strange, because on the one hand, they are local elections, so people are interested because of local issues and when they look at the bread and butter, roads, school, health services, there is an impressive record. you're looking at something like 99 universities built in the past 10 years, scrapping tuition fees and the amount of roads built over the past 10 years is double what was built for over two decades before that. but like we heard, what is

overriding here, at least in terms of the media and in terms of the politicians is the national controversy, like government protests, like the accusations that the government is more authoritarian. got act party hopes the people will look at track record of delivering basic services to the people and the opposition trying to highlight that while those are good and positive things that have been done, there is fault at the heart of the government and that's what they're trying to make the people hold them accountable for. >> live for us, we'll talk to you again later. hopefully you can give us indication of what's happening in this vote. >> iraq, sources told aljazeera that a mother and three children have been killed along with four policeman by a bomb placed under a police car. earlier, 13 people died in a suicide, explosives stet off at a check staff of army and local police.

seven soldiers were killed by gunman who attacked an army base. we have more. >> to the north of baghdad, we saw an army-based camp get hit. we've seen a loss more attacks against army positions in the last few weeks. it's much more bold and brazen attacks than in the past. we're likely to see more of these as iraq comes closer to the parliamentary elections april 30. in the on going investigation, we've seen further developments in an bar province and there was an attack where 13 army soldiers were killed and 25 civilians injured. anbar province, this operation has been going on since january, is 17% of the vote. many people wonder whether such intensity of fighting when this is going on wonder if they will

be able to volt. it is said the elections will happen on time, but people questions it simply due to the levels of violence. >> concern and criticism over myanmar's first census in 30 years. people are asked to define ethnicity and religion. you've got to go back to 1983 for the last census. we're looking at a population since then of 60 million people, most buddhists. this survey does not recognize the muslim group that says it's been persecuted in myanmar. census takers have been barred from rebel-controlled areas. >> a call to be counted, the start of an ambitious 12 day campaign to collect population physician and gather data on the ethnic makeup of myanmar. senses takers are working across

the country. everyone is expected to fill in a survey form. >> i understand why we are doing the census, to develop our country and the new development projects. >> is it just a matter of counting and especially in the west of the country, home to the muslims. >> you have states where the ethnic bad defies don't wish this to go forward, don't wish the muslims to list their ethnicity and you have the muslims upset that their ethnicity is not listed among the 135 ethnicities listed on the form. >> they are band from registers themselves at r a.m. hinga. it denies them citizenship. >> as everyone knows in myanmar, there are 135 ethnic grooms. if someone isn't a member of these groups they put themselves

as other. we won't force anyone to answer what ethnicity or tribe they belong to. >> more than 200 people have been killed in attacks by buddhist nationalist groups over the last two years. village have been burnt to the ground, 140,000rahinga have fled. last week, they talked homes and offices of foreign aid workers in the area and rights groups say the timing of the census is wrong with tension is so high. er ethnic groups are also concerned. in the north, rebels have been fighting the government for decades. there's doubt they'll allow census takers into the area. >> since this questionnaire at

many points that are not suitable for the conditions within burma at this time and if we look into concerns coming from groups inside and outside burma, these should be taken into consideration, but sadly, when authority seems to be committed to the original plan and move forward. >> a plan the muslims fear may have a particular political purpose. aljazeera. >> after 100,000 taiwan ice protestors have rallied in taipei against trade pact with china saying the deal will i am move the economy. campaigners think it will make china too dependent. >> according to a report by the reuters news agency, 71-year-old most senior chinese politician to be investigate for graft. the report says authorities

questioned or detained more than 300 people with links to the former leader. he previously opposed him for life detention for corruption. he was extremely powerful and among the top 10 leaders in china. >> i think that the corruption definitely threatens the survival of the whole communist party, but this particular case, it is more than corruption. it was reported that he was in fact in collusion in the palace plot to unseat the current government at a suitable point in time in the future. this report was aired only relatively recently and that revelation really shocked the entire core of the party. that's why all the party varies other factions or various our

pour brokers said this must be dealt with vigorously. >> still ahead this news hour. >> listen to him. >> police patrol in the united states with concern of how they handle mentally ill people. >> plus. >> i'm lawrence lee in rural island where the government is deciding whether to scratch for gas. >> in sports, we find out why nba players were looking relieved. >> the u.s. secretary of state is to meet his russian counter part over the ukraine crisis. john kerry is meet sergey lavrov

to talk about a diplomatic solution. >> in kiev, the ukrainian lace wreathwreaths for protestors kin independence square. this is crimea where crowds watched as the clocks were switched to moscow time, finalizing the reege's incorporation into russia. hundreds gathered in the capitol sevastopol. the ruble hob adopted as the official currency. money is tight in crimea, but russia is promises billions of dollars in investment there. we have more from sevastopol. >> a economic future is unfolding, one under russia, a richer country than ukraine, but also brighted by corruption. the new leaders of the peninsula annexed from ukraine promised changes for the better.

>> we expect an economic boom, growth. unfortunately as a partly of ukraine, crimea was a region where the rate of development and per captain at a income were blow average. the population is rather poor, the infrastructure is rather underdeveloped. we hope that finally all of this will change. >> the main sectors of the crimean economy are agriculture and tourism. in the past, the majority of those tourists have come from the ukrainian mainland. it's far from certain they'll be willing or able to come back. moscow is planning to spend a billion dollars a year to help the economy and his private investors may spend an additional $4 billion annually. >> this business leader says local entrepreneurs are hopeful there will be new opportunities in the russian market, but also wary. >> we've heard the promises, but we know how, unfortunately, how soviet money doesn't trickle down to the ordinary people.

>> however much money is spent, moscow wants to show crimeans and the world that the annexation is a success. the hope is moscow will spend freely to improve life here, as long as it can afford it and international sanctions imposed don't severely damage the russian economy and budget. >> in egypt, a soldier's been killed with an attack in the sinai peninsula with air and land assaults have been launched for the government to regain the area. there is damage. the egyptian government said the operations are necessary to stop armed groups there. >> forces have fired tear gas at protestors, students threw stones at police trying to break up the crowd at the university. regular demonstrations have been held there against the ousted president mohamed morsi last year. a reminder that three aljazeera

english journalist have been detained for 90 days in an egyptian prison accused of having links with a terrorist organization and spreading false news. another aljazeera journalist has been held for seven months. aljazeera continues to demand their immediate release. >> syrian government forces have dropped barrels filled with explosives in the western city of homs. this video which aljazeera cannot independently verify appear to show the bombings coinciding with fierce fighting with the biggest battles there yet between government and rebel forces trying to recapture the neighborhood. two spanish journalists freed after being held captive for two months, captured by the islamic state of iraq near the turkish border in september. >> three soldiers killed in

lebanon in a suicide talk that happened at an army checkpoint close to the syrian border. four others were injured. the army closed all roads to the check point. thousands of syrian refugees, has also seen an increase in violence in recent months. one of the points is used as a ref final by retreating syrian rebels. >> fracking is a controversial subject in countries, including ireland, where it's trying to get the go ahead. we have more on that. >> ireland has copied the example of france by championing its own food, everything from sausages to bread flour and they sell it all over the world. the water is good, too and has become a crucial tool in

opposition to shale gas. people who farm organically here have terrible fears about chemicals from fracking getting into the water supply. in other parts of the world, farmers have been told that if your water is coming from an area that has fracking, we don't want it anymore. >> tracking, they fear would put everything in doubt. >> we are all in favor of our exploration of our natural resources for the benefit of the people of ireland, but if we're going to do that and lose our agriculture, our tourism, our heritage, our bio diversity, then we feel that's price to high to pay. >> ireland has decided whether to frack for gas but many assume it will. after all, it actively considered chopping down its natural forests to pay its debts. >> ireland is not only a small country, it's a very wet one, too and that's why

environmentalists argue that even considering fracking here is a singularly stupid thing to do. the argument in its plainest term is that any pollution into the water supply from fracking would for outweigh any economic benefit of shale gas extraction. >> if someone could prove fracking safe, it might get a more receptive audience among examplars, after all, agriculture needs a lot of heat and light. >> to make sure fracking is done in a correct way is what we are exploring. >> fracking has stalled in many places over dwindling public support and growing environmental concern. the question is whether ire land's proud eagerness to financial rigor will end up with it bucking the trend. aljazeera, ireland. >> the local elections in turkey that have been seen as a test

for the prime minister, we're going to talk to the deputy editor of turkish daily news. we thank you for your time. just a quick thought. does anyone actually care about the elections, about the mayors and council that might be elected or are things quite tough on them, actually? >> people do care about the mayors, especially in big cities. there is a competition in that level, too. especially close races, the position has more peeling candidates that can challenge the governors party mayors that have been there for a long time. there's also political significance of the elections, because although this is a local elections, the government, prime minister especially have defined it almost as a referendum on his own popularity, so because of the bitter pollarrization in the country, between the passionate supporters and the passionate

opponent of the prime minister, many people people as a mandate or decline for the government, the goal is to get a strange mandate and move on with his current policy and rhetoric. his opponent hope he will have a decline. >> it's interesting that he, himself chose to define it as a referendum, because if there is that much anti act party sentiment, that's going to put him in a very tough position once results come through. >> it does. it began first with the protests of last he summer, where turkey's more secular western urbanized showed reaction to his rising moral conservatism and his elected but standing on democracy. now a new layer of tension has been added. now this time between

conservatives who oppose him and those who support, particularly the islamic movement led by a scholar who used to be his political ally turned against him and the bitter political language between the two sides. even some interesting wiretaps that revealed some wrongdoings of the government and government's responsibility to them as defining them as an attack on the country, this became very tense. >> sorry to interrupt, but can he survive this one, do you think? i know we're speaking about getting results, but given the mountains of problems in the last year, can he and the act party get through this? >> i think the act party, the party will not have a considerable decline. we will see tonight results, but nobody expects the party to lose the elections. the question is how big its victory will be. the party could 50% of the votes

in 2011 and when compared to those elections, if there's a decrease in the vote, although it will still be a gain, people will say his polarizing rhetoric doesn't work and he is allosing power. that's what the opposition lopez to see. they want to get a strong mandate and show people are still behind him and move on with his current rhetoric which is very polarizing for turkey. >> we are going to check world weather now. >> this is a storm threatening to develop for quite a few days, but in the last 24 hours, it's really got going. we can see the circulation here, and in just over the past few hours, you can see a little eye has developed there.

normally an eye will be well defined like this, if the storm is very organized and therefore powerful. the sustained winds are 165 kilometers per hour. so really it's quite powerful. of course, it's not only the winds at the center that are a problem. it's also trailing a lot of cloud up towards the north and it is giving us a problem in tanzania. the latest pictures, you can see this man wading through the water there. it really is incredibly wet, there's a lot of flooding here. the problem was the rains fell for three days, and here we saw 182 millimeters of rain in three days. that's what gave us the flooding problem there, but of course elsewhere, we've got even more rain. 227 millimeters of rain there in just 24 hours. there's more rain still to come. this system is only moving very slowly and gradually working toward madagascar before due to bend back towards the west.

when close, it will be the equivalent of a category four hurricane. >> thank you very much for that. we look at nigeria now and since its capitol was built after a 1970's oil boom that grown into one of africa's most expensive cities, many elite calling it home. many others are priced out, including hundreds of thousands of civil servants who keep the government running. why asking to build affordable housing is failing. >> finishing work at a state run radio station, instead of going home, he comes here and waits. like many civil servants, he lives outside the city. going home during rush hour would extend a 20 minute trip to four hours. >> everybody wants to stay because of the facilities, because of the presence of everything you truly want, the social amenities are all present here, but the exother taint rate

of houses here, it's very, very expensive. >> many properties lie empty with the middle class priced out. >> $340 a month is the average. now take a look at the rent, a two bedroom amount costs about $1,250 a month while in the suburbs, the two bedroom goes for $120 a month. >> realizing the problem 10 years ago, the city's administration introduced a mass housing scheme to build affordable homes. the government would provide land and basic infrastructure for developers who would turn around cost effective units. city officials admit the plan has failed to meet objective with substandard developments to

unfinished ones. developers are accused of using the land for other purposes while the government failed to provide infrastructure. >> we have to have electricity, the cost have the land plus the cost of the construction of the house, then you find that eventual price that you're going to sex it to the people that are going to buy it is actually going to be higher than what's available now. >> the administration says it formed a new committee to fix the problems. it's not clear what measures will be taken. administration officials were unavailable for comment. for now, hundreds of thousands of people have to deal with this. not quite the thing to look forward to at the end of the workday. aljazeera. >> still ahead, we're in cuba where they're on the road to economic reform. >> open for business, i'll be telling you about the new cuban

plan to attract foreign investment. >> real madrid, your sport a little later on.

>> turkey's prime minister has cast his vote in local elections, seen as a referendum on his leadership. the first election since allegations of corruption. >> in iraq, 13 people killed at

a security check point. gunman killed seven soldiers at an army place and a police car bomb has killed a mother and three children. >> muslims are band from registering in myanmar. >> the president of the burmese organization in the united kingdom, we thank you for your time. why do you think the government is doing this? i only ask because it's such an obvious thing. it seems to be a blatant move by the government to exclude the haringa muslims. >> you can see the estimation that they will not reduce them,

and this is the rohingya. >> as far as comment or attempts at interference from the international community, why are they or is it that they're sort of happy with the fact that myanmar has made progress and continues to open up, so they're letting this kind of thing go just as part of the whole coming back into the international community process? >> well, this is racism and anti rohingya campaign, so this has been long time systemic policy to eliminate the whole rohingya

minority. you can see the president things he mentioned rohingyas are illegal immigrant, all his solution keeping them in the camps and sending them to other countries. this is the ammunition policy to drive out the whole minority. they want to show international community that some reforms are going on, so important point here is international community have to see the whole burma whether the country moving forward or backward, whether all the ethnic people, particularly the rohingya minority -- >> do you think there's any country which could actually pressure the myanmar government to alter the census? >> this is important, particularly u.s., u.k., e.u. countries, how come this kind of countries, you know, they can

support the burmese government to funding this kind of census where discriminating the rohingya minority to eliminating them from the census and putting them as bengali. international community have to see the seriousness of the situation. >> we thank you for your time, sir. >> the philippines ha presented evidence to a u.n. tribunal against china over territorial claim to over 80% of the south china sea. a day earlier, chinese ship tried to block a vessel. we have more details. >> making its presence known, and warning the philippine vessel to turn around, the standoff reported to have lasted

two hours was noisy but not violent. the ship continued on its journey, but the actions of china's coast guard was filmed by journalist. it's one of many recent attempts by chain in a to push its claim into a large section of the china sea and islands, looking for richer fishing grounds and a stake in the oil and gas reserves. as well as the philippines, several others lay claim, including taiwan, malaysia and vietnam. the majority, but not all of the islands in the group are occupied by the philippines. the threatened crew was on its way to this rusty military outpost to replenish supplies for the marines that live onboard. >> what we were to accomplish is to keep this area ours. this is something we've been protecting. >> it's not just incursions at

sea, china claim control of the air. declaring a no fly zone over a section of the east china sea, inhabiting islands claimed by japan. the philippines has taken its dispute with china to the highest level. >> it is about defending what is legitimately ours. it is about securing our children's future. it is about guaranteeing freedom of navigation for all nations. it is about help to go preserve regional peace, security and stability. >> earlier on sunday, they gave evidence to an international tribunal documenting beijing's increasingly aggressive claim over the south china sea, despite beijing warning doing so would damage ties between the two nations. >> people in thailand have been voting in the senate elections, a key test for the government there.

the prime minister votes to fill 150 seats in the upper house of the parliament could be crucial to removing her from her post. those results expected to be announced later sunday. >> voting underway in elections in france. the poll is likely to cement gains for the far right national front party which made a huge break through in last week's first round. live in paris to talk us through this one, is this kind of like the turkey elections, it's more about a referendum of national politics and how 307 larr the government is there? >> absolutely, it's all about what's going on, well, with the economy and how confident french people feel in the government to turn their fortunes around. the president and his socialist party are very unpopular right now particularly himself. as you were referring to in the first round, the far right national front party made great breakthroughs in areas

traditionally run locally by the socialest party. partly, they benefited from a low turnout rate. we're hearing that at mid-day local time, the turnout rate on sunday was a few percentage points lower than in the first round, so that's probably bad news for the socialists, perhaps for the far righters or center right opposition, as well. good news for the national front hoping to take town hauls in several major towns in the south, all well known towns. they are saying they are anti europe and fighting for people's living standards to stay as they are. it's not clear whether this will carry on. they could some say take this forward to the european elections in a couple of months and come first in those elections. that would be a bigger break through in terms of the real clout they have, but even if

they win a few town halls today in the next few hours, that will be seen as a big change for them. >> lots of election news this sunday, isn't it? >> live in paris for us. >> there is concern in the united states over how police officers respond to people with mental health problems. accounts are 10% of all calls to police are four times more likely to be killed in a confrontation. this is the last part of our series. >> concern for her son's health brought her from guinea to his new york amount. the 28-year-old lost a lot of weight and was speaking incoherently. when he ignored his mother's pleas to see a doctor, she called 911 for an ambulance, but it was police who showed up first. >> i said don't call police. i call an ambulance. he say oh, no, mom, don't worry, in new york, you call ambulance, 911 they come first, don't

worry. >> what happened next ended in a funeral and protest. officers forced their way in after he reversed to open the door. he lunged at police with a knife. when a taser didn't stop him, they opened fire, shooting him in the head. the officers have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing. she is suing the police department demanding compensation and changes to all the way it handles mental health calls. the police department didn't respond to aljazeera's request for comment. >> we're on patrol with the houston police department and a team that has been specially trained to deal with mental health crises. this is a model program that teams up a mental health professional with a police officer to better handle these situations. >> these crisis intervention teams are now in place in police departments in more than 40 states. >> just listen to the officer,

listen to him. >> officers undergo special train that go differs from traditional police tactics to did he escalate a crisis. >> you have to go into that situation, understanding that you are dealing with someone that's not totally in control of their mental faculties, and just by giving commands might escalate a situation as opposed to figuring out what drives this person, what they're delusion is. >> this man's mother called police because he stopped taking his medication and was agitated. >> i'm glad you're ok, because it's been hurting myself to keep him here, because i know he's safe. >> it's the kind of help expected. >> call 911 to get help. >> what she hopes to achieve for others who are mentally ill. >> venezuela's military has

begun clearing barricades at the city at the cent of anti-government protests. it started in february. most of the fighting's taken place around the city's road blocks. 33 people have been killed across venezuela in the past six weeks. protestors are angry with inflation, food shortages and rising crime. >> security forces in brazil have rated notorious for their drugs gangs, but the operation in rio de janeiro has been announced beforehand by security, so gangs have left. 16 shanty towns are home to 130,000 residents. the raid is part of government efforts to improve security ahead of the world cup and the olympic games in 2016. >> senegal has closed its border with guinea where there is an outbreak of ebola. it's thought to have spread to sierra leone. it's killed an estimated 70

people. there's growing panic in the capitol where there have been eight confirmed cases, including one death. it is one of the world's deadly viruses. it has no cure or vaccine. >> three months of fighting in south sudan's forced over a million people to leave their homes. the united nations estimates a further 5 million are in need of aid. the president's troops are battling rebels loyal to south sudan's former vice president. >> so somalia, the government is reaching out to moderate members of ago shabab aiming to end the conflict in the country. the plan is to engage with the group. >> ethiopian troops patrol the streets in southwestern somalia. in january, they joined the african union mission and alongside the army have been pushing al shabab fighters out of strategic towns in the region. the group still holds sway over much of the countryside and has

cut supply routes to some of those towns. somalia's prime minister told us that his government priority is to get food to the affected people. >> the plan is to fix social services. al is that bonn destroyed the infrastructure, and now we are focusing on alleviating that problem. >> the problem is not just the infrastructure. al shabab is leaving behind a political vacuum. many are closely watching how the government handles the administration of the new areas now under its control. >> the challenge is actually not to take territory, but to control territory and to hold it, and even more important, i think to create those basic structures of governments, really. so that they have some stability. >> in megadeash show, ago shabab has become bolder, staging

daring attacks, including assaults on the presidential palace. the prime minister down plays those attacks as acts of desperation, saying the government has been reaching out to more moderate members of the group. >> it used to be part of al shabab, but disengaged from them. we have seen results working with them and many places there are defectors who are coming to us. >> more police check points have now been set up around the city. night patrols have also become regular. we go on one, driving through potential trouble spots with you began dan troops of the africa union. >> to keep the city safe, patrols such as this are crucial. in the last two weeks, about a thousand perspective al shabab

members have been arrested here in mogadishu. >> ultimately, the responsibility of keeping somalia safe lies with the countries security forces, but creating a strong force will take time. many soldiers have little experience, are poorly paid and ill equipped to fight a war that has become increasingly unconventional. aljazeera, mogadishu. >> still ahead, all your sports news when we find out what was happening to this driver at the grand prix in malaysia. going the wrong way, by all the way. back in a moment.

>> cuba's community leaders are inviting foreign investors to boost the economy. incentives to fortune investors especially agriculture. the latest plan to kickstart a struggling economy. >> this may be quaint, but for cuban workers, it's just peanuts. the authorities have for the past few years opened up their economy, but it's not enough. >> all of the problems the cuban economy has is in providing insentives. cuban workers are not happy because the state pace so little. >> a session of the cuban parliament has taken a fundamental step to open its

economy to greater foreign investments. it will create a special development zone in the port city west of havana, partly financed by brazil. foreign investors will pay less of their profits to the cuban government while working with greater security, guarantees, and flexibility. >> foreign investment like this one helped to save cuba after the collapse of the soviet union more than 20 years ago. it sits awkwardly here and this new expansion which some call a necessary evil will have to be very tightly controlled. >> the move was partly fueled cheap oil from venezuela might dry up. pillars of the cuban revolution such as health and education will remain off limits to foreign investors. >> the state here has been too involved in all businesses and that's been a mistake. the state does not have to control everything, only the

fundamental areas like education, health but not the small personal enterprises. >> foreign companies have been deterred by the more than 50 year u.s. embargo against the island. they'll want the cuban authority to tackle their own intines sick problems, poor internet service, a suffering bureaucracy and insufficiency. many have long wanted to invest in an island they feel has great potential. they'll study the new allows carefully. aljazeera america, havana. >> >> formula one team at the malaysian grand prix took maximum points with hamilton leading teammate in first place. we have more.

>> there was an unfamiliar hush over the start of this race. f1 paying tribute to the victims at the malaysian air lines crash. the quiet didn't last too long, hamilton powering away from pole position was ahead going into the first corner and his lead was never seriously threatened. not such a good day for ferrari, dropping to the back of the field. he finished down in 12th. ricardo's eventful start for his career continued. the driver finding himself pushed over pit lane to reattach a wheel after being disqualified during his debut race. the front wing started falling off and he eventually retired from the race with five laps to go. progress was more serene at the front where mercedes was in

charge. hamilton first. >> awesome race. awesome race for this weekend. you've done the job there. >> i feel so grateful and particularly after such a tragedy three weeks ago, i speak to those people and their families. >> this was a giant leap forward for the britain, while defending world champion won his first points of the season, finishing third. aljazeera. >> a construction worker has died at the world cup stadium in brazil. the death comes days after secretary general admitted that progress at the stadium remains a concern. further, four workers have died in accidents at other world cup sites. >> some better news for fifa arrived from the host city, otherwise nicers there able to

hold their first test event despite the venue not being fully ready. the world cup gets underway june 12. >> liverpool had the chance to go top of the english premier league later on. if they win, there remain seven games of the season as they will be champions. city were held to a draw by arsenal and chelsea lost to crystal palace. liverpool will be aiming for their eighth straight win. >> the scores make much greater depth, but we've shown as a team that we'll grow and develop and put something in place not just for this one season. it's a process that started 18 months ago. we're just looking to make sustainable success. >> athletico still leading to win the spanish league title.

barcelona and real madrid continuing to play catch up. >> athletico madrid keep winning, fell behind after five minutes, putting the champion league in front. the spanish leaders didn't panic. they were level midway through the first half when costa netted his 51st goal of the campaign. the madrid side completed the come back after the break, nodding in to make it 2-1. barcelona's players made a tee shirt tribute before kick off. the spaniard who's tipped to leave the club. taking time to get going against their bitter cross city rivals.

it wasn't just thear jen teen wasteful, producing abunbelievable miss from five yards out. after the break, a kick was given to the visitors. given the chance to score his first ever goal. 1-0 was the finish, staying a point behind athletico. real madrid were the only top three teams to have a convincing win. rinaldo set up for the opener. after the break, the heavens and flood gates opened. scoring wales second before the world's most expensive blare did get on the score sheet not once, but twice in the space of three minutes. then made it 4-0 and the 5-0 win was completed by the brilliant

effort. real remain three points off the top spot and still very much in the title hunt. age. >> pakistan has not host bangladesh after the contradict's world 2000 between tournament. winning by 50 runs. the result means australia cannot progress from this group into the last four. pakistan's final group game is against the west i understandies. the winner of that match will go so the semis. >> world number one within serena williams has won a record seventh title at the masters. the 17 time grand slam champion overcame a slow start against world number two, but she eventually sealed the match in straight sets. with your passing the record of six title she shares with fellow american andre agassi. an outcome they won't be too unhappy about, the 76ers finally

managing to snap their losing streak with this win. it meant they avoided a record-breaking 27t 27th consecutive loss. >> every day people were trying to have great days. nothing has changed, nothing will change. we'll get up and go at it tomorrow. the players i am happy for, perhaps the stigma is a good thing that it's not attached to their name. >> there's more on our website, check out aljazeera/sport. there's details on how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook. >> you're jerryette on twitter at the moment. i haven't seen much to you. >> there's nothing to tweet about. >> always something to tweet about. just after the break, the latest from the turkish election for you and all the world news.