in a professional athlete? real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america >> >> fresh trouble in east ukraine. pro-russia protesters occupy more official buildings. >> hello, welcome to al jazeera. live from doha. also on the show - locked in a cell for weeks at a time. the migrants languishing in libya, and the guards that say they are just following orders. >> the people versus the president - we report on a fight over land in the philippines. >> and the cycle of life - the

man touring brazil's world cup stadiums and hoping to help his team to victory. >> well, the prime minister may have been to the east of ukraine, but his visit doesn't seem to have calmed the situation. in the past couple of hours armed men seized a police building in donetsk's region. the interior minister is warning of a tough fight and special forces are on their way to the area. it's a similar scene 150km away in li in lukhansk. let's start there. how is the proceeding there? >> well, it is a situation that is developing at the moment. what we know so far and can confirm is that the police building has been surrounded by men dressed in military fatigues

and carry weapons. they have not identified themselves so far. what is feared is whether they have entered the building. presumably they have, and whether there are any people in that building. it is a police building, so presumably there were policemen who were on duty, and it's not clear whether they were allowed here. certainly it is a situation that is developing and as we understand it from the interior minister, security forces to the government are on their way to solve the situation. it may not be easy, because if you have support like in this place, it will be a difficult operation that would risk some blood-letting, and that is one thing the government is trying to avoid at all costs. >> so the prime minister's ideas of showing balance don't seem to

have diffused tensions. how about where you are in lukhansk. >> we know a delegation arrived from kiev. they are in this police headquarters here, holding negotiations with the leaders of the protesters. there are three main points. and i think it's clear from what one of the representatives just said on the stage behind me, the main point is that they want guarantees. they do not trust the government in kiev, so when the government says we will have a constitutional amendments giving powers to the roojon, giving them the right to hold local referendums, they want to see that as legislation, not just as talk. there's two other points, the amnesty. so far it's words from the active president. it's not turned into a decree. they want guarantors not only

for the protesters, but some security forces who joined the protest, and they also want to make sure they follow the amnesty law. the third point is they want a south-eastern army that would be within the framework of the national army, but under local command. these are the main points that they are discussing at the moment. from what we understand, they will not leave the building as long as all is - there's only promises and talks. if it goes to parliament, if it is discussed and turned into a legislation, then they would leave the building. i have to say that the protesters here were referred to by the interior minister in those same terms he is referring to the protesters at the moment. he had also promised very swift and harsh actions here, but the reality is that is impossible. you see the amount of people behind me.

these people say that they are here to protect their friends, brothers, sons inside the buildings. so it is a very difficult situation. and apart from negotiations, the government has no other way to deal with this situation. >> all right. thank you for that. >> well, the u.s. imposed a third round of sanctions against individuals linked to crimea's breakaway from ukraine. six separatist leaders, the former vice speaker of the parliament and the gas company leader. >> among them the man that signed the deal with russia to split crimea. the move is aimed as pressuring russia to withdraw troops from the ukraine eastern border. >> it is causing pressure on the economy, and the prospect of additional sanctions is something they are aware of. i think that, in fact, the sanctions are working.

something i said about sanctions in regards to other context as well. sanctions can create economic impact, facts that leaders should consider. ultimately leaders have to change the policy. >> libya detained hundreds of migrants crossing into europe. thousands made the dangerous journey. they often end up in run-down centres, failing to make it to lampedusa, and as andrew simmonds reports, many don't know when they'll be released. >> they want to know when they'll be set free. this man from eritrea says he's been held in various centres since 2012, and it's grim. >> i didn't see any right or

respect for human beings here. >> this, you might think, is how it should be some freedom of movement. for the vast majority of the people here, it's more than 250 men on lockdown most of the time. some of these men have not been outside for two to three weeks. >> i couldn't get the sun like or something, i couldn't make exercise. it's bad for you. >> there are 10 men with special permission to be outside most of the time. they help out. the guards who didn't appear to be attendive say they can't organise regular exercise sessions because they don't have proper security. >> isn't it inhumane the way people are treated. >> humane or not, it's not for me to decide. i'm a man doing the best i can under the circumstances. i'm not mistreating or hurting anyone. we do what we can. the state is not helping us. >> the detainees get regular

meals and occasional medical attention. the guards say conditions are what they should be because they are poorly resourced and short-staffed. many are uncertain about their rights and do not know what is going to happen next. >> australia says it is coming to deploy a submarine at the site of the search for the missing malaysian airliner. the australian-led mission for the boeing 777 is trying to gather as many signals as possible before it switches off. >> an imminent breakthrough is unlikely. >> given the signal from the black box is rapidly fading, what we are now doing is trying to get as many detections as we can so we can narrow the search area down to as small an area as possible. once that's been done, and i

don't want to speculate on when that might be, once that's been done, it's our intention to then deploy the submersible, which will conduct a sonar search of the sea bed, and based on the sonar search, attempt to get a visual. >> well, now to the reason why many of us had to change our password these days. heartbleed is a software blood potentially allowing attackers to read passwords. some of the popular websites. the u.s. national security agency denies reports it was aware of the flaw, and used it to extract data for surveillance. >> heartbleed is a glitch in the basic security of westbound sites and affects the popular encryption technology called open ssl, designed to protect sensitive data such as emails, passwords and credit card

information. now, when certain websites begin with the letters https, accompanied by a closed green padlock they are supposed to be secure. heartbleed creates an opening. making it vulnerable to attackers. this has disposed the data in up to two-thirds of the world's website. and is believed to have been around for two years. that's prompted canada to shut down a series of websites as daniel black explains. >> more than three-quarters of canadian taxpayers filed income tax returns online through the website of canada revenue agency. anyone trying to beat the deadline had first-hand experience of the heartblad worm. on wednesday the agency shut down web services and the government suspended internet sites of other department using the open ssl encryption

software. the closures are a precaution. no security breaches have been dedebited. doesn't mean it hasn't happened. >> given the scale and scope of the vulnerability, it is vulnerable. it's only a matter of time before we discover some of them were compromised along the way. the mathematics absolutely points in that direction. >> the list of well-known internet firms hit by heartbleed is growing. google, facebook and others say they have fixed the bug. canadians and banks are saying they are not affected. the news that networks and hardware by cisco and juniper could be infected. it is one of the biggest online security vulnerabilities of all time. >> numbers are too big to believe. this is a watershed event in internet security. this is the straw that will break the camel's back. force us to realise that security - we need to pay

attention to it. it needs to change and it needs to change now. once the size of the problem is determined, the hard work degins. finding the breaches that occurs, discovering what data was taken and how it may have been used. we'll be hearing about heartbleed for weeks, months to come. >> more to come on the show. we'll tell you why acid attacks are on the rise in columbia, and the end of a gruelling test in the sahara meet the winner of the toughest foot race on earth.

>> welcome back. let's recap the headlines. gunmen have seized a police building in eastern ukraine. the interior minister is warning of a tough response and special forces are on their way to the area. it is in the region where pro-russian activists have been occupying buildings. they are armed and ready for an assault. africans detained in libya tell al jazeera they have not been allowed out of a prison for weeks. libya detains hundreds of migrants trying to cross to europe. moment from somalia and eritrea. the national security agency is denying that it knew about heartbleed and using it to spy on people. people are being advised to change passwords on facebook and twitter.

>> we spoke an associate professor, joining me live from the ukrainian capital kiev. good to have you with us. has the prime minister's visit to the east of the country - has that led to a process of negotiations? >> i'm not sure it's a process of negotiation. it's spun as a concession or a compromise to the protesters. in actual fact what the prime minister is doing is he's basically fulfilling the promise made just behind me under maydan, the independence square during the revolution, when one of the calls of the revolutionaries was to decentralize the country, and to change the constitution in such a way as to say dictatorship was impossible. what it's done is decentralized budgets. it's spun as a concession to the separatist. what he is doing is simply basically fulfilling his mandate. >> how far would he be willing to go when it comes to

decentralisation. would he go as far as a federal ukraine. >> no, definitely not. there's one thing - there's one thing when you talk about budgettry decentralisation, how the money is distributed and the resources. but it's quite another to talk about a federal state with legislatures in each region, potential exist, et cetera. it's on the russian agenda, but not the ukrainian government's agenda. it's important to under that the spritists, in fact, in their own regions, according to the data of ukrainian and western polling companies have no more than 20% support. we have 18% that wants to stay in ukraine, and 20% considering separatism. not enough to create an indigenous change without, of

course, external involvement, which is what is going on. obviously the separatist movements are funded and organised by russia. >> okay. hang on. if that data is accurate, and if the government is confident that 80% of the people in the east of ukraine do not want a federal system. why not - wouldn't that be more of a reason to agree to hold a referendum that some of the protesters want? >> well, the issue is that a referendum could be - first of all, there's a vote that is coming at the moment, called the presidential election. and if, in fact, in the eastern regions the separatists candidates receive a large mandate, certainly that will be considered to be effectively a referendum. it is very dangerous to have the ability to have, you know, regional referreda at a wim when 20% of the population wants a referendum. . >> from the protestor's

perspective, they had an election and the democratically elected president was overthrown. >> the democratically elected president at the moment, in his own region has a 4% approval rating. if you are talking about victory, he is illegitimate in his own reasons, if you look at the separatist demands. another not asking viktor yanukovych to come back, or a return of the, as you are calling it, the democratically elected president. he was democratically elected four years ago, became a dictator and was overthrown. we saw the images of corrupt mansions and the extend of theft was outrageous. he's not popular in the east. we are talking about an instigated. >> we are running out of time.

>> i'll let you - thank you. >> thank you for your thoughts there. >> all right. 10 years ago a group of farmers in the philippines were shot dead at a sugar estate opened by benigno aquino. no one was convicted of the deaths. textures were rising. we have this report. >> this is the place they called home. >> this man and her husband remember how armed men stormed into their home and drove them away. they want to own their family. though the incident may have been painful. the struggle has been a long one. it began almost 10 years ago when they survived an attack that killed almost seven farmers during a protest on the sugar

estate. they worry that harassment of farmers may lead to more violence. >> translation: they continue to harass us. they continue to displace us. land is important to us, it's our life. we will fight for it. more of us will die in the process. we stand united. >> she blames it on this man. >> president benigno aquino's family owned the sugar plantation. when the shootings happened. benigno aquino was a congressman. benigno aquino said he owned less than 5% of the total estate and has given up the shares when sworn in as president. he insists his government remains committed to providing a long-term solution to the problem. >> he gave instructions that government programs to support farmers should continue, even after land distribution.

>> but for florida, this is not enough. she says they want justice. especially from a man whose mandate is to protect them. >> this reports of progress. filipino farmers are the poorest in the country. according to the united nations they are worst off compared to counterparts. government land distribution targets are not met. the supreme court has ordered the family of president benigno aquino to redistribute the plantation to poor farmers, ruling that they have the right to own their ancrestor's land. here they say justice is too slow. no matter the promises, they believe the struggle with the landowners represent the darker side of president benigno aquino's legacy. >> to the war in syria now,

where opposition fighters say they have killed 15 soldiers in the province of hama. they claim control of the only supply route. in aleppo, nine have been killed in air strikes. fighting intensified in northern towns and south of aleppo. in the iraqi boarder fighting is said to be over. the al-qaeda linked al nusra retook positions from the islamic state of levant, or i.s.i.l. >> egypt - security forces used live ammunition and tear gas to disperse a rally. one protestor was killed. there were several demonstrations across egypt on friday. >> al jazeera is demanding the immediate release of peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy, and mohammed badr, journal ists in egypt. they appeared in court thursday, the case adjourned until later.

they are accused of providing a platform for the outlawed muslim brotherhood. they've been behinds bars for 105 days. abdullah al-shami, a fourth al jazeera arabic journalist has been in gaol since august. he's on a hunger strike. al jazeera rejects all charges. >> a law passed to restrict asset sales and penalties - five have been attacked over the past few weeks, and hundreds in the past decade. from bogota we have this report. >> when this woman refused to work for a criminal group, a man attacked her with acid, burning her neck, arm and shoulders. >> i started screaming and screaming as if crazy. i can't describe it. i would scream and throw water on me, all the water i could find. and i would see pieces of skin

falling off. >> her husband left her soon after, with the attacker threatening her daughters, she ran away to the capital, looking for help. >> it was humiliation after humiliation. my friends would say my mother was a monster. now we are alone. we help each other to survive. >> more than 900 people have been attacked with acid over the past 10 years. most are poor women facing constant discrimination. they can't find the money to get a job or face surgery. >> sulphuric acid sales is not regulated. this cost over $1, and can be found in hardware stores or supermarkets. since using it as a weapon is not considered a serious crime, attackers only face short prison terms. >> bogota councilwoman says a

history of violence and impunity are part of the problem. >> columbia's congress passed a law increasing penalties, but it has not been implemented and this may change following a high-profile case in the city. >> we are leaving the people alone. now an upper class girl has been attacked. i regret it. we see the political system reacting. one wonders if we have first class and second-class victims in this country. >> that female was attacked by a neighbour reportedly obsessed with her. in sharp contrast to previous cases the president offered a $40,000 reward. the culprit was soon arrested. congress promised to implement the law next month. the previous victims are left wondering if they'll receive

justice. >> victims of clerical abuse are calling for a church court to be set up to examine the conduct of religious orders. pope francis asked for forgiveness for what he calls the evil committed by priests in abusing children, the strongest statement yet by the head of the roman catholic church. he had been criticised for not taking a bold nuf stand. >> translation: i feel compelled for taking on all the evil. not compared to all the priests, to ask for forgiveness for the damage they had done for sexually abusing children. the church is aware of the damn, morally made by them, buts they are men of the church. >> with two months to go until the world cup in brazil a football fan is determined to see all 12 host cities before kick off. the englishman is cycling 9,000km from one stadium to the

other to raise money for charity. here is andy smith's story. >> i'm andy smith, a british touring cyclist in brazil, to explore this amazing country and have a bit of an adventure. >> the plan is to visit every world cup football stadium. 9,000km in total. i guess my goal is to discovery brazil. i travel through 12 cities, through multiple states, through all the countryside, and highways and coastline and mountains in between to see the town's villages, cities and meet the people. the world cup is something special. particularly here in brazil. to see it for real up close is stunning. i can't wait to go inside and see the pitch. i'm not sure i can directly help the england team at the world

cup. i'd like to think cycling 9,000km across the country where the temperature is 35 degrees and get hotter in the north. i'd like to hope they will be inspired to play better and they'll celebrate in rio. for me it will be a memory to take for the rest of my trip. i hope to come back and see the final. who knows. england-brazil would be ideal. >> more jockan rachid el morabity won the 29th marathon des sables. the multiday gruelling run is the equivalent of six marathons back to back. thousands of competitors take part in what is considered the toughest foot race on the planet earth. >> i have truly achieved something. there are a lot of rivals and

champions, i'm happy to have won. >> if you want more on that story and others that we are following here, you know where to go - aljazeera.com. you can see the front page there, with the lead story, the situation in the east of the ukraine. we'll be back with more updates. stay was. with us. >> a brutal week in the stock market and wonder if a bigger pull back is underway. plus monday, power, look at the historically tight relationship between america's bankers and the president of the united states. and one of the largest retailers in the world are paying it's workers to quit. i'm ali velshi, and this is "real money."