>> announcer: this is al jazeera. >> good to have you along. you are watching the al jazeera newshour. these are some stories we are looking at in the next 60 minutes. barrel bombs dropped on a syrian village a day after allegations it was the site of a point gas attack. >> partial afghan election results put former foreign minister abdullah abdullah in the lead. it's described as africa's first narco state - we are in guinea

passau for the presidential election. >> we are off to nigeria, where traditional healers say they can treat you as well as main stream doctors. >> last august when chemical weapons were used in syria there was worldwide outrage and condemnation. the men president talking of -- american president talking of red lines being crossed. it's been quieter, with new allegations of the use of chemical weapons, the government and opposition accusing one another of having fired poison gas on a village in hama province. we'll have an expert on the use of weapons on whether this really has happened and we'll economic how much of the chemical stockpile is left. after this report. >> it looks like the usual bombing campaign.

according to activists these barrel bombs dropped from helicopters, containing toxic chemicals. according to witness account, the chemicals went airborne after the bombs fell. as people were ferried in ambulances, the person recording the video is coughing, and others are covering their mouths. we cannot independently verify the videos but it's been said there was an attack, and opposition fighters were blamed. >> translation: in the hamas suburb two have been killed and 100 injured by a terrorist group. they attacked the village using chlorine gas. we are aware they were preparing to carried out more attacks. >> many decide in the hospital. >> children and adults appeared to have difficulty breathing, as if they had inhaled something

toxic. the opposition says poison gas and concentrated pesticides were dropped on the outskirts of damascus. syrian national coalition says several similar attacks happened in the last few months and wants the world to take action. is a statement by the fnc says. >> the asaad regime missed a series of up deadline to destroying the chemical weapons stockpile. it agreed to destroy weapons after hundred were killed in an attack. syria has more than 550 tonnes of weapons, after half of its arsenal has been destroyed. >> the asaad government says rebels possess the chemicals,

and in the cross-hair are millions of civilians caught between a fractured opposition and a beleaguered government sent to ex-other its authority. >> according to the organization for the prohibition of keptians, the personnel of chemicals remove tore destroyed from inside syria is about 54%. it's believed the syria government has about 550 tonnes of chemical weapons, almost all of them have reportedly been packed up, and are located at a few sites near the city of whom. >> the government says it will remove all kep yops by april the -- chemical weapons, by april the 13th, except those in presently inaction able -- inactionable areas. it has until june 30th to eradicate his program. >> let's bring in a chemical

weapons specialist from the u.k. can you tell from the picture - the foaming at the mouth, the respiratory problem, that chemical wemens were probably used or not? >> you can't tell for certain, however, the evidence we have seen is similar to the evidence we saw after the attacks earlier, and some of the symptoms we see are those you would expect from chemical weapons, and in this particular case the regime stated that chlorine was used, and pesticide. now, chlorine is an agent and there is compelling evidence not just that the regime produced, but brian noses, which unequivocally showed that chlorine is in the area and has been used. it would lead you to believe that perhaps chlorine is and was

used. it was the first chemical weapons used in the first war, killing tens of thousands of people. i think also what is compelling in tom coughlan's pass in the "london times", on friday, the british foreign office were quoted, suggesting that there might be something to these attacks. usually they provide bland statement. i think locking at it all together, yes it would appear that some form of chemical weapons would appear. >> who is responsible, and, of course, it would be difficult. the deliver would suggest that the regime is responsible, these barrels of chlorine pulling out. al qaeda did a lot of research into chemical weapons, and it is not impossible that al qaeda groups, such as alnews ra could

have obtained chlorine which is available and used it themselves. >> i was simply going to ask you if it is claur each, and news ra able to get hold of it and the other groups said to have access to chemical weapons some months ago, would this be part of the stockpile that would have been listed by the syrian government, or would it have been obtained by other means, do you think? i think it would have been obtained by other means. the dollars in november didn't include clhlorinchlorine. being stark, chlorine is a low grade weapon. sarin is about 4,000 times more toxic. chlorine was available in syria, they were a large manufacture of chlorine for commercial and domestic purposes. there is an issue whether all of

the stockpile was declared, and some analysts, including myself would suggest one or 200 tonnes of chemical weapons missing, that were underdeclared. i do not think chlorine is part of it. i suspect if it is chlorine, it has gotten hold of from commercial sources which the regime could have use. >> hamish talking to us. thank you. appreciate your time. >> ukraine's interior minister says an anti-terrorist operation has been launched to clear armed pro-russian protesters. gunmen are said to have seized hundreds of weapons after taking over police headquarters. there have been reports about fighting near an abandoned airport outside the city. in another eastern ukrainian city, luhansk protesters are holding the security services building, and they are demanding

a referendum on autonomy. in the capital kiev, christians gathered at a cathedral to celebrate palm sunday. worshippers prayed for a peaceful way out. back to events on the ground. confrontation. we go live to slovyansk, or were told that action was going to be taken by the ukrainian authorities, the interior minister saying there would be some kind of battle. no evidence from what you have seen. >> well, not here in slovyansk. i'm standing outside of the police building that was seized yesterday. as you see behind me, the residents of slovyansk, here, supporting the pro-russian men who have taken over the police building, and they have a barricade. you probably see the man

standing high up. that's the barricade. in fror that police building, and i have to tell you there was no sense of tension here. certainly if there was an intention to carry out the operation, it did not happen. >> possible confrontations, difficult to know where it might go. not just where you were, but in a number of different pockets in eastern ukraine. >> certainly there has been, over the last 24 hours, one after the other, either city council buildings or local police takes have been seized. the latest is in a town here in eastern ukraine. as you said earlier. we heard about some sort of gun battle. until now we are getting conflicting reports. if we are to listen to the

ukrainian government, or of the donetsk region, there would have been a gun battle leading from the border with russia all the way to donetsk. that's where the battle would have happened. it's a fortified military check point that we drove through this morning. if we are to listen to reports coming out of russia, they say that the gun battle happened as you said earlier, on the abandoned military base. as special forces were landing. >> hoda abdel-hamid, thank you very much. >> in afghanistan the preliminary results from the election show that the former foreign minister abdullah abdullah is leading. he showed nearly 42% of the vote. his nearest rival by nearly 8%.

if noorth of candidates -- neither of the candidates gain 50% of the result in may, there'll be a run off. >> does this tell us anything about the overall end game that was seen. there are three candidates. there are votes in favour of two. >> the election commission - the way they tell it, they tried to give an re-examination of how they think the final vote will look. this is why you have got this so% of the vote in from 26% of the polling. the election commission hopes that a representative sample, it isn't a final number, more results will be in next weeks. the indication is that the frontrunners are abdullah abdullah and ashraf ghani could be headed to a run off.

unless they get enough votes to tip them over the 50% plus one threshold. >> are you able to garner from where the results come in whether support for one candidate is because he has support in a particular area, or whether that is representative again of national sentiment. >> well, the election commission will say they tried to be as representative as possible. we were due to hear the results that were supposed to come out yesterday. there was a bit of wrangling over what percentage of votes should be revealed. we can't tell you particularly which provinces voted for who. there are the provinces of where the votes haven't come from. i don't know how we would have voted tore the candidates. we hope the election commission is rptive with this number that is released.

>>. >> in the past couple of days we spoke to both the front runners. both would like o rein outright. both said if the polling is accurate, if there isn't widespread fraud, they'll accept the results of the first round and they'll take part in a run-off. that is likely to happen. the election complaints commission said there has been fraud, but the level of fraud that there has been, particularly ballot box stuffing is not significant enough to alter the final election. >> thank you. smith live in the afghan capital. >> africa's first narco state. voters in guinea pass awe choosing a leader that will have to root out high level corruption that has seen the

country ball a major drug trafficking area. it's seen a series of coups since winning independence. the traffic is said to be spreading to nearby countries, this is picked up by authorities in guinea. it's a big issue. there's a corrupt and centralized leadership says a report, and inadequate and underfunded justice system. >> catherine sawyer reports. >> people in guinea passau are hopeful that they'll get the change they want, and it will turn the country around. >> this is a kunsry that suffered multiple cools it's a dmentic election, one of the poorest countries, with an economy facing a cites sis. most of the -- crisis. most of the functions have been

run by aid. people are poorer. it is reluctant to let go and is entrenched in the politics. these people want to elect a leader that will change that making their lives more bearable. >> this is coming up on the al jazeera - orphans of iraq. how volunteers are helping where the government is not. >> i'm rob reynold's in california with a maritime mystery. >> we have sport in 30, and could a masters day beautant be the youngest win are at au gratin. >> a car bomb killed ten, among them five police in iraq. among them a police officer.

is passed through a busy area. 12 were hur. >> in iraq tribal leaders urged the government put an end to the crisis in anbar province, many have fled their homes. the islamic state of iraq and levant broke out in december. the sheikh warned that security in baghdad may collapse in the government doesn't act. >> translation: i have a final word for the maliki government. if you want to solve the problem, you have to solve it quickly otherwise it will collapse within the n few weeks. >> there are 5 million registered orphans in iraq. not only have they left their parents, they lose their reputation. >> in is no ordinary school. every child is an orphan.

in iraq, you're an ortap if your father has been killed. >> they live with other relatives who cannot afford to educate and look after them. the school is tucked away in a side street. a neighbourhood bore much of the violence that the city has seen since the occupation in 003. today the children are grateful for the opportunity to learn. >> my father died in 2005. he was a taxi driver, shot by gunmen. my mother passed away two years later. i live with grandparents now. i used to feel alone at home. now i come to the school and feel happier. >> this school is run in three different shifts. 300 children aren rolled. for her, it's a labour of love.

she gets no help from the government and pays most of the expenses herself. >> translation: i set the school up after my husband was killed in sectarian violence in 2005. i realise that so many children lost their parents, and i needed to do is. i apped the school in 2009. i asked the government to help, but the pleas fall op deaf ears. there's no accurate figures to tell you how many are in school like this. there could be thousands of children attending institutions like this. more many, it's an indication that the government failed in providing the basic services. >> this woman runs childhood wishes for humanities, a recognised charity. there's a long way to go, for her, before the needs of the iraqi orphans are met.

>> we are seeing more and more orphans every day. the security situation will see that more children will be left out families. we are under a tremendous amount of pressure. without enfrom the government -- help from the government these children will be left without a future. >> schools like this are a vital life line. there are fears they won't have the money, and thousands of children will be force youed out to the streets. >> so the thoughts now of ar im shakarim, quality director of save the children, who told us how serious the situation is on the ground in iraq. >> violence in iraq for the last many decades has created damage in a basic north western. it takes many years to help. it's government and international community are responsible to the infrastructure, and specially

education. save the children is, at the moment, supporting the iraqi children through the child protection systems, and to work for all children in iraq, at the same time, save the children is spoping to the -- responding to the displacement. we are supporting the children displaced to iraq. overall, we have programs that especially work with women who are mainly taking care of women, heads of households, to empower them to be economically self reliant, to be able to pay for children's education protection, and to be self reliant. >> the united nations top climate change body. the ipcc is calling for a major change in how the world gern items its power. most of the our energy comes

from foss ill fuels, 80%, in fact, and the international panel made up of hundreds of experts, packed by 190 government says the use of fossil fuels must be cut by two thirds, the ipc wanting to trebel the use of clean energy, if not, we risk catastrophic climate change. the shift to clean forms such as wind and solar energy will cost billions, and is likely to be resisted by some governments. i should tell you that we are hoping to talk to job who is on the report, speed, the author, we have him early on. joining us live from berlin. some atmospherics that might cause problems, change , but we have mr clarke. i talk about the fact that fossil fuels are bad, the governments will resist the

change and it will cost money. we have heard all this before, haven't we? >> yes, i think that the messages coming out in the context of climate change mitigation have not changed dramatically since what we heard in the past. there's more nuance. it is true that there will be cost to mitigation. a main results is in these reports, there's nothing indicating that mitigation will jeopardise economic growth. there'll be cost, there will. and you do need to use energy that is more expensive currently. at the same time one has to realise that you pay the costs to buy something. and it is not going forward. >> 2050, cuts of 60%, 36 years

from now. if it happens, what sort of changes will we stave off, and what state will the world be in by now. >> well, it's hard with climate change to know what you are skating off. what we generally do is say what would it take to hit concentrations of greenhouse gases, giving us a chance of not having temperatures increase, or the risk of harms coming for the increase. there are a number of estimates about how much we'd have to reduce and those range anywhere from 50% reductions to closer to 75. it raises the issue of how many we are going do now, compared to the future. >> how do you find attitudes have changed. not only are you expert. you have conversations with your

friends. >> do you think people are coming around to the idea. others say mankind is ruining the great planet of ours. >> well, that issue is addressed largely in working group one. the report that i'm concerned with or addressing what will it take to deal with climate change. the results from working group one are unegive okayal. climate change is happening, caused by human being. it is at this point becoming stronger. and there's evidence of increasing harm. we don't know how much harm we'll have if it continues to go up. at this point as a risk management problem. i'm getting beeping. >> the end of the world is not nigh, the end of the interview

is. we'll have to make the last answer anyway. leon clark talking been climate change. good to have your company. >> a small island off the coast of australia has been used as a model for testing renewable energy. from king island andrew thomas reports. >> it's hard by a pumping metropolis. australia's king island has more cows than people. it's becoming a roto type. islands the world over could be powered. traditionally small communities relied on diesel generators. there's time the island is powered by renewable energy. that's the need for 2,000 people out of distreel customers. >> it's the most power hungry

machinery. >> we have run the island up to 7.5 hours of wind energy. total to date of 150 hours. >> ironically renewable targets have been reached by keeping diesel in the mix, whilst wasting power. the traditional problem is that it's unrealable. not enough, and the lights go out. a surge can trip the system. >> a breakthrough is combining two innovations, firing up and burning dieselment and a recystor tapping off power when renewables were used. >> we hope that the combination of the technologies is what makes this a winner.

the screen shows the power mix coming in, and the output demand is pulling out. here it is topped up with a little diesel any, in case a big customer turns on a switch. the resistor pulls out excess and drains more if the windmill turned faster. the hope is that the technology here could be rolled out. across the pacific there's plenty of fluctuating son and wind. harnessing it could transform it more that this one. >> different people, same continent. domes andrew thomas there. >> i think we have better news as far as the tropical cyclone is concerned. it's weakened and gathered pace. where we see heavy rain, it

won't stay in one place or anywhere near as lock. you can see the massive cloud. the rain fall totals, 200mm of rain in 24 hours. south, towards the gold coast, ahead of the storm we see 70mm of rain. at the moment it is positioned to the south of townsville. sustained winds of 80 k/hr, it's the movement 30 k/hr, it's gatedered pace, steaming away, and will run off into the waters of the coral sea soon. as we go through monday, the wetter weather will drift south eastwards. brighter skies in behind. something of a recovery. getting into place. a few showers around the cape york peninsula. going into tuesday, we will see the dry weather coming to eastern side of the country.

things looking like they'll improve smartly over the next couple of days. >> in the meanwhile there's a chance of flooding for south-eastern parts of queensland. >> always someone to cheer people up. we have more coming up on the newshour, including treated as untouchedables. we go to a remote nepalese village where people are fighting to end centuries of discrimination. we have a man picking a fight doing well. filipino boxing legend manny pacquiao on the comeback trail. is

>> you're watching al jazeera newshour. nears are the top stories - syrian fighters and rebels are blaming each other for dropping barrel bombs filled with chemicals. the potential denies responsibility and -- opposition denies responsibility and is demanding an investigation. >> abdullah abdullah is in the lead with 42% of the vote. the nearest rival ghan ago. 38%. they have been counted. >> voting is underway in the west african nation in guinea passau. it is a country, a transilt point in the smuggling of south american cocaine into europe. >> for many africans herbal

remedies have as much to offer. in lagos, the government says it's time for healers to take their place within modern hospitals and clinics. >> broken bones have been set for more than 20 years, and is using a traditional form of orthopaedic therapy. he has no medical degree, he took it up from his father. he is licensed. he's one of thousands of traditional medicine pracitioners recognised by the state of lagos. >> if a bone is broken, they tell you about eight weeks. in a traditional way i would tell you within six weeks he could walk with it. >> they say they can find heelers available, affordable and less enfacive. >> my friend had a fracture like mainly and went to a normal

hospital. they amputated his leg. we have more confidence in the traditional way. >> for many, traditional medicine appears to be doing ag well as it has. ciition warned that it's -- critics warned that it's not based on scientific research or evidence, and it is difficult to draw the line between it and witchcraft. that is exactly the impression that the lagos medical board is trying to change. it's been licensing, monitoring, training healers, including herbalists, bone setters and birted attendants. they have set up a six week course, a prerequisite to getting licence. the chairman of the board is a doctor and says it's about providing better health care. >> what we are doing is trying to have a meeting between the traditional doctors and

traditional healers. we are talking about a country with 30 doctors and 200,000 patients. >> has part of a push lagos is working on setting up a botanical center to capitalize on welfare and plans. they hope it offers home-grown solutions to endemic diseases. lagos officials have been lobbied that will have them working side by side with physicians. with practices to stay, they say it is well, the natural thing to do. >> south korea and japan agreed to rare talks on japan's use of war-time sex slaves. japan apologised for the issue of comfort women and set up a fund to make payment to survivors. south korea says it's not enough.

200,000 women in territories were forced to become sex slaves for troops. discrimination based on a person's cast is il. many ballots, the so-called untouchable say life is difficult. the hindu caste system has been in place, divided into four main groupings, there are sub casts as well. the brahmans, the is the hatrials. vice have been traders and merch aned and the sudras. and then the daleks. they say discrimination is rife as sovena reports. >> people in the village know what it's like. most of them - the so-called

untouchedables in the system. that is one of them. >> last december he decided to stand for elections in the local school management committee. district officers picked a person from a higher caste, and forced him to lose. >> they said that both candidates got the same number of votes, the 58th vote. then i tossed the coin which i won. said defeat. i found out that both the pavers had the defeat on it. and i was made to draw first. >> the village is betrayed, it's a typical behaviour, and they claim that the state allocation doesn't necessarily peat them. >> majority of the students.

>> new they have no say. the parent signed a petition to have a re-election after 123 parents, 83 signed the petition, and the matter has gone to court. we talked to the head mistress, who said the elections were free and fair. >> the election is over. after the winners and losers were announced we went home. a few days later they padlocked the schools saying the process was unfair. now the district education board will have to decide. >> we asked the official who conducted the election, but he said he was too busy to talk to us. >> there are still schools where students are banned from entering classrooms or made to sit separately. many have to bring their own plates and bowls to school. and men are not allowed to use local taps. for the many living across nep

ag, it's a daily -- nepal, it's a daily reality. >> okay. you may remember we are talking about traditional medicine versus modern medicine in nigeria, and how the traditional medicine appeared to be brought more into the fold by health practitioners there. let's talk to agori taylor. the lound went down -- line went down. good to have you dr taylor. the advisor for the group in nigeria, talking to us now. traditional medicine - herbs, different ways of trying to make people healthy, it's difficult. it's difficult to differentiate between those that are good and the dangerous ones. how do you do that? >> all right, i tell you what, we are not having as much luck. dr taylor - we'll try to get a

recording. we are not having any joy getting through to you. appreciate your time. we tried. >> hundreds of colourful star wish which fling on to the rocks. it was a common site until a few months ago. they are nearly all gone. >> rob reynolds is in an area where they are workers hard to come up with an answer. >> in this rocky wave-washed order, researchers are gathering evidence, searching rock by rock, crevice by crevice for star fish. normally many species of star fish thrive in the tide pools, and they are an important part of a complex ecological system. today the researchers find hardly any of them. >> we only saw two sea stars. in the past we saw 145 at the

same election. to go from 145 down to two, it's drastic. >> star fish lived in the ocean for 450 million years, but now they seem to be in trouble. all up and down the post. star fish have been dying off in huge numbers. scientists have no idea what is killing this. differs noticed large numbers of dead and diseased sea as far as in alaska and british columbia. >> it's a widespread phenomenon. massive. >> scientists say it kills within a matter of hours. >> it's like a white legion, they are deflated and their arm come off and creep away. at the worst state you'll see four or five arms that have spread away from the center of

the body. stereo scientists believe a virus or bacteria is killing the sea stars but are baffled by why they have become so susceptible to the infection. >> pete is the top biologist. >> given that it's a pathogen and leads to death. why now. that is figuring out why the path scro gep is virulent now, or why it has moved here from wherever it was before. >> possible causes include manmade chemicals, ocean acidification, waste water disharm or warming -- discharge or warming oceans. scientists are not ruling anything out. >> we have this coming up. >> vegas has a per miss if

atmosphere. it is good for artists. you have to feel you can do anything. >> the cultured side of sin city. and farah is up with the sport. can liverpool take a step forward to braking the drought in the premier league title race. appear

>> the australian-led search for the missing malaysian airliner started again. four strong signals had been

detected from the black box in the last week, but the signals disappeared, meaning the batteries could have died. as many as 11 military aircraft and 14 ships are taking part in the search. they narrowed the arch area on the seabed to an area the seize of los angeles. . >> north korea has allowed foreign amateur runners to take part in its pyongyang marathon. 200 poem from 27 countries signed up. tens of thousands of north koreans killed kim jong un's stadium to cheer on the runners. much remains off limits. pyongyang is more accessible to other places in a secretive country. >>. >> translation: we heard that it would be open for foreign amateurs to take part for the first time. we thought it would be fun and a good tonny to get into contact with the local people here.

>> did you spot the man not chapping in the cloud. we should cut the picture out for his own sake. >> the english premier league could go a long way to being decided with liverpool taking on manchester city. there were emotional scenes at anpeople. the 25th anniversary of the hills borough stadium was marked. there was plenty to cheer about. this were put ahead. after six minutes city suffered a setback as torre limped off. leading 2-0 in the second. >> we extend the lead at the stop. chelsea will be looking to keep pace as they face swan si. >> they are out of champion's league contention. barcelona are in danger of

missing out, dropping to lonely gran arda. >> three days after being knocked out of the champion's league by atletico madrid. barcelona had a chant to go atop of them. grenada made their week worse. putting one up after a quarter of an hour. brazilian forward namar went close in the first, but was denied. the grenada goalkeeper, which frustrated barca. he stobs ses fabregas. lionel messi's free kick, and sergeo's toe poke. grenada holding on to win 1-0. barca is a point behind atletico and real madrid. they were 4-0 winners.

they were put ahead in the first half. the world's most offensive flier double the led with nine goals. 3-0 for the hosts, who drew bayern munich. >> and substitute moratta came off the bedroom. ronaldo was messing for ray ol with a leg injury. they hope he'll be back in time for the final against barcelona. >> atletico remain on top. one round is completed. 2-0 defeat of real. >> a former champion and debutante share is one-shot

lead. >> bubba watson tied at 5-under. we have this report. >> the masters is meant to be all about men with experience. but at 20 years old, and playing in his first major, jordanion. the men shot a round of 70, moving to five under, and stands on the verge of becoming the youngest ever winner, replacing tiger woods, who won his maiden masters at 21. there's not the slightest indication of nerves. >> tomorrow is about seeing how i can control, you know, my game and emotions on the golf course, you know, against guys that are here recently. they have been in a position. i haven't. it doesn't mean i don't think that they have an advantage in any way. i think that i'm confident informant way things are going -- in the way things are going and looking forward to

tomorrow. >> beating bubba watson will be no easy task. the veteran struggling, but still with enough to keep a share of the lead. >> you dream about this. if you want to be a professional golfer, you dream about it, and thought about it. if someone told me, i would have shot two over. i shot on sunday. >> the nearest challenges are american matt kuchar, both a stroke back. while the youngsters have stolen the show, one veteran is in the hunt for his first major. miguel jimenez tied the lowest score. for a man 60 and offer. he had a 6-under 66. >> i like to have a knot in my

stomach that doesn't disappear. i love it. that's why i'm competing. >> the 50-year-old spaniard two back heading into sunday's final round. >> well, it's all very tight ahead of the final round on sunday. there's seven players within three streaks of bubba watson z >> manny pacquiao defeated timothy bradley reclaiming boxing's w.b.l. welterweight. he won in los angeles, he outboxed bradley, turning in a performance to rival his prime fighting. bradley ended the pacman wealther weight. he lost to timothy bradley, and that fight that many thought

manny pacquiao won. >> he got me in the first round. i seeing stars. and i listened to my corner, i said hands up, don't careless. my balance, because of my food. injuries happen. manny pacquiao is one of the best fighters. all that plans, i have to go to the gym and get better. i lost the fight. >> thousands in manila were on the streets to watch the fight. many feared it could have been his time fight. the trainer warned another loss to timothy bradley could put an end to his career. he is also a congressman in the philippines. >> the london marathon won by a kennion, for the second time, in 2 hours, 4 minutes and 29

seconds, beating the previous record by 11 seconds. it was a disappointing full marathon debut for olympic 5,000 and 10,000 champions mow farah finishing eighth. a kenyan won the women's race. she finished runner-up in the previous two year. >> the final eastern conference with a win own miami heat. it was not enough on a night for the two of this time defending champions. hawks to a 98-85 win. miami and indiana are tied at the top of the standards. >> the boston bruins have knm champions with a win over the baby doc. the boston bruins have 11 # with one game remaining. the bruins have home-ice

advantage throughout the play-off. the first-round opponent is unknown, if philadelphia and detroit possibilities. >> mark starts on poll for the motogp in the americas. marquez qualified ahead of danny pedrosa at the austin texas circuit. the spaniard is leading after his win at the first race of the season. >> and now it's... >> update on the football. >> 2-1 liverpool, still leading against manchester city. >> louie swaur es is looking cross. arguments on the center spot. >> i think liverpool can do it. a quick thought how about jimenez against speece. youngest and oldest. >> that's it from all of you wills in a moment. first to las vegas.

a city that wants to reveal its softer side, artistic side by adding contemporary art and culture to an image. they are hoping to attract tourists away from the strip into the art galleries. >> las vegas, where 40 million tourists flock to gamble, party, indulge. generally not to appreciate art. we are at the university of nevada, and patrick duffy, who supported the arts scene sheets works. home grown and global. the other hughes eem closed in 2009 during the recession. he remained optimistic. >> we have 2 million people that lived here. we are going to be able to gather some of those tourists to

be interested in the galleries and institutions. >> some tourists made their way off the strip. a block is murray's gallery. >> they really are responding to the colour, the gright lights, not necessarily the life still, but the colour. >> artists based here, like tim bavington says sin city inspires. >> you know the saying, what happens here, stays here. it has a permissive atmosphere. you have to feel like you can do anything. >> out here in the desert baving tonne says he can work. it never escapes your mind that it's there. >> on the strip there's a gallery. some tourists drop in, it's not why they come to vague as.

>> you know, a good time. forget your problems. >> definitely not art. >> not art, sorry. >> you can go to a museum to experience art, or the arts can come to you. that's what happened, in a complex that carries a large collection, including this one by kevin moore. >> bring it to the people, and perhaps someone will pause to appreciate the art. >> david ryan's art synthesisers colour into what looks like wall puzzles. as for many people that we met, he can't imagine being anywhere else but here. >> don't underestimate los angeles, there's a lot of culture here, random, bizarre culture. >> coming after casino, and remade into cool, contemporary art. >> for me and the newshour team,

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