>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello, welcome to the news hour, life from al jazeera's headquarters in doha. eastern ukraine flies towards chaos. in south korea a frantic rescue effort continues into the night after a boat carrying high school capsizes. plus -- at least 100 girls are

kidnapped from their school, and aping wished families are pleading to the government to find them. and we'll talk about arsenal's push to the champions league. ♪ we will have more planes in the air, more ships on the water, and more readiness on the land. that's a direct quote from nato as it moves to protect western interests in eastern europe. they have called on russia to stop destabilizing ukraine. that's an accusation that russia denies. southeastern ukraine there is an ongoing anti-terrorism action, and an armed convoy has been

seen bearing a russian flag and there is gunfire there. in donetsk pro-russian activists are in control of city hall. kim vinnell sent us this report. >> reporter: it's still not clear where they came from, but at least six armored personnel carriers rolled into the eastern town. they flew russian flags. some of the soldiers wear the symbol of sir george. they were greeted be enthusiasm by some of the locals. one of the new arrivals said ukrainian troops defected to their side. >> translator: they switched to the people's side. you can count for yourself how many of them there are. >> reporter: elsewhere protesters continue to occupy the regional government

headquarters in donetsk. they took of the building ten days ago and declared a people's republic. the people here say they are not separatists but rather locals who want more autonomy from kiev, they are maintaining their demands, and some people say they will boycott presidential elections if their demand is not met. witnesses say the occupiers are armed but have not yet made any demabs of the authorities. this man said we're not going to open fire first. if they make the first move, it will be very bad for them. ukraine's prime minister accused russia of being behind the unrest. >> translator: russia has a new export, aside from oil and gas, russia is now exporting terrorists to ukraine. >> reporter: the ukrainian defense ministry has yet to

comment on reports that some of its troops have defected to the insurgent side. >> and live now to kim who joins us from donetsk. pro-russian men have taken over another government building in donetsk bring us up to date with that, and who are these men and what are their demands? >> that's right. now two state buildings in donetsk are now in the control of pro-russian groups. the second building was taken of this morning by gunmen. right now there ease about a dozen men this, some with ak 47s others with what appear to be hunting rifles. they maintain they have control of that building. they are letting civil servants continue to work and say they are not ousting the mayor. they have had another building now for ten days, and it has

become life as normal for them. the barricades are up, and they are tires, pulling up bricks from the pavement and stockpiling those bricks. we have heard claims that have perhaps they are provocateurs who are being paid. the people we have spoken to maintain that they are ukrainian citizens but they are ethnically russians and want to defending the rights of ethnic russians and russian speakers in the east. >> any sign that the ukrainian authorities might try to retake these two government buildings that are occupied, as they have threatened to? >> well, we have seen two military flighter jets fly over the city today. it's unclear where they are headed to. we haven't seen an increase in ukrainian special forces or even riot police here. you have traffic police

cordoning off this building, but there has been talk of the past few days of negotiation, we have had several politicians come and go, press conferences meetings that sort of thing, but so far no firm deal, and they say they are prepared for whatever may come next. >> let's now cross over to slo viansk. tell us what you have seen there. >> well, just behind me a few hours ago a lot more of these pro-russian men with masks, with their faces masked wearing military fatigue and carrying equipment. they defined themselves as self-defense units.

we spoke to a few of them, and they completely deny they are russians. in fact some of them showed us their ukrainian passports. they say their mission is to protect their town and people. and they have no trust in the authorities this kiev, and they suspect the authorities in kiev want to create more tensions in this area, to point more the finger at them. there were a lot of people here cheering them. they say they felt safer at the sight of these men. there was also some people standing who didn't really agree with that. they were more prounity, but they pointed the finger at the government in kiev, they said really, since the crimea crisis started the government in kiev should have reached out more to the eastern redevelop, come here, and engaged with the

people and reassure them. and they say it is the government in kiev that brought the situation about. >> the ukrainian officials have suggested that some of these individuals may have crossed the border of russia into ukraine. have you seen any evidence of that? and where are these people getting their support from? >> i haven't seen any evidence on the ground that there were some russians. at least the ones we see and stand in front of the cameras. that said, i did ask whether there may be in the background they coordinated from people in moscow or the russian military, but i did not get a straight answer to that. but these men appear, yes, equipped, but they have mismatched fatigues. some of these equipment would be described as old and rickety.

and the russians in crimea stood on the streets, but they didn't engage with anyone. they didn't appear to actually know how to use that equipment as well. so from the outside it is a completely different outlook to these people, and they continue to say, as one map put it, that he is not an invader, he is a man in this country that feels he trusts more moscow than kiev at the moment. >> thank you very much. and later in the news hour, we'll hear reaction from moscow that nato is sending more military efforts to eastern europe. rescue teams in south korea are searching for nearly 300 people missing after a ferry sunk off of the coast.

>> reporter: rescue teams descended on the site soon after the ferrying sent a distress signal. helicopters and boats arrived to pull passengers to safety. within hours the ship was under water. >> translator: i held the handrail and tried to get to the helicopter. >> translator: the announcement told us we should stay still, but the ship was already sinking. there were a lot of students who did not get out of the ship. >> reporter: the ferry was traveling to a resort eye land. most of the passengers were secondary students on a field trip. the survivors have been brought to a nearby island to be

reunited with their parents. it's not known why the ship capsized. >> translator: i would like to say sorry to the passengers, including the students and the parents, and promise that our company will do its best to minimize the loss of life. we are sorry. >> reporter: fears are rising that many of the people still unaccounted for may be trapped in the submerged ferry. and harry joins us life from the port where a rescue center has been set up. bring us up to date with the latest on the rescue efforts. >> reporter: well, they continue. the coast guard -- we spoke to the coast guard a little earlier, and they are saying these efforts would continue

through the night. there would be no slowdown, although at the moment there does appear to be somewhat of a pause, they are waiting until the tide stabilizes, that will be in about three hour's time at which point they will go in and continue. there has been one batch of divers that have gone into part of the ship, so far nobody has been found inside the ship. 178 drives are standing by to take part in the operation, and in they do sense there is anybody inside, they do stand ready to pump extra oxygen into any air pockets. but here, dozens of very grief stricken, anguished relatives. some of those i think do now believe their younged ones are

dead. we heard from one father that was saying they should just raise the ship. he just wants to see the body of their 17-year-old son. >> what kind of an impact is the number of missing having on the rescue efforts? harry, can you hear me? okay. we seem to have lost harry there live where he was saying that rescue efforts continue to try to find those still missing after a ferry capsized off of the southern coast of -- harry can you hear me? no. okay. we have lost him. thank you very much, harry fawcett. still ahead the struggle for south sudan's oil fields.

we'll hear from the government after rebels have seized another town. and prince charles and his wife katherine begin their tour, we'll look at attitudes toward the monarchy down under. ♪ a report by a group of international lawyers and prosecutors have found evidence of what it says is systematic torture by the syrian government. they viewed graphic pictures in a closed session on tuesday. omar has more. and some of you might find the images in his report up setting. >> reporter: images like these show the systematic torture that

has taken place in military detention centers across syria. it include eye gouging, beatings, and more. they issued the reports naming the syrian government for the systematic torture. >> translator: it's a rare thing in our business that we get this type of direct evidence. but it's direct, provable, sustainable, beyond a reasonable doubt evidence of war crimes being conducted by the assad regime. >> reporter: a photograph smuggled 55,000 images in january, ahead of peace talks between the government and the opposition. the images were taken between september 27th, and august of last year. the government of qatar paid a law firm to look into the evidence. more than 5,000 images have been examined by experts.

it's estimated that 11,000 bodies have been pictured. the ambassador who presented the report on tuesday says this is not politics. >> translator: it is a hope that what we will speak will not be politics, but the conscious of human beings. we would like security council to refer syria to the international court. and i'm saying the situation in syria. i'm not accusing either the regime or the opposition. i'm speaking of all crimes against humanity committed in syria. >> reporter: syria's government has denied all allegations, and dismissed the report as lacking objective and professionalism. saudi arabia's spy chief has resigned.

he voluntarily stepped down and has been succeeded by his deputy. he recently criticized barack obama's decision not to use military strikes against the syrian government. israeli police used stun grenades in a compound. it happened after israeli forces tried to escort jewish visitors. the palestinian forces through stones at the security forces. al jazeera continues to demand the immediate release of its journalists being health in egypt. they are falsely accused of providing a platform for the muslim brotherhood. the case has been adjourned until later this month. the fourth al jazeera journalist has been held without trial since last august, and has been on hunger strike for the last 86 days. al jazeera rejects all

accusations against his staff. time now for a check on the world weather. and we start in the u.s.? >> yes, it has been a very long cold winter in this region. detroit in michigan we have had a record which has stood for more than a century, with 2.37 meters of snow recorded in the city. that record has been broken this season of 2013-2014, we have had 2.1 meters of snow. detroit looks as though it is going to stay on the southern side of the area of snow and get away with nothing more than rain. but rain is pushing across the great lakes over the next couple of days, and we will see

significant rainfall towards the pacific northwest. further south we have had a change in weather across parts of chile, where we had that deadly forest fire. and here we have now got rather murky conditions, because the fog has come in, the wind has decreased and the conditions are more favorable. across this region, we're looking at relatively dry conditions. to the north a lot of heavy showers across much of brazil. richard thank you very much. now britain is one of the richest countries in the world, yet almost a million people are being forced to ask for emergency food rations, and now with the holiday approaching, dozens have criticized the government's attitude towards the pour.

>> reporter: holly aspires to be a business woman and says she never wanted handouts from anyone. but she has to close our shop down for a month when her 4-year-old daughter became ill and had to go to the hospital. when they got home she had no food in the frig, and had not a penny to buy anything. so she had to go to the food bank. >> we're nice people. we -- we don't -- we're not what people expect. we're not drug addicts or alcoholics. we haven't got ourselves in this situation because we have lived this amazing life. we have got it because it's just the way it is. >> reporter: holly lives in england's south coast, it is posh here with a capital p. it is the fifth most expensing town in england.

but here the food bank has never been easier. some say life in england is generally getting better. wages are up, inflation is down. but there is now an entire layer of society here, a million people deep who simply can't afford the basics. the trust which now has 30,000 volunteers at some 400 food banks across the country has come up with some startling figures. and last year, it almost triples again to virtually 1 million people. >> many of these families can be just an unexpected bill away from being in a crisis, and as their incomes are stagnating and bills continue to rise, things will get even more difficult for

many of these families. >> and now 40 senior ang i will can bishops have used the opportunity to write to the government. >> when i think of jesus and the sorts of things that jesus did, he talked about the good samaritan, the person who joins up with their neighbor, who does what they can for real people, as well as coming out with ideas of what other people ought to do for them. >> david cameron said he felt he was continuing jesus's work, yet it appear many in the church feel his government lacks basic christian values in his treatment of the poor. south sudan rebels have keyed a city town close to the oil fields, and known to be a target for groups opposed to the government. oil production was shut down

earlier because of fighting. people from the town have been taking shelter from a un base. joining us now from the south sudan capitol is [ inaudible ], thank you very much for being with us. who is in control of the town right now as we speak? >> reporter: yes, good morning. forces of [ inaudible ] assisted by a militia from sudan known as [ inaudible ] and [ inaudible ] attacked the town. they are at the border. the unit this the town was removed from the town. they have committed atrocities inside the town. killing innocent individuals in the hospital, in the market. however, they issued a warning to those mercenaries that are in

the town and moving to [ inaudible ] and it's a batter of time they will be back in control of the government of south sudan. >> so you are confirming that the town is indeed controlled by forces loyal to [ inaudible ]. >> yes, the area they are claiming is under control of the forces including the rebel attack is now under the control of -- so all of the oil fields are under the control of [ inaudible ]. >> when do you plan on starting this operation to retake the town? >> within 72 hours they'll be

combatting these rebels, the mercenaries that came from sudan. >> what about the civilians, we're hearing that a lot of them have taken shelter at the un compound there? what are you going to do to make sure these civilians are not in harm's way once you decide to take on the rebel forces? >> [ inaudible ] it's best to protect the civilians and implementing the rules of engagement, that including the protection of humanitarian southeast and the civilians. they have been attacking the civilians. if they are aware of where they are, we will do our best to protect them.

>> thank you. staying with africa election results in guinea expected in the next few hours. nearly 800,000 went to the polls on sunday. most of them young and voting for the first time. whomever becomes new president will have to deal with an extremely powerful military. nigerian's army is searching for more than 100 girls captured. gunmen stormed the schools and opened fire. >> reporter: unfortunately the whereabouts of the 100 or so girls that were kidnapped remain unknown. the security services have mounted a manhunt for the assailants. there are some eyewitness accounts emerging this morning.

ten to 15 girls managed to escape because some of the vehicles that were moving them broke down. they ran into the bush to give information to the authorities about what happened. describing their assailants has masked men. it does look like the group of baca haram, the group that have been behind dozens of killings in the area. they have attacked schools in this way before, but we have never seen anything at this level. coming up, we'll tell you how you transport one of the world's largest carnivores. and the l.a. clippers set a new nba record. in just a few minutes.

♪ welcome back. you are watching the news hour on al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories now. an armed convoy carrying a russian flag has entered an eastern ukrainian city. in south korea, rescue teams are continuing to search for nearly 300 people missing after a passenger ferry sunk off of the south. many on board were high school students on a field trip. and nigeria's army are searching for nearly 100

schoolgirls that were kidnapped from their school. more now on our top story. nato says it will respond to develops in ukraine by increasing its military presence in eastern europe. >> we will have more planes in the air, more ships on the water, and more readiness on the land. for example, air police, and aircraft will fly more soldiers over the baltic region. allied ships will deploy to the baltic sea, the eastern mediterranean, and elsewhere as required. >> peter sharpe joins us now live from moscow. what is the reaction in moscow to nato's announcement? >> well, nothing official either

from the kremlin or the defense. but not a lot of concern from the kremlin, i would think. nato has made it perfectly clear that it has no intention of intervening militarily in the ukraine. ukraine is not a member of nato, and weeks ago, the nato ally&said it has no plans to station troops or move into ukraine, so that is no longer a threat. i think the kremlin would see this as just another example of nato posturing, of basically coming up with a way of justifying the existence of the 60-year old alliance in the 21st century. >> okay. peter thank you very much for bringing us reaction or no reaction, i guess. let's now get an update on the situation in eastern ukraine. an armed convoy, carrying a

russian flag, entered the city earlier. hoda has more. >> reporter: yeah, just about 20 minutes ago, we saw some ukrainian paratroopers, wearing the uniforms, and looked like proper soldiers, coming out of the city council building. now that's where the armored personnel carriers have been positioned since this morning. they came out of that building -- or they went towards two buses and sat inside the buses and prevented them from [ inaudible ] which is a complete -- completely opposition to what we have been allowed and the access we have been given to this pro-russian defense unit. these were ukrainian

paratroopers. [ inaudible ] and we were told that they were going home now. some of the people here refer to them as hostages, but i have to underlie that kiev has been saying that [ inaudible ] pro-russian protesters in this area. there are also a lot of people cheering these soldiers as they were leaving. go home, go home, leave our land. this is the situation. it's really not clear where these ukrainian paratroopers came from, or were they the men that had been deployed from kiev [ inaudible ]. >> hoda thank you very much for that update. prince william and his family have visited sydney as part of their royal tour. australia is a constitutional monarchy, which means william

will one day become its king unless industrialians vote otherwise. >> reporter: they call this a royal tour. because the united kingdom's monarch is also australias, though the country won independence in 1901, australia remains a constitutional monarchy. prince william will become king william of australia, baby george will one day be king gorge here. >> it's somebody to look up to. and that's how i was brought up, and i want my grandchildren to do the same. >> reporter: this as much as liberty as it is royalty. even so, you won't find many here critical of the attachment to the mon karri. that attachment isn't

universally embraced. >> -- >> reporter: in 1990, republicans had a chance, a referendum was held on whether they should ditch the monarchy for a president. but people voted against change, australia remained a monarchy, elizabeth ii remains queen. charles made a trip there when his son was a baby. but now support for the royal family has risen again. opinion polls show a slight favor of keeping the monarchy. should australia be a republican or monarchy. >> monarchy. >> republican. >> monarchy, of course. >> with celebrities at the helm,

the debate is on hold. >> you would have to say the british royal family have a fabulous pr outfit. we look forward to the stay when the british people will warmly welcome an australian head of state. >> reporter: whether william or george will one day some back as kings will be up to the other side of the world. relatives of the chinese passen grs who were on board the missing malaysian airlines have walked out of meetings. the flight has been missing since march 8th. venezuela's government has met the opposition for a new round of talks aimed attending

months of civil unrest. both sides have created a commission to find out who is responsible for the deaths. cuba sends thousands of doctors to venezuela to give healthcare to the poor, in return they receive billions of dollars in oil. but many cuban doctors are unhappy with their situation. >> reporter: living out of a backpack for seven years, this cuban nurse lives day by day, cleaning homes, cooking, and hiding from the police. he does want to be identified. terrified of arrest because he doesn't have the proper documents. >> translator: i don't want to continue living in venezuela because of the insecurity. now i have to hide like a prisoner to the police don't arrest me. if i'm detained i will be jailed and no one will help me. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]

defected from venezuela social health program. venezuela sends billions of dollars in oil in return cuba sends thousands of medical staff. over a decade ago, this social program became the cornerstone of [ inaudible ] socialist revolution, that's when the cuban doctors arrived to give health care to venezuelians who didn't have it. a south florida group, claims nearly 8,000 cuban doctors have fled from venezuela. this cuban doctor agrees many have defected. he says the number is not important. >> translator: it's true that some doctors have abandoned the social program, but the number is insignificant. we are more than 70,000 doctors here. over 100,000 have come and gone. we have saved thousands of

lives. so few leaving will not effect the greatness of this work. >> reporter: thousands of venezuelians living in slums get free health care in these clinics run by cubans. the cuban doctors have made a difference in this woman's life. >> translator: excellent. i always come here, because i can get good care. i have never had any complaints. the doctors are wonderful. >> reporter: but cuban professionals have low salaries and are forced to stay for as long as both countries decide. but this doctor wants a better future. >> translator: i'm like a boat stranded in a huge ocean, unable to go left or right. i have lost nine years of my life here. >> reporter: unemployment, solitude, and desperation is the price he has been forced to pay for his dreams.

now the u.s. boasts some of the best schools in the world, but not all pupils benefit from them. in mississippi which is one of america's poor estates nearly 80% of 8th graders can't reed properly. >> reporter: before she can teach the toddlers here to read, she has to take on the crippling hardships they bring with him. >> i had a father tell me, he said, i actually don't know how to be a father, he said because it don't come with a manual, so what i see with early literacy is, we need help.

>> reporter: a report ranked mississippi last in literacy. few places have it worse than morehead. across the u.s. literacy has been on the rise, but the gap between rich and poor keeps getting wider. and that hits mississippi hard. >> it has been said if you could take the delta out of mississippi the numbers would go way up, you know, from -- from what you are seeing, and that is true. >> reporter: for some strong parenting overcomes poverty. this librarian is putting her daughter through college and enrolled her grandson in a reading program at 3 months. >> learning to read and becoming educated at an early age is very crucial, because it gets our people out of their cycle of

poverty. >> reporter: this is a state agency aimed at preschoolers in day care centers. >> children soak up everything you give them. >> reporter: the program has lifted reading rates, but operates in just a few dozen of the state's 1700 day care centers on a budget of $3 million, about 1% of the state's budget for prisons. in the rest of the state people can hope for season like cilia ward. >> you pay your bills and there is nothing left. so what do you do? wait. >> reporter: sure. but the strain is showing. john hen drin, al jazeera, morehead, mississippi. it has now found a new home

in washington, d.c. a skeleton is part of a new dinosaur exhibit. how do you transport it? tom akerman has the answer. >> reporter: five days after leaving by truck, the 16 crates arrived at its new home, the world's most visited natural history museum. the rancher who fame by discovering the fossil in 1988 was excited as any tourist. >> we were all kind of done with the hue are, and now here we go again, and it's just as much fun this time around. >> visitors will be able to watch as the museum staff unpacks photographs and digitally scans the bones. once assembled the dinosaur will be displayed up right.

the smithsonian is billing this acquisition as one of the largest and most complete t-rex tossels in the world. this is sue, a t-rex discovered in minnesota. it was bought at auction for $8.3 million. a record sum for a dinosaur, and a lot more than the smithsonian could afford to bid. but the nation's t-rex was found on public land, so it came free. part of the museum's first major renovation since it was built a century ago. scientists want people to know that dinosaur study is more than just looking at dusty bones. >> there are new species being discovered, and it tells us a

lot about the evolution of the planet. >> reporter: microbes discovered in chicago have been loaded on the space flight awaiting launches to the space station next week. they will be compared to mic microorganisms found in space. the birth of the moon, we'll have more on the discovery that has nasa scientists very excited. and find out how a deadly horse disease is impacting south africa's chances of hosting the olympics.

♪ welcome back, peopler around the world were able to capture rare lunar eclipse of the so-called blood moon. this is what it looks like from the u.s. state of texas. if you missed it, don't worry another blood moon is expected in october. and a nasa space probe has captured what appears to be the birth of a new moon. the bulge on saturn's outer ring was photographed on tuesday. it is believed an icy object has grown to the point where its gravity is effecting the rig. if confirmed she will become the planet's 63 moon.

joining us is a senior research profez or. thank you for being on al jazeera again. scientists are calling this an act of birth. explain what is happening here. >> well, the formation of the solar system in general, it came out of a cloud that formed a ring around the sun, and put together these bits and pieces of rock. saturn and all of the major planets, they all have rings and a lot of moons. in this case, sat e -- stat urn the outer part of the ring of stat urn, they have detected

conden condense -- condensation of this dust. and it looks like they are producing a new moon. we must remember saturn had about 60 moons, so this is why this is so relevant. >> will peggy then -- it's a tiny baby moon, i guess -- will it develop into a larger moon? >> it is difficult to say, but the fact that this process has been witness sod far, indicates that it may have been forming moons in the past this way. we don't know what the future for so-called peggy will be, but certainly it is a major

development in the way we perceive the formation of solar systems and formation of moons. >> you said saturn has officially over 60 moons, why do all of these moons form around stat urn? what happens and what do these moons end up becoming? >> it is a very mysterious process, because the material of the moons which is frozen gases and water in some cases and also rock is -- they are very different from the planets themselves. i mean saturn is made out of gas, mainly hydrogen and helium, and the moons are certainly very, very solid, so it is a bit of a mystery how these moons come, but probably forming around -- based in this the rings of the planet itself.

saturn has one of the largest moons in the solar system called tie tan, and it is the only one that has an atmosphere. it is a moon that mostly mimics the earth. if it was a little bit warmer, it would be a place where we could go and live in the future. and this detection is going to help a little bit more in understanding the process of formation of these objects. >> very mysterious, but you always explain it so well, thank you so much. >> thank you. time now for sports. >> the london side is back into the fourth and final place in the premier league. arsenal fought back with two

goals, and the london club move above everton. >> we know we have to win our games and hope that everton will keep up somewhere, but let's focus on our job and not look too much at everton. >> the premier league on wednesday [ inaudible ] replace arsenal with a win. manchester city [ inaudible ] is underland. and now to the german cup final [ inaudible ] scored in saturday's 3-0 [ inaudible ] munich as well. the striker got his 100th career goal. this season's first piece of football silverwear will be

decided in spain on wednesday. they will have to do it without their top scorer, who has been unable to train with the squad as he struggles with a leg injury, and has missed the club's last two games. >> translator: we are losing a player of amazing quality, but as i said, the team has reacted very well so far. his medical leave might even motivate the club more. we have made a bigger effort, running faster, and keeping together more. >> renaldo is of course the world's best footballer, but he and his teammates do not top the list for the highest paid. manchester city is signing the biggest paychecks in the world. the players are earning nearly $9 million a year, $172,000 a week according to a new global sports salaries survey.

they are one of five that top the list. players from all of these teams are more than $5.7 million yearly on average. what has been a game changer for some top english clubs has been the introduction of billionaire owners. but it isn't the highest playing league as a whole. it's actually the nba. 441 players earn an average of $5 million a year. wow. well, one of the nba's highest paid stars is chris paul. he and his l.a. clippers team beat the denver nuggets on tuesday. l.a.'s big guns [ inaudible ] racked up a franchise record 57th one of the season, chris paul getting 10 assists and 21

points. the clippers 117 to 105-point win. the miami marlins ended an up game losing streak when they thrashed the washington nationals. a career high 5 rbis including a 2-run homer. it's the first win over the capitals this season. [ inaudible ] to its shores when it starts bidding next year, but the chances plight be hurt by african horse sickness, a dangerous disease endemic to africa. >> reporter: african horse sickness is a fatal disease. the vet has to ensure this

thoroughbred is in perfect health before it can leave the continent. the eu banned the import of south african horses two years ago because of an outbreak. now if it isn't sorted out, their bid for the olympic games might fail. >> you have to move 400 horses in and then return them safely a month later, so it's a significant logistical exercise, which is manageable, but then it goes down to what risk there is to being exposed to the virus. >> reporter: there is a vehicle seen, but it is a live vaccine and didn't accepted by officials. first the horses spend three weeks in quarantine here, and then they are sent to

[ inaudible ] for a further three months quarantine. not only is that double the time it used to take, but it is also double the cost, about $25,000 a horse. although horse racing isn't an olympic sport, the bid will benefit the whole industry as it will provide the pressure needed to lift the ban. >> they really need to sort it out, because it impacts a lot of the breerds and owners that spend a lot of money. so it's a very big concern. >> reporter: he is one of south africa's few black jockeys. and his options would flourish if the ban were lifted, so could south african's options of hosting the premier event. that's your sport. >> that's it for this news hour on al jazeera, but do stay with us, i have plenty more news

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