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syria. and commercializing greenhouses. farms are springing up on roof tops and abandoned warehouses across the u.s. ♪ human rights investigators from the un mission in south sudan have confirmed that rebels have massacres hundreds of people. piles of bodies have littered the streets since the killing last week. south sudan's government has been battling forces from the former vice president. he says his troops weren't behind the attack. >> reporter: we got a sense of what we might find as we were coming into land, because even from the air, we could see there were dead bodies along the road. but it wasn't until we reached the center of town that we were

able to see the extent of the killing that has hand. the things that could be seen along the road were horrific. there was no preparation for what was to come. there were so many dead bodies that construction equipment was used to move them. outside the gates there was another pile of bodies. the stench of death was overwhelming, even for the rebel soldiers standing guard. according to the government of south sudan, the presence of rebels in the town is a clear indication of the responsibility for the massacre. >> you can see what they have done. they have been violating the cessation of hostilities which we signed on january 23rd and 24th. >> reporter: this like other hands in south sudan has changed hands since fighting began in december. in bentwo, people from darfur

are believed to have been targeted for a specific reason. because they are believed to have been fighting for the former vice president. >> what we have seen here is disgraceful. it's utterly horrible and beyond d description. >> i did not do this. i don't have that -- that of what -- we don't kill those who are in the mosque. maybe i think the -- who are those people? we don't know. we don't know. we did not [ inaudible ] the mosque. >> reporter: as the conflict continues the levels of violence seems to be escalating. the rebel leadership has clearly denied responsibility for what happened. all that we know for certain was the town was under the control of anti-government forces.

there's a human rights investigation underway at the moment. >> the city was ceased by rebels last week. it's an important town in unity state. one of two oil-producing states in south sudan. bentwo is crucial for rebels who want to seize oil fields. oil of course is the backbone of south sudan's economy, and makes up 90% of its revenue. joining us from jewbah is sue, the representative for the food and agricultural organization. can you bring us up to date with the humanitarian situation? >> yes, thank you very much for

the opportunity. i'm afraid that we have a very dire humanitarian situation across the country with an estimated 3.7 million people without food and security and 7 million overall that are at risk of food insecurity, and within that area there are intense pockets of suffering. we're very concerned about the agriculture situation, about the food access situation, and all of this leads to a risk of malnutrition when combined with the disease threat which might now are measles, malaria and [ inaudible ]. so overall an exfreemly disconcerting picture. >> and it must be very difficult to travel around -- and deliver

aid. how are you ensuring security or access? how are you managing to distribute humanitarian aid? >> yeah, those are two challenges, one is moving around the people and that's easier to do than the delivery of humanitarian assistance. we're watching the rains which are on time. in a normal year we would be very, very excited to see the rains, but south sudan having only 1 paved road in the whole country is reliant on a network of terrible dirt roads that turn to mud and are impassable for such of the next six months. so the delivery of humanitarian assistance by truck is -- the window is closing, and that makes us rely on air deliveries, which are extremely expensive,

and the capacity for an airplane is not like it is for a truck or barge. the peace keepers are trying to protect the river with one barge that is moving slowly north now. it's a combination of a race against the rains, and of course we need the security assurance of all sides before we can move our assistance. and while there's goodwill, i think at the top of all authorities that we're dealing with, it is not always translated down to the ground. >> yeah, you are clearly having to deal with a very difficult situation on the ground there. sue thank you very much indeed for speaking with us. now the u.s. vice president joe biden has told russia it is time to stop talking and start

acting. biden was speaking at a joint news conference with ukraine's acting prime minister in kiev. he also reaffirmed his pledge to stand by ukraine. >> ukraine is and must remain one country, from laviv to kiev, down to the back sea. one country. and the united states supports a strong united ukraine with productive relationships with both the east and the west, with both russia and europe, and that's a goal that i know you share mr. prime minister, but no nation, no nation has the right so simply grab land from another nation. no nation has that right, and we will never recognize russia's illegal occupation of crimea,

and neither will the world. >> barnaby phillips joins us from kiev now. and we heard some very strong words of support for your next question from the vice president there, but has he promised enough to satisfy kiev? >> to a certain exsent. obviously the rhetoric is welcome. the government is beleaguered, weak. it needs friends, they don't come more powerful than the united states. but at the end of the day joe bide sen going to fly home, and ukraine is still going to have to live with its very powerful awkward neighbor russia. there will be financial assistance towards those crucial may elections, but really people here were hoping for military

assistance. that is what they believe their country needs in the face of essentially an exsa sten shall threat. and the americans are restricting their military assistance to non-lethal aid, communications, uniforms and so on, and there was no situation that that is likely to change any time soon. >> yeah, and joe biden also made it clear that ukraine also had obligations. key concerns, corrupt shun, and the economy. >> yes, and in fact in fairness he was full of praise for what the interim government here has tried to do in a short time and under what everyone agrees are incredibly difficult circumstances. that it has passed a new law aimed at weeding out corruption in public life, that it's, at least according to the americans, are standing by itself terms, and is looking

quickly at how you can have more de-evolution. and yes, he spoke about the energy sector, and the sub text is getting ukraine to wean itself off of its dependance on russian gas which makes it so vulnerable. looking at reverse energy flows, that is gas coming back into ukraine from places further west, looking at alternative sources of energy, and greater efficiency within the energy sector. all of that is welcome, but it takes time. and it comes back to what i was saying at the beginning of our conversation, in kiev they don't feel they have a lot of time now. >> barnaby phillips, thank you. coming up here on al jazeera, the trial resumes for

three al jazeera journalists faultily accused and detained in egypt. plus conflicting statement over the number of nigeria schoolgirls kidnapped last week. and david mois plays the price and manchester united states doesn't decline. we'll have all of the details. ♪ now the u.s. is investigating allegations that an industrial chem attack targeted civilians in syria's province earlier this month. amateur video appears to show dozens of people struggling to breathe. rebels and the government have blamed each other for the alleged attack. syria has given up 80% of its

chemical weapons stockpile. the u.s. is investigating whether the syrian government was behind the attack. >> we're examining allegations that the government was responsible. we take all allegations very seriously and are working to determine what happened. we will continue consulting and sharing information with key partners. jim welsh from a town in the state of massachusetts joins us now. he is an international security agent at mit. welcome. syria has promised to give its chemical weapons, but chlorine isn't one of the chemical weapons. >> you are absolutely right. chlorine gas is a way to kill people but that's because a lot of industrial chemicals can kill people. so the chlorine that is used to

disinfect a swimming pool can also be toxic and kill people as well. the good news is that 80% of their stockpiled have been removed or destroyed, but that still leaves a lot of capacity in the country, and ultimately if he wants to use toxic chemicals it can do so. >> that is really disturbing, because even if all of chemical weapons are gone, we're back at square one in terms weapons that can be released on civilians. >> yes, and no. it represents a certain class of wh -- chemicals that the world has decided to ban. one of the good new pieces is the result syria is now in the

chemical weapons convention, so there is more political and legal basis for going after them at some point later. but that's not going to happen right away, because they are in the middle of a civil war. >> as we have seen in the past, very difficult to pinpoint who exactly the culprits were, so what can we expect from an investigation? >> you are right. i don't think they will collect evidence any time soon, because if they were to act now, that would give incentive to the syrians to stop cooperating before the final 20% is destroyed. so i think you'll hear noises, but i don't think the international community is going to act on this now, and you sort of got that sense from the white house. >> so no red line for the u.s.,

no excuse to take further action in syria, if this is proved that chlorine has been used? >> yeah, i think this is a case of competing goods. yes, you would want to stop the use of chlorine gas in the future, but first you want to remove the chemical weapons. if assad is winning, he will take a threat seriously. so i think we do have possibility of deterring further big chemical weapons, but right now, job one is removing those hard core chemical weapons, and then moving on to the next problem. >> good to speak with you jim. >> thank you. now the trial of al jazeera's detained journalists has resumed in cairo, mohammed fahmy, baher mohamed, and peter greste are falsely accused of

providing a platform to the outlawed muslim brotherhood. they have been behind bars for 115 days. the fourth al jazeera journal list has been held since last august without trial. >> reporter: journal lists for al jazeera appear in court for the sixth time. correspondent peter greste, producers, mohammed fahmy, and baher mohamed, have been in jail for more than three months. they are falsely accused of spreading news and providing a platform for the outlawed muslim brotherhood. during the last hearing the prosecution produced video they say supports the case against the men, but none of the videos have anything to do with the case. this video, for example, was a report by peter greste on the attack of the westgate mall last year. the court was also shown this report, an award-winning documentary on somali that peter

greste produced for the bbc before al jazeera. but the judge ordered a special pan toll review the material. thef fourth al jazeera journalist in detention has been held in egypt for more than nine months and has been on hunger strike since january 21st. his detention was extended by 45 days on march 13th. he recently sent a letter that expresses his feelings. >> reporter: his parents are concerned about his health. >> translator: i would like to remind journalists and rights activist that my son is on hunger strike, risking his life to press for his release and to

defending journalist's freedom. he wants to stop the practice of intimidating arresting or killing journalists all over the world. >> reporter: advocacy groups and various governments have all condemned the arrests. al jazeera continues to deny all charges. we have the journalist who writes for index on sensorship, and she joins us now on the lineup from cairo. good to have you with us. i know you have been following these trials. apparently, though, all of the media were kick out of the courtroom. >> reporter: just a short while ago all journalists were ordered to leave by the judge, and that's because during the recess, the break in the court session, journalists were asking

the defendants questions, talking to them. this has happened in every single trial before, so we didn't quite understand why it was different this time around that we weren't allowed to have access to the defendants and talk to them. also because some of the journalists were taking photographs. we have repeatedly been told not to photograph them in the cage. >> this is one of several appearances by al jazeera journalists now in that court in cairo, the whole process seems to be going very slowly. where are we with the case? >> it is dragging on. it has dragged on for four months now. today was the fifth session of the trial, and we were told it's the final session for the prosecution to present evidence against these journalists.

and the journalists in the courtroom were shown videos allegedly belonging to three students, co-defendants in the case, not working for al jazeera, but the sound quality was terrible. no one could make out what was being said. then they showed the reports by one of the al jazeera reporters about the court papers, the alexandria girls who were sentenced to 11-year jail terms in december, protesting against the military -- the girls have appealed, and they got one year suspended sentence. the video clips shown in the court today were just standard tv footage that any journalist would have -- would have shot. >> are the defense lawyers, are they able to make these points. are they able to say, look, this is ridiculous and this case has

no merit. >> well, the defense lawyers said they have no access to some of the videos that were shown to the special committee of experts, and mohammed fahmy kept protesting, you know, saying that -- where is the transparency? this is not a due process? and why weren't the defense lawyers having access to the videos that were supposed to be evidence against them. he also asked for a separation between the case of the three al jazeera journalists, and the student defendants. >> yeah, it's really worrying stuff, isn't it? thank you very much for updating us on what is going on there. now more than a hundred bodies have been recovered from a south korean ferry that sank last week, but police and volunteers continue with the task of searching for nearly 200

passengers still missing. most of them children. harry fawcett reports. >> reporter: they just want to take their children home to give them a funeral, but still they have to wait and watch. more than 100 now and counting. at sea this huge operation still classified as a rescue effort goes on. diving crews having to feel their way through the ship to get to the areas where most of the trapped passengers remain. this is thrown up questions about regulation and safety checks throughout the country. but as a company officially classified as excellent, the ferry owners weren't subject to external inspection, they merely

needed to submit documents. but this excellent company seemed to have spent little on training its staff. >> translator: it spent just $500 on staff training. looking at that we can say they didn't spend any money on education including crew training. >> reporter: the familiar list of the survivors said the investigation could wait. they called on the media to report more accurately and less invasively. >> translator: please understand the anguished hearts of the parents who want to go into the water to search for the trapped children themselves. >> reporter: among the bodies brought ashore on tuesday that of kim. on saturday her mother told al jazeera that her fate was in god's hands. her father had been challenging

authorities spoke of his guilt for not telling her to get off of the ship. at least now they can take their daughter home. so many others are still waiting, nearly one week on. harry fawcett, al jazeera. thousands of people have been paying their last respect to the columbian literary giant. he died in mexico city last thursday. there was a special ceremony held in his honor. >> reporter: saying good-bye to one of the most celebrated writers of the last century. family, friends, and admirers of all ages paid their last respects to the novelist who introduced the world to magic realism a style that erased the line between fantasy and reality. >> translator: he placed latin america literature at the vanguard of world literature.

millions of people on other continents and languages have learned about and love latin america thanks to his literature. >> reporter: outside mexico city's palace of fine arts people waited in endless lines to go inside. >> translator: we used to play and sing at his house. he loved columbia, and we came to say farewell. >> reporter: there are thousands of people also carrying flowers, this, i'm told, because they could not bring butterflies, in reference to one of his novels. thousands of kilometers away in

this town where his most widely read novel was loosely set, people were also paying tribute to their most favorite son. he always insisted no matter how fantastical his stories they were also rooted in reality. >> we have a lot of legends about flowers raining around town. but we have many legends about that. >> reporter: in his later years he told friends that what worried him most about dying, was not being able to die in love. still the 87-year-old writer would have perhapsed been pleased to see how those who loved and admired his work sent him off symbolically with yellow butterflies. still to come here on al jazeera -- >> the county has done nothing

to try to fix this. >> reporter: a community in california at risk of another deadly mud slide. and the project in afghanistan that is helping to build a solid foundation. plus all of the sport. find out if memphis had any chance against the nba's most valuable player. ♪

♪ welcome back. a reminder of our top stories. human rights investigators from the un mission in south sudan,

have confirmed that rebels massacred hundreds of people. the rebel leader has denied involvement in the killings. u.s. vice president joe biden has told russia it is time to stop talking and start acting. he also reaffirmed his country's pledge to stand by the ukrainian government. warning russia against any further pressure. washington has also denounced syria's newly announced presidential election. multiple candidates will be allowed to run as promised by a constitutional referendum passed in 2012, but they have to have lived in syria for ten years. thousands of families have

been moved from a east lebanon village. the village has been cut off from the rest of the country by troops. they are attempting to build a check point inside lebanon with the help of security forces and the red cross. >> reporter: this is at the top and edge of lebanon's borders with syria. and these people are here on a mission, aid and residue to hundreds of lebanese families. it's over there behind those rugged mountains. there's a road there, and trucks loaded with supplies and food rash -- rations who have gone

along the road. in order for the operation to success, the lebanese interior minister has to coordinate with hezbollah, who has a lot of say in the area. another sign of change in lebanon. two separate attacks have been care rid out on police officers in northwestern pakistan. a baum went off at a busy market. at least three civilians were killed and dozens of others were injured. five policemen and a civilian there were killed. and in india, [ inaudible ] three people including two local politicians have been killed by rebel groups. separatists have called for a boycott of the polls.

parents of the girls abducted by gunmen in northeastern nigeria say they have been searching for their dauthers in a remote forest. they told the state governor that the number of children missing is much higher than the authorities admit. for the first time video has emerged of the seen of last week's mass abduction from the school. >> translator: we thought they were soldiers, and they asked us to board a vehicle, and my friends and i jumped from the vehicle and ran back home, because we realized they didn't look innocent. >> [ inaudible ] run away [ inaudible ] everything [ inaudible ]

as afghanistan tries to wean itself off of foreign aid, one housing development is being used as an example of how the country can move forward on its own. bernard smith reports. >> reporter: on the outskirts of the afghan capitol, a new town is emerging. in all, there will be 10,000 modern apartments, a mixture of private and government subsidized. >> translator: we're proud that we are able to provide affordable accomodations. we can give employment and provide a source of investment for money that would otherwise leave the country. we have stopped illegal land grabbing as well. >> reporter: the land grabbing is happening outside this vast scheme. war lords are building

buildings. but inside the project, an apartment can be bought for $26,000. >> there's more demand because of [ inaudible ] the people are trying to have house here, because [ inaudible ] just we are giving service to people. >> reporter: the apartments are sold only to those who fulfill strict government criteria, which includes not already owning property. they are about 40% cheaper than flats sold privately. but there's also a healthy demand for full price properties within the project. the outside world views afghan has totally reliant on foreign aid. here they want to show this country has potential. but developers need a stable

economic and political environment, that's a challenge, as the reduced foreign funding believes the government with a $400 billion shortfall this year while the country also goes through a long presidential campaign. let's get the weather with richard now. and how is it looking in the u.s.? >> yes, across the u.s. the weather has been really quite exceptional through the winter and spring months. it just doesn't want to settle down we have one weather front pushing in from the west, and that's giving outbursts of rain towards the eastern seaboard. but that will clear and we should see that gradually pushing away. we have another development taking place further towards the west, and that will extent towards the plains, and as a

result we'll see significant storm activity. and that's likely to take place wednesday and through into thursday, and that will push across the eastern parts of the plains, and towards the mississippi valley by the end of the day. meanwhile the west has its own issues. we're one month on from the deadly mud slide in washington state. look at the rainfall total for march 2nd, '40 millimeters breaking a record set back in 1950, and it looks like more rain spreading in across this region. >> now sticking with the u.s., president obama is to meet washington state families effected by last month's mud

slide. further south in california another town is coming to terms with a mud slide that happened nine years ago. 10 people were killed in 2005, and geologists say it could happen again. >> reporter: it took 15 seconds for the earth to swallow the heart of this town. in january 2005, 100-year storm, 26 inches of rain in 16 days unloosed the hillside, and then a mown of earth descended on the town. >> it just breaks our heart for the people in washington. we absolutely understand how -- how helpless you feel knowing that relatives and friends can be buried up there, and you don't know where they are. >> reporter: this slide stopped at ernie garcia's house. that's your house right there? >> yeah. and this one here, right across the street is this one here. >> reporter: so really

these -- that one is crushed here. these are gone. >> yeah. these are gone. this one here and this one here. see this big dirt here? >> reporter: uh-huh. >> dozers were digging -- it came down at a level like that. >> reporter: with a landscape of still buried homes and contributes to the dead it bares many similarities to the mud slide that swept but oso, washington a month ago. here too geologists say it's almost certain to happen again. >> that community is still at risk for deep-leaded landslide and debris and mud flows. >> reporter: in 1995 a landslide took down the left side of this hill, so contractors built a wall. ten years later another landslide took down the right side of this hill, and that

protective wall came down like a house of cards. the county officials say that wall was never designed to stop a measure slide. >> the county has done nothing to try to fix this hill at all. >> reporter: so it remains as it was after the slide. >> and what the study said was this hill will file again, it will fail in the same location, and it will fail for the same reasons. the dirt is too steep for the hillside. >> reporter: residents learn if you press the government you can get a study done but not necessarily get the safeguards the study recommends. so now they help themselves. they wait, watch for heavy rains and prepare to leave in a hurry. now tuesday marks global earth day, a day where m a day of people take action to try to

tackle some of the environmental challenges. the theme this year is green cities. kristin has been to one area in new york. >> we have bok choy, and green leaf lettuce. >> reporter: this business itself is expanding. >> building a facile like this on a roof top certainly has its challenges. >> reporter: the cofounder claims to have one of only two roof top gardens in the country. and wants to grow more. >> we were able to attract a significant amount of investment. we have raised over $15 million to date. >> reporter: this is about as local as it gets. the second greenhouse was built

on top of a whole food's supermarket. the mained a van -- advantage is the shortened supply chain. they tell their produce right downstairs. this reduces the energy used to transport the produce as well as the cost. many stores in new york get its food from california. it's a model that appears to be gaining an interest as well as investors. bright farms is another company raising money to finance urban farms. >> we come in and say we're going to grow produce on a commercial scale level locally or at least regionally, and that means the produce will be

fresher, tastier, supermarkets love this idea. >> reporter: so too does government which has provided grant money. >> they don't just produce food, they also stem stormwater runoff into our sewer system, they provide greenery, they are plays ins where people can learn how to farm and get job skills, so they are beneficial in a lot of different ways. >> reporter: experts caution the business model is still new, but as long as the demand for fresh local food continues urban farmers expect their profits to keep growing. coming up on the program in sports we'll have the latest on the sacking of manchester united manager. >> and two uefa champions league games are about to shut this

city down.

♪ welcome back. china plans to raise the retirement age by five years. as millions of citizens soon turn 60. it's an attempt to tackle a shrinking work force threatening to dampen economic growth. rob mcbride reports. >> reporter: when he turns 60 in a few months from now, this man will say good-bye to his job as a company driver. with retirement set at 60 for men and 55 for women in government service, he still

feels he has more to contribute than sitting at home. >> translator: i think most people of my generation think we can work for a few more years, because physically we are still fine, but the government has this regulation that you have to retire at a specific age, so that's the reality. >> reporter: for employees in private enterprise retirement ages are even lower. the retirement ages were set in the middle of last century. then the average life expectancy was below 45. by 2050 china will have 500 million people over 60 who will need to be supported by a shr k shrinking number of people. >> for ten years or 20 years

that will be a big trouble. you have a shrinking labor force and then you have an increasing number of pension owners, so that's the reason why we must reform. he currently looks after his mother as he gets older, they will both rely more heavily on his one grown up daughter. at 84 and still going strong, his mother took requirement in 1982 and has had effectively another working life since then. >> translator: i looked after my grandchildren to begin with, and then when they grew up, i worked in a store for a while, and later did another job as a bookkeeper. >> reporter: with his rerequirement now longer than her work ing life it is a symptom of a system that the government says is in need of change. now the number of people suffering from skin cancer is

soaring in the united kingdom. five times more people now develop the most dangerous type of skin cancer every year, compared to the 1970s. simon mcgregor wood has more. >> reporter: the british are famous for chasing sun whenever it shines, but this devotion comes at a high price. the latest figures reveal skin cancer is now the fifth most common in the uk, rates are five times higher than 40 years ago. today 13,000 people are diagnosed each year, compared to only 1800 in 1975. that's 17 out of every 100,000, compared with 3 out of every 100,000 back in the 70s. the dramatic rise is partly due to the huge increase in foreign holidays.

sue dean was a classic sun worshipper who later developed skin cancer. >> when i was young everyone was the same. just carefree. we would lay out in the sun for hours and hours. people often got very, very burnt. i didn't burn very easily, so therefore i was stay in the sun longer. >> reporter: fully recovered now, and still a fan of the sun, but much more careful. back in the day we didn't know that much about the effects of the sun. we know a lot more now, but despite that, whenever the sun shines here, people still tend to rush to the nearest park. >> i think it's very difficult when we see celebrities on beaches and sort of having this idea that tan is very glamorous.

and this idea of the healthy glow when in fact, being sun burned is anything but healthy. >> reporter: the public health warnings have been loud and clear for sometime. but sun bed use is still on the rise. a dark tan is for many a thing to aspire to, despite the increasingly obvious dangers. let's get to sport now. >> thank you so much. manchester united have confirmed that david moishas [ technical difficulties ] >> and will miss out on the champions league for the first time in 18 years. united issues a short statement on their website that

said . . . i'm personally surprised that david wasn't given until the end of the season, and time to spend money, get the squad set up how he wanted, and given until maybe january time next year at the very least, but i think really the writing was on the wall for him after the performance against everton on sunday when it really did look like manchester united's players just weren't performing for their manager. the global appeal of the club is paramount to what everyone at manchester united is trying to achieve, and results have started to falter this season, when you are looking at the asian markets and american markets which are a huge

business for a club like manchester united it can have a damaging effect. with liverpool on course to win the title, they are now headed back into the market. and manchester will have looked at that and that will have been one of the alarm bells that will be ringing for them. so what is next for manchester united, this man will take over until the end of the season. dutch coach is one of the leading candidates. he'll be available after the world cup, and has an impressive resume. this is poot name being linked. he has won the german title twice. but according to the british newspaper the guardian he has ruled himself out of the vacancy. this man is having another great season as coach of athletico

madrid. and could alex ferguson be tempted to come out of retirement. david's retirement is the stop story on the sport sections of our website. for more go to aljazeera.com/sport. the champion's league semifinals begin on tuesday, as athletico madrid takes on chelsea. and athletico have been stepping out of the shadows of its neighbors. >> athletico. >> there is no sitting on the fence in madrid unless you are a politician. a local is for one or the other team. and the answer defines you. >> translator: it is quite

guided between the two -- the two teams, but even though this week all of the people from real madrid and athletico madrid will meet one of them in front of their teams for another country, so in this case, all of the people for real will be with them. >> reporter: the name was destoied on the club by the spanish king. real is the rich club, the elite, the global financial powerhouse, a big football business. athletico madrid here in the south of the city has historically always been the club of the working class. their famous read and white shirts were originally made from discarded spanish mattresses. the team were even nicknamed the

mattress makers. and letco have made it to the world cup once. real madrid have won it nine times. this is a real madrid historian, his book defines the club. >> translator: real madrid is one of the most successful clubs of this century. the emblem of real stands for global excellence. >> reporter: both clubs are in uefa champions league action this week. athletico face chelsea, while real face [ inaudible ]. >> translator: yes, there is now a quality to ott letco.

>> reporter: the streets will be deserted this week. could we be looking at an all-spanish champions league final? lance armstrong's former team manager has been banned from cycling for ten years due to his involvement in the rider's doping scandal. he was armstrong's manager for all seven of armstrong's tour de france victories. the u.s. postal service team's doctor, and trainer have been suspended for eight years. armstrong was banned for life and stripped of his tour titles back in 2012. the grizzlies beat the oklahoma city thunder. kevin durant was the top scorer.

zach randolph had 25 points. leading memphis to 111-105 overtime win. game three is in memphis on thursday. >> we weathered some punches. we took their runs and came back aeks cuted on the offensive end, and when we can do that on the road, it's -- it's very, very good for us, and our team. >> and that's sport for now. i'll be back with more later. >> thanks very much indeed for that. north korea has often portrayed his leader as something of a tough man. ♪ >> have a look at this. it has now released pictures of its leader as a child. around five years old in an air force uniform. and another showed an older kim in a cockpit. that's it for our news hour

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