♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ and a warm welcome to this al jazeera news hour with me, david foster and these are some of the stories we are concentrating on in the next 60 minutes, a court in egypt sentenced more than 600 to death and among them the spiritual leader of the muslim brotherhood. the u.s. threatens more sanctions against russia accusing it of stoking up separa separate -- separatism and they

say it's a deal for peace and stability and plus. >> i'm in the pakistan city of kara karachhi and find out why the armored vehicle business is booming here. ♪ the numbers really are extraordinary, a court in egypt sentenced 683 people to death in a mass trial. among them the leader of the muslim brotherhood, badia and the same court reduced hundreds of other death sentences which were handed down in march but 37 defendants in that trial will still get the death penalty. they were convicted for their alleged role in violent protests after the over throwing of mohamed morsi last july and we report. >> reporter: relatives in shock, moments after the verdict was announced.

heavy security was deployed outside the court building where egyptian presiding judge convicted 683 supporters of the outlawed muslim brotherhood to death including the group's leader. the muslim brotherhood is a conservative political group to which former president mohamed morsi belongs. the defendants sentenced on monday are accused of insighting violence and killing a policeman in southern egypt. the attack happened last august, shortly after egyptian security forces carried out raids on two large antimilitary protests sites in cairo. hundreds of people were killed leading to riots in other parts of the country.

and sentenced 528 supporters of the deposed president mohamed morsi to death in less than two hours. most of the defendants were not present in court. they were accused of killing one police officer, seizing government weapons and damagingly property when a police station south of cairo was attacked last august. that ruling in march was overturned on monday, commuting most of the death sentences to life in prison and up holding the death penalty for 37 defendants. the mass death sentences have sparked outrage worldwide. riots groups and many governments express concerns over the fairness of the proceedings. i'm with al jazeera. >> the high number of death penalties handed down by the courts is unprecedented in the country, in total 720 people now face the death penalty in egypt

after this year's court cases, compare that to the rest of the world, amnesty international saying last year china executed 778 people, the highest of any nation and next on the list iran put 369 people to death. let's talk to the deputy director of human rights watches at least in north africa, division on the phone from beirut and one person sentenced to death opposes you in human rights and it's the share scale of this that is astounding. >> reporter: it's the scale and lack of due process. we have documented the trial that you referred to for the 529. it was carried over incredibly fast and we have information the current trial, the one for the 683 today was also conducted in the span of a single session. so this is deeply problematic and worrying and simply the due process violation and imposition of what is the ultimate

punishment which we impose on principal, the death penalty after a short and many ways shameful trial is worrying. >> egypt does not execute people it was 1 in 2011, 2 in 2012 and none between 2011 and now and do you think they are likely to lose their lives or not. >> reporter: we hope they are not. you mentioned in your report that from the 529 the court sort of confirmed 37 death sentences. but the issue is not simply the number. the issue is even one of those would be too many because none of them have proper trial. there is also the second aspect, what is the point of issuing death sentences and it's to strike terror and intimidate those who criticize the interim government and the decisions are not isolated developments and may be the most shocking to get

the most media attention but virtually each day they are offering draconian sentences and sometimes not death penalty but draconian and long sentences after trials and that is the issue we should be highlighting. >> how closely do you believe the military and the judiciary work together in this because in law they are supposed to be separate? >> reporter: obviously it's hard. we don't know, egypt has a long tradition of an independent judiciary and yet lately we seen it become part of the oppression not just against the muslim brotherhood but this morning there was a decision to stop the activities of the april 6 youth movement. there are real questions about what they are trying to do. we have no evidence to say how this is -- how they are operating between them and the military. >> thank you very much indeed.

and al jazeera continues to call for the immediate release of journalists being held in egypt and trial adjourn to may 3 and in jail for 121, greste, fahmy and mohamed accused of providing a platform for brotherhood and now declared a terrorist organization and the fourth al jazeera journalist in detention has been held without trial since last august and said to have been on hunger strike for the last 98 days. al jazeera rejects those charges. we have breaking news out of the ukraine where the pro-russia mayor from the city of karkeef has been shot and we are live in eastern ukraine and barnabie, what do you know? >> reporter: according to the press officer, the mayor is now fighting for his life.

he was shot in the back by an unknown gunman. we think the bullet passed through the body and under going surgery. to put this in a little bit of context i would say he is slightly hard a man to pin down politically than you just suggested david, he was opportunistic and switched to the movement which took power in february and he tended to try and workout which way the wind is blowing in ukraine which is very difficult for everyone at this point in time and that makes the motives of his attempted murderer i suppose you would have to say attempted killer difficult to pin down. but this is a crucial city in the east, in the past two weeks with fighting on the streets yesterday but generally in the past two weeks it has been karma and other places in the east and pro-russian protest groups had been cleared out of government

buildings which they had briefly occupied a fort night ago. >> help me with this because you are more up to date than i am, members of the organization of security and cooperation in europe is still held and what is the latest and any other incidents that you think merit our attention? >> reporter: no significant news on the osce monitor, david, and one was released and we reported that last night and the rest are still held in strongholds and indeed the separatists have scored another coup if you like today in a town a little bit to the south of there closer where i'm talking, a place called constan africa and they took over the police station and raised the flag of dansk and have taken over more government buildings in town and taking

control. bit by bit it does feel as if the authority of the states in eastern ukraine is being eroded. they cannot rely on the police, we saw that in donyette last night when the police made no attempt to prevent pro-russian groups from taking over the local television station. >> that is barnibie on eastern ukraine and members of the european union will get together on monday to talk about further sanctions against russia. president obama in the philippines talking about the steps planned against russia. >> we are going to be moving forward with an expanded list of individuals and companies that will be affected by sanctions. they remain targeted. we will also focus on some areas of high-tech defense exports to russia that we don't think are appropriate to be exporting in

this kind of climate. >> reporter: united states and european union impose asset freezes and bans last month targeting individuals and firms close to putin and included the chief of staff and business man who sold his majority state in all oil trading company and now the united states waigs up the idea of sanctions imposed on the head of state owned energy giant and they are close associates of putin and russia's stock market has already been effected, the index of leading shares down 15% this year and messes up the $60 billion, the worth out flow since the 2008 financial crisis and the rubble lost about 9% of its value since january and last week's standard and poors cut the debt rate into one level

above junk status and we go to peter sharp in moscow and possibly more sanctions but i remember reading some people who were the victims if you like the first time around were wearing this as some kind of badge of honor but look at the figures it does seem superficially to be having some kind of effect. >> well, i don't think the sanctions are having that much effect, these are targeted sanctions to individuals and i think eu, president obama and the kremlin know these are not life threatening sanctions. if you really wanted to damage the russian economy you would be looking at things like defense and gas and, oil and banks and financial sector and what is having an effect and you touched on this briefly is invested confidence. to invest in a country especially talking about the sums there had been piling into russia you need two things, you need stability and security and

there is precious little of that in the financial economic levels. so we have had, we have seen, anything from 65 billion to 100 billion of invested capitol fleeing the country and that is already having a very definite, practical effect on the economy. the economy is said to shrunk by a half of 1% and in this continues and there is no reason david why it shouldn't you get zero growth at the end and also get recession. and perhaps even worse, too, the big joint venture organizations that are brought in so much capital to russian business and russian investors here, we are seeing those starting to falter and the ford motor company teamed up with a russian automobile maker that got a big switch plant outside st petersburg and laid off 700 workers in the last few weeks and a direct consequences of the

crisis following the annexation of crimea and must face steadily worse crisis in ukraine. >> thanks for analysis and peter sharp live in moscow. we mentioned that the u.s. president barack obama is in the philippines and now saying a new military deal signed with the country is not intended to contain china and it's a ten-year defense pact that allows the u.s. a bigger presence in the philippines and giving access to military camps and making it easier to deploy fighter jets and ships and the base commander has access to american forces and philippines is involved in territorial disputes with china. and we are live from manila and this is not intended to contain or contonight china says the u.s. president and if not what is it really intended to do?

>> reporter: well, this is actually what both leaders reiterated today and not meant to antagonize china in any other way. what they need is to shore up their own defense lines. they have their own reasons to protect defense lines and have environmental issues and exclusive economics and do not have any military aircraft. or any fighter jets. so they said, he said it's not even something that china should be worried about, however, skeptics here are far more worried about the details of the framework agreement itself and many are questioning as to the extent of the u.s. involvement of how it will be on the ground, what sort of u.s. facilities will be the u.s. military building and what would it mean for the country's sovereignty, these are the issues that a low t -- lot of protesters are putting on the table and both washington and manila reiterated this will be not just a military

one. >> the american president going on to say the goal is to make sure international norms and international rules are respected and that includes the area of international disputes. and this clearly is talk about what china is doing in terms of expansion or alleged expansion. the u.s. president is sort of saying we need to be there and we will help our friends and watch out because we have more military there now. >> reporter: yes, indeed and it seems that china is the big elephant in the room and have not mentioned it until reporters asked them directly however people ask if philippines is a much bigger target if there are more u.s. soldiers on the ground. what china wants really is bilateral discussions between the philippines. however, the philippines put forward in the international tribunal its problems and what they say are increasing sense of

china and the sea and clearly it is going to be one especially when they build in the western philippine seas facing the south china sea. >> thank you, we are reporting live from manila. all little look at some of the stuff coming up, in the news hour, last remaining muslims explain the capitol of the central african republic. the u.s.'s top diplomate says israel could turn into apartheid state if talks with palestinians fail. and in sport hearsay lent protests from the basketball team who owner is accused of being a racist. ♪ more on the story out of the central african republic where 22 people have died in an attack, three local charity and doctors without borders were

among the victims and it was on saturday about 450 kilometers north of the capitol bangui and tens of thousands have been forced from their homes from fighting between christians and muslims and we have this report. >> reporter: these women are getting ready to leave bangui and travel to the north for safety and they are muslim and caught up in months of fighting between two groups, the muslim rebels and antibalica rebels. >> translator: they killed a lot of muslims, we cannot say in central african republic and we will leave to save ourselves and skins and we will go kabul. >> reporter: they are protected by peace keepers but not all are

escaping the violence and some are staying behind. >> the central mosque and the plan is not to leave. we are working on it. there are other projects to keep them here like the successful work project, like other dialog that will start. and i'm not sure they want to leave. actually they told us they prefer to stay in bangui and the condition is the security. >> reporter: the trouble in the central african republic started a year ago when rebels over through the government and formed malitia against the fighters carrying out revenge attacks. >> translator: we cannot do anything about it because they are the ones that brought weapons here. we live together for a long number of years but they are the ones who brought weapons to kill us. >> reporter: as the trucks pulled out of the city, some people cheered. others looted property owned by

muslims and vandalized the mosque. the government is against evacuating people saying it divides the country. but with thousands of people killed and many more forced from their homes, this may be the only way to try and to end the violence. nicole johnston, al jazeera. >> the syrian president bashar assad has nomination for the presidential election and it's going to be held on june the third and despite the civil war and he is expected to be elected to a third term in office, no word if anybody's going to oppose him. opposition fighters in syria declared war against the al-qaeda linked group the islamic states in january and they so far failed to get rid of the isil fighters accused of numerous killings and

kidnapping and we are in southern turkey and spoke to some syrians who left the isil controlled city. >> reporter: this is their home away from home. they call it their house. some 25 people from the syrian city of the same name now live under one roof in a turkey border city and not related to each other. what brought them together is their fear of the islamic state in iraq and the isil. and she is scared to show identity talking about her city's new rulers. >> very bad. it's now i feel that it is outside the map of syria. it's another country. we are strangers there. >> reporter: foreign fighters fill the ranks of isil, this cross border organization has its roots in iraq's al-qaeda and

accused of abuses, killings, kidnapping and detaining those who oppose their rule. >> translator: i am scared. i want them to leave or else i can never go back home. >> reporter: he spent time in an isil jail and in contact with the few remaining activists in the city and are in hiding but continue to document what they say are isil abuses but that is all they can do. back in rika they impose their own laws. >> translator: there are a lot of human rights violations. women receive latches if they do not wear a veil and a crime toll smoke and accused of murder. >> reporter: so many and youth have sought refuge and say this is the only way of fighting back for now, in southern turkey. >> john kerry said israel is at risk of being apartheid state

and setting out consequences if peace talks fail to produce a separate palestinian state and it was published by the daily beast news website and said it had a recording of kerry's remarks made at a private meeting between u.s., europe, russia and japan. kerry is reported to have said that the state winds up being an apartheid state with second class citizens or end up being a state that destroys the capacity of israel to be a jewish state. state department has told al jazeera that kerry was echoing statements previously made by former israeli prime minister. this is what came out of the state department here and has two nations and two people living side by side and peace and security is through a two-state solution. let's bring in a member of the palestine liberation committee

and live and if i may say a veteran of the peace process going back several decades. and what kerry is saying is it's an expression of his frustration and how both sides seem to be. >> well, yes, david i don't think it's an issue of both size, it's israel walking straight into it. john kerry is giving a scrip tif statement like earlier about israel contributing to its own isolation and victimization and accepting the two-state solution and same now and telling israel the u.s. and john kerry care more about israel's future than the israeli government that is busy preparing for a one-state solution which israel is clearly seen as an apartheid state. so instead of heeding the message and attacking the messenger. >> i did not mention something else that john kerry said, if

this happens then he may impose on the palestinians and israelis his own version of a peace process, what could he have meant by that in your opinion? >> yes, well john kerry as you said is expressing a sense of frustration with the fact that now israel walked out of talks and of course it refused to comply with settlement activities and said 140,000 units sorry 14,000 units have been built since beginning of the settlement unit. what he is saying that if there is a continued impasse and what he will do is put out there his own plan. the issue is not whether he is going to put his own plan but the issue is whether this plan is consistent with international law and requirements of peace particularly the issue of justice and the agenda is clear and we all know what the final status is and israel refused to

negotiate them and only wants to address security rather than borders, refugees to jerusalem and wants to be consistent with international law. >> immediately this goes back to the deal last week made between hamas and talks about possibility of elections that led israel to make its statements and it infewer -- infurated john kerry and it's more about what the palestinians decided. >> not really, it's israel looking for a pretext to walk out of talks and tried escalated settlement activities and annexation of jerusalem and exclusion of the talksen exclusion of refugees and they had everything to scuttle the

talks and look for palestine sayings they do not represent everybody and saying we will not talk to people who talk to hamas and they decided they are the ones who give approval as to who is in the palestinian government or who is not. this is a very transparent, flimsy excuse for walking out on the talks and blaming palestinians and they try to kick us out and blame us now we are working to conciliation to represent all palestinians and nobody has an excuse and we said it is the political address and still i think it's israel trying to destroy not only the talks but chances of peace and john kerry is right, the way everybody else is saying this, that israel is an apartheid state, not headed toward an apartheid state. >> we have to thank you and you

have been involved in the peace process for decades already and hoping it's not for decades to come, appreciate your time, thanks. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> at least 14 people have been killed by tornados in the united states and the twisters caused massive damage in arkansas and oklahoma wiping out entire neighborhoods. rescue workers have been struggling to find sur priva fi the darkness and they issued severe thunderstorm warnings and talking of forecasters and looking at that picture, richard, our metrologist, any chance of things easing up a bit? >> i think there is a risk of more storms to come in the next 24 hours and hoping we will see improvement but it's curious and although the number of tornados actually peaked during the month of june, the death toll is highest early in the season and

has a peak of april of 2011 and during april 360 people lost their lives in tornados across largely the southern states and as i said yesterday a quiet start to the season and had not had a single ef-3 tornado to the 24th of april and now all the sudden obviously we seen an outbreak and you see the clouds just exploding on the image as the storms begin, a classic set up with big ridge and high pressure to the west and jet stream driving down and cold air coming from across the plains and warm up from the gulf of mexico and comes together in a perfect combination and really through the course of monday would like to see further storms and possibility of tornados through mississippi, alabama and on up towards tennessee. as we move the forecast through towards tuesday and wednesday, heavy rain to the southeastern sea board and thunderstorms and the risk should be dying out,

david. >> still ahead, zimbobwi and people wondering who is in charge. >> i'm in columbia where farmers across the country are gearing up for a new strike that promises to bring the country to a hall once again. >> and in sport the barcelona are fighting back and racist fans and stay with us if you can. ♪

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good to have you with us, i'm david foster and you are watching the al jazeera news hour and the top headlines, a court in egypt sentenced 683 people to death, the mass trial among them the leader of the muslim brotherhood. the same court reduces hundreds of other death sentences passed in life to life in prison and 37 of those defendants will still get the death penalty. in ukraine the mayor of the eastern city of kiev has been shot and he was seriously wounded in the back during an attack by unknown gunmen, members of the eu will have a meeting in the next few hours to talk about further sanctions against russia which is accused of building um unrest in eastern ukraine. the u.s. president barack obama says a new military deal with the philippines is not intended to contain china, the ten-year

defense pact has the u.s. and bigger military presence in the country. the death sentences in egypt got with me here assist and professor the school of services and georgetown university joining us on the set and let's talk about the separation of powers in egypt, the judiciary on one side and the government independently on the other side but the hand of the military government influencing the screw di di dish-judicial do you think. >> we are talking about the mobark regime and institutions more or less have been working in their own capacity to try as much as possible to revert to the policies of old. judiciary is of course the same one that continuously stifled as attempts to revolutionize the system after the months and

years of over throw of mubarak and it's overseeing the process and the sentences should not be seen as independent of the process. >> the same judge and the same person in both cases, both mass trials that handed down over 1200 death sentences, do you think the intention is because how many people have been executed in egypt in the last five years, i think it's five or six, is simply intended as a warning rather than the possibility still exists it could be carried out but is it unlikely? >> it's meant to send a message that op sister and decent will not be tolerated by the incoming regime of abdel-fattah el-sissi as he lays claim to political power in egypt at this time with the coronation of him to the presidency without any free and independent electoral process. but having said that i think there also is the danger that they will be carrying out some of the death sentencing regardless if it's in the

hundreds or dozens and we are talking about a situation of oppression in which 23,000 egyptians have all been arrested and detained. in additional to sentences which get most of the headlines we have hundreds and hundreds of other trials that end in massively long prison sentences, people who are never seeing their day in court, months after arrest and people were tortured and not to mention. >> many of the people and we have 683 we are told 50 of them are in custody but i want to get on to something else which in many ways i think there is more, you can see the situation in egypt more clearly with this ruling that has come out of the court today. the april the 6th movement it supported the overthrow of mohamed morsi and there fore you may think the current regime on its side and that too has been band. >> right, and i think again this speaks to the idea of whatever happened on the 30th of june last year was certainly not a

revolution but a counter revolution and one supported by a number of elements from within the revolutionary youth movement from libertiel individuals and organizations and activists across egypt and many of whom were short sighted in their attempts to over throw the muslim brotherhood and not realizing by over throwing the democratically elected president they ever had and this is taking egypt backwards in terms of revolutionary process and the counter revolution is on the verge of being completed. >> given the death sentence today, if there is anybody likely to be executed do you think they will choose him to make an example of the leader of dmb? >> i think they have taken a total war approach to the muslim brotherhood by completely banning the organization, arresting leaders and killing members and supporters in the streets of egypt and arresting by the thousands and dismantling

institutions and media. i don't see it beyond abdel-fattah el-sissi to have him executed because i think this is in keeping with his idea this is a terrorist organization, not part of egyptian civil society and not part of the fabric of egyptian society and other presidents have attempted in the past to ban the organization and have done it with spectacular failure. >> appreciate your thoughts and analysis from georgetown university. there have been two attacks on stations in iraq, at least five people died in a blast in the west of the capitol baghdad where security personnel were casting votes, this is after an earlier car bomb attack west of felicia -- fullusia and the attacks days before the country votes for a new parliament.

and we have been to a polling station in the capitol where security forces have been choosing who they want. >> reporter: through this door iraqi soldiers are exercising democratic right to vote and voting on monday and tuesday and throughout both days and they are in flas for the general parliamentary election that takes place on wednesday. now take a look. you can see the purple and means they voted and it's celebration at the polling station and excited to have been able to vote but however the day is marred with violence and attack on a polling station in the west of fullusia where six soldiers lost their lives. the death toll in saudia arabia identified eight new cases and a child and brings the deaths to 102 since the virus was first identified in 2012 and

there is no known treatment at the moment. zimbobwi for democratic change is split and conflicting whether the leader has been suspended. dominick cain reports. >> he has been the driving force behind the movement of democratic change for years, in that time he has been fated by the international community for the opposition and widely considered to have won the presidential election in 2008 which saw him retain his post. a power sharing deal, then he was prime minister. but defeats in last year's general election caused tension that has now turned into an open split. on saturday a meeting in the capitol voted to suspend him and several other high officials over a decision he had taken to expel the party's treasure and

the man behind the vote is the party secretary general and he believes by their actions they are saving delve si of the mdc. >> you cannot run a democratic state, if you cannot run your own party democratically and it's common sense and it cannot be a dictator in your party and be a democrat in government. we are in the process of doing democracy and deal with economic problems of zimbobwai. >> reporter: and on sunday they came out fighting. >> it's a political party for which they are failing to fight. but it's a political party nevertheless. [applause] morgan has been the leading opponent for a generation. and a series of elections

against him. but now he is fighting for control of his own party. dominick cain, al jazeera. australia prime minister says it's highly unlikely any day brief from the missing malaysia plane will be found on the ocean surface and 370 has been missing since march 8 with 239 people on board and they are heading up the search operation focusing on this part of the ocean northwest of perth. leading opposition party in macedonia says it will not accept results of this weekend's election and votes are still being counted but conservative party is claiming a double victory in parliamentary and presidential elections and john reports. >> reporter: there was a celebrity mood at the election

headquarters. his party, the right wing party was elected to a third, four-year term and his choice of president ushered in for a second term as well. but the social democrat opposition says this result was too good to be believed. >> translator: the citizens of macedonia are cheated and there are no conditions for basic electoral process which was conducted in an uncivilized manner and at the same time the constitutional right of the citizen was usurped. the social democratic union of macedonia has the biggest opposition party and asked for the creation of a government of technocrats. >> reporter: the social democrats are asking for an interim government of te, this hnocrats to over see the elections and means that the social democrats will likely refuse to take seats in the new parliament and does not on its

own mean the entire election result is rendered invalid and they may still assume their seats and rule if they have majority and their authority to govern would be under minded and a political crisis is on. it was smooth in the districts where prime minister is elected and he has his supporters here. >> translator: the vmro built schools and hospitals. they have created jobs. the president does a good job fighting for the country overseas. >> reporter: but others point out that the country is losing its youth to better job markets and more open societies. and a political observer and commendator says polezation led people out of the normal political process. >> when you lead democracy the only way is to go out on the streets, on the squares and

sometimes the state institutions. i'm not supporting it but if things develop in that direction then it's easy se -- to it specific it may happen here. >> reporter: that seems to be what the social democrats have decided to do anthem and the leader have been masters of the political game a long time and social democrats are indicating they will no longer provide legitimacy to the system, i'm with al jazeera. and we have algeria's president and it's his fourth time in the job and in a wheelchair and frail as he took the oath and he was too sick to participate in the reelection campaign after a stroke. put him in hospital for three months. last year. farmers in columbia are getting ready to go on strike across the country, saying the government failed to fulfill its promises

made after a wave of violent strikes last year and all this is just before presidential elections. and we have been speaking with farme farmers. >> reporter: on the hills here he has grown po -- potatoes. >> i used to plant 20 hectors and employee people but i'm down to 10 or 12 and isnot profitable and it costs more to produce than what we make selling. >> lake of subsidies and high production cost and the free trade agreements brought the agriculture sector down and a wave of strikes that brought the country to a halt in 2013 when farmers blocked major roads and clashed with the police. and the protest ended when the

president promised reforms and now the farmers say they will return to the streets as the government has not delivered. >> translator: what else can we do? we can't tolerate this situation anymore. we can't continue to work the land. they are kicking us out. they shouldn't call them free trade agreements, they are free plunder agreements but the government will not renegotiate them. >> reporter: small farmers across the country are ready to start a new process on april 28th and with presidential elections just weeks away, the government fears the new strike could seriously impact the outcome of the votes. ministers are touring the country saying many reforms have been implemented and others are on their way. >> translator: our negotiations are generating results. there is no reason for the farmers to despair and act violently or illegally. one should protest when he is

not being heard and we are not only listening, we are solving the problems of the sector. >> reporter: and culture companies agree and say further strikes would damage the country and the farmers themselves. >> translator: even if the reasons are there dialog is our best option especially now the government recognizes we don't have a national agriculture policy and need to build one. >> reporter: but many small farmers feel time has run out unless the government changes the international agreements they fear their business will slowly disappear, i'm with al jazeera, columbia. we have andy richardson and sport coming up, after this and hearing from the footballer who is rebuilding his reputation in england. ♪

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access, more conversations. so you don't just stay on top of the news, go deeper and get more perspectives on every issue. al jazeera america. it's getting violent in pakistan's biggest city brought residents to look for safety in armored vehicles and it's a demand in an attempt to counter rising number of gun and bomb attacks. and we have a man in karachi. >> reporter: making a vehicle bomb and bullet proof is not easy, this 4 x 4 jeep was stripped to the frame and will insert thick metal plates in the door and install bullet proof windows and cope with the extra

1,000 kilograms of steel and glass that has been added. armored vehicles are a must have for residents here, the city of 18 million people have a long history of violence, much of it associated with gangs linked to political parties but in resent times the taliban has grown in influence. just last year more than 2000 people were killed in attacks and around 100 were abducted for ran some. the killings and kidnaps show no signs of slowing which is why those who can afford it are installing windows which can stop an ak-47 bullet and an internal frame which can resist a bomb attack. this family has been in the car manufacturing business for more than 20 years but over the past year he has seen a huge increase for armored vehicles and initially he had 1-2 customers a month and now he has a dozen at any given time. >> now i think that people have

really become aware that such an investment is probably quite necessary especially if one can afford it. >> reporter: armoring a car is not cheap, the cost of making it bomb and bullet proof is $30-$40,000 on top of the purchase of the vehicle and it's a small peace of mind to pay and he asked us to hide his identity for security reasons and he had his jeep armored a few months ago. >> i was mugged like four times in the last 2, 2 1/2 years and, you know, a time comes when you feel enough is enough and you have to look for a solution. >> but in a country where many people live on a hundred dollars a day it's a solution opened to a privileged few and i'm with al jazeera. sport promised with andy. >> thank you so much, david.

la clippers players have a silent protest before a crucial mba playoff game on sunday and before warm up they wore the shirts inside out to hide the logo and wore black wrist or arm bands talking about racial comments made. >> reporter: a sign of unity the la clippers dumping the jerseys for a prozest of protests made by the owner donald sterling and wore black arm bans and socks at the defeat of the golden state warriors and dispute the serious loss and outrage from the basketball community, staff of clippers are still trying to be diplomatic. >> i'm not going to deny that we had other stuff. listen, i just believe when a game starts, the game starts and nobody cares anymore. >> i believe everybody was

effected by what took place and i don't believe it was just the clippers. i don't think there was anything said directly towards the clippers and their players. i think it was insulting to all of us. >> reporter: 80-year-old sterling is alleged to criticize a female friend for posting pictures of herself online with black men including basketball leg end magic johnson and he said to oust sterling from the league. >> he will come down hard and shouldn't own a team and should stand up and say i don't want to own a team anymore especially when you have african/americans in his apartments and coming to the games and playing and coaching for him. this is bad for everybody. it's bad for america. and so i'm really upset about it. >> reporter: but it's not the first time sterling who is worth $1.9 billion has been accused of racism. >> there was a lawsuit by his former manager in which he alleged that sterling said that he wanted a plantation mentality

with poor blacks from the south working for a white coach. there is a story about how when he was interviewing for a job many years ago in the 80s that he walked in drunk with a woman on his arm who was not his wife and said i want to know how you're going to handle these n word. >> reporter: the clippers sought out arena for 137 straight games and we will find out on game five on tuesday if the fans make their own protests by not showing up, richard with al jazeera. and spanish foot bull is facing its own battle with racism and sunday saw another case of players abused by fans and barcelona is here taking a bite from something that was thrown on a pitch by supporters and last year he was subjected during the game against madrid and spanish clubs found guilty

of racist can be fined $80,000 and have their ground closed for subsequent games. and this is what we have to say after that match we suffered this in spain for sometime, you have to take it with a dose of humor. we aren't going to change things easily, if you do not give it importance they don't achieve their objective. and this is barcelona and brazil teammate posted a show of support and here he is with his son and using the hash tag we are all monkeys. and barcelona beat them 3-2 but the spanish league title is heading in the direction of athletico madrid and sunday they beat valencia and there was one goal of the game and four points clear of barcelona and two victories of the first title since 1996! rebuilding of liverpool player larry's reputation is continuing after he was named england's

player of the rule and he has racial abuse and biting somebody and scoring 30 goals and liverpool with the league title with 2-0 against chelsea on sunday and it's the first south american to win the award and voted for by fellow players. >> it's important and i'm so happy with this because i work really good for them, all seize for them. and it's important for the teammates. >> reporter: and maria won the 30th title and championship, the russian number 9 won in three sets with a 7th straight win. >> yeah, i had such great success in the tournament but every year the two come back and you start from the beginning from the first match on and i

was close to losing that first match and fought my way from the tournament and it was great for me today. >> reporter: mark made it three from three at the start of the new season after winning the argentina grand prix after taking the checkered flags at the first two races of the year and he is showing dominance here and back from a first start to win and he has a teammate finishing second and lorenzo third and more about danny fighting back against racism in spanic football on al jazeera.com/sport and details on how to get in touch with us on twitter and facebook. more from me later but that is your sport for now. >> andrew thank you very much indeed and more from me later on in the news hour and thanks.

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