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handing out cash in indonesia but this politician says he is not corrupt and not sorry. ♪ a senior olympic official has condemned brazil's preparations for the 2016 summer olympic games. he says they are the worst he has ever seen. and some have not been started. brazil other sporting event the football world cup begins in six week's time and we will hear from the correspondent in a moment but we have this report from nicole johnston. >> reporter: this is the moment when brazil's olympic comes through, five years ago it has the right to host the games in 2016. but its preparations are not going as planned and they have been slammed by the vice president of the international olympic committee. speaking in sidney he said.

>> translator: the ioc has a special task force to feed up preparations but the situation is critical on the ground. we have becomed concerned and they are not ready in many ways and we have to make it ap and that is the ioc approach and you cannot walk away from it. >> reporter: the problem but the preparations have delays and raising costs and poor communication between the government and organizers. it may sound like the types of problems many olympic suffer but this time it's so bad john coats says it's the worst he has experienced. it all started with so much promise. the rio olympic games would be the first in south america. but until recently there were worker strikes at the main olympic park and construction has not begun and in june it has to get through hosting the football world cup and the international governing body of

football criticized preparation and john coats says rio also had social problems. there has been months of unrest in some of the cities slums with clashes between police and residents. here people demonstrated against brazil holding the world cup. the international olympic committee says it has no plan b to find another host for 2016. instead, it's putting the pressure on brazil to lift its game quickly, nicole johnston, al jazeera. >> and lee joins us live from london and lee extraordinary strong comments there from the iac. does brazil deserve them? >> well the iac doesn't say it lightly and talks about what they had to do and reminds me in a way of what happened with the secretary general john with the world cup two years ago. he was very, very strong with

comment. and it was you will have to listen and take action and like an enforcer and with words and actions the iac are stepping up with rio and extremely concerned, the words and language used, critical. worse than athens. there were all kinds of problems with athens beforehand and shows where we have to. actions and john coats himself has been to rio six times recently showing how much attention he is giving that and other duties as well and there have been vetted ex p efforts with the local organizing committee and unprecedented and showing how much help they have to give brazil moving forward and they don't want to do it but they also don't want to move the games from rio and they do not deal in moving olympics away and they want it to happen in brazil and will happen any way that can. >> reporter: with the world cup around the corner and the last thing authorities want to hear. >> the question was always did brazil bite off more than it can

chew. unprecedented situation, unique really to have a world cup followed by an olympic games. now the hope was they could work hand in hand. dealing with infrastructure and spending the money to deal with it and you are in a position where it would all come and work together and you could have two fantastic events. but look at the situation with the strike, the protests, there are many brazil people who are unhappy with the money being spent and actually one problem is leading on to another. and the football world cup is only six weeks away and is over shadowing the olympics and this is from john coats is to say we are not neglecting what is going on and it's a big problem and a bigger problem than the world cup has faced. >> reporter: many thanks and live from london. at least 12 people died in a mortar attack in a syrian capit

capitol damascus and it happened a day after the president bashar filed nomination for reelection and we are live in beirut and what do we know that happened in this attack? >> reporter: well, the death toll has risen to 14 people killed and more than 80 injured. according to the government sources and the government media four mortar shells struck the neighborhood and two of them struck an islamic coast that is cool. what we know is this is not the first time that the rebels hit the heart of the capitol with these mortar sch shells and rocs and are not in the capitol and fortified with government forces. they have been able to prevent the rebels from taking hold of any of the neighborhood inside the capitol so instead the rebels fire the shells in different areas and they are not very accurate so they hit civilian areas and many civilians get killed. >> and across the country they

are seeing this sort of violence, much worse everyday. the fact we are seeing it in damascus under scores how difficult it's going to be for the country to hold those elections in june. >> reporter: not from the government's point of view. they feel that if they were able to hold these elections in the capitol damascus and in places like homs or aleppo and on the border between syria and lebanon and feel it's enough to hold elections and give president assad more legitimacy and if they are held as scheduled on june 3 red, it will be the first time they will take part in popular elections to choose a president. there are nine candidates already including bashar assad and it's the first time as i said in modern history there is more than one candidate and people get to vote. usually in the past and during the time and during bashar

assad's term it was referendum and one candidate is a president and people don't have much say. the west and opposition say this election has no legitimacy whatsoever and 6 million syrians have been displaced in the country and 2.5 million are outside the country and a refugees and the government saying they can vote in the different countries they are in there are many obstacles and no chance to run against assad and this election will be fraud. >> live for us from beirut and thanks very much. now over to south korea and the president has formally apologized for the ferry disaster. the government is criticized for the mishandled response to the crisis. 205 people are confirmed dead. 97 still missing. harry faucet has more front seoul. >> reporter: on tuesday morning

south korea president was at the newly opened memorial to the victims of the tragedy. and they paid a personal tribute to the dead and later made this apology to their relatives and to the nation as a whole. >> translator: how should i apologize for the failure to prevent the accident and insufficient initial response and end the pain and suffering of victim's families even for a moment. i apologize with a heavy heart to the nation citizens that so many precious lives were lost due to this accident. >> reporter: angered initial response is heightened by video released on monday showing the moment the captain stepped off the stricken ship. more than 300 others, most children, were left to die, told to stay where they were on board. coast guard rescuers said the ship was too steep to look for others and questions over their response as well as delays in getting divers inside the ship once it went under. in a statement the president recognized it wasn't just the

nirl response that was the problem but the condition that allowed the tragedy to unfold in the first place and talked about regulators being too close to industries and promised a new national safety ministry and a government effort on safety to remodel the country from the ground up and the investigation is expanding, actions of the crew and company and regulators and now the coast guard all under intense scrutiny. harry faucet seoul. >> stay with us on the al jazeera news hour and still to come here on the program, being fed up with broken promises, why people think the election won't make a difference to them. plus still not over tornados barrel down on the southern u.s. destroying homes and claiming more lives. and in sport the miami heat show support to the la clippers players whose owner is said to

have made racist remarks. ♪ the eu released a new list of 15 names of russia and ukrainians imposing sanctions on and targets politician and military leaders. one of the names on the list is the current director of russia's foreign intelligence agency, giu. some of the others are. and russia's deputy prime minister who over saw criteria into russia after it was annexed and valarie, the first deputy minister of defense and army general in charge of the deployment of russian troops along the ukrainian border. across in moscow and we are joined live from there, and putin himself with talks got close to him and why are these particular men being targeted? >> reporter: well, laura, first

of all we should point out unlike the list released on monday including companies and individuals the eu list is putting a travel pan and asset freeze on individuals only. now some of those as you were listing are key military officials and some of them linked to the de-facto annexation of crimea including a member of the duma, russian parliament responsible for starting legislation to integrate crimea into russian federation and another figure is chief of the russian staff. now, we should point out that some of these people are politically important but they are not in putin inner circle as some of the american sanctions have gone to. >> russia vowed reprisal for the u.s. sanctions, are we seeing any reaction to this? >> reporter: they are mixed.

in the last few hours the russian foreign ministry put out a statement saying that the european union is doing washington's bidding with unfriendly gestures. now just before that the deputy foreign minister said that the american sanctions would hurt russia's high tech industry and he has now said that this is basically a revival of a policy from the 1940s in which western countries applied what he called an iron curtain, stopping supply of high-tech goods in the soviet union and other nations so obviously it's very unwelcome but they are stressing the eu and the u.s. have certainly not gone half as far as they could do in terms of going after key economic players and big companies like the big gas companies here in russia so far. >> live for us there in moscow. thanks very much.

deadline for peace talks between israel and the palestinians has passed without an agreement being reached. the u.s. brokered talks resumed in july after a three-year deadlock and the two sides given 9 moves for progress but the negotiations went no where. let's look at what happened over the past month. on march 29 they went back on a commitment to release a fourth batch of palestinian prisoners saying it would do so only if the palestinians agreed to extend the talks. the palestinian authority responded by applying to join 50 international conventions and treaties and israel officially cancelled the prisoner release. israelis reissued a call to build more than 700 illegal settlements in occupied east jerusalem and hamas and included a unity deal and the very next day israel suspended negotiations. and chief palestinian negotiator

has been talking to al jazeera. >> the government gave us no chance, gave secretary kerry no chance. they were determined from day one to undermine these talks and to undermine these efforts. and finally they used the pretext of conciliation to stub the negotiations in the most short-sided decision i have ever seen. >> we have a senior political economist in tel-aviv and a commission for the international affairs and gentlemen thank you very much basically for being with us. if i could start with you, was it wise for the palestinians at this point in time to form a unity government with hamas and clearly it was the very nail in the coffin of the negotiations. >> reporter: of course it's

wise and never should be looked at as practical or timing wise. this is a move that has to do with the reinstituting of the palestinian political system and democratic inclusive one and an end to years of a division that has seen a huge amount of suffering by our people and that's why it's very welcome by our people and by the international community and a move that would ensure a two-step solution because if we bring gaza to the equation and hamas in a political question with rules and it's good news for any political settlement. and almost immediate rejection of the government to the deal is another example that he is not really interested in a solution or any form of a solution. >> okay, was it good news? does it ensure the two-state solution can go ahead? >> reporter: no, i don't believe so. but i think the good news should

be ending this tangle that is like going one step forward and two steps back and france has been dancing and with kerry for nine months. but unfortunately we don't see the baby. i think that the palestinians have to decide whether israel will face the reality and pay for the occupation or the international community will pay for it and they keep crying wolf, i will hand over the keys of the palestinian authority back to israel and good-bye to this monster, this creature which is called the p.a. which was supposed to be provisional arrangement and it has been there for now 20 years.

>> but i can jump in, sorry to interrupt, i just have to make the point the israelis have not really entered since the negotiations either and they continue settlement building, some 13,000 new units being moved forward even as talks are on the table. >> yeah, because there are no fixes and they don't pay for it, the international community pays lip service. but why not? if he makes his calculation, you know, getting out of there and stopping the settlements, freezing it will cost him much more than not doing anything. and for him this unity government is a great excuse as if something was happening in the last nine months in those so called negotiations. >> is this ball in the

palestinian's court and if so how is it going to reach out to israelis to try and bring them back to the table? >> first of all i very push agree with that. this is a cost benefit equation and cost of occupation is almost zero and a lot of profit enjoying by gaza and we have to really look at this and how do we raise occupation and they are using negotiation only as a cover up for what you described earlier as the colonization of the land and theft of resources and we know this very well and why we took the steps that we have. we are seeking the international system and it will not raise the cost where israel will end the occupation but raise it to a second level. the second arena we are in now is national reconciliation because nothing will move forward and we will not engage

occupation in a way to raise the course without being united and never united in terms of consensus but the system that is democratic to give back the people ability to elect leaders and renew the political system and include all major palestinian factions including hamas and go to the core of the conflict instead of pushing it to egypt lab or other country's lab and go ahead with plan to really engage in popular resistance on the ground that engages the entire society like what is happening a couple weeks ago and elsewhere and to move on in international activism like south africa. >> we are hearing calls within the israeli government for annexation of parts of the west bank, some 60%, in fact, a huge amount. so are you concerned that is ever going to become a reality if these talks don't go back to the table?

>> well, these threats are not just threats. israel is effectively anything much of this and full control of more than 60% of the west bank. israeli is in full control of national resources and full control of the population and full occupation of what the west bank and gaza including jerusalem and these are serious and practiced on the ground by the day. the equation for us is how do we challenge this? and the only thing coming from israeli government is either not in position of some arrangement or annexation and this is a grave moment where we have to calculate our steps and i think what we did in the last two weeks starting going to u.n. and last week the reconciliation is very major steps in the right direction. we are absolutely adamant to engage in what they said to make the cost of occupation and to make him sweat. and i believe mr. netanyahu for the last two weeks has been

sweating everyday. >> hearing that what will it take then for negotiations to move forward again? >> a regime change in israel. i don't believe this government headed by bennett and others and if there is some miracle and they decide to get out of the territory, they cannot get their own policies to support them, not that they could and not bennett or other parties and what needs to happen, it's not only israeli government will have to realize as he just said that it's not in their benefit. it costs them too much to keep the occupation, the status quo, it's too expensive and has to come from the bottom. and it will come from the bottom once the israelis will realize

that there are no free lunches. you want to annex territories and you have to take into consideration the international community, egyptian and jordan who is operating embassys in tel-aviv where i am sitting and not willing to keep business as usual. >> we will leave it, live from tel-aviv and thank you very much for joining us. more than 60 people have been killed in attacks across iraq ahead of nationwide elections on wednesday. the worst of the suicide bombing at a rally in the northeastern providence and at least 36 people killed in the town there. people at the rally came to watch television and the president casting his vote in germany. the kurdish leader not in public for two years and treated in berlin after a stroke in 2012.

22 million iraqis are eligible to vote on wednesday. one of the main campaign issues in iraq is poverty and nearly 10 million iraqis live on or below poverty line and living on less than $5 a day and many of the poorest have no faith that a vote will change anything. >> reporter: baghdad throws away these people used to bill and call it tin city, a sprawling slum in the northeast where at least 25,000 people live. from all over builders and other tradesmen drop trash here and they used this to dumb to build homes. as the children play he worries about the future and he not only looks after his own daughters but provides a home for five orphans whose parents died in the violence that plagues the city. >> translator: this is an oil-rich country but i've been living like this for 15 years.

i don't have anything. the politicians come and make empty promises. we are fed up. we can't handle living like this anymore. this place is not fit for animals. >> reporter: the government in 2010 promised people in the slum it would tear it down and rehouse then. since then it has grown and rarely visited by government officials. one of the first things you notice here is the over powering smell and surrounded by open sewers and means mosquitos and residents during dawn and dusk that is an absolute nightmare and tell you here they are alive but being buried under this rubbish, there is a lot of anger here over the way they live. in resent weeks parliamentary candidates tried to canvas votes and locals chased them away. >> translator: when those politicians came here, we didn't want to receive them at all, some people here threw stones at

them and others threw empty bottles like empty promises. >> reporter: the poverty in iraq folk used on the rise of slums like these and the government promised to help but after four years of hearing the same promises they mean little here. al jazeera, baghdad. >> al jazeera continuing to call for the immediate release of its journalists being held in egypt, their trial adjourned until may 3 and they have been in jail for 122 days. peter greste, fahmy and mohamed are falsely accused for a platform for muslim brotherhood and now a terrorist organization and a fourth and on trial for 99 days and al jazeera rejects all the charges. powerful storm system is moving across the united states, at least 17 people in the south and midwest have been killed so far.

this video shows a twister battering the northern part of the state of mississippi and some areas of alabama and georgia are at risk as it goes east to the mid-atlantic states. the national weather service says the threat of tornados will last several more days and let's see exactly what is going on in the region with evenerton, do you have any good news for people there? >> the good news is they are going east and slow but as you said they will last several more days and we are in day three already and could be another two or three days before they clear away from the southeastern sea board. you see the massive cloud and under the massive cloud where we have seen those tornados during their worst there. 95 millimeters of rain here in mississippi. but it's slowly but surely going east and you see the huge, massive cloud makings its way across alabama and georgia and that is focus for tornados over

the next couple of days and dry weather from the west will come in eventually and we have heavy rain very much in place here and looking at very heavy rain for nashville and that will continue driving its way further east. for the remainder of tuesday there is the wednesday weather pretty much running up the spine of the appalachian mountains and the eastern side of canada and weather behind and quite breezy it what's to be said. moving to wednesday and that rain that is still in place around the carolinas and could see tornado activity up the sea board and heavy rain coming through here and quite a bit of rain too around a good part of the midwest. we have flood alerts in place up the eastern side of country. go into thursday and there you go, it's making its way clear, laura. >> thank you very much. still ahead here on al jazeera heading home after a mission to reassure our live answer we look

at whether the u.s. pivot to asia is more than just talk. a rebel stronghold in central india where training young people in practical skills is aimed at keeping them away from guns. plus in sport they are tightening the grip of champion's league football. ♪ if i told you that a free ten-second test

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and john coats says that infrastructure delayed and construction not begun on some venues. south korea president apologized for her government's handling of the ferry accident earlier this month and carrying monthly students when it sank and 205 people are confirmed dead with 97 still missing. and there is 14 people who died in a mortar attack in the syrian capitol damascus and they hit a school complex in the sheer district of shakle. syrian government is pushing ahead with plans to hold a presidential election and bold by gains and failure to provide services and speaking to an opposition fighter who says it played a role in the regime survival. >> reporter: he was commander in the free syrian army when we first met mohamed in syria and six months ago he laid down his

arms and now lives in turkey and mohamed hides his identity because his father returned home and relies on government salary to survive. he feels let down by the opposition for this former fighter so much has gone wrong and he blames corrupt rebels for working for their own interests and blames disunity and lack of leadership and that is how he says the regime stays alive. >> translator: the opposition has failed to lay foundations of the state. opposition territories and no one offers anything to the people. people spent all their savings and what can they do? >> reporter: and that is what happened to him. may home is not alone. millions of syrians are struggling to cope either inside the country or in exile. yes, they receive some support from the international community but it's not enough. these people have lost almost everything, but they don't just need money. they need to be free from the government's control. until now they have to go to an

embassy of a government they don't recognize for official paperwork. >> translator: our opposition needs support to create institutions to loosen the grip of the syrian government. the government on the other hand is holding elections to show there is still a state. >> reporter: he may have laid down his arms but he will not accept the government offer of what it calls reconciliation and in the resent months hundreds of fighters have but he said they did so because they were under siege and starving and not given an alternative. southern turkey. more now on the tornados in the u.s. that we were hearing about a little earlier and rescue workers in the hardest hit state of arkansas have been working around the clock looking for survivors and we report from one devastated community called may flower. >> reporter: the tornados cut a path of destruction across three states but arkansas bore the brunt. in may flower a community north of little rock it is

devastation, when the twister touched down it was wide and extremely powerful and traveling for 100 kilometers and leaving homes and lives in ruins. >> our memories inside are gone and we have to find them hopefully. >> there is some memories, treasures. we have children and grandchildren. try to find some things that we had all of our lives. >> reporter: satellite images from nasa show the sheer size of the storm system and millions of people are still in the path. president obama on a tour of asia offered condolence and help. >> i want everyone effected by this tragedy to know fema and the federal government is on the ground and will help our fellow americans in need, working with state and local officials and i want everybody to know that your country will be there to help you recover and rebuild as long as it takes. >> reporter: communities across arkansas residents are trying to recover what they can from their

wrecked homes and a warning came just minutes before the tornado hit. the search and rescue operation is still underway in arkansas but when you see the raw power of the tornado on the ground it's difficult to think anyone could be found alive in a scene like this and you see y debris met the trees and cars, trucks and trailers tossed around like trees and the trees snapped like toothpicks they have not rated the tornado but they say it's the most powerful they have ever seen. the fact the tornado touched down on sunday evening is said to have saved lives and schools, offices and shops lay in ruins and could just as easily been full of people. >> obviously devastation that is very, very severe. all the agencies have worked well. all the volunteers worked well, city, county and governments worked well. >> reporter: the current storm system will continue to be a threat for days to come. but in arkansas residents face the task of rebuilding and

laying their dead to rest. and i'm with al jazeera may flower, arkansas. a strike is violent in the colombian capitol, police used tear against against students protesting in support of the demonstration and the farmers are angry at the government which they say have failed to perform as promised after strikes last year and columbia is preparing for presidential elections next month. u.s. president barack obama is returning home from a week-long trip to four countries in asia and the start of his term in office u.s. foreign policy would focus more on asia and white house correspondent patty says it has not always gone according to plan. >> reporter: president barack obama went to asia for more than fancy food and banquets but he was toasted a lot and he wanted a trade deal with japan to give rise to the partnership and

after frantic meetings he left full and empty handed. >> it did not happen because of the opposition and treaty from within japan and they are protected in japan to give you an example but there are other examples to point to, automobiles and so forth, real limitations, political limitations on the prime minister. >> reporter: that could signal long delays or eventual death of the agreement which president obama hopes would shape his legacy, and the talked about pivot to asia and officials got what they wanted though, the president talking about islands disputed by japan and china. >> the treaty covers all territories administered by japan. >> reporter: reporters throughout the trip had one question about that. >> will the u.s. defend philippines in case a territorial dispute with china. >> and they would use force in they had a military incoursion.

>> reporter: saying they don't have to intervene military as the president referred to as rocks. mr. obama signed to give greater access to bases in the philippines and so far the u.s. military only made a few months about 2000 u.s. marines are rotating into australia and the navy has 5% more of the fleet in the region. the pivot to asia apparently on a slow roll. the white house believes if he leaves with one agreement the pivot is the president being here in person and at the very least they can say that he did accomplish. patty with al jazeera, washington. and tom is a research associate at the united states study center, the university of sidney and joins us live and thanks for being with us. has this trip done enough to reassure asia that the u.s. pivot to the conference and is alive and well?

>> reporter: all things considered this week-long trip by the president has indeed reaffirmed this so called pivot to the region, this rebouncing of u.s. diplomatic and military power to the region and i don't think one should overstate this visit but it goes some ways towards correcting some of the mishaps that took mra islate last year when the president missed a couple of very important asian summits because he had pressing things back home. you may recall there was a partial government shut down and the region back in october was if the united states cannot keep its house in order how on earth could it keep the peace in east asia. given the expectation are reasonably low and the president has reaffirmed that commitment, of course the tpp as your original report and are trade talks talking about a 12-nation free trade deal, they remain

stalled largely because the japanese have a protected market when it comes to agriculture and lack of tri-leadership in washington because they will not give their president a promotion authority but you have to remember the united states president reaffirmed guarantees to japan, south korea and of course on the last leg in manila. >> what will happen when the relationship is put to the test and obama and the u.s. and white house has to put those words into action, it has to perhaps for example step up to defend its allies in territorial disputes against china? >> reporter: well, some foreign policy analysts believe the president's isolation and inepitude last summer and most recently when the secretary of state were wrestling over russia

inclusion in ukraine and ultimately meant nothing sent a signal to not just the allies in east asia but china that american's word can be taken seriously but bear in mind the president reaffirmed agreements and in the case of manila i think this is quite significant when you bear in mind that the united states has increased its military access to philippine ports, bases and strips and this is the first time we had an intensified military engagement between washington and manila since 1992 when essentially the philippine government kicked out the u.s. navy from the base. so this is quite a reassertion of american power in the region. what united a lot of the countries in the region from northeast asia and south korea to philippines and even vietnam is a great fear of the rise of

china. >> okay, tom thanks for joining us and talking about obama's trip to asia. human rights activists in hong kong demanding better conditions for foreign workers and are outside of a court where a woman faces charges of abusing and beating several indonesia maids. and activists say laws to protect their rights are not being enforced. indonesia anticorruption body sister the parliamentary elections earlier this month were the most fraudulent in resent history and we explain. >> reporter: laying the foundations for better future, these students are learning practical skills they hope will open up a world of employment opportunities. they are taught the livelihood college that was established two years. >> reporter: i beg your pardon that was the wrong package. we will now go to the proper

report from indonesia. >> this member of the ruling democrat party is on camera handing out money during a resent campaign rally. and he denies it because he says he did not make an agreement. the people receiving the money should vote for him. >> translator: my religion says to help out each other who needs assistance and nothing dangerous about this, i always have a lot of money in my pocket and not campaigning and give it to attenda attendants or security guards or who needs money, why can't i help poor people for religious reasons. >> reporter: and the elections were considered a success for political observers because of the lack of violence but there are allegations that cheating have more than doubled since the

last elections in 2009. this man says he will vote for a candidate who gives him money. >> translator: i will definitely vote for the person who gives me money and food ahead of the elections because i feel sorry for that person if he has already spent so much money. >> reporter: official election results won't be known until next month but a politician from indonesia party struggled and the party of the candidate says she thinks she lost her seat because she refused to buy votes. >> translator: i'm very sad, of course, because i worked very hard and i went to meet my constituents more often than any other candidates but my efforts to change the mind sets of the voters, to accept social aid instead of money clearly failed. >> reporter: reports of cheating have raised questions about the validity of elections and some lost faith in politicians after corruption scandals over the last five years and many fear it will only

get worse. according to indonesia law it's punishable by four years in prison and $4,000 fine and although anticorruption activists say it happens openly, election officials rarely punish those who do it. >> translator: this is dangerous for our democracy especially for our efforts to eradicate corruption and a root cause of corruption is seen during elections and money spent to get elected has to be spent back in office and that is where corruption gets worse. >> reporter: a resent study shows one-third of members of parliament attended all the house sessions and 70% of lawmakers did not go to an electrical district. figures that won't help restore people's faith in politicians or the political process. i'm with al jazeera. now we will go back to the india story where a decent education can be hard to get for people living in a stronghold.

and caught in the cross fire between the rebels and states back to malitias and many young people have been forced out of school and we report from the state from the special colleges giving some of them another chance. >> reporter: laying the foundations for a better future, these students are learning practical skills that they hope will open up a world of employment opportunities. they are taught the livelihood college established two years ago to tackle growing unemployment among young people. it's in an area where rebels have been fighting the indian government, thousands of people have been killed in the decade-long conflict. youngsters like these are approached or know someone forced to fight for the cause. 90% of college students here come from rural backgrounds. and he is on an electricians course and travels 10 kilometers to get to college from the remote tribal area.

>> translator: that is the sole breadwinner working for the electric company and spending weeks at time by himself only to help support our family. >> reporter: he cannot do the future by himself but others have different ideas about such colleges. >> the colleges are misplaced and livelihood colleges and focus on architecture but not focusing on livelihood because they are not in place or in place is something which is not so established. >> reporter: and he is a graduate seamstress and making clothes sold internationally and it's one of the college success stories. >> translator: even after school there were no employment because of the situation. now that is different. i have worked away from home but am glad to be back. >> reporter: the success of this scheme resulted in six colleges being established across the state.

it's rare in india to find a college that has done so well in such a short space of time and some youngsters were forced to pick up a gun and fight and now they have to pick up a needle, screw driver or an spade and make a choice to change the direction of their lives for the better, i'm robin with al jazeera jazeera. coming up, on this news hour, they used to trade gems for arms and in peace time they are setting themselves up in the diamond business and a report from the ivory coast. and they looked to turn the tables on madrid for a place in the champion league final. ♪ r

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u.n. security council is set to vote to lift agree embargo on diamond exports from the ivory coast and the band was put up a decade ago and fighting a rebellion across the country and we report from the diamond mind, and a former rebel-held area. >> reporter: a stone so small yet worth so much. this diamond could be his ticket out of this mine. but there is always someone watching. he decides its value. the gem can be worst 5 cents to $50 million. >> translator: find agree diamond is a question of luck, if it's small he makes a few dollars, if it's big he can make a lot more. >> reporter: here he decides on a price but won't say how much. >> translator: he pays me today, we can spend months

without finding anything and when i find a stone he pays me a little extra money and takes it. >> reporter: diamond in hand and letting buyers know and won't tell me who is on the other line and the deal is wrapped in secrecy and for decades u.n. bound the export of diamonds from the coast and they were swapped and now the civil war is over. >> translator: the diamond trade does not fuel conflict but involves the same people and war lords have arms and turned to businessmen. meet village chief and his men and some fought in rebillion and others financed it and they lead a state diamond cooperative. >> translator: since the embargo the white men stopped buying directly from us so we sell them to other people and do not always give us a fair price. >> reporter: he refuses to tell me who the other people are. a recent u.n. investigation accuses this man, general and five others of illegally

trafficking diamonds out of the country and played an active role in the civil war and now he is deputy chief of the armed forces. the u.n. security council plans to lift the diamond export band and may put smugglers out of business and boost the $31 billion global trade. ivory coast produces few but high-value gems. for these miners the diamonds are a shiny stone providing money to get back, from the central ivory coast. time for the spot -- sport and the latest. >> they have a clean sweep over the bob cats in the eastern conference playoff series and the heat showed support for the la clippers over the donald sterling controversy and the clippers and warmed up with their jerseys inside out and james had 31 points and chris

adding another 17 and miami win 109-98 and take the series 4-0. >> i can't imagine what the clippers are going through and you know obviously they had to focus on a huge game yesterday but you can tell that some focus was taken away because it happened with their own and like i was stating before there is no room in this game for an owner like that and for us as basketball players, we are all brothers. >> later on tuesday the la clippers will take on the golden state warriors in game five of the series and stands 2 a piece after clippers were beaten in game four on sunday, a game that was over shadowed by the sterling and nba will hold a press conference on tuesday to discuss developments and moon weighed in the debate and talking about magic johnson's

comments. >> sports can be used to brief culture, religious, ethnic and social divide. as magic johnson said in response to the controversy involving the los angeles clipper, we all play with different races of people when you are in sports. that's what makes sports so beautiful. unquote. >> football after 20 clubs are facing sanctions for breaking the fair play laws including big spenders, manchester cities and are bank rolled by cata and other funds from abidabi and they made offers to the clubs which could be a represent man, fine or limit on players in european competition and if a negotiation is not reached a panel will make the final decision and last week the president said he did not expect any clubs to be ban from playing in europe. and madrid will take 1-0 lead

heading in the second league of the semi final with a great home record against the 9 time european champions and recorded 9 victories and one draw and currently and during the worst run of the season losing three of the last six matches. >> translator: madrid is a fast team and very quick. they run a lot but they are really fast. if you lose a ball then you have to be set up when in defense and close down the spaces. but they try other avenues to score goals so you have to try to keep them away from your goal. this is the most important thing. >> reporter: and a welcome back to garice who recovered from illness and the most expensive player will line up for the game tuesday in germany, spanish side with the first final in 12 years. >> it's going to be a difficult game no matter what i think. this goes about not making too

much difference but we are looking forward to it and know it's going to be a difficult game and know it's a big job at hand and hopefully we can do the job and get to the final. >> in the league they are on the brink of securing champion league after a 3 lead and he is wrapped up in the scoring in the 66th minute and they suffered six consecutive losses for the first time since 1987 while there was a four point lead over everton in fourth. and to nhl playoffs and the king series and the san jose sharks will go to game 7 after they won game six on monday and williams and andy and they were comfortable, 4-1 winners and the kings become the 9th team in nhl history for the playoff game after losing the first of the series and the next game is san jose on wednesday.

the penguins take their place. in is the second round of the playoffs, 4-3 win of the columbus jackets and 4-2 series victory and will face the new york rangers or the fliers. and a playoff colorado avalanche will go to game 7 as well and two goals and two assist to give them 5-2 win on home ice. lots more sport on our website check out al jazeera.com/sports and you can see the comments by john coats describing the preparations for the 2016 olympics in rio as the worst he has ever seen. that is the sport for now and more later. >> thanks and do stay with us on al jazeera, we have another half hour bulletin, if you are watching us from the united states, we will see you again later in the day.

>> i just remember hearing my dad yell that please, god, just save our family. >> and he did. >> he did. >> state emergencies have been declared after powerful twisters tear through southern states, destroying homes and killing at least 11 people. >> the supreme court takes on the issue of cell phone privacy. police say they have a right to check phones without a warrant.