hav ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, i'm jane in doha, the top stories on al jazeera, hundreds of kidnapped school girls boko haram issues a list of demands. self rule in eastern ukraine and the message from russia seems to be one of support. dying for a better life, migrants wash up on libya shore and the government is demanding help. anti-government protesters take

a step closer to confrontation as the new prime minister says he won't step down. ♪ and we start the news hour with reports that boka haram set out conditions for the release of nearly 300 school girls the nigeria armed group kidnapped them and we go there and we are hearing about a video and hearing about demands, what do you know? >> reporter: well the news agency first has obtained the video. we have not been able to view it for ourselves yet. we understand it's a 17-minute video in which girls are shown some of the abducted girls are shown on the video in seoul, veil, praying in an undisclosed

location and a man from the north viewed the video and said in the video the leader poses with some 100 girls from those abducted and says a couple of the girls are interviewed in the video and show clear signs of being afraid and the exact words are shay are shaking like leaves. and he made a clear demand and said some of the girls converted to islam. those who have not converted he said she willing to willing to trade-in exchange for the release of some of boko haram people who are in prisoners. >> reporter: do we have any idea of what numbers he is suggesting and when these prisoners were taken and from where? >> reporter: this information is not immediately clear to us.

of course because we have not had a chance to listen to the video. it is of course understood that the nigeria army had been battling boko haram fighters in the north and several fighters have been in jail and not just the north but in the capitol of bay boo jaw and last month a group of them were not far from the presidential palace and staged a prison break and a gun battle ensued in the capitol here. so there are boko haram fighters in detention it's just the numbers are not clear and the exact demand on how this exchange will happen is not clear. what is clear, jane, is of course this is the second video th that he appears on since the kidnapping of the girls and boastful of this attack and we can only imagine the distress this would add to the already

very upset families and the very shocked international community. jane. >> as you said that is sort of a suggestion of confidence that the group has that they can issue this video, that they can issue demands despite the fact there are so many groups, international groups along with a local nigerian army looking for them. >> reporter: indeed, jane, over the past few days the nigerian army sent to divisions and talking about thousands of nigerian soldiers according to the nigerian army on the ground in a search and rescue operation trying to hunt for them. it goes to show the extent of confidence this group has because also remember the nigerian airforce is involved in this and people have seen the airforce essentially carry it out in the area and as they carry this out there were still ongoing attacks by boko haram on

the ground and the level of confidence tells you what kind of group this is even with the arrival of international experts, law enforcement experts from the united states and the united kingdom. despite the fact for the past entire year there has been a $7 million bounty put by the united states on any information leading to boko haram leader and he somehow managed to operate with such impunity and said to be an illusive man and doesn't pay attention to movements and pressure coming from the international community or his own government. >> and bolstered by the catalog of disasters by the government, by the military saying they had them this their sights or not in their sights and not giving the locals any confidence and this video we have been talking about we have managed to get it.

let's take a look. these are the girls, some of the kidnapped girls, we don't know how many there are there dressed up and we are told the leader saying some of them had converted and those who have converted they would keep and those who hadn't they would possibly tradeoff with the government. the leadership saying that what they want are prisoners in exchange for these girls, those prisoners wounded up by the government over the years and do not know what the numbers are and who they are or where they were taken from but those are the first pictures we have seen of these kidnapped girls, i should imagine exciting for the parents knowing that at least they are alive. and this is going to have quite a devastating impact on those families whose daughters have been snatched. >> reporter: indeed, jane, the families have been very distraught as every day passes

by. there is confidence in the authorities to be able to locate these girls has been slowly eroding and this is a very vast area, more than nigeria and i listed the area myself. it's very remote. it's a very bushy terrain and don't forget the fighters are local fighters from within that area. they know exactly every inch in that forest where they believed to have taken the girls. it's a very different terrain indeed and difficult for these families to understand and imagine why despite the fact this area has been under emergency law by the military and despite the fact the military has been active for so many months and years they have not been able to hunt down the group. it clearly shows the gaps within the nigerian military, areas where they are lacking specifically when it comes to intelligence gathering. there is allegations within the

nigerian government and themselves, allegations of perhaps collusion and misleading information being given to the military but all of these in the end appear to be families that is near excuses and many families saying they have given up on the official search and rescue efforts and taking matters in their own hands and trying to find the girls themselves >> that is so significant and seeing the pictures of the girls for the first time and in a month after their kidnaps and we hope this is resolved soon and thank you for that. let's move on to other news. pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine are claiming massive victory after a referendum on self rule. final results expected in to hours time and 89% voted in favor of creating a people's republic with 10% against and those saying yes to self rule was higher at 94% and separatists are planning a second round of voting, this

time is question will be whether the so called republic should join russia. russia ruled out holding international talks in ukraine and the way forward is a new round of discussions between kiev and the separatist leaders. >> translator: the official results will be announced soon. but we treat with respect the decision of the voters in donsk and we believe a practical implementation of these results will lead to talks between kiev and the eastern regional leaders and it will help to further discussions on security in western europe. >> and he is a russian member of parliament for the united russia party and also the director of the institute of political studies and joins me via skype from moscow and thank you very much for joining us. why does russia believe that the will lead to further talks on politics and on security?

>> don't call the people separatists, they are not separatists and they don't want to sway from ukraine. 65% of the ukraine people are afraid to speak russian language but nevertheless russian language is not respective as a future language for ukraine. illegal government by military force and great power in kiev suppress majority of the nation and this majority of the nation uprising and they try to create a better ukraine. and they want iraq to be respected through their official status of russian language. >> how do you know they don't want to break away from ukraine threatening to hold a second referendum asking just that question, if they do want to

leave ukraine and join russia, what if they say yes? >> probably they will say, yes, because they ask the government already three months to respect their rights and it's easy and they want rights to select their own governors and have official status of their language. but kiev just only gives them answer by force and sending army to kill this civilian people. >> let me excuse me for interrupting and why does russia believe this will lead to further talks on security and politics, does russia see what is happening as legitimate? >> absolutely. these people, look, they could see their lives of 100 meters for people who come to the

polling station. and for the referendum, he is 75% and it's for independence for dansk republic and inside ukraine if, ukraine respects rights is 95% and means more than the people who live in the region want their rights to be respected. this is the political wheel of the people and kiev will deny this of ukraine. >> and good to talk to you, thank you. time to go to our team on the ground. in a moment we will go to dansk but we will go to kim first and we have international observers watching how it's going and watching how the referendum

played out, what has their response been to this along with the government there? >> well, i just say there were no international observers at the polling station. >> talking about kiev. >> the government in kiev is trying to make. sorry, yes, there are international observers here on the ground and this is due to come to kiev for more talks here today and obviously they are joining in condemnation and what is really important here is we heard there are cries that people in the east should be listened to and the government in kiev saying this is not the case and this morning saying the turn out was very low and in donsk and the population and 24% of people turned down and we have the election commission coming out today saying this is illegal, this is i'll --

illegitimate and this is under the constitutional that is not allowed and they would be open to dialog in the east but not who are armed and not with blood on their hands as they say but look to roundtable political talks at some point in the future to deescalate this crisis. one more thing i would add is eu president is coming to kiev today to speak to interim prime minister to try to find a way to deescalate this crisis and i think this is happening with the shadow of the presidential elections i with are due to take place in less than two weeks. >> let's leave it there, kim, and go to paul live and this is a totally different atmosphere in response to what happened. what are they going to do with their victory now? >> well, that is the big question and it's been the question that has been bouncing around since last night when the polling stations closed and

starting to get indications of what the answer is and the answer is a slide toward russia. what we heard from the chem lynn -- kremlin saying for implementation as quickly as possible of the vote. the question posed in the vote is ambiguous and referred to self rule. now what exactly does that mean? we heard two things today. first of all from the self declared mayor from slovonsk who said we are russians and speak russians and never part of ukraine and he is trying to take his city. here in donsk we had the self declared chairman of the unilaterally created donsk people's committee and said today this is dennis and said today as follows if the transition period lasts a long time it will reflect badly on the people of the region, we are russians, we are slovs and i think in the near future there will be some kind of union here.

you can see where the separatist leaders are trying to take this whole region and it's further to the east and not towards kiev. >> paul brennan, thank you, much more to come on the news hour including the final balance in the world's biggest vote, the last phase in india's general elections. plus the bionic arm that catches balls like a human but may catch space debris. and in sport nervous moments for football fans as they are pushed to final day with at hshgathlet madrid in the hunt. dozens of bosgraafs off of tripoli and they believe they are migrants who sank two days

ago and many are still missing and we have this report from tripoli and a warning that some viewers may find the pictures disturbing. >> reporter: attempt to reach europe and another tragedy followed by the bodies of dozens of immigrants retrieved from the open sea and police patrol, searching for more bodies. the final death toll is unclear. the navy says the incident happened on friday when a boat carrying 130 illegal immigrants from different african countries sank east of tripoli and says 52 people were rescued then and 74 missing and the spokesman insists only 20 bodies were found. health officials say they need help. >> translator: we had 48 dead bodies in vans and no hospital to receive them. i call upon ministry of help to find a morgue and mercy of justice to allow us to bury the

bodies and it's causing pollution and disease. >> reporter: help from the eu to curb the flow of illegal immigrants, the country is in chaos after the fall of gaddafi's regime and the government is struggling to reign in well armed powerful malitia and protecting the vast border it shares with six countries and the coastline of more than 1700 kilometers. this country is a transit point for migrants, some will be detained and others set free. the government says it is not only libya's problem and the european union needs to do more. >> reporting from tripoli. libya has become a prime launch pad for 10s of thousands of migrants to help them get to europe unless the eu wants to combat the problem and joining me from florence, italy and

thank you for joining us and what do you make of the threat by libya? >> well, first of all, i think we should not combat it. we should find the resistance of the problem who are mixed migration flows with irregular occurs and migrating alongside genuine asylum seekers and many people come from somalia and ethiopia where they are fleeing conflict, political violence and these people are refugees and not only people are trying to achieve migration law. combatting the movement would not be all. we have to respond by offering new possibilities for asylum

seeker to apply from the country where they are without having to cross this all. >> excuse me for interripting there should be better places in libya to deal with these people, to sort out who has a legitimate case or not? >> well, of course. you have to have a possibility to do the stages of examination of the process so that would be a good response to enable libya to do the job. >> it seems like, excuse me, it seems like libya has run out of patience, if they do go ahead with this, what sort of impact will it have on europe? >> i'm very sorry about this but europe is not responsible for this. the country that is responsible for this are the country of the people who are with regimes and persecuting the population and they are responsible for the

situation. not at all europe. europe population. >> sure but the reality is that europe is feeling the impact here as is libya and europe, those parts of europe effected cannot deal with the strain of extra people and the people who are dying let's not forget every single day how many people die. >> many people are dying not only trying to cross the sea but crossing the desert between their country of the regime and on shore. and what italy did is a new operation for rescuing boats that are drifting up the mediterranean and it started a few months ago and rescued 25,000 people. so this is already quite a good job that was done by italy to rescue the people. rescuing the people is not the only solution. you have of course have to have

a response at the point of origin of the problem and the point of origin is in the congo and somolia, et cetera and people in the countries what do they do when they have to leave the country? they go to the next door which is not a safe haven and go to not a safe country and what can they do? the only response we can find is opening what we call more humanitarian visas in the emba is a -- embassy. >> thank you for your time. for the third day in a row the yemen are fighting at the palace and heavy gunfire in the capitol and a drone killed suspected al-qaeda fighters in the province and thought to be the first time government forces used drones in their current

offensive against al-qaeda. joining me from the yemen capitol and let's start with the on going fighting in the capitol and what is the status of that right now? >> well, the sources tell us that the open warning shots when the suspected vehicle near the presidential palace and it's a very tense atmosphere in the capitol creating loads of suspicion among security forces and no reports of casualty and why they were very suspicious because it was the same area that was attacked twice on friday and also on sunday. >> any link to the drone strike and why do you think that the government is relying on drones right now? >> well, it shows that you have here two parallel fights, one launch carried out by the yemen

government and one by the americans and americans are looking at high targets like top commanders of al-qaeda and they are looking for three people in the arab peninsula and two others from the maker of al-qaeda and sources tell us the drone attack targeted an off-road vehicle in the province killing five people but we don't know if the people were affiliated with al-qaeda. the drone attack came hours after security forces say they have strong evidence al-qaeda escaped from the area and took refuge and why there? because they are areas where they have some sort of support by tribesmen and shows at the same time for the yemen government to win a decisive war

against al-qaeda it has to send thousands of additional troops across the country. >> and we are reporting from sanna. in thailand the acting prime minister has ignored an anti-government protest ultimatum for him to leave his post and that deadline passed an hour ago but he said no one else will be appointed. anti-government protesters moved by parliament to pressure the caretaker cabinet to step down and they will share a space with pro-government supporters and the senate is calling the political impasse the country's biggest political crisis in years. let's go live to scott in bangkok. scott, why is the anti-government protest leader moving his headquarters to where you are? >> well, last week was viewed as a bit of a victory because the

interim priep prime minister was removed from office and that was not what they wanted as an end game but part of the process to remove any of the family involvement in the government and they are mooning from a park in bangkok to a government house. he and his leaders and followers i should say are in front of parliament right now because there is a special senate meeting going on to decide just how the government and how this country will move forward as this political crisis really doesn't seem to have any kind of resolution any time soon. >> you wonder what the options are because the deadline for the interim prime minister to step down has already passed. >> absolutely, yeah, and these deadlines sat among the leader of this anti-government protest movement. there have been many deadlines and many movements past the deadlines without being fulfilled.

what we are looking at today the speaker of the senate said they cannot really adhere to deadlines moving forward because they need to move forward with the rule of law. they need to go legally and decide what legally can be done in these next steps as well as making sure that the constitutional is followed. they are saying they cannot adhere to a deadline. how they will respond to that is left to be determined but we have seen him step back his rhetoric from over the weekend when we set the deadline saying it needs to happen or we will take matters in our own hands and taking matters in their own hands is they are out in front of a government house and saying they will occupy one of the offices in that building. >> we will keep an eye on that scott and thank you and let's get the weather with richard and china, what is happening there. >> china, another day, another downpour and looking very wet across the region. running the sequence you can see

hong kong buried under a massive cloud and with the cloud we had an awful lot of rainfall in the last 24 hours, 150 millimeters of rain and more impressive is lightning strikes and 13,000 in an hour period on sunday. you can read more on the website al jazeera/weather and check out the pictures on our live weather blog and 193 millimeters of rain in 24 hours and certainly the rainfall is stacking up in may and you normally look to get 240 in the entire month but here we are, 378 millimeters in the space of four days. and this really is the result. we had some awful conditions, transport has been disrupted, road and rail, flights delayed as well and looks as well over the next couple of days we will see further heavy rain impacting southeast china, jane. >> thank you for that richard, still to come on the news hour

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♪ reminder of the top stories this hour, nigerian armed group boko haram set up conditions for their release of more than 200 school girls and released a

17-minute video showing some of the girls in an undisclosed location and they say they are ready to exchange the girls for prisoners. pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine are claiming victory on referendum of self rule, final results expectd this a few hours and russia says there should be talk between kiev and the separatist leaders. dozens of bodies have been recovered off the coast of libya capital on drown when their boat sank and dozens more are still missing. voting started in the india five-week general election and three states are casting votes and the leader of the opposition is contesting a seat in the battleground and he remains the election frontrunner but there are serious competition of the leader of the anticorruption

common man party. the ruling congress party has been battling a series of corruption allegations and is likely to suffer big losses. and he is covering the indian elections for us and is live in new deli and how is this final phase now playing out and who is looking strong? >> well, to some extent jane they look strong in one form or another but what we have seen in weeks is shuffling across the area and across 29 states and 7 territory force the main party leaders to cover. what you are looking at now are the final three states voting in that particular area. and for all the focus really has been here and people are looking to see how gandhi and how they

behave and pitch the parties to form the next government and this is in the mix and really has been a hot bed of political intrigue because what they are trying to do is away from their safe ground of deli say to the indian public we are here, outside of our safe zones and we believe we have a mandate for the whole country. if you vote for us and we succeed we can tell the country we are the ones that can help india move forward. so therefore he is a very important seat for these political leaders but there are two hours of voting left and we have five weeks and up to 814 million people go to the polls, an extra 100 million new voters on that electoral register and voter turn out has been very high, jane, and we are expecting the votes and results to be counted on friday with results hopefully later on friday

evening but a very exciting contest at the moment and we will just have to wait and see. >> i was going to say what the country will look for next because it has been a long time and i imagine everyone suffering from some form of election fatigue. >> yes, five weeks is a very long time in politics here in india and it has been said the public too are incredibly tired of what has gone on because besides them wanting to hear the politicians talk about policy issues and health, security, employment, inflation, what we have seen over certainly the last three weeks is a storm of personal abuse and the issues being put to one side, now, how that resonates in the voting and the public will perhaps be known after the vote but you do get a sense that people are very tired of the personal attacks and want to hear about policy decisions and want to hear about how the next government or the next set of politicians will deal with

corruption, it has been a major issue in this election campaign on the sidelines of the personal abuse and so therefore the voters are very focused on what they want and certainly as our team and myself have been around the country gauging opinion and what you hear despite the issues that they have we want the sources and now. >> let's leave indian elections and go to the top story now, the video that is released of the captured school girls in nigeria by boko haram and we will go to our correspondent live in abuja and remind us what is out there and if you heard anything more about this. >> reporter: we understand that in the 17-minute video he speaks in arabic and house and surrounded by 100 girls, abducted girls, they are shown in full hijab from ted to toe

and praying in undisclosed location and on the video visibly scared and shaken and on the video they report and say that some of the girls have converted to islam and those who have not converted he is willing to trade them with authorities in exchange of boko haram prisoners held in nigeria prisons, jane. >> has there been any official response yet? >> not quite. we have seen also out of the crisis nigerian authorities have not exactly been curriculum to responding to any of the developments. in fact, it took several days, weeks for president good luck jonathan to address the kidnapping in the first place, the nigerian military is not giving running conversation

about the video released by boko haram and we are not expecting a swift response yet but since there has been a special demand at this time for a prisoners' exchange perhaps we could be seeing a response in the coming hours and the question is who are the prisoners that they are referring to? it's one of the issues that has been quite unknown since the boko haram insurge and they are talking about boko haram fighters and allegations the military engaged in killings and it's not exactly like we have seen several hearings and trials for the past years for fighters except one trial in 2011 and a big question mark of exactly how a prisoner exchange would happen and whether the government would be willing to engage in that in the first place, jane.

>> waiting to get some sort of response to the video from the government and let's talk about this more with lydia and she is an africa analyst and joins us now from lill and thank you for joining us and what do you think of the video being released and the demands? >> feeling the pressure of international response coming out and there is no choice now but try to get them back. in addition the government will probably get a chance to find more about the other girls. >> so you're saying the government will accept a deal with boko haram to release some of the prisoners they are calling to find out where the other girls are? >> yes. they were saying which prisoners will be released depends on the

policy. so the negotiations will be on members. >> who do you think the prisoners are that boko haram is referring to? >> i think high ranking boko haram or fighters who were arrested by authorities are in the middle of it. >> lydia, thank you for talking to us more about this quite extraordinary story and video of those girls. a group of mexican women have been helping central american migrants make their way to the u.s. by railroad and we have more from vera cruz. >> reporter: this group of women sees migrants riding the train that carries them north to the u.s. border. their leader has been doing this for almost 20 years. waiting for the train.

it's known as the beast and carries migrants from central america through mexico. back at the shelter she asks new arrivals why they left home. >> translator: i left because there is no work there. we can't live there anymore because of the crime. my children could not go to school. one of my sons has already been killed. >> reporter: that's why he brought his youngest son on this journey. like countless mothers before her dora left her children, six of them, back in guatemala. >> translator: my children were asking me for things i couldn't buy, all i could do was give them my heart. >> reporter: this soothes the pain in the only way she knows how, by offering them a home-cooked meal. >> translator: it doesn't matter where they are from. all we know is they are hungry. they need to eat. leaving their family is not

easy. >> reporter: norma is getting support from those in power. [applause] the president recently awarded the country human rights award for helping migrants. >> translator: they are easy pray for those who abuse them, when they don't pay they get thrown off the train and get mutilated and sometimes die that way. >> reporter: it's been another long day of preparation, now they only have a few moments to pack the food and then toss it to hungry migrants riding the rails. when a full train finally comes the work is fast and dangerous. migrants on board feel a rush of excitement. this day like every other day they have come out to the tracks to give food to hundreds of migrants making their way north to the u.s. border but lots of people are not getting on the train because it's so dangerous

and some are walking along the highway. some are walking in the train's wake. the father and son left honduras three months ago and saw migrants tossed off and walking the rails ever since and hope to reach the u.s. some day. adam with al jazeera vera cruz, mexico. the clippers and a come back against the thunder and the latest action from nba playoffs coming up. ♪

researchers in switzerland come up with what may be the good arm, the robot technology could be applied to a host of application both on earth and in space. technology reporter terry explains. >> reporter: in less than 500ths of a second this robot arm scans, calculates and moves to catch a variety of objects and the researchers fanly taught the arm how to move and coupled it with an advanced system of movement, monitoring and prediction. >> if you predict wrong or do not know in an object will come to you, no matter how perfect your robot is you will reach the wrong object so the most important part of the research was to predict how the object will fly through the air in the future and where it will land in the workspace of the robot. >> mission abort. >> take the technology into

space and you have the potential to avoid the kind of space junk disaster which appeared in last year's film gravity and thousands of objects currently orbit the planet and communication and astronauts at risk. the ability to snatch some junk from orbit could help in cleanup efforts. emotion prediction technology also has applications down on earth. the development of driverless cars like this from google rely on just that, to avoid collisions. >> of course the controller can be used for many different applications, typically catching people that are in danger of falling, catching object that can fall on to people, that also applies for a controller for robots and react rapidly to incoming traffic and this is for reacting or catching or avoiding

things. >> reporter: what is the catch? not much it seems. the technique still needs some fine tuning but the researchers say we should expect to see it as part of the next generation of responsive technology. i'm with al jazeera. >> joining me on skype in switzerland is mr. kim and the dr. fellow with an algorithm and robot territory and this is exciting and what do you make of this robotic arm? >> the goal of the project was to develop a technology to transfer from humans and back and forth. >> i'm so sorry i'm going to have to stop you there, the line is really bad and we would have

love to have got your thoughts and experience on that but we have to let you go and thank you for talking to us. let's get to sport then. >> thank you at least 15 people have been killed and dozens more seriously injured at a football match in the democratic republic of congo and followed a stampede in a stadium toward the end of the game between asb club and you are looking at some injured there and clashes between rival fans and police put tear gas in and comes weeks after 21 people were killed at a stampede at a music festival. and the league title race will go down to the final day and atletico goes to barcelona next sunday and the winner of the game will be crowned champions but madrid is out of the running and we talk about the high drama. >> nothing short of victory

would be enough to keep them in the title race and no lapse for concentration and the move would be costly. and he struggled to create chances and they subtracted the off side flag and looked defenseless as well and charles was second of the game. a 2-0 loss and the race was down to two. it would do nothing to lesson the pressure on atletico madrid on the verge of their first title since 1996. the day two was an scrappy goal and they wanted to look away in a share of points in the winners. barcelona has a chance to go to the top by just a point and held

to a draw for a second straight week as their match finished goalless. i'm with al jazeera. >> what is an amazing day and it will go down to the final round of matches and a show down between barsa and atletico madrid and they lead by three points and a draw will give them their first title since 1996 but if barsa wins they will retain their trophy because of a better head to head record and manchester city will have the trophy later on monday and after 2-0 league on the final day of the english season and crowned champions and these were the scenes at the stadium as a team of fans celebrated their second apl title in three seasons and follows the cup tile in march and gives them more trophies.

and the champions manistee is two points ahead of liverpool and amazing campaign for the reds and they were 7th last seen on and moving to basketball, nba the indiana pacers beat the washington wizards 95-92 for a 3-1 lead in the semi final series and the clippers had an amazing come back from thunder to level the series at two a piece and clippers are 2-1 in the series and got off to a bad start here and westbrook giving oklahoma 17-3 lead in the first quarter and kevin durant scored for the thunder but managed to end up on the losing side. clippers are taking the lead with 83 seconds left in the game. and the thunder did have a chance to snatch it at the very

end but clippers won 101-99. >> and it's one of the best wins yet and we got off to a very slow start and even there in the fourth quarter we could have relaxed and gave in at any point but i think we just willed this one. it was a good time and found a way >> in the defending stanley cup and blackhawks have 3-2 lead in the western semi final after winning gave five and emotional day for new york rankers as they thought the series with the penguins and game 7 on mother's day three days after his mother's death and lewis and rangers won't 3-1 and they will be on pittsburgh on tuesday and hamilton has not stopped the first f-1 race in spain and leads this year's drivers standings by three points and

over taking the teammates and sarah reports. >> starting from poll position lewis hamilton had explosive start leading the teammates into turn one. the pair in a league of their own in the early stages lapping at least a second faster than the rest of the field. and the driver passed in the war and crashing his car numerous times. recovering from failure in qualifying world champion there were lap times to remain in the mix. and all eyes on the hamilton rosberg which showed no signs of easing and hamilton was in front and rossberg threw everything to close 6th of a second on the final lap but as the checkered flag came down it was hamilton

who was faster. rossberg second. >> i was able to keep from behind. >> reporter: hamilton leads the drivers standard by three points and getting the fourth consecutive victory, sarah with al jazeera. >> and she is back from a shaky start to win the first open title and beat hamet on sunday and the 8 seed rumbles in the opening set and only third just once. and she manages to win the second set before really pulling away in the final set for 1-6-6-2-6-3 and she has 11 matches. and number one nadal clinched the masters and forced to the draw 2-6-6-4-3-love in the final

and goes to the masters before moving to paris. germany martin has ended a two-year title drought after winning the players championship in florida. he was tied with home favorite jord jordan spietz and the runner up in april couldn't keep his bogie-free tournament and got a 74 and tied for fourth. instead his coleader and former world number one hit enough to secure a one-shot victory and jim was second and win it a check for $1.8 million! we work so hard and we went through up and down the last two years and as an athlete you always want it now and you always want success now but in golf you just cannot force it and if you win one of those

tournaments it's a relief you have done well. >> that is sport and we will have more later. >> we will still here with the world cup kickoff weeks agree i away and people are channelling through a four-year ritual, the collection of world cup football stickers and we report on the football madness from buenes ares. >> groups are hudingoutside of schools with stickers and say why they can't do that with homework and it's also infectious and dragging in the whole family. >> translator: i do it for my grandson. it's a passion for my grandson and that reason i come with him as his grandmother. >> reporter: in england costa

rica, spain. >> translator: if collectors do not get the stickers they are after during the week they come to the park on sunday rain or shine to what is a trading floor as tough as wall street and here two al jazeera defenders be worth this. for many this is a right of passage, a truly international experience repeated in countries across the world, not just in the 32 nations taking part in the world's cup. by the way if anyone out there has a spare rooney sticker i have the ivory coast and iran to spare. it's a tradition going back to the mexico world's cup in 1970 laced with nastalgia and multi million industry and i and my sons remember with joy completing the 2006 album when we landed that elusive defender.

in argentina football and stickers are part of life. >> translator: it's great for society and these difficult times we are living through with all the security where parents fear to leave the house with their kids this is a perfect meeting place, perfect. >> reporter: whoever said collecting football stickers was a hobby for 11-year-old boys, by the time theor cup does kickoff on june the 12, they have 639 stickers in place and they will be experts. and meetings will fill in the name of the eventual winners. and with al jazeera. >> and this end the news hour but we have another bulletin coming up, in a few minutes with steven and he will tell you more about the video released by boko haram of the girls and do stay

with us and thanks for watching.

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