♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, i'm jane in doha, the top stories on al jazeera, thailand government calls on the army to act according to the principals of 2 constitution as marshal law is declared. web war, beijing summoned the u.s. ambassador after five military offices are charged with cyber theft. a country on the edge, military chiefs turn against the government as several countries close their embassys. and it's election day in malowi

and we will look at who is going to be the country's next president. ♪ the government says the army must act according to the principals of the constitution and democracy and follows a declaration of marshal law, the army insists it's not trying to seize power and only seeking to restore order after months of mass street protests and we report from bangkok. >> reporter: this is what marshal law looks like. tanks are back on the streets in bangkok. soldiers making themselves very visible in strategic areas. the head of the military says the armed forces are now in control of all security in the country but this is not a coup. >> translator: to maintain peace an order and bring back peace into all groups and all sides as soon as possible i use

law section two and four on marshal law 2457 to announce marshal law all over thailand. i asked all sides and groups to stop my movement in order to stop the sustainable solution as soon as possible. >> reporter: this military take over is the latest development in the slow burning political crisis that hasn't gu -- has, engulfed thailand since 2006 and it brought areas of the capitol at a stand still in recent months and 25 killed and 800 injured in related violence. finally last wednesday the caretaker prime minister was forced out of office when the judge said she acted illegally from firing an official from his post. since then anti-government demonstrations escalated. the government refused to quit because it said it would be

unconstitutional. it wasn't consulted before the generals declared marshal law and said to be considering its next move. the men in uniform say they want to stop the violence. so far they have shut down all tv stations and have closed in on mass demonstrations being held by both political sides. thailand has been in this position many times before. there have been 18 successful or attempted coups since 1932. veronica with al jazeera, bangkok. >> reporter: international community keeping a watchful eye on even hands in thailand and they expect them to honor words that it's not going over with power and they want to act in self-restraint and no violence and they are calling for reconciliation and unity in thailand and scott has more from the streets of the capitol to

see how people are reacting to the new political reality. >> this is what the streets of bangkok look like under marshal law and in the center part of the city there is light military presence and they are peppered through the center parts on street corners and also hearing on the outskirts of the city and coming from the north, east and west there are military checkpoints checking people coming into the middle part of the city. now, after this announcement was made in the arearly morning hours of tuesday people woke up to thailand that it was under marshal law but many of the citizens and people in bangkok are going about in their daily lives but what is not known is how long it will be a light military presence and if more soldiers need to be called in. >> china summoned the ambassador in beijing urging him to drop charges against five chinese military offices accused of hacking into american companies to steal trade secrets and it's the first time foreign

government workers have been charged with cyber crime in the u.s. but the u.s. attorney general eric holder says the spying giving china an unfair advantage in the global market. >> this is what we denounce and as president obama has said on numerous occasions we do not collect intelligence to provide a competitive advantage to united states companies or to the united states commercial sector. our economic security and our ability to compete fairly in the global marketplace are directly linked to our national security. >> china called the charges hypocritel and saying the white house is doing the same thing according to documents leaked by the former national security worker edward snowden. the whistleblower said his former employers targeted computers belonging to china officials and businesses and said the u.s. invaded hawaii, one of china's most successful

internet companies and beijing suspended the working group with the u.s. which aimed to tackle spying. let's get more front al jazeera's china correspondent who is in shanghai where leaders are meeting at a regional security form. how are world leaders reacting there to these charges? >> reporter: well, i can certainly tell you how china is reacting because in the last few minutes, jane, a foreign ministry spokesman is giving a briefing to foreign journalists and aaccused the u.s. of making up facts and violating basic standards of international relations, in other words, she accused the united states of lying so china cheerily feels angry and humiliated but we have not seen the f.b.i. wanted poster showing the faces of those five soldiers who have been accused of being involved

in cyber theft. china has retaliated. it has withdrawn its cooperation to a body that china and the united states set up to investigate the problem of cyber theft. but clearly china is reacting to this in a very, very hostile way but domestically it's not playing particularly big at all. >> is this likely to overshadow the summit in any way? what is on the agenda there? >> reporter: well, interestingly this conference which is all about building confidence in asia, ironic giving this is happening in the south china sea right now is going to be discussing the very issue of cyber security. but from the perspective of countries you say they have been the victims of cyber attacks by the united states. they are citing edward snowden the national security advisor and whistleblower saying he collected evidence which proves the united states has been

hacking the computers of chinese companies. so he says she says. this is a war of words that shows no shine of damping down at the moment. what we are seeing at this conference though are further signs of russia and china coming closer together. and putin is here, the russian president. before he came here he said he considering the chinese president to be a trusted friend and said relations between china and russia were stronger now than they ever have been and mr. putin is hoping to secure a major gas deal here which will be worth billions to russia and of course russia needs that money because of the sanctions that have been applied to russia because of its annexation of crimea and also the dealings over ukraine and we see a spirit of cooperation between china and russia just as relations between beijing and washington are at

the state of heightened tension. >> thank you for the update from shanghai. the white house says cia will not have a cover for spying operations and follows a black lash over the u.s. spy agency's use of immobilization program in pakistan, intelligence in the search for bin-baden and thousands have been killed by the taliban in recent years and rates of polio have risen. they accused the government of another poison gas attack in central hama and shows people suffocating and opposition fighters say forces have used chlorine gas in a number of assaults on the town in recent months. in northern aleppo 26 have been killed by government shelling and shows the aftermath of the

attack in the rebel held town. 20 people killed in fighting between rebels and soldiers north of the capitol and happened in the stronghold of fighters and we have more from the capitol sanna. >> reporter: skirmishes started yesterday and they are trying to implement a radical and they were accused of being one of the biggest threats in the country and accused iran of providing potential military assistance to the houses. the spokesperson say the fight is not against the government and not against a military commander accused of having ties with radical sunni groups in the area. this attack, this escalation

comes against the back drop of a military offense sif in the south of the country against al-qaeda fighter and just shows the volatile situation in the country and the problems the government faces and this includes the rebellion in the north of the country. >> reporter: saudi arabia and algeria have closed embassys in tripoli and italy is ready to evacuate u.s. citizens and embassy staff. there are fears the country could slide into a civil war with libya and the latest senior officer to switch sides against the government and we report from tripoli. >> reporter: dramatic twist this libya as the commander of special forces switched sides, speaking in benghazi he says he

is joining forces with retired general. >> translator: the libya special forces declared because of the emergence of terrorist groups kidnapping and destabilizing our security we will stand with the will of the people and join the battle of dignity under the leadership of the national army. >> the self declared libyan national army declared open war on what is called extremist and terrorists. and they accused the general national congress of supporting extreme groups. a powerful groups in benghazi accused the general of staging an attempted coup and they will fight against him. >> translator: they have been trying to destabilize the country for a while. the latest coup and the general that took place in benghazi, we condemn the killings and

bombings that took place and support the military operations command and condemn the attack on partment by gadhafi loyalists. >> reporter: forces from the malitia attacked the country's parliament and said they were acting on the general's orders. >> translator: terrorism exists in our country and seeks to spread under the name of islam and the islam religion but islam doesn't have anything to do with them and we are all muslims. >> reporter: the caretaker government which is weak and struggling to reign in powerful malaysia has proposed an initiative to end the worsening crisis. it has called on the general national congress to elect a new prime minister, if it fails to do so then the current caretaker government would remain until new elections are held on august 15. the initiative also calls on the gnc to take a break until a new body is elected.

i'm with al jazeera, tripoli. still to come, a place where boko-haram was born and the biggest security threat. i'm phil at the caan festival with no shortage of female actors this year but where are the female directors and that is a sore subject here and find out why later in the program. >> reporter: the san antonio spurs laid a mark to be crowned the best team in the nba's western conference. ♪ in russia a freight train collided with a passenger train near moscow and four are dead and 15 injured. russian rail way source blamed a fault on a freight train track for the collision. 10,000 people forced to leave their homes since the start of

the crisis in ukraine and the u.n. refugee agencies say the tata are the hardest hit and displacement has been rising gradually since the march referendum in crimea. and voting is underway in the general election and the opening of some polling stations was delayed and there are frustrations in some areas where there are shortages of ink and papers and we are live from the largest city and how is it playing out there? a few complaints along the way. >> reporter: there have been more than a few complaints. they just gave a news conference and basically apologized to voters for the delay saying there have been a lot of logistical problems and basically at 6:00 a.m. local time but 9:20 a.m. only 67 out of 386 polling stations had opened. the usual problems were lack of

ink, no boxes and no ballot papers there and other material had not arrived and people were frustrated. this polling station where we twra actually saw a little frustration but there is one part we have been told there are reports the military had been cents there and rocks the thrown at people and ties being burned on the road and this is not too far from this particular polling station. also some polling stations still have not opened and it's after midday here and some polling stations have not opened in malowi and there are problems that it's taking too long and if people will be able to vote. >> at this stage can you tell who is looking strong? >> reporter: if you ask people on the ground they say the issue of a big financial scandal and millions of dollars were missing allegedly stolen by officials could play a part in this but

it's looking more at opposition candidates and quite strong contende contenders and two opposition candidates and strong contenders and the names were not on some ballot papers and supporters were angry about it and worried about vote rigging and fraud and the words are thrown around at the polling station so a lot of concern about that. remember this election is not just about corruption, it's also people voting on tribal and ethnic and regional lines as well and all frontrunners have support in parts of the country. it won't be an easy race for the president if she wants to retain her job as president of malowi. >> thank you for that. india is preparing to inaugust rate the new government after the hindu bjp won a landslide victory on friday and travels to the northern states to find out how minority groups there feel

about the result. >> reporter: at first glance he is like any other farmer in this area and harvests enough grain from the land he owns to feed his family and live well but it's his vote that sets him apart from other muslims in this village. >> translator: my family and i believe that bjp is a nationalist party and when they progress everyone will benefit from it and it's impossible that any one is left behind when the country does better economically. >> reporter: in the nearby relief camps set up for the victims of last year's riots he cannot comprehend the optimism. he and his family fled the village in august when violence broke out between hindu and muslims and have been here ever since. when i first met him on the way to a voting center in april he was up beat. today he is a disappointed and

worried man. >> translator: no one knows what the new government will do. people are valid and don't know what happened and we are scared. where will we go? where will we work? >> reporter: he understands this sentiment but wants to find a way forward. since last year's unrest, faith communities have been starkly divided and social unity is a two-way street regardless of which party is in government. >> translator: now that the bjp led government is here what are they going to do for our community? we need progress, education, economic growth, jobs and technical training, that's the big question. they will have to pay attention to us and this will benefit them as well since the suspicion and doubt with the way we see them will decrease. >> reporter: the area seems calm and quiet but down below

among the many different voices there is still serious concerns about the future under a new leadership. and the government will need to find ways to address the concerns of minority communities. it will also need to actively rebuild commutel relationships if it's to have any chance of leading the modern progressive india that it promised to voters, i'm with al jazeera. results from iraq's election suggests the prime minister will win a third term in office. the election commission announced preliminary results from the april vote. the first since the withdraw of u.s. troops this 2011. and the state of law coalition secured 93 streets in parliament but fell short of a majority. more than 9,000 candidates and more than 270 political entities contested the elections. egypt will head to the polls in a week to elect a new president

with only two candidates in the running they say the campaign is a formality to lend legitimacy by the coup. >> reporter: the clear favorite to win the presidential election says his campaign will be unconventional. and sisi is relying on the people and no shortage of people to help with the candidacy. >> translator: they are in support and doesn't send posters or anything and the support comes from the people and you see people bringing t-shirts for example and people are the ones that act for the elections. >> reporter: with a victory in the election seemingly guaranteed the campaign is less charged than in countries where the outcome is not so

predictable and he limited himself to television interviews rather than big rallies. but there is some competition. and he is the only other candidate, from the left of egyptian politics he hasn't thuz asthuz -- has, entuesda tutuesda tutut this is the holy war and i'm running in the election hoping that god makes us vicotrious but the hard battle is that i beat poverty. >> reporter: critics of last year's military coup gives legitimacy to an event that people see as a theatre but both candidates are focusing on the

economy, understandable as morsi and mubarak tackle homeless and joblessness. al jazeera demanding the release of journalists who have been in prison in egypt for 143 days. the trial of greste and mohamed and fahmy are due in court in two days and falsely accused of conspiring with the muslim brotherhood and al jazeera rejects charges against them. the fourth detained al jazeera journalist says he will continue to refuse food and he is held without trial since last august and he has been on a hunger strike for nearly four months. in a resent letter he confirmed he is in solitary confinement where attempts have been made to force feed them. levies around a main river broke. a surge of water about two

meters high is heading toward the town. at least 39 people have been killed across the balkin region because of severe flooding and we have more weather with stef and what happened in europe and it was good but it changed. >> it has been glorious but it has been changed now. looking at the charts yesterday the temperatures were 26 there in london. that is certainly nice and toasty and a little bit higher than we saw in paris or in madrid. you can also see that rather distinctive line of cloud and that is the leading edge of the far more unsettled weather that over the past 12 hours it has been rolling across us and instead of scenes like this with lots of people outside enjoying the sunshine things are going down hill and this is across france and in the uk and brought with it not only wet and windy

weather but thunder and lightning as well. these pictures were taken from the skies. and we will see things stay unsettled there through the next few days and there is cloud there and complete change from yesterday where the skies are blue and lots of cloud around and outbreaks of rain and certainly isn't feeling as warm. london has a maximum temperature and topping out about 19 degrees. south in madrid we will be up to 20 degrees today but they will get even lower as we head into wednesday. this time a maximum will only be 17. quite different out towards the east. here it's hot and moscow is 29, jane. >> reporter: thank you, stef, the nigerian group boko-haram had notoriety after kidnapping 270 school girls last month but has been active 12 years and killed thousands in that time and we traveled to northern nigeria where the group was

formed. >> reporter: it was here in the capitol of borno state that it began, as long ago as 2001 a clerk named ysis started talking about islam and followed by people committed to the teachings of the prophet and holy war and local people started calling them boko-haram and means western education is sinful. >> produced the back tab of proactive government. so they tied the condition of the people to education. >> reporter: by 2009 the rebellion developed into all out confrontation with the state sparked by incident and days of fighting by police and boko-haran left hundreds killed including the leader who was said to be executed and the mosque that was to be here was

torn down and not just the mosque was destroyed other property belonging to boko-haram members were demolished and handed to other people and the idea is if you wipe out their physical presence they will be forgotten and instead the group returned for vengeance and attacked not spared christians or muskegon lils, old or young and studied in the college in mid degree and said to have been an intelligent student and people who knew him are now afraid to be associated with him and a classmate and neighbor asked to conceal his identity. >> translator: when teachers were away he would take the lead but generally he was an introvert and tempermental. >> reporter: they said a negotiated settlement would have been possible at that time and says the group made these

demands. the rest and prosecution of those who killed their leaders, compensation for the families of dead boko-haram fighters and rebuilding schools and mosques and the government did not take the talk seriously because they were not led by the leader himself. today civilian fighters engaged in battling boko-haram say the group is well armed and the resent use of suicide bombers need help from more sophisticated groups they say. >> using ipg and ak-47 and using aircraft. >> reporter: boko-haram is made up of multiple cells and the best bet in fighting back is strong intelligence work that would chip away from the cells from within. i'm with al jazeera, northern nigeria. still to come, the leaked video with a potential to change the course of columbia's

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top stories on al jazeera, thailand's army chief says marshal law was declared to restore nationwide and called on

the country's political parties to talk to resolve the crisis and led to months of unrest. voting underway in the general election and the opening of polling stations is delayed and there is frustration in some areas where there are shortages of ink and ballot papers. china summoned beijing over charges laid against five china officers and accused of hacking into american computers to steal trade secrets. so what exactly is industrial espionage, companies and countries have been keen to get their hands on no how and technology to give them a competitive edge and the internet has allowed tremendous growth in industrial espionage and that could be the details of an exact manufacturing process, designs of a complex facility like a nuclear power plant or strategic information. hacking into a company's computer system or infecting it

with a virus which does the snooping can save companies many years of research and development. china has long been accused of industrial spying but the u.s. too appears to be acid leaks and nsa documents detail the spying on chinese telecom giant and there has also been accusations against france and israel. joining us from london is digital forensic specialist peter summer and seems like everybody is doing out, peter, what is your experience of this? >> well, i've had direct experience because about 20 years ago i was asked to act in a u.k. trial in which a u.k. citizen was accused of spying on behalf of the old russian k.g.b. a few years previously the french got ahold of a document originating from moscow setting out their requirements. this man who was later convicted

was had infiltrated a number of u.k. companies. this is obviously before the ability of the internet and had passed information over to the russian's rating to scientific and technical research and now we are in a cyber world and you don't need to do that any longer. >> but they are spying on each other and the latest accusation, the charges against the chinese army and are you surprised the u.s. identified people? >> that is the thing that surprised me. the fact that there was general accusations wouldn't have surprised me in the slightest so someone could get out and once heard before but i'm an expert witness and used to tracing people's activities across the internet and i know it's extremely difficult because any sensible person who is going to be doing any sort of hacking

knows how to disguise themselves by using other people's computers to hack from rather than using their own. so the thing that is really surprising me is the fact that they can name five individuals and that leads me to wonder where the -- these people are probably never going to be brought to trial and whether this might be more of a physical stunt than a true, legal maneuver. as an expert witness and as someone fascinated by the under lying technology i would love it that a trial could take place and see the details but i suspect it will never happen. >> reporter: the u.s. is making these sort of accusations according to julian assonge and if not extensively and know they were spying on angela merkel on her mobile phone and the u.s. says they will stop doing this but how do you know they will stop? how do you prove that? >> you can't prove any of these things. a while ago i tried to write a

book on commercial industrial espionage and i could get a lot of people to talk to me off the record. actually when i had it it was a difficult exercise. one of the things that is occurring to me is at the moment there is legislation going from the united states trying to restrict the role of the national security agency. last week there were stories in the paper suggesting that maybe edward snowden, the leaker, had been an agent of moscow consciously or otherwise and didn't really stand up for me and i whether if this isn't part of another sort of game when the audience is not china, the audience is a domestic one in the united states when people are trying to say lay off the n.s.a., leave it with its existing powers and it's only speculation but something we have to add in the mix. >> reporter: what an interesting job you have digital

forensic scientist, thanks for talking to us. the presidential election and a video shows opposition candidates and discussing government intelligence with a man now facing spying charges and we report from bogata. >> reporter: this video published shows presidential candidate being offered classified military information. and the candidate shows no surprise. seemingly aware of what's going on. >> translator: so what is he going to hit us on may 25 to provide a life raft? >> reporter: critics say the video proves the campaign has been relying on illicit and perhaps illegal information in the effort to unseat the current president santos. >> translator: i knew there would be enemies. i never imagined that those enemies would arrive to the

extremes they have. that hurts me as a colombian. sad as a colombian. >> reporter: the man has been arrested accused of spying on columbia peace process and possibly on president santos himself and it forced his campaign chief to resign. and at first he denied meeting somebody he describes being part of his social media campaign but a few days later he did add miss he passed briefly through his office and now saying his campaign has been infiltrated by enemies and that is video is an montage. this is just one of a series of scandals that has overshadowed many crucial issues in an increasingly negative race. >> it's not typical of a columbia presidential campaign and it's the lack of salient issues being discussed or being

contested about, what is making this a very dirty campaign. >> reporter: this comes as the latest polls has the two main candidates neck and neck and follows the key advance in the negotiation with the rebel spark and both news could boost support for santos but probably not enough to avoid a runoff, i'm with al jazeera bogota. >> reporter: prosecutors in south korea are launching wide a nationwide manhunt for one of the owners of the ferry that sank last month and killing more than 300 people and he failed to show up for a hearing earlier oi tuesday and say they are not sure if he is still inside a compound belonging to religious organization with which he is associated and harry faucet is south of the capitol, seoul. >> reporter: this is where the next chapter of the complex story of south korea's ferry disaster could play out and farmland belonging to a religious group associated with

the ship's de-facto owner and members of the salvation sect and the baptist church are manning the gates and prosecutors believe he may be hiding behind them and he refused to appear for questioning. [chanting] this land belonged to church. >> reporter: would you let prosecutors inside? >> no, this is my property, my house. >> reporter: this is how he likes to be seen these days, hardly at all. he goes by the handle ahay, photographer and exhibited in europe and owner and operator of a ship. our attempts to contact the family and company were unsuccessful but a spokesman said he had no role in the management, a former management of the salvation sect disagrees. >> he refines people to business himself and everything is under his control. >> reporter: prosecutors

believe it sank because it was overloaded, the cargo not secured properly and made an unusually sharp turn and claiming he was responsible for lax management and the company has a complex ownership structure by sons who old stakes in a separate form that controls it. the sister ship was inspected recently and found to have multiple safety breaches. we came back to the port at night to speak to a former crew member who proved too concerned to go on camera even with his appearance concealed. he did tell us there were links between the church and the running of the marine and said that junior crew members would be hired even without experience or training on the basis of their links to the church and that such inexperienced staff never would have been hired in other companies he worked for. and he spent four years in prison in the mid 1990s convicted of embezzling church funds and after being acquitted in the 1987 mass suicide by

members of another religious group and none of it stopped his family with a huge empire with hotels in the u.s. to salt production in south korea. the president was promised to go after the family wealth and punishment and compensate victims. authorities could find themselves with a fight only their hands just to get through the gates, harry faucet, south korea. >> reporter: thank you and plead guilty to helping u.s. taxpayers file false tax returns and they say the swiss bank will have to pay more than $2.5 billion in penalties and employees so far faced charges in connection to the bogus tax returns and two have already plead guilty. the u.s. government is stepping up efforts to help central american farmers fight a devastating coffee disease and coffee rust caused $1 billion of

damage and as rob reynolds reports, coffee shops in the u.s. are also feeling the effects. >> reporter: supplies of coffee are threatened and the price of a gourmet cup may be on the rise as a coffee-killing fungus sweeps through the farms of central america. the disease called coffee rust has been spreading for three years. >> it's really quite devastating and looking at over a billion dollars in economic impact and these are small farmer whose are living at the edge of poverty anyway and devastating for the income. >> reporter: there was a $5 million with the university and hope to develop fungus resistant coffee trees and they specialize in roasting small batches of the finest coffees available and much from central america. owner mark wayne says the small scale coffee growers who he gets

his beans are worried and so is he. >> i look at us in the coffee industry are stewards that the farmers produce. and when something like this threatens to devastate them it devastates all of us. >> reporter: the coffee shop in trendy santa monica can prices are inching up and the chief concern is not so much for high-end coffee drinkers in the u.s. as the spread of social instability and drug trafficking in central america and a possible flood of migrants towards u.s. borders. u.s. agency for international development associate administrator mark fierstein said we must tackle this out break to ensure farmers and laborers have stable incomes. don't start growing illicit crops or forced to migrate because they can no longer support their families. if the fungus is not brought under control the u.s. estimates

the coffee yields in guatemala and costa rica could drop 40% with half a million farmers and labors brought out of work. >> if more people slip into poverty there will be an increase in crime. there is already an increase of foreigners in the city and could cause more migration north. >> reporter: prices on the futures market jumped to a two-year high earlier this month and i'm rob reynolds with al jazeera in l.a. >> researchers identify innovations that could reduce the number of babies that die soon after birth and still ahead in sport a star performance from the new york rangers go in the playoff series against montreal. ♪

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a new study revealed that 8,000 newborn babies die everyday around the world and the death rate is 50 times that and a science reporter terry basley has details. >> reporter: they collect data from 195 countries and revealed 2.5 million babies die each year in their first 28 days of life and on top of this there was estimated 2.6 million still births and fetus dying before delivery and half of these died during labor. they estimated the figures

because in most countries they do not get a death certificate and not included in statistics. >> the fact they do not have a birth or death certificate doesn't just make the data more difficult, it actually signifies that society in a way is expecting those deaths as if they were just something inevitable. >> reporter: the report found death rates of newborns declined in the last 25 years but half of the world's deaths still occur in just five countries and these were india, nigeria, pakistan, china and democratic p republic of congo and found high death rates were this countries in africa especially those affected by conflict. >> the focus around the time of birth and the greatest risk for women, the greatest risk for babies for a natural death and the greatest risk for disability. so as we move forward we don't just want babies to survive, we want them to thrive and be able

to contribute to the economic documents developments of the country. >> reporter: they have things to help and improve child survivor and include simple resuscitation techniques and care of neo-natal infections and vital to have a healthy start in life for every newborn baby. >> reporter: let's get to sport now with robin. >> thank you and we will start on the basketball court and the sand antonio spurs have first blood in the final with the oklahoma city thunder, the spurs were 122-105 point winners in the first game of the best of 7 series and dunkin scored 27 points and took advantage of the absence of oklahoma top blocker who was out injured. kevin durant and westbrook scored 25 points but it's the

spurs who take 1-0 advantage in the series and day two is wednesday and takes place in san anton antonio. >> well, that is the key with kevin, you will not stop him but making him work hard is certainly the plan. it's everybody's plan and no matter who he plays against we will work hard and i thought he was good and didn't foul but i think the team did a nice job behind him. >> we have to do a much better job defensively and i thought they were able to get anything they want to, 66 points in the paint and 40 at half time and we take pride in our defensive play but tonight we did not play to beat the team and one of the things that we have to do a much better job of containing the

basketball, the team always figures out way how to get better and bounce back to the game and we have to play better to beat the team. >> the date of an end of the l.a. clippers and on the third they will vote on whether they can terminate his reign as well as mba -- nba for the comments and banned for life and fined $2.5 billion in which a recording was released with racist remarks and they linked a former play to lead the exit and lewis is the new head coach of barsa and he was sacked following 1-1 with athletico and gave them the title and the roma and played 8 years at basa between 1996-2004.

good news and he will get to work with mesi for the foreseeable future and put pen to paper on a new deal to keep him at the camp until 2018 and thought the terms will make the 26-year-old the world's best player with the yearly salary of $27.4 million. and united are getting up for a new season with coaching staff and as expected he will take over as the new manager replacing the dutch national coach assigned a city year deal with the former league champions but the 62 year-year-old will report for duty after the world cup in brazil and there is an assist and manager following retirement at the age of 40. the golfer adam scott is getting used to life as world number one and they replaced tiger woods at the top of the latest rankings and he occupied the ranking for

60 weeks and scott says his focus is the u.s. open at pine hurst next month but tiger woods is unlikely to be lining up for the second major of the season. >> first of all i would love to play. that is -- but i just don't know. as i said that is one of the more frustrating things is there is no date, there is no timetable, just taking it day by day and just focusing on trying to get stronger and come back. and i want to, as i said i want to play today but that is just not going to happen so take it step by step. >> the new york rangers are two up against the canadian in the playoff and stopped the show in the rangers on game two and the conference finals on monday and had a total of 40 saves and a 3-1 win. >> do you know what, the reason why tonight that we lost the game in lunquist and it was

phenomenal and sold the game and happen in the playoffs. but i like the way we approached tonight's game. and you need a couple of breaks and then when you get those breaks momentum could change really quick in the playoffs. >> that is my goal right now, to really try to reach my full potential and inspire teammates and then everybody is helping us right now to kind of reach that level and see how far it takes us. >> reporter: major league baseball and the braves thrashed the brewers and they had a home run and braves 3-0 lead in the third inning and brewers pulled back a couple runs and then a homer and justin upton out of sight, the final score here was 9-3. all of the day's big sports stories including appointment and united in our sports section

on al jazeera.com/sport for more al jazeera.com/sport for more. that is it, more later. >> thanks for that robin and it's arguably the world's best known film festival but not the diverse say critics and ahead of the cancelled festival says they need shaking up and phil reports from caan. >> reporter: female directors may dominate movies and a galaxy far, far away, not in this one though. men have taken the big prize of the caan film festival every year since it began 67 years ago with one exception and this year had a renown director herself as a very public point to make. >> time and time again we don't get our share of representation. excuse me but the men eat all

the cake. >> it's not just an issue here, this reflects what is happening in the industry in general. take for example the academy awards, 86 years the oscars has been going and once a woman has been named best director and this is back in 2009 and similarly 71 years of the gold end globes and one best female director and barbra streisand in 1984 and the lack of women competing for the prize here has been a bone of contention year after year. and now as the jury looks at the 2014 options, out of 18 films only two come with that female credit. movies like this one and two more than 2012 when there were no women this competition and only one featured last year and richards has lots of awards and even she thinks a change is in order. >> you want lots of view points

and takes on the world in cinema and that is what a woman can bring you and it's a real shame there is not more out there. >> reporter: this is a documentary and it seems that genre at least appreciates the feminine touch and they run a women-only production company. >> where i come from there is a strong female voice and sometimes that will spill over and in fiction i can see it in den mark with a lot of strong female directors. >> reporter: each night the red carpet comes alive with flashes and eyes on the women but behind the scenes the eyes are looking elsewhere and the question is how long will it take for that to change? phil with al jazeera at the caan film festival. that needs to change and that is not the case here and elizabeth will be here with the next bulletin in the next couple minutes and in the meantime you can log on our website, and i shall see you again a little

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