coming up, in 60 minutes egypt former army chief and presidential candidate cast his ballot as the country votes for its next leader. france far right is among a big winner as they win momentum in european elections and tie land's army chief who led last week's military coup gets the backing of a king and visiting the old places of jerusalem and pope francis going to the holy land and launches his own peace

effort. but first people across egypt are voting for a new president. former army chief abdel-fattah el-sissi who is the strong favorite to win the election cast his vote early. polling stations are heavily guarded and it's taken place amid security and eu and african union have observers to monitor the vote. the vote is over two days and it comes after three years of political turmoil, in july last year they talked about mohamed morsi and the next day a crack down and the army has a state of emergency and curfews and the muslim brotherhood band a month later, the second time it has been ban since 1954. the new antiprozest law ensued in november, soon afterward the muslim brotherhood is declared a

terrorist group. religious groups are banned under a new constitution, the prime minister had a resignation the following month. in march the coup maker abdel-fattah el-sissi quicks as army chief to run for president and leonard smith looks at the frontrunner and will do a bit later but first on retired marshal abdel-fattah el-sissi who is the frontrunner and appointed the chief in 2012 and had a coup against mohamed morsi last year and, abdel-fattah el-sissi kit -- quit to run for president. and he first ran for president in 2012 and came in third with 21% of the vote and supported abdel-fattah el-sissi after the coup and announced his presidential bid in february

this year. carolyn malone reports. >> reporter: this is the man expected to be egypt's next man, abdel-fattah el-sissi is the former defense minister and army chief and led egypt for the last ten months since the crew that deposed mohamed morsi. >> translator: egyptians are coming down to write the history and plan for future and all the world is watching. >> reporter: voting will take place over two days and turn out will be a good indicator how much support there is for abdel-fattah el-sissi and they have three years of instability since mass protests ended the 30 year rule of hosni-mubarak. >> translator: young people can wait for protest until the country gets on it's feet and poor people can make a living. >> reporter: security is a concern. there have been a number of

attacks in the last few months against institutions including cairo university and they are involved in protecting the public in the days encouraging people to come out and vote. >> translator: people feel reassured in terms of security and police and army are protecting the area very well. >> reporter: the only other candidate for president is sabihi who was third in the 2012 election but polls say more than 50% of egyptians favor abdel-fattah el-sissi and it's not clear if number also be reflected in votes and i'm carolyn malone al jazeera. >> reporter: professor of public policy at harvard and author of counting islam. and would it be wrong of me to suggest that president abdel-fattah el-sissi is a shoe in for president and if he is do we know anything about what he stands for afterwards, what are his policies for example?

>> i think it's safe to say that former field marshal abdel-fattah el-sissi is going to be elected egypt's next president in the coming days. the question of what abdel-fattah el-sissi sands for is a pretty good question. in the minds of most egyptians he stands for stability. one of the things since the revolution that unseated mubarak, elections they participated it it was a clear note for what they want and they want economic development. they want better lives, et cetera. in the beginning that meant voting for people who they thought would undue some corruption of the mubarak area and now it's voting on stability an and, abdel-fattah el-sissi is on that platform. >> stability for egyptians and also citing natural -- national security as a reason for not telling the country what he is

standing for, what he will do afterwards, that is an unique way of approaching an election. >> in a couple instances abdel-fattah el-sissi was corn cornered about policy stances and he is not kocomfortable talking about it like people want and in that particular instance he said i cannot talk about where i would build a power place because that is a security issue. he has released a platform and this is from the muslim brotherhood and these kind of grand proposals and deep investments in infrastructure and engage in kind of big project, i don't know how serious abdel-fattah el-sissi is about those things. in private meetings abdel-fattah el-sissi seemed to emphasize the needs to cutback on subsidy program and cutback on egypt's big state that provides benefits for people and may be where he is going. >> he has not made any public

appearances, formal appearances during, shall we say, election campaign and yet he is still expected to win more than some people say 90% of the vote and has a remarkable level of popularity >> you have to remember that abdel-fattah el-sissi is the candidate of the egypt state and media and he is getting more attention and got a lot more attention than any other candidate. will he get 80 or 90% of the vote. we don't know. there are two figures to pay attention to. the first is the turn out so if it's very high that will clearly be a mandate for him. if it's low it might mean, in fact, that people who are unhappy with the coup are more than people think they are, they are more significant than people think they are and have to be consill forry and the second figure is what vote that the other will get and if he gets 20, 25% of the vote that too will have to signal to presidency si has to reach out

when he tries to govern the country. >> reporter: thanks for joining us. al jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalist in egypt. they have been held in prison for 149 days. the trial has been adjourned until june the first and accused of conspireing with the muslim brotherhood and al jazeera rejects charges against the staff. a fourth journalist has been held in a cairo prison without charge for more than nine months now and his lawyer has filed a third grievance to the attorney general demanding his release and also requesting a medical report to document his poor health. european elections have been and seen a definite swing towards the far right, right across the continent and the front topped the poll in france for the first time ever and this is copenhagen

and a main street party losing out and simon mc-greger wood reports. >> reporter: across europe, people opposed to the eu did well, most right ring, most exploiting a growing frustration caused by the economic crisis. in france the national front came first and anti-immigration and anti-eu had a platform to france's parliament. >> translator: our people demand a single policy, the policy of the french for the french with the french. it will no longer be directed from outside sub servient to laws they have not voted for or obey commissioners who have not submitted themselves to universal sufferage. >> reporter: they want to pull uk out of the union and topped the poll and freedom party and den mark the people's party and it was the same message.

in greece the far left socialist won here where bail outs and eu posterity have proved unpopular. >> discontent. europe has been harassing people, ruining lives of thousands and thousands of people, so people react. and they have well organized right wing and slightly organized left wing they vote for it. >> reporter: results show the parliament will have more members than ever and want to take powers back to the national parliament and in some cases take the countries out altogether and they won't be majority but their influence could be significant. all the time when the parliament is getting more influence over european law and who gets the top jobs at the commission which makes the big decision. the on going economic crisis has taken its toll, the terrible cost of saving the euro persuaded the eu is too powerful and unaccountable. the challenge for eu supporters

will be to respond to anger and keeping the european project moving forward and won't be able to do that without growth and jobs, simon mc-greger in brussels. >> reporter: voter turn out was relatively low this year, about 43% and nevertheless the anti-eu parties are expected to win 140 seats, the biggest number ever. let's talk more about this now with hall live in london. your skeptics are winning real political momentum. >> yes, that is right on the one hand but not to be confused with taking over the running of the european parliament and it's still a good, strong majority on the center, right and left holding things together while anti-e u is on the fridges and let's get reaction to this and i'm joined by stephanie with

global risk from oxford and thank you for being with us and we hear about political earthquakes and maybe this is more political earthquakes where countries lost votes to these anti-euro and government lost votes and more of a seismic change in parliament itself. >> i think that is absolutely right in some countries and here in the united kingdom and the rise of the populus party will reflect with the governing coalition and france is another one. italy, in the netherlands and spain and crisis hit countries we have not seen the massive shock and the freedom party lost support. >> far from a clear pictures but there are countries in britain and france is one and gains have been made off of main parties, is there a worry that government and leaderships in the countries is bound to change their political programs and move more

towards the programs of these fridge and some would say extreme parties? >> i think there is a risk if they respond and if they respond by emulating the parties is a different question and if immigration is an important issue we could see that become more i'm for everyone in the run up to the general election but other countries not necessarily and they may respond by going more left wing or more european so reaction will vary across the 28 member state. >> is that the sort of shift that could in time work to undermine the european project if there was a shift against immigration in this country for instance to try and gain votes from the uk independence party and could that undermine the european project? >> we have to be careful because to under mine the ur peep project would be dismantling and rewriting of treaties and that is something that will take years and what will it do in

each individual state and that is case by case point and we could see early elections in grease and germany could be business as usual and we could see some business as usual in brussels itself. >> doctor stephanie we will leave it there and thanks for joining us and political earthquakes as they are being described but felt more in national politics than the eu but no seismic changes and not yet at least. >> we will see the after shocks and we are live from london, thank you. moving on to more elections, ukraine's leading presidential candidate poroshenko is to meet russia leaders in june and final results to be declared and exit polls suggesting the billionaire has won half the publics vote beating the former prime minist minister poroshenko. >> reporter: this sends a clear message, exit polls have him

over 50%. these are not official figures. but say he may win the election out right. >> translator: you see that all exit polls without ex exception were in the country and world and show shaw diplomacys that it's over after the first round and the country has a new president. >> reporter: rarely have ukraines gone to the polls with so much enthusiasm and in the capitol long lines formed as people waited to cast their vote for the new president. for many this was the most important election since ukraine left the soviet union. >> i expect life to be better. i expect peace and unity in the country. >> reporter: and poroshenko promised to change economy and

fight corruption and against the regime give him credibility and he presents himself as a candidate to reconcile the east and west of the country and pro-russia separatist in the east say they won't respect the result and one quarter of polling stations opened here and separatists intimated voters and election officials. >> translator: we don't have a president. we didn't vote for him. those in the west might have but we didn't and we didn't hold an election here as far as i know. >> reporter: it will not be solved and they likely realized that it has shurunk. >> reporter: they will have a new president after voting and people say waiting three weeks for a runoff would simply add to the instability.

this will be to the east of the country to draw a line under six months of division, jackie in kiev. >> reporter: colombians this time will go back to the polls on june 15 for a presidential runoff election. that is after sunday's election failed to designate a clear winner and many see the election as a referendum on peace with farc rebel fighters and oscar won't and he will freeze the talks for a campaign against the rebel fighters and the other man trails with almost 26% and his post election rally and tells supporters the runoff will be a battle between the past and future and his campaign has scandal and accused of taking bribes and one of his staff was

arrested for hacking into the president's e-mails. lots more to come on the news hour from doha, are they censoring since last month's disaster, a gunman kills tourists at a jewish museum and despite the 1-2 the monacco grand prix, details in sport. pope francis is in israel on the third and last day of his middle east pilgramage and pope john paul was there in 2000. the last trip was by pope benedict five years ago and france just visited the holocaust museum accompanied by

benjamin netanyahu and perez and he was greeted by clerks at the mosque. and we have been following the pope's progress and joins me now from jerusalem and looking at the pope's agenda and it's one of very much inter faith dialog today. >> reporter: absolutely, steven, today is really about the interfaith dialog as well as christian unity too between the different secs and he started off as you mentioned meeting with people in jerusalem and taking a tour of the rock and he prayed at jerusalem and went to the grave site of modern political zionism and went to the holocaust museum and met with holocaust survivors and playing up to his man as the

modest humble pope when he met with survivors and listen to survivors he kissed each and every one of their hands and currently right now he is at the presidential residence for a courtesy visit and he is supposed to meet privately with been man netanyahu at the noter dame center in jerusalem and later he's goes talking to different leaders in the christian community and a meeting with the eastern orthodox and bartholomew and this is before leading mass tonight for the vatican. >> he seems to have launched his own middle east peace effort inviting leaders back to rome. >> reporter: he did. and he started that yesterday

during mass in bethlehem and called on abas and calling them to the vatican to restart the need for peace and talked about peace in the region, independent palestine and next to an independent israel and made political points and wasn't trying to in the last couple days and showing support for both sides and reaching out to both sides and he says the presidents want to find peace in the region even though there may be people in the own government who are not necessarily on board. >> following the pope's progress in jerusalem and thanks, tia. syrian activists are calling on opposition factions to fight the state in iraq and isil and part of the plan to link the syrian

city to fallosia because of the location and because of reserves of oil and we explain. this is a video by the islam state in iraq but there is no doubt that the cross border organization is fighting for it. their long-term ambition is for the space and will lay the foundations on the border of syria and iraq and isil wants to show it has support of people in the war with government forces. across the border in syria the scenes are similar. this organization is in full control in the eastern city of ritka. but to be able to link the two cities isil has to win the battle and control the main border crossing between the two par 'tis, already the foreign fighters have laid siege to the

eastern province. >> translator: we are calling people to help us. yes, the tribes in the east encountry side are fighting back, but they are using all its power to take over and i'm warning everyone that they will not stop here. >> reporter: this is not the main gate way to iraq, it's rich in oil and provides money to buy ammunition and to win grass roots support in a region where many are poor. getting the support of the people will be isil's biggest challenge. they alienated syrians because of extreme views and brutal behavior and the arms opposition declared war on the group in january and managed to push the isil out of many areas and have not been able to confront them in the east. isil was first established in iraq during the war and it eventually lost its strength but two years ago it regrouped and spread to neighboring syria and attracted recruits for arab and

military countries and they had a message for leaders in the arab world. >> translator: it does not see the nationalitys and constitution and said not to recognize borders and moving from county to country we will move with our weapons and our state will expand and expand. >> reporter: for the time being that are focusing the fight elsewhere and isil that was able to expand in syria due to surety vam has been largely left object in the east, al jazeera. thailand army chief who led last week's coup has the royal seal of approval and is charged with insurection and murder and andrew simmons reports. >> reporter: 12 successful military coups in history and endorsing them is not unusual

but never a ceremony like this one before. the king is not here and 86 he was too ill to attend and now someone now is running the country and doesn't have a timeframe for elections but will be held as soon as possible. >> translator: we will maintain firm control and deal with those who violate the law or use weapons as well as a protest or anything that will create a risk of a situation. media sensorship and bans on people. >> with the crack down on the media and cutting off of satellite and the video broadcast and in the last few days there is a concerted targeting of free speech advocates sgrfrj the leader against the former government topped by the coup was free on bail and there is alarm now on

what could happen next and the red shirt movement in the 2006 coup to have support for shinwat has largely gone to ground but some people think that is not true. the king is revered by the country and the success of the count prince is not perceived to be as popular. schools may have opened again in thailand but there is nothing normal about the situation there. andrew simmons, al jazeera. >> reporter: in the u.s. state of alaska more than 1,000 people have been told to leave their homes because of a wildfire. the funny river fire has already destroyed a large fire of the wildlife refuge and south of anchorage and they are water bombing aircraft there. from wildfires to floods and we

have the weather in china. >> nothing but dry in southeast china and these are white bright clouds we have had over the past few days and edging their way to the southeast and with us more over a week and they have become very familiar. the water level is just rising and we are seeing quite a bit of flooding and it's not just one province we see this and this is where the worst flooding has been over the past few days and now the system is moving a little bit and definitely better news on the horizon and this is south and hong kong it's going to be very wet and could be more in the way of flooding but the worst of it is edging further to the east and taiwan and the southeast parts of china is where we have the worst of it there as we head through tuesday. wednesday it's still along the coast and the north where we had flooding here, there was a break in the weather so things there

will improve. and quick i'm going to go out to the west to show you what is going on in the eastern parts of india because here there is an awful lot of wet weather and the system made its way on to land and given us health downpours, 160 millimeters of ran there in 24 hours, that is a lot of rain and has given us some flooding and plenty more wet weather and no tenially more flooding heading through the next few days. and coming up, on the news hour we are live in france where the national front is celebrating a massive election victory. the record-breaking performance from kenya runners, and details in sport. ♪

welcome back and you are watching the top stories on al jazeera. egypt former army chief abdel-fattah el-sissi has voted in the presidential election and widely expected to win and rival is 59-year-old bahi and polling stations are being guarded. far right skeptics made major gains in elections for european parliament and they topped the poll for the first time. thailand's army chief who led last week's coup has the royal seal of approval in the lead of anti-government protests and has been granted bail after being charged with insurection and murder. and the election started in egypt where voters are deciding on a new president.

poly stations are heavily guarded. there is tight security at echl u and african union sent observers to monitor polling and al jazeera is ban from reporting in egypt so here is the video in doha and is looking at developments online and we will come over to you. >> this is the electorate and how they are viewing the election and how the candidates and their social media teams and some are approaching it as well and pictures from a little bit earlier and it is this man who is one of the people seen voting, the interim, current interim president of egypt and this election is the beginning and end of time in office, on july 4th of last year and the appointment was on television by defense minister by the name of abdel-fattah el-sissi and he had this to say.

>> translator: i ask all egyptians to vote and this is the first step and we have to stop talking because egypt has all efforts. >> abdel-fattah el-sissi's presence is strong and this is his twitter page which has 144,000 followers there and tweeting like this today, i had this translated for me and it says to every egyptian pan and woman who care about it raise the flag in the balcony and stores and markets and they have a hash tag over here and in arabic is right to left saying raise the flags and playing on the patriotism on the vote. what other sorts of things have we seen? people heeding the call. this is a group of women in cairo who are out voting. then we saw some interesting ones here earlier as well. this woman here making this sign

here of a c which we know to mean abdel-fattah el-sissi, voting for abdel-fattah el-sissi and if that is too subtle for you then this probably should tell things a little bit more clearly, what else have we seen? the man himself or one of the opposition? the other person is running for president and casting his vote like anyone else would and you see him putting his i.d. card there and checking his name off the list of the voting list and casting his vote and even then posing for a photo later on and i showed you the significant fall before and this is a lady clearly voting for mr. abdel-fattah el-sissi and posing for a photo with his competitor and this is what we see online as well and i want to direct you to al jazeera online and show you what we are doing. they have the egyptian elections explained and goes into detail how the elections will work, how it factors and what will happen

when the results are and will happen wednesday the 28th we think. they are doing this and i'm doing this here as well because of course as steven mentioned we cannot report from egypt and this is the last thing we want to report about and this is the hash tag and we will pop it up on the screen and what has been involved in that to support the colleagues in jail and this is al jazeera forum which began in doha and the discussion forum and holding a moment of solidarity with the four jailed colleagues you can see up there. this is a special mention and have a look at this man, this is brian and he is an anchor, presenter at c. in cnn, a competitor and has joined the free campaign and if a competitor can do it you can as well, and you can use the hash tag and alert me at

kamal-age is on the twitter and a.j. egypt and free egypt staff. >> and tweet if you have more news about egypt, the first results from european elections show the pro-european center right and left parties will remain in control of the 751 seats in parliament but it's showing that the euro skeptic members will double and there is public discontent over crisis in the economy and immigration someone the vote to parties opposed to close european cooperation. and one of those parties is ukip in the united kingdom and as many or as much as 28% of the vote. this will be the first time in more than a century, i think it was 1906 that neither the main or conservative parties have won a national election. as harry smith reports there the

message is popular with voters. >> reporter: he doesn't have a seat in uk parliament but more than any politician in resent years he is transforming the layout of power. for months the opinion polls have been predicting that nigal and independence party were on the verge of something big and as the votes were counted the numbers clearly began to stack u up. >> defense party and you have 761,439. >> reporter: elected one of four successful candidates in the region that covers much of the south of england and told supporters this was a historic moment. >> you have spoken tonight and delivered just about the most extraordinary result that has been seen in british politics for 100 years and i'm proud to have led them to that. and in a way it's surprising it

didn't happen before because we had three passes in british politics that led us in a common market that developed into a political union who have twisted and turned with a variety of promises to give us a referendum they have never actually kept. >> reporter: the balance of power had already shifted. prime minister david cameron has suffered in the polls and going tougher and a referendum with the membership of the eu union and under pressure to move further to the right. some observers say that would be a mistake. >> temptation for national governments will be to look at the anti-eu, anti-immigration parties and think the way to win the vote is crossing over is to become harsher on migrants coming to our countries to look up and detain and impoverish undocumented migrants and this is potentially a bad

development. >> reporter: can nigel talk about parliament in less than a year's time and long before that he will have to decide which of the new groupings in brussels he can form alliances with and what affect that will have on european politicians, harry smith, al jazeera in the south of england. >> reporter: increased security ordered for jewish sites in bull gum after two tourists were shot and killed and after being attacked in brussels and a hunt is underway for the gunman as we report. security camera shows the moment the gunman struck, firing an ak-47 rifle in the jewish museum in brussels before making off on foot. he is still on the run. >> what we can say at this stage is that the camera images showed us that we have to deal with one order that he was alone

probably. that he was prepared and that he was armed. >> reporter: the museum remains sealed. no one knows why the gunman opened fire here on a quiet saturday afternoon but anti-semitism is widely suspected. >> we have to remember that europe was based on one promise, this promise is never again and today you have people in the streets who want to do one more time. >> reporter: they latched out at european leaders for failing to condemn the killings. >> translator: there are elements in europe to condemn construction of the house in jerusalem but nothing about the murder of jews here or europe itself. >> reporter: security has been increased at jewish institutions acro across belgium and france and fare more attacks could happen. >> translator: attacks can happen any where, any time and

anything can be expected from those who decide to carry them out. reporter: this is the worst attack in belgium in years and it's crucial in helping track down the gunman and i'm andrew potter with al jazeera. >> reporter: the fire killed 7 people and began close to the station and quickly spread, 27 people were injured and most of those killed were building workers. the head of south korea's main staff funded broadcast has been accused of censoring coverage of the recent ferry disaster and now his job is on the line and this is from seoul. >> this is how he is starting his workday, confronting the fury of his staff. on monday there was no sign of his car but the union members were still there, still demanding his resignation.

>> translator: the major reason behind the problems in our programs is due to an order from the president's office that he received. we have precise notes he has been engaged in control over news coverage. >> reporter: allegation first made by the outgoing k bchl s news operation earlier this month and they said he instructed him to tone down criticism of the coast guard and more generally the government response to the sinking of the ferry and lost of more than 400 lives and says he was acting from the president's office and we wish we did not feel ashamed to carry cameras said one and they were not reflected in kbs coverage says another. hundreds of reporters and producers have walked out, and usually hour-long double headed evening news is down to 20 minutes and one presenter and a

union-led strike is likely to start on wednesday. with large staff in open revolt he has to account for his actions to his bosses. the board of governors called him in with dismissal on the table. at the same time the network took out ads in major newspapers on monday apologizing for program disruption and insisting that claims that they meddled in the coverage is not true. this is a way that encouraged rescue workers and the tragedy has soul searching on regulation and corruption and raising questions inside kbs's empty newsroom and beyond about freedom and i'm harry faucet in seoul. white house mistakenly revealed the identity of a top cia agent in afghanistan and his

name was published on a list of people going to a briefing during president obama visit to the air base and kimberly reports. >> reporter: it was an unexpected visit by the u.s. military commander and chief, president obama touched down at the airforce base in afghanistan to get what the advisors called a read on the situation. soldiers waited to hear from their president while he held a closed-door meeting with top commanders and advisors. the soldiers were entertained by a popular u.s. country music singer while they waited. and when he emerged from his meeting, president obama thanked his troops for their service in a conflict that has lasted more than a decade. with afghan security forces now in the lead he announced he would soon decide just how many u.s. soldiers will remain in a supporting role after the with

draw of nato and navy forces. >> for many of you this will be the last tour of afghanistan. and by the end of this year the transition will be complete and afghans will take full responsibility for their security and our combat mission will be over. america's war in afghanistan will come to a responsible end. >> reporter: pentagon has indicated it would like to see roughly 10,000 soldiers stay in afghanistan after 2014 but this is contingent on a bilateral agreement with immunity with afghan law and karzai refused to sign agreement and both candidates to succeed him indicated an agreement can be worked out allowing u.s. forces to stay. >> america's commitment to the people of afghanistan will endure. >> reporter: there are still roughly 32000 u.s. soldiers in all gafr -- afghanistan and he

wants them to do antiterrorism but it's not clear and it's a promise the white house says will be made soon and i'm kimberly in washington. in many india are watching inauguration of the prime minister modi. among the vips on the guest list who have already arrived is pakistan's prime minister sheriff, pakistan's first leader to visit india for nine years after leading the landslide victory and modi will be sworn in new deli in a couple hours from now and robin reports. >> reporter: in just a few hours' time modi will be sworn in as 15th prime minister and i'm a kilometer or so away from the presidential palace and the whole area is under tight

security. 4,000 vip guests have been invited including heads of state, ambassadors, civil service and members of the new parliament who will be sitting in the lower house in a few days' time. modi will most along with the president of india a banquet and people invited here will be guests of honor at that inauguration and then on tuesday mr. modi will lead bilateral talks with leaders of pakistan and shrelanka and they will release ionia fishermen who are in the jails and expected to be released in the next few days and that gesture in itself is warmly welcomed by the india government. sport from america coming up, including basketball and the world's top golfer fights to

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is justice really for all? a little bit of sport now and here is robin. spurs had the lead in the nba western conference and reduced to 2-1 when barker returned from an injury and thought he was sidelining with the best of the player but the top scorer and kevin durant added 25 points of his own in

oklahoma 106-97 win. >> talk about a teammate, that is everything you want your teammate to embody as a guy who gives himself up for the team, give his body for the team, no matter how the game went i have expect for him for laying it on the line for us, putting his body out there and sacrificing his health, you know, for the betterment of the team. glad we won the basketball, no matter what would happen tonight, that is something you want to have besides you every single day. >> and he is certainly bidding in tension with the season and relationship of hamilton is deteriorating and beat hamilton at the grand prix on sunday and after the race the drivers refused to shake hands and richard reports. >> they are teammates but lewis

hamilton says they are not friends. hamilton was upset how he was conversely denied poll by germans in saturday's qualifying. safety car was needed on the very first lap of sunday's race and jenison knocked into former teammate paris. and he was fourth on the grid but ended early because of engine trouble. >> come on, guys, i mean, i'm sure you think so. >> reporter: and he crashed on the 28th lap, again, forcing the safety car out. both mercedes drivers pitted and hamilton thought he should have gone in earlier. to the end of the race he had a problem with his eye and allowed russburg to pull away and then red bull got closer and rossburg

winning the second and dee n -- denying hamilton the victory and rossburg replaces hamilton at the top of the standings, four points ahead. >> special day for sure and drove well and pushed hard and the pressure was on all the way but i kept it cool and then i was able to win the polling in whatever gap because i had fresh tires. >> they wanted to and it doesn't seem to matter to the drivers and i'm richard. >> reporter: let's stay with motor sport and the indy 500 has an american for the first time in 8 years and this is the start of the final lap in indianapolis and the champion held off the brazilian for the biggest victory of the career and finished in the 98th year

history of the race and other cars finishing a length clear at the brick yard and celebrates with the tradition bottle of alcohol. the french open title and in a few hours it's getting underway with 2012 and on court in paris and seeded 7th and break up against the world number 153, and another seed playing her opening match right now and going with the serve with her clash there. absence and jamaica in the bahamas with another title win this time in the 400 meters and it was 37.777 seconds and that is 24 hours earlier and broke

the world record. and kenya had the world record and led by double world champion clocking 14: 2222 record and the u.s. was 18 seconds behind and ethiopia was third and shattered the world record in the same event. golf and adam scott on the top of the rankings winning and finished nine under par after shooting a final round 66 at the country club in fort worth, texas and matched by the american with the 18th hole. and took three extra holes to separate the pair but it was scott who pretheyed and becoming the fourth australian to win. and he put his personal problems

behind him to win the championship. terrible day for thomas, he was the lead in a round of 75 and he will drop down to finish third and mcceloy said he split from his fiancee and had 66 in the title and the first title since 2012. stanley cup and the blue shirts as they are popular known they look in over time in madison square gardens and he had a brilliant game-winning goal to put them up in the series and a win on tuesday will secure them a ticket to the stanley cup. all of the day's big sports stories are on our web side al jazeera and/sport.

thanks for watching. >> thank you, a new report says the fair trade movement is not benefitting the people who set it up in the first place to protect and it was supposed to work as developing countries to make sure they get reasonable pay and that is not always the case especially in africa and we report. >> fair prices, decent working conditions and sustainable farming is the promise that fair trade offers when pur purchasing product and it's sad for the farmer, workers and local community. but it may not be effective enough. after studying 1500 people working in fair trade business academics in london found otherwise. many workers fell short of earning decent wages and receiving little of the benefits it's meant to deliver and there was evidence of children being paid to work on such farms.

>> in certain cases with areas where there is large scale or further production what we tend to find and the statistics show this is significant is that the wages are typically lower on the areas dominated by fair trade organizations. >> reporter: people selling fair trade products like this coffee shop is a popular idea and your daily coffee or chocolate could go somewhere to helping poor farmers around the world and leaving consumers reassured that some of their money could go towards ethical projects. the scheme began 25 years ago set up by development and consumer groups, today the uk is a $3 billion enterprise, backed by the government as well as supermarkets and christian organizations it is a trusted consumer brand. and 1.5 million people rounds the world are part of the fair trade scheme and products from

schools as well as sanitation and health projects. allegations raised may be troubling youth fair trade maintains it's a work in progress and the challenges are not numerous but it's improving working conditions in countries with high levels of poverty. >> i hope people acknowledge how tough it is to tackle this problem as the report shows it's a problem that all governments and all companies have yet to tackle and that is why you find this terrible poverty in particular the report looks at women who have been widowed or divorced who are illiterate and have to find very temporary work. >> reporter: in a globalized world it's the regulated governments as well as consumer whose have to push for better living and work conditions for the very people fair trade is trying to help, i'm with al jazeera, london. >> reporter: stay with us here on al jazeera, for more on the surprising results across europe for the european elections, we will be with you in just a moment.

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