>> >> announcer: this is al jazeera. hello, welcome to the newshour, good to have you here with us. we are here from doha. abdul fatah al-sisi claims to have run a crushing victory in egypt. questions remain over the low turn out. kidnapped - ukranian rebels say they are holding four international observers in donet donetsk. the government will do everything possible to bring hour daughters home.

>> nigeria's president promises to bring back the missing school girls and wage war against boko haram. >> robin adams with all the sport. the latest from the french open. and the owner of manchester united, malcolm glaser, passes away, three days after his 86th birthday. >> former army chief abdul fatah al-sisi looks to be heading for a landslide victory in the presidential election. official results are to be declared. supporters claim to have won over 90% of the vote. the low turn out is an embarrassment for the government. despite a day of voting and transport, less than half the electorate cast their ballots. >> the official winner has not been announced. these egyptians are celebrating.

preliminary results released by the government suggest that former army chief abdul fatah al-sisi has won the presidential elections with more than 90% of the vote. al jazeera - banned from reporting in egypt, cannot independently verify the figure. that didn't matter to abdul fatah al-sisi's supporters. >> translation: we are happy, it means the world for us. we'll stand by him and support for him, even if we didn't eat or drink, because we love egypt. >> counting is still under way, and the final results will not be announced before next week. the two-day poll started on monday and was overshadowed by a low voter tonne out. election officials blamed it on a heatwave, extending it for a third day. there are 50 million voters. more than 40% of people voted.

the opposition alliance, including the muslim brotherhood insists that less than 10% of voters showed up. al jazeera can't the confirm this. abdul fatah al-sisi led the coup against the first democratically elected president and wanted millions to vote for him. he needs a high turn out to legitimize his takeover the elections highlight a boycott by the young people that led the revolution that deposed hosni mubarak. the result was never in doubt, people considered abdul fatah al-sisi a president in waiting. people in egypt remain divided. that could be a recipe for more unrest. for more, omar is a senior lecturer in politics at the university of exeter. thank you for coming on the show. many read the la turn out -- low turn out. particularly abdul fatah al-sisi's critics as lack of

support. does that mean that it's a foregone conclusion, why should people cast ballots, even supporters. >> that's part of it. but there's a voter apathy in egypt. even during the times when there was free and fair elections and there was no crackdowns in 2011 and the election turn out was 26.5 million from 51 registered voters, and it was about 52%. halfway to president mohamed mursi, and halfway to the general in 2012. it's a different setting. many - it's a foregone conclusion. many believe that abdul fatah al-sisi is the representative of the military establishment and therefore will win the election. so it is not free and fair. on the other hand part of the political, or a large part of the political spectrum is ousted, but some of them that won elections are declared terrorists, coming against a backdrop of a crackdown that

hundreds and mass sentences from the judicial institutions. a brutal crackdown, a foregone conclusion in the other. >> where this leads to is a lack of recourse. there's no way of going back on this. he'll be the head of the country. what now, going forward? >> the question is which policies you want to employ. i think he's not the hult sayer in the country. the ultimate is the military establishment, followed by the security establishment. so how the generals are going to deal with the situation on the one hand they can de polarise, enhance the economic situation, that cannot be enhanced in a struggle in the country. they may statement to compromise by including ousted forces. to start a process to under mine

the escalatory rhettor ig, the polarizing rhetoric, which is employed until today, or continue the policies and basically declare it as an eradication process, where they remove the ousted parties and continue the crackdown. the underlying factor is fixing the economy. basically what - briefly, what will be the role of the military? >> the role of the military, in terms of the economy, you mean. >> very briefly. >> the military institution is the most important player, it was since 1952, the important political party. >> they'll have a huge part. >> they'll still have that. >> the presidency is undermined as an institution. compared to hosni mubarak times. >> we'll have to leave it there. interesting speaking to you. >> my pleasure. >> now n other news the self-proclaimed mayor of slovyansk in eastern ukraine

says he's holding four international observers. pro-russian rebel leader says four men from the organization for security and cooperation in europe would be freed soon. our correspondent joins us now, live from donetsk. david, firstly, i want to ask about what you have been seeing or experiencing there. >> yes, this morning we headed off to where we were told the team were being held. we were about 45 kilometres east of donetsk when we got a tip off that there was a military convoy heading our way. we did actually reach the point where we started filming them. they spotted us, and in a very swift and professional operation, the six cars that were accompanying the trucks, which were heavily laden and covered in canvas, we think it was ammunition and weapons and vests inside there, life vests,

and then they surrounded us with guns. they pointed them straight at us and demanded to know what we were doing. they took the camera. these men were highly professional. they were speaking russian. they were in combat fatigues, no insignias or any means of identification at all. according to our security advisor, who was with us. they were highly trained and he thought they had experience in the special forces. there's no way i could tell because they were wearing balaclavas, and they had guns trained on us, who they were, and where they came from. they took the camera. that is still missing and moved on up the road towards donetsk. now, in addition to that, behind me, we have been seeing a whole truckload of separatist fighters heading to the airport here. now, there were three trucks, 100 me. he had a howe itser, two a.p.

cs. things are gearing up, especially for an offensive and any attack by the ukranian government forces on donetsk. we have heard that they reinforced their positions in the tv tower. that's in addition to what is happening in slovyansk, where another front has been opened by the ukranian government against the separatist fighters, the pro-russian sprautist fighters -- separatist fighters, and we heard reports that rocket launchers were used. they shoot them off the back of a lori, a set of explosions, and we heard some reports from the separatist fighters. ukranian helicopter has been shot down. we haven't confirmed that. that's what they are claiming. we have reports from a team at the airport that the forces were

loading. two fronts now opening up here in donetsk. rebel fighters moving towards the airport and the ukranian government forces fighting heavily against the separatist fighters in slovyansk. >> as you were speaking there we looked at pictures of a convoy, live pictures, moving through donetsk. give us an idea of what it's like there now, for your average person? >> well, the mayor advised most people to stay inside. there are cars moving in the street. they are reinforcing all the roadblocks. they are increasing the number of men on the ground. there's more ammunition, more equipment with them. those pictures you saw they were dragging a howe itser, an artillery piece behind them. they looked like they were ready and well prepared and reinforced, ready for any

attempt by the ukranian army to retake donetsk. watching it carefully, it's obviously tense. in this area we are 2km away from the airport. so life is extraordinarily going on as normal here. >> thank you very much. nigerian president goodluck jonathan vowed to launch an all-out war against boko haram. the group kidnapped over 200 girls from the school last month. speaking in his annual democracy day address, he ordered security forces to end the threat on soil for good. >> i'm determined to protect our democratsy, our night at unity and political -- national unity and political stability. the unity and stability of the country. the application of lives and property. i have instructed forces to launch a full-scale operation to

put an end to the impupity of terrorists on our soil. >> president jonathan expressed sympathy for parents of those abducted, insisting all would be done. >> it's a fine abduction of girls. [ inaudible ] parents and guardians, and i assure them once again that government will continue to do everything possible to bring our daughters home. our correspondent watched the speech in the cal tall abuja. >> reporter: during president goodluck jonathan's speech, designed to mark 15 years of uninterrupted democracy in nigeria. he welcomed the government's efforts to rescue and find more than 200 girls kidnapped back in mid-april. as expected by many members for

the public, there was no new information to try to bring them home. on monday the nigerian chief of defense staff gave a statement ag the military knew where the girls were, but for operational and security reasons, couldn't go in and rescue them. leading to the pros effect that there might be a negotiation in the works to get them back. the government wouldn't be prepared to negotiate with boko haram. now, as thinks remain, there's no detailed information about what the authorities here are intending to do to get the girls back, and international pressure to find them remains. >> more here on al jazeera coming up. >> all the negative customs and tradition must be done away with. >> in the tradition of child

marriage across africa. >> i'm very hardworking and been blessed. >> why mary angelou's writing and life inspired so many from poets to presidents. and the french open continues without the biggest name in the women's draw. the latest coming up in sports. more talking, less force. that is a message from the u.s. president obama who that is given a major speech on foreign policy, patty culhane has more. >> reporter: in front of the nation's military officers, president obama looked to reassure the country it still matters. >> the united states is and remains the one indispensable nation. >> this speech because he's had a hard time convincing americans he has a foreign policy plan.

you need look no further than the memorial in washington to find out how hard. >> i think the foreign policy lacked. he's never made a stand. >> i think everyone is pushing to get involved. i don't think we need to get involved. i don't think we have learnt our lessons from vietnam, afghanistan, iraq. >> the president is trying to find a middle ground. assuring americans he'd use the military under strict conditions. >> the united states will use military force when the core interests demand it. when our people are threatened. when our livelihoods are at stake. when the security of our allies is in danger. >> when u.s. military force is not an option. the president will look to other options. one is building a consensus. diplomatic pressure, like you are seeing in ukraine. when it comes to use of force,

he's talking about outsourcing. >> promising a $5 billion amount. >> i believe america's security demanded deployment. >> the speech was a list of promises - more transparency for the drone programme, closing guantanamo bay prison and the law allowing it to stay open. at the memorial some point out he said it before. >> what i remember is we'll be out of guantanamo bay in what year - that was in the first three days of office he said he'd do that. he's dragging his feet on that part. >> his actions over 5.5 years formed the public opinion. he has over two to change that. and his foreign policy legacy. >> mike is an assistant

professor of deposit at the school of foreign -- government at the school of foreign service in doha. we want a wider view of this. the foreign policy speech comes halfway through his final tenure. how would you characterise his speech and foreign policy and the legacy that he may leave behind? >> i think he's trying to placate both sides, the isolationist. he has members of both camps in his cabinet, and there has been a lot of wariness in america, amongst the public and military, where suicide rates escalated - 22 a day. he has to navigate the turbulent scenes, and try to find a way out of these various conflict without sending more troops into a quagmire, whether it be in syria or elsewhere. >> he's getting cite six from both sides.

the right said he could have been tougher on syria, the left saying he hasn't go through tougher. other issues where he'll draw a line on. where does he stand in all of this. how does he come out of this, given how he is more interested in more talk, less action. he's being jumped at the moment. >> yes, in a sense he's trying to have it both ways. in syria they are saying "we are not intervening," on the other "we are intervening" by arming the opposition in cland es type ways. that's the hallmark, a smart more secretive approach to the conflict, rather that the open warfare that we've seen in the past. it will be a hard thing to navigate. i don't know how you can placate those that claim that

interventionism would solve everything. had he gone in, he would have faced the same criticisms from the same parties that he had not succeeded, et cetera. he can't do anything on that front. i would approve an approach that is different from his approach or george w. bush's approach, a ceasefire and stopping of the fuelling of the fire. i don't think you'll solve the conflict by pouring weapons into them. >> good to have you on set. >> thank you. >> now, tributes have been paid to mary angelou, the american poet, author and activist, who died at the age of 86. she was known in 1969 more her memoir "i know why the caged bird sings." u.s. president barack obama said:

al jazeera's alan fisher looks back at her life. >> reporter: she was one of the america's literary voices of the last 50 years. she was more than a writer. she was a civil rights act visit. she was born margrethe annie johnson, but was raised in the state of arkansas. her difficult childhood was reflected in a best-selling autobiography, "i know why the caged bird sings," which was turned into a movie. it de tailed violence in her own

home. she was raped and didn't speak for five years. mary angelou starred as a dancer, winning a scholarship leading to performing on broadway and tv shows. a serious calling center overseas, she ran newspapers in egypt, taught in ghana and learnt to speak five languages. she wrote, publishing more than five best selling titles, she acted in "roots" >> movie reel: now that you are a man, what will you do. >> among her accomplishments pulitzer prize, grammy awards, degrees and the presidential medal of freedom. >> imagine it, a black girl from a little village in arkansas, smaller than this little town here. this little village. imagine it. now considered one of the most important writers. imagine it. >> the poem she wrote for

president clinton's inauguration sold more than 1 million copies. >> come, you may stand on my back and face your destiny. seek no haven in my shadow. >> mary angelou wrote "our life is not measured by the breath we take, but the moments that take our breath away." she was 86. and now time to get the weather with richard. >> thank you very much, indeed. we'll look at the weather across africa, particularly central parks of africa. great rain bounds move north as the sun goes north. so at the moment some areas are seeing significant rain. we get into the rainy season across parts of south sudan. these pictures coming from a refugee camp. the situation doesn't look horrendous. you see there's a bit of rain causing significant amounts of flooding. indeed, further towards the

west, we have had significant rain fall. here you can say burberatti - 8-9mm of rain, and libraville coming up with rainfall in alaska. 149mm of rain. all the way across the gulf there's likely to be further rain in the forecast. showers likely there in lagos and nigeria. picking up a few showers. further north there has been rain pushing up across the lakes of mali. on friday mauritania looks to be bone dry. the possibility of one or two showers getting up there. temperatures reaching 36 degrees. further pulses of rain pushing into the area in the next couple of days. >> more from richard later in the programme. >> in sudan, a woman facing death by hanging has given birth

to a baby girl. this is babe yea mayor born in prison to meriam ibrahim. the newborn is shown sleeping in the arms of her father, daniel. she will nurse her child for two years before the sentence is carried out, and she has appealed. >> the african union is launching a campaign to end child marriage. in zambia more than 40% of young women are married before the age of 18 and forced into it by older men. the first lady is making efforts to bring about change. >> reporter: exams are on students' minds as they walk to school. others have grown up problems to think about. they eloped with her boyfriend in february. >> he wanted to convince my parents we should marry. >> it's her books, not a marm bid. the chief tracked her down and ended her plans. >> it's part of a group of

traditional leaders in zambia, trying to end child marriages. he calls the police and uncomfortable meetings like this. the husbands are older than the brides. he's at university. she dropped out of schools. >> the leaders great that all the negative customs and traditions must bet done away with. basically at the moment we are not going in a tradition, because the tradition embraced is to see to it they with have an educated community in zambia. >> ruth's early marriage was ended by the chief who pays for the girl's school fees. >> i was missing for four days by my husband. my family was looking for me. i resisted at first. >> she has spoken at the united nations about child marriage, spreading his message from the

village to new york. >> the teenagers has been given a second chaps. the chief does not have the resources to send them back to school. nor to address memories, and that is poverty. >> it offered them the chaps to be the head of the household. the chief intervened. >> there was no point at which we considered the issue of marriage, because she was too young. we want her back in school. >> they can't afford the $3 demri fee to have her readmitted to school. with progressive leadership poverty is holding her back. well, every year about 14 million teenage girls are married, and many are forced into weddings against their will. the practice is common in sub-saharan africa. niger has the highest child marriage rate in the world - 75% of girls married before the age

of 18. >> in neighbouring chad it's 68%, coming from the u.n. agency for children, unicef. the same number of underaged marriages take place in the central african republic. for more, let's speak to a woman from the african women's development network. and joins us from kenyan's capital nairobi. good to have you on. the reports we saw focuses on the girls trying to get married themselves. in most cases, would it not be society, the girl's parents and as we saw from the statistics, cultural norms for young girls to be married off. >> yes, definitely. we know that in the majority of cases the girls are married off forcefully without their concept, so that's what we are fighting, fighting to ensure that every girl is not denied

the right to make a decision over her body and life, which is highly impacted when she's married off at a young age. >> how is it given that most of the countries where you see the huge number of child marriages are paternalistic, who are male dominated, who make the rules and regulations there. >> it's a difficult battle, but it is possible. i think the campaign sets a good precedent because we do need political will at the highest levels, and it's good to know that archbishop desmond tu tu have signed the cam -- joined the campaign to end child marriage. we neat commitment at all levels, teachers, parents, community leaders and the politicians. we need to strengthen laws and make sure where there are laws that set the minimum age of marriage at 18, that there are

no loopholes, which we know are taken advantage much. there are customary law saying that a child is able to get married as long as she has concept from her parents, which is something that we hope does not happen. in addition, we do see in a number of cases where in cases of sexual violence, for example, that the perpetrator is set free as long as he marries his victim. that is problematic. >> our correspondent brought up a point, that the main issue not addressed is wov erty, and most don't have the resources of child marriage. how will that be combatted. >> one of the things that government need to do is invest in education, in terms of the

quality, making sure it's seize and accessible. we know a girl with secondary education is six times less likely to marry as a child. there are efforts made, that do need to be made to fight it, and we need to understand that child marriage perpetuates poverty, and contributes to the decline in development, and for our country, africa celebrating 50-plus years, this is the renaissance. as we look forward to the next 50 years, it's critical that we end child marriage because of the multiple consequences that it has on society. >> good to talk to you on a very worthy topic. >> thank you. thank you for having me. >> more to come on al jazeera. drought in the philippines. the government is not prepared to face looming weather

conditions. plus, days to go until brazil hosts its first world cup game, but will the fans get around?

hello again, here are the headlines - abdul fatah al-sisi looks to be headed for victory in the presidential election. even though the final results are not in. there were celebrations in tahrir square. this campaign - early results showing that he's won over 90%

of the votes. >> a convoy of pro-russian separatists including army personnel carriers heads towards donetsk airports. it was the scene of heavier fighting earlier in the week. >> the government will continue to do everything possible to bring our daughters home. >> nigerian president goodluck jonathan vowed to launch war against armed group boko haram. they kidnapped 219 girls from their school in north borno state last month. >> syrians living abroad have been casting early votes ahead of the presidential election. in lebanon officials extending the voting until thursday. the atmosphere is calm. thousands swamped the embassy, and were trying to get to the polling station amid chaotic scenes. we go outside the syrian embassy in beirut.

we described the scenes yesterday. what is happening today? >> more people today. the scene is organised. for the people the process is easier. tens of thousands voted according to the syrian ambassador in beirut. more people came today. some came yesterday, but couldn't get in. they came back determined to vote. some are determined to vote because they are staunch supporters of the bashar al-assad effort. they believe this presidential election is a sign he has won over his enemies and opponents. some of the people here are registering identity cards over at the embassy. they choose the canned dat. many wanted to make sure that their names are registered. that they showed up. they are afraid that their families in syria may pay a price, if they don't show up, or

their accessibility to the country may be hindered or the identity or passports not renewed if they don't come to vote. it's a smooth process. there are two lines. people are waiting in line. yesterday the scene was chaotic. people were rushing in. according to the government and officials, what accounts for them is not the number of how many voted, but the people that rushed to vote. this is an election, they don't recognise it. the european union says it's not democracy, you cannot held in the midst of a conflict. many of the syrian refugees, whether in lebanon or other areas cannot vote, because they had not answered the neighbouring countries legally. they enter through the border,

some ran through the night, through the forest and are not in the country legally, so they cannot vote. >> live in beirut where syrians are casting their ballots. earlier in the programme we gave an update on ukraine and talked about a helicopter shot down. we have more information coming in now. we are hearing that ukraine's acting president says 14 ukrainians, including an army general is dead, after the helicopter was shot down. we'll bring you more information on that as we get it. in other news, the team looking for the missing malaysia airlines flight finished its search without finding any sign of debris. the crew has been searching in the southern indian ocean off the the coast of the australia. that's where a series of acoustic signals, throughout to be related to the missing mh370 were picked up in april. >> at least one person is missing after an oil tanker

exploded off the japanese coach. several crew members were rescued, four suffering injuries, the coast guard is searching for the missing man, believed to be the captain. >> china started an anti-terrorism operation. the campaign comes as 55 people were found guilty of terrorism charges, held in a province targeted in a deadly suicide attack a week ago. >> adrian brown reports on how the government is trying to reassure a nervous public. >> imagine beginning each working day like this. early morning commuters core rolled like cattle. they are queueing to enter a busy subway station. there's a weary acceptance that this is how it now has to be. >> i don't think the effect of these measures will be great. the real attacks will not take place in such a station. patrolling is more important.

>> translation: i was worried before, now i feel better now that security was beefed up much. >> in beijing it has. armed police patrol the streets. elsewhere the army seems on a war footing. this show of force is in the city of arumchi, capital of xinjiang, and a response to the car bombings that killed 39 people. the central government blamed the attacks on separatists from the ethnic muslim uyghur community, such images are aimed at reassuring an increasingly worried public. >> the government wants to send a signal that a committee to protecting lives and safety of the public in an effective way. i think the chinese people will be able to understand. >> in scenes that are an echo of china revolutionary rallies, state media released photos of a trial held in a soccer stadium.

5 people were convicted of terrorism, separatism and murder. three sentenced to death. the trials were unrelated to the violence. it's a sign of intensifying security crackdown. >> beijing has not seen security like this since the olympics. the fact in this operation has been extended is a measure of how worried the deposit is. adrian brown, al jazeera. beijing. environmentalists in the philippines warns that the government is not prepared for severe conditions. more than 6,000 were killed and thousands displaced when typhoon haiyan struck. there are fears that it could be worse in the coming years. we have this report. >> reporter: this man has been a farmer all his life. over the last 20 years, his job has only gotten more and more

difficult. >> our rivers are dried up. wells are empty. there's barely enough water to sprinkle the crops. farmers are told to brace for the wars. >> the weather phenomenon is expected to bring damage to crops, across the country in the coming months. it's affected the northern philippines, this is a rice reducing region, and impacts could be disastrous. >> if you have a deduction in rainfall, you have a reduction in the sources of water. we'd have a limited area to irrigate. >> the government called on people to conserve water, saying the dry weather could last a year. it provide water to people in

manila and other provinces. even though the dry season has not reached its possiblying, water levels is below critical. operators have stopped irrigating over 100,000 hectares of farmland in order to save water. the government says it has begun clouds to make it rain. there's el nino weather event here that may cause more crop losses. unpredictable losses held back the agricultural sector. for years they found ways to cope, even with barely any hep from the government. now they are wondering whether they'll be able to do it on their own again. and fears that the effect of el nino could bring damage to crops. for more, let's get on explanation from richard.

tell us about the impact of el nino. >> the worst el nino back in the '90s, the damage to crops and fisheries was 40 billion. it can have a massive impact. to explain, this is a normal state of affairs. you have the trade winds taking cooler waters away to the west. during an el nino that pressure pattern weakens, and the trend reverses so you get warmer waters welling up off of the coast. in terms of whether that effect spreads, if you take prue as an example, you have warmer water, more evaporation, more cloud and rain. you tend to get flooding. the impact spreads. the philippines, during an el nino sees dry conditions. the indian monsoon - it depend if it's a big one.

if it's not other facts come into play. we'll keep a close eye on whether this is a major one. >> one person has been killed during a shoot-out between police and drug traffickers in rio de janeiro. residents took an oath to recover as police raided a neighbour hood. it's part of a push against the upcoming world cup. ross shimabuku has been looking at the preparations for the tournament. >> the 43,000 feet stadium is almost finished, with workers frantically applying the final touches. good news for inspectors. but it's a different story in the rest of the area. the smallest world cup venue in the party of the booming agricultural state. antonio says the city in the

geographical interest in south america has turned into a nightmare. >> this is a small neighbour hood stream which all the traffic has to go through. residents are angry. it gets worse every day. >> this 22km rail link was supposed to join the link to the city center. it's months, years, from completion. >> this is another blocked street. we'll have to go two streets up. >> imagine if during the world cup all this is blocked. i hope to have a magic wand. >> brazil was granted the world cup more than six years ago. has it gone according to plan? >> no. >> no, there has been no time to complete the works. the most important ones for the tourists to get around will be finished. >> reporter: plans were

ambitious, not helped by bureaucracy and a corruption scandal involving the arrest of the governor. >> of all the 12 world cup, this is the one doing the most work to improve the city. brazilian law makes it difficult to move quickly. >> we are lost. we'll have to go back the way we came or we'll get more lost. this is one of the main access roads to the stadium. >> reporter: there are no welcome banners, no football posters, little evidence that the half a million or so population, with little in the way of footballing tradition, has been infected by world cup fever. >> the stadium is almost ready. city authorities have not met their challenges of finishing the work on time. football will conduct off, but there'll be a high price to pay. >> still to come here on al

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only on al jazeera america >> these protestors have decided that today they will be arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down a state... >> what's clear is that people don't just need protection, they need assistance. an international study found more people than ever are over weight. and as we explain, the country we live in doesn't determine our

weight. >> from the university of washington, they collected data from 188 country, including adults and children over the period from 1980 to 2013. they used the most widely accepted way to classify people as overweight or obese, the body mass index. it's not a perfect measure, but it correlates with body fat leveliers, and a higher bmi predict early death. the team found in 1980 there were 857 million, 20% of the world overweighed or obese. it ballooned to 2.1 billion, under 30% of the world in 2013. the increase was seen in men and women, in rich and poor countries. it revealed people are overweighted or obese at younger and younger ages.

>> we don't use the word epidemic likely, we use it for infectious disease. our experience with obesity spread like an epidemic. no one was immune, no country. no social class, educational level. every segment of the population we see an increase in obesity. since 1980 the study recorded an increase of 50% in overweight children and adolescents. a quarter are overweight or obese. in porer nations it stand at 13%. high rates of child and adolescent obesity was seen in the middle east and north africa. >> in high school is when you develop an eating habit for all your life. this is the period of the life, what we need to focus and make sure everybody is behaving the right way to maximise health. >> obesity is associated with

disease - from cardio vascular to cancer and diabetes. a study like this underlines the tact that if left unchecked it will cost health systems dearly. with the chronic illnesses comes a decline in life expect si. >> now it's time for sport. here is robin. another day in the world of start. >> we'll start on the tennis courts. where many of the top-ranked women at the french open continue their campaigns with hope of claiming the title of a tournament. jelena jankovic wasted no time. sloane stevens is through, beating pal owna in straight sets: .

>> the women's field is open after defending champion and world number one serena williams suffered the most shocking loss of her career. she was expected to go through to the third round. it didn't work out. >> reporter: serena williams was the clear favourite to move through to the next round at roland garros. but her opponent, talented 20-year-old spaniard garbene muguraza had other ideas, beating here in just over an hour in a straight-sets victory. >> i know for a fact that i can work harder. i know for a fact that i can play better than what i did today. i mean, it's a double-edged sword. i didn't play well, i can play better. if i couldn't play better, it would be more disappointing. i know i can, it's something to look forward to. >> any chance of a williams family reunion was distinguished when elder sister venous crashed

out -- venus crashed out, before losing to her opponent. >> that result could leave the competition open for seventh seed maria sharapova, with a 4-time grand slam winner beating her opponent 7-5, 6-2. >> but the highest seed left in the draw is radonska. they'll have high hopes of winning a title. >> in the men's, second seed novak djokovic crewed into the third, claiming a win over france's jeremy shardy. the 2012 runner-up needing a title to complete a career grand slam. >> i managed to stay solid from

the baseline. if forced him to make unforced errors, that helped me to win in straight sets. roger federer joins him in the third round. the 17-time grand slam winner seeing off his opponent 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. he goes off to play for a spot in the last 16. >> miami heat had the eastern conference final lead cut. what a night paul george had in game 5, scoring 51 of 57 points. leading the pacers to a 93-90 win. the performance a day after he was fined $25,000 for criticising the officials in the previous game. the pacers must win in game 6 in miami, to take the series to a

decider. >> i thought the whole team had had a yellow light meantality, and was hesitant when we got down. the message to the team was the light needs to be on green for all of us. you need to go, attack and be aggressive. paul took it, ran with it and took it to a crazy minor. >> martin glaser, owner of manchester united died after celebrating his 86th birthday. fans protested a move, the way the american used loans to finance the purchase and saddled united with hundreds of millions of debts. despite that, the ownership coincided with a period of success on the pitch. he was owner. tampa bay buccaneers. united and the buccaneers will remain under the control of the glaser family, including the six

children. he never spoke about the manchester united deal, and when he appeared in public, he was less than forthcoming when talking about the most controversial deal. >> i appreciate it's a great day, there's a parallel sports story which is the purchase of manchester united. would you be able to give a message to the manchester united fans who are, i think it's fair to say, desperate to hear from you and desperately friday in your plans for one of the great clubs of the world. >> we are here to celebrate the super bowl in tampa, 2009. it's an important day. this community is here to celebrate that. >> reporter: there are fans looking forward to hearing from mr glaser, would he at least send a message to the moount fans, in what is a period of anxiety for them. >> next question. >> glaser went into ownership

when purchasing the tampa bay duckan ears for $192 million. they celebrated a super bowl in 2002. he turned his attention to mooupted, taking control in 2005 in a deal worth an estimated 1.3 billion. the deal was met by protests by united fans who feared the buyout and death would stop the club competing for the richest teams, they continued to be successful winning preings and the champion's league are under the owner have been. >> the friendly match, that was supposed to be called off. it came from craven cottage. f.i.f.a. was asked to issue an alert. there was a 2-1 lead before they

erpt a 2-2 draw. >> tiger woods pulled out of the u.s. open because of injury. it's the second major championship that woods missed. he won the u.s. open in 2008. it was the last of major titles. he says he remains optimistic about his future. he lost the number one ranking to australian adam scott. there has been a late win against the l.a. kings. a winning goal in the second overtime period. the black hawks trailing 3-2 in the best of seven, with game six taking police in los angeles on friday. >> that's the sport, more later. >> plenty more on the website, aljazeera.com. >> stay with us, there's another full bulletin ahead.

>> just because we have the best hammer does not mean every problem is a nail. >> president obama laying out his plan for u.s. foreign policy. why he believes america needs to head in a new direction. >> i know that v.a. is withholding documents relating to at least three relevant communications by claiming torn-client privilege. >> veterans affairs officials on the congressional hot seat following a new report showing delays in care were even w