it is this is al jazeera. >> hello and welcome to the news hour i'm darina bogeda in doha with your top stories. dancing for joy. malawi mass just l elected a new president but he says he will see you in court. the first suicide attack by a u.s. citizen in syria.

he took his orders from a l portion of l many al qaeda. a bomb slams into a maternity hospital. hole, malawi's new president just sworn in the day after he was declared the winner of an outgoing president. >> some people in malowi some people say he's not happy he's president. people who are unhappy with the fact he's now leading the country, let's foregive and

forget. his party rigged this particular election they say, it was fraudulent and they say he shouldn't be the head of malowi's l country, his country. >> security forces in malawi try to, president elect. >> it is a field day of celebration. there is an extent of celebration. people sore happy. it has been a long day. no mistake about it. >> officials are overcome with emotion. protesting over the disputed lks.

as the leader of malawi's disputed election. >> mr. cyrus klaus gemi of the social democraticking party as if the elect and vice president elect respectively. >> reporter: supporters, find a way to be joyous but believes the may 20th licks were rigged. want a recount of the votes. >> was it really are they hiding? why are they happy, it is very disappointing at the very least. all i can say is, we are not

taking this lying down. like i said. we cannot appeal within the next seven days. >> what is the priority now haru as the president of malawi? >> to make sure he was official sworn in, he knows some preliminary parties will try to go to court to see that no know one intervenes with the process. but the main thing will be the economy. he's admitted that malawi's l many economy is on the verge of collapse. a huge corruption scandal with donors, stopped giving money to malawi, back on to his side, he has told malawians he will try

to rebuild the country's economy. >> l hari matasi reporting. south china sea region. relations have been disputes by disputes and aildz ove islands . hagel says lon term progress. >> china has called the south china sea a sea of process and cooperation. that is what it should be. but in recent months, china has undertaken destabilizing unilateral actions, destabilizing the south china sea. we also whether from military or

civilian vessels from countries big or small. the ufts will not look the other way when fundamental principles of the international order are being challenged. >> hagel was speak in an international summit, and from there scott heidler has more. >> reporter: blunt language, they see the ultimates administration sees this as destabilizing in the region that could possibly have international ramifications. the secretary welcomed a move by japan at these same talks that say they want to become more involved in peace in this region. upping its pivot to l asia. 60% of army and navy from the u.s. will operate out of this area soists very important for

them moving forward. >> most recent there's been a confrontation with vietnam after china put an oil rig off the vietnamese coast in waters that both countries say are theirs. and china claims a u-saipped swath of the south china sea. philippines l japan and china are in dispute over a group of islands known as sinkaiku in japan and daiu in china. give their flight plans and identify themselves. but that also overland.japan's l air zone. is school of international studies he says the sufs capable of stepping in to defend its allies in the region.

>> the u.s. has plenty ever mill tril assets already i -- militay assets in the region, u.s. continues to be dominant military power in east asia and that dominance is only set to increase over the next half a decade as the air force and the navy reorient their fleet to the south pacific. philippines and the south china sea and japan in the east china sea and those are both u.s. treaty allies. in the event of a war in either of those countries, the u.s. is beholden to those countries. especially in the asean

countries. lolong standing strategic partnerships in this area. most of these countries that are now in the middle into the arms of the united states, which is much further away than china and therefore, much less of a threat to the countries of the region. >> the u.s. state department says an american has carried out a suicide bombing in syria for the first time. believed to have detonated his explosives in idlib province earlier this week. staying his orders from a group l.connected to al qaeda. >> we are concerned about the fighters in and out of syria.

we are engaged in a focused outreach effort regarding our concern of flow of fighters to the syrian conflict. >> let's bring in glefn glen ha, joining us from the u.s. state department. intelligence officials glenmoore said there are other 40 fighting against bashar al-assad and his government. is there any way the u.s. can track these people going to syria? >> good morning. yes, indeed as we have seen in great profusion with edward snowden revelations. the americans are very adept at you surveilling any group l any radical jihaddists leaving the united states.

this confirms what they already expected and we saw the state department spokesman mention possibly 70 american jihaddists in syria. but this is really a catch-up what has already happened in spain, germany and france and united kingdom. we reckon there are several made their way to turkey then croat across the border largely into aleppo. the fact that this alleged, not alleged, it's been recognized now, has been part of al nusra that has been linked to al qaeda. as i say by nsa tracking, by what she referred to as cooperative governments. well, the intelligence services

of the countries i mentioned have been keeping a very close high on these -- >> glenmoore these governments from preventing these citizens going to these countries. you mentioned a number of countries but who makes up the largest contingent of foreign fighters in syria? >> i'm not sure that i can answer that. not because i'm restricted from saying so but i don't actually know. the thing is as i say we believe there is something between 500 and possibly 700 fighters from europe. a number have returned, we've had for example, so far this year, nearly 80 return to the united kingdom from syria. and in fact only in the last two weeks there was a pros accus prf

three british citizens who had gone to syria and fought. and the concern for the british which is shared by our european allies and now the americans, too, is that these fighters, many first of all, they go to military madrassas, they are experienced in weapons and the fear is that they will practice, what they learned in syria they will practice it in the you united kingdom or in the case of the united states somewhere in the domestic united states. that is why it is so worrying. >> okay very good to get your thoughts on syria. thank you very much. dozens captured in southern somalia have been rescued. from an area that used to be a stronghold by the fighters.

the armed men who held the people hostage have fled from the town. you you are with the al jazeera you new news hour. just how foreigner friendly is russia'russia's capitol? foreigners give it a rating. details coming up. up. but first, the chechen leader has denied sending separatist fighters to ukraine. raises questions about the foreign fighters taking part in the unrest. president barack obama, as david chattechatchater has mentioned.

>> defending the town of slovyansk against kyiv's assault. who brought down a military helicopter with a servic surfacr mix including a senior general. within minutes of the al jazeera team arriving a salvo of seven mortar shells was fired on the town. above the barricades the flags of both russia and their self-declared republic. the fighters here are becoming battle-hardened. but they've built themselves bunkers. they can take shelters when the mortars rain down. filing protect the lives of civilians. evidence here that the mortar barrages are random, not aimed

at military targets. this is a maternity hospital. the nurses showed me the deadly shrapnel that was blown through walls after an attack thursday night. it was a miracle that nobody was killed here. the barrage of shells sent deadly shards of glass everywhere. one nurse showed me the basement where the children were led to take shelter as the mortars fell around the hospital. we found a mother nursing her newborn baby. terrified as we entered the town. >> of course they are afraid. especially when our own army is attacking us, they're shownding us -- shroudin shroud surroundi. >> the sense of fear overwhelming. david chater, al jazeera, rm

slovyansk. l baher mohamed, peter greste, and mohamed fahmy have been held, a fourth al jazeera of al jazeera journalist, be be ab dlu al-shami, has been be requesting a medical report to document his poor health. there are the generation that chamg challenged tuns tun d regime. >> many ton outskirts, she's going door to door.

she is an educator. like a third of young tunisians here, she can't find work. >> they don't pay well. the salary's $100 a month. you cabinet live on that. >> lkes is close to tunisia's border with algeria. there are many historical sites. the people here accuse the government in b.tunis. spend their days in cafes like this. some have given up all hope of finding work. l. >> mohamed abas ifertion says he understands why, canned fines a

permanent jock. >> i know graduates who have been unemployed for five or six years. my message is consider the unemployed because they are the ones who created the revolution. >> here we are in the terminal complex. >> trying to raise money for local historical walk. >> it's an element of our identity. >> would it create jobs and investment. but he's saying he's being blocked by unfair business rules and bureaucracy. >> the state is always interfering. they ask us, where is your authorization, every time we do everything. the administrative process is hell. they either block our process or work with us. that's it. >> about celebrating freedom and culture. it was a new generation that challenged an old regime that led to the arab spring.

right now tunisia's government is spending more than it takes in. reviving the economy and creating jobs is not going to be easy. nalni mashira, al jazeera. >> tarek is joining us in the studio that is an ngo which promotes large scale training for young people. i'll tell you what exactly you are doing within silitek in just a moment. regarding the unemployment in tunisia which is one of the reasons the arab spring erupted and started. >> that's correct. the highest within ten years now. i think in that context one has to understand the protest movements associated with the arab spring. partly for the right approaches, the right programs, the right

response, for society, to address this problem. yet in the three years sings 2011 by all indicators we have youth economic conditions have worthenned in egypt, l tunisia and a number of other countries. >> can you point to the continuous political upheaval that's going on or why? >> that's certainly one driving critical reasons. unfocused on the work of creating jobs. to ensure that jobs are created in large numbers and jobs are sustainable. in a lot of these transition countries governments have been unstable. they lack confidence. they don't even have visions how they want to go about tackling this. the second driver is the global economy. let's remember egypt, tunisia,

yes, ma'am, economic markets are shrinking. these have made the problems a lot worse and hence, asking the question today after these revolutions what have we actually gained? >> speaking of global economies, this problems not limited to the middle east, because the international labor organization in a new report says that global youth unemployment in fact is going ocontinue to rise over the next year because actually, companies are not investing in new employees. what's going to change here? >> true. but let's put the global word in its rightful context here. a number of countries, youth unemployment has emerged recently as a direct result of the austerity measures, a lot of strurlstructural dislocation, ad

while it's likely to continue for a number of years, a lot of these economies have athe necessary dynamism to overcome these. unemployment rates have been at the highest for a decade and a half ago. structural issues acknowledge who creates jobs, the kind of education young people receive, a host of things putting further pressure on societies and governments in particular who focus, outline what they should do and cooperate with the potential regional loam and he regional actors. there is a global context and i would argue this global context might be helpful to us. the experiences we are seeing in spain porsche ga portugal or fr.

>> thank you very much for joining us tarek youse ffers. yousef. you'll find that coverage on sunday right here on al jazeera. let's cross over to steph and steph, you're going to tell us about what's happening in india. >> that's right. we've had some wild weather in the past couple of hours. on the satellite picture these bright-white areas look rather severe. thunderstorms, very strong wrindz as well. so that has created a dust storm here. it's pick up a lot of dysdust and haze and made things quiet miserable. when these thunderstorms dropped

over us, they were 40° and they dropped to 35, in the last hour and a half. some of them are expected to be rather potent. around here, it is going to be rather hot, what you would expect at this time of year. in the south we have the premonsoon rain, clouds and showers, that's how things will look as we head through day onto monday as well. these showers are just a taste of what's to come. >> all right steph thank you. well, saturday is world no tobacco day. and the world health organization is calling on governments to increase taxes on tobacco products. it's estimate they'd money 6

million die from tobacco each year, nonsmokers who breathe in secondhand smoke. some smokers are turning to electronic cigarettes to try to kick the habit. but in australia their use has been banned in some states. andrew thomas reports. >> vivian cent had no warning his home was about to be raided. the half dozen officials that showed up in black suv suddenly stormed in. >> it was like i was in a tv show, it just happened. they were tipping my hoax upside down. >> they were looking for e-cigarettes. originally to stop the sale of cigarettes to children about nothing can l resemble a

cigarette. his business was shut down. around the world, e-cigarette use is growing fast. boutiques in france, shops like this in sydney. they say it helps them quit tobacco but you keep on smoking cigarettes, and you smoke e-cigarettes as well. so you dual-use. and that is not a good thing. because many people who do that might otherwise quit altogether. >> this week though, 50 health professionals wrote to the world health organization urging it not oact too fast against these cigarettes which they call a significant innovation. that letter may be written too late. the e-cigarette industry may be

shut down just as the debate is catching fire. australia has a history of settinsetting the pace on tobaco legislation, it's the first country to snition on plain -- to insist on plain packaging with segregates. e-cigarettes. ab drew thomas, al jazeera, darwin. >> still ahead. >> i'm veronica pe pedrosa. many thailand's reaction to the military coup. >> they're given a chance to open their own savings account. >> and why golf's biggest names could be facing an fbi investigation. details coming up.

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comcast business built for business. >> hello are you're watching al jazeeraing. week many allegations of trawd. the u.s. state department says an american has carried out a suicide bombing in junior syriar first time. earlier this week. and u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel has taken aim at china

over its actions in the south china sea. hagel accused china with this. carried out a coup last week and the dividing factor is the former you prime minister, tak shinawatra. ta tak you shinawatra. it is a personal matter for noy who sold snacks here for decades and watched the customers grow up including tacsin and yin luck

shinawatra pnl, detained by the army for five days in the mass arrests that fold the military coup. >> we have to wait and see if the army general who staged the coup can deliver what he promises in bringing people together with no colors of shirts. i wonder how he can make it happen. >> there are hardly any soldiers to be seen in shanghai's streets. scratch the surface and the nature of the political battle becomes apparent. >> the military here have so far refused to say how many people they've actually detained as part of the crack down. still, the military's going ahead with a seemingly contradictory campaign. they're offering basic medical services to people in so-called red villages. nobody seems very enthusiastic. no medical notes are taken nor follow-up offered.

be. >> translator: as a udd supporter, i will be watching to see what will happen in the next three to six months. we would like to see if what he actually delivers is worth the military coup. >> reporter: no one but the general is now in charge knows whether scenes like this will be repeated in the city. protests shut down, media shut down and numbers arrested for no particular reason. veronica pedrosa, al jazeera. >> b >> sparsely populated island, hundreds of flights in and out of australia's northern city of darwin have been evacuated.

>> military fighters say figh fighters crossed over from afghanistan and killed one soldier. alleged gang rape and killing of two teen aged girls in india. ages 14 and 15 have been strangled before they found their bodies hanging from a tree. they had been gone missing on tuesday evening. a survey from save the children say nearly 70% of them have to fend for themselves. often lost or stolen or taken away from their parents. karishma veras has the story.

>> collects paper plastic and bottles. anything he can sell. 50,000 children in india's capitol who work for a living. he wants to save for better life but the $5 he earns today is usually spent or taken by his mother. >> if i could open a bank account i could open -- save money and that could be better. >> the reserve bank of india couldn't agree more. asking children over the age of ten to open accounts without adult consent. organizations that work with destitute families say the decision will help working children save their way out of poverty. >> they have big dreams and they will get oknow that they want to

become policemen, army men, some want to achieve that. >> many of these children sea they want to open accounts to save money but most don't have photo identification and can barely read and write. that will make it difficult for banks to help them. while the reserve bank of indi india's president is not following. >> it's a really empowering thing, borrowing. but there will be difficulties both in implementation, that is, in getting these accounts and thereafter, in ensuring that they will be proper reply handled. >> batcha has no prove who he is but he will do whatever he can to get identification, that way he can dance tall way to the

bank. cssmentsarishmma al jazeera, delhi. >> the organization i indiaen and that organization has children living ton streets. i wonder charu, what you make of this development and this move by the reserve bank of india. do you welcome it or is it risky for kids? >> it is a really good step and it will actually make children aware on financial issues. and it will promote good savings practices and bring a good transparencicy, among the rehabilitation processing among children and especially street children. we welcome this step and it is an important and much needed step i can say.

>> you are speaking about children as young as ten years old. what does a child know about banking how to defend themselves? >> that is one of the tricky things about our project. we have initiated bank accounts for some children who have been rescued from street and molestation. we made a provision that their bank accounts can oversee their proceedings, their transaction, and they can basically monitor and safeguard those situations where like some misuse of funds can be happened. and be by the children and also by the third party also. so it is very important that some system, some checks and seasonal safeguards should be

there. it should be in place to monitor the entire proceeding. because otherwise it is very difficult for children to -- >> but how do you ensure that these safeguards are going to be in place and there is going to be a proper implementation on behalf of the banks and the social workers that you speak about? >> well, as far as my organization is current, we are basically for last six years, seven years we are especially taking care of this issue that our children if they are getting some kind of nerve from vocational training or get some support, they should save in the banks only and they are having the bank accounts only, and i think from end of there is a bank of india and other financial institution also, there should be some monitoring related to the -- to check the flows of fund and they should

limit the funds as part of the age of the children so there are certain thaings they can do. >> thank you very much for speaking to us from india. turkey answer, demonstrates demonstrate rs are starting to mark the first anniversary of taksim process test. turned into mass antigovernment rallies. a number of people died in the protests against them pep. the death sentence handed down against a christian woman. she argues she was raised by her christian mother not hurry muz yoher muslimfather.

miriam will be executed once she's nursed the baby for two years. police commanders are hoping it will make cities safer as raimp erachel levin reports. >> it is the eye in the sky. hunting down and capturing criminals. these police drones monitor the neighborhoods for be criminal activity. >> we can pick up their trail and arrest them. >> the pilots are in constant radio contact with officers at the command center. the officers on the ground monitor city streets with the help of hundreds of security cameras. whenever they suspect a crime, the pilots are called in to back up if operation. homicides are down 10% on a

national level but not in the state of mexico. in the first two months of this year murders rose from 303 to 374. extortions and kidnappings are also up dramatically. some government officials geef the spike in -- believe the spike in violence could be as a result of cartels as the government tries opush them out into the neighboring state of michoacan. >> seen killings and kidnappings that we didn't see before in the state of mexico so we're trying to take those preventive measures so it doesn't spread to other cities. >> reporter: president enrique pena nieto, has announcinged bringing in more federal forces. but additional boots on the ground may not be enough to curb the violence. >> it is important to help the state of mexico government

because on the one hand federal forces are well trained well paid and will organized and they work well together. however the only way that crime levels in the state of mexico will fall in the medium and long term is through reform of state police departments especially of the judiciary. >> for these officers fighting rhyme from the sky not only gives them a new perspective but also a powerful tool they hope eventually will make their city safer. rachel levin, al jazeera, the state of mexico. >> palestine's footballers make history. details coming up.r

is justice really for all? is justice really for all?

>> in brazil, the race is on to get sao paulo stadium ready for the world cup which takes off in six weeks. thanks to the city's graffiti artists. daniel broad on the other side. and a long long walk, four kilometers of it, very, very dull needed to be livened up.

every single game of football that they could think of. the passion the disappointment the victory and the ultimate victory. >> this event here is a four kilometers graffiti wall, the largest one in latin america and involves 70 artists. my proposal is a trillion flip book a flip graffiti. i show expressions of fun during the game starting with the beginning and included the moments of tension and suddenness, the idea is that those driving down this road will have the sensation of watching an animation frame by frame. >> reporter: nobody expresses themselves on the football pitch better than the brazilians. brazil's artists to express themselves too. >> time for tall sports news with robin p.m. >> thank you very much, headed

for an nba final, clinched their victory. as alise holman reports. >> challenged by indiana. with 3-2 lead defending champions the heat show their experience on the biggest stage. >> continues his three-point shooting. >> lebrown james scored just seven points in game 5 a career low and he responded this time with 25, matched by chris bosch. a dominant as the heat enters the finals for the third straight year. >> we're going to celebrate tonight because it doesn't happen every year. we've been fortunate to be part

of this four straight times. >> we are competing against michael jordan of our era, the chicago bulls of our era. you have to tip your hats to them. >> miami joined the lakers as the fourth team to make four trips to the finals. >> we sacrificed as individuals to be in this moment, in this position. so we understand, you know, where we're at right now. but it's still crazy too. >> either san antonio or oklahoma could face a massive task against miami in the finals. they both face their series on saturday. alise holman, al jazeera.

>> donald sterling is filing a $1 billion lawsuit against the nba. , formerly announcerred that it approved the deal osell the team to be steve ballmer. >> 4-3 winners, to tie three minutes 45 section left on the clock. game 7 between nhl's many champions. >> the last few games have been pretty wild i'm sure. i'm sure it's one for the fans to watch but they're a resilient

group and they've won the first two series and it's going to be a tough one. right now we're happy to get the win but it doesn't mean anything because we haven't won anything. we'll get ready for the next one and they'll bring their next to game 7. >> phil mickelson has denied any wrongdoing in an investigation of insider trading. probe into finance gambling and sport along with karl iconn. rnl suspicious tradin trading p. mickelson is off the pace at the matter rm tournament. the leader board with a second round 66.

casey has a three stroke lead. winning will give him automatic qualification for u.s. open. >> i thought i was chasing a few scores and that didn't materialize. and i focused on solid ball striking, trying to hit greens and a bit of pluck and it really turned out the same. really happy the way i played. >> last 16 at the french open. as he takes on argentina's leo mayer. roger federer, 33-seeded dimitri turchynov.

>> like expected, not a straightforward easy march acknowledge you know i knew that dimitri was going to try different things, play aggressive, and big cuts at the ball that's how it went you know. >> he set up a clash with werner skobac. second seeded novak djokovic, coming out a four-set winner. in the women's draw 2012, we know maria sharapova has advanced to the round without losings a game. sirks-06-0 in 51 minutes. >> i think she had another two break points when we came back after the rain and it was great to win that game, obviously get

advantage and follow through with that. i thought as the match went on i started playing better and better and it's great to get that match the way i did. >> be dominica stove, fourth time in six years she's made it through to the final round. going down in the third rown to 21-year-old ajila tomaljonovich. never been past the second round in the sarah coat, al jazeera. >> a record crowd of 80,000 people is expected in wembley steadstadium. for the biggest bout in fighting history.

george groves, middle weight crown, only been beat, ten years younger than his opponent. palestine's footballers have reached an incredible milestone. irasian club. palestine claimed the ac challenge cup by winning in the maldives. asian cup will be held in australia next january. plenty to go on our website, al jazeera.com/sports. contracted malaria. more to go o on al jazeera. a russian has rowed solo across the pacific ocean.

fedor was given a warm welcome on the sunshine coast in australia. k onukov has climbed mt. everest, and climbed the highest slope on every continent. moscow has been given the thumbs down on annual world destinations. expensive, unfriendly. a lack of good hotels and shops. but is russia that bad? rory challenge has been finding out. >> it may boast some of the most recognizable sites in the world but moscow is not popular with globe trotters it seems. moscow came bottom this trip advisor's list ever 37 urban

tourist destinations. i admit there is some challenge. for one, the a alphabet. the almost constant traffic. new york's great restaurants and night life propelled it to second and bars malon barcelona. we were surprised to see any foreigners on moscow's red square at all, but they were very happy. >> tried to speak english as much as they can and we managed to get to the center. >> stay outside the city center and it's all the communist gray area, depressing especially with this weather but if you enter the inner circle, everything is nicelnicely polished.

and it's beautiful hereby. >> soasoviet communism is suspicious of outsiders. a revamped gorky park. a younger more anglophone population. >> muskmuskovites have traveled also. >> not the easiest for foreigners but tuesday improving. but who said traveling is supposed to be easy? rory challenge, al jazeera, moscow. >> for international, izra

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shake-up. hez roll at the top of the veterans affair agency as secretary eric shinnseki stops down. >> donald sterling is not going down without a fight, now suing the nba for a billion dollars. >> the fund mental principles of the international order are being changed. >> tough talk from secretary of defense, chuck hagel. he accuses china of