i'll miss you maya angelou. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour in doha and these are our top stories. gun battles and air strikes in benghazi as forces loyal to a libyan general step up their fight against the malitias. five taliban leaders released from guantanamo bay start their lives in kata and a u.s. soldier

is on his way home. fighting continues in ukraine, russia is proposing a humanitarian corridor to help people on the east. and [shouting] indians celebration the creation of telangana but it's not okay for everyone. ♪ but first helicopter ships have been firing on hallsha fires in the libya city of benghazi. at least 7 people have been killed during this between al-shari and hasta and the fighting is along a main highway on the west of the city which is surrounded by residential areas and residents saying the fighting there is the worst they

have seen since march 2011 and that is when forces loyal to the late libyan leader gadhafi tried to enter the city and we go live to the capitol tripoli and go to stephanie. from where you are, what can you tell us about what is happening so many kilometers to the east? >> reporter: well, i have been speaking to people in benghazi that started in the morning around 3:30, libyan time and going on for 8 hours and it's still on going now and when i spoke to him i could hear massive explosions going on around him and people are terrified and what happened is the group as you mentioned, they attacked a base, special forces who have claimed loyalty to the operation launched by that former general and then the fighting escalated. they moved out of the base and they are now in a confrontation along this major highway back and forth but it's effecting

residents and people are fleeing and absolutely terrified and they have been worried about it and people tell you they support this fight against the extremist groups that are said to be gaining ground but something that will not spill over into civilian areas and we heard two civilians have been killed in this cross fire so an absolutely terrifying ordeal for people there and it is still happening now. we had no reaction from the government at tripoli and there are two governments here at the moment and have not said anything yet and goes to show how difficult it is to gain control in libya at the moment. >> remind us who the protag nnis and we have a general and on the other hand a group called el-shari. >> that's right, and the general you are referring to came out a couple weeks ago and said he would rid libya of terrorism and extremist groups for the good of the libyan people and the future

of libya and also against the parliament here and said they were illegitimate and wanted a medium body to rule here and to elections and he has been progressively carrying out a few air strikes on the basis on el-shari and the brigade that is with the government and this is retaliation and we had not had retaliation yet as the air strikes and seen a few over the last couple weeks and it's an escalation and to put that into context is a group accused of the attack on the american embassy in 2012 which killed the american ambassador and believed to be behind attacks in benghazi and kills forces and members of judiciary and journ li-- journalists and they are concerned about the growing number of what they call extremists in this country but also, many on the other side watching have to carry this out

will tell you ideally they want a strong government and military to be dealing with this issue. >> thank you very much, stephanie decker there, correspondent updating us on the on going conflict in the eastern part of libya. russia is due to submit a draft resolution to u.n. security council calling for immediate end to violence in ukraine and they confirmed he also wants to create a humanitarian corridors in the east of the country and we are live to our correspondent in the east of ukraine in donsk and donsk is seen as a regional capital and what is the situation with regard to the humanitarian situation? because of course the russians seem particularly concerned about that at the moment. >> that's right. well, i think the issue is not so much here in donsk but certainly in villages in the east towards slovonsk and there

are people there who are afraid to go out and running low on food and water and i think it would be welcome of humanitarian aid to reach them. right now what we are hearing is there is a fight going on that began at 4:00 a.m. this morning and 100 separatists were at headquarters and began attacking the space and between 7:00 a.m., 400-500 separatists surrounded the space and cleared apartment buildings around the base to fire into the base and we are told the border who were there managed to repel attacks and hearing a ukrainian jet is deployed and has flairs for air missiles so it's an on going situation and continuing escalation if you like of the crisis. and of course the fighter, we have evidence they are being bolstered coming across the border to russia and they are volunteers and from other former

soviet states but in dons, preparing for an attack and clashes from both sides in the coming days or weeks. >> and quiet descended on the city of donsk and business owners shut up shop and some boarding up buildings altogether. many like egor who lives behind an empty store feelful a military operation is imminent. >> i know about the military operation and when i drive through the city i'm worried, one or to years ago no one would thought kiev would wage war against us just for having a different opinion. >> reporter: the battles on the airport on monday brought reality of conflict home to people and dozens of pro-russian

fighters were killed in the siege and only a matter of time until the entire town is retaken. >> translator: my grandsons were born and waited for them a long time and feel like they are in danger. and the malitia, i'm worried about them and pray for them. the korean government is a dictator ship. >> reporter: they introduced a new element to this crisis, the battled hardened group in chechnya and then we were told to get in a truck to be taken to an undisclosed location for an interview and we declined and were escorted out and say they are bringing an end to this and other parts are not as visible and usually manned by dozens of men now deserted. this is the center of the

pro-russian movement, the city administration building and it has been days since barricades are cleared in front of the building and fewer than we have seen of separatists in the last few months. they said there will be no talks until ukraine troops withdraw from the region and a stalemate that residents fear will only end in violence, i'm kim with al jazeera in donsk. >> this is the scene live in the west bank. you can just about make out the palestinian president macmood-abas and we are expecting the government promised now for a month to be announced. a correspondent is there and we are expecting there is going to be an announcement and, in fact, the pictures we look at at the moment look as though if not

swearing in certainly welcoming or gathering around a series of key advisors or a team if you like. >> well, we expect the announcement and swearing in to happen any time now. we understand from sources close to negotiations to form this national unity government, that is the last remaining issue was resolved and it has been resolved but we don't know on what terms and conditions. this issue which has delayed forming the national unity government is based on a suggestion by a palestinian president to turn the ministry in charge of palestinian prisoners affairs from a government ministry to a body under the jurisdiction of the palestine liberation organization, the p.l.o. and hamas objected to that and apes -- appears it agreed because the unity government is

imminent and said it's important and should be under the unity government and not p.l.o. because it's important for palestinians and changing the way it is and turning it to the p.l.o.'s jurisdiction. it's a down grade. and for his part insisted it's an upgrade because the p.l.o. is the only palestinian body that has the authority to negotiate with israel and could use the issue of palestinian prisoners as a strong bargaining chip. analysis suggests that this suggestion was made by abas only because he came under international and western pressure to remove this important ministry from the national unity government because it makes israel feel uneasy and israel feels uncomfortable that a ministry that is in charge of palestinian prisoners whether behind bars or those released is part of a government that includes hamas and the israeli government sees

prisoners as a threat to its security. >> and they manage to get over this very deeply held problem or belief if you like with regard to the prisoner's ministry so that is well for the unity government. what do we know about the shape and the color of it, the complex of the new cabinet, who is in and who is out? >> well, this national unity government is going to include some current ministers in palestinian president's government and include tecnocrats and they are people not affiliated with hamas but backed by both parties and they are tasked with preparing four general elections in six months or in 2015, next year. now, that is a very tall task, it's going to be very difficult for them to do that, i think this is the easy part, that being accomplished today.

we heard some statesmen from israel saying it will boycott the authority if formed and it will introduce and implement sanctions but not specifically listed the kind of sanctions that it plans to implement but abas insisted the national unity government is going to abide by his policy of recognizing israel even though hamas has not said anything about changing its position of rejecting the existence of israel. >> all right, thank you very much. now, to afghanistan where reports are coming in of an attack having been carried out by the taliban on a government building in the province and police killed three attackers and looking for a fourth person believes to be hiding in the area, three police were killed in the attack. meanwhile five taliban leaders freed and exchange for a u.s. soldier are starting a new life

in kata and we have more. >> the convow moves on highway in doha and stop halfway to be greeted by a taliban base in the capitol. this is amarari and others and there is no video of the two other leaders, former deputy defense ministers. they were all detained for 12 years in guantanamo. their release was part of a prisoner swap. in exchange for their release the taliban freed u.s. soldier bo brigdow saying they were taking back hostages. >> the release of taliban is shocking to me especially

without coming to congress and says in the law you have to notify congress and then putting five people potentially back on the battlefield, even though our troops are out in 2016 which is shocking to the president and he went along with the timeline just like in iraq you now will have five people potentially on the ground targeting american and afghan troops and afghan people. >> reporter: the white house says the deal was instrumental in saving the life of an american prisoner of war. >> this engagement indirectly through the cuttry with the taliban was with releasing berdberd bergdal so if this exchange opens the door a little bit we would welcome it and we certainly would hope in any event that the reconciliation

which we long said is essential can proceed. >> the swap was hailed by taliban leader as a big victory. the afghan government which was only informed after the exchange had taken place was highly critical, describing the deal as a breach of international law. >> this is the most significant deal the u.s. has made with the taliban since they opened in qatar a year ago. the office is widely seen as a move to push the taliban to engage in talks with the u.s. over the future of afghanistan. but the main goal remains to convince the taliban to join the government in kabul if they renounce violence and break ties with al-qaeda. i'm with al jazeera. lots more to come here on this news hour including a frenchmen confessing to shooting three people dead outside a

jewish ♪ in brussels and more on that. and el salvador has a new president to tackle corruption and crime and the challenges he faces. investigators prepare to meet world cup organizers with allegations of corruption over their 2022 bid. ♪ and thousands of people celebrating the formal creation of india's newest spade and it switched from predish after 50 years of protest calling for separation, the new state will have a population of around 35 million people across ten separate districts and telangana was formed when it was split in two and both states will share the city as a capitol.

>> we are really happy. it has been a really long stretch. and collective and after so many sacrifices finally we have this. this is a very important in the history. >> reporter: syria as you know is in the middle of a civil war and yet on tuesday the regime will hold an election which is designed to legitimize president assad. and the conditions couldn't be worse for an election. 150,000 deaths since the war began and large areas are out of the regime control and being run by rebels. close to 16 million people are eligible to vote but many of them live in chaos. 6 1/2 million people have fled their homes to try to avoid the fighting but they stayed within the borders of syria while close to 3 million have actually left the country and some of them who

are in lebanon and jordan have been given the chance to vote but many people say if they do vote for assad it's out of fear for themselves and their families and james spades reports on how the election damages chances for peace. >> reporter: they are the two most senior most respected international diplomates in the world, former u.n. secretary general adam and veteran negotiator brihimi and efforts failed and peace in syria is a distant prospect and the death toll is higher than imagined when it started three years ago and no one can keep and accurate count. >> the hard work starts now. >> reporter: both of their peace efforts were based on a rare moment of international agreement, the geneva accord of 2012 and it called for a new

transitional government in syria with full executive powers. brahimi got both sides to come to geneva to workout how to create this transitional government but the assad delegation would not agree with the proposed agenda. there is no chance of a transitional government if president assad is reelected. for the duration of the war more than three years, there has only been rare moments of unity on syria at the u.n. security council and russia backed by china is likely to continue to use veto if necessary in support of the government in damascus and how will the rest of the international community respond to an election that technology gives assad another seven years in power. one believes an election will not change the minds of those nations who declared the damascus regime an international pariah.

>> there is no imperative for an outside state if commercially because they want to do business with them and there is no business to do with or geo politically because they want to get on russia and iran's good side and there is no room for anybody to pretend that election is real. the election will change things maybe within assad's diluted mind or entourage. >> life in syria continues to get worse. u.n. and international aid agencies are finding almost impossible to get medicine and aid to besieged areas and there is talk on humanitarian access but getting this through will be difficult. and three times in the past three years they used the veto to block them and it is mounting but nothing to break the deadlock around this table, al

jazeera, united nations. eight people killed in renewed fighting between rebels and soldiers in the north. and the rebels attacked a check point in the providence and two soldiers are dead and they are g doing parades and seized tribal areas in fighting in february. now a frenchmen in custody over the fatal shooting of three people at a belgium museum has spent a year fighting in syria and held at the french antiterrorism headquarters in paris as nadeem reports. >> reporter: he fired in the jewish museum in brussels last within, now french police are holding a man suspected of carrying out the attack which killed three people including to israeli tourists and left another ill and he was arrested as he got off a coach and he has

been transferred to the headquarters of antiterrorism forces had a rifle and another weapon on him as well as a camera with a video recording and admits the shooting and he served five years in prison for robbery before traveling to syria. >> translator: on december 31st, 2012, three weeks after release he went to syria by istanbul and joined islamic state of iraq and jihadist groups. >> reporter: it's a growing threat to security. >> elements in the investigation draw attention once more to the problem of the returning, in other words, the people going to syria in order to participate in combat and return after wars to our country.

all the european countries are confronted at this moment with this problem. >> reporter: but the director of the brussels museum says the problem that really needs tackling is anti-semitism. >> like an iceberg, what you see and what is underneath. what is underneath is much more important than what you see. okay, we arrested somebody. and then. >> reporter: meanwhile at this makeshift shrine outside the museum they are struggling to make sense of the attack, al jazeera. now we have a new president of el salvador and he said he would tackle corruption and unite to fight crime and we report from the capitol, san salvador. >> takes over the presidency of this tiny central american nation and a big challenge is

gang violence which made in the most dangerous countries in the world. >> translator: security and work against drug trafficking extortion and violence and we will come back with the legal and tools we have in the government. >> reporter: and he promised to reform the police and said the army will continue to combat crime. he faces a surge in the homicide rate which ripples up to the previous government with a truce on gangs and launched a crack down and the government never explained why and now 14 people are killed everyday. among the public officials named for this new government there are some in favor and others who are against facilitating the gangs so now the president will have to decide whether he will support it or he will use a strong fist policy to tackle

crime. but viktor who makes around $6 at the market says the president should focus on the economy and that will bring peace to el salvador. >> translator: i think a large part of the youth would leave the gangs and would go in society if there are more jobs to develop their futures. >> reporter: but many el salvador people don't believe in political promises. >> translator: one vote with the hope that things will change and i never see change. as the situation is right now the option is to stay at home. announcer: and he will need tomorrow trust of el salvador to support a crime strategy and if he fights with a strong fist or gives in to some of the gang's demands like jail benefits to get some peace in return. i'm with al jazeera, el salvador. time to look at the global weather with richard. how is it looking, richard? >> i thought we would look at

weather across eastern china where we see extreme conditions and this weather system which works its way in from the west and through, across the east china sea pushing in towards japan and certainly it's that way, we have seen very large rainfall totals having been deposited across eastern china and looking at some pictures and looking at the weather conditions and have been quite extreme and that system continues to push away towards japan. in the meantime we've had very warm air feeding up across parts of japan and certainly tokyo has seen temperatures 4-5 degrees average and on monday it is peaking at 31 degree mark on sunday. over the next couple days the temperature is going down each day and heavy rain across the east china sea and to southern portions of japan, it's a slow-moving system and some people will see heavy rain.

meanwhile i think toward the south where we had rain falling here too. looking at the satellite picture nothing looking too threatening and central china where it seems we had the heaviest rain as you see from some rain reported and looks like the southern portions of china are likely to see it heavier in the next couple days and wet in hong kong and temperatures in the low 30s. thank you very much, indeed, richard. still to come we take a look at how hong kong's urban landscape is changing. the flavor of its street food. plus drawing attention to neo-pop art and meet the artist who is turning scraps of cardboard and newspaper into colorful canvas and a 22-year-old golfer from japan becomes the youngest ever winner of the memorial tournament in the states, details coming up.

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♪ let's look at the top stories at al jazeera, helicopter firing on malitia fires in benghazi in the east of the country and at least 7 people have been killed in the clashes between shari and other forces. another main story is the palestinian president who sworn this a new unity government and bringing in the rival parties of fata and hamas. five taliban leaders conversely

freed from guantanamo prison by the u.s. is in qatar and released in exchange for an american soldier held in afghanistan by the taliban for five years. and spain's king is advocating after almost 40 years on the throne. he is giving up the throne in favor of his son, crown prince philippee and saying the king is stepping down for political reasons rather than health reasons and that is something we are watching. we are watching quite closely because we are expecting the king to make a statement and expecting that any minute now to come from madrid and as soon as it comes we will bring it to you. in the meantime we will talk a little bit about a story that is of course this election that is being planned for, syria and

they are describing as tuesday's election as a parody of democracy and they say it will do nothing to halt the violence in their home land and we are speaking to some of them in london. >> london's bush is a long way from war-torn syria but among syria enjoying a brunch with family back home the war is strongly felt and the coming election feels a long way from peace. what do you believe is the future for your country? >> everything is good. >> reporter: if that happens in your country will you and your family go home? >> yes. why not? it's my country and i love it. >> reporter: there is no challenge because there is no chance for any others to be the president. >> reporter: this man didn't

want to be identified, on his phone he keeps pictures of his family in syria. >> i have a picture of my father, and he is 70 years old. my nephews and niece, my sister also. >> reporter: you don't want to show us the pictures of your family. why is that? >> because actually any picture that i show they will follow who are they and what is their relation between me anthem -- they will be hurt. >> reporter: do you have a wider sense of what is going on in syria? >> it's like a game between countries. usa, iran, russia, and they say it is hidden hands for brazil. >> reporter: if there is support for the government abroad it's well hidden. >> i don't know what to describe it. it's an absolute joke.

election. i want assad first to control the country, first to stop the killing and to charge them for what they did and assad should be charged with using chemicals and destroying the country and people. announcer: this week's election is not the solution many people here hope for, i'm with al jazeera, london. another major story today of course is the announcement of the new unity government announced by macmood, the palestinian president and i think we can see him now. i'm not sure because he is talking live but to discuss the significance of all of today's developments is the director of islam affairs institute of public policy and live from beirut and i'm not entirely sure if this is a live shot of the president of macmood and he is talking and what do you think first of all of what he has

presented to the world because everybody has been waiting to see whether he can manage this balancing act of satisfying as many people as possible, do you think he has managed that? >> well, so far he has and it's not just him who is doing this by himself, it's him and hamas and some independent political groups in palestine. the palestinians across the region and the world as well as the palestinians and even inside israel who are israel citizens and feel affinity with the national cause and this is a very complex process which has been tried before and has not worked well but has to do it because neither the strategy of negotiating or the hamas strategy of armed resistance has actually succeeded and they have to make a unity government and marshal harness all the power of the palestinian people around them as well as the significant international support they have but they squandered pretty

badly. >> reporter: now one of the hiccups that prevented the unity government being announced earlier is this matter of the ministry of prisoners affairs, tell us why that is so significant and why that brings up so much emotion on both sides. >> well, it's a huge -- >> okay, i think we have lost that line unfortunately, we were getting very interested and talking live from beirut but the line has gone down. technology is not always on our side but we will try to reestablish connection. we will try and reestablish connection with him. and can you hear me, are you back with us? >> i can hear you. >> reporter: okay, great, so let's continue, shall we? so, yeah, tell us about this ministry of prisoners affairs and the significance of it for both sides.

>> well, it's a huge issue, the prisoners and thousands of palestinian prisoners and at one point they were up to 10 or 11,000 and they are less now and this is across palestine and one of the issues that brings together all the palestinian people and there are a couple thousand palestinian prisoners now on hunger strike inside israeli jails and hamas pushed this issue very hard, so has macmood but this is an issue that is controversial because the more he pushes it the more difficulty he is going to have with the israelis so it's very difficult to get a consensus that will be feasible in terms of engaging the israelis ultimately in a negotiation and also pick a person who would be an acceptable candidate. this is a government of technocrats and palestinian people and it should be resolvable but the importance of

having this position is critical for hamas as they have been a little bit wishy-washy on it but has accepted it. >> reporter: he has to keep the ball in place with the united states and to extent with the israelis although israelis are making disapproving noises about the whole unity project. >> sure, the israelis will say when the palestinians were united in the government before, some 6, 7 years ago they had a unified face and israelis said they would not negotiate because hamas was there and when he is not in the government they say who does he speak for, we want to negotiate with somebody who represents the people so israelis will find a reason not to negotiate seriously and he has been negotiating for well for himself about a decade or more and the palestinians for two decades since aslo under

american tootledge with zero results from the negotiation. so to use your analogy he has to keep the ball in play. all he has done in following these negotiations with american mediation is score repeated goals against himself. it's a real problem for him which is why he finally dropped the solo negotiations and went in the unity government and realized he had to get a national consensus and they will work through the technocratic government to allow negotiations to happen and everybody realizes you have to try the negotiating option but it has to be serious, not the way the americans have been running it according to the old dennis ross school of negotiations which is you give the israelis what they want first and maybe the palestinian get something. that period is over and now there is going to be a new approach that has to work better, if it's going to be attempted as a serious

diplomatic negotiation. >> good to talk to you, thank you indeed and thank you for your forebearance and with standing technology and we demand the release of our staff and they are back in court on monday and prosecution witnesses appear to contradict some of their earlier evidence as nicole joh johnston reports. >> the lawyers had a challenge to properly challenge the evidence of prosecution witnesses. they cross-examined three members of the technical committee appointed by the court to assess video material. >> translator: 90% of media that al jazeera english have are in english language. the gentleman mentioned that he watched the videos, no one is able to see the videos unless that person is able to speak english, my question is did you analyze these videos in the sense they changed, were neutral

or bias towards one party like the muslim brotherhood for example and do speak english or not. >> under strong questioning the head of committee admitted he was with police officers when they arrested al jazeera correspondent peter greste and producer fahmy and the lawyer questioned how he could be described as an independent witness and another member of the panel was challenged to identify a single report that was edited to show the muslim brotherhood in a positive life and said i can't remember. lawyers said written statement by prosecution witnesses were identical, word for word. but their submission in court contradicted them. and nicole johnston, al jazeera. >> we are ban from reporting in egypt and we have been following the event here.

>> reporter: 10th hearing with al jazeera journalists and the headline is the same, once again the prosecution has seemingly failed to provide compelling evidence linking these individuals to any crime or terrorist activity. the focus of the hearing was on the video evidence presented in this case and the technical team assigned to analyze it. remember one of the more serious charges these journalists are facing are accusations they doctored and altered the video to create a more favorable view of the muslim brotherhood. when members of the technical team took the stand and cross-examined by the defense, they simply failed to explain how and where this video was doctored. incredibly one of witnesses acknowledged he was part of the police team that raided the marriott hotel in late december the night these journalists were arrested and defense's position is their argument was simple, how can you be an analyzer of the video when you were part of

the police team last night. the journalists, fahmy and greste in the cage in the courtroom and resilient as ever and at one point fahmy yelling out in court saying the prosecution should be in jail but based on observation a strong day for the defense because they clearly made the prosecution's case look weak. and the fourth al jazeera journalist has been held in a cairo prison without charge for more than nine months and his lawyer filed a third grievance with the attorney general demanding his release. and he has requested a medical report to document his poor health. still to come we will talk about roger federer for a 18th grand slam title is denied. ♪

♪ back streets of the big cities in asia, renown for cheap food, out let street food but urban development is pushing up their rent and therefore putting them out of business and rob mcbride reports from hong kong. >> reporter: he has been making and serving up food in the same place for 35 years. this might be his last. two years ago his lease went up 50% and he fears another similar

rent rise or even worse. >> translator: many of the buildings have already been redeveloped and a lot of the older people who lived around here and where my customers have moved away. >> reporter: in the shadow of the gleaming office blocks, the older, traditional back streets of hong kong are increasingly squeezed by rising rents and more expense of eaterys. >> translator: there used to be old chinese restaurants here but now there is one and there are no more old-style cafes any more. >> reporter: the street food stores numbered in the hundreds when he set up this one with his father back in the 1960s, now it's one of barely 20 left and with no interest from his children in running it, it will probably close when he finally hangs up his ladle. as the neighborhoods have been transformed hong kong faces the

dilemma, how to be an metropolis and keeping the heritage but there is a suspicion the city wouldn't mind losing that rough side of its character for good. >> translator: some critics here believe the authorities have used resent food safety scares and virus outbreaks to unfairly target cheaper street food outlets. the results of vanishing heritage. >> that is why they go away. >> reporter: for consoars of tradition they have a rapidly diminishing menu, in hong kong. >> with sports here. >> nadal is about to take to the court at the french open and top

seed and this is after the women's match and it is one set all and that and the other men's match taking place right now, last year is against kevin anderson and the winner will face nadal if he gets through and coming to terms with fed federer's early exit. >> he made it to the quarter finals for almost a decade and his remarkable record was ended. 18 seed owner was facing the 2009 champion in five sets and it's the second time in 40 grand slams that federer failed to reach the final days. >> clearly very disappointed not to come through with the win. and there was a chance in the second set and fighting back in the fourth and need to play a better fifth set and lots of

regrets here now. >> reporter: and the next phase is the 2010 semi finalists booked with 6-4-6-4-6-4 win over american john isner. >> if you win four matches you feel good and that is my case. >> reporter: and the quest for a second french open is intact and he dropped six games on his way of a crashing defeat over the favorite. and andy murray had to wait for a second day to secure this and he had been suspended the previous english and prevailed 12-10 in a final set and will next face nidesco. >> stopping the match probably helped me a little bit because if i played 7-8 more games it

probably wouldn't have been great but today was a pretty high standard i thought for probably the best standard of the match i think for both of us. >> reporter: boshar is the youngest player in the women's draw and brush ed angela to reah the last days and i'm with al jazeera. the top investigators due to meet organizers of the qatar 2020 cup on monday and michael garcia is in the middle east as part of the on going investigation into the hosting process. and it is a day after the british newspaper sunday times claimed it had evidence that former president made $5 million in payments to other football officials. the newspaper claims those payments were in at attempt to help qatar secure the 2022 event. the 2022 organizers released a statement saying he played no

official or unofficial role qatar committee and our bid team had to convince him of the merits of our bid and we deny allegations of wrongdoing and will take whatever steps are necessary to defend the integrity of qatar's bid and our lawyers are looking into this matter. and football says despite allegations there is no evidence of any corruption from those officially involved in qatar's bid. >> no, there have been no allegations or any claims at all that any one from the kwa -- qatar had bribery and they spent money in worldwide promotion for the bid and that is different and worked extremely hard behind the scenes to lobby for political support.

it was also claimed that by a number of people that several foreign governments suggested to their own members of the x-co and france and germany were others and put together interests in where their vote went. certainly in terms of specific corruption, no, there is no smoking guns at all. >> reporter: the nation's involved in the world cup will submit the 23-man squad on monday, fifa deadline and holding international and germany held to a draw by camaroo for the opening goal for camaroo and strikes from thomas and secured 2-2 for, germans and portugal and united states and they greeted the team after they qualified for their first

international tournament and attended the presidential compound and secured a spot for next year's asian cup in australia after winning the afc challenge cup and the tournament will be held in january. and 22-year-old japanese is the youngest ever winner of the memorial tournament at the village in dublin, ohio and beat the man to be the fourth japan person on the p.g.a. tour and this is the sixth win overall. ice hockey and the kings will play the rangers and the kings knocked out defenders the chicago blackhawks and playing at home and took 2-0 league before los angeles came back and took the lead with patrick sharp but here comes the king and

making it 3-3. once again patrick sharp put the horseback in front. but once again los angeles levelled 4-4 and with a goal in the third period. over time and it was los angeles who prevailed and alex martinez with a goal and meaning the kings go to the stanley cup finals and will play the new york rangers and the game is this wednesday. they are targeting victory in the 2015 tour de france after claiming the title and the first columbia to win the grand tour race. and he road a pink bicycle and finished 2 minutes 58 seconds ahead of the second person at the final stage. mark is celebrating six win and

the spanyard on the bike on the final lap of the grand prix and taking the race win for a clean sweep having poll position and having won six races this season and 150 points and rossi is second with 97. lots more sport on our website and check out al jazeera/sport and how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook. that is all the sport for now and i will have more later. >> thank you very much indeed. now he is known for the art and he is brazilian and prints on cardboard and newspaper and is based in miami and he wants to inspire others to breakout of poverty just like he did. >> hi, i'm an artist and i live in miami beach, florida.

♪ i think the message on my work is a positive message and it's about love and i think this is what i put on my work, lots of love. well, i was born in brazil and since i was a kid i loved drawings and did a lot of drawings on books and my mother told me don't do too many drawings because you need to leave space to do your homework. so drawing on the walls and everything i could put my hand on. one of the biggest thing to happen in terms of to propel my career is i did this series of paintings with vodka and after that i painted cars and so many things i would never imagine. so i think it's so important to anybody in the world to do something for somebody else and you can do it for your family and your community and your country and i love the idea of

giving back. i am thankful for the opportunity i have been given to have this gift for me to be able to create my art and people relate to it. that is so nice. with this picture here that you see here, that is a picture of me working the pyramid. i do want to do very large installation like i've done in hyde park in london and a few other ones and miami with the superbowl, a lot of special collectors collect my work and like the idea of the art and enjoyed by the masses in the world. a lot of people see my work and think he must be the happiest guy in the world but what i paint is what i want my life to be everyday and that is how i do it. ♪ very quick reminder of our main story and that is on going conflict in the eastern part of libya, lots more on that here on al jazeera.

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