>> hello, i'm adrian finnigan with world news. new moves on iran's nuclear future. students freed in iraq after a raid by armed militiamen. and in india why the makers of the ambassador car are halting production.

>> russia's president vladimir putin has bolstered security along the border of ukraine. petro poroshenko announced plans to bring peace to the east of the country where there have been staged up rising. >> reporter: he may have the red carpet, but petro poroshenko has a mountain to climb if he is to save ukraine from conflict and economic ruin. at his inauguration the international community was there to show its support. for an elective leader the ukraine after months of uncertainty president poroshenko promised to take the fight to the rebellion in the east and to russia over crimea.

>> who comes with a sword will fall with a sword. >> citizens of our crane will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with russia. russia occupies crimea which was, s and will be ukraine as well. on europe he said this time there will be no turning back. >> what do we have to do to live free lives? free and prosperous lives. all this i this is in the agreement with the european union. >> many of you, along with myself, were part of putting the document together. now it is our job to make it a reality. >> reporter: president poroshenko placed economic

reform, parliament try elections. this is the parliament with presidential powers in poroshenko today. this is the parliament that stripped those powers from viktor yanukovych after the revolution. this is the power that president poroshenko wants absolved to create the reforms that ukraine so desperately needs. these are the men that he commands. but the solution to the violence in the east of the country may ultimately lie with russia. talks are expected. there is hope for diplomacy, but this country is virtually at war. it's new command center chief now has to choose which path to tread. al jazeera, kiev. >> reporter: so how will poroshenko's plan go down in the east of ukraine?

we have reporters in the region. in a moment we'll hear from david chater in slovyasnk, but first we have reaction to the inauguration. >> reporter: many people are divided over whether there will be change in the east. many people have for a long time felt neglected by the kiev. >> they couldn't even arrange presidential elections here. there were no elections of this poroshenko. what local elections are we talking about? yet again he's throwing out words and making promises he can't keep. >> the doneskt people republic,

he says the fight in the east will continue until ukrainian troops withdraw. >> i'm standing in no man's land between ukrainian government troops and the checkpoint 400 yards away from me and separatist fighters who hold a position about a kilometer up the road. behind me is where most of the fighting has been over the last 24 hours. it's quiet at the moment. this is the area where mortar attack came in on the checkpoint, the ukrainian government checkpoint, one man was killed and two injured, so it's very tense at the moment. they're not letting anybody thro through. it's the fighters over slovyas slovyasnsk where they shot down the plane, the pilot kept the

airport as it went down in flames away from the civilian areas o on the outskirts of slov slovyansk that is still very much in the hands of fighters. >> thousands of people in baghdad province has been forced to abandon their homes. the dead include women and children, and dozens of more people are missing. iran has announced the talks on its nuclear program will be held first with the united states and then with russia. the discussions are set to begin in geneva on monday. it's aimed as securing agreement on the disputed nuclear in program. iran has been targeted with international sanctions over suspicions they are pursuing a nuclear weapon. but tehran insists that it's program are peaceful. what are we to make of this

news, and what is likely to be on the agenda of these talks? >> the announcement from i runyons came at the same time the state department also made the state department that their announcement will be made by william burns. he was head of the group that conducted the back channel negotiations between the irans and the u.s. which led to the deal last year, which pronounced a joint plan of action. that's the interim nuclear deal now in place, which according to the international atomic energy agency is being fully complied with with the iranians. one other point of possibly hopeful note is that the supreme leader said this week that he believes president obama has taken the military option off the table. that was his adjust based on the

reading of president obama's speech last week on foreign policy and limits to intervention. >> the sanctions against iran. >> well, sanctions were relaxed to some degree as part of this interim deal, but there is no doubt that those sanctions are still in place. at the same time the u.n. sanctions committee has been given a report saying that the iranians are no less determined to subvert those sanctions by using all kinds of means smuggling through all kinds of indirect measures to get around those sanctions. at the same time there is pressure here in the united states state on capitol hill on the part of those people who are highly skeptical of the iranians who feel that those sanctions be adhered to, and the administration has been just able to head off an attempt to actually intensify the psalms,

something that the iranians would have regarded as a deal breaker. last week the u.s. house is expected to hold hearings on the degree to which those sanctions were actually any kind of deal with the iranians can be relybly verified. as far as the united states congress is concerned is something that still has to be determined. >> thanks so much. live in washington, d.c. in iraq gunmen have freed university staff and students after taking thermous stage on saturday. they've withdrawn from anbar university. university. in somali another area in iraq fighters have taken over. we go to the capitol of baghdad. >> meteorologist: bag. >> reporter: and a stand off of

six or seven hours university staff are free. fighters fled to the back of the university allowing the students and staff to leave through the front. police went inside to confirm that the isil fighters had left. we had not seen a hostage taking like this in a very long time. what we're more used to seeing by the armed groups that have taken over parts of the city are hit-and-run attacks on the convoys. what happened about three hours into the hostage situation which killed three army soldiers. that's what's been going on in ramadi today. also what we're here something that the main bridge leading from the university across the desert has been blown up by what the rake army is calling it the insurgents. they're come tore looking for

insur genfor insurgents. now other attacks are being mounted across the country and a shelling attack killed 65 civilians. this seems to be going on more and more, a ratcheting of attacks. we've seen it in the last week. it's been one bloodiest years from violence. >> still to come here on al jazeera america, the promise of miracles in exchange for money. we visit a terrible church in ghana. and we'll tell you how inmates in the u.s. are getting a second chance thanks to the help of retired racehorses.

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>> hedge. the top local stores at this hour. the ukraine president with a peace plan to end fighting in the country. but he said crimea will remain part of the country. petro parishe poroshenko said in his inauguration speech. in afghanistan there are struggles to get food and supplies in to anbar province.

more mass demonstrations are expected in spain as people there continue to call for an end to the monarchy. protesters want a referendum on the future of the monarchy. >> reporter: spaispain's economy is on the road to recovery. try tellin telling that to these women. they're carrying home food handouts from a local charity. at the live in an abandoned block along with other single mothers. there is no electricity and the women here femal feel disconnected from the king's elite. >> our kids have no food while the king goes off on safari in africa. >> it's that kind of extravagance at the height of the economic crisis that made king juan carlos so unpopular ultimately forcing him to step

down. the timing of his application is also political. an election next year could usher more republicans to parliament, but for now a center right government said it will quickly pass a succession law. >> 90% of parliament supports the monarchy. we can't be silenced by a small noisy minority. >> reporter: this is one of the leaders of that growing minority. in just four months this young university professor has turned his movement known into spain's fourth largest political force. >> right now the main institutions are discredited. this is one of the problems of the country. the royal house is seen as out of touch. >> reporter: this is one of the reasons why political movements are gaining ground. in this one housing project there are more than 200,000

families facing eviction as they cannot afford to pay the rent. they have two weeks to leave. she said her family has nowhere to go. >> the system doesn't work. at least that's what i think and they know it. it's time for change. >> the cries has changed the very fabric of spanish society. families are being torn apart by poverty. some citizens are getting more involved in politics. others are questioning the establish, that includes spain's monarchy. al jazeera, madrid. >> in syria activists are reporting that th 12 people from killed in a strike, there have been attacked reported i.

syrian government aircraft has targeted a field hospital. bombs were dropped on the syrian side of the hospital with turkey. reports from the scene say several people were hurt. aleppo is also under heavy aerial. a number of women and children have been killed. an egyptian court sentenced ten muslim brotherhood supporters to death in absentia. they are accused of inciting violence that killed two people last year. al jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalists detained in egypt. three al jazeera staff accused of supporting the muslim brotherhood have been held for

161 days. on thursday prosecutors demanded the maximum sentence. they want 17 years for peter greste and 15 years for mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste abdullah elshamy has been held since august last year and insists he won't break his fast until his release. the united arab emirates said it will announce compulsory army service for men. memory who finished secondary school will serve for nine months while everyone else will serve for two years. it comes at a time of estranged

relations with iran and several monarchies in the region. south africaen president jacob zuma has been admitted to hospital. it comes on friday that he would be taking several days off from public appearances. in ghana the number of people joining evangelical churches is rising rapidly. people--police there have launched abackdowed a crackdown on pastors who are trying to make money. known as a miracle worker, many say this is one. it takes one of his blessings to be healed of disease or to chase away problems. plenty of people believe in him

like mary, who is here because she's having difficulties getting pregnant. >> he is amazing. she has helped so many people across the country. i really believe in his power sermons are on the internet. >> if you help a person, they will help you, i believe if i heal people they will heal me and my staff. >> after he assaulted a radio journalist questioning his ability to perform miracles and his lavish lifestyle. he normally asks for donations for his services. but in this service he performance free services, perhaps because i'm filming. people tell me they won't leave the church until the preacher

has left. that's not going to happen until nightfall. ghanaens are deeply religious, and reachers have enormous amount of power and influence and money. they have been cracking down on preachers. >> we have been arresting them on a weekly basis. people who call themselves pastors we treat them as individuals who have communicated a crime. >> if found guilty preachers face up to ten years in prison. despite allegations made against him, he is not worried. his church is thriving. his followers believe this in itself is a miracle. >> a mass walkout by metro staff in brazil is crippling transportation just days ahead of the world cup. demonstrations were called.

the city is said to matc host the first match of the cup in weeks. >> we're in day three of this metro strike, and some of the union leaders tell us that they expect and hope to meet with the mediator as well as government state government officials to sit down and try to resolve this strike as early as tomorrow, sunday. they want 12% pay raise. the state government is only offering eight, but there is some sense here that they might be able to reach some sort of middle ground as early as tomorrow. we'll have to wai wait and see. a lot of the damage has already been done. millions of brazilians here in sao paulo try to get to work and

school. it causes 250 kilometers of traffic backups on friday. >> whether they make process or not, it hardly bodies well for the world cup, does it. >> it doesn't, especially with the opening match. the opening ceremony happening next week in sao paulo, and touching this closely. this stadium is 10, 15 kilometers out from the center of the city. 80% of the football fans at the hoping match will be arriving villa metro or train. this is clearly worrisome for fifa officials that if this goes

on into next week this will cause problems for the opening match. >> okay, many thanks. live there in sao paulo. former u.s. president bill clinton and first lady michelle obama are "r" ther at the ceremony honoring maya angelou. she died last week at the age of 86. she wrote and read a poem at bill clinton's first inauguration in 1993. staying in the u.s. an unique program is helping inmates move on from their lives in prison. >> reporter: at the second chance farm in maryland six

retired racehorses are living out their days. the farm was founded to save thoroughbreds no longer fit for the track. but the horses are not the only ones getting a chance. >> i can't wait to come in every morning. i look at it--i don't look at it as a job. i look at it as a passion. something that i love to do. >> reporter: the grooms like 27-year-old kevin landis are all prison inmates whose crimes range from assault to burglary. here there are no cells, no handcuffs, just a chance to earn a few dollars and learn a new trade. >> if one is going in and one is going out, how do you pass each other. >> judy said carrying for a two-ton animal is harder than it looks and only 25% of those who enter the program graduates. >> not everyone becomes patience, that's the number one

thing you learn, patience. >> reporter: sponsoring ten of these programs across the country they help inmates find jobs at local race tracks once they leave prison. but kevin said he's learning life skills as well as job skills. of all the people who have completed the program have ever returned back to prison. >> it builds their self he i self-esteem. then we use love, trust and confidence rather than any type of force or aggression. >> and these horses considered worthless to the racing community have proven invaluable in a place where second chances are often hard to come by. kristin saloomey. >> the maker of ambassador's car has halted production.

>> reporter: the unmistakable rev of an ambassador. it's a sound that she has heard and cherished her whole life. >> i love my car. >> growing up in india it's the only vehicle that her father drove, and now she's carrying on the family tradition. >> for me it represents the memories of childhood. we spent a lot of time traveling out of town, growing up it meant it was with--it was driven. >> reporter: for decades it was the only car available in india, and it was used by everyone from the prime minister to taxi drivers. but this may be their last ambassador. it's maker announced last month that it was indefinitely suspending operations at its plant because of financial

difficulties. it's workers are owed six months' salary. >> the company was not able to produce five cars a day. they were not able to meet their financial obligations like paying their workers, playing the dealer's dues. >> even if these problems are resolved production of this famous car may not resume. sales have plummeted to just 1 to last year. the vehicle has failed to keep up with motoring innovations and demands of consumers. >> we don't see them on the road much. >> i prefer a sports model rather than going for an indian car. >> they may not want to buy it but many indians are nostalgic

about their ambassadors. >> after 57 years on india's rugged road this grand old lady of motoring faces retirement. it's not just the end of a car, but the end of an era. >> i would say antisemittism globally is the worst i knew regi it's been since leach two or regi war 2. >> more than 25% of the world is antisemmet regi regi semittic. an extensive survey of global people. >> region is a major determineant. religion, also, is. >> in the united states, he says the trends are improving. >> while the law permits you to be a bigot, you will pay a price if you are a bigot. look at sterling. >> the adl stanchion on inter face regi faith reregi relations has been controversial.