>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, from headquarters in doha and i'm steven and attack on security check point in lebanon and it's connected to the fighting in syria and iraq. iraqis react to u.s. support and some say a change of leadership in baghdad is the only way forward. also ahead a discovery of a mass grave of migrants unearthed in mexico. a television celebrity

surrenders to police live on television. ♪ but first a suicide attack in lebanon, a car bombing in syria and a fight up rising in iraq, in isolation the incidents of human tragedy but they are linked and together they tell the story of a middle eastern landscape that is changing very quickly. we will be reporting from iraq in a moment but first let's go to lebanon. and we are joined now in the eastern becca valley, tell us what happened. >> reporter: steve, i'm standing right next to the check point where the explosion took place and a suicide bomber blew himself up and can confirm the head of the lebanese general security was the target of an assassination attempt. he passed by here just seconds before that explosion took place.

now, you can see behind me all they are getting is clues from the site and we just passed through the check point less than half an hour before the explosion took place. we were on our way to the becca valley to do a story about syrian refugees here in lebanon. now security here has been on high alert for a few days now. and precisely since the crisis in iraq had started. >> was this a surprising attack? >> reporter: no, steve, it was not a surprising attack at all. in fact, this morning the street in the heart of the capitol beirut many streets were cordened off and security stormed into one of the hotels there and arrested 17 people, not lebanese, foreigners who they suspect has a connection to what they believe to target with suicide attacks and other means,

personalities here in lebanon and security positions. now, it seems these fears were not out of nothing. they had very specific information. in fact, in the morning all people heading to the street were banned and in beirut, the capitol, many streets leading to the speaker of the house have been cordened off and the road to the airport and this is sensitive areas in beirut is cordened off and security has a lot of information and intelligence that some sleeping cell, al-qaeda connected, have some plot to target attacks here in lebanon and hearing this for the past few days and say success isil had in iraq will actually insight and encourage sleeping cells here in lebanon to take action. we have to remember in iraq the crisis there has taken the shape

of sunni conflying, in lebanon more than half the population is split between sunnis and there is tension in the past few years and crisis in iraq will aggravate tensions and security is on high alert since last week. >> indeed and we are reporting and many thanks. over the border a powerful car bomb killed 34 people in central syria according to opposition activists and happened this a government-controlled village in a country side near hama and 40 wounded in the blast. the islamic front claimed responsibility for that attack. u.s. president obama says america is sending 300 military advisors to iraq. the president is also considering what he describes as targeted military action. politician close to the iraqi prime minister, maliki told the

government is not relying on the united states. he said he has faith in the iraqi military to regain control. the government is claiming victory. the country's largest oil refine arn rebels say they made what they called a tackle withdraw and fighting to baghdad has been continuing for days and iraqi government says it has retaken most of the town close to mozel, iraq's second city and mostly taken and over run by sunni rebels on june the 10th. kurdish fourss control parts of the city. city fighters also control decrete and fullugia. and conn has more on that from baghdad. >> reporter: reaction here to president obama's speech has been muted. somebody very close to prime minister malachi told us they do

not completely put their faith in the americans, that they are relying on them for some help but they are more relying on their -- on the iraqi army and the recruitment drive that has been in place for the last few days saying they can handle this crisis with themselves and they do want some american help. interestingly there has been no comment on president obama's words where he said it's not up to the u.s. to choose iraq's leaders, that has been seen as a thinly veiled threat towards prime minister malachi saying the americans don't have enough confidence in his leadership. he has been criticized, malachi, by key sunni tribes here and they have said that he believes the crisis can only be solved if prime minister malachi steps down and there are increasing calls for him to step down. so there has been muted reaction to his speech as i say.

but the iraqis here are looking at their own military strengths and trying to deal with this crisis but many in the opposition including tribal checks have criticized openly prime minister malachi. >> influential leader from the province is warning against u.s. intervention and says the real problem is maliki. >> translator: islamic state of iraq is a small group, fighting them is inevitable, fighting them has been delayed. our probably problem is with maliki and we don't want to over throw the regime and don't want to come back with sudam or rule on agenda, we want dignity for all iraqis, we are not isil. isil tribes will push them out once they are finished with

them. no trust giving to isil. >> midst the turmoil the players are on a drive and the king will visit egypt for the first time since 2011. the purpose is to show solidarity with the new government in cairo, the crisis in iraq and syria will also be discussed. joined in doha is a professional of international relations at the london school of commissi commissions. let's talk about what the ruler amine was talking about successes for the isil and encouraging sleeper cells across the middle east. >> if i were a sleeping cell what do i do, i take the maturity to go on offensive and the bigger point is following. they are threatening to devoure countries and putting fire on the political and ideological

conflict and you cannot separate what is happening in iraq and what is happening in syria and when conflict continues you will have instability and extremist groups using crisis to spread influence into neighboring countries. >> should this all be left to the relevant groups in the middle east or should america be involved? >> well, let's make the point very clear, it was america's invasion of iraq that opened the gates of hell. it was america's invasion of iraq that dismantled iraq institutions. we are talking about i sis, the islamic state and islamic state is a mutation of the american invasion. we are talking about why the iraqi security forces are more sectarian led, americans dissolved the natural army and this army is unprofessional and a product of this particular fighting. i think barack obama had a tribe and middle east on societies must take ownership of their own conflict, must try to resolve

their conflict. it's up to the people in the region to basically seize this particular moment. of course there are many, many conflicts and that is why it's going to take a long time before the dust settles on the battlefield. >> what is saudi arabia's position now? >> reporter: you just mentioned saudi arabia trip to egypt and it was morsi who paid the vest but it's the other way around and going to egypt to send a clear message saudi arabia is fully behind si si administration and collected $12 billion in aid from kuwait for egypt and lobbying the united states and european country to set forward si si and want to make sure egypt recovers as a sunni state and iran and also saudi arabia has an interest in counter revolution, basically movement, they want to steady the region and terrified the

turmoil in egypt could go to other countries including the gulf states. >> is saudi arabia and gulf states contributing to the turmoil through syria? >> i mean the reality is what is happening inside syria, i'm being blunt and this is not just internal conflict, this is a war by proxy. you have saudi arabia and iron battling each other in lebanon and without a regional understanding between the two dogs and between saudi arabia and iran the internal conflicts likely exacerbated by regional support by the to camps, combatants. >> thanks for joining us. a verdict next week for three al jazeera journalists in egypt and they have been behind bars now for 174 days. they have been accused of collaborating with the out lawed muslim brotherhood. egyptian prosecutor asked for

the maximum sentences and that means greste could receive a sentence soft 7 years and fahi and mohamed face 15 years and al jazeera rejects charges and continues to demand release of its journalists. palestinian president says they are using disappearance of three teenagers as a pretext to punish palestinians and killed a 15-year-old palestinian boy in the west bank during prozests as they continue the search and the second palestinian to be killed in a week and the three teens went missing a week ago near bethlehem settlement and accused of kidnapping them and there is more on the search for the three missing teenagers. >> reporter: the israeli military operation across the occupied west bank continues. it has not stopped since the three israeli teenagers went missing last thursday night. last night the israeli military

seems to be focusing on refugee camps in bethlehem and others and arrested tones of people on thursday night bringing the total arrested since the teenagers went missing last thursday to around 350 people. palestinians are saying that this is the most significant israeli military operation in the occupied west bank for almost ten years now. today is friday and of course they are expecting potential confrontations between palestinians and israeli military today so movement has been limited. any palestinians in the occupied west bank who normally have permits to move in and out of israel will not be allowed to do so today. checkpoints across the occupied west bank will be intensified. >> more to come on the news hour from doha including one border, four counties nigeria cracks down on illegal movement across its northern frontier as it increases operations against boca haram and they try to force

their way in matches in rio and reaction of a pitch and two goa goals torpedo england's chances for the cup. ♪ 31 bodies have been removed from a mass grave in a mexican state of vera cruize and looking for more and the state has been seeing seven years of cartel violence and attacks on migrants trying to reach the united states and adam reports. >> reporter: the scene where dozens of bodies were unearthed in eastern mexico and braves found on this ranch in vera spaus cruz and died six months ago and not clear if they were migrants on their way to the u.s. and bodies showed signs of

torture and some victims had their hands tied behind their back and others dismembered. authorities gave little information about the case. >> translator: investigations underway and give further details at the right time. >> reporter: families of missing people in the state are looking for more from their government. dozens of people have been reported missing in recent weeks and the discovery of the braves only fuels fear their loved ones are among the dead. and she went to the state's forensic office on thursday looking for clues about her husband's case. the 41-year-old taxi driver went missing a few weeks ago. >> translator: i come here with hope and to see what happened, but at the same time i don't want him to be here among those 30 bodies. >> reporter: hundreds of bodies have been unearthed in mass graves in mexico in resent years, victims are poor migrants or people caught up in mexico's ranging drug violence. tens of thousands of people

remain missing. and loved ones like this woman usually receive little or no information from their government. adam with al jazeera mexico city. embarrassing incident at the world cup in brazil has f i fa to review security measures, a large group of chile fans stormed into rio stadium and as we see in reports that is not the only problem the tournament organizers are facing. >> reporter: stampedes of ticketless fans, arrests of black markets and fake ticket scams, nothing it seems is too much when it comes to getting into a world cup game. in the biggest security breach so far, chile fans desperate to see their team play spain barge past guards at rio's stadium. but they landed in the media center and were detained. on sunday a group of ticketless

argentina fans claimed a wall and almost made it into the stands. fifa in charge of security within the stadium perimeters is clearly embarrassed. >> fifa is trying to rule with brazilian and security authorities in order to improve standards, in order to improve that this will not happen again. >> reporter: the 88 over zealous fans have saturday to leave brazil or be deported. >> translator: no one likes to see the image of your country tarnished by something like this. everyone is talking more about the incident than about the fantastic victory of chile's team. >> reporter: stadium mayhem aside the biggest breach of security has to do with tickets. this man was arrested trying to sell what are sometimes fake ticket for five times the price

but most get away with it. fifa spokesperson says the tickets can logically be bought through their official website yet we found dozens of websites selling tickets to the world cup and some of them for as much as $28,500 for the final game including parking, a prosecutor is investigating this site after receiving complaints that after spending a fortune some fans have not received their tickets. fifa concedes it cannot do much more than advise people not to use these websites but again when it comes to seeing your team fight for the world cup, there is very little some fans won't do. i'm with al jazeera rio. let's look at some of the other stories making headlines rounds the world, security tight across pakistan after taliban threatened to launch a counter offensive and army carrying out

operations against taliban fighters in north warsistan, hundreds convicted of trying to over throw the prime minister are freed from prison. on thursday the country's top court ruled that trial was flawed and turkish military said we will have a retrial to lead to a fair verdict. the search for missing malaysia airlines plane moved hundreds of kilometers south of the first suspected crash site and the powerful equipment used to scour for wreckage and the flight vanished 3 1/2 months ago. a popular actor and senator surrendered to police after anticorruption court ordered his arrest and him and two other politicians expected of misusing funds worth $220 million and we have the story. >> reporter: the senator and actor turned politician delivers a speech which is seen as a

last-minute attempt to seek sympathy from the public. he has been charged with corruption along with two other senators where from the opposition including the son of former president joseph estrado and 90-year-old politician believed to be the architect of marshal law in the 70s and accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars of government funds. it's a case that has rivet the nation. and it has brought down governments and unseated public officials. still not one convicted spent much time behind bars because the biggest problem here remains unchanged, impunity. when the president was sworn into office in 2010 he promised to fight corruption that is long way in the southeast asian nation and government admits the justice system here has long been fragmented and favoring the

privileged view and government says the arrests will hopefully pave the way for a long needed reform but has denied that justice has been selected. >> charges to be filed against them, they will be evaluated, whether you are friend or foe and we already filed a case against the president. so we are colorblind as to culpability. >> reporter: his efforts will be seen differently by the public. >> the one that is over joyed because now you are really an example of how government is serious in treating this standard and the other would be going to be just, they won't get away with it and the middle is looking at government and say why only them. >> reporter: cleaning up the system means overhaul of the political structure and a strong support from the public. but many philippines say they

have already grown weary and this may be another political drama they say in a country long hardened by corruption scandals. i'm with al jazeera manilla. ukraine has regained control of border with russia and acting defense minister is able to stop military equipment across the border to support pro-russian separatists. that comes after nato warned about a new russian military build up around ukraine eastern border and russia denies arming or supporting separatists and the president is backing a peace plan put forward by ukraine to envy lends in the east but paul says it's unlikely that pro-russian fighters will lay down their arms. >> reporter: if the president's peace plan is to work it's places like here that he needs his message to be heard. this pro-russian check point north of the pro-russian city on thursday separatists malitia were not in the mood for

listening. the men here say they come from the local area but actions come from the russian side of the border. >> translator: we didn't choose porshenka and those who did need to decide whether his words can be trusted. since he is immigration his speeches were beautiful and elegant but he has not acted on any of them. it's understandable because his actions are being controlled from outside of ukraine. >> reporter: the president's offer of a unilateral cease fire by the army and proposal for an amnesty for those pro-russian fighters prepared to lay down weapons, that information simply is not getting through here on the front lines of the separatists malitia and frankly they don't trust the kiev government and they say they are prepared to continue to fight to the death if necessary. the 14 point piece plan has proposals for a cease fire by the ukraine army, amnesty for

fighters who give up weapons and requires the border with russia to be secured and cause for firm commitment from all sides in the conflict. there is an eerie calm in the town here. there was a fierce battle near here on wednesday and a local cease fire was then called to allow prisoner exchange and evacuation of the wounded but few here be leave the guns will stay silent. the police chief is the only officer still turning up for work, his brother was abducted a week ago and no word since. and really are they at peace after all that has happened, can he forgive? >> difficult, difficult. difficult. but maybe. >> reporter: it is a hopeful sign, but unless separatists show similar willingness this peace plan could just be one-way

traffic. paul brennan with al jazeera. take a look at the weather where you are in the world and it was sunshine in europe but flooding in bulgaria. >> reporter: you are righting steven but we had an area of clouds that plagued us in the south for the past few days and i will show you the cloud on the satellite picture and it is over rome and gave us flooding over rome and now you see it's edging its way towards the east and still it's a bright white area of cloud here and parts of romania and bulgaria where we seen the worst weather over the past few hours. here are pictures on the coast there. and it shows you how bad the flooding was and the waters were pretty strong if they can pick up these cars and just toss them around as if they were toy cars. over the next few days there is going to be yet more wet weather and again it's in the southeast corner, this system just hasn't quite finished with us just yet. for today the remainder of today

expect plenty more rain and the dark blue in the southeast is where we are expecting the wettest of the weather and further north also a whole scattering of active thunderstorms here as well. that system does stay with us but slowly edging its way eastward and means by the time we get to saturday then the wettest of the weather is pulling away over parts of russia and behind it and still there be showers but nothing as bad as we have seen. meanwhile this is the sunshine that steven was talking about in the west. that is where there is a high pressure in charge, it's fine and sunny and also pretty warm and london saturday should be up at 23. >> thanks and the weekend, this within researchers will be taking ocean samples from 150 sites around the world and aiming to put together the largest set of data on marine bacteria. data would could be used to fight human disease. from new zeeland william hey is

here. >> reporter: global investigation of what lies beneath the surface of the oceans and scientists from auckland take samples and it was a low-tech beginning which will be a high-tech biological study of bacteria dna. >> the oldest bacteria in the oceans have the greatest genetic diversity and it has evolved into our dna and understanding how bacteria works and d. in a they have is fundamental to understanding life on earth. >> reporter: half of the species are found in the waters around new zeeland and scientists don't know if that is with organisms they cannot see and hoping this study will give answers. >> finding diversity in the places and the question is this bacteria the same all over the oceans and the same bacteria everywhere or do different places have unique bacteria. >> reporter: the samples from around the world will be

fillered, frozen and sent to germany which is coordinating the study then the huge task of collecting and analyzing the data will begin. this exercise is generating a great deal of excitement about what it could tell us about the world's marine eco systems but potential benefits for the medical world. watching results closely will be scientists from many fields. here researching the relationship between bacteria and atism and say bacteria in the oceans could hold many keys to the development of medication for all sorts of conditions and diseases. >> it's often a very long pathway. it's not that you find a potential drug tomorrow and it's on the pharmacy shelf next week. it's a number of years and it's many millions of dollars i guess in order to get it through clinical trials and things like that. so it's not a quick process but yeah a lot of exciting potential out there. >> reporter: when the results are published next year mankind may be able to take a leap forward and understanding the

ocean, micro organisms that call it home and what they can do for us, wane with al jazeera auckland. asylum seekers rescued off the coast this year plus. >> i'm in southwest france where scientists gather with an extraordinary discovery against the rock face which forever changed our understanding of early human history. and in sport 11-year-old golfer made history at the u.s. open, details coming up. ♪

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welcome back, reminder of top stories this hour, suicide attack at a lebanese security check point killed two people and appears the target was the convoy of the top security was the lebanese security chief, abas but he was unharmed. u.s. president obama is considering targeted military action in iraq, advisor to the prime minister maliki says the government is not relying on u.s. and claiming victories. at least 31 bodies removed from a mass grave in vera cruz and the number could rise. the region has seen fierce fighting between drug gangs.

do do is ready to take targeted action in iraq if the situation requires it but the effective response to the crisis would involve partnerships where iraqis take the lead and danielle is a professor at the school of international studies and has a reason why president obama is cautious about committing troops to iraq. >> i think the president lacks complete cough dense in malaki and wants to see the outlines of a political settlement before he fully commits on the military side. widespread of views on capitol hill in both the democratic and republican parties with some in both parties saying, no, this is a slippery slope and don't want to go back there again and saying their american interests at stake, we don't want to have a safe haven for terrorists in western iraq. so i think the political spectrum in washington is really

very split and the president is trying to move very cautiously so that he doesn't get into any more trouble than he is already in. the fighting has forced tens of thousands of people out of their homes, some from one of the most vulnerable communities in the country. and we have more in northern iraq. >> reporter: and it fell in the hands of sunni rebels and christians and one of the ancient communities of iraq and feel vulnerable and abandoned. >> translator: we received indirect messages from the people who occupy that they have nothing to do with us and feel threatened and the target is different. what does it mean? we don't know. what will happen next? we don't know. a syrian example doesn't promise anything good. >> reporter: among displaced are worried and prefer to remain anonymous in fear of retaliation and this is in disputed

territories in the province and relies on services and basic necessities and what happens there has a direct impact here and like in mozel water and electricity were cutoff a few days ago, the only water valuable is salty and undrinkable and during the hot summer days tempers are high. >> translator: where is malaki, where is the world? take us out of here, we don't want to live here anymore and everyday we change location, what is the solution? >> reporter: the sunni rebellion began over a week ago the town lives like an isolated place and people are on their own. army pulled out and police because they are actually from this area. the kurdish forces stepped in. but the presence of the sunni rebels a few kilometers away from here is worrying everybody. it's common among many village's and towns that straddle the

border of kurdish and iraq and 1,000 long and secured by an iraq kurdish force formed ahead of the u.s. pull out in 2010. >> translator: iraqi army is only present on the last 50 kilometers near the border and sunni rebels took positions in places along the line. >> reporter: they have a protection malitia a few years ago, a likely armed force that worked alongside security forces to protect the town and churches. >> translator: we know everyone here. and we have 100 people and 1500 strong and have to protect our homes. >> reporter: but the men admit they could not fend off any outside attack. and might explain why half of the community has already fled. i'm with al jazeera. news from the americas and canadian police rescued five children in an operation against child pornography and police say 150 people arrested or under investigation and more than a

million images and videos were seized, the operation targeted on line pedophiles across the country. 75 scientists in atlanta may have been exposed to the live anthrax bacteria and researchers working in a high-level government bio security area failed to follow proper procedures, so far no one has shown any symptoms of infection. hundreds of nurses have been protesting outside the offices of the international labor organization in puru capitol lima and they chained themselves together and tried to block the entrance to the building and say they need more nurses and medical supplies. nigeria introduced tighter border control by fighters in the north and as we report from the border with nigeria it won't be easy for the government to stop illegal migration.

>> reporter: illegal border crossing and dozens of them along nigeria long and porous border in the north and there are now operations and greatest scrutiny of travel documents and immigration officials have been busy following a rise in attacks by the radical group boko haram. this check point was introduced in february. so far 900 illegal i'm bran -- immigrants arrested or parted from here. it is a small post like this that immigration service here will help to apprehend migrants crossing in the country illegally and many suspect fighters and human traffickers but waive of migrants continue. the north borders four countries, there is a shortage of men and material effectively control all crossings. and criminals including boko haram fighters have exploited this. >> when you said to increase the

bases, to be able to reduce this and reduce what considerably with the success we have been able to identify some appropriately inform the security. >> reporter: despite that boko haram fighters still find their way into the country. now some people are calling for a different approach to border controls. what they are doing can be seen as inadequate, such the efforts need to be commented by the military and other security agencies and military rather than i mean mining, checkpoints and suddenly within major towns and cities can also complement the immigration at the border and it's the approach to strategy that has to be changed. >> reporter: lack of cooperation from border communities is also a big concern and some see controls in place as an intrusion and as long as those feelings remain the government will struggle to

prevent cross border crime. i'm with al jazeera on the nigeria border. there has been a surge in the number of people forced from their home countries by violence and persecution, u.n. says 51 million people around the world were considered refugees at the end of last year, that is nearly 11 million more from the previous year. more than half of the world's refugees come from just three countries, 2 1/2 million from afghanistan and fewer from syria and over a million from somalia and these are places they are heading to. pakistan has taken in the most, 1.6 million people. almost all from afghanistan. the war in syria has driven people across its borders to turkey, iran, lebanon and jordan among others and the numbers are rising, 100,000 iraqis on the move because of violence and sunni fighters and pakistan takes in the most refugees but

now it's afghanistan's turn to help the neighbor and thousands of people are crossing the border trying to escape a pakistan army offensive against the taliban and jennifer glasse reports. >> reporter: 20 kilometers from the border with pakistan, afghanistan's host promise, a refugee camp is taking shape and tents are the beginning as officials prepare for an influx of people. >> translator: so far we have registered 1000 family, thousands of people have fled but they are scattered, living in houses, some in the mountains. >> reporter: they want them all to come here where there will be medical assistants water and one refugee has died on the journey over the border and one vehicle overturned. trucks are loaded to the brim with whatever the refugees can carry. many fled before the military operation began in pakistan. like this man. >> translator: the military came and put checkpoints around

us. they didn't tell us to leave. our elders went to them and were told not to worry. stay where you are. but we were scared and we left. >> reporter: he says they left their goats, cattle and most of their belongings behind. their village is practically empty. finding a vehicle to get out was difficult. >> translator: the roads are closed. there are curfews and we could not find any food. it's not our fight and we are caught in the middle. >> reporter: some of the first refugees are in their own tents and said they came here because the afghans are their fellow tribesmen. pakistan prime minister asked that afghan forces help seal the border to prevent militants from coming across, the pakistani military is expected to step up ground operations next week, jennifer glasse al jazeera kabul. >> 2014 is on course to be a record year for number of migrants making the dangerous journey from north africa to italy and it's seen as easy access point in spite of the sea

crossing which claims many lives and we speak to people now who have made it to the town. >> reporter: waiting in line for the freedom they risked their lives for. reception centers like this one in the town here in sicily are overwhelmed and are struggling to cope with hundreds of migrants arriving everyday mainly from syria, somalia and others. >> i don't believe something like this is going on here. so what they are supposed to do for us. we need help. >> i don't like this. there is no food. we can't eat here so we need to leave this place. >> men walking around, only one place. >> reporter: acing to a new report 58,000 people have been rescued off the coast of italy so far this year.

that is already more than double the amount for the entire of 2013 and close to record number of arrivals in 2011 during the war in libya. a dramatic increase of refugees fleeing war torn syria and major boost in the fleet deployed by the italian navy and 100,000 refugees and asylum seekers may reach italy this year, there are simply too many migrants and not enough space for them all. this reception center is the same part where they are embarked and supposed to host 180 people but these days there are twice as many and while they are here this is literally all they know about italy. according to charity save the children, most migrants dream destination is not italy, it's sweden, norway, germany or switzerland but with eu forcing migrants to apply for asylum in

entrance italy is bearing the brunt of the biggest migration from africa into europe in years. i'm with al jazeera, sicily. still to come in sport, columbia celebrates as their side secures a spot in the second round of the world cup and details next. ♪

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in a coup and followed unrest which destabilized the government divided the country into rivals and now the army is trying to bring the two sides together again and try to mediate a solution and scott reports in northern thailand. >> reporter: in when he is in this post with hand raised and palm showing it's to prevent families from fighting and it's hoping the reconciliation program will stop the fighting between thailand's families but say it can only happen if they are treated equally. he is part of a red shirt group in northern thailand. one of many supporters in the homeland of the former ruling party led by the shinawat family. >> translator: if they accept us it will be peaceful soon. reconciliation and dissolving colors is not possible until everyone is equal and not jeering at each other and that

is reconciliation. >> reporter: one of the leaders of the 200,000 member red shirt group was detained after the coup. he said he was well treated. >> translator: he wants to dissolve colors to reconcile the two sides and they need to use the law based on justice and equality, that is it. because we gain nothing if we keep fighting. >> reporter: local government officials in brown uniforms are told by the army just how the reconciliation process will go. they say centers will be set up so the two sides can work towards understanding each other better. but there has been no indication if that is actually happening, just a timeframe from the army, reconciliation will take three months. nearly appointed by the army this is what the governor of the province had to say about reconciliati reconciliation. >> translator: trying to point out that no one has to win or lose, neither red or yellow.

we just stopped the fight before it got violent. we believe that different ideas must not divide the society, different ideology is fundamental to democracy but must not lead to division. >> reporter: but bridging those ideologys and differences will be tougher for some people and especially those who oppose the coup but cannot say anything about it. scott with al jazeera in thailand. ♪ thal can mean it's time for sport. thank you so much. we may have missed the first game at the world cup but swarez made up for lost time and results in brazil on thursday and columbia secured their spot in a knock-out round after 2-1 dpe feet of ivory coast and followed by japan 0-0 draw with greece and scored both goals in

2-1 defeat of england and sarah reports. >> reporter: coming off a loss in the opening matches in iriaguay and marking his return after a month off following knee surgerier striker put them ahead first with a hitter in the 39th minute. with just 15 minutes left, wayne rooney was the equalizer and he is first world cup goal, tapping in glen johnson's cross from close range. and hope for england and in the 84th minute. lewis terrorizing defense, shooting the winner straight past joe. england is almost certainly out of the tournament. columbia's campaign is on track and they may have produced the world cup but his colleagues

don't seem to be having any problems finding the net and james rodriguez are ahead against the ivory coast in the second half with a powerful hitter from the corner. another from juan put them ahead, 2-0. the goal of the game came from the ivory coast and the elegants couldn't manage an equalizing and 2-1 and 6 points after two games and i'm sarah coats with al jazeera. columbia are through to the round of 16 for the first time in 24 years and greece, japan and the ivory coast have a chance of progressing from group c heading in the final round of matches on tuesday. and group d italy and costa-rica will face on friday and winner to progress to the knock-out round. that game also holds great

significance for england who could miss out on the knock-out rounds for the first time since 1958 after their lost to iriaguay and we look at some of the potential scenarios. >> reporter: they are close to being in a terrible situation before the second goal and if that match against england finisheded in a draw they would have been the bottom of the group and i can't see them fighting through and now they are in a position where they challenge and england has not given up hope because what they need to happen is for italy to win the against against costa-rica and another favor and england would neat to beat costa-rica by one goal and in their favor and it's looking like a three-team battle between italy, iriaguay and the surprise team of the group, costa-rica. they know the importance of their match against costa-rica

and he tweeted to the 2.4 million followers if we beat them i want to kiss obviously on the cheek from the uk queen and they beat 2-1 in the opening game on the score sheet but costa-rica won the first match and springing a surprise with a 3-1 win and should ensure they won't be under estimated from now on. >> translator: our main issue regarding the opposite team is that they probably know us very well. they have studied our plays for four months closely and forwards of great quality. >> translator: making your debut in a world cup is not easy for anybody. we had our expectations. we had gained confidence and learned about each other on the field, about what we can do and what we cannot do. individually and as a group. now we know that we have a high level of motivation and we want to continue doing things as good or even better than now.

switzerland and france play each other in group e on friday, a win would likely see the viktor progress to the second round and hondorus and ecuador lost opening games and join us for the world cup update at 1540 gmt under five hours from now and live in rio and former african footballer of the world freddy is our special guest. and 11-year-old girl made history in the united states and she lined up on friday on the opening round of u.s. open, one of the biggest tournaments on the women's golf calendar and lisa reports. >> reporter: with pigtails in her hair and decked out in love hearts stars and strikes lucy looked to be a 11-year-old girl but the youngest to qualify for the u.s. open looked the part of a professional golfer, the

american shot 8 round of 78 at pine hurst and put her 11 strokes off the league but higher than 30 other players on the leaderboard, pink ice cream her reward. >> my score, i'm happy with how i played. i mean it's 8 over. it's not bad but i was 7 over in three holes and that is one over in 15 holes so, yeah, i just need to get rid of the big numbers. >> reporter: she stole the light from leader stacey lewis, the world's topped ranked golfer and has a stroke 3 under after an opening round of 67. and michelle once a child prodigy of her own is in second. she could offer plenty of advice to lucy lee who will be back on course on friday. >> i guess i am glad that i got it over with but i'm also excited for tomorrow, yeah. >> what is your plan for the rest of the day? >> eat some more ice cream.

>> reporter: she will make an unlikely bid to make the cut, that would be sweet indeed. i'm with al jazeera. that is all your sport for now and back to you. >> tau. 150 years ago one of the most important discoveries of the history of human development was made in southwest france and a group of archeologists found a piece of mammoth tusk and engraved and it revolutionized the understanding of evolution of the human species. >> reporter: in 1864 the valley in france was the scene of a remarkable discovery. this week scientists gathered to commemorate it and act plays the part of edward, the french pal to toll -- palientologist. and these are tusks and made a hole and rarely scene and on it

a drawing of a human hand of a mammoth and it was stunning that proved that man and, ma'am mammoth walked the earth at the same time. >> it's an object for declaration and maybe for religious reason. we don't know. it's not an object for specific function. it's like a painting by a famous painter or something. it's really an object made by an artist. >> reporter: what happened here is one of those rare moments when science chanced upon a key which helped unlock so much of our understanding about early human development and triumph of thought and inquiry over centuries of super sticion and says that homosapiens are older than previously thought. in the 19th century most people

led by the church thought the whole world was only 6,000 years old and revolutionized our study of evolution. >> evolution of those people, et cetera, thousands and thousands of years ago before christ arrived, that is the outlook and the church eventually resulted but it took a long time. >> reporter: at the national museum of prehistory they hold six million individual finds building detailed picture of early human life and the tusks will star in a special exhibit to celebrate the discovery and show that ancestors were much older than thought and capable of expression, of art, of interpreting the world around them and were in every sense truly human. simon with al jazeera in southwest france. stay with us here on al jazeera. another full bulletin news

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