. >>per cent >>per cent pass >> announcer: this is al jazeera. hello, welcome to the newshour. i'm stephen cole in doha. coming up in the next 60 minute sunni fighters make advances towards baghdad a manhunt for a south korean soldier ends in a shoot-out with the army. >> help us, please. the girls that avoided being kidnapped make a plea for the return of their missing

classmates. adding new names to unesco's list of world her dij sides. first, breaking news from israel. an israeli citizen has been killed in an explosion in goelan heights. israel responded by attacking a border post with mortar shells. four palestinians have been killed in a search for three missing israeli teenagers. the israeli forces arrested 464 palestinians in a search operation. they raised triggered flashes in ramallah. three teenagers went missing on june the 12th near a west bank settlement. i'm joined by mark regev, a

chief spokesman for the israeli prime minister. tell us, first, what happened on the golan heights. >> well, the original report that there was hostile from the syrian side of the goelan heights into israel on to our side of the frontier, they have been a casualty, and we are responding. it is our policy to respond to neutralize hostile fire, if there is such, from the syrian side. >> there was hostile fire. are you talking about mortar fire, what kind of fire into the goelan? >> my reports are what i have received, and the incident is still ongoing. it is that there was hostile mortar fire from the syrian side of the frontier into our side. this was unprovoked and we are within our rights to respond. >> i hope you can hear me.

the mortar fire was incoming and hit what, a vehicle. who was said, and who was killed? >> at this stage i can't go into details. it is something that is ongoing at the moment. that sort of information will be coming out shortly. it was unprovoked and something that no one would stand for. >> and the vehicle, was it civilian or military? >> my information civilian vehicle. >> was a civilian inside the vehicle? >> sorry, sir, but i cannot at this stage go into any more details, and i apologise, only to say what i have said. >> so you've been told minimum information. this that case let's move to the search for the three missing teenagers. tell us what the latest state of play is in that search.

>> i just want to respond to the previous question. when these things happen, there's a lot of fog of war at the begyming, that's why i'm -- beginning, that's why i'm careful about what i say. that's why it's better to be cautious. >> yes. now moving on to the safe, what is the latest you have on the search? >> the search is - the search is ongoing. unfortunately we have not yet managed to return the three kidnapped teenagers to their homes. as you reported on al jazeera, they were kidnapped on their way home from school. we are organising a vast operation to try to locate the three teens. >> it's a vast operation, isn't it disproportional, rounding up 464 palestinianians? >> i would argue that we are doing everything we can do to locate the three young men.

the goal is to bring them home, pack to their families. i hope it will be possible. >> are you having problem with the ear piece. many thanks, indeed. >> i apologise. >> no worries. thank you for joining us. the sunni rebellion in iraq is making gains along roads linking the strongholds in syria into iraq and in to baghdad. they are making a major push in anbar province. they have taken anar and rawah. soldiers with the iraqi army are said to have left their post at haditha. rebel forces are pushing towards ram army. i.s.i.l. fighters have been trying to gain control there. a new front opened further

south. let's bring in imran khan. he is in baghdad. bring us up to date with the rebel advances. >> well, what i can tell you is the town of haditha has been surrounded. fighters issued an ultimatum to tribal leaders saying please surrender peacefully and we'll come into your town. the leaders rejected the offer saying they are ready to rappell any innovators that come into their city. a standoff is developing. haditha is key. it's a major town. the iraqi army left the post and have gone to the town to a military base, so the tribal fighters are on their own, ready to rappell this fight -- rappell this fight. whilst i tell you all of this. secretary of state john kerry, arrived in baghdad for high level meetings.

he's likely to bring with him two key messages. the americans want the process sped up. they understand the criticism coming from the sunni politicians, about prime minister nouri al-maliki is hamstringing any operation that the iraqi army might do. if you want to see a movement you'll be looking at the intelligence share on the map, key in places like haditha, which is - has the stand off between the islamic state of levant fighters. and the sunni. >> also concerns with oil and what is happening at the baiji oil re finery. the army says they are in control. the rebels say they are. do we know what the correct or accurate situation is? >> well, because of the information flow being difficult to get out from baiji oil

refinery, all i can tell you is what you said. the militants say they are in control of baiji. the army says no. we are hearing unconfirmed reports. a helicopter shot down in the area. it's difficult for the iraqi army to hold it. they cut off from baghdad and they need baghdad for a reinforcement and supplies. so the baiji town is under control of the rebels, it's claim and counterclaim. >> indeed. imran khan live from baghdad. thanks. young iraqis have been going to recruitment centers to join the fight against sunni fighters, more than 2 million iraqis volunteered in the past week in response to a call by the shia cleric to take up arms against a sunni insurgency. one volunteer explained why he wants to fight much.

>> translation: we responded to the call to fight those that come from outside to destroy iraq. iraq is united as sunni's shia kurds, christians. all are one. the i.s.i.l. wants to establish an islamic state across much of the islamic world. they tend to be expelled for being too violent. the members are fighting in syria and posted a video online, showing children in combat training. dominic kane reports. >> reporter: a group of syrian children head for a summer camp. this is not a school-based trip. these boys are learning to fight for islamic state of iraq and levant. this video posted online on saturday is said to have been filmed by the group recently. the children are encouraged to familiarise themselves with weapons, and then to fire them.

others are instructed in religious thought and then policemen their allegiance. >> here the cubs of islamic callet far. this is a message of jihad and to our amir, to tell them that we will spend our lives in jihad and we'll never give up the weapons until we have victory or martyrdom. >> pictures like these are the latest of a number of videos uploaded by the i.s.i.l. in recent days. on thursday this footage was posted of what appears to be british and australian fighters calling on western muslims to join their campaign. >> this is the land of jihad, the land of living. we have brothers from bank , from iraq, from -- bangladesh, cam bodia, united kingdom. >> reporter: with images like

this, i.s.i.l.'s intention may be to give the impression that it's the leading armed group in syria and iraq, and is establishing its own state. some analysts reject that. >> more syrians view i.s.i.l. as an extreme group on the fringe of islam. that most of the time is acting in annest lambic way com -- an islamic way, this is why i don't agree. >> reporter: while the propaganda rages online, on the ground the fighting is intense. these pictures were filmed by al jazeera in damascus in the past few days, rebels preparing an operation to clear government forces from an outpost. the u.n. believes after three years of fighting more than 10 million syrians need help. that is almost half of the

uprising population. >> a humanitarian situation is tied with the crisis in iraq. thousands of people are fleeing baqubah north-east of baghdad. 1,000 families sheltering in a camp. the u.n. says 600,000 have been forced out of their homes in the last two weeks. iran's president hassan rouhani is calling for a ceasefire in iraq. speaking at a religious conference he called on both sides to lay down the weapons during the holy month of ramadan. iran is watching the situation. in the past it offered help to the ricky government. a former major general helping the sunni rebels d told al jazeera they will not put their arms down until demands

are met. as we broke to you earlier, the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is having - these are not live pictures, but he's arrived a few minutes ago in egypt for the first top-level talks with general abdul fatah al-sisi - former general abdul fatah al-sisi, since he was elected president. james denslow is the director of the new democracy platform and middle east security analyst who i will talk about iraq more than egypt to be honest. i.s.i.s. has taken control over

the syrian iraqi border, according to what i'm seeing. is there a sign that the iraqi government and all other shia militant groups have lost control of the situation? >> i think the loss of control of the situation is nothing new. i think this has been the characteristic over the next few months, and it's important that it's fewed as a question asked. it's no longer a simply theatre. it has to be viewed with the background of a strategic death. we'll talk about joining the dots for a tactical grid. now the networks are going to fallujah and the areas west of baghdad. we have to view this. it's the tactics that i.s.i.l.

is adopting. i would take issue with the framing of how it's raised. this is an i.s.i.l. offensive. there's a big challenge to be had to dissen tangle a battle against i.s.i.l. to be seeping it as a battle against the sunni population. that is the history, and it will not bring the sunnis into the state. i see your point clearly. i.s.i.l. is trying to redraw geographical boundaries, creating you new country. >> yes, and one of the first visseral thing they did was to bulldoze through the sand, that separates iraq from a demolition and de-marr kated and fortified

by the americans. it was a symbolic action. they drove across the border, american humvees that have been stolen. the onliway to beat i.s.i.l. is to see it in their paradigm. that is not one that is drawn by western powers in the past. that is the challenge. at the moment we are talking about how to deal with this offense i, and capturing up tos and advancing across the country. we saw yesterday huge demonstrations from the mack di army, the peace army. the point of collision is upon us, whether the iraqi state can direct that or whether we are in full militia mode. it's a crucial question. the losses of so much territory in iraq. it must be a go al-maleeky and

you wonder how long the sheer political established in baghdad can hold out now. >> interestingly, ma'am abbingy's future is under the microscope with the american pos, umming and aring about the support. the challenge is whether nouri al-maliki will unite the she items or whether he can be someone that can bring together the grand bargain. it's interesting. the report showed that i.s.i.l. are in discussions with tribal leaders. clearly there's diplomacy and space to be had. i saw the kurdish pesh murga to a thing. the sons of iraq programme was about appealing to the tribes, about bringing the sunnis into the state. nouri al-maliki froze them out. they were orphans of iran. the question is is he the man that can put humpty dumbity back

together. >> james dens low from the new diplomacy platform. there has been a shoot-out from a soldier suspected of killing five others. a platoon leader has been injured in gun fire. it happened during a search across the area, close to the border with north korea. harry fawcett joins us from seoul. i don't know what the latest situation is. is the sergeant cornered or is it all over? >> no, it's not all over. as far as the defence ministry is concerned, he is cornered, vouched and they are trying to persuade him to be surrendered. they appear to be in no hurry to deal with him. the standoff has been going off for close op five hours. it was 2:23 in the afternoon when the change of fire happened. now they are saying that they

issued an evacuation order for the 500 or so residents of the village, they are being rehoused in other schools south of the area. before that this man had been on the run for 18 hours. it began on seat night. five fellow soldiers were killed. seven injured. now they are all said to be out of danger. that's the trigger for this huge manhunt that unfolded. 3,000 to 4,000 troops involved in that. >> any ideas why the conscript, a sergeant, started shooting. he had some kind of personal break down. >> that will be one area of investigation. certainly he is a sergeant, as you say. when you serve your two years mandatory service as this man was, you are gradually promoted.

so you were getting toward the end of the service. he'd been under close orved for some time. a -- observation for some time. a special assessment for failure to adapt. he was given a category a rating. the highest risk rating that would be possible. that would have not allowed him to serve in such a difficult dangerous and front line position as he was in. that was downgraded in november last year, we understand, and he was deployed to this area with 30 or so platoon mates in december. he's been there for six months, it's a difficult place to operate. living conditions are difficult. there has been some incidents before, and, indeed, there has been two other shootings like this in the last 10 years. they have been associated with a culture of bullying and hadsing which the south korean -- hazing which the south korean army is

tackling. harry fawcett reporting. we'll update you if there's a finality about the sergeant being cornered. still to come - showing no mercy, pope france excommunicate's italy's mafia from the catholic church. >> plus... >> i'm andrew sim opposed in north-east nigeria, and i'll report on how the school girls are coping after escaping capture in a kidnapping of nearly 300 of their classmates two months ago. >> lionel messi's late show rescue's argentina at the world cup. russian president vladimir putin called on both side to stop fighting and start talking. the separatist fighters dismissed a week-long truce

declared by the president. they are accusing the ukranian army of violating a ceasefire. pope francis launched the vatican's strappingst attack to date against organised crime. the pope made comments after visiting col abria. the pontiff met the father of a 3-year-old boy. it is a power base of a global drug trafficking syndicate that dominates italy's coe cape trade. >> the adoration of evil and contempt for the common good. the evil must be beaten, expelled. we must say no. those that go down this evil path, the path of evil as the mavy oweso do, are not at commune yn with got. they are excommunicated. >> brazil's president rows eff

will seek a second term. popularity is falling because of the high cost of living, the slow economy and opposition to the billions spent on the world cup. she is still favourite to win. almost 600,000 ballots have been cast in an unofficial referendum on democratic reform in hong kong. it's part of a campaign that the chinese government called il. they wanted to elect the chief executive without interference. it's 699 days since boko haram abducted 200 nigerian school girls, despite an outcry around the world. the search failed to find the girls. andrew simmonds spoke to some students who escaped capture, about how they are copingful. >> these are the school girls that magged to escape capture.

her classmates are missing. the pain shows. their teachers believe talking about what happened helps. >> we have the sound of guns and we ran out of the room. >> reporter: their school principal is here, losing count of the number of appeals she's made for the release of her pupils, she is not giving up. >> there is nothing i can say. this idea, daughterers, granddaughters, they should fill this and release them. . >> reporter: all the girls have been brought here not just for their continued education, but for better security. their teachers say they are doing well, relaxing and concentrating on their studies, despite the fact that they are away from home and they don't know what happened to their classroom friends.

those with close friends missing are getting more distressed by the day. >> it's painful. it's just to help us to find out. we are asking to help us please. >> reporter: but no one has a positive answer. more than two months after their friends went missing and the state government is trying to get schooling back to normal. >> we cannotml resume. we -- immediately resume. we relocate the children, provide safety and continue with normal schooling. >> reporter: there can be nothing normal. only the safe return of friend will make it possible. torrential rains are causing flooding across large parts of

southern china. this area saw its heaviest rain in decades, 224mm of rain falling in less than a day. houses were destroyed. sections swept away. and much else besides no doubt. anyway, let's take a look at those terrible rains, and the weather around the world now with everton. >> that's right. well, it's the rain, seasonal rain, they wax and wane. they come back. over 200mm of rain fouling on friday. in the last 24 hours, another 112mm of rain across a similar area. east into hong kong, 74mm of rain, you see how organised the band of cloud is rolling across southern parts of china, up to the eastern side of the region, all tied up with a weather system, and you see how it links up, and imagine it from the south-west to the north-east, pulling in across the similar

area for day after day after day, had beens the flooding -- helps the flooding. no signs of improvement over the next few days, for monday you see the wet weather stretched across the area, heavy rain to the eastern side of the country. then go into tuesday. again more of the heavily rain rolling in across a similar area. no improves as we go through the next couple of days. wet weather stretching across indoe china into myanmar. joining up to the sworn monsoon. coming across the western parts of india to the nearby side of india. another area seeing heavily rain over the next few days. the wet weather up towards the far north-east of the region. >> thank you very much everton. more to come. not always wet in this newshour. blue helmets going broke. a funding crisis for the u.n.

peacekeeping forces. >> i'm tom ackerman at a laboratory where a pharmaceutical company detects counterfeit drugs. and nigeria celebrates their first world cup victory in 16 years. that is coming up. vé

welcome back. you're watching the newshour. these are the top stories. we are getting reports one person has been killed in an explosion in golan heights.

israel responded by attacking syrian border posts. fighters are making an advance in anbar province. they have taken the towns. they are pushing towards haditha. there has been a shoot-out between troops and a solder suspected of killing five comrades. the siege tips. the soldier was found in an area near the elementary school. the headline story was an explosion in the goelan heights. we don't know if it's a bomb or a mortar fired. jane joins me from jerusalem. tell us what we know about the incident in the golan heights. >> well, sources in the israeli military are telling al jazeera that there was an explosion in the occupied gooooooooal near to the de -- golan heights near to the demarcation line.

in that area it appeared that a vehicle exploded. this the vehicle a 15-year-old boy died. there were other adults in the vehicle. civilian contractors working with the israeli ministry of defense and defense forces on building the fence that goes along close to the demarcation line with syria. it's not unusual that ordnances and bombs may land on the israeli side in the last couple of years that has happened. this is the first fatality on the israeli side there. we know that the israeli defense forces are saying it would appear this is a targeted attack. and that it doesn't look to them at least to have been an accident. so that is significant. and they have as you said responded with tank fire across into syria. also going on here in this part of the world is this - is, of course, the israeli ongoing

military provision in the occupied west bank. three israeli teens went missing in the west bank over nine days ago. since then we have seen israel's biggest military operation in the west bank for over 10 years. there was a lot of tension, two deaths of two palestinians, one in nablus, one in ramallah. whenever locals confronted the israeli army because they were raiding houses. they have been going on nightly, targetting ham as, who israel hold responsible for a kidnapping of the teenagers. the first killed in nablus was confirmed. the second was a body found in ramallah on a roof top. initially reports were unclear as to who was responsible, whether it was palestinian security forces who had to fire in the air to calm down an angry crowd and hold them back, or whether it was the israeli military. autopsy reports coming out are

saying that he was killed by a bullet from an m16 rifle used by the israeli military. thank you, jane. al jazeera has learnt the united nations peacekeeping budget is threatened. if a deal is not reach by june, there'll be no budget for the 16 peacekeeping missions under way around the world. diplomatic editor james bays reports. the u.n. has peacekeepers in 16 missions around the world. they are authorised strength is reaching a record high. over 100,000 troops and police in u.n. blue helmets. there's a funding crisis. diplomats can't agree on a budget. if there's not a deal by the end of the month, peacekeepers in all the missions will have no money and will not be able to operate. most of the u.n. troops come from the developing world. these soldiers are from roou wand a. funding -- rwanda.

the main fighting comes from the western nations. ak abdul moman is an ambassador to bangladesh, a country with 8,000 personnel serving with the u.n. >> bangladesh is obligated to help the u.n. when they ask, we respond positively. when our troops can't get minimum, what should i say nas ilties, te demoralizing. we want the guys fully liquid and energised to perform the job. the dispute over funding comes at a time when the u.n. must find for troops for its mission to mali and south sudan and set up a peacekeeping operation in the central african republic. there has not been a major increase in the money the u.n. pays that contributes troops for years. the u.n. pays an average of

$1,200 her peace keeper per month. some want it increased to $1,700 per peace keeper per month. the total for the counter peacekeeping budget ending in a week stands at 7.3 billion. next year it could rise to 9 billion. >> negotiations will continue in the coming days, in an irony, because the talks have gone on past an allotted time, there's no budget for translators and support staff. they will not meet in these corridors, they'll have informal meetings outside the building. a verdict in the trial of three al jazeera journalists in egypt is expected on monday. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed have been behind bars now for 176 days. they are accused of collaborating with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. barnaby phillips reports on the

campaign to help free them. >> you are watching closely the trials of al jazeera staff and journalists in egypt. >> reporter: it's a message resonating far and wide that journalism is not a crime, in a free society reporters need to be able to speak to all sides. the men in the cage have paid a heavy price in defense of this right. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed, respected journalists have been behind bars for 176 days. egyptian authorities accused them of spreading lies, of having links to what they call a terrorist organization. across the world many disagree and many spoke out in defense of the al jazeera team. >> we'd all like to live in a world where we can go about our legitimate law of business without interference, as anyone should be able to do. it's not about democracy. i'm not saying journalists are

above the law or there are special rules. in this instance, and instances like this, if they are doing their job legitimately people should not be obstructed in the course of doing that and put in prison. it's crazy. campaign ents have taken place in 30 counties around the world. more than 69,000 have tweeted using the hashtag free aj staff. those people have sent out a total of over 181,000 tweets. those tweets have reached more than 74.4 million twitter accounts. >> the al jazeera campaign attracted enormous support from people all over the world. but the challenge for any social media campaign is to translate success in the virtual world into results in the real world, turning the retweets and online petitions into pressure on people in position of power.

event the most famous of tweeters backing honourable causes don't always come out on top straight away. campaigners helped peter greste's family raise 58,000 signatures calling for this release, and they feel it made a difference. >> egyptian authorities belong to international pressure. we are aware of that. knowing that they are there with thousands of people behind them gives them a strength to go in and have the conversations, know this they are backed up by thousands of people. now peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed wait for the court's decision. they and supporters over the world feel the case has gone on far too long. and the world health organization estimates about 10% of all drugs sold worldwide, and a study indicates that 100,000 die from taking fake medicine. in the second part of our series tom ackerman visits a laboratory

where science helps law enforcement to take fake drugs offthe streets. >> the human growth hormone that rick injects himself with keeps him alive. a prescription he had refilled at a san francisco drug store could have killed him. >> i asked the pharmacist. i said there was a stinging and there was an issue with the water in the packaging. and he said "you should go home and check to see if you have some of the fake stuff.". >> reporter: robert is a victim much counterfit drugs sold over the internet. in some cases finding their way into reputable pharmacies, in this lab at the headquarters of pfizer, more than 1,000 suspect samples are tested each year. they have been seized by law enforce agency suggests or bought by undercover agents. >> they'll go out and pose as

patients who are consumers and go out and make purchases from the individuals on the internet. >> different colour blue. they are close. >> to an experienced eye the bogus packaging can look identical to the product. pfizer's scientists can spot the counterfeit. then comes the chemical analysis of the sample. >> in some forms they don't but the active ingredient in. sometimes it's in, but at the wrong level. >> reporter: under a new law every drug sewed in the u.s. will in -- sold in the u.s. will include a marker and track it through its supply chain. around the globe it's a case of buyer be ware. >> you have to stay in the systems that are safe. if you go outside, you go outside of the safety net that is there for you. >> reporter: there's no reliable safety net in south-east asia

and africa, where a third of antimalarial drugs are fake or ineffective. drug companies and u.s. government agencies have been donating hand-held devices that can perform chemical analysis in the field. tools to protect unsuspecting consumers from falling ill to the greed of counterfeiters. >> we'll have the third part in our series on drugs "deception", on monday. we'll be in bangladesh, where pharmacies are fooled by fakes and most of the victims are the poor. plenty more to come here on the newshour today. the u.n. body in charge of the world's cultural heritage names new sites. >> and sipping and dancing - russia, the next world cup host is on a charm offensive with the

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preventioning attacks on cultural sites is part of the agenda for the 38th session of the world heritage committee, a meeting in doha expressed concern about monuments being destroyed. qatar says it will give $12 million. caroline malone is attending. i was seeing some sites that have been added to the u.n.e.s.c.o. world heritage

list. what are they. which are they. >> it's been an active morning thus far. there has been six new places added to the world heritage list for u.n.e.s.c.o. among them is a canal in china. that's a big waterway in the world, stretching from budget to schenk zal. and where 170 million live. in some parts it's active. there's another site. the initial part of the silk road, and that affects modern day countries such as china, kurdistan and kazakhstan. a joint effort to get the place lift ed on to the u.n.e.s.c.o. site. recently we heard from myanmar, and it had its first ever fight listed on to unesco's places. >> reporter: it's a world away from where the decision makers

are, but it doesn't stop the people asking for dive in intervention. they are from a town near one of three ancient cities. and record a u.n.e.s.c.o. heritage listing as an honour. >> translation: there are many cultural relics and religious buildings in this city. >> reporter: the three april shent cities are part of the pew kingdom. its people starred trading with india around the fifth century, leading to the spread of buddhism throughout south-east asia. not much is known about pew. they lived in big cities, enclosed by high walls. they built a system of irrigation. they spoke a language which is extinct, closely related to the myanmar language. archeologists that worked at the biggest of the three cities believe they may have uncovered 20% of it.

the importance of the pew site is that they are rare and unique examples to the society in that era. experts want the area protected, something world heritage status would offer. >> the area is fragile. we always great the pressure. in quick time we can have a disaster because only the judges can disappear quickly. . >> reporter: they are staunch protectors. people that live in the town nearest the site set up a heritage site. funded and staffed by volunteers, they run a museum and help ensure artefacts. sometimes by buying items sold on the black market. >> translation: the city existed

more than 2,000 years ago. it's a history of forefathers, of little interest to some people. but we want to resolve it. >> reporter: a world heritage listing would bring in funds and no-how. more than that, it would give a sense of pride to the people, telling them that history is worth preserving. so as we heard, this part of the myanmar is on the u.n.e.s.c.o. list, and it's important for myanmar being the first time they had a u.n.e.s.c.o. listing, because the three cities helped to spread budism throughout asia. from this area they spread to thailand and india. not just arc logically important. it's not easy to get on to the u.n.e.s.c.o. list.

there's a long process to be nominated in the first place, and advice is given from specialists around the world, archeologists and historians. five step process. once that happens comes the committee, because what has been happening in doha - it takes 21 committee members to vote. they have to have a majority. great times, myanmar, the delegates are very happy to make it on to the list. this afternoon we'll see different types of sites, more landscapes, sites of biological importance. among them discussions about tasmania, and and wilderness forest. more debates that happened about that. it [ ♪ theme ] and that was caroline, now

it's time for a look at sport. >> hello, nigeria celebrating a world cup victory. in 16 years it's a result putting them in contention. bosnia, tomas hertl 1-0, a good result for ghana. lionel messi starred in his own late show for argentina. they report. >> could this be a world cup where lionel messi finally achieves the greatness afforded toities compatriot. maradona was 26 when he led argentina to world cup glory in 1986, the same age lionel messi is now. after scoring in the opening game, the onus was on the barcelona man to provide the inspiration against iran. it took until injury time, but lionel messi's goal was worth waiting for. argentina into the last 16.

saturday's second game came to life in the second half as germany and ghana played out a thrilling 2-2 draw. mario gave the germans a lead on 54 minutes. ghana sprung into action, scoring an equalizer three minutes later. they gave the wav cans the lead -- west africans the lead. they couldn't hold on. substitute snapping this equalizer, equalling brazil as the top scorer in world cups with 15 goals. the african champions nigeria took on bosnia. it should have taken the lead in the first half. it was wrongly disallowed. to rub salt in the wound minutes later, peter scored the winner for the super-eagles. they go second in group s behind

argentina. this is how group f stands: nigeria will join them if they beat the arnal tines on wednesday -- argentines on wednesday. iran could progress with a win over bosnia. the afghan side ghana is in with a chance of advancing to the knockout ground. lee wellings reports, success for the african teams. >> the action in the world cup has been amazing. the smile back on the face of african teams, because this was their best day, and, of course, a magnificent win for nigeria, the african champions, it's put them in a strong position to reach the last 16 and make sure there's one side in the last 16. argentina won the group. nigeria will know defeat. if the match between bosnia and iran is drawn, it will be a

positive performance. a drab opening game. a draw. the performance of ghana. they'll struggle the to qualify. what a game. a world cup classic, one of the best if not the best. 2-2, and ghana played a big role in that. coming from a goal behind. it's difficult to beat germany. two excellent results. >> let's look at the teams that confirmed places in the knock out. chile to advance. columbian costa rica booking their pot. argentina as we heard are through from group f. the united states will join the lift. south korea taking an nigeria. belgium will be up against russia. russia, of course, hosting the next world cup in 2018, hoping

the opportunity will repair ties between the east and west. far away from eastern conflicts. russian fans are cheering on the teams, the first world cup appearance in 12 years. we have this report. >> the russians are coming - to brazil. to project a hospitable image before hosting the 2018 world cup. at the ipp august ration of the first russia house in latin america, the vodka was flowing. and the visitors were glowing with admiration, at the exhibit of every world cup football since the tournament's ipp essential of up to 30,000 fans may beo cheer the team on. >> we all here for russia. >> reporter: never mind that russia's performance is anything but memorable. in the old days.

success was measured by ability in sport. something that vladimir putin was committed to. when it comes to football russia is taking a big leap leap of fa. >> we qualified first time in 12 years, it has to be a surprise. they have to be astonishing for the fans. they have no other choice. >> reporter: at the russia house passion for football converbals with diplomacy -- converges with diplomacy, far from its traditional sphere of interest. >> the russian investment in brazil is growing. as you mentioned, we have projects especially related with gas and petroleum extraction in brazil. >> reporter: like a good diplomat. >> and we are dreaming to have the final between russia and brazil. >> reporter: more proof that

russia is a nation with strong ambitions. you cap join us for a daily world cup update at 3:40 pm, just under five hours from now. we'll be live in rio and former african footballer is a special guest. more on the world cup on the website aljazeera.com/brazil2014 is the address. that is sports news. the formula 1 grand prix getting under way in the next few hours. the williams team with the advantage. phillipa masa on poll. his team-mate starts in second. celebrations at the williams' team. nico ros berg in third. wasn't a good day for fellow mercedes driver. the britain 22 points.

starting from ninth after spining during qualifying. >> south korea's amy yang ties for a lead at the u.s. open. yang who finished as a runner-up in 2012 shot six birdies on a way to a score of 2-under par 68. she joins michelle wee, shooting 2-over par 72 to lose her solo 3-shot lead. the two plays late on sunday. >> i'm happy about it. i played solid. my shots were better than the two days, i had good speed on the greens. it felt good. >> a lot of positives. i made a lot of great shots. i hit every shot perfectly, missed a couple on the back

noin. i'm happy i have a chance. i'm grateful for an opportunity. >> wimbledon top seed novak djokovic says his ahead of a third tennis grand slam. wimbledon tournament begins on monday, the serbs start a campaign on tuesday. the 2011 champion is determined to turn the tables. murray beat him months ago. >> you have to get used to winning and losing, it's part of the sport. it's important to learn and try to take the best out of the losses and understand what you did wrong and grow from that experience really in general as a tennis player and person. that's the sport for now. i'll be back later. stay with us on al jazeera. there'll be another full bulletin of news coming up. keep up to date with the news on the website at aljazeera.com. that is the site to click on to.

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