am ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, live from doha and these are the main stories we are covering this hour. a high state of security in jerusalem ahead of the funeral of a murdered palestinian. as iraq divides along sectarian lines we have a threat of independence that is fracturing an already shaky city.

>> translator: on the front lines to protect them from the groups and this should not mean anything has changed. >> reporter: explosion on a train in egypt has protesters marking the first anniversary of the military coup. >> and i'll have all your sport as world cup quarter finals take off later on friday and they will revive their rivalry in an old european clash and brazil take on fellow south america opponents, columbia. ♪ well, security has been tight across jerusalem ahead of a funeral of a murdered teenager and there are checkpoints in the main intense into the old city. there is anger following the disappearance of kadir who lived in the east jerusalem suburban

the family is now preparing for his funeral which will take place later on friday, it could stir strong emotions among palestinians who protested for days against the murder of the teen, we have an update in east jerusalem. >> they are expecting to get the body back after the friday prayers, which are going to be ending in a couple of hours so it's going to be some point between the afternoon and before the evening. they are planning a large funeral procession funeral for him and burying him in a nearby cemetery. the body was found first on wednesday morning, it's now friday, so i can tell you that it's been a very painful and heartbreaking last couple of days for the family here that has had to wait to get the body back and hasn't been able to bury their son immediately after they found out that he was dead.

and we also understand from the lawyer that before the boy was killed he was set on fire and severely burned. israeli authorities requested dna samples from the family in order to confirm the identity of the boy because his body was charred beyond recognition, that is also according to the family lawyer who is very involved in the case and present at the police station throughout the last few days. so it's been very difficult for the people here especially for the family, very hard for them to know these details and they have also been told by israeli authorities they are not advised to look at the body and see it so that is very hard that the people here have not been able to say their final good-byes to this boy after he was killed. these are pictures that have just come in to us of israeli police clashing with pal sin

yanukovich protesters in east jerusalem and of course tension has been extremely high in this region, particularly following the death of mohamed kadir who has reportedly, was reportedly killed in retaliation for the deaths of three settlers earlier on. let's go to stephanie who joins us at the damascus gate in jerusalem. as i mentioned, stephanie tension high at the moment and explain the significance of where you are right now. >> well, we are in east jerusalem which of course it was the palestinians that wanted to see the future of the state and first friday of ramadan and muslims want to go and pray at the mosque which is behind me in the old city now. a lot of restrictions here because of tensions you are talking about extra police deployment and i will show you what is happening there in the back and because there are

restrictions on age and a man under 50 is not allowed to go to the city and prayer and they are behind the line and mr. are special forces and police on horse back and keeping it very, very tight indeed. that is the concern that things could escalate but at the moment things have been pretty calm just outside of damascus gate and 100 people praying there and have seen far more people here in times past when restrictions are implemented and peel tell you they are very up set and do want to go after the prayers here to funeral in shirfat but we need to highlight the significance of the area and what it plays in the entire conflict and what we seen it play out over the past few weeks is it's the conflict between jews and arc rabs and palestinians and it's a conflict that comes down to jerusalem and conflict of land and people

praying who are not allowed to access the third holyist site in islam and a lot of frustration and a lot of people stayed away today because of the heavy police presence and there was fear of harsh reprisals if they come out to protest but the prayers have not ended yet and we will see what happens when they do in about 20 minutes from now >> historically known to be a flash point in that particular area and now just separately, too, stephanie israel has also deployed troops to the gaza border and just tell us a little bit more about that. >> well, there has been a second front, if you will, between the gaza strip and an increase in rocket attacks over the last few weeks. israel of course blames h amas for the killing of the three settlers and they have not denied or confirmed it but there is increased tension and more rockets and the night before 15 and today there were reports of

four rockets this morning and so israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu came out last night and said if the rockets stop we will stop but if they continue we will come down hard. now this morning has been more calm relative to what we have seen before but yesterday a couple of houses were damaged and no casualties and a soldier lightly wounded and it's tense but to put it in context i don't think anyone really wants an ex escalation and seen how tense it is and people are taking matters and justice in their own hands and revenge killings which we see here. if there is a massive eccescalation escalation in gazs it could go to jerusalem and west bank and there is a feeling no one wants that to happen. >> stephanie thank you for that, that is stephanie decker speaking to us from the very hot flash point of damascus gate in jerusalem. let's take you now to a wide

shot of jerk -- jerusalem and this is the mosque and the dome of the rock is situated and it's very significant icons to all three major village's, islam, christianity and judaism and o we will be covering the story comprehensively throughout the day and do stay with us on al jazeera. but in the meantime let's move on to other news now and iraq's kurds are one step closer to full independence and their president has asked parliament to prepare for a referendum on their future but the move has angered those who live in kirkook a city that the kurds now control and we have a report sent from there. >> those who are traveling to kirkook have to cross the check point and it's guarded by them and the iraq police and there

are two authorities here and has been this way for years but the balance of power seems to be shifting. you always need this and lies outside the region governed by the kurds. iraqi police beyond the check point did not want to let us through but we entered and the kurds have the final say here. the oil-rich province has long been disputed territory claimed by baghdad and the kurd government and now the kurds no longer feel obliged to answer to the central government weakened by a sunni rebellion and will hold a referendum from independence from iraq but there is opposition not just from the government and the arabs and kirkooks say they will not accept a divided country. >> translator: we want them to leave power but do not want iraq as a state to collapse and state institutions should be preserved and they do not have the right to decide our fate.

>> reporter: they have new borders. its arab districts are in the hands of sunni-armed groups after they pushed iraq army out and forces moved into other areas once controlled by the government and their political leadership has made clear they have no intention of leaving. this angered the arab members of the council and they may not support nouri al-maliki government but they do not want a divided iraq. >> translator: the prime minister deployed on the front lines and send them for that and shouldn't mean anything has changed. >> reporter: but a lot has. the government lost influence here and the arab districts of the province are on the other side of a dividing line and the president of the kurd government may have been right when he said there is a new reality on the ground. i'm with al jazeera kirkook.

correspondence den kaan is in baghdad and give us an idea of what has been the reaction in baghdad for the kurdish call for independence. >> reporter: quite frankly among the government here it has been one of fury even before the announcement of the potential referendum. baghdad was always furious for thinking this way and said it was a part of iraq and there is three main type of reaction, firstly a lot of people here feel the kurds are taking advantage of the crisis here in iraq to grab their home land as one person put it to me. the second one is what are the borders of this new kurrish going to be, does it include kirkook as you heard in the report and is mosel ignored because it's in islamic state

and one of the things that the islamic state, the people have taken over parts of the country are trying to do is redraw the map of the middle east and baghdad said that is their plan but the kurds are effectively helping them do that. >> and the kurdish region is semi autonomous but can prime minister maliki do anything for a plan for a referendum? are you able to hear me or have we lost communications with you, it seems we have and we will move on to other stories and 32 truck drivers return that have been held captive for more than three weeks and no news on 49 remaining hostages and we have the latest. >> battle scarred like a veteran

shoulder and there is shrapnel in his chest and bullet wounds in his legs. consequences of getting caught in the cross fire in the u.s. led invasion of iraq. >> translator: the oil we carry on our backs is the ultimate bomb but in iraq there are real bombs, land mines and bullet, i have to go there despite that and my real battle is making money to feed my children. >> reporter: there is little reward for taking these risks and truckers can concern just $600 a work but their work is vital to turkey's economy and needs the trucks to keep moving across the border and iraq is it's second largest export market and almost all of those goods go by road but officials told us in recent weeks they noticed a fall of 50% in cross border traffic and blaming it on instability in iraq. he and his son left for iraq in

early june. and he was brought back a couple days later and he just heard they are free along with 30 other truck drivers almost a month after being taken hostage by islamic state fighters in iraq. the first glimpse of them is on t.v. being bussed to safety in kurdish control in northern iraq. >> translator: it was thinking of dying everyday, i will never let them go back in war zones or where the islamic state is even if it means we have to beg. >> reporter: turkish government will not reveal how they were released and 49 other including diplomates are still being held and ramazan and os good are now coming home, on the turkey, iraq border. >> reporter: violence on the lebanese syrian border is continuing this time in the form of air raids, the syrian

airforce bombed positions in the town and four people are dead. there has been an explosion on a train in egypt as protesters mark the first anniversary of the coup and five people were killed in protests on thursday and demanding that deposed president mohamed morsi be reinstated. we have more >> aftermath of a bomb blas in alexandra and it was put under a chair and hundreds injured and attacks on police and military sites since the over throw of mohamed morsi but with civilians is rare. elsewhere in the country there were more bomb blasts and protests as angry egyptians marked a year since the military coup and the interior military say 200 were arrested and in

gaza they fought with them and fired tear gas to dispurse the crowd but supporters of mohamed morsi were defiant and on the third of july he was deposed by former military chief abdel-fattah el-sissi and a year later they are bitterly divided. >> translator: we don't see change in the past 30 or 35 or no change in the next 100 years. >> translator: egypt needs a military man to fix things. it won't do having a normal person rule the country. >> reporter: in the year since si si's coup they have alarm about what they describe as a deteriorating humanitarian situation. we spoke to a woman who did not want to be identified and assaulted three months ago and

we cannot authority this. >> translator: the police officer hit me even when he was getting up he was making fun of me and telling me i wasn't a virgin and calling me all kinds of names. i'm devastated. >> reporter: directly after morsi was deposed there were camps to promise to stay for as long as it took for the leader to be reinstated and they stormed the camps and hundreds of people were killed. the muslim brotherhood was band and leaders put in jail, and some now face death sentences. but the si si is seen as a savior and in june elected president and rejected calls for reconciliation with muslim brotherhood and they clamp down on decent and has concerns from the international community.

>> and we have an associate professor on the history and politics of imperilism and is live from london and since 1952 egypt has been led by strong men with military background. why is egypt predisposed to military rule? >> well, in the long view, and i'm a historian, egypt is not necessarily predisposed to military rule. as i've said before the military gained a position in national life in the post independence period on the back of a series of achievements, national independence, bad arasism and socio economic division and this is over time and looking in the long view of course there are reasons why it is still there, it owns a significant chunk of the economy, it manages to persuade people that a strong man is required. but if you speak to ordinary people, when they say like your lady in the last clip we need a strong man to rule egypt what

they are thinking of is the battle to get a job and to make an income and to provide for their kids and they think, well, at least they will deliver on that. but if they don't deliver on that then they will lose large sections of the population because now they are so prominently in power in a way they have become much less obvious in the 90 and 2000. >> i want to go to the challenges that si si faces taking on presidency but si si said democracy will not be present in egypt for another 25 years. are you seeing a similar timeline for the development of a true civilian government? >> well, i don't think that si si is in a position to predict very easily because he doesn't control what happens in the social movements and contentious politics of the country and we remember that the military coup that took place on the third of

july 2013 took place on the back of and seizing the opportunity presented by a popular up rising. the thing is the egyptian population is still a part of the over all picture and when the time, when and if they see that society and economic problems are not improving and if they don't see the political freedoms that they wish for, then mobilization will continue in that country. >> so you're suggesting if si si doesn't actually deliver effective reforms and stability in the country we are likely to see him go the same way as mobarack. >> well, i mean certainly egypt is not quite and we have seen 1600 labor protests over wages and conditions at work since the beginning of 2014 alone. we have seen more than about the same number, almost 2000

individual protest actions by the muslim brotherhood or those who seek constitutional legitimacy since august 2013. egypt is not a demobilized society and si si will obviously have to try and take that into account. >> that being the case, where does freedom of speech, media, freedom, where does that fall into this development that egypt is under going right now in. >> well, i think some liberals that supported the military coup in july 2013 thought that they were simply repressing the muslim brotherhood but now it turns out that those liberals and their colleagues are being thrown into prison because there is, if we look historically the campaign of repression that is underway in egypt and it has been underway since august 2013 is unusually tense by egypt standard and that is going background 2-300 years, more

than a thousand killed and perhaps 40,000 in prison. 272 death sentences that actually have been carried out. it's a significant wave of repression and i'm afraid freedom of speech has been a casualty of that wave of oppression. >> thank you very much associate professor on the history and politics of imperilism. three al jazeera journalists jailed in egypt have now been in prison for 188 days. peter greste and mohamed fahme seven years each and accused of helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood and the other was jailed for ten years and given additional time because he had a spent bullet in his possession which he picked up at a protest. al jazeera rejects all charges against them. a former aid of the british prime minister has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for phone hacking, andy was found guilty last week of conspiracy to illegally

intercept voicemail messages when he was editor at the news of the world. australian entertainer and painter arrived at a london court for sentencing and found guilty on 12 charges of indecently assaulting young girls over the course of 20 years and he has been a popular entertainer in britain and australia for more than 50 years. the president wrapped up a state visit to south korea but calling for greater cooperation between the countries and ping criticized the past and seoul and tokyo important u.s. allies had many disagreements lately and from seoul harry faucet reports. >> reporter: ping has been making the most of the warm welcome afforded him by being the first leader of china to address a university and spoke about expanding business and cultural ties and improving

strategic cooperation on the nuclear program his language was careful but more than enough to satisfy his hosts. >> translator: china ap poses the existence of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula in hopes to resolve problems including nuclear issues through dialog and negotiation. >> reporter: it went down pretty well with his audience at the university. >> translator: i think he delivered a big message to college students about cooperation for common pros -- prosperity. >> translator: it will have a significant influence on my future. >> translator: i am with him and if china wants to develop relayings as a priority and whether they are under mining, south korea, u.s. relations. >> reporter: there might be a bet merskepticism on that in washington and she referred to the war of regression on chew that and korea but imperil japan

and the president suggested a joint celebration next year for the 70th anniversary for the end of the second world war in a japanese colonial rule and could be seen as an attempt to make the discord between tokyo and seoul two vital u.s. allies in this region. there has been no official response to the invitation from the south korean president who has been sure to pay her chinese counterpart as much hospitality as she was afforded last year in beijing and no question it's a deeping relationship but also a delicate one, harry faucet al jazeera in seoul. >> the hurricane of the atlanta, first hurricane of the atlantic season hit the north carolina coast in the united states and hurricane arthur with winds up to 160 kilometers an hour was up graded to a category two storm on thursday and the first hurricane to hit the u.s. since super storm sandy in 2012 and 4,000 people forced from homes and another 22000 are without

power. let's get the latest now from richard who has been tracking arthur's path. >> that is right, we are talking about the first major storm to hit since sandy because last year was so quiet and you can see where this storm center is. in fact, you can still see the eye, still in training some dry air around it as it has gone northward and now it's moving away from the gulf stream and applying the warm, moist air and we should see it weak ending but it's giving rainfall across north carolina and wilmington and packing punches and only just and it probably will go down in a category within the next couple hours or so but moving quickly at 37 kph and although it has gone over much cooler waters it is still packing quite a punch going across cape code and up to the

novia-scotia and we will see pretty intense rainfall if nothing else from the system as it works its way up the coast and washington d.c. you can see with heavy rain and kentucky will see torrential rain and moving to novia-scotia we could see 150-250 meters of rain and dry to the south but still looking very disturbed around the gulf region and could be further heavy rain here. >> richard, thank you and let's stay in america where many are celebrating their independence on this fourth of july weekend, the state of hawaii though is questioning its past. an effort to create a native hawaiian government is raising questions about whether the u.s. lay claim over the 50th state and we explain. ♪ hawaii's language and culture is widely celebrated on the islands

now however the teaching of hawaii was ban after the kingdom of hawaii was over thrown and annexed by the united states. it's this history of columnzation that those with native hawaii and and sancestr. >> if you have a legal entity it can pursue rights that have been lost as a consequence of colonization. >> reporter: tens of thousands like bill signed up on a role to elect the government but suddenly the framework of hawaii self determination within the u.s. was questioned by the head of the state agency administering the process. in a loet -- letter to the state department of hawaiian affairs they questioned the legality of hawaii as the u.s. 50th state and asked whether he

incurred criminal liability under international law. hawaii's queen was over thrown in 1893 at the urging of the sugar barrels and help of washington but it had long been an internationally recognized sovereign nation unlike the native american tribes and no treaty consenting to oversight and dependency. the ceo surprise intervention has been welcomed. >> what you are actually looking at is the u.s. and the state trying to pretend none of this happened, that what we are as native people, the best we could hope for is to be native americans under the governing power of the united states. and hawaiians simply are in a growing number of hawaiians are saying that is not true, that is not who we are, that is not who we were then and we should and

can have our country back. >> reporter: for those who are determined to see a native governing entity formed in the u.s. the resent discovery is welcome. >> our history had been written by westerners who would have had us all but forget there was no annexation and illegal over throw and when you start to step into more of your population understanding their history then they start to ask okay so what are we going to do next. >> and that is what worries bill hernandez who thought the time had come for hawaii self determination within the usa. >> you have to accept the reality that you have been colonized so what do you do? you must find a means to work within the existing system. >> reporter: but in attempting to consolidate that system, discussion is now underway on this and i'm with al jazeera in

hawaii. more ahead after the break and countries in west africa unite to tackle the worst ever out break of eboli, accelerating toward light speed the world's largest science experiment is about to be turned back on again. ♪ and a british take on a french classic, the tour de france is about to begin in northern england. ♪

♪ welcome back, now security has been tightened right across

jerusalem ahead of the funeral of the murder palestinian teenager and this is the scene where the funeral will take place shortly. israeli police have set up checkpoints into the old city. in other news the president of iraq's kurds has asked his parliament to prepare for a referendum on independence but his move has infewerinfewer -- infurated him and talking about mohamed morsi and five people were killed during protests and more than 200 others are in police custody and there has been an explosion on a train in the city of alexandria that injured five people. west african states agreed to open a regional control center in guinea to deal with the eboli out break but say they need $10 million to set it up, health

experts and politicians met in ghana to stop it spreading and killed 450 people since the start of the year. >> we estimate that an amount of $10 million will be needed immediately to address the needs for the next six months. >> if we do not provide the support to stop the transmission and prevent other countries, other countries will get infected as well, it will spread more in the countries that already have them and require more resources so it's better we look for the $10 million or for them to be able to help us. >> reporter: two organizers of the protests in hong kong earlier this week have been arrested, that is according to the group, the civil of human rights front. nearly half a million people

called for electoral freedom on tuesday 17 years after hong kong was returned to china and hundreds of protesters were later arrested. thousands of people fled from indian administered kashmir in the 1990s during a violent up rising and some crossed into pakistan to be fighters and others tried to find safety in india and 20 years later some people want to come home and are looking to the indian government for help and we report from the capitol of india administered kashmir. >> reporter: these are uncertain times for the conn family and she pakistan wife and three sons have just returned and 25 years ago he illegally crossed the line of control that separates india and pakistan to train with the band armed group. he did not want to tell me exactly what he did while he was away, but he did want to talk about the indian government's

rehabilitation policy. >> translator: there were a lot of us in pakistan that want to come home, the big problem is there is no direct route to have to come via other countries. >> reporter: one of the biggest concerns for those that have returned is getting government documentation to restart their lives. it's been four years since this policy has first introduced but some challenges remain. >> we have more than 300 who have come across with various degrees of success. the problem is not so much with their return, the problem arises with their families because there are citizenship questions that come about. >> he and his family minority hindu were forced to leave in 1990 because of the fighting and they recently returned with the promise of a government job and housing. >> translator: but each comes

more understanding and now, whatever happens i want to be in kashmir, this is my mother land and i was born here and i want to die here. >> reporter: india's new prime minister mordi pledged to better the deal for tens of thousands of people who may want to come home. >> this is not about hindu and muslim, this is about rights of people thrown out of a state which they were settled in for the past century. >> reporter: but time will be one of this policy's biggest tests, more than 20 years have passed and many of the kashmir who left are settled elsewhere and condition of some of the places they once called home is a stark reminder is just a reminder how long they have been away. successful rehabilitation depends on economic opportunity and more immediately security because as many say, even the smallest of incidents can stall the entire process, i'm with al

jazeera in the state of kashmir. >> reporter: and the same wages is what is happening in sweden's second largest city, an experiment to limit the working day from 8-6 hours and it's hope the move will improve productivity but not everyone is so shir and tim friend reports. >> reporter: fancy working two hours less a day on the same pay, car technician thought his boss was joking when he proposed the idea. but the move has already boosted efficiency and employee happiness. >> i mean when i see them go to lunch i'm going home so it's like good-bye, see you tomorrow. so obviously it's good for me. >> reporter: the theory is that humans work better in shorter bursts. longer hours don't necessarily mean better productivity.

♪ now sweden's second largest city is launching a six-month experiment, one group working less and the other group working regular and it could mean more people employed. >> i think it's good because part of the people that get reduced working hours might get a healthier life, a better life, more time with their family. and other things to do. but also a way of sharing jobs. >> reporter: you would think efrp -- everyone would celebrate the prospect of more time off but nothing is that simple and some fear more pressured working with shorter shifts. nurse maria believes that without increasing the budget for more staff cutting hours could have disastrous consequences. >> it's going to threaten the

medical safety and the people who live in the care gets less time, less time. >> reporter: so who is right? academics have made a study of the complex issue. >> there is surprise in relatively lower consumption levels but i think for rich countries like sweden people feel like higher consumption does not make it happen and could be wise to do it. >> reporter: some say it could cost them millions of dollars but they insist it's a plan with benefits all around, tim friend, al jazeera gothemberg. >> the world most expensive science experiment will soon be switched on and two years since this discovered the so called god parl or higs-bosin and now

it has a $165 million up grade as we report deep beneath the border between switzerland and france. >> 100 meters below the surface technicians putting the final touches on an up grade to the world's most advanced fiz issues experimenissues -- physics experiments and it goes 100,000 kilometers a second but a design flaw may stop the machine from running at full power >> the first three years we run on energy which was nevertheless the tradition to find many other things but we want to go higher and have more partibles. >> reporter: the experiment is switched off and each section was rebuilt and tested and much

of the focus of the up grade has been on strengthening 1700 of these copper linking cables. they are important because they connect the huge electro magnets inside these pipes, electro magnets are very important to the experiment because they direct the beam of partibles as it travels on the 27 kilometer long loop and at full speed partibles travel on the loop 11,000 times a second and then they are put on collision course with a second beam traveling around the pipe in the opposite direction. the high energy collision that result are then analyzed to see what they reveal about how partibles inside the atom behave. >> new particles out there and we cannot make them and we need to hit them harder to explore the bigger mass and larger

energy ratings. >> reporter: discoveries from the experiment have already given us a better understanding of our physical world and the knowledge used to develop new treatments for cancer and other applications are expected in the years ahead, with increase in power researchers say those possibilities can be even greater. and i'm with al jazeera geneva. >> reporter: in a few minutes we will take you to brazil where a bridge has collapsed on to a busy road in one of the world cup host cities. and in sport will germany players shake off the flu in time for the world cup quarter finals? ♪

♪ welcome back, a bridge has collapsed on to a busy road in brazil crushing at least one motorist to death and injuring ten others and the fly over gave way where it hosts a world cup semi final on tuesday and we see reports from rio it's the latest accident in connection with this. the high level pass over a busy highway was under construction when it collapsed around 3:00 p.m. crushing at least four vehicles, among them a commuter bus, to construction trucks and a car. the woman who was driving bus was apparently killed almost instantly. the bridge which like many other projects was men to be ready in time for the world cup and

supposed to connect the airport to downtown. >> translator: i was washing the dishes and heard a loud noise through the window and saw some people falling and others running and i ran too, the house shook, the restaurant shook, everything shook. >> translator: there is no explanation yet as to why vehicles not connected to the construction project were allowed to get anywhere near the structure which officials say is posed to be ready by the end of the year. >> translator: there were certainly some errors, i don't want to risk any speculation at this point, an investigation will share what has happened. >> reporter: and he will host its last world cup game next tuesday, the all important semi final and while this accident is not directly related to or expected to effect the game it does draw attention to the city whose airport terminal reconstruction raised eyebrows because of the poor quality.

i'm with al jazeera, rio. >> reporter: let's get some sports news now. >> thank you so much. it's quarter finals day at the world cup, later hosts brazil take on south americans columbia but up first is germany taking on france at the american and richard par reports. ♪ for a ninth world cup in a row germany contesting a quarter final match and this time they take on heavy weights france at the american and the germ man's needed extra time to beat nigeria to get there but since then seven of the squad have been suffering with flu. >> translator: all players were able to train and they still have a slight cold but there is no feeling of exhaustion and i just hope they stay stable. >> reporter: one of the players suffering with illness is the

leading scorer miller and he has been in hot form in brazil scoring three goals. the french defeated nigeria 2-0 in the last rounds and both goal keepers will be busy and 17 goals have been scored in world cup meetings between the teams. >> translator: we are not afraid of anything and fully aware of the fact that in one match just about anything is possible and it's always possible the match could be our last but there is no fear and a sheer joy to play germany in a quarter final. >> reporter: columbia continued to impress at the world cup, in particular 22-year-old james rodriguez, the top scorer with five goals. in their first ever quarter final they take on brazil and columbia's coach is confident the spanish referee won't be effected by the home support. >> translator: we hope the referee plays a good match.

no suspicion here and don't think it will have a major influence and columbia is here to play and playing the world cup for the first time in many years. we just want to enjoy and show our potential. >> reporter: brazil have only lost twice to columbia in 25 meetings but the wait of expectation was evident in that penalty victory over chile and they were in tears before and after the game, the players were. >> translator: i give my in doing what i love and what happened to me was a break down and too much pressure during the game and if we lost we would go home and i had an emotional break down because i give my fullest when i'm doing something. >> reporter: brazil coach lewis claims they have one hand on the trophy. but for the brazilian fans it won't be enough until they have two hands on it. richard with al jazeera. for more on this we are joined by football journalist

patty who is live for us in berlin and france and germany have had great world cup games in the past, do you think the teams have the potential to do the same? >> i think definitely, whether or not it reaches the hearts from the previous meetings like the 90, 92 world cup that ended 3-3 and a brutal collision the goal keeper and the frenchman and i'm not sure it will reach those heights but certainly there is a city right here, i'm pretty sure it's the same on both sides of the country. >> were you surprised that germany struggled to beat algeria in the last game? >> i think apart from the first game against portugal germany is not alone and one of the bigger sides to do this and interesting to see how they go, if fed questions about the tactical

decisions and also the personnel and phillip the captain playing in mid field and a lot of people would like to see him full back where he made his career and there is disjoint about have done enough to get to the stage and france perhaps in a little form and been a lot more convincing certainly so it will be interesting to see how germany went because as we know it's a final thing here, and they have a lot to do and convince if they are getting past a strong france. >> what do you think the atmosphere will be like in berlin later today? >> it will be i'm not sure you will be able to get too much customer service after about 4:00 p.m. today because it's a beautiful day in berlin and most of the country and it's probably an official half day off for a lot of people around here so there is going to be great places to watch it as a fan outside with huge screens and public viewing and behind us is the main one in berlin and can

get thousands down there and a real carnival atmosphere and looking forward to the world cup for years and they do it right like other countries and a lot of colors being shown today and a lot of people who are very excited for this for sure. >> and if germany were to go through would they rather face columbia or brazil? >> that is a great question. i mean there are no easy games at this point of the tournament, columbia i guess we have ridden the back of excitement and have great team culture there and the mutual choice because of the passion they play but brazil of course a very, very strong as well and it will be interesting to see with the teams tonight and h 1 has one of the top young players at the tournament in brazil and rodriguez at columbia. i don't think they will have a reference to be honest.

but perhaps just a shade but probably columbia, it would not be the home team like brazil would be so perhaps that might be a slight difference. >> reporter: we will leave it there for now and he is a football journalist in berlin and thank you so much for your time. and don't forget to join us everyday for our world cup update, a daily wrap of everything going on in brazil 2014 at 1540 gmt. men's semi financials at wimbledon and history was made at jeanie became the first canadian to reach a grand slam final and richard nickel son reports. >> this is in the draw, the former junior champion in a tight first set and nine to play could get the upper hand and went to a tie break and it was a 20-year-old 13 seed from canada who made the breakthrough to

take the set 7-5 in the tie break. despite nerves in the second, she won her six match points to take it 6-2 to reach her very first grand slam final. >> i get to make canadian history again. it's always exciting and special when i can make history. and, you know, my job is not done. i want to go another step further so i'm going to stay focused and enjoy after. >> reporter: and she will play 2011 champion on the final saturday after she won the first semi final against lucy and although the 23 seed who had never beaten her seed to opponents almost grabbed the next set and edged it 8-6 and that seem to turn the tide for the sixth seed as she rolled through the second set 6-1 to take the match. and then the title was won by a

canadian. >> the tour de france is about to start in england and yorkshire has the world's greatest cycle race before riders arrive next week and hope it to be a hat trick of resent wins and we report from the market town where the tour will pass through. cycling has been a gentle activity in the town here but everyone is very excited that the tour de france is coming to town. >> lots of people round here have taken a week off work to experience it, to go cycling everyday, to get with the things going on such as this event. >> i have been to france and seen it a few times and never imagine we would see it coming past the house i live in and comes right pass the house. >> reporter: they are off and not the same speed as the real

race but with no less spirit. he invested 1.5 million on bicycles in his shop and taken a risk and many british who have taken up cycling in resent years are prepared to spend a lot of money on their hobby. >> cycling is the new golf and lots of customers and businessmen and very successful and businessmen doing as much business in the banks as they are in the offices and people do business on the golf courses and now many are on the bikes. >> reporter: excitement on tour de france is attacking a new generation and seems that the love affair with cycling is set to grow and grow. >> the tour goes through here and the platform have gone to winners of a raffle and what will they see, the cyclists will go bas in a palaton and that will last for a second and it's

all over and the tour de france will leave yorkshire behind but this corner of here has turned french. >> for all the latest check of al jazeera/sport, there is also details there on how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook. that's it for me for now and back to you. >> thanks very much. stay with us here on al jazeera, we will be covering one of our top stories and that is of the funeral of mohamed kadir and that funeral is expected to happen late today, this is of course the scene in east jerusalem where that funeral is expected to take place, as i mentioned a little earlier today amid high tension across jerusalem. stay with us.

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