>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello, there, good to have your company for this al jazeera news hour, with me david foster. these are some of the stories we're covering in detail in the next 60 minutes. [ explosion ] >> israel targeting more than 500 sites in gaza as more than 200 rockets are fired towards israel. the governor leads the presidential elections in indonesia, but his rival refuses to concede.

in south sudan, celebrations of the third anniversary of independence, but the country is still involved in a bitter ethnic conflict. i'll have all of the latest from the world cup. brazil are out of the tournament after germany handed them their worst-ever home defeat. we'll be live in rio in sao paulo, for all of the reaction. ♪ in the gaza strip hundreds of israeli air strikes have claimed the lives of more than 40 people in the last two days. both sides firing across their borders in the worst outbreak of violence there has been in two years now. the army says more than 200 rockets from gaza since the start of this operation. the government says the rockets

landed in several cities. a number of areas including tel-aviv have been targeted, but those rockets were stopped. first this wrap up of events from erica wood. >> lighting up the sky. rockets from both sides crossing the border. israel has carried out dozens of attacks inside the bah sieged gaza strip targeting homes and other buildings. this is the aftermath of the strike that killed a military leader and islamic jihad's brigade. five others were also killed. >> translator: they were hit by a drone missile while sitting in front of their house. what can i say? we leave it up to god. from god we came and to god we will return.

[ explosion ] >> reporter: specific targets were being attacked, but civilians are also being killed. among them children. >> translator: we were received at the hospital several injured people, six of them died, three women and another three men were killed. and another three children, less than four or five years old were injured. >> reporter: meanwhile the attacks coming from gaza are far less accurate. no one has been killed inside israel and the damage has been minor. but this time their rockets have reached further into israeli territory than ever before. >> translator: no one was injured. we came to see what we can do. this is something totally crazy. >> reporter: and this amateur video apparently shows guests at

a wedding in central israel running for safety as rockets fly over head. the israeli military has massed tanks on the border with gaza and says the assault will last more than just a few days. the hamas leaders who control the gaza strip have issued their own warning. >> translator: we don't want to make war, but if the israelis want war, the resistance is ready to fight. >> reporter: israeli has been using unmanned drones to carry out its strikes, and its iron dome to intercept missiles. this's no doubt israeli outranks gaza in all areas. now standing on the roof of the broadcast office not very far from the center of the strip

is a place we have reported from many times. mostly when we have been there in the past we have seen the attacks after dark, but that's not the case right now. >> no, that's right. we have actually just in the last 20 seconds seen three air strikes, and we're hearing a rocket now fly overhead. i'm not sure if you can hear the iron dome, perhaps. this has been going on all day, also yesterday. it's a random total booming. gaza shakes. it's terrifying for the people here. we heard it last night from our hotel, it gives you a sense of just what it is like for people here. we actually went down to one of gaza's main hospitals to see how they were coping with the situation as you can now see in our report. >> reporter: the young boy lies under this blanket. he is dead.

his body is burnt and covered in shrapnel, his wounds too graphic to show. what has this child done, she cries? this devastation is the result of an israeli air strike. and there are many more cases here. eight members of the family are injured. >> translator: there were 22 of us in our house, they bombed behind the house, and my house collapsed all over us. those who are doing this are not human beings. if you have a problem with some people, why are you punishing all of us. >> reporter: israel says it is targeting hamas's rock set infrastructure. but we're seeing many civilians here. >> translator: i left the mosque with two of my friends. suddenly a rocket landed in front of us. my friend was killed the other badly injured. i'm in a little bit of pain, but nothing compared to what happened to them. >> reporter: the hospital is struggling to cope.

doctors are waiting to take in the wounded and dead that keep arriving here. people will tell you they don't feel safe anywhere. and just a short while ago we heard a large air strike. many say this is not only a war against hamas. >> if you have fight with militants, fine. but you go bombing houses and killing children, without even a warning? this is a war crime. >> reporter: but the bombs keep falling. this has been a long, painful conflict, and these are not equal opponents. israeli's military might give the people here little chance. >> i'm just thinking looking at that story, steph that the israeli side says the reason it targets civilian areas is because within those areas are where the fighters are. and where the rockets are being fired from. if that is the case, are those

undoubtedly innocent civilians unable to stop this happening or unwilling to do so? >> well, i think you have to look at the geography, also of the gaza strip. it's a tiny area. 40 kilometers long by roughly 12 kilometers wide. israel is just about there when you see these houses stop. and it's incredibly densely populated. so you don't have any areas where you can be militarily active. but, yes, they do launch rockets also from the middle of civil populations. so there is a point in that. however, there are people -- we spoke to people in hospital today who simply were sitting at home. the gentlemen in my package -- there i'm not sure if you can see that. two bombs just now. and you can see that's heavily

populated area. so this is why -- you can hear that probably. this is why people are so pet raffied, because they don't - don't -- there you go. this has been going on all day, david. >> yeah, we can hear it. you see the rockets landing there in densely populated areas, and it's hard to understand how difficult it is to move in gaza at rush hour time, because of the number of people that live there. and we have the rockets coming from those areas going out. now these rockets are going further than ever before. intercepted over tel-aviv, suggested that they may have reached jerusalem. what are you hearing about the weapons that members of hamas actually have? >> well, i think this has shown israel -- hamas did say we're

going to surprise you. it shows they are well equipped. they are reaching further north. and this conflict has two sides. we are in gaza, there is also a conflict across the border. we have seen this happen again and again. but it is two sides who stand off who haven't been able to reach a compromise to live side by side. but yes, hamas has certainly shown israel it is serious. yesterday we had five men infiltrate israel, and this is a very tightly -- controlled military zone. but if we look at the general perception here, what is happening is they are launching rockets at tel-aviv, at jerusalem, and managed to infiltrate israel. it is a huge escalation, but both sides are saying if you stop, we'll stop. but we have now come to a point

where who is going to stop first? >> steph thank you. as she correctly points out, there are two different sides to this conflict. so let's cross the border get out of gaza and go to where nick schifrin is. he has been monitoring events near the border with gaza. this is what he sent us. >> reporter: here on the gaza border we have seen a constant ber rauj of strikes from both sides huge explosions back in gaza right there. where the ground really shakes. and at the same time, a very large number of rockets. at one point, two, three, four, successful rockets being fired from gaza into israel. and what israeli officials say is those rockets are reaching farther into israel than ever before.

one rocket targeted hiffa, and they say more rockets have been fired than in the nine day that the was a launch >> gaza. there is a lot of fear, of course, but there's also anger and hatred, and you talk to people here, and most of them want the government to be more aggressive into gaza, and take away hamas's responsibility -- or ability to fire those rockets in their words, quote, once and for all. >> now let's move up the coast to tel-aviv, to larry. larry i'm going to talk to you not necessarily about the politics, but what it is like being a citizen of tel-aviv. it is frightening to know these rockets can now reach as far as

that big city? >> it's happened before. it's not the first time. they -- in november 2012, there were some rockets that reached tel-aviv, but i don't think they were fired at tel-aviv, but shot out of the sky by israel's iron dome. and we have iron domes working again. i don't live in tell aveef, but i work in tel-aviv. i'll be going to work after this. am i scared ? maybe i should be, but i'm not. a lot of people are, but maybe i'm just dumb. >> let's talk about -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> yeah. >> it detects when the missiles are coming and how do you know when it's working? >> when it blows something out of the sky, you know. when you don't hear the crash of the -- of the rocket falling and you look up and you see the thing -- you know, it blows it

out of the sky and comes down in, you know, thousands of little pieces. >> and the people of tel-aviv -- >> and nobody -- and you don't hear the boom. >> yeah, there's a bit of a delay between you and me, which is why we're overlapping. people tell me what it is like to be out in the streets. are extra precautions being taken, are there air raid sirens or anything like that where you are? >> they have what they are call code red. if the detection system detects a rocket coming in bound to your area, then a siren goes off, and people know to go into their shelters, into their protective rooms which are in every building in every home. that's one of the reasons why there are so few casualties. >> final thought on the israeli

prime minister, and [ inaudible ] who says his party is not going to have anything more to do with netenyahu's group. does that need to be resolved to solve this crisis, or will they be able to work as some kind of team at the moment? >> i think at this point it's irrelevant, because lieberman left the partnership with netenyahu, i think one day before they started this operation, now the government is bombing the hell out of gaza. i think lieberman looks silly, because now the whole country is united behind the government. and i think lieberman looks silly. >> thank you very much. ♪ still toment come on this news hour, we have a yemen shiite rebel camp a city of

120,000 after months of fighting. the story of japan planning to built ab giant sheet of ice to protect against radiation. and one of the most exciting semifinal world cups there has ever been. [ cheers ] ♪ the iraqi prime minister, maliki has accused the kurd city as becoming a base for terrorists. his relationship with the kurds is a bitter one. they and the iraqi army are trying to fight off a sunni rebellion. >> translator: we will not be silent about our bill. it's a base for the islamic

state and base for terrorists. >> now first to imran khan in bagdad. to you first of all imran. why does the prime feel this is necessary to say right now? >> well, he's lashing out at the kurds. he is very angry at the kurdish government for this referendum they have about declaring independence. the relationships between the two has deteriorated completely as of late. they used to fight together against saddam hussein. it's clear that there are no fighters in arbill, all sides have said that, so he is likely referring to the sunni tribals

who have been very critical against him. they said they are not going to fight on maliki's side or the government side, because he goes. they say he is completely responsible for the crisis because he has followed sectarian policies. he is accusing the curds of harboring those people who are against him. this is the strongest statement towards the kurds we have seen in a long time. >> so what is he going to do, not just say? >> well, this is what -- this is why everybody is asking themselves. what can he do? it's likely he will try to get the kurds to back off of the referendum they are trying to do, but that's unlikely. that's going to go through. he is also going to put pressure on them to get rid of the sunni tribal shakes who are critical of him who are based in arbill.

they will be looking at these words and wondering where they came from. because they seemingly came out of nowhere. this was his weekly televised speech. and he has used it to get a very strong political message across. >> thank you very much imran. and now we'll go to [ inaudible ]. imran says this is very unexpected. is that the sense you are getting? >> ever since the regional government did declare -- was going to start organizing or preparing for that referendum imran mentioned, there was a sense -- obviously there was going to be a response. whether it was going to be that harsh in terms of the language used was unknown. but as far as the kurds here are concerned, they put the blame

solely on maliki. they say there was a message that was issued in a form of a letter to his people before maliki made his comments. and he was saying they didn't want to go unilateral, in terms of declaring a state, but they were pushed to this point due to the failures of the government, and the bitter divide between the sunnis and shiites, and they had no role in this division, and found themselves -- that the only option they had was to move towards this -- finding some sort of a way for some sort of independence. so he is essentially saying that he wasn't being antagonistic by requesting that the parliament move towards organizing this referendum, that his hand was pushed or forced by the failures of maliki. >> yeah, so here we have a part of iraq which is extremely

wealthy minerally. the kurds want to get their hands on an awful lot of the oil. maliki won't want to see it go. are they expecting any kind of concrete action or simply the angry words we have heard from maliki today? >> well, i think it's even a bit greater than that. they are not just expecting something from maliki, but they are expecting some sort of regional influence. and we have seen that. in the past couple of days there was a high level delegation from iran who met here. and if you read between the lines or at least speaking to analysts here reading between the lines of the message today, it almost seems when he said he wasn't interested in an unilateral declaration of independence, as if he was taking a step back from what he said earlier. and that they are not going to

recognize an independent state. without having consensus in iraq, it was going to be something they oppose. so it's not just between the kurds in the north and maliki's government in bagdad and even the militias and the armed groups in other areas, the issue is much greater. it involves the u.s., iran, and even in the past couple of days, egypt with president sisi coming out and talking about it. so it is much larger than this conflict between the two. >> thank you. claims of victory are being disputed following indonesia's presidential election. the party of the government says he has won. his rival and former general says it's all too early to say. more than 180 million people were eligible to vote. and live now from jakarta, we

are joined by the senior editor of the jakarta post, one of the biggest nationalists in that country's capitol. very good to have you with us. how different would these men be if one of them were to become as we expect, the next president? >> sorry -- how -- >> describe the difference these two men would bring if either won the post of president. how different would they be? >> oh, okay. they differ in the style of leadership. one, presents himself -- the general presents himself as someone who is aggressive, decisive, and strong. the other candidate presents himself as someone who is humble. someone who listens to people, and someone who will work with the people in solving the

problems. and both are trying to be televectors of this election. and we'll just have to wait to see who is the eventual winner. >> would it be fair to say that jacoby would bring more of a change if he were elected? >> yes. i mean at 52 he is the younger of the two candidates. he comes from the younger generation. so definitely he will bring change. i think if he gets elected, it will mark a break from the path of indonesia in that we have a leader who is coming from a new generation of leaders. >> when i look at a list of some of the points you have made that the next president will have to deal with. religious intolerance, violent

vigilante groups, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, it sounds like a country in turmoil. but the last decade and a half really have been the turning point, and indonesia has really come an extremely long way. >> oh, definitely. those problems we will have anyway, five, ten, or twenty years from now. i think we have come a long way, and we have established -- you know, a freedom, rights. we have democracy, we are fighting corruption. so we are addressing these problems through democratic means, through the rule of law and the judiciary. >> well, thank you, very much indeed for talking to us. we join everton now.

everyton has got the weather and head off to japan, where at the moment they are trying to free some ground around the fukushima nuclear reactor to make it safer and there is some bad stuff on the way. >> yes, there is. there is a typhoon on the way, but it is at least weakening. but we are going to see heavy rain with the risk of mud slide. we have seen some very heavy rainfall moving through the smaller islands of japan in the process. 230 millimeters of rain in the last 24 hours. huge amounts of rainfall, hence the mud slides we have in place already. the active weather is further north, and that is the position of the typhoon at the moment. it will drive through this area, and head towards tokyo by around

friday. it is sweetening smartly. that should help out. the winds are the equivalent of a category 1 hurricane. but we are more concerned about the amount of rainfall. the outer bounds already bringing very heavy rain. further north we have seen pretty heavy rainfall here as well. 47 millimeters in the north in only 24 hours. more heavy rain coming in across much of this area, as we go through thursday, only slowly turning dryer by friday, david. >> and that is it from everton, the weather over japan, the authorities there are putting this ring of ice, if you would like around some of the radioactive pipes, and freezing it so it can't budge. here with the details. >> reporter: three years after

the meltdown, water is one of the biggest challenges for the tokyo electric power company. it needs to flush huge amounts of water over the reactors to keep them cool, but doing this makes the water radioactive, and it has been mixing with ground water and seeping out into the sea. that's when tepco started the construction of a containment wall around the contaminated site. it is driving more than 1500 pipes into the ground around and beneath the reactors. these will be filled with coolant that will create a wall of ice. it was tested but failed to control the ground with the freeze. this time it is running better. >> translator: the ground itself does freeze, so i myself am not

that worried that it will not go well. >> reporter: the ice call is sometimes used in tunnelling projects, but this is the first time it has been tried on this scale. >> they are saying to this generation, let's put in an ice wall to cool these reactor cores. those cores remaniactive for hundreds if not thousands of years, so there's a commitment to keep the ice wall technology in place or replace it with an alternative by some future generation. >> reporter: stopping the spread of radioactive water may prove to be the easy part. dealing with the melted reactor cores is much more dangerous and difficult. the new president of ma law which telling us what his country must continue to rely on international help. and we'll take a look at who

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♪ this is david foster and these are the al jazeera headlines. air strikes and rocket fire still being exchanged across the border between israel and the gaza strip. more than 40 people have been killed. 300 have been hurt by israeli air strikes on gaza. iraq's prime minister says the kurdish city is a base for what he calls terrorists.

iraq is trying to hold on to the base by a rebellion caused by fighters for what is called the islamic state. and this man is claiming he will be the next president of indonesia. as his opponent is refusing to concede. the worse violence between gaza and israel in two years. both sides firing across the borders, and anxiety is increasing. from jerusalem now. >> reporter: after a rocket landed on the outskirts of jerusalem on tuesday evening, the municipality here was instructed to immediately prepare and equip public bomb shelters. every building in israel that is a private building has its own private bomb shelter, but these are spread out across the city and are meant to serve the

public, like people who are walking on the street in the event that a rocket siren goes off. in tel-aviv, which is one of the farther cities from the gaza strip that has come under rocket fire, we understand the municipality there is operating under emergency procedures. but here in jerusalem, it appears that people are going about their daily lives normally. there is significant support for the army's military campaign in gaza. people here in general criticized the israeli government for not dealing firmly with the source of the rocket. but now after the israeli prime minister has ordered the army to prepare for possible ground invasion, there is less pressure now on benjamin netenyahu, because many israelis here would like to see a ground incursion and a comprehensive military operation on gaza. rebel fighters in yemen has

taken control of a city 50 kilometers away from the capitol. fighting has increased in the last few weeks and thousands of people have fled their homes because of the violence. here are the details. >> reporter: a strategic city north of the capitol is now in the hands of the rebels. in a spectacular drone attack, shiite fighters overran the base, all government buildings, seized tanks, heavy weapons and arrested officers. the top military officer was killed in the attack. they now control huge areas that stretch from the border of saudi arabia north to mountains near the capitol. this is their leader. he says his fight is mainly for political and religious

freedoms. worried that they might establish a shiite state along its border, saudi arabia launched an offensive against the rebels there 2009. the capture of the area by the rebels has been condemned by the un and the gulf countries. weakened by years of instability and currently fighting al-qaeda in the south. the army may not be able to send reinforcement to retake the area. sunni tribes warned in the past against military programs, if they choose to join the fight, yemen might plunge into sectarian war. let's bring in the chief editor of the yemen post. joining me 50 kilometers away only from where the rebels have stopped for the time being.

do you think they could take the capitol if they wanted to? >> they can, but they won't. they do not want to go that far that quick. they do the ability and weaponry to do that, especially after the weapons they took over after controlling the area. 50 tanks and heavy artillery. so they can. but they do not feel it's the right time. they know they can keep the president on the leash if they wanted to, and they are basically doing the same tactic as hezbollah in lebanon. >> are they trying to tell the government to get rid of what they consider to be the wrong type of people within the army, those who are linked in their opinions to groups such as al-qaeda, and if that is the case, what is the government going to say? >> i personally believe they have the green light from the

government to fight those military divisions in amron. because we realize the strikes only happened in certain times when they were not needed. so i believe they saw there was a green line from the president's office, and that's why the military come pound was suddenly defeated within 45 minutes. so there -- there are suspicions right now that it was preplanned and that's why the president was not in the country at the time. >> are you saying these people we describe as rebels are in effect the official military now of yemen? >> i'm very aware that the president has very, very strong contact with the hutties, and he has a strong trust in them. and this information is from very credible sources within the

hutties and president's office. but he needs them to weaken certain sides. and as long as the sides are weakened he stays in power and in control. >> what about up north on the border with saudi arabia. do they have the right to be worried? >> they do have the right to be worried, but the hutties have not shown any hatred towards saudi arabia, they are showing they are willing to cooperate. so the saudis in my opinion are not really worried about the hutties. >> it's always good to have you on the program. i wish you luck in writing about this, and deciphering it for your readers. >> thank you, david.

wednesday marking three years since south sudan declared its independence. our correspondent is there, and she will tell us now that the people have little to celebrate. >> reporter: it would be impossible to call an independence day celebration in south sudan low-key. compare this event with previous years, there is a difference. the crowd is smaller, the security is tighter, and they were expecting heads of states of the region to come, in fact the only person who did come was south sudan's next door neighbor uganda's president was here. they are here to stay, he says. they have just been listed on the index of number one of the most fragile states in the world.

the country still has internal fighting in the northern provin provinces. the peace talks are supposed to be carrying on, but that process had stopped. and there is a lingering hunger crisis as food supplies are running out. after getting its independence five decades ago, malawi's economy is in a terrible mess. it del -- relies on overseas donations. >> reporter: these cabbages are almost ready for the market. agriculture is the backbone of

malawi's population. the economy is in crisis. more than 40% of the government's budget comes from international aid, and the president admits this dependance won't end any time soon. >> we need infrastructure, better conditions for -- for private investment to do -- to flourish, but we would like to expand the economy, get more jobs. expand the export base. getting manufacture will bring in more income. >> reporter: he has been in office for only a few weeks. it's a new administration with a daunting tasks ahead. millions of dollars has been stolen by previous governments. international aid was stopped because of the scandal. he says he is trying to stop the

stealing. an anti corruption board has been set up, and is investigating officials implicated there the scandals, but so far no one has been found guilty. >> it is very clear. [ inaudible ] it has been applied properly, so make sure that there is better enforcement. >> the new president is under pressure. people want jobs and a functioning economy. as the country celebrates 50 years of independence from britain, there is little progress. this woman had influence when ma law which was a one-party state. >> it should be independent because we have enough resources in the country. we just have to harness the resources we have. >> reporter: but more than laugh of the people here are poor.

those struggling say there isn't much to celebrate if they are unable to look after their families. an illegal journey from mexico to the united states is a road fraught with sacrifice. for some women, though, the risk of sexual abuse is simply not worth it. >> reporter: so close to realizing their dream of a new life. these migrants try to cross the u.s. border. it's a journey some die making. something well-known to those at this soup kitchen, like this 24-year-old. the single mother left her two year old behind, hoping to work in the united states. asked about their greatest fears for the journey. he has no doubt. i'm afraid of being raped, she says. >> translator: i asked them if it was true that the smugglers

would rape us. it scared me. because i didn't take any birth control. >> reporter: every woman i talk to knows they could be sexually assaulted. mie -- migrants are increasingly hiring professional smugglers. this is the final stopping point before crossing the border. but they are increasingly being extorted and some are having to pay up to a thousand dollars just to pass through the town. this father say nearly 80% of migrant women he meets have been sexually assaulted. he often takes women to the pharmacy to buy birth control pilled and injections. he says someone must step in. >> translator: they risk everything. even the risk of being sexually

abused. it's terrible. it's completely inhumane how they are used. they are willing to take the risk. >> reporter: this sheriff wants to act. he has been a police officer on the u.s. side for more than 40 years, but with women scared to name their attackers, the chances of arresting them are slim. >> very slim. very slim. it will happen. it will happen if somebody really cares, but that's very remote. so we have a challenge. >> reporter: finally, she decides the journey across the border is just too dangerous. she has heard too many stories of women being left to die after refusing to have sex with their smugglers. waiting for a bus to turn home. we have reaction to a world cup semifinal, which will be

hard to forget, hard to remember for others. we'll have that in just a moment as it's bye-bye brazil. ♪ >> now inroducing, the new al jazeea america mobile news app. get our exclusive

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andy gallagher reports. >> reporter: there was a time when wilcox county hummed to the sound of sewing machines and saw mills. but those days are long gone. factories that once employed hundreds now sit idle. >> it has been nearly 50 years since there was an industrial announcement in wilcox county. we have the highest unemployment rate in the state of alabama and despair and lack of hope has been the rule here. >> reporter: but after deck indicat indicates -- decades of losing jobs to china, the tables are starting to turn. >> as you can see this is a table we have set up just for our chinese guests. >> reporter: he has worked hard to attract chinese investment, and for his efforts it has

worked. >> not only are we seeing a reversal of the relationship between u.s. and china, but the outflow from the areas where people are going to the cities looking for jobs, they are now saying, hey, i can stay home. >> reporter: this woman has applied for a job at the factory, the prospect of employment is good news. >> we really need this, because there are a lot of people without jobs, and trying to get jobs, and some jobs are so far away, and this job is right here at home. so it will be a great help to everyone. >> reporter: for chinese firms to stay competitive this is a partnership that works. production costs here are lower, and there are plenty of states that are now aggressively seeking closer ties. the bergening business here represents a small slice of the overall picture. last year chinese firms invested

a lot of money, and a decade ago that figure was close to none. okay. farah is going to take us a little bit south of alabama in just a moment with the sport. >> thank you, david. germany are in to the world cup final after humiliating host brazil 7-1 in the semifinals. the defeat was brazil's heaviest ever, and their first competitive loss at home since 1975. richard par reports. >> reporter: no one expected this semifinal to be anything like this. the germans went ahead as early as the 11th minute. and then soon it was 2-0. it was his 16th world cup goal. in all germany scored 5 goals in

the first half hour. brazil created chances early in the second half, but the goalkeeper refused to be beaten. at the other end germany went on scoring. substitute scoring the 6th and 7th goals. brazil did pull one back, but couldn't prevent them from going down in the heaviest ever defeat. for more on this let's bring in lee wellings who is live for us from rio. let's just start off with germany first. they played really well. possibly the best match of their tournament so far. >> it's good to start with germany, isn't it? because they are probably not getting the huge credit they deserve. this has been a memorable tournament for them already. and the semifinal, we have got

to say -- that is the most extraordinary result in football history. it has been a strange tournament for germany as well, hasn't it? they were outplayed by algeria, and then who could see this 7-1 victory. they are just so impressive with their mental attitude as their football ability. their coach said they could see brazil was under strain, and they took advantage. >> what went so badly wrong for brazil in this game? >> because they came into the game into namo, and ended up missing silva even more. it was stunning -- usually it's a figure of speech when you say watching a football match, where were the defenders? but where were they?

the germans were just lining up to score. it was a shocking, appalling performance. the people of -- they are flown for their football. the brazilian newspaper today gave all of the players 0 out of 10. they had looked like they had improved against columbia, so know one knows where this came from. >> where does brazil football go from here? what has to change if anything at all? >> i was thinking about this earlier. remember they have got the olympics here in two year's time. they have never won an olympic goal. and one or two of these players might be on that team. i liked what scalari did, he said i'm to blame. didn't put it on the players. he could have had three defensive players together as a

unit. and instead there were these big gaping holes. some are describing this as actually the worst team in brazilian history. >> okay. we'll leave it there for now. lee wellings reporting live from rio. brazil's arch rival argentina will be looking to fair better in their semifinal match. they will be without their midfielder, but still have their captain who is fit for the clash. this is the south american's first appearance since 1990 where they eventually lost to west germany in the final. dutch captain robin van persie is suffering from a stomach bug and is in doubt for the up coming match. the 2010 finalists have beaten

argentina twice in four previous world cup meetings. well that match will be held in sao paulo where our correspondent joins me from. gabe, i just want to get your reaction to last night's match. are brazilians still in shock? >> absolutely. this is going to take a long time for brazilians to get over. problem years from now. even decades they will be talking about this game. there is a mix of shock. some brazilians are sort of resigned to what happened. as lee was saying there was a sense that this was not one of brazil's best teams, that they were not playing their best football. so brazilians sensed this was going to be a tough match against germany, but there was the sense that they were playing at home and they would rally and try to play a good game or really win. obviously not only did they

lose, it was just -- they got destroyed. and as you can see it from the front page of the papers. humiliation at home is the headline of this paper. and i'll show you one more. national team suffers its worst loss in history. this pretty much sums up the mood here in brazil today. >> there are lots of argentinian fans in sao paulo, where you are, ahead of their match. were they impressed with germany's performance. >> there is a huge rivalry there as you know. and they are probably a little bit happy knowing brazil is out of this tournament, knowing they don't have to face them in the finals. but everyone was shocked whether it was an argentina fan, brazil

fan, whoever. argentina, probably has a little bit of a smile on their face knowing the host team is out of this tournament. >> gabe thank you so much. well just before i go, reigning tour de france champion frume has pulled out of the event after crashing for the second day in a row. this is much more on our website, aljazeera.com/sport, there are also details there on how to get in touch with our team, using twitter and facebook. but that's it for me for now. >> farah we thank you very much indeed. extraordinary game that was. just time to tell you a little bit about the cricket, as we have got extra time. india 132-3. that is it for me, and the news

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