♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the news hour, i'm in doha, these are the top stories we are covering this hour. day four of the aerial bombardment of gaza, 100 palestinians have died in the offensive. meanwhile rockets continue to be fired into israel. flying in to see the ballot boxes as john kerry tries to broker a settlement in the afghan presidential election.

and too squared to return home we report from kenya's coast where thousands are seeking refuge in a prison. >> and i'll have the latest sport including a manhunt for the official accused of involvement in a $100 million world cup ticket scam. ♪ the number of palestinian dead is continuing to rise on the fourth day of israel's offensive on gaza. at least 100 have been killed and 670 injured. at least 5 people died in rafa early on friday. and israeli air strike hit as rescuers were trying to free others trapped in a building and has been targeted in an earlier strike. witnesses say a seven-year-old girl is among the victims.

israel says it hit more than 1100 targets in gaza in the past four days and tanks and troops on the border and ten rockets were fired from gaza on friday. one of them landed at a petrol station injuring at least eight people. oil tankers and cars were also destroyed in the explosion. we have several correspondents monitoring events in hot spots across the region. let's start with bernard smith in jerusalem. >> reporter: it's time for friday prayers here in jerusalem but here in front of the mosque is deserted and that normally would be packed with thousands of worshippers on the second friday of ramadan but security reasons only men over the age of 50 are allowed to worship there today, anybody

younger than that is not being ael loaded in, israelis yes for security reasons many of the men who would want to pray there would say that they are also being punished for the rockets coming out of gaza, another collective punishment and more than 550 rockets coming out of gaza since the latest escalation and the iron dome has intercepted about 118 of them, those that they intercept are ones they fear will fall on populated areas, other ones that fall on open ground will fall on open ground to preserve the stocks of the iron dome missiles and while the missiles keep coming in, the u.s. has said it's willing to step in and try and help and bring together some mediation between the israelis and hamas but the israeli prime minister's office this morning had no comment on what barack obama had offered to do for the israelis and also no word from hamas either.

we are also hearing that the egyptians have been approached to help with the negotiations. they broke a peace deal back in 2012 when mohamed morsi was the president of egypt but then mohamed morsi's muslim brotherhood was allied with hamas, the current president of egy egypt abdel-fattah el-sissi has no sympathy with hamas and, in fact, would take some sort of comfort from their discomfortable. the egyptians not that keen to step in the breach and mediate. now, for the view from the occupied west bank my colleague is in calandeer. >> reporter: we are here in the west bank. we were expecting a demonstration that was called for by different palestinian factions here about two hours ago, but no one showed up. it's not clear why protesters didn't come here but what we do know is that in resent days the

palestinian authority has been trying to prevent palestinians from reaching friction points with the israeli army to protest at this time because they are not interested in an escalation. hamas here in the west bank too isn't interested because it has security concerns as well. in the last three weeks alone about 700 of hamas members or members believed to be affiliated with hamas have been arrested here in the west bank. now this is happening while palestini palestinians in the west bank are trying to express their feelings about what is happening on the gaza strip and they are very angry and have been confrontations between palestinians and israeli soldiers over the past few nights especially in the evenings and overnight we heard 35 palestinians were injured according to the palestinian red crescent by rubber coated bullets in the city of bethlehem and we know the palestinian health ministry has been sending

medical aids and assistance to the gaza strip. on thursday eight truck loads were sent to gaza through the crossing and on friday the palestinian authority expects to spend another five truckloads of medical assistance and hearing comments from the palestinian president who said on thursday that he doesn't want to see either side try to impose conditions to achieve a cease fire because he says the most important thing right now is to stop the blood shed immediately. he also said that egypt has been talking to both the israelis and hamas and gaza to try to broker a possible cease fire, but so far hasn't been successful and he also said that the palestinian authority has been in touch with the u.s. administration and has called for an immediate hold in the israeli military campaign on gaza and that the palestinian authority has also been in touch with hamas to try to convince it

to stop its operations but so far it doesn't look like any of these contacts have proved to be effective. >> reporter: thank you very much for that in the west bank and we will get a round of the situation on the ground in gaza later in the program. meanwhile rockets have been fired from lebanon into northern israel. and ruler amean has the details from beirut. >> reporter: three rockets were fired from southern lebanon and the lebanese came and found rocket launchers and found two rockets that were not launched and dismantled and do not know who was behind the launching of the rockets or who fired them and looking for them, they want to put them to trial and they say in retaliation israel fired 25 shells into lebanon in the same area. no injuries or casualties on both sides of the border.

u.n. secretary general moon talked about escalation if both sides don't stop firing at each other and you heard from palestinian ambassadors through a u.n. security council meeting on thursday and our diplomatic reporter reports from new york. >> reporter: moon asked for the meeting of the security council and he used it to call for an immediate cease fire. >> it's now important to try to find common ground for return to come and cease fire understanding. >> reporter: moon talked about entrenched narratives completely different verdicts of resent events which were evident when palestinians addressed the council. >> launching hundreds of air strike and artillery bottmbardmt on the gaza strip.

>> hamas responded with unrestrained aggression, more rockets and more terror attacks. >> reporter: to make his point he did something that has never been done in this chamber before, playing an audio recording on his mobile phone. >> 15 seconds, that is how much time you have to run for your life. >> reporter: after the meeting the palestinian ambassador had this response. >> if 15 seconds it takes to react to a coming rocket how many seconds does it take to react to an aircraft over the heads of our people on the gaza strip? i can assure you it doesn't take more than one or two seconds. it's death for sure. >> reporter: this is the first time the security council has met to discuss the current crisis in gaza but don't expect any action. they are talking about some sort of statement but they have not agreed on the wording of that at this stage. i'm james with al jazeera in the u.n. >> you can get the latest on the

situation in gaza round the clock by going to our website, there is a link to a live blog on the front page with updates, pictures and videos from our correspondents. iraqi kurds say they will boycott cabinet meetings of maliki government in baghdad and relations between them and the central government are deteriorating and pushing for a referendum on independence. the diplomacy is now impacting the area's economy and we are there and take a closer look. >> reporter: international airport cargo terminal is practically empty and similar scenes at international, other airports which serve the kurdish region. on wednesday the government banned cargo planes from landing. although the international is not the busiest of airports on a normal day normally it's filled with goods, particularly

freights too sensitive to be brought in via trucks and things that are heat sensitive like medication for example, those goods would usually be put up on shelves and loaded on trucks but as you can see the shelves are empty. baghdad blames politicians to split the country and accuses them of turning the city into a base for rebel fighters. >> translator: we will not be silent about our bill. it's a base for the islamic state and terrorist organizations. >> reporter: in response the president of the government issued this statement on his website, falling short of calling maliki a madman. >> translator: he has become hysterical and lost his balance and trying to justify failures and put the blame on others and must apologize to the iraqi people and step down, you destroyed the country and someone who destroyed the country cannot save it. >> reporter: tit for tat continued the deputy minister and foreign minister and health

minister said they will boycott cabinet meetings. >> translator: we declare we will not take part in the sessions to shell out protests and cannot endure such behavior, statements and stances. >> reporter: among the people the division is just as apparent. >> translator: the kurdish region is treason and they cannot deny such information. >> reporter: the accusations made by maliki against self rule in the kurdish region should be based on evidence and proof. no one can confirm such allegations unless there is clear-cut evidence. >> reporter: the recent history has been defined of decades of rule and for many the only thing different about the presence is that the country itself faces a real risk of being carved up. al jazeera. three al jazeera journalists

have spent 195 days in an egyptian prison. they are falsely accused of helping the out lawed muslim brother head and greste and mohamed were sentenced seven years and then this one got an additional three because of a bullet he picked up in a protest and al jazeera rejects this and demand that the journalists be freed. coming up, here on the news hour, a freight train derails in southern mexico, more than a thousand migrants lose their ride toward the united states. >> translator: i tried to find him, who he really is, i just wanted to see him. >> reporter: a father who is a u.s. soldier and she is one of thousands of so called forgotten children in the philippines. and in sport germany wants the support of brazil fans when they take on argentina in sunday's world cup final. ♪

now the u.s. secretary of state is in afghanistan to try to help resolve the disputed presidential election. john kerry has described the situation as a critical moment for afghanistan, early results show he leads but his opponent's abdullah says he is the winner and the vote was rigged and jennifer glasse is in kabul and jennifer difficult challenge ahead for john kerry, what has he been doing today? >> a lot of meetings today here in kabul. he started with the u.n. envoy here and went to the palace to meet the outgoing president hamid karzai and will support a plan agrees to by the two candidates and in line with afghan law. john kerry then went on to meet the candidate who after preliminary results was in the lead by about a million votes

and he is meeting just about now with abdullah, abdullah, the challenger who said there was widespread fraud and wants the votes recounted and there is a view of a review of 8,000 ballot boxes and 83% of the vote and he signed off on the deal but abdullah wanted to see a more widespread review of votes and that is what the team is focusing on, separating the fraudulent votes from the other ones and that is how they want to move forward. secretary of state kerry says the united states is committed to a stable, democratic afghanistan and they said this is about the legitimacy and integrity of the elections. that really is the question here is afghans wait to see if the two candidates can come to some sort of agreement, some sort of deal that will allow the counting process to go forward, review process to go forward so

it's seen as valid by the afghan people. >> how crucial is it that the political impasse is resolved quickly because none of this is doing anything to improve the stability of afghanistan. >> reporter: that's right and a real concern and of course a taliban offensive going down in the south, it's been bad for afghanistan, the economy, all this uncertainty means that foreign investment is stalled. afghans themselves don't want to do anything, don't want to make any big decisions and president karzai said today after meeting with john ker are i issued a statement insisting the inauguration will go ahead as planned on august second and mark afghanistan's first peaceful democratic transfer of power, until then we need final election results that two candidates agree are legitimate and valid and that is what john kerry is doing here today and understand he is doing a lot of listening in the meetings and listening to all the parties, all the sides, he has dinner

again today with hamid karzai and see whether any sort of concession deal can come out of it. >> jennifer thanks very much indeed for that, jennifer glasse in kabul there. the death toll from the ebola out break in west africa has risen again, 539 people have died from the virus since february. sierra and liberia and new guinea had new deaths and killed 90% of those infected and there is no known cure. aid workers in south sedan are appealing for urgent help to stop the spread of chollera and killed 60 since the first reported in may and many driven from they homes from fighting in south sudan and live in u.n. camps. >> a few days and that is why you see many people here, if it were cases have been reduced

then you would see only two or three people here but i think there are many people infected. >> reporter: ukrainian forces are continuing to close in on pro-russian separatists in the eastern city of donsk. both sides have been firing from positions on the outskirts of the city, government forces are the closest to the city they have been since may when there was a gun battle at the airport. a russian court ruled u cray-- ukrainian must be there since august and charged with helping to kill two russian journalists by alerting troops of their whereabouts and they protested against the pilot's arrests. >> we are ready to do our utmost, really our utmost to get nadia out of prison. and my point was from the very beginning, we are talking about

politics. we are talking too much about politi politics. for me this case is not just about politics. for me it's also about mention. >> reporter: let's get the weather with everton and central europe is expecting a bit of a drenching isn't it. >> reporter: fabulous thunderstorm in the middle of summer and a few banging away at the moment and a large massive cloud on central parts of here all associated with an area of low pressure which is swirling away there and it's moving in the general clockwise direction and lots of cloud and rain coming in across the region as a result of that. up to the northwest seeing downpours and see a line of cloud in the southeast part of england and low countries and if you are watching the tour de france you can see how wet it is in that part of the world and 57 millimeters of rain in 24 hours. and central part here, well,

bulgaria 51 and 60, 70 millimeters of rain in 24 hours and that weather will continue over the next couple of days actually particularly into central part so if you look at the remainder of friday's pictures lots of wet weather and downpours pushing across to ukraine. we go on into saturday for the weekend, again, it does stay pretty unsettled, unsettled weather in parts of france and temperatures getting up to 24, 25 degrees and lovely sunshine for the start of the weekend. will it last? let's look at sunday, cloud and rain streaming in for the end of the weekend. >> everton thanks very much indeed for that. let's go back to our top story now, israel bombardment of gaza and stephanie decker is in gaza for this and stephanie another intense activity by the israeli airforce bring us up to date with the latest casualties and

damage on the ground. >> reporter: well, that number of dead has now hit 100 and almost 700 injured. we are hearing the israeli army launched over a thousand air strikes in the last four days to 200 homes that are completely destroyed, over 3,000 partially destroyed and we saw a figure that that translates to an air strike here every 4 1/2 minutes. so the people will tell you they are absolutely terrified. let me just give you some context where i am. we are on the streets in gaza city. this is a mosque where the men and boys have gathered, but i can tell you no one feels at peace here. many people we have spoken to believe that they have been discarded by the arab countries, discarded by the international community. they feel nepal palestinian life is not worth it and i will give you an example, we heard it with the missiles coming in and the entire building shakes. since this is densely populated and this is a road if you look down that is spacious for gaza

so if an air strike hits a specific apartment or home the entire area shakes and this issue is also children, children are petrified and as adults we hear it at night because there are missiles fired at the port and it's terrifying and extremely loud and people will tell you they are furious nothing is being done and petrified and we can hear rockets in the sky and terrified of potential ground offensive because things are as bad as they are and certainly extremely, extremely difficult times here. >> you say the people feel there feel abandoned by the arab and international community, there has been talk about trying to negotiate a possible cease fire but neither side seems particularly interested in a cease fire and hamas said it has nothing to lose and ready to fight to the end. are the people of gaza happy with that position?

>> reporter: i think that is difficu difficult. you cannot generalize it and people here will tell you they are living under occupation and living under siege. so the only thing they have is to the resistance in terms of hamas and in terms of rockets and many people here will tell you they do not believe in a lot of civilian life on both sides but they are the under dog here and not talking about equal opponents and different and israel dictates what happens here and we are talking about rockets but if we translate that there have been no deaths in israel. we had 100 deaths here, many women and children so it's not a balanced fight here. so many people will tell you even though they might not agree with how this is going on they might not support hamas or other groups but they have no choice and believe no one is here to help them. as we heard a cease fire at the moment, can't find who may be able to negotiate that between the two sides and if there was a cease fire however this conflict has been going on for decades, a

cease fire is not going to solve it, things will happen again and again and certainly hamas has shown in this resent conflict that it's stronger, the rockets have gone further and have launched people into israel and infiltrated into israel and a whole under ground system here we are told that is new to the last conflict in 2012. so it is stronger and this means that we don't know how this is going to play out. certainly people will tell you again absolutely terrified and want this to end. >> extremely one-sided conflict. getting reports that a ground invasion as you say could be eminent, what are they saying to you about that? because they are trapped in what is a very small strip of land. >> reporter: yes, and, again, palestinians here are not in charge of their border so they cannot leave and not free to leave as we see around the middle east and refugees the

people here they cannot, they are stuck and will tell you because yesterday we heard reports of leaflets dropped and phone calls made saying move inland, leave your home and many people have not done that because they believe they shouldn't be doing it. but the idea is we did speak to the head of the u.n. agency that deals with palestinian refugees yesterday and he said he was extremely concerned and preparing schools and shelters and if this happens people can move in the center of the city because they are not safe with these happening everywhere and people are terrified and don't know if it will happen and hearing reports it will be imminent but talking politically it's an extremely dangerous move for the government and prime minister because there will be casualties on both sides. we are being told if this happens hundreds of palestinians will lose their lives and israeli soldiers and something the israeli public does not stand. so i think a ground offensive will be an absolutely last resort, also again we have to

remember they -- israel will not do anything without having an end goal and what they are doing with and we are told they don't have the exact intelligence to deal with this under ground system that has been established here, i think they will wait and see before they move in, until they know exactly what their challenge is. so i think a ground invasion, everyone terrified but i think the israeli government will be monitoring it very cloly before they decide to use that last resort because it will go on for a very long timend not sothing thatil sold in couple of days. >> thank you very much indeed for that, stephanie decker up to date with a terrifying and uncertain situation on the ground in gaza there. head of the hospitality provider at the brazil world cup is on the run from police, the brazil police say ray whellen is a fugitive and involved in a multi million tightening scam and we have the details. ♪

there has been a lot to celebrate in brazil as fans flock to see the countrymen do bottle. but police say underneath it all an international gang was at work, scamming fans out of millions of dollars and one man who has little to cheer about is ray wheelen and providing hospitality packages at the tournament which is an fifa partner and the police are calling the british national a fugitive. police had accused him of using his position and the company to help an international gang scam up to $90 million from fans reselling vip tickets and packages. >> translator: the company has an official contact with fifa and what is happening is completely absurd. >> reporter: absurd or not, police went to arrest wheelen on

thursday but couldn't find him and says he is innocent and gave up credentials for police and they arrested others and charged with ticket scamming and money laundering but he is the most accused. i'm with al jazeera. joining me in the studio is richard with sport and how big is the investigation and how far does the corruption go? >> it's big and 12 people arrested earlier this week, one is ray wheele intersectin and t matched services and fifa says they are cooperating with the brazilian police. of course the investigation says there is $90 million worth of illegal ticket taking from an international gang which happened in one world cup alone and supposed to have been going for four world cups in total and the police say they have 50,000 untapped phone calls from rio

alone in four weeks leading up to the start of the tournament on june the 12. they analyzed half of them so far and waiting to see what happens with the rest of them. legal ticket touting is illegal in brazil and carries a fine of $225, what that means is the police are going to speak to the judge and say that with all this evidence it should be considered a criminal conspiracy and that can lead to quite significant jail time. >> four world cups is a massive investigation and thank you for that, richard is bringing you up to date. we have more on the world cup coming up, next, and of course the rest of the sport too including a new striker in london. plus too scared to go home in kenya, villages preferring preferring to live in a prison rather than risk being attacked. do stay with us.

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♪ welcome back, i'm julie and the top stories now on al jazeera, the number of dead is continuing to rise on the fourth day of israel's offensive on gaza, at least 100 palestinians have been killed and 670 injured. in israel a rocket fired from gaza at a petrol station and eight injured in the city and 570 rockets have been fired from gaza in the past three days. now more than a million workers in britain have gone on strike because of a dispute over pay. it's the biggest strike since the government came into power

four years ago, as we report from london it is hoping to restrict similar war camps in the future. >> reporter: on the stroke of ten they wash at the fire station and walked out and the government wants them to work longer until they can get a pension, in the age of cuts the banks don't have money to support them and they say it's not fair. >> the government in the country at the moment financed for the safety of the public and have to make a stand on this because we have to protect the public and cannot allow the government to depend on people's lives. >> reporter: under pin the biggest strike since the government took power and the restricted pay rise is funded by taxes and the jobs are used, teachers and nurses and town hall staff say they have been used materially powerer. uk it stops and empty playgrounds and classrooms speaking for themselves and it didn't look like the strike was

being supported and that is what made the government angry. not only does the government say firefighters and teachers and the rest of them shouldn't have gone on strike it says they should not be able to go on strike because not enough of them voted for it, indeed it wants to bring in a new law which would ban strikes unless unions could prove they have majority support. if it wasn't for pay restraints the public sector would be worse off. >> we cannot afford to go backwards and it's taking difficult decisions and the long-term interests of the country we can deliver the economic growth that we need if we want to carry on investing in our public services. >> reporter: ♪ this is less than half a union votes for a strike does that make it undemocratic, after all the people from the main public sector union singing, well, unison and polled 36% in any of

the last four general elections and they are now in power so who are they to judge? >> look at the european elections in this country and the local license in may and the massive coverage in all of the media, in the run up to it, and 30% of the electorate voters and no political party got more than 10% of the electorate and everybody put and praise themselves as winning that democratic vote. >> reporter: the government insists much of the public supports its plan to restrict the right to strike. the unions say a drive to cheaper privatized services will be felt by anyone who needs a firefighter, a nurse or a teacher. lawrence lee, al jazeera in london. >> reporter: let's get back to the top story now, the fourth day of the israeli offensive against the dead and injured rises and hamas are using civilians as human shield and

let's look at this, video released by the israeli military shows an air strike on gaza. now, you can see that first of all they fire a warning shot because they say that this allows people to take a warning and leave the building. then you can see people fleeing. the dark shadows that are moving, those are people running away but instead of leaving the area people run back in the building that has just been targeted. you see at the bottom here where they are going back in. the israeli military accuses hamas of telling people to go on to the roof so that they can now become human shields. the army says it doesn't fire on the building so it avoids civilian casualties but number of victims is growing daily, 100 people have been killed in gaza during operation protective edge, at least 21 of those were children. 12 women are also among the

victims. let's talk about civilian casualties with iron side who is the head of unicef gaza office and joins us via skype and good to have you with us and again you are in gaza and again we are seeing an uneven conflict between israel and hamas and it's the civilians as ever who are paying the price, women and childr children. >> reporter: well, that is right. in the small sliver of land that is called the gaza strip there is over a million children below the age of 18 which represents about 56% of the population. i can say that every single one of those children is deeply distressed by the continuous military strikes that are coming at gaza from the air, from the sea and also along from the border offense. >> sorry to interrupt, i was going to say those outside of

gaza the sheer terror that must happen when those planes come over, dropping weapons. we are seeing a shortage of medical equipment, aren't we as the number of injured rises and one doctor i talked to yesterday said they had enough medical resources to continue for a couple of days at most to treat the injured. >> reporter: medical supplies are in short supply and unicef is urgently trying to bring in additional supplies in order to work with the world health organization and the ministry of health on that. but as you say almost a quarter of the casualties are fatalities currently and are children. and that is an extraordinarily high toll for them to have to pay. the toll is even higher when you look at the number of injured which is up to 600. the majority of whom are women and children and 3,000 families

have just been rendered homeless in a matter of days, again, the majority of them are women and children so this is having an extremely high toll on the civilian population in gaza who have no where to go. >> yeah, and it does seem incredible, doesn't it, that no one is stepping in to try and stop this, and more is not being done to try and stop this because you have nuclear power on the one hand waging war against a group on the other who are trapped in this tiny sliver of land with civilians who have no where to go, they cannot get out, they cannot escape. >> reporter: that's right. and both borders and rafa are closed to people aside from very severe medical cases, even at that we are only talking about a few people who are able to leave by those means. so everybody else is here and there is already a shortage of

space so when people's homes are destroyed, it's difficult for them to find shelter. >> all right, groups like yours involved in trying to set up shelters and trying to set up safe places where people can go if their own homes are not safe? >> reporter: well, we are working with the ministry of education in case they need to open up public schools to serve as shelters for people who need protection. in addition, the u.n. refugee agency for palestinians is also preparing shelters in their schools so there is a dual approach. so far there has not been a mass displacement and we are seeing that families who need to leave their homes and relocate including some of our unicef staff are doing so by sheltering with their relatives. >> and from your vantage point there in gaza, are you happy

that israel is giving enough warning when it is attacking a home or a residential area, israeli army is saying that it fires a warning shot, a knock on the door missile it says to get people out of the village and gives them forewarning that their home is about to be attacked, is that actually working? >> reporter: well, we call on all actors to abide by international humanitarian law and not target civilians or civilian objects which includes homes. so warning or not, it's difficult to consider that justification. >> thank you very much indeed for joining us and i value your comments there and penny iron side from unicef speaking to us live from gaza. attack on a village in kenya coastal county and a number of houses have been tour --

torched and people are seeking safety elsewhere and catherine is there and catherine this must be a terrifying experience for the people you have been talking to. >> reporter: absolutely. we found a woman here who was fleeing, saying she can't stay here another night, it was too scary last night, what happened here which is about 60 kilometers from pakatoni where more than 60 people were killed last month is that this man, many of them we are told came here and seems they were looking for supplies. they came to this school. they banned this classroom behind me and band several houses as well. they stole food from the school's store and stole medicine and medical supplies from the village dispensary and yes stole six firearms from home guards who are protecting civilians. police and military are pursuing

this attack as there are more boots on the ground, military have been deployed and launched a massive security operation here in lamoo county and navigating the thick forest looking for the attack and the government has said this was politically navigated and politically motivated, i beg your pardon. what is happening as well is that people are still here for that, yes, more boots on the ground, the government is being sought and its presence is being sought but people are still fearful nationally and fleeing from their homes. she has a 12-year-old son and shot at point blank range and watched helplessly. >> translator: the gunman was on the house and 13 men were killed that night in her town along the kenya coast, another nine in a neighboring county.

>> translator: we ask for the sex of my baby and i told them a girl and wouldn't believe me and i had to strip her to make sure. >> reporter: a neighbor who came to help them had his hands and legs tied, his throat slit right here. every night since then frightened people in hini left homes and farms and go to the town center to spend the night. there are as many as 3,000 people and most of them are women and children, more are coming. the government has been trying to convince the people here that it is safe to go back home. they seem to have lost confidence in those assurances and say they would rather stay here than go back to their village's possibly to more attacks. their fears have only been increased and warn people not originally from the area to leave, the message also applies to christians.

it means that it's likely this prison will have to accommodate even more frightened families. >> we have deployed members here and at the same time we are monitoring the prison and providing security and staff as a whole. so that is us. >> reporter: and hindi, a month after a nearby town and at least 60 people there were killed and el-shabob has claimed responsibility. >> translator: the government items us it's safe to go home but they have not arrested everyone and attackers are still out there and can strike at us. >> reporter: and so every morning they are given back their national identity cards and forced to leave the prison compound and only allowed back at night and get no meals here.

surely these people have been getting some food from the government and the government has been providing dry food, rice, oil, may flower as well but the problem is their numbers keep increasing and the red cross is distributing the food, i say the food is really not enough for all these people so they have to reduce portions so as many people as possible get the food, even if it's a little food. >> reporter: catherine thanks for that indeed and catherine is reporting from pandango. a freight train which was carrying a thousand migrants hitching a ride to the united states derailed in southern mexico. no one was injured but the third rail accident in a month highlights the risks that undocumented migrants from central and south america take to escape poverty, corruption and crime, as more migrants prepare for the journey monica reports. >> reporter: well, we have come

to a shelter in the border between mexico and guatemala where a lot of migrants from central america come. they stay here while they can catch a carg o train known as the train of death to take them up north to the border between mexico and u.s. as you can see people hang in here, if there is children we don't know who they are traveling with, only men in that section because this holding home doesn't allow women and men to mix. that area over there says women exclusively. when they come they are screened. there is a security process and they are checked for knives or weapons and if they are allowed to stay they obviously have to follow certain rules. when we got here we ran into a group that arrived on foot and had been attacked on the way >> they took our clothes off until they found our money and took all my luggage and everything and my daughter's diapers and all our clothes and left us with nothing. >> here we met a 14-year-old and

traveling without his parents really, many children are apparently doing this and he is going to take us to where the women are. he says he spends most of the time here. some people here told me they are not going to stay because they are out of money or think it's too dangerous. but the important thing is they base decisions on information or personal experience, most of them told me they don't know what is going on in congress in the united states or in their own countries and just say the situation back home is too dangerous and they are very determined to change it. >> 32 people who have been jailed in china for downloading and distributing internet videos which prosecutors said inspired terrorist attacks and showed how to make bombs and wage religious warfare in jin-chang and they want more autonomy from beijing and this was bombed two months ago. a bus crashed killing eight

including children and taken home when it crashed in a reservoir and it's the latest in a series of accidents with school children and fueled parents' anger over transport. we have all the sport for you including nba lebron james keeps the world hanging on as he decides where he will play next. stay with us. ♪

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team made a plea to fans asking for support when they take on argentina on sunday. this final is seen by many as the competition between latin america and europe and lucy reports from rio. >> reporter: the world cup has never been won by a european or latin american soil so we set off to see if fans would like the rule to be broken. first we asked a britt. >> back in germany neighbors and they can do it and deserve it. >> reporter: when we approached mexicans to find out who they will support on sunday. >> argentina. >> reporter: because they are latin american brothers. indeed practically everyone in latin america feels the same way. everyone that is except the brazilians of all people. in fact, look at this newspaper. it says the germans, we are

germans from childhood and shows a little amazon child in the lap of a german player, the same players that humiliated brazil just a few days ago. >> translator: our rivalry is just too strong. as much as i want the cup to stay in latin america if it means argentina winning i'll have to cheer for germany. last week argentina and brazil fans dream of facing each other on sunday's final game, to the extreme that a brazilian dressed like this to cheer on his archrival to win. >> you are really brazilian? >> yes, i am. >> i can't believe it. why are you a brazilian dressed up like a argentina? you want to play the final against argentina. >> that is the play, that is the game. >> reporter: but that was before and now the local media

can't stop ridiculing brazil's team for allowing the arch enemy to make it to the final without them, on the breach even the brazil flag is sporting the german colors. >> translator: i just can't imagine argentina being crowned the world champion in our stadium, it's too horrible to contemplate. >> reporter: but there are some who just want to see a good game. >> this is what the final is all about, it's all about tension and everything. you have to experience it. >> reporter: and regardless of regional and continental rivalries, it's that emotion that football fans the world over are waiting for. i'm lucy with al jazeera in rio. sunday will be germany's 7th final and seen on the right of the screen here, he became the world cup all-time scorer after

netting 16th in the 7-1 thrashing of brazil in the semi finals and despite the milestone he says he will celebrate if the team wins the fourth world cup title. >> translator: whoever knows me and character knows i'm focused on argentina now and will enjoy the moment when it will be there and celebrate but for now there is within thing that counts for me and that is to be as successful as it seems and hold up the world cup and it's obvious i will not be enjoying the personal success if i should lose a second final. >> reporter: while brazil's world cup has three days to run, focus will switch to the 2018 event in russia, after sochi hosting of the winter olympics with construction problems they are set to face issues of their own and peter sharp reports. ♪ the stadium a master piece of steel and glass cited on the banks of the river but lost most

of russia's world cup finals exist in the minds of the graphic designers, the reality is very different. work has not started on the site, it's a peninsula of grass and scrub and regional sports minister walked me through the waste ground and confident the stadium can be completed on time. >> translator: it was needed he says and the people are delighted. >> reporter: there were national celebrations when the country was awarded the world cup back in 2010. the president putin aware of the work ahead. before the costs are over rising and construction workers falling behind and russia's world cup dream is above budget and behind schedule. only three out of the 12 stadiums needed to host the games are even close to completion, work has not started on most of the others. average coast of the stadiums is now $577 million a piece, that is 50% more than those built in brazil. the projected cost of the

individual russian stadiums back in 2010 has massively over run, in some cases by over 200%. the basic cost of hosting russia's world cup is estimated at $20 billion last year, that is twice the final cost of brazil's world cup. it is all ammunition to the critics of the expensive stadium and people like boris. >> this is like plastic plate and one-time use stadium, that is it. no more users in the future. >> reporter: what about the football, and the new blood is badly needed and a championship between the youth teams on the premier league and never got past the first stage in brazil and host in 2018 rests with the young. the clock is running and russia has four years to make it work and hanging over these preparation for the world cup is

an endless series of corruption involving the russian government after the sochi winter olympics and the football league itself, if president putin has the people on his side, this is a nation of football fanatics and passionate about what they regard as their world cup. all determined to make it happen. peter sharp, al jazeera, in moscow. striker has completed the move from barcelona to the club arsenal and the signing of the 25-year-old for a fee of approximately $60 million. and he took part in the brazil 2014 world cup scoring two goals for his country and skoaled 47 goals in his 141 appearance with his spanish club. now don't forget to join us for our daily brazil 2014 update, a wrap of everything going on at the world cup, it's on the air at 1540 gmt. and lebron james will attend the

world cup final in brazil but basketball fans want to know if he will make a decision on where he wants to play before sunday. fans have been anxiously awaiting outside his home in ohio in homes james will return to the cleveland cavaliers and james moved to miami from cleveland back in 2010 during his time with the heat he won two nba titles and became a free agent last month. andre won the tour de france and this is the end of the 194 kilometer race to take the win and he kept his lead of 44 seconds over rival peter segan. that is sport on our website following us, check out al jazeera.com/sport. that is it for me for now and julie back to you. >> thank you very much indeed for that. and the news will continue here on al jazeera but for me and all the news hour team, it's good-bye for now. ♪

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