♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the news hour live from headquarters in doha, i'm julie and coming up, this hour, a cease fire for gaza or sense for more violence, a plan to stop the killing is being discussed. [gunfire] palestinians call for more protests after a night of confrontation in the west bank. the netherlands debates soldiers

in rebel held territory where the malaysia passenger plane was shot down. and ukraine goes on and u.s. accuses of russia of firing shells across the border. plus, the summer camp with a difference, children in china learn some military discipline. ♪ we begin in gaza where israel's military campaign is in the 18th day and as the number of dead rise new proposals for a cease fire are being discussed. more than 800 people from gaza killed and air strikes continued on friday and the leader of the jihad was killed when the house was hit in rafah and they will meet for a plan of truce put forward by u.s. secretary of

state john kerry. there have been calls for more protests in the occupied west bank abeast jerusalem over the violence in gaza and two people were killed in confrontations with israeli police. let's get to charles stratford live from gaza and charles give us an idea of what has been happening this morning. >> it seems as if there is intensity of some of the air strikes on to gaza from very early this morning and we hear at least 30 houses have been hit, at least 18 people killed including that islamic jihad commander you mentioned in the intro about 7:30 this morning we heard two large explosions on the hotel we are staying at the coast and it was around 20 minutes later there was a very large bang and smoke was rising from the neighborhood close by. we went to go and have a look to

see what happened. we rushed to the site of the attack minutes after it happened. terrified neighbors play in the streets. ambulances were close by. israeli air strike on a family home in the neighborhood in gaza ci city. >> translator: it was half past 7:00 and heard air strikes nearby and jumped and it was an american that got out and survived and the house was completely destroyed then he moved out of the house and that was destroyed and now this, what do they want? we are ready to die. >> reporter: the family member carries one of the children to safety, adults rush to hide with neighbors. the house behind me was hit with israeli air strike this morning. apparently there were to warning shots fired around about a half an hour before the strike and there were 40 people in the house and injured and no one was killed. some of the families terrified in a nearby house having

survived three attacks already they refuse to speak on camera. his neighbors look at the damage, there is a sudden sound of a fighter jet approaching, fear is etched on their faces because there is no where safe to hide. >> charles, the point of this offensive is to stop rockets being fired from gaza and that is not happening though, is it? >> no, there have been a number of rockets fired this morning. certainly last night we heard rockets close by to where we are staying here and this morning we hear the hamas military announced that, yes, they launched rockets to the airport, five rockets towards tel aviv and three to ash-kilan and the rocket fire continues and with the rocket fire come the israeli attacks as well. it's really difficult to describe the intensity of fear here. there is no where safe in gaza.

as you know we had schools attacked, hospitals attacked, the sense of fear and paranoya and few people on the streets and diplomatic efforts to try and initiate some sort of cease fire and it seems with the terms being mentioned rather optimistic. >> charles, thanks for that and live from gaza there. well, according to the u.n. most of those killed in gaza are civilians and the death toll is 817 palestinians and 5,000 others injured, 32 israeli soldiers have died. additionally two israeli citizens and one foreign worker have also been killed. the diplomatic push to end the conflict continues and turkey cancels a trip to france and flying to cata to bring a drews

in israel and security cab nipts are meeting for a cease fire by the u.s. and the meeting has been delayed a couple of hours and we are joined from west jerusalem and james the proposal that the security cabinet is due to discuss is a variation on earlier proposals and this is one that john kerry has put forward. tell us more about it. >> john kerry has been in cairo for 24 hours and doing a shuttle diplomacy meeting in the region and has been in cairo working the phones, trying to find something that will be acceptable to both sides but obviously not speaking to hamas directly, speaking to them we think through the catary government and time really is running out. he has put together a last version of his proposal, the proposal is for a cease fire and immediate negotiations on some of the under lying issues, that

is to satisfy hamas to lift the siege of gaza and discussed in the negotiation phase but the new part of this to keep israelis on board who have trouble with the original proposal is the idea that the israeli military during the cease fire period will be allowed to stay on the ground in gaza and i have spoken to some sources involved in this who are not particularly optimistic about this proposal. john kerry as i told you time is running out for his involvement in this and him and the u.n. secretary general moon joined in cairo are planning to deport to the bases in the u.s. and moon to headquarters in new york and john kerry to the state department in washington. as time runs out, the last-minute pass of it are the turks getting involved and the minister is on his way to cartar and thought to be the two outside players who have the most influence on hamas.

there are still negotiations and phone calls and still meetings taking place but i can tell you if they don't manage to put together some sort of deal now, most observers believe it's then likely that israel will continue to the next phase of its ground offensive, that could go on some considerable time before israel will declare a unilateral cease fire. >> as with previous attempts to get a cease fire plan together there are problems with this one because both sides want to achieve in the negotiations, it's tricky and israel wants to remove rockets and hamas wants the blockade lifted on gaza. >> yeah, neither of the sides will be happy with going back to where we were before all this started 18 days ago. they want more and you just have to know what more they want. it's also trickier because last time in 2012 egypt was able to play this central mediating role

because it has diplomatic relations with israel and at that time president morsi had good relations with hamas and able to speak to both sides and it's not like that now, egyptians have pretty poor relations with hamas and pretty poor relations with the turks and katar and hamas and the negotiations go several stages so everyone can speak to each other. >> james, thanks for that and james was in west jerusalem there. factions called for protests against israel assault on gaza, huge demonstration on the west bank on thursday night ended in confrontations with israeli police at the check point, at least two people were killed and we report. [gunfire] the violence was expected but no one predicted the scale of it. this is the largest protest the occupied west bank has seen in

years. for hours protesters clashed with israeli forces outside the check point. they threw stones and fireworks and molotov cocktails and israeli forces fired tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets and it was clear the soldiers were struggling to contain the situation, making protesters even more determined. it's people who have come to the streets, taken to the streets to protest and the siege of gaza and violence and are angry and want it stopped and want the end to israeli aggression. >> reporter: at one point live fire erupted and both claim the other shot first, a bullet hole visible in the windshield of a satellite truck parked less than a meter from where we were broadcasting. among the dead dozens were injured in the clashes and the protesters said they were

unafraid. >> translator: for 18 days the people of gaza have been killed and we started protesting from the very first day. >> translator: we are here to stand with people in gaza, today is the beginning for further palestinian territories against the aggression towards gaza. >> reporter: violence erupted in bethlehem and occupied east jerusalem and israeli police went to protesters in and around the old city including a holy site revered by muslims and jews and they arrested around 20 people. since israel's latest offensive in gaza began many asked why people living in the occupied west bank have been relatively silent about the suffering and on thursday they spoke loudly and angry against it and friday it will bring larger and louder protests. and we are back at the check

point now and it looked like fairly intense stuff in the middle of earlier on and the p.l.o. called for mo more, ralls to take place. >> that is right and expecting people attending a funeral of one of the protesters who died is meters from where i'm standing last night in these clashes with israeli forces and his funeral not far from here at the refugee camp and expecting protesters will come back here to show their anger but of course to stand in solidarity with fellow gaza and express anger and outrage at the on going occupation of the west bank as well. >> do you think this is something that could go on for some time? one palestinian in your report there was speaking of a new nightmare for the israelis if that were to happen. >> you are right. at this stage it's really hard to say. in fact, when you speak to

people on the streets some people believe it was just a spark, just a flare-up, that people after 18 days of israel's bombardment of gaza, the ground defensive of gaza where so many people have died and been injured that people just came to the street to show their anger but the numbers are huge and not seen numbers like this, take to the streets and frankly in years. however, others and so that leads others to believe this could lead to more protests and the protests last night also spread to bethlehem and other occupied areas including east jerusalem and some are saying the protests could spread and get bigger and you have people who you heard in the report who are suggesting this could be the start of a new inter fada but hard to say and speculation the street but one thing is for certain the violence yesterday was extremely intense. quickly i will pan over my shoulder and you can see what is left of the area with stones

everywhere, there is broken bottles used as molotov cocktails and of course here in my hands you can see the remnants of israeli fire with stun grenades. this is effectively a tear gas, used tear gas canister so really it under scores whatever happens next it will no doubt be violent as people continue to clash with israeli forces. >> thanks for that. and there have been demonstrations across the world in support of the palestinians and last friday of the islamic month is observed by countries as a day of solidarity and this is the scene in the iran capital tehran and this is gaza and the occupation of jerusalem. in the german capitol berlin hundreds of protesters had a candlelight vigil in support of gaza and unveiled a giant

palestinian flag. up to date on the situation in gaza around the clock by going to our website. there is a live blog with breaking news, videos and updays from the correspondents on the ground, go to al jazeera.com. ♪ now the dutch government is considering whether to send troops to the site in eastern ukraine where a malaysia airlines plane was shot down last week, two thirds of 298 passengers and crew who died were from the netherlands and the government is already sending 40 unarmed military police to ukraine to help find the last victims of flight mh-17. let's go to eastern ukraine and we are live at the crash site and there has been a lot of concern about being able to secure that crash site for a proper investigation. what is the situation there now? >> reporter: there is no sense,

julie, i'm afraid that the sight is secured in any way. i'm not saying it would be an easy task because we understand that debris is spread over 25 kilometers. the area is not sealed off. there is no forensic investigation going on at the moment. walking around these fields, well, you can see parts of the plane's tail behind me and other nearby fields we have seen tragic personal belongings, teddy bears and books and food people were eating on the plane and in a nearby wood we found a large piece of fusaloge that journalists were not aware of until yesterday. in fact, it's really only journalists who are combing through the fields and there is a delegation in donsk about two hours' drive away but have not seen them here today. there is no sense, i repeat, of

a proper investigation on the way. >> have all the bodies been recovered from the crash site because they were being moved, weren't they? >> reporter: they were. and we understand that two planes will be taking off today from hakive to the netherlands and the dutch say they have 200 bodies but as you said there were 298 people killed in this tragic incident, that leaves 98 missing presumably, parts of their bodies may be here and talking about sending police here, that is why the australia and let's not forget that some 28 i think australians died in this accident. and armed soldiers here and says he has an agreement with the government in kiev. but the point is this, the government here and the war is

very much on. we've heard donsk has been shelled again today and we had to pass through several separatist checkpoints and they are armed and mean business. it's a very volatile situation here. >> apologies for the slight audio drop outs we were listening to and let's cross to the headache and david joins us from there and david the dutch government trying to decide to send troops or military police to that crash site. >> reporter: well, yes. let me put you straight on that. they are not sending troops but sending a police force they call the royal marshals and their job is to protoekt the royal family but they are trained in much heavier weapons than normal policemen and the government has actually confirmed that 40 of these men unarmed will be leaving from the military base

to the ukraine. we don't know the exact destination but they are supposed to help the crash investigators comb through the 13 square mile air where barnabie was reporting from because there are body parts there and need to help in the business of actually finding those body parts. but the debate here in the hague and the house of representatives behind me this morning has been about whether to send a follow-up squad with heavy weapons. now, that is a very contentious issue. what is going to happen when members of a nato country carry this miles away from the russian border and they are discussing it and it's a contentious issue and speaking of foreign relations think tanks here and divide ed in two chapters and the first is get the 40 policemen there and crash investigators sitting in kiev because of security problems to the site of mass murder. that is what it is, a mass

murder site and it's not even sealed off. chapter two is to decide whether to send a second contingency with australians with weapons and what sort of weapons and that is something that will continue to be debated here but at the moment i can confirm 40 so called royal marshals are going unarmed on a military plane to ukraine intending to get to that site of mass murder and start looking for the missing people. >> david, thank you for that, david updating us from the hague there. i just want to post script to this sad story, flight number mh-17 is no more and changing the code for the amsterdam for service and the final mh-17 touched down in malaysia capitol and now known as mh-19. now the u.s. believes

separatists in ukraine shot down the malaysia airliner with missiles by russia and now washington is accusing moscow of further stoking the conflict between ukraine forces and pro-russian rebels. >> we have new evidence that the russians intended to deliver heavier and more powerful multiple rocket launchers to the forces in ukraine and evidence that russia is firing artillery within russia to attack ukraine military positions. >> reporter: and we are live from moscow and roarry what is the accusation about the firing across the border? >> reporter: well, i think the united states has a bit of a credibility issue here because although it obviously has strongly believed russia has been firing across the border into ukraine it wasn't willing to reveal the information the intelligence that points at it in that direction. and as long as it does that it's a very easy get out for the

kremlin. they can just ignore such accusations which is what they have done so far. there has been nothing on the kremlin on this yet. there have been a few bloggers who have been pointing to the social media sites, the guy who they say is in the russian army who is posting a couple days ago that he was down on the ukrainian border with his artillery units and they have been hounding ukraine all night. a big caveat for this, it has not been confirmed, it has not been verified and the pages have since been deleted but that thing certainly adds fuel to the fire. >> and if across the border attacks are taking place that will rachet up the temperatures of this whole conflict. >> well, both russia and ukraine say cross border attacks are taking place but both of them say they are innocent and the other side is guilty. russia has been saying that for

weeks now it's having to put up with ukrainian army attacks coming across the border and rocket strikes and mortaring and people have been dying on the russian side. ukrainians make similar accusations. so if such things have been going on for weeks, then it's probably not making too much of a difference for u.s. to weigh in and say it's seeing similar things itself. the only way the situation is going to be tense down and going to be calmed is if the border can be properly monitored by international organization and it's calling for the osce to get in the area and to be able to monitor the whole of the russian, ukrainian border. >> thanks for that and he was in moscow there. ukraine is also in political upheaval after the sudden resignation of the prime minister, just five months after

he took office and he said parliament could no longer pass necessary laws following the collapse of the ruling coalition and it's creating more uncertainty as the military offensive against pro-russia separatists continues in the east. and there has been heavy shelling in the city of donsk as the government steps up campaign to take back control of the city and we are there and sent this report. >> reporter: shells hit the northern suburbs of donsk. both sides are using heavy artillery. close to peoples' homes. ukrainians want the city back under kiev's control. the separatists fighters say they will not let that happen. many people here have already moved to safer parts of the country. but some people say they can't leave. >> translator: my mother is 85

years old and she can't be moved. so i have to stay and look after her. and spend the night in a shelter and there was a woman with a one-week old child there and are also depressed and scared. >> reporter: what ukrainians appear to be doing is pounding separatist defensive positions, trying to find a way into the city. but one of the weaknesses for the ukrainians is it's extremely dangerous right now for them to fly in the skies above eastern ukraine. since april they brought down 20 aircraft including two fighter jets on wednesday, not far from the wreckage of mh-17. the separatists are still denying they brought down the malaysia airliner. i asked the military spokesperson whether russia is still backing their cause. >> translator: you need to understand our enemy, the u --

ukraining is using power of nato and ask for help against the military machine and if we had support you are speaking about from russia we would be in kiev by now. >> reporter: the international committee of the red cross says this is now a civil war. the streets of this once bustling city almost deserted. the only cars are driven by armed fighters. people here are preparing for the worst. i'm with al jazeera, donsk, eastern ukraine. >> richard is here with the weather and the typhoon may be no more but a lot of flooding in its wake. >> it has julie and the legacy of the storm system will be there for a while let. look on the satellite and you see the sway of cloud across eastern parts of china and that is what is left of the storm system. and it moved an e way and

certainly left behind a lot of rain and seen huge rainfall totals come out in the region and i could have pulled out dozens of this nature and from the uk i suppose that is what, 10, 15% of an and wall rainfall total that you see. that is communication. and these pictures do likewise and these are coming out from eastern china and many major cities have been seeing the same sort of issues over the last few days. the situation is going to improve. as we look at the forecast and we should then see that rain clearing away towards and are still looking wet across the region with heavy rain there with hong kong and more than typical for this time of the year over the next couple days. further north we have the moist air across the yellow sea in bo-high to the korean peninsula and the weather is not having state boundaries and large rain

in south korea and north korea and likely to see heavy rain across the region from north korea, far east of russia, sorry china, it's going to be very wet and significant flooding in the next few days, julie. >> thanks richard. coming up, in the news hour. a thousand years of heritage blown up in seconds and find out where and why. no water for thousands in the u.s. state of detroit because they can't afford the bill. and in sport find out why n.b.a. lynn is happy to have this jersey number back in his possession. ♪

♪ welcome back, the top stories on al jazeera, at least 826 people have now been killed in the israeli operation in gaza reporting to the health ministry there and air strikes have continued on friday, a senior leader of the jihad group killed. diplomatic efforts to end the crisis continue by u.s. secretary kerry and a cease fire will be discussed by the security cabinet and turkey foreign minister is in catar helping with efforts to bring about a truce. the dutch government sending a special unarmed police force to eastern ukraine where a malaysia plane was shot down last week and they will search the crash site, the last victims of mh-17 and the government is debating

whether to send an armed follow-up force. more on top story, the israeli assault on gaza. u.n. secretary general moon is appalled by an attack on a u.n. school. on thursday 16 people died in the fourth attack on a u.n. installation in resent days and stephanie decker watched people arriving at a nearby hospital. >> reporter: they should have been safe. everyone here left their homes to the supposed safety of a makeshift u.n. shelter. all our children are in the school and us too, go and see, they shelled us with rockets, there are children's body parts and there is no safety, we have no security anywhere. >> reporter: and they are close to the border of israel and in an area hit hard. when we drove here there was heavy shelling in the area. >> translator: we should evacuate the school because it will be hit and civilians should

leave and we will leave, how can we leave, every family with 8, 9, 10 children will bring us buses and we wait for buses and got the luggage and sat on the playground waiting and then the shells fell on us. >> reporter: the girls have been to the hospital and there is a steady stream of people arreviewing here and it's a scene of chaos and devastation and the people are asking the question why does israel target a u.n. school and they had to flee their homes and people are extremely up set because israel knew this was a shelter of people leaving the area because of israel's military camp page. it may be a rocket that fell short but no one believes that hear. >> translator: before the buses came the israelis shelled the school. >> reporter: the u.n. spokesman

told us the u.n. had given the israeli army the location of school, all of their schools and yet four have been hit in the last four days. >> translator: most of the injuries are critical injuries. they are being operated on. others we had to send to another hospital. this is a crime. what can we do? this is a crime against humanit humanity. >> reporter: there is desperate fear here. no one can make them feel safe anymore. stephanie decker, al jazeera. we have the chairman of the organization european jews for just peace and campaigns for an independent palestinian state and joins us from stockholm and good to have you on the program. when you see pictures of kind of attacks happening in gaza, is it surprising that we are not seeing more widespread protests in support of the palestinians?

we have seen some happening today. but do you think the palestinians lack support? >> i think the support is growing. i think the support for the population is growing and it's quite massive but unfortunately politicians choose to look away, politician choose to go another way and because of this reporters are not only against israeli attacks and against what our government is doing or more right to say not doing. it's demonstrations against their facility. >> we know a cease fire proposals are going to be considered by the israeli security cabinet. one of hamas' demands is an end to the blockade of gaza, do you think israel would consider such a demand? >> i don't know if israel will consider it. i know i spoke to a person and

the ship to gaza is part of the international efforts to break the siege of gaza and i know israelis have attacked us three or four times and do not want this. regardless of what cease fire will be. people responsible for their attacks and people responsible for crime against humanity and people are responsible to breaching international law and should be brought to justice and should end the day in the same place where this is, in the international court of justice in the hague. i don't think it's all a question of cease fire. it's a question of fighting and reaching the rights of the palestinian people. >> but do you think a lasting peace is achievable because we have now seen three wars this six years on gaza. is a two-state solution still viable? >> i think that a lasting peace

must be just peace because if you don't have a just peace it is the margin of the next war. i think the question of one or two states is not the crucial one, the crucial one is if the people who are living between the river and the sea will have the same rights, both national and individual, if this and those rights are guaranteed from my point of view it doesn't matter of one or two states, what matters is if they are equal rights and respect international law and respect human rights. >> good to speak with you and thank you very much indeed for your thoughts there and we are from the european jews for a just peace. islamic state fighters destroyed an ancient mosque in the northern iraqi city of mozel. [gunfire] an s -- shrine was built a

thousand years ago and moon is condemning the group for targeting christians and other minorities in iraq and protest outside of headquarters on thursday to call attention to those being threatened and al jazeera reports. >> reporter: [chanting] they want everyone to know about the misery of fellow christians here. they want protection. the banners they carry say it all. . >> translator: we came out to say we christians must live in dignity and freedom or die while trying. >> translator: we are the people of peace and we are the original inhabitants of this nation and lived in peace for years with muslims without problems. yes, to peace. no to terrorism. >> reporter: this march is heading to the u.n. headquarters. organizers here say they demand protection. community leaders say 1,000 christian families have left

here since last week and they are describing the targeting of christians as a crime against humanity. islamic state group gave three options, convert to muslim and pay tax or be killed. those who tried to leave were stopped and money and belongings taken before they were set free. property was confiscated, this letter in red refers to the arab word and means christian and means property of the islamic state. various denominations have met to discuss the latest crisis. voicing their shock and fear. >> translator: we are saddened, concerned and astonished. this is a hn heinous and want t government to provide money and

help. >> reporter: this is in and around muslim and leave in peace for generations and now they say their existence is in jeopardy. >> reporter: the french government says a flight recorder has been recovered from the scene of a plane crash in mali and no survivors when it came down to algiers and many were french nationals and we report. >> reporter: 107 left the airport early thursday morning bound for the algerian capitol and the weather conditions were so bad the crew asked permission to change the flight plan to avoid then but from then on contact was lost. for hours search efforts were focused on the border area with mali but then the worst possible ne news. >> translator: we have found the algerian plane, the wreck

has been located and we sent a scouting team indicated by locals but unfortunately we have no details of what they found there but we guaranty we found the plane. >> reporter: majority of the passengers were french citizens. france has a long history in this part of africa both as the former colonial power and more recently with military intervention in mali. >> translator: we cannot yet establish the cause of what happened but we will have to. what we do know is the crew signalled it was changing route because of different weather condition and we will find out the truth of everything that happened. >> reporter: the area where the plane came down has been fought over by rival groups in resent years. al-qaeda and islamic has been prominent but no suggestion so far they had any involvement in

this incident. flight ah 5017 should have finished its journey at algiers international airport and officials there suggest the most likely reason why the plane came down seems to be the adverse weather conditions it encountered. dominick cain, al jazeera. investigators are examining flight data recorders from an airway plane that crashed in taiwan on wednesday and 48 people were killed when the plane crashed on the island and ten passengers survived. the family of al jazeera correspondent peter greste launched and all appeal and falsely as accused of colluding with the muslim brotherhood. >> reporter: a month on from the scenes from an egyptian

court al jazeera correspondent peter greste will appeal his conviction. his brother made the announcement at a news conference in australia. >> our family will continue to work tirelessly towards securing peter's freedom and his innocence. we acknowledge the support by friends, members of the public, the media, international community as well as politicians and diplomates. but we need to also recognize that there is still a long way to go in order to achieve our goals. >> reporter: they were all convicted of reporting false news and aiding the banned muslim brotherhood, all three maintain their innocence but the judge sentenced peter greste and fahmy to 7 years in prison and mohamed was given ten years because he picked up a spent bullet casing at a protest and since they were first picked up they spent 209 days behind bars.

>> the first few weeks after the verdict the restrictions in the prison were fairly tight, however, from what i understand now he does get most of the time of the day outside of his prison cell and he has a few more extended liberties in relation to exercise and those sorts of things. so he is still finding it very confining and restrictive but certainly they appear to be a lot more relaxed than the previous times. >> reporter: peter greste and fahmy released a joint statement describing the moment the court passed sentence. >> the ways of the concrete and iron cell weighing down on our shoulders with a heaviness we never felt before, 7-10 years for crimes we did not commit. >> reporter: journalists from around the world protested in support of the three men and amnesty international says they

are prisoners of conscious, with a new team appointed by the greste family to go to appeal court it's hoping that they will rule that journalism is not a crime. i'm with al jazeera. correspondence dents for the washington post, jason appears to have been detained in the capitol tehran and the u.s. paper received credible reports that he and his wife and two other freelance photo journalists are being held without explanation. and he has been accredited as a journalist in iran since 2008. a man is being tested for the dead deadly eboli virus and he collapsed an at the airport and if confirmed it's the first case and 660 people died since the disease was detected in february. in afghanistan taliban gunman attacked two mini vans killing

at least 15 people and afghan police say sectarian attack on muslims took place and the passengers and vehicles may have been returning from a wedding party. more than 150 migrants intercepted by border patrol in june have been temporarily brought to shore and left on accustom's vessel for weeks outraging human rights groups. >> by the government and the borders to prevent illegal entry of vessels to australia and passengers. this is the best way to ensure that no one is ever resettled in australia who seeks to come to australia by that method. >> reporter: the u.s. city of detroit is facing bankruptcy and it is so desperate for money it has cutoff water to thousands of people who have not paid their bills. daniel reports from detroit. >> reporter: if you have not

paid your water bill for months this is what will happen to you here. a worker arrives, digs up the water main connection, switches it off. she was $300 behind and her water was cutoff, with to grandchildren to raise she had to borrow money from her daughter to get the service restored. >> they told me 24 hours, you know, somebody would be here within 24 hours to turn it back on and i'm hoping they come today. >> reporter: about 15,000 houses have had their water shut off, more than 80,000 customers are behind in their bills. people are lining up outside payment centers to get their water reconnected. some question such practices from a city that is itself seeking bankruptcy protection. >> they want to be forgiven for their debt, okay, and when they pay their debt it's pennies on the dollar. but we don't get the same break that they get now. >> reporter: there has been a public backlash against denial

as what is seen as a human right to water, at the demonstration supporters from neighboring canada brought a thousand liters of water across the border to tears of welcome. activists like these started raising the issue the u.n. on water says she is concerned about the situation here, the city says no one in genuine need will lose their water and suspending shut offices for two weeks to get that message across, with great lakes and detroit river nearby there is no shortage of water but pipes and pumping station are a century old on the system needs billions and aggressive bill collecting will continue. >> it's working and the word is getting out and people know we are serious and it's a different mindset in detroit, i grant you that and we have been lax in the past but people are getting the message. >> reporter: the fall to the brink of bankruptcy are here and balancing the poor residents and more revenue is proving a

challenge, i'm with al jazeera in detroit. coming up, in the program chinese children are spending the holidays building up some military skills and more on that and the sport and find out who made the latest move to the formula one title. they with us. ♪

welcome back. >> thank you so much. hamilton and rossburg is the second fastest and drivers are

in hungry for what will be the final race before the mid season break and he won the grand prix in germany and leads hamilton by 14 points in total standings and hamilton could be third after suffering a huge crash in qualifying and lynn is looking forward to making a fresh start with the lakers and he had been with the houston rocks for two seasons and he rose to fame about lynsanity and back in the 17 jersey and the l.a. native has the task of one of the leading franchises. >> i believe i can start for an n.b.a. team and help that team win and as a competitor i would obviously love to but that is not me coming in saying i need or i need that. i just want to be a part of the

team. >> reporter: with three stages to go, he is all but guaranteed victory at the tour de france and the 6th man to claim all three ground tours and winning two other races and colliding with an unsuspecting fan on the final stint and he had the fourth win and finishes on paris on sunday. >> translator: for me it was important to win the stage and did a great job. it was very difficult. very hard. it was good to get a victory and extremely important for me and for us all and the spectators. >> reporter: 2012 tour winner bradley wiggins will not compete because road racing is too cut throat and he will be focusing on the track of the next olympics hand add a setback at the common wealth games when

they were beat by australia and the team pursuit and looking to add to the total of four olympic goals of the rio games in 2016. >> lots of work at the moment and announcements were made at the end of the year and i imagine so. but i think, yeah, never say never but i can't see this if we choose the team pursuit because of what it's going to take really. >> reporter: the games have already seen australia breaking a world record in the netherlands what has been held for five years and it's the first world record since 2009. india had early success in weight lifting claiming four of six metals on offer and this was the 48 kilogram division and india is the second gold metal in the men's category.

england's bradley added the common wealth tri-athalon and his brother took silver along with richard and he has been withdrawn from the games after failing a drug test and a bronze metalist is out with a positive test earlier this month. one of the stand-up coaches at this year's world cup cut his job with costa-rica and unable to agree on a contract and this is the first in history picking up wins with italy and uraguay and he has been the manager since 2011. english teams are touring the united states this preseason and the latest team tapping into soccer and the growing popularity in the country and the team will play a friendly against the new york red bulls, a game that will see terry

taking on some of his former teammates. >> the thing i might be allowed to sort of be with the u.s. and be able to see some people of the squad and play against them because some of the guys were not here yet when we played so i think we will be a great team. >> i hope to become a force here because so many people love sport and the ranks are there but our first sport is here so the next 20 years should be very interesting for football here. >> reporter: frank lampart is leaving chelsea to be a full time part of u.s. soccer future and he signed for the newly-formed new york city f.c. and the chan chester owned franchise will play for the first time next year. >> i've seen a long-term plan

from everyone involved in the club and i want to be part of it and i want to challenge myself and be the leader and be the person and not just something under pitch here but something on the pitch that can help and make things happen. >> reporter: they are looking to put south africa under pressure on day two and south africa lost two wick -- wickets of 421 and he who will retire later this year scored 165. there is much more sport on our website. for all the latest check out al jazeera.com/sport and details there in how to get in touch with the team using twitter and facebook. that's it for me for now and back to you. >> thanks, good stuff. now in china parents are trying to pry their kids away from computer scenes and computer

gadgets and instead of a relaxing time on holiday they are sent to military-style boot camps from beijing and we report on the tough love regime. >> reporter: your parents can send you on the one-week course for $500, if you are lucky or not so lucky the full six weeks takes up your entire summer vacation, every moment is filled with some activity. how to handle a knife attack. or handle the laundry. the first time with detergent can be a shock and it reminds him of home. i miss my mom's snacks he says. on the go like this from 6:00 in the morning until 6:00 at night seven days a week and in the armany you get one day off a week but not here. there are nine in a tent and not a chance for these children to feel lonely. run by former soldiers expertly

trained even in falling over, the camp has been the subject of rising interest among parents wanting to instill a little military backbone. >> translator: at home they only have their computers and video games but here they have to interact and work together. >> reporter: if you don't you die. or at least get your life flashed on-and-off from a beam of a plastic gun during the highlight of the day, the war game. i'm already hit. he tells us. so now i'm just running around. well, at least he is not on the computer. rob mcbride, al jazeera, beijing. time for us to march off now as well and that is it from the al jazeera news team in doha, from all of us here, good-bye for now and thanks for watching. ♪

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