[ ♪ music ] ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the news hour and i'm at the headquarters in doha, median unconditional cease fire in gaza as the shelling goes on. more palestinian children are killed and wounded on the festival of eat. the u.n. says the shooting down of a malaysia passenger plane over ukraine may be a war crime. environmental catastrophe and

libya appeals for help with oil fires plus. in northern sudan where a rush for gold is threatening the country's ancient heritage. ♪ we begin in gaza where fighting and air strikes continue despite a plea by the u.n. security council for a cease fire. these are the latest pictures of an air strike inside gaza a short while ago, according to medical sources shelling has killed another palestinian child in east jabalia and two others killed with houses hit. immediate cease fire and held an emergency meeting in new york and issued a statement calling for a truce to allow aid to be delivered. israel and hamas cannot agree on terms of a cease fire and people in gaza city are praying after

the end of ramadan and the start of the eat festival and we will be speaking to an editor in jerusalem but we will go to nicole and it had been fairly quiet until a short time ago and now it sounds like it's resuming. >> reporter: the reports are there are three separate air strikes in gaza, one in the camp area, another one and a third one and we have not pinpointed where that hit but the air strikes appear to have hit empty land areas and have not hit houses. this is quite common. israel regularly sort of hits area of empty land partly as a warning or to create fear in a neighborhood. so so far those air strikes have not killed anyone, by as you reported in the introduction there is activity in the refugee camp area very close to gaza city and there has been ground

combat between fighters from the brigade, military wing of hamas with israeli soldiers. tank shells have been fired into that area and as you said one child has been killed. >> nicole, over the past three weeks there has been huge damage caused by this military operation, what is that going to mean for the gaza economy going forward? >> reporter: well, the economy is not something we have talked about a lot over the last couple weeks but it has been devastated by what is going on and shops closed and businesses and the whole gaza strip is shut down while everyone has been at home and people have not been earning salaries, businesses not earning money at all. it's very difficult for people even though we have seen lots of lines of people outside of banks, most people won't have earned anything for the last few weeks. the other big issue has been

electricities the. businesses that have opened had to spend a fortune on fuel to run generators to try and open their businesses for a few hours a day and most of the businesses that we have spoken to have said they have not made any money but they have been trying to keep their shops open on occasion so at least people will have somewhere to go and to buy meat or produce or whatever it is they need. the other huge issue is the hundreds of houses and neighborhoods that have been destroyed, getting construction material in here is always very difficult. israel only allows construction material into gaza for approved u.n. projects so that means for the average palestinian trying to get cement or aggregate to rebuild is often almost impossible. >> in gaza there and let's go to west jerusalem for us with james and the security council statement calling for a humanitarian cease fire, what has been the reaction to that?

>> well, as you wouldn't be surprised israelis and pal -- palestinians do not agree with it and not happy with the language because there is not direct criticism, israel is not mentioned but there is criticism of israeli policies because there is criticism of the growing palestinian death toll. on the palestinian side they would like something much tougher and this is a statement from security council and expresses the view of the security council, it is not though a binding legal resolution and that is what the palestinians would like a u.n. security council resolution, when they tried to draft one they faced difficulty because the u.s. is very much supportive of israel when it comes to any action in the security council. immediately after the security council meeting both israeli and palestinian ambassadors spoke to reporters. >> their business of the security council is maintaining

international peace and security and they should have adopted a resolution a long time ago to condemn this aggression and to call for this aggression to be stopped immediately, to provide the palestinian people with protection and to lift the siege against our people in the gaza strip. >> we did everything we could to avoid this conflict. but hamas refused to stop the attacks, israel agreed to five cease fire proposals, hamas rejected or broke all of them even the ones they requested by themselves. every single time international community called for cease fire, we ceased and hamas fire. >> reporter: within israel more u.s. efforts to bring about a permanent end to the fighting.

>> yes, and i think it will make it very hard for the u.s. and for secretary of state john kerry who has been playing the mediator role and here for a whole week seeing every one involved, every regional player in jerusalem and it's hard for him to play the same role now because in israeli media and political circles he has been criticized. let me show you, here is one newspaper and on the front it says reckless kerry risks causing an escalation and similar articles in the press if they are right or left wing across the political spectrum there is criticism, pretty unprecedented criticism of the u.s. secretary of state. >> james thank you for that our diplomatic reporter in west jerusalem. in the occupied west bank a memorial has been held for those killed in gaza. several members of the palestinian government were there including prime minister

who said they were doing all they could to help. >> i would like to end our deepest sympathy for brothers and families in gaza who are suffering. we are doing our most to stop this aggression as immediate as possible. the government has been involved from the beginning in securing food, medical supplies, fuel. >> reporter: and ben white is an author and journalist specializes in israeli palestinian conflict and is live from london and good to have you with us, can we start with the deteriorating relations between u.s. and israel and it was a fairly blunt phone call from barack obama to prime minister netanyahu, wasn't there? >> yeah, from what we heard of the contents of that phone call, president obama was warning or

telling netanyahu there needs to be an immediate cease fire and that is a strategic imperative in obama language and took place in the context of a couple days of quite bitter on-and-off the record briefings by israeli and american officials. all centering really around a draft cease fire proposal that kerry put to the israelis late on friday and israelis felt this did not address their own concerns as a bulk of the proposal was repeating things that had been heard before due with negotiations for a longer term and cease fire in 2012 cease fire agreement and talked about opening up gaza crossings for the movement of goods and people and also mentioned israeli security concerns. israel responded to that by claiming that kerry had given a prize to terrorism and talked

about it as a concession to hamas and of course remembering the demand for the end of blockade is not a hamas demand but demand on all palestinian people especially in the gaza strip and made by nigeria for some years now. >> is there also a question over how the palestinian leadership has handled all of this? we saw a clip earlier from the palestinian prime minister saying, yes, we have done everything we possibly can, is that the case? is that the feeling? >> there are some options open to the palestinian leadership and open to abbas with the latest massacre and thinking the way in which they have a choice if they want to to aseed to the statute and request jurisdiction of the international criminal court in occupied territories and that is open to them and open to them for sometime. they have already been urged to take that step by palestinian

human rights groups and by the like of amnesty international human rights watch and others and that already has been mentioned in israeli settlements and what we have seen in gaza and the pressure to take that start of step will only intensify. >> and finally, ben, we saw the u.n. security council pleading for a humanitarian cease fire to take place in gaza. on the basis of what has been happening in the last couple hours it doesn't look like either side are going to take that offer up, what is it going to take for a cease fire to be put in place so negotiations can continue? >> it's going to take pressure and i think primarily it's going to take american pressure on israel because the basics are pretty clear to everybody. the depends the pa have agreed to and sort of conquered with hamas on basic demands to do

lifting of the blockades, to do with also sort of releasing prisoners. there has been the issue of paying salaries to public employees in gaza, those basics are on the table but from israel's point of view there is a strong sort of position within the israeli government to not only see those as unacceptable but would like to continue the operation further. so what we have seen today which is sort of a relative speaking calm and all be it with attacks taking place that might not stay the same. there could be a further escalation without the diplomatic pressure taking place. >> ben, thank you very much indeed for that, ben white speaking to us from london there. you can stay up to date with the situation in gaza around the clock by going to our website with a live blog with breaking new, video and up dates from our correspondents on the ground and that is at al jazeera.com. now the u.n. human rights chief

says the shooting down of a malaysia airlines jet in eastern ukraine may have been a war crime. u.n. says more than 1100 people have been killed in fighting since mid april and pro-russian separatists want to break away from ukraine but the government sent troops to try to regain control and we are joined from donsk and clearly a lot of concern from the u.n. human rights chief about what is happening in eastern ukraine and particularly over the downing of this passenger plane. >> yes, she also called for a full and impartial inquiry but difficult to know how it will happen because at the moment the observers and australian and dutch police investigators who are here are finding it very difficult to get to the site and there is fighting all around the site for control of the area between ukrainian and the separatist forces and we are hearing some possible new evidence emerging from the

flight data recorders. you remember they were handed over to malaysia and in separatist hands and we are hearing from the ukrainian spokesperson they found damage basically to the area around the actual plane which seems to show that shrapnel from a missile actually caused the downing of the plane. now, that is just evidence which is coming in right now. but the key to the investigators at the site really is to get hold of the debris, analyze it, look for the shrapnel and holes and they are not able to do that. >> ukraine army has a push to try to regrain control of cities like donsk which are in the hands of the pro-russia separatists. >> i think what the ukrainian forces are trying to do is

basically cutoff the separatists from any kind of support or help which they may be getting from the russian border so they are trying to regain towns and territory in that area, cutting off the flight risk. here in donsk they surrounded the city basically from three sides and are moving closer and closer every single day. here in the center of the city you can hear shell ings close by, at some point it's heavier particularly during the night and just to point out the u.n. report also spoke about the intense fighting going on in this region, more than a thousand people have died since april. that figure is expected to go up because it's an escalation here in the past week. >> thank you and natalie in donsk there. let's cross to rory who is live for us in moscow and rory the russians saying they are hoping any investigation into that shooting down of the plane will

be objective. >> yeah, i think it's interesting and pretty much any geo political contest that goes on in the world different sides view the events through different lenses and what is going on here in ukraine. so we have a conflict on the ground and an airliner that is being brought out of the sky. russia and kiev have totally different interpretations of that. so if you believe what the united states and kiev are saying, that the conflict going on in eastern ukraine is being fueled by russia and russia is deliberately stoking it, if you believe what sergei fedorov is saying, kiev has been paying scant respect to wishes of the people of southeast ukraine, that is the reason for the conflict according to russia and moscow. and sergei fedorov talks about

events going on on the russian side of the border and shelling coming from the ukrainian side and he wants that properly investigated and we can hear how he wants that to happen. >> translator: we had unnecessary discussion on the usc team when diplomates attempted to block this invitation from the russian side. nevertheless the decision has been made to let the observers in and we expect there will be some developments and we expect observers in donsk and i asked john kerry for support and not hamper the work of the osce experts. >> we know what john kerry thinks because he thinks russia is moving weapons and fighters across the border into ukraine, where are we on diplomatic front to come to any kind of agreement to end the fighting? >> well there is agreement but the agreement is very, very

general and very, very lacking in details about how this conflict is going to be brought to end. all these can say, these two men, kerry and sergei fedorov is the conflict should start and sit down and talk about it and come to a peaceful resolution but there is no attraction yet in making that happen. now you are talking about the evidence that kerry has been showing in the united states to be showing about aggression coming from the russian side. he was pointing to photographic satellite images that seem to show scorch marks on the ground in russia consistent with the launching of shells or missiles and where those shells or missiles are landing on the ukrainian side of the border. sergei fedorov dealt with that in the press conference he gave but in a very general way and he said they will be looking at this investigation, they will be looking at the evidence and they

would have their experts and analyst digest it. he then went on to bring this situation around to the questions that are being asked by the russian military that the ukrainian military hasn't yet answered about aggression, about bringing down of mh-17, about ukrainian military actions against the rebels. so we are no closer yet to any kind of resolution with so much finger pointing going on. >> it goes and thank you rory in moscow there. still to come expensive blow for russia, the european court ordered it to pay $50 billion to the shareholders of the now defunct oil company. missing mom and dad, ty children left at home in the country side for parents to work in the city. and sport coming up, and new zeeland reverse on the rugby field and we have that story

coming up. ♪ libya is asking other countries for aerial fire fighting help to stop a huge air fire by tripoli airport and failed to put out the blaze that began on sunday when an oil tank was hit by rocket fire and fighting between groups killed more than 50 since saturday night and erica wood reports. >> reporter: a battle between rival malitia groups is trying to gain control over the capitol's international airport. a plane was destroyed and more than 20 people were killed. weeks of violence in tripoli closed petrol stations and government offices. on saturday the u.s. evacuated its embassy, diplomatic staff were driven by convoy and heavy military guard with m 16 fighter jets overhead to neighboring

tunesia, u.n. and turkey and several other diplomatic mixes have also left. >> translator: this crisis caused security confusion and a large group of foreigners have left, most embassys left through this airport. >> reporter: the u.s. in particular will be nervous about the intensified fighting in libya, attack on the consulate in the eastern city of benghazi in 2012 killed the ambassador and three others. but two years later benghazi has become a battleground once again, in the past fort night more than 90 people have been killed there and hundreds more injured, many of them civilians. the malitia groups behind the fighting are powerful and heavily armed thanks in part to the battles three years ago that ousted gaddafi and calls to give up guns have fallen on deafs. the weak and struggling government has failed to control the groups. erica woods, al jazeera.

a second american volunteer treating eboli patients in west africa contracted the virus and they worked in the same treatment center in the capitol. cross border travel and meetings have been restricted in the worst ever out break of the disease and nigeria is also on high alert after a man died there. eboli is contagous and can kill victims in days. in egypt three people are dead after security forces disbursed anti-coup protests and shows attacks on a march in the province in northern cairo, a girl was killed and dozen injured in an incident in the city of cairo, demonstrations followed eat prayers. three al jazeera journalists have now spent 212 days in an egypt prison and fahmy and greste was given 7 years and mohamed was given 7 and an

additional three because of a spent bullet he picked up at a protest and falsely accused of helping the muslim brotherhood and al jazeera demand that the journalists be freed. dozens are dead and wounded in northern yemen, fighting resumed between insurgents and army backed by gunman and two were killed by a car bomb in the southern province and blames the local branch of al-qaeda and foiled three attacks and killing two al-qaeda members. shareholders in the defunct oil company won a battle against russia, a european court ordered moscow to pay $50 billion for taking over the company in 2003. it was valued at $40 billion before it was conversely nationalized and the head once considered russia's richest man

spent eight years in jail before being pardoned by putin and the voice of the radio station is in moscow and good to have you and good for shareholders but bad news for russia. >> well, i think that there can be absolutely no question of russia paying all that huge amount of money, $50 billion. i would like to point your attention to the fact that he has distanced himself from the lawsuit. the lawsuit is brought by the so called limited company which represents some other shareholde shareholders, this huge oil company now defunct and the shareholders inconvicted

criminals, one in russia and one for murder and one for wide scale embezzlement so for russia public opinion to give $50 billion to these characters who made their money in the post soviet years and we know how money was made, this is out of the question even from the political point of view from president putin and for the russian statement in general. >> how is this being seen in russia? on an international level this whole story of the break up and jailing of him, this is held up as a sign of vladimir putin's rule and how is that seen in russia? >> well, in russia the story is different, of course, although there is a big part of media, the so called liberal russian media which viewed him with sympathy and expected him to become a new nelson mandela when he gets out of jail. that didn't happen. most likely he will have not a

clean conscious and people sympathize with the fact he spent ten years in jail. as for this, i would remind you before 2003 when they quarreled with putin the western reports about him were very negative and called a baron by the magazine and he had several bad court battles with his american shareholders. for example kenneth dott so in the russian public opinion if he stole his money then the state was probably right to confiscate his property. >> interesting stuff and thanks for that and we are live from moscow there. now, a story about a one in a million chance or seems to be, a man killed on a beach in california and the rest of the weather and killed by lightning. >> that is right, often we have

a lot of damage by hail particularly in north america but for lightning this is far more rare people being struck by lightning. this is the satellite picture and we see the cloud on the west and southwest and pushing its way to the western coast and that is what generated our thunderstorm that caused that lightning on that beach. we don't have pictures of that but we do have pictures from elsewhere in los angeles and you can see the lightsingly with a burn there and another picture of a car that was struck as well. you can see the burn marks around the tires there and also doesn't look like it's going anywhere in a great hurry. in the next few days we will see more severe weather in the southwest parts of the u.s. and the reason is the southwest monsoon we have this time of year called the north american monsoon and what happens is the moistures are sucked in from the gulf of mexico and gives thunderstorms to the southwest which you might think is fairly unusual this time of year

because certainly it's very hot there but as well as hot we see the thunderstorms and those usually last until mid september when they retreat southward again. on the same satellite picture you can see a loop of cloud here, this is a cold front and giving severe weather and hail around 5 centimeters in diameter and tornados as well and sweeping eastward but remainder of the day there is a risk we could see severe weather on the eastern coast. >> thanks for that, still to come on the news hour, many palestinian children are spending eat in hospital. a year on from the devastating train crash in canada, new rules aimed at stopping it ever happening again. plus in sport why two teammates fell out during the hungarian grand prix all coming up, after the break.

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♪ welcome back, i'm julie with the top stories on al jazeera, fighting and air strikes continue in the gaza strip despite a plea for a cease fire, calling to medical sources tank shelling has killed a palestinian child in east jabalia. u.n. appeal for immediate and unconditional cease fire comes three weeks after israeli assault began and they issued a statement calling for a truce to allow aid to be delivered. and the u.n. human rights chief

says the shooting down of a malaysia passenger jet in eastern ukraine may be a war crime. let's get more on our top story in the situation in gaza, and we have a historian at the university of exita and joins us via skype from hifa and good to have you with us, clearly a lot of international concern about the high numbers offensive children in gaza and give me an idea of media coverage in israel and whether there is the same kind of concern being reflected. >> no, not at all and do not think there is a similar concern and the three main channels in israel regard this kind of ca a carnage is what they hope to give up resistance and casualties are not reported as a human catastrophe but far more as a strategy meant to the feet

hamas. >> historically this has been a long conflict, is there racial discussion going on about the reasons and motives for hamas resistance? >> no. typical to the mainstream media coverage in the west as well, the story begins of launching of rockets in gaza out of the blue and the wider historical context and immediate context and israel to destroy hamas politically in june and forward the unity government let alone the gaza is not mentioned as a possible background for the desperate attempt by the hamas to end the occupation and the siege on gaza. >> we've seen palestinian demonstrations taking place in the west bank in support of the people of gaza, are there fears that this could perhaps escalate

into a third? >> i think if the situation continues as it is, namely israel extending its invasion into gaza without any hope for any cease fire, we might well be into that now. people do not report a lot but there is a lot of unrest and anger in the west bank and among the palestinians inside israel and i fear that this would probably intensify and escalate if the situation will continue to develop the way it does on the ground, in the gaza strip. >> and very interesting to speak with you and thank you very much indeed for that, speaking to us live from hifa in israel. and preparations of course for the eat festival in gaza have been subdued as you can imagine and charles reports there is little joy for palestinians the

there. >> reporter: the resilience of the people of gaza is astounding and after a month of fasting and for going food and water all day and israel bombs destroy their lives they buy what gifts that i can afford and eat is a special time for children but there is little if anything to celebrate here. and she is shopping for her seven-year-old son. >> translator: we can't celebrate eat under these conditions but the children want toys and don't understand the bombs and attacks. >> reporter: a walk through the pediatric ward of the hospital is a shocking reminder of the brutality of the war and 7-year-old cannot move because she has shrapnel lodged in her spine and neck. israeli air strike killed her mother and two of her sisters and destroyed their family home. >> translator: the situation here is terrible and how can we

celebrate eat, we want to get plans for the hospital abroad but how. >> reporter: she has been here more than a week and her condition is critical. eat at the end of ramadon is traditionally when families come together and focus on children and when you speak to the children in the hospital and families you realize there is very little to celebrate in gaza at the end of the ramadon and in another ward we find three-year-old and the military destroyed his home and moved for safety to a school and he was injured when the military targeted the school soon after. >> translator: there is going to be no eat this year because my house no longer exists. it was destroyed and we will try to make a shelter nearby but how can we celebrate eat like this. >> reporter: sudden sound of an incoming missile. [missile] air strikes close by in the half

hour we were in the hospital. a traditional ramadon made of paper hangs in the pediatric department core -- corridors and she was injured when her family home was destroyed and three-year-old and the mother says the home was also flattened in an israeli air strike. >> translator: i want to stay here in the hospital and look after my baby she tells me. there will be no eat for us this year. charles stratford, al jazeera. muted in iraq and sunni fighters have large sways of the north and many families fled after a group called the islamic state began enforcing their own version of the law and we are joined from the refugee camp near there. and i presume there is clearly not a lot for people to celebrate.

tell me a bit about the conditions they are living in and what their aspirations are for the future. >> reporter: well, this a nutshell i was speaking to a displaced man and he told me he hoped that i can help him reach any country apart from iraq. he is looking for help to get him out from this country. so this is the future for this man. many others you speak to thought that we are an agency that takes refugees out of this country, so really this tells you what people are thinking, the conditions are really appalling and there are not enough toilets and it's very hot and people live in tents. this is a place where about 5,000 people live and most of them are from in and around mosel and around 2010 the u.n. agency is planning to build another camp because they are expecting the numbers will increase.

now, this is the tip of the iceberg and the u.n. numbers are staggering, around 1.2 million iraqis were displaced since january and since the islamic state group took this city and others about 650,000 people were forced to leave. so the numbers are quite, quite big and the kurdish government is trying to cope and getting help from the u.n. but people are saying conditions are really disaroustous. >> at a cam near mosel there, a year since the fuel train exploded in canada killing 47 people. in the u.s. the department of transportation is proposing to phaseout older fuel tankers and they say that is not going to be enough. >> reporter: twice a day trains like this one more than a

kilometer long roll into philadelphia, and the oil train as residents call them deliver more than 190,000 barrels of crude ail for refinement and few take notice. last january a tank car jumped the track over the river and because of the explosive cargo on board it threatened water supply and safety of residents. >> anxiety driving down the expressway or taking the train to see tanker cars that you know are fragile, full of crude oil hanging over a highway and a river that flows through the center of your city. >> reporter: many in philadelphia and the u.s. share that view, growing number of residents have been protesting against the trains which they say threaten public safety. they fear an even bigger accident like this one a year ago in canada, crude oil flooded the community when a train there derailed and the explosions killed 47 people.

the tank cars used to move the flammable liquids are called d.o.t. 111 and designed in the 1960s and safety flaws revealed more than 20 years ago but more than 75,000 of the tank cars are still in service. u.s. rail companies say they are committed to public safety. that is why they say they put in place voluntary measures like transporting at slower speeds to move crude oil safely. but what the rail ways have less control over is the cargo and the u.s. becomes more energy inthe type of oil being transported has changed from traditional crude to something called baca and crude which is more volatile. pressure from the railroad and consumers the u.s. department of transportation want to phaseout retrofit older model d.o.t. 111 tank cars over the next two years and canada is ban with

crude oil by 2017 and residents say changes don't come soon enough. >> carrying cars on old infrastructure, very dangerous oil trains that go right up against where people live and work. >> reporter: she and many others fear the next u.s. derailment, potentially catastrophic loss of life, kimberly with al jazeera in philadelphia. now there is a gold rush underway this sudan, the government found new mines but the gold phase is unregulated and causing irreparable damage to ancient sites and from northern sudan we report. >> reporter: the remains of the ancient kingdom of kush are scattered across the desert and what helps sustain the empire are the rich gold fields here. now a new gold rush is threatening to destroy what evidence remains of the

kushians. >> most places it's like this. >> i don't understand that. >> reporter: these are some artifacts seized from gold prospectors who unearthed them as they did and jewelry more than 3,000 years old. >> you want really to control all of this and be providing all kind of activities in such area, such very interesting area for us because all of the places are between the line and the red sea and we believe in ancient history that this area was like a cross road. >> reporter: a million sudan people are involved in traditional mining, producing more than 90% of the country's gold. it's a vital source of revenue for the government. but the pro-spectors are digging where the kush once dug and going through history. more than 3,000 years ago they

ruled from palestine in the north and egypt and copied the idea of the pyramids from the farrows and so much of the kingdom yet to be discovered but they cannot keep up with the rush for gold. there is also concern that many sudan people do not appreciate their past. >> in a few years we lose many sites because in our experience when we are inspecting the sites we see like gold miners are there and for sure they will come again. >> reporter: the government in kata donated more than $120 million to renovate the national museum and fund a series of digs, ministry of mining, admits there are major problems and told al jazeera it has not developed the regulations needed to control traditional mining, the ministry says it needs international advice how to manage the gold rush so sudan heritage is protected, mr. smith

in northern sudan. still to come, rolling out the carpet of grass and why mexicans are turning their rooftops green and in sport the champions are preparing for the new season. stay with us. ♪

♪ welcome back, in thailand a study has found one in five children don't live with either of their parents and they live with their grandparents while

their parents try to find work and we report from northern thailand on the impact on the children. >> reporter: she has looked after her grandson stan since he was a baby because his parents moved away to look for work and she loves him dearly but bringing up a young child is hard at her age. >> translator: i have a very difficult life and what can i do about it? his aunts and uncles give us some money from time to time and they get some money from the government but there are many expenses. i just try to make end meet each month. >> reporter: stories like hers are repeated throughout rural thailand, the younger generation leaves the country side for brighter prospects in the cities and many end up leaving their children behind to be raised by aging grandparents. a u.n. study says as many as 21% of ty children are effected compared to only about 5% in

neighboring lou and vietnam and many cannot afford to retire with the add responsibility of raising grandchildren and the first phase of the study suggests more than a third of caregivers are at risk of mental health problems, the younger generation may also be affected. the initial findings of an on going u.n. study that looks at children below three years old suggests those left behind by their parents are more likely to lag developmentally especially in language skills. >> looking specifically at very young children because i think a lot of science nowadays is showing the first thousand days we talk of the child's life from birth to about age three is absolutely crucial in terms of a child's reaching her full potential. >> reporter: it's still too early to tell if these children eventually catch up with their peers, but any potentially

negative impact could end up effecting many young children. while already the older generation is showing the strain of being caregivers in their old age, florence with al jazeera in thailand. >> let's get the sport now with andy. >> thank you and english champion in manchester will go to acmilan and scoring twice against italians in this win. and severe weather causing a brief break in proceedings in pittsburgh and when they return so too did the city goals, 5-1 the final score. city will play on wednesday and that game will be played at new york yankee stadium and 1-0 at soldier field in chicago with sterling with the only goal of

the game. liverpool completed $34 million signing along with adam milan and ricky and the third south hampton player signed this preseason. tour de france winner has a target after the first victory and wants to add a world championship jersey to his collection and richard reports. >> reporter: the taste of success, and enjoying a procession as the new tour de france champion on the final stage to paris, italian taking the lead of 8 minutes, the biggest advantage in 17 years. and the victory was helped by former champions alberta and droping off after events and he was ban this 2008 for doping but for the second year no positive drug tests were found at the tour and the first win for the team under management former

rider alexander. >> translator: i congratulate the team and all the riders. italy had not won since 1998. and kazistan so it's a beautiful victory for all of us and he showed again he is a champion. >> reporter: and he won the final stage for a second year in a row. germans fought for victory and finished winning the jersey since the second stage and already winning this he is the second in history to win all three grand tours, i'm richard with al jazeera. >> the first ever women's race by the tour de france and 100 procyclist in the course and won by world champion marianne moss.

>> i will have this opportunity for women to show ourselves in front of these people and really the whole world. >> this is like maybe tough for women but it will take time and it has to be sustainable and have to have viewers and sponsors. >> reporter: they won't be expecting the drivers to follow team orders for the rest of the formula one season, decision coming after lewis hamilton who refused a man to pass him during the hungarian grand prix and we report. >> reporter: lewis hamilton started at the back of the grid at the hunt -- hungarian grand prix and spun off on the second corner but and to rejoin the race and unlike marcus ericson he smashed straight into the

wall, thankfully unhurt. with that car out rosberg began to fall down the field and slippery conditions and he crashed out after colliding with the fourth teammate perez. and also he took a spin when he clipped into this man and it was worse when paris hit a wall bringing the safety car out again. reigning world champion went around in circles but managed to recover and up to third and wouldn't let teammate rossberg pass. after a pit stop on lap 54 daniel retook second from hamilton just like he did when he won this canada, the red bull driver went past loronzo to take the lead with three laps to go and unable to get past hamilton

for third as he claimed the second victory of the season and his career. >> felt as good as the first, it really does, i don't know, the safety car at the beginning played to our advantage and thought when the second one came out it didn't really us but we managed to pull it off at the end. >> so ricardo and now the championship lead is 11 points, i'm with al jazeera. they are running out of time in efforts to run the second test of south africa and in the final session and hanging on 118 to 6 is the latest score and looking to level the series after south africa's win in the test and aiming for day two and gary has an unbeaten century there. kenya to win the men's 5,000 meters in glasco and the

champion was out due to illness and roberterson and jake led for the indoor 3,000 meter champion took charge to lead 10-1-2. men's marathon michael shelly is the first non-african to win the event in 20 years and australia finished ahead and the women's event went to kenya and we catch daniel winning the biggest title of her career so far. and this is how the olympic is looking in two year's time when the sport is introduced in rio at winning gold since the sport made a debut in 1998 and they out scored to win 17-12 and take

gold. and plenty of sport on our website and check it out at al jazeera/sport and details how to get in touch with us on twitter and on facebook. that is the sport for now and more from me later. >> mexico's capitol is one of the most polluted cities in the world and high altitude contributes to the poor air quality and some of their 20 million residents are growing grass on their rooftops to help them breathe a little easier. >> reporter: a walk through mexico city on a given sunday you will see a transformation, no cars and streets and avenues turned into bike lanes and free aerobic and yoga classes and they are rolling out the green car pet on the roof and they purify the air and regulate temperature inside homes. >> translator: these places are

excellent. i feel like i'm contributing to making the city better and greener and cleaner. this is a small area but i feel a difference already. >> reporter: she says the whole family is less stressed out including the dog. the company behind the rooftop gardens say authorities are banking on the project and giving tax benefits to resident whose install them. >> translator: plants and everything that is green help us to improve the air to get more oxygen because they capture carbon dioxide which is bad for us. >> reporter: decades ago people said just breathing mexico city's air was as unhealthy as smoking a cigarette and the sky land has almost a permanent cloud of smog authorities here say they want to change it and the rooftop garden initiative is one of several programs they want to implement this year. bicycles are available around the city and local authorities

are regulating car emissions and a new law says cars that are 15 years and older must change their exhaust in order to reduce pollution by, half. >> translator: we must be responsible, having a car doesn't mean just filling up with gas and driving, the owner of the car must be accountable for the car emissions too and people are becoming aware of that in part thanks to government policies. >> reporter: many here say some of the policies are designed to help the city's 20 million residents to be more environmentally friendly and the growing demand for small gardens where there is valuable space, even on rooftops, monica with al jazeera mexico city. green rooftops, great idea, more news coming your way on al jazeera but from the news hour team and for me, good-bye for now. ♪

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