♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to this news hour and i'm laura kyle in do what and more attacks and more victims in gaza as israel's limited truce enters its fourth hour. international condemnation after israeli strikes hit a u.n. school and washington calls it disgraceful and u.n. says it's criminal. tens of thousands flee fighting

as the islamic state gains more ground. rescue operations in southwest china after an earthquake kills almost 400. and world leaders gather in belgium for 100 years since world war i. ♪ it's now the fourth hour after what israel is calling a humanitarian pause in gaza, the seven-hour truce applies to areas where there is currently no military activity. but the offensive does continue in other areas with one child killed and 30 injured in an attack on a refugee camp in northern gaza. here are some pictures of some of the victims of that attack, having made their way to hospital. now, israel is coming under increasing international pressure. the u.n. has called an israeli

air strike on school on sunday a moral outrage and a criminal act. at least ten people were killed in that strike. and the usa department called it disgraceful and the strongest attack on civilians so far in this offensive. israel offensive stretched in the 28th day and the human cost continues to rise, 64 israeli soldiers have been killed and three civilians and one of whom is a ty national and gaza health ministry says 1827 men, women and children have been killed. u.n. estimates around 80% of them are civilians. more than 9,400 gaza have been injured including more than 2700 children. and more than a quarter of a million people are taking refuge

in u.n. shelters. let's hear the latest from gaza and we call our correspondent live in a village and we have this sort of patchy humanitarian truce in gaza. you are in an area where it seems to be holding for now at least, what are you seeing? >> it is holding here actually. it's the first time that people have got in the area, walk around the village without their being tank shelling. having said that just in the last few minutes in the distance and we probably can't pick it up on the camera and there is dust on israeli border seems to be from tank shelling. i spoke too soon and the first i heard of explosion from a tank shell in this area. our camera man is slowly panning around to show you the seen, and

this is a rooftop position to get a good look and this was cutoff for a week between palestinian and it's a rule, agriculture area and fields in the background and it's not a densely built up area. having said that reports are that around 100 bodies were brought out of here. we have been here for a couple of hours, speaking to people and a lot of them are in shock, some of them knew they were coming back to devastation but not every one assumed it would be quite despaired and people have been walking through the concrete and the rubble trying to pick out whatever they can, this sort of young boy with his bicycle, pushing that out, people with mat stresses and clothes, anything may could get really and the number of people walking through has started to fall off and it's getting quite dusty and hot and people are

returning back to the united nations schools seeking shelter or other's houses in the town and certainly hundreds of people were walking through this area behind me and this area behind me is the worst part. when you walk up the main street for 2-3 kilometers you see destroyed houses and seriously damaged houses on either side of the road. all the electricity is down and everything is down and, well, as i was saying just in the last few minutes the shelling seems to have picked up again, as you said it's a very shaky cease fire indeed. >> reporter: we have this announcement of a humanitarian pause in the fighting allowing people to go back to their homes but even if we are hearing these tank shells as you are speaking people must be reticent that

it's same to return home. >> yes, they are and people are concerned and come early in the morning generally as soon as the cease fire is announced and get what they can get a couple of hours and you may see some people in the background behind me and they get out again and that is why i said the numbers have dropped off and nothing to salvage and people cannot stay here because there is no water, no electricity and the sound and activity we had in the last ten minutes will certainly convince people it's not a safe area to be hanging around for any longer. >> we will let you get off as well and thank you for showing us the absolute devastation in that village. well, as we mentioned earlier israel is coming under pressure for the air strike on a u.n. school on sunday. the u.n. has called it a criminal act and israel's main ally, the u.s., described it as disgraceful and we report.

reporter: chaos and death caused by israeli drone. this mobile phone video was shot just minuted after the strike. witnesses tell us the missile was fired as a motorcycle parked 80 meters from a u.n. school being used as a shelter. several people were killed and dozens wounded. more than 3 1/2 weeks in the conflict and a quarter of a million of people live in schools like this across the gaza strip and are supposed to be safe havens but targeted by fire at least three times. the schools used as shelters are clearly full of children, children who are killed and injured in the attack. and he shows me the footage he filmed minutes after the drone strike and tells me what he saw. >> translator: the street was full of children, bikes and the shop by the main gate. what do they do?

they are only kids. so many people were dead. so many were hurt. >> reporter: most of the injured were brought here first. this is rafa's kuwait hospital and specialized in obstet ricks and a dozen beds and it has treated hundreds of people and many of them in the outside car park which doubles as a triage. >> the hospital is for maternity and not for receiving this huge number of injured and in most cases there are a host of dead and it's very difficult and ambulance are excluded. >> reporter: rafa seen some of the most fighting and between friday and sunday morning more than 200 people were killed, many of them children, al jazeera rafa.

and earlier i spoke to israeli spokesman and asked him whether the seven-hour unilateral cease fire is a distraction from the attack on the u.n. school. >> reporter: there was though attack on the u.n. school, no one claims the u.n. school was hit. we are talking about combat outside the school and let's be also clear on another point, there was a legitimate terrorist target and three activists from islamic jihad and a terrorist organization around the world and supported by iran. >> what has been said about that attack because yesterday u.n., the head, chris, was very cautious initially in introducing the strike to israelis and later came out and said we condemned the air strike and incomprehensible that such violence happened again and how can you violence yourself from the distance that killed ten

people? >> i said there was a specific israeli attack on a specific legitimate terrorist target, three militants from islamic jihad and appears to be collateral damage and doesn't know how it happened, was it ordinance or ordinance the jihad were carrying and the school was not targeted. >> you target close to u.n. facilities where a number of children and were cueing up to get sweets outside of the facility leading to ten deaths of people inside the facility. why is israel targeting anywhere near this u.n. school? >> well, here with your permission i would like to quote the former director, the former boss, john who said in an interview that hamas and other terrorists have a consistent

pattern of behavior and repeatedly shoot rockets at israel adjacent to u.n. facilities, using the facilities as a human shield and the question has to be said if terrorists are brutally doing this and using human shields in the war against israel it's their responsibility for turning the areas into combat zones. >> the present head says three times they have found hamas. >> reporter: he is not the head but the spokesperson. >> spokesperson and three times they have found hamas rocket in u.n. facilities, they were abandoned buildings, not currently being used to shelter thousands of palestinians. >> 100% correct and three examples and not that israel says but u.n. says where they were storing rockets in u.n. schools and the u.n. secretary general himself has ordered an investigation why is it there is a systematic abuse by hamas and

other terrorists of u.n. institutions, if it happens once or twice i don't know and if it happens three times you know there is a systematic pattern of behavior which is problematic because the u.n.'s humanitarian mission which we support very much but the terrorists are deliberately brutalizing u.n. facilities, it's clear. >> you know how densely populated gaza is, how can you strike even close to a u.n. shelter when you know that thousands of people are staying there? you have even lost the u.s. on this point and says operating nearby does not justify strikes that puts civilians' lives at risk. >> this is a combat situation to target terrorists and not to hit, i repeat not to hit gaza civilians and they are not our enemy, the contrary they are

under the regime and in a difficult situation accidents can happen and when they do we regret civilian death but responsibility must fall on hamas that abused the people of gaza and shoots rockets out offensi offensive areas and turned gaza into a human shield and i saw an interview recently and it's clear they have a consistent pattern of behavior to brutalized gaza civilians and exploit them and deliberately put them in harm's way. >> we are live in just jerusalem and james it's clear no matter how you phrase the question the official israeli line rarely changes in cases like this. >> no, absolutely, laura, they stick to the line they are targeting hamas and hamas fighters. but you heard him use the phrase collateral damage in the interview to you and latest figures are 392 children dead

and that is collateral damage of this almost month-long war now and there is mounting criticism coming from the u.n., from eu countries and most notably that criticism you see from the u.s. which is really unprecedented the language that is coming from the u.s. and the level of condemnation and concern coming out of the white house and the state department. >> in the meantime you've got this humanitarian pause that israel says is happening in gaza, hamas saying this is just a distraction. >> yes, you go to humanitarian pause, israelis giving us a four ocean tense release explaining why they are doing this. i think there are factors here that are worth bearing in mind and comes after the stinging international criticism and worth bearing in mind even though they say it's a

humanitarian pause there is a use for this too, what military expert call battle damage assessment and you get your aircraft and drones up and look at what has been hit and what has not been hit and also see how hamas and where the rockets are fired. although they say it's a humanitarian pause i'm sure it's useful to the military planners as well, laura. >> we have talks going on in cairo and palestinian factions there and israel made it very clear it's not interested any longer in attending. >> no, it seems that israel is going to pursue a military option and seems from what we hear from israeli leaders they will choose a time to end this on their own terms. it looks like it will be the end of the first gaza war this 2009, some sort of unilateral cease fire. having said that israel still knows what is going on in cairo.

remember it has diplomatic relationships with we egypt and there are places like egypt and the u.s. who have i think sometimes israel's interests at heart and will be relaying the details of what is being discussed and does know what is going on although it doesn't have a seat at the table it hears what is going on at the table. >> thanks for the update from west jerusalem. >> coming up, on this program, protests in liberia as we have cause for urgent actions to stop the spread of ebola and looking for help and they have a chronic shortage of doctors and mcilroy is on top of the world but how much later will come up in

details. ♪ in iraq the group calling itself islamic state has felt a major blow to kurdish forces and fighters are close to the iraq largest after offensive that lasted 24 hours and it could give the group to flood cities or withhold water and taking control of a fifth oil field and this is in inlaza and towns of zuma and cinda which they controlled until they withdraw and we report. >> reporter: it may look like a regular traffic jam but this was an exodus in iraq and 40 new fled after the fighting in the area and they have taken control of the towns here forcing these civilians to flee to areas under control of the kurdish fighters.

>> translator: thousands of people have been killed and thousands have become refugees, 40,000 fled their homes and the town is controlled by the islamic state and the shrine blown up and killing the people and big attack. >> reporter: on sunday fighters from the islamic state or is pushed further north and taking more territory from the kurds and the militia said they were instructed to pull back to areas where they could regroup. >> translator: we are now waiting for the president's orders to attack them and white out the i.s. and not let them get away, we will kill them, wound them or arrest them. >> reporter: and what is to be seen if kurdish fighters are not strong enough to fight this? the break away group captured large parts in the western iraq in months and declared a million tarry campaign in syria and iraq.

in the latest offensive this time against kurd fighters they took control of several towns and three oil refineries and new maps show kurdistan making it a part of them and making it unclear where the push to the north will stop and i'm with al jazeera. thousands of people continue to flee libya as groups intensifying and tripoli and benghazi in the east and many have been stuck at the libya land border for days and thousands re-egyptian and getting on planes to go home and once british and eu nationals left on a british war ship and we spoke to some egyptians who escaped libya. >> reporter: these are the lucky ones, after days spent at the libya border this egyptian family was allowed into tunesia and thousands stranded on the libya side of the border and on

sunday hundreds of them were allowed in after the government promised to send charter flights to take them back to egypt straight from the border and mostly workers like this who left his job after life became unbearable and spent four days at the border before he was able to cross. >> translator: so much destruction, it's not safe at all anymore and we fear for our lives. >> reporter: thousands of egyptians worked in libya but as the violence took over the oil-rich country many opted to leave their jobs and run for their lives. >> translator: libya's doors were open for us, most of the people you see here are college graduates with no chance to get a job back home. people are very sad to leave. >> reporter: 38-year-old mohamed says there were though classes where he lived. he ran away from the state of lawlessness, when i asked him how he will support his family and three children now.

>> translator: my children have gone and we are thousands left behind still stuck on the other side of the border. >> reporter: there is genuine concern here for the thousands stranded on libya side of the border and some for over a week. >> translator: it's terrible for them over there, and they are stranded in the desert and open air with little water or food, i swear to god it's not fair, human souls are at stake. >> reporter: all these workers vividly illustrates how the violence in libya will have a r ripple effect on the region security and economic. some decided to stay in libya for now and others wanted to leave but didn't find a way to get to any border due to violence and that is why these workers say they are lucky they even got to this point. i'm with al jazeera tunesia.

three al jazeera journalists have now spent 219 days in egypt prison and convicted after being falsely accused of helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood and in june they were given seven year sentences and mohamed got an extra three years and said they plan to appeal against their convictions and al jazeera continues to demand their release. in china 391 people are confirmed dead after sunday's earthquake in the province and many remain buried in the rubble and thousands of rescuers are on their way to the remote location. >> reporter: relief and rescue workers are doing what they can but efforts hampered by after shocks and poor weather, communications and electricity are also down. some search teams have been able to reach the edges of the quake zone.

>> translator: all the houses have already collapsed when we arrived and dead bodies everywhere and lots of injured people. >> reporter: epicenter rescuers may have to reach on foot. many survivors spent the night in make-shift shelters and the liberation army is involved, more than 2000 soldiers are on their way to reenforce those already in the disaster zone and supervised by the premier who arrived in the area on monday. the mountains of southwest china is prone to earthquakes, i'm with al jazeera. protesters in liberia demanding action to stop ebola virus and want victims' bodies removed from communities and health authorities are taking too long to take away the dead, and may be exposing others to infection, more than 720 people died from the disease in west africa since it began to spread

in march. the u.s.-based centers for disease control and prevention is sending 50 health experts to west africa to help in the fight against ebola and treating an american doctor infected with the virus and the second american to catch the disease will fly by private plan to atlanta for treatment and will arrive on tuesday and join the first patient, dr. kent bradley as a specially prepared facility. some africa leaders will be screened for ebola before they meet president barack obama earlier this week and d.c. will try to strengthen ties between the reasons and why the u.s. wants to invest more in the continent. >> reporter: u.s. president barack obama saying africa matters and it's much more than humanitarian aid. >> the importance of this for

america needs to be understood. africa is one of the fastest growi growing continents in the world and one of the fastest growing economies. >> reporter: this is the first to tap in to this and since 2005 they hosted five and in two years imports and, experts between china have jumped from 127 billion to almost 200 billion. for the u.s. the opposite. trade was $113 billion but it has dropped to below $100 billion. for three days they will focus on changing that but the president is not going on his charm offensive. unlike china's leadership he won't meet one on one with any african counterparts and no expectation of announcements to be made or any deals to be finalized. >> what the chinese do at their summit is roll out programs

developed over three years with african counterparts and i have not seen that happening here in washington. >> reporter: obama officials behind the scenes are making the argument that china is using africa for its natural resources and u.s. wants to be more of a partner but the president of the republic of the congo disagrees. >> china doesn't get national resources for free they buy it and if they want wood they buy it at international prices and china doesn't take anything from us for free. >> reporter: the u.s. says it's time to compete in africa but it's clear other countries have a big head start and one summit is unlikely to change that, patty in washington. let's get all the weather with richard, richard it's pretty wet in europe. >> some storms with half the

heat and very often the price you pay is in the form of big storms and this is sways of europe where we had significant rain and we had heavy rain reporting to what looks to be a line of stuff across parts of the netherlands there and we had revenue rain in norway too and also in northern parts of germany. i do not have one from bulgaria because when you look at the pictures you see it's rescue workers looking at long the scout river to help people being e effected there and people displaced because of the rain and on going for quite sometime. looking back at rainfall through the month of july we had an average of 63 millimeters but this year, this july we had 113 and already this month we have exceeded the monthly average and that has been building up and

going through the water courses with no where left to go. the situation we have this area of low pressure across southeast areas but looks better across the balkins of the fair share of rain in central areas and western europe and where we see rain in the next few days and could be localized flooding here laura. >> thanks very much. still ahead here on al jazeera, the syrian government's latest to crush strongholds near the capitol. >> i'm in donsk and telling you some stories of the most vulnerable victims of this conflict as the fighting gets closer to the city. and scott land says good-bye to the games and what sort of future this event has. ♪

♪ hello again, i'm laura kyle and a reminder of top stories on al jazeera. >> one child killed and an attack on a refugee camp in gaza and declared a seven-hour humanitarian pause where there is no military activity. israel is blaming a strike on a u.n. school on hamas, and they used the facility as a human shield and the u.n. and u.s. condemned the attack on sunday.

islamic state advance in iraq forced thousands of minorities to flee north and they crossed into kurdish territory fearing for their lives. and city and delegates have met egyptian officials to discuss a political solution to the war in gaza, hamas says the palestinian delegation is making progress. we discussed and agreed on a document that includes demands and later we will need officials from intelligence to give a unified list of demands and positive and we will meet tomorrow with the director to follow-up on this. >> reporter: hamas' demands include a cease fire with the immediate withdrawal of israeli forces and a halt to air and navel attacks. opening up border crossings for people and goods needed to rebuild gaza, and end to

restrictions on fishing and setting up a port and the gaza airport and anulling the buffer zone it created in the borders and do away with construction of the government aided by u.n. and a donation conference to really the recovery efforts. more on this and we have the professor of politics and relations at the london school of economics and political science, no surprise there, really, to be found in hamas' demands but we know previously israel has rejected them. >> absolutely. in 2012, as you know israel agreed to discuss the whole i mean siege of gaza and opening gaza to the world, nothing has happened, nothing will happen now. i mean, remember, laura, the major strategic goal of israel

on this political attack and gaza is to sabotage the government between hamas and jihad and, in fact, israel now, why should israel go to cairo and talk to a unified palestinian delegation and we have a unified delegation and the damage you have on hamas and goes against the very strategic posture of israel and israel has not sent a delegation and i don't believe israel will engage a unified palestinian invasion. >> it's a chance if it's not fair for palestinian factions to solidified their unity. >> you are correct and i would argue the highest priority of palestinians and highest priority is to put their house in order, deep enreconciliation between gaza on one hand that has been under siege for almost eight years and west bank and east jerusalem, to rebuild the

bridges between and among the various factions, this is the highest priority. the second most highest priority is to layout the framework, strategic framework for national immigration, for palestinians and liberation out of basically the israeli colonial rule and establish the basis of a diverse and tolerant palestines and must put their house in order negotiating with israel and international community. in the meantime israel is trying to have deters against hamas and the damage he had to basically leave hamas and islamic jihad in gaza and basically i mean use its superior military ordered to establish this in gaza. >> to what extent do you think this is a chance for hamas to deal with the house and deal

with a new reality among the egyptian leadership, the egyptians of course being a very key mediator in this conflict? >> well, i mean, let me be direct here. egypt, the new administration in egypt unfortunately, have used hamas through its lands and the all out war against the muslim brotherhood is reality. the strategic role shifted and changed dramatically. >> okay. >> may i? >> yes, you may continue, sorry, i think you may have been interrupted. >> what i'm trying to say is that benjamin netanyahu, many palestinians believe benjamin netanyahu would not be able to do what he has done without support of arab state, that is the reality. in fact, even the americans have been more forthcoming when it comes to the palestinians'

concerns and right in gaza than some of the arab states and tells you about the changing strategic land escape, yes, the question you asked about the question about what can hamas do? they have a great deal to do. these are palestinians try to rebuild the bridges with the palestinian element and also try to engage in the egyptian government if the government is willing to engage hamas in the first place. >> thanks for joining us there from london. >> thanks. >> british member of parliament says international mediation efforts including those of britain are useless. >> it's hard to see what contribution black can make to any of this and has been the enjoy since he stopped being the prime minister in 2007, barely visited gaza and seems to promote gaza separation from the west bank and paid no contribution whatsoever i can see during the intense conflict

of the past 25 days, in days he spent most of his time in britain and apparently one visit to china during this period. if he is serious about being in the middle east enjoy he should do the job. if he is not serious don't do it, this is a ridiculous situation we are in and i'm unclear what contribution he is making and surely if he is serious about this he should put pressure on israel to attend talks in gaza. after all the u.n. and all palestinian factions are there, why isn't israel there? >> activists say syrian government forces have attacked several areas near the capitol killing dozens of people and they are on the outskirts of damascus and hardest hit and we repo report. >> reporter: a missile slams into a suburb of damascus. the full horror of the latest

government campaign to crush the syrian rebellion caught on amateur video. this is east of the capitol. according to our position activists this was the result of an air strike by a fighter jet. many people were out in the street when it happened. they were trying to get the dead and wounded from another strike just minutes earlier. elsewhere in the greater damascus area more desperation after another air strike. the man who filmed this shouts headless bodies, where is the world? where is humanity, save us. at least 25 people died in this strike alone. and in the neighboring area of duma more attacks.

it is rebel-held territory and government concentrating fire power on this neighborhood for more than a year. serious conflict is estimated to have killed more than 170,000 people and displaced around half the population. president assad made significant gains this year as opposition forces fight among themselves. but the latest attacks demonstrates how he is trying to step up the fight. i'm with al jazeera. well world leaders gathered in belgium to mark 100 years of world war i and war was declared in 1914 and honors the 9 million troops who died in the war. david joins us now from the belgian town here and david, why

are the commemorations being held there? >> this was a city that was completely demolished when germans started the attack which opened the great war. essentially did a huge arcing movement avoiding the french frontier defensive and striking southward to paris. the only thing that was in their way was here and surrounded by many forms and they held out here, not the two days the germans expected they would but for 11 days, it was an heroic defense and up set the german plans and the british forces could stop this on paris and the trench war far began and it was a great sacrifice, so great the french awarded them the highest

award for the courage shown by them and the first time a new weapons the germans developed called big bertha by the brits in the war and it was massive to fire shells of several hundred kilograms and destroyed them that held out so long by germans and inspired a poem and he actually wrote a poem about the gun and the final lines were may god curse and cut you from our souls and not looking back 100 years ago but looking at what is used in warfare around the world at the moment and pointed out what was happening in libya and iraq and syria and what was happening in gaza and there you see much more weapons that can inflict more damage on civilians and troops being used by many

forces in all those areas of conflict. >> reporter: david, we see a moment of the british world family there and european leaders as well and talk us through the event kicking off these commemorations? >> there was a long series of speeches outside of the memorial here and as i say the best speech was front the french president long who said europe must do so much more to mediate and stop the conflicts that are plaguing the world at the moment and the great war was supposed to end all wars and of course it didn't. that was perhaps the highlight of the ceremonies but there has been a minute of silence and the firing of military and dead on all sides because the german president was here and it was a representative of the new mood and sentiments in europe perhaps that much more must be done to

prevint conflicts we are seeing on our screen everyday and especially in gaza. >> david, thanks very much for bringing us the somber commemorations that are happening there today. now russia has announced new military exercises involving bombers and fighter jets near the border with ukraine and fighting for separatist and stronghold has intensified as troops surround the city and as it looms many residents are leaving and we report from here and the most vulnerable are unable to escape. >> reporter: she tries to call her grandson and he used to visit all the time but she has not heard from him since the fighting started. she is one of 160 people living in the care home on the outskirts of donsk close to the front line.

>> translator: i used to be an optimistic person and thought the world wouldn't last too long but i now i think it's going to continue. >> reporter: she owns and manages the nursing home and pensions stopped coming through and relatives cannot pay fees so she is using her own savings to keep the place open but she is running out of money and supplies. and sometimes it's all too much. i'm afraid, so afraid she says, how will we survive? i was at the city morgue. i watched as they brought in our young people. it was terrifying that somebody's children or grandchildren or husband. and more people are arriving all the time. and she won't turn them away. this man is from a suburb of donsk where u ukrainian are proseparatist and as they close

in on donsk the fighting is getting close to home and they describe the sounds of shelling and the walls and windows shaking. these are some of the most vulnerable victims of this conflict because they cannot be moved to safety. it is hard to offer words of comfort to some. this woman says she worked hard all her life laying roads, now she says dying alone, she doesn't know where her daughter is. many here were children during the second world war, they sing sons from the soviet area about soldiers saying good-bye to their city before going off to fight. it helps them to forget these troubled times, this war surrounds them once again, i'm with al jazeera, donsk. a ferry carrying 200 passengers collapsed by the south capitol daka and 14 bodies

have been found in the river, dozens of people have been rescued. ferry accidents are common in bangladesh and blamed on over crowding and poor ship design and maintenance. more bodies have been recovered in northern nepal after a massive landslide in july raised the official death toll to 19 and gave up hope finding more people alive than the 150 people estimated to still be under the rubble and we report. >> reporter: this was a highway to tibet, early saturday morning a part of the mountain came crashing down and burying the village, entire families have been lost, only a handful of bodies have been recovered so far from the hundreds still missing. just to my left rescue workers are trying to find four people buried under the rebel and family members came to find bodies of loved ones and it's

quite a distressing scene and the danger over here is not gone yet as a landslide is still moving. as we watched a mountain side collapsed. despite the danger and locals are trying to recover what they can from destroyed homes and those searching for their loved ones don't know where to begin. >> translator: i've come to find my sister, one niece and one nephew and my sister in law and the next house was where my brother and sister-in-law are buried and the next one my cousins were rescued and now at the hospital. >> reporter: police and the army at the rescue site don't have enough equipment to expedite rescue and recovery efforts and they face a further danger, the landslide blocked the ranging river and created a lake up stream. on saturday afternoon the army made a channel through a

controlled blast to let the waters out. downstream people are packing to go, some don't want to leave. but it's the monsoon season and if it overflows or burst the bank village's like these will be swept away. in nepal district in nepal. still ahead here on the program and all the sport including criticize for its pollution and waste and rio olympic venue has the first test event. ♪ america mobile app,

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brazil's rapid economic growth has outstretched it's ability to provide some basic services and public healthcare system is struggling to keep up with demands and we report from rio where clinics found a novel solution to a shortage of doctors. >> reporter: it's a typically busy day at a community clinic in rio. people here receive basic care and preventative medicine free of charge as provided by brazil law. managers cynthia says 20,000 people rely on the clinic. >> translator: this is disease prevent shin and help patients with high blood pressure and diabetes and child health and this is a common problem. >> reporter: the biggest challenge is not chronic disease but a chronic shortage of

doctors especially in poor, urban areas and rural village's. >> translator: in this community the doctor/patient ratio is one doctor for every 3500 patients. >> reporter: the life expectancy of a brazil person is 73.3 years, lower than most south american countries. in some regions it's 67 years, worst than in bangladesh. last year brazil began importing foreign doctors mostly from cuba and the doctor is one of 7300 cuban doctors in brazil. >> translator: i'm getting a great deal of practice here and in cuba i never seen a patient with tb before and here i have. >> reporter: but the program is controversial. the doctors are paid far less than their brazil colleagues and brazil pays cuba $4100 per month

through the health organization for each doctor. the physicians themselves receive less than a third of that, the rest goes back to the cuban government. a handful of cuban doctors quit the program complaining of an unfair pay scale. dr. gonzales says she is sticking with the program. >> translator: i don't care about the money, i receive 10% of what all doctors get here and my family back home gets money and the rest. the percentage the government gets supports education and free healthcare. >> reporter: to meet the needs of its people brazil must train more public health doctors and provide incentives for them to practice where they are needed the most. rob reynolds, rio. let's get you the latest sport now and here is laura. >> mcilroy is a favorite to win

the golf and a northern irishman claimed number one with victory at the golf championship and he made a great start to the final round with three birdies and finished 66, seeing him win the title for the first time and perfect preparation for the thursday u.s. pga championship and garcia finished second two shots behind him and 25-year-old replaces scott who has been on top for 11 weeks. >> to win the championship a couple weeks ago i said at the start of the week i wanted to come and move forward and put in a good performance and i have been able to do that and the same thing i need to go into next week with the mindset. >> reporter: tiger woods is in doubt, the 14 time major champion was forced to pull out of the invitational midway through the final round and

38-year-old had reoccurrence of a back injury that ruled him out of much of this season. gold coast for the destination in 2018 and it came to a conclusion in the scottish city in glascow on sunday and there is concern about the event's future and we report. >> after 11 days of competition the 2014 common wealth games finished in the city of glascow and the venue is sunday at the closing ceremony. the games have a history that extends well beyond the sporting fields, an event for more than 71 nations and territories that made up the british empire and the first were empire games as they were originally known and

held in 1930 and while there is an on going debate about the games' continued relevance the athletes are in no doubt as to their value. >> yeah, so i won the gold metal and it has to sink in the next morning when i woke up and didn't know whether to believe it. >> reporter: and it gave glascow star quality and the most successful athlete competed at the games for the first time and won gold and most likely he will be retired once they are held in the gold coast in australia in four years but they say the future of the event is secure. >> a lot of interest in hosting the games and for 2018, i remember a lot of journalists predicting the end of an era up the gold coast and we are already talking two cities and countries and it's six in 30.

>> close to a billion has been spent by organizers to host the games and for those countries not taking part the common wealth games will always be something of a sporting security and for athletes who did compete it might well be the highlight of their career. sarah with al jazeera. tuesday will mark the two-year count down to the next olympic games in rio and began test events and 300 sailors from 34 nations are competing in an rigatta in the bay and the host venue has been highly criticized for its high pollution levels and waste. >> the water quality is not amazing but not as bad as people talked about and it has been nice and we are good. williams won the fourth tennis title of the season at the event in stand stanford,

california and made a full recovery from resent health issues to force her to retire from a wimbledon match and she will begin the defense of her u.s. title later this morning. they sacked their coaching staff after they failed to advance to the next stage of qualifying. kenya eliminateded by the tiny nation here who advanced to the group stations with 1-0 aggregate victory and uganda progressed and the total of 28 teams are trying to qualify for the tournament in morocco. that is it for sports. >> reporter: that is it for me and the news hour team here on al jazeera, just stay with us on this channel. ♪

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