♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there, welcome to this news hour, i'm laura in doha with the main stories this hour, they pulled troops from the gaza strip as the 72-hour humanitarian cease fire is underway. i'm in rafa in the southern gaza strip, one of the hardest hit areas in this conflict. and i'm in the far north of the gaza strip and where the israeli army has pulled out its

ground forces. i'm jay in west jerusalem where israeli delegation is preparing to travel to cairo for perhaps the toughest part of negotiations for a lasting cease fire. and in other news rescuers continue to dig through the rubble to find survivors days after a massive earthquake in china plus. i'm tonya reporting with tens of thousands of jobs at risk, it's a preferential trade deal with the united states that expires next year. ♪ three-day humanitarian cease fire in the gaza strip is entering the sixth hour and agreed to palestinian factions including hamas as well as israel. people are taking advantage of the truce to look for food and water as well as assess the

damage that has been done to their homes. now the israeli army has pulled out all its ground forces from gaza and has now gathered its troops at the border. it claims it now destroyed all the tunnels in gaza. the scale of the damage is now becoming apparent and both parties are trying to find a long-term truce and talks are still being held in cairo and israel and expected to join them later on tuesday. so after 29 days of israeli attacks this is the human cost. fighting has killed 64 israeli soldiers and three civilians, one of whom was a ty national, number of palestinian fatalities is far higher and gaza health ministry say 1867 men, women and children have been killed. u.n. says most are civilians. more than 9,500 palestinians

injured and a quarter of a million people taking refuge in u.n. shelters. charles stratford is live in rafa and that is one area that was particularly pummeled hard over the past few days and what we see behind you looks extraordinary. show us around there. >> reporter: it's quite incredible what we see here and this is the front line or very close to the front line of where the israeli forces are and two kilometers in that direction towards israel and everywhere you go is devastation and behind me was a government building hit a few nights ago and houses in it terribly damaged as well and speaking to people here who are picking up or trying to pick up the pieces of their lives and little of their lives left and

picking through the rubble of their houses and struggling with anything they can find. we are seeing young children pulling blankets out, toys from under the rubble and this area was particularly badly hit and there were a number of air strikes last night here, two children were confirmed dead and a lot of tank shelling. other people we have spoken to said where are we going to go. there are tens of schools in rafa but they are full and one gentleman we spoke to and where is he going to go he has a house behind this building that is being destroyed and said i have no choice, i have to try and pull out as much as i can from the rubble and take my wife and children and try and find shelter whether that be with a family, possibly outside rafa or try and negotiate some sort of space in the schools. it was interesting that earlier today as we drove into rafa there was more traffic on the roads and this was much earlier on and there was a sense if you

like of being calmer and as we have been here and people are coming in the far eastern section of rafa you have an urgency among people and pulling as much as they can out of the rubble and loading them on to cars and getting out of the area as quickly as possible. >> absolutely, okay, gaza is rather suspicious if the cease fire is going to hold and charles thanks for the scene from the south in rafa and now we go to the north and we go to massive destruction there as well as people return back to their homes to try and salvage what is left. >> reporter: indeed, since we started speaking earlier this morning we have seen more and more people coming back here to assess what they have left. but i'm actually in one of the few houses that is still standing. in fact, let me take you inside and give you a look of just what we are seeing in this house.

this was home to seven people, five children, a husband and a wife. they don't live here anymore and fled the fighting. and let me just show you inside because this is very significant and you can probably see on the ground spent shell casings. you can is see some other paraphernalia and what we understand and what people have been telling us here in this area is that this room was occupied by israeli ground forces for a pretty significant period of time. to put it bluntly this was the front line here in batanoon and forces were here in very large numbers and had tanks and as we have been seeing here they occupied this room and used it for a strategic place on where they could fight the various factions on the gaza strip and under scores just the lives of the people here and indeed all over gaza is that they have come

so close to conflict and touched everybody's life and it's typical in this small room. >> thank you and it's interesting to get a look inside of one of the homes there. well, palestinian foreign minister maliki says there there is clear evidence that israel committed war crimes in gaza. israeli negotiators are due in cairo in the coming areas to join talks for a permanent cease fire, what exactly are the factions demanding? well they want a full israeli withdraw from gaza and end to the israeli and egyptian blockade of the territory, also release of hamas prisoners held by israel and international assistance in the reconstruction of gaza. for its part israel is demanding gaza be completely demilitarized and give up the arsenal of weapons and wants a way to

prevent hamas to rearming in the future. and we go to james live from jerusalem. james, all talk of a cease fire aside for a moment, this 72-hour truce seems to be holding so far. do we think that it can last for the whole three days? >> reporter: well, i think we have to watch very, very closely and i don't think you can take anything for granted. remember last time there was a 72-hour cease fire on friday it collapsed almost immediately but i do think something has changed very significantly and that is last time around the israeli army were still in gaza, on the ground, destroying tunnels. there was really only a partial cease fire because israeli army are continuing their operations so i think this time around it is different and it probably has a better chance and you said we are going to talk about those talks in a moment but i think

it's important to state there is a palestinian delegation already there with all the different palestinian parties represented already in cairo. >> and israeli we gather are on their way but we still have two sets of demands, james, which have not changed at all and neither side seems to be any closer to accepting them. >> reporter: let me first just add a point that is worth raising which is it's the jewish holiday today so i don't think the israeli delegation is going to be leaving from tel aviv airport probably until after sun down so i think that will delay the start of these negotiations but you are right, there are different views on what should happen and neither side is prepared to just have a stop gap deal that takes us back to the status quo. both want something else of this, as you said the palestinian side wants lifting of the siege and they want

demilitarization of hamas and difficult to negotiation. also in both camps there is division in the camps and already we heard when the prime minister netanyahu agreed to send the deg gags to k -- delegation to cairo they heard about it on the media and likely some division and likely to be division in the palestinian side when they discuss some of these crunch issues. >> also, the one problem or at least one of the palestinian factions hamas is the fact we have got the egyptians being the main negotiator. >> reporter: absolutely. i think it's worth also noting how this is going to work. we understand they are not all going to be around the same table. they are going to be in separate rooms and maybe separate places and called proximity talks between the sides and do not

like egypt or the new egyptian government which has done a lot to clamp down on their access and those tunnels that were existing between egypt and gaza so lots of difficulties and lots of other players there in cairo. the u.s. is there and i'm sure there will be representatives of other governments in touch with people by phone. >> reporter: james bringing us the latest from west jerusalem and thanks very much james. still coming up, here on this program, we will be live in the lebanese town of arsol where the army and syrian rebels who crossed over have been fighting for days. pl plus. i'm andrew thomas, in australia, and why they are campaigning for a change in australia's constitution. and in sport find out how much one person is prepared to pay to be cleared of bribery charges in germany.

♪ now the u.n. says thousands of people trying to escape the islamic state group in northern iraq are in urgent need of food, water and shelter. iraq's prime minister has the airforce to support kurdish troops battling sunni fighters in the north and lost ground to the state in the past two days but are launching a counter offensive and more on this with joseph who is a political scientist live from beirut and it's extraordinary how difficult the battle against the islamic state is proving to be, so much so for the first time we are seeing kurdish forces possibly being supported and coming together with the iraqi army. which is an ironic development because obviously

the iraq kurds and government have had difficulties in the past weeks and months and all the sudden because of movements under ground there is something there and appearances can be deceiving and we will see whether or not the kurdish representatives in the iraqi government will welcome the assistance that the iraqi government presumably is now ready to give to them. we will have to wait and see whether that occurred. >> the kurdish forces were a pretty strong force to fight. why do you think in the last few days they seem to crumble under the fight against the islamic state? >> reporter: it's not really a mystery. i think it's a tactical move on the part of the kurds who are trying to position themselves as much as possible. there could be a variety of reasons why they all of the sudden decided to stop fighting

against iraq-tag elements of the islamic state whose numbers are very small, very limited but obviously if you don't fight them they will win and they will gain ground. one of the reasons could be a tactical move on the pardon of the kurds essentially telling rafa to the iraq government and the rest of the world is trying to hold ground and not into an independent country and not trying to position themselves to gain certain rights. another reason could be an indication that the iranians are putting a great deal of pressure on the islamic state individual some of whom they support obviously in order to show the kurds should not even contemplate the independence of an independent kurd and it's something the kurds always wish to accomplish and would like to put on a referendum. so there could be a variety of reasons but we should not fall into the game that, in fact,

they are not fighting. it's too early to say whether they are fighting or not. >> absolutely. as we see the islamic state making gains and we are seeing in response, thousands, hundreds of thousands of people leaving and mostly religious minorities and just explain to us the threat they face when a group like islamic state comes into an area. >> islamic state is trying to fill a gap that exists in iraqi politics, iraqi government during the past several months and years really has not been able to consolidate and maliki has not been an effective prime minister, therefore you have the rise of these movements in islamic state is just one of them trying to gain control over large sways planned which means expelling populations and means fighting under ground. this is an indication of political failure more than anything else and it will not

end unless such a time when it's really consolidated under very strong leadership. we will have to wait and see whether the new president and the new prime minister of iraq will be able to forge a new town over federalism or whether or not the country will go down to the separation route. it's just very fluid at this point but it's up to the iraqis to decide what kind of country they want to have for the future. >> good to speak to you and thanks for joining us there from beirut. now, a vehicle carrying mediators trying to end the lebanese siege of the border town which has come under fire. and they have been observing a temporary cease fire and battling to retake control after fighters crossed over from syria and attacked positions on saturday. and we are live for us and dana

can you just update us on what the latest is, whether the fighting ceased or started again because it was pretty brutal at one point with a large number of casualties. >> reporter: as you see behind me the army continues to send reenforcement and in the town and have reports that a deal is in the making, to find a solution to prevent what could be a prolonged and deadly conflict. what we understand is a delegation of muslim scholars are trying to mediate and find a way the syrian armed fighters inside the town would go back to syria and in exchange they will release 22 lebanese army soldiers who they have been holding captive for a few days now. what we understand is three soldiers will be released as a good-will gesture but this is still in the making and nothing confirmed yet. like i said this could be a bloody battle. you can see behind me this is a

mountain region and what we understand is the lebanese army has managed to take control of most of the strategic hill-top positions and the army has not advanced in a town, a town which hosts 140,000, 100,000 syrians and 40,000 lebanese, those syrians refugees from their own conflict across the border. and the only area the army has not been able to seal off is illegal smuggling route between lebanese and syria so this is a difficult battle. the very fact there are thousands and thousands of civilians inside means there are a lot of casualties if the army does push in and news of a possible deal of course would be welcome by the residents of this town. >> and they may be able to contain the violence this time in lebanon but it's unlike i, isn't it, to be the last time syrian rebels cross over into lebanon and fight there? >> reporter: no, this is not the

first time the lebanese army has come under at attacked by syrian rebels and they have been attacked on a number of occasions and seen the spill over of the conflict in lebanon over the past few months really and suicide bombs in retaliation for the lebanese group in the role in helping the syrian army in the battle inside syria so this is going to be very difficult. the big problem in liberty -- lebanon is there are political divisions and some parties that support the government and some that support the opposition and they are around the lebanese army and they are calling this a war on terrorism and got the backing of the united nations. so, yes, this is not the last incident of its kind but if a deal can be reached they can

avoid blood shed and inflaming the tensions and the point and the fact this town is majority sunni and the shii are supporting the opposition and messy in lebanon if they cannot find some sort of agreement. >> you mentioned there about the syrian refugees who are there and the 100,000 people, i believe. how are they able to take cover from this fighting? are they able to flee? >> reporter: well, most of the fighting now is taking place on strategic hill-top positions. there are few areas within the town where there is face-to-face combat or street fighting. but this is not an all out urban battleground at least not for the time being. what we understand from civilians who managed to flee here over the past few days are armed fighters are preventing them from leaving the town. we managed to speak to red cross

volunteer workers and saying they cannot enter the town to evacuate civilians and some footage is emerging up loaded by syrian activists showing hospitals with people injured and killed. it's very hard for us to independently confirm what is happening simply because it's a no-go area. lebanese are not allowing people in the town and as you can see behind me ambulances wait at the entrance of the town and liberty feez army troops keep reenforcing their position. >> helped explain the situation clearly and dana thank you for joining us there. now western officials say russia almost doubled its military presence along the ukrainian border and this comes as ukraine says it's close to defeating separatists and we are at the hospit hospital. >> reporter: this is the lennon hospital and i'm in the surgical ward. when the separatist controlled

this town they took over this ward by force and set up a roadblock the street outside. many of the hospital staff were so frightened they ran away and separate theists took over the hospital bomb shelter and stopped some patients and hospital staff from using it. now in june this ward was hit by shell fire. a nurse was killed and the roof just above me was badly damaged. we don't know who fired that shell but one hospital official told me that he believes it would have been government forces. what we do know is that medical staff and medical premises are receiving very little protection in eastern ukraine's war. >> reporter: two american aid workers with the deadly ebola virus getting an experimental drug not tested for safety on humans and the second person left liberia to a special care facility in atlanta and expected

to be treated at the same hospital of brantley who left liberia at the weekend and contracted the virus after working on a medical mission in monrovia. and the world health organization says 887 people have now died in the latest ebola out break in africa and stepped up control efforts to control its spread and we report from abuja. >> reporter: announcement of a second ebola victim in nigeria is raising fears the seven-month long epidemic in africa could spread in other nations. >> this is a case of an ebola disease and government has put in place structures and strategies for these cases. this is coming from one of the cases under surveillance and able to pick it early enough. >> reporter: the victim collapsed in the city and put in

isolation at the hospital and spent a few hours outside the airport and he may have spread it to more people. many of them impossible to trace because of the endless shacks and apartments. nigeria talks about the surveillance to prevent the spread of ebola in the borders and countries in west africa are on red alert and people at points of entry across the country and government thickened the campaign of the disease to the charges with huge crowds in conducive environments for the virus to spread and some were told to hold healing sessions to attract ebola patients from outside the country. information about the virus has been widely broadcast on radio and television stations as well as social media.

>> accounts on facebook will have their websites diverted for information on ebola. ww www.ebola.org for now and it's an interactive website. >> reporter: and the dead may prove to be an obstacle of stopping ebola. >> it has been really challenging for west countries to convince people to take care of the body of the relatives, it has been really challenging, 60% is due to body to body confirmation. >> reporter: the epidemic has already killed almost 900 people in siera-leon and liberia and the out break is moving faster than efforts to control it and warning with more infections is

a greater risk of the virus evolving into deadly mutations, al jazeera in nigeria. new report released by amnesty international say human rights violations taking place in northeast nigeria and evidence of problems with the military and state sponsored groups and boca-haran and random screenings are in public areas and those deemed guilty are beaten with sticks and machetes and boko haram is continuing with killings and bomb ings. and we have the weather with richard and it's not too good for people traveling to hawaii. >> it's not and normally the

weather is beautiful and most of the rainfall comes in the winter, decembnovember, decembe january. this is the western side of the united states if you need reminding and running the sequence we go to the pacific ocean and toward the hawaiian islands and a long way out but at the moment we have not one, not two but three storm systems affecting the islands or likely to. this is the tropical depression jenavive and that is well away and nothing more than a fish storm. we have tropical storm julio and will hit the hawaiian islands but this is hurricane gazelle and you see the circular shape and the clear eye wall and it's a special type of hurricane known as an annular hurricanes and are powerful hurricanes and

close to maximum strength and tend to strive on slightly cooler seas, 4% of all cyclones form in this sort of way. so it has a very nasty storm at the moment heading to the islands and should gradually weaken and not cause too many problems. >> that is good news and richard thanks indeed and still ahead on al jazeera, a man in havana a group using an hiv clinic as a cover to spy on cuba. and while the cost of basic necessities have been sky rocketing in india. and in sport football rivals battle even before the start of a new season. ♪

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♪ hello again, i'm laura kyle and a reminder of top stories on al jazeera, three days with palestinian factions is in effect and israeli will go to cairo with talk with palestinian factions. and israeli troops pulled out of the gaza strip, the fighting so far has left more than 1800 palestinians dead. and a group of islamic scholars is trying to negotiate to the serj near the lebanese/syrian border and the lebanese army has been fighting to take back the town from fighters who crossed over from syria on saturday.

more now on the situation this gaza and israel's bombing destroyed some important infrastructure there including only power station and rebel is piling up and not electricity to treat wastewater and sewage. >> reporter: untreated sewage is flowing in the mediterranean sea and people go fishing and don't catch much but say they have to try, knee deep in filthy water and the smell is terrible. >> translator: we may get sick from the sea but what can we do? i want to help my family survive. we need to eat. >> reporter: even when gaza is not in a war it doesn't have enough electricity or infrastructure to treat all the waste produced by 1.8 million people. now it's even worse. the sewage pumping station was bombed, a pool of untreated waste blocks the road heading north and overflow runs down to

the sea. for the last two weeks 30,000 cubic meters of raw sewage a day has flooded into the streets in northern and central gaza. >> the effort now is to take the sewage to the ocean even if untreated and we are not capable to bring the sewage down to the facilities and sewage now is flooded in the nearby areas and contaminated. >> reporter: in refugee camp which is right on the sea, wastewater trickles through the streets. >> translator: children are playing with sewage and they can get an effect and i cannot describe how bad the smell is and i'm afraid for the children and it's bad for the world and now it's worse. >> reporter: mounds of rebel are getting bigger and more people moved in the center of gaza city since the war started,

almost doubling it to 700 tons a day and ending up in the middle of the city. this is east gaza in the middle of all the fighting so there is no way this rubbish can be sent there, gaza beaches are empty, cafes deserted and when the sea breeze comes in the stench of rotting garbage and sewage drifts across the city. nicole johnston, al jazeera, gaza. >> reporter: they reached agreement for people fleeing violence and they want to assess the situation and fighting in libya left thousands of people hoping to leave the country and they are stranded on its borders and we report from neighbor tunesia. >> reporter: they were elected in june but this is their first official meeting.

violence is rife in the capital tripoli and forced the army to withdraw from benghazi so this was the best place for them to meet n a hotel under protection of heavy security presence. fighting between different libya malitia has thrown the country in turmoil again and to add to complexity the head of the parliament called for a rival meeting in tripoli, new house of representatives called for a national unity government as a way out of the current crisis. >> translator: the transitional government is proposing an urgent vision, at the core of which is to put in place all necessary solutions to preserve security using all means possible that will produce a balanced situation in libya. >> reporter: the instability caused oil production to drop below 450,000 barrels per day, well below the 1.4 million barrels it produced a year ago.

britain is the latest embassy to close its doors and pull out diplomatic staff, u.s., france and other countries have done so days earlier and libyans and foreign nationals cross the border to tunesia to escape fighting and thousands of people remain trapped including these egyptians and stuck on the border as tunesia restricted entry of those leaving and insists only those who have solid proof they will live for egypt can get in. egypt foreign minister agreed on a plan to evacuate those stranded. >> translator: we don't have a precise number because of palestinians blocked and there are 5,000-10,000 people and difficulties to move them to the tunesia side of the border and some low amount and we have

taken some citizens. >> reporter: they visited the border area and said the egyptian government is doing the best to end their nightmare. air lift is underway and will take days for those who want to leave to tunesia and straight to egypt and this is tunesia. rescuers in china's province are continuing to search for survivors in collapsed buildings after an earthquake on sunday killed at least 410 people. the quake struck an area of steep hills and narrow roads and heavy rain has added to the rescuers difficulties. correspondent in china brown is in the town of unan, the epicenter of the quake and tell us what you are seeing there. >> reporter: well, this town did bear the brunt of the destruction on sunday.

the homes here were very flimsy and they did not withstand the power of the earthquake and destruction on quite a wide scale in the town but this is where the devastation is largely concentrated. it is also where most of the deaths have been. now, relief is slowly reaching the town. the roads leading in here are clogged with rescuers, rescue vehicles and also soldiers from the people's liberation army who are very much at the forefront of the operation there and waving the flags as a certain patriotic as well. and he has been visiting the area and said everything will be done that needs to be done to get help to the people. thousands have been left homeless and are spending another night in tents but slowly communications have been restored and slowly managing to

clear roads that have been impassible. but it's going to take a long time before this place returns to any semblance of normality and this is a remote corner of china and very difficult for rescuers to simply get in here. >> it doesn't seem like the weather is helping, it is making the job of rescuing people more difficult. >> reporter: yes, very heavy rain. we were caught in a downpour this afternoon and shortly after that downpour there was a very big landslide along the road we were traveling on motor bikes and that is a reminder just how hazardous conditions are for rescuers and they are having some luck and have managed to flee a number of people out of the rubble today but sadly they have been pulling out bodies including those of children. >> okay, agent brown reporting

there from the epicenter of that earthquake over the weekend. now, in india the price of onions is bringing tears to the eyes of politicians. in the past governments were swept from office if the price of the basic ingredient rose during a campaign and as we report india's newly-elected government has fighting the cost of groceries one of its main priorities. >> reporter: it's a daily and costly routine in the household and she prepares vegetables for her husband to take to the office. these days it had to change the menu. >> translator: i can not buy my vegetables because it's expensive. everything is expensivexpensive. >> reporter: food has gone from costing a third of his monthly salary to nearly half.

lower monsoon rains in recents years are blamed for damaging crops and raising prices. at food and vegetable markets like this one all marketing hear complaints about the price is. >> translator: it's like this every year, when monsoon comes there is less stock and drama that tomatoes and onions are expensive and we get stock from the rest of the country and why it's expensive. >> reporter: for the government it's a problem and they made tackling food inflation one of the campaigns in the election and the problem is complex and involves several factors from government policy to middle men to even weather patterns, but the problem is also an urgent one as food inflation threatens to eat at the country's economic growth. the problem is not the demand for food which has remained steady in resent years, it's the

supply side effected because farmers are planting cash crops instead of food crops and because the government stockpiles food. >> they would release the stock whenever there was a crisis of food and you release the stock to the market. what they are doing now is releasing it to the international market. for the national market the stocks are not coming back to the availability for the people. >> reporter: the government has announced new export restriction and encouraging more food crops to be planted in the hope of boosting supplies and controlling prices but are not likely to help john in the short term, for now paying more to put food on the table is a daily and expensive reality. i'm with al jazeera, new deli. at least half a million dollars have been ceased from rebels during a military operation in columbia and the money was discovered in four plastic cans in the country's southwest and three farc members

captured and the money was generated from drug trafficic, extortion and smuggling. a new report says the u.s. foreign aid agencies used health problems as a cover for covert operations in cuba and we have this report. >> reporter: cuba has been a thorn since castro had a revolution in 1959 and the u.s. tried to influence what cuba people think of the government and an investigation by the associated press shows the u.s. agency for international development used young people from other latin american countries to recruit political activists in cuba. and the ap report alleges that usaid tried to use an hiv workshop to gain intelligence and students approached said they were disappointed by the revelation. >> translator: how would you

feel if you gave sincere friendship and in other words i never liked being manipulated. >> reporter: the u.s. government denied the usaid was involved in any wrongdoing. >> a range of programs the contract it's important to note was supporting, hiv prevention workshop is part of a broader attempt for people to work with things they care about independent of the government and this was an example of many and community cleanups and culture activities and tree planting and one hiv work shop and information was provided and a secondary benefit on an issue people were concerned about. >> reporter: according to the ap report the foreign recruiters were to use coded messages like i ha i have a headache to signal they were being monitored and barack obama is facing questions over another usaid project to boost political awareness and social

media program in 2009 using mobile phones but this too was exposed this year. >> i mean, we have become even more brazen or callus frankly in the way we have gone about trying to effect policy. it doesn't work and it simply jeopardizes our mission around the world. >> reporter: it is not the first time the u.s. used healthcare as a cover for secret operations. and such actions say they under mine the good being done by those who really do want to help people in need. i'm with al jazeera. they have been living in australia far before it became named a country and currently no mention of aborneeze in a document but a planned referendum could change the constitution and recommend the indiginous people and we report from the northern territories.

>> reporter: the organizers call the gama festival a place to exchange ideas relevant to australians and ceremony and performance there is art and discussion among endiginous people. >> it's water mixing and also represent the indiginous and non--indiginous coming together and learning about the knowledge. >> reporter: and the affairs are high on the political agenda, a campaign is underway to change australia's constitution and talks about it being uninhabited when settlers arrived and does not talk about the people at all and allows laws that discriminate on the basis of race. >> the way the current constitution is written is an

element of miss trust and disrespect because i can't see reflected in there a sense of invitation and hope for us. >> reporter: so a referendum is planned to try to change it. >> this is an opportunity to take on a national standing document and get that in strive and catch it up to where people sit as a country. >> reporter: constitutional change has broad political support including from the current and former prime ministers. >> in our country we will never be able to call ourselves just and fair and decent society and full recognition for those people who had custody of this land for thousands and thousands of years. >> reporter: constitutional change is hard to achieve and more referendums have been last than one since australia has been a republic. and they don't want to rush. they want to get their proposed wording exactly right before putting it to the country. when a referendum to take a

symbolic step forward but lose division between australia's first people and settlers could become more entrenched than ever, i'm in australia. still to come all the sport including a not perfect start for the first woman to coach a men's professional football team in france. ♪

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met to boost trade, a deal to allow them to give produce to america duty free and could result in massive job losses. tonya page reports from the capitol. >> reporter: barrel-sized wheels of raw cotton are here seven days a week and once it is stretched it is dyed dark blue and the rolls are sent next door where she is making her share of the 15 million pairs of jeans her employer exports to the u.s. every year but her job is at risk if the opportunity act expires next year. >> translator: if i lose this job i won't be about to pay my children's school fees or the rent. >> reporter: and they allow some countries to export

selected products to the u.s. duty free and it propelled the country of just two million people to become the biggest exporter of textiles to the u.s. and without the trade deal, the company could close down. >> we will have serious issues because without the duty-free access we will not be able to compete with those asian countries like cambodia, those countries. >> reporter: all of the apparel countries are foreign owned and the single biggest employer here, if they all leave about 40,000 people will be out of work. like the other african countries benefitting from this soto focuses on textiles and clothing but hundreds of things from light bulbs are duty free to the

u.s. and says the government must do more to stop the blow if this end. >> i must say to a certain degree it's late and we need to fast track some of the plans we have or the recommendations in place and there are other companies that are quite huge players already diversifying. >> reporter: that diversification is unlikely to happen fast enough or on a big enough scale, and without that these factory workers who are now marching for better wages may not have jobs at all. i'm tonya page. let's get all the sport. >> thank you so much, formula one expected to be cleared of bribery charges on germany on tuesday by paying out of court settlement and the figure is said to be around $100 million, the largest in the country's history. under german law prosecutors can with draw charges if they agree to payment and he was facing ten years in prison accused of

making payments to secure the shares to the preferred bidder. more on the story from our correspondent lee weldings who is live from london and lee can you give us a bit more detail on how this deal works? >> this is a loophole that goes across german law where a defendant can pay a prosecutor if all parties agree and that effectively end the case for good. but this, as you say, will be the largest amount in german critical history, 100 million and there is a huge irony to this because this is bribery allegations and now we have a situation where he is able to pay a large sum of money and a lot won't be able to pay and have funds to do this and goes free. these are things that have already raised eyebrows and a justice minister said it's not just bad taste it's insulin. so as always, a lot of travesty

around it and they saw the loophole and went straightforward and i have to say they are claiming the allegations are highly questionable but what it does is takes away completely the risk of jail. >> what does this mean as a formally one boss because if it had gone to trial he certainly would have to sever ties with the f 1? >> yes, indeed, he would have to but he has been doing this 40 years now and has been formula one and he built this sport that was really struggling in terms of revenue and the television contracts and sponsor ship and marketing and the new places and taken circuits and the countries he has done deals with. he has an incredible effect on this sport. but he is 84 in october and there has to be a change at some point. now, apparently cbc capital partners who won formula one and

he works for they realize what happened in this case they need to move on and starting to look to the future. some things in formula one are not working, german and italian coverage are not getting the viewers they want to and to use a formula one term, not a flick with media and social media as they might be and term for a new era but he is not gone quite yet. >> lee weldings reporting live for us from london, thank you. and they beat rivals liverpool in the final preseason friendly in miami, more than 50,000 fans turned up to watch the rain-soaked match and liverpool took the lead in the 14th minute and steven jerad had penalty and under the new coach came back with three goals in the second half and hernandez equalized in the 55th minute and then score two minutes later and two minutes from time with a

substitute and a 3-1 victory. >> i think we have gave a lot of pressure to this and that is very important and of course it is better to win in preparation time than to lose. but the most important gain is the city, the first game at home in the perma league and that we have to win. >> i'm delighted with the tournament and we have been away it seems like a long time but we have worked very, very hard and gives us a chance to arrive with a new manager and as i said we will leave here with lots of positives and we have two weeks to go and look forward to the new season. the first woman to coach a men's team has lost her first game in charge. and she was on the touch line for the game with france's second tier and her side conceded two goals to lose 2-1

and took over at the end of june after the resignation of costa and the first female to be named coach of a men's team but quit before taking charge of a game. this tuesday marks the official two-year count down to the next olympic games in rio and comes on the back of this year's world cup in brazil which many deemed as a success. and 45 official test events started this week and sailing rigatta in the bay and organizers criticized by ioc president john coats earlier this year of lack of preparedness but now is happy with their progress. >> over the last two months they really put their foot to the pedal and the contracts for the adora area that concerned us most have all been led. there is construction happening at a significant pace. >> translator: i look at the

two years from the start of olympics with the same confidence i had two years before the start of the world cup, i faced as executive coordinator of the world cup a certain amount of anger and skepticism but we have confidence the olympics will be delivered on time and with the necessary quality. >> reporter: there is much more sport on our website including news that retirement of football at the 133 caps for spain and helped them win the 2010 world cup and 2012 european championships. the 34-year-old will continue at a club level for barcelona and check out al jazeera.com/sport and details there on how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook. that is it for me for now and laura back to you. >> thank you very much and stay with us on al jazeera and we have another full bulletin of news right ahead and you are watching from america and in that case we will see you again later. ♪

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