♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the news hour, i'm laura in doha and the top news stories tension on the streets of baghdad as the prime minister clings to power and deploys special forces. fearing homes and fearing for their lives thousands escaping persecution and find themselves in tough living conditions. a respite from the fighting in gaza as another 72-hour humanitarian cease fire holds.

and he promises a new era of reconciliation after winning the first ever popular presidential vote. ♪ even though he is under immense pressure to step down iraq's prime minister nouri al-maliki is refusing to do so and the highest court made a ruling that could pave the way for the prime minister to serve a third term. the court said maliki's block is the biggest in government and he could retain his position and this uncertainty continues as kurdish go with the battle with the fighters on the north and we have more. >> reporter: an important victory in the fight against the islamic state group and fighters from the region recapture the town of mackmor in the country's

north and hold up the country's black flag as a trophy and fighters are still in control of large parts of northern iraq and their gains since june put prime minister maliki under intense pressure to quit but he has gone on the attack against the country's president. >> translator: i warned the presidency and the constitutional court that president has no right to delay this election of a new prime minister based on the results of our last elections and such a violation will lead to more security proble, this is why the government is planning to file a case against a president for violating the constitution twice. >> reporter: she a kurd and the election in july raised hopes of a reconciliation between iraq, kurds, shia and sunni and he is a shia and charged of being with the critics and looking

increasingly isolated. >> maliki's mindset now has so much narrowed down that she not seeing the country, he is not seeing the thousands of people that are being killed by isis and not seeing the fact he under his watch all this happened. he was responsible forearming and guiding the iraq cherokee -- army that collapsed under isis. >> reporter: they fully support the president in his role as a guarantor of the constitution unquote and, maliki hopes a new prime minister can be elected as early as monday, i'm with al jazeera. forces loyal to maliki have been deployed in the capitol baghdad and soldiers and police are on guard at the city's main intersection and two streets which are popular vacations for proand anti-government rallies

have been partially closed and dana is joining us from there live and explain the significance of this court ruling to us declaring maliki's alliance as the biggest block in parliament. does this mean that maliki will be able to retain his position as prime minister? >> laura, to further muddy the waters i'm afraid the federal court says it actually hasn't issued a decision. apparently that ruling, the word of the ruling that was issued by iraq state media which we have to remember is iraq state media connected and backing the prime minister, said the ruling had taken place but apparently that is just the opinion of one of the members. now, that ruling would have paved the way for prime minister nouri al-maliki to be the prime minister because it all rests on who has the most number of seats, which is the biggest block and do they have the right

to hire the prime minister. essentially in the last hour or so that ruling has gone away, indications are it was never there and things are pretty much as deadlocked as they were, laura. >> this to and throwing in the capitol, things must be pretty tense the street especially seeing security loyal to maliki making appearances there. >> well, baghdad at the best of times is an incredibly heavily secured city. there are police and federal troops in the streets and around the green zone there is a special brigade of soldiers created three years ago answering directly to the prime minister who guard the perimeter of the green zone and inside of the green zone and tanks on the main roads and also a tank on the road to the airport and armored vehicles around the city routinely. what is new is there are a few more road closures than usual but that is not a huge

indication. what has been very dramatic on top of this is there are political developments which the united states dropped all pretense saying it does not interfere with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry making it clear they would like the prime minister essentially not to keep this going any longer, this political deadlock. >> we believe that the government formation process is critical in terms of sustaining the stability and calm in iraq and our hope is that maliki will not stir the waters. and iraq needs to know there is little international support of any kind whatsoever for anything that deviates from the legitimate constitutional

process that is in place and being worked on now. they need to finish that and give a new government an opportunity to be voted on and moved forward. >> reporter: jane, do stay with us because only one part of the story is in baghdad, we also have advance of fighters from the islamic state group. which has left many people without a home in northern iraq. large numbers of the religious minority are still stranded on a desert mountain top in sinjar and some have crossed the border to syria and from there crossing into kurdish controlled areas of northern iraq and taken a week for refugees to cross back in their country and some are in cars but entire families have also been walking and all have little food and no medical supplies. they now face tough conditions in a refugee camp that has been set up for them and many lost family members during the

journey. >> translator: i put two of my sons in the car that came to get us then i went to grab the one i'm holding and went back to the car but it left already, that is why i had to walk here alone and i have three children and this one is with me but i lost the others and have not seen the other children and my husband since then. >> translator: i came by my foot from the mountain. i walked from sinjar mountain to syria, walking. just we have the bottle of water, and there are thousands of people. >> reporter: who are these people? well, they are members of a pre-islamic sect and live in northern iraq, syria and turkey and primarily native kurdish speakers. and the religion is a combination with christianity

and islam and they have often faced persecution in i iraq and identified as the fallen angel as satin and say they are devil worshippers and say convert to islam or face death. and let's get back to jane and it's extraordinary when you have this political deadlock in baghdad with this catastrophe unfolding in the north. what efforts are being made to help them? >> well, quite a lot of efforts but we have to remember that the obstacle here is a huge mountain range and a bunch of very determined islamic state group fighters. now, that is really the main reason that all of these people from the mountain who fled in some cases bare foot without any

food, without any water days ago has been unable to come down because the mountain is surrounded by the fighters. you cannot really launch a major military operation there without killing a lot of civilians in the process but there are efforts being made both to bring them down in smaller numbers on two sides of the number by kurdish forces and also efforts being made to, for perhaps a larger air evacuation. but as we have heard, they are in desperate circumstances, some of the people we have spoken to said they walked hours down the mountain after seeing people die there and there are still people in very desperate circumstances, still stranded on that rocky point. >> jane is live in kabul and thanks very much for the update there, jane. now, a 72-hour cease fire continues in gaza and israel

negotiators are there to end the fighting between factions and israel and we are life in just jerusalem and what are we hearing from there on the latest cairo efforts? >> well, now, with the israeli delegation in cairo, the real hard work is now begun to try and put in place a more durable and lasting cease fire. now, i can tell you that the israeli delegation has maintained that they will not negotiate while there is rocket fire but we can report since midnight on monday that has not been the case so now the substantive issues will be discussed indirectly with the palestinians via the egyptian mediators and for israel this is the demilitarization which is nonnegotiable for the palestinian negotiation and lifting of the blockade on gaza. i can tell you israeli delegation says it will be in

cairo and then they will talk with benjamin netanyahu as well as defense minister as what has been discussed as well as next steps. >> you mentioned the cease fire so far has held for 13 hours into that 72-hour truce but what concerns that over the course of these three days it could also break down? >> well, there is optimism this time that the cease fire will hold. there has been indications in recent days that the intensity of the fighting has not been what has been seen in the past in resent weeks so that is one reason for optimism and a weariness on both sides to sort of find a break in the fighting and sit down at the table and try to talk, if not face-to-face at least indirectly. the other thing that there is careful to point out is the conditions on the ground in gaza are very different compared to when we saw a cease fire break

down. last time we saw israeli ground troops were still press nen gaza and not the case this time and there were fewer fractions and israel accused hamas of using cease fire to launch a surprise attack and fewer friction points and hoping this time it will be a revenue reynolds -- reverance forks the truce and discussing to make it durable and long lasting. >> thanks for that from west jerusalem, and this is out to the gaza strip and join andrew simmons east of rafa and it's during the talks of periods of cease fire we can talk about the extent of devastation from the israeli offensivoffensive, what seeing there? >> people are attempting to try to resume something resembling

normal life. here in this direct, this is not uncommon. this was a family home hit by an air strike and you can see over here the family retrieving possessions, what they can, personal goods, photographs, looking for passports. but really no prospect whatsoever of returning to live here. let's look at this. this is a crater, again, pop marks like this, huge craters are all over the gaza strip. that was a family home over there, a civilian living there, civilian family living there, an old lady who is resting around the corner there, they have been retrieving their goods. so really right now kimberly was talking about it being different on the ground in 2012, very different on the ground to 2008, 2009, the last two israeli offensive and last two wars because this time gaza has been absolutely decimated and

building on the gaza strip is a task unimaginable to people and not just the physical cost of it which is way beyond $6 billion many are escalating but the psychology of its people, the amount of grief, the amount of stress, the amount of trauma that afflicted so many people and there is a huge job to do. speaking around there is a lot of uncertainty about these talks. people are fairly well read on the politics and people feel hamas can conceive in the house already but the general feeling is that there is no certainty that this temporary cease fire, this 72-hour truce will be turning into a more permanent one. >> andrew simmons is updating us on the ground in gaza and thank versus much andrew and since israel military assault on gaza began over a month ago, 64 israeli soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed.

gaza health ministry says 1149 palestinians have been killed and three quarters of those are civilians, around 10,000 palestinians have been wounded and more than 170,000 people are still living in 89 u.n. shelters. hospitals in germany, turkey and the u.s. have all offered to treat a nine-year-old palestinian girl. and was paralyzed after a strike and she has been hospitalized in gaza city for nearly three weeks now. the family is waiting for permission from israel to move her out of gaza and doctor says she needs treatment by specialists to try to regain some of her nerve function. >> translator: i feel like i can't do anything with my body. and when i move like this i can't feel my body moving. >> lost and if she gets help she

will be a patient and it's difficult to treat and it will be worse and will not have any chance for any near recovery. >> reporter: and we have a consultant for christian aid in uk and it doesn't mean people's lives with the cease fire have improved. >> it means that air strikes and shelling have stopped like hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced, people like have no access to water and electricity and the health system is collapsing. and crossings are closed which restricting like the ability of aid organizations to respond to this humanitarian crisis and until we have a political process and until we have like a long-term political solution people's lives will continue to worsen and this situation will

continue to be catastrophic as it is at the moment and organizations are trying their best to scale up their humanitarian operations and join imports to respond to overwhelming needs of people at the moment but there is very little to do because like as of today like 175 industrial facilities have been damaged, 1.4 million populations have no or limited access to water and like the situation is like really not really improving in terms of improving people's quality of life. israeli troops killed a palestinian and wounded six others during a raid near the west bank city of napolis and witnesses say 23-year-old zach is wanted by israel and shot to death and will not say why he is wanted and the third palestinian to be killed in the west bank in

four days and part of his home was also destroyed by an army bulldozer. >> translator: the soldiers started patrolling the town at 8:00 in the morning and around 10:00 a large force came here and started to fire randomly, the family was hurt. all of them were wounded and are now receiving treatment in hospital. still to come here on this news hour, 34 south african people killed when police fired at them in a mine two years ago now the president has testified. and. i'm wayne on the thailand border where the new military government is making plans to send tens of thousands of refugees back to myanmar. and rory mcilroy wins the us-pga championship and we have all the details on his victory in sport. ♪

and amnesty international report says families of thousands of afghan civilians killed by u.s.en nato forces denied between 2009 and 2014 and at least 50 children were killed and the report focuses on air strikes and night raids is also calling on the afghan government to ensure accountability. and the director richard bennett spoke to us a little earlier from kabul. >> in 2012 in lockman province air strikes hit a group of at least 20 women who were collecting firewood on a mountain side. seven of those women were killed. seven were injured, two of them -- four of them very badly.

and two of them were actually with us today who had lost their sight as a result of those air strikes. immediately the u.s. government claims that they had bombed insurgents, but later on they apologized because that was not the case. the matter was investigated. however, the families of the victims have never heard the outcome of that investigation. and that is why we call this report left in the dark because in the majority of these cases, that is what happened. >> reporter: in celebrations in turkey after prime minister erdogan was declared president elect and erdogan wants to have wide ranging presidential powers and offering an olive branch and

we report from there. >> reporter: on the streets here are supporters of erdogan celebrating his victory as turkey's first ever directly-elected president. they were exatatic as they gathered outside of headquarters to hear the man so many of them idolize. but like his fiery statements he had a tone in his victory speech insisting this was a win for democracy before it was a victory for himself. >> translator: from this day on words we will have a new social recommend similar yags -- reconciliation and put down differences and the common values we share. erdogan was over a dozen political parties the diplomate was unable to stop erdogan and

party from winning a 9th consecutive election. >> translator: i hope these result also be good for our democracy, i congratulate our prime minister and wish him good luck. >> reporter: despite erdogan and party not losing an election for over 12 years the president elected failed to convince some turks he was the right man for the job. >> translator: i voted for him primarily because i think he is the candidate that would unite in country unlike erdogan. >> reporter: they accused him on the government of becoming more authoritarian but it's an accusation they deny. >> we hear about criticism the government and erdogan has the largest in the republic and the

seoul power between the peace process in turkey, one of the biggest issues that have been part of the geography. >> reporter: the elections or the celebrations were issues of foreign policy with erdogan telling supporters some of whom were were waiving palestinians flags it was a victory for the free loving people of the world. >> erdogan and a new era for turkey as a whole and he wishes to be in power in 2023 where turkey will celebrate 100 years since the founding of the republic and for him to do that and achieve goals like the constitution he will have an already large support base and winning over large sections of turdish society, i'm with al jazeera. the journalist and former daily news turkey's oldest

english newspaper. >> the presidential may be good for turkey or it may be bad for turkey. the problem is we don't have checks and balances system. the system is fall, the parliamentary system and president with limited powers and limited authority in government. now, if you have an unresponsible president, a president which cannot be held accountable of his actions as president but with full executive powers, a president which has a party, a president which has a government of soldiers then we will have a new turkey which is to me very different than the past and ambiguous. >> now let's get all the weather with richard and richard that is a typhoon in japan weakened to a tropical storm but we have

pretty severe warnings, don't we? >> the main issue is land slides because the amount of rain that has come down from the system is phenomenal and you can see it weakens pushing north through the sea of japan and has massive amounts of rain and a meter of rain. there have been so many rainfall stats coming in here and more than you can shake a stick at and it has weakened and there is a clear operation beginning across southern portions of the country as floods subside but there is a caution there in terms of the risk of land slides developing. so it is for eastern parts of russia with the heaviest the rain is going to be and this is a flicker across japan and you may see rain sometimes for tokyo but it's improving and many people in japan say last night's super moon so called but if you

missed it the good news is there is another one coming next month but not that super but you can get a shot just as the moon comes up low in the sky and when it's higher you lose it and looks ordinary and the bright moon will make it hard to spot the meoter showers that may be visible in the sky. >> thanks richard and still ahead on the program, ebola out break and report from nigeria. energy independence mexico may take a controversial page from the northern neighbor. plus who put on an impressive performance in toronto to take the cup for the first time. ♪

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♪ hello again i'm laura in doha and a run down of the top stories, nouri al-maliki is not backing down for the bid for a third time despite huge pressure to resign and threatening legal challenge against the president, a kurd to getting in his way. special forces loyal to nouri al-maliki are deployed in baghdad. minority continue to flee to islamic state fighters and many have crossed the syria border and hundreds are crossing back to kurdish-controlled areas of northern iraq.

and inspecting damage to their neighborhoods as the latest cease fire continues. israeli delegation arrived in cairo to meet with negotiators and trying to broker peace between hamas and israel. and we have an author and journalist who reports for the daily newspaper and she joins us now and good to have you with us. so we have the two sides back in cairo but has anything changed that can allow this time a breakthroug breakthrough? >> i don't know. to tell the truth. i think that we on the one hand when we see all the devastation in gaza and on the other hand when we hear about the indirect negotiation in cairo, we forget the main issue, that what has been going on for four weeks or more than four weeks is another

chapter of palestinian struggle for liberation and independence and israeli another chapter of struggle to maintain privileges and the profits from occupation. and in that sense i think that israelis have not learned yet that this is what the palestinians are fighting for. and it's not about just about reconstruction and more money from the world, donations or airport or sea port but that there is a struggle of the people who is under occupation for so long. >> we have not heard very much -- >> i don't think israelis have learned. >> yeah, because we have not heard very much from the israeli public on this. >> sorry. >> we have not seen very many demonstrations against the offensive in gaza, are they still throwing their weight between netanyahu's actions in

the gaza strip? >> in general the israeli public feels under attack. it does not associate this war with the fact that it is an occupying power, hedging power in this country and that it is taking basic rights for so long. in that sense the wait is still very, very long. but the achievement, if we can talk about some achievements of this terrible, four or five weeks, is that if israel thought it can divide and disrupt any attempt of palestinians to have some reconciliation or to unite forces it has failed. >> yeah, i wanted to bring that point up because there is a new reality which the israelis perhaps have not fully addressed and that is now there is a palestinian unity government

where you have hamas authority and hamas working together. do you think it's fully taken that on board and prepared to work with both sides? >> israel is not prepared. the question now, the urgent question is much more if palestinians are ready to translate this five weeks and the ordeal of the last five weeks and the lessons of the last five weeks into a political changes. on the part both of hamas and of the palestinian authority remains to be seen. one of the main israeli tactics over the past 20, 23 years was to disconnect gaza from the west bank and it succeeded very considerably in the last eight to nine years. also thanks to this split

between hamas and fata internal factions within the palestinian society. the question now whether this terrible suffering of the palestinians in gaza will tell the west bank leadership to change, to change some of its basic attitudes towards hamas and towards the false ideas about diplomacy with israel and whether hamas will also agree that not everyone is hamas and palestinian people and cannot always force on entire palestinian people its way of thinking >> thanks for joining us there. now authorities in egypt have stopped the executive director of human rights watch and another u.s. staffer from entering the country. human rights watch was to released a report on tuesday about last year's security

background of morsi and people were killed in july and august and the worst incidents were a mosque in rabbi square in cairo and al jazeera is demanding release of three journalists who have been in prison in egypt for 226 days and greste and fahmy and mohamed and given 7 year sentences and mohamed got an extra three years because he had a spent bullet in his possession he picked up at a protest. thailand is making plans to send tens of thousands of refugees back to neighboring myanmar and some living in camps on the border for decades and afraid to go home and wayne reports from the thailand myanmar border. >> reporter: it has been years since they came to the camp in

western thailand and came to escape the oppressive government in myanmar or burma as it was known there and running away from fighting between armies. >> my husband die and children could not survive there and we had rice and didn't pay us. telling us they didn't have money and so many people died there. >> reporter: people in the camps around the border has grown to around 120,000. ironically now living in a country with a military government following thailand's coup just over two months ago. in resent weeks soldiers tightened security at the camps following an announcement that they start planning to send people back. most refugees along this stretch of the border come from just over the mountains in the state, the rebel national union fought for independence or autonomy for

more their 60 years and recently signed a cease fire deal with myanmar government but sporadic fighting continues. negotiations underway for a nationwide cease fire, talks are being held with most of the rebel armies including the north where fighting has been particularly intense in resent years and those working with refugees in thailand say it's too early to send them back. >> in the conflict area there is no demanding it and the second one is, they are still burmise military in some area. and the third one is still fighting in the area. there is no nationwide cease fire. >> reporter: minority groups continue to say they are treated like second-class citizens by the government. >> translator: everyone in the camp has been talking about being sent back. but i will not return back.

i will not go back. i have no home and nothing else there. life is chaotic. >> reporter: despite the conditions in the thailand camps they feel they have a chance at a better life by staying here, wayne hey on the thailand, myanmar border. deputy president testified at a commission of inquiry into the deaths of 44 people at a platform mine two years ago, under cross examination he told the inquiry he wanted police to arrest striking miners and never anything else and most of those killed were shot dead by police and tonya page reports. >> reporter: bullets that stunned south africa and people around the world. police shot dead 34 striking miners that day saying it was self-defense. the question of why a labor dispute at the platinum mine was allowed to escalate to this violent end is being considered by the commission of inquiry and

at the time he was a major shareholder in the mine and lawyers for the victims' family say he used influence to pressure police into action and he strongly denies the allegations. >> it encapsulates the triad of interest of mining, of the police, of the state and of the anc. he is at the center of the argument that it was a toxic colusion between the mining, companies and the state. >> reporter: south africa is still talking about the effects of shooting that triggered the formation of new political parties like the economic freedom fighters number three in parliament now. and he could be the next president of south africa so this testimony is important to millions of people who want to see how he handles the pressure of cross examination. and of course to those who want to know the truth behind what happened there. two years after the shooting and no one other than striking

miners has been arrested. and tell testimony is an important piece in the puzzle for south africa and hoping for an explanation and one day justice, tonya page south africa. nigeria say they have three new ebola cases taking the total there to ten, all had contact with a liberia man who brought the virus and they are not avoiding public gathering as the west africa continues to contain the out break and they filled churches on sunday and she the latest country to bring in airport checks and border control and they classified then demeanoric as an international health emergency. nearly a thousand people have died from ebola in west africa, the out break is having an impact on regional economies with border controls effecting

trade and we report from legos in nigeria. >> reporter: as with africa's largest economy and the ebola out break businesses are feeling the pinch. markets in nigeria commercial capitol serve locals and people from neighboring countries too. weak domestic demand driven by consumer fears over the ebola crisis is taking its toll on businesses here. it's the small traders who sell vegetables, fish and food stuff are feeling the effect of the disruption caused by the ebola out break so far and suppliers from rural areas have been staying away. economists see mixed fortunes for major businesses. >> i will lose the airline industry. nigeria has a huge population that travel in and out a lot. the industry that we gain is the

sanitary industry and people are looking for hygiene products. >> reporter: liberia, sierra leone and guinea are the worst hit by the ebola out break and all three countries remerging from internal conflicts and also advised about economic growth rates as they struggle against the virus and in the capitol the president says ebola and fear it has generated is affecting everything from food prices to transport fares but it strayed between west africa nation ebola has dealt the biggest blow to. >> african countries cannot do without trading and nigeria is 79% of west africa economy. most products made in nigeria are exported and countries come to buy. if you shut the border this is going to be a disaster. >> reporter: yet despite this and falling revenues e bow affected countries are fighting the virus on their own and

current indications are up to $12 million has been lost in liberia since the emergency began. small money by international standards but huge for liberia and neighbors, i'm in legos, nigeria. the political deadlock continues in south sudan, a new armed group emerged in the oil-rich state of the nile animand militia killed people working for aid agencies and fears other groups will follow their lead and this is from the town in south sudan. >> reporter: in just 48 hours six humanitarian aid workers killed and two more reported missing and one was shot in the head outside of the gate of the aid agency compound. >> to the body and he was shot from the back and the bullet came here and he was struggling

and it was a huge hole in the front. >> reporter: until last week this town was relatively peaceful, close to 130,000 refugees lived alongside the local population but out of the community has emerged a malitia group calling itself a defense force and last week they turned on people from the new air tribe including some employed by aid organizations, the reason why is not yet completely clear. at a meeting local government tried to assure aid agencies that their staff would be safe and they also justified the presence of malitia on the grounds that civilianss as well as soldiers have benatar -- been, targets here. >> killed as civilians in the villages and that is why they come up with this because it's there but it's not enough. they have also to have to defend themselves.

>> reporter: despite the presence of the government army in the town patients at the hospital didn't feel safe when the killing began. a week ago this was a busy hospital for a community of more than 100,000 people but when the gunshots were heard in the town, the patients from here all fled, afraid they wouldn't be safe. analysts are concerned that malitia groups pose a threat to national stability. >> if the only way citizens are going to defend themselves is by arming themselves and set up the local malitia, then what is going to prevent every thing in the group and every town from having a malitia and fight for their own turf and that would be the end of the country. >> reporter: people are hopeing for a swift resolution in cuba before it causes the country to fracture in pieces, i'm in south sudan. hundreds of prisoners on the run in haiti after a mass jail

break of porta-prince and holds 900 inmates was attacked by an armed gang and part of a plot to free a becauseman jailed on kidnapping charges. a 25,000 reward is being offered to find him, so far only 10 prisoners have been recaptured. after 76 years of state monopoly mexico opened the energy sector to private investors and as part of the president's agenda to stimulate economic growth. one industry that looks at for an investment boom is fracking. and we have leon and adam reports on the consequences for residents and the environment. >> reporter: fracking wells in the u.s. soon there will be a common site south of the border in mexico. fracking has been sold as a cost-effective and clean way to drill for oil and gas despite growing claims to the contrary.

these cracks appeared only after the state oil company began exploratory fracking in the area. >> translator: i'm 50 years old and as far as i can remember we never felt any earthquakes before, they only began after the drilling. >> reporter: many people in the region told us the same thing. the earth is shaking for the first time and their houses are now criss-crossed by cracks. geologists rodriguez say quakes are increasing in number and strength. >> translator: after 2006 there have been reports of two quakes ever in this region. but by 2014 there have been reports of 200 and in a span of only six years, in 2012 there were 89 quakes. >> reporter: in the u.s. there is a large increase in earthquake near fracking sites and trimmers are not the only concern. fracking requires water, lots of it. just one well requires millions of liters and the plan is to drill thousands of them.

water is scarce in northern mexico and drought has hit the cattle industry hard killing hundreds of thousands of cows across the region and he has sold rights to drill on his land even though it could mean less water for his ranch. >> translator: many people now are i'm greating to the u.s., others to monteray to a city for the same reason because in this ranch there is no life, what do we live on? cattle and farming but if there is no water we have nothing. >> reporter: there is growing concern that fracking pollutes it too. fracking is ban or restricted in several countries. still the head of this company says drilling for shale gas is key to the future. >> in an environment produce our own gas because we have the fourth largest gas in the world and this is gas, cheaper and cleaner energy. >> reporter: now that the energy reform is set to take full effect foreign companies are planning to build thousands

of fracking wells in this dry, hot region of northern mexico and promise it will lead to economic boom but many fear long-lasting environmental impacts. adam with al jazeera in mexico. >> reporter: coming up, after the break, find out how these thrill seekers got much more than they bargained for in a u.s. theme park. and in sport the hand of god strikes again football legond and back in the news for all the wrong reasons and details coming up. ♪

♪ two dozen people have had a much scarier ride on a roller coaster at a u.s. theme park when it got stuck at the top 13 meters above ground and there they were stuck more than four hours and firefighters managed to free all 24 people and no injuries were reported. i can't imagine it was much fun though. >> terrifying. >> yeah. >> all the sport. >> thank you very much laura and we start with golf and number one rory mcilroy has claimed the u.s. pga championship and meaning he has won back to back majors and he took control of a birdie on 17 and phil mickelson and ricky fowler and dropping shots on the final stretch and he then got the par putt to finish 16 under par and steal a

victo victory, this is the fourth major of his career. >> a two-time major champion coming into this year and all the study i'm fourth time and going for the career gland slam at augusta and over 200 days and not that i'm counting but it has been incredible round of golf and couldn't be more proud or happier with where my game is at. >> he won the rogers cup after an impressive final against second seed federer and took him two hours to close out the two-time champion 7-5-7-6 and the fourth straight victory over his opponent and the first apb tour title of the season and 11th over all. >> i'm not able to explain how i'm feeling today because it's a

lot of work. it's some good moment and finally i'm here and i won and i hope it's a new start and it's a beautiful start. >> reporter: in the women's final in montreal and she has beaten venus williams and won the first set before claiming second set 6-2 and 25-year-old first tournament win of 2014 season. argentina is back in the news again for all the wrong reasons. this time for slapping a journalist for allegedly winking at his wife. the 53-year-old was questioned by several reporters as he was leaving the theatre in buenos-ares and he came out of the car and confronted the journalist and slapped him and it was caught on camera and made

headlines in argentina. the first bit of silverware of the season and got the city to win the community shield. and ahead in the 21st minute and doubled their lead shortly before the break and ramsey finishing off counter attack and looks like a shadow of the team that won the title last season and a long range strike sealed the 3-0 win and the second piece of silverware who went nine years without winning a trophy before winning this cup now. >> it gives a positive platform to prepare but now it starts and we have to start because it's very uncomfortable team and a different kind of game as well. let's be on our toes and prepare and it was important to win

today. >> reporter: and to win the french league are who lost their first game of the season and the game started badly for last season's runners up and gave away penalty that was less than ten minutes late and easily converted and equalized in the second half with a penalty of their own and a sub slotted it away but with just a few minutes left disaster strikes and grabbing the winner from going to open day loss. and world champion mark won a second race for his team honda, 21-year-old started on poll but had to fight his way back from 5th before taking the lead in indianapolis and then second with rosi and third champion marquez has won every race this season. >> it was hard especially

because it was very high compared to yesterday and it was the most difficult in the beginning because they were hitting me with a front tire and i choose to stay behind. 18 time olympic gold medallists michael phelps is yet to have a come back win after losing at the u.s. national championship world champion and lochte beat phelps to win the 220 200 medaly and this was the biggest meet since coming out of retirement but for america this is the first step to a goal which is to qualify for rio 2016. >> i'm doing it for myself and i'm going to have to work because i want not because bob or my mom wants me to or anybody else wants to, i have to because i want to. and that is the reason i'm here and that is the reason i'm swimming again and it's been a

decent week and a very learning, i guess a good learning experience. >> reporter: police in new york say they won't file any charges against nascar champion tony stewart after he hit and killed a fellow driver during a race on saturday. the three-time nascar champion stewart struck 20-year-old kevin wood junior after he climbed out of his car and walked on the track following a crash, wood was taken to hospital and later died from his injuries and stewart pulled out of sunday's sprint cup race and authorities are investigating the crash. and there is more on our website and check out al jazeera/sport and details how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook. and that is all the sport for me, i'll have more later on, laura. >> thanks very much. do stay with us here on al jazeera. and we have another full half hour bulletin of news ahead and thank you for watching al jazeera america. we will see you later.

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