world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the news hour, i'm laura kyle in doha and these are the main stories this hour, u.s. and i ran endorse nomination of a new iraqi prime minister and maliki is refusing to go quietly. demanding the world take action, human rights watch accuse egyptian of what amounts to be crimes against humanity. lives in units and gaza assesses damage on the second day of a

72-hour humanitarian truce. and humanitarian support or encoursion they send trucks to war-torn eastern ukraine. ♪ so we begin in iraq where two battles are unfolding one political and one a humanitarian disaster. in baghdad a new prime minister has been nominated to replace nouri al-maliki and he has the support of the united states and iran but they call it a violation of the constitution. meanwhile we have kurdish forces backed by u.s. air strikes continuing their battle against islamic state fighters in the north. thousands of people have fled their homes in fear of islamic state fighters advancing on

their towns. and we have a repetitive of the u.n. general of iraq and ahead of the u.s. assistance mission there and is live from bulgaria and good to speak to you and we see nouri al-maliki growing increasingly isolated both within and outside iraq, what is he likely to do next? >> well, first let me say the political process has moved forward there is a new nomination for a prime minister and he has been nominated by the largest block in parliament and if there are any issues or any conversations regarding that nomination they should be addressed through the legal process. and parliamentary debate. not resolved in the streets of iraq. the new prime minister has one month now to form a broad coalition that is inclusive, repetitive of all communities of iraq and to come up with a

government that has a clear plan on how to address the devastating security situation that iraq is now facing. the doctor has wide support in parliament and i think he is absolutely capable of doing that. >> it's a huge job, isn't it and we must remember he is from the same party as maliki. is he a unifier? >> he is a very professional person who has had a lot of experience in the previous parliament trying to broker compromise and agreements on very key issues including the budget. iraq does not have a budget this year. the doctor is going to find agreement on that and i hope that he will continue his efforts in his new position. he is also a person who has a lot of experience internationally and i think this will help iraq increase support within the region for a future

government. and obviously someone who has good outreach both into the kurdish, the sunni and shia communities and how successful he will be will really depend on the program that he will schedule. >> the u.s. and even iran turn their back on maliki. had he really become that difficult to work with? >> apologies we seem to have lost the lines to nikoli and joining us from vana in bulgaria and we will cross over to dana and joins us from there live and interesting to hear the optimism from the u.n. towards this prime minister designated. the people in iraq share that optimism? >> well, yes. people are optimistic and see

ing this as a positive first step. but like i said first step. the new prime minister will have to form a government which is representative of all iraq's factions. at the end of the day the islamic state group would not have been able to grow in strength. it would not have been able to take territory if it didn't exploit the situation on the ground. sunnis feel marginalized and feel targeted by maliki's policies. they call him an authoritarian leader and say his policies are sectarian. so you are going to need a broad base, inclusive government representative of all factions in order for some sort of a coalition do be built, a united front to take on the islamic state group. we do understand from kurdish officials here they are welcoming this move and actually blamed maliki for the latest crisis and have been saying he needs to leave power. and the kurds said they plan to push forward with a referendum and break away from iraq and it's not clear if they are still

planning to do that if a government is formed and relations with the central government is improved. at the moment relations are at an all-time low between the kurdish regional government and the government of prime minister nouri al-maliki. >> whoo is -- what is happening against islamic state fighter and how are the kurdish forces doing? >> we managed to speak to the spokesperson of the forces and he says that the situation is much better now with the help of the u.s. military, u.s. air strikes. we understand just a short while ago the u.s. military carried out strikes in sinjar and targeting positions belonging to the islamic state group. but the spokesperson confirmed to us they are receiving equipment and military assistance from the united states. but only ammunition. and this is not enough. what they are requesting for is heavy weaponry. they need to hold a line, a 1,000 kilometer stretch of territory they now share with

islamic state group, that group made rapid advances last week and took over the village of makmar a few days ago and lost julua and france is trying to hold a meeting with eu to provide help to the kurds and they will need a lot of support to be able to hold that line. >> absolutely and thanks for the update there live from urbil. now, a year ago this week the egyptian police and army move in to clear supporters of ousted president morsi who were gathered at the square. in a new report human rights watch accuse them of what probably amounts to crimes against humanity and demanding the world takes action. >> we call on the egyptian government to act in accordance with policing demonstration and call on egyptian authoritys to

investigate and prosecute those that are responsible for those killings and we call on them to take steps to ensure witness protection and do the types of things you would do in a rigorous criminal investigation and i want to emphasize like ken said it's time for the international community to step up and primarily three recommendations we list here and the first is commission of inkwrry at the u.n. human rights council and doing this from geneva because it's time they act. there was a strong statement issued in march, 27 countries under scored the importance of abilitiability. those that are supportive of the government at this point would tell you the excuses have run out. it is instability. there is no elections. there is no president. there is no nc hr report. the new excuse and flavor of the month is the fact-finding committee's report which is not slated to go public. the executions have come to an

end to look at the killings. secondly we call for suspension of assistance, military and law enforcement that goes to facilitate abuses. while there is debates about the efficacy of suspending this it's a moral imperative to states not to be facilitating the widespread systematic places taking place in egypt and the courts and international laws open up criminal investigations and prosecutions, crimes against humanity are the most serious in international law and it's a crime so severe that treaties and international law say it should be prosecuted anywhere in the world because to let something like this go unprosecuted affects all of us. >> reporter: and barnabie phillips reports on the findings of that report by human rights watch. >> reporter: human rights watch does not mix words over what happened on the streets of cairo one year ago.

this was, it says, a massacre. the killing of at least 800 people, perhaps more than 1,000 in a single gruesome day. >> we have suffered from killing, killers, just killers. >> reporter: human rights watch says that these killings were planned, not a single police or army officer has been punished, the chain of command went to the very top. human rights watch is now calling for a u.n. investigation. it says protesters threw rocks and molotov cocktails at the police and in some instances fired guns but that the use of force by the egyptian police and army was clearly disproportionate. >> there is a massive culture of complete failure of accountability and people who were responsible for the peaceful protests have got away with it and also what is striking is how weak the international response has been.

the other thing we call for in the report is international security systems and arms exports and so on, the kind of equipment they might have used to crack down on the protests should be a prohibition on that. >> reporter: human rights watch says since the killings the egyptian authorities carried out mass arrests and torture fired on other demonstrators and crushed decenting voices so it would seem unlikely that they will allow an international investigation into events at rabi, when human rights watch officials through to egypt this week to present their report they were refused entry at cairo airport. >> egyptian newspaper have have been quoting the interior military reasons for denying them entry and they told hr w that next month would be a more appropriate time for a visit. the government says the delegation came to cairo airport seeking a tourist visa despite being formed earlier it should have got visas in advance. and they said the rights group

had withdrawn its request to operate in egypt as an ngo making its operation illegal under the country's laws. human rights watch discuss the systematic dismantling of civil society in egypt joining the earlier press conference including jailing of journalists and al jazeera is demand the release of journalists who have now been in prison in egypt for 226 days. mohamed and fahmy and greste were falsely accused of helping the muslim brotherhood and they were given 7 year sentences and mohamed got an extra 3 years because he had a spent bullet in his possession which he picked up at a protest. egyptian president si si is in russia to meet pew -- putin and they will talk about the conflict in gaza, iraq and islamic cooperation and the two

country held several high-profile meetings last year. and a former russian diplomate and chairman of the russian friendship society with arab countries. >> a number of issues they are discussing in sochi will give a new push back for russian, egyptian, russian, arab relationship because si si came to moscow through, after his negotiations with the kingdom. and so i personally regard this visit as si si as a representative of an arab society, of arob -- arab countries but the subject mainly on bilateral relations.

coming up, here on the program, a miracle in the rubble, how a baby boy in syria survived a barrel bomb. plus, what are the new age entrepreneurs in bangladesh tapping into? and in sport severe aim to up set madrid to claim the first piece of the european silverware. ♪ in gaza palestinians are returning to their ruined homes, offices and factories, as a cease fire between hamas and israel continues for a second day. a temporary truce allowed the u.n. world food program to distribute food to nearly 150,000 people. the one-time care packages include rice and wheat flour and they say it will cost billions to rebuild gaza infrastructure

home and businesses destroyed by offensive and reconstruction will be possible if they ease the blockade and allows in building materials. since israel's military fell and go saturday a month ago 64 israeli soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed. gaza's health ministry says 1945 palestinians and three quarters of them are civilians and 444 -- 449 of them are children. almost 10,000 palestinians have been wounded and more than 209,000 people are still living in 88 u.n. shelters. andrew simmons is at the world food program facility in gaza city. andrew it's looking pretty busy there on the second day of the three-day cease fire. tell us what is happening. >> reporter: it certainly is, laura. this is one of 12 distribution

points for the world food program all over the gaza strip. there are four here in gaza city. this place is absolutely packed by people taking their ration packs of wheat, flour and rice. they are very basic commodities but needed and demand is very high and of course with this being day two of the cease fire people, homeless people, are able to get here and there are many homeless people and i will talk more on that in a moment. with me i have raul who is head of the world food program gaza office. tell me raul this is a really big turn out, the need must be very big. >> yes, indeed. as you know we have been assisting 260,000 displaced persons since the first days of the conflict. and we are trying since yesterday and since the cease fire is announced to reach the

rest of affected families and those families that have been displaced person at their homes and we really try to increase the outreach to all the families in gaza that really need assistance right now. >> do people have to be registered to get this sort of help? >> there is a registration system and this is regular problems and in the shelters there is a problem but basically all the people here have been registered and we are monitoring in terms of that. >> the u.n. secretary general described his whole level of crisis the damage to homes and the whole crisis is being unprecedented. to you, in your field of work, how does it rate with you in terms of need? >> well, you notice this conflict and we can confirm that more than 40% of gaza strip has been a part of the conflict. we have direct damages to

infrastructure and damage and losses in the population. so as a humanitarian at the moment we are assisting with immediate need but i think the impact of this conflict is unprecedented in gaza strip and reconstruction and recovery efforts will go on for months and years to come. >> and tell me this, this critical need, how desperate would you say the situation is for the average person who has no home, who has no job, who has no real means of getting water or electricity because if that is the situation infrastructure is so shattered here right now, i mean it's pretty extraordinary, some people described it to be like after an earthquake. >> it's pretty much so and also considering gaza strip is in a blockade and will determine on assistance and very limited commercial channels. so all the basic needs of the

population are already in normal times if we can call them normal times depending on humanitarian assistance so in cases like this it's a desperate need on a daily basis for gaza and we are trying to do our best to take advantage of the cease fire but we definitely need this to be extended and we are advocating as u.n. system for this conflict to end. >> thank you very much indeed for joining us on the news hour. and you heard there the need to continue the cease fire for this level of assistance because this is undoubtedly a humanitarian catastrophe of quite a big proportion. and not even a cease fire but people are yearning is a deal and settlement in cairo is what people are hoping for but still no word and back to you. >> thanks and getting a sense of

that catastrophe from the shot there in gaza city. now, russia has sent 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to eastern ukraine but they will not let the mission end because it's not coordinated by the international red cross. they say the russian aid trucks could be a covert military operation and government forces surrounded donetsk where people are living without essential supplies and rory is live from moscow, that convoy has been on the road for a number of hours, what is going to happen to it? >> that is the question because it seems like the u crayon -- ukraine may have cold feet and it started before dawn just outside of moscow about 280 trucks hit the roads and moved south and it will take quite some time to get there because it's a long way down from the

moscow region to the ukrainian border but in a convoy of slow-moving trucks it will take more like one to two days. they are saying on board these trucks are some 2000 tons worth of humanitarian goods like baby food and grain and sugar and sleeping bags and things like that. now, obviously the ukrainians are concerned and concerned that this is a trojan horse for lack of a better term and maybe there is something on that convoy that suits the russian position more than it suits the ukrainian government position and a lot of confusion about where it's headed to. the former president of ukraine was saying that he thought that the convoy was going to come and cross the border into the other region of ukraine and the russians would say it would head

further south to another place at the border which is closer to the fighting that has been going on. so that obviously is a big difference. does it head into ukrainian government controlled territory or does it head toward territory that is more in dispute and where the pro-russian separatists have been fighting over resent months, that is possibly why the u crayon -- ukrainians are going through this. >> there are a number of people who are concerned. >> this convoy has been arranged through the agreement with the international committee of the red cross, the international committee of the red cross saying they don't know much about the convoy that has essentially been sprung on them. for days now nato has been saying it is very concerned about the posture of the russian military down on the border with

ukraine and that the chances of a russian invasion are increasing. and it says nato says that it might be a humanitarian mission, some sort of pretext like that that would provide the cover or the justification for such an invasion. that's why people are concerned about this convoy. >> okay, rory thanks for doing this in moscow with that update. now let's join stef for all of the weather. stef, pretty wet in china, isn't it? >> that is right and we need this in rain and unfortunately not all at once. if we look at the satellite picture there is a blanket of cloud across southern parts of china and given some of us some very downpours and the worst is in the far eastern parts where we have seen just over 150 millimeters of rain and taiwan has seen wet weather, the most i have seen is 164 millimeters of

the wet stuff. but when it comes to flooding the worst here is actually been in the western parts of our map. here are pictures from chong-ching and saw 305 millimeters of rain in three days and that was enough to give us this damage and helps pull down people's houses and left hundreds of people homeless. over the next couple of days the monsoon is very active in china and taiwan as well. you see the dark green blue here indicating we are expecting heavy rain and actually over the next three days we could expect to see somewhere between 300-350 millimeters of rain as we head through the next three days. so that will give us another problem with flooding and could be anywhere across the south and eastern coast and taiwan where we see the worst of the rain. >> that is a lot of rain and

thanks stef indeed. and entrepreneurs say bangladesh is the next big market for e commerce and explains how technology and a changing society are reshaping the business. >> reporter: the goods in the warehouse will be sent out to different parts but not all heading to stores and instead many of the products will go directly to homes of customers. the warehouses are fresh and people can order on line and it's part of a wave of e commerce start ups that sprung up in bangladesh and have high expectations for the future. >> convenient for them and rather than spending more time in traffic and going to the market, it is easier and i've seen like now days in bangladesh as service provides is good so i think it's going to go very, it's going to expand too much and gradually we will see the high demand on online shopping.

>> reporter: e commerce like direct fresh are taking on the burden of taking on the traffic on behalf of its customers. and she is a mother also working on her mba and says the convenience of ordering online is a big draw. >> definitely because i mean look at the traffic jam and working hours, people are tired. we want to come back home and, you know, we just want to use the online grocery store and all that stuff. so it's more convenient for us and makes things easier. >> reporter: groceries are not all that bangladesh can buy online from clothes and cakes to cell phones and furniture, there is an e commerce start up that can be found in the shopping mall. google business groups promote the use of technology and business and the chapter has quickly become one of the biggest in the world and says it's partly because young people don't have enough options in the traditional job market. >> they are facing the traditional jobs that are offered and not necessary to the

market needs and also the changes that happening in the technology scene over all. and the penetration has been increasing also. so the need for individual ratification to actually be able to do something on their own has been on the younger generation that was in the past, 5-10 years ago. >> reporter: the needs of the residents are changing facts and access to internet is increasing it has a world of opportunities and i'm with al jazeera, taca. still ahead this news hour more victims from the ebola virus goes to liberia to treat infected doctors. a population boom in africa. and in sport details of the man elected as president of the italian football despite allegations of racism. ♪

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report in the squares. ukraine says it will not let in trucks from russia which moscow says contain humanitarian aid. the government says the operation has not been coordinated by the red cross and alleges it could be a covert military operation. and let's get more on the situation in iraq, the fighting between kurdish forces and islamic state fighters have caused a humanitarian crisis. and we have the country director of the children and joins us live and thanks very much for talking to us. just tell us first about the work you are doing and what you're seeing there. >> hello, save the children is working in iraq responding to the needs of internally displaced refugees. over the last ten days we have been supporting 14,000 people who are displaced from sinjar.

>> where are these people going and what sort of support do they have when they reach a safe destination? >> when they arrive to airbill or other places they are looking for immediate whatever the shelter and school and the mosque and the church and they are supported by local government and aid agencies like that. >> and can the local government and aid agencies cope with this massive influx of people? >> it's indeed massive and today the government authorities have been calling for all aid agencies to help. now the population of internally displaced people is more than the communities population in the province. it's a real humanitarian disaster unfortunately. >> they have fled very violent scenarios in their hometown, what sort of stories have you

been hearing from them? >> the people we are meeting, some of them were displaced and taken over by groups who are displaced to sinjar and over the last ten days they have been displaced for a second time together with the house community being from sinjar and it's horrible especially the stories we are hearing from children, many children have been separated from their families, it is a real humanitarian crisis unfortunately. >> what sort of threats have been they facing from the islamic state? >> what we are hearing these people have been fleeing for their lives and fleeing from a conflict of shooting and one of the places it is taken over and when the shelling started in a police for example like sinjar and hamas. >> does christian aid have or

save the children have enough access to these people or are they coming under threat from the fighting? >> save the children have access to the internally dismissed people who make it to safety to do work there and unfortunately for the moment we cannot access those who are stuck on sinjar mountain and calling international agencies, international community and the parties of the conflict to create a humanitarian corridor for those who are stuck on the mountain. >> thank you very updating us on the humanitarian problem that is unfolding as we speak. neighboring syria the government is also tying to force out fighters from the islamic state who now control one-third of the country. so called barrel bombs are killing many civilians and we

have the latest. >> reporter: it may not look like it under all the dust and destruction, but this is a bright spot in an otherwise dark place. buried here is a little boy and he is still alive. he cries as the men try to free his little legs. finally they succeed. activists say this is the aftermath of an air strike on aleppo and here the syrian government is trying to force fighters from the islamic state. >> translator: the period we are passing through the time of war and demands we work in a way that is not detached from reality and work this a way to allow us to operate under exceptional measures. >> reporter: the group now controls a third of the country and analysts say it and its supporters are the most deadly threats syria faced since the

civil war began in march of 2011. there are other groups in syria including in the capitol, the army is trying to push them out too. >> translator: the syrian army operation continues where we regain control of a number of buildings and killed a number of terrorists, victory will be soon. >> reporter: all this is forced syrians out of the country. many sought shelter in iraq but that is increasingly becoming a bad option and camps in the country are stretched thin and rights groups say 14,000 fled to this alone on syria border with israeli occupied heights and set up to hold only 2000 people. water is running out and there are few options for help. stranded on a border, stuck between an old enemy and a new one. i'm with al jazeera. pakistan's capitol has gone into lock down ahead of mass

rallies announced by khan and the country. demanding resignation of the prime minister sharif and we have more from islamabad. >> 14 months ago pakistan saw peaceful transition of power when he was the prime minister of the country for the third time but now he is facing one of his biggest challenges as a person based in canada is threatening to march on islamabad also and khan is threatening to march on islamabad on the 14th of august and they are condoning off islamabad and containers to block all access into the city and that means hardships for the local population who don't know how to get to work, there is no fuel supplies available and the government on the other hand is

not backing down from its place that it will stop those protesters. now, the fear is that if iz lal -- islamabad because they are bracing for violence because of political instability it may provide opportunity for the military to come in, something that they are warning about but islamabad perhaps over reacting because they have said that they will come here, stay in islamabad indefinitely until the government resigns. a spanish priest infected with ebola virus in liberia died five days after being evacuated from madrid and he has been on zmapp and a thousand people have died from ebola in west africa. the united states food and drug administration says it will send that same experimental drug used

on the priest to liberia to treat doctors infected with the virus and zmapp is used to treat to american aid workers who are showing some signs of improvement. and the manufacture said on monday that supplies of the drug are now exhausted. a new report says by this century's end one in four baby also be born on the african continent and it could lead to prosperity or a further strain on economies and, malcolm webb reports. >> reporter: this baby takes her first breath and today she wants to be held and fed but along with tens of thousands of babies born in africa everyday in the coming years she will want an education and then a job. africa's population is booming and so across the continent people are wondering what the future will bring. >> the first thing these people will be looking for is jobs so i think they need to go to school

first like getting degree in order to get proper jobs. >> the government needs to build more industries so there can be more job opportunities in the areas. >> reporter: the u.n. projects by the end of the century four out of ten people will be african. it says even by 2050 around 41% of the world's births will be in africa. and most of those will be in nigeria where it will account for almost one tenths of the world's births and the popular city is the largest in the continent and more than a third adults living there are unemployed. in march tens of thousands attended a mass recruitment in a stadium for a handful of government jobs. it ended in a stampede and seven people were killed. but the u.n. children's fund says africa youth boom could lead to huge economic growth and prosperity if government invests now in education, healthcare and

creating more jobs. >> we are optimistic about africa's future but only if those investments are made and if those investments start to be made now because it will take many of those investments, possibly a generation for them to be fruitful but unless that happens the africa's very young children now in 20 years time when they enter the labor force may face a very uncertain future. >> reporter: the future for the millions of babies hangs in the balance and it's a decision that the leaders today that will determine their chance to succeed tomorrow. malcolm webb al jazeera. the opposition party has finally taken the seat in parliament more than a year after the elections. activists hope its presence will help bring justice for victims of the rampant land grabbing and robert mcbride reports. >> reporter: half a million people affected by land grasps in resent years.

this community was forced to move from the center by developers but the $500 each family received in compensation has all gone. >> translator: it ran out because there is no work here and now people have borrowed money to survive. >> reporter: ironically the bangkok lake project they moved for has installed with the main investor pulling out. the homes of thousands of people that were sacrificed for a developers dream and by now construction should well be underway on luxury villas, hotels and office blocks but for now nature has been left to retake control. it highlights the chaotic land dispute situation in cambodia and the problem stems from confusion surrounding land ownership after the end of the regime in the 1970s. large businesses accused of using d, bious court rulings to

simply grab land sometimes violently from local villages. tackling the issue was one of the main election pledges of the country's opposition leader and finally taking his seat in parliament with his fellow mps brings him closer, he says, to fulfilling it. >> there is an increasing number of landless farmers and this is really serious. it could be explosive. it is why we have to give back the land. >> reporter: human rights campaigners believe a real change is now possible. >> opposition now can play a role as a real opposition. in the past they didn't have enough seat to constitute a strong opposition. >> reporter: back of the disputed bangkok site activists, many of whom have been in prison for their stand against the developers remain cautious. >> translator: we had high hopes opposition would fight for

justice for us but after they joined the parliament we are not so sure because we have been cheated by the establishment many times. >> reporter: the most vulnerable in cambodia society still waiting to see evidence that those with the power are willing to help them. rob mcbride, al jazeera. coming up. >> good morning vietnam. >> remembering a master of comic timing and actor robin williams has died at the age of 63 and. i'm daniel in buenes-ares and want to emerge as champions of south america with the help of some prominent fans. ♪ @

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♪ choosing a new president is a formality for many sporting bodies but not chess, the match has been known for their clashes of wills and wits between the west and russia and this year's contest was a russian affair and even that doesn't take the politics out of the process as jenna reports from norway. >> reporter: deep in the arctic circle in the land of the midnight sun the chess playing nations of the world gather to elect a leader for the next four years. ♪ the incumbent with almost two decades in the job is this man, his challenger some say the greatest chess player of all time, gary.

the campaign marked by bitter rivalry and allegations of bribery and deceit, in the end it was to be illusion of today. >> not a fair fight and knew it wouldn't be a fair fight. >> will you be back? >> i need some rest before i make it. >> reporter: both men are russian, only one has the backing of the russian state. gary lives elsewhere fearing arrest after years of drumming up opposition to vladimir putin and seen as his man and keeping chess in russia and the other man firmly out. the former president of the buddhist place and touring his hometown in the back of an royls-royce and hearing about a night in moscow when he was abducted by aliens. >> i was taken by my apartment

in moscow to this space ship and we went to somewhere and after that i asked them please bring me back. >> reporter: back on planet earth he insists his administration is corruption free. >> i'm president since 1995 and during this 19 years no one case of corruption. >> reporter: opponents disagree. >> i became a chess professional in 1982 and we had two presidents since then. and they have been very corrupt. and this somehow this campaign was, this election was the dirtyist election by far. >> reporter: in the world of chess gary is a god-like figure, a sponsor ship magnet with star power and doesn't make sense he was so comprehensively beaten here not to mention being beaten is really something he is not

used to, al jazeera in norway. >> reporter: and now for the more active game, we have that. >> the curtain raise for the european football season will be held later this tuesday. champion winners madrid will face europe league champions in the u.s. super cup, the world's top story rodriguez will make his debut who paid 108 million and he will be playing on home world soil where he hopes this trophy will be the first of six for madrid this season. >> i'm looking forward to the season ahead and feel in great shape and for me i don't feel the pressure of being back home. it's obviously a big match we want to win and trophy pet -- we want to win and i'll try to perform my best. >> reporter: in contrast a

third of his team and sold the best player to barcelona in june and the last one of the super cup in 2006 and runners up a year later. and we will have to contend with renaldo who is expect to be fit despite any injury that lingered from the world cup. >> translator: he is the best player in the world. of course he has two months of preseason to come and give his very best and his demeanor almost and as the greatest player i'm very comfortable with him. we have all collective tools not only to try to modernize him but very strong players that madrid have. >> he was at the heart of a resent racism role after describing african players as banana eaters but has not stopped carlos for being elected

for the italian football federation and he won majority of votes and the over all favorite and has apologized for the race-related comments where he also suggested that they introduce stricter requirements for non-eu footballers. >> translator: for what happened in the last few weeks i learned many lessons i will certainly act on n an age where words are considered more important than thoughts and appearance more important than being i will work on myself in way of being, it's a bit rough and devoid of glammar. >> reporter: the dust hardly settled after the world cup but football in latin america rarely rest and they will play paraguy and the national team reached the final of the resent world

cup in brazil but the domestic game and country are riddled with problems and more from buenos aires. >> argentina has problems and sliding in recession and voiding on loans and no more are they starkly felt than in the neighborhood of buenos aires, home to football club in the final of south america's competition, the cup for the first time in their history. these fans are dreaming of glory. >> translator: we are about to play the game of our lives. it's the biggest match in history. i hope we make it, i believe we will make it since the team is very good. >> reporter: the national team reached the world cup final for the first time in 34 years losing to germany. but most of these players perform in the lucrative

european leagues. things are very different at home. >> translator: we are all protesting, there is a lot of things going wrong for a long time. i'm very worried about the standards of the new players coming through. there are fewer talented players. >> reporter: police last week raided the football association headquarters as part of an investigation into where millions of dollars paid by the government for television right is gone and they brace for a power struggle following the death earlier this month of a man who ran the national game for 35 years but there will always be the fans. >> translator: the passion for football in argentina goes back many years and never disappear. i passed it on to my two daughters taking them to the games and will continue for years. >> reporter: no one talks about

divine intervention but reaching the title in years and the final and coincided with the most famous fan otherwise known as pope francis moving to rome. and this is far from being one of the biggest clubs in latin america or buenos aires and it's in the poor city and on the verge of glory and escape from the trials and tribute escalations of everyday life, daniel with al jazeera buenos aires. the united states say there are no criminal charges pending against a nascar driver, tony stewart after his struck and killed a competitor at a sprint car event in new york, an autopsy has found that 20-year-old kevin ward junior died from a massive blunt trauma, stewart one of nascar's biggest names is yet to say if he will return to the sport in

michigan this weekend. more on the 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, laura. >> thanks very much indeed. now, actor and comedian robin williams has died at the age of 63. williams' body was found in his northern california home. police call it an apparent suicide but the cause of death is still being investigated. and we take a look back at his rich career. >> from a high-pitched alien to a cross dressing nanny, robin williams may most fondly be remembered as a funny man. >> robin williams. >> reporter: as a stand up

comic he first made his mark. >> and it's weird in california this summer all the state parks caught on fire which was sad because these parks are full of weed. it's bad news. [laughter] it's like even the guys fighting the fires are laughing, oh, my god, make another rainbow, tommy. oh, my god. >> whoa! greetings and remember me, mork from ork. >> reporter: an appearance in 1974 on happy days the alien mork that kick started his career. >> didn't want you to go bozo city. >> reporter: that led to the spin-off series mork and mindy that ran for four years up to 1982. and then came the movies. >> good morning vietnam!

and along with the comedy came the more thought-provoking roles. his part as a rebellion army person during the vietnam war built on the reputation as a comic but the dark part of the film allowed him to explore his more serious side and the performance earned williams academy award nomination for best actor. two more best actor nominations followed, the dead poet society and fisher king before he finally collected a golden statute. >> and this goes to robin williams. [cheers and applause] his portrayal of good will hunting of a therapist who helps a gene -- genius played by matt-damon got him the best supporting actor. >> do you see this? holy shit. look at me, son, it's not your

fault. >> i know. >> reporter: off screen williams had his own troubles. he admitted to being addicted to cocaine through the 1970s. but in 1982 he quit both cocaine and alcohol. but he never did fully recover. williams publicist said the actor had been battling depression prior to his death. film critics described him as one of the most influential actors of modern times. >> a celebration of a dance. >> reporter: his fans will remember him for making them laugh. >> twila. >> reporter: and cry. >> you don't want to do that, do you sport? >> reporter: i'm with al jazeera. a very sad loss. do stay with us with a news bulletin ahead and you are watching from america, see you

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