and al jazeera america is doing just that. thi hello, and welcome to the news hour. where our top stories. tension in east ukraine, government forces and separatist accuse each other of violating the truce. lock down in see yeah leyon, people are to be kept in their homes for days, to stop the ebola outbreak. deadly divisions in yemen, protests in the capitol and gun battles in the north. we'll have the latest.

and as serena williams makes another tennis grand slam final, we look at how the u.s. men's game is once again trying to hit the same heights. ♪ both sides in the ukrainian conflict are blaming each other for cry lating a cease fire that was put in place in the east. the government have agreed on a truce on friday, after only five months of fighting. the south eastern city has been the scene of the worst fighting in recent days. have been receiving medical treatment. ukraine says there were a number of violations among the main battle areas on friday. the attack on the unit and bases and l,hans regions.

not far from the russian border, and in donetsk that's where our correspondent joins us from now. paul, first of all, i understand that the leaders of russia and ukraine have been speaking, what rah you hearing about that conversation? that's right, laura. breaking news, is that the announcements have been made by the president of ukraine, his office, to say that a telephone call has taken place, during the after. between president and the russian leader vladimir putin. and in that telephone call, perhaps reassuringly, both leaders agreed that in general, the cease fire which was agreed 24 hours ago is holding. they both agrees that they were needed to give it a more stable footing. they have june lined the

importance of the role of the o.s.c.e., the organization for security and corporation in europe. that's the group which has been tasked with basically monitoring the cease fire, and the border here, and they will play referee if you like, between the two sides. as trust builds up in the days and months to come. further down the chain, i have to say, they have not been quite. he is the spokesperson for the national security council, and he offense tails allegations of violations of a cease fire, by the pro-russian side. but a couple of hours ago here, we strolls across the square to the office of dennis he is a leader of the pro-russians and he said that it was the ukrainians who had been showing bad faith in all of this. [we believe they want to stop the firing he doesn't control all his military units.

we intercepted signals from those units are they say that they can do whatever he wants and that they will keep on fighting. and that there is no cease fire in their plans. and that the shelling is still going on. you mentioned the o.s.c. monitors there, what else needs to happen to ensure that this cease fire does at least have a chance of holding for a while longer? woman, there are 12 points in the plan, i think what it will take is discipline and restraint, on the part of the fighters, and in some cases within meters apart, will have to be a disengangment of the two forces as both pull pack to safe limits. i think from the leadership, there has to be a degree of calmness, we have have to calm down the rhetoric, and not be provocative in the way they are addressing the situation, eventually, what we will have to do is have substancive

talks. because the deal that was signed was just a frame work agreement, and it really does need substancive talks to make this piece of reality, and make it something that is substantial and lasting. thank you very much for updating us there, on the latest of that cease fire. well, the celine has issued a warning. approved more sanction against russia over the situation in ukraine, more from moscow. >> if president putin believed that the latest round of sanctions would be averted by this cease fire that he helped to bring about between the ukraine military, and the rebel republicans in the east, he will be very disappointed. the trouble, is i think, is that putin's credibility is just about exhausted. first of all, we have russia admitting that there were, in fact,

russian troops involved in the annexation, and there aren't many e.u. states that don't believe that russia suspect heavily involved in the fighting. so, a lot of people would believe what the ukrainian prime minister said yesterday, that the cease fire is nothing but a smoke screen, to avert these sanctions. so we understand that the sanctions will be introduced in brussells, on monday, i understand that the e. u. may be planning to bar russian oil companies from raising capitol on european markets. now, this would really hit the big boys. but it would be limited to just those companies with more that a 50% state ownership. russia's response, we simply don't know. >> still ahead, on the trail for young bamboo in mirimar, some villagers are profiting now, but

what about the future of the forrests? also, hunted by the islamic state group, and forced to flee for their lives, take shelter in turkey. and serena williams is one game away from yet another u.s. open final. we will have all the details later in sport. ♪ sierra leone will be imposing a four day lock down on the entire country to try to fight the ebola outbreak. people won't be allowed to leave their homes between the september the 18th and 21st. 21,000 people are being recruited to enforce the lock down. the reason for such aggressive strategy is to help health workers find new cases in it's early stages. the world health organization says almost 4,000 people have been infected across west africa, since the

beginning of the year. it spread to countries like ginny, liberia, see year rah leyon, and most recently senegal. the death toll has now risen to 297, and from the red cross is headed the emergency response, in sierra leone, he says they are doing everything they can to try to count tear outbreak. >> we have mobilized a mas.sive red cross response, and it is getting bigger. we are setting up a full field hospital clinic, with international delegates and local volunteers from all over sierra leone, to treat patients but on the other side, where we have to prevent this disease, we have teams doing dead body management, which means we are going out to the communities and working with the people that have died, and their families to sanitize the

body, get them in the ground, and upon that we are doing other activities as in tracing the contacts of people who have been effected and working on a massive social mobilization campaign. so people know what ebola, what it is not, and how to deal with it. so we have a giant program here, and we expanding hourly. >> from ben newman is a neurology, joins us live from oxford, thank you for being with us, what do you make of this very drastic measure, to try to contain this virus. we are looking at a four down lock down of an entire country. >> this is unprecedented, and it does seem extreme on the face of it. but if you look at what has been called for, this is actually a compromise proposal. so on the one hand, voluntary measures that have been in place up until now don't seem to be working all that well. the problem is not as

great in sierra leone as it is in liberia, but it hasn't gone away. on the othernd has groups like doctors without borders have been calling for a more militarized response. this four day curfew is somewhere in the middle, it should help a little bit and it represents everything that the red cross can currently do. >> you have study the spread of such viruses, sit prove that a lock down for four days can make a difference. >> is. >> essentially, if the lock down can continue for a month, the virus would burn itself out, there would be no out left in contact with the virus to infect. they can't do that because people would run out of food, and so it remains to be seen whether this will work, and whether they are able to impose a curfew, it is a difficult thing [and what can be achieved in four days?

>> in four days you have potentially four days where people don't travel, and don't spread the virus. so a lot of people are traveling in to attend the funerals of people who have died, but who have not died in the hospital whose have been essentially kept in people's homes. this is where a lot of the virus is spreading and stopping four days worth of funeral transmissions may represent hundreds of potential cases that are stopped. >> what else needs to be done in longer term? if we are going to see some better time solutions to this virus? >> well, there's this region in africa, where ebola has cropped up, in this particular outbreak and before, and this particular region is actually a region where there's relatively little infrastructure compared to other parts of the world. we need hospitals and concrete water pipes essentially are what is going to make this area safer for the future, and what will make it possible to control the next ebola outbreak. which will eventually come, we just don't know when. >> if we look at the front of the vaccinations

we aren't looking for anything like that until the end of the year, i believe. and that's an awfully long time, do you -- what sort of timeframe do you give this particular outbreak? >> the best case scenario is that the outbreak would be contained by about christmas, by the end of the year, however, the recent developments in liberia, i think push that back. we are probably looking at a spring for the ebola epidemic to be over. >> okay, great to speak to you, thank you very much for bringing your expertise to the program. late reports from yemen, say at least 50 people have been killed in fighting over the last few days, between yemen troops and shiite rebels north of the capitol. the supporters have staged weeks of protests calling on the government to resign. in the capitol center for us now, tell us more about what we are hearing

about this fighting. >> also to control positions in the province, near the main road that links. and for government militia fighters were killed and 30 fighters were killed in the fighting. there's been a cease fire early in the morning to allow for both parties to recover the bodies of their own fighters who were killed but then fighting intensified over the last few hours. it is a very delicate situation. they are proud neighbors, a strong hold of the rebels. they are also divided a long sectarian lines which makes it most of the time, an area where fighting erupts most of

the time from the rebels and also government troops. tell us how those divisions play out in the capitol where you are in senna? >> it is a lot of anxiety exists here. what you have here is a growing political and sectarian divide. they have demand, they want to have to be politically represented in the government. the president has to understand that this is a new era where they are become one of the biggest political entities in yemen, and therefore it has to be fully represented in the government, we are expected as if tomorrow

to escalate their fight to topple the government. a very delicate situation in a city where people are very concerned. about a confrontation between the her pis and the government. >> they say they are ready to die for the the republic, accusing of creating a religious state. >> i feel sad because in 2011 they were with us, now they are allies with the old regime, and will never accept that. >> this gathering is mainly sunni. thousands of people and the preacher who attended friday prayers denounced sectarianism but reiterated their redness to fight minority shiite rebels. >> weeks of political divide have deeply divided yemen and raised international concern about the country, especially after to press

ahead for more political representation in the government. >> another rally and another friday prayer. while escalating their protests. dismissing the offer to form a new government, and cut prices. despite the growing anger, they insist that it is peaceful. >> the police and the army all understand, that violence will bring violence. backed talks are underway. latest military gains have controlled most of the north, boost their chance to force the president to make more concessions in the coming days on sunday they will stage a huge rally here.

they say they will wear yellow arm bands for two days and then they will go for the red arm band. we don't know what that means but we are getting the reports that most likely they are going to escalate the move. by blocking roads, by going to government buildings or moving the fighters near the international airport. very delicate situation, and the sense of the warning to the government is that if somebody opens fire on our own people, we will retaliate, we will also use force. a very delicate situation absolutely, we will keep a close eye on events there. thank you for the latest there from the capitol they offered financial support during the tenure at president.

who has since become egypt's president. he was jailed shortly after he was deposed and faces several other charges. he has calls for patience among a power. they have disrupted banking and transportation, and led to protests in several cities. mohammed reports. >> it is one of the worst crieses. and it has a strike of vital nerve in the metropolitan life. >> the metro 3 million people stopped in it's tracks on friday. thousands jumped from the windows when doors failed to open. the incident came after what authorities described as mechanical glitches during maintenance work in the main power station outside cairo. but the crisis has been going on for some time,

bakeries. basic services are disrupted and egyptians are outraged. >> . >> to demand an explanation. enough trouble it seems to warrant a t.v. address by the president who says he normally tried not to speak much. >> this will not be solved soon, we are facing many challenges and no government or president will be able to overcome them alone. >> the egyptians say they have heard word like these before. especially from the new leaders. the problem they say, is that it is not just a power shortage, but a range of problems. crisis across continue to rise, and the unemployment rate is soaring. they promised us a great life of happenness, but look at how miserable the situation is, we have no electricity, no jobs and the prices are only going higher. >> the president spoke in

very down terms about the difficulties and in dire appealed for billions of dollars which he said are needed to fix the problems. he also blamed those that in his words feed the welfare of egypt. >> many want to cripple the efforts aimed at improving our daily life, you may ask why, it is simply to agitate and cause egyptian people to rise in anger. >> apinger of the former field marshal after he toppled egypt first democratically elected government has been growing even before the current crisis, but perhaps it is the present economy grievances and the prospect of a fresh uprising because of that this seems to cause real concern. al jazeera. >> al jazeera is demanding the release of the three journalist whose have been detained in egypt for 252 days. and peter gresh sha

received long sentences after a trial seen by many observers politically motivated. the convictions are being appealed, and their case has been raised by the u.n. secretary general, in a conversation with the egyptian president. well you can join the campaign to get al jazeera journalists freed, by using the # free a. j. staff on twitter. >> also find out much more by going to the special page on our website. that's aljazeera.com. the rocky military air strikes have left at least seven people dead, a maternity and children's war of the hospital was hit when the helicopter carries out their strikes. two of the victims were women, they targeted the city, which is under islamic state control. the troops hit several neighborhoods in the area, and 20 people were left wounded. well kurdish fighters battling the group in northern iraq, says they are running out of

weapons meant for forces are getting stuck in baghdad. two dozen reports. germany standing by it's pledge to help the curds push back against the islamic state, the first of three shipments of weapons and equipment, to be flown to iraq, that will include assault rifles antitank systems and heavily armored vehicles. and that the nato summit, british prime minister david cameron reiterated the u.k.'s commitment to help too. question are already playing that role, we are supplying humanitarian aid. for all the politician promises and the boxes of armed of ammunition, they have yet to turn up here. instead, the curds belief they are sitting in warehouses, while they are running out of bullets for their outdated russian weapons. >> the policy of the

previous iraqi government was to keep them in a situation that's not too strong. we need here -- we are afraid that the same policy is still the same, and there will be a attempts to keep the weapon in baghdad, or not to send in. >> the commander here on the front line north of mosul same says the same thing. they are not seeing any of these foreign weapons getting through, and up here to the front line, in preparation for the push on mosul. all foreign shipments must to through baghdad in respect to the southernty. the curds suggested that the plane -- but are inspected by a representative from baghdad. there was no replay, instead it is being suggested that they

touchdown privately are checked and then thrown north. the longer they are out gunned by the islamic state far superior fire power. bureaucratic rangeling is doing nothing to help those on the line. including the minority. they have been seeking shelter in kurdish areas as well as neighboring turkey. reports now from refugee catches in eastern turkey, near the border where iraq and syria. this is a traditional kurdish chant, for those left behind. they are safe in a turkish refugee camp, but many of them still have relatives threatening by the advance through northern iraq of the group that calls itself the islamic state. >> they are one of thousands trapped on the

mountain, and circled by i. s. fighters. we walked for a long time over rugged land scape until we reached the mountain, it was just one small water spring for thousands, we couldn't protect ourselves, they are all targeted the islamic state group singled us out, they mean to kill us all. >> the catch offer schooling and healthcare, for almost 3,000 it costs 50,000-dollar as day to run. at the top of the hill, one of the refugee camps in this country, the facilities hooker are the high standard, but the camp is full, and for now, this is the last refugee camp that will be built in turkey. the government is paying for three month refugee catches, but it is

building them over the border, in kurdish administered iraq. >> concerns about the final location have to be changed now they are expected to be ready to host 35,000 by mid september. >> we have been a close corporation, to ensure that the site that we are building the catches aid will be safe, b, we will allow us to continue providing services the same quality services that we have been doing here. >> many say theyed could never go back. therian she been religion draws influences from christianity. so many wonder what chance they will have. al jazeera, southern turkey. >> still to come here on this news hour, brazil's presidential race heats

up with contender marina topping the polls. plus. >> at least 200,000 have crossed following an ethnic conflict in the country, and i i'll be telling you their story. >> all that action coming up later in sport.

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