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karzai and then afghans came out to elect their future leader and abdullah abdullah won by a narrow margin and had to go to a runoff and it happened in june and this time ghani took the lead. >> what we are concerned about is once again continued fraud. >> reporter: ghani agrees to a recount but it takes almost a month of back and forth on details how to proceed. and finally both candidates agree on a process for the vote audit with the help of the u.s. secretary of state but it takes time and john kerry returns to ensure the pressure is on. >> both parties now agreeing to the rules of the road. both parties have agreed to stay at it. both parties have agreed to live by the outcome. >> reporter: but an outcome is proving hard to find. and so five months after millions of afghans went to the

polls there is still no agreement on who will run afghanistan, stephanie decker, al jazeera. we can get now some more on this from jennifer glasse who is in kabul for us, do we know, jennifer, what sort of steps the abdullah abdullah camp is now contemplating? >> there are a few things possibly on the table, all eyes on abdullah abdullah and expecting to hear from him in the next hour or so. with a sense of what he plans to do next. we know he has been very unhappy. he was very unhappy with the second round of elections where he alleged widespread fraud and unhappy with this audit process, hundreds of international election experts andov searchers have been on the outskirts of kabul looking over all ballots to try and ensure that the afghans' wishes are reflected in whoever is declared president. abdullah abdullah says that has been weighted against him and met with ghani this morning and that meeting apparently did not go well and said this meeting

today was the last chance to come to some sort of political agreement. as you mentioned sammy they are in disagreement as to what a unity government would look like. that is one of the agreements they came to when secretary of state john kerry visited here not once, but twice and they would be in a national unity government and what the national unity government would mean is where the two candidates have differences of opinion. i think abdullah abdullah would like to see it as a real power-sharing agreement, ghani campaign says it's not a power sharing agreement. and so this stalemate goes on but looks like it's reaching ahead and expecting abdullah abdullah to make a statement in the next hour or so and we might get a sense of where things could go from here. >> jennifer, if he does go ahead as it has been suggested without some parallel government, how much backing would he get from some of the key power brokers in the country who sometimes wield more power than sort of the institution, civilian institutions of the country?

>> that is right, he does have powerful men behind him, some of the governors of the provinces who will back him, who will support him. many of his supporters believe he won the election. he is being cheated out of the presidency but there also could be critical fall out if he were to declare a parallel government when he threatened that two months ago. the united states state departments said it would suspend aid and military support if any means to take power by violence or extra constitutional means were taken, referring to an idea that a parallel government could be formed. really i think the concern here sammy is the uncertainty, continued uncertainty and potential for unrest with the people and afghans unhappy this dragged on so long, this political crisis effected vier actually every part of afghan society and the economy is stagnated, the security situation remains pearless and

we saw afghan security forces killed in a roadside bombing and they are battling in the taliban in the south all summer and it's in the balance at a pearless time and waiting to see if abdullah abdullah could make things better with announcement or make things worse. >> jennifer from kabul and the latest developments in iraq and the parliament there expected to meet on money to vote on the government, a key moment for iraq, the country is in desperate need of stability as it tries to stop the spread of the islamic state group. and he is trying to kabul together a cabinet which must be approved by parliament but it could be hampered in last-minute wrangling on who should get what and president obama says they

should stop islamic state progress through there and they should shrink the territory it controls. this is one area that they don't want i.s. fighters to get control of, hadifa, the u.s. carrying out air strikes around the region to stop the islamic state group from taking the dam. it is iraq's second biggest and provides millions of people with water. let's go straight now to john in erbil in northern iraq, how is the fighting in the district then going, john? >> well, this is the latest front but one of several in northern and western iraq and what is significant about that one is that it's the first place in imbar where the u.s. had air strikes and they are going for the dam and the concern is islamic state fighters would take it over, possibly detonate it and flood an area in which

thousands of iraqis live. iraqi army says they have seized control of that and they are moving in toward the city of the region. but there are other regions where there are fights going on near dakrete there was a suicide bombing in a divided town, a town part controlled by iraqi forces and part controlled by islamic state and a suicide bomber was trying to breach the line so the islamic state could surge in the other half and 17 by last count died and 60 injury answer near kirkook iraqi force jet struck an area and several people were killed there. of course there is the fight going on in the city of dakrete but this is in iraq and embar and sunni havens. >> looking for the pros speth of a new iraqi government there, is

the parliament on track for that? >> well, it's coming down to the wire. there is supposed to be an announcement several hours from now with makeup of the new government but even as that happens the various parties are still deciding whether they want to participate in government, the kurdish block up here has returned to northern iraq and will decide if they want to participate in the government, the questions are really what kinds of guarantees will be made to the sunni blocks, to the kurdish block, and what cabinet posts will go with that. it seems like political minitua but the reason we are in the war is a group of sunnis are very unhappy with the way they were treated by a shiite-led government and teamed some of them up with the islamic state and why we have gotten to where we are. the formation of the government could decide if that war end or

continues, sammy. >> john, thank you so much for. that the interior minister sacked the country special security forces and comes as violence escalates in northern province and tension is mounting on the streets of the capitol too and we are live at the capitol and before we talk about that tell us about reports of a loss of a major pipeline, how much of a blow is that to the country? >> very major setback to the government, tribesmen in the province blew up the main pipeline, basically you are talking about the main pipeline that takes most of the oil that is produced there and then shippeds to the international market. it's going to have a huge impact on the country because on one hand it will deny the country cast very badly at this moment,

at the same time that goes to a refinery in a province and means as of tomorrow we will see some fuel crisis here in the capitol. >> at the same time we have protesters moving closer to key ministries in the capitol. tell us about what is going on there. >> well, we have been there just a few hours ago and we have seen them moving to almost 25 meters from the gate. quite an interesting country, sammy. we went there and spoke with army officers and said do you work for them and half of them said yes until yesterday and now we defected and joining the shiite movement and it's a very divided country politically and from a sectarian prospect and they will continue the fight until the government goes and until they are given full

representations and he is expected to give address to followers in the coming hours and expect him to escalate the civil disobedience campaign to the top of the government. >> we will talk to you about that more. lots more still to come on the al jazeera news hour, they are supposed to be protecting somalia fromsha -- shabob but now coming under fire for abuse. should they stay or go, scott land gains momentum with calls for a close vote. serena williams at the u.s. open and claims another grand slam and we will have all the details. ♪ the african union has started an emergency meeting in ethiopia capitol to discuss how to fight the ebola out break in east

africa and five regions have been effected, more than 2000 people have been killed as a result of the deadly virus. well that is out of nearly 4,000 cases meaning the virus has a fatality rate of around 50%. catherine is at the conference in the ethiopian capitol, so catherine what sort of strategy are african leaders trying to come up with to confront the ebola virus? >> reporter: sammy, they want to come up with a joint strategy, how to contribute more to the emergency kitty of $600 million required to deal with this situation. they are talking about how to deploy more boots on the ground, how to deploy more military personnel and health workers and doctors that are so desperately needed in those countries. they have gone to close the sessions now which will go on throughout the day and talking

about in very close about how they feel that this country has been isolated, not just by the world but african countries as well. and by isolation i mean that individual flight airlines that have cancelled flights, countries that have nationals from particularly sierra leone and guinea getting into their country so this is concerning and they are going to be discussing perhaps other ways of dealing with the situation without sort of quarantining countries. people have been talking to analysts and following the africa union closely say this rhetoric must stop and african union must really be in the forefront and this is not happening and not taking the leadership role beyond rhetoric and beyond talking shop and must be more people on the ground and african union must be pushing countries to take resources and organize more resources to those

countries that are affected, sammy. >> give us an idea of the sort of tightrope the authorities are walking between protectionism and isolation, what does isolation mean for food prices and economy for trade they are so worried about not falling into? >> sammy, that is one of the issues, that is a priority issue they are discussing here, the economic impact of this isolation, so called isolation food prices are going high by airlines cancelling flights to the areas and means food imports cannot get to those countries, people who are isolated in village's cannot get the food that is needed. when you talk about health workers, by the fact that not as many health workers are being sent from africa, that means it's a problem because most of the countries are facing a health crisis. so food costs have gone very high because a lot of these especially the neighboring countries which the countries

rely on to get supplies, remember, these are countries coming out of us with strife and countries that are very poor and rely heavily on neighbors for supplies and this is really being affected and why the african union here is saying really the issue of closing borders is only working to the detriment of the countries that are affected and so des -- desperate for other countries to come in and help. >> thank you so much, catherine. the crisis in ukraine has threats of a new round of ue sanctions against russia, new measures due to come into effect on monday and are expected to target russia's financial and oil sectors including units of gas from enroznef and make it difficult for firms for raise money from western markets and the move will tath enmeasures imposed in july with individuals

with travel bands and freezes and ban import on food item from u.s., canada and norway. prime minister says russia will respond to any any sanctions and might cutoff its air space to western carriers. al jazeera's peter sharp is in moscow. >> reporter: well, there is no doubt that russia will retaliate proportionately to sanctions introduced by the eu on monday and tuesday and the prime minister said as much over the weekend. i think there is a feeling among many russians i spoke to over the weekend that the country is dammed if it does and dammed if it doesn't and it has brokered a ceasefire which is not perfect but holding and in response to that the eu goes ahead and hits them with more sanctions. i think the people here think it's unfair and there will be

retaliation and possibly even closing russia's air space to european flights crossing the country and this says the prime minister could drive many of these airlines into bruk si and says the sanctions are a double-edged source. derailing a ceasefire with heavy shelling in the city of maripol and in donetsk as battle over control of the airport continues and paul brennan is there and sent us this report. >> reporter: this shows the ukraine ceasefire going up in flames, just a kim -- kilometer and caught in the crash fire between ukraine forces inside and separatists surrounding the airport and it has some people believing the worst was over, they were sadly mistaken. >> translator: we were going to pickup our stuff.

i have a baby and we temporarily live in a dorm and we wanted warm clothes for the child, then i got a call from my mother that said her house was burning. >> reporter: each said blames the other for ceasefire violations and seems the separatist fired first. >> translator: they were standing here with a cannon, the ukraine army aimed at them and started to shoot. they were standing right here. they shot there and got the respons response. >> reporter: the responses went back and forth, all day sunday. to the east of here, to the east at the airport we heard persistent small arms fire and occasional burst from a machine gun and over there to the northwest we heard explosions from rocket fire and probably a ground system, this is a ceasefire in paper form only. fanning out from maripol eastern check point on sunday morning tanks taking up defensive

position right on the city limits and brace to defend against more of this, saturday night's sustained pounding of the city limits by separatist forces, unquestionably a violation of the agreement and in kiev they say the ceasefire is still in force. >> translator: the firing and shelling is a violation of ceasefire conditions, the situation is under control now. over the last 24 hours we didn't have any information about civilian casualties. and at the moment we are not talking about a consolation of the ceasefire agreement. >> reporter: for residents of maripol inspecting overnight damage faith in the truce is understandably low. >> translator: it's terrifying not just for the people here but the whole city. >> reporter: a few minutes later something in the distance had people pushing back from the check point. officials from the organization for security and cooperation in europe, the osce are charged with monitoring the ceasefire, reminder if needed the magnitude

of that task and reminder for everyone in this bitterly contested country that this conflict isn't over yet, paul brennan in donetsk. >> using water canon in the chile capitol santiago. thousands are gathered to mark the 41st and -- anniversary of the military coup and it had a positive start but then a protest between stone throwing protesters. he had a prostate operation on monday, the 75-year-old led iran for 25 years and replaced the founder of the islamic republic of iran. u.n. says more than one million people face starvation in

somalia and 60% of those at risk are internally displaced, lack of rain, conflict and reduced aid all made the problem worse. devastating floods are inundating pakistan and northern india, the number of people killed in kashmir is more than 160, 450 village's have been sub merges and they are trying to reach stranded people. and floods killed 205 people in the province of pakistan and the hardest hit area. many homes have been destroyed leaving thousands homeless there, and we are there in the province. >> reporter: the floods have hit the central part of the punjaab destroying crops such as sugar cain and rice patties and villages are surrounded by large

water and there is no escape except by boat and they are trying to provide as much relief as they can to try to alleviate the suffering of the people but this is a large problem and not over. a very large body of water will be passing through the river which is in flood and that of course will mean endangering village's and the emergency is not over and the government has been very slow in its response, however, organizations such as the f.i.f. and the military an active and trying to save lives and provide what care they possibly can. more on the weather situation in pakistan and here is richard and any good sign hanging in the horizon there for

people stranded? >> the bulk of the rain seems to be gone. looking at the satellite, in fact, you see the main feature, this moon soon affecting southern areas and a few showers to the north but it's to the more central areas we have heavy rain and expect that area to experience most of the heavy rain in the forecast, looking to the north, across northern parts of india and pakistan, the rain has gone. so this really was a freak event, we saw more than a month's worth of rain in just seven days so really exceptional stuff and the river is full and the rain comes on top of it but hoping things will improve and it will cause local problems but i think the general situation much better and may find new stories developing across the western gappings and could be rain developing in the next couple days. in the arabian peninsula weather

conditions are looking hot and humid but seeing changes and pretty heavy showers affecting parts of yemen and that is something to look out for. as far as humidity occurs which has been very high all around the gulf states, we are getting more of a breeze picking up and that will tend to lift the dust so that becomes a problem in itself but at least the humidity will drop. we have temperatures pretty shy and doha 40 and 42 and there is run through wednesday and temperatures are up over 40 degrees but the humidity starts to drop across the region becoming more pleasant, sammy. >> thanks, richard and it's exactly six months since malaysia flight 370 disappears and people gathered at a temple in beijing to remember the presouped dead and there were emotional scenes when police tried to move the group on. >> reporter: china's mid autumn

festival when families come together and give thanks but for 30 people such a reunion wasn't possible this year, their loved ones were on board the malaysia airliner which vanished on march 8. the six month anniversary was marked at the temple, one of the most famous land marks and despite best efforts of authorities to talk the group out of it. >> translator: all our tears have dried up, all day long we don't know what to do, we feel tortured, we have no compensation. >> reporter: and she lost five members of extended family and says they were physically abused during a resent altercation with police. >> translator: one time we are seriously beaten up and even a waitress at a restaurant nearby cried after seeing what happened. it was very brutal. >> reporter: even his six-year-old son was a target

after the pair tried to sleep the night at a support center two months ago. >> translator: i was holding my son. the policeman came and grabbed him and threw him in the police car. he was so scared. >> reporter: police have failed to respond to those allegations, but authorities insist they have done everything they can for the families. above the grieving he reads out a poem dedicates to the missing. even now they have not given up hope. >> translator: we are all expecting our loved ones to come home. >> reporter: such open displays of emotion are frowned upon by the authorities. and by now police have clearly had enough. but they can't stifle this grief, after six months it remains real and raw. adrian brown, al jazeera,

beijing. plenty more still ahead on al jazeera, would you fly on a dream liner? al jazeera finds some boeing workers who say they would not. plus. >> i'm in the nigeria delta and i will be showing you what is behind what some say is causing nigeria's worst oil crisis in five years. and in sport the new york yankees honor one of their all-time grates ahead of retirement and we will have all the details in sports. ♪

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welcome back, you are watching the al jazeera news hour and we will recap, the presidential candidates failed to reach a power sharing deal and abdullah abdullah and ghani cannot agree on what a government should look like. interior minister sacked the commander of the special security forces and m cos as protesters continue their rallies in the capitol demanding the government resign. iraq's parliament expecting to meet on monday to vote on a new government and under pressure to stabilize the political situation so he can stop the spread of the islamic state group. nigeria is facing its worst oil crisis in years, the government says $8 billion in revenue was lost to industrial-scale theft last year and daily output is plummeting and we report from bails estate. >> reporter: setting off at the break of dawn, these men are on

a mission in the nigeria delta, part of the force drawn from various security agency and civilians to curb oil theft. an hour into their patrol in eastern parts they arrest suspects an ordered to reveal the location of their illegal business they make their way from the open creek into the thick man grove. they strike gold. this is where stolen crude is refined. and they destroy the site and set it on fire. >> translator: we have to move back, it's a dangerous business, explosions can happen at any moment and the fire can extend miles over the water. >> reporter: in seconds it's engulfed in darkness. >> you can see everywhere smoking and want us to surrender. >> reporter: despite efforts oil theft in nigeria is in the

high test levels in five years since the government gave amnesty to former rebels in the area and the government says $8 billion in revenue were lost in industrial scale theft last year and multiple people are selling off fields as a result of the theft. tucked in the forest we find these men cook oil as it is called here, the site has been destroyed before but they have come back. >> it's what we do for a living. this is our only source of wealth that you do and eat. without this we cannot survive. >> reporter: on a good day these workers at one end of the vast organized crime chain can make $200. the oil pipelines criss-cross the community and the move si of people living in the source of the wealth is hard to see. the crude that doesn't get refined in the delta, larger bunkering operations involve transferring it to barges and

the barges take it to larger tankers in the atlantic ocean and from there to buyers in europe, latin america and as far as asia. and security personnel are involved. >> people who protect the pipelines and those who help nigeria economy and now it's the subject matter. and politicians and at the local end are participating in the business. >> reporter: despite low-level arrests there have been no large scale prosecutions, until those at the top are held into account nigeria's riches will keep burning away. al jazeera southern nigeria. african union peace keeping troops in somalia capitol are

saying the power the men have over us and details of alleges offenses and cites 10 separate incidents of rape and sexual assault and separate sexual expectation and involve troops and accused of using humanitarian aid to cores women and girls in having sex, 2 of 21 interviewed filed a complaint and many said they did not in fear of retribution. and human rights watch doesn't assess the scale of sexual abuse from the african union mission in so malaysia but the report raises serious concerns. to discuss the report we can talk to a researcher with human rights watch in africa and joins us from the kenya capitol nairobi and good to have you with us and the question is there an indication how widespread these abuses by

amazon forces are? >> there are several indications from the research we have made and thought that what is happening is actually more widespread and more organized than the 21 cases we document in this report. and how we come to those conclusions is that first of all, most of the women and girls we interviewed who are survivors of sexual expectation or even cases of rape on the amazon, they spoke of seeing other, numerous other women and girls also coming in on a regular basis for prolonged periods of time on to the bases and having sexual exploitation relationships with amazon soldiers. at the same time there appears to be a trend in how this is happening in terms of how amazon soldiers are luring women in, picking them up at hospitals on the amazon bases, taking them to

amazon facilities and housing on the bases and once again suggesting that actually this is much more organized and potentially even tolerated from a higher level. >> it does raise the question, if it's that widespread how could it have been overlooked here? we are not talking about a remote jungle in some corner of the world, there are international troops in somalia and international organizations, was there a massive cover up for us not to have heard about this before now? >> this is a very good question. i mean one of the bases we actually document. and working in somalia is based. for a long time amazon leadership were reluctant to even acknowledge this was a b pro -- problem and there is a shift and they developed a draft policy to tackle exploitation

and abuse but to date we have not seen this issue being made a priority either by the amazon leadership or by the contributing countrys who obviously have the primary responsibility to hold accountable for abuses and calling on contributing countries to really beef up their accountability mechanisms and court marshals on the ground of somalia and people suffering abuses have some form of justice. >> thanks so much, latisha. ten days until scott land votes on whether to be independent from britain and the first time the campaign is ahead in opinion polls and prompted alarm among some british politicians and we are live in westminster and this is set off by the latest poll, how are people taking that? is that seen as a beginning of a

new trend or a runoff or is it clear yet? >> that is a very good question and there is another poll on tuesday and a further one on wednesday. but you can't mistake the trajectory and that is what is the problem for the political class here by and large in the independence campaign and there is an error now and call it panic set in among the campaign and phrases banding around like banning constitutional crisis and will david cameron have to resign, what will happen to next year's national elections if by 2016 scott land announced it's a separate country. these terrifying pros -- prospects are being raised and no was 60% and yes independence and 40% smugly frankly going along and saying the scotts won't do it, nobody will do it and they will be crazy to do it

and in august of september it has risen and risen until as you say yesterday on sunday it was 51% yes and 49% no. and so they desperate now holding crisis meetings to workout what exactly they can do between now and next thursday's poll to try to turn things around. if it carries on as it does at the moment and appears to be the trajectory of the polls and by friday scott land will have voted for independence and that raises some terrible questions well for a start the uk is one of the most richest and successful countries in the world, what does that say and what is the future of uk after this and no wonder they are taking it seriously. >> parties in westminster behind you talking about putting on the table greater powers for scott land if they stay in the union, are people responding to that message or is it seen as too little too late? >> well, the initial point the

sco scottish nationals said about it is heat by conservatives to have a more radical party for devolution is it's called and a lot of this doesn't look like it goes past that. the point the nationalists make is some have voted in ballots from the scottish islands and places and now being told after that that there might be some devolution and the nationalist say too little too late and looks like they will go to scott land this late in the day to try to change people's minds. >> a big question and we will find out in ten days and lawrence lee thanks for that. al jazeera investigation has found boeing workers who have serious concerns about the safety of the 787 dream liner aircraft and mechanics and engineers have also told al

jazeera investigative unit is worry about quality control and the 787 dream liner has been doinged with problems since unveiling in 2007 and eventually being grounded due to safety concerns last year and bill jordan reports. >> reporter: this is a boeing factory in the u.s. state of south carolina. workers here in charleston are assembly the flag of the 787 dream liner but some have little faith in the plane they built. >> would you fly on one? >> no. >> you won't fly on one. >> no. >> will you fly on the plane? >> no. >> reporter: 15 workers asked randomly ten said they would not fly on the dream liner. >> because i see the quality going down around here.

>> reporter: an employee kept up the footage after contacting al jazeera telling us he had serious concerns about what he was seeing, at his request we changed his voice. >> with the problems there is 90% that is getting swept away, hushed up, it's an iceberg. >> reporter: in another meeting, the source told us workers are often under skilled, uncaring and in some cases on drugs. >> i've seen a lot of things that should not go on in an airplane plant, people talking about doing drugs, looking for dru drugs. >> we have painkillers and you can get weed here, there is really good weed here. >> i know they don't. >> you can smoke more than one. >> hell, yeah. >> reporter: over the course of a year al jazeera investigative unit has spoken with a number of former boeing engineers and

machinist who have little to talk about boeing and it loosened their own quality requirements and in one memo managers said the schedule may require deviation to boeing preferred quality process. the company denies it weakens quality control. but the documents alarmed the former president of boeings engineers union, an engineer of the company for 32 years. >> they are short changing the engineering process to meet a schedule. and they are not even allowing quality control to do their job. >> reporter: how does that make you feel as a flyer? >> oh, yeah, i'm not flying on a 787. it just makes, you know, because avoiding flying on a 787 seeing this, i would definitely avoid flying on 787. >> reporter: boeing says the memo does not signify authorization to ship parts that don't meet quality requirements

and boeing also says it drug tests in line with company policy and applicable law. the number one focus that we have at boeing is ensuring that the continued safety worthiness of the airplane and int integri going up. >> reporter: it says it does not compromise safety or quality, will jordan, al jazeera. >> you can watch the al jazeera investigative unit full document on wednesday, broken dreams the boeing 787 will air here on al jazeera at 20 gmt on september the ten, if you are away from t.v. you can watch it online on al jazeera.com boeing 787. after serena triumph there is more from fans in new york and we will have more with joe and

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let's catch up with all the sports news with joe. >> sammy, thank you. serena williams stopped short of calling herself a legend but knew her 18th grand slam title was special and she won the u.s. open to be the queen of queens on sunday and rich nicholson reports. >> reporter: serena williams would win another title to add to the 17 she already owns and by the end of the final she beat

the american in straight sets for the u.s. open title and both players was serving and serena was quicker to take the lead and took the set 6-3. and she carried the momentum in the second set for the very first time. williams kept the lead to force wozniacki and saved the match 6-3 and the match in five minutes and have a repeat grand slam title, the most in an opener ra. >> it means a lot to me and i never can imagine i would be mentioned with chris evert or because i was a kid with a dream and racket and living in compton

and this never happened before and i never could have imagined not ended, i'm just beginning, anyway but not beginning but it could have gotten this far, you know. so it's just i think it was and then it was alluding me for three terms but still it's a lot for me. and i was like you know really excited to get it. >> it's been 15 years since serena won her first grand slam and shows no signs of stopping to close the gap on the champions with 22 titles, richard nicholson, al jazeera. double success in the united states on center court on sunday, twins bob and mike brian won a record with a double title at flushing med dow and mark lopez and the 100 title together

and 16th grand slam. mentions single finals takes center stage with trying to be the first asian man winning a title and knocks off jakovich and will take on chilich for the trophy and he is 24 and caught eyes of all sorts of tennis fans in japan. >> translator: if he has come this far we want him to win the tournament and represents the hope of all japanese citizens and also the first asian and want him to accomplish the feet. >> reporter: the powerful man has confirmed he will run for 5th term as fifa president and he previously said he would quit at the end of the term but believes he has backing to win a four-year stint and germany returned to winning ways after mid-week friendly defeat of

argentina they opened the year 2016 qualifying campaign with victory against scott land and thomas scored both goals in the 2-1 win. >> translator: first of all, i am completely satisfied that we won the three points, that was my only expectation today. i only wanted to win this game and start off qualification well. i was clear this would be a difficult game, and the scotts have nothing to lose and will play defensively. >> reporter: and the first official competitive match is one not to forget, on the receiving end of the 7-0 flashing by poland and robert scored four. elsewhere den mark 2-1 winner and the same side that beat them last year in world cup clarifying and he and his team made a losing start to their qualifiers and beaten by roma e romanian suffered a surprise defeat to albania.

he denied handing teammate lewis hamilton victory at the grand prix and we report. >> reporter: teammates but the best of enemies hamilton and rossburg lined up together only the front row of a grid two weeks after their collision at the grand prix and costly to hamilton and he woent from poll position to fourth by the first corner. the duo of dual and mistakes is the feature of the race and rossberg was nine laps in when the german did it again after 29 laps, hamilton stormed to the front. and another set of teammates fought further back and daniel getting the better of red bull

defending champion once again, they would finish 5 and 6th respectively. the rest of the field escaped this race almost unscathed, hamilton stood at the front for the sixth race win of the reason and rossberg second. >> are you friend again? >> reporter: rossberg leaves the championship standings by 22 points with 6 rounds remaining. i'm with al jazeera. on to golf, and billy has won his second pga title with victory at the bmw championship and he had one under par, 69 and a two-stroke victory after holding off a late charge from bubba watson and second in the standing for the race for the $10 million fedex cup and the final four of the tour championship will be held next week. and just a few months on from

the donald sterling affair the issue of racism has arriz nen -- arisen in the nba has controlling interest in the team and comes after he reported himself in the nba after an e-mail he sent to executives two years ago detailing thoughts on attacking more white fans to the club's home arena. the issue of race also came to the nfl door on sunday when that tiff americans protested at the washington redskins opening and says the name is racially insensitive and will continue the protests until the team owner changes it. >> we want the logo to go away and dan schneider to listen to the people and do away with the logo and mascot and pick something else, the hawks, if the hawks are offended they can protest and we will go home when the name is gone. >> reporter: a day for the new york yankees as they celebrated

the retiring captain jeter. and tagged with the baseball great was honored with the game against kansas and 45 minutes had appearance by michael jordan and showered with gifts and his number two jersey will be retired. >> thank you for helping me feel like a kid for the last 20 years. [applause] in my opinion i've had the greatest job in the world. i got a chance to be the shortstop of the new york yank cherok -- yankees and there is only one of those. coming out to bat against kansas city and with a single the royals spoiled the party with 2-1 lead and lead by 2 1/2 games as they bid off and winning the

1985 world series. and that is all the sport for now, sammy. >> one of ice land's celebrated photographers has returned home and better known as rax spent 30 years documenting landscapes that are rapidly changing in some of the most remote places on earth and kim has this story from the capitol. >> reporter: documenting the lives of those whose worlds are rapidly changing and the unforgiving landscapes they inhabit. ice land and photographer has spent the last three decades going back and forth to the coldest places on earth. >> i campaign, it's horrible but i draw something to paint and my paintings are my photographs and i wanted to get something and then i just saw what was happening and thinking like this

is fading away, it's disappearing and i have to document that. i have to do it the way like how would a painter do it? >> and in doing so rex has won dozens of awards and at times risked his life. in green land waiting to catch this hunt mid kill rex new things could quickly go wrong. >> he listed all the bullets from the packets and we were on the ice, far away with no bullets and three polar bears around us and we had to fight back the weather and the ice was cracking. >> reporter: this exhibition is particularly special to rex, being in a relatively small space he had to choose all of the images very carefully and these are says are his favorites. they say rex has helped shine a spotlight on the nordic country. >> beautiful pictures and

composition of the pictures are amazing. >> i think it's amazing and one of our best photographers and has been for like three decades. >> reporter: praise that is difficult for rex to take as he sees his work as both a blessing and a duty, in the face of climate change abroad and at home. >> ice land is kind of something like you have a nose on your face but you don't see it unless you look in the mirror. so i see it more in other countries than here but it's standing in front of me. >> reporter: a daunting prospect to a man deeply connected to the region as he watches and catches it's slowly melting away. kim with al jazeera. well, stay with us here on al jazeera, we have come to the end of the news hour but we are back with another full bulletin of news coming up, in a few minutes and of course there is our website if you want to stay tuned to the latest news, al jazeera.com. ♪

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