>> we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. two al shabaab car bombs kill a in somalia, at least two are considered to be americans. i'm felicity barr. thousands of more ebola cases are expected in liberia this month. iraqi placement to vote on a new cabinet. a trip to the embattled city

of mariupul. would you fly on a 787 dreamliner? a number of boeing workers say they wouldn't. hello, four americans are reportedly among 15 people killed in two car bombings in the somali capital. in the first attack a car packed with explosives around a convoy of african union troops. a second convoy attacked just minutes later. al shabaab says it is behind the bombings. >> somali capital mogadishu, ferocity of the blast. al shabaab fighters say they carried out two attacks in revenge for the death of their leader who was killed in a u.s. air strike a week ago. american personnel are believed to be among the dead.

>> if confirmed it will certainly be a major development in somalia. i think it would be about 20 careers, you would have to go back about 20 years the last time an american was actually killed in combat or anything close to combat, it would be black hawk down in 1993. >> the shadowy commander who replacinged as al shabaab's leader. >> spectacular attacks remain undiminished. under the new leadership, business will be as usual. >> reporter: in recent months there have been a surge after tacks of high profile targets especially around mogadishu. somalia's government says it will not budge and will continue its offensive against the armed group. it's trying to reassure fighters taken in areas.

>> they are around the town. is somali government with amazon support will eliminate al shabaab and bring the country back to normal. >> on high alert since g odan's death and prepared for more retaliation. some of the biggest challenges since 2011. when pushed out from major cities. but attacks like these show that somali and its governors have not completely succeeded in rooting al shabaab. >> targeting americans with this attack in retaliation for air attack that killed its leader last week. from washington, d.c. no confirmation yet four americans were among those killed in these attacks tom. what is being said in washington, d.c. major the authorities? -- are amongst the authorities?

>> we have asked the pentagon. they said they are looking into these reports. no confirmation certainly that any americans were involved either civilian or military. the pentagon has only sparingly discussed the presence of american military in somalia back in this after report that as many as 120 u.s. military trainers and advisors were actually in somalia. the spokesman for u.s.-africa command said that only there were a limited number of people, military coordination cell that was based at the airport in mogadishu and some other small units, handful of people that go in and out in multiple locations to the somali and african why union mission. and when asked if they were

engaged in combat he said only they were not tasked to engage enemy forces except in self defense. but it's clear that the american commitment to somalia is very restricted so far, compared to for example, the 100 u.s. military advisors that president obama sent into uganda and congo to seek out the lord's resistance army in uganda, this would be so far a small contingent in somalia. >> tom ackerman in washington, d.c, thanks tom. amasom are being accused of preying on vulnerable women and girls. human rights watch published a report. citing incident of rape sexual assault and sexual coalition exploitation.

few reports do not mean at a the abuse is widespread. >> the african union and amazon take those allegations very seriously, they will be investigated and proper measures will be taken and if found responsible will be dealt with, under the mechanism we have in place under the african unio unn zero tolerance policy on misconduct. >> now to a warning from the world health organization that september will see a exponential increase in the ebola virus. conventional methods be used to control the outbreak failing ohave an impact there. the agency is calling for aid partners to increase by four fold the efforts. be liberia is already the

worst hit 61. at least 1089 people have died there. 400 have died in sierra leone, seven in nigeria. last we'll week the outbreak also spread to senegal where one person was infected. the overall death toll was as of late last week, 2097. liberia's are minister lewis brown, meeting with your. what is what was agreed at that meeting to try the combat the ebola spread in liberia? >> well, a number of things quite frankly. one of them is that we have to continue to train and retrain health care workers in proper safety procedures, we're pleased with the lowering rate of incidents among health care workers. and we also have to continue to work with spreading the ebola

treatment centers around the country. that is a difficult task. it is a little bit more difficult than just opening a public health facility. it is a bit more challenging. we continue to ask for support to be able to meet the increasing demand on the ebola treatment unit by people who are now coming forward as they contract this disease. at the same time, the president has ordered a roll back of the curfew back two hours, across the country, because of the level of support we're getting from communities that are themselves increasingly engaged in owning up to this fight. as well as lifting the quarantine on an infected community called dolos town. that quarantine was imposed on the 20th now being lifted based on a recommendation from our ministry of health which

indicated that the communities are best positioned now and able to fight. >> it does sound like you're cutting back on the curfew when the world health organization is predicting that you're going to have thousands more cases in liberia this month. why cut back on the curfew? some say you should be extending it. >> well, quite frankly we've been able to look at other aspects of the fight against this virus which has really been on the prevention side. we're pleased from west point to dolos town to various communities we are showing big red marks in terms of increasing incident of infection, we're pleased with the level of ownership that they've been able to show to reorganize these communities. contact tracers as well as their own teams, now getting reports that we didn't have previously,

people are coming out in numbers to ebola units. we now need to do is to be able to give them the care and need as they come forward. >> you don't have to -- i'm so sorry to interrupt you. isn't part of the problem you simply don't have enough treatment centers for the number of people coming in for help? so people who think they're infected turn up topt to the center and they have to be turned away so they go back to their homes back to their villages and of course infect other people around them. >> it's true in some areas we've had to turn people back because the centers were simply over-full. but now that is why by this weekend we're opening additional centers, next week one is coming up in central monroe and central liberia, this week across town there's one 20 facilities that have been opened.

as we continue to emphasize treatment which we must continue to do we must not lose sight of prevention. as important as it is to extract sick individuals and dead bodies from communities it's also important to give the community ownership so that they lead in the campaign torts public awareness. because the real tool to extracting this disease is public awareness as to what to do to prevent the spread of the disease. >> lewis brown joining us there from liberia thanks so much. still ahead on this news hour, a political deadlock in afghanistan between the two presidential rivals stall. thousands are stranded as flooding devastates pakistan's pun jopunjab region.

fifth term as. >> now iraq's parliament could soon vote for a new cab that the a day. a deadline to form a government. are to reach a quorum with enough members to do go ahead with that vote. it is understood that nouri al-maliki is in the run for vice president of that country. any of those candidates may mean the entire list is discarded. let's get an update on this from jane arraf in baghdad. they are leaving it up to the wire aren't they jane on deciding on this cabinet. bring us the latest. what else do you know? >> well felicity as we speak

prime abadi, as said they will combat terrorism in his words and they will reach out to all sorts of groups. the kind of speech you would expect from any prime minister trying to make an impression but particularly important now. determines whether this country will hold together, being essentially. tks candidate of the badr organization, was to have beening -- sorry was to have held a key role in this government, that didn't happen. and his group that is walked out in protest. the kurds are also not in the room. they are expected to agree to the government but leadership still hasn't given the signal for their members to vote. but all in all the parliament proceedings are going on with a

limited but legal number of participants. felicity. >> yeah, and how soon do you think they might actually be prepared to vote? we do have this deadline don't we of tuesday? >> absolutely. since they're sitting in that room and they wouldn't be sitting there unless the prime minister had determined beforehand with the prime minister that they have enough votes to carry this they will go ahead with the vote it seems and it seems as if the government will pass, the cabinet will pass. we've heard some dissension from one of the members of parliament saying they didn't want to vote for people they didn't know. they wanted to see resumes and see these and see that these members are qualified. that isn't going to happy clearly but they are -- to happen clearly but they include a lot of old faces. a lot of people who are in power in the early days since saddam hussein was toppled and they are

coming back now. felicity. >> jane arraf, thank you jane. at least 17 have been killed by duhulea, islamic state fighters. the bomb is expected to have exploded is a humvee vehicle. several in that areas where the islamic state has seized chrome. this is one area they don't want islamic state fighters to get control of haditha, stop islamic state taking the haditha dam, it's iraq's second largest and provides millions of people with water. the united special the the united nations special envoy for children. nela zarugi says the islamic state group is specifically targeting children.

>> i.s.i.l. has tasks boys as young as 13 to carry weapons, strategic locations or civilian or children are used as suicide bombers. >> afghanistan's preliminary future is in doubt with talks between presidential arrival ar raar -- ashraf he ghani, internationally monitored review process that's lasted nearly two months. jennifer glasse reports from the capital, kabul. >> abdalla abdalla says he won afghanistan's presidential election but denied victory because of widespread fraud. and in the interest of the people he says he can't accept defeat. >> to be able to deal with the challenges which afghanistan has faced in this part of the world, could not be based on the

foundation of fraud. >> reporter: abdalla first alleged election fraud two months ago. after preliminary results in the runoff poll put him a million votes behind his rival, ashraf aghani. u.s. secretary of state john kerry came to kabul and negotiated a deal satisfactory to both candidates. including hundreds of afghan and international viewers. aghani's supporters say the political demands are unacceptable. >> they are pushing for things outside the confines of our constitution and we have no authority to succumb to those issues that are prohibited by our constitution. but we are still committed to continue our block. >> abdalla says political negotiations are at a deadlock

but didn't close the door totally to providing a government of rm coalition. jennifer glasse, being al jazeera, kabul. ukraine's president petro poroshenko has visited the ukrainian city of mariupul. ceasefire between government force he and pro-russian rebels continues to hold. russian president vladimir putin has spoken on the phone about steps to bring peace to the east. from donetsk paul brennan reports. >> reporter: the fate of the city of mariupul has depended on a large degree on the loyalty of tens of thousands of steel workers who early in the conflict sided with kiev. so it was the steel works which president poroshenko chose, to deliver a message of defiance in

areas where they would see east ukraine break away. >> legality everyone know we will protect our city, we will protect our region we will protect our state and not give it to anybody, any bit of ukrainian land sovereignty, its territorial integrity, and now we are fighting for our independence. >> the fight moves to the negotiating table and the president knows, dealing with people he condemned as terrorists is going to be painful and difficult. the huge monument which towers over the memorial plaza in separatist donetsk, this rally on monday was intended to mark the defeat of nazi fascists, years ago. >> we showed all the world that we are not terrorists. we are ready to talk. but if they're not ready to listen to us nobody can bury the

ax of war. >> there was little mood for compromise from the staunchly pro-russian crowd. >> what compromise are you talking about? we came here with war. nobody invited them it will. people are against them. what compromise? let he them take their peace, peace will return, that is all. >> fought for the soviet army in the 1950s. like many who have experienced war and lost he is saddened by the conflict in the east. >> we old people, we're disturbed to the bottom of our hearts because russia and ukraine they are one nation, slaf icslavic nation. >> with terms like donbass terrorists, events such as this only serve to perpetual the gap between -- perpetuate the gap between the two sides.

but some kind of compromise is going to have to be found in the weeks and months to come. paul brennan, al jazeera, donetsk. >> new sanctions against russia. targeting russia's financial and oil sectors. the russian prime minister dimitri medvedev. >> searches so far failed to find the malaysian aircraft.

an al jazeera investigation, finds that boeing workers have serious concern over the safety of the 787 aircraft. boeing's dreamliner has been dogged with problems since it failed in 2003, by the time of its first commercial flight in 2011 plane was more than three years late. in january 2014 two batteries -- 2013 two batteries failed and the airliner was grounded. and a hole was burned in the skin of 787 at london's heathrow airport. will jordan reports. >> this is a boeing factory in the u.s. state of south carolina. workers here in charleston are assembling the company's flagship product, the 787 dreamliner. but this footage reveals some

some have little faith in the plane they build. >> you won't fly on one? would you fly on one of these fleans? >> not really. >> of 15 workers asked randomly, ten said they would not fly on the dreamliner. >> i wouldn't fly one of these planes. because i see the quality (bleep) going down around here. >> an employee kept the footage after contacting al jazeera, to tell us he had serious concerns about what he was seeing. aat his request we changed his voice. >> with all the reports ton 787, 70% are getting swept away, it's an iceberg. >> workers are underskilled uncaring and in some cases on drugs. >> i've seen a lot of things should not go on at an airplane

plant. people talking about doing drugs. looking for drugs. >> painkillers and blshes. >> they don't test nobody. >> i know they don't. >> over the course of a year al jazeera investigative reporters have spoken to a number of former boeing engineers and machinists who have little faith in the dreamliner. one shared documents from 2010 which he said showed boeing loosening its own quality requirements. in one memo managers tell engineers schedule may require deviation from boeing's preferred quality process. boeing denies it weakens quality control. but the documents alarmed the president of the engineering union, himself an engineer at the company for 32 years.

>> they're short changing the engineering process. and they're not evening allowing quality control to do their job. >> how does that make you feel to fly? >> oh, yeah, yes, not fly on a 787. that makes you know, because i've been kind of avoiding flying on a 787 seeing this, i would definitely not fly on a 787. >> goinsignify, drug tests in le with company policy and applicable law. >> the number one focus that we have at boeing is, ensuring that continued being truss worthiness of the plane, the quality of the airplane going out. >> the company denies it compromises safety or quality. will jordan, al jazeera. >> and you can watch the al jazeera investigative units full documentary on the dreamliner on

wednesday. that's broken dreams, the boeing 787, will air on september the 10th. and if away from your television you can always catch it on aljazeera.com forward slash boeing787. let's talk to aviation expert stephen trimble. how concerned should passengers be that ten out of the 15 boeing workers questioned said they wouldn't fly on a dreamliner? >> well, that's a very worrisome statistic. in anecdotal form. but in actuality, there is a lot of processes around those workers. that's the mid body joint it still has to go to final assembly. there's still a lot of inspections that take place, a lot of paperwork go through and rearing checks. safety is clear on the 787 with the notable exception of the

grounding because of the battery fires it's had a pretty decent safety record. >> the way that aircraft are put together these days, you know, various i think sort of contracted out, they go to different firms, et cetera, i mean how big is the danger of sacrificing quality to get a product off the ground these days? >> well, i think that was a lesson learned on the 787. 787 took the outsourcing model for producing and designing aan airplane to a whole new level. and it caught the faa especially boaboeing off guard. these designers and companies outside boeing weren't quite up to scratch as boeing had anticipated and you know, that led to a lot of changes. and led to a lot of delays and development problems. but they seem to have figured

out that lesson. you know, and it's not a safety issue, it's mainly a cost issue, flying for boeing for the 787. >> and just how important is the dreamliner for boeing and how could the company be affected by this report? >> well, right now, i mean, 787 is very important for boeing. they've got a thousand aircraft that they've sold, more than a thousand. it's a big program for them going forward. but the 787 is going to be okay. the airlines have spoken, the fuel performance is pretty much what they want. they'd like to get the dispatch reliability or the little nagging technical problems that the aircraft has, they'd like to get that sorted out. but all in all the 787 is doing

okay. statements like we've heard from those workers, that is going to trigger some more and some worthy scrutiny from the federal aviation administration. and from boeing itself probably, to look but overall i mean i think 787 is on pretty good ground right now. >> great to talk to you. stephen trimble, from new york, thank you for your time. still on hand on the news hour. government is challenged on several fronts. just ten days before scotland votes on independence and the yes campaign is ahead in one poll for very first time. and in sport the u.s. open champion, serena williams has been showing off her silverware. a little later. little later.

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somalia. in retaliation for the death of its leader in a u.s. air strikes. exponential increase in ebola cases in the next month. and pakistan has until tuesday to form a new government. a u.s. envoy has visited libya's constitutionally elected al jazeera has obtained a u.n. security council report on the deteriorating situation in libya. deployment editor james bays, joins us. tell us what this report is and

what ban ki-moon's concerns are. >> felicity, this is the report being given to the security council. discussing it next week. al jazeera has managed to obtain a copy. it shows the deteriorating situation in tripoli. the reporting period witnessed the most serious outbreak of armed conflict in tripoli benghazi and elsewhere in the country since 2011. so that's in the almost three years since gadhafi was killed. very grim readings when you read this report. how it's affecting the people there, rapidly deteriorating living conditions, fuel water and electricity. so many other factions and political players. i think it's worth telling you, the other grim statistic in the report. which is about the report we are trying to get out of libya. we know it's long been a route

for migrants from other parts of africa. the number of people now arrived in italy between january and july this year was 77,000 people, that's double the amount last year. and another statistic which i think is pretty staggering, so far, 1,000 refugees from libya have lost their lives at sea drown trying to get away from libya. >> james bays reporting live from the u.n. in new york. thanks james. yemen, tension is mounting in the capital as the hutis, belonged to the minority sect of islam. for decades they fought for more power in sunni-regulated yemen.

posoppose a plan. huti rebels have been camped around for several weeks but the violence has now escalated hasam alba reports. >> they were once brothers in arms but now rivals. colonel broke rank and joined the rebels. leaving the colonel in charge of the unit protecting the capital. the two are negotiating ways to prevent more violence. >> we told the protestors that we are here to protect the interior ministry. if it collapses the whole of yemen will face anarchy. >> set on fire by the protestors. tensions had reached unprecedented levels after weeks

of protests by hufis demanding the government step down. hours later the president asked the police to retreat. for hufis this is the focal point of the new revolution against oppression and revolution. the government says it will be met by force. more shia hufis are joining the protest. the government is planning to build fences and barricades to protect the interior ministry but many officers have defected joining the crowd. >> i took the oath to protect the people of yemen. but when i saw security forces attacking protestors i defected, now i am with the rebels. >> reporter: prominent tribesman from saba the shia minority stronghold in the snort. he is trying with other tribal leaders the mediate a political

deal. >> i'm here to prevent clashes that might lead to civil war. these protesters will continue their peaceful protest for rights. people will take up weapons to defend thems themselves. >> government jets are targeting positions in jove province to hold their advance. a province tribesmen blew up the pipeline, badly in need of cash and political stability to solve its problems. hashima abdalla, are al jazeera. >> al jazeera journalists have been held for 250 days, baher mohamed, mohamed fahmy, and peter greste, appealing against

their convictions. al jazeera is demanding their release. and you can join the campaign to get our al jazeera journalists free, using the hashtag #free ajanjournalists. nearly 350 have been killed in floods in india and pakistan. kamal hadyr reports. >> this is what wajirista looks like after the floods. people retrieve whatever they can. fast driving floods came without warning. others took shelter on the rooftops. infested with snakes and livestock the river is now

receding. one local resident describes what he saw. >> i have never seen anything luke this in my life, even though i'm now 40 years old, i've never seen so much water. >> reporter: pulled out his family in time but half the people in this village decided to stay back and look after their animals and valuable belongings. people here have lost everything. and are waiting for help. >> entire villages have been cut off by large boys of water. agricultural crops have been destroyed, infrastructure has been damaged and many people have been killed in the province of punjab. up to 70% is now under water, but the emergency is not over. people here still face the risk of disease. the floods could not have come at a worst time just as farmers were getting ready to harvest their crops now it seems they

will have to wait for yet another year. kamar hadyr al jazeera wajir wajiristan. >> more from westminster. >> at this point there is absolutely no mistaking what you would call panic, there are crisis meetings going on, at the moment with all the three main westminster parties, labor ruling parties to figure out exactly what they can do to stem this. you have to say frankly a lot of this is their fault because for many months quite smugly they are saying that the note for independence compare would be 20 points ahead that the scots would be crazy to they couldn't

join the european union. that's turned out to be not a given has it? the trajectory for yes to independence has gone gradual ahead. now they say yes for 51% and no, no,49%. looks like it's a trend now and the question is really what can the westminster party do to change the scots mind. the constitutional crisis, prime minister david cameron could potentially have to resign, what calls into question the general elections next year, the rest of the u.k.'s relationship is with thewiththe european union. you have to say that if almost 50% of scots are voting to leave what is supposed to be one of the wealthiest and most

successful countries in the world, it does raise a question about the level of democracy thatless westminster scots. the director of tn in u.k. another tracking device, of the many, many polls that have been conducted on this issue, this has proved to be the most surprising. just how accurate is it? >> i'm surprised it's very accurate, it's a respectable organization. overall, it's a trend we first spoated at the beginning of august when we reported our last poll which saw the elite between yes and no narrowing between six to eight points. that was a significant reduction in the preceding months. it's no great surprise that the

momentum which was also picked up in a couple of polls last week seems to have carried through into this last poll. >> the important thing though about these surveys is that it's really about are you voting yes or no? undecided voters we believe there are a fair few of them left. we don't know exactly how they're going to vote, is that right? >> fair so. we are looking at those claiming certain to vote yes and those claiming certain to vote no. but we've been picking up consistently around 16 to 18% of those certain to vote, who are claiming to be don't knows, undecided, but yet they're saying they're certain to vote so therefore we are queadged in the political process -- are engaged in the political process, and are still very much undecided. that works out as probably around 600,000 in the scottish population are still in this category. >> there are many who say it is still too close to call, whereas

three or four months ago, majority of scots were going to say no, we want to stay part of the united kingdom, westminster in london has been shocked surprised by this latest findings that majority of scots want to break away. >> i think it very much reflects the two campaigns. over the last couple of weeks the yes campaign have been very clever at identifying an issue and national health service in scotland which devolved to the scottish government that reliance on westminster for some of its fundings, it's a trend that was picked up a few months ago in terms of framing their opinion. they've focused behind it and built up a case and argued, and better together campaign up until now have tended to be somewhat negative. they haven't really sold the

benefits of staying within the union. they are more likely to say don't leave the union because of x, y or z. >> tom good to get your thoughts. thanks for coming in. now the organization for economic being campaign and development, oecd, spain's young people are still out of work. neave bark he sent this report. >> reporter: in the spanish capital there are whispers of economic recovery. a hint of optimism is on the horizon. after years of financial woe, the governments are raring to share some good news. and now the most authorize taiivauthoritativeyet, are stepe brink. >> translator: we opened the

closet doors and lots of debts appeared. they have now been cleared away. >> the organization for economic cooperation and development have shown growth for first time in two years. even the government's sky high unemployment rate has been reduced in a modest amount. it's been a record year of tourism in spanish, an increase in the number of people tending to start to spend again has helped lift the country out of recession. however, the road to recovery for many is still a painful path. political activists are putting up posters telling of people living below the poverty line. many of madrid's poor live here in the shadow of the city's new skyscrapers. among the face is 37-year-old sylvia, a mother of two. she's been out of work for several months. when the crisis hit the government gave companies more power to cut sarms and change --

salaries and change work agreement. low wage workers on short term contracts have paid the price. >> translator: the government who are really here to help just don't see our problems. we don't even have money for bare essentials. >> the way to cement change is to provide real jobs. >> employment, employment, employment. two-thirds of the unemployed people don't have any income. they have lost their subsidies so they are in a poverty situation. >> the spanish economy is reawakening but optimism and pessimism are mixed. neave barker al jazeera madrid. >> still lady on the program in sports how two writers came to blows mid-race at the tour of spain.

sami barker is ahead for that one. and the mark of a meteorite, the cause of this giant crater. crater.

>> sammy is here with sports. >> football's world governing body, in charge of the world governing body for the past six

years, 68 years old and his time has been dogged by corruption scandals. blass is now confident he is win a fifth successive term in charge. >> making an official declaration definitely in september, now when we have been informed, a question of respect also, to say then to the football family, yes, i will be ready, i will be -- accommodate. >> more from the u.k. city of manchester where he made the announcement. >> absolutely no surprise whatsoever that he has confirmed that he will tell the executive committee in madrid later that he will stand for a fifth term. he had important meetings in zurich so he couldn't attend the soccer match as planned but, he

had plenty ever opportunities, the one candidate that is standing against him at this point saying he captain see how he can win and no one else seemingly coming into the fray, he knows that he is really set fair for a fifth term, four more yeast which would take him to over 20 years at fifa, and there is other business to talk about as well, no less russia 2018, he's monitoring the situation that fifa wouldn't interfere as yet. and then there's qatar 2022, people should wait and see what's in that report and that will be later this year. he's already handed it to the ethics committee is what they'll say about it, whether they'll take any action. also, very interested in technology isn't he? after the u-turn on goal line technology now he's looking at challenging referees like in tennis. you can have one or two challenges from a coach each

half. he says they may trial that in fifa as early as next year in a youth tournament in new zealand, how well the world cup in brazil went down, the best he's ever seen and also in terms of the ambience. on the pitch there in brazil, it's going to be a really important time off the pitch now. the wake of european contenders continues now, lichtenstein, spain are kicking off the defense of their european title against macedonia in valencia, and two sides fresh out of the world cup swits witsd and england. for the first time in nearly a decade a grand slam title will continue a, marvin trillich and

chai nichikori. serving a drug span he is coached, 2001 wimbledon champion, first grand slam final his coach too has had success in a slam, michael chang won in 1999. native japan since he shocked novak djokovic on saturday, politicians are now taking notice. >> i think magnificent is the only word to describe this properly. if he's come this far we definitely want him to win the tournament. he not only represents the hope of all japanese citizens but would also be the first asian. so we want him to accomplish this great feat.

>> well, serena williams already has the job done. straight set victory over caroline wozniacki. 4th on the all time list of grand slam singles victories but she's got some way to go to match australia's margaret court. 20 titles. allegation he that australia deliberately lost a match at the world cup in spain to get themselves a better draw. basketball australia has been asked to explain the goal, the second string aussie side blew a 15 point lead to lose the match. quarter final match with the united states, academic at australia were knocked out in the second round anyway. the united states meanwhile are busy preparing for their quarter final in slovenia. coming back of a convincing win

over mexico in the previous round. they're now all over slovenia, 70 to 71, warm up game before the world cup. now, here is the full line july. lithuania and turkey, ahead of slovenia u.s.a, followed which france and spain. alberto contadore after his first stage victory of this year's race. contador pulled away from chris fume to win stage 16 in the mountains. 2012 world tour winner, ahead of alberte with five stages left to ride. but the stage was somewhat overshadowed by the disqualification of jean luk

alverna by exchanging blows from their bikes. back to you. >> thanks so much. an explosion appears to be caused by a meteorite hitting the earth. one of the country's frequent earthquakes, experts are determining whether it broke up when it hit the ground or if it remains buried in the earth. >> we are convinced it was a meteorite. we're looking into the scale of the impact. later we'll give you more information about the scale of the impact. we think we should investigate this further. we have brought an instrument we are going to use to investigate, if the meteorite was used by ice or rock. >> that is just about it for this particular news hour. do join us, the latest from the iraqi parliament currently voting on members of the new

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