♪ this is the news hour and coming up, in the next 60 minutes trying to unify the divided country and iraq's prime minist minister. suicide attack in the afghan capitol kills three people and also some are nato soldiers. i'm at the nuclear base outside of glascow and what

happened to defense and policy if an independent scott land appears to withdraw nuclear submarines. one movement is trying to stop corporations from controlling the global food industry. ♪ so we begin in iraq where parliament is due to debate who should fill two of the top jobs in government, crucial and bringing back political stability in iraq and with it what is needed for reconciliation after years of ex clusionary problems. the promise of an inclusive government and trying to overcome the distrust that feel for the government in baghdad part of the legacy of the predecessor maliki who was discredited in sunni like nanbar and that is where isil made

gains with sectarian rifs and recapturing territory that is improbable if divisions are not fixed under a unified government according to politicians and we are live in baghdad and emron just take us through the process here, how is it all going to work? >> reporter: well parliament meets in about five minutes time and officially 1:00 local, once that meeting gets underway they will vote on sovereign ministries and by that the most crucial ones being the ministry of defense and the ministry of interior and names have been put forward and it's not necessarily about who is the best person for the job, it's who is most acceptable to all of the different political blocks, these are very highly charged positions here and very influential positions here because you look effectively over the whole country and the ministry looks after the police and ministry of sde fence looks after the army, navy, et cetera

and they are crucial positions and voted on by iraq's parliamentary and it's who is acceptable for the different blocks and ministry of defense will go to the sunnis, that is an agreement made with the new government, allowed him to form this government early this month and ministry of interior will go to the shia and there is almost like a conofficial system being put into place where different blocks get different ministries and that is the only way really you will get a unified government in iraq. >> and a straightforward process by any means, are we definitely going to get a decision today? >> reporter:. >> i will try that one more time i think we lost you, do you think we will get a decision

today? >> reporter:. >> we lost him and i apologize for that and we will try to get him backup later and that is a process going on in parliament in just a few minute's time. syrian activists say isil have shot down a plane and 8 people were killed when it crashed in residential area and these pictures said to show an army jet over the city and government launched several attacks targeting isil. let's turn to ukraine where we want to update you on a developing story, the government there is calling for local elections in areas of eastern ukraine that are held by separatists. let's go straight to robin walker who is on the line for us in donetsk in eastern ukraine and robin what more can you tell us about this? >> reporter: hi there, yes, this is a law yet to be prevented and

it took everybody by surprise and now trying to be put through parliament and passed and what it does is offers the rebel in the rebel-held areas in eastern ukraine an opportunity to put their weapons aside and to accept really a degree of very special economy that would enable them to i think not face any prosecution and effectively run their ownership for a period, a limited period of time. so what we tried to do with the ukrainian government is we are not going to continue to wage war with you, we offer you this opportunity to stay in ukraine but roll your own affairs. what now needs to happen if it's going to meet anything at all is

it sounds like a good idea to us and we will take it and i was speaking to someone today and asked about the draft law and he said to me we are not going to accept anything like this. this is just a ukrainian government again throwing and docking orders and not being willing to sit down and talk dialog. so it didn't sound completely positive yesterday and we will have to wait and see if there is any official reaction at this stage from the chief or the head of the donetsk people republic administration and see what they say and how the rebels will respond to this. >> all right robin thanks for the update and that is robin walker reporting from donetsk. suicide bomb in afghanistan tilled at least six people and wounded 0 -- 20 others in kabul and happened close to the u.s.

embassy compound and we report from there. >> reporter: this was the target of the taliban attack, a bomb packed into a station wagon. the blast scattered vehicles between the u.s. embassy and kabul airport at the height of the morning rush hour. >> translator: when i go out of the vehicle and started walking an explosion happened, the same vehicle i was in was destroyed, the target was an american vehicle, a lot of people were killed and wounded. >> reporter: several afghans and foreigners were killed and injured and it was a bold attack in the center of the city, an area where security is tight. it's inside the so called ring of steel and checkpoints that circle the afghan capitol. the wounded afghans were treated at a nearby hospital, more than a dozen of them. the attack at the heart of the city comes at an already difficult time for afghanistan. the nation is gripped by an election dispute that has deplayed the naming of a president and hurt the economy and attacks like this one and

concerns about deteriorating security add to afghan's security about their future, jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. okay, much more still to come here on the al jazeera news hour and we meet the business men and women in ghana paying a high price for the country's economic slide. also ahead. i'm andrew thomas in fiji for an election in more than eight years but will it truly restore democracy and will it be free and fair. the seasons champion league is set for kickoff and the defending champions are also facing a crisis and joe will be here with all the details on that. ♪ united states is expected to send 3,000 military personnel to west africa to help fight ebola and planning to provide medical and support and train up to 500

healthcare workers a week. the virus killed more than 2400 people. meanwhile a doctor in guinea has died from the virus and one of five doctors at a government hospital who tested positive last week. that was this kanikry, the capitol and more than 2400 people have died of the virus across africa. to the latest in yemen where fighting between yemen and rebels killed at least seven people and the group has been leading protests against the government for more than a month, let's cross now where we are live from there and give us an update, what is the latest? >> reporter: the fighting in the province, there is an escalation and the government has been heavily using war planes to pound healthy positions over the last three days. but some civilians were killed in those air strikes, creating a

backlash even among government supporters. but over the last 48 hours, fighters masked hundreds of additional fighters in that area with heavy weapons and also with tanks have started shelling government positions. we know now they managed to control new areas in the province and that at least 20 fighters were killed in the attack. here in the capitol here, a village about 20 minutes drive north of the capitol and they were planning to set up a new protest camp but under village's said we don't want to see any problem in the area, the scuffle turned into clashes and at least six people were killed. so you can see there is an escalation and tension that is building up in the northern province here also. >> all the while the united nations is attempting these talks, these ongoing talks to try and defuse the tension that is ongoing in yemen.

>> reporter: well, there was a general sentiment that it was going to be an easy past to a political settlement but it turned out to be an extremely delicate and mamouth task and they agree of forming a new government of tecnocr arc ts but the problem lies in how can they move forward, the president said they need the yedizis by pulling out the fighters and dismantling the protest camps and yedizis insist and this is the instrument we have to put pressure on the government and they will only pull out the fighters once the deal is fully implemented and remains to be seen if the special envow to yemen will tell the government and yedizis to save this country

toward slipping to further chaos. >> thanks very much indeed, that is the very latest from yemen and we are reporting from there. just two days ago until scott land votes on whether to go alone and break up the 307-year-old united kingdom and it's a matter for britain and independent scott land could worry for allies because it's home to the nuclear arsenal and we are in scott land which is where the fleet of trident sub maroons are based and this is a crucial part of the debate, isn't it? >> we traveled from east scott land to the west overnight to try to demonstrate some of the importance of this and today all the talk here is all about the vow, the vow to the scottish people david cameron made overnight in aberdeen and agreed to by the policy leaders that as

long as the scott vote no the attitude will change to them and using the analogy of a marriage and potential divorce as if on some level they have actually accepted over the years the westminster has become a little like an abusive husband and realized this late in the day that scott land packed its suitcase and standing by the front door and potentially in time and may take whales and northern ireland with them and it's up to trust and the trust that the politicians are saying okay, fine, we understand you have concerns with this and we are going to do something about it or as many nationalists still believe the unionists are so much interested in the family of scott land but much more interested in the oil in the sea and what is in the military base down there.

if there was ever a nuclear war this place would be in the middle of it sheltered by low mountains and lakes and known as locks in scott land is uk nuclear defense, you can make out the shape of a submarine on the dock under high wear under constant patrol and this is under the blanket of parties but many in scott land don't buy that story and certainly don't want nuclear weapons on their la land. >> has been against it for quite sometime now and that is reflected in the antinuclear independence and that is the reason it has come down to a yes, no vote of weapons. >> reporter: uk government doesn't have the nuclear weapons here just because it's scott land, it's because the locks are so deep that the craft can get out to sea quickly and disappear off the continentel shelf and no

where around the coast of the u kc kchl -- uk offers such good places to hide. they are talking about problems independent scott land would face if it tried to go it alone but this is what all the politicians in london fear losing the most because the dread fear in westminster is exactly what happens if an independent scott land demands withdraw of the uk nuclear fleet and it would make the future of this place a huge bargaining chip. >> on a day-to-day bay isthe scottish police force has to protect it from protesters and if they wanted to force them to remove the weapons it could simply cutoff the support and cutoff any support for the regulatory aspects of it and make sure it's filled up with any random fishing boat and it could make the uk's life very, very difficult. >> reporter: the other question is what happened to the british

army which traditionally carried lots and lots of scotts, the scottish government wants its own army outside of uk forces and many believe scottish soldiers would stay exactly where they are now. scott land formed the backbone of the british army. we recruit more people out of scott land per capita than anywhere in the uk and we always have and always will. >> reporter: imagine what it would look like on the world stage with one of the four corners suddenly missing and without scott land would whales and northern ireland look small, a country which cannot keep itself together, a bit week, lawrence lee in scott land. let's speak to malcolm, research defend policy at the world institution and welcome to the program. and neither country can mess

around when it comes to defense, how would they resolve this crucial issue should scott land go independent? >> it would be very difficult indeed. i think especially on the nuclear issue and i think the uk, for its part in the negotiations would at the very least want to have the ability to keep the nuclear base in scott land for as long as it took to build an alternative base elsewhere in the uk. >> that would take years, wouldn't it? >> my view is it would take at least a dozen years. it would be possible i think in the end but it would take time and an alternative base would not be add good as the base on the clyde. >> what about intelligence services? >> that is urgent because as soon as scott land becomes independent the services will not be able to operate there unless there is a legal bases to

do so and there is a concern that terrorist or criminal gangs would be able to use scott land as a backdoor into hitting targets in the rest of the uk. certainly if there continues to be open borders everybody is hoping there will be freedom movement of people that means scott land could be a backdoor for terrorist to go to the rest of the uk and create a strong incentive on cooperation on security from day one but there is a lot of practical issues that need to be sorted out there. >> there is the global perception of the remaining bits of the united kingdom and certainly distinguish the uk standing in the world view, wouldn't it? >> i think it would and i think this is very different from withdraw from india or africa or united states in the past because scott land is part of core uk, scott land played a key role in bringing up britain as a world power in the center of it in the 19th century and so on and so forth. and for the uk admittedly

through a very peaceful and democratic process to lose a key part of what it is i think would be a massive blow to the uk's international reputation, after all the uk has pride in itself and being a power that has a long traditional of stability and democratic change and is able to go to other countries and advise them and go to people in yugloslovakia and it's harder to do that if it breaks up despite the strong campaigning in london. i think the extent to which the uk reputation is diminished will determine if there is a amicable statement and if they are able to negotiate a very close and friendsly relationship on defense and lots of other areas at least the uk can say we can handle separation in a civilized

way but then i think it will be an enormous distraction and find less energy for sometime to come to cope with the problems of the middle east or the ball kins or ukraine or whatever it might be. >> fascinating stuff and appreciate that and we will find out soon enough in the next couple days which way it's going to go, thanks a lots. and people in fiji will go to the polls on tuesday to take part in an election since the military take over in 2006 and watching the long awaited vote eager to welcome the country back to the diplomatic fold and here is andrew thomas. >> reporter: she enjoys her job and recently gotten gauged, her future looks bright but with an election on wednesday she is thinking about her country's future. >> we want to live in a country where we can exist and

economically we are good. >> reporter: her grand daughter is go going through the election candidates. >> decide, yes, maybe three days, on wednesday, i might pick the right one. >> reporter: the most familiar face is frank who has run fiji since 2006 when he took power in a coup, international sanctions followed as he ruled by decree and new zealand broke diplomatic ties. >> saying we don't need new zealand and australia any more and make new friends and seek out better and bigger relations. >> reporter: chinese investment kept the economy going and it improved and free education expanded. sanctioned had worked and when they eventually set an election dade new zealand and australia

resumed ties and whether the election will be free and fair so far a mixed and the grip on the media and bans on some parties and candidates. >> the election is part of the fear that even the side that loses accepts them, accepting the outcome. >> reporter: an international team of observers say they do not expect any fraud but even a legitimate election will only be a first step. >> i hope this election will really set the very good examples of privatization of fiji. >> reporter: things like independent courts and a free press will be expected and concerning some is a media blackout, a three-day preelection decree bans any political campaign and no reporting on political activity and anything that may influence voters and a social media ban and it's more than about an

election it's about how its held and what happens next, andrew thomas al jazeera in fiji. pakistan army stepped up efforts for the flood waters and it is expected to reach the province in the next 48 hours and boats are being used to rescue village's and helicopters are being used to drop bags of supplies from the air. typhoon has hit china's southern most island. 90,000 people are forced to leave their homes in high-risk areas and seek shelter and dozens of flights have been cancelled and it's heading to vietnam and we can get more on the typhoon from everton and the typhoon is getting week. >> plenty of rain to come in the system and it actually is still a typhoon and soon it will be a tropical storm so i would say in the next 3-4 hours it will be

downgrade but heavy rain to come and this is a mass of cloud making its way across the south china seas to the gulf and have seen huge amounts of rainfall coming from the storm and sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour and it's just about a category one hurricane on the scale. barely a typhoon at the moment. still strong and damaging winds a possibility. the system will make its way further west, northwest and interacted with the land and losing the strength in terms of the wind but not so in terms of the rainfall, plenty of heavy rain still coming in behind and 233 millimeters of rain coming down in only 24 hours, i think some of these areas across southern china will see 100-200 millimeters of rain over the next 24 hours and any consolation i can offer is it's making its way westward in a quick and rapid manner and coming through and brisk winds coming through wednesday and go

on into thursday and those winds die down smartly and it will be a tropical quickly and vast amounts of rain across southwest china and north vietnam and there will be flooding to come there then over the next few days. we heard of flooding across pakistan and northwest of india and we see the sky is largely clear here for what will do and coming out of the sky and heavy rains continue right up the eastern cats in the coming days, nick. >> thank you. protesters in the malaysia capitol demand an end to laws they say are repressive to jail anybody who questions the country's leaders and scott reports from quala-lumpa. support of a young malaysia man in prison and calling for more than his release and calling for the law that imprison ended him to be abolished and he is held under

the acts of 1948 put in place when malaysia with a british colony. >> only malaysia it has been used against opposition figures who criticize the government. >> reporter: the act was designed to prevent an armed over throw of the government restricting what people can say and write that might lead to revolts. the government is bullying him over a comment he posted online denouncing royalty in malaysia. >> over thrown by a facebook status or the government would be in jeopardy. >> reporter: in growing numbers opposition party members are being arrested along with journalist and religious leaders and the government says they are not behind the arrests. >> we do not have a role in getting the authorities to prosecu prosecute against anybody. they are left on their own to do their jobs.

>> reporter: the prosecution is not commenting on the cases. repeatedly prime minister has said the sedition act will be abolished and the sleek sky under lines the promises from the prime minister and ruling party that they are leading malaysia into the future and why are they using this old colonial law to silence the opposition. abraham is facing a second sodomy case and the lawyer says the timing may be because of this case. the lawyer has been charged with sedition for publically repeating his argument in the case. >> what is important is that the, we all, the whole country stand firm and not buckle to this kind of pressure from the authorities. we have a right to speak our mind and a right to question the government. >> reporter: and increasingly malaysia people are speaking their mind and holding more protests like this on tuesday, walking through the landmark twin towers in the capitol.

this is as the government works to draft a modern vision of the act 60 years after they gained independence from britain. i'm with al jazeera. more on the news hour and the first chinese president to visit shra-lanka in three decades and we report about a mystery illness that is killing healthy young labors plus. >> reporter: outside of the national league headquarters in new york, coming up, details on the growing pressure against the league commissioner over how he has handled domestic violence allegation among players. ♪

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♪ you are watching the al jazeera news hour and let's have a reminder of top stories, iraq parliament is due to discuss who should fill the top jobs of the government defense and interior minister positions and stability and also see central to prime minister of increasing the government. the government in ukraine is calling for elections to be held in eastern ukraine held by separatists with fighting there since a ceasefire between pro-russia rebels and troops began on september the 5th. syrian activists say fighters from isil shot down a government plane, eight people were killed when it crashed in a residential area and meanwhile these pictures show a syrian jet over

the city and the government launched several attacks targeting isil. the united states ap pears to be expanding the offense against the state of iraq and fighter jets destroyed an isil position near baghdad and the first time the u.s. hit targets near the capitol and it destroyed six vehicles in the northwestern town of sinja. there is talk about the coalition to destroy isil but the u.s. is the only country to carry out strikes against the group and france said it will carry them out in iraq and started mixes but there is difficulty in hitting isil targets in syria. britain is also reluctant to carry out air strikes in syria but not ruled them out and supplying kurdish fighters with weapons and ruled out air strikes altogether. turkey says it won't take military action and 40 citizens are being held by isil and arab countries have not said if they

will contribute but unlikely they will contribute ground forces to battle isil. germany put on trial one of its citizens accused of joining isil and prosecutors say 20-year-old joined the group last year and his trial started on monday and formally charged with membership of a foreign terrorist origin organization. the american justice department has a program to locate possible isil recruits in the u.s. and 100 americans are fighting with the group and patty has this report. >> reporter: the brutality of the people and concerted effort by the obama administration has the american people convinced, isil is a direct threat to the united states. >> we are worried about the number of foreign fighters that are going into syria to fight. some of them may then become even more extreme and want to return to their home countries be that in europe or even in the

united states god for bid to carry out their terrible acts. >> reporter: only a handful voiced skepticism of the claims and david is one of them. >> if we look at somalia and al-shabab and al-qaeda's affiliate there we found that it actually has been more of a graveyard than a launch pad for foreign fighters, about a third of the americans who we have seen named who went over there have died in somalia and another several have returned to the u.s. or europe or iraq state. >> in the u.s. 19-year-old shannon conly plead guilty to terrorism charge and arrested at the denver airport and said she was going to syria to help after falling in love with a fighter online and the u.s. justice department has announced a pilot program to find other americans who may also be thinking about joining the fight. >> these programs will bring

together community representatives and public safety officials and religious leaders and attorneys to improve local engagement to counter violent extremism and to build a community partnerships to keep our nation safe. >> reporter: the obama administration strategy becoming clear, destroy the isil fighters already in syria and iraq at the same time try to keep their numbers from growing especially when it comes to would be recruits with american passports, patty with al jazeera in washington. six egyptian police killed by a roadside blast in northern sinai and it hit a police car between the capitol and the town of rafa and two others wounded in the attack. al jazeera demands the release of three journalists in prison in egypt and they have now been detained for 262 days and falszlyfalsz

lyfalsz -- falsely accused of aiding the muslim brotherhood and appealing the conviction. following his visit to the country libya has two opposing governments supported by armed groups engaged in daily battles and gerald tan has the report. >> reporter: a battle for the capitol and this new round of air strikes target the area south of tripoli but it's not clear who is behind it. tripoli is under the control of malitias fighting on behalf of the general national congress. the controversial parliament has refused to disband june elections and instead functioning as a government and the leader says it is facing foreign intervention. >> translator: the continued shelling of libyan cities supported by powers outside of libya is paving the way for a

dangerous situation that will drag the whole country to a state of mill shaktar aconflict and possible civ war and the sup supers are responsible for the situation. >> reporter: fighters have driven out the newly-elected house of representatives, that internationally recognized parliament is operating more than a thousand kilometers away from the capitol in the eastern city of tabrook and supported by forces loyal to retired general hafta and they have been blocking the strategic benghazi port to stop what they say is the rifle malitias and also claim to have carried out the latest air strikes. but many military experts doubt the aerial capabilities and have to force us earlier responsibility for previous air raids and blamed on them and they are gripped in the worst violence and political turmoil

since the death of gadhafi years ago and run by two governments and parliaments and a patch work of armed groups all vying for power and all unwilling to compromise. gerald tan, al jazeera. the chinese president ping is in shrelanka for a visit in almost three decades and building $1.4 bill port project and dubbed the maritime silk road and the two become the largest investor in the country and we have details now from columbo. >> reporter: chinese leader is the first to visit in 28 years and it's very much a sign of the warming relations between the two countries. now, the relationship between shrelanka and china goes back hundreds of years and the convention center you see behind me is something that was gifted by the chinese to shrelanka decades ago but the relationship

has sort of warmed in resent years and chinese has a massive presence here contributing in a scale of spheres and we have power projects and infrastructure development, we've got a number of things that china in terms has come in with the investment as well as the man power to help shrelanka on its road to recovery and rebuilding since the end of the war. and china coming through for this country during the final stages of the conflict in terms of money and loans and as well as weaponry to help the government here in its final push to win that war against them. however, now, it is almost pay back time with an increasing presence for china in shrelanka with a number of development projects going china's way. now the issue has brought some criticism from the government who say more questions need to

be asked in terms of the procedures which have been circumvented to award projects to china and questioning as to whether some of these projects are indeed necessary, that they do criticize the fact that shrelanka is signing up for loans for many generations to come with interest rates higher than they should be but over all definitely this tour as whirlwind as it is very much a sign of the warming relations. ghanna is considered to be the most politically stable african nation but bailing an economy and they are in talks with the monetary fund to stop the slide of currency affecting local business and from the capitol we have this report. >> reporter: daniel has been in business for 22 years. he and his wife import clothing and shoes from turkey and china and makes his money in local currency in ghana city but has to pay for goods in u.s. dollars, the city is depreciated

40% on the dollar in the first 8 months of this year and had a huge impact on his business. >> affected me dearly so it got it for 10,000 and now 9,000 for 10,000. so you can't manage it. >> reporter: people are so frustrated they have even taken to the streets in protest. everywhere you go people are talking about the rising cost of living. few have gone up more than 10% so far this year and the cost of basic goods is also rocketing. in the market business is down. the market women say people just aren't spending. >> it's what they have planned, maybe one or two, when it comes to the process change they don't go by it at all. >> reporter: the country imports far more than it exports so there is massive demand for

u.s. dollars and that is defeating the foreign currency reserve and putting pressure on the local currency and the government has a huge public sector wage bill. the country was initially reluctant to seek help from the international monetary plan but they say it's the right decision. >> we have a situation where we introduce a new pay structure and that is consuming 70% for instance so we don't have much for the development of this. then somehow the government changes the whole array of subsidies, you know. now, it is argued that is not efficient. imf will help put in place this array of short-term stabilization measures but we need to try to said, as i said, the weak fundamentals. >> reporter: ghanna has traditionally rely on cocoa and

gold to prop up the economy but over the years global commodity prices have fallen and they need to diversify and grow and boost earnings from exports and the government also needs to cut spending and that is likely to be unpopular. people want things to get better but it's going to be a difficult journey that requires a lot of political will. i'm with al jazeera, ghana. in the last decade a mysterious kidney disease killed 20,000 people in central america and some communities it's the second leading cause of death among working aged men and most of those are laborers from sugar cane fields and we report from nicaragua. >> she lost her husband to chronic kidney disease and one

by one her sons did also and the disease is so common and deadly that a nearby community is now known as the island of widows. >> translator: i miss them. my husband and sons were the ones who helped me through my life but now they are gone. it is sad when you lose loved ones. >> reporter: over the past decade more than 20,000 central american laborers have died from chronic kidney disease. while in developed countries the illness effects older people with diabetes and high blood pressure, here it is young sugar cane workers hit the hardest and chemicals and stress and dehydration and exposure to pathogens are some of the possible causes scientists are investigating. for those who worked in sugar cane fields and looking for answer one thing is clear. >> we are sure the cause of the disease is due to conditions at

the sugar mill, the men who work there are dying and now the women who started working there also have chronic kidney disease. >> reporter: protests have not been successful. this is the entrance to the largest sugar processing facility and earlier this year hundreds of former workers gathered here to demand compensation for their illnesses but after police opened fire killing one ex worker the protests stopped. many say the intimidation continues. and juan says he was put on an industry-wide black list for leading a protest against working conditions. >> translator: they listen to us at the time but after the sugar harvest the company fired us and now there are 150 of us without work because we all tried to claim our rights. while the san antonio sugar mills did not respond to our interview request they say there

is a link between sugar cane and kidney disease and they are still hoping for an answer. troubling spread of the mystery disease in nicaragua and joe will be here to tell you why there is good news for boxers at games and details coming up, in a couple minutes in sport. ♪

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♪ hello again and welcome back, the fight over who runs the world's food supply is stepped up, the global seed market is held by companies and people who have long planted now are restricted, scientists and activists are trying to change that. >> i'm showing this on film. >> reporter: the professor is not a fan of what he calls indenture seed, each corn seed has been painted 32 times to restrict its use. chemical companies have been looking beyond the gm seeds for new sources of income, at stake now traditional non-gm vegetable

seeds and germ plasam and the gene they contain. >> onions and beats and if we don't do something it will take them off the table. >> reporter: they have the open source seed initiative and what they hope will be a library of seeds for breeders, gardners and farmers to use freely and 20% of the world's seed can be considered indentured and painted by ten companies. as corporations paint more crops the free exchange of seed is prohibited. >> without that you breed in a silo and breed only within your own material. >> reporter: as a result of the global pool of genetic resources shrinks. >> what we need as we face the challenges that are coming with climate change, if we are going to indeed not to feed the ten million, billion people that are coming but allow the ten billion

people to feed themselves what we need is a whole range of new plant and new varieties and a wide range of crops. >> three beans of varieties. >> reporter: the localization of the u.s. main commercial crops has already been felt at humble levels. >> most of the corn we planted when i was a kid is not available. this is the baby. >> reporter: and she decided to use open source seeds for hers and like the seeds from multiple chemical companies they come with conditions but they are very different. this is the open source seed pledge, but opening this packet it says you pledge that you will not restrict others use of these seeds and their derivatives by patent, license or any other means. organic and local and fair trade food have grown if popularity and supporters of open source seeds hope they will be a choice for farmers and consumers uneasy

about the corporate monopolization about the food supply, madison, wisconsin. moving to the sport and joe is here. >> thank you, the united states biggest and wealthiest league the nfl is hiring four women as advisors to help shape the league policy on domestic violence according to a memo roger goodell to the league's 32 owners and comes in the wake of a high profile case that placed goodell under intense scrutiny and we report. >> reporter: baltimore ravens ray rice has been sidelined but the case is over shadowing the start of the american football season and weighing appeal for his indefinite suspension from the game which came at the hands of national league commissioner roger goodell. women's groups are saying goodell must go even flying signs over stadiums to that effect. until the release of this video of rice punching his fiancee who

has since become his wife goodell settled for a two-game suspension. >> he shouldn't have needed a video nor public outrage to do the right thing and given that is what it took it's pretty clear we need somebody other than roger goodell in charge of a major institution like the nfl. >> reporter: dealing with two other players accused of abuse and he lied about not having seen the rice video prior to the two-game suspension and then there is push back from women fans who account for 45% of the nfl's audience at stadiums and on television. >> this is a black eye for the nfl, no question about it and how they spin and control this and how they move forward will be really important but i mean in the short term this really damages the league's integrity, credibility with women. >> reporter: roger goodell may be losing face with the public

but is incredibly popular with the owners of the 32 teams that fund the league, headquarters behind me in new york and the incredible $44 million and wall salary and bonus package of the commissioner. in resent days at least three team owners have come out publically and expressed their unwavering support, kristen with al jazeera in new york. the minnesota vikings have been under the spotlight over the behavior of one of their players and resulted in the radisson hotel chain dropping sponsorship of the team, peterson was charged with child abuse after hitting his son with a tree branch and despite the charge the vikings reinstated the player for sunday for the saints and he is mvp in 2012 could face two years in prison if found guilty. >> we are trying to do the right thing. this is a difficult path to navigate. regarding the judgment of how a parent disciplines his child.

based on the extensive information that we have right now, and what we know about adrian not only as a person but what he has also done for this community, we believe he deserves to play while the legal process plays out. >> reporter: indian boxers will be allowed to compete at the asian games in south korea under their national flag and the boxing india board got the green light from the governing body three years after the predecessor was in jail for corruption and they had nine metals and two golds and one of the starts, five-time champion mary was the pick two years ago and previously said her and her teammates have been really depressed over the uncertainty of their participation at the asian games. on to football now and champion league returns with the beginning of the group stages on tuesday, the holders around madrid host bozel in group b and

despite the talents they had a poor start to the season by their standards using their last two league games including madrid to atletico and then they bood the team off the pitch. >> translator: i feel like a coach who has to fix things in the team. the same has happened last year. this match comes at the right time as a chance to show a positive reaction and demonstrate the good things in the team. >> reporter: also in that group five-time winners liver pool make their return after the absence of five seasons and he qualified for the competition after finishing second in the league last season and coming off the back of a home defeat to villa on the league on saturday. >> that has been our objective really over the course of what i commend that was my main priority to get the club back to this level because this is a club and everything that needs to be at this level, both for itself and for football in

general, i think it's one of the football great around the world and a club of football so it feels brilliant to be back. >> reporter: and the other games last season's runners up, madrid and atletico going to group a and and they travel to germany. former fifa official has officially concerned he will stand against the presidency of football's world governing body and the frenchman is the only declared person for the presidential elections held during the fifa congress and returning for a fifth term in charge and a former diplomate who served an as fifa executive for 11 years. dutch football great has quit with the club due to health issues. the 49-year-old said in a

statement being head coach is causing him physical and mental problems and he wants to step out of the lime light and he previously managed the dutch national team and he will now focus on developing young players at elkmar. tiger woods says he is planning to return in the new season despite not hitting a golf ball in five weeks and the four time champion had his season hampered by back injury and has not played since missing the cup in pga championship and will come back in december and brushed off comments by rory-mcilroy that he and phil nickelson are on the back of their careers and check out al jazeera/sport and details on how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook and plus we have opinion pieces and video clips from our correspondents from around the world. that is all the sport for now,

nick. >> thanks very much indeed. before we go i will bring you breaking news, earlier we were talking about ex parliament due to discuss who should fill two of the top cabinet post to top jobs in government, ministry and defense and crucial to bring political stability to the new unity government that has been formed and to the country itself and also seen central to inclusive government. what i can tell you news coming into us here on the wire that from iraq officials that they selected the final cabinet ministers and the crucial posts of defense and interior minister. there is no more news on that just yet, not sure exactly who they are but we are on it and we will bring you all the developments in the next half hour, and we will be here with another hour of news and tell you more about it at that time.

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