♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the al jazeera news hour, live from doha, i'm darren jordan and these are the main stories we are look at this hour. victory for the campaign to keep the uk united as scotland rejects independence. >> the people of scotland have spoken. and it is a clear result.

>> this campaign will say that 55%, that 1.6 million votes is a substantial vote for scottish independence and the future of this country. >> reporter: about the result comes at a cost, london is prepared to reduce its influence in favor of giving up some of its powers. and we will live in scotland reflecting on how the vote and its effect on our traveling south of the border and could transform the fortune politically of the entire united kingdom. in other news u.n. declares ebola a threat to security as sierrea-leon is declaring a problem. and then we have a grand

slam champion at the age of 32. welcome to the program, in the last few weeks the opinion poll said it would be close and reference of the referendum would have created a crisis in london and the final was 40% wanted to break away but 55% wanted to stay. only because big concessions were offered in the final few days of campaigning. let's talk to july mcdonald live here and a clear win for the no campaign, what does the result tell us? >> i think, darren, what the vote tells us is still 1.6 million people voted for change and they want to see that happen quickly and they are going to be holding politicians to account. i want to share with you some of the front page newspapers here in scotland, all focusing on different things but all of them

saying it was a historic event and scotland should feel proud of its involvement in this momentous occasion, the scottish daily mail and i hope you can see it, a new dawn for scott land, so you can see that quiet glimmer of optimism and people on the streets were saying they were heart broken and disappointed but there is a quiet flame of this and that is the front of the scottish daily mail. on the front of this they have a cute picture and i don't know if you can see it there of a little scotty dog and pets for independence, they have their own campaign and twitter account and says at the bottom the nation speaks. whether the nation will feel har a are -- harred we can reflect on days and weeks to come. a local edengorough says they make history and this is 86

percent and not just scotland but an event around the world and that turn out is quite amazing and the last one here, the daily record, d day it says. i think people feel change is still achievable and there were moments last night and i was up most of the night trying to stay awake where there were tense moments and a feeling that maybe change was certainly out of the grasp of scotland's people. but in the end the vote was no. as i said this morning that quiet glimmer of optimism that perhaps change is still within scotland's grasp. >> during a long night at the end of a two-year campaign scotland watched as its future played out on t.v. >> 194,000. >> reporter: as the votes were counted the yes campaign had a few highs, winning significantly in scotland's second city

glascow but there were more nos, more wins for the nos before the man who led the independence campaign accepted defeat. >> it's important to say that our referendum was agreed and consented process and scotland has by majority decided not at this stage to become an independent country. i accept that verdict of the people and i call on all of scotland to follow suit and in accepting the democratic republic of scotland. >> it was an inspiring and relentlessly negative and in the end if it played on the fears of economic independence it may have won by doing so. on thursday voters turned out in their biggest numbers in scottish electoral history to make the most important decision of their lives.

>> i voted, yes, and mainly from the educational thing i'm told we will lose our free education. >> because all of scotland and i don't trust alex. >> reporter: the arguments will rage over way the scotts voted as they did, was it fear or did they see sense in preserving an age-old union. they were presented with the possibility of independence, not by the gun, not by revolution but by the ballot box. it was a historic choice in every way. in the end they looked independence in the eye and said, no. but make no mistake, the flame of separatism in scotland has not gone out. >> thank you to scotland for 1.6 million votes for scottish independence. >> reporter: enormous number did vote for independence, what they have been promised instead are more powers of self

determination by politicians hundreds of miles south. scotland voted for a stronger scottish parliament backed by the strength and security of the uk and i want to congratulate the no campaign for that and showing that our nations really are better together. >> reporter: in london, at westminster they will know now that a changed scotland will hold them to account. i'm with al jazeera. no shortage of reaction from mps and particularly from rebel-backed ventures who are now putting pressure on david cameron and making very strong demands of him. >> i think we can do both jobs and we say those of us at this parliament in the uk should meet on our own and sort out all the

english issues while the scotts have separate politicians to do it in edenbourough. >> it opened up a conversation across the whole uk how politicians can best meet the needs of the people and let's bring in our correspondent mr. phillips and there have been no shortage of reactions from mp in westminster this morning. >> yes, that is right and it's important to say the overwhelming emotion in westminster is one of relief and joy. that the united kingdom is still intact, relief certainly for the prime minister, david cameron, he would have gone down in history as the man who had lost the union if the yes vote triumphed in scotland and could have been the end of his political career. that did not happen but he now has to deliver on promises that he and the other westminster parties made to scotland and he

has come out emphatically this morning saying they will give them more power over tax for instance and that there is a pretty tight timeframe in terms of him and he wants draft legislation ready before the end of the year and go before parliament in january of this year. in order to achieve that he has got to have some form of cross party consensus and that won't be easy. >> and barnabie this result has indications in the longer terms perhaps for england too because of course there is a fall out signs of the border, isn't there, and a feeling there are some english issues, if i can describe them that way that need to be tackled. >> yes, and that is what you heard john redword talking about just before, you are absolutely right. the question of scotland separating from the united kingdom has been resolved at least in the short term

presumably but the wider question of how the united kingdom should be governed and how it can be done in such a way that it's fair for all the nations that comprise this rather complicated country, well that debate has only just begun and there are many voices in the governing conservative party who are saying this is not fair, if scotland is going to get all these new powers, what about us, the english? we are the biggest part of the united kingdom and we want to be treated on an equal footing. but, of course, different political parties here in westminster have different agendas, you have the liberal democrats who are part of the governing coalition and the opposition labor party desperate to get back in party and will look at things rather differently and want power in the regions of england but they know that ultimately they depend on an awful lot of support from within the broader united kingdom and from scotland itself

and indeed from whales and the issues are very tricky and if you like the scottish referendum results is only the beginning of a much wider debate and political argument that will rage for months and years to come here in westminster about how the united kingdom moves forward. >> thank you, i think that is a very good point he is making there that, in fact, this referendum is not the end, it's the beginning of a much bigger national conversation for the whole uk. on that note i want to introduce you to this man who voted yes yesterday and robby thanks for being with us and joining us this morning, what is your sense of how things have gone? >> well, personally i was devastated with the result we have today. i think i've always been a supporter. in the last month i began to question my reasons for voting yes. >> reporter: why?

>> because of the fear and ramping up the fear and the last month and week especially and i found myself thinking am i doing right here? is it really, am i right? and i think if someone like myself who has spent a lifetime thinking about this, gets to that kind of stage it doesn't surprise me the result was 45-55 i think people have been totally turned off and putting fear in their minds. >> reporter: i remember we are feared which is the scottish word for scared and it seems to be from what you are saying that effects a lot of people. what i wanted to ask you robby moving forward do you have any confidence right now that scotland is go to see some greater power in the short term future. >> i think in the short term future we need to do some healing and come back together because there have been veins on

both sides. i think once we come back together and i think we need to look at what has been offered, i think it's really very, very difficult for the kingdom to give scotland what it said it was going to give them and what the other parts of the kingdom will say about that. whales and ireland it will appear scotland is getting more than it should, if they will give us what they said they were going to give us. so i think that will be very, very difficult. >> robby, thank you very much for joining us. scotland will be looking to harness all of this, energy that it has built for the people tangible of scotland and back to doha. ♪ now the u.n. security council declared the ebola out break a threat to global peace and stability and the u.n. will have

a health mission to the region and james basis reports. >> reporter: unanimous vote by the u.n. security council in a rare meeting on a public health crisis. their resolution pledges more international support for the fight to stop the spread of ebola and it's a fight the u.n. secretary general says the world is currently losing. >> the out break is the largest the world has ever seen. the number of cases are doubling every three weeks. there will be more cases in liberia alone than in the four decade history of the disease. >> reporter: he is calling for a 20 fall increase in funding to combat ebola and setting up a new u.n. mission. >> this situation requires unprecedented steps to save lives and save peace and security. therefore, i have decided to

establish a united nations emergency health commission. >> right now as i speak. >> reporter: the security council heard firsthand testimony from a doctor in liberia who lost two of his cousins both nurses to the disease, jackson says his hospital is having to turn patients away. >> we are trying to treat as many as we can. but there are not nearly enough. treatment and death. we have to turn people away and they are dying at our front gate. >> reporter: the global effort to fight the disease is stepping up. and next week there will be a summit on e ebola when they gather for the u.n. general assembly, al jazeera, united nations. and in sierra leone a shut

down is in force to help stop the spread of ebola and it has been hitting traders and farmers hard and an al jazeera team has been in the district in eastern sierra leone to see the effect of the outbreak and here is mr. baisley. >> reporter: he employs up to 40 people to team his rice crop but the this year the arrival of ebola prevented many from traveling to his farm or fearful to join the team and grown a quarter of the normal crop and many farmers he knows have been forced to eat their seeds or harvest crops before they are ready. >> you do not even have the food for work to continue this and unable to finish it with the seeds. that is exactly what has happened. >> reporter: united nations world food program has a warehouse in kenema with more than 50,000 families in the region need food aid but this number is expected to grow as the outbreak continues, prices rise and people increasingly

feel trapped. >> during a war you can run and hide somewhere, you could go outside the boundaries of sierra leone and have some safe haven and you become refugee for example. with ebola there is no where to run to because the countries you run to are refusing you to go there. so what happens is you stay and die. >> reporter: the ebola out break has effected local traders. here at the market at least 70 have died of the virus, banks have closed their doors and traders struggle to do business. >> there is no where to go. and i deposit at the bank and send to customer and the customer is very good to me but that is not happening so we are suffering. >> reporter: for now the u.n. says it has a month's worth of food in kenema and these trucks are being loaded with more than 60 tons of it to an area near

the border with guinea but if the out break continues it warns that stocks will run low. the health crisis could also become a food crisis. i'm with al jazeera. france has carried out the first air strikes against targets from islamic state or isil and two fighter jets on friday morning, france is the first ally to join the u.s. led air campaign against fighters in iraq. let's talk to the french capitol and what exactly did the french target with those first air strikes? >> well, darren, the detail has emerged from a statement by the president himself and he said that fighter planes hit and completely destroyed what is being called a logistics depo and we don't know if it was armaments or vehicles or so on but it was in the northeast of

iraq. other details in the french media suggests there were at least two planes involved in this, in these air strikes on friday morning local time and that they returned that their air base, the french base of al-dufra in the uniteed place. in his statement on friday says that this comes after reminding the world this comes after his hosting of this conference on how to combat isil which happened on monday in paris, darren. so it was very much expected. >> and one of the french expected to do next, what are they expected to do next then? >> well, they are making it clear in their statements that there are going to be more such operations in the days to come. and the statement says that next week his prime minister will tell parliament exactly what are the conditions of engagement for the french forces who he says

are fighting alongside the iraqi forces and the kurdish people in the north of iraq. interestingly he doesn't mention the americans. on thursday president obama welcomed the french announcement on thursday that they were going to provide air support saying that they were one of america's oldest and closest allies but of course he seems to be careful to paint this as a french decision, a french initiative, not something that is being ordained by america but rather requested by iraqi authorities. >> we are in paris and thank you. meanwhile the u.s. congress has backed president barack obama's $500 million plan to train and arm syrian rebels considers moderate by washington and this is part of the strategy to combat isil. >> these syrian opposition forces are fighting both the brutality of isil terrorists and the assad regime and we rammed

up military assistance to the syrian opposition and with this new effort we will provide training and equipment to help them grow stronger and take on isil terrorists in syria, this will be outside of syria in partnership with the countries and matched by the increasing support for iraqi government and kurdish forces in iraq. >> reporter: the u.s. official told al jazeera air strikes killed around 40 isil fighters in a training camp and another southeast of baghdad damaged a dump. 13 people killed in a car bombing outside of a restaurant and more killed across the capitol and two attacks in the shia district. a suicide bomber rammed his car in a check point and then three shells exploded in different parts of the district. a bomb blast killed two lebanese

soldiers by the syrian border and they are on the northeastern region when they came under attack, three other soldiers were injured. china's biggest e commerce company is selling shares at $68 for each share, that price makes it one of the largest stock offerings ever and the company could be valued at $168 billion. and in china we report on a company that many people around the world have never heard of until now. >> reporter: ali-baba has come a long way quickly, this neck tie manufacturer is one of 10 million clients using the on line listing service and connects small and medium size businesses to domestic and global buyers. >> customers can buy our product in like five minutes and everywhere in the world and they can check our products in one

web page. >> funder and channel of the ali-baba group. >> reporter: barely known outside of china but in the country he has attained almost cult-like status, a billionaire with close links to the communist party. analyst say the country strictly controlled internet means he has to tread carefully. >> jack understands very well his position depends on maintaining strong government relations and if he moves off in a direction that is too far away from what the government wants he could see things change very quickly. >> reporter: another challenge for ali-baba, counterfeiting and fakes have appeared on his shopping website and recently removed from the u.s. government's list of natorous markets and they call him a

visionary. >> it's like a typical chinese company and he is the only boss. >> reporter: offering investors a slice of the world's fastest growing internet market, more than 600 million users, there is caution though, he tried to float on hong kong last year but the shares were brought back to the company after losing much of their value. ahead of this jack outlined his priorities for ali-baba customers come first, employees second and shareholders third, a very different business model for many in the west and the challenge is for that vision to succeed once the company is globally owned. adrien brown for al jazeera. let's check on the global weather with stef and tell us what is going on in the philippines. >> bad weather in the philippines over the last week and there is more rain still falling at the moment. first of all let me show you some of the pictures we have out

of manila and you can see how bad the flooding is there, that is supposed to be a road rather than a river but it is transformed by the amount of water we have seen. in the last 24 hours we seen 268 millimeters of rain and that is almost half that we expect in london in an entire year so clearly a phenomenal amount of wet weather and the rain there is still falling. now the reason for it is this huge great big area of cloud here and you can see it's cover the region and further south and we see sharp showers there as well but this is where we see the worst of that system. now, within this system we have also got a tropical storm but that storm is actually a long way to the north of manila and it's gradually running its way away from us and the fact it's moving away from us is good news for philippines but for taiwan we will now see the storm instead and inspecting to work its way in taiwan 18 gmt on sunday and when it does the winds will be sustained around

95 kilometers an hour and gusts a little stronger than that and looking at 120 kilometers per hour and that is not particularly strong as far as the winds are concerned, the problem is the amount of rain and with this being so many mountains it will cause major flash flooding. >> reporter: stef thank you, for years gaza fisherman struggled to work in israel blockade and the palestinian boats can sale and dangers have increased and charles reports and fishermen are being shot, arrested and often times bribed to spy. >> reporter: he and his crew of five set off from gaza port and say israeli gun boats could appear at any time. israeli government bans the fishing boats sailing more than six nautical miles from the coast. >> translator: the area is not big enough. we are about 5,000 fishermen, i need $2000 everyday to operate

the boat and i can't cover my costs. >> reporter: fishing the waters was dangerous long before the war. mohamed shows me what he describes as bullet holes. >> translator: this happens before the war. three israeli navy boats cut our nets, they shot at us and confiscated my other boat. >> reporter: with so many fishermen trolling off the coast of gaza in a restricted area the fish are depleted and especially since the war ended they suffer threats and intimidation by the navy everyday and one who was arrested and released say he was offered money to spy. he says he was fishing within the area that israel allows when the israeli navy arrested him and confiscated his boat. >> translator: they handcuffed us and left us blind folded in a room for 3-4 hours and asked me for names of people in hamas and

offered me $1300 a month if i would work for them. >> further off the coast an israeli navy vessel circles a palestinian fishing boat and the fishing boat is 100 meters within the permitted area. soon after the israeli disappears, three fishing boats dare cross the boundary markled by a buoy and they go 300 meters in and back. and he lives on the coast inside the fishing exclusion zone. he is in hospital after israeli military shot him in the leg. >> translator: i have been living and fishing here since 1956 and was in my boat 100 meters from the beat and the army shot at me from a jeep on the shore. >> reporter: back on the boat mohamed and his crew are happy with they say is the largest catch in a week and they will each get $10 for this and they will risk staying out at sea all night.

charles stratford, al jazeera, gaza. still to come we will have more on that referendum in scotland with reactions from london. and decision time approaches, europe top venues wait to see if they will be part of 2020 and we will get more after the break, stay with us. ♪

♪ welcome back, top stories on al jazeera, voters in scotland have rejected independence and chosen to stay with the united kingdom, 55% voted no, scotland's first minister expected defeat and

called on the national political parties to deliver policies of greater powers of scotland. uk prime minister david cameron promised to honor commitments made during the campaign to divulge powers and said it is a clear win and time to move forward together. three-day nationwide shut down is in force in sierra leone and people are told to stay indoors as they look for victims of the ebola out break. let's get more reaction to the scottish referendum result and the value of sterling has sored and international markets breathed an sigh of relief and greger is in the city of london. >> reporter: a huge sigh of relief here and institutions across london but a lot of the institutions dealing with the results of the referendum hoping the votes would go against it and say no and it reflects that and the pound sterling and has

take end a hit in the last couple of weeks for a point it reached 66, that is a two-week high and it achieved a two-year high against the euro and the share index, the main index of the uk shares has also gone up pretty much with predictions as have the european shares and indexes at the start of the uk show if you like and are the big scottish banks and world bank of scotland 3% and lloyds a big scottish bank up 2% and sse for example, a company heavily invested in scottish oil sector is up by 3 1/2% and a good rally and not a spectacular one but clearly reflecting the relief felt in the market as they turned their back on the possibility of independence. >> we can certainly say markets are relieved and has been felt predominately in the banking stocks, many of the banks which

are headquartered in scotland have made contingency plans to go south of the border with some of the operations should this be carried so that uncertainty has been removed has seen those bank stocks rally this morning. >> reporter: let's not forget there is still a lot of political uncertainty in the landscape with a uk election in 2015 and all sorts of not very well defined promises about greater powers and all of this on top of a delicate recovery the uk is going through from its deep recession, so there is plenty of uncertainty for investors to deal with but at least scottish independence is no longer one of them. let's cross live now to barbara in london and for more of this barbara over to you. >> reporter: darren, thank you very much. as we were hearing from simon mc-greger wood the threat of the break up of the uk, the 6th economic power in the world, the key nation with a seat,

permanent seat on the security council at the u.n., the break up of the uk has been overted for now and hearing words from the leading politicians such as in our lifetime, in this generation, a decision has been made. but perhaps the risk of a possible break up was certainly a change in the nature of the union has not been overted completely and to discuss this in detail we have a lecture in politics in the university of reddening and what impact will this vote have on the union? >> this will have a huge impact on the union and means the union survives, there was a danger that might not happen. but it only survives for now. and whether the union will survive over the longer term really depends on the decisions being made by politicians in the uk and scotland over the next few months. if you look at what politicians in the uk this morning are talking about, it's all about constitutional reform and all

about me structuring the nature of the union within the uk and i think there are various different decisions they could make here, some of these will help protect the union for the future and for the long-term. others could well lead to. >> such as what? >> well, so, what david cameron has come up with this morning is something he calls english votes for english laws and sounds tekkie and uninteresting to anyone who is not a constitutional nerd in the uk but what it means actually is you have different groups of mps voting on issues in the uk parliament and depending if those are issues that effect the uk as a whole or just england. if you do that then you kind of need to have different governments as well for the uk and. >> english parliament. >> reporter: creating an effect in english parliament doing that and then you need to create an english government with a different set of ministers and sometimes it might be that the english parliament is in different party hands from the uk parliament and therefore you might get all sorts of tensions between those.

if you do get tensions between those, if you get tensions between uk parliament and english parliament when we must remember english is 85% of the uk, then it may be very difficult for the union, the uk as a whole to survive. >> it has to change to become a federal union perhaps? >> well, i think the way to maintain the union and the uk i think would be to have a federal union but one in which you don't just have english, scotland, whales and northern irland like present and you decentralize the power but england is just too big. if you have a federal system in which one unit makes up almost all of the country, 85% of the country that gets very unstable if there are issues that divide the different parties. >> looking outside of the uk because separatist groups from all over the world and especially all over europe were looking to scotland to see which way they would vote and green land and sudania and all sorts

of places in europe, what message do you think is being sent to the groups right now? >> one is this was a no vote, so it would have been a bigger, louder message had there been a yes vote and scotland going for independence but the other message i think is this produced highest turn out that we have ever seen in a democratic vote in the uk and it's something people are passionate about. the people want to get engaged and that is particularly relevant in spain for the government wants to have a referendum, the spanish government is trying to prevent them having a referendum. the role of people power in the referendum in scotland has been really big. i'm sure the cat lands will use that example and push for the referendum in november. >> i think we are going to barcelona soon to see what they say but for the moment at the university of reddening thank you so much for being with us. so darren that is a lot of reaction to the vote in the uk

and i think lots of attention being paid to it across europe as well. >> barbara, thank you for that. as barbara was saying yes the world was watching this referendum, in spain there was particular interest, the cat lands region will hold a vote on independence, something that a spanish government is rather less keen on doing so the spanish prime minister will come well scotland's rejection of going it alone. >> translator: scottish citizens have a manner to be part of the united kingdom and consequently the european union and the social consequences and chosen the most fayettable option for every one and themselves and britain and the rest of europe. >> reporter: ukraine's president asked the u.s. congress for more help in the fight against pro-russia separatist in the country and poroshenko called for assistance including arms and asked

washington to impose sanctions on moscow and give ukraine special security status. no weapons but the obama administration has now pledged a new security package worth $46 million and another $7 million in aid. and patty has more from washington d.c. >> reporter: ukraine's president poroshenko met with barack obama in the oval office for an hour and when the media was let in it was clear that the ukrainian ledder did not get what he came for and spelled out what his country needs in a joint session to congress. >> please understand me correctly, blankets, night vision goggles are also important but one cannot win the war with blankets. [applause] even more we cannot keep peace with a blanket and this is most important of our values, of our aid, not to win the war but keep

the peace. >> reporter: so far the white house has ruled out providing that lethal assistance to the ukrainian military fearing it would escalate the situation and a proxy war with russia, instead the ukrainian president is heading back home with an additional $46 million worth of nonlethal aid. >> al jazeera continues to demand the release of three of its journalist in prison in egypt, greste and mohamed and fahme are accused of helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood and it is being appealed. the members are often poor and distant from other somalies and many have fled from the country and are refugees and others are displaced inside somalia and we have their story. >> reporter: on a dusty piece of land next to an african union peace keeper's camp, 11,000

families set up base and have come here for protection, it's all eventful since the conflict in somalia began 24 years ago and they are members of the bantu community and hundreds were killed a few months ago follow agree dispute of the land and this is the community chief. >> translator: some people were shot dead. many others among them children, drowned in the river and others were burned alive in their homes. a total of 29 village's were totally destroyed. >> reporter: and killed in the attacks that continued for a whole month. she is now forced to bring up her five children on her own. >> translator: we have no food or water here. no meaningful shelter, we want to go back to our homes and continue farming our land. we can't go back though, the danger we fled from still

exists. >> reporter: they faced discrimination and when the civil war began they did not pick up arms as most others did and that along with other factors have left them targets. killings, rape and robbery are some of the many crimes committed against this community. these people have been targeted for who they are, poor and helpless farmers and commonly known as the people for whom no one cries. and they are on the receiving end for the past 24 years. and death continues to haunt them of indisplacement and the family is in mourning and his wife died after delivering a baby girl. >> translator: she bled to death. she didn't have enough blood to begin with, he tells me. the camp lacks the most basic of services. this is a village clinic. a few tents are all the volunteer workers have.

the water they drink is sold to them by merchants from the nearby town. at the peace keepers base women and children line up for hand outouts, it's a daily ritual for him and are here for left overs from the troop's meals and say they are ready to wait for as long as it takes. mohamed with al jazeera, somalia. time for a short break and we go to india where modern refrigerators are chipping away at tradition and pirates are a step closer to the playoffs and we will have more details on the sport and more on that, stay with us.

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♪ welcome back, now the humble refrigerator evolved as a part of the modern kitchen, making food storage safer and more convenient and the idea evolved from keeping ice frozen for as long as possible. in the 19th century wooden boxes were lined with tin or zinc and insulated with sawdust and by the 30s metal boxes replaced wood and csc were the commonly used refrigerant but now they are more efficient and environmentally friendly. in india the use of the fridge is growing and a quarter of households have one and we explain how they are improving the lives of the poor and middle

class. >> reporter: she lived in the slum for 27 years. her home is made out of reused metal and wood and there is no running water. she is, however, the proud owner of a refrigerator. >> translator: we used to keep everything outside and it would get spoiled. we would make an order fewer things and have to get more every morning, now i have food in the fridge and it's saved. >> reporter: one purchase opened up a new light for her family. this is her second fridge. having one has become a necessity for her and the growing number of households across india. fridge use has grown with the country's economy with an estimate that a quarter of indian households now own a fridges but they are not high on the must have and with the cost and unreliable electricity fridges still face competition. insulated carts are chilled using ice and it's an alternative to refrigerators. at this seafood market customers

and the fish arrive daily. what you won't find is any refrigeration. >> translator: refrigeration makes the fish harder and the quality becomes poor and people want fresh fish, this is a fresh market and ice keeps the fish cool and moist. >> reporter: there are cracks in the cooling industry, the increasing sale of fridges has been chipping away at ice sales. >> translator: every year i'm doing less and less business, it has been going down every year for the past 10-15 years. >> reporter: back at her home her fridge also benefits her neighbors who use it to store food and milk. most other homes here now also have a fridge as people here begin to see the benefit of owning what many now consider a necessity. i'm with al jazeera, new deli. time for the sport now and sana is here. >> thank you, darren, grand slam

champion has a retirement from tennis and she ended her career after she failed to overcome chronic injuries and world number six won the australian open in january but she has been sidelined since july, her last game was a third around a loss of wimbledon and now the first grand slam winner of victory of 2011 french open. and to talk more about this joining us on skype is founder of china sports mark and we know she has been struggling with her injury for the last few months, but does this come as a surprise? >> well, apart from the rumors swirling around over the last few days this is a surprise, she pulled out of the u.s. open specifically because she wanted to recuperate and recover and play in the china open and those are tournaments coming up, in two weeks and she was from there and the key reason the women tennis association have launched a tournament there and she would

have been absolutely desperate to play there. you mentioned her knee injury and that really is what is going on and she has worn tape on her years for years and almost part of her uniform and she had three injuries on her right knee and had knee surgery in 2008, 2009 and she had one this summer on her left knee and that it seems is the one that really has bothered her and ended her career and she in her farewell note said my body is begging me to stop the pounding and didn't sound like she was too happy over the last few weeks and months. >> since winning the two grand slams she is china most high profile athlete and hero and tell us about the growth of tennis in china and asia. >> people lump them together when it comes to here but over here she would be celebrated by japanese or koreans and includes

other asian countries that i mentioned, in china she is massive and the biggest sports star today and will be popular and famous after her retirement. people used to talk about the effect and now they talk about her effect and the difference is the basketball was already popular before she played but she brought tennis in the mainstream and you see the rankings in tennis and china is in top 70, another two outside the top 100 then you have younger players like 16-year-old, one girl in the olympics and lots of potential successes. they have not really found someone who is definitely going to be the person to replace her but definitely the future is right for the women's tennis and stress the women's game because the men's game is still in desperate state in china now. >> founder of china sports insider and thank you for that. hosts city for 2020 will be

announced later on friday and headquarters in switzerland will take place across europe instead of one country and staging the event wimbledon is the favorite to be awarded semi finals and final. three-time champion has kicked off a new campaign with 1-0 win. english side everton put on impressive display as they beat german 4-1. and athlete beat the chek 3-1 and they beat dutch side 2-0. asian golf club in st. andrews voted to allow women members for the first time in 260 year history and the club is known as the home of golf that uses the old course that hosted 28 british opens and 2400 members on the issue. of the three quarters that

responded 85% agreed to allow women to join their exclusive club for the very first time. al jazeera's lee weldings has more on what vote by them actually means. >> reporter: yes decision has implications beyond the famous st. andrews club and the royal and ancient club has a lot of power in golf particularly outside of america and runs the golf championship where courses and clubs apply at the stage and one is true in the stage on 2016 and this is male only and pressure may be applied to change their policy before 2016. and this is another of the open championship courses and also male only and some stage i expect them to have a vote of admitting female members. what you won't get is immediately lots of female members joining at st. andrews because there is only 2400 places and that is actually not

that many. what you will get is immediately some high-profile female golfers and female figures invited to join like when the former u.s. secretary of state rice was invited to join augusta in 2012. the irony of this is women have played on the course for years and some are happy of the clubs and may not want to join this at least the decision to apply is now in their hands. 70 kilometers away the 48th rider cup will get underway next week on the 26th. many of the top european players like lee west wood are taking part in weekend's welch open as the final warm up for the three-day team event and west wood will hope for better form next week after shooting two over par and 73,, in fact, none of the rider cup stars faired particularly and donaldson was the best at one under par and 70

and five shots up the league and will be encouraging the captain tom watson and speaking in kansas about how desperate he and his team are to regain the cup. >> they are, they are committed to everything possible to win one more than their opponent in every match and that is the bottom line, that is what i told them. you can always win one more hole. they win five you got to win six. they win three you got to win four holes and try to keep it simple. keep it simple. it's like baseball. he scores one more run than the other team. >> reporter: moving on to baseball and pittsburgh pirates move closer to the second playoff spot in a row and beat the boston red sox on thursday and smashed a home tore cap off their scoring and the game ended 3-2 and the third straight win and looking good for a wild card

spot. meanwhile things are not looking good for the athletic had a third bounce losing 7-2 to texas rangers and it is the fall out of the top american league wild card spot. and that is all your sport for me and we will have more later on, darren. >> thank you very much indeed. it is one of italy's most visited places but now pom-pai will attract tourists that was destroyed by a volcanic eruption and now they are trying to put it back on the map and we report. >> reporter: in pom-pai, they are making history, his level hand opened in the 2000-year-old open air theatre, a test run for a music festival that could

inject new life in the troubled archeological site. expects struggling to rescue them say it's music to their ears. >> translator: we are very happy because the theatre has been closed a long time, this says we are preserving pom-pai and giving it what it deserves. >> reporter: the last time a music event took place in the fe theatre was by pink floyd in 1972 and then echoing here has been the noise of crumbling rocks. ancient houses, walls and columns regularly collapse and miss management, corruption and neglect means the preservation of what was left after the eruption in 78 a.d. remains work in progress. in 2012 the european union pledged more than $150 million for the biggest restoration project in pom-pai to date and

yet two years later two out of the 39 restoration projects were completed. but the idea of a music festival has not convinced everyone, he founded a nonprofit organization for the safeguarding of pom-pai says it's a publicity stunt. >> translator: it's sad and it may be good to promote pom-pai but at the same time it draws a silence of the real issues here. for instance the tact that restoration work is not being performed in the time imposed by the european union. ♪ after that would take place here on saturday if the shows are successful, this will become a regular feature of the summer months. ♪ but for one's culture rather than criticism took center stage in pom-pai, al jazeera in

pom-pai. that is it for me and stay with us here on al jazeera, my colleague david foster is up next, with another full bulletin of news, stay tuned and thanks for watching al jazeera. ♪

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