♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the news hour and i'm live from the headquarters in doha and coming up, in the program, u.s. led air strikes target oil fields and towns as the fight to control isil continues and they are debating whether to join that fight. >> it's a growing threat to regional and global security. >> the most important thing is of course action, action and action. >> we are talking about nothing less than the potential meltdown

of this continent. >> call for action on ebola and world leaders say not enough is being done. anger on the streets of indonesia over a new law that prevents the public from electing local leaders plus. >> i'm with all the sport and golf's rider cup gets underway in scotland with the best players hoping to defend the trophy against the usa. ♪ so then we begin with reports of more us led attacks against positions held by islamic state of iraq and include the oil fields and both areas are in the eastern providence, an area in alhaska and northest has been hit and oil refinery at al-mia-din has been hit again and targeted several times since the air strikes began on tuesday

and we are joined from beirut and is it possible to get an idea of how effective these strikes have been? >> reporter: well, it's day four and they are keeping up the pressure like you mentioned, a new round of air strikes, undoubtedly this is going to hurt the isil because what these air strikes are targeting is the infrastructure and bases and head quarters and it's difficult to have checkpoints to hold gatherings or to move from syria and iraq in large convoys so it will hurt the group but we know the group is adopting to air strikes and they are now hiding among the civilian population and we have to remember they control cities and towns and that is why it's going to be very, very difficult and most analysts will tell you unless they have partners on the ground to take on isis on the ground, face-to-face combat it's going to be very difficult to defeat them. >> all the while we have groups aligning themselves with the

objectives of the coalition and there are those going the other way as well. >> well, yes, the united states holding a meeting in gaza trying to put a face to the syrian opposition. this is what this meeting is bt, to show the world that the united states does, in fact, have partners on the ground. the rebel commanders attending that meeting they are linked to the free syrian army but the free sierran army only exists in name. the rebel commanders do not have strong fighting force on the ground. they will not be able to take on isil. they tried in the past and last january they declared war on isil and groups on the ground is al-nusra, the syrian brent ch of al-qaeda and we have a conservative group which kind of has remained quiet about the air strikes and it's not clear whether or not they would join ssa because they joined the fight against isil and

complicated on the ground but right now the united states doesn't have any partners on the ground to help them defeat isil. >> complicated as it is and thank you and reporting from beirut. meanwhile we are getting reports that at least 30 isil fighters have been killed by air strikes on syrian border. it's understood they were trying to cross the border when they were attached. let's get the very latest from baghdad and monica what more are you hearing from this? >> nick, we are hearing that we basically don't, are not sure that these men were all fighters. we know there is 30 casualties and don't know if there are civilians among them and don't know for a fact they are isil fighters and this is fresh information we are getting and suggests there is a change of strategy here. it's going to be massively significant in terms of the whole military campaign because this is the first time that that precise border crossing has been struck.

and as she mentioned and yourself it's very important the iraq cherokee prime minister and government here have been asking on and on and cannot fight isil here in iraq if they can simply retreat and regroup in syria and then come back. they basically have to cutoff the supply lines, cutoff the two countries and separate them. at this point to the fact this is perhaps what is going on right now. as you mentioned our information suggests that the fighters were about to cross and that is when the strikes happened but we will bring you more information as soon as we get. this just happened and we have people on the ground confirming details for us. the providence is largely controlled by isil and that is why this is quite unprecedented. >> all right, monica thanks for the update and reporting there from baghdad. well, there are also reports from lebanon that syrian jets have targeted the outskirts of a town of arsil and there have been five air strikes and no

news of any casualties as of yet. part of the syrian opposition is evacuating the counter side and members of al-nusra are leaving after attacks from the u.s. led coalition and don't want to put civilians who live nearby at risk. >> translator: the sites are now empty, it's part of a redeployment of fighters in the movement to place to the arena of confrontation and lines of engagement with the regime forces. we are expecting more coalition attacks, after the first wave of air strikes and sites and the fear they destroy everything. >> reporter: still ahead here on al jazeera, a photographer trying to tell the story of his people and why they are escaping to europe by the thousands. and. i'm in kashmir and coming up, we will look to what caused the worst flooding in over a

century. >> later in sport emotional scene since one of new york's favorite baseball players signs off in yankee stadium in spectacular style, that is coming up, later. ♪ hundreds of taliban fighters have advanced in afghanistan, at least 70 people have been killed in the past five days in gaza province in the east and a dozen people believed to have been be headed and we go straight to jennifer glasse who is monitoring events there and what more have you heard on this? >> reporter: well, nick, the local people in the far west gaza province say this fight is brutal and say it's very personal, that this is a taliban revenge attack against village's and checkpoints run by the afghan local police that have hindered taliban progress in the area. homes have been burned down as

you mentioned, people have been brutally murdered, at least 70 people we understand are dead and taliban says they have hundreds of fighters and two suicide bombers did attack the headquarters trying to get into that headquarters, the provincial governor tells us he is confident that afghan forces will be able to defeat the taliban eventually and waiting for reenforcements from the provincial capitol and it's very remote in the mountains and very difficult to get to. deputy police chief sent 400 reenforce. s from the capitol and it's difficult and terrain difficult and the taliban control some of the roads there and planted under ground bombs and explosives and saying they killed 40 policemen so very brutal fighting going on in ajeerstan and western of gazna

and bordering on key low guessic and stroo tweakic area and if the taliban took over it would give them movement in the center of afghanistan. >> this is something that will come up in new york and due to deliver a speech at the general assembly is the foreign minister and he will be speaking as will the president of yemen, palestine and pakistan and we have the deputy director and good to see you again and let's talk about afghanistan first of all, we had the latest advances in afghanistan providence and there is a government nato pull out and things are piling up. >> that actually was expected a long time ago, since the beginning of the planning from withdrawal from afghanistan for 2014. they had to be solid security plan to take place because the

government of afghanistan could not protect itself with presence of the troops in afghanistan. so you can only imagine how the situation will deteriorate and what afghan government will be able to do once the troops left afghanistan. and even during actually the presence of the nato troops in afghanistan we were talking only probably about kabul as the only secure place in afghanistan despite actually the attacks that happened once in a while inside kabul itself. so leaving afghanistan without a solid security plan will exacerbate the situation and the problem will become much more complex. >> that is afghanistan and we will hear in new york from the palestinian president to address the u.n. general assembly a day after he reached a deal to reach a unity government with hamas

and says who will govern the gaza strip after an earlier agreement in june collapsed and allows for reconstruction of gaza and it was six weeks in july and august and he will announce a plan at the general assembly to end occupation in three years and wants the u.s. security council wants to demand israel withdraw to the pre-1967 borders, u.n. general assembly divided palestine in two states in 1947, nearly a million palestinians forced from their homes in the time that followed and agreed in 1969 with significant palestinian losses and so called green line is also known as pre-1967 borders and it's what mamood wants to return to and after the war more land including east jerusalem and there are more than half a million settlers living in the west bank, you can see and that area is shown in orange.

so let's return to the deputy director of doha center and what will he be doing in new york and hoping to achieve? >> trying to reinvent the whole negotiation business which has failed over the past 20 years. and this move is way, way, way over due, ending israeli occupation and palestine and what abbas and what he should have been doing actually is putting concrete plans in place in order to face the challenge. and instead of this we have been seeing only negotiations, proximity that the negotiations and different types of talks and different types of forms of negotiations, i think in my view honestly this could be just another form of the whole cycle and the whole business of negotiations that failed over the past 20 years unless there

is a serious escalation in terms of investing diplomatic like isis and civil disobedience, something on the ground to take place in order to face the israeli occupation. we will just continue to talk about the front and reinventing the wheels, i mean, that is what has been a lot of talks about abbas plan. and it has already been rejected by the american administration and the u.s. administration asked for time to consult over the plan, i'm not sure really what they want to consultant, it's another form of negotiations. unless we see something different, something that is quality difference from the past negotiations, i think we will just continue to talk about this for a while to come. >> absolutely and we will leave it there and thanks indeed and a

big focus of course for the u.n. general assembly is what is going on in syria and iraq when the fight against isil and we will speak to the head of the middle east center for studies research in beirut, a formal general in the lebanese army, good to see you there. what is your general view about what is happening right now, what is your assessment following four days of air strikes? >> three days ago was the first to strike was really strong and quick and large. a and, second, it was a continuity for strikes and objective and the targets yesterday and today and was the oil reserve and the oil refineries. and what was surprising on the first strike did include kabani which is what everybody was

expecting, that this strike came quick to save the life of 140 turkish civilians who were pushed, you know, on the turkish border and they were not welcome. and isis or isil is still making invasion against them. and this strike in my opinion we have significant points, you know, that in my opinion if the purpose is to destroy isil or isis, i don't think this is the right techniques. because air strike is air support to the land forces. but there is no land forces or any land attack or any land, you know, movement. >> right. >> any army. >> we are also seeing this. >> to be supported. >> targeting on al-nusra and al-sharam and what does that

mean for people trying to topple president assad? >> say again, please. >> we are also seeing this targeting of the al--nusra and al--sharam and what does this mean for people trying to topple president assad at the same time? >> yeah, i think, you know, this air strike and the second anyway whatever the target is, we have to stop in the significant part and said they will not have decisions. we discovered that coordination was made through third-party. and targets were given to the syrian in that sense. third, you know, there are many opinions here. this invasion or this war doesn't have any end on the timetable or any guarantees for the result. and syria is different from iraq, they are talking about an iraq that is bashaka and army

will go and fight isil on the land and what about syria, it's not clear at all. yesterday we did hear and they did continue today to strike the oil reserve in order to cut, financial resources. and this is the only financial resource to isil and the question is what is the role of turkey? turkey is the biggest and most important state in that region. what is the role of turkey? turkey said i can cooperate or what means cooperate, shooting something different than providing assistant and large stake on something. >> sorry to jump in there but what we want to just really center on what does this actually mean in the fight to try and topple president assad? what effect is all this going to have on that effort? >> we cannot see what the

effects, you know, even the americans didn't know yet. i think isil are well organized and they are making two kinds of techniques, classical warfare and other warfare and change their oppositions and of course it's 120 victims among them. but this, you know, they did unite the adversities with al-nusra and isil are together now and isil did relieve 30 or 35 hostages and were arrested and belong to al-nusra to show them there are positive and negative and many observers believe this war will increase the struggle if we are talking about five years or ten years and it will increase the struggle with other observers and i do believe that it's kind of lifting surgery to the face

of assad's regime for free in some respect, you know. and if you look at the whole issue and you cannot imagine that there is really the target or objective or the target to destroy isil look to afghanistan, you know, for years. >> i'm afraid we will have to cut you off there, it's great to get your perspective and we really appreciate it but sorry we ran out of time and thanks indeed. >> thank you. >> to kashmir where people are recovering from the worst flood in 100 years and why it was so bad ban some say not regulated and sometimes illegal efforts and we go there now. >> reporter: the worst flooding in more than a century and it's simple to see why, homes, livelihoods and lives were all destroyed by this flood and it has happened before. >> plenty of these wetlands have

been converted into colonies. >> reporter: he grew up here and just a boy during the flood of 1959. since then he has seen the city grow and the lakes shrink. >> if you look at this road you are seeing here, this used to be the part of the lake up to here. >> reporter: urban growth around the region has also seen lake capacities dwindle as well as legal and illegal development over flood channels meant to redirect water. this road was built over one of the flood channels constructed after the great flood of 1902 and channelled away water and saved lives when the next great flood hit in 1959, in the past few decades people and governments alike developed over some flood channels and many of the wetlands. and he says this has damaged kashmir's natural flood protection. >> they use it at this point and first extreme floods and they

will slowly leave the water. >> but we have a turning problem. >> reporter: a state report in 2010 warned of a massive flood within five years and proposed a protection plan that needed $355 million from the central government. but bureaucratic delays stalled 95% of the funding and work and officials say would have made a difference. >> it would have taken care about 50% of what we get in this summer, yes. >> 50%. >> 50-60%. >> we couldn't have done any better. >> reporter: despite what may have been the state's chief minister says it's time to cut the red tape and look forward. >> having seen the kind of devastation this flood has caused that the government will sanction this project. >> reporter: but flooding is a reoccurring problem across this country. >> definitely. >> reporter: and environmentalists say they have

to balance the environment or risk losing both. >> if you do that willful destruction you will get flooding of this nature and devastation of this nature which, you know, which will destroy the document evident. >> reporter: after the flood of 1959, much of the prevention measures were destroyed by unregulated development. critics home the lesson has been learned so the next flood won't be as severe. i'm with al jazeera in indian administered kashmir. the weather with stef and fair to say floods issued elsewhere as well. >> that's right, russia we have seen a lot of heavy rain recently and now has given us some flooding and i can show you some pictures out of the southwest parts of russia showing the deep flooding we have seen and went to homes and accompanied by strong winds that brought down some trees there as well. as we head through the next few days there is more wet weather

for eastern parts of europe but looks like it stalls really over the southeast parts there so for the southwest parts of russia it actually should stay dry and will allow the flood waters to ease a little bit. this area of cloud is going to give us a lot of heavy rain through the day and romanian bulgaria and it's wet and pushes into turkey through the next couple of days so this region here really will be very, very wet. meanwhile towards the west a handful of clouds there and one or two showers perhaps around the southern part of spain but this is what it looked like yesterday, clearly not a problem with wet weather. that is going to change, if you are in the southern part of spain at the moment watch out because on saturday we will see far more in the way of cloud and also see a fair amount of rain as well and that will be stretching its way across the other side of the mediterranean and for many of us it's fairly

unsettled and more wet weather for saturday, nick. >> thanks very much. indonesia passed a bill to end local elections and select -- to select governors and protesters burned ties outside parliament in anger at the decision and members will choose local politicians, not the public and president elect says the change is a big step backwards for democracy and we have this report from there. >> reporter: many in indonesia woken up in shock after learning of the news in parliament and one newspaper managed to print the very late news and summed it up pretty well, democratic betrayal meaning two things, a step back for indonesia and governors can be elected directly by the people any more but it also means that betrayal has been done by the democratic party of president who managed

to walk out just before the vote took place and so support of direct elections lost that vote. it is seen now as a very strong effort by political parties in parliament to under mine the common government of president dodo who will be inaugurated on october 20th. their power in parliament shows that also his government and his intention to change a lot of things in indonesia and bring reforms is going to be a very tough and very lonely battle. a lot of people are also wondering there is a huge response in social media if the people in parliament are actually representing the people of indonesia or are they representing only their own personal and business interests. >> hundreds of high school students in hong kong are boycotting class in protest that beijing decision to restrict electoral reforms there and joined thousands of university students who have been striking since monday and beijing decided

in august it would hand pick candidates for the 2017 elections. still ahead here on al jazeera, will the uk join the u.s. led air strikes against isil, the british parliament is debating that at this moment. from a prison in cairo to new york's time square we will have the latest on the campaign to free al jazeera journalists jailed in egypt. and in sport we will tell you how an iranian cyclist pedalled his way out of military service. ♪

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again the top stories on al jazeera, the united states says it has led ten air strikes on targets held by islamic state of iraq in the last 24 hours. several oil installations have been targeted including the towns and u.s. says it's destroyed arms vehicles and command centers held by is i l fighters. hundreds of taliban fighters advanced in afghanistan gaz that province in kabul and 70 people killed in the last five days and a dozen have been be headed. day three of the u.n. general assembly gets underway in a couple of hours and we will hear from palestinian president abbas and expected to layout his plan for a middle east peace agreement. the british government is discussing what part it will play in the u.s. led air stieks against iraq and lavan and prime minister david cameron is denying he is doing little to

solve the problem and this is a scene in the house of commons right now where they are debating this issue, david come ron is blaming politics of syria and iraq for the rise of isil and asked parliament to approve uk involvement in u.s. led air strikes. >> i am not claiming by air strikes alone we can roll back this problem, what this problem requires is comprehensive strategy including a well formed iraqi government and well formed iraqi armed forces because they in the end will be the one whose have to defeat this on the ground. the two principal causes are the fact in syria assad is butchering his own people and acting as recruiting sergeant to the extremist and secondly in iraq with the maliki government we had a government that did not represent all the people of iraq. >> that is david cameron in the uk and he confirmed his country is ready to support iraq in efforts to support and deal with what he calls terrorist threats

and lavroff talks about fighters and we will go to rory in moscow and what more are you hearing about this? >> reporter: well, effectively the russian position on the international effort against isis, isil, whatever you want to call them is russia approves in principle but under certain conditions. so in iraq and eventually russia is already militarily assisting the government there in the form of attack fighter jets which has been providing for a few months now along with russian personnel to maintain an arm and train iraqi people as well. speaking to analyst and say the russian training pilots are actually flying combat missions themselves but this is something that russia has a friendly relationship with iraq

government and happy to provide assistance and will continue to do so. what it's more worried about is what is going on in syria and international efforts against fighters in syria. because russia really doesn't want to do anything that might threaten the authority of bashar al-assad and what the position in syria is you have to ask the syrian government first if you can bomb isis targets and if not they will not approve. >> you can talk about iraq and assisting the situation against isil in syria. >> yeah, exactly. i mean this is a cross border movement and it's a cross border movement that russia is obviously no friend of. russia has generally a broadly a friendly relationship with shia governments in the region but it doesn't have a particularly friendly relationship with sunni in the region and certainly

doesn't like the threat of international sunni, jihadism and think it may have a blow back effect pushing back in the caucus region where of course russia has had a long history of confronting islamic separatists. so essentially it views sunni and jahadist as a threat and doesn't want to do that at the expense of its friends within the middle east and namely russia and al-assad. >> and rory reporting from moscow. germany foreign minister says world powers closer than they have ever been to reaching a deal with iran on a nuclear program and they met the president rouhani on the sidelines of the assembly and says the final decisions on this may be the toughest. >> we were never close in the past. we have some experience in the last ten years in the

negotiations. some years which i remember in which the iranians were playing around with proposals which were completely unrealistic, my impression is now that since the geneva meeting ten months ago we have achieved some progress in the negotiations and the deal must be done. but even when we are close in our positions now, the last meters on the distance are the most difficult ones. >> the u.n. general assembly meeting in new york has been discussing the ebola outbreak as well in west africa, u.s. president barack obama says there is still a big gap between the help being offered to fight the virus and what is needed, from the u.n. in new york here is kristen. >> reporter: it's rare a public health emergency is considered a threat to international peace and security but it is with

ebola. at the u.n. general assembly u.s. president barack obama proded the international community to do more. >> we are not doing enough. everybody has the best of intentions, but people are not putting in the kinds of resources that are necessary to put a stop to this, epidemic and there is a significant gap of where we are and where we need to be. >> reporter: health systems in the worst hit countries of lie bore yeah, sierra leone are overwhelmed and centers for disease control says it's possible over a million people could become infected by next year, sierra leone's president speaking by video conference told the assembly his country can't fight the deadly virus on its own. >> a disease like ebola can no longer be dealt can in isolation

by just one isolated country and one isolated corner of the world. >> reporter: for poor countries that only recently escaped from conflict and civil war the implications of a continuing epidemic go well beyond health and economy and security are also at risk which is why the world bank pledged $400 million. >> if the scenarios that have been provided to us by the united states centers for disease control come true and we have over a million cases, we are talking about nothing less than the potential meltdown of this continent. >> reporter: the u.n. says $1 billion is needed and quickly. >> going forward the most important thing of course is action, action and action. >> reporter: the u.n. is also scaling up its humanitarian response to the ebola epidemic providing food and household protection kits to sick victims who have no place to go for treatment. for now, however, the spread of

the disease is out pacing the response. kristen with al jazeera the u.n. president barack obama asked egypt president to release three al jazeera journalist as world leaders they are in new york for the general assembly and al jazeera took out ads on time square and the "new york times" newspaper saying journalism is not a crime. mohamed and bahar and greste have been detained for 272 days and accused of aiding the out lawed muslim brotherhood and one got three more years because of a spent bullet he picked up at a protest and the other three are appealing convictions. scott morrison signed a deal with cambodia allowing them to send refugees to reach the showers of cambodia and angry protestors were outside the australia embassy before the

signing, under the agreement cambodia will take in an unspecified number of refugees held by australia and will pay $35 million and andrew thomas has details. >> reporter: when al jazeera met abraham in july he was selling bread and a refugee he says as a muslim he was fleeing torture but life in cambodia was not one to recommend to others. >> it's very difficult to survive so i don't want to advise anyone to come to cambodia. >> reporter: it was three months ago australia was rumored to do a deal with cambodia to send refugees there and that is now about to become reality, those who come here by sea have been sent to temporary camps in new guinea or maroo and refugee claims assessed but to have others attempt the voyage and

confirmed refugees will not be allowed in. where will they go? maroo is tiny and ill equipped to take refugees permanently and australia looking to other countries and cambodia eventually said yes for about $35 million in aid. >> cambodia is both ill equipped and an unsafe place to send refugees and if you look at the region australia is the country that is most well equipped to deal with people with a multi cultural place and resources. >> reporter: in sidney on friday there was protest against the move but it was very small and most australians refugees in maroo are out of sight, out of mind. those here are angry at what they see is australia's responsibility to another country. but they are protesting another element of australia going to refugees and that is a temporary protection for those already here. deportation of refugees only applies to those who arrived after july 2013.

tens of thousands arrive before then but australia's government was elected last september they too could never call australia home. >> they are temporary and do not provide a path to permanent protection. >> reporter: in practice that means a life of limbo. australia's people are working, no refugees have successfully reached australia by boat this year but that, many argue, comes at a cost to australia's reputation and to some say it's turning its back on some of the world's most desperate people, andrew thomas sidney. in the past decade more than 300,000 people left east africa according to the refugee agency but why are they leaving in such large numbers and the whole of africa and gained independence from ethiopia in 1993 and many are trans field and live in a prison camp rather than country and all males up to the age of 50 have to serve in the military which many say is corrupt and

brutal. under the president freedom of movement, speech, religion and assembly have all increasingly been restricted and the president is referred to is a one-man state. this year there has been a dramatic rise in airtrans crossing into france and they are struggling to cope with the influx and david has this report from neese. >> the central station this time of year an magnet in the french riveara and there are people trying to reach there and 90% of illegal immigrants from africa now reaching france are from there and he joins 600 other men to make the periless join any to europe on a dangerously crowded boat from libya. >> translator: i want peace and i want to work. i'm 19 years old. i come from a country where there are problems. i had to leave because there is no food, no money, nothing

there. >> reporter: many of the trans did not want to talk or reveal identities because they fear reprisals against the families they left behind. >> translator: the trans population is being oppressed and massive numbers of arrests and forced them in the army. >> reporter: they are now crossing the border between italy and france in record numbers, but most of them are trying to reach the united kingdom. and it's being called the north korea of africa. amnesty international say 10,000 political prisoners are being held there in appalling conditions and likened to an open prison. he was a professional photographer and he has beneficially recognized as a refugee and said his older brother was drown attempting to reach the shores of europe.

>> translator: i would like to be in my country with my own family and work but i'm happy i went to france and didn't go missing and vanish at sea or in the desert and i'm alive and that is good already. >> reporter: his love is the camera and documenting the plight of fellow people through europe and described it as a form of madness but say his people have no rights and are completely helpless, exile is their only hope. david with al jazeera, neese. four primary school children have been stabbed to death in southern china, police in the sea region say the suspect is a middle aged man, motive for the attack is not yet known, this is the second stabbing at a school in just a few months. at least 50 people have been killed in china province in what the government is calling a terror attack. china says armed groups are funding and training muslims in the area and increased human

rights debate and brown is in western china. >> reporter: the fabled silk road city here, spiritual home of muslim weagers and west and baghdad is closer than beijing. islam always had a strong following here which is why china atheist government is so concerned. these men are clean shaven and mustaches for how remain and under regulations males over 45 are allowed to grow a beard, considered by some a symbol of religious piaty. economic necessity means many have no choice but to comply with the new regulations. >> translator: we can't get a job if we have a beard. it's easier not to have one. >> reporter: the police are also targeting women. now ban from covering their heads and faces.

a rule many choose to ignore. cultural, ethnically and geographically this is central arc sia but the western edge of china's frontier is a setting for a widening camp page against religious extremism but human rights groups say that means intrusive new rules for ordinary muslims. for people like him who makes knives for a living the problem is nobody is buying. >> translator: they are not allowed to carry knives on the streets and not allowed to sell n knives greater than 20 sent -- centimeters. >> reporter: this is not new but shows this is growing and drone technology is part of the growing surveillance arsenal and china admits it's confronting what it calls a serious

terrorism problem. this year more than 300 people have been killed in attacks blamed on weager fighters. the men in this video are ethnic weagers and it's attempt to copy those produced by al-qaeda and isil and they say china government and the link between weagers and armed groups overse overseas. in july the mosque was stabbed to death after speaking out against the groups. this is his replacement who now has around the clock protection and they are preparing for china's national day celebrations on october the first. but it's fair to assume not everyone here will be in a mood to party. adrian brown in western china. joe will be hear with the very latest on the opening day of golf's rider cup and going live to get the news from fifa executive committee meeting

plus. i'm daniel in buenes-ares and rugby is trying to reach the levels seen in new zealand and west africa. ♪

now sport in battle is underway right now in scotland, isn't it? >> we will get to that in a minute but fifa under pressure for a report investigating the bidding process for 2018 world cups and this is the latest senior fifa figure to come out

and say he would not oppose a report to corruption allegations being made public and lee weldings is live from fifa headquarters meeting and has the executive committee meeting finished and is the corruption report being discussed there? >> yes, i can tell you the executive committee meeting is over with two days of the meeting, executive committee members have not all left the building but i know this was discussed. it's what level it was discussed and what they are going to do about it and had to put it on the agenda, it was not officially on the agenda but it is added under any other business and it's discussing it though that the real difficulty for fifa is what they will do about it and it's in their hands and legally sensitive and confidentiality of people involved and how far will he go. trying to push fifa vice presidents and got the word of one who will speak to us and it's jim voice and i know you can't say much but will the reports be discussed today?

>> i have no idea. >> reporter: in other business? >> you need to ask the president. >> reporter: do you hope it will be discussed? >> someone who wants to see and me want to see this put to bed once and for all and i think it's fifa's interest it will be put to bed but it's not up for me to say. >> reporter: pressure growing on fifa to open up about this and didn't see much opening up from jim voice there. >> reporter: jim voice summed it up for me though. there is a growing feeling among new fifa members they had enough of this and the public wants it out in the open and push as far as they can but how is that going to reflect on people when this controversial bidding took place including here and he finds himself in a difficult position, we will find out today what he thinks about it and what he is going to do about it and what action he will take is another matter but we will hear from him. >> what else has been discussed

in that meeting there in zuri. >> this is over shadowed and a regular fifa meeting with important things to discuss and not least of the crisis around the nigeria federation and in danger of a ban of some events that have taken place there that fifa is not happy with and on the agenda and the business of running so many football tournaments and women's tournament next year and what they wanted to get to is over shadowing and they need to get it settled and move on because that is what the public wants. >> fifa headquarters and thank you very much for that. government's rider cup is underway at the eagles in scotland and the team including gallagher and veteran are hoping to defend the trophy from usa and 40,000 fans turned up at the course to watch the three-day

event which got underway earlier and it was them who just won the first point for the defending champions. derek jeter said good-bye after two decades with the new york yankees and a fairy tale finish as he hit a winning run with the oriols and the score 5 and the 9th and jeter at the plate and he connected and richardson was able to get safe. >> derek jeter end his final game. >> reporter: 6-5 victory with the 3463 hit of his career. the five-time world series winner will conclude his career at boston on sunday. >> i thought i was going to break down but next thing you

know they tied it so i don't know. it's a tape of the game and watch it and it's sort of an out of body experience. >> the asian games and china gold rush continues with a record smashed during day six of competition and she out classed the rest of the field setting a new 50 meter butterfly record, touching the world in 23.46 seconds. so far china has won 18 swimming goals with just one day left of competition. and in cycling iran has been given exemption from military service after snatching gold on thursday. it is iran's first gold metal in track event with a 21-year-old university student coming from behind to win in a photo finish. the argintine-rugby championship

with southern hemisphere australia and new zealand and since joining the competition in 2012 they have yet to win a game and daniel is in buenos aires seeing if the pumas can catch up before saturday's show down with the all blacks. >> reporter: these are the formers back from the latest game in australia where they came close in the illusive first victory again eluded them. next up, the all blacks, one of the best all blacks sides of all times. rugby champions and would argentina have any chance at al all? >> translator: personally i think we need another two years before we reach the levels of the southern hemisphere powers. we could win one game now and we

are still two or three years from reaching their level. >> reporter: rugby has been played in argentina for more than 100 years introduced by british immigrants. now as then it's mostly an amateur sport played for many reasons, many, not among them. this is a first division game between two of the biggest teams in argentina. and as you can see it's a fairly low-key affair. they lack nothing in dedication and passion but there is still some way from the level we see in new zealand, australia and south africa. some in the game like things just the way they are and others are searching for the best combination of amateur and professionalism to push argentine rugby forward. >> translator: there is a very strong amateur base where the players are form and to reach

the elite there is a level that must be professional. >> reporter: . >> translator: argentina, the playing standards in argentina have gotten better at club level pushing from below, there are good players being developed at provisional and international level and i think we are seeing that in the pumas. >> reporter: the best argentine players go abroad like this fellow who enjoyed a glittering career and what are the dreams of the next generation of promising players? >> translator: the truth is i can train as much as i like but it's not the same as having a contract. something that binds me a bit stronger than coming to train when i feel like it so i believe we have to move towards professionalism whether it's the

pumas or the argentina club if we want to be a force. >> reporter: sponsored and there are t.v. rights, there is money in argentina rugby and it's spent to run the clubs but not on players' wages and some want to keep it that way but others say they need to level the playing field and bring the elusive first victory. i'm with al jazeera, buenos aires. there is plenty more on our website, check out al jazeera.com/sports, there is also details there on how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook plus we have mrblogs and video clips fr our correspondence around the world and the address is al jazeera/sports. famous artist in china using a u.s. prison to draw attention to chinese activists held in

detention and this is at alkatraz with 7 installations and are talking about free speech for decades and made the pieces without being to the prison in california and banned from leaving china since 2011. a russian space craft is with the international space station after blasting off from kazisistan. >> and blast off. >> this is shortly in the mission when one of to rays failed to deploy but it was resolved and carrying the first russian woman to fly into space in nearly 20 years and to take a quick look at scene of parliament in uk and he is talking there after david cameron urged parliament to improve years of air strikes with the islamic state and that sit for the news hour and we have more coming up.

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