>> this is aljazeera. >> from aljazeera headquarters in doha, this is the news our. i'm nick clark. coming up in the next 60 minutes, the fight for central iraq, sunni troops battle fighters on the run from u.s. led airstrikes. >> thousands of protestors on the streets of hong kong. it's been seven days, but their demands are not being met. >> five people infected with ebola every day, says one charity. britain calls for more help to fight the outbreak. >> uncovering the secrets of

sniffer elephants. how these trunks could build and he super smelling machine. >> iraq remains in turmoil with fighting raging on multiple front. hitting isil targets from the area, another battle with sunni troops backed by the racki army. the reunderstood offensive in anbar province. >> this is a rare look at the fighting in anbar province. for days, racki army and pro government troops have been fighting isil entrenched. helicopters launch attacks and providing much-needed air cover. the pro government forces inching closer and are confident of victory. >> we are a supporting force for the security forces and ready to defend our city with our lives.

we challenge isil as the tribe that has alone 9,000 fighters. i call on all the other sunni honorable tribes. enough silence and wake up, rise up and join us in the fight against isil. >> they've already made significant gains against isil. here, the sunni troops show off captured isil equipment, including mobile phones and fortune currency, which they say is hard evidence that many isil fighters aren't iraqi. >> tribal leaders have claimed isil fighters are local iraqi revolutionaries, but they are not, they came from outside the borders to establish a so called caliphate on our land. we will fight them until the last drop of blood. >> the army seems to have been given a morale boost and

tactical at vantage by airstrikes, however there are significant numbers of isil fighters in the area. the fight is by no means over. >> for now, they are cast that the battle is going their way, but other smaller towns are easier to take back. with large numbers of isil fighters in control of the two largest cities, fallujah and are rimadi, taking those back is a challenge. >> anbar province is strategically crucial, isn't it? >> that's absolutely right. it borders saudi arabia, jordan and syria. the saudis have brought up troops to try to defend their borders and stop isil fighters coming across. jordan is doing the same thing. both are part of the airstrikes coalition against isil targets, but the weak sink is syria.

isil fighters go across to border back into syria. we've seen that happen this morning. there was a bottle for another city in anbar province. isil fighters took that city over but quickly after that, you saw iraqi army and sunni troops surround the city and move forward. every time we see a battle like this, the sunni troops make gains but isil fight back. they sent a suicide bomber, killing at least 17 iraqi army soldiers. it is a result of those airstrikes weakening isil in parts of anbar province. this looks like a renewed offensive against isil. >> i'm looking at details of a u.n. report listing a staggering array of human rights abuses in northern iraq. >> what's really interesting about this report is the language is much more direct

than we've seen before about that if you go through the report, they list a lot of what they say are atrocities committed against significantly iraq's minorities, the yazidis, christians, kurds, et cetera. one of the key parts of the report is very quite far down, it actually doesn't place blame. it says it's very difficult to find out who is committing these atrocities against iraq's minorities and this array of human rights abuses. instead, they ask the government to be much more vigilant against all of this. it is a damming report and the language a lot stronger than we've seen from the u.n. in recent weeks. >> thanks very much indeed. it is debated how to best respond to the isil fighters. they have advanced to turkish army positions, kurdish forces trying to keep them from taking over kobane.

thousands have fled into turkey over recent weeks. let's speak to barnard smith on the turkish syrian border. give us the very latest on the ground. >> it's actually quite quiet here in the last couple of hours. we've been here much of the day. there was mortar fire and gunfire and loud explosions earlier on. we went down earlier this morning, down towards the east of kobane, where we did see a couple from the turkish side, a couple of isil vehicles on the oh moving around. we saw one with the isil black flag and another behind that. those vehicles once belonged to the iraqi army, so there is movement going on, but it's been quieter. the kurdish forces in kobane dug a trench around the town and are

engaged with fighting isil troops, described at hit-and-run, isil engaged in hit-and-run fighting with the troops trying to protect their town. >> the turkish parliament debating how best to respond to this threat posed by isil fighters across its borders. >> what they're asked to vote on is two motions presented by the government, that essentially embellish existing legislation that allows the turkish military to be involved with international forces in operations against isil in syria, and iraq. they are debating that at the moment. it will go to vote later today. it's almost certain to pass because the ruling party has the majority in parliament with the opposition c.h.p. party and kurdish opposition party are going to vote against it because they believe this is just legislation disguised in its attempt to get rid of assad and

not fight isil forces. >> there have been suicide attacks in the libyan city of benghazi amid on going battles there. two bombs targeted the airport controlled by the renegade general's forces. the country has seen the worst violence since the revolution in 2011. let's go live to tripoli with details. problems going on in libya, what more do we know about what's happened here? >> despite the fact that the initial report said that were announced by some agencies that only one suicide bombing attack took place today in benghazi, but the reports we're getting from sources on the battlefield and eyewitnesses say that four separate suicide attacks targeted forces loyal to the

general today around the air base and that was confirmed actually by two main hospitals that are loyal to forces fighting for the general. the first one is a hospital which said they received 33 dead soldiers and tens of injured soldiers fighting for a renegade general. second hospital to the east also confirms they received seven dead soldiers belonging to the general's forces. the attacks took place from three main directions, east, the north and west, and they targeted forces loyal to the renegade general. the battle is going on or the fighting is going on around the

air base, which is considered a strategic key position for forces. now it's clear that the revolutionaries over there are planning to take control of the air base before the feast of sacrifice. if this happens, the momentum would most probably go to the revolutionaries, because in this way, only the camp 30-kilometers to the south would be in the hands of the general's forces. this is part of the operation dignity that was launched by renegade general last may against the revolutionaries. tens of -- it's killed tens have soldiers and injured hundreds so far. >> thanks very much indeed for that update from tripoli in libya.

>> much more still to come here. we'll tell you how protestors in hong kong are using technology to keep on organizing. >> a poisonous plan? the u.s. slams israel's latest settlement proposal in east jerusalem. >> the two nations technically at war, but not in south korea, playing out rivalries on the football pitch in the asian games final. details coming up with joe in sport. >> let's take to you hong kong now where thousand of protestors have been rallying for full democracy for a fifth day. it's the scene in a main protest site. demonstrations have been largely peaceful, activists calling for full electoral freedom and demanding hong kong's leaders quit.

he has rejected their demands. let's check in with hong kong. >> this is turning out to be the new center of gravity for the protest, more and more protestors arriving by the minute. twenty meters behind me, it's packed full of people, are barricades. thinned those barricades is the government compound where the chief executive is supposed to come in to work tomorrow morning. inside the compound are columns of police and police vehicles, which we've seen police come in with those vehicles or on foot, bringing riot gear to bring them into the compound. the situation here is very tense not just for the fact that the police and protestors are standing off and facing off each other, but also within the protestors, there seems to be somewhat of a risk, some of the protestors have tried to block a highway just right across from

here, a main artery between east and west of hong kong. another group of protestors called on them, shutting them down, telling them to get off the road. they don't want to give any reason to interfere. there's a feeling right now that anything could happen at any moment. there's a call by a student leader moments ago calling on the protestor to stay here, sit here peacefully until the chief executive tries to come into work at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. >> thank you very much. let's cross straight over to hong kong. >> she is right outside the chief executive's office. here at the center wimp once used to be the heart of the street protest, the numbers are significantly lower. let me just show you what it looks like behind me now.

>> another reason there may not be as many protestors here as well is there is a feeling, too, that the general public is fed up with these protestors disrupting traffic, disrupting daily life and transportation. the protest is start to go die down particularly amongst those who need to get to work, those who need to get somewhere, those who want to go do shopping. one group withdrawing support for the street protests are the business owners. they say their businesses have been affected by these five days of protests, that they've been paralyzed and they've seen sales go down. they've launched a new campaign called the blue ribbon campaign as a pushback against street

protestors. >> every day, they come by the thousands from mainland china, whether in grooms or individually, they make the three hour ferry ride for a quick break. one thing's for certain, they are not here for the politics, they're here for the shopping. when asked for their views for free and fair elections for hong kong, most were nonchalant. >> i know there's a protest and i think they disagree with the elections. >> they prefer to spend time in hong kong buying big, but that could change. >> the protest has prompted the chinese government to cancel all organized tours to the area. mainland visitors make up 75% of tourists. it could mean a dent to the economy.

these same chinese visitors could take their valuable tourist dollars nearby. >> those who would be most affected by a fall in visitor numbers would be small businesses like these vendors at a local market. >> a few days is fine, but it can't be too long. if this goes on, people can't make a living. >> concerns over hong kong's economy has resulted in a pushback against the street protest. the blue ribbon movement is being launched by local business owners eager to change the perception that hong kong has been paralyzed by the current demonstrations. >> this is not fair to everybody in honk cock, because it is only their movement. they cannot represent everybody in hong kong. it is time for the silent majority to come out and to say something and because we want to protect hong kong, we don't want the streets to be occupied. >> not everybody's joining the

campaign. i mean the riots, and we want people to know that no matter what they want, we have to keep the core values of true democracy, choice, discussion and respect. >> it seems while hong kong residents are determined to push for democracy, some are asking at what cost. >> that's the question that many local's here in hong kong are asking. they're also asking how much longer can these street protests go on. they're fed up of living paralyzed lives and traffic disrupted. however, the protests here say they will continue to protest until the chief executive resigns. we'll see what happens tomorrow morning. >> we'll see how things unfold in the coming hours. thanks very much indeed. >> technology played a significant role during the hong kong protest, people relying on

mobile devices. they've managed to do so while avoiding the main telecommunications network. we explain. >> the success of the mass protests boils down to organization and communication. hong kong is case in point. where word spread that the government might cut off mobile and internet access, demonstrators turned to a different technology, one called fire chat. it's a mobile app that rely honest so-called mesh networking which works like this. >> in a typical telecommunications network, a system controls service. if the government pulls the central plug, phones and computers loose connection but fire chat by passes this grid so nearby devices talk to each other through blue tooth and those messages can be shared with users further away in a

type of chat room that forms it's own network. >> fire chat was reds in marsh. it's founder say it was designed for situations at which wi-fi or mobile service is limited or when cell phone towers are swamped, say at a concert. >> it was not designed as a tool for protest. had we known about hong kong before, what would change, probably a few things, smaller things would change, but fundamentally, the product would be the same product. >> in the course of just 24 hours this week, fire chat was downloaded more than 100,000 times in hong kong, but accessibility doesn't translate into security, because anyone can join this open chat room, the messages can be monitored. >> mesh is not a silver bullet to prevent surveillance or sensorship. in the same way you wouldn't send your credit card details over the internet without

encrypting them first, on a mesh, you want to encrypt, as well. >> security issues aside, fire chat presents new opportunities, as well as challenges. not only for those looking to protest, but also those who want to stop it. >> health workers are testing a patient in hawaii for the ebola virus. if confirmed, it will be america's second case. a dallas manifested positive and prompted parents to pull their children out of school. meanwhile, 9,000 protection kith arrived in liberia. overall, 50,000 will be delivered. it is the worst ebola outbreak the world has seen. the foreign minister told aljazeera that nobody saw the crisis coming. he said one reason it spread so quickly is because initially cases were difficult to diagnose. >> all this is being discussed in london as a plea is made for international help. he wants to raise funds to fight

ebola which has killed more than 3,000 people in west africa. we speak to barnaby phillips following the events at london. there's a real sense that the world needs to step up its response. >> well, that's what phillip hammond said. he said there has been progress here. we'll get a fuller picture toward the end of the day, a few pledges, i can tell you, the cuban government is here. they're going to send 63 doctors and more than 100 nurses to sierra leone. the australians have said they're going to be giving $10 million. the finnish government is going to give money. all of that is welcome, but the fight against ebola, the coordinated response is still behind the curve. if you bear in mind a very bleak warning from the british aid charity, they were talking about in sierra leone, five new cases every hour and they expect that

number to increase to 10 new cases by the end of october. remember, the kind of state that the health system is in in sierra leone anyway, devastated by that civil war before ebola came along, struggling to cope with local epidemics anyway, like malaria needles and so on, and you have an idea of the kind of crisis that country faces. i think it has one doctor per 100,000 people in the general population, and indeed, we know several dozen health workers tragically have died in recent weeks, so it is an uphill struggle. >> thank you very much. >> all right. let's move on to the world weather now. we've got steph here. sounds like the wet weather in london -- in europe, i should say is easy. >> montpelier had heavy rain.

this is now the situation back to normal, a bit of sunshine there and people back on the beach. the rain that ha eased and edging toward the east. we can see it on the satellite picture, this bright area of clouds stretching from the northern parts of africa across parts of italy and southeastern europe. that's already given us heavy rain today. over the next couple of days, we're going to crib to see heavy downpours. friday then, heavy showers here, particularly in the southern parts of our map here, through parts of italy and across into greece, very wet here. that wet weather continues through saturday. plenty of showers, plenty of clouds for the southeastern parts of europe and that's also been affecting us over the other side of the mediterranean, as well. if we look at the satellite picture from the northern parts of africa, we can see that area of cloud gradually edging

eastward over sicily. it's dragging more cloud behind it, as well. across nigeria and morocco, we've seen plenty of heavy downpours after the last few days. that's been accompanied by lots of thunder and lightning, as well. this will continue to affect some of us in the northwestern parts of africa over the next few days. for friday then, algeria will see quite a few showers, again, lots of thunder and lightning. that will be taking the edge off the temperatures in algiers, no no higher than 22 degrees. that system will journey eastward, still grazing some of us. in tune nearby is that, we expect showers saturday. thank you. >> the american movement against genetically modified foods is celebrating its biggest win, the passage of a mandatory product labeling law in vermont. it takes effect in 2015. some big food manufacturers not happy. we have this report.

>> the state of vermont takes pride in its lush green mountains, it's legendary ski slopes and ben and jerry's, the locally made ice cream. ben and jerry's is promising to eliminate genetically modified products in it's ice cream this year. cot has been outspoken in campaign for the law, a way it says a fighting against the domination of big corporate interests. >> we buy ingredients from small holder cooperatives, from cocoa to vanilla and sugar. we think smaller scale agriculture is a better form of agriculture. our concern is that this just further industrializes agriculture. >> ben and jerry's position is at adds with uni11, the company which owns it. it has joined other food

manufacturers in defeating label initiatives in other states like california. labeling was an easy sell in vermont. activists here like organic farmer and state senator say it's a matter of upholding the consumer's right to know what they're eating. >> there are a lot of different farming techniques and people should have a right to know what those are. in the specific of g.m.o.'s they have a right to know because of the environmental and heal consequences that g.m.o.'s may well pose. >> dairy farmer calls the labeling law a scare tactic by groups who the ultimate goal is to ban g.m.o. products without coming up with hard everyday that they're harmful. >> if you don't base your findings on scientific fact, i don't know how you can make that assumption based on sentiment. i think it's a bunch of bologna. i think the consumer's being doomed. >> g.m.o. opponents accuse the federal government of taking the side of ago degree business in

this debate but the obama administration is offering an alternative it says could satisfactory everybody. instead of a g.m.o. warning, the companies mark their product a with quick response code that any smart phone could link to a full list of ingredients. >> some kind of mechanism that people could use if they are interested in knowing precisely what's in this product, they can ever all the information. >> meanwhile, at least 20 more states have become battle grounds over proposed g.m.o. labeling laws. >> it's battle that's likely to go on and on. >> much more to come, violence hitting afghanistan for a second day following taliban threats over security deal with the united states. >> plus, the show might not go on. why it's maybe the final curtain call for one of bangladesh's oldest forms of entertainment. >> sport coming up, too, striker

makes it a double celebration for his manager. the details from the champion's league.

>> isil is blamed for a suicide car bombing as a message seen as those with partners against the u.s. led coalition launching airstrikes against the goop. we have more. >> the islamic state of iraq and the levant is blamed for this attack. it is not the first time isil has attacked other rebel factions in the opposition controlled north, but is the first reported incident since the u.s. led coalition began airstrikes against the armed group. this attack could signal the

start of yet another front in syria's war. >> this is not the first time this space was attacked, the syrian air force close by, this attack is the work of isil led bial baghdady. >> isil began targeting f.s.a. fighters. >> at the time, fighting weakened the opposition movement, the rebels were unable to force isil out of strongholds in the north and east of the country. now a u.s. led coalition is trying to do just that but needs partners on the ground to engage isil fighters in face-to-face combat. >> >> ma'am is one of the those partners. his brigade was targeted by the suicide car bombing. less than a month ago, he gathered his force to show the word that the free syrian army still exists and reiterated the war against isil hadn't ended.

>> we will continue to fight the government and isil, as well. we are the real revolutionaries. we will liberate. >> despite almost two weeks of coalition airstrikes, for the first time, the islamic state of iraq and the levant released video, it showed how its command and control structures have been targeted but wanted to show it is firmly in control. this won't be an easy fight. the car bombing should be a message to those on the side of the coalition. aljazeera, beirut. >> the syrian opposition coalition apologized for measles vaccination campaign that killed 15 children opinion the incident happened in rebel held province. the coalition government received vaccinations from the word health organization. they weren't handled or stored properly. several health officials in the interim government have since

been fired. >> the united states criticized israel's decision to build 2,600 new homes in occupied east jerusalem. u.s. president barack obama met the israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu on wednesday. the white house spokesern said the move is troubling and called into question israel's commitment to peace. >> this development will only draw condemnation from the international community, distance from israel's closest allies, poison the atmosphere with the palestinian and arab government with hitch president netanyahu said he wanted to extend negotiations. >> palestinian occupied territories, the west bank and gaza. the settlements span the whole of the west bank and parts of east jerusalem, home to more than half a million israeli settlers. this is where the new settlement

will be built. it is the first strehl settlement to be built in east jerusalem since the 1990's. once finished, it will cut off southern east jerusalem from the rest of the west bank. we are joined live from bethlehem by the general director of the supplies institutes. thank you for giving us your perspective. tell us more about this particular batch of settlement expansions that's so rankled the u.s. administration. >> >> this settlement is going to close the opening or the continuity between jerusalem and bethlehem. for the first time in history there will be a wall in addition

to wall of settlement that totally receivers bethlehem from jerusalem and it will make any potential viable palestinian state impossible. the number of units which have been advanced yesterday, 2610 units is only part of the settlement. there are still the b, c and d sections. by the end, settlement will have 4,500 units, housing about 20,000 jews in this land. at the same time, all the open space that was originally that of bethlehem has been lost. bethlehem during the british mandate had a total area of

about 31,000, now bethlehem confined to 6,000 because israel did gerrymandering, taking 25,000 from bethlehem and annexed it into what's called unilaterally the municipal borders of the jerusalem. -- >> when this happens, what does it physically mean for palestinians living in the affected areas. tell us about that briefly, if you would. >> there are no palestinians living in that area. the owners of the land are people who are either from bitsrafa or bethlehem. they are present in bethlehem, can see their land, but they are absent. they don't recognize they are

there. they have confiscated this under the absente property law. >> what is the recourse for palestinians? is there nothing that can be done? is there any roots now available? we're hearing rhetoric from the u.s. administration, but no action. >> i think what we heard from the american administration is not good enough. we don't need more criticism and more comments on this. we need actions. the palestinians have been negotiating for 20 years. the settlements keep growing every day, land con if i say occasion never stopped. i think we have to go the only way, which is to go to the international community, which according to international solutions consider all israel actions in occupied territory as

null and void, which is different from what the appearance are trying to say that we have to take realities on the ground, because every day, israel is creating realities on the ground so that there will be nothing to negotiate, so this time, we have to go oh thei c.c. and u.n. to see what the world will tell us against these atrocities of israel. >> do you think the international criminal court can provide a solution here? is it possible there could be resolution through the i.c.c.? >> we have the i.c.j. rewarding the wall, and the opinion of the advisor opinion of the court. it states clearly that all israel actions including the settlements and the wall are illegal and israel should

reissues substitute the conditions to how they were. we have the international community decides and all the resolutions that allow us to go into those directions. now, we know that if we go to the security council, most probably, we'll have the united states lead to this decision, but this means that if they match this with veto, this means that the united states is no longer an honest broker of the peace forces, and we have to find alternatives. >> very good to get your perspective, thanks very much indeed. >> there have been more taliban attacks in the afghan capitol, for a second day, suicide bombers target the security forces angry at new security agreements with nato and u.s.

troops. >> a bus was the target the attack. >> the suicide bomber hit the army bus, pieces of human flesh were on the street. there was damage done to the homes in this area. our windows in the neighborhood were all broken. >> a police convoy was attacked in afghanistan south on the kandahar highway. on wednesday, two buses of troops were attacked by suicide bombers, killing seven. the taliban has told august it's putting on the pressure because it opposes security agreements with the united states and nato that will allow international forces to stay for the next two years. signing the deal is one of the first attacks of afghanistan's new government led by president afghani inaugurated monday. he asked for a new strategy to protect the afghan capitol. he held a video conference with senior army officers. he recognizes security is one of his biggest challenges.

>> a afghans will be watching their new president closely. >> fighting erupted in eastern ukraine between pro-russian separatists and government troops. two sides are battling for control of the airport. it is addition spite a ceasefire deal. wednesday, 10 people were killed. >> aljazeera continues to demand the release of its journalists detained in egypt for 278 days. they are falsely accused of aiding the out allowed muslim brother hood. one was sentenced to seven years, the third for 10 years.

they are appealing their convictions. >> it is the anniversary of mexico's student massacre when the military shot and killed thousands of students. while the past tragedy is remembered, dozens of students are allegedly taken by police last friday and handed over to gangs. >> 160 security officers have been mobilized to search for the students. they went missing after municipal police and unidentified gunman attacked them in the southern city. six students were killed. eyewitnesses say local police arrested many, but none have turned up in jails. authorities suspect they may have been handed over to drug gangs who operate in the area.

it's taken days for the government to organized these security forces, who admit they have little information to go on. >> these are members of the state police. they've been joined by the mexican military, decided they're going to start searching on foot in the mountains that surround this area for the missing students. >> for the first time, they are joined by family members of the disappeared. this father has had no proof of life, only an anonymous threatening phone call a day after his son have not issued. >> we know that organized crime operates here. they've discovered mass graves in this area. we've come to find out clues to the whereabouts of our kids. >> he has a lead the way, because neither the soldiers nor police have any intelligence. desperate, he asks anyone he comes across about his son, but nobody has seen him. we follow the group as they seem

to be wandering aimlessly without a plan or destination. the families are forced to do most of the investigating, drawing up search routes, sharing them with the soldiers. the government is offering $80,000 to anyone who can give information about the students, but hope of finding them alive is dwindling. >> the search is taking place in the mountains, ditches, creeks and empty lots, places that would be ideal to hide people or even bury bodies. >> the families are not ready to give up. they say they'll keep searching until they bring their children home. aljazeera, mexico. >> the san francisco giants make history as their playoff run continues in major league baseball. we will have all of that. >> reporting from africa on how the elephants' amazing sense of

smell could one day be used to save lives.

>> circus performers ever passed on knowledge from one generation to the next, children trained, often dropping out of school to focus on skills. as the shows begin to draw smaller crowds, many wonder what their next act could be. we report now. >> one of the oldest entertainment institutions has traveled the country for 109 years.

for many of the performers, the circus is a family trade passed down from generation to generation. she worries that her children will be the last to uphold the tradition. >> i'm nervous about what they will do when they got older. i'm not sure the circus will be around when they become adults. >> her children don't go to school. the circus is the only life they know. when child performers become adults, they have few options to jobs outside the circus. the trouble is this generation often find they have few options inside the circus, too. >> technology has transformed rural life in bangladesh. tell advices everywhere, leaving the public entertainment into everyone's homes while villagers can look at their phone screens. >> this man has been in business for 40 years. when he joined, the circus was

thriving. >> when i started, there was no satellite t.v. there were not to many t.v. channels in the country, either and not many options on radio. there was no internet. >> the circus still draws a small crowd, even sometimes by giving away tickets for free. not everyone is hooked to their t.v. screens. >> it's nice a have an activity to lets you get out of the house. people don't get to leave the house for entertainment very often. >> it costs organizers $500 a day to stage the circus. on a good day, they barely make back their money. the performers will have reason to fear that the show might not go on if it stays with this way. >> time for sport now. joe's here. >> thank you very much. rarely has there been so much to play for on a football pitch,

the asian games football final, the south koreans had a hometown crowd to impress. there was an exemption for two years military service if they was not. it was an intense encounter for two countries technically at war. it went to extra time, where south korea scored in the last minute to clinch a victory and prevent a penalty shootout. >> when it comes to north and south korea, sports and politics are clothely linked over their 60 years of division. north korea-day coated the 1986 games and 1988 olympics in seoul. the two nations competed together for the first time as an international table tennis championship and youth football tournament. in 2000, the historic first summit meeting was followed by the two delegations marching

together at the sydney olympics and athens in 2004. relations faltered, but improved again when the south were invited to compete in a weight lifting competition in the northern korean capital pyongyang. teams were sent to asian games. now they can at least take some consolation in the fact that the north korean scores one goal in the women's final. this is the third goal that sealed the triumph late on. caught in the break, the clincher. >> celebrating 18 years in charge at a london club president champions league. a first hat trick was the highlight of wednesday's match. a $26 million buy from the team last month two goals before half

time. the 24-year-old completed his hat trick in the second half. >> we had good pace in our game and our transition was good and finishing was good. of course, it's good to see that slowly gains confidence, finishes well, and it's nice to see that the potential is there and start to go get that and hopefully, the has hat trick will hope him gain confidence. >> royal madrid had a scare in group b., taking an early lead. missing a penalty, normal service was resumed when the world player was he is scored after 25 minutes. eventually grabbing the win in the second half, they topped group b. >> in group a., it was the champions of spain athletico

wing by a single goal. >> major legal basketball, the giants reached the postseason. scores going into the fourth, a grand-slam home run puts the giants up 4-0. it was the first grand slam by a shortstop in major league postseason history. san francisco kept the home crowd quiet, the pirates giving up just four hits in the game. the giants won 8-0 to progress to the divisional series. >> we're facing a guy that's been throwing the ball very

well, a understand you're looking for a timely hit and we couldn't have got a bigger one there. crawford's been swinging the bat well, so i was really confident with him up there doing something. i didn't know he would hit a grand slam, but that's hard to get a bigger hit. now you're up four runs and get your guy up there throwing the ball well. it's really hard to pitch a better game than what madison did. >> coming back from injury, going well after he reached the course of fines in beijing. the 2005 champion out of action for children weeks, in straight sets 6-3, 6-4. >> in tokyo, delighting the home fans, he's reached the quarter finals of the japan open after downing the american in the second round. >> formula one race could be

disrupted by a typhoon forecast to hit land over the weekend. heavy rain reached the circuit thursday. more rain and strong winds are expected as the typhoon passes the coast of japan. the race takes place at 600g.m.t. sunday. it could be put back, but postponing the race is not a likely option as the inaugural russian grand prix takes place the following weekend. >> i hope that we can race sunday. that's the first thing i think. with a typhoon coming this way, it's very tricky. hopefully it will miss us. it's going to be a mixed weekend in terms of weather, tomorrow a good chance of rain, as well. i think it's just really thinking on your feet and staying on top of all the different weather forecasts. >> the formula one team are still planning to race in japan. the team's troubles stem back to jump when the new owners were

hit with legal action from 40 former employees saying they were unfairly dismissed. a list of seized items to be sold at auction include the 2013 test car, steering wheel and pit lane equipment. the race car would have already been shipped to japan sometime ago. >> we've all had sniffer dogs, but what about sniffer elephants? not a stealthy alternative but scientists believe a better one. we report from south africa. >> elephants can find water underground and sense electricity. they have long memories and an extraordinary sense of smell. far more sensitive than a dogs, that's why the u.s. military chief's science officer seeks solutions to combat related

questions here. he thinks he can help with a study at his south african wildlife park. inside one of these buckets is a small amount of explosives. the bull will signal when he's found it. >> good boy! >> atta boy! good boy! atta boy. >> well done! >> he believes he can design a machine to replicate the elephant's trunk that could save lives. >> for the soldier, you could see explosive detectors designed, chemical detectors designed, biological detectors designed. those technologies can go into the commercial market for the medical environment, sensing if people are sick, monitoring the environment. >> it's a proud-day. he said the elephant's sense of smell is 14 times for powerful than a dog's. >> another area the elephants accel is in memory. while dogs might need to be trained once a week in a test

like this, these elephants haven't done it for a year and are getting it right every time. >> elephants run in the brother's blood. their father was the first to recognize their talents. >> the original idea came when dad was followed by a herd of wild elephants. he had been observing them and they picked up his scent and started to track him. dad came home and started to train elephants to follow human scent to use them to try to stop poaching in the valley. >> it took elephants to evolve, but with luck, the chief scientist said within 30 years, he could have a machine based on their unique trunk and its talents. >> the talent of the sniffer elephants. that's it for this news hour. i'm back in a couple of minutes with another bulletin of news. see you in just a minute. inute.

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>> the government is prepared to carry out mass array... >> if you want free press in the new democracy, let the journalists live. >> mistakes and how a dallas hospital first dealt with the ebola patient, lead to more than a dozen people being mornltded for the disease. and some discord in the coalition as fighting rages in iraq and syria. i'm antonio mora, those stories and more straight ahead. >> officials are rushing to soothe public anxiety about the first ebola case to emerge in america. >> rest assured our system is working as it should. >> this is not west africa.