bay areaecio.ace blpg >> this is al jazeera.>> good t. i'm david foster and you're watching the al jazeera news. coming up in the next 60 minutes, the ebola virus spreads. a nurse in spain has tested positive. first person to contract the virus outside of west africa. >> my conscience is clear. >> kenyatta will go to the

international criminal court, first to do so. i.s.i.l, there are reports of i.s.i.l. entering kobani. 43 missing students for the first time, promising to go after the perpetrators. a spanish nurse who helped treat an ebola victim in madrid is now tested positive for the disease. the first case of one person transmitting the disease to another person outside of west africa. a spanish priest died of the disease in august, the five u.s. citizen diagnosed with the disease has arrived in nebraska. ashoka mukpo had been working in

liberia, hired by the network nbc he fell in. mukpo was able to board the plane on monday and will be treated at a specialized medical unit in nebraska. an ebola clinic in liberia, doctors in the center of the capital monrovia, have been working in this specialized center, filled up be within 24 hours of its opening. so far the virus has killed more than 3400 people in west africa and infected about 7500. just to report, we are expecting a press conference will spanish health minister. we'll bring that to you when we can.

kenya's president says he will be appearing before the international criminal court later this week, uhuura kenyata says he will are appearing. here is kenyatta making the announcement to his parliament. >> my conscience is clear, has been clear and will remain forever clear that i'm innocent of all the accusations. that have been leveled against me. >> kenyata says he is going on a personal capacity and not that as president. he will hand over the presidency on a temporary basis. >> i take the unprecedented step of invoking article 147.3 of the

constitution. will appoint honnabl hon honorae william the presidency. >> if president kenyatta had refused to go to the hague, he will have risked an international arrest warrant. at previous hears the icc's prosecutor had said she no longer had enough evidence to secure a conviction. she said that several key witnesses had withdrawn their statements because of intimidation and bribery, kenyatta's lawyers deny that, they say the lack of ef evidencs because he is not guilty. hong kong workers were able to return, because of the

declining number of protesters. remaining out in the street. >> mong kok. police will act accordingly at the appropriate time. once again call on students and bystanders. >> group of protesters say they're going incorporate. >> divya gopalan is in hong kong. >> most of them are passing through and most of them are office workers looking on with curiosity watching speeches. there are a core are goop of protesters who have david schuster core group of protesters wh -- clear thestrees

no deadline. there had been fears earlier on mon morning that there would be a crack down on the protest but as adrian brown reports that didn't happen. >> the sight of civil servants going to work wouldn't ordinarily generate much interest but in hong kong it was a significant sight on monday morning. the city's leader had warned of unspecified action if government workers weren't able to return to their desks. outside, the barricades remain but far fewer protesters today. one student leader admits the smoovment losing momentum-d-d the movement is losing momentum. >> we don't know when it will end but this is a long term challenge or long term battle. >> reporter: the government am ultimatum to clear the streets has so far gone unheeded.

but the barriers were pushed aside outside the office of hong kong's beleaguered leader c.y. leung. to allow the delivery of food. >> with the amount of people here we have no bargaining powers. we only have less than ten persons, ten people here. so the police they pretty much can do whatever they want. >> the president of hong kong's legislature one of the most powerful politicians in the city has appealed for restraint. >> we certainly hope that the government will not take drastic measures to evacuate are this place by force. >> with government workers able to return to their desks the crisis has eased for now but many of the students are weary and divided over whether to continue their action or call it

off. the protesters are angry at china's plans to vet candidates when hong kong holds elections in 2017. beijing says the campaign is doomed. >> the islamic state of iraq and the levant continues to target people in syria. these people are from the syrian city of hasaka in the country's northeast. i.s.i.l. fighters blew up their two trucks killing at least 30 kurdish fighters. about 80 kilometers south of turkey, also taking place in kobani, in aleppo province which is even closer to turkey. these i.s.i.l. pictures taken by them released by them are reporting to show the group's response. crucial hill close to that area, they have been forced by kurds to retreat.

the fighting for kobani continues despite u.s. led air strikes against i.s.i.l. targets and we can go to bernard smith, not so far from that area. can you bring us the latest news for those people encircled, those who are left at least inside kobani. >> well, david, it's a fast-moving story moving even faster this evening. that hill that you were talking about that i.s.i.l. had taken. kurdish fighters taken back, i.s.i.l. now have it back again. i.s.i.l. have breached the main city defenses that the syrian kurdish fighters have had, by that we mean the trench that has been dug all around the city they breached that and also to the south a bit as well. there are several different syrian kurdish fighters giving us this information telling us that i.s.i.l. have got through

and that they are now involved in street fighting with i.s.i.l. so a significant development which we expect to develop into tonight and tomorrow. we do believe there are at lefties a couple of thousand of syrian kurdish fighters, this is not a small desert village. this is a big built-up town. but syrian kurdish fighters are telling us there are a couple of hundred administrators in the government have been evacuated to turkey. >> we'll leave it there, bernard smith, thank you very much indeed. nato has drawn up a strategy to defend his country against i.s.i.l. fighters. as the fighters are trying to take kobani.

>> translator: nato's article 5 is very clear. in the event there is an attack on one of the allied nations, it is considered an attack on everyone. nato's defense pact goes into action. it is defense treaty. >> 43 students have been missing now for more than a week. it is still unclear whether the discovery of mass graves and the disappearance of dozens of students are related. roads have been blocked in support of the 43 who are missing. fellow classmates and parents accusing government leaders of lying. some are convinced that the students are still alive. mexico's president has promised to take action. >> translator: i've instruct members of the cabinet so we take action for the actions that took place. apply the rule of law in relation to those events.

we must find the truth and ensure that the laws apply to those responsible for these events which are without a doubt painful and not acceptable. >> adam rainey. what do they make of the president's remarks? >> well, david, we've been here at the school where the students studied and we've been listening for parents and people advocating for case. and they basically say what the president said is too little and too late and they also say they don't want to hear anything. they just want him to get their 43 children back alive. that's what they say. they also say his statement isn't any grand promise. it is the responsibility of a president, especially a president elected on the promise that the security against a

raging drug war for several years now, so they want the kids back, they want them back now, and they want them alive and they want the president to do more. >> why do the students, why do they think the students were targets? >> reporter: well, i'd like to give you david a little context about who these students were, the kind of university or college system they are in. we are at the college where they were training to be teachers and it's called a normale, a normal, and they are called a normalistas, it is very common for them to ask for political donations. the night they disappears thisey had doing just that. police and armed gunmen from prosecutors say were the leading

cartel. they weren't acting with violence when this happened. parents believe they were targeted because they were trying to improve their lot, trying to become educated. all these students come from very poor humble families. others say perhaps they were at the wrong place at the wrong time, someone with great power, commanding a lot of violent gunmen were angered by what they saw and perhaps came underfire because of that. we don't know why they were attacked and why they disappeared that night but what we do know is the head police officer in the town of iguala, gave the order for their detention. and the accused killer who is in detention said he ordered their massacre, their murder. these are opposing stories from two different sectors that are concluding in this area. -- colluding in this area.

we do know it's been ten days, these students haven't been seen and what we have are mass graves popping up in the area. >> thank you, adam rainey in mexico. forces celebrating a victory after taking a port town called barawe. japanese president tries to kick start the economy. and oreport on jules bianchi, italian driver who is still in hospital. we'll hear from health officials there. okay back to our top story. the breaking news that a spanish nurse who helped to treat an ebola victim in madrid has now self-tested positive for the disease, making this the first case of ebola spreading from one

person to another outside of west africa. the nurse was treating two ebola patients, one of them a spanish priest who died of the disease. two, two and a half weeks ago. i'm going to talk now to professor hugh pennington who is a professor of bacteriology in aberdeen. joining us on the phone. professor good to have you back on the program. i suppose what's making people worried about this particular case is that for two weeks, after the patient she was treating died, she was unaware perhaps that she had ebola and was mixing freely. is it possible that many people she's been in touch with would also have contracted the virus? >> no. i think that's very unlikely. what we do know about ebola is you only become i infectious whn you become ill, when you have

hemorrhagic phase, volume iting, gastroenteritis has been a feature of all the excretions. that's a danger period, with anybody overlooking a patient. not when you've been infected, when the virus grows in the person without producing any symptoms until the symptoms appear, that is not thought to be a danger peer dairchg periodr period for anyone meeting that person. clearly. we're still learning about this virus unfortunately but that's the view at the moment. >> so as long as she wasn't unwell for a number of days before she went to the hospital, complaining of symptoms, as long as she wasn't unwell for a few days before that do you reckon those people are safe? >> absolutely.

there are some theoretical possibilities, that's highly unlikely i would think anyway. but there could be some very special circumstances like that. but in terms of general ordinary social contact, the -- one could say for all practical purposes the risk is zero until the person actually falls ill and then the risk increases very substantially as we have obviously seen tragically in west africa. >> i was talking about the conditions in west africa, the hospital conditions, and those in modern countries, western countries where a number of infected people have gone. what do you say the chances of surviving this disease are if it's caught early enough and you're getting the proper treatment then? >> it's -- you probably have at least a 50% chance of surviving. the -- all that can be done to -- sort of keep you going whilst you fight the infection

yours ielf is to make sure your fluid balance is kept, you're losing lots of fluids because of the vomiting you're having and your blood isn't right, you is have shocks in the way your blood pressure falls and your heart isn't working too well and those can be treated with standard intensive care treatments. with any luck, at least half those patients that have gone through the symptoms of having the virus should come through at the end. this strain is not quite as nasty as the other ones, although 50% mortality is outrageously high. it is critical whether it's 50 or 75. nonetheless, about 50%, given straightforward treatment there is really no other treatment we can give at the moment, although there are experimental procedures, and so on, if i% will survive. >> thank you, thank you very

much, indeed. professor hugh pennington talking to us about the first reported case of a person outside west africa contracting the ebola virus from somebody they've been treating. a nurse in spain. and we're awaiting here a press conference by a spanish health minister. a nurse in spain has gotten the ebola virus, who was treating a spanish priest who died a couple of weeks ago. hugh pennington was telling us that as long as this nurse had not been unwell before it was discovered she had ebola, for a considerable amount of time, if she hadn't reported symptoms the chances of passing that on to somebody else were pretty slim. we are awaiting the spanish health minister, ana marto, was

due 15 minutes ago but clearly hasn't started. we'll go back to that when we can. brazil's tight race for the country's presidency is heading for a runoff later on this month. in the on sunday's election dilma rousseff clearly won a clear are majority. aecio neves is second and the clear loser with 21%. gabriel alesandro, from sao paulo. >> dilma rousseff did not get enough votes to avoid a runoff. >> translator: this is a very simple message that i have to move forward, continue in this fight together with each one of these voters. >> reporter: but the story of the night was aecio neves.

who finished a strong second. his message to get the economy growing again drew traction. the candidate from the social democratic party now finds himself on the cusp of the candidacy. >> my candidac candidacy in this a great boon to the country. >> not satisfied with the government but where unemployment remains at record lows both candidates will try to draw out their different visions for cup. >> dilma rousseff is going to be continuity with change. neves is change with continuity as well. although neves looks more social change while rousseff looks more like the country's plan. >> the message there those who didn't vote was just as loud.

but many people seem dissatisfied with all of the candidates the abstention rate was nearly 20% and here in the state of sao paulo it was more than 30%. tens of millions of people that decided to vote for nobody. many brazilian is made it clear they need little more time. rousseff and neves will give both of them time to vote in the next few weeks. sao paulo. >> a crushing bowl to al shabaab, they have managed to take control of the port town of barawe. capturing the town back out of a larger strategy in somalia to try to cut off the group's supply chain. al jazeera's katherine soy is in barawe, she'll tell us how the

people are reacting to the changes. >> making their way care 30 into barawe. firing warning shots as they take control of the city. most of al shabaab's fighters and senior command left long ago but we're told that there's a possibility of snipers and hidden explosives. >> the resistance hasn't been as heavy as it has been in barawe, they are actually retreating back to the ocean to the coastline so they jump in the boats. >> this is the town square in barawe, the same al shabaab used for executions as recently as a few weeks ago. now members of a new town administration meet a few people who live here, there is still a lot of anxiety, these people have not seen any government presence sings the collapse of

somalia in 1991. and this is their governor who they have not seen since 2008. here he keeps his promise to publicly cut off his hair if this day ever came. >> clearly it is a great day. it was you know the center of the al qaeda. >> this man gives us a glirms of what life was like -- a glimpse of what life was like under al shabaab. >> they used to kill people by shooting them. even now you'll still see some blood at the site where they did it. >> the defense is an operation of cutting off al shabaab's supply routes from the sea. the soldiers have been getting tactical support from the u.s., eu and private military contractors. special forces are now securing the city moving from building to building trying to look for al shabaab elements. this is a place where al shabaab leaders held many of their

meetings. at the town square somalia soldiers celebrate their victory but they also know that al shabaab could come back. katherine soy, al jazeera, barawe south in somalia. >> coming up i'll be looking for the supporters much same sex marriage in the united states. >> overstretched and underequipped. germany's defense force. and in sport, colombian cricketer who tried to come to grips with a whole new ballgame.

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virus in two separate tests. kenya's president uhuru kenyatta sets he will go to the international criminal court in the hague. somali deposit forces are celebrating a victory in their victory against al shabaab, the key port town of barawe has been taken over by somali government and african union troops. the spanish health minister, has confirmed that a spanish health nursing has contracted ebola outside west africa. the first outside west africa to contract the disease. let's many join miguel,

unfortunately we didn't have a translation of what's being said at this press conference. so give us the outline of what you've heard so far. >> reporter: well, the minister anna mata has confirmed that the case in spain is the first case, such case in europe and she has confirmed that this was while this nurse was working with medical team trying to save the life of a spanish missionary who was brought back from africa with ebola virus. but she said for the time being they don't know the exact source of this contagion. they will be looking into the protocols and whether there was a breach in protocol or not. >> when she said an emergency protocol was being put in place, was that at the time abou the ne was treating the patient or

emergency protocols now in play for the public or what? >> it is both things. now there is a new protocol in place to prevent the spread of the disease but of course, whether the spanish missionary -- in fact there were two spanish missionaries that were brought back to spain from west africa, there was a protocol, it was said it was completely safe, there was no possibility of contagion but it was controversial at the time. the medical personnel expressed some doubt of the spanish officials to combat this, but decided to bring them in spain. so it's going to be very controversial.

>> indeed. as we look at the pictures of the press conference in the spanish capital, it's worth me putting out what we know, professor hugh pennington saying unless this nurse was showing signs of suffering from the virus for the two weeks, unless she was displaying signs at that point there is very little chance he told us that anybody else will have been infected. more on that a little bit later on. let me tell you no. the u.s. supreme court has denied appeals from five states seeking to ban same sex marriage. court rulings means that day men and women can legally marry those five states, utah, indiana, wisconsin, virginia and oklahoma. that means the states where same

sex marriages can occur goes up from 19 to 24. >> this on one sense of course is an enormously important day but a month from now it's going to be no big deal. a month from now the couples you see behind me are going to be same sex couples the same way who are married the same way as married coupled were yesterday married. it's just no big deal. and that is the transformative nature of this issue. right now, for most americans, it's no big deal. and that's the most heartening thing of it all. this is not a decision that is going to occasion the type of rancor and ill will that some other sprort supreme court decis have because america's behind this. >> well actually as we hear this we are being fed pictures of a gay wedding ceremony in the capital of virginia in richmond,

virginia. >> are you joined in marriage at this time, absolutely. >> and let's bring in tom ackerman. tom we'll see you in a moment. what's the immediate effect of this? >> well, beyond what you just saw, virginia is one of the five states where those who are challenging the ban really effectively were uphead by the u.s. supreme court because they refused to rule on lower courts' rulings that these bans are unconstitutional and beyond the five states who had lost their appeals today before the supreme court, six other states in the same regional jurisdictions are also affecting. there, too, same-sex marriage will effectively be legalized. and very soon afterwards we shall be seeing marriages of the like in those states as well. all told, 30 out of the 50

states as well as the district of columbia will have legalized marriage by the same sex. it means that the gay rights movement has achieved a major victory but this is an incremental victory. because what they are still looking for is for the supreme court to make a sweeping ruling. what the supreme court chose to do today, to the surprise of a lot of legal observer was simply to let the lower court's decision stand, and because all the lower courts up to now, some 40 of them, have thrown out bans on -- or lack of recognition of same sex marriage in those states, the result has been that the supreme court has not had to rule otherwise. but if there is still one area louisiana where that -- >> help me with this one, tom. we talk about 30 states where this is all going to be okay, where as we've been saying, gay couples can get married just as they are doing in virginia what

about the other 20? what's happening there? >> well, 19 states have already legalized same sex marriage. and the effect of the ruling last year by the u.s. supreme court which threw out the federal defense of marriage act which said the federal government could discriminate between same sex couples and heterosexual couples when it came to spousal benefits, that laid the groundwork for the decisions by the lower courts here. but as i said, 19 states including most prominently new york and california have already put legalized same sex marriage on the books, and because of -- because of the fact that there is no -- there is no ban, there was never any ban there and it was legally recognized all those marriages already have the effect of legal status. >> okay, we'll leave it there tom, thank you very much,

outside the supreme court in the capital of the u.s.a. we're going to return to kenya's president, uhura kenyatta, he says he will appear before the international criminal court. joining us from washington, uhura kahn yahtta, going for a status conferences, a toinf and froing, do you think he'll still present himself before trial there? >> i think so. having dipped his toe into it, frankly i have to tell you i think the case has been weakened considerably because of the time that has passed and also because we must remember he was accused, he and others were accused even before he became president.

and sassy have been oftenning it, a sitting president has weakened the case and therefore this move that he has made it seems to me is actually an astute move on his part. i see it improving his relations with the international community. he can now say, look, i'm now complying, the praibility of him being-d the probability of him being convicted has fallen.. >> in kenya there is suggestion of witness intimidation, changing their testimony, others have been accused as well. that weakens the case too. >> absolutely. in fact that is the major thing that has weakened the case in the time that has passed. it is no small thing for an african citizen who wants to go up even before mr. kenyatta

became president he held a number of government posts and he was the richest man in the country and he was pretty powerful then once he became president he made it even more difficult. you are absolutely right. in the time a lot of potential witnesses have simply changed their minds. they don't want to go up against him. but also the prosecutor has complained that the kenyan government headed by mr. kenyatta has not made available documents that are needed. in fact that is what one of the issues is going to be when he gets to the hague this week. >> thank you very much, indeed, we'll be back to talk to you later, probably later this week when mr. kenyatta makes his appearance before the icc, appreciate your time. japan is facing a tough decision, in an effort to cut the country's debt. a senior advisory has told al

jazeera that he will increase concerns over the fact hurt the economy. >> japan's economic machine used to be the envy of the world, but the glory days are a distant memory. the news from the money men aren't encouraging. >> the performance from the third quarter is not expected to be high. >> reporter: the government is trying desperately to breathe life back into the economy. at the same time it has a problem in the form of massive national debt which it's trying to bring under control with tax increases. the consumption tax was in thed from 5 to 8% in april. it's hit everyone from factories paying more for raw materials to the end consumer who's paying more at the shop. shinzo abe says he will decide

at the end of the year whether to increase it to 10% in 2015. the key men says the economy isn't strong enough to handle it. >> in my personal opinion i comment that we should postpone, for the next round of talks, 18 months, one and a half years. >> the once proud made in japan label has now taken a beating. nissan makes parts for machines, increasingly taking their business off shore, philippines and thailand, and the weakening of the yen isn't enough to bring manufacturers back hope. >> translator: no matter how weak the yen gets, our clients who went overseas won't come back here.

even if the labor price rises in china, for example, they will look to locate elsewhere like bangladesh rather than japan. >> the problem is they're paying more than they used to and figures show real wages are falling. one more issue heaping increasing pressure on the government, its population is aging and shrinking fast so every day there are less people spending less money. wayne hay, al jazeera, tokyo. sever stress months after the western nations imposed sanctions, what's going on in ukraine, currency the ruble is going down and analysts say there's a looming financial crisis. rory challenge, reports in moscow. >> all you need do is watch the

tumble ruble. each day seems to bring a record low. on monday it briefly hit 40 rubles to the dollar. that's despite intervention by the russian central bank. caught in the condition are hundreds of russian banks, fast running out of the money. >> translator: as alled, all animals are equal but some of them are more equal than others. in one to two years only the biggest banks will be left in russia and many of them will have government capital in them. the smaller will have to leave the market. >> so it seems a significant cull is coming. but bailing out russia's banking giants like spare bank here could cost the government dear. their external debt amounts to some $200 billion, half the central bank's reserves of $400 billion. and helping russia's indebted companies could cost even more.

at an investment forum in moscow last week it was possible to detect tensions normally kept out of view. despite being the recipient of state financial help, the spokesman blamed interventions. >> this motivation is short-lived and it doesn't work. creative products under the condition where they don't understand the current economic policy and the business climate. >> reporter: for as long as russia could rely on structural reforms could be delayed but now the crisis in ukraine has shut russia off from western capital and, to add insult to injury, oil prices have started falling too. rory challenge, a al jazeera, moscow. a report that germany's military equipment is pretty

poor, leaders want germany to play a bigger role internationally but as nick spicer will tell us, that look is quite a challenge. >> overstripped and underquipped. a sorry picture of germany's defense equipment. >> we now have a good basis and a look from the outside, along with the defense min industry's expertise, surely will be a tough management task for weeks and months to come. >> it's been an embarrassing two weeks. the minister made osurprise visit to northern iraq for delivery of german weapons to kurdish fighters but the transport plane broke down along the way. another transport had to be rerouted to the canary islands

for repairs. only one in four of the navy's sea link helicopters can fly and only one in five of the fighter jets is considered operational. what that means is that germany is unable ocome to the aid of the baltic companies should they come -- countries should they come under attack. far below the 2% it has pledged at nato meetings. members of the opposition suggest the scandals in the report will be used to change public opinion from a traditional stance against projecting military power. >> i think the real debate we have to have is do we want to have an army which is ready to intervene across world? and this is what fondalion our defense minister wants to put forward. >> germany's latest planned deployment announced monday is to send troops to ukraine, to

monitor the tenuous ceasefire there. while german leaders have global ambitions, they have to deal with what is said in the capital, germany is accidentally disarming by wear and tear. nick spicer, lngz, berlin. we go to paris to show you the new $38 million view from the eiffel tower. and find out who hopes to secure a place at the world finals, dealt a blow, we'll have a view, in just a moment.

>> okay, the very latest news on that f-1 driver who crashed yesterday. >> that's right david, formula 1's governing body says jules bianchi is in critical but stable condition, after the crash at the japanese grand prix. the frenchman was unconscious. fellow drivers, including castor maldonado, bianchi's car collided with a recovery vehicle after spinning out in wet conditions. bianchi's family is set to meet with doctors in japan on tuesday. >> conditions, i mean as you can imagine, i mean, remains critical. they will see the doctors tomorrow. jules has been well assisted since the really beginning. >> bad behavior on the football

pitch isn't all that unusual but two managers getting involved in a physical altercation is quite a rare occurrence. arsenal's denger says he has no regret giving his opponent a little push. in which chelsea won 2-nil. >> i wanted to go from a to b. and somebody confronted me in between. without any sign of welcome. [ laughter ] >> i do so many wrong things in football, sometimes, you get emotional, i did so many wrong things but not this time. because this time i was just in my technical area. and was not my problem. >> jordan's new football manager ray wilkins believe his side are

capable of beating anyone they face at the asian cup. the competition begins in january and wilkins is busy preparing his site against a washup match on friday. one of the favorites japan and 2007 champions iraq. >> we have as good a chance as anybody else. we're qualified. therefore we're in a tough group but when you play international football every game is difficult. we have as good a chance as anybody else. hopefully, we finished in the quarter finals for the last two championships, we want to go a couple of steps further. we'll work extremely hard to make that goal. >> ten utennis now. u.s. open champion marin cillic,

knocked out of the finals first round. the top 8 players of the year qualify for the finals which happen in london. cillic, is currently in eighth spot but his spot is not guaranteed. 6-3, 6-3, giving chances a boost, winning the shanghai masters would help him make up some ground. the baltimore orioles have reached american league championship series for the first time since 19 an 97. , with a victory over detroit tigers. orioles completing a 3-0 series sweep. next up for baltimore is kansas city.

>> i would have believed it but like i say they have three great pitchers. to be able to win three in a row it was pretty shocking. >> columbia has just played their first international cricket match in four years. featuring four other teams that are football loving countries, brazil and peru. to see whether cricket could really catch on in colombia. >> it might be too much to call it a fever but the temperature is rising in colombia's cricket. the country created its board in june and hosted its first ever international tournament against brazil and peru. >> it's still very early days. i think we have the highest number of players between bogo bogota, immediateellin, indians,

south african, and colombians of course. a chance for colombians to show their strength. >> i look at colombia and think wow, we were like this ten years ago. in some ways we're coming here to play in the tournament but also saying to colombian cricket we can support you. >> reached its height in the 1960 pps when violence pushed many foreigners to leave. >> the colombian team is made of ex-pats. but the colombian wicket player is playing for the national side. >> he proudly shows his collection of bats and a towel hanging in his living room. >> to are me it is something

comparing to an ancient battle, maybe i use the examples waterloo, wellington. it's beautiful. >> controlling the ball at 2600 meters in bogota is a challenge. but getting a familiar audience is part of the game. >> the way you currently play is difficult but it's good. good to see in bogota and colombia. >> these players believe they will get more colombians to pick up the bat. they show they can win over powerful opponents. on the way to the south american cricket championship in 2015.

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