>> al jazeera's headquarters in doha, i'm nick clark, and the headlines coming up in the next 60 minutes. renewed fighting in yemen's ibb province, and fears that unrest could lead to a sectarian war. also ahead too afraid to go home. the stigma surrounding ebola,

and why many are too afraid to talk about it. plus it's known for causing diseases but tobacco is not all bad. we'll talk about its new positive uses. >> more fighting between shia houthi rebels and tribesmen in ibb. they say that they have been marginalized. the heartland is in the north of the country in sanaa province in 2004 they began an armed rebellion. al-qaeda as a presence in the east and south. and also a threat to yemen's stability in the south. there are fears of fights between houthies and a number of

tribes across the country could widen and trigger a sectarian war. the town in the province of ibb between yemen's shia houthies and tribal fighters. many were the two sides were killed. in the city of ibb people are angry. they are against the recent houthi takeover in the city and the infighting that followed it. no to armed militias this banner reads. >> they should all leave. we don't want it here. this city is peaceful, and the fighting has terrorized people. >> reporter: tribal leaders in this mostly sunni province are mobilizing their force sending dozens of armed men and a promise to fight the shia houthies in. in northwest, which is also sunni, dozens of fighters march.

these armed men want the houthies out. i tell the houthies here that this belong to us. >> and with the military failing to stop them many here believe there is a hidden agenda between the houthies and the former president, who still enjoys influence over military commanders. with shia houthies controlling several provinces including the capitol of sanaa there are fears of a sectarian war in the north.

separatist movement in the south and involvement of al-qaeda. >> regularing speaking on behalf of th the supreme leader said that they support the his am rack republic of iran supports the rightful struggles of ansurallah and considers this movement as part of the successful islamic awakening movements. launching a new round of attacks on islamic state in iraq and the levant. the airstrikes targeted isil positions in the town of kobane bordering turkey. bernard smith has the latest. >> reporter: the pace of the u.s.-led coalition airstrikes over kobane have slowed in recent days but a reminder that

fighter jets are still circling this border town. the clap something from kurds who have been watching this battle as it has ebbed and flowed over the past weeks. from a mood of despair that kobane was about to fall to now hope that isil fighters will be forced to retreat. on a hilltop to the west of kobane kurdish fighters found time to dance, an indication of their optimism. but isil is still there. the border areas sustained some of its heaviest shelling so far. some of the mortars landed on turkish soil. enough that the turkish military set up its own mortar tube should it take defensive measures. this is the only place where the u.s. had been led campaign against isil is being played out in realtime to the local and international audience. so what happens to kobane has taken on symbolic importance

both for isil and the united states. bernard smith, al jazeera, on the syria turkey border. >> certain observatory for human rights say that isil fighters have been trained to fly captured jets. the isil fighters have apparen apparently been training. over the border in iraq the government said its forces have killed 94 isil gunman in airstrikes. isil commander was killed in the anbar province and another leader was killed in salahuddin. several minority ethnic groups are trying to save their towns from the islamic state in iraq and the levant. they say they've lost confidence in their iraqi army to help their communities. >> reporter: these men are part of yet another irregular armed force in iraq. farmers, students, the school

principal, almost every man in this northern village has a kn a new job. they are members of a minority group, ethnic kurds who follow a pre-islamic faith. this makes them feel particularly threatened. >> we have to be alert at all times day and night. we have to make sure that isil is not able to come here. they've threatened us many times. >> reporter: the islamic state in iraq and the levant surrounds their village from three sides and just like many front lines across the country the warring parties are just a few hundred meters apart. this open ground makes it he is for isil to push into the village south of kirkuk city. >> isil did bad things to the yazidis in sinjar. we're afraid they will do the same to us. if they do come here we will have to leave. >> reporter: the families who live here are all aware of how isil fighters killed and

kidnapped hundreds of yazidis who swept through the sinjar mountains in august. human rights groups have accused the armed group of carrying out a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities in northern iraq. this is not the only community who has taken up arms. the yazidis, christians, kurds, shia, sunnies they are all armed, they all talk about the need to protect themselves. >> reporter: since isil's advance in june people are worried this is disintegrating into machinery states. >> since isil took over every sect and ethnic group armed itself. they lost confidence in iraqi army. >> reporter: they do not if they'll be able to defend their ground even though they get some military help from kurdish forces. they prefer for one authority to hold this country together, but

the power now seems to be in the hands of irregular armies, who are not fighting for iraq but their own communities' existence. al jazeera, northern iraq. >> after weeks of political wrangling, iraq's parliament appointed ministers to two key positions. >> the "world health organization" said it will conduct a full review of its handling of the ebola crisis. the u.n. agency has been criticized for responding too slowly. a leaked internal document from who admits they have bungled the

outbreak. the united states and britain screen passengers coming from west africa. all the while u.s. president barack obama is resisting a travel ban. he said trying to seal off a region of the world is impossible, and if it were, it would make things worse. >> before this is over we may see more isolated cases in america, but we know how to wage this fight. if we're guided by the science, facts, not fear, i'm absolutely confident we can prevent a serious outbreak here in the united states, and we can continue to lead the world in this urgent effort. >> liberia is one of the countries hardest hit by the virus. many are worried about their relatives back home. we have reports at a settlement camp. >> reporter: jefferson karr

escaped war in liberia liberia as a young boy. leaving behind his family. he spent some time in ivory coast and then landed here. he had plans to return to liberia in september to set up a management studies college, but ebola has changed all that. >> after 14 years of war, after 14 years of civil war trying to recover everything that we lost, all the destruction of life and property, now ebola. this disease. it has come up again. >> reporter: he doesn't know when he'll be able to go home, so he started his college here. his family in liberia is constantly on his mind. he's lost cousins to the disease, and he's afraid for his wife, who is in the east of the country. there are more than 10,000 liberians in the settlement. unlike jefferson many are staying silent about those

they've lost back home. so many liberians have been personally touched by ebola, but the stigma associated with it is such that people don't want to talk about it openly. this is home to other western africas and the only known governmental organization here says its running out of funds. >> houses are close together. ventilation is a challenge. there is a fear that if ebola erupts here it will spread like wild bush fire. >> many people move out and come back. >> but the borders are closed? >> yes. >> the settlement is soon to be dismantled by liberians who will be repatriated but some want to stay on as refugees. jefferson wants to go back. he prays every day that ghana will remain stable so he'll be able to raise his funds to

fulfill his dreams of opening a college back home. >> more to come here on the al jazeera news hour. can libya be saved by new u.n. proposals? and after a journey across the world to escape fear and danger we meet the syrian refugees welcoming it's renewed life in uruguay. goals aplenty in the premier league. we have details coming up later in sport. >> in nigeria hopes have been raised that more than 200 kidnapped school girls will be released. it's government said that it has reached a deal with boko haram, but there is no confirmation from boko haram as of yet. the announcement came ahead of a support rally for the president

who plans to run in the next election. >> supporters of goodluck jonathan organized this rally. they feel that he has done a good job. other nigerians are a bit more skeptical. they say its taking too long for the government to deal with the insurgency problems. a cease-fire with boko haram comes as good news to many people, but others are skeptical. they want to hear from boko haram sources and they want to hear the leader appear in a vehicle and talk about the cease-fire and where the girls are and what they got in exchange to the cease-fire that the government say has been reached. the parents of the girls are frustrated. the girls have been missing for more than six months. they're somewhere in the bush being held by strange men. they don't know what is happening to their daughters. they want their daughters home soon and it hasn't yet. they want to know when that's

going to happen. >> well, a senior adviser to the nigerian president, he told me that he's confident the abducted school girls will be released. >> the agreement of the cease-fire and of this new agreement includes the release of the girls, and i believe there is commitment to all sides of this agreement. there is nothing that suggests to me that anything will go wrong. i want to assure the parents of our girls, nigerians and the entire world community, everybody is anxious, everybody is waiting, and thi i have been given assurance that with god grace that everything will happen in the coming week and the girls is an issue--i mean, this is what is right at this present time, this is what has

to happen. there are a lot of issues. there are a lot of conversations. we're sure from where these agreement have been struck and the people involved in it, it is very certain that it this will go ahead. >> well, let's now bring in the spokesman for nigerian's opposition party. he joins via skype. good to see you there. you will know very well of the skepticism that has greeted this latest government announcement, that the girls are to be released in the very near future. what is your take on it? >> well, my take on it, like most my yearns is that it should have succeeded in the signing of

the agreement, it should include the release of all those children who have been held in captivity since the last six months. and honestly hope that this time around it will not be a false alarm. this time around the government has succeeded. we say this because in part the government has raised our hopes, only to dash them again. so this is why we are in a position that most nigerians. >> well, that's the hope. now you are in one of the states that is most effected by the

boko haram you will know better than most the situation with boko haram. is the cease-fire a likely scenario that will be maintained. we've seen if it was broken yesterday that it was broken this morning with an incident. >> once again the government announcement. i say all nigerians look up to

the federal government for the release of these girls. but right now we are not giving enough cause--the two confident, but to want to believe the government that-- >> okay, we appreciate your perspective on this. thank you very much, indeed. >> okay. >> somali's president said that fighters from the armed group al-shabab will soon have no place to hide in his country. >> we will never claim that al-shabab has ended. yes, it is weaker militarily, but the war of al-shabab. we claim that militarily they

are weakened, and they are close to be eliminated. it was very important for the international link and important to keeping them together. the organization now, some of them may give allegiance to daesh, but the information we have is they are still loyal to al-qaeda. >> it is the second attack in the area in 48 hours. the government is blaming ugandan's rebels. they have operated among other armed groups in the democratic republic congo borders. liberia'omar al bashir is

meeting with his current part in cairo. he is wanted for genocide. in egypt anti-coup protesters have called on the government to release anti-protesters. al jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalists being imprisoned in egypt. mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste have been imprisoned for 294 days. they were sentenced to seven years in prison. bader mohammed was given an additional three years for having a spent bullet in his possession which he picked up at a protest. these are the latest

pictures from mong kok where police have moved in to dislodge demonstrators who are gathering there. protesters have armed themselves with umbrellas while police are using batons and pepper spray. it's all looking relatively peaceful there at the moment. we're live in hong kong, give us a sense of what is happening now. >> they're far too spread out for the police to do anything. they're protecting the main intersection they have cleared out the day before to stop protesters from putting down roots there and setting up there. so it seems like somewhat of a stand off. earlier we did see sort of pushing, shoving, some clashes,

opened umbrellas. right now people are just eyeing each other, watching wearily as to what to do. what is key here is the fact that there are many, many more protesters now than there has been in the run up to yesterday when the police had cleared out the area showing that any police attempts to once again clear out the area, push the protesters out could lead to more people there. >> planned talks on tuesday, what's the latest on that? what's the situation there? >> those planned talks were decided earlier in the evening. leaders came here. i'm in admiralty, the main protest side. it is subdued even though they're watching what is happening in mong kok. student leaders said that they would go ahead with the talks. they'll ask for government

leaders for a solution towards democracy. but the government has put up a mediator, or they've chosen a mediator that is known for very pro-beijing. it will be interesting to see if the student leaders will agree with that. that means that the talks will be immediately skewed in the government's favor. >> thank you. a global decline of smokers has meant dwindling profits for the tobacco market. the reports from the tobacco field in kentucky, the plant known to cause disease is now being used to cure them. >> tobacco's kentucky harvest has changed little over the centuries. the large leaves are still dried in curing barns. these leaves will not be smoked. they're being used on research

from everything from mutua new fuels to treatment for the ebola virus. >> tobacco is not just an evil weed that causes cancer. we can actually use it to make bio pharmaceuticals, anti-cancer, for example. >> reporter: tobacco is ideal for viral research because the plant is susceptible to 80% of known viruses, so scientists here inject viruses into the plant in place of a human host, then work on vaccines and treatments. the effort to find new uses for tobacco did not come just from researchers, it also came from tobacco farmers, who started looking for new ways to make money in the 1990's since smoking has declined around the world. now the crop known to cause diseases is now being used to treat them. kentucky bio processing is taking research one step

further. they've developed an experiment serum for ebola that was recently used to treat american aid workers who contracted the virus. here at the kentucky tobacco research and development center tobacco leaves are being used to develop biofuels for cars. >> it will be similar to diesel or gasoline itself. you can put it directly in the pump. now we're engineering plants to directly make those compounds in the leaves so when we harvest the leaves we can extract them out. >> that would cut the time it takes for organic material to transform in oil by millions of years and could open a lucrative market for a plant that was going increasingly out of style. al jazeera, lexington, kentucky. >> plenty more still to come here on al jazeera. the greenfields mask the problem

of drought in india that forces farmers to take desperate measures. and in ireland calls for justice for victims of a brutal medical technique used on some women during childbirth. with go to match play championship. that and the rest of the day's sport in about 20 minutes or so. >> i wanted to be in on the big >> many of these involved

>> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live...

>> again you're watching the al jazeera news hour. some breaking news first up. houthi rebels in yemen have signed a cease-fire. fight has killed 20 people in the ibb province on saturday. isil tries to capture the town of kobane. iraq's parliament approves

two key ministers. a new u.n. led initiative has been announced to stop the fighting in tripcally and allow humanitarian aid in the capitol. meanwhile, fighting loyal to general haftar who continues against the rebel forces. 40 people have been killed in days of fighting, and this is the worst violence since the revolution in 2011, and it reflects the current political and economic chaos. now an alliance that formed to oust oma muammar qaddafi.

he havhave now failed to form a government there. it was the home of the revolution, but haftar wants to limit their power. >> it seems clear that the international community, egypt and other countries that have involved themselves in the conflict do not support a negotiated settlement at this time. we realize there is more mileage in the war to come, but this can only end in negotiated settlement. they need to take in the various grievances many civilians want a libyan national army. they will like a police but they want more than an outfit or uniform. they want to adhere to proper rules of engagement, to respect international law and not adhere

to popularism, not to try to fan the flames of conflict. at that point we realize if we can summarize all of these different blocs that are involved with different grievances, fear, ambitions and it does not come down to just a few terrorists, it goes up to higher financial and military objectives. unless you give secure positions to the army and police and the insurgents as well, you won't kind an equilibrium where people feel they can put down their weapons now. there is still so much violence to come, and i think its just the beginning. >> the italian coast guard has rescued 400 migrants from five boats. half from on vessels that ran into troubles on libya's water:

a third vessel was founded off the coast of sicily. the u.n. said since the conflict began in 2004, more than 3 million syrians have left the country. most of those have found refugee in neighboring countries such as turkey, which has accepted 800,000 people. while jordan is home to 600,000 syrians, lebanon has taken in the most with more than a million refugees. now uruguay has taken in its first group of refugees. the government will house, educate and find work for them before more arrive next february. we have reports now from the capitol montevideo. >> reporter: it was a long journey degrees the world to escape danger to end up here. a haven of peace and tranquility. five families of 42 syrians, mostly children, were personally welcomed by uruguay's president.

>> we cannot avoid war but we can mitigate the consequences. simply putting tents in the desert and sending food will not salve our conscience. >> reporter: uruguayan officials working with the refugee commission went to the refugee camps in lebanon to choose the families they felt would be most suitable for resettlement in south america. >> what we're spending now will be repaid because they're going to work. they're going to pay taxes. this is not really an expense, it's an investment. if countries like qatar and emirates would help us, we could bring thousands here. >> now they're here on the outskirts of monetvideo to learn spanish and about their new country before being moved around uruguay. this could not be further way in so many way from the conflict of syria nor the uncertainties of

life in refugee camps in lebanon. this is the beginning of a new life. a delicate transition for now hidden from the public gaze. they've been kept away from a curious media. hussein from the city of aleppo had already settled in uruguay, and was employed as their translator. >> we wish in our life, they now have uruguayan i.d. >> they received an enthusiastic welcome from the locals meeting people from a nearby school which the syrian children will attend when they have enough spanish. >> they have a future, and for the children it's amazing. it's an amazing future, really. >> reporter: uruguay was built and developed by immigrants.

mostly spanish and italian. but it's now opening a fresh chapter with the hopes and aspirations of these new syrian arivals. al jazeera, uruguay. >> women's rights campaigners in ireland are demanding justice for victims of what they describe as a brutal medical practice. the surgical procedure was used in some hospitals for years and it involves sawing through a woman's pelvic bone during childbirth. a warning that some may find reports distressing. >> reporter: the stories that these women have to tell are shocking in comparison with human rights violations anywhere in the world. they're not refugees. they're not a minority group. it's their own doctors who stand accused. this x-ray shows the deliberate sawing through of cartilage and bone during a woman's pelvis

during childbirth as a preference to c-section. the x-ray is of lily, who can remember every detail. >> i could hear him. i could hear him. >> what was the sound. >> it was the sound. >> betly was married in 1967, and immediately became pregnant. in hospital she was given sleeping gas and woke up after birth in agony. so many years on she can't lift one of her legs. she's incontinence does not allow her to have a physical relationship with her husband. >> the pain was just excruciating. i couldn't lift my leg. i couldn't move. it was just horrific. i had to crawl around on my bum and to walk i had to get two sweeping brushes under my arm and hold the handles as crutches. i was like that for weeks. >> reporter: we brought in a

physio therapist who helps african recommendings who are victims of female hutalation to compare. >> if you think how extreme this is, it's as extreme--taking a woman and changing their body without their consent for month clear medical reason. so i think there is a huge comparison between the two. >> reporter: throughout the 20th century ireland led way in this practice. leading hospitals doctors preferred sawing women's pelvises open to c-sections on the grounds that it would allow them to have more children in line with catholic thinking. the record showed just how many women were subjected to this against medical logic, and often without their consent. >> it stemmed from their view of it as a limiter on family size. once a caesarean, always a

caesarean. these operations were seen as the upper limit. and these dollars saw nine and ten children as the ideal family size. >> reporter: in recent weeks campaigners were rejected out of hand and wanted $60,000 per survivor on the ground it allowed the state deniability. that assumes the state thinks this as a piece of history, which may arrest may not be true. >> ireland's medical community has had nothing to say about these allegations. to the extent that campaigners don't actually know when it ended here in the 1980's as widely held. they say they're sure as they can be that one procedure was conducted in southern ireland in 2005, and they believe that another one may have happened as recently as last year. so does the state here really know what's going on inside it's own hospitals? >> we can't be sure that the influence of the church has been

irradicated from medical practice, and in fact explicitly religious thoughts it's said by the boards of some of our major hospitals to inform in the way they go about their work in a modern democracy. that's not acceptable. >> betty, whose pelvis was split in two to allow her baby to emerge only found out afterwards that he her baby's head was punctured by the pelvic bone and did not survive. >> he bled to death. >> female mutilation has been a cause for many western governments yet what happened to these women has been entirely unknown, they've spent years to get people to take seriously what happened to them. their fight is just beginning. al jazeera, dublin.

>> at least 40 people are now known to have died in avalanches triggered by blizzarded in the himalayas. the search for survivors than widened to neighboring valleys and peaks. okay, let's return to our top story on yemen and that breaking news we brought you a little bit earlier about the cease-fire deal signed between houthies. let's get more information. let's go to director of a security group who now joins us from new york. what is the latest on this cease-fire deal. we had heard about it last night, but i guess this is the signing of that deal. >> any bit of good news we can latch on to is a relief. i would say, though, it should be taken with some cautious

optimism. as you point out in the last 24 hours the first cease-fire that has to do with the ibb had fallen through, and the problem has been since this remarkable movement of the houthi to the area of ibb. they allowed houthi to set up check points, and this incensed the local tribes. >> can you paint the picture for us, because it's incredibly complex what is going on in yemen as we try to observe it from afar. we have the houthi in the north, they have now spread south. you have al-qaeda in the south and other groups as well. paint a proud picture, if you would, briefly. >> yes, extraordinarily a complex situation. and to use the adjective of remarkable. the series of events in the past weeks, days and months.

by brief tutorial, houthi is the largest clan to the north and west of the country. they have long time been at odds with the central authority in sanaa over its marginalization, not taking care of its needs. now it's been able to man-train and equip its fighting force, and these forces are actually, as they've proven recently, quite well trained and equipped and organized to take authority. you have the central authority in sanaa, which essentially evaporates, and then the other part of this complicated fronts in the country you have al-qaeda i near the peninsula, one of the most lethal al-qaeda center creeping up to the north towards sanaa to take advantage of the chaos. then you have a third part of the element, the secession movement that is opportunistic

in taking advantage of the situation that is going on right now. >> then there is another ingredient, isn't there, that's iran. >> absolutely. in the bigger geopolitical environment of the region this is without doubt proxy foreign policy battles between tehran and saudi arabia. much to the advantage of iran. for example, a big development over the last few days with the houthi taking the very important port on the red sea, this would make them exponentially more easy to move in weapons and supplies to the houthi from iran and other supporters. >> what is your view--it's hard to say, obviously--what's your sense of where it's heading? you say good news is very limited, isn't it? >> well, it is. i mean, to, again, trying to latch on to any positive developments where there is a cease-fire or a cease in any

armed hostility, very good. however, it looks like the sectarian, a deeper sectarian divide between the houthi. and the chance and tribesmen in other parts of the country who may not be inclined to apply with al-qaeda in the peninsula, you could see them throwing in because it's essentially fighting for their rights and their territory, so that is something that to really watch, those kinds of clashes that we would expect to see in the near term. >> and bringing light on a very complicated picture. thank you very much, indeed. >> my pleasure. >> stay with us on this news hour. sport is coming up, marquez maintains the track in australia. that coming up in ten minutes or so.

>> the capital of khan state one of mechanics' most violent but on saturday it's under the spotlight for something completely different. the film festival is underway. it has mexico's most important. let's go to adam rainy who joins us live from there. adam, first of all give us a sense of what the festival is like since it's taking place in a state battered by drug violence. >> well, nick, like many other international film festivals, it apractices luminaries from all

over the world. we have people from the cannes film festival, san francisco international film festival checking out movies here. but as you mention it takes place in a city that has been battered by violence. a state that's been battered by violence. sometimes you don't see that. i'm in one of the many colonial plaza, this is a beautiful city. they're trying to focus on the beauty it has to offer. but you cannot hide the fact that we're also in a city where there have been shootouts between federal forces and drug gang gunmen in the not so recent past. planners are aware of that. people who come to the festival are aware of it. while they're watching movies that explore all kinds of issues, some issues of violence and corruption you see signs around the city that this is a city that experiences violence. a block from the main theater where the festivals have been held we saw a missing sign, loved ones of a young man, putting up signs, looking for

clues as to where he might be. you see signs like that all over the world, but you see them much more in mexico than most places. >> absolutely. i guess it's a hard one for organizers to frame. the fighting stereotypes about mexican safety and culture. >> well, we were speaking to the director of the festival just a short while ago, and she said, look, there is violence, there is corruption in mexico. there is violence around the world. but this is a country with a 3,000 world culture behind it, and people need to remember that mexico is much more than violence and corruption and missing people across the country. but of course, it's hard not to have that be present in your mind, and many people from around the world, mostly what they see are headlines about violence even though they made the commitment to come here. when they speak to them, they say, yes, i'm aware this is a violent state and a violent country, but i'm here to enjoy a few good films while i'm here. the programmers of the festival

are trying to balance those two mexican portraits in their minds and in the minds of people who want to come here and have a good time. >> adam, thank you very much, indeed, adam rainy reporting there. now time for sport. >> chelsea micked up all three points. they put the visitors ahead after six minutes. and the score of the first lead goal both teams are reduced to ten minute. palace manage to grab a 90-minute goal. chelsea holding on to the 2-1 win.

>> still a little bit in shock because that 8-0 is not a normal result, and i was surprised after 20 minutes about the score, 2-0, up. and we didn't start it all again. sundayer lapped was the dominating team, and we had problems. >> messi will look to equal the league's all-time record. messi on 259 goals at the moment. two short of the record, which has stood since 1955. the player of the year cristiano ronaldo kept up his superb start

of the season, scoring twice as they beat levane, and they lead the spanish scores. missing a chance of moving up fifth after being held 1-1. of italy serie a leaders, looking to maintain the 100% winning start of the season. second place roma slapping it's a the heels there. on points after a 3-0 win.

>> despite winning the right to host the game, the security situation in iraq forcing the change. the team would break the deadlock in 90 minutes with no one gaining the advantage in other 30 minutes of extra time. it went to spot kicks where they won 4-2. australia's rugby coach has quit after his team's one-point loss to all blacks. it looks like executing one of the most remarkable wins leading by ten points. with just 11 minutes remaining in the game, but it wasn't to be as the home side conceded two tries in the dying seconds. slate finishing off the stunning come back converting in a shocked brisbane cloud. the score there 29-28. relations between two of the world's biggest cricket teams

descended in a tit-for-tat argument. now india threatening to scrapping it's match. west indies canceled it's match because of pay dice putt. the indian cricket bored lined up sri lanka as replacingments. they say they're considering legal action. going to world:play championship that continues after a comfortable win in the quarterfinals. the dutchman won all three of his group games reaching the semifinals. he'll face hendrick, and playing

a replacement for th. >> just a week after being crowned by the world champion for a second time mark marquez is on track for another victory. he held second pole position for the australian grand prix. it's the 12 start. if he wins on sunday it will be his 12th victory this year equaling the australian rider in 1997. >> i'm really happy to be in the pole. you know, after japan, here it looks like it's a great tournament for me. i feel good.

we find a different way to work well with this new rear tire. >> it is a busy day in all the sport. we have all the highlights for you on our website www.aljazeera.com/sport. www.aljazeera.com/sport for the latest. that's it. more later. >> i guess marquez could take the record. >> absolutely. >> incredible. robin, thank you very much, indeed. a stop secret space plane has landed safely on the southern californian coast. the plane spent two years orbiting the earth on a classified mission. what it was doing there is speculation ranging from spying and capturing foreign satellites. the u.s. military is not commenting. with that, that's it. we have another full half hour of news coming right up.

>> if you want to invite jesus into your life, then pray this prayer with me. i've been thinking a lot about how i can get the gospel to everyone. i wanna talk to my principal about giving a speech at graduation. and yes, i would talk about jesus. >> i go to fishburne military school. i'm the battalion commander. every single minute of your free time will be devoted to me. >> let me go over your list of acceptances and who you're waiting on. >> west point prep, and then navy prep,