would it have made a difference? i don't know. we'll see. that's the show for today. kob ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to a news hour from al jazeera in doe he, i'm adrian and coming up, in the next 60 minutes a call for help and kurdish forces in kakook are holding off isil but need reenforcement, oscar pistorious sentenced five years for killing his girlfriend but may be out in ten months. experimental ebola vaccine from

canada to geneva. french oil company has been killed in a plane crash on a moscow runway. ♪ we begin in iraq and the governor of kirkook told al jazeera he needs help from the u.s.-led coalition to stoep stop isil from taking the city and the oil-rich area lies on the main road between baghdad and arbil and goes from the town of dibs to south of the city to the town of kirkuk and the towns are 500 meters from each other and we have a report from

kirkuk. >> reporter: the kurds own the oil fields but maybe not much longer. there is a 64 kilometer defensive perimeter around this city in northern iraq, kurdish troops replace government forces here when isil pushed them out of many cities in june and since then there has been a struggle to hold the ster territory and the governor is asking the coalition to launch intense and sustained assault from the group and isil wants kirkuk oil fields. >> that is what i said when i talked to them here and that is why it's so important for the united states and for the air strikes to focus on kirkuk. we want more and drive the people away from kirkuk. >> reporter: strikes against isil began in august but not many in this corner of iraq and the problem is kurdish security

forces don't just face isil on the battle grounds, this check point is considered to be a front line and the main entry point to k i rkuk from the south. thousands of iraqis cross this check point daily, despite the security some isil members can infiltrate the city where they already have some support. >> we have fought terrorists among us. we have even among students who come to take their exams. they were planning to do whatever isis does, explosives, suicide bombers. >> reporter: this check point has already been targeted twice by suicide bombers in the past four months but what kurdish officials fear is when the armed group will go past the line and storm the city, al jazeera kirkuk. >> reporter: let's bring in mr. smith on the main front on

the kobani on the turkey/syrian border and 24 hours ago they received weapon in a coalition air drop. what is the latest? >> reporter: well, yes, and i've also been told they can expect iraqi persmerga to back them up after turkey agreed to allow them to transit turkey and pershmerga got trouble of their own and nevertheless the government told us the president said they are ready to send persmerga fighters through turkey and remain in negotiations with turkey governments with the number of fighter and aid and military they will also send and how they will come through turkey. in the meanwhile in kobani there was very heavy fights in the last couple of weeks this the city and they used the new weapons and ammunition they have

been given but still a stalemate and no gains or losses on either side and keeping isil back and launched a fresh assault on the city and did not continue and we are on the turkey syria border. yemen where the death toll after fierce fighting in al-beta providence on monday has risen and hoothies are in the town of rada and we will bring in al-sada with us life from the yemen capitol and you will have to make since of this for us, omar and where does this fit into the general chaos in yemen? >> reporter: yes, absolutely. mainly in that province which is al-qaeda stronghold, it shows how the security conditions

really deteriorating very rapidly. we fight for this ongoing for days and they will force out. that was on friday. then al-qaeda fighters reenforced their positions and to make the situation even complex and tribesmen who felt the sensitivity of tribesmen and infringed in the area led them to bring out their fighters to bring on the houthis so this incident shows this country may slip to sectarian and tribal end fighting because of religious as well as the tribal sensitivities, the death toll has risen to at least 68, 40 people killed and i'm goating a report that at least five al-qaeda fighters were killed in t the clashes on monday.

>> they are talking about sanctions against five people in yemen among whom is the former president abdullah and does that mean he is involved somehow in the current chaos? >> reporter: it does because since his over throw in 2012 according to the gulf corporation initiative there was a roadmap set, a transitional period and ever since then the diplomates as well as yemen politicians were accusing the former president of hindering that transition. now, if the u.n. finds the president, the former president and the houthis guilty of hindering the process, i think it will make things even worse. why? because the former president has left power but his party is

still strong and he enjoys influence not only in the government but the wider military and security forces. the former parties also now involved in talks with the new prime minister to form a new unity government. let me give you very briefly their reaction from the other side which is the houthi, a spokesperson or a political leader for the houthis and this decision is strange and it serves certain political entities in this country. he moved on to say that such decision will only hinder the efforts to form a new government and is aimed to gain concessions from the houthis and that will not happen. also, members of the party for the former president has rejected those statements rather from the u.n. panel saying president ali is supporting the peaceful transition and position

of power. >> thank you, live there from sana, the yemen capitol. south african para olympic oscar pistorious sentenced five years in prison for killing his girlfriend, he shot and killed the model reeva steenkamp on february 14 last year and guilty of culpable homicide and his lawyer says he may only serve ten months and tonya page is outside the courthouse and is now live. tonya what was the reaction in court when this sentence was delivered? >> reporter: it was hushed. it was very quiet and that goes across the prosecution and defense and oscar pistorious himself not really giving much reaction at all and in contrast to the crying, the sobbing and what we see throughout the 7 1/2 month trial as if you could say he was expecting it, as if his defense team had prepared him for the worst. he did look around and collapse

the hands of friends and family leading down to the cells for what his lawyer may be only ten months of that maximum five-year prison term. outside of court, people talking and the women's league spokesperson say they are not happy with the sentence and hope it is longer because culpable manslaughter and should have been guilty of murder and other people saying he got off and found guilty of culpable homicide but didn't have to send him to prison and could have been fined or received an expended sentence and she has and that is talked about from africans. >> what is reaction from reeva steenkamp's family? >> reporter: little reaction and both families hinting to journalists not on camera but

off camera, they would not be appealing and they pushed all along. so this has reeva steenkamp's mother said it's right that oscar pistorious is going to prison. >> thanks indeed, live in pretoria, south africa. more to come on the al jazeera news hour and live in hong kong where talks between protesting students and the government are just getting underway. cuba sends medics to west africa making it a key player in the fight against ebola. and in sport the cream of the crop of the women's game are in singapore for the end of season finals, find out who is firing the early goals. ♪ the first batch of an experimental vaccine developed in canada has been sent to the

world health organization in geneva and one of three being fast tracked in response to the outbreak in west africa. and this was developed by the canadian government, tests on animals suggest it is effective even if taken after expose tour the virus. the first human trials got underway on monday. results are not expected until december. another vaccine developed by glaxo-smith-kline and this is tested in the u.s. and uk and results by the end of the year. 10,000 dozes prepared to be sent to west africa if it is shown to be effective and safe and johnson and johnson has a virus and requires two injections one to prime and one to boost. it can be manufactured quickly because each component can be produced separately.

while those drugs are being tested quarantine of ebola sufferers is the best way to stop it from spreading but it means cutting off already poor people from their sources of income as we report. >> reporter: junction and central sierra leone is usually a busy trading hub but now it's deserted. shops are closed indefinitely and farmers that usually come to the town's market to sell their fruit and vegetables are staying away. >> because of hunger and they die because of poverty. not to ebola. they are angry. >> reporter: more than 20 homes in the town are quarantined off under quarantine and all people in households where somebody has dade with ebola or someone who has had contact with a person confirmed as positive are required to stay inside their homes for 21 days.

it's a measure officials hope they stop the virus from spreading but comes at a price. >> translator: . >> reporter: groups support playing food to some of those under quarantine but many who are already poor it has been a desperate time. >> translator: alfred recovered from the virus to find 12 of his family members had died. >> neighboring liberia the president says she feels ebola will result in a lost generation of young people in west africa and says the deaths and illness along with what is described as

an economic catastrophe will be felt in the region for decades to come. derrick with al jazeera. >> that is the situation in the worst hit areas but what about international response and let's focus on cuba in particular and castro is willing to work with the u.s. to combat the virus and plans to send 200 more medical staff to west africa in addition to 165 already there. kimberly reports. some believe a lack lewser international response allowed the virus to enter europe and the united states and latin america leaders fear their nation could be next and they held a meeting in havanna to discuss the spread of ebola. >> translator: if this threat is not contained and resolved in west africa within immediate, effective international response, backed by adequate resources and backed by the u.n.

and others it could be one of the worst pandemics in humidity. >> reporter: despite the small size coup cuba is deploying staff and calling with the united states to partner with it to fight the outbreak and it's uncomfortable invitation to the u.s. and american policy prevents direct cooperation even in the battle against ebola so for now it remains diplomatically estranged from cuba. >> we said the cuban government needs to take certain steps in order for the relationship to improve. >> reporter: the cuba president says it will hurt them for a high-level response for ebola and calling on the united states to do more. >> translator: cuba willing to work shoulder to shoulder with other countries including the united states, according to the health system and modest experience coordinated will

power is needed. >> reporter: cuba deploys doctors and nurses to regional crisis like it did in the aftermath of the haiti earthquake in 2010. >> meeting this crisis is going to require we draw on each other's collective experience. >> reporter: and while the u.s. secretary of state is praising the latest cuban response to the ebola crisis, so far it has done little to warm diplomatic relations between cuba and the united states, kimberly with al jazeera in washington. chief executive of the oil giant died in a plane crash in moscow and the private jet collided with a snowplow taking off from the airport and three crew members were killed and russian investigators say the driver of the snow plow was drunk. this is the third largest oil company and worth $350 billion and he started working for the company in 1974 and known to

many as big mustache and he had investments in myanmar and the embargo against iraq and he was acquitted and he had ties to moscow over sanctions in the ukraine and rowry is live and let's start with the circumstances that led to this accident. what do we know? >> reporter: well, visibility was pretty poor last night in moscow. it's been fairly heavy rain for the last couple of days and it was foggy, sleet last night at the airport and visibility down to about 350 meters. what we do know is that the plane as you say hit a snowplow as it was taking off heading from moscow back to paris. the russian investigative committee launched a criminal investigation. it detained the driver of the

snowplow saying that they believe that he was under alcoholic intoxication. not something that his lawyer denies, saying that the man has a heart complaints and he doesn't even drink. the story might change as more information comes to light but that is what it appears happened at the moment. >> rory as we said maintain ties with moscow despite sanctions, do we know what he was doing in moscow last night? >> reporter: yeah, we do. he was here for a meeting with the russian government in a place outside of moscow. it was a meeting of various foreign investors and people were talking there about foreign investment and infrastructure projects and that sort of thing. and he has been a critic of western sanctions against russia. he said a few months ago what are we doing here, are we trying to build a new berlin wall and

that has enormous investments in russia. it has been hooking up with the government and the states drilling and oil and gas development, arms here, a project in northern russia worth some $27 billion. so total has a large interest in russia and did not want to see it jeopardized by western sanctions and so i think as well the russian president vladimir putin has said russia has lost a true friend with the death. >> rory thanks and life in moscow. hong kong the first talks between student leaders and the government are underway and being broadcast live across the city and it began three weeks ago and brought many parts of the city to a stand still and

want them to choose leaders without interference of beijing and we will go live to hong kong and we are live and what happened so far at these talks? >> reporter: well, the government spokesperson which would be the chief secretary of hong kong, kerry lam talked about no winners or losers and not a debate and a talk on constitutional reform and made it very clear by the end of the night there may not be a solution but both sides can definitely somehow meet in the middle and maybe go to further talks or further conversations. but alex cho the leader of federation of students is speaking. both sides are at very, very different end as they come into these talks. the government has very clearly said that hong kong will not be getting the democratic reform these protesters are calling for

by 2017 which is free elections and the students are still making that their man demand for these talks. so it's hard to tell how this is going to maneuver forward. >> we can bring you live pictures of those talks right now, that is the student leader you were talking about seconds ago. pictures broadcast live and rather on the radio to the various protest sites around hong kong. what are demonstrators making of what they are hearing? >> reporter: indeed, there are also huge screens at the main site and a couple hundreds of meters away from that and they went down and not able to get signal and now that is backup and people are watching closely and watching with a lot of skepticism and both sides have already said they set demands clearly and questioning what the point of these are but the important thing is there is some kind of a dialog. the other thing that is talked

about by leaders is the chief executive clearly said in a rather controversial remark that if hong kong had full democracy it would be the poor levels of hong kong making decisions and hong kong has to hide the millionaires in the world and one in five people live in poverty and means majority of voters are the ones that earn less than $200,000 a month. those remarks have not gone down well here and casting a shadow over the talks and making people wonder what can be gained by them after all. >> thanks and we are live in hong kong. indian state is recovering after a cyclone hud-hud and had evacuations to prevent death but damage to economy and death is in the millions as we report. >> reporter: usually these

fishermen pull boats out of the water, but this one was hundreds of meters inland driven by the force of cyclone hood, hood. and this was flooded by water and the only thing they were able to save is lives. >> translator: the government told us to go to a safer place and so we did and the wind came and it collapsed and the whole village was under water. i've never seen such a disaster. >> reporter: it's a disaster that everyone has to pick up from. residents here are trying to get their lives back on track as rebuilding and cleaning up after the cyclone goes on across the state. the final cost of the damage is still being calculated but it is likely to be high as the damage is quite severe. nearby the city bore the brunt of cyclone hood-hood and once famous for greenery the trees

are now more of a burden. food distributed by relief centers across the city and a week after the cyclone many are surviving without the basics. >> translator: it's been like this for five days and there is no power or water and now they are getting us fruit and vegetables but i've never seen a cyclone like this. >> reporter: district officials say they have a lot of work ahead of them. >> translator: water and road access will come out of this and we are giving and next is vegetables and water. >> reporter: the airport is still damaged but has reopened which has allowed emergency supplies to be flown in. electricity has been restored to most of the city. but the damage has been done and government estimates suggest it will take ten years and billions of dollars.

for life here to return to normal. fez with al jazeera. a week on from cyclone hood-hood and it's still raining there and we will get details from richard. >> the rain is in the south and looking at imagery these are rain where we had all the avalanche as a result of the tail end of hood-hood and on the satellite the rain is further south and huge rainfall totals in the last 24 hours and heavy rain still effecting parts of shri lanka and looking at the forecast it's south of india and s sri lanka and temperatures not high and india is 33 degrees the high in new deli and weather sweeping through on the other side of the arabian sea and you

see this area of cloud pushing through with heavy rain here. you can see it there. on the southern side of the caspean sea we had large rainfall totals over the last 24 hours. now, that system is going to continue to push away to the east and so much there as it gets up to kazistan and pakistan and see heavy rainfall there as you can see. meanwhile in the arabian peninsula we have a wind coming and actually starting to see a hint of winter. nothing too dramatic and looking at temperatures well currently about 36 degrees here in doha. we have seen lifted dust in kuwait city and that increase with the shamal wind will bring cool air down from the northeast and wednesday is the coolest we have seen of the autumn period and the rest of the gulf states

the temperatures will drop over the next couple days and chilly 33. >> reporter: thanks indeed and a midway point on the news hour and still to come every five minutes somewhere in the world a child dies as a result of violence, a report by unicef and more on the story. >> nicole in pakistan and i'll be reporting on whether these giant wind turbines can help the country's chronic electricity shortage. unlikely finalist prepare for the sports coming up, and details coming up, in a little over 20 minutes.

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you are with the news hour from al jazeera and filling in doha and the top stories the governor of kirkuk told us he needs help from the u.s. led coalition to stop isil taking the oil-rich city and pushed out iraqi forces earlier this year and leaving kurdish pershmerga forces to defend it. houthis killed in albeta providence and battling with al-qaeda fighters and tribesmen in the town of rada. and oscar pistorious sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend and pistorious shot and killed model reeva steenkamp on february 14 last year and defense lawyer says he may only spend ten months in prison and the rest under house arrest. more than 80 people have been killed in suspected rebel

attacks in the democratic ev evening republic of congo and most of the dead is women and children and, malcolm has been speaking to survivors. >> reporter: in shock since armed men killed eight of his neighborhoodest last we're. he showed me where he found the bodies. it's one of several similar attacks in the last fort night around the town of been bennie here in the democratic of congo. >> translator: we have been slaughtered like animals with axes and even smashing people's heads open, the slaughter of a child. >> reporter: after that everyone living here ran away, for those that can afford one a padlock is the only protection for all their possessions. a rebel group called the allied democratic forces or adf

originally from neighboring uganda are thought to be behind the attacks. this video of an adf training exercise was captured by government troops when they fought the rebels out of nearby forest hide out earlier this year. somebody got shot, it's not clear if it's deliberate or accidental but adf leaders are known to be ruthless with fighters and getting back at civilians too. many of the displaced village's struggling to get by in this nearby town and were not able to get home or get their crops to eat. john, a human rights activist says the gains made by the government against rebel group in the last year are now slipping. >> translator: people think the government has abandon them and before the rebels attacked there were rumors of attack and the government was aware and yet failed to protect them. >> reporter: here are 26 braves of people killed in the attack of bennie last week and the

government paid for a ceremony and the group burial in the cemetery but of course that is too little too late for the victims. the rest of the community is left wondering how many more people will be killed before the attacks can be killed. the rebels try not to leave anyone away but they survive with life threatening injuries and this boy has been unconscious a week since being hit on the head with an axe and attackers the clearly try to spread fear and it's working and when the wounds heal people will be scared to go home, bennie in the democratic republic of congo. >> reporter: unicef warned every five minutes somewhere in the world a child dies as a result of violence and launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the issue along with a report of children in danger. and unicef findings shows not just conflicts or war responsible over 75% of deaths

due to violence are in homes, schools and communities. child victims of violence can have ptsd and children exposed to this have brains similar to soldiers exposed in combat and draws a link between poverty and violence stating child murder rates are worse in el sal have a -- el-salvador guatemala and more. in the introduction susan there is one keyword i think and that is the word poverty. >> reporter: absolutely, there are very strong links between poverty and children's experience of violence. having said that the report uncovers the fact that there is really no country in the world that is immune to its children experiencing violence. so strong linkages but at the

same time a strong message about the global nature of this violation of the rights of children. >> amazed to read 41 countries have implemented an explicit legal ban on violence against children. only 2% of countries have a comprehensive legal framework to prevent it. what more has to be done to keep our kids safe? >> reporter: well, the legal framework are incredibly important and one would think a very simple act or signing of a law and drafting of legislation. as you say it's very clear it's not that simple and one of the things that unicef is asking for is the engagement of the public of everyday people in discussions about legal frameworks and we see that when there is that kind of engagement of people that the laws not only make sense but they are known to people. there are some other really simple things that need to be done and one of them relates to and as you mentioned poverty and it relates to the state and

others taking action to support parents in early childhood in the way that they are raising children. we know that children under the age of three when they experience violence on a daily basis as so many children do all over the world, this actually creates something called toxic stress, toxic stress has an effect on the way children's brains development and the impact of this can be lifelong both to the positive and the negative. >> i'm just wondering does violence effect boys and girls equally around the world? >> reporter: no. in fact, that is a great question. girls are more likely in many parts of the world to experience sexual violence. we have higher rates of child marriage among girls in many countries the world over. having said that, it's important to remember that boys do experience violence, boys do experience sexual violence and endless example of uses of

sexual violence as a weapon of war and conflict against boys and girls. so where there is a certain amount of equality in terms of boys and girls experience of violence is in the online community where in children are bullying each other, where there is violence against both boys and girls online over the internet and through the use of social media. >> susan bad to -- good to talk to you. budgets for security boosted around the world because governments increasingly concerned for threats outside or inside the border and cyber surveillance and border security and protection of infrastructure are big priorities and there is a conference taking place right here in katar. >> reporter: taking out the latest equipment built so much with not foreign theatres in mind but security challenges at home. the protests being staged around

the world governments are looking for the best ways to maintain security. >> all industries are concerned by internal security and if you look you will find from the shoes for security people and to the most huge technology, advanced technology. >> reporter: here we have protective clothing, bulletproof cars and gas masks and riot gear and tear gas and drones and 3d imaging of battle zones. >> the software to pinpoint a sniper and see his area of operation. >> reporter: most of what is displayed here is promoted to protect countries from the inside and often in close confines. wars like iraq and afghanistan have shown things have changed and customers demanding more than protection for the troops, in the case of this armored

personnel vehicle they are looking for speed and agility because a lot of the fighting is now street to street in the urban environment. in the past two years national defense budgets have been on the rise. the u.s. is still by far the biggest spender over all at $640 billion. but some of the biggest increases have come from countries like china which have upped its spending by 7.4% last year with a total of $188 billion. in the middle east up to an estimated $150 billion and africa saw an estimated 8.3% rise in 2013 to almost $45 billion. it's not just hardware they are investing in, surveillance software is big too, protecting major infrastructure from cyber threats. >> people see cyber as a real challenge for the future and countries want to protect the airport, borders, financial security areas so we are seeing

a much more of future of investment and thinking ahead and much more looking to new technology. >> reporter: the world's state institutions may say the ports, airports and public places are safer with all the hardware and software means populations are being increasingly watched and controlled. governments are getting better at protecting themselves not just from threats from foreign elements but also their own people. erica wood with al jazeera. let's get a view on this from a cyber crime specialist in new deli, has the world gone mad? never has the saying wars have ears has been more true and is there not someone who is not spying on everyone else? >> there are two kinds of people in the world. one who know they are surveyed upon and the second who do not know they are looked upon and

today we live in a society where everyone spies on everyone else and nations are nations and citizens on citizens and husband and wives and entities uncovered so it's a mad rush and we want to know what other people are doing and that is why we come to a bizarre kind of situation with snowden. >> where does it all end? >> well, i don't see any end right away but surveillance at the highest levels going on because right now we are talking about this internet. we are now beginning to see the internet of things and internet of things where all kinds of devices, smart devices and readers and smart t.v.s and smart homes will connect to the internet which actually means the propensity to surveillance upon and the target to do that goes up and this kind of

potential for raising new kinds of data and information and ultimately it's a very strange world we are living in and governments want to survey because they want to protect the interests and somewhere down the line there are legal policy issues which has any and every surveillance why it's a legitimate part of the arsenal of a sovereign nation and any and every surveillance does violator infringe civil liberties and privacy rights. >> it does indeed, whose responsibility is it to ensure that those civil liberties and civil rights are upheld? >> currently i think it is the responsibility of all stakeholders but we are coming through a very strange kind of world where we are now living in because after the snowden revelations governments are not willing to talk to each other. there is no one international treaty. of course, there is now talks

that the international humanitarian law should be applicable to cyberspace but that has its own specific limitations. and of course there is a need for far more deliberations, discussions among the stakeholders in this direction. but invariably and looking at government through the national legislations often surveillance on or protecting the dignity of the country and post snowden revelations increasing trend that there will be conflict between interest and national security on one hand and privacy of national security and national interest. >> it's fascinating, if not a little frightening, many thanks indeed in new deli. egyptian court said the first of january as the date to hear the appeal of the three journalists and have been in prison now for 29 seven days falsely accused of

helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood and appealing convictions and al jazeera continues to demand their immediate release. still to come on the news hour the man who pressed generations of celebrities is dead and we will look back at the life of oscar delorenta. a tough workout by a lesser light in the english premier league and we will tell you all about it. ♪

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can last for more than 12 hours and the government is trying to harness the winds to generate more power but progress is slow. nico nico nicole johnston has been there to a peer in the province. >> reporter: this desert landscape transformed and 100 turbines harnessing the power of the wind in southern pakistan. 24 companies have licenses to develop wind farms here. but so far three have started. >> pakistan is blessed with this wind corridor and starts from the arabian sea and extends up to the city of 160 kilometers inland and 60 kilometers the other way. >> reporter: if the entire wind corridor was covered in turbines it could generate twice as much power as pakistan needs.

>> you can get 50,000 mega watts from the area and this is the reason you see there are so many turbines put on this place, to get and achieve maximum power. >> reporter: the energy generated here is sold straight to the national grid. the government is subsidizing the cost of leasing land for companies to establish wind farms. and the companies expect their investments to be paid off within five years. it's not only pakistani companies which are investing in wind electricity. in the distance you see turbines built by china and not operational yet and be mind me a turkish company is also producing wind electricity. they have 20,000 mega watts of electricity every year and only has 15,000. this means for hours everyday people either have no electricity or have to rely on

generators. the government's policies to reach 1,000 mega watts of electricity from alternative energy and so far it has less than a quarter of that. >> energy is a big problem after terrorism. >> reporter: the advocate for green energy says not enough is being done to bring investors in. >> the pace is very slow. if you ask me, if you really want to resolve energy problem in the country apart from the county side they have to go on one footing as far as renewables are concerned. >> reporter: back the desert the wind has picked up. investors will be happy about that. after all more wind means more money. nicole johnston, al jazeera, tata, in the province. >> reporter: time for the sport and here is fara. >> reporter: thank you so much, suspended all future tours with the west indies and will take

legal action after they pulled out midway through the tour before the series began and they quickly replaced it with a one-day series against sri lanka and will leave $50 million in revenue. the caribbean players walked away following a pay dispute at home. in the next tour of west indies is in two years and put on hold and we are joined with the editor and chief of india. how financially damaging for west indies for west cricket can be this? >> the damage and they can go bankrupt as simple as that and no way for them to get the money and they request to make it up in the short form. >> sorry about that, i think we have lost him.

we will try and get him back later on. the action is about to get underway in singapore for day two of wta finals and she has a win under her belt in the red group and romaine was the winner over bushard and in the spotlight in singapore and a break up against the canadian and she compounded fact and went on to win the first 6-2 and lost a match in the most frustrating way possible and it hit the net and went long, double fault and wrapping up 6-3 and win for her and still a chance for bashard with two more matches to play in the rounds. williams won earlier on the opening day. >> this is great for me. i started really well this tournament and, you know, i'm really happy because i found my way to fight and play aggressive and stay there and every focused

every point and to play my best. >> so it gets underway in less than an hour and they are in the white group and sherapopa is the top seed and can finish the year as number one. >> i have not done that in the career, finishing number one, but i have been in that spot before and been number two and gotten to one and if i perform well it's better chances than if i do not. >> despite suffering from appendicitis the french open champion who decided to treat the condition with antibiotics rather than having surgery 6-2, 6-2 and leaves the first round of the shanghai masters two

weeks ago. and we are back. and could the west indi, s be ban from playing in other countries as punishment? >> i don't think they would go to that extent. but not playing in there will have a huge impact at home in the 2016 and potential and anything between $5-$10 million but they are not rich to afford that. >> how are indians feeling especially those that bought tickets? >> they cannot share in the hopes and this is a four-month period in which this country must meet at home and fans and many of whom are in cricket only

once in two years is a big deal. >> indians are the country in control of cricket's governing body the ipc can there really be any winner other than india in this dispute? >> well, given the fact that india has done nothing wrong in this particular case, i would say there can only be one winner. but not to see a situation where there is a compromise and doesn't mean this is with cricket because it doesn't do anyone any good. >> why playing in india is good for cricket country's finances. >> reporter: well, 75%, that is a rough estimate of cricket and points to that and you put all that together, 75% of that comes from india right now so if we don't play against india home or

away then they will take a big hit. >> thanks so much for joining us. and the manager league baseball and the kansas city royals return to the series in 29 years when they host the san francisco giants and tuesday and preparing for game one of the best of seven series and may not have the post season experience the giants have but played well this year and kansas and san francisco heading to the championship series even though both got into post season as wild cards. >> with that said there is our goal in spring training and we had one mindset and that was to go to the world series and win it and to be able to be here on the big stage is exactly what we have been working for hard all season long and we are really happy to be here right now. >> reporter: united manager says it was the best performance he has seen so far from his new team even though they managed

2-2 draw and the first goal coming in the 8th minute and united equalizer came through an unexpected source. and he had a cracking goal and three start and capitalized on some poor united defending for 2-1 before they saved the visitor blushes and three minutes from time. >> i think we were the better team. not very disappointed about the result, so you can say we were two times behind but i don't think they have created many chances. i think zero and we gave the two goals away. >> reporter: the european champions league returns on tuesday and played behind closed doors in moscow and taking on manchester city are punished for the behavior of fans during previous times and the champions trained in the arena arena is

just as empty come kickoff and the supporters ban by them because of violent and racist behavior and it should make the trip easier for man chester club who is one point from two matches. and that is all your sport for now and adrian back to you for now. >> thanks indeed. osc oscar de-la-renta has died at 82 and we have his life on-and-off the cat walk. >> reporter: the red carpet would not be the same without him, oscar de-la-renta to the stars and more and fashions wore by celebrities and royalty. as for first ladies he was second to none and from jacqueline kennedy to michelle obama his styles set the trend and hillary clinton wore the gown in 97 and bush in 2005 and

had seems and stitches and started out as a painter in 1932 and dreamed of being an artist working with an easel but it became clear his calling was was clothing and worked for elizabeth arden and 65 he had a ready to wear label and the life beyond the fitting room and he was a business plan, a philanthropist and his legacy will live on in his designs and what he will forever bring to the fashion world. just last week his company appointed a new creative director as a successor to him. de-laerenta he says every season i'm inspired by women and oscar was 82 years old. >> that is it and the day's top stories straight ahead on al jazeera and i'll see you again and thanks for watching and good-bye for now. ♪

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