♪ >> announcer: this is al jazee jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the news hour, i'm julie in doha and the top stories this hour for the first time in months men of all ages to attend muslim prayers at the mosque. the battle over baji and a key city in iraq where forces try to retake the strategic area from isil. to stop isil fighters from

returning to the uk and u.s. president barack obama makes myanmar's president. ♪ we start in jerusalem where young muslims allowed in the city's holy site to calm tension between israels and muslims following u.s. mediated talks in jordan and the compound where the mosque is important for muslims and jews and violent spread two weeks ago when they closed to site for the first time since 1967 and we will speak from the occupied west bank and first to stephanie decker at one of the main entrances to the city and seems very calm there as it has been all morning, does it seem less sense? >> absolutely. i think that is a significant

event of the day if you will if you put it in context and what has been happening over the last few weeks and it's quiet behind me because prayers are still going on at the mosque and seeing people streaming in all thought the morning and men of all ages and the first time in two months that israel lifted those restrictions to try and calm things and also low key security presence i have to tell you and we covered the story when tensions are high and border and security further down to the entrance of damascus gates and they are here and will close roads and a couple scattered across and a helicopter in the sky and keeping an eye on things but from israeli in response to the meeting is they are trying to show they are trying to deescalate the situation, not provoke and what we are seeing on the ground is translated in the calmest it has been in weeks. >> it's not just the arguments over access to the mosque which are causing the problems, there

are many of the grievances and we have seen events over the past few weeks leading to the resent tensions. >> that's right. and this needs to be put into the context of a decade long conflict between two people, the potential that never happened for the palestinians over their own state. it comes down to core issues when you speak to palestinians and living under occupation if it's in jerusalem or the west bank or gaza and tell you they are humiliated and don't have free access of movement and don't have services that other citizens of jewish decent and also they will tet you settlement, is a huge issue and it expanded in jerusalem and the west bank throughout and makes the prospect of a palestinian state unreliable and vialbe and

don't think the government is a partner for peace and last time we had talks at the beginning of the year failed and could not discuss the court issues which is the future of palestinians and they want this as a capitol of a future state and the government made it clear that is never going to happen and it's difficult to see how this will evolve and the war in gaza and people will tell you they are frustrated and to put it in context a third up rising and have not seen thousands of people come to the streets and there is frustration and an incredible feeling that nothing can be done but as anything in this conflict in region anything can spark it so i think we are seeing and bringing it back to the ground israelis trying to give concessions because we had hard words from jordan and americans and no one wants to see anything escalate like we have seen over the last few weeks. >> thanks for that and let's bring in tiabe in the occupied west bank and you are at a check

point there, a major demonstration has been called. what is going on? >> as you can see it's pretty calm here and almost business as usual at the check point, this is the main entrance to the occupied east jerusalem from the occupied west bank and this protest was called for 10:00 a.m. local time and two hours ago. a small group of protesters came and moved to another check post to hold the protest. we have seen a few confrontations between youth and israeli security forces and a few canisters of tear gasses but it has been calm and behind me you cannot see them now but they were there a couple moments ago is a fairly visizable presence d for now is calm and remains extremely volatile.

>> and we see it spilling in the west bank and following the talks in jordan do you think things are expected to stay calm there? >> that really is the million dollar question and people are hoping that it stays calm and of course we have seen unrest not just for the last few days but the past few days and months and a number of issues that the palestinians are trying to find solutions for or at least very angry about now we have these sort of decisions or these sort of concessions if you will that the israelis have made, they allowed people to go pray at the mosque, people of all ages and removed some barriers that were blocking roads in the occupied east jerusalem but many issues are fueling the anger and keep in mind since july of this year 800 people have been arrested in jerusalem alone and many remain

behind bars. we heard demolition ordered of homes but we have not heard from the israeli government if they will release the people or stay the demolition orders and many issues remain unresolved so the situation which for now is calm to terms at any moment so again while many people are certainly hoping things stay calm it is still unpredictable. >> in the west bank there. let's bring in ben white, a journalist with the middle east monitor and author of two books on israel/palestinian conflict and ben both correspondents there saying it's calm at the moment but many issues which need resolving and john kerry said other steps as well as removing the age restriction have been agreed, what are you expecting from them? >> i'm not sure it's clear what

we can expect from the other steps to be honest and the steps by kerry and we have seen the easing of restrictions today for muslim worshippers and the removal of a couple of checkpoints as well. but it's unclear what further substantial steps will be taken and i think it's important to remember that east jerusalem is almost a ma microcosum with demolitions et cetera and when it comes to trangients and the ability to secure an independent state and as mentioned previously by our correspondent there they say east jerusalem will not be a capitol of a palestinian state and also important to note with the relative calm we are seeing today i think it is unlikely we would see a heavy crack down by

israeli forces hours after kerry's meeting with netanyahu especially given displeasure with construction that was announced on wednesday. in addition there is the role of abbas and palestinian authority not used to seeing confrontations. >> do you think jordan and the u.s. and jordan unhappy and the u.s. are putting enough perez on israel or is it just that israel consistently resists this kind of pressure? >> jordan has got some ability to pressure israel because of the way in which of one of israel's few keys in the region and the historic and temporary role with regard to the relationship with u.s. and they can apply pressure and withdrew the ambassador and has not returned yet and it's a

balancing yet and at the same time they increase settlement construction and as radical settlers move in they are keen not to sort of as another piece to the puzzle or increase the tension when it comes to that or figures within the israeli government are concerned about deescalating tensions there, israeli defense minister he himself who announced this week or talked about punitive house demolitions quote unquote moderate pointed the finger at the escalation of the figures within the government and members to stage provocative visits so it's balancing in east jerusalem in the west bank and increasing tension in one place and decreasing it there. >> ben, thank you indeed for that, interesting analysis and ben white speaking to us live from london there. now, the oil rich iraqi town has seen fierce fighting in resent

weeks but appears that iraqi forces have successfully pushed the islamic state back and slowly advancing to the crucial oil refinery that is 15 kilometers away and we report. >> reporter: it might not look like much but this small act of iraqi pride sends out a loud message, this is the town council building that isil captured and use as a base. iraqi special forces swept most of the west and south of the town and now ready to take the north and the east. in some ways this military operation has been a blue print of future battles within enhanced cooperation with iraq cherokee fighter units and proud of collective effort and perfect combination of security apparatus for this battle which includes counter terrorism and the federal police force and the rest of the army formations.

>> with such team work your more sophisticated weaponry has been put to use and counter terrorism and police unit are american made missile battery. >> translator: a quick calculation and isil position in the north come under fire. [gunfire] iraqi army are still facing stiff resistance from isil fighters and confidence boosted by an audio recording released on thursday by the leader and he says that no amount of american made webry or coalition air strikes will be able to defeat the group, but those words ring hollow as patrols wind through the streets in beji and isil is an enemy and in the city of mosul it's still an occupying force. but with gains being slowly made and help of coalition air strikes many, iraqis will drive

through all the territory isil has taken since june, i'm in baghdad. chuck hagel since $5.6 billion are needed to continue the fight against isil but republicans in congress are demanding that the obama administration explain its strategy and isil released an audio type that was recorded by the leader days after reports that he had been killed or injured, from capitol hill we repo report. >> reporter: possible proof of life, the man speaking on the clip on youtube is said to be the leader of isil, in it the speaker calls on followers to quote erupt volcanos of jihad on enemies of islam and claims the obama administration plans to send in 1500 more u.s. troops is a sign the ongoing air wear

against isil has failed. and this could be the strike near mosul and the pentagon still cannot verify and cia says it knows about the audio it's refusing to discuss it. the audio was released just as u.s. officials went to capitol hill to look for support for their expanding military mission, while some in the audience objected to the plan, republicans and democrats wanted to know why more troops and money were needed and whether u.s. ground troops eventually would be sent in. >> help us understand the circumstances where you would envision the need to introduce u.s. military troops into combat situations. >> i'm not predicting at this point that i would recommend that those forces in mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by u.s. forces but we are certainly considering it. >> reporter: defense secretary was asked whether the u.s. is stranging its strategy to fight isil. >> isil security council

addressed it, state department has, we have, so that is all i can tell you. there is no change and there is no different direction. >> but the hearing ended as it began, with skepticism very few definitive answers and no date set for a debate on the spending request. just one delay in a campaign that is supposed to take years, roslyn with al jazeera capitol hill. british prime minister david cameron will introduce new laws to stop uk nationals fighting in syria and iraq from returning home. >> we will shortly be introducing a counter terrorism bill in the united kingdom and powers for the police to seize passports and stop suspects traveling and stop british nationals returning to the uk unless they do so on our terms. new rules to prevent airlines that don't comply with our no fly lists or security screening

measures from landing in the uk. >> reporter: and we have the director of international security studies of united institute and good to have you with us and what do you think about this move, do you think it can work? >> well, i think this is a move we have seen coming for sometime, the government has been trying to consider what new counter terrorism measures it could do or implement to try to prevent people from going abroad to join groups fighting in iraq or syria and whether the measures will prove effective i think the question of taking away people's passports or literally physically removing the object is something we have seen that has had some success in the past as well but i think fundamentally is what we see is the government taking existing counter terrorism architecture and reflecting a current evolving threat picture. >> how do you do that to deter people who want to fight in syria and iraq are not people who have legitimate reasons for

going like visiting family or they are aid workers? >> that is a difficult issue to address but you have to rely on people's judgments. so if an individual is traveling for legitimate reasons one hopes security services are aware of this. if i have understood the measures correctly or what limited amount revealed so far it appeals taking people's passports away is reviewed by a magistrate within 15 days and if an individual feels they had it unjustly taken from them they can go to court in a period of time. and a police portion can not remove it on a permanent basis and has a judicial structure behind it. >> canada and australia have similar measures, what about dealing with the root causes of people wanting to go and fight rather than the end result and

cameron is saying they are trying to have preachers lure in young muslims? >> i think sort of trying to counter the root causes of radicalzation is a long-term project with governments around the world trying to deal with it for sometime and i think a lot of work goes into it and a lot more work has to go into it. i think when you think of trying to develop counter terrorism measures a lot has already been done in legislative terms in that space and while we can see the government seems to be focusing on this to prevent radical preachers again, this is a sort of long-term project they have been doing for some time and a lot of work has gone go it. the point is this sort of new aspect of the threat picture the government is trying to legislate against is an aspect of people traveling because they seen so many people going to fight in iraq and syria and

focusing particularly on that as specific is clearly where the heart of this current push towards legislation lies. >> really good to get your thoughts there and thank you very much indeed for speaking with us from london. coming up, here on the program dividing families and disrupting lives, we look at the new trench that has been built between afghanistan and pakistan. also, in sport, andy murray trouble ended suffering defeat at the world finals and details coming up, later in the program. ♪ now u.s. president barack obama has urged myanmar leaders to continue with the country's democratic reform process, the president was speaking after talks with opposition leader and she said myanmar transition to democracy hit what she called a bumpy patch but warned against

complacency and obama said change sometimes is hard more reform is needed. >> it's clear how much hard work remains to be done and that many difficult choices still lay ahead. the process for reform is by no means complete or irreversible. for many progress does not come fast enough or spread far enough. people need to feel safe in their homes and not be subject to arbitrary harassment by authorities. >> our reform process is going through let's just say a bumpy patch but this bumpy patch is something that we can negotiate with commitment and with the help and understanding of our friends from all over the world. so let us not exaggerate the difficulties and the rosy picture either. >> the latest from this.

u.s. president barack obama sending a clear message that he considers the opposition the future of democracy in myanmar or burma as they are now referring to it back to its original name and proceeded to speak to the public and address the press on friday side by side with opposition leader saying that more democratic reform needs to be seen here at burma and acknowledge the current sitting government has already pushed through, taken some steps but they are not considered concrete enough. they are meant to be elections here next year that are supposed to be fair and free. but the u.s. president made it clear that they will not be considered fair and free unless the opposition leader is allowed to run. and at the moment under the current constitution as written by the previous military that ruled the country she is disqualified from standing in those polls. opposition leader also called for basically a level head to maintain over everyone in the

country and she understands there are ethnic and social divisions but it's not just the government's duty to protect all people and make them feel safe here it's also the duty of every single member and every citizen of burma to basically find a way to get along and calling for nonviolent means to move forward and democratic process to go faster than it's going at the moment and for its part the myanmar government is doing the best they can and grateful for western countries particularly the united states and wants to deep enthe ties. >> afghan president ghani is on the first visit to pakistan since taking office and will meet with the prime minister shariff in islam ball and optimistic about improving relations and we have more from islamabad. >> this is the first visit to pakistan after the formation of a national unity government

earlier in september. the president is accompanied by a high-level delegation of senior officials as well as business men, the two countries enjoy over $2 billion of trade with considerable exports from pakistan to afghanistan but while there is going to be talk of cooperation and improvement of a relationship that is marred by miss trust there will also be some hard talk on the issue of the taliban and pakistan leadership that is operating and in the past they have been accusing pakistan of helping the taliban so there will be some hard talk behind the scenes. however, on the surface both countries will be trying their best to show the world that they are able to move forward and that both countries are serious and improving relations between the two countries. pakistan built a trench along nearly 500 kilometers of the border with afghanistan and

says it's to stop smuggling and prevent fighters from crossing the two countries and jennifer glasse reports from kandahar afghanistan says it has not approved the projects. >> reporter: at the border crossing, here afghans often don't show visa or passports to travel between the two countries and for centuries used dozens of informing crossings but the new trench follows traffic and people through the main gate here, small time smugglers have been hurt. >> translator: it effects business, before normal people brought cooking oil and flour and could make money now it comes across one road and a few benefit and poor people cannot make money any more. >> reporter: spans 480 kilometers of the border and west of i ran border, a fifth of the length of durand line and afghanistan disputes the boundary drawn by british in 1893. >> translator: they have taken

our land and pakistan has taken it and the benefit there is a line built between afghanistan and pakistan. >> reporter: officials in kandahar say it's an issue for the national government in kabul and people in the city says they have not felt it on trade or security yet. afghanistan's new president won't comment on the trench until he meets with the pakistani leadership, one local afghan official thinks the trench is trouble. >> translator: it shouldn't be the decision of one country, both countries should sit together and discuss how to control the border and maybe the ditch would bring temporary security benefits but it also has negative points. >> reporter: divides families and tribes and disrupts everyday lives and gives the people a reason to dislike it, jennifer glasse, al jazeera kandahar. >> reporter: students in france protesting against police brutality and 150 demonstrators

barricaded schools in paris and fought with police and protesting against tactics used as a demonstration last month where an environmentist died and tests on clothing suggested he was killed by explosive by the police to disburse crowd. in chile they joined mexico over the disappearance of students and thousands rallied in the capital of santiago and carried pictures of the students who went missing six weeks ago in the state. members of a local drug gang admitted to killing them and burning their bodies. time for us to get the weather here and richard is here with that and north america or part of north american suffering a big freeze anything on that? >> a slow process and it's crazy, two weeks away from thanksgiving and we have sort of weather you expect in the middle of winter. if you look at the map it's only across of the peninsula and

southwest parts of the united states where the cold weather doesn't have a grip. and you see a great core of really cold weather persisting in montana and temperatures minus 27 and over the last few days the temperatures have been minus 32 degrees celsius and as we look at what the situation is we have across the region you can see across much of the west the conditions are really bad at the moment, people really struggling to get on with their daily lives. parts of the upper peninsula in michigan they had a meter of snow over the last few days and the situation can get worse before it gets better for some with high pressure across central areas and a frontal system developing out to the west which will begin to push in. so you can see the snow across the northwest, cold weather everywhere as down as far as dallas texas and atlanta,

georgia and florida is hanging on to the warm air and no where else and the snow is away from nevada and to kansas and some could be really quite heavy and sinks further to the south but temperatures in denver, colorado still on freezing, julie. >> you are with al jazeera and the capitol gets a chinese governor leaving islamic groups unhappy. plus agreement over faso's government and no word on who will actually lead it and more on the sport with the world govern body fifa in chaos as the investigator accuses it as a cover up over a report clearing qatar and russia of corruption. stay with us. ♪

♪ hello and welcome back, i'm julie gosh and reminder of stories and young muslims allowed in the holy site to calm tensions between israel and palestinians and israeli government lifted age restrictions at worshippers following u.s. mediated talks in jordan. the oil rich iraqi town has seen fierce fighting in recent weeks and iraqi forces pushed the islamic state of iraq back and advancing to the crucial oil refinery that is nearby. u.s. president barack obama urged myanmar leaders to continue with democratic reforms, the president held talks with p o the leader.

activists accusing the government of doing air strikes in the capitol damascus and military attacking rebel held areas for month and cutoff supply route trapping hundreds of thousands of people. meanwhile syrian activists in aleppo accusing rebels losing site of goals and say fighters linked to the free syrian army often referred to as moderate opposition are acting like criminals and gang leaders and rebels on the brink of defeat at the hands of government forces and rival groups in northern parts of aleppo and we report. >> reporter: people are angry in rebel held neighborhoods in the city of aleppo and worried because government forces are close to surrounding them and they blame rebel commanders. we want a unified army and they

accuse commanders of being traitors and fighting for their own interests instead of the revolution. >> translator: we support the demonstration because it's trying to revive the revolution all over again and they returned to its origin which was a popular uprising. not what it is today. now it's a revelation for, war lords. >> reporter: they are trying to save what is left of their struggle, we need to agree on a plan before we lose aleppo this person says. another suggests talking to the rebel commanders directly, but they all agree that they have limited influence over those who carry guns. free syrian army rebels are on the verge of being defeated by other opposition forces. they have been pushed out of their strongholds by islamic state in iraq and lavonte and al-qaeda branch nusra and blaming the international community for not providing them with weapons.

but many people in rebel-held territories see it differently, protests like this one are becoming more common. their uprising was about ending corruption and fighting for democracy and freedom and accusing new rulers of acting like criminals and rebels themselves know of unified command but blame powers for interfering in the conflict. >> it's a matter of sponsorship, you know. the people that is giving you aid and support and weapons and equipment, you know, applies to the mandatory sometimes to follow the rules and orders. >> reporter: syrians who support opposition are growing increasingly frustrated and a reason why so many carry the flag of revolution and want to remind the world this is not just a war on what the u.s. and the international partners call terrorism, it's first and foremost a struggle for freedom in syria, al jazeera, beirut.

confidence returning to nigeria business market after world health organization certified the country ebola free and we report from the commercial capitol legos, the return to normality has been cautious and gradual. >> reporter: stocking up on supplies, for patrick a dealer with personal hygiene products business has never been better. the outbreak of ebola presented a massive opportunity for growth to his company and others like it. and they are struggling to keep up with demand. >> right now there is a lot of awareness. people are showing a lot of interest in their health. there is a lot of demand for the paper towels and hand sanitizers and everyday we have new customers asking for people making inquiry all over the place. >> reporter: but at a market outside legos, a trader in textiles is a woman and never seen anything like the past

three months when ebola was here. customers come from different west african countries. they are worried about the violence that killed more than 5,000 people across the region, at least 8 of them in nigeria. >> people are freezing to go outside because there are troops waiting. >> reporter: she hopes the gradual return to normal around the capitol will rub off on her small store. confidence returning to the international market. here customers from many republicans and ghanna have come to do business, but at the peak of the ebola outbreak people stayed away but traders are busy trying to recoup lost time and money. the biggest impact of the disease on nigeria economy could lie outside the country's borders. >> the economy of nigeria affects all of the countries and

the sub regions, you know. and countries like liberia, guinea have been affected and where nigeria are big economic players. >> reporter: analysts say there are many investors lost and concerned about ebola in west africa and such people are expected to stay away, at least for the near future. they warn that nigeria's economy which is by far the biggest will not be safe from the impact of ebola unless the virus is also contained everywhere in the region, which means optimism expressed by textile trader of a brighter future maybe premature, i'm with al jazeera, legos. the world bank has given guinea 66 vehicles to help fight ebola. the land cruisers purchased with funding from the u.n. children fund or unicef and 84 are on the way bringing it to 150 cars used

by health workers in the country and guinea is one of the hardest hit countries from the ebola outbreak. agreement has been reached over faso's interim government but there is no word on who will lead the country. the army and lieutenant colonel seeda took over after the other resigned last month and we have more. >> reporter: the agreement is significant, it means a lieutenant colonel agreed to step down and hand over power to civilian but there is no timeframe yet and committee will be set up and that committee will choose the person who will lead the country and that could take a week, a month or later than that. until that happens i mean he is still the man in charge and may not be easy to pick a name of ta candidate to lead the country and talking to people who led the revolution and now politicians in meetings and negotiatings and trying to haggle for positions and different interests and agendas and could be a long while before

a name is decided and people are awaiting for the announcement and told as early as monday and told it would be later than that. right now people need to know which way the country is going and want a name announced soon and they can repair the interim government and move toward election in november next year. the first time in three decades the capitol will have a governor of chinese consent and islamic groups have been protesting against him and we report. >> reporter: he has become a symbol of hope for indonesia ethnic chinese and 16 years ago they were attacked during violent protests. for decades band from politics, now a hawk with a christian is set to govern indonesia's capitol. >> this makes us proud of course, 1998 the situation for china and indonesia was so bad, now there is a huge change in

the country as a result of reforms. >> reporter: but for some the rise of chinese indonesia politicians is still unacceptabl unacceptable. >> the people don't want to be governed by a crazy person of the people here. >> reporter: hawk was known for his outspoken blunt leadership style and is undeterred. >> translator: if i had been afraid i would not have entered politics and i would have stayed a businessman, the only fear i know is not being able to improve the lives of poor people in the city, that troubles me more and that is the struggle and if i die at least i die fighting. >> reporter: chinese indonesia has come a long way since 16 years ago and a few are still fearful there is a change in the attitude of china indonesia and assertive member of society.

thomas is a victim of the 1998 riots and now he is like 2 million people. >> for us 1998 was an eye opener and realized we are from indonesia and not foreigners and we born here and live here and we will die here. >> reporter: despite the rise of chinese indonesia politicians many doubt the highest office is within reach any time soon even though hawk has already expressed ambition to run for president in the next election, i'm with al jazeera. al jazeera continues to demand the release of our three journalists who have now been detained in egypt for 321 days. greste and fahmy and mohamed falsely accused of helping the muslim out lawed brotherhood and

sentenced to 7 and then an additional three years for having a spent bullet in his possession which he picked up at a protest. still to come here on the program. i'm in the remote district where people have to walk for food as crops grow here are just not enough. and sport face an up hill battle in the euro 2016 qualifier and that is coming up. ♪

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the people in the district in northwestern napal suffered food shortages since the 1970s and we report now on a problem that many people blame on the destruction of their traditional way of life. ♪ the song they are singing is about being poor and hungry and these people in the village, the northwest district are desperate, more than 3,000 people live here almost on top of each other. >> translator: we don't have much land and can grow enough food to last three months a year then we bring flour from china and my son has gone there and 15 days to come back and this is what we got from share cropping. >> reporter: land limited and family growing and the district is dependant on food aid and say rice is not always available to buy and it has to be flown in

and subsidized and a family in 1972 people in the district have been dependent on food aid. >> translator: if people could producing the grains in the shortfall of grains was provided by the state that would have been better but here local production has decreased and the state is criticized as soon as rice is not available. >> reporter: the district headquarters they wait in the early morning to buy rice and before the famine they had cheap caravans and importing salt. >> in the old days we supply food for them but now it's the opposite. >> reporter: people have no choice but to wait and when the planes don't bring in the rice their songs of hunger echo through the mountains, i'm with al jazeera, northwestern napal. 19-year-old war veteran in the u.s. state of florida is fighting a battle to help the

homeless and arnold abbot have been feeding people on a beach for years and the change in the law has him threatened with 60 days jail time and a fine and andy g andy gallagher reports. >> reporter: this 90-year-old war veteran is making international headlines. >> ladies first. >> reporter: decades he has been feeding the homeless of fort hlauderdale and for him its an act of love and now he is facing arrest and fines under a new law against feeding the homeless in public places and his operation has been closed down twice since the law brought in but despite the warnings arnold says he won't staff. >> i spent 2 1/2 years in combat in world war ii and i knew what i was fighting for then, i know what i'm fighting for now. >> reporter: quality of life laws are commonplace across the

u.s. and hundreds of cities ban laying down in public spaces or sleeping in cars, rules that critics claim hurt the homeless. >> in the depression we fed the homeless and the hungry. why not put god in your heart and feed these people? these people are hungry. >> reporter: city officials say the new laws are not designed to criminalize the homeless and claim they simply want to feed people in safe and sanitary conditions and offered mr. robert an alternative location but he has been feeding people on the beach for 20 years and doesn't want to compromise. the campaign to end homelessness for decades saying feeding people the street is not helpful and worked to get people off the streets for goods and think his actions is not helping. >> it's not clean and it's a health and a safety welfare issue not only for homeless folks but the rest of the citizens. >> reporter: if he keeps

feeding the homeless he could face a 60 day jail term but that is not likely to frighten a man determined to stand his ground, andy in fort lauderdale florida. time for the sport. >> thank you very much, and tennis and two time grand slam andy murray had a nightmare in front of british fans in london knocked out of the tour finals by world two federer and the chance of going through the semi finals but 17 grand slam federer was ruthless taking him apart and it was 6-0, 6-1 in 66 minutes and the worst defeat of his career and he is through the semis and the swiss is hoping to displace novokivoch and finish the year as world number one. >> a bad combination for andy and i had a great day today and

played well and didn't make many mistakes so over all i'm happy, total surprise to me this one-sided result really. >> i can say i'm disappointed at my level tonight but if i play well he probably still would have won anyway. and he was playing very well and striking the ball very clean and after the first few games of the match he played exceptionally well and made few mistakes. >> reporter: qualifies early three set victory over spain, and the last-minute replacement who pulled out with injury and lost the first set but turned the contest around and was in control after that. and japanese playing in this event for the first time powered through in the third set taking it 6-1 to win the match. 2016 qualifiers return to action

this weekend, serbia hosting the mark on friday and they will be facing an uphill battle after they were docked three points for pitch invasion last month and the second from the bottom of group i, they were held to 1-1 draw in the opening fixture as armania and after two matches they sit with only one point in the group. the match in belgrade played behind closed doors after serbia handed a two game crowd band following the troubled match in october when it triggered a massive brawl during the game. >> because of a dozen or so idiots we are docked three points and happens rarely and try to motivate ourselves and we are playing for serbia but i wish the stadium was full. >> reporter: africa nations qualifying continues this weekend even though we still don't know where jan's

competition will be taking place and sierra leone is playing the home game against ivory coast in ivory coast and they are where they were in september when they lost to elephants 2-1 and sierra leone cannot host matches because of ebola out break and unwilling to find a neutral country to host the games. >> when we play at home it's like playing outside and usually for the ebola effected everything. ebola cannot win. we will win against ebola. the fight will be won but all of us. >> reporter: david says his new job will be even tougher than managing at united and the scottish coach was fired in april after poor results. his new team is in the la-league and needs to change if there is a place for them and turned down plenty of offers since leaving

but this was the one for him. >> the biggest reason i have chosen this is because of the president. he was so determined and he wanted me to come here and gave me great belief in what he is doing and i also got to say i came here last week quietly, no venue, i hope not, and they took me for dinner and i looked at the training grounds and i went everywhere so it took time just for us to come to an agreement. >> reporter: now, the man who investigated allegations of corruption in awarding of world cup hosting rights says his findings have been misrepresented and michael garcia has been working for the governing body fifa and says the version of his report contains mistakes and lou weldings explains. >> reporter: allegations of

corruption have hung over two world cups for nearly four years and the host got the news they wanted about 2018 anicka shak-- qatar in 2022 and fifa was challenged by investigator michael garcia who says it continues incomplete and erroneous reputations of the facts and conclusions and in a bizarre legal situation the american lawyer will appeal to fifa how his report is being represented. there have been relief for 2022 teamte o of cleared of wrongdoi. >> the result today is just a confirmation of what we always believed and have been transparent dealing with the investigation and in terms of the overall process that looks in the 2018 and 2022 bidding process. >> reporter: they did not esca

esca escape sensor and part of the bid team being destroyed. >> it's something that fifa deemed important to do, it was done and who participated, we complied and what more can we do? >> reporter: county problems with russia and another problem with judge eckert and praised in the epic report and garcia more critical of leadership and with russia and katar lasted hours and the times newspaper printed a significant amount of leaked team and documents and formed allegations against the qatar world cup bid and they were judged to be for his own benefit and not benefit of qatar 2022. england itself is one of the losing bid nations criticized in the report along with australia, korea and the united states. england fa concluded to the

improper demands of the fifa vice president jack warner and fifa rejected it but the spotlight not on them long but for them garcia was a reality check against stability. >> it's sad the two chairmen of the committee have a different opinion when it comes out and when we are talking about such important things as futbol. >> reporter: fifa released a statement in the day welcoming a degree of soldier but this means closure is illusive as ever, lee weldings, al jazeera london. nba the memphis group came from 26 points down with the sack sackro -- sacramento kings and squandered the league and back in the fourth quarter to tie the

game up and then capped with the winning shot right at the buzzer and beat the kings 111-110. and there is more sport stories on the website and check out al jazeera/sport. that is it for me. i'll have more later on. thanks for that and see you a little later on. now, with stricter regulations on cigarettes electronic cigarettes, e-cigarettes are becoming popular and health experts meeting in london to talk about the safety and we report. >> reporter: fashionable and now a forbidden vice for hundreds of millions of people,, in fact, anywhere you see this universally recognized sign, usually accompanied by two words, no smoking, but what about vaping and what happens when you use e-cigarettes and becoming more and more common and the idea is simple and have nicotine but not the toxins you

get with traditional cigarettes and don't breathe out smoke, you breathe out a vapor instead and in theory at least means they are safer but remember this is new technology and lots of unknowns and that in itself is causing confusion. >> you know that feeling you get. >> reporter: on monday this ad on british television commercials for cigarettes have been banned for 20 years but not e-cigarettes and even exhaling is allowed and band in some hospitals and aircraft and some restaurants and not this one, talking about if they should be or not, this is a current conrundum and it's not crystal clear. >> if it doesn't offense we don't get involved and people would use discretion saying would you mind using that outside or something like that. but we do leave it to the managers rather than having a hard policy on this.

>> reporter: mike is a writer and loves nothing more than smoking while he works but he only takes in half the amount these days, he vapes as well and for him it's helping him cut right down. >> they can't possibly be as bad as the amount of chemicals you get from smoking a cigarette, i'm a hypocrite because i'm a smoker but can't be as bad for you and anything that helps you cut down i think is a good thing. >> reporter: on thursday health experts met in london to debate the future of e-cigarettes and there is no doubt normal cigarettes are worse for you does that mean e-cigarettes are necessarily safe, that is the big question and it may be decades until science and experience can answer it. phil with al jazeera in london. and that is it, you have been watching the news hour, for me and all the team here in doha good-bye for now. ♪

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