>> my pleasure. thank you. hi, i am richelle carey. coming up at the top of the this is al jazerra. ♪ ♪ hello, welcome to the news hour live from doha. i am martin dennis and these are the top stories we'll be covering this hour, isil fighters release a second video showing the murder of syrians hours after killing the u.s. aid worker peter kassig. the nigerian government says it's retaken the northeastern town of chibok from boko haram. russia's president makes an early exit from the g20 summit following an icy investigation from western leaders. and living on the streets to

ask for more democracy, but protest sites in hong kong could soon be cleared. there are reports that the islamic state of the iraq and levant group have killed 13 13 syrian men. these killings took place in raqqa and syria. the victims had all been kidnapped earlier this month. isil says they were killed for collaborating with the syrian regime. these killings follow the release of new video that was posted on line appearing to show the beheading of another group of isil hostages and these include at least 12 syrian soldiers and the american aid worker peter kassig. 26-year-old kassig was captured last year whilst in syria on a mission to help refugees. he convert today islam and also uses the name abdul. we can go live now to the united states and washington, d.c., and

talk to our correspondent there, kimberly how connection. the white how was quite quick to react to this video that was circulate on this internet. >> reporter: indeed, we know president obama was briefed bice had i national security adviser susan rice weiss while he feels travel on route leaving the g20 summit australia on his way to hawaii and then will be traveling to the use. we know he was briefed we have a statement from bernadette the spokeswomen. she says:

>> reporter: and i can tell you that right now what is likely happening is that the u.s. intelligence community is examining that video very carefully. not just for its authenticity, but also to determine whether some of the threats that were made in it with respect to u.s. sicitizens are in fact cred immaterial. >> what have we heard from the family, kimberly? it wasn't that long ago that we heard very poignant appeals from peter's mother to pair his life. have they reacted at all je yet? >> reporter: they reaction the quickly as we. again, they are also awaiting confirmation of the authenticity of this video that has been lease odd social media. obviously deeply concerned and until that time that they have sort of definite news they have been requesting that the media respect their privacy. but another thing they have also been requesting, which is very important, something that we have respected here at al jazerra, is the fact that they are asking that networks refrain from broadcasting any of the pictures or any of the video

that has been released by isil. in fax, what they are sayin facy hope the media will avoid playing in to the hostage taker's hands. they want their son to be remembered for his work as a humanitarian. he was a soldier in the iraq war in 2007. he returned to run his own aid relief agency. and it was then that he was captured, that is how his family would like him to be remembered. as someone who repped victim hef war. kimberly live from washington, d.c. series of bomb explosions in iraq killed at least five people. seven wounded. the first blast happened near a police station southwest of baghdad. also a roadside bombing and an explosion at an airport checkpoint. in somalia a senior airport official has been targeted by a car bomb explosion. one person killed and several others injured by the blast on a busy road in the capital

mogadishu. it's not known if the official is among the casualties. no one has yet claimed responsibility. egypt's armed forces say they have killed 13 fighters in northern sinai. as part of their campaign against rebels. and this comes as within of the groups operating there pledged allegiance to the eye islamic state of of iraq and levant. here say report. >> reporter: to a backdrop of music the egyptian army showcases its might. in a video broadcast on state television late on state tv saturday. the military showing several operations carried out in the sinai peninsula. it was released hours after isil released one of their own on the internet. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: on friday evening, the group post third degree video online. footage of an attack on army positions in sinai which killed

over 30 soldiers last month. the group showed grew shim questions of soldiers being blind fielded and shot in the back of the head. insisting that it was fighting the army in self-defense. al jazerra cannot independently verify this footage. for weeks now, the egyptian army has been demolishing houses and forcibly removing people from their homes in sinai. the government says it needs to create a buffer zone on its board we are gaza and israel to combat what it calls terrorism. >> translator: we have warned you time and again but you do not listen. you killed our women and children. bombed our homes and continue to expel us from our land and despite what we have inflicted on you in this attack, we testimony you the war is yet to begin. >> reporter: the army's video too, showed blindfolded men being taken away with the military saying it had called 10 so-called terrorists. proof that the egypt government

was putting use the american helicopters it values so much. this showing a house being targeted by the aircraft. all of this was accompanied by a warning. >> translator: we will target anyone who even thinks of tacking the egyptian people. >> reporter: shortly after the july 3rd could you abdel fattah sisi asked them to help him combat violence. but since he became president it appears violence across egypt, particularly in sinai, has only increased. and after the release of these two videos, it seems that the conflict is not only armed, but that it involves a great deal of propaganda too. al jazerra. now, isil has been add today a new list of 80 terrorist organizations announced by the united arab emirates. the uae federation is also reinforcing its anti-terrorism laws. its updated list also includes al qaeda, boc boko haram, houthi

rebels in yemen and the uae based branch of the muslim brothebrotherhood. another organization on the list and we can now talk to its found irrelevant and chief executive. thank you for talking to us here at al jazerra. you are on a list with isil and boko haram. is there any explain identification that? >> no. you would have to ask the people who authored this particular report. and who compiled the listment in a sense it's beyond ludicrous to be honest. not only our foundation but organizations such as islamic relief worldwide which is one of nine british organizations on the disaster emergency committee, care, for instance, who represents more than 10 million muslims in north america. representing their civil rights and liberties. and various other organizations, you know, across europe who are basically involved in education and training and youth work,

women work and the such. all on this list, a long side as you put it, isil, boko haram, al qaeda and various others. it's beyond ludicrous in a sense. it's almost laughable had it not been quite a serious allegations. >> you are actually based -- >> reporter: quite a serious charge brought against these organizations. >> you are based in london, your foundation and your mission statement, as it appears, is to promote interface dialogue. -- inter faith dialogue and to improve the relationship between europe i understand it. that has caused alarm hasn't it amongst the british establish. dave david cameron himself described your organization as a front for the muslim brotherhood. >> well, at the time when david cameron made his statement in 2009, he wasn't prime minister then, he was leader of the opposition, since them we have written to him three or four times directly saying could you please provide whatever evidence that you have for what you said

under parliamentary privileges and each and every time he decline today do so. so from our point of view to be honest we tried our best to find out exactly what david cameron was meaning and we failed because hasn't been forthcoming. besides that point, i think that, you know, people's ethos and track record should speak for itself ours in terms of hostage negotiations that we have done, we have released dozens of hostages from around the world, mostly nonmuslims by the way. we have been involved in peace negotiations and talks in shri lanka and malaysia and the philippines and a is contract world. international organizations attest to our work. but the foundation is one of, you know, more than 75 to 80 organizations who abhor violence, who detest violence who, have spoken about peaceful negotiations and peaceful reconciliation and about bringing young muslims and the youngsters generally from the brink of extremism and violence whenever it may be around the world. >> so how does -- >> so for the united arab

emirates to create this list, lumping those who abhor violence with those that actually live and thrive on violence is ludicrous. >> how do you account for all of the suspicion that you seem to attract? you have been -- it's alleged that you have justified the killing of british soldiers and you are calling for democracy to be replaced by sharee a o a. >> i don't know i don't know request you got that, that's very poor research -- >> that's from the british newspaper the daily telegraph. >> there you go, you have just just quoted a newspaper which is on the same lines that david cameron quoted in no 2,009. never mind. >> so. [ inaudible ] [speaking at the same time] >> you are saying this is just made up it's a fantasy made up. [speaking at the same time] >> political agenda against you. >> the united arab emirates has clearly over the past two, three years proved itself to be an anti democratic force in the

regis, it has supported the mill terrell coup in egypt. the attacks, the attacks in libya. it's taken upon itself to stand by the freedoms and wills and democracies of the world of i, for one, because i and my organization we were pro-democracy, pro reform, we were pro, you know, creating a new reality foot arab world we seem to have irked the united arab emirates. to be honest if that is their problem, so be it. we are route and honored to be in that position, to be standing diametrically. >> you also seem to have irked the hsbc bank who closed your account saying they were not prepared to engage in transactions with you because it was beyond their appetite for risk. >> and so was my 12-year-old son, which i am pretty sure doesn't really understand the concept of political islam. you see, what you are doing is

you are providing evidence for the fact that you know, there is no explanation. hsbc did not explain to me or to anyone else why it closed down my accounts, as it did to various other charitable organizations and organizations that have won awards on a national level since then. it hasn't explained itself. so rather than take the position of a bank which was parts of an economic crisis, the calamity of which and the size of which the world never saw or hasn't seen in recent times, rather than stand on its side i think i should be -- i should get a little bit of slack here and have someone stand on the side of me as a customer and a consume every of financial services. i think what we have here is the question of whether we want reform, whether we want democracy, whether we want the freedom of the people or whether we want to adopt and apply and accept the position of a government like the uae who has proven not only anti-democratic within its own borders but gone way, way i don't understand, reached as far as to lip

libya,-y equipment and also tried to sway, you know, and twist the arms of governments such as britain, european governments and the united states in order to criminal aize democratic, essentially democratic parties and islamic movements. >> chief executive of the foundation, thank you very much indeed for talking to us here at al jazerra. internally displaced people in libya are in desperate needs of food, water and healthcare. the fighting has been forcing thousands from their homes, new figures from the u.n. refugee agency suggest more than 100,000 have been displaced in the past month alone. half from about ben gaza. thousands have fled from the east and the west. >> it is extremely difficult. people are spread out across 35 towns and cities around the country and in need of help where fighting going on.

you have civilian populations offense being indiscriminately targeted and makes it a tough job to get humanitarian help to them. we have had convoys going in in august and september, those bringing in supplies for about two months worth of help for a number of thousands of people, but really it's still a drop in the ocean. we are trying to keep in contact with people through social media, through other means, through the local community through partners there. but this is an incredible difficult situation at the moment and really eye cries toys some extends is being overlooked. now al jazerra is continues to go demand the release of our three journalist who his have now been jailed in egypt for 323 days. peter greste, ma ham are ham he had fahmy and bahar mohamed are wrongly accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood and are appealing against their convictions fahmy and greste each stepsed to seven years in prison, mohamed got an extra three years because he had a

bullet on on him which he picked up in a frost. still to come on this news hour, cash machines are empty in eastern ukraine as the buck stopped with the self declared government of donetsk. plus. >> the name given for roman yaps political favorite. find out how costly this missed putt was at the turkish open. the nigerian military has recaptured the northern town of this bochibok from boko haram fs remember the rebel group wants to establish an islamic state in northern nigeria, we can talked to our correspond he had ahmed i had his live in a puke a.

abuja. tell us more about the operation that allowed the nigerian security force to his retake chibok. because it was only a couple of days ago that boko haram announced that they had seized it. >> reporter: absolutely. it was a joint operation between the nigerian security forces and local that his included vigilantes and hunters with their own coup weapons t took these group of people to chase boko haram out of chibok. now the town? the hands of security forces. it's still not very safe for civilians who fled the vie longer thousands of them to return back to chibok or rather they are staying put in neighboring villages and towns especially the town just some 20 or 30-kilometer as way from chibok. >> and it's underlining, i guess being isn't it, the fact boko haram appear to be able to move and strike and take territory at will.

>> reporter: absolutely they have been able to move from one location to another. they have attacked a village for three consecutive times and then move away. and over a period of four, five months now, they will attack a village or a town and hold it for a long period of time before they are being chased out by locals or security forces. over the last three months or so, we have seen them capture a lot of territory from nigerian security forces and they are still holding some of them. >> this does amount to the most serious security challenge facing nigeria, doesn't it, for many decades? >> reporter: absolutely. this is one of the biggest challenges 2450eu year knee yer faced. it no violence has captured the imagination, sort of scared so many nigerians out of their wits

who held the government for ram storm for a very long time. apart from the northeast boko haram was also able to attack several states in nigeria including abuja where they killed hundreds of people in the nigerian capital. >> ahmad i had riz in a pwaoupbl, a thank you very much. as he was alluding to, people in not just chibok other parts of the country as well are living in fear. those have accused government soldiers of not doing enough to protect them. victoria reports now. >> reporter: in when boko haram taxed attacked last week, people expected the army to protect them. instead they say the soldiers stationed there abandoned them. >> we managed to get to get and saw some soldiers and thought they were brave but when the sound of the guns got closer

they jumped in to their vehicles and left us behind. >> reporter: in school which fighters attacked the up to, he was injured but managed to escape. some of his friends were killed. >> i feel very bad about it because my ambition and studies were stopped because all of these things that have happened. all these people were killed make me scared. >> reporter: thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes because of the fighting. these families travel to the capital abuja where they will wait until it's safe to go home. the town of chibok is a christian enclave in the mainly muslim north of nigh year i can't and it's been attacked moan times before. in april boko haram abduct the more than 270 school girls, most of them christian some escaped but 219 are still being held by the group. many people have little faith in the army especially after the latest attack in chibok.

>> we just hear gunshots all over. when i went out i see soldiers who are running. no, you cannot control yourself. >> reporter: the army recently announced a ceasefire with boko haram, which the group says it never agreed to. so for people in chibok the chaos and violence continues. victoria, al jazerra. now, lead nurse burkina faso have picked four candidates as their top choices for interim president. electoral college's decision will be announced on monday morning. the army seized power last month after the departure of the long-time ruler. a report reports a power transition agreement has been signed in the capital. >> reporter: it's an old building built in 1963 and people wanted a signing ceremony here because it's an historic moment showing the army handing overpower to a civilian government. there are four names being turned around at the moment as to who can take over as the interim president for a year.

civil saturday groups and the i'm want the archbishopping a catholic he says he's not keen on leaching the church, if he says no, other names on the list two, journal assists example. opposition and civil saturday wants one of two journal assists that were critical against the president's regime. the army wants the minister of the government between 1984 and 198070 she fled the country. the army has told people they should expect the new civilian leader to be named at leastest manned. vladimir putin made an early exit from the g20 summit in australia brushing off suggestions that he felt pressured by other world leaders. president obama had warned russia of further isolation because of the conflict in ukraine. but leaders were in more harmony about boosting the global economy as scott reports from brisbane. >> reporter: at the understand of the two days, an ambitious

plan was announced. one to boost the global economy by my by $2 trillion, this will happen by increasing trade spin vesting in infrastructure. >> this year the government 20 has delivered real practical outcomes. this year culminate in this last 48 hours people right around the world are going to be better off and that's what it's all about. >> reporter: the prime minister had said climate change would not be discussed but it made its way in to the plan. prime minister abbott stuck to his one promise that the official communique would only be three pages long. but some feel what's in this document is going to be very difficult to implement. >> it's not a particularly actionable document. if you have to stuff everything in to an arbitrary three marriages you say everything in generality. >> reporter: but with the leaders of the world's most powerful countries under one

roof. gio politics entered the conversation and at times overshadowed it. russia's involvement in ukraine was condemned. >> as a consequence we will continue to maintain the economic mile maintaining the possibility. a diplomatic solution. it's not our presence to see russia the way it was. >> reporter: but the much talked about confrontation between abbott and putin never happened. >> the ukrainian situation in nigh view has a good chance of a rez like, no matter how change it may sound. the sanctions hurt both who they are impose odd and those who impose them. >> reporter: late in the day the leaders departed for their countries each with their unique challenges and each with the alcohol challenge of selling these g20 tkwrodz their domestic partners. the ukrainian president petro pour shank ho has cut government funding to rebel-held

areas in the east. now state companies and organizations and institutions will be closed within a week and also banking services will be affected. and as hairy now report harry rm donetsk, locals are afraid their already hard lives will get worse. >> reporter: they gathered at the one cash source that has been reliable but a day after the president's decree there is no money to be had. trash the banks were empty on a sunday, it doesn't give out money so there is none. >> reporter: she works for the state-run water company, she hasn't been paid for three months and isn't sure what to expect now that the buck stops officially with the self-declared government of donetsk. >> i hope they'll helpful i would like them to. they are our authorities and this is our city. yes, i think so, they have to. they promised. but really, i don't know. >> reporter: at a suburban super

mark part i've chain based in western ukraine, bank workers took away the credit card terminals on thursday. for now business goes okay but the bosses here don't know what to expect in the coming days. business as cross eastern ukraine, the management here have two key concerns whether they will continue to get access to goods from the west of the country, and whether their customers filed it ever most difficult to get access to cash to pay for them. one question now, the extent onto which russia will step in. more russian aid has been arriving through sunday, much of this convoy made up of parts and terms to repair the infrastructure as winter sets in. >> we hope russia won't forget us, they are our brothers human humanitarian aid is crit. we need medical supplies and food. the situation remains unchanged the country at war and the economy is destroyed. >> reporter: renewing his appeal for russian help to take more

territory. ukraine and nato say moscow has been sending troops as well assayed asassayed across the bo. it could soon be replaced by open widespread conflict. >> a new video released showing the moments after mh17 went down. these were from a cell phone. where most of the plane's wedge wreckage slow indicated. all 298 passengers and crew aboard died when mh17 crashed in july. ukraine and russia blame each other for shooting the plane down. the first sections of the wreckage have now been removed from the site. there has been difficulty accessing the area because of the continues fighting between government troops and pro-russia separatists. the wreckage will be taken to the next land for the investigate. still to come, desperate to find a new home in italy, the orphans of african refugees

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now let's have a look at some of our other top stories now. isil fighters have shot at least 13 men for apparenting collaborating with the syrian regime. and a new isil video appears to show the beheading of at least 12 syrian soldiers, and the u.s. hostage peter kassig. peter kassig was an aid worker in syria when he was kidnapped by isil last year. he also helped syrian refugees in lebanon. his former colleagues have tried and failed to convince isil to spare his life. zeina reports they are not shocked by isil's latest murder. >> reporter: he helped save the lives of syrians wounded in the war. that is what peter kassig was doing in lebanon for about a year before he decided to help those living inside syria. he left in october 2013, only to be captured by the islamic state

of iraq and the los angeles srafpblts a week ago his friends in the northern city of tripoli added their voice to an international campylobacters to persuade isil to release him. they were hoping that party who convert today islam in captivity would have helped spare his life. even his close friend who was a syrian from homs had hope. but now he is lost for words. >> what i should say to his family, that we are sorry, for your son dieing in my country. and once he came to my country to help my people and to kill him people say that we -- who kill them, they say they protect islam. i don't know. they are not even muslim. >> reporter: this was just one of the many clinics where kassig treated patients. while in lebanon peter volunteered with humanitarian workers. they used the media ya to try to tell peter's captors about how he helped the syrian people.

it didn't do anything. and the beheading video, a masked man didn't refer to party as an aid worker, he identified him a as a u.s. soldier. this didn't syrian active shifts some news kassig well. those who didn't know what he did for their revolution. they believe it makes no difference for isil if a person is a charity worker or not. >> translator: they are doing this to muslims. they kill anyone they feel is against them. not just americans. most likely they would kill me as well. they are giving a bad image of islam. >> reporter: cass kassig was a former soldier but that is not how he will be remembered by his family and friends. >> at early age our son was inspired by his grandfather to do humanitarian work when he saw the suffering of the syrian people went to turkey and founded an organization to provide aid and assistance. >> reporter: kassig was not the first western captive to be murdered. there were four others before him. but unlike in their videos,

kassig didn't speak. and isil showed what appeared to be a mass beheading of at least a dozen syrian soldiers as well. this is a group the united nations has accused of committing war crimes in areas under its control. kassig and the soldiers are unlikely to be the last victims. zeina, al jazerra, northern lebanon. on, we can talk to juan cole who is a professor of history at the university of michigan joining us live from ann arbor in michigan. thank you for talking to us. so a grim day, another grim day for yet another american hostage. the hope is, isil hopes they can change american policy towards it in particular the air strikes, of course, that have been targeting it in both iraq and syria. is it likely to have any impact upon american policy? >> oh, no. in fact, i believe this barbaric act was an attempt to change the conversation in the region to

make them look bigger than they are. isil is facing many setbacks, they just lost a major refinery town in iraq, its leader was wounded by a u.s. air strike. it's being pushed back. it lost the sunni town in iraq. so on many front there is very bad news for this organization. and i think they are trying to make themselves look 10 feet tall again. >> so in western capitals, despite this terrible, grim news of this brutal act, western capitals should be feeling fairly content that this is revealing that they are having a certain amount of success in terms of driving back isil and at least preventing it from expanding still further. >> oh, absolutely. i think this is the action of a cornered rat.

and they -- you know, murdering someone is not that hard. grabing him off the street and killing him any 2-bit thug can do that. it's not a sign of a powerful organization. this is the kind of behavior in group engages in and they publicize it, they do it for psychological reasons to make themselves look more important than they really are. >> they might have lost some ground in beiji, close to the very important oil refinery but still hold mosul some people are suggesting that the receipt battle will take place in mows suggest. thamosul. is that something that you agree with? >> absolutely. the people of mosul have made a very bad deal. they felt oppressed by the baghdad largely shiite government, and they made ideal with isil to oppose that

government jointly, but it's going to end very badly. there is going -- now the pentagon is planning a spring campaign going north. and beiji, which isil just lost is on the way to mosul. >> and the air strikes, okay, are having an impact, a positive impact as far as the western allies are concerned. but what about the muddle, because there is a policy muddle in terms of what to do about is al jazerra sawed, president assad in syria. is this something that is really going to have to be explored? because, of course, congress is asking questions probing questions about what a longer term american policy is in terms of fighting isil? >> oh, absolutely. the way the administration has put this campaign together has created many contradictions. the u.s. is now helping to destroy isil in syria.

it's very difficult to avoid the bashar al-assad regime being the one that picks up those pieces. president obama has just said at the g20 summit he doesn't than too happen. the u.s. does want to try to train free syrian army moderates they call them, but that will happen. and in the short-term the duh mat cuss regime seems to have the momentum back and may take aleppo. it may be difficult for the u.s. to field a force that can challenge it at the end of the day. >> juan cole, thank you very much indeed for talking to us here at al jazerra. thank you. now, thousands more north african migrants have been trying to get to europe by boat over this weekend. many of them have been rescued. and that includes more than 200 who were packed onto a small wooden vessel just off the coast

of libya. they were fortunate and picked up by a portuguese ship and then taken to the italian island of sicily. this was the first rescue as part i've new european operation called triton. 19 even u. countries are contributing after italy asked for help. among those rescued are orphans children. but where to house them? that's always the problem. some italian families are willing to give them a home, but as sue reports, they are being stopped often by bureaucracy. >> reporter: a kick about between game bee, a senegal, began, a nigeria and egypt. all these youngsters made the crossing from africa without parents or relatives. all are hoping to be fostered by italian families. all of his family were killed in ethnic fighting in ghana. he fled to lip i can't but was rounded up and forced to get on a boat. he didn't know where it was going or if he would survive. how many people on the vote.

>> 120 pima on the boat crammed in. >> reporter: so he didn't. >> we didn't know anything. we started going until morning. i saw myself in the milled of the sea. i say god, is this how i am going to end my life? i think i am both to die. >> reporter: he is there senegal and came over on a boat carrying 740 passengers. and he says over 100 were killed on board by the traffickers. he was beaten and put in hospital after being rescued. both his parents are dead. and he's debts pratt to find a family to live with. >> i told them i want family. because i cannot live without family. if i -- like if i want to be happy, i want family. when i see people they are smiling, i feel sad. i really feel sad because i miss my own family. >> reporter: over 1300 unaccompanied minors have arrived on italy's shores this year, over 3,000 have since disappeared. it's feared many have been

forced in to prostitution or slave labor. this center has been home to 100 aged between 15 and 18. but promised funding from the interior ministry has failed to arrive. and it's being forced to close next tuesday. >> translator: for 11 months we have provide for these youngsters without getting a single euro, we cannot do this anymore. we have provide for them to give them back the dignity that no one else has given them. >> reporter: thousands of people are still trying to cross the mediterranean to get here to europe from north africa just this week. this merchant vessel has just saved 200 eritreans so mall januaries and libyans. now many italian families are saying they want to take care of some of the most vulnerable the unaccompanied children. but italian bureaucracy stopping that happening to all but just a few. >> translator: these kids are like us, they need to be in a family. if there is a family that is prepared to foster a child, they should speak up the bureaucracy.

>> reporter: for many of these youngsters, this house is the first time they have felt safe since fleeing their own country. now they just want to start a normal life with a family to call their own. sue, al jazerra. romania's presidential run off is underway with voters choosing between their current prime minister and a city mayor. the winner will replace the president, who is stepping down after 10 years in office. julie mcdonald reports. >> reporter: it was a family affair as romania's presidential favorite victor cost his vote in the hotly contested presidential runoff. this is the second round of votes with support at 54% according to polls. mick named pugnacious, political experience, steering a strengthening economy and support from the influential orthodox church weigh heavily in

his favor. >> translator: today i voted for a strong romania, defined by respect and prosperity. >> reporter: his opponent, clause, mayor of the city took 30% of the vote in the first round. but as a mechanic of romania's ethnic german minority, he has faced accusations of being an outsider. >> translator: today i voted so that all of our mothers and grandparents can live in a better country where we can take care of them. >> reporter: the push to be the candidate for change, promising to smash corruption and strengthen the judiciary something his supporter applaud. >> translator: i would expect more democracy and less corruption. >> translator: i don't care if it's the first, second, or third rounds of elections, i expect nothing to change. >> reporter: but rather than poll at thises i it's turn out that could that ward the

presidential ambitions. voting from a distance, 3 million favored the challenger in the first ballot. this time around, they have the potential to back him again. the election campaign was marred by scandal as the prime minister and his aids fought off corruption charges that the ruling party is trying to fix the elections. whoever wins, though, will grapple with pressing issues. at home recessions lingers and action sanctions of good govern's and corruption refuse to budge. julie mcdonald, al jazerra. now, 50 days since protesters first occupied main roads in hong kong, student leaders have so far failed to force the chinese government to allow fully-free elections for hong kong's next leader. but as this report says protesters are determined to keep up their fight. >> reporter: everybody in their sleep, they are making a statement. they have given up their homes and taken up residents in what used to be some hong kong's

busiest roads. living on the streets has become a way of life for these froste frosters -- protesters who are demands being the right to freely choose their next leader. this student has suspended studies in the united states to protect the pair guys. >> i want the government to answer our needs and i have did us the right to nominate our chief executive and they will accept our need for democracy. >> reporter: the protesters want beijing to revoke its decision to vet the candidates for hong kong's 2017 elections to choose its chief executive. but the hong kong government and the leads nurse china have made it clear that won't happen. >> hopefully beijing will at a later time give us some positive response. for the time being, there is no fixed plan for him exit as yet. >> reporter: the government and the protesters are at an impasse

so now it's been left to the public to take the initiative to clear some of the protest sites. for instance the managers of this building have obtained a court order and they can and police to remove any obstacles from the surrounding areas be it barricades or protesters. and if they resist they can be arrested. and also, in the other main protest site police may be ca you would to take action soon, taxi and bus drivers have been granted an injection, they say the blockade is affecting their business. he gave up his job an an english feature and now lives on hands outs and gives free language lessons to his fellow occuppers. >> if they use, i don't know, guns, violence, we will leave. but we will come back. >> reporter: sending a clear message that just removing barricades will not silence the protesters' demands for democracy. al jazerra, hong kong. still to come on the news hour, wife roger federer has had

to say an early goodbye at the world tour finals. als.

the number one child killer global lie li is pneumonia. with india topping that list. and as winter approaches there is fear the infection will spread fast. doctors are battling an infection increasingly become resistance to antibiotics. >> reporter: for the past 14 days, two-year-old has been battling pneumonia.

it's a disease that young lungs like his are particularly susceptible to. >> just start regular covering, you know, cold, got a fever. but the cough didn't go. that's when the. [ inaudible ] started. >> reporter: he is receiving armed the clock care for severe pneumonia. it will be at least one week before he's healthy enough to go home. but he's one of the lucky ones. only a fraction of indian children diagnosed with pneumonia receive specialized hospital treatment. health agencies say 50% of the world's child pneumonia deaths happen here. pediatrician has been treating young children for illnesses like pneumonia for 30 years. he says the number of cases of pneumonia have increased as it's a main cure has become less effective. >> the most dangerous part of the whole thing is that resistence to the antibiotics that we use is developing.

so a fear that infection at thome a child later on the first antibiotic we gave it works, but now many of those are resistent. >> reporter: community vaccination drives to did he leases like measles which has been a precurse tore pneumonia have hemmed improve the health of millions of children in india. but pediatricians meeting in new delhi say that containing the respiratory disease in the same way the country has curbed fatal cases of diary reed is a complex challenge. >> you need to strengthen the nutritional base of the population. starting right from the mothers who are pregnant. them to the newborns and the under five. nutrition is a major factor which makes pneumonia worse in these children. >> reporter: his body is fighting back against what many describe as one of india's biggest health challenges. and while he's on the mend, his doctors want to make sure that children like him don't end up

here in the first place. al jazerra. new delhi. now, andy ia here and he has some very interesting 10 i news. >> yes, and bad news for anyone who made it down to the o two in london. in the last hour roger federer has been forced to withdraw from the final match of men's tennis season. >> injury ruling him out of the title match at the world tour final. saturday federer came through a grueling final here which saw federer saving four match points. since then the world number two has announced he isn't match fit due to a back problem. and that means job s djokovic ie winner of this tournament. the pressure looks to be easing now, the team heading for a big win against lated via in euro 2016 qualifying. the 68-year-old's second spell on the job hasn't started well with three loss in four games, but the world cup semifinal assists are doing okay tonight

they are six up against lat villa. iceland and the czech republic play later will stay ahead of the dutch, though, in group "a." four games in all coming to you full times wales with the surprise group "b" leaders going against belgium. they could be about to pick up another really important point in brussels, nil-flip the latest score there. the game between it's lay li and croatia is is to said despite heavy rain that caused prematch to be can seemed both sides have perfect records going in to the group "h" game. italy will be without mario balotelli he's already back with liverpool after injuring a hamstring in training. won the turkish open his first ever routine time the american hit a final round of 65 to move to 17 under par overall. ian powell ter had a 6-shot lead at the halfway stage had this chance to take the tournament in for a playoff. but he missed it. and that handed the title by a

single shot. the win means he finishes the year inside the world's top 50 and now automatically qualifies for the first major of next season, that is the masters. >> it's nice to do it's a quality field. great tournament and an unbelievable field and to on it here specials ha especially. >> it's frustrating no. other word for it. i will be ainge rail for a good few days, that's fine, i will keep myself in my own room and have a little chat with myself and come out and win next week. the world's squash championship staking place in qatar this week. egyptian players will once again be his fiercest rivals. >> reporter: egyptian is squash's number world number one. last month he claimed the u.s.

open title, he's now trying to win the world championship for the first time in doug doha. six of the last 11 world champions have been from egypt. >> it's an unbelievable feeling getting that world number one spot that's for sure. you train our your life to get to that spot. you want don't want that too fool you because you want to not just protect it, you want to stretch it from the other players, you want to stay there for as long as you can. >> reporter: the 23-year-old has twice been crowned world junior champion. in fact every year between 2004 and 2013 that event has been won by an egyptian. that includes mohamed's younger brother, for the last eight years they have been training in england. as he is concerned about egypt's position as a squash super power. >> the juniors are coming up from egypt are not the same level as before. i think in 20 years time, i think the squash won't be as successful as it is right now in

egypt. like income 20 fourteener the world junior champion is from peru. it's not even -- we only have one egyptian reaching the same finals. >> reporter: so which countries could take over their crown in could they problem the middl? entering this vents as a wildcard. >> the arab countries, the egyptians are a bit like -- they have lots of players and lots of competition going on in egypt. them i being kuwait has a team like for ages, they have been working hard and they have lots of players. and then i think we come up. >> reporter: coached by four-time world champion jeff hunt. the squash legend believe more countries are starting to compete at the highest level. >> in the last number of years, france hat got very stopping, and has good players, malaysia is developing good players, hong kong in men's and women's

squash, india, you know, so some of the traditional countries are doing well but expanding throughout. >> reporter: a record tenney descriptions are through to the second round of the world championship. showing once again egyptian players are the ones to beat. richard parr, al jazerra, doha. you can of course check out all the latest sports on our website there. aljazerra.com/sport. more on the news that roger federer has had to pull out of the world tour finals. giving you some latest scores from the euro 2016 qualifying. belgium and wales has finish nil-nil. wales attempting to qualify for their first tournament since 1958 and are top of group "b" for now. israel, bosnia the other game in group "b." israel is will have the chance to go above wales. weather lance versus lad via finish 6-0. that is your sport for now. >> andy, thank you very much indeed. barbara will take you through the next couple of hour here at al jazerra with all the day's breaking news.

rav releasing a video show the murder of u.s. aid worker pete he go kassig, isil killed 13 syrians accused of collaborating with the government. ♪ ♪ hello there, i am barbara, you are watching al jazerra live from london. also coming up on the program. another bombing in nigeria as the army says it's retaken the counsel of chibok from boko haram. new footage emerges of the moment after a malaysia airlines flight crashed in eastern ukraine. and the south korean buyer snaps up napoleon's famous hat