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and judo, the philippines are showing off their skills. ♪ the clock is ticking but diplomates trying to remain confident about an agreement over iran's nuclear program and major world powers and tie ran have until midnight local time to strike a deal with talks in vienna and it's one of the most controversial issues for the west and the last couple years the diplomacy has been nonstop. looking back two years ago to may 2012 negotiates fell apart and increased sanctions against iran and fell 40% and they agreed iran could enrich uranium to 20% and u.s. president barack obama spoken the phone to the

new president and it was the first call between the two leaders of the country since 1979. talks finally led to a breakthrough, a deal that would temporarily freeze the nuclear program and the next was a comprehensive accord, between july and november 2014 that has not been easy, july deadline passed and nuclear negotiations are hours away from another deadline. and jena hall is there and where are we with these negotiations? >> reporter: well, as you say of course they are in the final day of these talks now, nine months of negotiations this has been that began after that interim agreement was struck in geneva and john kerry has met with the counterpart and the last of foreign ministers to join the talks and mr. kerry will shortly

be face-to-face again with the iranian foreign minister for their second bilateral meeting of these talks. after that during the course of the morning the p 5 plus 1 ministers the six international powers will sit together be be joined later by mr. zariff and it's part of what uk foreign secretary phillip hammond described as a final push for a deal. >> we are focused on the last push, big push tomorrow morning to try and get this across the line. of course if we are not able to do it we will look where we go from there and at the moment they are trying to look at how we will bridge the gap and move things forward with iranians. >> western diplomates and negotiators briefing the media on this and a full and comprehensive deal may not be possible but say failure is not

an option because consequences of failure for stability in the middle east. >> reporter: looking ahoed, whoo -- what are the options now? >> a number present themselves and these talks go into extra talks, a day or two if it will give them a crucial few hours more or could go in a formal period of extension or a few months and happened before and negotiators go on and carry on touk before coming back at some future point but i think what is crucial is nobody wants to leave these talks with nothing so short of a comprehensive deal they may be working towards a framework agreement, one that codifies all the work and agreements that have come up to now with final details to be resolved and less ambitious may be a political statement of some sort and one that doesn't necessarily resolve anything but

pledges political will to keep talking and the nightmare scenario is a total collapse of talks but no one is suggesting that. >> we are in vienna there and we go on with an iranian journalist and political analyst and joins us from tehran and correspondent there saying no one wants to leave this meeting without something, what do you think is going to happen? do you think a deal is still likely or do you think we will see something a little less than that? >> well, these are very key sensitive times in iranian history and iranian politics and obviously iran wants a deal and america also wants a deal but that is not going to happen today or tomorrow and i don't they will be the case. what they will do i think is they will agree to continue talks or keep what they have achieved on the way it is intact because america wants to tell the congress they have to stop the program from further

progress and wants to tell the iranian people and voters they have stopped in position of further sanctions and unfortunately we know they have imposed some sanctions but not as hard as that and today or tomorrow doesn't make a difference because it's too little too late and we should have the deal two years ago and when it wasn't destroyed by israel and when we had a good country called syria and no talk of isil and now it's too late and i don't think it will change the situation for the iranian economy and it will not change security matters in places like iraq and syria so it's too little too late. let's not put too much hope on this. >> if there is another round of talk, there are still big gaps remaining as you have rightly pointed out iranians want the sanctions lifted and fast and the west wants iran eastern

richment capabilities reduced. how do you resolve those issues? >> we are not going to resolve anything. listen, we have a couple of negotiators that have come from new york, they think they can understand the language of the americans which is fine. we respect that. we appreciate their efforts but the thing is if we wanted to resolve our problems with america at least america we should have done it in the past 35 years. this hostility has been going on for the past 35 years and it's not going to be resolved in 35 days, no matter what the new government has to say to us or to the rest of the international community think about it, it is wrong just to look at the americans and talk to them only. it is wrong just to think that this is a bit of the art on americans and it is not, it's within five or six countries and should treat each equally and the government has a terrible mistake to give impression this is about us and americans and giving them too much room to

monday ver and it's wrong. >> what about the feeling within iran and we seen protests today from students who are against these talks. is there a split in opinion in iran over these talks? >> very important and key question. i think not even one person of the population has put any hope whatsoever on the talks or the results of the talks. i told you, this deal, if it is on the table, if it comes tomorrow or today, it's too little, too late. not even 1% of the population says this deal will resolve our problems because we have serious problems in the economy that runs deep into the government bodies and organization. this is not about america in iran. it's about a dysfunctional economy that is a little bit corruption for the past 35 years or so and it's not going to go away overnight. iranians don't have any hope that the situation is going to

get better by tomorrow afternoon or a couple of days from now because think about it, even if there is a deal america is not going to commit it, we have al jazeera court 30 years ago, 35 years ago and it was supposed to relieve iranian assets and didn't do that now we have over $100 billion in frozen assets in western banks and they are simply refusing to release them on top of the ones that we have 35 years ago. so even if america says that, yes, this is your deal, please take it home and show it to the rest of your people they are not going to implement it. why? because they don't have a final say in implementation and they are not going to commit themselves because americans cannot be trusted, the power doesn't rest on the shoulders of obama administration and it's within the american corridors like congress and it's a still

born child, even if there is a deal it's a still born child and will not result on anything whatsoever. >> good to have you on the show, live there from tehran. >> nato says two servicemen killed in an attack in the afghan capitol kabul, a bomb attached to a cycle exploded near a military convoy, a separate attack in eastern afghanistan has now risen to 61, suicide bomber targeted spak staspak -- spectators at a volley ball game and we are in kabul and join us there now and charles give us more information if you can about this bombing in the provin province. >> well, it has been almost 24 hours now since that suicide attack in the province and literally been in the last few minutes that the afghan intelligence services here have released a statement.

they are blaming the ikani network for the attack. obviously we have not had any admission of responsibility up to this point so afghan security networks saying they are blaming the group and what do we know about them? they are based in pakistan on the eastern borders there and operate across the borders and they have strong affiliation and strong ties with both the taliban and al-qaeda and launched some of the most devastating attacks in the resent years and the attack on u.s. embassy in 2011 and described them as resilient of the armed groups working inside afghanistan, afghan government made repeated appeals to the pakistani government for them to crack down and do their part on their side of the border but seems certainly as if they are very strong and very effective if indeed they did commit this

attack yesterday. >> charles thanks for the update, charles in kabul there. kurdish forces backed by iraqi troops and sierra troops have taken the town northeast of baghdad. >> kurdish pershmerga fighters are celebrating gaining two towns 70 miless northeast of baghdad and isil had a stronghold and iraqi forces say on sunday they bombed isil position and carried out ground offensive looking for explosives that isil may have planned as they fled. >> translator: our forces managed to enter and free the entire area. >> reporter: army official says about 50 is i l fighters out of a group of 400 may have been killed and at least 23 pershmerga fighters died and isil controlled the two towns

for months and many residents already escaped violence and among a ring of towns they controlled around baghdad and yet to advance in the shiite capital. >> we want support of iraq and forces and now both these towns are under total control. >> reporter: regaining the towns may allow a road to be reopened between baghdad and iranian border and also could be the influence in the deali province, i'm with al jazeera. thousands of foreigners reportedly joined isil fighters in iraq and syria and joining the battle against the group and harry smith has more. >> reporter: no one knows for sure just how many western volunteers have joined the fight against isil but as the battle

rages in the town of kobani across the tushish border evidence suggests the numbers may be growing. and posted on social media such as this one showing an american by the name of jordan matson on the left and britain called jimmy reed both said to be fighting on kurdish defense units the wpg and matson believed to lead the recreating operation, the off shoot of ypg and he gives address in a town of scotland says he trained with the french army before leaving for sit yeah and another citizen says he was recruited by matson is james hughs who says he is a former british infantry soldier and those familiar with the radicalzation of young westerners say there may be many reasons they are drawn to war.

>> isil has an appeal to a certain set of extremists and promises eutopia and very attractive idea for lots of people and not all people and not all extremists because there are significant differences between these and al-qaeda for example and it's a pervasive it has and propaganda is very effective. >> reporter: one analyst a former u.s. soldier says men join wars for many different reasons. >> countries fight for their own reasons, oil, terrain, religion. individuals fight for their own personal reasons also. i've read the article, guys getting a lot of tweet hits and facebooking and doing it from the media, he is a fighter and has a history of fighting in wars. and in this case the individual has a case for the war whereas

the british who are going there on the isil side they are going to have an ideology going in there. >> reporter: some western governments including britain have threatened criminal sanctions against citizens who fight for isil, none has said it will take similar action against those who join the kurdish side, harry smith, al jazeera. coming up, here on the al jazeera news hour the suffering of a badly burned boy in gaza and doctors cannot treat him properly because egypt closed the border crossing. an rapper talks while others want freedom of speech to flourish. and in sport a great as he faces his second driver's

championship. ♪ the israeli cabinet approved a controversial bill that defines the country as the state of dues and the bill needs to be passed by parliament, opponents say it under mines the democratic values and benjamin netanyahu also announced palestinians in israel can be stripped of residency and welfare right if their relatives take part in violent attacks. >> translator: the state of isreal is the nation state of jewish people and equal individual rights for every citizen and insist upon this and jewish people have individual rights with a flag, anthem and right of jew to i'm great and it's granted to our people and one and only state. >> reporter: an officer killed in the sinai peninsula and the

armored vehicle he was traveling in was targeted and an attack killed 30 last month. they closed the border of gaza strip and closing this at rafa left many stranded and many of them are patients in need of medical care and this contains viewers that -- some viewers may find this not appealing. >> reporter: this was on the gaza strip. >> translator: i have pain all over my body, my arms feel painful and my back itches all the time. i cannot sleep at night, it's too painful. >> reporter: doctors say he needs specialist treatment in europe but the family can no longer leave.

rafa is the only border crossing between gaza and egypt and shut by egyptian authorities for a month. themty terminal is where palestinians come in and out of gaza and this was damaged during bombardment this summer but it's functional and this is the main departure area where normally hundreds and thousands of people would be here waiting to move across the border and perhaps traveling abroad from there, now however it's completely abandon. egypt closed the crossing after attack in sinai killed 33 soldiers last month. egyptian government is evacuating a one kilometer wide buffer zone with the border to stop tunnels and supply routes in gaza and some buildings on this border route have been levelled. authorities in gaza say closing

the rafa crossing is unreasonable. >> translator: the chaos in egypt is an internal affair and we have nothing to do with it and it's not fair they should pay the price for the chaos. >> reporter: and the only option is to apply for permission to leave gaza via israel but such permission is rarely granted. jane ferguson, al jazeera, gaza. al jazeera continues to demand reloose of three journalists who have been held in prison in egypt for 331 days, greste and fahmy and mohamed were jailed on false charges of helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood and appealing against their convictions. kenya's deputy president says troops have killed more than 100 al-shabab fighters in a bus attack on saturday but they are denying kenya's claim and troops

carried out two raids in somalia and destroying the camp where the attack was planned and catherine tell us more what the government is saying because al-shabab is saying it's all rubbish. >> reporter: absolutely and the government doesn't back terrorists but insists they indeed the military did kill about 100 or so al-shabab fighters inside somalia and included those who planned and executed the people and people are skeptical about the government announcements and do not trust the government and want to see more proof. the military released some images of that bombed out camp in somalia but people still don't trust it and want to see the bodies of those they say as they killed people and blaming the government for preventing for preventing attacks and

saying the government has failed to keep people here safe and they are getting even more upset when they hear all these horror stories from attacks and survivors saying the victims were killed and screaming and killed at close range and how this attack has separated muslims from who they perceive to be non-muslims and i was at the place where they are viewing the 28 victims and most of them are teachers and most relatives quite distraught and also have have many questions to the government and want to know how this happened and they are very confused as well. people want heads to roll. processes being organized by human rights groups tomorrow to demand for the staffing of the top, top chiefs of the security who they say have failed this country julie. >> thanks for that, catherine

soi in nairobi and kenya. and in office protesters made their voices heard and has to resign after ruling for 27 years. now people hope the new transitional government will allow freedom of speech to flourish and we report from the capit capitol. rap artist had to put his feelings into words and his song described what happened in october when the former leader was chased out of here by protesters. and smoky said that day brought a new meaning to freedom of speech and africanism. >> this process has to be an example for everybody in africa and everybody in every state which you can find this as in

all the two congos, they are going to fight, they are going to win. >> reporter: things got nasty when he had been in power for 27 years tried to get parliament to change the constitution. he wanted a third term so protesters burned down the national assembly. after he ran away the army quickly stepped in. lieutenant declared himself head of state, international community pressured him to step down and hand over to civilian interim president and later named prime minister. and he says big news on radio stations and callers are critical and suspicious of the army being directly involved in politics. >> translator: freedom of speech has come a long way and people are not afraid to criticize, our leader must not stop us from speaking out. >> reporter: many are watching the interim government closely. >> there is really a sense of

hope and relief that two weeks have gone well and that the schedule has been effective and that something new is coming here. >> reporter: that is why smoky is so confident, he believes the interim leaders know what the people here are capable of if they are pushed again. i'm with al jazeera. now more storms forecast in morocco after torrential rain caused flash floods and 31 known to have died and others feared drown and we have more. >> reporter: holding on for their lives a group of men wait to be rescued in the region and others battle the current alone and swept away by powerful currents with drivers on dry land doing little but look on

and across the region have burst their banks and authorities rushing to get help where it's needed. >> rescue operation that is underway since yesterday night and sunday night when all this has happened. it is mobilizing with helicopters and they are trying to recover bodies or rescue people. there is a lot of evacuation that has been happening from remote village's by helicopters to take people away from regions that are, you know, here. >> reporter: the south suffered from drought for the past 30 years so heavy rain means increased risk of flash flooding. infrastructure in the south is lacking and feared the worst is maybe yet to come. >> the national weather forecast here today is also has issued another alert saying that more

storms are coming to that region and even maybe there is a region of casa-blanca. >> reporter: warning people not to take chances as rescue workers struggle, al jazeera. let's continue on with that story because those floods have been really devastating and apparently there is more storms on the way. >> this is a system we have been talking about the last 3-4 days and expecting heavy rain and exactly what we saw. if we look at the climate chart this is the amount of rain we expect every month during the year and november and december we expect quite a lot of rain, 30 millimeters of wet weather and that is a lot for this part of the world but actually what we have seen in some places has been over 100 millimeters and some places reporting over 110 so if you get four times the amount of rain that you expect in the entire month just in a few hours of course that is going to give you major problems and that is what we have seen

over parts of morocco. this is satellite picture at the moment and you can see gradually that cloud drifting to the north and also effecting us in the western parts of europe as well so from morocco at the moment yet more cloud and rain and thicker rain is shifting a little bit more to the east and parts after algeria where we see very heavy downpours currently so during the day today heavy downpours over northern part of morocco and algeria and the system edges eastward into tunesia and behind it it will dry up from morocco so the worst weather continues today but things do ease for morocco. >> looking better there and thanks for that. still to come on the program it looks like voters in tunisia will have to do it all over again, a runoff, specif expecter

the first free election. we are in haiti and looking at slavery as they launch a challenge and examining the chances of victory. in sport the biggest pay day in the history of women's golf and find out how much money this teenager collected. ♪

♪ welcome back, i'm julie and reminder of the top store i haves on al jazeera, trying to remain confident about agreement over iran's nuclear program and

powers and tie ran have until midnight local time to strike a deal with talks in vienna and militia has taken two towns under isil control northeast of baghdad and more storms in morocco after flash floods and 31 people died and others feared drown. first presidential elections since the resolution four years ago likely to go to runoff and the turn out was around 65 percent. exit polls suggest neither of the two candidates are likely to win outright and we have more from the capitol tunis. >> reporter: after a historic day of voting tunesians go to polls again to choose president. election commission expected to announce it in a few days but

parties of the front runnys initial tallies show they are going to a second round next month. the cap of veteran politicians whose party and tunis won parliamentary elections last month says their candidate is in the lead. >> translator: according to initial results he is leading with a significant margin over the second rival and thank the people for giving us its trust. >> reporter: but the camp of the current president insists their candidate is leading with a small margin. >> translator: there will be a second round like we anticipated and it will be between them and the results are close and counting estimate suggests we are leading with margin of 2-4%. >> reporter: counting is now underway but the unofficial results indicate there are deep

divisions in the country. there is a secular camp that backs the leaders and it still needs to bring on board other parties to be able to form a new government. and there is the camp of the president and some of the revolutionary youth but he is thought to have the backing of the conservative, another party which came second in the general polls. this camp feels the return of members of the former regime if he wins and his party controls the government. however, talk among all political leaders that there could be a way out by forming a government of national unity. the second round will be held in december but it will be up to the main political parties and their ability to compromise to end the pollinazation and avoid sun certainty. i'm with al jazeera tunis. and we are joined from tunis

and this is a historic moment for tunesians, what is the mood there today? >> well, it was a very fiercely fought campaign and it's not over yet with the second round coming up, in december. joining me now to talk about this is paris school of management and professor of economics and also former deputy in parliament and let us talk about the election results at the moment. we know that these two big political guys will go through to the second round. what are your feelings about who is going to win? >> my feeling or my wish, my wish is that the democratic center should play a very i'm role after the two polls, and the pro-islamic party and the tunis old regime party have been alone in the scene.

our hope is that the democratic center comes and plays a role. this happened exactly the same way in poland and czech and then a new government has arrived so what is happening is a pendulum political movement where tunesians are learning and learning fast what is going to happen. what might happen but from my desire is that the party that has the majority seats in parliament wishes to have the presidency as well. and then there will be a tendency or a risk to see the old systems start again. this would scare the tunesians and explains why the tunesians yesterday voted not in favor of this to be president before yesterday. so therefore we expect the

campaign to be addressed not only to political elements but to be addressed to economic and social. >> let's talk about those problems because when we look at the turn out yes it was high, almost 65% but many young people did not come out and vote and these are young people who are jobless and if they wanted to make a difference why didn't they come out and vote? >> they are disappointed and disappointed in the parliament elections because people are discussing will we vote for or against islamics was the topic but what is the issue of their jobs of their income? nothing has been coming. so today we are in tunesia facing the new page of politics being turned showing that tunesia either islamist or not

or communist we are all in favor of democracy and this is settled and let's come down to economics and creating wealth efficiently and distributing that wealth and not even but in a more equitable manner and that the best way to fight terrorism, to fight extremism and fight people dying in the mediterranean and why the young people did not vote, they did not feel their issues, their problems were addressed in the ideological fight and now today the real fighters of tunesia will have to look at the economic and social answers to the questions of the youth. >> thank you so much for joining us here on the streets of tunis and people are going back to work, going about their daily lives hoping this is the beginning of something for the

future of tunesia. >> thanks for that in tunis there. and syrian government forces continue to be siege rebel held areas in the capitol damascus and people trapped inside the humanitarian situation is getting desperate and we report. >> reporter: in the neighborhood of haja the water has been cutoff for more than a year. and he gets water from a well near his house and the system is simple but effective. >> translator: we had no choice but to act. we have no water, no generator and no electricity so we do it all manually. >> reporter: this is a poor suburb four kilometers south of damascus and largely controlled by rebels so it is regularly targeted by syrian army shells

and bombs and also besieged and soldiers lowell to al-assad has cutoff water and electricity supplies so he uses a bike to charge batteries. tens of thousands of syrians and palestinians used to live here, most have been forced to leave their homes but for those still here the situation is desperate. >> translator: we have nothing here any more. we have no water, no jobs, barely any food and no one is helping us. >> reporter: anti-government fighters have so far defeated attempts by government forces to enter here and for now the neighborhood remains under siege so people living here maybe most of what little they have, al jazeera. u.s. police have shot and killed a 12 yooer old boy carrying imitation gun in cleveland, off ofo ofo ohiooohi

the two officers involved are suspended from duty while the killing is investigated. a grand jury investigating another controversial police shooting in the united states, riots broke out when an unarmed black teenager was shot by a white policeman in ferguson and missouri is trying to return to normal but for many it will never be the same. >> reporter: hitting all the right notes, river view gardens high school jazz band on stage at the historic shelton concert hall in st. louis and practiced hard and wasn't easy among the anger, frustration and occasional violence over michael brown's death. >> with all the riot so it's hard to sleep at night and thinking about getting up in the morning and being out there and getting to school safely but i

made it and i'm here today. >> reporter: protests and tension dominated the school year so far, disrupting classes, raising stress level. many of the students at river view saw these scenes in the neighborhood and fears a grand jury decision against indicting the white police officer who shot michael brown will be a catalyst for more trouble. and this concert may not have happened at all had violence broke out makes it more special and students and parents and the school and this area is going through terrible trauma but today it's all at the music. between sets back stage these young musicians are as relaxed as they have been in months, the music they played so well has helped them cope. >> i wake up with music in my head and go to sleep with music in my head and i eat and think about music, music saved my life. >> reporter: teachers facing the stress of the past months, these are high school students and getting them ready for college and adult life cannot be

put aside even for what this area is going through. >> the parents made them come straight home after school because of the violence that was happening in their communities with looting and all those things but these students worked hard and went home and practiced and i'm kind of one of those teachers that keep them with an iron fist because that is how i was raised. >> reporter: the last song is ending but the fears and concerns of a community remain. for one night at least though the show did go on. daniel lack, al jazeera, st. louis. we think of slavery as having been abolished across the world but in one caribbean country the practice still exists andy gallagher reports from high they. >> reporter: this house in port au prince the chance to play with friends is not taken lightly because this is a refuge and every young woman here was rescued from slavery a practice

still common in hatety and this is typical and given to a family and forced to work for nothing and beaten and abused and ever shameful european legacy. >> it's not something that we want to hide any more because it causes so much hurt and people lie so we need to talk about it and change it. >> reporter: slavery existed in haiti from the 15th century and said to be brutal during the french colonial period. the haiti revolution of 1804 is the only successful slave revolt in history but a chapter that is far from over. the statute commemorates the first slave to free himself but there are still 200,000 enslaved people here and has been support in the europe and people in the legal community think any kind of victory is slim. reaction from european governments has been mixed with

many simply dismissing the lawsuit. professor irwant has represented haiti in the past and says claims for operations may be a hard battle to win. >> i'm a realist and i have seen nations all over the world treated poorly by developed nations and on the other hand you never can give up because small victories will add up to really a new national identity for places like haiti. ♪ but for thousands of others this could mean a brighter future and this teenager is determined to make changes. >> i know god will help me and i know i will try to be hard to do that and i know who i am and i know i can help. >> reporter: where they delay justice or modern day problems

this has simmered for decades in the caribbean but for the girls to be together and be safe is all that counts, port au prince, haiti. watching the al jazeera news hour and still to come an ancient marital art that is fighting back in the philippines. plus all the sport, china antidopingly association revealed their star swimming fails a drug test six months after the fact and we will be here with the details. ♪

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welcome back, let's get sport here. thank you very much, formula one news and this will start new contract negotiation with lewis hamilton after he claimed his second f 1 drivers championship and has been celebrating on monday after his victory at the final race and englishman getting the better of his teammate. >> and by championship he is the second and one of the grates and bouncing back 60 years later and continuing to write the history books coming back with such a dominant season. >> reporter: battle for championship that certainly made it for dramatic season finalle and we look back at the action. >> reporter: starting the final race of the season from the

front of the grid he needed to win to put pressure on championship ship leader lewis hamilton and went wrong from the start and getting out paced immediately and flying ahead before the first corner. things went from bad to worse for rossberg as a string of mechanical problems saw his title chances fade. >> we can see it. >> reporter: hamilton tried calm and control at the front rossberg's frustration were all too evidence. >> what the hell does that mean? what do i need to do? >> just drive flat out, that is all you can do. >> reporter: the german was to finish right down in 14th, hamilton raced home 2 1/2 seconds in front of williams driver who was second and his teammate in third and victory a record 16th for the season and the rivalry between the team's

two drivers hasn't always been friendly but rossberg gracious in his defeat. >> i have a loss for words really but one thing i want to say is a big thank you for fans coming out all this way and all the flags and all the caps and everything, it made such a difference this weekend with my family and thank you so much and thank you for coming and i appreciate it and my theme did an incredible job and without them i wouldn't be here today. >> you are a legend, who-whoa. >> reporter: approval here and rossberg and the rest will be asked to steal his crown next season. i'm with al jazeera. tennis is usually an individual sport but roger federer was happy to praise the teammates after a first ever

davis cup title on victory on sunday and swiss beat france in final and winning 17 grandstand titles this was one trophy missing from his resume and has a good year for his teammates who won the australia open in january. >> it put us in this great position for sunday, it is, you did. so it has been a long week but one of the best weeks we have had as a team and had a good time altogether and everybody worked together very well. >> and saudi arabia will play cutter in the final gulf cup of nations and went to 3-1 in the semi final and opponent's in wednesday's final saudi arabia over uae and semi finalists

taking part in the cup next year in australia. swimming star failed a doping test earlier this year, and he became the first chinese swimmer to win olympic gold when he won two events at london olympics and tested positive to a bad stimulant during the china national championships in may and has served a three-month ban and it has not been explained why the positive tests only came to light now. 17-year-old has collected the biggest ever pay day in the history of women's golf. and only her second year as a professional recorded the four under round of 68 to win lpga tour championship in florida and knew zeelander collected half a million for the win and further one million bonus for finishing as a season leading point scorer and the youngist millionaire in

tour history and first person to win five professional tournaments before age 18 and between ijer was born 11 days after tiger woods won his first major. >> you know when i saw that million dollars in the box i was like wow i wonder who the winner of that will be and it's amazing i never seen that much cash in one place before and this year has been awesome, you know. and three wins and it is a huge honor for me to be in this position and looking forward to what is coming up, next. >> reporter: to nba where miami heat ended the three game home losing streak and beating the hornets by one point and missing wade miami took an early lead and hold on to it most of the game called 26 points and chris added 20 and the chance in the final moments but squandered them all and a jump with 25

seconds left in the hand with heat, 94-93 victory. moving to ice hockey where new york rankers got back to winning ways beating the canadians and rangers had awake up call after 4-0 loss to tampa bay last monday and he was the hero of the night making 21 plays and st. louis has a goal and assist to help with new york rangers shut them out 5-4 and defeated 4-2 and ryan scored the third goal of the season in his hometown and put them in first place in the central division. and it may surprise some to learn that 1.2 million dollars in prize money has just been handed out to this year's world chess champion and he defended his title beating india's grand

chess master for the second straight year and 23-year-old charleston is rated as a prodigy and sport and has a cult following and made last year times the magazine list of top 100 list of influential people. olympic masters well criticized over the years and the rio 2016 organizing committee has new ed digs and this is a yellow animal that organizers say represents all the different animals of brazil and the para olympic moss cot is a blue figure representing plants and both are male, the contest has opened to name the two creatures. there is more on the website and check out al jazeera/sport and details on how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook. and why male? >> i know. thank you very much indeed for

that. now karati and judo are well-known marshal arts but how about the ancient art form enjoying a resurgence in the philippines and we report. >> reporter: it was once disguised as an folk dance during the precolonial period hundreds of years ago. but the rise of martial arts during the 1970s helped capture the interests of philippine people for the marshal arts and students here are grateful for it. >> japan and china are having a strong martial heritage and training their people in the ways of the martial arts. >> reporter: they say learning the sport is one way for filapi filapinos to appreciate their

culture and they have karati and this is the philippine people sport and this is an martial art that uses weapons if they are blades or knives or fighting stick. dispith the directive to include the martial art in the physical education curriculum they say the american sport is easier to endorse this sport here but they say it all has to do with the deep-seated mentality of filapinos. >> mixture of technologies of two cultures. now what the european has is a very severe, straightforward action. what the filapino has is a graceful, slowing rhythmic, well timed movement that is able to

develop the techniques of the europeans in the signature way of the mali. >> reporter: it is also an efficient south defense system. the potential for this sport remains intact but more than just a discipline the sport brings something else to the country with athletes saying filapinos now have a sport they can identify with, al jazeera, manila. finally astronauts waking up and smelling the coffee, 0 gravity coffee machine arrived with three others with the first female nicknamed the iss-expresso saying it uses extra terrestial capsules and

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