♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome from the al jazeera news center in doha and these are the main stories we will be covering in the next 60 minutes, al-shabab claims responsible for an attack on a query in northern kenya and killed more than 30 people. the battle for aleppo and we examine how the fight for the largest city may be a turning point in the four-year long war. hong kong protest leaders call for retreat and say they will

hand themselves over to the police. plus the environmental dilemma facing south sudan for a sustainable force against providing fuel for cooking. ♪ hello, al-shabab claimed responsibility for an attack in a query that killed 36 workers and it's close to somali border and attack on a bus last night in which 28 non-muslim passengers were killed, crossing over to catherine who is joining us from nairobi to see if there is reaction from the kenya government for the attack and claim from al-shabab, catherine. >> the president is expected to address the nation sometime this afternoon. there is a sharp statement that

was sent by the government spokesperson who said this incident is being investigated and it was basically just concerning that indeed 36 people were killed at that query and as i speak to you the main coalition which is led by prime minister is currently holding a press conference and in the past they criticized the government for what they see as failure to contain the security situation and it's tense and people are afraid and muslim and workers from other parts of the country are going there to work and they are fleeing and heading to the military barracks there where they feel they will be safer. >> and al-shabab an somalia-based group and you have been there and what did you see there? >> indeed, this is very poor.

and we saw how difficult it is to police the barrack and it's about 700 kilometers with very few policemen in that area and they are ill equipped and the military does not really control the border so it's difficult to police and a vast county and the infrastructure is terrible and here is a story we did on how difficult it is to police that border. police patrol one of the most dangerous roads and somalia is 5 kilometers away and al-shabab carried out lots of ambushs here and they killed 28 people and in may they killed 12 policemen and trusted locals giving advance by the government to protection villages and with g-3 rifles with bullets and this man was

soft to respond to attacks. >> translator: we have better things and when they attack get 10-20 of them so we often have to retreat. >> reporter: this is an end to point for key al-shabab operators and suspects believed to carry out serious attacks in the areas have passed through this border time. >> a lot of encroachment on the somali side and merging it with somalia and that remains a big problem. >> reporter: the border officially closed in 2007, immigration officials only let people in on humanitarian grounds but many still manage to cross using routes and i'm on the border of somalia and if i take some steps the border is wide open and makes it very

difficult to control people's movements here. al-shabab fighters have been losing territory as somalia government and african union fight them in southern somalia and pressure forcing them to look to areas further south to operate in including this region. >> the government set out to create a battle zone when they enter somalia a few years ago and one of the things that kenya expected is the entire length of the border between kenya and somalia would be controlled by kenya as advanced forces to be sure they do not come in the country and that has not happened. >> reporter: they are worried and say the history of ethnic balance could make it easy for some people here to use a group to fight for their clans, i'm in northeastern kenya.

wife and son of the leader of isil have been arrested in lebanon as they tried to cross the border from syria and crossing over to the beca valley and bring in al jazeera's jane ferguson who will tell us about it in a moment but first i would like to know what is going on in the valley where you are because the u.n. says they are not able to feed a lot of syrian refugees in lebanon as they face another harsh winter. >> reporter: that's right. the refugees that have been living here in the beca valley and sierran refugees moved in over the last few years of war faced hardships over the rough, cold winters here but now the u.n. are saying the world food programs assistance they were giving almost one million refugees here will not be able to operate through the month of december and say there is a shortfall of $64 million and what they were doing is helping people like those behind me in these makeshift refugee camps in

the side of the road by lebanon and giving them money to what people can buy groceries and not enough to support entire families and some had to find work in the agricultural sector in labor jobs in lebanon and they will have to work harder to feed their families in the coming winter. >> reporter: and jane that report we are hearing that the leader of isil and some members of his family we understand had been arrested previously, where are they now, what do you know of their whereabouts? >> well, we just heard this morning and we learned that both his wife, a nine-year-old son had been arrested ten days ago. the news was leaked to the press this morning. she is believed to be a syrian national and that they were picked up on the border trying to cross from syria into lebanon. it's not clear yet which border

area they were taken from or which crossing they were trying to cross into lebanon and they are still held in military custody and she is likely to be continually questioned at the moment and it's not clear and unlikely that he only has one wife but the fact this has been leaked to the press could indicate that the authorities here think there may be some sort of leverage and let's not forget the 26 lebanese soldiers are being held on the border with syria a by armed groups by isil and al-nusra and held since august putting authorities under incredible pressure to get them back and perhaps leaking of this information and knowing that his wife is in custody could give some sort of leverage for a potential prisoner swap in the future. >> jane thank you and jane ferguson reporting from lebanon. sierran opposition robbels in northern aleppo putting up

fierce resistance from government offensive and ba shadow forces are trying to cutoff rebel supply lines and victory for either said may prove crucial in a four-year war and dana reports. >> reporter: there is a fierce battle on the northern edge of aleppo city and they turned the forces on the largest city. it is hoping to cutoff the opposition supply lines. this is a fight that opposition cannot lose if they want to prevent the government from laying siege to its strongholds in the east of the city, the fight for aleppo is in the third year and government forces control the west, opposition controls the east. the roads connecting the east of the city to turkey are now contested and that is why the rebels opened a new front in the northwest, to try to open another supply line, and they are coming under heavy fire and a population of 40,000 have government strongholds and also surrounded by rebel-held

territories. but the predominately sierra villages are from aleppo to turkey. >> translator: government forces have been advancing north of aleppo city and trying to reach a city and we are fighting back and hoping to eliminate the government troops as well as shia and other fighters. >> reporter: and they are presenting a rebel advance in their areas and government forces are helping from the skies, planes and helicopters have been dropping bombs in opposition areas close to here. the united nations was hoping to stop the fighting on aleppo front lines but the special enjoy mistura last month never came to anything and may have reached ceasefire deals over resent years but if the rebels give up the fight here it could

be a devastating blow to the rebellion in the north, i'm with al jazeera. the prime minister abadi sacked 24 senior officers from the interior ministry after a day after revolution there are 50,000 bogus names and the story from baghdad to talk about the steps to fight corruption in the country as he says he wants to do, jane. >> reporter: it's fighting i.s.i.s. as well and corruption and fighting i.s.i.l. rather and security in general is all tied up together in this particular case a new prime minister told parliament he had found in just going through the records of just four army divisions and there are many more army decisionss still to be gone through, 50,000 cases of what he calls essentially what we are calling ghost soldiers, what iraqi call spacemen, people who

do not really exist on the ground. this is particularly crucial because they should be people who are fighting i.s.i.l., instead they are soldiers who do not show up for work and sends part of salary to commanding officers or soldiers who did not exist in the first place. this is not a new phenomenon and exists in pretty much all iraqi ministries but it's particularly urgent knot -- not just for this but financial reasons and has a tough job and will person persevere and not just moving them along or retiring them but going through the entire institution to clean it up. >> reporting from baghdad. now security forces in egypt have again closed the square in cairo, on saturday two people were killed during protests against the court decision to

drop murder charges against the former president mubarak and reopened to traffic on monday and troops have sealed the square where egypt revolution unfolded to prevent further mass protestings. al jazeera continues to demand the release of three journalists held in prison in egypt for 339 days, greste and fahmy and mohamed were jailed on false charges of helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood and appealing against their convictions. stay with the al jazeera news hour and here is what is coming up. anniversary anger in mexico city after two years in power, the president faces more calls for his resignation. >> here every door leads to a story of loss, poor health and struggle and many women say they have been unable to recover from the union carbide disaster.

30 years after the world's worst accident the suffering goes on and in sport liverpool striker apologizes for a picture on social media that has been accused of being antisementic and racist. ♪ but first protest leaders in hong kong urging fellow protesters to end sit-ins and say they will surrender to police and say there are concerns about people's safety following two days of violent confrontation as they cleared more sites and we are in hong kong and what it means for the occupied movement and is this the end. >> reporter: it certainly marks a turning point in the demonstration that has been underway for around 64 days and we are in the third month here and it was emotional press

conference by the three founders of the occupy hong kong unit because they will surrender at 3:00 local time hong kong and surrender to police and of course the students and demonstrators to retreat and they are concerned for their safety and describe this as a place that is dangerous and police actions are out of control and the hong kong administration is heartless so it does mark a turning point in wake of the violent clashes we saw sunday night and monday morning and they want to continue or transform this movement and get it off the street and turn it into a community peaceful campaign. they are also saying they need to basically get their respect to make student decisions and if they continue to stay here they will respect for the student safety and said it's in their interest to remove themselves in coming days. >> what about the students then, do you see they are, in fact, staying out on the streets or are they divided?

>> the students we have spoken to said they are committed to staying here and there will be decisions in 24 hours if they continue but the campaign is being led by probably the most prominent student leader called joshua wong with a hunger strike with two other leaders and the scholar is in the federation of students and say they respect the three occupation hong kong founders and decision to surrender to police and indicated they will stay here, having said that they are out numbering the number of protesters that are here and injunction going through the courts and looking to clear these sites. they have already cleared one and two other sites at admilty and one to the east and support from the general public in hong kong, the support here is waning for this campaign, as i mentioned it's in the third month. and certainly the students as

you can imagine are running out of options. >> sarah thank you very much, sarah clark reporting from hong kong. now, the second anniversary in power for mexico's president has been marred by more protests against his rule and he and the government are accused of corruption and as monica reports the disappearance of 43 students while in police custody continues to infuriate many. >> reporter: anger returned to the streets of mexico city on preside president's second anniversary in office and masked men with bats and molotov cocktails destroyed everything in the way. >> it was mostly peaceful but they are breaking windows. >> reporter: thousands have taken to the streets to ask

mexican president to step down, a so-called mexican awakening with daily protests for the past two months. >> translator: shame on you, i pay your salary and my taxes are robbed by corrupt government. what you don't realize is we are all affected by the government's wrongdoing. >> reporter: hundreds of riot police deployed to control the protests and arrested demonstrators and pinning in a largely peaceful crowd. protesters counted out loud, a reference to 43 fellow students who were reportedly abducted by the police, handed to drug cartels and then allegedly massacred. it was the last straw and it triggered a waive of outrage across the country ahead of the government and they will reign in alleged police brutality and

believe he never has been under so much pressure. >> translator: there is clearly a before and after and it's clear it exposed the governments to face organized crime. >> reporter: students said the corruption goes all the way up to the president. they say his wife has been involved in a scandal for trying to buy a $7 million home from a company he has allegedly favored. the protest movement is growing and there is more to come, mr. president, 120 million mexicans elected you, we can also get you fired. i'm in mexico city. let's bring in stef on the news hour to get a check on the weather and particularly north asia and what is going on there. >> winter arrived and all of the sudden. looking at the satellite picture we see a massive area of clouds here all circulating around the northeastern parts of china, the far eastern parts of russia and skirting into parts of japan as

well. this has not only brought us windy weather it brought an awful lot of snow. here are the pictures from the northeastern parts of china showing just how much snow is seen there but not only northeastern chew that and north and south korea saw snow and these pictures are here and you can see how much snow has accumulated here. as we head through the next few days this system is going to continue to circulate more or less where it is and even if you don't see any snow it's still going to stay bitterly cold and there is that center of low pressure then and this, well, that is the winds that are wisking around it and making sure things are cold and beijing there two days ago got to eight degrees as maximum temperature and now we struggle to get to freezing, it really is feeling very, very cold. many of us in the western parts of our chart here will see clear conditions but cold conditions and in the east where that system is going to bring us yet

more in the way of wintry weather and many seeing a gray day with yet more heavy snow and heavy snow in northern parts of japan there heading through the day on wednesday. further south, it does become a little more mild and means for some of us here we are likely to see snow overnight and maybe sleet mixed in during the day and tokyo 11 degrees and here a fair amount of sunshine until the system works its way across. more wet weather through the day on thursday,, in fact, the rain looks like it's tapping over here and behind it staying cold and maximum temperature on thursday, struggling to minus nine, dori. >> pretty cold stuff and thank you for that. moving on and the pro-european parties that pulled ahead in dova election and the strong performance of pro-russia shares

a border and a region backed by the kremlin and robin reports. >> reporter: moldova is set to stay pro-european but today after parliamentary elections there are fears on what is yet to come. >> we think after the elections when the parties won now we think that russia may want to stabilize the country and force this and we are going to the embassy to ask romania in case they interfere to protect us. >> reporter: to the outsider romania is here but they consider themselves romania and the students in the youth movement dream of an moldovia in romania and aspirations to be

here are hopes to be more european and they are intertwined and draw support from the young. suspicions that moscow will continue to exert pressure voiced by the moldova propersons the liberal democrats and need to form a governing coalition. >> translator: i think that in the near future what has been happening will become more obvious, the embargoes and pressure for citizens who work abroad and manipulation through russian media that strongly influence maldova and this will allow us to continue our european journey. >> reporter: and sunday vote saw the socialist win the highest number of seats and the leader says a big proportion of society wants to turn its back on the eu. >> translator: maybe the eu and the u.s. are cheering right now because mathematically the

government won, maybe they can form a majority but this majority is a luxury, most citizens voted against the government and against european integration. >> unification they shout, activists who dream living under the umbrella of a european country and union and there is another one with a russian soul and this unity may increasingly be the reality, i'm with al jazeera. it's 30 years since the world's worst industrial accident at india, a leak of deadly gas from a pesticide factory killed and injured thousands of people, in total as many as 25,000 may have died. as we report many of the women who were made widows are still struggling to make end meet. >> reporter: for 30 years she has struggled to do basic chores like cooking.

she can't breathe prorly and suffers from debilitating headaches because of toxic fumes she inhaled. and she says this pressure box of medicines keeps her alive. >> translator: we were running from the gas i gathered my children in my arms, as i did the gas hit them. my three-year-old died in my arms. my five-year-old died after him then their father died. i lost all of them within three months. when i couldn't open my eyes because of gas burns i gave birth to my fourth child. >> reporter: hundreds of women who lost their husbands in the union carbide gas leak moved into this purpose built community and here every door leads to a story of loss, poor health and struggle and many women have been unable to recover from the union carbide disaster and 30 years on most concede things are likely to get

better. earning a living has been one of the biggest challenges for the gas leak widows and for years she tried to empower them with skills. >> translator: women look after needs of children and families so they have had to deal hardest with this loss. with the loss of their husbands, with the loss of their children, with the loss of their brothers. >> reporter: many thousands of people died when poisonous gas leaked from this pesticide factory into low-lying areas on december 3, 1984 and a handful of executive of union carbide an american company have been prosecuted for the accident. and while compensation has been paid to the victims, the authorities have often been blamed for not doing enough before, during or after the leak. >> the problem is such that we might not have reached the person at the time, exact time of the precise time it was

needed. we have looked for 30 years. >> reporter: these words don't mean much to her, her grand daughter and her name means light in hindi was born years after the accidents and a beacon of hope for a woman whose life has been cloaked in darkness, al jazeera. just to bring you some breaking news, coming to us from libya and according to our sources and military airplane belonging to the rent renegade shelled a food warehouse and this food warehouse supplies the whole area in western tripoli and we know there have been casualties as well as injuries. we are not sure yet of the numbers of people but we will bring you more information on that as it becomes available to us here at al jazeera. we will take a short break but here is what is coming up, on the news hour, will an early

election be called in israel, we will be live with the latest on that from jerusalem and barack obama pledges to trade of what he calls distress following the ferguson shooting and also in short we will take a look at the impact of head injuries in american football following the suicide of the college player, back in a moment.

♪ hello again, you are with the al jazeera news hour, the top story al-shabab fighters in somalia

saying they killed 36 workers and it's close to the border and crossing over to speak to a former army kernel as well as security consultant joining us from nairobi and clearly this is an entry point for al-shabab fighters in kenya and what will the kenya government do now? >> i don't think that is right of the entry point for many atrocities committed by al-shabab and this is including the west gate attack, the entry point was there. we have encountered 24 terror attacks since the inception of the county government in mondara and this has posed many challenges. for the government to be able to control this or to be able to stop they should be dealing with

the border between kenya and so malays somalia and it has to be created between the al-shabab controlled areas and the kenya border. >> how difficult is that to do? >> it depends because we have already kept kenya in place and somalia and oppression back in 2011 by the federal government which i was also commanding. i work in the operational commander in 2011 closing the border and trying to push al-shab al-shabab for us to be able to have that and they need intelligence between what is

called deep operation which is in somalia, close operation which is at the border and reoperations which the is down back of the city in nairobi and without that coordination it will be difficult to monitor and analyze the threats of al-shabab. >> looks like the troops fighting in somalia is off the table and some people are calling for al-shabab and the statements they released after the attack and says it's because of kenya troops in somalia. >> it's part of what is operating in that to bring peace and also have a safe, peaceful border between kenya and somalia

and with the strategy i could not accept the solution but change of strategy could do that and that is for you to be able to deal with your enemy and you should go into think of the commanders and pray for them to defeat in their own game and also transfer to our country to the comfort zone and that would have been the better option than probably the extra strategy of pulling out from somalia will remain we have already been hit by al-show bob and giving hand to a terrorist act which is not what we are there for. >> thank you for joining us from nairobi in kenya. barack obama is asking congress to pay for u.s. police to be equipped with body cameras.

the president is also pledging to stop police building and militarized culture in response to unrest and protests of the shooting of michael brown in ferguson and we report from missouri. >> reporter: this protest was entitled hands up, walk out and here in st. louis and across the country people heeded the call walking out of businesses, offices and campuses at lunchtime. >> class and school is important but justice is more important. >> reporter: it was the latest coordinated expression of outrage of the killing of unarmed killing of michael brown by a police officer in august and manifestation of the campaign to reform policing in the u.s. it has been clear for sometime that this is no longer just about ferguson and in washington president obama was key to show he is listening. at the white house the president, the vice president and attorney general met with black and latino organizers from ferguson and around the country. >> the issue of military

equipment being utilized. >> reporter: president obama also announced the result of his review of police practices, specifically whether local police forces have become over militarized. >> i will be signing an executive order that specifies how we are going to make sure that that program is accountable, how we are going to make sure that that program is transparent and make sure we are not building a militarized culture inside our local law enforcement. >> reporter: the program supplies combat equipment to the police and will stay in place and the president says he will form a task force to make sure they have come usage and will ask congress for $75 million for body cameras for police officers. but the protesters want deeper change and whether wearing a body camera or not police officers can legally kill someone as long as they testify they were in fear of their lives. >> we don't want this to be an

element but a movement and we want people to keep their eyes open and want people to be aware that black people are being killed in the hours by cops. >> reporter: back in missouri the ferguson commission is beginning its first meeting, convened by the state government the chairman vowed this was not a pr stunt and would seriously invest the roots at ferguson and beyond but will have to fr come suspicions of a local community that has little faith in public officials, ferguson, missouri. ukraine, the military accusing forces of tacking part in attacks on donetsk airport and smuggling heavy artillery in eastern ukraine to step it up and this is despite the september ceasefire agreement and the conflict killed more than 4,000 people since april.

meanwhile russia says it will carry out more than 4,000 military drills next year involving tens of thousands of troops after being hit with sanctions after the war in ukraine the kremlin is also trying other tactics to win back influence in europe, from moscow peter sharp explains. >> reporter: christmas tree diplomacy and when the cathedral said it couldn't raise funds for the tree moscow stumped up $100,000 to transport and install the 25 meter tree in paris, it's a message of peace said the russian ambassador and also another example of putin's campaign across europe and this was a cash strapped party and lent them $11 million and all of this good will coming days after france refused to deliver two war ships to russia because of moscow's involvement in ukraine. the kremlin quickly pulled back

from a threat of serious consequences if france reneged on the deal but it's more than christmas trees and cash and putin wouldn't be aware of russia growing isolation and angela merkel wants the contact point with putin has finally run out of patients and putin is paying court to the margins of europe looking to shore up all the alliances. in serbia russian forces on monday vers with the army and a joint drill with a country seeking membership in eu and rang bells in brussels but it's an indication of the determination to extend the sphere of influence across the country on its borders and russia financial and economic investments are extensive and 11 billion by russia over ten years and italy, russia's main energy

supplier, hungry negotiated secret loans with russia totaling $12 billion at below market rates and austria, import 60% of gas to russia aunt invested $60 billion in the country. >> it's for them to have countries inside the european union and try to have sanctions but the main battle which putin was feeling in europe was better for the heart and you know it is essentially after the meeting and she is just furious about putin. >> reporter: but german chancellor delivered this stark warning about putin's territorial ambitions following the g-20 last month and said this is not just about ukraine, it's moldova and georgia and we will have to ask about serbia.

the view from brussels is president putin is bullying, buying and bribing his way into extending russia's influence and power in the eu and kremlin's deception of the crisis, it's convinced that eu's remorseless move to the countries of eastern europe has a threat to russian security where the eu goes they will tell you nato will follow. peter sharp, al jazeera, in moscow. with anti-immigration sentiment apparently rising across europe the largest economy is looking at ways to help new arrivals and german chancellor angela merkel is chairing a meeting focused on getting immigrants a better foot hold in the job market and nick spicer reports from berlin. >> reporter: at the end of september germany had over 37,000 unfilled a apprencice

and angela merkel met with groups and communities monday to try and fix that. >> translator: germany is an attractive country in part because of our job parked, the numbers show that almost half a million immigrants come to us every year. >> reporter: this is a workshop at the berlin public transit authority and offers apprenticeships from countries and say this is a chance for them to reflect the international makeup of berlin and to give immigrants an opportunity, more than 85% of them stay on with the firm and many trainees said other opportunities were few and far between. >> we don't need all this but i don't have a chance and we are not able to do something with

good knowledge and this is a very high degree but they walk in the kitchen and nobody see them and don't get a chance to work where they are learning. >> reporter: one proposal was to consider anonymous job applications show people would not be discriminated against because of a foreign sounding name and one study showed two thirds of germans wrongly thought they took out of social programs than they paid in. so there is work ahead, germany is now the western country with the second biggest in flow of immigrants after the united states, i'm nick spicer berlin. captain of the costa concordia giving testimony in italian court and denies manslaughter and abandoning the cruise ship and people were killed when it hit a reef and

capsized off the island of gelia two years ago and benjamin netanyahu is threatening to call early elections if they don't stop attacking policies and right wing dominate the current coalition and that coalition has failed to agree on a range of important issues and andrew simmons is in jerusalem to tell us what those issues are, andrew they have not been able to agree on. >> reporter: there are many of them and you are rightly pointing out this is a right-leaning coalition with five parties involved and prime minister netanyahu went for a meeting monday night with the finance minister, that is el-apeed and have not spoken to each other for weeks and it was crunched time and netanyahu made a series of demands and one is support for a bill to make israel a nation state of the

people and this bill is very controversial and international in israel seen by some ministers as being discrimination against palestinian citizens and making them second-class citizens and also wanting to have a reverse of a decision that he made to hold back money from the defense forces and that is highly controversial with netanyahu but also with the defense ministry itself and on top of that he wanted el-apeed to call off zero tax, value-added tax on first-time house purchases and this is coming together and there was a complete break down and no agreement and the party that is the main party aside from the coalition has since been a statement accusing of netanyahu of doing back room deals with other parties to try

and form another coalition that would include his old allies who answer this government the ultra orthodox parties. >> pointing for a call for early election andrew and if that happens when do we expect that to be announced at least? >> reporter: it certainly does look that way on wednesday there will be a vote on a bill submitted by opposition parties to dissolve 120-seat parliament, elections could take place at the earliest in march and no one publically and the public out let don't want elections and are not popular but this coalition can't seem to hold things together and not only that the timing couldn't be worse in terms of any possible peace process with the palestinians and they are well frozen right now and of course the security situation is dire right now so this is bad timing and it is not good and these are bad times

really all around no matter which way you look at the domestic political picture. >> andrew from west jerusalem and thank you. columbia's chief negotiator is heading to havanna in cuba for peace talks with farc rebel leaders and talks suspended last month when an army general was taken hose adjust and after his release on monday he talked about resignation from the army and faced questions of why he was captured in civilian clothes and without body guards in the remeet colombian jungle. f.b.i. warning u.s. business of cyber attack at sony pictures was attacked and north korea has not commented whether it was responsible for the malicious software. >> want to kill kim jong-un. >> reporter: they complained about this movie with a plot to

kill the north korean leader. still to come on the al jazeera hour they are a wash with oil and why does everybody have to burn charc oshoal and can they the biggest prize? be back in a moment. ♪

♪ so one of the causes of global warms is deforeststation and are

trying to find a way to reverse the trend but villagers who chop down trees say they have no choice if they are to survive and nick clark reports from south sudan. >> reporter: 21-year-old has the responsibility for his family when his father was killed in the war leading to independence. now his nephews have lost their father in the most resent spade of fighting and charcoal has a means for existence. >> get the food. >> reporter: along south sudan's highway goods come from neighboring countrys like uganda and kenya and gas from fossil fuels and there is gas but little kerosene. the oil pumped from the ground

pumped here in south sudan the source of fuel for people is charcoal or firewood from virgin forest for 9 million people, that is millions of cooking fires everyday and that uncountable numbers of trees. those plumes of smoke are coming from charcoal manufacturing sites and the trees harvested and 1 1/2% of south sudan's farrest is being lost every year. the problem is the current rate of deforeststation means no trees will be left in three or four decades. >> this open here used to be a state forest and because of activities this is what you see and left here. production has become a very lucrative business. in charcoal you guaranty the money. >> reporter: the capitol duba

the trees are nourished to promote reforeststation and take responsibility for the forest they rely on. >> we cannot stop the people to cut the forest but giving the message to use it sustainably. >> reporter: one way to stop the foreststation to bring them online for its people and that creates another problem, co 2 emissions and are millions miles away for the family who is simply concerned with eeking out a living, nick clark, al jazeera south sudan. these are the top stories. >> liverpool striker has apologized for posting an image on social media that prompted accusations of antisemitism and

racism and they opened an investigation and could have a five-match ban and had a picture of computer game character super mario and had the words jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a jew and he apologized and said it was meant to be and my racist with humor. missing liverpool game on tuesday due to hamstring injury and the victory against stok on saturday had three straight league defeats. >> we have very, very good players and doesn't give you a problem so we know we are right there being fully concentrated and we want to keep this momentum going that we have. >> there are five other games in england on tuesday, and they face new castle for the first time in history and forth while united makes it four wins in a row when they host stoke.

>> winning 4-4 against united is the most important thing in the week. or in a day. and especially when we are in the lead table on the fourth position, you have to win otherwise others shall overcome you. >> reporter: a goal keeper is on the short list when the fifa door for the first time in more than a decade, germany is one of three players to be the best individual futballer in brazil and won the league title with mu nick -- munick and ranoldo had 23 goals and helped win the league.

brahami is african futballer of the year and the first algeria and beat the others to win, and vowed to carry on the form in the finals for the africa kept nation next month and also part of the 2014 algeria team to reach knock off stages of the world cup for the first time. in the nba the nuggets beat jazz with seconds in the game and jazz came back from 22 point deficit to tie the game up in the final minute and with 30 seconds left denver's tie loss made the game winner and beat them 103-101 and utah lost and it's the longest losing streak since last season adrian peterson is set to appeal suspension and he was banned two

weeks ago for the remainder of the season without pay and accused of using a tree branch to discipline his four-year-old son. the 2012 mvp has only played one game this year after being charged with child abuse. now, a cornonnor is having an autopsy and looking for brain depression and link to suicide and we report from chicago. >> his brief life ended after he complained to family about repeated concussions on the field and the football player had been missing four days and texted his mother saying he was sorry if he was an embarrassed and he fatally shot himself in a rubbish bin. >> preliminary investigation is showing he died from what appears to be a self inflicted

gunshot wound. we have recovered a firearm at the scene. >> reporter: and this is the latest in a long line of players who complained of life-altered head injuries after years of skull crunching impacts and he killed himself in 2012. the u.s. institutes of health said he suffered brain abnormalities associated with chronic injuries and left his confused and say safety equipment may have led players to take greater risks. >> the days of the leather helmet in football there were fewer concussions and people were not using your head as a weapon and when you don't you focus on technique and form and protecting yourself. >> reporter: head injuries not just in the u.s. but in lacrosse and soccer and not just that the professional or college level doctors say they are finding head injuries in child athletes.

players mourn their fallen teammate. >> i wish he would have talked to me if you are struggling and i love you to death and hope that you found peace and you are happy. >> reporter: american football officials say they are making changes and the national football league agrees to a settlement with former players that could exceed $675 million, the national college athletic association is spending $70 million to monitor athletes for brain trauma, john with al jazeera in chicago. more sport on our website and for the latest check out al jazeera/sport and details there how to get in touch with our team using twitter and facebook. that's it for me for now and it's back to you. >> see you later on and for the viewers in the united states back to your regular programming on al jazeera america for international viewers veronica will be with you in just a

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