with waves like this, it's hoped that will soon change. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. hello and welcome from al jazeera headquarters in doha and coming up in the next 60 minutes mosul is the key to confronting i.s.i.l. and iraq finance minister tells spaghetti junction the battle to take back the city is being planned. a surge of ebola cases in sierra leone and 87 bodies have been buried in just 11 days. and the government under fire, we will be live in rome where

trade unions advance strike over labor reform plus. ♪ we meet the musicians hoping new visas will rocket them to international stardum. ♪ we begin the news hour in iraq where the finance minister has told al jazeera that mosul holds the key to defeating the islamic state of iraq and lavonte and we will go to jane and she is live from the capitol baghdad, swha the finance minister been saying, jane? >> he has been saying with other iraq officials that they are on the defensive with reconstituted forces in battle with them but i.s.i.l. holds the key city of mosul and it's the capitol of

their self declared state and it's where they are acting as a de facto government and say it's a long, long fight and cautioned against being hasty in retaking mosul but the man that is actually from mosul saying that planning is imminent and could happen before we think and what could be the biggest urban fight. >> i think the key is mosul. and it's where mosul security forces collapsed or evaporated and this is where this was determined and it would be in mosul where they should be defeated and where we, the iraqi coalition should declare victory among them. iraqi government has set up an

operation and room for liberation of mosul, okay? and this can only be done in concert of course and in coordination with coalition of this separately sglfrmg given . >> reporter: given the state of the economy, can i raq afford the battle. sorry that is one of many helicopters overhead with surveillance. wait a second. it's part of the increased security measures here due to when millions of people are conjugating on karbola and in baghdad the officials including the finance minister have their eye to financial crisis as well. the last budget was based on projections of oil prices that

were much higher than they actually are and iraq has been looking at multi-billion dollar budget deficits and that left the country according to the finance minister facing financial as well as a security crisis. >> iraqi economy suffered a double shock, shock of i.s.i.s., expansion and control of three or four provinces with all the distractions of the infrastructure, the displacement of people and also the defense and security expenses that iraq has to be committed to fight. the second shock was the decline in oil prices dramatically this year to unbelievable level. contrary to the expectations of many experts. >> reporter: he says he will present a budget to cabinet next

week and that budget is going to contain some really tough choices because basically iraq is left having to cut spending including some defense spending he tells us while it's continuing to keep up that very expensive battle against i.s.i.l., elizabeth. >> that is our correspondence joining us from the capitol baghdad and iraq is one of many hit by falling oil prices and this is international oil is trading around $60 a barrel, down more than 40% this year and producing nations are the biggest losers, with imf saying it may have to come in to help weaker members and they devalue currency as oil slumps and less revenue, countries like indonesia and india have taken an opportunity to flash or trim subsidies for diesel or petrol

using the money for other projects and the oil slump for others has benefits and the united states is the lowest price in five years, hitting an average of $2.64 a gallon. airline profits are set to rise in 2015 and could pass on savings to consumers but that hasn't happened yet. let's take a closer look on how falling oil prices are affecting people around the world and we will go to new deli where prices are likely to cause a drop in inflation and we are in toronto and the stock exchange fell 12% and harry faucet in tokyo where they are benefitting from the prices. >> reporter: they are in shut down after the disaster in 2011 and is reporting energy and this means $38 billion a year extra government spending. so this big drop in the price of

oil represents a huge wind fall for the japanese government and savings for households as it has been hit hard by rising i'm porpts and rising prices because of a consumer tax hike and representing good news on the fronts and represents a challenge of the target of raising inflation and want to see a target of 2% inflation and really changing the whole situation this japan which is marked by deflation for so many years and some economists say that target is not the important thing, the important thing is to get people spending again and potentially the drop in the price of oil will allow them to do just that. >> a drop in oil prices is very good news for india and imports 70% of the energy needs so the government is saving a lot of money now, ordinary indians also saving money at the petrol pump and this is what they have to say. >> it's really coming down and

groceries and everything is coming down. >> i hope it goes down even further but you know it all depends on the international market if it can say. >> reporter: lower prices means lower inflation and this is very important in india because the country has been suffering because of inflation and it peeked at 10% last year and really hurting the middle class and lower prices and lower inflation is going to provide much-needed relief to ordinary indians. >> arrival of winter in canada is being softened somewhat this year, gas prices have never been oil as the gas price declines and it's cheaper to go to vacation and because most people heat their homes with heating oil or natural gas those prices are declining too. other good effects from point of view of consumer, the retail factor is it's holiday shopping time here and the prices are lower and lower transport costs

generally across the board but there is another part of toronto and another part of the country where falling oil prices is not good at all and canada is the third largest exporter in the world and has the second biggest in the world and oil is of huge importance to the economy and other parts of the county it provides government revenue for healthcare, job creation and so on so falling prices are causing havoc there and how long they fall is going to be the key thing, if they are going to keep falling then real trouble lies ahead and here in the canada financial capitol outside the toronto stock exchange carnage on the floor and falling 12% and the economy and banks and the law offices around me in downtown troonto are depending on the companies and they are not and there is nervousness on this.

>> reporter: we are joined by an independent energy expert joining us from london and good to have you with us on al jazeera, good news for consumer nations and consumers but not good for producers, how long do you think the price will keep falling? >> the price will keep falling until we find a levelling out, until the market is allowed to work. until demand meets supply. and right now what you see is like $1.2 trillion of benefits to consumers have occurred since june. so demand is going up. supply needs to fall and what we will see is especially the people with high production costs such as oil in canada and some of the shale producers were smaller companies with high exposure with their cash flow they will stop producing so much so we will eventually see less

supply as well. >> let's talk about some other loosers, how is this going to affect russia's economy which is already facing sanctions? >> well, it's really affecting russia's economy because if you look at it 70% of exports are oil and gas, 50% of the budget come from oil and gas revenues and they have sanctions so they are really hurting and mind you unlike other countries like nigeria who depend on oil price russia has roughly more than $500 billion worth of reserves and state fund so they can weather is storm a little bit longer. >> what about venezuela and iran and heavy dependence on exports and stretched budgets, how will they get through this? >> they have a very hard time and venezuela on subsidies really cannot balance the budget. nigeria has an issue. it's hard for iran as well but it's for some of the gcc, the

gulf producers it's easy and saudi arabia can easily weather the storm. kuwait can easily weather the storm and katar can weather the storm and gcc countries who can balance the budgets are fine. >> and indonesia can cut subsidies but what happens when prices go backup? >> well, it means the oil price will sort of go away a little bit because what will happen is that consumers who so far have been subsidized will become more rationale and we will feel the pain in their pockets when the price goes up so we will see more rationally behaving consumers in places such as india, malaysia and indonesia. >> joining us from london there, very good to have you with us,

thank you. we have much more to come on the al jazeera news hour. we report from an isolated corner of china where people still live with a dangerous legacy left over from world war ii. plus. ♪ the united states tries to use hip-hop as a weapon to under mine the cuban government and under mine the music instead. in sport whether to publically release a report on alleged corruption in the 2018 and 2022 world cup, details later in the program. ♪ sierra leone imposed a two-week lock down in a remote region after health workers uncovered a surge of ebola infections and it was thought to be under control but the diamond-rich district

said 87 bodies were buried in 11 days and authorities fear ebola statistics in sierra leone and ebola killed more than 6500 people in west africa. and we have a spokeswoman for the world health organization and says people attending funerals are helping to spread the disease. >> right now we are cleaning up four burial teams active by the end of the week and more in the coming weeks so we have a full team of people that can safely take care of those who died. secondly we need to get people who are sick out of the homes, out of the communities and in isolation where they can be cared for by medical professionals, the earlier you get treatment the more chance you have of survival and telling people what can they do before they get treatment, they can drink hydration solution and salt and water and some minerals and need to do this to stay

strong and there are a reason so many people have died in the region is because they didn't get the help into five days in the disease process and if you have not been drinking lots of fluid, as many as you can, 4-5 liters a day you could die and not strong to fight off ebola and that is important get people out of the houses and tell them what to do and in the meantime drink, drink, drink and stay away from antiinflammatories and when they get to care with iv and further treatment we can help them try to survive the disease. >> reporter: head of cia publically defended the agency's interrogation methods and john brennan said techniques were used but the overwhelming majority of cia offices acted in the law and information from detainees helped track down bin lauden. >> reporter: a news conference and a sign of how much pressure the cia feels and director

invited the media to headquarters to try to explain the torture that happened at secret prisons like this one, 119 men held, 26 of those were innocence. >> in a limited number of cases agency officers used interrogation techniques that had not been authorized, were b abhorrent and should be banned by all. >> reporter: we know what the boss authorized confinement in a wooden box with insects and one man held like this for a total of 11 days. water boarding, sleep deprivation meaning they could keep them away more than a week, violent beatings and forcing them to stand naked with arms held up for days. the cia insists the people who were tortured gave critical information that helped find bin laden and thwart attics but not blaming it on the cause of that now. >> the application of eit and

the provision of important is inknown and unknowable. >> reporter: the senator who released the report disagrees and diane fine steen dwighting this response no evidence that terror attacks were stopped and terrorist captured or lives saved through the use of ei tichlt -- eit and it is backed up saying the cia has the timeline wrong. >> all the information we got that was actionable intelligence and helped disrupt the plot or eye find terrorists i believe we did it way before water boarding. >> reporter: the cause and effect matters to the american people, and polls of torture should be used and the majority say no. unless american lives is be saved, then the majority seem to side with the cia. patty with al jazeera, washington. palestinian president abbas supported egypt's crack down on

smuggling tunnels making the gaza strip to the peninsula and supports it from armed groups and they use the tunnels to smuggling in weapons, food and money and destroyed more than 1600 of them since july of last year. and egyptian army said it killed 12 suspected fighters as part of offensive in the peninsula and attacks in see that intensified since president mohamed morsi was deposed last year. al jazeera continues to demand the release of our three journalists in egypt for 349 days, greste and fahmy and mohamed were jailed on false charges of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood and they are appealing against their conviction. two major trade unions in italy caused nationwide strikes over changes to the labor market. the reforms will make it easier

to hire and fire workers and prime minister says they are necessary to bring the country out of recession, schools, hospitals, airports and local transports are all expected to be affected by the strikes and let's go to our correspondent live for us in rome, what are the key issues? >> well, the biggest one probably is unemployment. 15% across the board in italy are unemployment and among the youth 45% are unemployed and that is a problem and the highly contentious job act passed in early december containing some of the most sweeping labor reforms that italy has seen in many years and the government says it will make it easier to fire people and better for struggling businesses and the unions say it simply will make it better by removing laws by

unfair dismissal and unhappy about the 2015 budget, another austerity budget they say after six austerity budgets by brussels and other outsiders have failed and this one will fail to reverse high unemployment and low slow growth. >> what is the government trying to achieve with that? >> well, the prime minister ten months in the job from the center left said when it was passed in the center at the senate at the beginning of december that italy really is changing. well details are sparse on just exactly how he intends to implement the provisions of this act, but the thinking is that by making the labor market more flexible you attract investment and make italy a better place to do business and in doing so stave off the possibility of a third recession in just six years and this is the third

largest economy in the euro zone but if it is changing in italy there are a lot of people saying it is not changing in the way they would like. >> that is my correspondent joining us from rome. switzerland approved a new law which gives it greater powers to scrutinize 60 sports in the country and the law applied to organization such as fifa, international olympic committee and the world antidoping agency which all have bases in switzerland and politicians responding to years of corruption allegations. let's get more from the sports presenter and what will this mean for organizations like fifa and the ioc? >> it's important to look at the background really because these organizations for many years are of course private organizations and have enjoyed quite a lot of privacy. they have been largely untouchable and had a nonprofit, lower tax rate basis but because of the extra privacy in

switzerland like i said they have been untouchable until now and the new law will lift the lid on them with financial dealings and mean the top officials in fifa or ioc will face further financial scrutiny so for example the likes of ioc president thomas bach and blato are going to be labeled politically exposed persons and if you define that it means people that could be abused for money laundering and in a practice terms it means banks can look at where their money is coming from and demand the source of the money and not saying they have done anything wrong but the record is not great and eight committee members found guilty of corruption and banned in the last few years and of course if this law had been in place then then those individuals would also face criminal charges. >> does it go fur enough joe to stamp out corruption? >> well, i think the lawmakers

here are brought in and certainly hopes it will go far enough and the reason it is brought in because politicians and swiss public felt the corruption allegations damaged the reputation of switzerland abroad and this part of really widespread legal movements that have tried to stamp out corruption in switzerland, having said all of that fifa and ioc, if they don't like the laws put in place and they can of course always leave switzerland. >> thank you very much for that. time for a look at the global weather forecast with richard now and roads turning into rivers in california, richard. >> very much so. it's looking really nasty and the worst drought in something like 1200 years it's thought and things are now beginning to change somewhat but it's going to take quite a time. i want to point out heavy rain affecting northeastern parts of the reason and in new brunswick

but it's across california where the weather is making all the news so as we look at the situation now you can see all the cloud pushing in. it's all feeding in on what is known as the pineapple express because the air has come from the hawaii islands famous for pineapple production and it's warm and moist and tropical air and huge amounts of rain and san francisco 83 millimeters of rain in 24 hours and it's worth to point out this is active and further north portland, oregon had gusts of win of 108 kilometers per hour and the largest in 33 years and plenty more to come and we have this across the region and we've had schools closed and subway stations closed, a lot of power outages and the situation here will probably get worse before it gets better so lockinglockin looking at the forecast we could see 150 millimeters on high

grand and there is going to be snow on sierra nevada and this will continue from san francisco and to los angeles and san diego and a respite into saturday but by sunday another frontal system is pushing from the west and yet more rain, much needed of course. >> reporter: thank you very much, richard. there seems to be a new weapon used by the u.s. against the cuban government, hip-hop and allegations a u.s. agency secretly tried to infiltrate the cuban hip-hop scene to spark a movement for social change and andy gallagher has details. ♪ they call themselves los-aldinos but they may be more than musicians and from uncovered documents they and others were part of a secret u.s. program aimed at fueling political change in cuba. the idea was to infiltrate the

islands hip-hop scene and spread message of decent but claiming it back fired and it was part of an initiative paid for by the agency known as u.s. aid and farmed out to contractors for millions of dollars. it is said to have been inspired by serbia concerts that helped 40 years ago but it may have put some artists in danger. one of the biggest criticisms in this is young cuban musicians were recruited in a program that have clear political goals in mind and alleged they were not told that on at least six occasions both contractors and cubans were detained and interrogated and putting innocent people with logger heads. they say the program was never a secret but part of an effort to strengthen the society and the safety of those involves was the responsibility of contractors. >> we recognize ordinary cubans

can up set authorities for participating in initiatives and for that reason the programs are managed with appropriate discretion so it was the responsibility of the grantee. >> reporter: this is not the first time u.s. aid have been accused of undermining, cuba's government, prodemocracy fake twitter account was also paid for by the agency but among all the cuban americans in miami programs like it are welcomed. >> i believe firmly that anything that can be done along those lines perhaps u.s. aid so as neat to create problems for other programs that they have, but anything that could be done is a good thing. >> reporter: critics say u.s. efforts to undermine the cuban government simply are counter productive. >> all it does is continue to bring out the worst in the cuban regime, a government that is very repressive but through acts like this and operations such as this all we are doing is helping to have more paranoia and miss

trust and telling them to clamp down in all sectors of society. ♪ the program which ran for two years has now been closed down but those critical of it say the only one whose will suffer now are cuba's real musicians, andy gallagher, al jazeera, miami, florida. stay with us on the news hour the clock is ticking as delegates try to kabul together a deal on climate change in peru but many obstacles stand in their way. a disaster after an oil spill in the world's largest man grove forest and we will hear from the quarterback who survived a car wreck and is plotting to return to the field. ♪

♪ good to have you with us on the al jazeera news hour, i'm elizabeth and these are our top story, iraq finance minister has told al jazeera that the city of mosul holds the key to the defeating of islamic state of iraq and lavonte and also said iraqi economy has been hit hard by the cost of fighting i.s.i.l. authorities in sierra leone have imposed a two-week lock down in the district after health workers uncovered a surge of ebola infection, 87 bodies have been buried there over 11 days. and two major trade unions in italy caused nationwide strikes over changes to the labor market and reforms will make it easy to

hire and fire workers. two bombs exploded in nigeria in the latest attack by boko haram fighters, 17 people including many at an outdoor market were killed in the city of the capitol of plato state and the blast happened close to where a similar attack in may killed 118 people. the attack happened in both of the political party and opposition candidates for presidential election in february. and we report from legos. >> reporter: the race for nigeria presidential election is on. opposition party and congress named a general as its candid e candidate. >> translator: from those who have led us into the current state over time and divide in hopelessness among our people. >> reporter: was seen as the

favorite of party leadership and governors and leading a life they are tough on corruption and believed to be what nigeria needs now but some say it's hard to forget the background of the 72-year-old who previously ran for the post three times. when he ceased power in 1983 as military leader he over through a president and justified the coup as a corrupt government and it was not the brightest when it came to pressing workers' freedoms and the convention started wednesday night and they were vying for the party ticket and included two governors, a publisher and former vice president, top contenders is muslims from the north. we will take on the ruling party candidate good luck jonathan and pdp has not lost election since the end of military rule in 199 1999. >> the civil war and this is our count

country. this government will continue to do what is required for the country. >> reporter: 57-year-old jonathan, a christian from the south had a challenging year. between boko haram violence and recently sliding oil prices leading to the devaluation of the nigeria money he has been under heavy criticism but still retains widespread support and largely due to the power of incumbent and the north and the south is raising concerns. the words and actions of the presidential candidates over the coming weeks will determine the tone of elections and for weeks they have been trading blame over various failures stepsly boko haram violence, the concern is this would further divide nigerians ahead of a vote many worry could lead to violence, i'm with al jazeera, legos. the last day for delegates

to agree on a deal of climate change conference in peru and negotiators from around the world trying to form a blueprint to play foundations for a global treaty to be signed in per -- paris next year and we are in lima and progress has been slow. >> reporter: every year around this country the seemingly u.n. negotiating process grinds on and on and they are trying to stop that and rallying cries have begun for delegates to shape up and produce results for future generations. >> i want them to look back at us and ask the question how did you find the moral courage to shake off the lethargy, to break free of the chains of the past, to lift your sites and draw the design of a future that we can accomplish. >> reporter: u.s. secretary of state john kerry made a fly-in

visit to move things at long and an acvitae of climate action. >> this is not just another policy issue measured against the array of global thefts we face today and there are many terrorism, extremism, epidemics, poverty, nuclear proliferation, all challenges that no know borders, climate change, absolutely ranks up there equal with all of them. >> reporter: this time around there is more optimism than usual. >> i've never seen such sense of resolve that you find among people over here. yes, that of course has to translate into something concrete and that is where the people are sort of protecting their own turf. >> reporter: the progress is still extraordinarily slow. one big bone of contention is how to manage country's commitments to reduce emissions. >> this is proving difficult because all the countries of the world are at different stages.

and we want to be sure that for each country they are doing what they can do and do not slide backwards, not a back slides. >> reporter: frequently to the end of the conferences the mad rush as delegates rebook rooms and delay flight, only the brave will assume this conference will end on time. but end it must. these people hope with a detailed roadmap to paris next year. nick clark, al jazeera, lima, peru. >> reporter: jane is an environmental lawyer and a ceo of client earth and he is joining us from london and very good to have you with us on al jazeera. we saw the chair of the governmental panel on climate change in that story saying he has never seen such a positive mood at one of these conferences, what hopes do you have for this meeting? >> well, i have a great deal of hope for the meeting and one of the reasons that everyone is

feeling confident including myself for the first time in a long time, at least ten years, is that the two biggest climate e mitters, china and united states reached a break-through agreement as you may know a month ago and it was those two countries did not participate in the famous kioto agreement and that was the first attempt at a binding legal obligation to reduce climate gasses and as a result it could never work, kioto could never work but this moment is a great moment in the two biggest admiters agreed to cut. >> reporter: could that be the catalyst for a new accord and if so how? >> well, it could. and the reason is that they voluntarily china and the united states agreed to cut. the big, new idea that hopefully will be concrete by the end of the day today or tomorrow

morning is that all of the countries, almost 200 countries will commit to voluntary amounts of greenhouse gas cuts. this would be the first time that all of the countries involved, almost 200 countries have agreed to any cuts, so it's the first time that everyone will have agreed to anything and that in itself creates a tremendous momentum in paris and a building block to finding legal obligations a year from now because what you can imagine is that if all of the countries have, in fact, come to the point like china and the united states where they can foresee cuts of a reasonable amount, then in paris you agree the mechanism by which the cuts continue, so that the cuts over time become deeper and this is what we need because scientists tell us that by 2050 we need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 80%, that is difficult but not impossible. >> reporter: and would the

agreement being nonbinding to begin voluntary as you said hoping for a legally binding agreement in paris but how do you hold countries to account and to actually get them to commit to what they say they will do? >> this question is central really and it's the same question that comes up in all international agreements. it's very difficult to force countries to do something they don't want to do and the best two steps really are to get everyone to agree to do something they can do and then to set up a kind of compliance committee and i think this is a new idea but i can see it happening in paris next year where after the voluntary cut decisions you get a committee set up that would review countries' compliance to see whether they were actually complying and then that is a binding legal obligation if you agree to have your compliance

monitored in this way and then there could be judgments by the committee about whether you were or were not performing then it's your standing in the international community to compel you to comply. >> environmental lawyer and ceo of client earth, thank you very much for your time. now, environmental activists say an oil spill in bangladesh is n catastrophe and it collided with another vessel and the largest man grove forest and site and they say it threatened trees and rare species of dolphin and we have more from the delta. >> reporter: i'm on the brink of the river on my left side you can see the man grove forest which is the man grove, the largest man grove in the world, about 10,000 square kilometers and 60% of it is in bangladesh territory and on the indian side.

you can see dark patches across, within 50 kilometer range and this is the oil that has been washed ashore by the tide, the impact of it yet to be determined by the environmentists and marine biologists and there is a dolphin sanctuary about a kilometer away from here with the dolphin and some of the most endangered species and this is the habitat of the bengal tiger, the most famous tiger and the river channels not supposed to be used by commercial vehicles but the channel has been filtered recently the commercial vehicle has been using this, government yesterday decided to ban using of any commercial vehicle to preserve this area which is an international heritage site. >> reporter: zimbobwai replaced eight ministers and will take up the post of vice president.

and we have been gauging reaction to the new look cabinet on the streets. >> reporter: they are following the news and those who are interested in poll t -- politic and they reselfed the cabinet and appointed two new vice presidents and people are reading the newspapers and getting as much information as they can for appointments and what it means and the two men chosen and the man main emerson and political analyst say he is tipped to be the favorite of the president and if he stays on the right side of president he could take over as leader of the country and formally sat with the president and alleges he tried to remove him from power and even said she tried to kill him so people are now concerned about divisions in the ruling party and headline says there is fear and suspicion with the people. the man thing on people's minds is economy, what do all the new appointments mean to the economy here and to improve the lives of

people on the ground? >> maybe to end jobs, you know, and this is for the kids and a better life. >> we don't know whether they are going to deliver or not going to deliver but we hope they are going to deliver since the president is going to do the will of the people. >> reporter: but there are certain people saying this is only a point of loyalists and people he say will try to remove him from power and face the same faces but different positions and skeptics say nothing much will change on the ground. >> latest sports and news is coming up, this news hour and switzerland will increase scrutiny of top officials in the country of sport and joe will be here in a moment for more. ♪

♪ now on saturday china will mark the 77th anniversary of the massacre, more than 300,000 chinese were killed by the japanese army in 1937 and decades after the end of world war ii people in the remote corner of china are still falling victim to the chemical weapons left behind. adrian brown reports. >> reporter: across the frozen landscape of northeast china lies the destructive legacy of another country. it's a bomb. one of 700,000 of the japanese government admits to. more than half of them in this province. >> translator: they are everywhere, sometimes we find them when we see the land.

>> reporter: his son was hurt after steps on a shell and can't understand why this has not been removed. >> translator: of course we worry, how can we not, it could kill us if we accidentally touch it. >> reporter: nearby a father of another victim, and tells me his son was playing with friends besides this now frozen stream and saw is a steel tube lying at the waters edge and tried to retrieve it thinking he could maybe sell it for scrap and instead chem ps inside caused serious burns to his hand and left him with a long and so far fruitless battle for compensation from japan's government. >> translator: how can i not be furious? the japanese troops left all these chemical weapons in the soil and not only killed our ancestors but also going to harm our children and our next generations.

>> reporter: japan admits it's retreating army left behind weapons containing chemicals including mustard gas and cyanide. this is the entrance to a secret place where some of them are being destroyed under japanese super vision but chinese government says it's not happening fast enough. it has been estimated that at least 2000 chinese people have fallen victim to japanese chemical weapons. most surviving with burns and other injuries. tokyo says it so far found and destroyed at least 4,000 of these but that is still a small percentage of what its army left behind here. tokyo promised to destroy as many weapons as possible by 2012 and now almost 70 years after the second world war ended it's still asking for more time. adrian brown, al jazeera in

northeast china. it's time for sport now and here is joe. >> elizabeth they. football body fifi will vote on whether to release the controversial reports in the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 world cups. fifa released a summary of the findings by independent investigator michael garcia but he disagreed with the contents of summary and appealed and fifa executive member has proposed an amendment to the ethics code which currently prohibits the full publication of the report and it will take place at an fifa meeting in moroco and fifa and bodies in switzerland are set to come under increased scrutiny and the swiss parmment passed a bill to examine transactions and behaviors and currently around 60 major sporting bodies based in switzerland and includes fifa,

international committee, antidoping agency and cycling body the uci, switzerland is viewed as attractive for many reasons including the geographic location, attractive tax regime and relaxed meal code but now tougher law also be introduced to allow financial transactions to be examines, exemptions for money laundering will be lifted and fifa president will be defined as politically exposed persons meaning they could be prosecuted if found guilty of corruption. we will have more on this and we can speak to the swiss politician who has driven these changes and why have you been campaigning for this change? >> the pressure has become bigger and bigger during the last few years and pressure on the outside and people from the swiss people who say if these international sports federations don't do anything by themselves we have to do something because they are really tarnishing the

image of our country. >> what will these changes mean for organizations like fifa and the ioc? >> we just heard that they are people that have the status of politically exposed persons and it's the same state as any dictator of this world and means that any movements on their bank accounts will have to be reported to the swiss authorities and if there is anything which seems to be a little bit strange to the bank account it can be closed from one minute to the other. >> reporter: fifa have been embroiled in some real problems over the past few years and recently of course the rewarding of the 2018 and 2022 world cups. do you think these laws will impact on that matter at all? >> they will impact on that matter. the laws you are speaking about now which by the way has been decided upon just this morning, a few hours ago, this law mainly effects the sports officials. and there is another law which

will be treated in parliament next year, in spring next year, this one will really effect the federations as well because corruption in sport will become a criminal offense. >> how have sporting bodies been treated differently from other companies in switzerland until now? >> a big advantage because they are associations like any small fisherman association or futbol club and rules for associations and not for another company of this size because we shouldn't forget fifa and not only fifa but the european futbol body and the international committee that is a multi-billion dollar companies of the sport and entertainment business, that's not just a little association that governs a smaller sport. >> could there be a risk these sports bodies will pick up and

leave switzerland and what would be the impact of that? >> well, i don't really think and you only mention the federation will leave switzerland because what do they say, we can't be corrupt in switzerland and now we move to france to be corrupt and i'm not afraid and i even think the people, i don't think, i have the confirmation that swiss people say if they leave so let them go. it's really not -- it's good to have them here but they have to behave the way swiss people and i think sports people expect from them. >> all right, that is roland speaking to us from burn and thank you for speaking to al jazeera. spanish giants madrid is looking for 20th consecutive victory when they take on al-maria in the league and set a spanish record with 19th straight win after winning in the champion leave and surpass the previous

barcelona and will be the leaguer for 2014 as they head to moroco taking part in the world cup and three will be missing for injury and ramos is suspended. cricket and david warner scores continued for australia after scoring 135 in the first inning and warner followed up with 102 on friday, it's his 6 from 11 test innings and can pay tribute to phillip hughes and friend who died a fort night ago after being hit in the head by a cricket ball. that gives over all lead of 363 over india but needs to take a ten india wickets on saturday to effect victory. the death of phillips hughes is making a return to cricket and it struck hughes in the head and

playing for south whales on friday and took the career best of 14 and 7 overs. nfl and panthers quarterback carbon monoxide newton is lucky to be alive after a crash a few days ago and happened by the stadium with his truck landing on his roof and has two fractures in his lower back. >> i really couldn't talk afterwards because i was such in shock and got myself out of the truck and couldn't stop smiling and it's like one plus one always equals two and i'm looking at this truck and looking at this accident and i'm like dude one plus one is not equaling two and i'm looking at this saying someone is supposed to be dead and i can't stop smiling because it's like god had his hands on me, man. >> reporter: that is all the sport for now and more a little

later. >> thank you very much, joe. to moldova where musicians hope to take advantage of visa-free travel to europe and think the new rules could launch bands to the international stage and robin walker has the story. ♪ export to the world and loved by maldovians. ♪ twice they represented the country at euro vision but they are exceptional. singer remembers the 90s when maldovia music blossomed. >> translator: when we appeared here there were interesting and different groups and festivals and concerts. >> reporter: whereas today the independent music industry has withered. >> translator: i think it's difficult for young musicians today. in some ways it's difficult and some ways there are more

opportunities, we live in a more globalized world. ♪ until recently going global wasn't easy on the maldovian passport like in this 2011 hit. >> we make it. >> reporter: and now they really can make it. and visa free to europe since the summer and music could be the passport to maldova's future says lillian and his band mate egor. ♪ it's natural. >> we are trying to promote alternative music in maldova which is quite a rare thing now. ♪ music could be a good ambassador of maldova and could boost our economy if we would have a strategical approach. >> reporter: so egor and lillian have started coaching

young bands how to get ahead. and this band has promised but she admits they need to learn the basics like using social media. >> we need attention, just attention because the music, you can't just sing the music for you. ♪ and your fans will sing back if you get to be like them. ♪ they have a loyal following from munich to moscow and now they play to a hometown crowd. with the right help this is what maldova young talent can hope for, gigs and fans and like these guys commercial success beyond their border and i'm walker with al jazeera. and that's it for me elizabeth and the entire news hour team and thank you very

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