government to release those journalists. >> journalism is not a crime. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the news hour, i'm in doha and our top stories this hour. kurdish forces claim the biggest victory over i.s.i.l. fighters breaking the siege of the sinjar mountains. three days after this massacre to pakistani school they say ground forces have killed dozens of fighters. political turmoil in haiti as protesters take demands back to

the streets. and south africa has the highest rate of hiv aids in the world, we will have the latest on efforts to stop the spread of the virus. ♪ in northern iraq kurdish fighters are in the sinjar mountains and it's important because people are taking refuge in those mountains and have been under siege for months and we have been in the sinjar mountains in some of this and is in irbill and has more on the peshmerga offensive. >> reporter: the head of the national security forces in northern iraq says peshmerga and kurdish fighters want to take 700 square meters of land that was originally i.s.i.l. controlled. this land stretches from zuma south of the mosul dam to the

sinjar mountains and the syria border and is made up of pockets of villages and towns i.s.i.l. has been holding and the question is where the i.s.i.l. fighters have been gone or they may go to mosul city and the question is if there is backlash and we have seen switching from fight line fighting to insur -- insurgence fighting and suicide bombers came in dressed up as peshmerga and killed many peshmerga forces. at the moment the main fighting is north of the mountains about four kilometers to the north, a town we passed just a week ago which was very much held by the i.s.i.l. fighters and that is really turning into what i'm told a very big fight, the

lieutenant we have spoken to on the top of the sinjar mountains they have imagined to push in the sinjar mountains area they are not able to hold it and let the ten,000 leave if they want to but the battle is ongoing and hoping that will happen in the coming hours and days. sierran government accused of killing dozens in the northwestern city and fighting has been going on there for weeks now, the area recently has been captured by rebels but government forces fighting hard to prevent them from advancing to the capitol damascus. the state has lost control of large areas of the country and doesn't have the soldiers to win it back but we report it thought about how much but what the government controls that allows it to survive. more often than not this is how the government fights back. it attacks rebel-held areas and has not been able to win back all the territory it lost to the

opposition and doesn't have enough soldiers for every front line and chooses its battles in fights on one front at a time. >> in my opinion it doesn't give and doesn't take any and doesn't present any important for this and aleppo is important for the regime but gave it for two years the first priority and why he made military success undefeat. >> reporter: over the years the state has managed to recapture and protect strategic areas to survive even though estimates say it now controls a mere 30% over syria but the amount of territory is not as important as which territory. it is still in charge of its seat of power and damascus is not isolated from other major urban centers under state

authority and connected to the borders of lebanon and jordan, the central city of homs and hama and aleppo as well as coastal region in the west. it also has a presence in other contested provinces which is a stronghold of islamic state of iraq and lavonte and controls approximately 35% over syria. remaining areas are under control of opposition groups but a lot is desert and countrysides and now the conflict is more complicated because rebels are at war with each other. al-nusra front has taken over basis and consolidated the grip on the northwestern province after it pushed some of the so called moderate rebels out last month. >> translator: neither side is winning because of the presence of i.s.i.l. and al-nusra and

have a different program and there are only losers in the war people. >> reporter: neither side is likely to win an out right victory but government will stay in power if it can hold on to the one third of syria it controls. al jazeera, beirut. to pakistan where we are following two major stories, the first involves a main suspect of mumbai attacks in 2008 and rehman lakui has been detained 24 hours after being released on bail. other developments and looking at how the pakistan military and offense against the taliban after the attack on a school in peshawar and we are live from there and mohamed on what grounds was mr. rehman lakui detained? >> he was detained initially on the request of india because india accused him of master mining, the attack in mumbai in 2007 along with 7 other men

still in jail so he was a cohert and islamabad decided to release them because they said they failed to produce evidence and pakistan cannot afford to hand over one of its citizens without clear evidence he was involved in those attacks but 24 hours later the government relied on section 16 of a law called public maintenance order law decided to detain him again after he was released as i said yesterday because according to observers here it's a political move because india has criticized severely the decision to release him yesterday only three days after the attack on the school in peshawar and decided it's not the right time and pakistan doesn't want at this particular moment to open a new front with india when it's in utter trouble with the insurgents. >> and caring out strikes after

the massacre at the school in peshawar and what do we know about that offensive? >> yes, one of the biggest attack since the attack on the school by the taliban happened this morning, the military issued a statement saying they killed 32 when they saw them along the border with pakistan moving from one place to another and confirmed the killing of those 33 and the americans have been active today in that same area and they said they killed eight suspects in a drone attack and see a lot of movement and a lot of situation of alert around the country. the taliban have to date in a new video they have started to kill more people inside the military public schools and accuse of the pakistanis of not having enough feelings for the killing of civilians in north pakistan where the government has been lunched in operation with the taliban for several months and say if you kill our women and children without

concern for them as civilians we will continue to kill the women and children and this is happening only three days after that tragedy that happened here in peshawar. people here are still mourning their dead and they are still in the hospitals with their wounded as you can see in the following packa package. he has one child and in a hospital bed fighting for his life. with whispered prayers and sus pressed tears she is trying to combat her worst fear. >> translator: when i heard my son was shot i ran toward the school in a panic and luckily when he entered he tried to calm me down and said i'm okay even though he is bleeding. i'm proud of my son. he is such a brave boy. >> reporter: he is in 9th grade and in the school auditorium with dozens of others when the attack happened and he fell down

and was bleeding because hi father said he was brave to calaway and call his family by phone. and here is a 12th grader shot in the groins and had his left ear chopped and the 8th grader was shot in the back and a 9th grader has a gunshot wound to the arm and has fresh memories of attackers. >> they looked like anyone and they have long hair, long beard and a cap on the head and have been like pakistan. >> reporter: he and other students in this ward are in stable condition unlike a few others with more serious wounds. we are now inside the intensive care unit, out of the 121 students wounded in the attack, 10 were brought here. one of them died on the first day and three are still on life support. the families of these young victims are not allowed to see

them. we are told it's to prevent shock among the parents. outside families of wounded students gathered to show anger at authorities and blame the army and government for having failed to maintain security in public places. and no amount of visits by politicians could calm the parents. >> translator: unfortunately i can't see any future of our children in pakistan. we can't send them to the mosques, to the school and even sending them to the parks is unthinkable. >> reporter: and his father however says his son is brave and will certainly go back to the same school. we can't afford to surrender he tells me. yes, as you can see, i see military helicopters operating in the air and we are only 60 kilometers from the border where a lot of the operations are taking place and apparently after six months of beginning of

the new operation by the military against the taliban now we see the first strike back by the taliban and see that the government has suddenly woken up to the reality they are in a serious war with taliban and they have to brace up for the worst in this country. >> in peshawar, thank you. shi houthi rebels attacks in yemen on thursday, the worst took place in the town north of the capitol where 16 shia houthi fighters were killed and we report. >> reporter: just north of the capitol three improvised devices hit fighters and dozens killed and injured and this has been over the last weeks when they stormed the homes of tribal leaders and destroyed a number of religious schools. in the sea port al-qaeda group

said it carried out a suicide bomb attack on houthi rebels and several were killed and military commander escaped assassination attempt. yemen is in turmoil as rebels control the capitol and much parts of the country since september and led to fighting between houthis and sunni tribal leaders supported by al-qaeda in some areas. the government of prime minister won a confidence vote in parliament on thursday is struggling to rule and faces challenges including the rising and political power of houthis, a separatist movement in the south and al-qaeda insurgency. >> reporter: planning attacks in australia appeared before a sidney court and the only person who was actually charged after police carried out the country's

biggest so called antiterror operation in september and they are coming to terms with the siege of a sidney cafe earlier this week and andrew thomas has more. >> reporter: the siege in sidney has been a huge shock but the attack in australia wasn't entirely unexpected and the government september raised the alert level to high and considered an attack likely. two weeks later police launched what they called the largest counter terrorismra800 police w involved in rape across sidney and brisbon and only one person remained in custody as a result and initially charged in connection with a plot to carry out a terrorist act and financing terrorism and on monday he appeared in court of further charges on terrorism and think he got money to fight with

i.s.i.s. and there is no connections between him and the man who carried out an attack this week. there are more and more angry questions being asked about why he wasn't being watched by security services more carefully and charged with sexual assault and ex-wife's murder and taken in support of islamic state and out on bail and somehow able to get ahold of a shotgun and this is of sadness, the carpet of flowers where this took place is still growing. bodies of eight children have been found in a home in the australia city of caans and the children 18 months and 15 years were found with stab wounds on friday, the mother of 7 is in hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. more to come for you on the al jazeera news hour including new york city prison where hundreds of inmates were allegedly abused. traveling to another country to

get an education in another town is what some children have to do everyday. and in sport publish or not to publish that is the question facing fifa top executives and we will have that story a little bit later. ♪ now, turning to our top stories peshmerga fighters made gains against i.s.i.l. fighters in the sinjar mountains and what it means for each side is a senior visiting fellow at the middle center and iraq analyst and is live from london and good to have you with us. of these significant territorial gains for the kurdish peshmerga forces sad or a temporary setback for i.s.i.l.? >> well, having in mind what the kurdish leaders were saying in the last few months that they are not ready to fight for mosul

or to sacrifice this for mosul tell southern attacks means that there are some pressure on the peshmerga to do them and to ease the pressure on the iraqi forces in the areas and i think they have been successful because i.s.i.s. forces are mainly concentrated now around faluja and baghdad and this is to ease the pressure on iraqi forces elsewhere. >> you think the gains made by kurdish forces is more a result of i.s.i.l. fighters focusing, being concentrated elsewhere in the country and particularly in the west as opposed to any kind of genuine strategic advantage on the part of the kurds themselves, what then needs to happen to get the iraqi army

reconstituted so they can actually make significant gains and more important gains in mosul? >> well, the iraqi army could be constructed by providing the armed forces with real armaments, by training, by recalling the old numbers of the iraqi armies for many, many years and many wars and have the experience. as you can see and hear most of the staff of i.s.i.s. are members of the old iraqi army and they are the ones putting these plans and these strategies up to now and this was the fault of the iraqi army and the american occupying forces by losing these people to the other side. >> how can they be regained, how can their confidence be won back? >> they could be assured. they could be given amnesty or

they could be excluded from the law of the modification and there are many things to be done for them to be pacified and recommend sback in the army. >> the london school of economics in london and good to get your analysis, thank you. >> thank you. protests have turned violent again on the streets of high they and police blocked the palace to stop demonstrators marching on the building but say they will not keep off the streets until the president steps down and kim has the latest. >> reporter: lead the escape after unidentified gunman opened fire in port au prince. demonstrators quickly followed before security reenforcements arrived and deterred by the violence anti-government

protesters regroup and march through the capitol. the song sounds are big but carries a serious message for the country's basieged president. >> translator: administration of president martelli is against the interest and corrupt and do not care about the poor people and ask for his departure and for his prosecution. >> reporter: opposition leaders having met with president to try and agree on a new prime minister say the time for talk is over. >> translator: we are not going to enter into negotiations with the president. we want his resignation. today we have the rope and if we find him we will tie him up. >> reporter: protesters have held near daily rallies in the capitol angry over government corruption and elections are 2 1/2 years over due. they try to take their message

to the presidential palace, and are called for the most part falling on deaf ears. the president blames legislators for the delayed elections accusing them of blocking the vote to approve law and trying to hold on to power and without elections in january parliament will be dissolved and could rule by decree. protesters say he cannot ignore demands and the writing is already on the wall. and his resignation will stabilize this country, i'm kim with al jazeera. u.s. president barack obama has signed a bill to impose more sanctions on russia over the crisis in eastern ukraine and he is under pressure with the russian currency losing half of its value against the dollar and the euro since the beginning of the year and end of year press

conference tried to reassure the russians the situation would get better within two years and rory reports from moscow. >> reporter: they call in the president's big press conference and they are not wrong, at least a thousand journalists for question-and-answer session that goes on for hours, this year it happened to come in the week the rubble fell to the floor. >> translator: as you may know the situation has changed under the influence of foreign economic factors primarily the price of energy resources. i believe the government and the central bank are taking appropriate measures in this situation, we could question the timeliness of the quality of the measures taken by the government and the central bank but generally they are acting adequate adequately. >> reporter: the economy he believes will recover in the next two years, regarding geo politics he asked why russia was considered aggressive when it's the u.s. with missiles and military bases across the globe and russia putin argued is like a bear, independent and fierce.

>> translator: maybe you should stop chasing pigs and boars around the forest and stop picking berrys and eating honey and he will be left alone but he will not because he will try to chain him out and when he is chained they will tear out his teeth and claws. >> reporter: this ranged from admiration to despair. >> our country is rich and huge and can't understand why everything is going this way, i sympathize with putin but do not belief he will solve the problem and i don't know why it's like the in russia. >> translator: he didn't say anything global and of course all the real things are to be done quietly behind closed doors and not in a press conference. >> translator: vladimir gives me optimism and says the right things and i think he understands how normal people live, it's visible he can sense the situation. >> what putin said is points he

made in other speeches recently, russia economy he said will bounce back stronger and russia is not the aggressor in ukraine and the united states is and has been trying to keep russia down. for anyone looking for signs that putin is a leader there were none. unless you consider the length of this press conference is a sign, just three hours rather than the usual five, i'm with al jazeera in moscow. recognized by russia as an independent republic but the self declared state exists outside the international system and having a major effect on those who live there, since 1992 they depended on russia military and financial assistance and it's a sliver of land which extends roughly from the river to maldova border with ukraine and the lines are not easily defined and here they travel to the village in maldovian-held

territory for an education in a town and from there mr. walker reports. >> reporter: these people take the bus everyday with their teachers. it's a journey deputy heads has been making for 12 years. today is a good day. no hold ups as they cross the boundary line and the divide into territory controlled by maldova from the break away republic. their destination is the village and the school shares its classrooms with the pupils of high so they can learn in romanian. >> translator: it's good what you can learn, you learn about your mother land and in our language and it's better this way. >> reporter: teachers say this was shut down for refusing to

teach. >> translator: they read russian history and geography and russian language, a language that is recognized worldwide. it's not our language and it's not our history. >> reporter: the villages here have problems of their own. they are losing the right to farm their own land. on the 14th of october farm herders came up here and discovered their access to farmland has been completely blocked by this mud bank after a digger was brought in and now the authorities have stationed a police car permanently here to stop anybody trying to cross. and she says she has lost access to 90% of her farm. >> translator: i feel really bad because people have been left without work, without earnings, without anything to support their families with. >> reporter: landowners like vera want to sue the russian federation, the european court of human rights.

and they have grounds for optimism. in 2012 russia was held liable for violating the rights of schools like this one. but the one million euros in damages is yet unpaid. like the money, the problems remain outstanding. robin walker, al jazeera. everton is here now with the weather for us and parts of thailand everton suffering from severe flooding. >> that is right, and it is horrible weather around southern thailand and north of malaysia, this is the satellite picture and border and this is malaysia and 177 millimeters of rain in 24 hours and just on the other side of the border 162 millimeters of rain, you can see this massive cloud which has been making its way across the gulf of thailand pushing across the region and more of that to come over the next couple days and caused major problems, you see flooding has been pretty severe here and lots and lots and many burst the banks and you

can see people chest deep in the very high waters here and has caused big problems and we do have further heavy rain to come and look at saturday's picture and there you go and running across a similar area and more heavy downpours coming in across the region and doesn't get any better as we go into sunday, really is a case of spot the difference, the wetter weather will continue to drive its way further westward and easterly pushing across the region and spotting rain in the southern regions and the same system conveying its way on the way to thailand and big downpours across thailand and pushing into shrelanka and brighter skies for the far south of india. >> everton thank you and still to come on the program israeli plans to have a desert and may end centuries old lifestyle and

will street food taste differently cooked by a foreigner and a controversial ban in malaysia and find out if new orleans can keep houston and their star player quiet and nba action coming up, a little later in the program.

♪ welcome back and watching the al jazeera news hour and through the top stories and forces tell al jazeera the fight against i.s.i.l. is still going on in the sinjar mountains and have

made significant gains after battles to freedom the people under siege but there are concerns about whether or not the peshmerga will be able to hold on to their gain. one of the main suspects in the mumbai attacks of 2008 rehman lakui has been detained under maintenance of public order just 24 hours earlier his release on bail had angered india. and pakistan's military says 32 p pal -- taliban fighters killed and military intensified the intensive after an attack on tuesday at a school in peshawar. the u.s. says it will not support a draft resolution on palestinian statehood proposed to the u.n. security council and introduced the draft on wednesday and sets a timeframe for israel on the land. >> we have seen the draft and it's not something we would support and feel others feel the

same and calling for further consultations. the palestinians understand that. you may also have seen president abbas speak to this earlier today and said they support continued consultation and not pushing for a vote on this now. >> plans by israeli government to develop the desert are threatening the unique way of left of people. and they are israeli citizens they are asked to resettle elsewhere and it's not the first time. as andrew simmons now reports. >> reporter: in every direction you look in this part of the desert you will see communities. a way of life that dates back longer than the state of israel. but people who are israeli citizens believe the latest development plan the government is working on once again threatens their ancestor homelands. [gunfire] this is what happened with the last one, mast protest which turned violent, eventually moves to resettle thousands of

veterans and towns were dropped and now they fear they could face a similar situation again. >> we want to maintain our life. we want to live in peace here and integrated in the state and be part of it and want to contribute to it community. >> reporter: this is one of the unrecognized villages where a few homes have already been demolished. the people manage without any main services of power, water or sewage. all they want is to stay put with better facilities. the people living here say they are not asking for much and they also say they have long standing rights that go back more than seven generations. it is said the size of this village dates back to the empire. >> translator: it's normal for any person to hold on to their land because it's where ur oancestors were born and our rights are nonnegotiable and

this is our village and didn't give it to the british and will not give it to israel and we are still here and we are staying here. >> reporter: there is a deep distrust of the government and believe it was intended to cut the historic links between palestinians and their land to allow more jewish settlers. andrew simmons, al jazeera. al jazeera continues to demand the release of our three journalist in prison in egypt for 356 days, greste and fahmy and mohamed were jailed on false charges of helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood and appealing convictions. and u.s. barack obama has spoken to egyptian president sisi about the plight of our three journalist and the spokesman of the national security council says in the phone conversation obama did race cases of al jazeera journalists and more broadly the issue of the imprisonment of journalists and

peaceful activists and told al jazeera that we continue to urge the egyptian government to expect the freedom of the press, protect civil society and uphold the rule of law which is crucial to egypt's long-term stability. now, south africa has the highest rate of hiv aids in the world, 2.7 million south africans on antiretro viral treatment and what is the biggest such program of its kind in the world, at least 6.3 million people in the country are living with hiv, that is around 19% of adults aged between 15-49. estimated 360,000 children under 14 years old have been infected as well. and in 2013 around 200,000 died from the disease. in the first of a three-part series tonya page say why south africa women are most at risk.

>> reporter: they are fighting over a guy. but they are not the only ones whose sexual partner has been sleeping around, the play is about how hiv spreads through risky sexual behavior but it's too late for brenda and caught hiv when she was in the age group considered most at risk, young woman under 25 years old and because they date men much older who had more expose tour the virus and she was 17 and sleeping with a 25-year-old, their relationship was unequal, she didn't demand to use a condom nor disclose his hiv status and says older men prey on women and offering gifts and relief from poverty. >> they will sleep with you. i have to pay for a husband. this young woman i think they are doing it because they need

things and in my community i think we are so poor so we rely on men. announcer: once the fight is over the health worker reveals they are all hiv positive. it's about the cons consequences of everyday actions. and believes involving young people and making the hiv aids awareness message entertaining is the most effective way of catching and holding their attention that this is far better lecture than this a school hall. and she wrote it, the 25-year-old is also hiv positive. she is counseled to help with stigmatized and want them better educated. >> and the treatment and it was difficult for me to take the treatment in the clinic as well because i was like people are going to laugh at me. >> reporter: these are the people the safe sex message must get through to and it's far more

than using condoms and as long as there is poverty and unbalance of power and sexual relationships young women will always be vulnerable. tonya page, al jazeera, south africa. we are now joined by a public health specialist in johannesberg and thank you for speaking to us and why after all these years there is such a strong sigma attached to women who raise the issue of safe sex? >> well, the think is when you look at the gender in africa, you will find that it is frowned upon for women to speak of sex and talk about who they have sex with and has a high stigma of women who do it and it's the way we were socialized and have been taught you cannot be out spoken about how sex is going to happen and when it's going to happen and things like that and that is why we still have a sigma to this day.

>> how can as we saw in tonya's report a young girl who had been sleeping with an older man, what more can be done in terms of educating these girls, empowering them and making them feel strong enough to resist that kind of pressure? >> well, in all honesty education should actually start in childhood, i then when we embark on programs like life orientation taught at high schools we are a bit late and it's at home and parents have educated on duties in terms of speaking about sex and speaking about relationships to their children and left it to teachers and teachers cannot do everything so we need to go back as a nation and back to basics and look how we ourselves speak about sex and we have the highest rate of hiv in the world but do we speak about sex because you can't speak about hiv without speaking about sex and i found in the work i do that people are reluctant to talk about sex so it starts at

home and tell the girls you don't have to have sex in a relationship and you can wait and you done have to be with someone who doesn't want to wait. >> given that south africa has suffered from this persistently high rate of aids for so many years why is there still now reluctance to talk about sex? >> it's the way we were socialized. i don't want to say it's an african thing because it might not but it's the way we are as people and cannot speak of sex openly. i'm one of the few people that is out there and speak on many shows and have interviews where i speak frankly about sex. and the feedback has always been interesting. on one hand you have people who are shocked that i use the world penis and vagina on air but they would not have the courage to go home and speak about sex openly so it's a matter of socialization and i think as time goes on and as people like more and more people like me come out i'm hoping it's going

to get better. >> it's really good to talk to you and thank you for taking the time, i appreciate it, public health specialist in j johannesbe johannesberg. the health department warned of a measle out break and 49 cases confirmed in 7 provinces and the northern cape are the worst effected. authorities here urged parents to take their children for extra vaccinations and to nigeria where boko haram killed 32 people and kidnapped many more. at least 180 people including women and children are feared to have been abducted when they attacked a remote village earlier this week. federal prosecutors in the u.s. say a new york city jail has abused the human rights of young prisoners and created a culture of fear. the federal government is taking legal steps to make sure inmates at one of the world's largest prisons are protected from

jailers and we report from new york. >> reporter: ritgers island and the abuse of prisoners and it houses 14,000 inmates on any given day, some as young as 16. many have yet to be found guilty of a crime but are here for months before going to trial because they can't afford bail and more than half have a mental illness. >> this is very oppressive and the guards are abusive but we have no accountability for them. >> spent a year at ritgers and they had fights for inmates for amusement and solitary confinement for minor breaches. >> try to teach them to be men but they are children and if you did that two feet from ritgers you would be locked up for child abuse and a lot of other

charges. >> reporter: commissioned by the u.s. attorney and his office joined a civil suit against new york that seeks reforms and independent oversight. >> ritgers island is fundamentally broken and brute force and brutal insults and beatings persist. i say something is very wrong here and that reform is long overdue. >> reporter: in addition to joining the lawsuit against the city, the u.s. attorney has also stepped i'm criminal prosecutions of guards in resent months including finding two of them guilty for charges related to selling drugs to inmates and another guard was found guilty of civil rights violations after he ignored an inmate's plea for help which ultimately led to his death. >> any systemic change is difficult and takes time. >> reporter: mayor has promised reforms including getting rid of solitary confinement for 16 and 17 years old, the practice the u.n. has likened to torture and use of solitary confinement

against youth constitutes a violation of civil rights. >> reporter: critics say it's not happening fast enough and wants to see a more therapeutic environment not only for the good of the inmates but also for the society to which they will one day return. kristen with al jazeera, new york. still ahead this hour we will take you to a community in the himalaya where brothers can marry the same women and they set up a class of city rivals and we will have the details from the spanish cup. ♪

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welcome back, in a remote district of napal families following an age-old tradition where brothers can marry the same women and we report the younger generation is moving away from this controversial custom. >> reporter: she is married to three brothers but none of them are around. and they are working with their cattle and the other has taken the move to the border of china. in this remote northwest napal and these people say that marrying brothers is the only way to ensure that they have enough food. >> translator: produce from the land here is never enough that is why brothers have to live together, if each one had to manage their own, it would never be enough. sometimes even living together like this there is not enough

food. >> reporter: we told the brothers married to the same woman the land remains intact and families continue on as farmers and traders but the tradition is fast disappearing. >> translator: times have changed, sometimes even my husbands talk about getting married again, they are still young. i tell them, no. >> reporter: and increasing number of younger generation get educated in kathmandu and most don't want to come back and live here. heartily any youth can be seen here in the village and old people accompanied and low landers from neighboring villages and she and her younger husband have a large farm to manage. and the older husband and her four children are all in kathmandu and there is just too much work for the couple and they had to hire people to help them. and their children show no sign of coming back.

>> translator: we work hard to educate our children, now they are educated and they don't have to go to the highlands to work or find food or go to the low lands and where they go they find jobs and will buy food with that money and will marry. >> reporter: they have sold most of the cattle. land has gone to share croppers and the couple often wonder where they will end up when they can no longer manage to work, and i'm with al jazeera, northwestern napal. time for sport. >> thank you very much. friday we will see fifa decide if the full transcription is to be public and meeting in morocco divided on the issue and also having to deal with the resignation of the author of that report, michael garcia, the u.s. lawyer was employed by fifa to investigate the legitimacy of the bidding process for the 2018

and 2022 world cups and garcia quit on wednesday saying he lost faith in fifa's leadership and to talk more on that tim joined by our correspondent lee weldings live from london and lee what to expect from this meeting? >> well, we all are anticipating some kind of vote in morocco from the fifa executive committee and if they are changing the ethics code of fifa to have the report with some redactions and decide if they are going to go through with this and get it published but it has to change the rules first and it's never straightforward with fifa and you have the old one who is very reluctant to have this published and want to stick to the laws around these things and want to stick to the confidentiality and you have a wave of people coming to fifa on the executive committee and know they need to make it public and

things need to change and needs to be transparency they promised and too late to save mr. garcia's role in this but people in fifa know how damaging this has all been. if they dedecide to public the report there might not be as much of a difference between the original report and the summary of judge eckart that some people believe and he had a real reason and interest and saying this is not exactly what i said and i need to move away from the process and his reputation was being damaged by fifa but to think the respected judge of around 30 years would get everything wrong in the garcia report is pushing it a bit and it may not be the stuff in there that people suspect there is. >> lee weldings live from london and thank you very much for that. madrid set up the performance saw them through to the last 16

of the spanish cup. already three up from the first leg against louse and put atletico ahead in the 19th minute and equalized and scored his 14th of the season to make it 2-1 and aggregate. and he had the goal of the night and he is second distance for 2-2 and spanish champion is 5-5 on agree get and have a date with the cross town rivals. four points clear at the top of italy syria after 3-1 win at calvary and they all found the net for the old lady of italian futbol and 2-1 winners over parma and a strike and one-match ban by the english and the 24-year-old punished for his

super mario post on social media which has racist connotation and he will miss a sunday home against bars low -- barcelona and was fined. and they are far from out of it. the tourests were 71-1 in the second innings and mean they trail by 26 overall. australia made the 505 with steve smith top scoring with 133. normalizing of relations between the united states and cuba could have a big impact on professional baseball. the sports may have rich history in cuba but it's only by moving abroad that the players can get wealthy. until now cubans wanting to take up lucrative offers with major league baseball in the usa had to defect from their country and

did not stop them playing in the mlb and peter jackman says regardless of any diplomatic changes cuba will still be reluctant to allow its players to leave. >> cuban league is trying to survive, it has always been totally independent of major league baseball and it's an extremely important institution socially within the country. they focus their baseball on developing a strong national team for international tournaments and obviously they want to keep their players home. they have had a problem now with young players leaving, defecting from the country, going to the united states to play in the major leagues because of the lure of the big money. in order to try to stem the tide of some of those defect shuns they have started to send some of their better players in the summer to play in japan but under the condition they come back and play in cuba during the winter so that they maintain their own strong league, the problem with major league baseball is major league teams

when they sign the players to contracts are not going to allow them to go back and play a full season in the winter in cuba because of concerns about injury, because they don't want a player playing year around and being tired out and do not let them go to dominican or vent wh what -- venesuala and doesn't have anything to do with the embar embargo. >> it was only houston defeat of the season and davis scored 30 points and 14 rebounds and 21 for houston and the rockets and always had the edge on the night and in the lead with a three-pointer. and the night belonged to teammate davis new orleans 99-90. and that is all the sport for

me. >> thank you. now, northern malaysia is known for street food, a mix of malay and chinese and india influence and only malaysia allowed to cook in local stores and foreigners banned for preserving the traditional taste and lawrence reports from the state capitol georgetown. >> reporter: food is something of an obsession among malaysia and quite common to have people say have you eaten instead of how are you? and many people has an agreement that street food in the north is the best. and he started out as apprentice and uses the family recipe handed down through generations. >> very nice for you. >> reporter: and he trained his son to took exactly the same

thing. and this is described as one of the food capitols of the world and people take their food seriously, so seriously, in fact, that the state government wants to ban foreigners from cooking local fair. the chief minister says it's to preserve the authenticity and flavors of the street food and it would only apply to those who work in roadside stores. >> if you just employ a worker who has a routine job i think you are losing the very essence of the magic that makes this food so incredible. >> reporter: as to what exactly that magic is, one food writer offers her opinion. >> it's so closely related that it has a strong sense of identity that the people had and feel strongly about their food and therefore a lot of passion and a lot of love goes into the creation of all the dishes. >> reporter: but malaysia's

food ambassador says the ban is short sighted. >> we should train them properly so they in the future would also go everywhere on the food. >> reporter: they are adamant saying it will preserve the brand and taste of true food. florence with al jazeera in georgetown, malaysia. a new planet has been discovered or more accurately an ex o planet and orbits a star other than the sun. and the official planet hunter, the space telescope spotted it 180 light years away from earth, not far from the consolation pieces and it's 2 1/2 times the earth's diameter and it was discovered close to a thousand since the launch in 2009, more news ahead with david foster, stay with us.

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