♪ this is al jazeera. ♪ >> hello there. this is the newshour live from london coming up: israel freezes the tax revenue it collects on behalf of palestinians after they apply to join the international criminal court. as more bodies and wreckage are found from air asia's crashed plane, indonesia threatens to revoke the company's operating license for flight violations. inside the cattle ship abandoned carrying hundreds of my grantsdz to italy plus. >> i am on the by cami-cameral main

line that runs through some of the most inhospitable terrain. 20 years ago this was uneconomic cal but now it's better than ever. keep watching to find out why. welcome to the newshour. israel says its. >> with holding around $127 million of tax revenue from the palestinian authority. the money which israel collects on behalf of palestinians is used to run the government and pay civil workers' salaries. it comes a day after the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. handed over a formal request for palestine to join the international criminal court. it pushed ahead with the application after its resolution to i wanted israel's occupation of its territory was rejected by the u.n. security council on tuesday. the pal cityian leadership wants the icc to hold israel to account for alleged wire crimes

during the war last year. >> stephanie knee decker in jer jerusalem has more. >> reporter: they usually do this as a punitive measure when the palestinians take action they don't agree with. they cant do it for too long because there is the possibility that the that the p.a. collapses when it doesn't get these millions of dollars it relies on and this is something israel doesn't want. because who will run the west bank. most of the areas that the p.a. holds. it's back and forth. we are hearing the language of the icc. the palestinians and the israelis say the palestinians go to the icc. if you try to investigate us for war crimes we will do it to your leaders who they hold accountable of funding terrorists and using that kind of language. so all in all, it's a very uncondeucive scene, uncondeucive sort of time to go try to get any peace process on the table. palestinian people will be watching their leaders making these moves perhaps supportive but really nothing is changing on the ground for them.

the chief palestinian peace negotiators say israel is once again responding to the reference to secure statehood with further illegal collective punishment. >> this month, people will not be able to pay the schools, the hospital did the medical supplies, the milk the bread, the dent to the banks. it affects the whole nation that shows that this is not only concerned with judgment and home dem lists but when it comes to exercising political punishments, they are putting 4 million palestinians, starving them subjecting them because they want to act with impunity. they want could destroy gaza and this is what they are doing and i can see. we hope the international community will stand shoulder to shoulder with us. it is not the israel government

who needs protection. it's the palestinian people. >> a former legal advisors to israel's foreign ministry. he says israel has only cupped the money as a last resort. >> israel was relec tant to take this measure. the reason is we need some leverage to prevent the derailing of a chance for a peaceful subtlement. settlement can be reached by negotiating, not by mutual complaints to the international criminal courts. if the pal stiffenians make complaints israelis will make complaints about palestinians. this is not going to advance us. we can reach an government with the p.a. it has to be done with us. we have to sit with the palestinians. the palestinians have to sit with us. it's not going to be done by the united nations or the international criminal court. >> joining me from skype from due dubhai who served as counsel before the enter the national criminal court. toby, thanks very much for joining us on the program. how much of a game changer for

the palestinians is signing the statute? how much do you think it will change things in reality? >> i think it is a hugely significant step and it's obviously something that abbas had promised if the u.n. security counselcil had failed unfortunately, it was always destined to fail. this is a huge lig significant step. it's imports to note if the icc takes this on, it's going to be looking at crimes committed on all sides. it's not just going to be looking at one side. we have already heard a number of statements from the ic prosecutor over the last month and a half in effect inviting the palestinian authority to sign up to the roman statute. the question now is where it goes from here.

it's disturbing, of course to hear of the israeli government's attempts to punish palestine for effectively signing up to a process which is based upon the rule of >> the authority, the palestinian people have tied every measure to push a peace process. you can't have a peace process which is one-sided. and it is clearly one-sided. and it's alsoa hypocritical of the international community to

actually say that this is not conducive to the peace process. we don't normally punish states for signing up for international treatiesies. we reward states for signing up for international treaties. so, it's very difficult to see how this is going to interfere with the peace process which is effectively dead in the water in any event. i think from my own perspective, i have always said that you cannot have proper negotiations without dealing with issues of justice and accountability. so, i think this is a very positive step by palestine i only hope the international community gets behind palestine and gets behind a proper peace process that recognizes palestine as a state. >> toby joining me fromfrom dubai. thank you. indonesia's transport missioner

is threatening to revoke air asia's operating license after last week's crash. he said air asia's sunday flight was a violation of its route license. he told al jazeera they are also investigating flight violations by a number of airlines and aviation officials. four large -- for large parts of the airbus the a 3-2200 has been found in the java sea. 30 points have been recovered and divers are searching for the rest of the 160 passengers and crew of flight qz 8451. more from jakarta. >> >>. >> reporter: even before the caused of thecration is known, airasia has been barred between flying from surbaya and singapore because the airline has been found to have been operating the flight that went down without a proper license. the minister of transport does not rule out more sanctions. he says he is investigating everyone involved. >> the air traffic chrome

conversations, the airport, and the airasia and, also the other airlines. and all, also the hope the whole play in this air transport, in the schedule air transport transport, including our own people if any airlines does the same thing, we will cancel their license of the route, specific route. if everybody doing it, we will cancel everything. >> reporter: aviation analysts say it's not only airasia breaching regulations. they have a poor safety airlines. nearly all are band from fly to go europe after the international civil aviation

organization downgraded the safety rating in 2007. many say things have not improved since then. >> there was some improvements, but i have to say nothing specific or consistent. we wasted a lot of time. >> the airports here are not equipped to deal with the rapidly growing airline industry. the country's main airport in jakarta has the capacity to deal with only one-third of the current flow of passengers leading to worrying statistics of near plane collisions because much heavy air traffic. >> jakarta is the 8th busiest airport in the world. many indian easians can now afford to fly. an avenue of 164,000 passengers board plays here in indonesia every day. a booming industry struggling to keep up with demand. >> instead of banning indonesian airlines, the former transport minister says international organizations like the european union should help. >> please come here.

please help indonesia. [speaking native tongue.] >> while the minister of transport says he wants to take bold measures to improve indonesia's safety record, investigations are underway to find out why airasia's flight crashed into the java sea killing 162 people. rescuers have detected large parts of the plane at the bottom of the sea increases the chances of finding the blacks box recorder soon. jakarta. >> joining me is the semiior lecturer in aviation studies at london's kingston university. thank you for joining us on the program.

seth's picture dissenters pay a secure picture of the state of the aviation sector in indonesia. why are they threatening to revoke airasia's license? >> essentially, every commercial aircraft that takes off has to have a permit to fly through airspace of different countries. it seems here that what's happened is the airasia had a permit to fly through the singapore route every day essentially up until october. what's happened since then is the indonesian authorities have reduced that flight frequency of seven flights a week down four flights a week and it seems as if the airasia permit didn't allow it to continue flying on a sunday. there is a bit of after technical caveat here in that although the aircraft took off local time on a sunday actually international aviation works on british meantime and on greenitch meantime it was still saturday so there is a bit of a

tech technical caveat there the investigators would have to look atnnich meantime, it was still saturday so there is a bit of a technical caveat there the investigators would have to look at at. they were supposed to be flying on so many days. authorities don't actually know how many planes are in the air any begin time. do they have to submit a flight plan? how does it work? >> this is the surprising thing here because it's the exog asian directrat that issues the permit. they should have a mechanism in place for them to mon core which ones have permits and which don't. it seems what's happened is the airasia, the actual flight would have filed flight plan. the flight plan gifts the authorities a detailed feel of where the aircraft will be and at what time. it seems as if the indianonesian authorities, this flight had flown a several weeks on a sunday and hadn't been there. >> do you think that that had any impact them actually not know can it was supposed to be flying when it was on the actual crash, itself?

i mean it's still pointing to bad weather being the reason behind the crash. >> that's right. having the permit is just basic paperwork. i don't think there is a link between not having the permit to fly and actually the aircraft accident. so there seems to be no link. i would be surprised if there was a link there. but the reason for finding a flight plan is to enable the air traffic control to know the number of aircraft in a particular piece of airspace at that particular time. and if that aircraft wasn't supposed to be there, then it's possible that too many aircraft may have been in that particular space at that time. >> it sounds like very much the crash has pointed to the real problem in the aviation market in indonesia. we heard the man in that piece talking about needing help from the e.u. because, of course they are not allowed to fly to the european union because of the differences if standards. so a lot of improvements are required, i guess. >> yeah. i think if you look at europe and the european air space, what happens is any commercial flight entering european airspace will

have filed a flight plan. >> flight plan is checked by euro control in brussels to make sure it's got the correct permits that it's able to fly and that there won't be too many aircraft in a particular piece of european airspace at any one time. it seems as if the indonesians don't have that capability yet. so certainly, maybe a prospect for improving things. >> anil padhra thank you very much for joining us. thank you. coming up this newshour why syrians are fleeing the war in their country, face another deadly hazard in turkey. . fire fighters battle to control bush fires raging across three states in australia. and in sport, we look ahead to one of the world's most exciting yet dangerous motor sports efforts. ♪ three rebel groups in

southern syrian is a they are merging to form what they call the first army. the opposition has been increasingly weakened by infighting undermining efforts to remove president bashar al assad. >> >> >> control of provinces from regime forces. opposition groups have merged in the past with limited success. in 2013, seven groups united into a force called "the islamic front." in the northern city of allep 0 the islamic front joined fors with other rebel groups. fighters say the integration was limited and aleppo remains a city besieged by regime forces.

infighting and disunity has weakened the opposition across syria but in the jova area rebel groups say they are on the offensive. syrian state t.v. said president bashar al-assad visited this area recently. the rebels say that's untrue because they control the area. >> we dismiss the false reports person trade by the regime's lying media machine that bashar al-assad has been in this area. as you can see that is the parliament skwa and the wada hospital. >> neither leb -- near the lebanese border the al-qaeda branings the nusra front has attacked hezbollah positions. they have the backing of the military wing of hezbollah, a lebanon legal leb an easy group. there are many groups and many aleak answers. what is clear is whatever side

syrians are on, the fighting and the chaos show no sign of ending. victoria gatinbia, al jazeera. >> for many syrians fleeing the civil war, getting out of the country doesn't always mean they are safe. hundreds of thousands of land mines planted decades ago by the turkish government are in place along the turkey/syria border. a report from san laruf amount of the devastating effect they have had on one family. >> at 13 years old, mustafa should be out playing with the other children but he can't. running for their lives from isil's advance through syria, his family headed for the boarder fence with turkey. and straight into a mine field, a turkish mine field. >> someone told us to cross under the border wire fadal says. as we did, a mine exploded under my brother and me. my brother was killed.

i lost my legs. therefore more than 600,000 mines along turkey's 900 kilometer border with syria. they were planted decades ago to prevent illegal border crossings according to the government. behind me where you can see the cards in the distance is the buffer zone between syria and turkey and that is a mine field, and there are perhaps as many as 2000 people there, but they are unwilling to come in to turkey because they are not allowed to bring their cars or their cattle with them. >> turkey joined the landmine ban treaty in 2003 but it was slow to start clearing and fencing off mined areas. then the war in syria started. >> translator: i find what happened to this boy heartbreaking but because of the fighting it wasn't possible to clear the minefield. i would likely to add on september 19th, i was at the border all day. if i had only opened one

corridor from kolbane, we would have had hundreds of casualties. i ordered fences to be cut 12 different corridors. the governor is talking about the chaotic initial days of it isil's advance on colbane. in 4 days in september, more than 130,000 people fled to turkey. since then at least three people have been killed by the mines. another dozen injured according to human rights watch. >> my son has no future. what future can you expect for a 13 years old boy who has lost his legs? we all have no future. we lost all of our property that we built up over 50 years. >> after seeing this video fatal, the governor promised to make sure he gets further treatment and is fitted with prosthetic legs. we will keep an eye on fadal's progress. barnard smith, turkey.

italian investigators have surveyed the inside of a cattle ship left adrift off of the it al alian course abandoned by people 134u8ing ling crew before being rescued by the european mayor to time force and towed into an italian port. here is the story. >> reporter: heavily protected against anything they might find on board the investigating team began their search of theship. it's passengers now safely assure they found gangways littered with possessions, suit cases stuffed with all they could bring on the voyage left abandoned. apaishlth income too great a hurry to escape a vessel that promised them freedom but became their prison. it was sleeping quarters the blankets that were their beds among the day bre left behind. earlier, we had gathered on the decks, wrapped against the cold

night air as the ship was brought into port. waiting to bring them assure an italian medical team, one of the number giving voice to the mixture of compassion and frustration that so many now feel toward this trade in human traffic. >> we need to create humanitarian corridors to allow these people to arrive in europe in a way that is free from the greedy human trafficers that speculate on desperate people. >> the italian coast guards have been forced to load it in the dark and in rough seas after it became clear that crew had simply abandoned the ship to the merits of the sea. it was a second such incidents in four days after another vessel with nearly 1,000 on board had to be rescued close to the italian coast. the commander of the italian coast guard here told al jazeera, he believed the crew had deliberately disabled the ship before deserting it in the knowledge the it alalian navy would

perform a rescue. >> it is deliberate. they have no respect for human life. >> you think they might do more like this? >> we expect there can be other, new cases. we worry. we worry there will be new cases. >> the fear that the voyage did like that of the izadeen represent a new strategy for the people smugglers is one that is increasingly concerning the authorities. this boat load of migrants are safe for now but others may not be so lucky. harry smith, al jazeera. relatives of the victims of an italian ferry fire are still waiting for news from investigators, at least 11 people died in the blaze and the ferry was towed into the port on friday but fierce heat on board has prevented fire fighters from entering the vessel. the authorities fear there may

be more bodies in the car deck where the fire started. another attack on coptic christians working in libya. seven christians weres taken just a few days ago. now, masked gunmen have stormed a hotel in the city of sirt and kidnapped 13 christians from egypt. it has become a safe haven for armed groups since the overthrow of former leader muammar gadaffi. yemen's shia houthis have been celebrating marking birth of mohammed. security was tight as the rebel group has come under attack in recent days. a report from sanaa. >> reporter: the houthi celebrations started overnight all over yemen's capitaltol. it is clear who is in charge here more than 2000 shia fighters have been deployed, some armed with heavy weapons,

they set up checkpoints to present suicide attacks. >> we have maximum security going well. there is coordination between all security forces and us that's fighters wants death to america everywhere. >> all roads leading where the main celebration is taking place have been closed off. people were forced to take other routes. there are outbreaks and houthi did are taking it seriously. they also want to show their cause. >> they seized this camp when they swept through sanaa. organizers say thousands of supporters and fighters have showed up. this is a religious celebration mixed with politics. >> in the northern province the group's leaders say the houthi revolution will continue.

>> translator: we will carry on our revolutionary actions in fighting corruption to end the political turnierny and very many the army to protect the state and its institutions . >> they have taken control of nine provinces since july largely because of political infighting and the turmoil that followed the 2011 protest which scuffled the president. alliances can change and the houthis could end up with more

enemies than friends. al jazeera sanaa. >> silence has again broken out in bahrains capitol. it's 7th day in a row police have clashed with protestors and sheik ali salman was arrested. his lawyer say he is accused of inciting hatred and calling for the government to be forcefully over thrown. >> lawyers for al jazeera journalists have filed requests for them to be deported. they and producer mohammed have spent more than a year in prison. they were falseliays accused of aiding outlawed muslim brotherhood. on thursday, an appeals court in cairo ordered a retrial which could begin within a month. >> still to come this hour a suspect in the al-qaeda bombings of u.s. embassies in tanzania dies in new york just days before his trial.

why are 83% of trafficers generally sick on new year's eve? the prime minister has doubts. in sport anti-murray wins the first title of the tennis season but he did it the easy way. fara will have that story for you later this hour.

. well, back. a reminder of the top stories. israel says it's with holding around $127 million of tax it collects on behalf of the palestinian authority. it comes a day after an official request is made for palestine to join the international criminal courts. four large objects have been detected in the search for the crashed airasia plane. indonesia has revoked air asia's operating route license because it violated the route license. italian investigators have been surveying the inside of the ezdenna, a cattleship left adrift with hundreds of syrian refugees on board.

an al-qaeda suspect accused of playing a part in the bombings of u.s. embassies in kenya and tans nia has died of cancer in the united states. rob reynolds has more. >> abanas libby died days before his trial was scheduled to begin in new york. he was accused of helping to plan the attacks on the u.s. embassy in kenya and tans nia that killed 224 people. the bombings triggered a years' long han hunt that resulted in the death, scalp tour or imprisonment of 18 suspected al-qaeda operatives. >> the big take away here is that tearvism a crime that can be fought with crime fighting methods very successfully and that civil courts can get convictions. people can be identified. >> in october, 2013, u.s. army commando did snatched him off of the streets of the libyan capitol, tripoli. he was taken to the u.s. naval vessel san antonio and

questioned for a week by cia agent did. he later said that during this interrogation, he was threatened and made incriminating statements under did youuress. he needpleaded not guilty to federal conspiracy charges. prosecute orders said he was a close associate of osama bin laden and joined al-qaeda in the early 1990s. his attorney said he had no connection with the organization after 1994. >> al libby had severe health problems including hepatitis and liver cancer. processing cutors say he was taken to a new york city hospital on december 31st after which his condition deteriorated rapidly. >> one of his sons told al jazeera that u.s. officials neglected his father's health and, therefore hastened his death. >> we hold the u.s. government fully responsible for the death of my father. >> of the 21 alleged al-qaeda operatives indict for the embassy bombing, 10 are dead.

six are serving life terms in u.s. prisons and two are awaiting trial. three, including al-qaeda head al zawari remain at large. rob reynolds. >> boca haram is reported to carried out another mass kidnap kidnapping in northeastern nigeria. boys went missing from the village on new year's eve and were taken to a forest a known stronghold of the armed group. the news only came to light when villagers who evening aped two days later. >> fire fighters in australia are battle to go control bush fires in the state of south australia. he evacuation orders have been issued to residents east of adale. nicole johnston has the latest. >> it's summer in australia and that means bush fire season. a heat wave swept across the eastern states sending temp temperatures soaring to over 40

degrees celsius. it's a lethal combination, searing heat strong winds and try grass. the worst fires are in the state of south australia and the hills near the city of adelaid. >> the sound of the roar over the hills is almost like a jet engine like in an airplane. it's just getting louder and louder. >> thousands of people have fled from their homes. there are dozens of homes lost in the fires. at least five have burned to the ground so far. >> we are losing properties. we don't know how many properties are being lost. >> police have declared the fires a major emergency. this this gives them the power to force people to leave their homes. >> we are dealing with an incredibly dangerous fire. your life is at risk. >> it's hard work for fire fighters. so far six have been injured. officials are calling on other states to help. but they have their own problems. in the neighboring state of

victoria, bush fires have also threatened homes in the coastal area of the mornington peninsula and in farming areas in the west. >> we just quickly went back and got a couple of things and juv said, >> everyone is hoping these fires won't end up rivalling that one. but australia has a long summer ahead of it, and fires have become a dangerous part of it. nicole johnston al jazeera. >> germany has traditionally let collective bargaining set wages but start of 2015 sees a national minimum wage come on

into force. workers will get more than $10 an hour. critics say this will destroy jobs and won't help overall growth in europe. nick speicer reports from berlin. >> the customers are getting spruced up for the holidays at this low-price air salon in berlin. the workers are about to get a makeover too a pay rise to bring in the new year. a big change for this single mother. >> i think it's a super idea. it makes you feel very motivated. i will have a bit more money and i will be able to buy formore for nigh child. >> the minimum wage law breaks with decades of tradition where the federal government would stand back and allow unions and business to strike deals on wages that would balance social justice with a profit motive. the social democrats who entered into government with chancellor angela merkels christian democrats made the minimum wage a condition for joining the coalition. >> the minimum wage won't help workers in germany's big auto

companies. they earn more than 8 euros an hour, but it will affect hundreds of thousands in the serviced industries such as restaurant staff. this boss says he is okay with paying more if that's the price of keeping good staff but there is new red tape. >> we now have to keep records on every single worker how many hours has he worked per day, for example, and this information has to be made available at the restaurant. so, if there is an inspection i have to be able to show the records and give proof. otherwise, i will have to pay a big fine. >> germany has been under pressure from the european phone numbers stimulate demand to boost growth across europe. the german economists say the minimum wage won't do much. >> it will not have a great impact on europe. it's highly improbably the german demand from products from other european countries will rise because of introduction of the minimum wage here whatever the effects for germany's european neighbors for workers,

the changes will come with the first paycheck of the new year. nick spicee al jazeera, berlin. >> things aren't looking so good for some workners italy this year. a hugh number of state workers failed to turn up for night shifts in rome. it turns out they may have inadvertently helped the italian government and its plans to make it easier to dismiss unproductive workers. am staggering amount calmed in sing. 7 out of 24 drivers due to work on a night shift are reported tore have turned up. 200 street sweepers are said to have taken time off for illness in naples this response on twitter: i read that 83 police in 100 did not work because of illness on december the 31st. that's why in 2015, we'll change the rules for public sector employees. joining frus rome to talk more about this is mark lapret, a

business reporter with el folio. warm welcome to the program. thank you for joining us. policemen concerned said this was more of a protest and that's why they didn't turn up. is it really just a sign of a wider malaise in italy? >> let me assure the audience at one point. local police in rome has a few tasks related to minor muchoffenses and traffic jam. rome was still patrolled by national police forces. >> besides that, the mainly issue, as you said is which episode strikes for two reasons. you have to analyze this episode from two sides. one is the local side and then the national one. on the local side as you said was more of a form of protest toward the major and the head of the police corps trying to reform the local police corps. for example, abolishing some

productivity bonuses that are spread out to every worker every single worker without -- regardless of any productivity measurement. so this is one issue. the international issue is more on the public entities in italy. the italian government approved the the new rules for more flexibility in the labor market might apply into next year for the public sector and that of course, is causing so many problems and strikes or also creeping strikes as this was on new year's eve. >> markell how about the political disunity that currently exists in italy? how difficult is that making it for business to get down to transform the way things are handled? >> well, the political situation is quite striking because right

now, we do have a central left government. usually in italy central left governments have been more keen to enclose public sector employees but even a center left government such as rentz government a reformist government has been attacking certain privileges of the public employees. let's remember that in italy, we have almost 3.5 million people who work for the public sector and they have been throughout the years of crisis they have worked in a different planet from the private sect there has been no firing no productivity enhancement. so that's the issue right now 2309 government t joining ing me live from rome. thank you. a good district attorney for the

number one test cricket team in the world. fara will tell us why in just a moment.

>> a new improved cancer treatment is showing success. using a people with of high-energy particles has been around for more than 20 years. but it's been limited to organs and patients that kept perfectly still. now, scientists working on how

to treat moving tumors. >> these are the slices of the real tumor in a patient. >> ger heart kraft has spent his life developing a technique known as iron people with cancer using beams of carbon proceedtons, the core part of the atom. he explains how they can be energized and target tomb cells. the technique proved so effective that 90% of patients with deep-seated brain tumors fully recover. >> the main index with the tissue or with the material around ask at the end. you can do something at the end. it's like a knife which is at the ends very sharp and in between, you don't see it at all. >> particle beams work exceptionally well when they are treating tumors an parts of the body like the brain which can be held absolutely still. but many tumors appear in the body in areas like the lungs or

the liver, and they are continuously moving inside a patient. that's why scientists are developing new technique which actually track the movement of the tumors during therapy. >> they used a robot to emulate >> the tumor is on the inside so you can't really see what is going on. >> using motion tracking technology the researchers are developing ways to match the movement of internal organs like the lungs with points on the outside of the body while continuously checking that the people with is on target. >> the researchers say the technique, once its perfected,

will cost less than a third the price of chemo therapy and have little or no side effects and be much more effective. >> if this technology would be more common in the rich countries, it will be cheaper and then it can spread to the less rich countries. >> the machine costs around 120s million dollar but it has the capacity to treat 10,000 people over five years and could be used for treating other conditions, in some cases, even replace traditional surgery . the teams say the technique demonstrates how advances in particle physics and computer technology can play a part in the ongoing fight against cancer. >> terrek bazley damstadt yerm. >> here is farah with the day'sspots news. >> julie, thank you so much. drivers and riders of the 36 daka really real getting ready for the gruelling event. from sunday cars trucks bikes and quads will race across

southney one of the toughest challenges in mortgage support. this route is the 9,000 kilometers long and crosses through argentine i can't, bolivia and chili. competitors will set off from buenos aries, fight it out over two weeks and 13 race stages passing through all kinds of terrain. the final hurdle before the halfway point includes a steep two kilometer downhill sprint before they arrive at eteki in chile and then they take on the bol i haveian stage of the race and face sand dune downs, salt flats and tough mountainous trails. after a rest day, the teams begin the germany journey back to argentina due to arrive in buenous aries by the 17th of january. andrew simmons has more from buenbon on this air buenos aires. >> argentinians love the event.

it's second to football t would seen there is a massive line-up with 50 entrants. most interesting is the entry of the perjo works car term. now, they are a very successful team from the past. they will take on the mini 4-wheel drive. the event is absolutely gruelling. there is more than 9,000 kilometers of action with salt flats, desert ravines, mountains. it's an thaevent has its origins in africa but it's been adopted by the latin americans now. it is highly successful. there seems to be much money brought on. stefan who has won the event 11 times, he is driving a perjo and natty roma is a hopeful. he drives a mini and, also in that team nasar alatia from

qatar who won in 2011 but the conditions are bad and the event gets going in the early hours of sunday morning. captain jarad said he he will join a team in the united states when he leaves the club at the end of the season. the 34-year-old announced on friday he will leave for the states but hasn't decided which club he will play for. so far he has won 10 trophies and scored 180 goals at his hometown club. the turning point in his decision to leave came with brands on rogers told him he couldn't play every game anymore. >> the key for me now is to finish the season strong from a personal point of view and try to achieve something for the team and try and cheer the fans up t like the rest of us. i am focus and told the manager a couple of days ago, you know,

he worries about me. i will be here until the end. the final ball and i love that better than to leave the team. >> defending champions athletico madrid are within one point after beating levante 3-1 on saturday and greensman headed in two for athletico. his first came in the 18th minute. the frenchman scored his 8th goal of the season after the break before sealing the win he were nine minutes from time with another header. athletico are now third in the table level on points with barcelona. >> andy murray won his first title of the season after novak djokovic pulled out of the world tennis championship because of illness. the serb worldnu 1 was set to face andy murray in the exhibition event. earlier on saturday he said he was suffering from a fever and couldn't play. the title goes to him for his first win of 2015.

>> it was obviously unfortunate. you know i heard earlier that novak wasn't feeling well. so, you know it happens. it's one of the tough things about an individual sport is that you can't just substitute players and team events. you can do that. it's just an unfortunate way to finish the week. >> rafael nadal bounced back from his 6-2 love thrashing by murray in the semifinals, he was in the third place playoffs match. the worldnu 3 had a shaky start but overpowered his opponent. 7-6, 6-3 the final score. >> south africa's day in the third test against the west sxwirningz. theyed bold out 329 and were on their way to reaching that first inning total until the rain came down. richard parr reports. the west independentics on 276 for 6.

trumain blackwood became the third to pass has half century. but he failed to get much further. getting in for lbw. south africa's second highest taking to 393 when jason holder became the fourth victim of the test. the rest of the tail the number 1 test side needing let's than 10 overs to take the last four wicketts. chasing 329, the south african opener seemed to be building al partnership. but in the last over of the morning, elga went for lbw to hold his bowling. the windies would only manage one wickett in each session in the day. petersen was run out on 42 in

the second. placine placine managed to reach a half century by a t. his innings ended when he was stumped on 68. that left kasham and billous to build a partnership of sent. only the rain could start them with south africa at 227 for 3. richard parr al jazeera. >> that's your sport for now. now, back to julie in london. >> farah, thank you. russian's trans siberian railway is getting new life. the main line known as bam is a freight line built by young communists in the 1970s. lawyery road to the town of tinda. >> 4,000 kilometers of hardened steel through 4 kilometers of deepest winner the main line

slices from the pacific coast to the heart of siberia passing seven mountain ranges and crossing 11 alpine rivers on its route. this is the late soviet era hero project that's currently enjoying a second life. >> changes are very visible and they are good changes in terms of freight traffic, there is more work. >> freight is what bam was built for, but this level of activity is a fairly rooebt boom. >> in the early 1990s, bam was judged to be uneconomic cal. many of the mines have been built to service had never been properly exploited and it looked like in the chaos of post soviet russia, bam would die a sorry death. after a six hour shift, coal miners surface into the half light of a minus 40 degree dusk. deep underground, the next shift

is already working. these days extraction campaigns are exploiting siberia's mineral deposits as fast as thing. >> you can see, we have huge reserves of:which means we need to get to

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