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russia soldiers celebrating taking debusana from ukraine and cricket on the streets of new guinea and everyone is in love with the game despite missing the world cup. ♪ hello we begin in yemen and the step towards peace, rival political factions have agreed on a people's transitional council to help govern the country according to the u.n. mediator. and he says this is an important step towards a final agreement to end the political crisis and shia houthi rebels took control of the capitol sanaa last september and went on for a coup later this month and he and the prime minister are still under

house arrest and over in the south there has been heavy fighting between the houthis and sunni tribesmen and some are allied with al-qaeda various groups there are calling for an independent state, let's get more now on these plans to expand yemen's parliament that the u.n. enjoe is calling a breakthrough and he is telling us how important you find this announcement hamad and if it paves the way for a more comprehensive political agreement in the country. >> well everything will depend on the other sides that have not been mentioned in this understanding. the u.n. envoy in yemen described this as agreement between the parties but if you go to the details we don't have many specifics here from the u.n. envoy about who signed and who refused to sign and we

understand that some of the parties a major components of the political spectrum have boycotted their sessions in the last few days and they could not also meet on wednesday because the houthi representatives and the representatives of former president failed to show up and there were rumors and newspaper articles talking about parallel discussion between them and the houthis of the venue of the talks to come to agreement that has been announced today. it's a kinds of power sharing between the two sides and the other sides are excused from it because if you look at the details they agreed on maintaining the parliament and that is a sticking parliament but refused dissolution of the parliament by the houthis a couple weeks ago and now houthis came down and agreed for parliament to continue. for the houthis the concession that now has been made is the

acceptance of this new council, the so called transitional people's council and it's going to replace the upper house of the former parliament, the future of the upper house of the parliament is uncertain, the parliament will continue the lower house i mean which is dominated by the loyalist so the absence of some of the parties and this agreement that seems to be a sharing of the legislative power between them and the houthis will not go down well with many of the parties. we still have to get the reaction from those parties but certainly they are not pleased with it and they considered an agreement between the powers that be the two powers that have been accused in the past several months of colluding to come to this conclusion which is a coup against the president who is now under house arrest and against the government and a power sharing that starts with the legislative body and in the next few days and next few weeks

the expectation is that we will see more power sharing between the two sides on military level and executive level. >> thank you for that update reporting from yemen. well syria's information minister says the u.n.'s bid for a ceasefire in the city of aleppo can succeed only if foreign states backing the opposition get them to comply both sides are trying to expand their areas of control in the divided city and meanwhile turkey is saying that it and the united states are aiming to start a program and that is to train and equip moderate syrian rebels early next month and victoria reports. >> reporter: these are fighters from the front, alliance on the opposition group battling government forces in aleppo and just regained control of farmland in the north of the city. . >> translator: god is great and

thanks to the front we operate the farmland and excelled god's gangs from here. >> reporter: the u.n. is trying to end the fighting in aleppo. hopes a truce will ease the suffering of the people and let aid in and lay the ground work for political process and until now opposition fighters have not been convinced. countries like saudi arabia qatar, turkey and jordan which supported opposition groups must convince them to comply with a ceasefire. >> translator: the success of any effort related to the war on syria depends on the capacity of the parties that finance the armed terrorist group. >> reporter: the opposition holds the western part of aleppo government forces control the eastern part of the city. but in recent months military has been closing in on opposition supply roots and syrian government says it's prepared to suspend aerial attacks on aleppo in a trial

ceasefire but the front won't guaranty president bashar al-assad forces won't take advantage to allow in the fighting. >> translator: the u.s. and it's part continues to launch air strikes in the region and signed agreement with turkey to train and arm moderate fighters battling i.s.i.l. and opposition fighters could also attack assad forces. >> translator: the fighters will fight in the state as well as other terrorist organization in the field and regime elements. >> reporter: devastation is enormous and u.n. pushing for political solution but need to be convinced stopping the fighting doesn't amount to surrender, victoria with al jazeera. u.s. military commanders preparing forces to recapture the city of mosul from fighters an official in washington says the operation involving 25,000

soldiers is being planned for april or may. the u.s. will provide training and air support but there has been no decision on u.s. boots on the ground. mosul, iraq's second largest city with over a million people has been held by i.s.i.l. fighters since last june and emran is in baghdad and talk about the million or so population in mosul itself in just a moment but first how prepared are the iraqi army to actually take on i.s.i.l. in april or may as the u.s. is saying? >> well, what we've seen is iraqi army and shia malitia is in a fighting sort and in the north beji oil refinery being one of them and they learned in the last eight months to fight i.s.i.l. and better prepared force than say eight months ago

when they took over in the territory but that is not to say this is not going to be a huge challenge and numbers are stat gering 25,000 troops to take over a city with population of a million people and some estimates 2000 i.s.i.l. fighters. i've been speaking to military advisors and asking them why so many soldiers need to be involved in this operation. what we are hearing is the numbers are important to be able to cutoff i.s.i.l. and to be able to surround them so it's an overwhelming power of force, this is one of the key lessons the iraqis seemed to learned, it doesn't matter how many i.s.i.l. fighters are in a town itself and once you go street to street which is what the battle for mosul will be it means you do need an overwhelming force. >> what sort of plans are being put in place to protect the civilians that are in mosul either by the united states or by the u.s.-led coalition itself or the iraqis?

>> well both united states and iraqis have been surprisingly quiet on the issue of avoiding casualties and abadi and outset of the american back involvement here in iraq said civilian casualties need to be avoided but heard no real plans or any kind of a strategy to try and avoid that. now, in the cities they have taken it's been a lot easier to take back the cities by iraqi army because civilian populations have simply fled. mosul is a different case altogether and ask the civilians within mosul and this is going to be a street to street battle and avoiding casualties is unavoidable and nobody will publish plans but what we think will happen is air strikes will soften up the targets then iraqi army will go inside. >> reporting from baghdad in iraq. 13 people have been killed and

in three explosions in the eastern libya town and it's to the east of benghazi and u.s. and britain both permanent members of the u.n. security council rejected libya's call to lift an arms embargo british foreign secretary said libya needs a national unity government first, libya u.n. recognized government made the appeal on wednesday during emergency section and the neighbors have warned against foreign military intervention saying that it will further escalate the fighting between rival malitias. just to let you know later on the program we will be joined by the former british ambassador to libya richard northern and get all his thoughts on the situation and what is happening in the country but you are with the al jazeera news hour and coming up, next bail out talks on the cards after germany reject greece's plea for more time. plus how the mental hospital that gave us the word betz is

transforming lives for the better. this will show how public perceptions have changed surrounding mental health but those who have experience of any kind of mental illness would say there is still much much further to go. >> reporter: and in sport new zealand makes new england suffer at the cricket world cup. ♪ but first one of the biggest opposition figures in venezuela the mayor of caracas has been arrested and accused him of a coup and joins lopez who is one of the main opposition leaders, he has been in prison for a year. adam rainy has more. >> reporter: the moment when

the mayor of caracas a leading opposition figure wez led away by security forces venezuela intelligence agency is seen on some of the vests. aids to the mayor said the men did not identify themselves or give any reason for arresting the mayor. hours later hundreds had gathered outside the agency headquarters at the capitol demanding the mayor release and his wife spoke to al jazeera. >> translator: i hold president maduro personally responsible for my husband's safety. >> reporter: after arrest the president maduro took over national television air waves and accused him and others of plotting to topple the socialist government last week. >> translator: antonio was captured by the order of the prosecutors office to be investigated for venezuela justice for the peace of the country and security of the constitution. >> reporter: maduro said the

plotters had backing of the u.s. government and they called the claim baseless and false and sites plots to over throw it without producing hard evidence it has been a year since major protests broke out against the government which faced massive foot shortages and spiralling inflation and one of the main opposition leaders lopez spent a year in prison on wednesday hundreds of people had gathered to mark that anniversary and protest again, adam rainy, al jazeera. ukrainian president poroshenko called peace keepers to implement ceasefire in the east and truce called on sunday but not stopped fighting and poroshenko is particularly concerned about the town of debusana which troops withdraw from on wednesday. >> translator: and i'd like to add that the situation is getting more exacerbated because with the support of the russian

army militants virtually wiped out debusana from the surface of the earth and now it reminds me of the moon landscape. >> reporter: paul brennan has been close to debusana to see the damage himself and this is from a check point at the cross. >> reporter: these are the russian soldiers who are claiming victory in the battle for debusana many vehicles flying the russian flag and allegiance to moscow is declared and saying hello from russia poroshenko poroshenko. street by street combat continued here for four days after the supposed ceasefire deal. small numbers of ukrainian soldiers are still thought to be hold up, stranded inside the town. the dead lie where they fell.

on the approach road to debusana at the cross we found the aftermath of a battle and a desperate struggle and numerous casualties on both sides, there is a burned out ukrainian tank absolutely blackened by the intensity of the fire and the fighting. there are more vehicles here a further tank down on the far side, two bodies are still lying in the open over behind the camera there as well. a fighter from the russian city described the final assault. >> translator: the battle finished the day before yesterday, the ukrainians were running out of ammunition and we hit the main ammunition store, a truck came to resupply them and we managed to destroy that too and yesterday it was quiet and shooting with rifles after that they retreated. >> reporter: ukraine government says the retreat from debusana was organized but soldiers there

tell a different story and many speak of a withdraw racing over open fields and constantly under constant tanks and mortar and capturing debusana may not be the limit of the concentration and it's turning to south of the donetsk region. >> translator: the area of maripol concentration of rebel forces being observed but the situation is being monitored and servicemen in the residential area are passing on intelligence that those forces are prepared for possible offensive. >> reporter: on thursday ukraine national security council agreed a formal request for u.n. peace keeping force to be deployed to eastern ukraine and there is no guaranty the request will be granted but they are fast running out of options, paul brennan, in this cross. everything that is happening today in debusana and donetsk goes to kiev which is about 700

kilometers from what is now the front line and ukrainian sniper esopened fire on protesters gathered in independent square exactly a year ago today. that night the former president viktor yanukovich fled the capitol, as kiev remembers the events a year ago we speak to some of those who took part in them. >> reporter: eager he limps from bullet wounds to a leg was a year ago and has the trademark of those who manned the barricades and doesn't need photos to remind of the protests on kiev central square that ended in blood shed. >> translator: i was proud that we were able to unite and were not scared off by the power that was destroying us and able to withstand it that is what this was all about. >> reporter: this year he was there too.

a volunteer medic tending to the injured and the dead. >> translator: i cannot find the right words because if i say the sacrifices were justified the families of the victims won't understand me. at the same time with the hero actions they showed that we need to be able to protect ourselves and our country and stand to give them until the end. >> reporter: once a protester now a member of parliament he is widely crediteded with delivering the final blow to the former president viktor yanukovich and talked to the stage following the shootings and told yanukovich to leave or be thrown out, that night the president fled in a helicopter to russia. >> it's not over and not just to

arrive in kiev it's an ideology and i said when our children don't feel right in this country where will they go? they will come and maybe it will look different then but all change in this country comes from madan and have to believe in this. >> reporter: on february 20 last year more than 50 protesters shot dead and many allegedly by government snipers although there were weapons on both sides and in all the protests lasted three months and claimed over 100 lives. the crowds the fires and the shooting are along gone from the midan and it is once again a busy city square but in a city and a country much changed. a year on and the forces of change that united on midan have given way to a country still riddled with corruption, close to economic collapse and on the verge of partition and many

ukrainians lien westward in the hope of a european future a future now in jeopardy because of war raging in the east. jona with al jazeera, kiev. euro zone financial ministers are meeting for talks on brusel's loan repayment, greece's new useausterity government asking for more time to pay back creditors and what is at stake greece wants to extend the deal for six months but not on existing terms and athens blames the unpopular bail out for pushing the economy in deep recession and causing unemployment. germany rejects any extension to the bail out package unless athens agrees to existing terms and let's cross over to a market analyst joining us live from london and even though germany has come out and said no to

greece's proposal they are still keeping the door open for the talks that are taking place in brussels on friday what do you expect to see come out of them? >> good morning from london. yes, german finance minister wolfgang is attending the meeting of finance ministers and supposedly there was a phone call last night between german chenser and greek pm and a willingness for compromise but we asked the financial markets today where for example the euro is trading lower because there is concerns these two parties may not be able to meet in the middle. as deadline approaches which is february 28 when this current bail out program end that is when greece needs this money obviously to pay back its debts, if no agreement can be reached that can be catastrophic in the short term for the euro zone and not as it currently stands and

it will be a different constituency and there are concerns that no agreement will be come to it may be but it may be 11th hour situation. >> who will make more of a compromise? >> elbow with -- well that is it, the more aggressive of the two sides is germany and more nations like finland, rather than the greeks just because we can see from yesterday a big sticking point was that the greeks didn't want an extension of the current program but they actually have come and changed and backtracked and said we can't extent the current program and we just want to be flexible only the terms, one of the big things is they have to pay 3% have to maintain a 3% budget surplus and just meaning taxes received have to be over and above what the government is spending. greece wants to cut that down a bit so the government can spend a bit more and relieve some austerity and there is hurt in

the people. >> how likely is it that european countries tell greece all right you can keep the money but with these new terms that you're putting forward? >> well i think there is going to be a compromise in the end, but i think the feeling is in the short term greece has the most to lose, perhaps in the longer term the euro zone has more to lose because it may turn out having alternative currency in greece may be beneficial to the country and the euro zone doesn't want that opportunity available to some members and may start an unrival process and i think an agreement will actually be come to. >> we will watch and see what happens for the time being and thank you jasper joining us from london. the weather with everton and everton has news of really unusual weather coming out of africa. >> yeah, that is right, we have rain making its way across the

sarah and we can see clouds in morocco and easing its way through algeria and stretches down to mali and all parts of algeria will see some rain through the next 24 hours or so. you will see how that has got to continue making its way further east and it will tend to go out pushing into libya but it's unusual to see rain so long pushing its way across the saraha and it's unusual they have been hit by two tropical cyclones in australia in one day, the first to the north here that was severe tropical cyclone and significantly looking at sustained winds at 55 kilometers gusting to 85 and there is a chance of doing damage and sending plenty heavy rain as well and 189 millimeters of rein in 24 hours and it's

effecting a lot more people and making its way just around the capricorn course and weakened significantly and we are looking at damaging winds and trying to get to 100 kilometers per hour and gusts 150 kilometers per hour and lots of very very heavy rain and 206 millimeters of rain in only 24 hours and it was wetter in samuel hill with 263 millimeters of rain and a significant storm more powerful than tracey that flattened darwin in 1974 and it has weakened and looking 24-36 hours of hef rain coming across the gold coast and a wet day on saturday and slowly moves through for sunday. >> thank you, still ahead on the al jazeera news hour and what happens in afghanistan with a so called war economy is coming to an end plus. >> i'm phil in los angeles home to the highest concentration of

war veterans in the united states of america, find out why they are getting extra attention at the oscars this sunday. coming up in sport find out if nadal could stay on course to win his first title of the year.

you're with the al jazeera news hour and hello again the top stories and u.n. mediator for yemen says rival political factions have agreed on a people's transitional council

and asked to help govern and guide the country out of its political crisis and shia rebels seized power in a coup earlier this month. venezuela president arrested and accused of being involved in a coup attempt and he was detained as opposition protesters marked the first anniversary of the wave of anti-government demonstrations. new u.s. military video set to show coalition air strikes on areas controlled by i.s.i.l. fighters in iraq an official says 25,000 iraqi and kurdish troops prepared to recapture the city of mosul in april or may. well the world has to confront the warped ideology of groups like aisle and al-qaeda that was u.s. president barack obama message on the last day of extremism hosted by the white house and u.s. government also wants to take on aisle on social media and white house

correspondent patty reports. >> reporter: one of the main messages from the summit attended by 60 countries is the coalition is losing the tech war to the islamic state of iraq and lavonte. ironically the summit had a few technical issues to highlight the point and got the mic working for u.s. president barack obama who announced a new initiative. >> we need to do more to help lift up voices of tolerance and peace especially online. and that is why the united states is joining, for example, with the eou to create a new dig all communications hub to work with religious and civil society and leaders to fight terrorist propaganda. >> reporter: what will they do? they are not sure yet. >> there will be conversations with partners in the region and have more to say about it as the

details become finalized. >> reporter: the obama administration says it needs to fight i.s.i.l. on the battlefield and cyberspace with the videos and social media campaign can lure more fighters to take up arms. former cia agent says it's going to be a big challenge for the u.s. some sort of a communications hub which is helping to reenforce and to amplify indigenous messages in the region is a good thing but one that has a u.s. stamp on it it carries a taint and there is no avoiding that. >> reporter: until this plan is flushed out and put in place the u.s. state department is spending more money trying to counter the i.s.i.l. narrative online hoping the message gets through despite the u.s. is the messenger, patty in washington. going to libya where western powers like the united states and uk are against lifting the

arms embargo as requested like by algeria and tunesia and warned against military intervention and crossing over to hamid live from tunesia near the libyan border and the warning against any foreign military intervention and it seems now there is some movement on the political front and understand there is a meeting to be held next week in morocco and what do we know about that? >> well, it is supposed to be the third meeting between all the political factions in libya. now, what we are hearing is as you said many in the international community are against lifting the arms embargo to libya questioning really where or who do you give these weapons to since there is no national army since there are two governments and favoring really political unity before everything now i spoke to some of the people who have been

invited to the meeting and says they have come under a lot of citizens in the past because there has been a meeting in geneva and another one in libya and lasted a few days or a couple of hours as one person put it but nothing came out of it. it seems that this time there is an agreement but we will have to wait and see what happens, that they will stay in morocco as long as it takes to reach some sort of political reconciliation and police and national unity government that then will be able to tackle together the spreading of violence and the spreading of i.s.i.l. or its affiliates across the country. >> just give us a sense of where exactly you are in tunesia and what is happening because i understand that there are a number of egyptians who are leaving libya and crossing into tunesia at any moment and what do we know about their faith? >> well they are -- they have

just crossed into tunesia and they are still at the border crossing of russia. they have been hold up on the other side on the libya side for the last 24 hours, among them are some egyptian fishermen that according to misrata they have been intercepting the shores of misrata and entered illegally the territory and being deported. there is also among them from what we understand egyptians who simply fear for their lives now because of the mixture of the concern they have of threats coming from i.s.i.l. or its affiliates and also because of egyptian increasing role in libya. they should be coming here at some point today the tunesia government making sure they cross in tunesia territory to reach the airport and be deported immediately back to egypt. >> thank you and we are

reporting from tunesia. crossing over to london now and speaking to richard northern. he is the former british ambassador to libya and thank you very much for joining us on al jazeera so do you share the view with countries like algeria and tunesia who say western military intervention is not the answer right now for libya? >> yes, i think that's right at this stage. the last thing the libya needs at the moment is an escalation of the violence and more fighting, that can't produce a long-term solution. and the security council was right on wednesday evening to turn the attention back to the political track. there has been a military struggle between two rival coalitions of malitias in libya since last summer which has caused enormous damage to the infrastructure, a great deal of human suffering but produced no

outcome and does not look like producing an income neither side can win that battle. what the u.n. envoy, u.n. envoy is trying to achieve first in geneva and now the talks are moving to morocco is degree of agreement between the various parties in libya on a support for a national unity government which can frame a roadmap, a political plan for taking the country forward, rebuilding the institutions and giving hope again to the libyan people of some sort of constructive future. >> is that something that nato should have taken care of before exiting after bombing the country? should nato have stuck around a little bit more and ensured that the country doesn't descend into the chaos that it is in right now? >> well i think nato did its

job militarily in helping the uprising libya uprising to succeed. the military role was ended then though the civilian support which came in from nato members and other interested countries was very helpful but didn't achieve a great deal because the libyan system was to dysfunctional, the administration was incapable of receiving and acting on advice and assistance received at the time. >> but in hindsight when you look back to chaos and lawlessness and chaos and rise of i.s.i.l. would you say it's a direct result and both direct and indirect result of nato's interference in the country? >> no it's a direct result it's a failure of the country both then and since to build national state institutions and

a proper framework for political life. and i think in hindsight we might have done more to help them but it wouldn't have been military help, it would have been reconstruction hands on reconstruction rather than the light touch assistance we gave them at the time. i think now if there is a government of political unity achieved in the coming weeks that it will need external security, a u.n. peace keeping force or regional peace keeping force to protect those institutions and to give it the space to achieve something going forward. >> very international appetite as well as regional appetite for that to be enforced? >> yes, i think there is sufficient concern, the proof in the pudding will be in the eating. but the sort of statements you are hearing from libya's

neighbors, algeria and tunesia and egypt show the level of concern that instability and instability in libya could effect the whole region and spread and i think everybody in the region and including north, in europe has an interest in stabilizing the country now because it is clear that an unstable libya in which the situation deteriorates poses threats for us all. >> we will have to leave it there and thank you for speaking to us and ambassador northern speaking to us from london and appreciate your time and just to update our viewers we were telling you about three bomb explosions that happened in libya east of benghazi in an area and now we are hearing these three explosions have reportedly killed at least 20 people so we are monitoring that and bring you more information as we get it on al jazeera. moving on and the presidents of foreign troops and aid organizations created a booming

economy in parts of afghanistan but now most u.s. troops are gone and the so called war economy is coming to an end. nicole johnston has more from kabul. >> reporter: they start gathering at dawn jobless men with the tools of their trade, there are painters builders and brick layers all of them desperate for work. >> translator: i was working for a foreign agricultural organization, it had 1500 employees. now it has less than 50. i'm responsible for 40 people in the family and they have not made any money for two months. >> reporter: most men here had jobs that were somehow linked to the war economy, working for ngos military or on construction projects but now the work is gradually drying up. all over kabul thousands of

people waiting on the side of the road looking for a job for an employer to come by and pick them up and they are angry and frustrated but with the country's unemployment rate growing they can't get anything and looking very remote. others blame the government and its failure to agree on a new covenant for driving investors away. this man says why aren't they making peace of themselves instead of filling their pockets. on the edge of the city diggers lie idle in the dust and construction machinery lined up without a customer in sight. and he was a refugee in pakistan. he returned home to set up his business. it was making $300,000 a year now profits are down by more than half. >> the pouring of the american's money and the money of the other people was not realistic and it should not be considered as a

realistic economy because it will certainly disappear. >> reporter: the new president ashraf ghani says they cannot rely on foreign aid and focus should be on developing mineral resources but this will take time. in the meantime economic growth has slumped from an average rate of 9% a year to 3-4% since the troops pulled out. >> we have seen the closure of more than 600 projects and it has deprived almost 50,000 afghan intellectual and scholars and professionals and they have become jobless. >> reporter: as the savings run out they are left to join the crowd of unemployed men, knowing there are hardly any new jobs to go around. nicole johnston al jazeera, kabul. more than 150 nigerians taken hostage by the armed group boko haram have been re-u ure-u -- re reunited after release and most

placed in a rehabilitation camp and kidnapped at the beginning of the year. >> translator: we told them we could not worship the way they wanted us to and then they said if we did not follow their ways then we should go back and follow the green and white flag and we said yes we prefer to go back and live with our people who they say are nonbelievers. >> reporter: nigeria president good luck jonathan promised again to defeat boko haram and speaking commissionering for worships and jonathan told a group of naval officers his government is working to improve the capacity of the armed forces. so hollywood is gearing up for a sunday's annual academy awards but a way from the glitz and glammar and spotlight is on los angeles county war veterans and phil tells us why they are big news at the oscars. >> we have a responsibility to provide veterans and war war

ors what you de sooif deserve. >> he saw friends die and they are still dying and it's post traumatic stress disorder p.t.s.d. which is taking them now and very nearly took him too. >> now it's hitting on a global scale more veterans are killing themselves now than they ever have before at an alarming rate and it just keeps getting higher and we feel remorse and it kills us. >> reporter: p.t.s.d. is big news in hollywood this year american sniper best picture contender is on and the man is suffering from the disorder and strong dose of reality in the best documentary shorts category and the film a stark look at men

and women who man telephone help lines telephones suicidal war veterans out of killing themselves. there are around 22 million war veterans in the united states and represent just under 10% of this country's homeless population, los angeles has the highest concentration and a hugely political issue, the mayor vowed to get them off the streets and into a home by the end of this year alone. statistically they are 50% more likely to commit suicide than non-veterans especially within three years of returning home. as for mike there have been dark times, lots of them but it's getting easier. he says that is down to bane who never leaves his side and helped save his life. >> i planned how i was going to exit this world, you know. he got on the knife and he kind of shrugged down a little bit and i'm screaming at him get off

of the knife and he didn't do it. he looked at me and i broke down started crying and grabbed him real close and promised i would never do it again and thank you. >> reporter: the oscars may help show p.t.s.d. to the wilder world, many will still struggle in silence, for mike at least he is trying to close the door on his experience. phil with al jazeera, california. coming up on the al jazeera news hour we will have more on mental health a museum opens in a famous psychiatric hospital in london, plus. i'm in new guinea who wants to be more famous for cricket than for crime. ♪

♪ hello again, the royal hospital in london is one of the world east oldest psychiatric institutions and treats mental illness and educating the public about it and sonia tells us how the hospital museum showcases the work of artists who experienced psychiatric illness. >> reporter: raving and meloncholy madness and illness got into the museum of the mind located at one over the world's most famous psychiatric hospitals and statutes refer back to a time when the bedlam

hospital was a place of chaos and cruelty and talks about the care in the new quarters the hospital museum has insight in the past and present methods of dealing with mental illness the work exhibited here done by artists who are personally effected and atkin experienced extreme anxiety and compulsive skin picking and the work depicts her illness but her art help her turn her life around. >> i had a connection with the gallery here a couple of years and allowed me to work with other people suffering anxiety and to actually make this stuff out in the world has been cathartic and i don't think i would be standing here talking to you today if i wassen making artwork. >> it shows how public perceptions have changed surrounding mental health but

those who have experience of any kind of mental illness would say there is still much much further to go and the taboo surrounding it means people who need help very often don't get it early enough. >> we done talk about it enough still so the vast majority of people never receive any treatment at all. some might go to their doctors but with physical complaints and that doesn't get picked up that there is a psychological dimension and other people feel they are losing their jobs and do not disclose to manager or people at work or fear if they tell their family their family will treat them differently and less well so people very often don't get to the health system and when they do sometimes they find the support available isn't really engaging enough. >> reporter: changing perceptions has taken time but what this museum proves is that creativity is a very powerful way of dealing with mental illness, al jazeera, london.

and on saturday we look at how a philippine security forces who survived attacks in the long running violence in the south have to cope with more than just their physical wounds. breaking news out of somalia where there has been a large explosion in the capitol mogadishu and government ministers and lawmakers were inside that hotel when it was attacked, more details when we have them. and andy is here now with all of the sports news. >> thanks and records have been tumbling in the cricket world cup as new zeeland had a hatless england size and smashing this as he races to eight wicket win and england went all out for just 123, sarah couch reports. >> reporter: smiling for the cameras, before the match got

underway. england stands could hardly have gripped the nightmare that was about to play out in front of them, it started in the 5th over when bell became the first casualty bold by the team. and not only after he claimed his second scalp of the day. new zealand were also brilliant in the field, the catch from adam. southeast with 7 wickets and england is out for embarrassing 123. if they thought that was bad the worst was yet to come leading the charge and smashing the first six abroad but there were more of those to come six more in fact, as he let loose against england miserable attack breaking his own record to notch

the fastest word cup of just 18 balls. new zealand going on to claim eight wicket win. >> i think it's a bit of a blur and something we will all lock back on and in time and think of how amazing this occasion was, a full house here was amazing feeling just going out with national anthem and the brand of cricket and getting people through the gates and watching on cricket. >> sorry, the best bowling display we have come across since we have been down this side of the world which says a lot considering what we play against australia and today we could not cope with it. >> reporter: sarah coats with al jazeera. well they will qualify for the quarter finals and puts them bottom of that table. next up is australia taking on

bangladesh bangladesh. and described as disrespectful by liverpool captain despite scoring the winning pouncy against the league tie and he was not the team's designated penalty taker but after confrontation with jordan henderson decided to take it any way and rogers would not confirm who should have taken the spot kick. >> we got the win which was the most important factor of tonight and of course i've got a number of outstanding papers in the squad with jordan and mario and ricky lambert and a number of the players plus it was a win, that was the most important factor in the whole. >> reporter: nadal has that unbeatable look about him on the clay and feels his best form is returning after recent struggles with injury and illness and has beaten the spanish in straight sets to reach quarter finals at

the rio open. cricket world cup has 14 countries involved this year plenty more have missions to one day get the chance to play the sport's top team and include new guinea who just missed out on qualifications and went to the town where cricket is the game of choice. >> reporter: the cricket world cup maybe grabbing attention in australia and new zealand but new guinea this is where the action is and there is not a day without matches springing up on the road from the nearby capitol mosby and introduced by 19th century ministries it has taken hold and grown without spreading beyond the borders and national players have come from here. and that is scoring sixes and getting balls out from under houses and the coral sea. >> as they go up they have a

dream of playing outside. >> reporter: escape from poverty and dangers and one of the most crime ridden cities and they are close to putting p.n.g. on the stage. cricket has been part of life in the village for 100 years but only recently harnessed and without late qualifying new guinea would be playing at the world cup. rising in the rankings to 15 last year and one day international status and just missing out on the world 2020 and this world cup. >> we miss two world cups for a game and the players what they got to do to get to there and looking at the nets are never empty. >> reporter: reaching the next world cup could mean breaking cricket out of the bottle. >> playing cricket and make it a national game and if that

happens i'm sure that we will be in a better position to complete with other countries. >> reporter: and yet cricket here means more than that. the national team takes training sessions for special needs and disabled children giving them independence and self worth in a society that often hides them away. >> the children feel segregated they are not pushed and there are people out there who love us and want us. >> reporter: the next world cup to just ten teams could hurt p.n.g. international progress but there will always be another generation here to take up the challenge, paul reese in new guinea. >> more from me later on but that is all your sport for now. thank you very much for the update and do stay with us right here on al jazeera, we have much more news coming your way and all the day's stories and breaking news you need to know as well in just a moment.

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