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2022 qatar world cup to the winter months. ♪ we begin in syria where 90 people from a christian village in the northeast have been kidnapped by islamic state of iraq and lavonte, according to the observatory for human rights they attacked on monday morning and we are joined live from aman and what are the details you are getting about this attack? >> well at this point there are few details and syrian observatory a monitor on the ground in syria is at this point is only source that is talking about these kidnaps as being confirmed. it says at least 90 christians from the ancient syrian minority in northeast syria have been

kidnapped by i.s.i.l. fighters and come from the syrian christian villages which also happens to be close to a town which is controlled by kurdish syrians and is also mainly a syrian town. we understand what happened according to the observatory for human rights is that i.s.i.l. fighters attacked early on tuesday morning and there were clashes that broke out between kurdish fighters and i.s.i.l. fighters and then the abductions happened. we also understand that the abductions also coincide with a major push by syrian kurds in northeast syria and close to the border with iraq that have compounded severe losses for aisle in syria in resent days so this may also be a retaliation by i.s.i.l. fighters

against syrian kurdish fighters for these losses for i.s.i.l. in syria that have weakened i.s.i.l.'s position because as well the kurdish fighters are known to be protecting minorities like the minority christian syrian group inside syria. now, also this comes just over a week after i.s.i.l. and libya issued a graphic video showing the executions of 21 coptic christians from egypt in libya so there are fears over the abductions of these minority christians in syria after this video surfaced. >> i'm sure there are, thank you for that we are also getting news of another kidnapping and happened in afghanistan, afghan officials say armed gunmen believed to be of foreign origin kidnapped 30 people from the ethnic authority in southern afghanistan and taken from a bus monday afternoon.

al jazeera investigated unit obtained leaked documents which show how the united states put pressure on the palestinian leadership over the bid for u.n. membership and happened around the same time the cia was trying to get contact with hamas and part of the spy cables we have an exclusive report. >> reporter: the spy cables show us just how the u.s. israel and palestinian authority play political games with each other. >> the general conference has voted to admit palestine as member of unecso. >> reporter: gave the state of pal stint full membership in 2011 and the president abbas sought wider u.n. recognition ever since but the cables illustrate how americans and israelis fight that policy to the highest levels one 2012

cable reveals a secret call from the white house to palestinian leader and president obama threatened abbas if he went ahead with the u.n. bid and when they pressured the authority tit says they were seeking to establish contact with hamas, a group they consider a terrorist organization. a secret cable reveals a cia in south jerusalem asked the south african counterpart to put them in touch and says cia is desperate to make in roweds to gaza and recommends to help and doing so they will stand a chance of benefitting from interaction and establish collection priorities and requirements of the cia so in other words they would know what the cia is up to. meanwhile in 2009 south africa spy chief gets a direct phone call from assad boss mayor and

is shocked at the breach of protocol and orders staff to ver vie the number and later a meeting and wants south africa to vote down the gold stone report a u.n. factfinding mission after the gaza war and richard gold stone led it and crucially the report said israel committed numerous war crimes. mayor says the palestinian leader abbas privately supports israeli position and also wants south africa to vote it down according to the top man he felt in favor voting in the gold stone report would weaken his position and in this way it reveals how the u.s. israel and palestinian authority are having alliances they would never admit to in public. >> joining us is the director of al jazeera's investigative unit interesting stuff, clayton, what do you think this says about the

palestinian authorities standing with the americans, the relationship with them? >> well, with respect to the cable saying that the american cia wants to talk with hamas this is clear evidence the political currency of the authority has been falling. this is 2009. president obama had come in office and pledging a new relationship with the arab and muslim world and cozy relationships have not been going well and we thought let's look at the problem afresh and try new approaches and we don't know if that relationship developed and went further but the very evidence that they the cia reached out to the south africans to have contact with hamas is nothing but scandalous in the united states because they consider hamas a terrorist organization in public and put a global siege to jail the leaders

et cetera. >> what about hamas that he was key and caution in order not to benefit hamas? >> it leads to indictment in palestine papers evidence emerged in the palestinian records there was an attempted cover up by the palestinian leadership including abbas under pressure to see israel shielded from war crimes and now we see by a south african leak that they called the south african spy director to tell him to drop the case because hamas doesn't want it to go further and wants it to strengthen hamas and maybe they bundled the handling of the war crimes but this is leadership responsibilities that abbas would have as liberation unit and add to the mountain of evidence he tried to protect the occupier for their crimes.

>> what you glean from these leaks any idea how this is playing out in the israeli camp right now? >> they are furious over it. i should say the leak over the assad document with respect to netanyahu's speech before the united nation is causing a scannel in media and headlines around the world in part because netanyahu is hoping to go to the united states and do a similar fear mongering act of the sky is falling, we must stop iran and if he lied before the u.n. and characterized what the spy services say what should the american public or congress say what he says is in any way truthful. >> clayton very interesting stuff and thank you very much. >> more to come. >> i'm sure there is we will be speaking to hamas later on about these revelations and thank you for that. withdrawing resignation as president as he tries to build a power base in southern yemen and

discharged all staff working at the presidential palace in aiden and told to return to hometowns in the north and we are live in aiden and tell us more about these moves to consolidate power. >> he started this yesterday when he discharged those employees, staff members of the presidential compound. he also partly moved the soldiers who belonged outside aiden and most of the soldiers remember are from the sect and they are from the north and they may be infiltrated and some may be loyal to them or the houthis and these are signs that president hadi is really working hard to have a situation where he can really make sure there will be no destruction to shift

his power base and make a fresh start and preside over yemen in the south. >> i'm sure those involved not involved in the political process are concerned about the impact this is likely to have on the violence we have been seeing over the last couple of months or so. >> yeah and we talked to people around here and they are optimistic but we see the problems ahead and have seen some of them have tried to join hadi when he called on them to come to aiden and couldn't because houthis prohibited them traveling by airport or road the minister of industry tried yesterday to drive to aiden, they arrested him 100 kilometers south and detained him for a while and sent him back to sanaa and the ministers of palestine decided to go as one group to the airport sometime in the next few days and try to fly to aiden

or risk being arrested. amid these circumstances hadi is waiting to see if he can have those ministers, by the way it's half of the cabinet because some are loyal to the houthis or former president so we would be talking to his entourage and said if they cannot make it here he will go ahead and try to appoint a temporary or provisional cabinet in aiden in the next few days. >> thank you for the update. still to come on the news hour we have more revelations from the spy cables and this is about a british effort to recruit a north korean agent, diplomatic efforts ramp up to end the conflict in ukraine, we will be live in paris and eastern ukraine for the latest. and we will have the latest on the condition of two time world champion following his crash in formula one testing in spain. ♪

officials for futbol governing body will recommend the 2022 world cup in kwa -- qatar should be played in november and december to avoid the heat and how did they come to this decision? >> they have been talking about playing in the heat and temperatures here can reach 50 degrees sells celcius and the cooling technology in stadiums there is still a question of what to do with players and fans on the pitch and if they could host a tournament in that heat. another consideration they really came to is they didn't want to hold the tournament in the same time as the winter olympics and fifa discussed it

with head of ioc and didn't want to step on each other's toes and new knew the games would be in february. another thing that came out of the meeting is discussing dates of ramadan in april time and would have clashed with ramadan in that year and that is a month of piety and religion and didn't want to hold it all at the same time and these are all elements to host in november and december and that recommendation is going forward to fifa executive committee is expected to ratify that in march. >> i'm sure it's going to have quite a lot of commentary and we will have more on that in sport as well and thanks for that jay. greece submitted its reform agenda to international lenders, if reforms approved greece will receive a four-month extension

on the bail out program and john is live for us in athens what does the submission of this document actually mean john? >> well this is the closure of the statement that we saw on friday jane. what really this means is if the document is accepted by euro group ministers the agreement on friday will hold and greece will get the four-month negotiation period and it will be able to see that period financed by its creditors and won't have to meet the debt payments it wouldn't meet in any case and it will sit down and carry out reform in the short term and renegotiate what it's going to do over the longer term between now and june. >> any idea what is in it? >> well, yes, we do know some of what is in it because the government a gave us a few indications and they stress there is a provision for spending on the humanitarian crisis caused by all these years of austerity and do want to revise labor law and they are

key to say they are going to help people who are in a great deal of private debt out of their conundrum, this of course touches on issues that the europeans also want to hear about. this government although it's a left wing government is not fixed on just world three distribution. they have understood there has to be emphasis on productivity, on wealth generation and they have said we want to help people out of some $86 billion worth of debt to the tax man greeks cannot pay and will come forward with a proposal for how to do it. they want to help greeks with dealing with some $90 billion worth of debt to banks, again that is nonperforming and greeks cannot pay it off and one idea is to create sort of an asset management company that would absorb all of this debt and the ideas are floating about and they will be no doubt expressed in this and it goes in two directions and both for

alleviation of humanitarian crisis and for the creation of growth in the economy, jane. >> thank you for that john and we will go back to one of our top stories about the spy cable leaks and the relationship between the palestinian authority and the u.s. and i can bring in a spokeswoman for the plo, thank you very much for -- this is what she said later on. >> i'm not aware of this and i don't think that president what habas needed this type of lobbying at all and therefore i think israelis volunteered to do things on their own and doesn't mean they are acting on behalf of anybody and are capable of doing anything. >> let's get reaction from a senior hamas official and is live from gaza and thank you and

welcome for joining us what is the nature of your conversations with the cia when they reached out to you? >> i'm surprised to hear such news because i think until now we don't have an official communication with a cia or united states administration and i can say in the last four or five years we met with the americans, some of them are from the academic and some political and some of them say they are very close to the united states administration but now someone says that is coming officially from cia and from an official department in light of the state. >> is that why you think this might be in the cables why would the cables document this if it wasn't true?

>> i don't have information about this that there is an official and i asked some hamas leaders in gaza or even abroad and tell me until now we don't have official contacts with cia or united administration. >> tell me what your response is to the fact he got in touch with the spy bus in south africa with the support of abbas and saying the report would actually play in the hands of hamas, were you aware of that? >> well. >> in other words to quash some findings of the 2009 war in gaza? >> look i witnessed many meetings between some official

from south africa here and gaza's prime minister and leaders of hamas and have good contacts with them but didn't hear they want to play mediation between hamas and united states or to have kind of communication. but they said they want to support the people everywhere in the international organization and want to support our international demands and our international rights but i didn't hear any idea about the mediation of south africa between hamas and united states. >> all right thank you very much for talking to us. let's go to the crisis in eastern ukraine and diplomatic efforts to stop the violence and foreign ministers from ukraine, friends, russia meeting to discuss a shaky ceasefire deal signed 12 days ago and we are

live in paris and any details yet, peter? >> not yet but you really only get results when you try to sort out the crisis in eastern ukraine when you involve big hitters like putin and poroshenko and others and sat down and came up with a broad ceasefire agreement to come in effect three days later and gave both sides the opportunity to gain more land and consolidate their positions. the actual topics on this ceasefire, one of the most important ones was the removal of heavy artillery 50 miles away from conflict zones and give civilians a sense of security and has not happened and combat troops were supposed to be deployed from front lines and has not happened and at donetsk they are almost eyeball to eyeball and the ceasefire

basically is noneffective and one of the main reasons is the organization for security cooperation in europe who is supposed to be monitoring this whole ceasefire and peace process simply never been allowed to get near the conflict zones. >> peter sharp, thank you. russia's president vladimir putin speaking about the crisis in ukraine and is hopeful for a peaceful resolution. >> translator: minsk agreement was not only worked out by ukraine, russia france and germany and fixed in the u.n. security council and took the form of an international statute supported practically by the international community. i really hope this will be fulfilled and this is the right path toward being normal in this area of the country. >> reporter: humanitarian aid reached the town of belsovo and 26 people left because of fighting and took the strategic

town which has a rail way hub on thursday and the red cross says 5,000 people remain in the town and need urgent assistance. after the fall and to rebels and this is the largest government-held city in eastern ukraine and home to half a million people and capturing the port would give rebels access to the seas and links to the baltic sea we go to crimea annexed last year and we are joined on the phone and clearly a very important part of the country, what is the situation there on the ground? >> i can tell there are soldiers there and the fighters have continued to attack their ukrainian position since the

ceasefire was supposed to come into force. ukrainians are bringing up some reenforcements to strengthen their defensive positions but insisting to me they have not been launching any heavy weapons and they only have been using their rifles to determine their positions and yet they complained to me the separatists have been using big guns. >> my apologies but it's not a great line so sorry about that. many homes in the united states are without power because of an ice storm in texas. commuters have also been warned to stay off the highways high winds and freezing rain coated them in ice and 1500 flights cancelled and winter storm warnings in other states including new mexico colorado utah and arizona and staying in the u.s. with rob for an update on the winter weather there, prisonel dismal how is it going to play out? >> freezing rain is one of the

worst weather phenomenon and it's heavy and skid all over the place. traditionally snow has been more problem in the north with a lot of snow and real cold still exists in the northeast, for example, this picture here is an ice breaker on lake eerie and not the arctic but arctic air. this is a bit false and this was a fire put out and the water is frozen but that is the result of freezing rain, if it were to happen can you imagine that hanging off power lines and you can see this is ice and airports close where you stay off the road freezing rain that happened south is drifted further eastwards and there is still a system to blow in snow across the great lakes and coming across cold air and there is a freezing risk here in the ohio valley and the immediate future is rain in georgia, south or north carolina in that remaining frontal zone so for the next 18 hours or so snow will fall and freezing rain and

potential risk and snow across the great lakes and temperatures in the northeast corner dropped with two days of thaw and minus 6 in new york across the border this is of course tuesday. going beyond that and it's not here that catches your eye it's the snow coming down across colorado into the plain states and mounds of it jane. >> thank you, rob. still ahoed on the program find out why nigeria is worried about the government imposing a tax on imported cars. >> the facts frankly speak for themselves and this report speaks for itself. >> australia releases a scathing assessment of damaging effects of child asylum seekers and alex rodriguez reports back after a one year suspension on doping on how much of a role will he play for the yankees, details in sport. ♪

♪ hello again and let's look at the top stories on al jazeera, human rights activists in syria say i.s.i.l. fighters kidnapped at least 90 people from the syrian christian villages and there has been heavy fighting between kurdish and i.s.i.l. fighters. greece submitted its reform agenda to international lender, if approved greece will receive a four-month extension on its bail out program. leaked documents and pressure for a bid for u.n. membership

about the same time they try to get contact with hamas despite an official band and let's get response on the plo holding a press conference in the west bank and addressing the spy cables and we are live from the occupied west bank and what more did they have to say about this? >> that's right, we spoke with the senior official with the plo. we brought to her the contents of these leaked spy cables and asked her specifically that question about these direct contacts made by the cia to hamas in 2009. now, she said that it didn't surprise her and that the palestinian leadership has known for some time there were ties between hamas and various security agencies including the cia. she went on to say that what this also tells them is that the

u.s. in their own way recognizes or accepts hamas as part of the political process. however, she did go on to say or rather question why the u.s. continues to keep hamas designated as a terrorist organization and went on to say she also questions why the u.s. follows israel's precedent in this matter. now, in saying that we did follow-up that question with if the cia and indeed the u.s. is trying to have direct ties with hamas, what does that mean for the leadership here in the west bank more specifically for fata and does that diminish their power or relationship with the u.s., she replied that she doesn't believe that it does that in her words it's neither or if the situation, she said that basically the u.s. can have those ties with hamas but more specifically it doesn't mean they won't have ties with the

fatah leadership as well. >> i want to ask you about another development, u.s. court found $18 million in tax and says the palestinian organization and palestinian authority were liable for the attacks which killed 33 people the lawsuit was filed in new york because some of the victims were american citizens. the palestinian authority rejected the verdict calling it baseless and obviously that is not going down too well. >> that's right. and it's very clear from that media briefing we were at that they are deeply concerned by this development in this court in the united states, dr. ashari said they will appeal this verdict and has 14 days to do so and went on to say the part of the two motions they will file will not only look at a stay of execution of that ruling it

will also question the jurisdiction of that ruling as well. bear in mind this is a u.s. court which has effectively made this verdict demanding tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for those people who say or were somehow affected during the second in safada between 2000-2005 and this compensation that has been awarded, however, in saying that she also made it very clear that the palestinian authority even if they were compelled to pay these damages that they are simply in no position to do so. we only have to keep in mind the past few months israeli authorities holding palestinian revenues and the leadership is also in extraordinary debt of somewhere around $5 billion and the doctor going on to say even if they were compelled to eventually buy a higher court in the u.s. to pay the compensation or these damages they are simply in though position to do so.

>> we will leave you there and go with palestinian news and a teenager in the west bank and 19-year-old shot in the chest in a refugee camp south of bethlehem and fights broke out when israeli troops launched a predawn raid and witnesses say he was on the roof of his home when he was shot. iraq's main sunni alliance says they will boycott parliament after meeting with the prime minister failed to resolve the crisis, 70 politicians pulled out in protest at the killing of 12 sunnis in baghdad and nearly two weeks ago and say not enough has been done to reign in malitia and may be raised with the foreign minister due in baghdad for talks. amnesty international say there were war crimes and fighters links to the islamic state of iraq and lavante after responsibility of murder of 21

egyptian coptic christians and they say the egyptian military failed to take precautions during operations and on sunday sisi defended the mission saying it was carefully planned to avoid civilian casualties. almost 15,000 egyptians fled libya arrived home and government flying many out of tunesia and many more are still waiting on the libyan side of the border having to cross, cairo urging hundreds of thousands of citizens there to leave. al jazeera obtained an audio recording where egypt and interior minister is telling officials to use force against protesters and conversation is believed to have come from a meeting last year before rallies in support of deposed president mohamed morsi and we report. >> reporter: every friday they turn out across egypt and november 28 last year was no

different. thousands demonstrated across the country carrying pictures of deposed president mohamed morsi and chanting slogans from someone who forced him from power in 2013 but didn't make it far. security forces were waiting for them and some opened fire at least four pro protesters were killed and a leaked recording by al jazeera has events from the day from senior security officials in the days leading up to the protest and the gathering was chaired by interior minister mohamed abraham and gives instructions how protesters should be dealt with as they left friday prayers. >> translator:

. >> reporter: abraham was no less blunt about how demonstrators should be dispersed. rights groups criticized excessive force by egyptian security forces and arrest of journalists and activists against the coup and thousands held indefinitely without charge or trials and others prosecuted and a new antiprotest laws on monday a court in cairo handed down a five-year prison sentence to sata one of the leaders of

the 2011 revolution for organizing an unauthorized demonstration. >> let's be clear, this is not justice, this is a vendetta aimed at ripping the heart out of protest movements and shows there is no room for protest and no room for dissent and no political opinion and seen as public enemy number one for protesters and joining thousands of other people behind bars for challenging egyptian authorities. >> it appears that fridays in egypt will bring more protests and more deaths rebecca sing with al jazeera. a district in sierra leone is in lock down after new cases of ebola emerged, national ebola response center says the neighborhood will be under quarantine for 21 days 6 cases discovered there last week and sierra leone has been hit hard by the outbreak and 10,000 cases have been reported there. inquiry in bangladesh after the

latest ferry disaster 150 passengers killed or missing after a collision on the river and we report. >> reporter: the ferry stands upright gown and search for survivor is over and the boat sank sunday after running in a cargo ship taking 150 passengers with it and it was a daily commute and some visiting family and others to jobs in the capitol and most people on deck made it to safety but those in the cabin were trapped, and a fortunate few escaped. >> translator: there was a small window in the lower deck where i could see the sun so i pulled myself through the opening but i kept slipping off. but others who were trapped inside with me managed to push through the hole safely outside. there were some waiting in a boat near the accident side. they eventually rescued all of us from the spot. >> reporter: bodies recovered by divers including at least nine children were collected at a makeshift morgue before being

returned to their families and they cannot say exactly how many were on board or missing and like most ferries this kept no list of passengers and this is a common phenomenon in bangladesh mainly due to lack of safety standard and over crowding and increasing demand by population they have strict enforcement and unless they do there will be less accident in future and the government has to be serious which it's lacking. officials say more needs to be done done. >> isolated up here and we are conducting maritime activities according to imo and what we do we take this. >> reporter: no easy solution in a country with more than 200 rivers and many thousands of

boats. ferries are often overcrowded like this one that capsized last august meant for 85 passengers there were at least 200 on board, more than half were killed. earlier this month five people died in an accident south of the country. in comments last year prime minister says most disaster are the fall offer ferry owners and putting money before passengers and if there is money to be made in breaking the rules new rules will likely make little difference, al jazeera, bangladesh. indonesia president says execution of 11 drug traffickers on death row will not be delayed and told them not to medal in the capital punishment laws and coincide with decision by an indonesia judge to reject appeal by two australians for executions. australia human rights

commission published a scathing report on conditions that children being held in immigration detention centers face but the government has rejected its findings calling it a political stitch up and andrew thomas has more on that. >> he now lives in sidney and studying to be accountant and he was given a visa as refugee and the australia government held him for a year in prison-like detention centers and he was just 14 years old and alone when he came to australia but boat he coped in detention he says but saw other children who didn't. >> i saw kids who are cutting their hands. it's not something i could forget. we are damaging those kids. we are damaging them mentally and we are damaging physically.

>> reporter: the experience is similar to many in a human rights report of immigration children detained by the australia government. >> our findings are deeply shocking and found all the medical evidence confirmed that detention causes and compounds mental health disorders among children. >> reporter: more than a third of children detained require psychiatric support and allegations of sexual abuse against children, many have self harmed. in camera on tuesday officials from australia immigration department confirmed a 16-year-old girl in detention threw herself off a building last week. this is a shocking report only australia automatically locks up immigrant children serious damage is being done to those it does and shocking too has been the government's reaction to the report, this it says is a travesty. more children in detention under the previous report aren't they

should acknowledge the government's success in stopping boats full of refugees from coming to australia in the first place. >> this inquery is a political stitcher and it will be called out of this government. >> i totally reject any suggestion the that this report is a political exercise and the facts speak for themselves and this report speaks for itself. >> reporter: australia policy to refugees is deeply political and elections won and lost on the issue and children are among those who feel the consequences andrew thomas al jazeera, sidney. police in brazil caught the biggest illegal deforester and accused of destroying tens of thousands of square kilometers of the amazon forest and arrested in the state following a six-month operation, the damage to the forest is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

venezuela is cracking down after the arrest of many opposition politicians including the mayor of crack -- caracus of a coup and anyone against the nation will have the full force of the law and we will have more on al jazeera spy investigation and leaked documents talks about the spy agency tried to make in roads into the intelligence service and wanted it at any cost cost. >> reporter: this modest west london house is north korea embassy in britain and it's small because there is not much diplomacy going on between the two countries. but a few miles away at britain's mi 6 there is plenty of espionage and spy cables give

us an insight. this secret document for uk-si zone is from britain mi 6 and reveals a plan to recruit a north korean spy, target was traveling through a south african airport describing what mi 6 says was an unusual opportunity. >> translator: officer would remind of previous meeting and encourage him to accept a long-term relationship. >> reporter: this was the second british approach and this time they needed the south africans. >> translator: your service would have surveillance on x in arrival on south africa and house him and our officer would appear to be acting alone. >> reporter: the spy cable says a year earlier mi 6 offered a long-term relationship in return for payment and they got no response so they offered again presumably with more money. britain passed an act of parliament in 2010 making it

illegal to bribe foreign officials but it exempted the intelligence services that despite resistance from mps who warn there was no persuasive evidence that spies needed the legal right to bribe and mps were overruled and today britain intelligence agencies remain above that law, will jordan al jazeera. we will bring you top secret spy cables at 1800 gmt and read the original spy cables and related articles and analysis on al jazeera.com/spy capes and twitter with the #spy cables details in a moment with joe. ♪

♪ buying a car in nigeria just got a lot more expensive, the government imposed a tax of 70% on new and used imported cars as a way to try to boost local manufacturers and as we report others worry high taxes will hurt the used car industry. >> reporter: looking after his investment he saved for years before buying this used car imported from europe. he needs a new one but like many other nigerians he fears he cannot afford it. >> who knows maybe this is the last car i will drive in my life from what government is trying

to do because i can't see me here with the little amount of money i'm getting to buy another car when it is implemented. >> reporter: the government is pushing ahead with the new auto policy and raises tax on imported cars up to 70%. >> in the future we may not be able to afford what we need with this class or practice of crude oil so if we are issues we will continue to reduce the amount of money we use to buy vehicles. >> reporter: local auto industry is upbeat and factories in a race to cash in assembly lines that are dormant for a long time are producing again. >> we have capacity in access of the requirements of this and now we believe that as the market opens up supported by the new government policy we will also

progressively expand and grow operations to meet any potential increases in demand. >> reporter: and they are looking beyond the local market. nigeria spent $5 billion every year importing cars and spare parts and with a population of $117 million they want to share the lucrative market and not only that they want to expand into markets across the border. but used car dealers say the new policy will hurt their industry because car manufacturers here cannot meet local demand. >> you don't want business that you lose your capitol and is going to have adverse effect on our business because these cars in fact, it will inflate every sector of their economy. >> reporter: and the new policy and the growing local demand many nigerians say they are either driving their last cars

or may not have the opportunity to buy a new one any time soon. i'm with al jazeera, nigeria. >> joe has the sport and news of the world cup. >> yes, some news jane firms for the futbol body say the 2022 cup should be played in november and december to avoid the extreme summer heat and fifa task force spent three days visiting and meeting officials for the tournament and should be ratify by fifi executive committee in march and will have implication on leagues around the world that faced opposition from european club associations in particular. >> all the minutes and all the discussion that has been discussed today will be put on the table at the expo in the meeting next month but as i said my personal feeling lit be november, december we will see. >> they talked about factors

including the two bidding city for winter olympics agreed to host the games from the 4-20 of february in 2022. . also the month of ramp ramadan and it's hot from may to september in qatar and the only repainting option is the november december window and joining me now is lee weldings and november december was always quite likely wasn't it? >> yes it was. you can make the case as you have done there it might be the only time really it ever could have been played and it's certainly what fifa wanted from the start and expected that it would be switched to winter and will ratify this and if you look at the national olympic committee it would not clash with the winter olympics in 2022 that was a big factor and has gone back on things before and wouldn't dare go back on this one. of course you have got the

summer heat right from the start i said to fifa like the general secretary why was it not in rules in the first place to move a world cup after the bidding was in of course because it affects europe so much and what the discussions have been about and you have legally fifa have no rights to play in 2023 so it's always likely to fallback to november, december and of course it's not ideal and of course the european clubs particularly are accepting this reluctantly and of course they have been pushing for a shorter tournament than for instance the one we have seen in brazil. >> 4 1/2 years down the line since qatar awarded the cup and it has been a painful process to get to this state, hasn't it? >> completely painful and i remember going to an executive committee meeting in october 2013 and we were told this was going to be when winter the final decision would be made and it would just be about the dates

after that but what happened at that meeting is they came out and said actually we need to have a process of discussion really to make sure that europe had its voice heard and of course these are the leagues that are affected most and people are not happy in europe and it's good with the powerful league has already come out and said he is very disappointed and claimed it was not even a discussion and that he has been let down slightly and that is the general secretary of ua for johnny says there is no ideal solution and know that by now and everyone has to give up something to make this work and i don't think it will stay quiet even when this is absolutely confirmed next month and still think there there be complaints from europe. >> and criticism around the fact it has been held in qatar and heard from the head of the

organizing committee for 2022 that this is not about qatar but being held in the middle east. >> yes he absolutely maintained this for a long period of time because of the way of the process of bidding of 2018 and 2022 caused corruption and travesty a world cup for the middle east is a positive thing and it's really only in places like the continent of europe where actually there is that level of disquiet about a world cup taking place there because it doesn't suit him. >> lee is live for us in london. cricket world cup witnessed a new record on tuesday thanks to the west indies and in history hitting 200 of 138 balls in their match against zimbabwe way and smashed 6s for 213 and a

stunning ending which saw gail and samuels partnership of 372 runs. the west indies ended in a commanding position against zimbabwe way and batting now and currently 239 for 7. formula one team say driver lonzo is recovering after testing in spain and suffered concussion after hitting a wall at 240 kilometers an hour at the circuit and he has released this picture of him in his hospital bed saying they will assess whether he will participate in the next testing session in the coming days and says gusting wind caused the crash and no mechanical or electrical fault. >> the crash was very hard. we have not said that but it was very hard and he has to recover

because we see him back and number one it's not a game. we have to be sure he has to be ready to drive the car at the right time because we want to be competitive until the last race of the season. >> reporter: disgraced baseball star alex rodriguez has returned to training with the yankees after his year long band for doping and ban froed the 2013 bio genesis scandal and florida clinic accused of giving drugs to several players and last week he gave a handwritten apology for mistakes he made and 14 time all-star is likely to play a major part in the upcoming season. you can put that in your diaries november december. >> talk very much for that. with the next bulletin but for me jane and the news hour team thank you so much for watching. good-bye for now ♪

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