only on al jazeera america. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. hello, welcome to another news hour from al jazeera. in doha i'm adrian finighan. coming up in the next 60 minutes, st. louis county's police chief calling for healing and reform after last night's shooting in ferguson. four years of blood, misery and death in syria, aid agencies

accuse the united nations of failing to protect civilians. at least four people are dead and 25 trapped under rubble as a russian shopping mall burns down. i'll have all of your sport, including . . . it has been called the richest fight in history, boxing's biggest names come face-to-face, ahead of their highly anticipated showdown. ♪ ferguson's story is beset by allegations of racism, and disrespect for human lives. black lives and now police lives. st. louis county's police chief says he could have buried two officers last night. he charactered the shooting as an ambush and said that catching the perpetrator was the number one priority, but he also called for healing and reform.

>> i have a lot of confidence in the community. i understand exercising people's first amendment rights but this is beginning at times to be very difficult for any law enforcement agency anywhere to really wrap their arms around. i want everybody here to understand how difficult this is to do it the exact perfect way. >> al jazeera's sheehab is in washington, d.c. for us. what have we learned? >> we learned what the police department's position is. we just do not know what .hahhed. yet already the police are characterizing this as an ambush on the police. now the police are talking about an aggressive crowd that gathered outside of the police department. the chief talked about whoever fired the shots having been an

unfortunate association with the protesters. these are all lines that tend to shape the narrative in the absence of any fundamental investigation that has taken place, and which contradicts the other eyewitness reports we have. which suggested first of all it was a pretty uneventful demonstration. just a few hours ago at the police conference he held before that one. and the shots rang out from behind the protesters from a hill. we don't know who was targeted yet, but certainly the police have come to their conclusions. we do have more facts, though. firstly no long-term injuries for the officers who were shot. perhaps the police department have some leads. no one is in custody, but there is a search underway for the perpetrator or perpetrators. and the department of justice has come out with a statement

calling the attack inexcusable and repugnant. this all spun from a department of justice report this week, which said that the entire ferguson police department and council was unconstitutionally acting and racist. but here is some more background. >> reporter: as the protests were dwindling after midnight, the shots were heard. >> as we were about to pack our cameras up we hear what we thought were fireworks up the street. turns it out happened three more times and it was gunfire, because we saw the muzzle fire so we just ducked down and then we saw the cop was shot right next to us. >> reporter: it happened at a protest outside of ferguson's police department. in the hours after the police chief jackson is going to

resign. jackson has long maintained that there was no racism on his watch, but following a damming report on his police department he became the sixth official to resign in this small midwestern city. his departure had long been called for after a protest movement that gained momentum after the shooting of michael brown last august. the belief that the police department unjustly targeted african americans was justified. millions of dollars were raised by targeting, ticketing, jailing, and keeping members of the black community in what have been called modern debtor's prisons. but this is about far more than ferguson. it has become a nationwide rallying point.

the belief that racism is engrained in mourn society. 600 miles north there have been daily protests after the killing of an unarmed teenager last friday. >> this highlights a universal problem with law enforcement. >> reporter: protesters across the country are demonstrating against an entire system they say is racist and unfair the resignation have been welcomed by many but ferguson is a tiny city of 21,000 and a change in personnel is unlikely to be enough to satisfy those that want change. >> what does last night tell us about how relations between the police and the wider community in ferguson have deteriorated? >> i simply don't think we can draw any conclusions from the shooting that occurred in

ferguson last night. we do not know what happened. i know that the police are already positioning it but we just don't know what .hahhed. what is interesting is already what we're seeing is those -- and the police force and the municipal officials in ferguson still say there was no real racism going on even though we had that doj report. what is going to be interesting now to see is the fight back. this shooting whoever did it is going to give an opportunity to those two say look this is what we have to deal with. the doj thing is just inciting more violence and we just have to put all of this to rest. the protesters themselves say nothing short than a dissolution of the police department will due, and further investigations on other police departments in the vicinity has to begin too. this is still going to go on and

on certainly, and relations are pretty bad. >> many thanks. four years of killing, four years of destruction, four years of civil war in syria, and the united nations has failed to act, failed to protect civilians from the consequences of war, at least according to leading aid agencies. while international community looks on barrel bombs are still falling on communities like this one in aleppo. crude weapons that kill indiscriminately. the war has cost syria $200 billion and plunged most of its people into poverty. the u.n.est hates more than 220,000 people have been killed so far.

7,.5 million are trapped. almost 4 million people are registered as refugees. the battle for aleppo has split the city into government and rebel-controlled areas, as part of our special coverage zana hoda reports now on how the fighting has devastated what was syria's commercial center. ♪ >> reporter: it is one of the oldest cities in the world. it's historic center is in ruins. aleppo has been an urban battleground since the summer of 2012. syria's largest city has been divided by many front lines, and on many of them sheets and drapes are used as cover from snipers. the government controls territory in the west and the opposition controls the east. and the only crossing point that allowed people to move between

the two areas is now a wasteland. this was closed by the government last year. it was a dangerous journey. dozens were killed. but it was a lifeline especially for state employees who are relying on their salaries to survive. >> translator: the crossing was vital for civilians, now when they need to go to the regime area it is a 12-hour journey. this crossing used to allow people to visit their relatives. >> reporter: society has been torn apart. in many areas there is little sign of life. last year tens of thousands left when populated areas were continuously hit by barrel bombs. many others were wounded. those who have lost their livelihoods have been left to help themselves. >> translator: we need money to be able to go to turkey to get treatment. we have been forgotten. we want someone to feel for us.

>> reporter: also in the rebel-held east, health facilities were bombed at the start at the conflict. the people of the area managed to set up makeshift hospitals, but they are not up to the standards needed. >> translator: we don't have surgeons. most of the doctors were either killed or fled. we don't have medicine for diabetic patients. >> reporter: the health system has all but collapsed. the syrian war is entering its fifth year. an initiative by the united nations to freeze the fighting in the city of aleppo didn't achieve much. and the people on both sides of the divide remain trapped in what many describe as a deadly stalemate. it's a daily struggle. it doesn't just take hours to buy bread. government planes have targeted crowds standing in bakery lines. for the warring sides the battle for aleppo is strategic, but it

has destroyed the lives of those living in what was once the commercial capitol. >> we're voined by the vice president of the syrian national coalition joining us live from istanbul. we heard the united nations has failed to protect civilians. where do you think the blame lies for the fact that the war in syria is now entering its fifth year. >> first of all, good evening for you. i would like first of all, i would like to say the medical report issued by the doctors without borders have a mission that the international community did not care about the syrians. really what they said touch our feelings, because that is going on every day. every day we suffer from killing and the international community

issues a lot of security council resolution, but none of them has been achieved or implemented. so we have bigger question mark on that. we would like what -- what the stated in that -- the resolutions to be achieved. to solve the problems in syria and survive our people there. >> okay. let's talk about what it will take tend to this conflict. it was recently said that president assad leaving power is no longer a precondition for talks. that seems to be a pretty big change of heart. what has happened. >> no actually what he said was -- was a part of our negotiation with assad in november of last year. so nothing new in our position. when assad started the negotiation to achieve to -- or

to form this executive governmental body it's part of the -- but assad will not be part of the international justice period. this is what we're talking about. we're not talking about -- >> all right. >> yeah. >> so are you now prepared to deal with the government as a negotiating partner? >> look you know, according to the communique and the resolution -- the -- security council resolution we agreed as stated in 16 and 17, that geneva communique is like the mandate of the political solution in syria, and we agreed for that since i think at least one year right now, or maybe almost one -- one year. so for that there is nothing changing our position as opposition to start negotiation

with assad according to such statement. i mean -- [ inaudible ] statement which [ inaudible ] in june of 2012. so according to what all -- all the negotiation done in january and of our discussion here and there, and now the opposition have its mandate, which 13 -- 13 points, like road map to political solution. >> as we enter this fifth year of war in syria, what is it going to take to end people's suffering? when are organizations like yours going to come to the table with the syrian government and -- and stop the fighting? >> look, you know, first of all what can end such crisis in our country is just political solution. i mean based on the geneva

communique, and as -- as a security -- national security council which -- the other security council resolution related to such syrian -- to syrian crisis. and we can start -- really we need to get negotiation to stop such a channel of blood in syria. but the problem is the regime. when the regime doesn't like to start -- when he doesn't like to start the negotiation as we like, he is consistent to go in military solution. this is very big problem. to us he call the military group came from iran and iraq and from afghanistan, it means he -- he's not really think to solve the problem. he's just -- his policy to continue killing the people and -- until he believes that he can win the war. which is impossible. after four years it is big

message to the world and all of the syrian people that the revolution will continue until we reach to achieve our goals, which is dignity and -- and dignity and freedom. >> all right. vice president of the syrian national coalition, many thanks. still to come here on the news hour no signs of relief. migrant arriving in greece are being given indefinite detention. and why justice is hard to come by for prisoners in somaliia. >> reporter: and in sport, the stars with bat and ball in sport. details a little later in the program. ♪ now to russia where the daughter of the murders

opposition politician boris nemtsov says that vladimir putin is politically responsible for his death. she says the president must bear responsibility for the shooting. putin called the murder vial and vowed to find the killers. also in russia at least 25 people have been trapped under rebel after a shopping mall caught fire and collapsed. at least four are thought to be dead dozens have been injured. as rob mathisson reports. >> reporter: for several hours they fought to control the flames. an area almost as big as a football pitch is burning. rescuers pull carpets, anything that can catch fire from the building. 600 are said to have escaped but

some are thought to be trapped inside. and anger grows another the official response. >> translator: it all collapsed on them. we are standing here to clean their mother's wounds because she has wounds to her head and leg. and they are moving aimlessly about here. there is only one ambulance. >> reporter: some say the roof collapsed others say it folded like an accordion. this shopping center is just four years old. witnesses say the fire began in a cafe. eventually the fire was controlled, but questions are being asked about the safety of the center's wiring. >> reporter: greece is seeking eu's support to deal with migrants. as john psaropoulos reports from athens, the government wants europe to change how people can

apply for political asylum. >> reporter: this is comfort food for this man. he shares it with fellow pakistani flat mates in a basement they call home in athens. he's trying to wash away the taste of the detention center where he just spent nine months. and what happened there to another pakistani detain detain. >> translator: he was released and then arrested again. three hours after they brought him in he hanged himself. >> reporter: the second suicide in as many months here. testament to the failure of a policy of indefinite detention for people who aren't criminals. flaunting europe's pretrial detention limit of 18 months was greece's most recent method of

dealing with regular migrants. the change in government has brought a change in policy. this camp is being wound down. its inmates are being released at a rate of about 30 a day. they have no travel documents enabling authorities to deport them. the new left-wing government is thinking of turning detention centers into migrant camps allowing them to work in the fields. it wants europe to change the rules and allow people who need political protection to apply for asylum anywhere in europe not just in greece. >> translator: we are 10 million indigenous people plus a million migrants this 10 to 1 ratio doesn't apply in other european countries. don't they see the problem? and in the midst of a crisis. it's not a question of racism. we just can't take it anymore. >> reporter: these camps were

meant to act as a deterrent, that plan failed. because people fleeing war and poverty are willing to face detention. this man just hopes his luck will turn. john psaropoulos, al jazeera, athens. . in somalia, at least seven people were killed when about shabab fighters detonated a car bomb. they say the men were looking for the region's president when they tried to storm the compound. somalia's government has executed more people than any other country in sub sahara africa. 86 people have been executed since 2013. our correspondent visited the death row wing in a prison in somalia. >> reporter: there are more than 35 men in this cell.

29 will be shot dead in the coming weeks. this is one of them. a former government police officer. he's convicted of killing a young man. he's still coming to terms with his fate. >> translator: you can get the execution call any morning. that's what we spending our time waiting for. that's what my cell mates are waiting for. it's the same for everyone. sentenced to death. >> reporter: in this prison there are more than 370 inmates. this is where the man and the rest of the prisoners on death row spend their days. conditions are tough. there is almost no ventilation, the air is hot and thick with the smell of sweat. on the day of their execution, they will be taken to a field about two kilometers from here where they will face a firing squad. their graves have already been dug. mow maw -- this man is putting

the final touches to one. >> translator: i feel a lot of sadness. it is not nice seeing human beings get executed right in front of you, and then having to bury them. we don't like to do this job, but we have to do it because we have no other way of supporting our families. with great sadness we bury them. >> reporter: human rights groups have questioned somalia's justice system accusing authorities of -- carrying out quick executions. >> translator: we take them to court, and if they don't agree with the outcome, they are allowed to appeal if they are not satisfied with the appeals court, they can take it to the high court, if the high court upholds the decision. they still have a chance if the family of their victims pardons them and sets them free. >> reporter: but as the grave digger waits for the execution.

these cell mates know their days are numbered. in south sudan, oil production has been slashed by a third since fighting broke out there in 2013. katherine soy reports. >> reporter: many of the lecture halls are empty. they had a pay cut last year, and now the lecturers want that money back but the government says it cannot afford it. and here's why. conflict started in 2013. oil production has been reduced by more than half. oil accounts for over 90% of the government's income. >> i must try my best to increase the production. i -- and then even if i increase production, i will even be selling at a give-away prices.

getting in the way is a lot of the revenue rights of the resources. >> reporter: the fall in global oil prices has made it worst for south sudan. it is selling crude mainly to china at one of the lowest prices in the world because of poor quality. a barrel is selling for $45. more than half of that is paid to the government. after they pay the oil companies here, the government's remains is less than $10. some analysts are worried that the economic situation here will get much worse before it gets better. >> it's become real the economic collapse is real. and unless we take some drastic measures, and that very soon it

should have been yesterday, not tomorrow. >> reporter: industries including this water bottling company are having a hard time dealing with the overhead. south sudan imports almost everything including refined fuel, most of it for generators used to power the country. losses from its oil revenue, foreign currency crucial for import is scarce. >> what i get from the market [ inaudible ] production to be very low, and even [ inaudible ] five months [ inaudible ] unable to get the raw materials. >> reporter: many people here are afraid that south sudan's economy will continue to get worse unless there's peace among the warring parties. we're approaching the midway point on this news hour. still to come on the program, an age-old problem. we'll report from china where the elderly population has

outgrown the country's care facilities. four years ago australia's economy was the envy of the world? has the bubble burst though? and we'll have sport details in 20 minutes. ♪

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around 25 people are believed to have been trapped in the rubble. dozens more have been injured. jason johnson is a professor of political science and communication at harem college in north ohio. good to have you on the program again. what do you make of st. louis county's police chief's comments to the press an hour ago? >> i think it means the police department has gotten much more savvy about their conferences. but i do think there is a slight problem, because he seemed to imply and then backtrack and then imply again that the shooter was a protester, and really nobody knows who the shooter was at this point or even if it was one person.

>> you say him being savvy about public relations now, he seemed to have a different narrative today at the press conference than his on the hoof comments last night after the shootings. >> right. right. initially he said they think the shooter was any the crowd, now said he says the person may have been 220 feet away and up on a hill. this shooting took place right in front of the ferguson police department. there are rows of houses and stores, and lots of different places where someone could have shot from. and i think it's somewhat irresponsible for him to say he knows, because they haven't conducted a full investigation. >> what does last night's shootings tell us about the low that the relations to the police and the community have sunk too?

>> it's really interesting. last night's protests were almost a celebration as well. you had many people celebrating the fact that the chief of police had stepped down and the department of justice had gotten involved. it seems very strange that a shooting would occur. so i don't know how much it indicates about the relationship with police as much as long simmering issues that existed long before this shooting and will go on long afterwards. >> after the shooting last year of course the city's police chief resigned which was what yesterday's demonstration was all about, as you say. is there a wider problem do you think in the st. louis county police? not just the city police in ferguson? >> oh, yes, adrian i completely agree. there is a systemic problem. if you look at the key elements from the department of justice report it wasn't just that

african americans were angled out and harassed it was also just general police corruption of officers handing out tickets and fines over and over and over again to support the coffers of the city rather than do their jobs. and the department of justice suggested that this same practice could be found in almost any country in missouri. >> all right. jason good to talk to you. many thanks indeed. let's take you back to our special coverage of the war in syria now after four years of conflict. the united nations stands accused of failing to protect civilians. 21 aid agencies have come together with a message that the undersimply isn't doing its job. james bayes reports now from the u.n. on its struggle to find a police call solution. >> reporter: four years ago, no one could have imagined the

scale of this tragedy. the figures are staggering. there's been no actual body count, but it's estimated as many as 300,000 syrians are dead. many have fled. 3.8 million are refugees. that figure the main contributor to the fact there are now more displaced people in the world than at anytime since the second word war when the u.n. was created. there has been no peace in part because there has been little unity on the global stage. there have been rare moments of agreement in the u.n.'s security council on chemical weapons and the growing threat on isil but nothing on the political solution to the dismay of humanitarian agencies. you must get frustrated when you look at the security council and the lack of agreement on syria. >> i get -- i get frustrated not

only when i look at the security council, when i go into syria, and you see that there is no solution in sight. and i talk to the government. i talk to the oppositions, and they are firm in their positions, and then i look at the people and i say don't they see what i see? can't they see the impact their failure to compromise is creating in this situation? >> reporter: over the past four years the security council has left the main effort to find a political solution to a series of special envoys former secretary general, veteran diplomat and now another seasoned u.n. official. four months ago, he told the security council he had an ambitious plan for a series of what he called freezes across syria, the first one was supposed to be in aleppo. he later even revealed he had an agreement from president assad

to stop all aerial bombardment in aleppo for a six-week period. since then the plan has stalled, diplomats are now very skeptical of the chances of success, and for now there is no plan b. syrians will continue to suffer, and many more are bound to die. james bayes al jazeera. let's speak to our senior political analyst now. 220,000 people dead millions forced to flee. the government using indiscriminate weapons, barrel bombs. at what point do we call into question the u.n.'s legitimacy over its apparent inability to solve the syrian crisis? >> oh we did a long time ago. [ laughter ] >> i have never seen such failure. one could say that the so-called global parliament the united nations and the global

government the united nations security council have totally failed syria, so much so that they are responsible for the break up of this nation and the death of hundreds of thousands of people. and why? because of the cynicism of its members. just this last year alone, the united nations security council passed three resolutions, saying that they will make sure that the humanitarian aid reaches those who need it most in syria. nothing has happened. they have took no actions to make sure that even the basic aids get to the people who need it. >> it's the security council, isn't it? you have all of these u.n. agencies who are trying desperately to help syrians. particularly those who have been displaced and are living outside of the country. extremely frustrated they can't get aid to the people and then you have the security council unable to act. >> and the security council, two

members are dictating what goes on in syria. >> which two? >> russia and the united states. putin we know has taken the cynical position supporting the assad regime. the united nations have not stopped procrastinating. they have been dragging their feet non-stop. i just heard the other day that they will train a few syrian resistant fighters sometime down the road. and yesterday secretary kerry told the senate that we are working are the turks on providing a -- a safety zone in the northern part of syria. now after some 300,000 people have died in syria? so they have been dragging their feet non-stop. >> if there was no veto among the five permanent members, then we wouldn't be in this situation now, would we? >> if.

>> if. >> no seriously the gridlock between russia and the united states have been responsible for many of the crises that have gone on in the middle east, and at the end of the day they just lectured us in geneva about human rights and responsibility for affairs, and so on and so forth, but they have been responsible for the deadlock in ukraine, the deadlock in syria, and the eventual destruction of both countries because they won't walk together on important issues like that. they have been dragging their feet. what they advise people to do in other places they are not doing themselves. and they are saying that assad is part of the problem, and hence part of the solution. imagine if you would say at one point, osama bin laden is part of the problem, hence, osama bin laden is part of the solution. hitler is part of the problem, and hitler -- >> yeah.

>> it is a problem they are dragging their feet and in the process syria is suffering. >> good to talk to you. sri lanka's government says that u.n. investigators won't be involved despite international pressure to do so. they dpeeted the separatists in 2009 ending a 26-year conflict in the country. in bangladesh 100 people are believed to be trapped in the wreckage of a collapsed factory. those who have made it out are being treated in nearby hospitals. the cement factory is a subsidiary of the bangladesh army southwest of the capitol dhaka. now to china where the country's aging population has outgrown its elderly care

facilities, and that's creating more opportunity, it seems for foreign providers, as adrian brown reports from shanghai. ♪ >> reporter: volunteers performing an afternoon concert in a shanghai retirement home. ♪ >> reporter: unlike most care homes in china, this one is foreign owned, providing expertise from the united states. the company is here for a simple reason. according to the united nations, more than 130 million people in china are now over 65, and there's a shortage of facilities to care for them. so china's government has been forced to allow in foreign providers. this man is 88, and moved into this development a year ago after his wife died. >> translator: we used to live with my children, but they were busy with their own children to look after. and i didn't want to make their lives even busier so i moved here. >> reporter: the care costs him

more than $100 a month, -- $1,500 a month. he covers the fees from savings and renting out his former appoint. but some residents need special care. this person was partially paralyzed after a stroke. -- she shares the room with her husband. he has dementia. >> translator: which mother used to live with us. we hired a maid. but my mother needs more medical care since her stroke. >> reporter: it can be a painful decision to send your parents here but it's a decision more children are having to make. in chinese society, it traditional traditionally is the children that look after the parent.

but a cultural shift is now underway. >> these days most of the children are working, husband and wife are both working, so the only recourse that they have if the senior at home needs help, is to get a domestic helper and when this does not work this is when they need help. >> reporter: this man is still alert, enthusiastic and in strong voice. ♪ >> reporter: his children have pleaded with him to come home but i'm happy here he says. adrian brown, al jazeera, shanghai. all right. just ahead in the sport, a formula one team heads back to court after being told they must allow a sacked driver to race in the season opener. ♪

♪ now four years ago australia's economy was the envy of the world, but not anymore. unemployment is up and the australian dollar is falling. the main problem is a collapse in the prices of commodities like iron ore. >> reporter: this man is spending a lot of time in his garden. until last december he was a geologist in the mining industry but as commodity prices have plummeted, jobs including his have been cut.

>> people say, hi who are you? what do you do? um i'm looking at the opportunities. >> reporter: so are thousands of others. three years ago this house and land in this mining town sold for $1.3 million. >> i wouldn't have called them crazy days but they were long above -- way above the average. >> reporter: today the house is on the market for less than half of what it sold for in 2012. as australia's mining industry boomed so did port headland. the iron ore price peaked at over $180 a ton, but since his price has come tumbling down. the trains can be become three kilometers long and can hold more than 32,000 tons of iron

ore. four years ago that meant that the cargo in one of these trains is worth around $6 million. today it's cargo is worth about a third of that. so now port headland is a much quieter town. new construction projects have been canceled. fewer people would rather [ inaudible ] a structure than build it. >> [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: the port itself is busier than ever. the crews of these ships get just a couple of hours on shore before starting the 15-day trip back to china. >> all of the boat carriers in our fleets are still working. >> reporter: the volume of iron ore being exported is higher than ever but with prices low, mining industry profits are

down and so revenues to government. when much of the world went into rescission five years ago, mining helped australia avoid it, but the boom days are over. time now for sport. >> thank you. excitement is building between floyd mayweather, jr. claims his fight against manny pacquiao will stop the world. >> reporter: a hollywood red carpet celebrities, and 700 press, and this was merely a warmup for what has already been labeled the fight of the century. american floyd mayweather may be 38 years ole, but he is unbeaten, known as the best pound for pound fighter in the world. his opponent, manny pacquiao has

two draws and five losses. he'll be the outsider for a clash many years in the making. >> this is a fight that the world can't miss. this is an unbelievable matchup. >> the fans of boxing i think -- i believe that it is what are you waiting for since five years ago. >> reporter: it also has been called the richest fight in history, floyd may wairt is expected to collect $150 million just for showing up. $100 million going to pacquiao. total pay per view television is tipped to raise $150 million, and while tickets aren't on sale they are expected to start at $1,500 going up to $75,000. ♪ we will we will rock you ♪ >> reporter: it's what you call a promoters dream, even if it has taken five years for the

long-awaited matchup to take place. >> i think it's better now. and again, let's assume even if it was better five years ago. what the hell? we can't turn back the clock. we have to be grateful for what we have. >> reporter: with both fighters saving their rhetoric for later down the line it was left for pacquiao's trainer to land the first blow. >> we are fighting the best fight in the world, and we're going to kick his ass, i'm sorry, but good luck floyd. >> reporter: now both fighters will go into seclusion for the next few months before going together in may. pacquiao is also a politician, and the locals are anxiously counting down to the

big fight. >> reporter: the upcoming match between manny pacquiao and floyd mayweatherer is set to be the biggest match in cent history. but it is more than the hundreds of millions at stake here. manny pacquiao's story is an inspiration in a country where many are in poverty. >> translator: he was poor then and now he is rich and famous. he made it all because of boxing. >> translator: i have a lot of faith in mani. he trains well. he trains hard and we have been together for a long time. >> reporter: he is a celebrity who looks at his endorsements here and abroad some observers believe that winning a fight against mayweather would take him a step closer to the

presidency. too football european striker has announced his international retirement. he scored 36 goals in 112 appearances for his country. he was named player of the tournament, as uruguay reached the semifinals. and he will continue to play for his current club in japan. strike partner for many years for uruguay was this man. and he has been celebrating after his club knocked out their opponent. and he accused he team of behaving like babies. nine players surrounded the referee after a tackle. the swede was dismissed however, the french champions came from

behind twice. psg going through on away goals. >> we love the competition. and we are in a good situation. so is not time -- is not time to cry it is not also time to laugh. it's time to analyze the situation. meanwhile in munich this man made some unwanted history as he received the fastest red card in history. he was dismissed in the third minute. without him the ukrainian champions conceded 7 goals. south african captain took to both the bat and ball. with a bat he hit 99 of just 82 balls. he just missed out on his second

century of the tournament. and he wasn't done there. he took 2 for 15 with a bowl. as they were bowled out for 195. south africa winning by 146 runs to confirm their place in the quarter finals. now formula 1 team sal va has had its appeal rejected. a court had ruled that the dutchman must be allowed to race for the team. but salva tried to overturn the court ruling. the former driver says he was promised a race seat for the season. three judges ruled he should be on the grid this weekend. >> we still have tomorrow morning to make it -- or rather tonight. so -- yeah let's see it takes around three hours to make it. and maybe if we do it very very quick, you can do it in two and a half hours. the united arab emrates have been suspended after they were

accused of holding fake endurance races. endurance races is hugely popular in the middle east. the uae is accused of registering fake races. dubai is due to host the championships next year but that has now been thrown into doubt. in that is all of your sport for now. >> many thanks indeed. stay with us here on al jazeera for special coverage of syria, a broken nation. lauren taylor here with that in london we'll leave you with a look back at four years of tour tour -- turmoil that has ravaged syria. ♪

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only on al jazeera america. [ explosion ] >> four years of untold horror in syria with no end in site. aid agencies accuse the u.n. of failing to protect civilians. ♪ i'm lauren taylor this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up two u.s. police officers are shot as racial tensions explode again in ferguson. the race to find people trapped beneath the rubble of a russian shopping center that collapsed in flames. i'm catherine soi in juba and i'll tell