♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour i'm in doha and top stories. >> we don't know what happened to our family. >> reporter: president makes emotional appeal for the world to help his people. as talks resume on iran's nuclear program saudi arabia says it wants the same deal. could it be good-bye to bibi the last full day of campaigning in

israel's election. and on the road in south sudan the struggle to deliver thousands of tons of food before the rainy season starts. ♪ but first the president says more than 90% of buildings in the island nation has been destroyed and calling on the world to tell. aid agency say flights over the 900 kilometers confirmed the fears of widespread destruction and correspondent andrew thomas reached the south pacific islands and reports now from the capitol port villa. >> reporter: the president described the cyclone that hit his country as a monster that will take many years to recover from and believes half the population has been effected and no information from the southern islands, believed to be most

badly fit and here 90% of buildings have been damaged whether it's a tree through the roof like this one or totally destroyed. and it's a pretty awful sight, what was it like during the storm. >> beyond description and very very strong. there was a lot of flooding and a lot of rain and the winds were so strong you cannot see anything, nothing at all. >> reporter: did you stay here during it? >> yes, we stayed when it fell on the house and fell on top of the house. >> reporter: big job in front of you. >> you will need six months to seven months to repair and it will take one year to two years before port villa will come to a full recovery. >> reporter: thank you very much. this is the worst cyclone to have hit in more than a generation. the president says he thinks that climate change contributed

to this disaster but he wants to get on with the job and back to the country and he was at a conference on disaster preparedness in japan when it struck and she on his way home to see the damage. rescue workers not able to get in the worst effected areas and kim has the latest on the recovery effort. >> reporter: now that the wind has died down this woman returns to what is left of her home. she like many others north of port villa will be forced to find a shelter or set up camp in the rubble and residents here say they are lucky to be alive. >> you don't know if you will face another day because you are hearing everything and the sound of the wheels of the wind it's very freighted and you don't know what to do. >> reporter: the cyclone pam can be seen across the capitol. ten shacks barely stand while

the more traditional bam boo huts stood no chance. >> when we come down here we look down here and sorry about everything and they are crying about their homes. >> reporter: it's thought 90% are either damaged or destroyed but the outlying islands to the south where aid workers expect to find the worse damage. >> we are literally cutoff from them so when we start to learn what is happening out on those islands i think we will be having a huge job ahead of us. >> reporter: emergency supplies being sent to vanuatu and paint a grim picture but could take days to the badly hit remote islands. >> this is a cyclone on vanuatu

and i say it's a monster that hit vanuatu. >> reporter: the country's main hospital and the resources to begin with have been damaged and patients evaluated and treatment will get longer. >> we need this help. and we need supplies and food and also a mobile hospital to accommodate the in flux of patients coming. >> reporter: an in flux that can only begin when help arrives on islands that need it most kim with al jazeera. talks underway this switzerland to try to reach a deal only iran new program and saudi arabia has warned if a deal is reached with iran than riad will look for their own ambitions and we go to our diplomatic editor at the talks in lozan and james talks are underway and there is a very complicated series of talks

taking place where you are not to mention what is going on in brussels. >> absolutely, there is a whole series of things taking place on this because we reached the crunch period of negotiations, the main part of a deal the framework deal to be done at the end of the month and the other deal at the end of june and highly unlikely they will get another extension and time is running out and this is why this is at a very important stage and phillip phillip hammond say they are closer than ever and hammond is with eu foreign ministers here in brussels and in lozan and the hotel behind me the iran foreign minister will be leaving here later on and going to brussels to meet the european ministers and the separate is going on and

doing line by line plan for this deal. they are also negotiating the political directors of the p 5 plus 1, a grouping of the international community and iran meeting and a lot of meetings going on reaching an important moment in this very long saga. >> reporter: what are the brace tacks james of what needs to be desolved and what are the main sticking points and what solutions are they likely to come up with? >> well there are a lot of sticking points and not being told exactly of what they are discussing at any one time and we do know who is around the table and gives you a clue it's not just the u.s. secretary of state, the energy secretary is here showing there are a lot of technical details. also the man for the u.s. who is in the u.s. mission to the u.n. in new york in charge of all the u.s. sanctions policy at the

u.n. he is here. so we believe that much of the effort in the talks at the moment is if you get a deal how do you check that deal verification inspections, how long would iran's nuclear program be inspected and we think it's the energy agency that will do the inspections and there is talk of that going on for ten years and a sunset clause after that which could mean that iran is free to do what it wants after that period that is a subject of debate here and the sanctions very, very important because those sanctions put iran under a great deal of pressure and iran wants them all lifted and they say yes we can give relief of sanctions but cannot remove them completely because we need to make sure you will comply with any deal and we need to be able to reimpose the sanctions and it's very evident for anyone following the procedures is sanctions take a long time to

put in place because there are u.s. sanctions and eu sanctions and security resolution and sanctions in five different resolutions and took a long time to get the sanctions infra infrastructure in place and that is one of the things they are discussing. >> reporter: thank you very much and james is our on today and will keep us across the important series of talks that are taking place there in swiss land and then subsequently in brussels. now to iraq where a commander there is saying that they need coalition air strikes to help them retake tikrit from i.s.i.l. and two weeks they have been trying to push i.s.i.l. out but they control pockets of the city center and i.s.i.l. fighters took tikrit in june of last year. let's go to yemen where houthi rebels released the prime

minister and several cabinet ministers from house arrest prime minister baha who had been held for two months says he was released as a gesture of good will let's find out more about this who is the editor in chief of the yemen post what can you tell us about this? i understand you just have been with the prime minister himself. >> yes, i was close to the prime minister and the foreign minister and we planned to have lunch together in protest and they have been under house arrest, these lunches are ordinary because we want the houthis to know they are not stopped from moving or stopping the guests from entering the houses. today we were supposed to be there with a high delegation and that is why they felt it was enough and the longer they stayed under house arrest the more anger of the people rose. also yesterday, the u.s. party

announced that their representative in the nationals and the dialog is a minister also under house arrest and houthis have no choice but release ministers and be sure negotiations continue and have an obstacle in front of negotiations. >> the prime minister himself is putting this down to being a gesture of good will but the country does need that because there have been a series of protests in different cities around the country in protests of what they see as a houthi take over. >> right now the prime minister is fed up and that is why he just left sanaa and he is not in sanaa anymore and half an hour after he was freed he left the capitol and shows how angered he was and how much tension he was under, i expect the same from all ministers under house arrest and not allowed to move anywhere close to outside their house but right now the houthis right now are under massive pressure and that is why they needed to show

some good will and you have the islam and the coalition and they created two days ago and houthis are seeing and doing next to nothing but causing more people problems so they needed good will just to improve the reputation and show there is still a chance for them to reach a deal with fashion especially after yesterday the houthi leader announced that he is also undergoing negotiations with saudi arabia after the last couple days. >> for now thank you very much indeed. we have a lot more to come on this al jazeera news hour including find out why brazilians marched with thousands to demand i'm preachment of their president plus. i'm in chile where a teenager suffering from an uncurable disease caught world attention demanding the right to

a lethal injection. in sport soccer makes the latest pitch to get a foot hold insight baseball's yankee's stadium. ♪ the last full day of campaign in israel election with less than 24 hours to go before the polls open, the outcome is looking too close to call so we will go live to jerusalem and speak to our correspondent and it's often being called isn't it the end of the road has often been called for benjamin netanyahu, this is a veteran politician and has pulled out a rabbit from his hat on so many occasions before but how is it looking now? >> indeed, in many ways mr. netanyahu is the political survivor in israel and has been

the prime minister of this country for nine years, not consecutively but it's a pretty significant amount of time and if he is reelected, he will become the longest serving prime minister after one of the country's founders david bengurin and mr. netanyahu sees this as a historic poll for himself and indeed his legacy but the opinion polls do not seem to be on his side and he is trailing behind the union here which is essentially the labor party along with another party, they are sort of the left led by isaac hurtsog and for the last few weeks is not seen as somebody that they could stomach for lack oa better word and prime minister and was seen too soft spoken and too soft on issues of defense and seems to be changing.

in the background of this there is attention known as what is known as the joint list the joint list is a grouping of israeli palestinian political parties and this is the first time since the creation of israel since palestinian parties have joined together in a vote. we met with some of their candidates. here is our report. ♪ a better israel for its palestinian citizens is the message in the advisement for the list and lines of palestinian political parties, it's the first time the parties divided with islam and socialist and nationalist lines ran together in general election and the ticket is expected to win 13 or more seats in israel's 120 seat parliament potentially making history by being the third largest faction after the march 17 vote. one of the joint list best-known

politicians and also the most hated by many israelis and is an outspoken critic of the government hand campaigned of what she says is widespread and systematic discrimination against palestinian citizens of israel. >> the people of israel is an indication of power and is political attempt to empower ourselves facing the laws and facing the policies facing the state. >> reporter: palestinians makeup 20% of israel's population of 8 million and many believe the political alliance will be a step to greater equality and it can dramatically change the map and change the

lives of israeli palestinians and the parties have little in common and the divisions are already starting to show. but the internal disputes which include whether to share votes with leftist israelist parties over shadowed what led to the union in the first place, when lieberman, the right wing foreign minister helped to pass the so called governmentability law with 3.2% threshold to enter parliament it was seen as attempt to disenfranchise parties and since then the rhetoric has been more heated including advocating for to be heading of those who are quote disloyal to israel and comments like that which not only led to the creation of the joint list and why it's expected to do so well on election day. >> translator: we should thank lieberman whose racist views make this happen and thanks to his racism we reached unity, a dream which our people have been waiting for for a long time. we now hope this unity

continues. >> reporter: a hope shared by other israeli palestinian voters as they prepare to make history at the polls. >> so as we have been hearing the joint list making history in this general election but the one thing it won't be doing is joining any potential government that is israel might have after this poll. we have to bear in mind that there has never been an outright majority by any political party, governments here are largely made up of coalitions but the joint list have ruled that out and say they want to sit in opposition but in saying that although they will be in opposition they will be the third largest party and they say that with that influence they can certainly change things. >> okay for now thank you very much indeed and mts will report along with the rest of our team from israel as elections get underway on the 17th. now aid agencies in south sudan

are racing for tens of thousands of food supplies to people in desperate need before the rainy season begins next month and bad roads and volatile security situations are making it tough and we have this report. >> reporter: a race to beat the rainy season and starts in april, most supplies must be delivered to warehouses and places that are hard to reach because of roads and poor security and rebels and militia allied to both sides in civil war that started a little over a year ago still control large areas. these food arations cannot be accessed by road and mainly controlled by rebels. >> in a position where 2 noin 5 million are facing acute hunger and with no peace deal and the

peak hunger season coming the number will grow. >> reporter: food is transported by boats using the river nile it's faster and less dangerous. we are heading to a center that is hosting about 7,000 displaced people, it's difficult to reach by road but the needs there are many. the food was supposed to be here by february but because of logistics and government bureaucracy it's only getting here now. they are being given 15 days rations to last them a month. >> translator: when the crisis happened we couldn't harvest and the displaced people who came were more than us so we had to feed them. >> reporter: and had grandchildren and walked there last february when their village was over run by rebels. >> translator: sometimes we get food and sometimes it's delayed but we have to wait because we

don't work. >> reporter: countries have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to assist people here but money to quickly add the aid to where it's supposed to be is needed now al jazeera, south sudan. all right, let's talk now to the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for south sudan in the cab toll duba and it's terrible it has been in existence since 2011 and talk in terms of there being a hunger season, what sort of effort is the u.n. making to get south sudan up on its feet? >> well thank you very much we are making considerable efforts, there is a tremendous signal of solidarity with the people of south sudan at the moment and the generosity helped

people and the weather is terrible and seemingly never ending and also to get backup on their feet in the future. with 2.5 million people who are severely food insecure and as we go into sort of the hunger period, that number is unfortunately at risk of growing and so we are reaching people and those are at 100 different locations of the country and we are also trying to distribute season talks for the upcoming planting season. >> toby how closely linked would you say is the precarious food situation in south sudan, how close is that to that and i'm talking about the political process which doesn't seem to be yielding anything positive at the moment?

>> it would not have 2.5 million severely food and secure people in south sudan. that is how closely it's linked. unfortunately peace is illusive the parties are for the time being at least unable to agree on core government issues and so the fighting continues, people are unable to move around freely and in particular with their livestock and they can barely get to the fields to plant. so this is something i'm now calling for. it's vital for the west of march, april of may, the people can get out to their fields and we can do everything we can to help them but it's really a call on both parties to this conflict to help the people help themselves and so you know this is also at a time when as you know south sudan is oil dependent and income from oil is down 75% and there is a real risk of a severe degradation in

the economic situation on top of the conflict on top of this food and security that 2.5 million people face and i fear we are in this for the long hall. >> reporter: thank you very much and u.n. humanitarian coordinator from south sudan and talking to us from duba. let's talk to everton now and weatherton is what we sometimes call him in the office but let's talk to everton and find out what is going on in the rest of africa and not looking terribly pleasant in south sudan. >> no it's not but southern parts of africa we have improvement and let's start with madagascar and by the way my twitter handle is weatherton so if you want to get ahold of me on twitter that is a heads up for you. weather for madagascar and had really heavy rain over the past few weeks and pleased to say it looks much drier over the next couple of days and have one or

two showers on the eastern cape and southern madagascar could catch one or two showers but much improved on what we have seen lately and tuesday into wednesday and brighter skies and looking much much better. the showers that we have stretch across the southern tanzia and mozambia and congo and central parts of africa and we have seasonal rains going forward as they should do and making their way north and 58 millimeters of rain in congo. further west in guinea we saw huge amounts of rainfall this area of cloud drifted in 183 millimeters of rain in 24 hours. and showers will continue across southern parts of west africa over the next few days and particularly southern nigeria and could see wet weather making its way over to northern morocco and showers making their way

further east. the one and only weatherton there and hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in brazil and demanding the impeachment of yousiff and is facing cuts and scandal and adam rainy reports from the biggest city south palo. >> reporter: a sea of people. all squeezed on to south palo's main avenue that lies at the heart of brazil's financial sector. one of their demands, the impeachment of democratically elected two months in the term and seething or corruption at state oil company and worried about an economy that seems weaker everyday. >> brazilian people they are

taking our money and we don't have anything back only we pay taxes and taxes and taxes and we don't have anything back. >> everything else like rising taxes, you know not the same equal rights everyone. >> reporter: tens of thousands mashed mashed -- marched on the beason and across the country calls were the same they want the president out. hundreds of thousands of people have come out to march here on sunday and ironically the 30th anniversary of the return of democracy in brazil and after two year military rule they were free election and people marching say they are shrinking in democracy but people in government say this is an attack on that very democracy. there were were conservative

strains with military action and rejection of communism and opponents accuse her and the party of following. and it carried on and justice administer said they are listening and acting on it and it's from a president many no longer want to hear adam rainy, al jazeera, south palo. still to come on the program and we report on palestinian families going to damascus and forced out again by the war in syria. the largest arm importer needs more. and in sport nadal puts on a sizzling performance in the indian world service. ♪

♪ hello again, here are the top stories here at al jazeera. the president calling for international help as rescue workers struggle to reach remote communities hit by friday's cyclone anti land nation will take years to recover from the storm and left thousands of people homeless. yemen houthi rebels released the prime minister and several cabinet members from house arrest and prime minister baha held for two months in sanaa says he was set free as a gesture of good will. crunch negotiations have resumed

in switzerland to try to reach a deal on iran's nuclear program. we will be talking more about the situation that is currently underway in lozan and indeed in brussels, these negotiations are very, very complicated but significant progress we understand has already been made. talks taking place in geneva in january and iran agreed to stop enriching uranium beyond levels needed for power and in return international sanctions worth $7 billion were temporarily relaxed but the two sides remain at odds. how large a nuclear program and iran will be allowed to retain and iran is skeptical over whether the u.s. can be trusted to lift sanctions and that is because the power to permanently lift most sanctions lies with congress, not the president and many republicans you will remember that the republicans control congress now and they

are against a deal with iran and some allies including israel also oppose a deal senior member of saudi arabia family prince turkey elal-fizal in the region and we have the assist and professor at the study here in qatar at the university here and joins us in the studio and thanks for coming in to talk to us and the world attention is fixed on these talks and there does seem to be some momentum and we have reasonable grounds to be optimistic that some kind of deal will be reached, who particularly is watching and what are they thinking? we have already mentioned israel. >> there are several countries israel and the states which are more worried about the good end of this deal which i think is the over estimation of the potential negative unrest this

deal implies. i think iran is thinking it's a good deal even though it can effect states but it was necessary deal to get normalized iran. >> what about iran's traditional rivals in the region and note of caution coming from saudi arabia? >> i think the saudis need to understand that iran has a role to play in the middle east and they are not happy with it in the original scenarios but iran is very important state and needs to be incorporated and needs to be engaged in a battle. >> what is the position of the arab neighbors do they feel i ran would have no ability to enrich uranium or a limited amount what is the actual position? >> actually they pretend iran has no nuclear program at all and i think this is a big

mistake and it's already there and iran has a lot of international requirement in order to keep this program safe and under the support supervision of international community and all they have built in the last 20 years >> so we have the unusual situation of neighbors f iran agreeing with israel and we saw benjamin netanyahu recently at a pro pro provoc ashgs provocavie talking about war. >> being more powerful and iran to be normalized in the original scenario. >> so the saudis suggesting they would pursue some sort of nuclear program, how realistic is that and what sort of credibility should we attach to that? >> the problems we are here

discussing two different things one is iran to have nuclear power and the other thing is to become all nuclear military power which i think is not the case. the deal is to prevent iran to be a nuclear military power and guaranteed that iran will only do or to develop in specific terms in order to produce energy and not to be a military power. i think this is the wrong proliferation. on the other side i've been talking with officials in iran and say they have no problem sharing nuclear technology with the states to help them produce their own nuclear energy. >> fundamentally there seems a lack of trust in the p 5 plus 1 and their ability to negotiate an acceptable deal that would prevent iran from being able to weapon weaponize uranium and use

nuclear facilities for power purposes and do not trust the american ability to get that kind of deal. >> exactly and do not trust in the negotiation because they never trust iran themselves. >> okay, thank you very much indeed and luciana assist and professor of studies attica qatar university. and most have moved to neighboring lebanon to join tens of thousands of people there and we report on the tight restrictions they are having to live under. >> reporter: she is too old to care for her disabled and mentally challenged daughters but she has no other choice. there are palestinian refugees who came to lebanon when their neighborhood in damascus became a battleground two years ago. they say they are barely coping

with a little help they get but they were alone when the eldest daughter died from lung infection. >> translator: no one was next to me to help her, she died in my arms and no one came in time to bring a doctor. >> reporter: she and her daughters live in the largest palestinian refugee camp in lebanon and is overcrowded and people are poor. now they are sharing this space with thousands of palestinians who escaped the work in syria. >> translator: we have been under pressure since the arrival of syrian palestinians. they are our brothers but we are already finding it hard to survive. >> reporter: there is competition for jobs and aid provided by the united nations, this has caused tensions. serious palestinians enjoyed the same rights and benefits of syrian nationals and had access to schools, universities, health and this is not the case here. according to the united nations

relief and works agency 75% of the 45,000 palestinian refugees from syria cannot survive without handouts and for many this camp is a prison. the lebanese government which has had a history of conflict with its own palestinian population has restrictions. >> what syria have is visas expired and that makes them much more vulnerable and restrictions of movement they can come in and out of the camps as they want and can be stopped and their documents is be confiscated, they could be detained. >> reporter: this is just one of the reasons why many of them try to find a way out and at times it has cost them their lives, this palestinian family was hosting the relatives from syria before they were lured by smugglers to take a boat to reach europe. >> translator: my cousins and friends were on the boat when it sank, one is missing.

they were highly educated but they had no future here. there was no other way but to go on the journey of death. >> reporter: it has been a difficult journey for palestinian refugees, it has ended for this woman and those left behind it's a daily struggle just to survive, al jazeera, southern lebanon. a new report out that suggests that india emerged as the world's largest arms importer, in the last decade the country has been replacing its soviet stock poil and as it grows it may need to buy more weapons. >> reporter: india military on a shopping spree and they seen it rise to be number one arms importanter and ionia relied heavily on the soviet union and later russia for arms because they gave india a line of

credit. >> no policy to go east west or any such thing and it's what we need and there for we are willing to give it. >> reporter: analysts say india imports arms because it has no choice. >> we do not have a very robust defense base in the country. the defense policy opened only in 2001 to the private sector when they took office and that is why we are the number one importer. >> reporter: india arms imports risen steadily over the past ten years and defense analysts say the military responsibilities grow the country needs to buy more weapons. >> it is not enough. the threats and challenges to india national security are growing by the day. we have unresolved territories and boundary disputes with china and pakistan and in my view we are not spending enough on defense to be able to cope with the growing challenges.

>> reporter: india has recently become close to the u.s. and may soon be able to procure american arms long been embargoed and under modi the intention may be a destination for arms manufacturers and buyers as well. india intends to spend $120 billion over five years to fill efficiencies and elite military equipment, the long-term plan is to produce most military hardware and could take years and in the short term india will be one of the biggest arms importers in the world, new deli. >> reporter: 14 killed after a rainstorm hit parts of northern india and most of those killed were in the state here where crops were also badly damaged by the heavy downpour. a 20-year-old man has been charged in the u.s. in connection with the shooting of two police officers during last

week's protests in ferguson missouri and kerry reports. >> at this point in the investigation i want to stress this is ongoing with an awful lot to be done. >> reporter: st. louis prosecutor attorney mcculla announced arrest of 20-year-old jeffrey williams with the shooting that injured two police officers early thursday morning. >> essentially what we charged them with is firing shots and it's possible at this point he was firing shots at someone other than the police but struck the police officer so the charge is still assault in the first degree and class a felonies for striking those two officers. >> reporter: in addition to charges of two counts of first degree assault williams charged with one count of firing are weapon from a vehicle and three counts of armed criminal action and trying to finds out who is involved and if they are connected to the demonstrators in the crowd. the shooting occurred just after midnight as officers confronted

protesters near the ferguson police department. >> oh, boy. >> reporter: two officers were hit, one from the st. louis county police department the other from nearby webster grove and were treated and released from the hospital the same day. the gunfire came just hours after ferguson announced the resignation of police chief thomas jackson. it followed a week of numerous high-level resignations after a damning report revealed a pattern of discrimination by ferguson's police and the court system. it's been seven months since missouri teenager michael brown was shot and killed by a police officer. [chanting] that shooting launched the town of ferguson a suburb of st. louis, into the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons. [gunfire] we just hope things will go back to normal and folks will stop associating ferguson with violence. >> reporter: williams from north st. louis county but not

from ferguson which is also one of the points many people in ferguson constantly make. [gunfire [gunfire] many troublemakers come from outside of their community. i'm with al jazeera. venezuela marching in support of a law that gives president emergency powers to rule by degree and nicolas maduro says it will help combat u.s. threats of regression and president obama had sanctions on venezuela because of what he called a threat to national security and a teenager's emotional request for the right to die has split the country. al jazeera's latin america editor lucia newman has a special report. >> i am 14 years old and i suffer from cystic fibrosis, i ask to speak to the president urgently because i'm tired of living with this illness and i

can get an injection to make me sleep forever. >> reporter: her plea for assisted suicide has gone viral in chile and beyond. her brother michael died from the same incurrable disease that attacks the lungs, liver and pancr pancrease at six and doesn't want to die like he did. >> translator: my son struggled for six years and he sophisticated in my arms a few weeks ago valentina saw her best friend die of the disease and that hit her heart. >> reporter: thanks to valentina message she has been transferred from a hospital to this private facility where her father says she is getting much better care and she came to visit but refused her request, arguing

arguing arguing saying it's against the chile law and should be helped and not die. it's a controversial and subject for adults and more so generally considered too young to make crucial decisions on their own. in fact, belgium is the only country that allows country of any age suffering from an unbearable and irreversible disease the same right as an adult to choose to die. in socially conservative chile her request has triggered a heated debate. >> translator: it's in an atrocity especially for children because they would be treated as objects. >> translator: the only thing certain in life is death so to speak of a dignified death to address the fundamental rights of the patient as a human being. >> reporter: congressman is one of the few calling for legalizing euthanazia but reluctant and for children and

despite doctor's efforts her health is deteriorating and something she conceals taking off her oxygen mask just long enough to smile for a photo with me. she has been fighting to live all her life but she knows it's a losing battle. the only question is whether it will end at a time of her own choosing. lucia newman al jazeera, santiago. >> reporter: france's highest paid futballer apologizes for saying the country doesn't deserve another player. ♪

♪ south koreans taking part in a nationwide civil defense drill and coincides with exercises and rob mcbride say not many people are showing much interest. >> reporter: when the sirens blair everyone knows the drill and that seems to be the problem. they know it so well relatively few people respond. around seoul city hall civil defense teams go through emergency responses, turning the subway into a shelter. in the nearby district people start to listen to the civil defense marshals then leave the shelter for the shops. but they are not stopping and they keep coming. two years ago when north/south

tensions reached fever pitch the atmosphere was different, even south koreans who have come to live with the ongoing threat of war seems concerned and today the mood is verging on apathatic. on the inter-dorrborder of north and south korea it has been quiet and this village is well within the artillery range but people had to be reminded a drill was taking place. >> translator: when they hear the sirens people think, oh, that must be a drill but i never give much thought to it. >> translator: it doesn't matter if the siren is going, there are still many tourists and it's not an issue for us. >> reporter: back in seoul this drill finished with many not knowing there had been one at all. >> generally they know what to do. they are supposed to have that kind of education from what school they have but i mean

knowing what to do and doing that is two different things. >> reporter: everyone here is hoping it is never put to the test rob mcbride, al jazeera, seoul. now, buyers from china account for nearly a quarter of all global sales of art so galleries will showcase pieces at hong kong artwork and in the past they were over shadowed by big international names and we report on the new art fair that is trying to change all that. for a couple of million dollars this two meter bronze pumpkin is yours and art takes forms from a golden bridge to a stack of colorful cakes with iconic pieces from pop artist andy warhol and $3 billion is expected to change hands and put hong kong on the circuit but it has little for local artists.

>> hong kong people are not so outgoing and they don't really love to go to events or meet like new clients or meet people. they are a bit shy, for us a lot of these artists is we approach them. >> reporter: that is what the newest art fair set to do with tents by the harbor and a percent are local and you don't need a pile of money for art here and it's billed as the more affordable and edgy art fair with lesser known talents like vivian's work that will be seen for the first time by thousands of people and top collectors. >> i talked to like my friend and said do you think my work is good enough or am i embarrassing myself? i'm worried and nervous. >> reporter: stand along pieces like a chinese mona lisa colorful statutes behind a life size silver rhino and paintings

by mainland artists and vif yanukovich's creations exploring news and information believe to be popular. >> i saw a simplistic but to the point message and with today and the busyness i'm drawn to minimalist and collarful work and brings a feeling of joy and happiness. >> reporter: by the last day of the art fair almost all of vivian's pieces have sold showing the international art seen has room for local artists and demand for it al jazeera in hong kong. let's catch up with the sports and here is andy. >> thanks so much france highest paid futballer apologizing for comments for the defeat and scored twice but could not prevent the champion slipping to the third loss of the season and venting anger said in 15 years i've never seen a good referee in the country

and do not decertain anything in the country and said the remarks and the french or french people would not like it and going to the yankees stadium since 1976 and new york played the first game and it was the new york cosmos and now it's a team backed by the same people in charge at manchester city more than 40,000 fans there seeing new york city star and that is the striker helping the home game to 2-0 game over the revolution. >> translator: my experience with mns is not lifted to the past few games and been here since september and followed the last season and i have a great coach and teammates and soccer is the same regardless of the country you an are playing in. >> leading single points after the game and scoring twice

asthma drid took the win keeping the pressure who beat them on saturday. in germany looking good for champion league qualification and 3-0 win to consolidate second place in the leaguer and kevin with the opener there, and mossburg nine points clear and still training leaders by a huge margin 11 points. roger federer winning start to the 15th campaign at the california tournament, one of the biggest events outside of grand slam and four time champion beating argentina 6-4, 6-2 and he knocks him out of australia open. three time winner nadal also through, defeating sizzling in straight sets and latched in and lost the opening match at wells

and world three going for the 28 masters. last years champion knocked out of the 7th seed losing in three sets the world number 104 robin and the fourth time he has beaten a player in the top ten. serena williams and ended the boycott of the tournament this season and has not played there since 2001 when she says she was racially abused and she won in straight sets. lebron james received treatment after falling with the orlando magic and will face miami and got 21 points against orlando. and the hot form continued as he netted 33 and scored 57 at san antonio. one of gulf's brightest young

talents won the second title and speeth winning in florida and 21-year-old here holding a putt to claim the title and he now focused on a first major win at next month's masters. >> this is huge momentum for me and will jump me closer in the world ranking which is obviously the number one goal long-term, but what a great start to the year boosting fedex cup points back to maui and all the things going through my head quickly now but most of all it's a big momentum positive momentum force going in major championships. >> reporter: serena williams the top story on our website, al jazeera/sport and we will see you later and that is it for now. >> thank you very much indeed and do stay with us on al jazeera because i'll have another full bulletin of reviews coming up, right away. ♪

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