plate of people... >> techknow only on al jazeera america >> welcome to the news hour from doha. these are the top stories. from presidential candidate to convicted criminal, senegal's former president faces years in prison. >> iraq forces fighting isil near tikrit found another mass grave. >> singapore in mourning after the death of its founding father, lee kuan yew. >> france looks to the right with conservatives and the

national front coming first and second in local elections. >> we begin with some breaking news out of yemen. the country's embattled foreign minister asked regional powers for foreign intervention to base running the country under control. president adou rabbo mansour hadi has been trying to governor the city from aden. houthi rebels control sanna rebels are wreaking havoc across the country. the special envoy he to yemen said said it's on the birch of civil war and urges a peaceful resolution to the crisis. houthi controls sanna the airport and other parts of taiz. we have a report. >> in yemen it's going from bad to worse.

at an emergency meeting of the united nations security council that was a key message from the top u.n. envoy to yemen. >> events of recent weeks and days seems to be leaving yemen farther away from a peaceful settlement and towards the edge of civil war. any side that would want to push the country in either direction would be inviting a protracted conflict in the vein of an iraq, libya, syria combined scenario. >> the security council meeting comes as tear gas gunshots and anger are in the streets of taiz the third largest city. protestors angry that houthi forces arrived in their city surrounded the barracks of the local security forces. >> we refuse, we reject and

denounce these militias. we will surround the police barracks with with our bodies until they leave. >> first the houthis overtook the capitol of sanna and now are closing in on president hadi in his stronghold in aden. on sunday, the security council again called on the houthi to halt their advance. >> the security council condemns the on going unilateral actions taken by the houthis which undermine the political process in yemen jeopardy dies scabbled sovereignty and unity of yemen. >> the u.n. gulf cooperation council led by saudi arabia, qatar as well as the u.s. are trying to broker a peace deal. a houthi leader on sunday seemed to reject he those efforts. >> the security council usually supports the offender against the victim. it meets only when it sees that

the evil conspiring and criminal hands she in a dangerous situation. >> the security council left the door open to take further measures in case of non-implementation of its measures on yemen but did not specify what that would be. >> there is no action that has halted or slowed the political or security crisis facing yemen a crisis that's getting worse every day. al jazeera the united nations. >> now it's a spectacular fall from grace a presidential candidate in senegal and the son of the former president has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to six years in prison. he is also ordered to pay $230 million in fines. the court ruled that he i will leally acquired companies and real estate while serving as a minister in his father's government. we are joined on the phone now from the senegalese capitol.

>> it is a harsh an historical sentence, something senegal has never seen before. never has there been a sentencing of such a large amount of money $220 million, now supporters outside the court were chanting too much, too much this is too much. there are no option of appeal. the only opportunity is to appeal to the high court but cannot appeal to the anti corruption tribunal. his father, the former president of senegal will hold a press conference later today that find what course of action they'll take. make no mistake his supporters plan to take to the streets and in the hours to come plan to protest on the streets and we'll see he what happens next. >> the sentences handed down are

extremely harsh, six years in prison and fines of $230 million. it puts an end to any political ambitions he had of running in the 2016 presidential elections. >> absolutely. just this weekend members of the opposition had determined him as their leader, their presidential candidate for the next election. it looks unlikely that he'll be ail to run for the presidential election. let me give you a bit of proof that his father gave. his father was the president of senegal from 2000-2012. during that time he was nicknamed the minister of the earth and sky because he helped so many portfolios as minister under his father's rule, he controlled businesses surrounding the court the construction of a new airport. some critics say he is now punished for the business deals that he he made during this

tenure as a minister. >> all right nicholas hart in dhaka, thank you. >> iraq security forces say they discovered a mass grave containing the remains of iraq soldiers south of tikrit. it's unclear how many bodies were found as work to uncover the grave site is still on going. it is thought they were killed by isil fighters. >> five pro government fighters are killed and eight injured in an assault on sites controlled by isil northeast of tikrit. rack's defense minister said his forces will storm tikrit as soon as possible. the offensive was paused to give civilians a chance to leave. particular result is the second biggest city under isil controls and lies on the way to baghdad. >> when we see that the time is right for the tikrit alliance, we will storm it as quickly as possible. particular result is in full siege. we are taking caution to not

take any losses and to protect civilians in the city. the terrorists are surrounded inside the city. their morale is low. when the right moment comes within we will storm the city without resistance or losses. >> singapore has begun seven days of national mourning following the death of its founding father, lee kuan yew. condolences and tributes have been pouring in from singaporeans and leaders around the world. we have more. >> images of lee kuan yew over look mourners. people have been delivering get well messages, now it's to send their condolences. a retired civil servant was a teacher for decades. when he heard the news that lee kuan yew had died, he was in pain but felt it was important to bring his two granddaughters here. >> his death for yours his strong foundation, what is going

to happen in the near future. >> flog were lowered to half mast to honor the passing of who many felt was the modern father of singapore. >> his body is now here, the prime minister's office for a private family week. it will be moved monday to parliament house so the people of this nation can pay their last respects. >> in the late afternoon hundreds oh stood in line to sign bookings of remembrance. a personal message from the people he led while condolence leaders from around the world were being received throughout the day. >> scott joins us live from singapore. how have the people there been reacting to the news of lee kuan yew's death? >> their community centers are right across this city that have housed these kind of memorials if you will. it started as we saw it in the peace, as good will gatherings while he was still in hospital.

obviously that transformed today into memorials. books are still being signed. there are still some people now. we've seen the line grow and shrink through the last several hours. what's going to be focused once wednesday morning comes around, the body of mr. lee will be moved from here to parliament house where it will sit in state, lay in state until saturday, and then the state funeral will be conducted on sunday. that's when we'll probably see most of the people pour out into the streets and we'll see a lot more emotion. right now it's a private family wake going on in the compound behind me. >> scott it's hard to even state just the legacy of this man, a founding father. he was extremely important to singapore, wasn't he? >> absolutely. many view what he's done and how he really started this nation,

they call him the father of singapore, is really an island within this region, because of the economic power this small small island nation has amid very large but less developed nations with less developed economies. what he was able to do here is quite remarkable, because just 50 or so years ago there really wasn't much here. now it's a booming me trop listen a high tech me crop listen. a lot of the banking center are here. the people here really credit most of them credit their quality of life here to mr. lee. that's why there's such an outpouring here. as we saw that gentleman who brought his granddaughters to pay their respects at the hospital, a lot of people that respect will continue. his eldest son is the prime minister now. hit political party continues to win and win so many believe his legacy will continue. >> he has this legacy which

people will reflect on but wasn't without controversy. >> absolutely not. a lot of it centered on the micro managing of the economy to get it where it was. there was a harsh law. there was a stretch where chewing gum was illegal here, things along those line where he had tight control some say an iron grip on the way this country was run but also, he really kind of stomped out and stomped down on any opposition that was coming up and sometimes taking them to court and bankrupting a lot of them, so there is that side of things, you know, that his opponents will say. but obviously that's not what's coming out from the political opponents here on monday. you probably won't see that until well after this state funeral on sunday. >> all right scott, thank you. >> lots more still to come here.

>> it's a time for truth. >> texan ted cruz becomes the first republican to put up his hand for the party's presidential nomination. >> a year after the start of the ebola outbreak a leading aid agency slams the international communities slow response. >> a set back for new zealand in the cricket cup semifinal. sport a little later in the program. >> a fighter jet he belonging to the libya done alliance has been shot down. they back the tripoli installed government. it's unclear who or what brought down the jet. one of the pilots was arrested while the other was killed. >> meanwhile the u.n. special envoy to libya said there accounted be an agreement between the two rifle governments within days, saying they're working towards a unity

government. peace talks nearly clams after the u.n. backed government launched an air raid killing a senior commander. >> in libya battling for survival. zeina hodor is in the city where people say they are pushing back an isil offensive. >> it was the second bombing in a week and in both incidents security buildings were targeted. early on sunday, a car bomb went off outside the intelligence headquarters in misrata. no one was injured. libya's central city has been spared the violence in many areas of the country over recent months. that is why the recent explosion are seen as an attempt to destabilize misrata. >> misrata is involved in a multi-front war. for months, the city's brigades have been battling forces allied

to general haftar and the tobruk governments. groups associated with islamic state of iraq and the levant declared war on the city. >> this is the eastern gate of misrata. the security is tight because 250 kilometers from here is sirte, a city now in the hands of groups that have pledged allegiance to isil. misrata has september 00s of men to that front line but they haven't been able to defeat the threat for weeks. >> people across the world think misrata is home he to extremists and islamists but this is not true. we are the ones fighting isil. we are the ones fighting terrorism in libya. >> isil's strength is growing. there are fears the group will only get stronger if libya's arrival groups don't unit. isil is he backed by the former regime of momentum guard.

people here believe isil and the government in the east are financed by regional powers. >> wither fighting the terrorists isil, forces and the former regime behind all these groups niger chad, egypt sudan and the u.a.e. are supporting them. >> misrata is part of its roll in the 2011 revolution. it paid a heavy price standing up against gadhafi. now it is allied to the government in tripoli, one of the two administrations that claim to be the legitimate rulers of post gadhafi libya. since they pointed guns at each other last year, this city has lost 350 men. officials here are not ready to compromise because for them, they are fighting the enemies of their revolution. al jazeera misrata. >> oliver miles is a former british ambassador to libya and deputy chairman to the libyan

ministry council. he said there is no military solution to the crisis. >> the tobruk government accused turkey and qatar of financing their opponents the tripoli government accuse egypt and the u.a.e. and they may be right but i don't think this has been decisive. the fact is that the matter is not going to be settled by military means and that's not just the usually cliche that people like me always say that you need a political solution. the nature of libya with a lot of smallish centers of population and large distances between them, dessert distances means there is no chance this will be settled by military means. if the fighting continues more will get killed and in the end the state will collapse, but there will be no solution that way. >> syrian rebels captured several crew members of a government helicopter after it crashed in the northwest. pictures posted on social media

are said to show the helicopter going down. syria's state news agency said it had a mechanical problem. the syrian military has been accused of using helicopters to drop barrel bombs on towns and neighborhoods. >> the tunisian prime minister sacked two after the attack on the museum last week where 21 were killed. two attackers died in a shootout with security forces. the president said a third suspect is still at large. >> the united states did not make a statement at the u.n. during a debate about human rights violations. an update was given into the 2014 conflict -- the unprecedented step by the u.s. follows a signal by the obama administration that it's undertaking a reassessment of its relations with israel. normally washington defends israel's policies in the

occupied territories. >> in the united states, a senator from texas ted cruz, confirmed he's running for the republican presidential nomination in 2016. he's the first republican to declare his hand. the first term senator made the announcement on twitter along with a 30 second advertisement calling for support. he's expected to make a speech later on monday. let's talk to tom ackermann live from washington, d.c. ted cruz becomes the first republican to launch his presidential campaign. what do we know of him and what he stands for. >> actually, he's the first candidate of either party to announce form ally his candidacy, although hillary clinton is considered the favorite for the democratic witness expected to make an announcement in the next month or so. while ted cruz grew up in texas which he represents in the senate, he was born in canada, in calendar gagry.

his mother, american citizen but his father a legal resident at the time, and he to some constitutional lawyers that may prove a challenge for him because if somebody does challenge him in the courts, whether that would mean that he's not eligible under the constitution requirement of being a natural born citizen of the united states, but that is not keeping ted cruz you nevertheless from being the first out of the gate. his position here is and particularly about immigration reform which he has considered one of the hardest liners among the republican field in opposing the obama administration, he also doesn't endear himself to a lot of the more mainstream republicans because of the confrontational position that he posed, particularly in the senate when he almost singlehandedly caused the partial shut down of the u.s.

government over the issue of obamacare, the health care reform of the president which convince dentally celebrates its fifth anniversary today and it's not gone unnoticed that he's chosen this day to announce his candidacy at liberty university, called the large evident christian university in the united states. that is a particularly signal to evangelical christians that he is a man who is on their side. he also has said in his statement prepare atory to his speech today that is critical of the mainstream republicans at not being confrontational enough and contends the reason the republicans have lost the favorite vote in five out of the last six presidential elections is precisely because they were not conservative enough. he intends to remedy that situation. >> tom, thank you. >> it's been exactly a year since an outbreak of ebola was

confirmed in south africa. 10,000 people died. with he he look back at how people combed and how the stigma is associated with ebola. >> when ebola was at its worst last year, julius was trying to save those he could, and that when he caught the disease. >> fortunately i survived it, but people pointed fingers at me, he is the one who caught the virus, it became discouraging and worrisome. >> even colleagues who showed no symptoms were made to feel isolated. >> my very people could no longer come around me. i asked them to stay away, because -- >> he is back at work.

he's beat the virus and said it's now time to beat the misinformation about the disease. that's what liberia's government wants to do, as well. in a few weeks the world health organization had hoped to declare the country ebola-free, but that's now not going to happen because of a new case discovered days ago. it's left many here worried. >> we are very, very discouraged. >> ebola has crippled daily life. all schools were closed for six months and in one year, the disease has crisscrossed borders, killing more than 10,000 people across west africa. >> experts ever traced the

source here in guinea. this is the spot where it's believed bats infected a toddler, triggering the epidemic that also affected sierra leone and nigeria. the countries affected hope the worst is over now and that could very well be the case if this empty ole ba center is anything to go by. >> a report from doctors without borders has criticized the world health organization's slow response to the ebola outbreak. the w.h.o. has not responded to the criticism. >> all we know is that the delay that was caused by member states of the w.h.o. not acting cost valuable time in preparing a response. we're in a different place today, but we should be much further along. this is not just a hatchet job against the w.h.o., but is

really a reflection that the world isn't prepared for an outbreak of this magnitude. what worries m.s.f. is if there's another outbreak in another part of the world with similar backgrounds similar set up to the three countries in west africa, we will have another problem and another huge problem which will cost lives. >> we're going to check on the weather with rob. yesterday in doha was a very wet one. >> it was an unseasonably for 24 hours of thunder and rain. we got 27 millimeters in 24 hours. today the clouds having south. i think the next 20 our hours the thrust of any further showers will be western side of saudi, possibly yemen. we'll go to the states now. currently snow on the ground. this is now into spring. we have got recently formed falling snow, eight centers in

minneapolis, five in chicago and still 10 in syracuse and there's more to come. this is not the end of it, even though it's spring. it's snowing now in chicago at two degrees. well to say there's more to come here. in the mountains on the canadian side and the u.s. side, we have got snow falling and rain falling. this is coming into california, a place that wants it so much. there will be rain at lower levels. the snow pack needs to be built up to try and reduce the drought in california, so a bit more helpful stuff. >> thanks, rob. an animator in south africa is reaching a huge audience by writing in various languages. it's thought to be too controversial for t.v. we have a report from jonesberg. >> there is a lot of good food here. >> just an advertisement for finish and chips but it lampoons the south african president, shown eating with his

family in a sprawling home, a controversial property because of the millions of taxpayer dollars spent upgrading its security. >> it was homely popular with the public, but someone higher up didn't care for it. it was band, but still got plenty of hits on line. >> i thought it was hilarious. >> it's awesome. [ laughter ]. it's pretty awesome, yeah. >> another of his popular animations feature and african jesus also got him into trouble. he said he's not setting out to offend only to poke fun and push the boundaries. the killings at a satirical

newspaper in paris in january have only confirmed his views on freedom of speech. >> people will make fun of you in the real world. people will say bad things about you in the real world. you just ever to grow up about it and just accept it. >> he says his animations have had around 8 million hits on line. it's because he's one of the first south african animators to feature local voices, cultures and issues. >> it is quite refreshing to be south african. >> despite his popularity, he he's had to struggle to get his work on t.v. >> you feel you're a bit of a ground breaker in a way? you're a black south african talking to different people. >> this artist said he he has a lot more ground to break to make african voices more mainstream.

erika wood, al jazeera, south africa. >> when we come back, an awkward conversation with money. greece's prime minister is visiting berlin for the first time since being elected. >> a step to the right french voters turn away from a social you have the in local elections. we report from paris. >> in sport find out if roger federer could deny djokovic a fifth career title. more on that. stay with us.

>> welcome back. yemen's foreign minister asked

regional powers for military intervention to help base running the country under control. president adou rabbo mansour hadi has been trying to govern from aden. shia houthi rebels control sanna. >> a presidential candidate in den gal and son of the former president has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to six years in prison. the court ruled he illegally acquired companies and real estate while serving as a minister in his father's government. >> sing pour declared seven days of national mourning after of the death of its founding father lee he i don't knowia. he transformed singapore. >> the g.c.c. is ready to help yemen find a political solution to its crisis. >> india and the other members

of gcc accepted the call from president hadi to come to saudi arabia. other factions are invited including the houthis to have a dialogue peaceful dialogues to solve the problem. only the houthis and their partners of president adou rabbo mansour hadi and the congress party refuse to come and insisting you have the dialogue in sanna or they won't attend. we hear their forces are moving at the moment towards adden. >> right wing parties have won the most votes in france's

elections. former president sarkozy and his party allies leading in the first round. the for right front is in second place. their leader hopes to build on that momentum for a presidential bit in 2017. we'll talk to jacky rowland in paris, but first this report: >> consolidating his political comeback expenalty sarkozy's party is ahead in region ales, weakening the national front's hopes of a first round win. >> i confirm that there will be no agreements local or national with the leaders of this party. >> france's political landscape is turned on its head, transforming the national front from a fringe movement into one of europe's powerful far right parties. after their historical win in e.u. elections last year, they want to gain more ground. >> the goal is to demonstrate

that the national front is a great strength with local presence and not only a force able to attract millions of french people in a national election. >> the latest results show important gains for sarkozys party, and the national front. for the countries embattled president, francois hollande, has seen support for his socialists steadily dwindle. >> hollande's approval rating is at a low despite his praise for handling the paris attacks a point touched upon by his prime minister. >> in january men and women were killed expressing freedom of expression. voting is a victory for men and women. today we can vote. we will elect as many men as women. >> issues of immigration and the integration of french islam into society remain at the fore of

the campaigning creating a presidential contender for 2017. early results suggest french voters still have doubts. al jazeera paris. >> jacky rowland joins us from the french capitol. the conservatives have held off the far right for now. what's the reaction in paris today? >> well, as you said, it has really been a victory for the center right u.m.p. party and certainly the former president sarkozy would see this is being very good news and a very good prognosis for how his party may fare in more elections down the line. opinion polls after all are only an indication or suggesting of

voting trends, they're not scientific in any way. the real losers on sunday were the socialist party, the party that is currently governing in france but clearly the votes against them or the vote away from them on sunday was an indication of voters disenchantment with the socialist party in general and with the socialest president francois hollande in particular. >> how are these regional results likely to play out over the longer term? can we draw any conclusions from them? >> i think it's difficult to try to draw conclusions from these selections particularly bearing in mind what we so you sunday is only the first round. the second and conclusive round takes place in a week's time. also was people do have a tendency to vote in a different manager sometimes in local elections or in european elections than in national elections and presidential elections. sometimes, these more minor elections some might say regional local european are an

opportunity for voters to give the main parties a kick up the backside to make a protest vote, to make a point. of course, the presidential elections are still two years away. that's a very long time and the kind of issues that voters decide on when it comes to national levels, level elections are different from those on the local level. i think at this stage it's still two years before the presidential elections. it's probably too early really to draw major conclusions. >> jacki, thank you. >> the german chancellor angela merkel is preparing to welcome the new greek prime minister to berlin with military honors. it's the first time alexis tsipras will meet with her since evident elected. athens is quickly running out of cash, it is warned.

the relationship between greece and germany is strained because of the terms of the bailout. how important is this meeting between both leaders? >> well, it's obviously not going to fix everything overnight, but it's important in the context of the moves that have been made over the last days to mend fences. as you said, the relationship particularly between greece and germany has deteriorated very rapidly over the last weeks and it was threatening to become a situation in which either greece or its lenders including germany were in a position where they could say something that really could aggravate the situation and put greece in a position where it couldn't recover, it would be on the brink and won't be able to recover, given that cash is running very low. the meeting today is a

continuation of what happened last week when alexis tsipras met with chance merkel and other e.u. officials including french president francois hollande in brussels to compare the current impasse in greek's bailout talks. >> the immediate problem is that greece needs money now to meet its financial commitments. alexis tsipras is saying. other countries are saying greek needs to perform where it gets more money. they have high expectations. >> there's been a change of government and the new government has come in and said i'm not going to carry out the reforms that the previous government failed two and couldn't get the bailout loans. i want different terms. the lenders have listened to that message with a little bit of skepticism, saying ok, draw

up a reform lust, let's look at it and if it's ok, we can progress. now the ball is in the greek court to draw up this reform be, present to it lenders and see if this helps them qualify for the bailout loans. it will be one of the subjects at the heart of tonight's meeting between mosul and tsipras. >> do we know what terms that will come with and whether europe's own parliaments will approve it? >> this is the other issue. everything is about the short term now because greece is running out of money. the agreement is for a four month extension to the bailout program until the end of june. now beyond june, grease will need further financing or a new kind of package. the greeks want to call it packed with growth, others are calling it a third bailout. if we have a very negative atmosphere leading into that, there are questions about what german parliament or other euro

zone parliaments will be willing to vote for. >> thank you for talking to al jazeera. >> egypt ethiopia and sudan have signed a dispute over the sharing of the nile. egypt has been against the dam saying it would worsen water shortagion. eat yep he i can't said flow won't be changed downstream. it will be africa's largest and will be completely by 2017. >> thousands of farm workers in mexico are protesting wages and working conditions. 200 demonstrators blocked a major highway leading into the united states. we have more from can quentin in mexico's baja, california. >> these are just some of the thousands of farmworkers on strike in the valley in the northern state of baja,

california. this region with the huge farms export vegetables and fruit to the u.s. these are workers that pick that fruits and vegetables but say salaries haven't increased in years and they often work in miserable conditions. >> all the prices in the shops having up and the salary isn't enough to pay for things. we get $7 a day. the producers sell the products in dollars but we're earning in pesos. that's why we are protesting. we want to rise in our wages. >> sometimes the supervisors molest the woman and if the woman says no, they fire her. >> not all the farmworkers are on strike. some are working in the fields. producers argue it's possible to earn a decent living doing that. the reality is that it's harvest season now and without these workers picking the crops those are being lost and valuable profits with them. it's in the interest not just of these farm workers but producers to bring this dispute to a close sooner rather than

later. >> the e.u.'s foreign policy troop is traveling to cuba. >> cuba has historically ban commercial advertising-free society, the loosening of economic relations with the united states, all this could now change. as we report from havana, the industry is already growing on the island. with no advertising no classified ads in the newspapers, there's only with unway cubans cancel that toaster or house in the wrong neighborhood. they phone david and he sends the message to be transmitted over the air waves.

>> we are people who have lost their dogs or left their documentses on a bus or someone in the family needs medicine. >> the ads are repeated in several programs, supplying a social service to the area. this area is bereft of the advertising seen in our countries. >> cubans can buy pretty much the same products as anybody else. what you won't see here is advertising for running shoes and soft drinks. instead, there's plenty of promotion of ideas with posters like this one urging the cuban people to defend the values of their country. >> others extol the virtues of the revolution or criticize cuba's enemies usually the united states. the government is now trying to encourage foreign investment and allow small private businesses to flourish.

this italian goes to the streets to promote his restaurant. >> it would be great to have an advertisement with the name of our restaurant on it. the day they allow advertisement on the newspapers and television, i'll be ready. >> although not exactly new york's time square or piccadilly circus in london, more advertisements are appearing in havana and greater competition in the city's night life has seen the introduction of subtle forms of advertising not seen here before. >> advertising is starting in a very low key way. restaurants have signs and stickers. we're not talking about big posters that you'll see in places like chain in a, which is too much, but we wouldn't be shocked to see them here one day. >> with the economy opening up, if a little cautiously, cuban shoppers if they choose to and can afford it may now in some places experience the same

appetizing razzle dazzle as the rest of the world. on the inner net here is sparse and precarious, web designers are poised for a future with much more for sale. al jazeera havana. >> still to come here on al jazeera. >> we're right here. we have one of those last great places on earth. >> paradise lost. we're in south sudan where its unique wildlife is caught in a crossfire of its warring factions. >> in sport a rare split from the german football champions. we'll hear that story and more. stay with us.

>> all the sport. >> cricket world cup co hosts new zealand suffered and injury setback ahead of the semifinal. a bit of a heel problem, he said been replaced. new zealand won a bad tempered game. >> i think both teams have grown up immensely in that time and will play the game in different spirit. we will focus purely on displaying skills trying to be as good as we can with ball, bat in the field and leaving nothing out there in terms of their heart and soul and try he to be as good as we can. >> barcelona took a big step

toward winning the spanish league title peteing real madrid. madrid pulled level before half time. it was louie suarez who went on to whip the game for barcelona in the second half. he gave bars arena a 2-1 victory. >> it was a very important victory. because they are direct rivals and it now looks we have more chances are winning the league. now we can face the end of the league with a relative advantage. >> let's have a look at how the top of the table is looking in spain. barcelona four points clear of real at the top of the league. >> apologizing for his dismissal from one of the biggest matches

on the calendar, hoping to close the gap on the former champions who currently occupy the champion spot. 38 seconds into his statute appearances, that was up to stomping on herrera. both of united's goals coming from juan mata, taking them five points clear of liverpool. >> suffering their first home defeat in seven months. the winger picked up an injury to keep him out of action for self weeks. goalkeeper was short lifted for world player of the year had an array of force. 2-0, they stay third but a 10 point lead still at the top of the league. >> now the ban on football matches between russia and

ukraine may be lifted in time for euro 2016. the countries aren't allowed to play each other in club competitions or international equal fires due to the on going unrest in the region. the executive committee meeting now and have indicated the countries may be able to play each other in france. russia and ukraine both third in their qualifying groups. in france, if they vote things will qualify, i don't see any problem to play in the same group. >> djokovic claimed his fifth title beating roger federer in three sets, winning

this. he has won eight of 11 in this event. >> i will never forget it. i told them to -- i told this to the crowd. it was an amazing tournament for me and i didn't play my best during this tournament, but i had confidence that i have my chance to win so i tried everything and i was fighting until the end every match. >> i could not close the match out. i got a little bit nervous and that affected the way i played. i could not execute when it mattered, and it cost me the match. >> successfully defending his title at the arnold palmer invitational in florida the american hadn't posted a top 25 finish on the tour since last

june, but holding a birdie putt on the final green to win by a stroke. rory mcilroy finished at a tie for 11th place. >> i definitely feel like i've taken some strides in the right direction. there's still a few things in my game that i need to tidy up and work on, but, you know what i was working on last week, i feel like i've made progress in that and i've got a couple weeks to work on more stuff and hopefully be ready for the start of april. >> in the nba eastern conference, the atlanta hawks have suffered their third straight loss. they were comfortably beaten by the san antonio spurs. leonard posted 20 points. splitting a season high 23, the spurs winning 114-95, their third straight win. >> now former marathon world record holder said athletics in

kenya needs to work harder improving its image after recent doping scandals. he is training at altitude ahead of his appearance at the london marathon. 39 kenyan athletes are believed to have failed drug tests in recent months. he says more must be done to educate runners about doping. >> in kenya you find that we are trying to -- basically by awareness to athletes that doping is not good. also creating awareness that drugs, which are -- >> more sport later on, that is it for now. >> thank you for that. south sudan's natural beauty and diverse wildlife could one day make the country a tourist destination. the on going civil war however threatens that possibility. both sides in the war are accused of butchering animals. nick clark reports.

>> the flight plan is northeast then saw the towards the you began dan border. the shanty towns soon give way to wilderness, wilderness that could help rebuild a nation with its huge tourist potential. >> wither on the main channel heading east. we're going to come up into the national park here. >> paul has seen much of the world, but this is something else. >> we could fly easily for two hours and not see anything but wildlife and wild places, no human influence but right here, we have one of those last great places on earth. >> this is east africa's largest in tact savannah, home to the second biggest animal migration in the world. millions and millions of antelope follows century's old seasonal migration corridors. south sudan has its own sub species of giraffe. there are elephant herds

diminished in number, but a sufficient quantity to make a full come back. on the ugandan border, the power of the white nile, waters of lake victoria heading for the mediterranean. its potential goes beyond what you can catch out of it. >> south sudan has extraordinary natural beauty to an area of savannah, all this in a country ravaged by war inaccessible to that most valuable of resources the tourist dollar. >> it seems the nation's unique wildlife has become a victim of the war. fighters said to be slaughtering wide life. we have the latest update. >> the situation is that some wildlife populations are being heavily approached by civilians by the government army, by the army in opposition and by the spla for commercial bush meat

hunting, as well as for feeding themselves. there's a lot of pressure on wildlife populations. >> that's crushing news for communities that want to develop the resources they got. >> we say no to the war. we need peace and we need development. our children have been deprived, no school. most of the population are illiterate. peace, we hope it will come. >> south sudan has a beauty you never hear about. it's all just war and instability. with its wildlife and tourism potential, there is a hope for the future, but now even that is at risk. nick clark, al jazeera south sudan. >> stay with us here on al jazeera. another full bulletin of news is straight ahead. you can keep up to date with all the news on our website aljazeera.com.

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