on corey washington, i'm ray ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour i'm in doha with the top stories on al jazeera, a camp for displaced yemen hit on the fifth day of saudi-led air strikes in yemen. russia's foreign minister says he will return to the iran nuclear talks in switzerland with a deal just hours away. vote counting resumes as africa's largest democracy weights for results. plus out of africa and into the

philippines, we will show you the safari park built by the country's former dictator. ♪ sadie-led forces bombed yemen for the sixth successive night and one hit a camp housed with displaced people and conflicting reports on the number of dead but could be as high as 40 and this happened in the province near the border with saudi arabia. the houthis saying the saudi-led coalition bombed the camp killing a number of women and children but witnesses say that while the camp used to be home to hundreds of families from an earlier conflict it's now occupied by houthi fighters and meanwhile saudi arabia is investigating the report as it says its fighter jets may have been responding to houthi or artillery fire and hit in the

north as well as the capitol sanaa and cities of others. saudi arabia says attacks will continue until the president haidi returns to power. the coalition is trying to stop the houthis from reaching the southern port city of aiden where there have been running forces loyal to haidi and kim reports. >> reporter: this is the deadly air strike ever and this was a camp in yemen north for those fleeing the violence which gripped yemen for more than a decade and women and children are among the dead but witnesses say many of those killed were fighters and saudi arabia is adamant the houthis are to blame. >> moved weapons and fighters where you have civilians and we stress that we do our best to prevent civilian casualties. we reply to a source of fire. we have no confirmation this was

a refugee camp. >> reporter: saudi-led air strikes have hit at least nine of yemen's provinces including the capitol sanaa. air strikes in the sky and fighters restrict the target and military base and weapons storage facility which belongs to the yemen republican guard. the focus is not just on houthi strongholds but also on protecting the port city of aiden. it's the main base where president haidi supports and air strikes in the south targeting convows of reenforcement and what they say are houthi command centers like this one and coalition forces control the skies naval are blocking ports in a bid to stop rebel fighters from rearming and tie ran says they are not backing them but making accusations. >> translator: there are a number of iran revolution guards

on the ground and started operating more in the open and many advisors supported am mercenaries all operating under the guidance of iran. >> reporter: the coalition says its military campaign will continue until houthi fighters and soldiers loyal to deposed president hand over their weapons and join talks to find a political solution kim with al jazeera. we are bringing in a reporter from yemen and you have been to this particular camp in the providence near the border of saudi arabia what can you tell us what you know about it and what you have seen there and who inhabited it recently? >> well the camp was built during the fighting between houthis and government forces particularly in 2009 and 10 and

when the saudis also launched massive military intervention with air strikes on houthi positions in sanaa and thousands of families forced to leave their villages to go to the camp which has been run by the international agencies and even after 2011 12 thousands of families wouldn't go back home. they were asking the government for compensation. and villages were destroyed. and they didn't get an answer from the government they chose to stay in the camp. it's on the border with the saudi arabia and given the latest developments on the ground one would assume the situation would be extremely delicate and tense and this is the spokesperson of the saudi army says that yesterday, in fact, the only answer to the attack targeting the camp that these forces came under fire from that particular area and they had not an option but to

return fire that the saudis are trying to investigate the case the houthis on the other hand say civilians were killed in an indiscriminate air strike by saudis and an instance that has to be referred to the international community and shows the delicate situation they face as the conflict goes on and air strikes continue in the coming days the likelihood of seeing further tension is definitely there. >> do you see any sort of scenario or situation over the next couple of days where there will be an end to the air strikes? what are we looking at here? >> reporter: the place of the saudi foreign minister today said basically that the operation would continue for the saudis, this is very crucial and want this to continue until demands are met and the demand are the following they want to see the houthis pull out from the cities they control and hand

over power to haidi and join a political dialog for sake of diffusing tension in yemen and it's nothing that is coming in the coming days i doubt. >> speaking to me here on the set. diplomates working hard to reach agreement on iran's nuclear future just hours before a self imposed deadline. iran's foreign minister and six world powers meeting in switzerland and we go over to our editor where the talks are taking place and continue to take place, james, what do we know? >> it is just past midday local time in lazam, the deadline is midnight so 12 hours so go before the deadline. the u.s. effectively says for some sort of framework agreement. these have been very tough negotiations and on-and-off

there have been some form of negotiations with 12 years here in this session over the last couple of weeks 12 days of negotiations, they are getting closer, there are still i think things to be worked out even at this 11th hour in the process but one of those who is involved but not currently here in lozan, most foreign ministers are meeting and, in fact are meeting again now sergei fedorov headed back to moscow 24 hours ago when he felt there was though agreement to sign. we now hear in a news conference he has given in the last couple of hours in moscow he is heading back and he is somewhat optimistic. >> translator: i'm planning to return to the talks and take part in the final session. i would say this round of negotiations has a good chance of success if the participants don't bring forward any new demands which may change the balance that now exists. >> reporter: so there you have it, a somewhat optimistic tone

from the russian foreign minister but he is saying he cannot be 100% certain that you can get a deal so we will keep watching what they are going to do here. we will also be watching exactly what they announce because what was promised by no less figure than president obama was a framework agreement. i have to say in resent days they started to talk about an understanding or some sort of statement and this is important because the test of this will be in congress, when congress returns because congress is not happy or many in congress republicans and democrats about what is going on with these negotiations. they will want to see progress otherwise they are threatening further sanctions. >> james base is reporting from lazan and crossing over to london now and speak to journalists and marine expert on

iran so by 12 hours from now will there be a deal or will there not be a deal? >> we have to be cautiously optimistic i think. we will know it at the last-minute because we noticed in the experience that passed they have kept negotiating at the very last moment. it depends what kind of agreement is going to come out of this whether most issues resolved by the end of june or the mainframe of agreement right now. so we have to be looking for the news later on in the day to really talk about it as a real agreement. >> it seems that one of the sticking issues according to james base i have been talking to all morning that there are real questions surrounding the issue of lifting of u.n. sanctions because iran wants them lifted as soon as possible p 5 plus 1 are working at sort of a slower rate, where do you lie on that issue and also if there is a lifting of some of the sanctions what could they be

and what does that mean for iran? >> basically i think there are three kinds of sanctions, one is the u.n. sanctions through the u.n. security council, that is easy to council. the second are the executive sanctions ordered by the american government that is also very easy. what has gone through the congress and where the congress has got influence it remains to be seen. i suppose they want to see the details and especially technical details of the negotiations. also as you know there are pressures from saudi arabia, from israel and of course from hard liners in america itself over the kind of deal that is going to emerge at the end of june so we have to wait and see what is going to happen, nevertheless if there is an agreement today i think the u.n. security council sanctions will be lifted, some of the executive sanctions would be lifted but the main one as far as america is concerned will stay nevertheless whatever happens i think it's a very important sign

for iran that has been acknowledged by the international community especially by the big powers as a partner in negotiations therefore i think it's going to influence what is happening in iran especially in terms of iran economy. as you know iran economy is stagnant considering a county of some 80 million people, very educated workforce and enormous financial resources. >> right, so internally how are iran people viewing what is going on in lazan and there does seem to be internal debate going on in iran because the conservatives and reformists over this deal. >> absolutely. as far as the people are concerned they are very optimistic and happy if there is a deal and also the conservatives are not very happy at all and headlines and newspapers and statements have been very much against any reference of the deal through the u.n. 7th chapter so they have been resistance by the hard

liners by and large and by and large i think president rouhani and others are happy with the deal going through but according to their terms so hard liners will try to resist parts of the deal and see results i suppose later on by the end of the june what kind of technical arrangement they would be agreed to. nevertheless whatever happens whether it's going to be a full agreement or not now is going to be enormously influential with iran's relationship with the west. >> thank you for joining us from london. >> you are welcome, thank you. ♪ vote counting has resumed in nigeria's closely contested presidential election and early results showing the military man buhari edged ahead of the incumbent goodluck jonathan and voting in 36 states and the

capitol abuja and counted in 18 states and 10 states went to buhari and 8 voted for jonathan. and buhari leads in over all votes the number of votes doesn't settle the election and yvonne is joining us from the capitol abuja and yvonne is watching the results come in and will tell us first of all what else it takes then yvonne to win this election? >> reporter: well, not only will the winner have to score the majority of votes nationally the winner of this race will also have to get at least 25% of the vote in at least 24 of nigeria's 36 states, that is according to the constitution. now, if the incumbent president goodluck jonathan fails to do that if the main opposition challenger buhari fails to do that they will have to face a runoff and it will be the first time in 16 years since nigeria became a democracy there ever

would be a runoff in the country. it will be a huge challenge for the electoral authorities and census that it's something that everybody wants to avoid and wants a clear winner in the first round and so far the main opposition buhari is leading with around 2 million votes but all could change because there are at least 18 states yet to announce results in this election. >> reporter: speaking of the states let's look at legos in particular and the popular state in nigeria any indication of who will win there? >> reporter: well local media are already reporting that legos has gone to the opposition leader buhari and saying he has won by some 792000 compared to goodluck jonathan 632000 votes but this has not been confirmed by the independent electoral commission and the chair of the commission is about to take his seat and people expecting more results to come through.

if legos is going to buhari it's not a surprise and always controlled by the buhari party and never under control of the ruling party, the democratic party, that is president jonathan's party so it's not a complete surprise and analysts are saying that if jonathan does lose legos it's because he has alternating an incredibly powerful parts of nigerian society and decided to vote as a block of the legos state and some of the southwest states which were announced yesterday as being one won by buhari but there is a lot to play for, even if legos goes to buhari results of 17 other states come here and we can hear them now introducing officials of what we can expect a commencement of more results to start very soon.

they were supposed to start about an hour ago. they are running quite late. >> yvonne for the time being and yvonne is reporting from abuja. it's a week since the nigerian military detained two al jazeera journalists in the north and they were embedded with the military before they were detained last tuesday and have been kept in that hotel since then and al jazeera is demanding their immediate release. the u.s. state department is saying it has been watching this case and linda thomas greenfield is the assist and secretary of state for african affairs and hopes the two are released soon. >> the united states is committed to freedom of the press and for media access so we would support your efforts to have your journalists released. we don't have all the details of what is happening, but i think the news that we have so far indicates that they had their credentials, they were traveling with the military and i think it's important that the

government allow them to continue to do their work. as we were getting ready to come into nigeria we heard that some journalists were being denied visas and we certainly expressed our views there and we would certainly, we are certainly disappointed that this happened here to your journalists. >> reporter: a senior prosecutor in uganda has been shot dead in what police say could be a quote targeted assassination. joan was shot dead in campala late on monday and leading the prosecution against those accused of organizing two bombings there in 2010. 79 people were killed in the attacks on screenings at the soccer world cup final, the trial has now been postponed. coming up, on the al jazeera news hour we will count the numbers of the deadline expires to see who has joined the new asia bank set up by china.

why doesn't the united states government think e cigarettes are a good idea? and in sport we will hear from one of new zealand's world cup cricket heros as he decides it's time to quit the game. ♪ but first three journalists have been arrested in malaysia on suspension of edition and tmi were detained after news reports on discussions about punishments given out under islamic law. they are expected to be released soon. and two company executives were also arrested and they do remain in custody. crossing over to tell us more about that story and we are joined from kuala-lumpur and what is the story of the

arrests? >> reporter: this starts in a town where one of the opposition parties, islamic party in charge of that particular state and wants to bring in islamic law. now, in doing this it up set coalition partners like islamic parties and also the parties that favor the chinese community. if you add to this now the statement itself bringing islamic law in it would have to be brought in not state by state but as a national law and therefore it comes into conflict with the constitution. that as side malaysia also has a rotating monarchy and there is not one but several monarch and the monarch is reportedly to be in support of the law yet as a resent conclave of those people the idea was rejected and it was that conclave the report of that conclave and the decision to reject this that was reported in this magazine and it's why

these five have been arrested. the issue and the controversy remains as to why they have been arrested. it should be up to the conclave of sultants to complain about the article and up to the magazine to retract and apologize why officials and security services have now got involved is what is controversial but it's all about sedation and it's all about the government and the authorities here being able to arrest people if they think they disturb the calm of malaysia or the integrity of the malaysia community. >> it seems quite odd in all of colonial law they are being used to stifle this debate or any sort of comment. >> reporter: yes, it is an old colonial brought by british in 1948 to keep the community and british workers that were here in this country under control and not criticize the colonial

empire controlled by london in the time. and it has to be said that this is a very interesting conversation that has been going on but also very controversial because sedation in itself can mean so many things and we are seeing a whole range of people from civil society, lawyers, cartoonists, all being arrested and questioned and held in local police stations for no more than 24-46 hours and then released and sometimes the charges are dismissed and sometimes there are more investigations according to the authorities but what this does is generate a climate of fear when, in fact, this very conversation we are having could be deemed seditious. >> thank you for that update joining us from kuala-lumpur. moves being made to end marshal law in thailand and the army commander turned prime minister asked for royal approval which

is considered a formality and critics say it poses so called dictator law granting him absolute power ten months after thailand's government was over thrown. as tuesday's deadline is about to expire 40 countries signed up for the asia infrastructure bank and being set up by china and seen as a challenge to the world bank and the international monetary fund which are heavily influenced by the united states. close ally the uk and rising ashun powers and india and indonesia are among members, brazil russia and germany applied for membership. the bank is designed to target infrastructure projects that are not being funded by imf and world bank and hoping to fill a funding gap of $800 billion a year that the u.s. says the initiative will fall short of international banking standards. in a moment we will hear the

view from beijing and dakarta but first tom ackerman in washington. >> reporter: the chinese initiative is not being seen officially as a competitive threat, the american president of the bank says it is already in deep discussions about cooperating on infrastructure projects and another major institution, the imf is also sounding positive about the new lending group. >> i they that the more the better sometimes and there is plenty of work to be done. infrastructure needs is not in short supply. >> reporter: u.s. officials also say they are willing to look at cofinancing some projects with the chinese-led bank so long as they comply with high standards of transparency and concern for the environment. many here believe the chinese would not have been driven to set up this new bank if the u.s. congress had agreed to increase china's voting share in the imf. >> if it's up to indonesia the

bank should be based right here and indonesia says it's a logical choice because the country will be one of its biggest clients and they want to invest $438 billion u.s. dollars in infrastructure in the next five years and build 500 railroad, 2600 road and 24 sea ports and 48 dams and most of the money will have to come from foreign investment. indonesia is working very hard to host the bank and also eying one of its most powerful positions, the vice presidency but many are questioning indonesia's chances due to a lack of proper infrastructure and space right here in dakarta to host a prestigious international institution. >> few could do this and right now it's seeking to challenge washington's dominance of two of the world's biggest financing

institutions, the world bank and the international fund and said too long washington voice prevailed here and institutions need reform and no longer reflect the changing shape of the global economy, an economy that is increasingly dominated by china, so with the bank that china is proposed to set up it hopes to change all of that. china of course believes the bank will dovetail neatly with another project it has been touting, the revival of the silk road trade route between china and europe and would involve billions of dollars of new infrastructure which it hope also be paid for by loans from its new bank. in an address to the greek parliament the prime minister alexis said his country unable to repay the debts without eventually restructuring it and come as international creditors are looking over greece's economic reform proposal and added although greece has not abandon the pledge to seek a debt settlement it would not

agree to unconditional demands. but we want a new agreement for development, to have a necessary restructuring of the debt and no country with a debt of 180% of gdp can safely come out to the markets and this is the sour truth. >> reporter: aisle fighters in northern iraq again been targeted by war planes by a coalition led by united states and 20 targets were attacked on tuesday, following the air attacks the iraqi army got the hospital from i.s.i.l. control and the army on a four-day offensive to try to retake all of the city. i.s.i.l. boobie traps and bomb attacks have slowed their advance. the french and italian presidents encouraging libya's rival government to form a unity government and they met on monday in paris and the u.n. is

trying to workout a peace deal through peace talks in morocco and libya in turmoil after the dictator of moammar gaddafi. and after flooding in chile, richard it seems like it's peru's turn to have flooding. >> the flooding in chile is an event that metrologist will be talking about for many years to come but in terms of flooding taking place in peru that is what would expect this time of year, you are coming off the end of the rainy season and the rains begin to ease off. the shots and spectacular shots come from this is north and east of the country where we have seen the worst of the flooding over last week to ten days and since the start of the year we've had 28 people losing their lives in flooding compared with 18 with the chile floods but it really is part of what you see

at this time of year. the cells are loosely banned and mountains and rapid runoff of water and forecast doesn't offer a great change to what we have rain effecting parts of peru and columbia and ecuador as the case of this time of year. going further south and parts of b o olivia and land slides after rain and possibility of nothing more than showers. across the rest of the region we have fine conditions across much of argentina and paraguay with high of 31 and rain southeast brazil which is needed with the drought situation but should be fine in rio and expecting highs here of 27. german wings disaster and why was the copilot allowed to fly after being treated for suicidal tendencies and

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♪ hello again you are with the al jazeera news hour the top stories in yemen, a sixth night of air strikes by saudi arabia targeted a houthi rebels weapons store in the capitol sanaa and conflicting reports on the number of dead after another air

strike hit a camp for displaced people in the province near the saudi border. votes have been counted and half of the 36 states in nigeria and suggest a slight lead for the military ruler buhari over president goodluck jonathan. russian foreign minister sergei fedorov say talks in switzerland have a good chance of success and diplomates working to reach agreement before tuesday's deadline expires and back to nigeria and getting breaking news out of there, there has been a disturbance by the ruling party at the international conference in abuja where yvonne is there and yvonne has been waiting for the results of the presidential election. what do we mean when we say a disturbance, yvonne, what is going on? >> reporter: well pandemonia has broken out at the conference

central where the presidential election is being announced. a few minutes ago a man took to the stage and identified himself as a party agent for the ruling party, that is the people's democratic party, he grabbed the microphone and refused to give back the microphone to the chairman of the electorate commission and accused the commission of being partial and would not accept the results of what was being announced that the independent nationals met with the commission and ignored complaints by the ruling party about some of the results that were announced on monday. he said that nigerians must take to the streets. they will not take the results that have been announced, that people must come out and protest. he was joined by several other men and the result process has come to a complaint stand still. police are present and other

security agents trying to wrestle the microphone out of the hands of these ruling parties on what appeared to be ruling party agents and it's an incredibly tense situation. the chairman of the electoral commission is seeing up at the high table with other senior officials from the commission and surrounded by police officers. there has been a little bit of violence breaking out here and it is an extreme tense situation right now incredibly worrying for this very critical day where millions of nigerians are expecting the final results in this race between the incumbent person goodluck jonathan and main opposition leader. >> yvonne we will is to leave it there but thank you for the update and giving us an update at a disturbance at a vote counting station in abuja and

nigeria. the united nations is hoping to raise more than $8 billion for sierran refugees at a donor conference held in kuwait. and hosting that day-long conference pledged half a billion dollars, u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon appealing to delegates from 78 countries to help tackle what is being described as a humanitarian catastrophe in syria. crossing over to beirut and speaking to the syria campaign manager. camilla needs for syrian refugees are clearly massive and increasing as the war goes on each and everyday, are the donations keeping up? >> absolutely not is the answer to that. we've seen needs inside syria increase twelvefold over the last few years and the funds to provide for humanitarian response have only increased three fold so this conference

comes at a really critical time. before today the humanitarian appeal, the biggest appeal called by the u.n. was only funded less than 10% so we really need to see governments in kuwait stepping up and sending a really clear signal to the people of syria they have not been abandon by the world. >> what about the mean for operation? operation? >> well, it's very difficult for the people on the ground both in syria and neighboring countries and have seen cuts to assistance including to the world free program really having an impact on people not getting enough to eat and we struggle to find funds to be able to provide cash assistance for people to pay rent and afford basic needs and driving people to negative coping strategies like child labor and early marriage and votes across the mediterranean.

>> what are needs not being met for syrians inside syria as well as the refugees and neighboring countries like lebanon where you are? >> well over half the prewar population of syria is in desperate need of humanitarian assistance and these are basic like water and food and shelter and so many people have been driven from their homes and across the region refugees have poured into neighboring countries and 4 million refugees and having a massive impact on infrastructure on neighboring countries as well and not only refugees struggling the most poor and vulnerable in the countries are hit hard and we really need to see funds coming in for healthcare and education and to support these countries beyond their immediate life-saving aid. >> reporter: oxfirm has a fair share of the cost of response for some of the top donor governments. what did you base that on and

what results have you seen how many countries have given their fair share according to you? >> reporter: so we calculated what we would say is an equitable share for funds for humanitarian response across for the government and last we're we saw so many countries including russia and australia giving just a fraction of their fair share which is based on the size of their economy. in 2015 before the conference today the uk was the only government that had pledged their fair share of the funds. so we really need to see more countries stepping up today and providing their fair share. it's really unfair that the burden of the crisis would fall so heavily on neighboring countries and we need to see other donors really putting their money where their mouth is and it's not just funding for the response as well, oxfam has calculated a share of settlement

places that should be pledged by governments to offer a lifeline to the most vulnerable refugees whose needs cannot be met in the region and last year european countries pledged less than 10% of their fair share of resettlement places so there is a lot of work to do. >> okay and we will leave it there and joining us from beirut. now returning to another top story in the saudi-led operation in yemen and have been civilian casualties and we have workers on the ground helping the wounded. what i'm referring to specifically is the attack that took place in the province near the saudi border and reports saying that a camp that houses displaced people was hit and there are conflicting reports on exactly what happened there and as well as the number of people that were killed. let's try and get some clarity on that and speak to the manager of the program in the middle east and joining us from

barcelona via skype and thanks for joining us and can you tell us what happened in the prove inls -- province at the camp and what took place? >> first of all, we had a team that was there yesterday and i went to the camp yesterday morning because they had received some reports they will be a displaced person and a right to the camp in the previous days and spoke with operation there and authorities and it was when they were returning to there and they had information there had been an air strike against the camp. and we have not -- we don't have any staff with the air strike but we have basically what the victims are and what the authorities and different people in the camp are telling us that according to them it was an air

strike. >> are they telling you by whom who conducted that air strike? >> no no of course. this is not our road. up to now we have 54 wounded people in the hospital and 29 people or bodies who arrived to the hospital. >> pueblo some witnesses are saying this particular camp used to be home to some of the families that were housed there from an earlier conflict and they are saying it's now occupied by houthi fighters can you confirm that? >> only thing i do not know. i can confirm that in the camp there are a lot of civilians still. in the camp there are hundreds of women and children and i don't know, i couldn't tell you if there are or not fighters inside but for sure most of the people who are there are

civilians. >> and what types of injuries are your teams on the ground telling you that they are treating? >> so what the teams are telling us is they are treating wounds which are consistent with explosions explosions. >> reporter: all right, pueblo thank you for joining us from barcelona. >> thank you very much. would it be possible if i could make one more? >> i'm afraid, all right, i'm afraid we will have to leave it there with pueblo speaking to us from barcelona. electricity supplies slowly being restored in turkey after the worst power blackouts for 15 years and the biggest city were among the areas hit and public transportation systems shut down. early reports say the fall of the transmission line in the region is to blame. copilot suspected of deliberately crashing 150

passengers and crew in the french alps had been treated for suicidal tendencies and the state prosecutor said that he was this psycho therapy until the crash but didn't say for what and most is still unclear and searching for more clues and french government workers are building access roads to reach the remote crash site and dominick has more from berlin. >> reporter: the news that prosecutors confirmed at one point during his career lubitz sufficient tear suffered suicidal tendencies and speculated about for sometime and we had known he had a severe depression in 2009 for which he did receive treatment but now we know at that point he also was experiencing suicidal tendencies that is important because his company german wings and parent company said he went through assessment and physical

and mental tests and passed them and they considered him 100% able to take controls of the plane and of course we know he took controls of the plane, locked out his captain and plunged that plane in the fatal dive in the alps and comes at a time when the french president is meeting angela merkel the chancer in berlin obviously to talk about this issue and many others and was the first world leader to talk about this disaster and to confirm there were fatalities on the day of the accident on tuesday of last week and we know also there will be a memorial to be held in germany in the city that is the base for german wings and the president and angela merkel will be in attendance to mark 149 innocent victims that lubitz took to their deaths on the day he plunged that aircraft.

e cigarettes a marketed as a less harmful way of tobacco and help smokers kick the habit but the disease control center warns they could be just as harmful and launched a new antismoking campaign and kimberly reports from washington d.c. >> reporter: for 30 years shaun robinson used to smoke up to a pack of cigarettes a day, that is until he discovered e cigarettes. >> epiphany i was like wow i just quit smoking like i don't think my mom still believes i have quit smoking, i mean i smoked that long. >> reporter: e cigarettes has been touted as an antismoking tool and they can control and decrease the amount of nicotine they are taking in. >> that was good. >> reporter: eventually kicking the habit. u.s. centers for disease control for the first time is now including e cigarettes in their antismoking campaign arguing the alternative tobacco is just as

deadly. >> many adult whose think they are going to get off cigarettes by taking e cigarettes are actually continuing to smoke when perhaps they would have quit if they had not taken up the e cigarettes. >> most smokers who use e cigarettes as a cessation tool continue to smoke putting their health at even greater risk. the agency also fears the fruity flavors of vapors used in some e cigarettes will attract children who may not have started smoking otherwise. >> i'm not surprised but i'm sad. >> reporter: robinson disagrees with the c.d.c. argument and convinced e cigarettes can reduce independence and he has a business dedicated to helping customers quit and invites clients to display their final pack of traditional cigarettes. >> i'm in the business to get people off cigarettes and the way i quit is with e cigarettes. i'm proof they do everybody good. >> reporter: despite u.s. government warnings and now

advertisements to the contrary kimberly in washington. you are with the al jazeera news hour and coming up, a tall story from the philippines all the way from africa. and in sports some sharp shooting from kyle korver helped the atlanta hawks for another win in nba and andy will be here with details on that and much more. stay with us. ♪

♪ hello again and time for the sports news with andy >> defending champion

yanukovich is through and aiming to win the title for a fifth time, the world number one only needed 26 minutes to win the first set against belgium state it was 6-love. somewhat tricky time in the second set and took one 7, 5 and now face alexander. >> i managed to come back in the right moment and i kind of elevated the intensity and start playing a little bit more with depth and the ball. he has a lot of variety especially from his slices pretty well so i was handling it really good for first 30 minutes and started to makeup the stairs and playing a little bit slower and he got into a match and then, you know got complicated my own life in the second set but at the end of the day it's a win. world number one serena

williams in quarter finals and defeating 2006 champion in straight seats 6, 2-6, 3 and title for a third straight season and all williams final possible after her sister venus had a place as well and beating world number one in straight sets and won this three times but the last came back in 2001. now tunisia is banned from the africa cup of nations, the country met a deadline to apologize to african futbol ruling body and they accused match officials of being biased with the defeat of again guinea and were fined and will take it to the conference for sport.

nigeria found a bit of form and beating them in a friendly. algeria went down in quarter finals with the cup of nations and lost to qatar on thursday. and scoring twice in this 4-1 win. now crucial game coming up in qualification for next year's european championship with israel taking on belgium, the team is second and third in the qualifying group with the top two guaranteed a spot in the finals. israel have never qualified for the european championship before and they last 3-0 to whales last time out. >> translator: my players gave evening against whales and they lost and i lost with them it happens and we lift our head and look forward and play a team ranked fourth in the world. when i saw them during the world cup i thought they were better than argentina in the quarter finals. >> friendlies all over the world in the next few hours and

netherlands taking on spain and beating them 5-1 last year cup but struggling qualifying and sitting third in group a. england or italy also for a friendly and striker harry kane will make an international start and 21-year-old had 21 goals for season and scored 79 seconds after coming on as substitute with lithuania on friday. >> i think it's exciting for english futbol and the league and the tournament and doing fantastic. so hopefully continue that form with england and a big night for the start for england and i'm sure we are excited. cricket spinner has been named australia test court for the up coming tours of england and adam also in the 7th seed and averaged 100 in australia

domestic competition and was in australia in 2010 and has since played in limited internationals but yet to make his test debut. >> five time world champion and represented 2-20s and if i get an opportunity to play it will be amazing and i will play for my country and i'm hoping we will be in canada for the country and cricket as well. >> reporter: new zeeland spinner confirmed retirement from the team, 36-year-old took more than 700 international wickets for him and his team in oakland after the country's first appearance in a world cup final. >> hopefully the way we performed and have been led and brought a number of fans in and that coupled with winning, people love that so that is hopefully the legacy of this world cup. >> reporter: nba the atlanta hawks are one win away from

equaling the best ever season and eastern conference leader had 56 win of the season against the milwaukee bucks, in the third quarter kyle korver sunk six jump shots in 65 seconds and top scored with 23 points and hawks won 101-88. sometimes it's not just the action but the atmosphere that can make a sporting event but at the atlanta falcons the live experience hasn't been completely real. the nfl team has been using fake crowd noise at their home games as punishment their 2016 draft pick has been taken away and they have been fined $350,000 nfl said the falcons have been piping noise into the georgia dome for the last two years to disrupt opposition teams calling plays in the huddle. plenty more on that story and the rest of the day's sports on our website, check that out, al

jazeera.com/sports, serena williams progress at the miami open our top story there. okay that is your sport for now. >> all right thank you. you wouldn't normally expect to see a family of giraffes out for a stroll in the philippines but there are a few on the island along with many other animals from africa. and we have the story on how they actually got there. >> reporter: it is dubbed a piece of africa in the philippines. this safari park is home to over 300 endangered animals and 4,000 hectors of natural reserve this is a top tourist destination but the park is the least known attractions and he has been working here almost 40 years and tells me the story of how the former president marcos did this after a safari trip in africa in 1976 100 animals were

shipped from kenya to here effecting more than 200 families in the process. the marcuss were known to have stolen billions of dollars from government coffers and this was to be a private zoo. he was over thrown by a people power revolution. decades on caretakers continue to work under limited conditions, often their salary is unpaid for many months. there are no resident animal doctors here no clinic and not a single working vehicle. poaching is also a problem. at least 20 animals are killed here every year and caretakers say they do not have enough park rangers to police the perimeters. still they have stayed for decades all for their love of the animals. >> my dream is to become a world type safari park although i could say also this is a safari

park because that is the only thing we could maintain through its income of the project. >> reporter: for many years it was closed off from the public neglected by the national government. and things are starting to pick up again, around 70 visitors come here now almost everyday. and there are talks of a new private investor that will help improve its facilities. so he and his team are happy. this may also mean the park will finally be known for its unique attractions and not as a bitter reminder of the excessive rule by the marcus. i'm with al jazeera, the island western philippines. thanks for watching the news hour on al jazeera, we have much more news coming your way in just a couple of minutes.

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