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attacks with the victims and two children. and call the president putin is questioned by the public for almost four hours. i'm lee with the sport included invited, how the city of eugene is awarded the world championship with no other contenders allowed. ♪ hello, yemen's new vice president urged houthi rebels to end of offensive on the port city of aiden and good will gesture to open the door to peace initiatives and called for army units for the government in exile instead of houthi rebels. u.n. envoy to yemen resigned monday criticism of failure to broken an end to the crisis.

and heavy fighting has broken out in and around the central city of ti opening up a new front for the houthis, they and allies are battling an army brigade and tribesmen and we have more details. ♪ this is the man likely to be yemen's next president. khaled bahah is currently vice president and prime minister. his task is to pull together a nation on the brink of civil war. khaled bahah says he is willing to work with his houthi opponents and forces loyal to the former president but only if they disarm. >> translator: we must give them a chance and united behind our project for a civil state and to achieve that malitia loyal to houthis and implement

go to yemen and stop destroying the country. >> reporter: yemen's biggest challenge is deteriorating humanitarian situation. hundreds of yemen people have been killed since the start of the conflict three weeks ago. the city of aiden is burying the brunt of heavy fighting. >> translator: yemen faces a tough situation, shortage and food medicine and necessities like electricity and fuel and requires intervention to prevent this in yemen and they will tackle the urgent needs of people and decided to form relief. >> reporter: for now the president and vice president won't be able to return home. part of the country remain under houthi control. the man khaled bahah wants to reform the army is detained and

he was captured by houthi fighters on the outskirts of aiden. khaled bahah became prime minister in october and his appointment was backed by the houthis who later put him under house arrest. now he is expected to unite yemen people and create stability for the country. i'm with al jazeera. al jazeera understands the u.n. has lined up a new special envoy to yemen, and has been chosen to succeed the former u.n. envoy to yemen and resigned of course on wednesday amed criticism of his failure to broker an end to the crisis and u.n. must endorse him for a job he worked 28 years with the organization in africa and the middle east. well, the yemen ambassador to the u.n. and spoke to us from new york a little earlier and began asking whether yemen could guaranty the saudi-led air strikes would stop if the

houthis agreed to pause the fighting. >> stop the war against aiden, the killing and the butchering of the population in aiden and they should stop the operations against the people and should stop the operations against merit and shall pull out of the cities, return the arms that they took by force from the government institutions and go back to be part of the political spectrum of the country, form their own political party and they will be very welcome. >> reporter: so to be clear the houthis would have to do all of that including hand the weapons back before yemen would agree that saudi arabia should stop those air strikes? >> of course. of course. they should implement 2201 and 2216 and they are welcome because we want them to be part of the solution. we don't want them to be part of

the problem. >> reporter: what should the u.n. do now after the resignation of jamal as its envoy to yemen how much of a setback has that been or do you welcome it as a chance to start anew? >> actually we think that he did a lot of positive things in the past. i mean his participation in the formation of all the implementation of the gcc initiative and after that the follow-up of the election process in yemen in 2012 then the follow-up of the outcome of the national dialog in 2015, we think that in the beginning he was doing a great job but the problem started when he thought that he might promote the presence of the houthis as a malitia group using their force as the powerful element in the spectrum and nobody was accepting. and from that point we started

to have a lot of disagreements with him and started to negotiate without consenting with the president of the republic and then we started to have serious problems. we welcome mr. new advisor to secretary-general and work very well with him and we will cooperate and support his efforts. >> reporter: what is the position as you understand it of former president, do you know where he is at the moment? >> he is somewhere hiding in a cave because this is really the fate of all those things that go against the will of their people and they exploited their people. he was having a great chance of being protected and saved in the

gcc niche the i've but unfortunately he decided to practice all these sort of punishment against the people of yemen and his faith will be that. >> could he ever do you foresee ever be part of a political solution for yemen? >> we wanted him to be part of the solution. but he insisted to be i mean, who is instructing all these republican guard officers and armies to move to the south? who is killing our people in the south? all the snipers everywhere in the south killing the people? let me tell you that the red cross is having medical supply and food in the airport of aiden and they cannot deliver that to the hospitals because the snipers of them and the houthis are killing the international red cross officers and aid helpers to do the job.

>> reporter: he ruled out completely as far as you are concerned of having part of a political future of yemen and i want to be absolutely clear about that? >> yes, i'm repeating what mr. khaled bahah was saying in his press conference earlier this morning, that if they want they should stop the war, withdraw from cities and stop butchering our people and we will talk to them. ♪ hundreds more migrants arrived in italy after trying to cross the mediterranean to reach europe and 40 others may have drown as they made the journey. there have been more calls for authorities to try to help after an unprecedented number of arrivals. and augusta and sicily al jazeera's paul brennan reports.

>> reporter: at the border of augusta the coast guard ship delivers cargo and 600 rescued from stricken boats off the libya coast in the past few days and guided ashore by coast guard in protective clothing they risked death in the hope of a better life. such are the numbers involved teams of volunteer doctors work alongside the ship's medical staff, what they have seen pulled from the water in resent weeks is harrowing. >> sometimes we see if people are in the sea. they swallow water and and awful. >> reporter: some arrive with a little money for their new life, others arrive without even shoes to wear. they come from syria and somalia

and there is no sign of a slow down in the unprecedented numbers seen in resent days. these migrants are safe but not everybody makes it this far, reports on thursday suggest there has been another sinking in the mediterranean with the loss of 40 lives. the european commission reports solutions are needed it's just they don't have any at the moment. >> the european commission cannot alone do it all. yes, we are putting all our energy into developing a comprehensive approach to manage migration and we said many times we will be coming forward with in may moved up from july but no we do not have a silver bullet or any kinds of panacea to make the situation go away like that and no amount of finger pointing is going to change that. >> reporter: in the next few days this coast guard ship will go to see and live also be saved as a result and the question of how to stop them risking lives

in the first place goes unanswered paul brennan, al jazeera, sicily. police arrested 15 men after 12 people were thrown overboard from a migrant boat in the mediterranean and the motive for that was traced to their faith and arrested on charges of multiple homicide motivated by religious hatred and they are muslims and those who died were christians. and efforts being made to try to help those making that journey across the mediterranean. we are joined and her husband have been operating a privately funded rescue operation since 2013 and offer a boat patrol with doctors without borders, last year catherine initiative rescued 3,000 people from the sea. >> there are people that are dying at sea. if we compare the statistics of last year 2014 from january and march of 2014 only 14 people

died. this year over 500 and the last shipwreck over 400 lost lives. so we need to do something and we are doing something. we work this collaboration of the coordination center and as the boat and vessel out at sea, all of us are directed by them and even try to mission and coordinating, they are coordinating the mission and all of the vessels out there, it's important, this coordination, because they direct us on the target on the boat that needs to be rescued. >> reporter: ambassadors at an informal meeting have been shown a very emotional clip of the aftermath of alleged chemical attack by the assad regime in

syria last year and weighs possible action against those responsible. >> the video in particular of attempts to resuscitate the children i mean if there was a dry eye in the room i didn't see it. it was -- it's just devastating to see the facts of what this regime is doing, so people were visibly moved, people had questions, very fair questions about how do you know this and what are the symptoms and but for the most part almost every council member prefaced said forgive me if i don't use diplomatic language but i'm so moved and overwhelmed by what i have seen and proceeded with comments, it was extremely unusual and very, very emotional meeting. >> reporter: human rights group human rights watch says the syrian government forces have dropped chemical weapons this year as well. with me live from the u.n. in new york is the doctor the

president of the syrian american medical society, thanks for being with us on the program. and i'll start by asking you what you know about these latest alleged chemical weapons attack which are said to have happened in idlib last month? >> yes actually the video that was shown was from this year from a few weeks ago and i just came from back from the city of the saturday and visited the field hospital that treated the patients and spoke with physicians and nurses that treated 120 patients who flooded the hospital within a couple of hours the night of march 16th it was very traumatic incident and doctors and nurses were struggling to deal with the overwhelmingly number of patients who showed symptoms with exposure to toxic gas, all patients had respiratory symptoms and cough and wheezing and some had fluid in their lungs. this unfortunate family of the

name of the family that started, they had three children one years old and two years old and three years old sarah and then the parents and grandmother also died and the children. the doctors struggled to revive the children after their hearts stopped and gave them oxygen and tried to put them on respirator but three children and their parents and grandmother died. they lived in a basement building in the city and the barrel bomb went through the ventilation unit and inhaled toxic gas and it took some time before bringing them to the hospital and when they arrives to the hospital they were dying. it was very chaotic and after that incident 50 percent of them of the people -- >> how difficult is it for doctors there to treat people who have been the victims of a chemical attack like that? >> it's very difficult for any

physician to deal with patients who are victims of chemicals. this is not something we are trained to do during our regular training and chemical weapons are not used routinely in the war, only a few times in the last century it was used. and these are doctors with limited resources, they don't have access to technology and when there is no electricity, when there is no running water, you have a small village like this and then you have a flood of patients it's very overwhelming to every one. >> can i ask you also what you believe the u.n. should be doing if it's indeed true that syria has carried out another chemical attack on civilians, what do you think the u.n. should be doing? >> i mean first of all the evidence that we presented has -- leaves no doubt at all that chemical weapon attack happened in syria and several times in the month of march. some people

died, many people were injured. and the security council has to enforce its own resolution the security council had resolution 2209 that spoke about the systematic use of chlorine gas in syria in the last year and said there is consequences of the future use. so what the people spoke with and i asked them what do you expect the security council to do and they said we want them to protect us from chemical weapon. these are the people by the way who are dealing everyday with conventional weapons, barrel bombs, missiles and bombs are thrown at them and now they deal with weapons and it's inhumane and they have to take responsibility and make sure that perfect measure of this attack are brought to justice and also to protect the syrian people. >> we appreciate your time thank you for joining us from the u.n. a big increase in government air strikes in syria in the past 36 hours. a human rights group says there have been more than 120 strikes

over aleppo and idlib killing 40 civilians. this footage shows rescuers searching for the rubble for survivors of attack in idlib as a death toll emerges for the last four years of war. still to come on the news hour for almost four hours russia president faces the public in his annual t.v. phone in show. anguish in south korea mourns the 304 victims of the ferry disaster a year ago. and in sport nadal proves he is still the king of clay and other big names failed to make it to the quarter finals in monte-carlo. violence erupted in greece during protests over a gold mine and they had separate rallies in

athens and many protesting were workers from a canadian run gold mine and have been protesting against the government decision to block the company's expansion plans because of environmental concerns. mine employees say the move could put them out of work. and the head of the international monetary fund kristen is about giving extension to greece over its debt repayments. >> my advice is to get on with the work and the work needs to address both the short term and the medium term of the economy and the objective that we all pursue is to actually restore the stability of the greek economy. >> if this means that europe is going to withstand idly by way a young government is snuffed out i have to say our only rationale pro-european response is to spend every waking hour moment

second trying to reach an honorable agreement with our partners. >> reporter: putin has been altering questions from the public during his annual televised call in over four hours he addressed issues in ukraine to his optimistic outlook for the economy and we report. >> reporter: and putin is an old hand at this now he has been doing these phone ins since 2001. this year putin started by addressing what is clearly on many russian's minds, the economy. be patient he urged them this recession will end. >> translator: with the strengthening of the rubble and growth in the markets and some indicators i think it may happen faster but somewhere in the region of two years. >> reporter: millions of questions came from all over russia's vastness by phone, text video, and e-mail. technically anyone in the

country can ask anything of the president. but this is obviously a carefully managed event. the questions can't all be so easy and it looks like he is being handed to but nor can the organizers run the risk of making him actually look bad. a former opposition politician was allowed to demand the response to what many western leaders consider fact, the accusation that the russian military is involved in this. >> translator: to the question of whether there are or there are not russian troops in ukraine i tell you straight and clearly there are no russian troops in u crane. >> reporter: the murder in late february is a crime much of the opposition blames on putin but it's a mystery and says such people do not exist. >> translator: he was in opposition to me and the government in general but we had kind enough relations when we were in touch, this kind of killing is tragic and shameful. >> reporter: and touching on

the most resent of russia's actions to annoy the west the sale of s 300 air defense missile systems to iran and putin had this to say. >> translator: we do not see any reason i want to stress it from our side to continue to keep the ban. >> reporter: the over all message of the four-hour marathon is clear enough this is putin saying to russians that times may be tough and enemies may be circling but the right man is in charge rory with al jazeera, moscow. iraqi military renewed its push to reclaim territory from i.s.i.s. in anbar but suffered early setback and soldiers retreated from the area after 11 of the members killed trying to drive i.s.i.l. fighters out on thursday morning and coalition air strikes firing on suspected aisle positions on the outskirts of the city and it's a ghost

town after thousands fled the fighting. iraq prime minister pushing for creation of a unified fighting force under official banner of iraqi army and voluntary fighters say they are under prepared and under resourced to take on i.s.i.l. and al jazeera kim met the volunteers training to retake the city of mosul. >> reporter: in step with each other and now with the iraqi army too, the volunteer fighters have for the first time pledged to take orders from baghdad part of the government's effort to unify countless malitias and this group is diverse and arabs, kurds and christians from mosul which has been occupied by i.s.i.l. all eager to go back. >> translator: one of my sons is here. he was a soldier and the other one will come in the next intake. i have ten children. and i came to be a volunteer, not for money, not for any

benefit just to get my city back as soon as possible. >> reporter: they call themselves the national guard, a force which officially doesn't yet exist. it's the name prime minister abadi wants to give to a new force of tribesmen and mostly shia mobilization forces and other volunteers. it's an uneasy union and one the men don't fully trust but say they will answer to abadi himself. mosul on the other side of this hill, it's about 12 kilometers away and the front line is being protected by kurdish peshmerga forces. there has been 11,000 soldiers through this camp in the past three months but even the commanders here admit they are under prepared and under resourced. >> translator: if we are doing the fighting with these kinds of weapons, the balance will not be in our favor and we will not

succeed. >> reporter: 11,000 soldiers through here and you have what maybe a dozen weapons? >> translator: i'm asking where is that support? where is that equipment? because we are the first army base closest to mosul. and we don't even have one pistol. >> reporter: they say the iraqi army needs them to keep the people of mosul on side and this man agrees and says he is the former head of an anti-i.s.i.l. sleeper cell trying to gather information on i.s.i.l. and its leaders in mosul. >> translator: from the very start what i.s.i.l. is doing i mean killing and be heading they are doing the same and i.s.i.l. is beating girls and making slaves and destroying mosque and homes and same by shia malitia and no difference at all. [chanting] talk of unity sectarian tensions still remain high here.

the mosul operation will have to be carefully managed to keep the people on side and these men prepared to fight. kim with al jazeera, northern iraq. still to come on this news hour we are in india taking a closer look at the urban art movement that is transforming the face of some of the country's most run-down streets. you might think we are playing this clip backwards but it's actually the next great step in space exploration, we will explain why shortly. and it's a first in snow boarding. find out why this amazing jump pushed this person into the record books. ♪

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between libya and italy and 400s are thought to have drown when the boat sank off the coast of libya earlier this week a big increase in government air strikes in syria in the past 36 hours and comes as u.n. hears evidence of chemical attacks with victims and children. all right so as we mentioned a little earlier u.n. lined up a special envoy to yemen and khaled bahah has been chosen to succeed the former u.n. envoy to yemen and he resigned on wednesday and criticism of his failure to broker an end to the crisis, and our diplomatic editor is live from the united nation and what more do we know about this possible appointment? >> the appointment at this stage stands as something that is proposed by ban ki-moon and we are told his candidate has accepted the position in principle. he comes from another very

difficult job for the last four months and he has been the head of the u.n.'s operation dealing with ebola, unmir and perhaps a more difficult job he faces in yemen. but it's not publically announced yet and that is because there is one more step and that is the u.n. secretary-general banky kiy kiy kiy -- ban ki-moon speaking to security council and getting agreement to this and will have constitution with security council in the coming days. the interesting country to watch with regard to this is russia because russia had wanted jamal to stay in the job. so i think lit be interesting to see how russia responds to the announcement of his replacement. >> it has been interesting there has been a lot of criticism recently of jamal,, in fact, when i spoke to the yemen ambassador to the u.n. in the last hour he said he started off being come mra -- complement

and this is the envoy to yemen. >> if you are to get peace in yemen there is no peace at the moment and it's going to be hard job for anyone who is given that task and he lost confidence of the yemen government and perhaps more importantly from some of the other regional players and particularly saudi arabia which we know behind the scenes wanted him moved from that job, that seems to have happened he has stepped aside, ban ki-moon is now appointed, his successor but what will the man do and will they have the same mandate and needs to be worked through in the coming days and weeks and the secretary-general will also have a role in this.

>> live from the u.n. thank you. and stay in yemen because al-qaeda seized control of a major airport, a sea port and oil terminal in the southern province it's a major gain for al-qaeda in the arab yanukovich peninsula and we will speak to a former u.s. assist and secretary of defense and center for american progress and as you can see he is with us from washington d.c. and thanks for your time what is the capture of this airport, the oil terminal and the sea port what does that say about the state of al-qaeda in yemen at the moment? >> well i think it means it's degenerating even to more and more chaotic situation because now you have al-qaeda and an arab yanukovich peninsula controlling the largest providence in yemen but yet the houthis don't like them nor do the saudis but the saudis and houthis are fighting each other, the united states does not like aqap but on the other hand they

are helping the saudis fight the houthis so i think it really shows where you need an international mediator someone to come in and get this situation under control because it really is not helping any of the people who have been involved including iran they don't like al-qaeda and the arabian peninsula either. >> to what extent has al-qaeda and the aran yanukovich peninsula the threat of it been ignored in the last year or so because of what has been happening with the houthis? >> well i think it's been ignored not only because of what is happening with the houthis but up until the united states got forced out when the houthis began to take control, the united states was hitting them pretty hard with drone strikes a couple years ago we actually killed the leader of aqap and even this week we were able to get the spokesman for aqap but without that base it's going to be hard to keep up with same level of attacks that we did

before. >> given that al-qaeda and the arab yanukovich peninsula captured three areas in the southern part of yemen what could be their move next in yemen, what actually did they want to achieve and how easy would it be for them to achieve that given the current chaos in the country at the moment? >> well they would like to get more and more control over yemen but they have got enough control now actually more than they ever had to do what they want to do which is attack the west. remember that they were responsible for what happened in paris and the charlie hebdo situation and now they is an airport and sea port and access to oil revenues they will do more to attack outside of the middle east. >> you spoke there about oil and oil production, is there any fear any danger that oil production in yemen could be

disrupted by what happened in this particular this is of course just one oil terminal but this particular oil terminal? >> well i think the houthis and whoever else is trying to control are going to lose revenue, it will go now to al-qaeda and the arab yanukovich peninsula just like when i.s.i.l. took over in syria that helped finance their operations. >> joining us live from washington d.c. and good to get your thoughts on the story and thank you for your time. south korean police confronted protesters on the first anniversary at the seawall ferry disaster and grieving parents have snubbed the president and prime minister at memorial services for the 304 people who were killed. harry faucet has more details. >> reporter: if this was meant to be a day of somber recollection commemorating lost lives it did not end that way, protesters supporters and families robbed of children by the seawall disaster planned to

march on the presidential blue house but were stopped by a massive police presence. earlier the other end of the country the president visited the port which became the base for the rescue and recovery effort. she was there to offer condolence to parents and it seemed ground one of their key demands. >> translator: i now believe it's time for us to repair for the ship salvage and quickly take necessary measures to salvage the ship as quickly as possible. >> reporter: raising the ship is necessary to recover nine still missing loved ones refused to meet her. in the students' hometown first the prime minister denied access to the main memorial and when the ceremony came the focal point of events the families called it off under lying the anger, deep grief a year has done little to heal. >> translator: "i have a dream" and wish someone could make a

time machine so i could go back to 10:00 a.m. on april 16 then i could go and tell them to get out quickly and they would all be out in five or ten minutes. a year has passed but nothing has changed. >> reporter: the images burned in the collective memory of this country, passenger ferry full of school children sinking off the southern coast and footage that came later hurts still more and those children shown obeying repeated instructions to stay put as the seawall overturned trapping them beneath the water and families say the false story of corruption and botched rescue has not been told and accusing government of restriction on a special investigation and attempting to under mine its independence. a vigil gave an opportunity for thousands, many of them students to reflect on the loss of other young people who were failed by their elders. before once again that emotion turned to anger. a day of grief and comember membermember

membermember membermember membermember membermember membercomember -- comomeration shows what is left here in seoul. the search area for flight mh 370 will be doubled if the plane is not found by may and no trace has been found of the boeing 777 which went missing in march last year with 239 people on board, ships with sonar equipment on the floor of the nation narrowed down by satellite data and the search could take another year and cover an additional 60,000 square kilometers. much of northern china has been hit by a sand storm, strong winds pushed sand across cities including beijing, visibility limited and people struggled to move around without getting sand in their eyes and residents in some areas have been warned to

stay indoors as the dusty weather could continue for four days. space used to be the domain of governments and thinking back to the space race the united states and soviet union spent billions for special supremacy and increasingly it's private companies who are making the technological advances and have a look at this. so it looks as if we are playing the footage backwards and this is belonging to the american company space x returning to earth after spending a shipment of groceries and including an expresso maker to the space station and it was attempting to land on the barge and it did almost make it. and although not successful this time space x believes reusable rockets are the next breakthrough in space exploration because they can dramatically reduce the cost of getting into orbit. the company already has a $1.6

billion contract with nasa to take cargo resupply missions to the international space station. the next step space x is launching space craft with use astronauts and we have not been able to do it but depending on russian rockets and live from san francisco is mike paul a senior writer at space.com and thanks for being with us on the program, how big of a disappointment was the crash landing if you like of space x? >> oh, yeah i don't think it was a disappointment, i think it was pretty spectacular they managed to actually hit the ship way out in the middle of the ocean, a couple hundred mile from the florida coast and it's amazing to hit the far get after coming down from space with the rocket that has done the job of getting that cargo capsule on the way to the space station so it almost made it. people see the video can see it

was coming down maybe a little bit too fast and it kind of veered it to the side a little bit but it nearly pulled it off and it's not disappointing but impressive they were nearly getting it and it was their second try at this and they are going to keep trying it and they are like i say they will keep trying it until they get it right and then they are going to move it on to land. this is just one step towards like fully rapidly reusable rockets is what space x wants to do. >> do we feel then we are quite close actually to having reusable rockets and how much of a difference would that make to the cost of space exploration? >> it would probably make quite a bit of difference rockets are very complex, big and very expensive machines you know, and every time they launch they are basically thrown away in the ocean and sink to the bottom and if like if you are able to actually recover most of that

machinery which is what space x wants to do and refuel it and refly it that could be a significant cost savings and like on an airplane travel, that is sort of what the analogy of space x, it would be crazy to ditch the entire airplane after you are done getting from one place to another and just build a whole new airplane to take you to the next place. so i mean they like say it's a game changer and mosk has said like it could cut the cost of rocket launchers by a factor of 100, i'm not sure if that is right. i mean he is a smart guy. i don't have any reason to doubt him on exact numbers but it's pretty dramatic and something along those lines is probably not out of the question. >> the other change recently is the fact it's the private sector that is moving into space exploration because the government feels it's too

expensive, is there danger having private companies involved, do you think? >> i don't know about danger. i mean nasa wants to be freed up to do the really hard things and nasa wants to get people to mars by the mid 2030s and don't really have the actual budget to sort of do that and also deal with -- >> we are talking about technology and technology let's us down again but that was mike wall speaking to us there from california. now many large cities around the world are finding it difficult to create public spaces as housing and development projects increase. the indian capitol new deli is no different. but there is a small movement underway to turn public spaces into artistic hot spots as we report. >> reporter: he goes by the name zine and paints in the most unlikely of places his canvass

like this one this an abandon community center scattered across new deli and one of a growing number of indian graffiti artists. >> in the beginning i painted illegally and now moving toward developing my style more and for example this spot here i was just walking around this neighborhood, then i found this abandon building and like, hey, i think it's a really good spot to just paint. >> reporter: authorities consider zine's work vandalism but the urge to paint has taken on a more institutional form and bring artists from chile together with their indian counterparts to change the way neighborhoods look and feel. and for him this is a chance to share themes he has been painting all over the world. >> translator: i work on latin

and global things and highlight a mix of cultures and use a character who visits cultures and he is a friendly clown who tells people how to be good it's very entertaining. >> reporter: traditionally art exists in controlled spaces but street art brings creative expression into communities, in new deli this means painting canvass in places often used as garbage dumps or even open toilets and indians are discovering street art and now it's part acvision and use spaces and things for anesthetic expression to catch the attention of passersby. like these teenagers who came looking for this quiet corner in a busy commercial neighborhood. they are drawn by the graffiti on the walls and say it's helping to reclaim the city for all its residents. >> if you have a look at the city we live in the jungle, the people who use it the most have no interaction with them almost

in general sense of living and the work they do is to clean the spaces and for people to use them. >> reporter: he feels like he is doing this too and making places long abandon brighter for those who stumble upon them his audience may be limited by for zine it's the chance for him to express himself that really counts, al jazeera new deli. still to come fighting fists and looks in good shape as he prepares for the fight of the century. ♪

♪ hello and welcome back and we have the sport. >> thank you very much a city in oregon the first host for the athletic championship but the decision to give them to them in the year 2021 caused some surprise and criticism because there was no bid process and this is near the headquarters of nike were simply handed the games without other bids invited and oregon has been a hot bed of athletes for decades with the university providing top athletes but the sponsors want to be bigger in the over all american market. >> the council made a strategic decision that this was a very special moment that strategically we do need to be in the united states and it's always been a problem for us to engage both commercially and sportingly in the u.s. although

u.s. athletes are very strong, very high profile athletes getting domestic athletes in the united states particularly around world chap championships has been a problem and made the right decision this was not going to happen again and the way it was on offer and we should seize the moment. >> reporter: among critics the president said about the decision this is not good for our development, we expect the world championships to come back to europe in 2023. the nfl says minnesota vikings running back peterson has been reenstated after suspension and he was ban from playing because he faced a child abuse charge for disciplining his four-year-old son with a tree branch. he is now free to participate in all activity with the vikings with whom he was the nfl most valuable player in 2012 and continue to receive counseling and treatment as recommended by

medical advisors and cup holder faced a difficult night in the corps quarter finals in st. petersburg to come from behind to win 2-1. and then held in belgium and equalizer in kiev may prove extremely valuable and what a win for a strong team who was second in the league 4-1 with scoring two of the goals. such good times for parma deducted four points for the financial failings and means they lost 7 points in total and if that had not happened they had a chance to avoid it and they are 11 points from safety and last month they were bankrupt with debts of $220 million. fifa president not survived in the futbol for 17 years without moves and ahead of the presidential election is in the

caribbean and told congress in the bahamas their region should have an extra team in world cups an increase from three to four. and he had been told by the caribbean futbol union it would not be a block for him to retain presidencytcy but on twitter they deserved it for their world cup performance where the teams reached the last 16. english police say the circumstances surrounding the fire which killed 56 people at futbol bradford city could be reexamined 30 years after the disaster, a book by a man who escaped the fire at the stadium but lost four of his family alleges it was started deliberately. martin fletcher claims it was one of nine fires that businesses owned by or associated by the chairman at the time. a quest found the fire was probably accidental caused by a cigarette dropped from a floor board and landed below on liter.

federer and champion beat in the third around of monte-carlo masters and this is the first of clay 6-4 want on a tie breaker in the second and he did win that point to finish the match and he is through to the quarter finals where he will still have plenty of crowd support. rinker in a match lasting 54 minutes and made 41 unforced errors and made him work for this point. 6-1, 6-2 the score leaving him in danger of losing his place in the world top ten. the day of shock nadal came flew a difficult match and lost the second set against american and to sets to one and he is looking for his ninth victory in the tournament which he won every year between 2005 and 2012 and

yanukovych had a winning streak to 14 matches defeating 6-4, 6-love and quarter final match. formula one champion clashed again in china and accused hamilton of driving too slowly in shanghai and he was trying to allow other drivers to catch him up. >> we unite as a team this weekend and try to do a great job, there is no issue between us and we saw each other this morning and everything is good and there will be times when people are unhappy about some things but we are grown ups and move past it. >> reporter: 2016 rally has been in paris and the event will return to peru for the first time in two years and pulling

out of 2016 edition and the next race will go through three countries after starting in limo move through the long dunes of the desert in peru before the high altitudes of into bolivia, final day of the test of the west indies and 333-7 thanks to gary and butler unbeaten on 59 and set unlikely target of 438 to win and finished day four on 98 for 2 and anderson is one short of the english test wicket record. many support say their man is back to his best and can beat floyd mayweather in las vegas on the second and he opened up training camp a man from the philippines invited the media in and 8 division world champion

has not stopped since 2009 and the best fighter of all time. competitive sport is all about pushing the boundaries of what may or may not be possible and we have just seen that in the world of this and this is border billy morgan pulling off the world's first ever 1800 involving four flips, five full rotations, completed in mid air, of course, and morgan landing on a jump on a specially built ramp. impressive. >> what kind of ramp? >> a specifically built one. >> it would need to be. >> impressive stuff lee and thanks very much indeed. all right that is just about it from us and the news hour team but please don't go too far away, i'm back with more news for you in a couple of minutes,

see you then, good-bye.

♪ yemen through loyalty rather than violence the new vice president a new way of achieving peace in his war-torn country. ♪ this as the u.n. lines up a new yemen envoy following departure and you are watching al jazeera live from london and also coming up more than 41 people have drown in the latest sinking of a migrant boat between libya. the syrian government carried out more air strikes on rebel