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[gunfire] south africa hit by a wave of attacks against foreigners over the past two weeks and at least six people were killed in the port city of durban and hundreds forced out of their homes and sheltering in camps and police stations. and south africa is a country of more than 50 million people and thought to be around 5 million foreigners but it's hard to be precise because many are living and working illegally there. most around 3 million are thought to be from zimbobwae and the jobless rate in south africa is 25% and more dramatic for young people, youth unemployment is at 40%, not surprisingly then many local politicians argue that people from outside are putting pressure on what already is a difficult job market. now we have been speaking to alex who is a senior reporter at eyewitness news in johanesburg.

>> what we are seeing in the city of johanesburg is a fresh flare-up of tension and violence throughout the night and have had teams out and about through the night and have been a lot of clashes and five cars that were set on fire running battles throughout the night and rubber bullets used by police in the streets and within the last hour we have seen tensions rise up again, there were stone fights with at least one person being taken away by ambulance. this is of course still that tension between the locals and downtown johane nshgs eshgsnejohanesburg and foreigners and police are trying to calm the tensions and it began two weeks ago at another providence and slowly spread into johanesburg and happened in 2008 with the previous flare-up and know when the violence has started in swateta in another

suburbs in january that was particularly targeted at shop owners small spot owners running businesses in that area now it appears the violence is aimed really at anybody who is a foreigner, in other words, we are seeing attacks against people simply because they are from ethiopia and somalia and pakistan and all other neighbor neighboring countries and not targeted only at business owner and seems like the anger is vented at foreigners in general. >> reporter: so a rather tense situation in south africa today and let's move on to yemen where the u.n. is saying it needs almost $275 million to meet humanitarian needs in the country over the next three months. the situation is getting worse with food supplies running short as the violence traps many people inside their homes. the world food program says it needs to distribute food for over 100,000 displaced people in the city of aiden over the next

few days. before the fighting began in yemen the wfp recommended over 10 million people were already short of food and now it says that the escalating violence has left more than 12 million yemen people in need of help. ♪ well we have a senior spokesperson for the middle east division of the world program and joins us via skype from cairo and thank you for talking to us where does an organization like wfp begin in a crisis situation like we see in yemen today? >> crisis of a huge magnitude. we have a country that before the conflict was the poorest in the arab world, one of the least developed countries. it's the most food insecure in the arab world and 7th in the world of food security the

ability of people to immediate their food needs animal nutrition in the world and probably one of the most extreme levels among children so it's a very dire situation. when we started this conflict 10.5 million people were food insecure and 5 million of them are severely food insecure and that means they cannot feed themselves without external assistance and talking 1.5 million people added to this list so now 12 million people and basically half the population in yemen. this country cannot sustain or have resilience to take in more shocks than they had over the last few years. >> again i ask you how does wfp negotiate its way around the situation presumably all the while there is fighting that makes your job nearly impossible how can you get food

and supplies to people with air strikes with fighting on the ground? >> we saw this coming so we have positioned food in different parts of the country so our warehouses have some food that is ready to be distributed immediately to many parts of the country. however, it's not going to last for so long. we appeal to all the conflict to start, you know opening the air space and the seas and the ports so that we can replenish these food stocks in addition the fuel that we have inside the country is just allowing us to move food to a small number of people so it's going to be an extreme challenge. yesterday and over the last few days we started the distribution of food to the people in aiden through our partners on the ground through our staff and it has gone well and people need the foods. i think in terms of the street

fighting in aiden we were able to carry on some of the distributions like small amounts so that we are able to reach many places without putting risk to the drivers and to the staff that is monitoring the process. but there is a bigger problem if we don't replenish food stocks and don't have fuel to run the trucks then we can never, you know meet the urgent needs. >> for now of wfp thank you very much indeed for talking to us here at al jazeera. well diplomatic sources are telling al jazeera that the u.n. has already lined up a new special envoy to yemen and it's ismael ould cheikh ahmed from mauritania and worked for 28 years in the middle east to take the job and will succeed jamal benomar and resigned on wednesday after failure to broker an end to the fighting.

on military front tribes fighting on the side of haidi received reenforcements in the city not far from the capitol sanaa and making gains in aiden in south of the country and so far failed to take control of the most populated city. jamal has the latest on the fighting. ♪ pickup trucks with fighters descend on the town near the city east of the yemen capitol. they are reenforcements for the popular resistance committees and tribes fighting shia houthi rebels and allies. both sides have been battling for control of the area which is around a two-hour drive from sanaa. >> translator: we are the sons and reject the houthis. we will not leave here accept with victory and die fighting and willing to sacrifice money

and all of our belongings to defend our land. >> translator: the graveyard of every invader and not let our yemen brothers who will be will defeat the houthis. >> reporter: the biggest city and birth place of up rising in 2011 houthi fighters are stationed on the main roads, together with soldiers loyal to deposed president they have been trying to consolidate their control of the city which has seen the gate way to southern yemen. but further south it is opposition who appear to be gaining momentum and popular resistance committees loyal to president hadi are making gains everyday particularly in aiden. street to street battles continue in the center of the city with tanks and heavy shelling as they try to force the houthis to retreat or

surrender. air strikes, gunfire and heavy bombardment means aiden streets are practically empty. em except for fighters on both sides and rubbish piling up everywhere because there are no government seriouss and some are risking their lives to clean the streets themselves to ensure they it is not added to the long list of challenges that yemen people have to endure. i'm with al jazeera. we've got a lot more to come on the al jazeera news hour including. >> not a dry eye in the room and i didn't see it. >> reporter: find out what drove top diplomates at the u.n. to tears. u.s. troops arrive to get ukraine a helping hand in the fight against pro-russia rebels and in sport we will hear what the formula one world champion has to say about his rival who also happens to be his teammate. ♪

now italy appealing for help to cope with an unprecedented flood of new arrives as migrants go across the mediterranean and hundreds arrived on friday and think hundreds drown after a boat they were on capsized and over the past week or so more than 7,000 people most from africa and the middle east have braved the journey to try to escape poverty and conflict. the authorities say italian coast guard vessel conducted six different search and rescue operations in two days in international waters off the coast of libya and took overboard more than 500 migrants who attempted to cross the mediterranean on six different boats and paul reports from sitly on how italy is struggling to deal with the unprecedented numbers of arrivals.

>> reporter: at the sicily port of augusta they deliver human cargo, nearly 600 migrants rescued from stricken boats off the libya coast in the past few days and guided to shore by coast guard officers in protective clothing the men, women and children risked death in the hope of a better life such are the numbers involved and 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 in the sea, they swallow water and guzzling and it's awful, it's 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. the european commission admits solutions are needed it's just they don't have any at the moment. >> the eu cannot alone do it all, yes, we are putting all our energy into developing a new comprehensive approach on managing migration which we said many times we will be coming forward in may moved up from july but no we do not have a silver bullet or a 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 the coast guard ship will be put to sea and live also be saved as a result and how to stop them risking their lives in the first place goes unanswered paul with al jazeera and sicily. u.n. brokered talks with representatives from libya's two

rival governments are continuing in morocco controlled by the rival administration and blamed on the internationally recognized government and u.n. pushing for unity government four years after the ousting of the former leader gaddafi. russia says this was on twitter showing american troops flying in and now they are there to train 900 ukrainian national guard over the next six months as the fighting continues with pro-russia rebels in the eastern part of the country and we will go live to rory our correspondent who is in moscow so with a seemingly innocuous task some would say of training up u train yanukovich forces how has this been received in the

kremlin? >> well the kremlin response has been what you expect it to be, the usual diplomatic language saying this is not conducive to settling the ukrainian situation and a statement who is vladimir putin's spokesman and he said it risks destabilizing ukraine and goes counter to what was discussed and decided in minsk and therefore it's counter productive really to the peace process. what russia is really worried about though here is not just a few military personnel training the ukrainian national guardsmen, what they are really concerned about is the creeping natoization of ukraine. >> this comes a day doesn't it after president putin reiterated the fact that russian troops

have no presence whatsoever in eastern ukraine and said that during that marathon telethon he took part in. >> yeah that cuts no mustard with kiev and no mustard at all with western government particularly the united states. most resent press briefing the state department if i can read a quote from the state department spokesperson who said that no amount of propaganda can make true what is not russia has command and control elements in eastern ukraine to coordinate military operations and has areas to train separatist fighters and artillery fighting so these military advisors are in ukraine because they have been requested by poroshenko and

he made it in the spring and they will be joining, the u.s. troops there will join 75 british military advisor whose are already in country. they are advising the ukrainian army on intelligence and battlefield medicine and there will be some 200 canadian military advisors and they will be in country by the beginning of the summer so we are seeing quite a multi national advisory force building up now in ukraine. that is the kind of thing that worries russia specifically. >> rory in moscow thank you very much. now a chinese court sentenced a veteran journalist gao-yu to years in prison and she was famous in china for hard hitting reports on political elites and lawyers say she will appeal against the conviction for leaking state secrets to foreign news organizations and our

reporter has more on the sentencing from beijing. >> reporter: the conviction of the 71-year-old journalist comes as no surprise to those watching here as the state itself also controls china's courts. she was first arrested nearly a year ago for divulging state secrets, the secret in question is internal memo known as document number nine. in that document it is revealed that the chinese party leadership is concerned over what it sees as the potential infiltration of western ideals such as democracy which could corrupt and lead to the disintegration of china leadership and because of this it basically came out the intended political reform that the chinese president has been talking about is possibly not true that he intends to keep things exactly as they are and the human rights violation seen by advocates as being perpetrated of those who have different ideals will continue.

and gao-yu conviction is the latest of a growing list advocates say of human rights perpetrated by the communist party in china and gao-yu intends to p a peel her conviction. >> we have the director of amnesty international and says she was sentenced for exposing beijing methods of clamping down on dissent. >> she and her lawyer plans to appeal on the basis that what formed the conviction was basically extracted and forced confession and also that since this was a document that was then laid out in detail in the state press including the communist party press or the people's daily there was really no damage in terms of national security. the government is taking a very stern, very hard line on

dissent, criticism, and any kind of opposition within party or outside of party. and for exposing the sort of naked effort at reenforcing one party dictatorship she embarrassed the communist party. >> the palestinians in the occupied west bank honoring prisoners day and there are thousands of palestinian prisoners in israeli detention. some detained without charge nor trial, stay in prison for years without ever knowing why. we report now. >> reporter: these pictures show the israeli army rounding up palestinians on wednesday. a scene that is repeated across the occupied west bank almost every night. israel currently holds 6,000 palestinians in its prisons, 450 of whom are held in administrative detention, this means detaining palestinians without charge or trial on

indefinitely renewable military orders and we have a hamas representative in the palestinian parliament and spent over 13 years in administrative detention and released two weeks ago and while detained he missed the birth of his two children, some of their weddings and funerals of his mother and two siblings. >> translator: israel policy of administrative detention is based on not letting inmates know the reason behind detention and causes prisoners psychological conflict because they do not know if and when they will be released. >> reporter: palestinian protest israel detention policy regularly and this is one of many demonstrations held in the west bank to honor palestinian prisoners day. the issue of prisoners is a point for protesters here's one in four palestinians has at some point been detained since israel began the occupation of the territory and for decades u.n. has been calling on israel to

stop detaining palestinians without charge or trial because it violates the convention. israel says administrative detention is a legal tool it uses sparingly and insists detainees have the right to appeal their detention. >> we prefer not to have to use this tool but when tighting vicious terrorist organizations who have no testation whatsoever in murdering innocent palestinian there are instances when we have no choice. >> reporter: arrests increase with tensions between pal tin yanukovichs and israelis and abuse of inmates according to palestinian legal organizations. >> translator: testimonies from lawyers confirm that many prisoners are suffering from illnesses as a result of torture and policy of medical negligence. >> reporter: in the last year the number of palestinians held in detention has almost tripled and prisoners say more are held in solitary confinement and deprived of family visits with

no political progress on peace talks, palestinian prisoners have little hope that things will get any better and i'm with al jazeera. now memorial service is being held for victims of the german wings plane craft and relatives and rescue workers and airline employees are at the cathedral and 150 on board the plane were killed in the french alps last month copilot lubitz fought for depression is thought to deliberately crashed the jet after locking the captain out of the cockpit and we go to dominick cane and another difficult moment for the relatives of those 150 people on board. >> reporter: yes, indeed. hundreds of the victims' families are here in the cathedral behind me and service underway and dignitaries have come including the president of

germany and the chancer angela merkel and representatives from the french and spanic governments because have many spanish citizens were on board the plane when it crashed in the alps on the 24th and german citizens and the congregation will be hearing from the christian bible and readings from the bible including excerpt from revelation by st. john and st. paul to colotians and expressing feelings that very many people in germany felt when they found out about this accident and as you say the evidence that points to lubitz as the reason the plane crashed and contemplated suicide and looked at ways of committing suicide and preventing his colleague to get back in the cockpit for the disaster that unfolted on the 24th of march. >> dominick our correspondent

there and we will take a look at the weather now and here is everton and where are you starting? >> south africa with good old fashion awesome storms rumbling away and the satellite picture the east side of the country plenty of cloud around and going to the southern indian ocean and storms pushing up 66 millimeters of rain in only 24 hours. the showers staying in a pretty similar place as we go on through the next couple days and so more showers on the eastern side of southern africa stretching across zimbabwe wayand zambia and sliding further south words through sunday and easing there for malowai and big downpours as well as rains and you can see the nice line of shower cloud coming from ethiopia and kenya and uganda and gulf of guinea and 57

millimeters of rain in 24 hours and the numbers are around for center part of kenya and 5 millimeters of rain in just 24 hours, same chain of cloud pushing across into here 150 millimeters of rain twice as much rainfall across this particular part of central africa and showers will continue right across central africa as we go on through the next couple days southern nigeria may say wet weather but the north is warm dry and sunny for a few days. and northeastern brazil will drought is devastating cities, towns and villages and the brazil government is about to announce emergency plan to try to revive the region. and as allen fisher reports the lack of water is effecting everyone as well as farmers' crops. >> reporter: it is a good day here, the water truck came.

that means she can fill her buckets, do her washing and feel for a few hours that things are getting better. >> translator: we are saving water and using it to wash our clothes, to water the plants and to clean the floor. >> reporter: 56 cities in the region in northeastern brazil are suffering severe drought and another 49 are critical. this is the rainy season and it's keeping it green but only for a time. three years ago this reservoir would have been full and the water would have been above my head, this gives you an idea of the devastation that has been caused in the region and what is left of what was once a very large lake. fields lay abandon and growing grapes here but there is not enough water to produce crop and the farmers walked away. for an area that relies on agriculture and continued water short and is killing crops and jobs and hope.

>> translator: there is hope only if god helps us or the government without water we have nothing. >> reporter: when the water truck appears it comes with liters and do 90 families for 3 days and locals know this is not a long-term solution. >> translator: if the course of the river could be changed it would help farmers not only here but in other towns where creeks are completely dry. >> reporter: the government will present an emergency plan in the next two weeks detailing how it's going to tackle the drought. but for towns and villages across the region there is no quick fix or immediate solution to a problem years in the making and years in the suffering. allen fisher al jazeera, northeast brazil. still to come on this al jazeera news hour find out why people in kenya's coffee business are worried. and in sport find out how 18 time olympic champion michael phelps did on his return to competitive action. ♪

♪ hello again and let's look at the top stories on the al jazeera news hour police in south africa dispersed migrants who fear more xenophobia attacks and armed with machetes from attacks in johanesburg. the u.n. needs almost $275 million to meet humanitarian needs in yemen over three month, on thursday the yemen new vice president called on houthi rebels to end offensive on the port city of aiden.

the italian government appealing for help to deal with unprecedented flood of migrants from north africa another boat load arrived on friday morning where most were heavily bruised and bandaged. we can speak to eve who is director of migration and mobility policies at the european policy center and joins us via skype in france. thank you for talking to us. this is a crisis moment isn't it pretty much for the italians at least, if not for europe as a whole, what is going to be the policy response? >> well we don't know currently what are the responses to these unprecedented of what has been done from the eu in order to support not only member states and the front line italy, the european union deadlocked many measures to help those member

states but the european unit is helping a lot of countries and those who are taking this and i'm quoting here turkey, lebanon, iraq and egypt. >> that is not enough the help that has been offered is not enough and the italians are almost swamped by the number of people desperate people and often injured and very poor who are arriving on the shores on a daily basis. >> yeah i mean, we have to keep in mind that we are facing as you said an increased event situation and will not be able to find out the appropriate solutions overnight, however, we clearly need to support italy and we need to provide with financial means, human support and provide all the necessary aid and help that italy is in need of. >> i understand i mean, you

can't come up with a solution overnight but is this matter being taken as an issue of utter urgency among european policy makers now? >> yes, it has been since in particular since october 2013 where more than 350 migrants died at sea. many things are now on the table and there are many many discussions around different solutions to be implemented but i think that what happened over the last few days is going to put more pressure on eu leaders to take the appropriate solutions. now, i think that the idea of renouncing this from operation which has been located by many is one solution that could be clearly discussed today or

tomorrow and implemented in a pretty fast manner. >> i see, how far would you say that the domestic policies of each european countries witnessing a rise in the right wing political parties perhaps because of the financial crisis of 2008 how far would you say domestic policies determining a europe wide reluctance to get involved with this particular issue? >> it's pretty clear that the effect of the crisis on an economic and political level are still there and it's pretty much difficult to talk about migration and we have issues on eu level today and it is clear that the increasing good scores that extreme right parties are doing in national elections and the fact that they are setting the agenda and targeting precisely the issues and this has meant the debate over

migration issues pretty much is difficult but we do not need to hide behind a political climate and we clearly need to take action because many people are now dying at sea which is something we have to cope with. >> and very quickly if i can you say that operation could be revived very quickly, do you think that that will be revived within the next 24 hours, 36 hours? >> well it's pretty much difficult to give a clear answer on that. i'm quite sure that now high-level discussions with taking place and the problem is that it was only supported by italy and extremely costly and coasting 9 million euros and month and now we replaced this with an operation called by front of urgency with 10 million

euros a month and it's a question of money, are eu members willing today to put enough financial support in order to deadlock the same type of operation enabled by italy in a different sea and this is something which could be agreed upon by member states and it could take the decision today or tomorrow to provide financial support in order to help italy and the neighboring states to cope with these unprecedented things. >> okay so now eve thank you very much indeed and i hope we can talk to you again as this situation develops, thank you very much. now the syrian president assad has given an interview to the swedish network and it's meant to be a time of unity the country remains bitterly divided with though end in sight to civil war and terrorism is a global issue and not just a regional problem. >> as long as we have terrorism

growing in european countries sweden cannot be safe and in the backyard of europe especially the northern mediterranean and africa and is in chaos and full of terrorists and europe cannot be safe. >> reporter: lebanon's valley is home to thousands of syrian refugees al jazeera's mohamed is there and there is not that much for them to celebrate on this syria national day. >> reporter: you're absolutely right. in fact, we have actually asked some of the many refugees here in this informal settlement with its living conditions what they think about national day and they say it's not an issue in any way for them. they say it would be silly to think of celebrating, that they don't believe people back in syria are celebrating. they just want some semblance of a better future and some hope. today in this camp you have immobilizations going on

children of many ages,, in fact you can see it behind us and they are lined up for hepatitis to polio vaccinations and medical care they have been needing for quite sometime and the refugee issue in particular is that president assad touched upon with the newspaper in sweden and he talked specifically about the fact that sweden is the european country that has taken in the highest number of syrian refugees and let's take a listen to more of what he has to say on this point. >> it's a good thing to give people refuge but if you ask the syrian people who fled from syria what do you want they don't want to flee syria because of the war, they want to end that war. that is our aim. so i think if we have people and the best is help them going back to their country. >> reporter: so there you see president assad and making

mention and suggesting the possibility of refugees returning to syria, that doesn't seem terribly likely, does it? >> reporter: no, it doesn't. and all the refugees i've spoken with here today say they are absolutely afraid of going back to syria and say they do not believe anybody in the syrian government that tells them or transmits a message saying they can come back and they will be protected and say it's a situation of utter deafvastation and convinced it's far worse in syria and as bad as the camps are they are convinced it would be worse back in syria. >> our correspondent in the valley with the syrian refugees on this syria national day, thank you. now the u.n. security council members have been moved to tears by graphic images of suspected chlorine gas attacks in syria and accounts from syria doctors that treated many of the victims, a lot of those were children the u.n. says it will

try to identify and prosecute the attackers. and a warning this report by the diplomatic editor james base contains disturbing images. >> reporter: this shocking video filmed in the aftermath of a chemical attack this syria last year. the pictures of doctors trying to revive young children was shown to security council ambassadors, they were shocked, many were moved to tears. >> the video in particular of the 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. >> some of the worst stuff i ever had to watch i'd have to say. there were moments when all i wanted to do was look away and i realized that the people we were seeing actually had to live through this and regrettably had to die through it. >> reporter: as well as

watching the video security council members heard evidence from two syrian doctors and from a survivor of a chemical attack they later briefed reporters. >> translator: in the video you can see that the patients were one on top of the other and that is because we receive many sick people in a short amount of time as far as my feelings of course it was very disturbing every time i rewatch the video i remember the events that occurred which were very upsetting. >> reporter: and he says h was a victim of an attack in 2013 at one point doctors thought they lost him. >> they gave up on me and i was placed between the dead bodies for nearly 45 minutes and until a friend of mine noticed i was still alive and called the doctors again and gave me more atropine and for some reason i came back to life. >> reporter: video filmed ten days after the security council vote a rare moment of unity on

syria with the condemning the use of chlorine was passed. the u.s. is among security council members condemning what they say is a clear act of defiance by the assad government but any action is unlikely and russia would block condemnation of the security government in the security council and obama administration is reluctant to take action, james with the u.n. let's look again then at one of our top stories today, the immigrant attack taking place in south africa and these are latest pictures from johanesburg where police used rubber coated bullets to disburse a group of migrants who armed themselves with machetes and trying to protect themselves from the attacks. now, we can talk to professor chris landsburg chairman of african diplomacy at the university of johanesburg and joins us live from there and can

you help us to understand what we are witnessing in south africa today? because it's not just johanesburg and have seen violence taking place in durban. >> yes, i'm afterraid it's a combination of factors and there is no doubt a mob culture and a mob movement and yesterday they called a third force at work here. but i think what south africa should be more up front about in government in particular is that it appears to be foreigners or let me be more specific africans from north that have been targeted and in other words xenophobia and afraid to tell you we will see something of a

domino effect and spill overs from durban back to johanesburg and sadly to say maybe other parts of the country and i think the government is really under pressure and is afraid to show its hands to condemn it if not to take firm action and even deploy military troops in the hotspot because the government has the intelligence to prove that there are hot spots where these things have been planned against fellow africans from elsewhere in the continent. >> help us then to understand this concept, this notion why do so many black south africans it would appear dislike other black africans? >> you know i like this question because sometimes i think i find myself in a minority who go back to the past. that doesn't mean we are

suggesting that the responsibilities is not first and foremost under current post government and what is so sad about this may between we know it happened in 2008 even though it had genesis much earlier than that, the mechanism in 2006 and of course a very proud founder member of instrument if not the lead member in it but as early as 2006 they warned south africa this would split itself out in the country and almost a sense of denial. but to answer your question very directly and specifically there is no doubt that the ghost of apartheid is haunting this country and never confronted it so what i'm getting at is apartheid was one of the most nonsensical and stupid policies and devastating in effectiveness so this hierarchy of racist where whites were put on the top of the hierarchy on the letter

followed by so called ashuns and indians and colors and then what was interestingly called africans or black south africans and what you have here you have the effects of apartheid playing itself out where south africans feel as long as they whichever group or ethnic or racial configuration you stem from and as long as we are more superior than others that is okay so now we target people who look like us, black south africans and that is not a form of self right and i don't know what constitutes a form of self right but this is clearly what is playing out. >> real interesting point and i'd like to talk to you for much longer unfortunately we are out of time and thank you very much indeed professor chris landsburg giving us thoughts on tensions and the violence that south africa is witnessing these days. we've got sport coming up, this

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driving too slowly with the grand prix and allowing drivers to catch up and over take and first practice ahead of the grand prix getting underway in the next few minutes. >> i did the talking on the track and how it has been since i was eight years old and just naturally you just try to learn from decisions you take and experiences you have and hope that you get better. >> the approach is not to get involved then? >> that is not what i said i said you do your talking on the track. >> reporter: spieth struggle on return to action after sunday and shot a three over par at the heritage in sc and 16 straight rounds under par and 21-year-old is 8 shots behind evory and has been stepping up campaign for reelection in a speech in north

and central america he promised an extra place for the region at future world cups and speaking at congress in the bahamas and the region currently has three world cups for the fourth country and the fifa presidential election takes place at the end of next month. >> it's a personal opinion but entitled to your opinion and then should have definitely should have under line should have four starters. [applause] the rangers won against the pittsburgh penguins and taking the lead after 28 seconds at madison square garden and putting in a rebound there and rob mcdonough got a second and rangers took the game 2-1 and climbing a win on the final day

on the test against west indies and taking control with 437 runs and had an early breakthrough here he is removing craig and coming up, a great catch with jordan with the win 98-2 at close. michael phelps a winning return to poll after a six month ban for drunk driving and won 100 meter at the meeting in phoenix. he finished ahead of his u.s. rival, ryan lochte. for decades baseball has given some young venezuela people at a better life in the united states but due to increased tensions between the two countries the chances of making it from the south american country to the major leagues are now smaller

than ever and virginia lopez reports. >> reporter: this is the last time the mariner players will practice in the home counter and after 15 years the u.s. team decided to quit the training school in the town and move to the dominican republic. >> translator: doesn't escape from the problems the country is going through but the work the academies do is done our product is the individual and that talent is here. >> reporter: american schools across the country have been closing their doors but now new regulations are expected to cut down on the visit of american scouts to come to towns like these in search of talent. from the small coastal town knows all too well what it means to play major league baseball and among one of the first venezuela to be signed up and his two sons follows in his footsteps and he lives a

lifestyle only many can dream of. >> translator: i was the example that paved the road for countless more all i am is thanks to baseball and if they cannot get visas they will go to other countries. >> reporter: as they abandon training facilities and take with them opportunities for the young. and was recently signed by the atlanta braves but today his joy has been over shadowed because he knows he could very well be one of the last to go. >> translator: americans will stop coming and that blocks the future of players here. it's a terrible situation because our friends won't make it and it's very frustrating. >> reporter: in the last decade 12 of the 16 camps initially operating in the country have left. a career in professional baseball transformed the lives of players and their families. whole communities also benefitted but now all that is likely to change. lopez with al jazeera. get a coffee.

>> nice lee, segue because kenya produces exceptional coffee that not just andy enjoys but we do around the world and it brings in millions of dollars every year and provides many jobs but the problem is production is on the decline and animaland malcolm web reports. >> reporter: he tastes dozens of coffee and grades them so employees know what to bid for in the upcoming auction and coffee exports earn $200 million a year and provides an income for about 150,000 small scale farmers and it's tasted and traded at the coffee exchange. downstairs traders collect samples for tasting and many are worried about the business because coffee production has been going down since the 1980s this coffee is some of the best in the world and we are

surrounded by hundreds of samples of kenya coffee awaiting auction, a lot of the world's leading coffee brands include kenya coffee in blends to bring up the coffee brought from other countries and the traders say because of this reason kenya coffee fetchs about as high of a price as it can on international market but say there are a number of factors between here at the exchange and farmer whose grow up that mean a lot of the farmers don't want to grow it anymore. nairobi construction boom is part of it a lot of coffee plants around the city have been pulled up and land sold to donors, the new properties do not provide jobs in the long-term, nearby elizabeth is one of the farmers who is still growing it and she is 81. she says she gets a fair price and it provided her a steady income through most of her life but she says many of her neighbors gave up. >> translator: sometimes the meals were not well organized and there were few people who

could help and advice so people opted out. >> reporter: back at the exchange he knows the business better than most and he is the ceo. >> it's from a problem, production is the problem, when you look at the production and capacity over a bush if you can go up to even above 40 a bush. currently we are producing on average and that is our problem. >> reporter: here on the trading floor kenya coffee may make good money but for farmers to earn enough and keep their plants they need advice and investment the government says it's trying to help. everyone in the business including robert hopes for a turn around in the coming years. millions of kenya jobs depend on it.

malcolm web, al jazeera. a full bulletin of news coming up, in just a minute or two so don't go away. ♪

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