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gone through. ♪ well the u.n. is warning 8 million people have been affected by the earthquake in nepal and for those still trapped under the rubble time is running out, the government says more than 4300 bodies have been recovered and that number could easily double and smoke from funeral is hanging heavy over the capitol kathmandu and so many victims they had to cremate bodies before being identified and aid is trickling in and $15 million from emergency response fund to help victims and nepal prime minister said they are short of tents and medicine as well as food water and shelter. and short supplies and continuing aftershocks mean crowds of people are trying to leave nepal just about any way

that can. and let's go to our correspondence who is in the historic duba square in kathmandu and the window closing and take us through the search for survivors in the rubble we can see behind you. >> reporter: well it's a search going on but as you mentioned 72 hour window has now closed and locals here are not giving up and they have been really coordinating and since this morning they have closed off the road keeping the locals off of it keeping it clear for ambulances and search and rescue teams which are coming in. if we take a look this is what -- this is a sample of devastation of the area and more debris here today than yesterday, the aftershocks caused more rubble to fall and a reason there are so many volunteers out here, red cross and boy scouts telling people to stay back and worried some of the buildings may come down and some are hundreds of years old and this is unesco world

heritage site and there is fear with search and rescuing and recovering bodies there is a concern if people get too close to buildings it may cause even more deaths. >> and to understand where you are people are still sleeping in the cold and what is happening with the aid effort are they not getting help? >> reporter: sammy, they are getting help but it's slowly coming in. this is a tent that has come up since the quake hit on saturday hundreds of people have been calling this home, battling the element elements. just today they managed to get a few more tents because of the rain otherwise they were pretty much sleeping out in the open and that is one of the hardest fights that i have had against mother nature and have come out because of the earthquake and it rained and had to go back inside and aftershocks run back outside, it's cool in the night the sun comes out and it's hot again and it has been a really hard fight and relief has slowly come in but it still has a lot

more to go for kathmandu and we are not talking the rest of the country. >> let's talk about the rest of the country, what is happening in some of the more remote areas close to the epicenter? >> reporter: basically we still don't know. most of the roads are cutoff by landslides and the thing is this could be similar to the 2010 floods in pakistan if you have no electricity, your mobile networks are out and your only medium of communication is radio and you can hear what is going on but to ask for help you have to walk it and could take days or weeks and that long to find out the true extent of this damage. >> all right thanks for that update. and as he was mentioning there aid supplies started to move from the capitol to some remote areas but many roads remain blocked, travel is slow. getting it into the country has been a struggle though and kathmandu's only airport has one

runway and it has been clogged with people desperate to leave and we have more from kathmandu. >> reporter: kathmandu international airport, the only way in or out of nepal since saturday's quake. those that survived are finding their way there, many have been waiting for days. >> translator: we are from india and a state of federal government is no where in site to help us. we want to go home but we are desperate to leave and don't know whether we live or die. >> reporter: others thankful to have survived. >> the only thing that i get is a flag that was at the airport and they built that tent and it was really raining last night so we are going to stay dry actually with that. >> reporter: they try to leave and search and rescue teams arrive with trained dogs and this team is from spain.

>> it's a bad situation because the people have a possibility to wait for ten days but that is it. >> reporter: on the other side of the capitol these are the lucky ones they survived but haven't eaten for days until now and charities are stepping in to the breach and lines of people displaced by saturday's quake are fed, it's their only source of food. they have lost everything. scenes like this are common across kathmandu, people continue to dig, many volunteers joining in the rescue and recovery operation trying to find the remains of their homes or people buried under tons of rubble. back at the airport planes are arriving all the time it's working at full capacity, the authorities are giving the military priority to run across

the quake zone and rescue survivors, help is coming in from abroad too but the lack of space at this restricted airport means only a certain number of planes can land. with many roads into nepal badie damaged the airport is vital in aid effort the first few days after a quake are important to get rescue teams in and try to find survivors in the outlying areas that have been affected by one of nepal's worst disasters, kathmandu. nepal government is still in urgent need of tents and medical supplies dozens of countries have sent aid and rescue teams but while help is beginning to arrive people are getting frustrated it's not reaching them fast enough and andrew simmons has this reports on the outskirts of kathmandu. >> reporter: they are fighting over sheets of plastic, anything resembling shelter is in short

supply. tents are not available now and the crowds are either homeless or refusing to return to their houses for fear of another earthquake. this is where many of them have come from from street to street it's the same homes destroyed, the army is trying to save lives but their success rate has diminished, their efforts now are more directed of recovering bodies. this officer is frus frustrated he doesn't have specialized search equipment. >> translator: we have to work with manual and would help if we had equipment like sensors. >> reporter: this is the scene you come across all over this district. this had been a really close community and now look at it two families had lived among the ruins, now five people are dead.

recovered family photos from the rubble, his only son sony was ten years old here he is dead now, aged 2 11. >> here. you found him here. >> i found him here and how i found the dead body of this my son, head down and leg up. >> reporter: you must feel broken. >> broken everything, my life is spoiled, my life is finished. >> reporter: watches over as soldiers use their bare hands searching for the grandmother who was 87 a short distance away a loss of a different kind this is the daba square one of nepal unesco world her tinl site and the buildings in the 14th and 15th century have been badly damaged but for now the priority

is life what is left of it not nepal's rich and valuable history and these women say they have given up any hope of finding their relatives. they are among more than 50 people who had lived at the end of this street no one here wants to live in a building until they are convinced it is safe. the constant fog of funeral parlor smoke hangs over them as if a reminder needs to be how the earth shook and consumed so many people's lives, nepal. all of the climbers stranded on mt. everest after the earthquake and avalanche have been rescued and air-lifted to safety from camps high on the mountain making the most of a brief spell of good weather, at least 18 climbers were killed, most of the camps destroyed. the weather could hamper search and recovery efforts in nepal and let's get more on this in the studio, is the weather going to play along with the rescue

effort? >> for the time being, no and thunderstorms up to the point and had time in between but if you come back here and since the storm ran through the north of pakistan it induced more as it came in western nepal with thunderstorms and how vicious will they be. at the moment in that respect they are playing both because what has come through is 14-25 millimeters of rain at the sea mark and it's bad at 16 in kathmandu. and the picture was of course just of falling rain occasionally hail and if you have a track on this there is thunder rumbling in the background. that is east of kathmandu now and it's eastern side which is in this massive cloud for several hours. and the next couple of days i suspect it will be in the east and then it will be dry for a while, sammy. >> thanks rob. the national guard has been called in to help restore order in the u.s. city of baltimore

rioting monday night following the funeral of a black man who suffered a spinal cord injury while in police custody and later died and tom ackerman has the latest. ♪ after his funeral the family of freddy gray had plead for peaceful protests against the police accused of responsibility for his death, what happened instead was waves of young people roaming the streets of baltimore's poorest neighborhoods setting fires looting grocery stores and a shopping mall. and clashing with police at least seven of them sustaining serious injuries. >> this is not protesting. this is not your first amendment rights. this is just criminal acts doing damage to a community that is challenged in some ways and do not need this and do not need to be harmed in the way that we have today. >> reporter: maryland's governor ordered state of emergency responding to a call by the city's mayor.

>> too many people have spent generations building up this city for it to be destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for. >> reporter: in addition to police reenforcements from other cities up to 5,000 members of the state's national guard have been dispatched to enforce a seven-hour curfew each night for the next week and city school also be closed tuesday and an attorney for the gray family said disturbances should not be a distraction for the demand of police accountability. >> ask the prosecutors to reexamine the policy and they are brutal and worse than any country in the world. there is no other country that comes close to imprisonment of

citizens as united states of america. >> reporter: at a community meeting the member of the blood street gang who wouldn't give his name said they would who join the effort to calm the streets. >> i understand why a lot of individuals are angry. i understand why a lot of people have their minds blown but i do not agree with none of the actually breaking into stores and looting and everything like that. we are against that. >> reporter: one of freddy gray's cousins said her family and neighbors never signed up for the violence now they would be out in the streets helping to cleanup the damage. tom ackerman, al jazeera, baltimore. as the protests continue in baltimore over the death of freddy gray the city's racial and economic divide is coming under the spotlight, gabrielle alexander reports. >> reporter: on one side of town they continue to protest calling for justice against police brutality, on the other

side of town this is the other baltimore. the predominately white and wealthy sea side of canton where waterfront condos go for half a million dollars and lofts rent fore up wards of $2000 a month and people viewing antipolice protests from afar just how they want it. >> they have a right to protest but i discourage the way they do it lynch mob mentality they have downtown. >> reporter: baltimore 60% black, 30% white and a stark racial divide here that can be traced to economics. but the real issue is jobs and here in canton the unemployment rate is less than 6%. but less than a 10-minute drive from canton here in the predominately black part of baltimore the situation is much different. here nearly two out of every ten african/americans are without a job. this is one of baltimore's black

neighborhoods in economic decline for years, boarded up businesses a sign of how bad things are. >> it's a combination of factors. >> reporter: local civil rights activist jackson says it stems from decades of lack of opportunity and keep people boxed in poor neighborhoods with little hope to get out. >> you have a combination of white and former integration with a lot of destabilization all over the city. >> reporter: then there is red emas a coffee shop and book store trying to bridge the racial divide and here people mix easily and the objective to sell an latte and a place to raise social awareness. >> this space is kind of like have unique in that sense that it provides a meeting place for a lot of different, you know, movings on in the city. >> reporter: but for now racial tensions remain hot in a city boiling over with anger, baltimore. plenty more still to come on

al jazeera a u.n. inquiry finds israel killed at least 44 palestinians at u.n. facilities during last year's assault on gaza plus. i'm nick clark from the busiest port where they clamping down on emissions from ships. and in sport paquai is in las vegas ahead from the fight with mayweather and both camps coming up. ♪ more saudi-led air strikes in yemen targeted weapons storage facilities and military vehicles in the capitol sanaa an arms depot belonging to houthi fighters destroyed and home of houthi leader hit and aiden and ties forces loyal to president in exile engaged in heavy street battles to gain control of

strategic positions. aid agencies are warning fierce fighting in yemen is making it difficult for them to get aid in the country and some relief officials say the humanitarian situation has become catastrophic prompting this call from yemen's information minister. >> translator: what we urgently and basically need is a huge amount of medical supplies food and fuel. we also need makeshift hospitals and medical crews namely specialists in burns and gunshot wounds. >> reporter: there has been more than a month since the saudi-led air strikes in yemen began and people still flee the violence and we met a syrian family who had been through one of the toughest days of the war as they arrive at a border crossing between yemen and saudi arabia. >> reporter: behind this fence is yemen and war. to cross is a new hope for these people. a month since coalition air strikes on houthi rebels

started, civilians continue to leave. these are some of the most vulnerable among them. old men, children parents and the disabled. >> translator: people like me are especially targeted by the houthis, if they see a bearded man they insult him or kill him or force him to shave his beard and i have seven daughters to raise and i fled to saudi arabia for safety. >> reporter: most people are yemen and include many other nationalitys and some stories are particularly tragic. a syrian who escaped from the war in her country three years ago with husband and baby daughter and life since the war in syria began is one of desperation. >> translator: my uncle, my grandfather, my grandmother, my mother's uncle all died in the war in syria. then our house was destroyed so

my parents fled to egypt and i fled to yemen but i only escaped war in syria to come to an even bigger war in yemen. >> reporter: the family was living in sanaa right by the mountain where war planes bombed a scud missile depot last week and dozens reportedly died when weapons inside the depot exploded. both she and her husband were slightly injured when the blast destroyed part of their rented home. but they managed to escape along with their daughter. now all she wants is to be allowed to join her parents in egypt but she says that the egyptian consulate office in yemen denied her a visa. [speaking native language]

saudi arabia gave her a temporary visa until she can be sent to another country, she will join the other refugees being host at the border for now she appears to be people forced to have immigration rules for people without prearranged visas, al jazeera on the saudi/yemen border. in syria regime forces have been driven out of idlib providence and dozens of vehicles carrying syrian troop can be seen heading to the coast and hundreds of other soldiers targeted by rebel forces as they followed on foot fighting has been raging across idlib since al-nusra and the brigade and they captured the town on saturday. meanwhile the u.s. has released pictures showing coalition air strikes against i.s.i.l. targets in iraq and syria and says i.s.i.l. weapons depot fighting positions and headquarters were destroyed.

u.n. inquiry has found israel killed at least 44 palestinians at u.n. facilities during the gaza conflict last year. it also found palestinian armed groups hid weapons at three other empty u.n. schools in gaza and james reports from u.n. headquarters in new york. >> reporter: it was the most controversial part of israel's devastating war on gaza last summer. u.n. schools, seven in total, supposed to be emergency shelters for civilians attacked in total 44 people killed 277 injured. u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon launched board of inquiry eight months on the work has been completed. the u.n. has released a summary, the full report remains confidential and a letter from ban ki-moon which finds israel responsible for all seven attacks. i deplore the fact that at least 44 palestinians were killed as a

result of israeli actions, he says. but the letter goes on to also refer to the discovery of hamas weapons on u.n. premises. u.n. briefing i saw some clarity on this. >> is it true that the seven schools that were hit with the loss of 44 lives that were all designated as emergency shelters were all hit by israel, is it true that the places where weapons were found were completely separate schools that were vacant and not designated as emergency shelters? >> i just refer you to the language of the report which, the summary of the report which states details and you can see the facts are there. you are right that there is a difference between the three schools where weapons were found and the seven other sites that were attacked. >> reporter: the palestinian ambassador had this reaction. >> what is the security general is planning to do in holding

israel accountable for these crimes committed against civilians which there is no money in the world that can substitute for the value of a life of 44 palestinians that were killed and 277 of them injured. >> reporter: this report could be extremely important, since last summer gaza war palestine has become a member of the international criminal court and already the chief prosecutor of the court launched a preliminary examination to see whether there should be a formal investigation into the gaza war, she is bound to want to read the findings of this report extremely carefully, james base al jazeera, at the u.n. the family of a tunisia man accused of capturing a ship that sank off the italian coast says he is innocent and hundreds were on the vessel when it went down and is accused of multiple homicide and people smuggling. al jazeera spoke exclusively to

his family and we report. >> reporter: this is the small tunisia fishing town and it's the hometown. the alleged captain of a ship carrying hundreds of migrants that capsized on april the 18th around 800 people are believes to have died in what is called the worst ever migrant disaster on the mediterranean and he first identified himself as mohamed malik and later identified by his family as a different name and his father said he was forced to take charge of the ill-fated boat. >> translator: no way he is a captain. my son cannot be a captain. he doesn't have the mind. he has never been a captain. he went out to sea four times with me and i spent 50 years on the sea and i cannot be a captain. they forced him to libya to do it. he had a bullet in his head or the sea and the sea is better than the bullet. >> reporter: went to school when he was ten and his mother

remembers a joyful son who wanted to live in italy and traveled to europe before and he was caught and brought to tunisia and father said he stole $1500 from his brother and only spoke to him when he already reached libya and he himself was being held by people smugglers. >> translator: he told us a libyan guy would give me work in a cafe and turns out the libya guy is taking people from somalia and chad and many other countries and the only tunisia person was my son. >> reporter: and he is accused of captaining the overloaded boat when it hit a cargo ship and capsized and prosecutors want to charge him with multiple homicide people smuggling and causing a shipwreck, an italian judge ordered him and another member of the crew to be kept in custody. the sheer scale of sinking brought eu countries under pressure to take action at an emergency summit leaders are stepping up search and rescue operations in the southern

mediterranean, back in tunisia the traditional way of life for fishermen doesn't pay very well and people say that life is tough here especially for those who dream of changing their circumstances even if it costs them their lives. i'm with al jazeera. let's get some more weather with rob now and talk about japan's scorching heat wave. >> japan spring faltered last week for a few days, backup now and having had beautiful plumb and cherry boss blossoms and must be quite nice in japan and arguably too much so. the song has been strong and temperatures the lifted and i'm thinking in particular keeping cool tremendous winter and had meters and meters of snow it was along the lines of boston so to have 31 over here is really quite a surprise and a record breaker, 17-year record.

not surprising maybe is 31 you see for the south here and this is two days worth of real heat now and make you feel better in preparation for the golden week. however the clouds from both directions and the forecast for the next two days is not the same and rain falling in the southern island and you have this breeze over tokyo and more like 22 not 31 come tomorrow. the rain will keep rolling out of the way there and we have lost a heat wave altogether and the rain is keeping away and time to get to thursday the temperatures are likely to be still in the 20s or so it's a pleasant spring but no longer the heat wave sammy? thanks so much rob and lots more still ahead in the news hour and what happens to a city when there is no one in charge and in bangladesh where rubbish is piling up on the streets, thousands of people volunteer genetic makeup for a research

project that is hoped will provide doctors with the answers they need. white sox will get the series going hopefully tomorrow if the unrest continues. and in sport baltimore team oriols may be forced to play elsewhere following riots in the city details coming up. ♪

♪ welcome back you are watching the al jazeera news hour reminder of our top stories u.n. warning 8 million people effected by saturday's

earthquake and government says more than 4300 bodies have been recovered so far and the death toll could more than double. the national guard is being called in to help restore order in the u.s. city of baltimore. with rioting monday night following the funeral of a black man who suffered a spinal cord injury while in police custody and later died. yemen's information minister says people inside the country are in urgent need of medical supplies food and fuel and aid agencies say fighting is making it difficult to get aid in and prompting people to flee to the saudi border. since the vietnam war ended 40 years ago the country has experienced major changes and rapid economic growth and we report from the city old and new generations have different visions of the future. ♪ was just 17 when she joined the war against the united states. with the former come regard in

arms they sing a marching song from their time in the jungle. it's the story of how they loved the flowerys but the enemy, the americans forced them to love the gun. >> translator: without our songs it would have been thousands of times more difficult. they raised our spirits making our tough life much better. >> reporter: the veetietnam fled any way they could. >> translator: they were vietnamese like me and when we unified i could see their side and most were doing it for their family. >> reporter: it was this moment a tank rolling through the gate of independence palace that marks the end of an era, seen around the world it became the symbol for the fall of saigon. here is the gate and the reunification palace and in the

four decades that unfolded since it came crashing down it has been ruled by the communist party and economy is booming and those born after the war are thriving. embracing western culture they enjoy life in ways unthinkable just after the war and many realize they cannot expect a better life to be given to them by the government. >> translator: i think my future depends on me, if i choose a good way it will be great. >> reporter: but some feel that there is a cost to this system. >> it absolutely embraced global capitalism and politics and rhetoric have not really changed very much and it's still very very sensitive about any criticism, any institution, any individual who could in any way be seen as challenging the government's absolute control. >> reporter: as vietnam leaders mark history and celebrate peace through reunification the younger generations have a new era for the country as

prosperity bounds and this living in a political system still led by the ideas of the father of vietnam's communist party, scott for al jazeera. let's take a close look at how news shaped the way people at home viewed the war, the death of civilians and a coup against the south vietnamese president at the end of 1960 changes how vietnam was viewed by the media and coverage generally supported u.s. involvement in the war but that changed after the offensive which saw them capture a number of towns in the south and then of course horrific images of the u.s.-led massacre dominated t.v. coverage leading to intensified antiwar protests. let's discuss this further and i'm joined by a former war correspondent and at the u.s. embassy in saigon when it fell and talk about war memories, this is a very personal experience for you, isn't it, michael. >> especially surrounded by this

and we filmed this with the little girl there running in front of the tank we actually filmed that. >> why was this called the first real t.v. war, how did coverage really develop? >> in vietnam unlike any other war before or since, for the international press is what is the american press, the difference was censorship. there was not in vietnam. every other war that i've ever covered there has been somebody's shoulder telling you what to write, what not to write and what to film or not film and we could do anything we wanted and we were free and if you wanted to go anywhere you said to the press officer and the press center in saigon i want to go you would get on a helicopter and go there and film it and talk to anybody you wanted to talk to from the lowest ranking and the generals and the generals falling over themselves to talk to you and you come back and there was

nobody there to tell you what you couldn't do. the pentagon the american administration and the generals themselves didn't realize the damage we were doing to them. they expected us to report their successes. >> right. >> and there weren't any. so we reported their failures. >> so this was a lack of trust because the media coverage initially was quite supported within the u.s. network context, right? >> i think in the beginning when most of the americans thought they could win this war and the generals did too, after i mean they had the mightiest war machine in the world and had to win and over the years and you mentioned the offenses from that moment on the american media and public realized they could not win this war, that's how we reported it and we were only doing our job to do so. >> how have things changed since the vietnam war with the

relationship between journalists and governments obviously the u.s. government has learned a lot of lessons. >> they certainly learned their lesson in vietnam. >> the betz and a lot of things came up. >> embedded is one of these names that has been invented to cover up what it is and it's censorship and it means now you go with the military and see what they want you to see, you report only what they will let you report and that's called embedding, it's supposed to be corporation and it's nothing of the kind. after vietnam americans realized you could not give a free-wheeling press access and nonsense heirship and learned a lesson and i covered the war for itn and we had the most severe censorship every government after vietnam realized you can't have us freewheeling around doing what we want to do

reporting as we see it. >> all right, do you think journalists have always learned the lesson that you know journalists like you learned during the vietnam war and have remained critical enough, you know, some would say look at how the press generally failed the public during the iraq war? >> well i didn't -- that is an open debate altogether isn't it? >> i am wondering what are your personal reflections when you watch what others are doing and are we living up to responsibilities in war coverage? >> of course we cannot, war is a changing scenario and just look around this room war is changing every minute you are there. you would expect me to defend the press, wouldn't you and 90% of the time we do our damnest to tell the truth and we only get cameos of a war and cannot tell the whole picture.

i remember during other wars where i was reporting from the spot and telling a two-minute story but it needed somebody in the studio like yourself to explain the broader picture, sometimes we get it wrong in the field and it's up to people like you to kind of even it out a bit, now i think that we do our damnest to get it right. >> thank you for sharing your experiences and doing it right is what we always have to focus on and thanks so much. >> my pleasure. on wednesday al jazeera correspondent meet as family in kentucky who settled abroad after the vietnam war. the capitol of bangladesh is about to have the first election in decade and daka without a mayor since 2011. the city's problems have been piling up and people have been calling for a strong group of leaders to fix them. and we report from daka.

>> reporter: in bangladesh's crowded capitol this is a rare oasis, a few places where he and his friends can take abreak from the chaos. but not all is perfect here. something is rotten in the city of daka. >> translator: it smells just awful here. me and my friends come here all the time to hang out but the smell ruins everything. and it's not just here. it's like this all over daka. >> reporter: but he doesn't know who he can complain to. he doesn't have any elective representatives in city hall. while daka has not had a mayor in years, city hall continues to function, run by a team of appointed administrators but even they say the capitol needs elected officials in charge. unlike in other places city hall here is not in charge of services like water and

electricity. but many here say elected officials are still best seated to deal with the community. >> translator: if there is a problem in a community and elected representative can gather locals together and solve it through dialog and someone like me i'm not from that community, i cannot do something like that lots of problems can be solved that way. >> reporter: voters will finally head to the polls on tuesday and daka is set to have a municipal election for the first time since 2004. and people are excited. >> translator: people have been suffering a lot in our area they suffered from water logging and pot holes on the road i'm glad elections are taking place not just as a candidate but also as a citizen. >> reporter: running to be a counselor it has been a rough introduction to the challenges of the campaign trail. but once the votes are counted and the campaign ends she and the other candidates will find that daka citizens are ready for

someone to help cleanup their city. al jazeera, daka. hundreds of people have marched in the outskirts of burundi capitol, the third day of protests against the president's decision to run for a third time and the move violates the constitution and the 2006 peace deal his announcement he would be running triggered the worst political crisis in the country since the end of the civil war a decade ago. the trial of two al jazeera journalists in egypt has been adjourned until may the nine and they are charged with harming national security and aiding the ban muslim brotherhood and they and al jazeera deny. and still ahead in sport could the washington capitols keep their nhs series alive against the new york islanders, details next. ♪

♪ welcome back scientists in the uk are finding out what causes red diseases and cancers develop, 100,000 patients will take a place in the project and dna sequence to provide doctors clues into illnesses and jessica baldwin explains. >> reporter: georgia green is a special child, not only does she smile just about all the time but she is nearly four and has just started walking.

she still doesn't speak. she has got problems with her kidneys, problems with her eyes her brain and nobody knows why. all the doctors know is that georgia was born with some sort of rare genetic disorder. they have no idea what caused it or how it will affect the rest of her life. they also don't know if georgia's parents were to have another child if that child will be fine or would have problems that were worse. >> it's been hard for us because we always want children and we wanted georgia to have a brother or sister but we cannot take the risk knowing that child could be very disabled and would that be the right thing to do for them for the family. so it's very hard. if we had answers then we would be able to go in with eyes wide open and make informed decision at the moment we are sort of in the dark. >> reporter: with no answers georgia's parents have volunteered for britain's genome sequencing project. >> we find out a lot about

natural human variation but in particular for these participants we are going to find out the cause of the rare diseases in the majority and for patients with cancer we may learn more about what drives the cancer and its behavior. >> reporter: scientists will complete the database by 2017 and early information is being shared with researchers and pharmaceutical companies to help development treatments or cures. what makes this project unique is the sheer size of it. scientists are going to analyze the genetic make of 100,000 people creating a vast database and because of the national health service that data will be added to over time as the health of those patients is monitored. for georgia and the other 5,000 people in britain with rare problems and no diagnose the genome project provides hope for a treatment or at least the

knowledge of what the future holds. jessica baldwin, al jazeera, london. greece's prime minister says his government is close to an initial deal with the international creditors, during a t.v. interview he said he believes the first agreement can be struck as early as next week and his left led government has been locked in negotiations with euro zone countries talking about a bail out package. 90% of the world trade is transported by ships and that means the industry is generating huge levels of pollution and emissions and scandanavia biggest port is trying to change that and we have more from gothenburg in sweden. >> reporter: the port here is sweden's trading hub loading and unloading 900,000 containers a year that is two a minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. in fact, 11,000 vessels from all over the world pass through

gothemburg every 12 months and the port is this the heart of the residential community and shipping is not as clean as you might think. >> shipping has always been stuck more or less with the worst type of oil, heavy fuel oil and it has a large sulfur contents and this is ten years has been lifted up as a problem. >> reporter: around the world even when ships are docked they keep their engines running and emissions are a big factor on illnesses in poor communities here they pioneered a new system some ships can plug in to green energy generated on shore. so they don't need to burn fuel until they leave. so they are taking power from the city. >> from the city grid feeding the ship as simple as that. >> reporter: plug it in like at home. >> plug in the cord that is it. >> reporter: recently maritime law made it illegal to sail in waters with high sulfur fuel and

some are still burning dirty fuel and we will see how they catch them out and going all the way down river to this island which is where they monitor what is going on with the sulfur emissions. guarding the approach the pioneering new sniffer station and sniffs out exhaust plumes of passing ships. >> right now the ships have .1 sulfur in the fuel and it's like a revolution an order of magnitude lower than just two months ago. >> reporter: coming past. >> the ship is coming past and it will hit and emissions with a certain amount of sulfur in the fuel and identify the ship yeah, it's coming from the ship and following criteria and we will let this ship go. it will not be put on our black list. >> reporter: of course it will be many decades before all ports around the world are able to follow the green lead but ultimately it's the people who live work and breathe life into port cities that will benefit

and you would like to think that would be reason enough for change nick clark, al jazeera, sweden. let's catch up with all the sports news because we are here. >> and sammy you are as well and begin with baseball and the violence we have been seeing in baltimore has affected them beating the oriols. >> white sox will get the series tomorrow if unrest continues. >> that was the announcement by the local broadcaster of postponement with the chicago white sox and it's located in an area which like many was hit by trouble on monday the mlb commissioner says the series could be moved to washington if the violence continues. in the nba playoffs williams for the brooklyn nets as they tied the series with atlanta hawks following over time winning game and williams came in for criticism for performance up to monday and the guard saw five

games wrecked up 35 against the hawks and brooklyn 120-115 and best of series and game five on wednesday in atlanta. >> it feels good and great to get the win, that is the most important thing. this is a team win all the way. we fought, we scrapped we battled, we were down ten and going in the fourth and there was never let up or never give up. >> reporter: to nhl and series between detroit red rings and tampa bay lightning will go to a 7 game and follows victory on monday and cruising, that is tampa and a 3-0 lead but in fronts of the home fans detroit went back to 3-2, however, tampa responded with a couple more goals to eventually win this one 5-2, deciding game of the series

is on wednesday. and other games and washington capitols win their series against the new york islanders but only just, this was a 7th game decider and tense affair and taking the lead in the second period and islanders in the third and nelson making it 1-1 but then scoring worthy of winning any series the washington capitols winning 2-1 for a 4-3 series victory and next up another new york team the rangers in the eastern semi finals. a team from english futbol second tier that almost went out of business 7 years ago is now on the brink of reaching the league in history and championship beat balton 3-0 on monday and it's a mathematical miracle in the next rounldz of round of matches and in 84 by harry with united one of the biggest shots in history and can

look forward to facing united in the league for the very first time. in spain barcelona could open up a five-point gap if they can beat them later and barsa with a champion and domestic league and cup titles and that was last achieved in 2009 under this and they will have to get past his current munich in the semi finals and the focus is firmly on them. >> translator: there are no minimum goals to reach, the goal is to have titles and we have done what we have done so far in the next five matches in the semi and final and show what we have achieved. >> reporter: let's have a quick look at the spanish barcelona had five games left including tuesday's match, the crucial game could be the match up of the late season going to defending champions atletico and

valencia fourth position behind atletco and beat granada on monday. chasing his trouble with this and won league title on sunday and played the semi finals of german cup on tuesday and in previous seasons the rivals have been dublin but they struggled in the campaign and the coach is still expecting a tough game as they attempt to retain the trophy they won last season. >> translator: of course we have to improve our play against them. it is always been close. no matter what happens they are still one of the best teams in germany germany. >> translator: if we want to win the cup we must do this so it actually doesn't matter if it's in the semi final or in the final, we have also won games there in the past so everything is set accordingly, the way it should be. >> reporter: stay with futbol and domestic game is ground to a

halt in indonesia after government suspended the latest round to hit the sport in the country and we explain what happens now. >> reporter: futbol is no stranger to travesty, in the last couple of years it faced problems with corruption security gains and even the deaths of two foreign players who were unable to pay for medical treatment because they had not been paid by the clubs. the latest upheaval is a tit for tat and follow closely because it's complicated, the government tried to block two teams in super league because of issues of ownership and fa ignored the order and kicked off the new season anyway. but then police refused match permits for games to take place. and the league ground to a halt after just two matches. and futbol-fifa warned the government to back down and now they have done the very opposite suspending it and saying they will set up

replacement organization but the clubs said they will not cooperation and led to thousands of futbol fans mashing through the streets in protest and fifa could suspends all futbol in the country including those involving the national team. we are just four days away before one of the most anticipated fights in boxing history and i'm talking about floyd mayweather taking on pacquiao and the philippine fighter is in las vegas with his family, the pacman as he is known was greeted by hundreds of fans and with the fight a few days away pacquiao says they are sick of the hype and just want it to begin. >> i'm going to feel a lot better on sunday because manny has trained and focused for the fight but the promotion has been a nightmare since day one and i will be really happy when it's over with. cricket in pakistan taking on bangladesh on the first test

match of the series and they lost every international game on the tour so far and having lost one day series 3-0 and the t 20 play between the sides and in this game bangladesh won the toss and bat first and looks to be a pretty good decision a short time ago 208-3 in their first innings, let's more sport on our website for the very latest check out al jazeera.com/sport, we have blogs and video clips for correspondents right around the world. that is all your sport for now and more later sammy. that brings us almost to the end of the al jazeera news hour we will be back with another update in just a couple of minutes at the top of the hour but of course if you want to keep updated right around the clock with developments we have been telling you about around the world just head over to al jazeera.com, you can see our front page with all the stories

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♪ nepal struggles to provide the basic necessities for its citizens after the worst earthquake in 80 years. ♪ hello and welcome to al jazeera, i'm sammy live from doha headquarters and also ahead an overnight curfew in the u.s. city of baltimore has been lifted after violent protests after allegations of police brutality. 40 years after the vietnam war we look at dramatic changes the countries that has gone through. i'm nick clark