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tanzania. plus happy birthday pac man, the arcade game inspired by eating pizza turns 35. in sport pakistan's long wait is over. [chanting] after a six year hiatus they welled cricket in the country. ♪ hello a group calling itself a newly established saudi affiliate of islamic state of iraq and levante said it bomb in northeastern saudi arabia a suicide bomber killed 20 people during friday prayers in a shia mosque. the blast happened in the i ma'am mosque in al-qadeeh in the province of qatif home of a shia minority. witnesses described a huge explosion and worshippers began

prayers. dozens more were injured. and in a separate statement i.s.i.l. said it was behind a similar bomb attack on a mosque in the yemeni capitol sanaa and 13 people were injured and the mosque was used by shia houthis. let's get more now from our correspondent in the saudi capitol riyadh for us now and what more can you tell us about the attack in saudi arabia? >> the mosque was packed with worshippers at the moment of the explosion. security forces say that they are investigating the case and trying to find out how the suicide bomber managed to get into the mosque and detonate the explosives. in the same area in the eastern part of the country there was an incident about two months ago when an armed man opened fire at shia worshippers at a mosque

killing seven people. there were also similar attacks targeting security forces and foreigners. the government says that there are groups affiliated with al-qaeda targeting shia to undermine stability and unity in the government. the highest religious authority here in riyadh in saudi arabia which is very powerful issued a statement saying the attack was a heinous crime targeting saudi arabia and trying to destabilize the country. >> and the idea that this new saudi affiliate of i.s.i.l. how is that going to be greeted by the saudi authorities? >> this is something which is going to raise more concern here in the country because last month security forces in saudi arabia said they have arrested dozens of people affiliated with i.s.i.l. and plans by i.s.i.l. to launch attacks across the

country particularly against the u.s. embassy in the capitol riyadh and that some of those members were trying to recruit saudis to send them to fight with i.s.i.l. in iraq and syria. it comes against the back drop of a saudi-led air strikes targeting shia houthi rebels in yemen and those loyal to saleh and they put together and raise concerns here among saudis and security forces and security any way has been beefed up over the last few months to try to prevent any attacks by people affiliated with al-qaeda or i.s.i.l. in the kingdom. >> live from saudi capitol riyadh and thank you. planes from the saudi-led coalition have been pounding rebel positions in three yemen cities. huge explosions rocked the outskirts of sanaa after the air strikes there and the planes targeted an air base at the airport as well as a stadium and a republic guard camp and aiden

in the south and the province to the east of the capitol. and all iran cargo ship arrived in djibouti in the horn of africa and food and medical supplies will be unloaded and taken by the world health organization to a port which is under houthi control. well iraq is appealing for international help to fight islamic state of iraq and levante and iraq deputy prime minister says i.s.i.l.'s capture of the key city of ramadi is a big disaster from which iraq's own forces can't adequately fight back and i.s.i.l. continues to edge closer to baghdad and has taken the crossing and that is the last syrian government held border crossing between iraq and syria which sits on the main highway between baghdad and damascus. and in syria itself i.s.i.l. fighters are reported to have

spread across the ancient city of palmyra going door to door to government loyalests and we report now from baghdad. >> some of these men will be sent deep into iraq's sunni heart land to fight i.s.i.l. others will stay behind to protect the town that islamic state of iraq and levante tried to control in the past. for these shia malaysia man this is not just about recapturing territory, they are protecting roots to anbar and shia sites and neighboring sites. >> translator: i volunteered to join this battle to protect our holy shrines and we don't want i.s.i.l. to advance further and threaten the holy sites. >> reporter: a controversial decision to use malitia men in the province and the government had no other choice because regular forces are weak and

efforts to create a nonsectarian army have failed. this is the gate to the mainly shia province and it also lies on a junction with roads south to saudi arabia. north to anbar capitol ramadi with highways to baghdad and neighboring jordan and syria. i.s.i.l. has captured the last border crossing between syria and iraq. it controls most of that frontier and its fighters move treely between the two countries. the u.s. which leads the coalition against i.s.i.l. down played the gains and president barack obama has said the loss of territory were tactical setbacks and he insists that the war is not being lost. but many disagree. i.s.i.l. has taken over two cities in a week ramadi and iraq and palmyra and syria. ramadi is 100 kilometers from baghdad and it's also the last major city on the road to iraqi

capitol. and palmyra is 150 kilometers from syria's central province of homs which is on a major cross road that is strategic for the syrian government survival and the government invested man power and resources over the years to reclaim homs from opposition, if it looses there damascus and coastal region would be under threat but i.s.i.l. controls the land from palmyra to ramadi. in iraq the fight of the armed group is led by shia malitia. >> translator: sunni politicians who want the tribes to be armed a long time ago are now calling for a new strategy. >> translator: today anbar has fallen and has a significance because it's the third in the area and the problems that expelled al-qaeda not from here but all over and it's a big disaster with respect to iraq and the region and there for expanding here is unacceptable

and capacity of iraq is limited and should be a new strategic plan for iraq and coalition forces to terminate i.s.i.l. in iraq. >> reporter: they do not have any partner on the ground and doesn't recognize the government's legitimacy. over months i.s.i.l. may have been on the defensive, that has now changed. i'm with al jazeera, baghdad. swift is a professor of national security is studies at georgetown and is live from washington d.c. and welcome to the program and thanks for being with us how significant do you think the progress is that i.s.i.l. has made over the past couple of months? >> well it's significant in a psychological and strategic sense even if it's somewhat limited in a tactical sense and let me explain what i mean by that. if you look at i.s.i.s. or i.s.i.l.'s propaganda propaganda and look at how they

operated in ramadi or the junctions that they are taking in syria and iraq and elsewhere it has been with a goal of taking that territory, holding it and using it as a basis for further expansion and do this very gradually, notwithstanding the maximal rhetoric and doing it very successfully because the areas they dominate are those that have the best infrastructure and the strongest economies. >> the u.s. is describing it as a setback almost trying to down play progress made by i.s.i.l. but that is surely an under statement, isn't it when you have some organizations saying that i.s.i.l. now runs and controls 50% of syrian territory where of course they are not being fought by the u.s. the u.s. only fighting i.s.i.l. in iraq. >> let's distinguish between territory on one hand and economy and population on the other. and if you look at where i.s.i.l. is active is in the river valleys and the reason being it's easy to move people

back and forth between the major cities, they're economically productive and provide a basis of support not necessarily in terms of popular support but definitely in terms of economic support for their future operations. if you look at that that is significant but it's not quite as significant as, you know if you were to see it exclusively in terms of how much red in the map you are filling up. the obama administration has some argument there. the difficulty is that the u.s. and its coalition allies don't have a strategy beyond bolstering a failing iraqi security sector and air strikes and beyond those two things it's not clear what the united states and allies plan to do in iraq what is clear is that i.s.i.l. is advancing slowly, strategically and with a fair amount of support behind it. >> once they advance in syria mean for the president bashar al-assad and that is different than the one that began four years ago. >> that is right. and myself and many others were

saying that if there wasn't a prompt resolution to the syrian civil war that you would see a regional sectarian war and that is exactly what is happening. look if you look at what is happening inside syria, syria itself has ceased to exist as the same sovereign nation state but the assad regime and the syrian government still exists in the western part of the country and with a fair amount of support from the community and shia malitia men from hezbollah and lebanon and looking at iraq the southern and eastern part of iraq which is majority shia continues to operate quite effectively and the government has authority and has writ but it is relying on support from iran and its own shia maylitia men and no possibility of mobilizing the general population against i.s.i.l. because the populations in the countries are so divided

against themselves. >> great for your thoughts on this swift joining us from washington d.c. thanks for your time. activists in syria's aleppo province say 12 have been killed after being bombed and the state news agency say they end a siege on soldiers who took refuge in idlib province and we have this report. >> reporter: multiple air strikes on the town here in the province of idlib. the aim of those strikes is to provide cover for more than 200 government troops besieged for over two weeks in the town's hospital. these pictures show a number of syrian forces escape, some of them are set to be senior officers. the hospital is the last government stronghold in the town. >> translator: promised to end the siege, where is the power

and might? and we want joy and victory. >> reporter: a coalition of rebels and includes al-nusra with al-qaeda took control of the town three weeks ago and days earlier they captured idlib the capitol and the rest of idlib province are important. security means the rebels have a gate way to the syrian coast, president assad's power base. it has a highway which connects the provinces of aleppo to latakia, further north in aleppo syrian helicopters dropped bombs in the northern countryside. rescue workers and residents were looking for survivors. the town is under rebel control and activists say the attacks have killed several people all of them women and children al jazeera. al jazeera has been told that 22 members of the forces of the libyan general have been killed at several different checkpoints.

attacks happened here and sources say the clashes were between fighters and benghazi's council. still ahead on the news hour fox suspends unilateral ceasefire after a colombian air strike kills six rebels. i'm in miami and looking at how the change in u.s./cuba relations is affecting the art scene. and coming up, in sport the chiefs give their playoff ambitions aims a big boost. ♪ we are getting reports that a double grenade attack has killed three people in burundi capitol. this is tanzania struggles to cope with a growing humanitarian crisis. tens of thousands who fled the violence in burundi following a failed coup against the president are crammed in transit centers and refugee camps. u.n. says it is seeing 300-400

new cases of cholera there everyday. at least 33 people have died. kim reports. >> reporter: they fled their homes in search of safety by their journey has only just begun. on 100-year-old fishing boat they are moved south from the border. the stadium turned transit center is their next stop. it was two days traveling and we had to walk long distances and police could stop us on the way and when we crossed the border to tanzania the police made it difficult. >> reporter: weeks of cramped condition and poor sanitation is wreaking havoc and many arrive in the transit camp with acute diarrhea others with cholera, the sickest are brought to makeshift treatment centers and pumped with saline. >> acute diarrhea cases at the moment are treated as if they are cholera. the message for which you

confirm cholera is you have to take soil samples and send them to a lab so it's a time consuming process. >> reporter: another three hours in land for the refugee camp which is almost at capacity. cholera has been confirmed in each of the three stops and hundreds of refugees with dehydration are coming forward daily and more are arriving in tennessee tanzania by the day and the small fishing village when they first arrive is overwhelmed, 25,000 refugees have been moved on from here the 35,000 remain. aid agencies are still keen to move people and cut a trail through the mountains and leading the strongest on a six-hour hike to reach the official camp. burundi people who went to tanzania are given refugee status on arrival where to live and how to make a living will come next. for now the focus is on safety

and survival. kim with al jazeera. after a lull in the number of ebola cases a fresh out break in guinea is worrying officials and says 27 new cases have been recorded in a week. and compared to seven the previous week. authorities are particularly worried that some cases have been found along the border with guinea a country with very few health centers. the resent ebola crisis began in guinea in 2013 and spreading to neighboring countries. the humanitarian situation in south sudan is deteriorating at alarming right and fighting with troops in upper nile and others forced thousands to leave and catherine reports. >> reporter: there are at least 11,000 people who arrived at this u.n. camp in the regional capitol of unity state in the last few weeks. more keep coming. most of them are women and

children. all are escaping village's to the south where fighting between rebels and government troops is going on and many told aid workers that entire villages have been burned to the ground and people killed and abducted and women have been raped. doctors without borders have treated dozens of people with wounds and have been forced to suspend operations in parts of the state including here the hometown of rebel leader. aid agencies are worried. the rainy season is just begin beginning and hundreds of thousands of people are enable to till their land. >> if you have no food and it's raining it doesn't give you, you can't eat the rain. the rains may result in reduction of the conflicts, but for the civilians who have no access to food, have no access to safe drinking water, or

shelter or medical assistance. >> reporter: fighting is going on in parts of upper nile, another oil rich state. the government says it's making gains but rebels still control the state capitol, and captured it last week. >> the longer conflicts last the longer humanitarian crisis lasts, the more fatigue sets in the more difficult it is to continue to mobilize assistance. and south sudan is no exception. >> reporter: south sudan economy heavily relies on oil and is struggling the cost of living is very high and millions of displaced people do not know if they will ever go back home. both the government and rebels are pushing to gain as much territory as they can ahead of the rainy season and this means thousands of displaced people are not able to plant and feed their families they will have to yet again depend on food aid.

catherine with al jazeera, nairobi, kenya. columbia stark rebels suspended ceasefire after 26 of their members were killed by the armed forces. the air and land attack in the province also resulted in the seizure and a large number of weapons. a colombian forces resumed operations against fashioning last month after an attack in which ten soldiers were killed. that is despite ongoing peace talks between the two sides in cuba. hundreds of officials and volunteers are spending a fourth day cleaning up an oil spill on the west coast of the united states. on tuesday around half a million liters of crude oil leaked from a faulty pipeline close to the california town of santa barbara and we have the latest on the efforts to cleanup california's famous beaches. >> reporter: a sticky smelly mess as be fowled the pristine stands near santa barbara workers in protective suits are

busy cleaning the oil off of rocks, slowly mopping up thousands of barrels of crude. the cleanup involving hundreds of workers is being overseen by the u.s. coast guard and the federal environmental protection agency. >> operations will continue throughout the evening in the excavation area up towards the pipeline and it will just continue everyday until that area is excavated and contaminated soil is removed from the air. >> it could be weeks and months. however, we are going to take it day by day. >> reporter: the ruptured pipeline belongs to a texas company called plains all american which has a troubling safety record. a study by the los angeles times newspaper shows the company has had 175 federal safety and maintenance infractions since 2006. that's three times the national average. the company says it doesn't know exactly what caused the pipeline breach. >> since we are one of the

largest operators of pipelines across the industry in the united states, the number of reportable incidents by percentage is well within industry norms. >> reporter: no people have needed medical attention as a result of the spill but it is taking a toll on wildlife. birds, marine mammals and fish and crustacians and experts took an oil soaked sea lion away from treatment. >> teams are walking up and down the beach looking for animals impacted and we have aerial surveys looking for marine mammals off shores and whales and porposis and residents population 90,000 are distressed. >> it's terrible and sounds like clear negligence to me. >> the part that bugs me is it was predictable and could have some preventative issue just in the event that it occurred not letting it get to the ocean. >> imagine losing a person, you know, losing someone close to you because it's losing our

pristine water and i think so much of the ocean and so many of us do. >> reporter: the people in this city are angry and upset and want some answers and they want assurances that something like this cannot happen again. rob reynolds al jazeera santa barbara, california. u.s. government released nearly 300 e-mails from the former secretary of state hillary clinton. the e-mails expected to shed light on how clinton responded to the 2012 attack on a u.s. diplomatic compound in benghazi in which the ambassador was killed. and the democratic nominations for president she is chasing and a spokeswoman said the release of e-mails doesn't change understanding of events surrounding the benghazi attack. police are having talks between the u.s. and cuba about resurrecting foreign diplomatic resolutions are finished with no final agreement and they will restore the embassy in washington and havana in 54

years and this is announced by president barack obama and castro in december but the chief negotiator says more talks will be needed. >> both delegations agrees to continue our exchanges. on issues related to the functioning of diplomatic nations so we will continue those conversations in the next few weeks. >> reporter: the improving relations between cuba and the u.s. are expected to have a dramatic positive effect on the cuba economy and interest in all things cuba is helping the nation's art industry and andy was one of many visitors to miami's cuban art galleries. >> reporter: this is what the art world likes to call an emerging talent the 33-year-old cuban painter deflected six years ago taking odd jobs in

miami and only painting in his spare time but his work often political in nature is becoming collectible thanks to the changes in u.s. and cuba and paints full time and pieces sell for thousands of dollars. >> in a way i feel lucky and it has been a lot of work. so i think like the time just came. >> reporter: the historic change in relations is still at an early stage but miami's long established cuban art galleries are getting significantly busier. in the past year sales here have doubled as interest has grown. >> so we are seeing a curve, seeing a curve that is moving up and it's very rewarding to finally see the recognition that cuban art deserves. >> reporter: art from cuba is a rare exception to the u.s. trade embargo and traders buying it

for years and it's a difficult process that they say will get easier if travel restrictions are eased further and cuba's new generation could greatly benefit from change. >> the new artists, emerging artists are the ones who are going to blossom if there is an opening. vis-a-vis the u.s. >> private collections like this are too expensive for us to consider, each piece offers a world that north americans are not familiar with that plus the sheer quality of the work are the driving forces behind the renewed interest in cuban art. the art world is constantly lacking for the next big thing and painters like he fit the bill and work like cuba is unique and could potentially receive global exposure andy in miami, florida. to bring you news we just received because at least 20 people are reported dead after a

shootout between mexican federal police and an armed group. now the clash took place at 8:30 in the morning we gather in the town here in the state and that is an area that tours with drug gangs and one policemen is known to be among the dead and several people injured in the gun fight and more on that as soon as we get it. still to come this news hour prisoner abuse in ukraine, amnesty international accuses both sides of widespread miss treatment. one year on from thailand's coup why the country is still as divided as ever. and a year ago they scored champion league's first and madrid could be looking for a new coach. details in sport. ♪

>> guardianship imposed by the state >> they lose more rights than someone who goes to prison... >> what's being done to protect liberties in texas? >> i'm just a citizen trying to get some justice for an old man... >> an america tonight investigation only on al jazeera america ♪ hello again and welcome back and reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. a suicide bomber has blown himself up at a shia mosque in eastern saudi arabia killing about 21 people. i.s.i.l. has claimed

responsibility for the attack which happened in the village in the province. shia malitia gather east of ramadi for a counter offensive against i.s.i.l. and iraq asked for more international help to fight the group. and the u.n. says it is seeing up to 400 new cholera cases among the thousands of burundi refugees who fled to neighboring tanzania to escape the violence and the government says it is struggling to cope. amnesty international says there is overwhelming evidence that both sides in the ukraine conflict have abused their prisoners. in a new report it says ukrainian government forces promalitia and separatists group have mistreated or tortured prisoners and describe the practice on both sides as frequent and widespread and amnesty spoke to 30 prisoners from both sides and talked about torture techniques and being beaten until bones broke and

shocked with electricity and hung from the ceiling and in the studio is an author of the report a crisis advisor at amnesty international and thanks for coming in and abuse and torture that you report on in your report do they legally fall into the category of war crimes where do they sit? >> they are war crimes. i think they are clear violations of the geneva convent -- conventions and applies in international conflict like this conflict and prohibits torture of criminals. >> what is the worst you have heard about? >> i interviewed prisoners who are subject to mock executions by which they were buried alive, nearly suffocating. they would wake up and soldiers kicked them in the heads. one prisoner i spoke to was after he was aereleased he was a civilian and no evidence implicating him in any

separatist activity he was in prison, he was that is in the hospital for three weeks with a brain hemetoma so people were severely abused and continue to be. >> i mean in a conflict like ukraine there are allegations and counter allegations from all sides involved in the conflict. how are you able to independently verify that the torture and abuse actually happened? >> we collected quite a range of forensic and documentary evidence that confirmed the prisoner's accounts. so for example the prisoner that i mentioned with the brain hemetoma he had hospital records and we actually interviewed one of the doctors who treated him who said that this case was one of the uglyist he had seen in years. other people had arrest records or they had photographs of the bruises that -- the injuries that were caused. i interviewed a prisoner that was missing his lower teeth

because they had been knocked out with a stick. >> amnesty asked them to inl vest gait -- investigate all the allegations being made but that is difficult to do given the conflict in ukraine because there are certain places that they can't go and they are no-go areas for them. >> yeah, but the problem is kiev officials are more reluctant to investigate their own forces so they actually have started investigations of killings by separatist forces even though as you mentioned it's difficult for them to get access to the people to do an effective investigation but they have access the para military groups in ukraine that are responsible and that we found are carrying out many of these abuses and they should certainly be carrying out i think prompt impartial and effective investigations as well as requiring that people who are implicated in these crimes be taken away from any duties

involving holding prisoners. >> thanks so much for coming in thank you. >> thank you. people in ireland are voting on whether to amend the constitution to legalize same sex marriage. civil partnerships are already allowed, friday's referendum could make ireland the first country in the world to allow gay marriage by popular vote. the results are due to be announced on saturday. visitors to the eiffel tower are popular targets for pick pockets and they have taken radical action to address the problem and went on strike and closed the tower in protest, it was shut most of friday as talks were held on increasing police patrols. myanmar's navy detained 200 people after rescuing them at sea and the government says the people are bengolis, the word it uses to describe rohingya muslims and thousands fleeing

persecution traveled to indonesia and thailand in the last few weeks. >> the navy has a boat load of 200 near the border of bangladesh and food and water and what assistance people needed and expect the people to be there and myanmar navy confirmed all these people are from bangladesh. this is consistent of what the myanmar government has been saying it's ready to provide assistance to boat people if and when they need it but there is no acknowledgment that myanmar sees itself as part of the problem. we know at last half of the people who arrived on boats in indonesia, may la shay in the last few weeks are seeking persecution from myanmar. the u.s. deputy secretary of state is just one of the few foreign officials to arrive in myanmar in the last few weeks to talk about this issue with myanmar government officials. >> the root of the problem for

those leaving from myanmar is the political and social situation on the ground in the state. in order to develop a sustainable and durable solution the union government must fulfill its previous commitments to improve the living conditions and secure the full protection human rights and fundamental freedoms of all communities in the state in accordance with international standards. >> reporter: the u.s. has been and still is a strong supporter of myanmar transition to democracy since the process started 4 1/2 years ago but myanmar human rights record is once again in the spotlight with the international community urging the country to stop its persecution of the rohingya minority and we don't know how well the message has been ra received by the myanmar government and this is a sensitive controversial topic now that elections are scheduled for the end of the year, this is a topic that has been whipped up by ultra nationalist groups and no indication from the myanmar

government that it's ready and willing to change is policies to the rohingya. >> and rob mcbribe reports on how people in malaysia are helping provide aid and food to the refugees. >> reporter: a number of aid organizations and ngos seem to be lining up behind the government efforts now in what seems to be a community effort to get the kind of aid that the migrants are likely to need. we have been following around a group around the island buying up the absolute essentials instant food and noodles and biscuits and most important water that the migrant boats are likely to need as they come in from maybe months after sea. other more substantial aid will come later on. the idea is all of this food is then held by the maritime services here and then go out to meet migrant boats as they come in. in the past when the migrant boat crisis first began these groups may have gotten trouble with authorities, these were

after all considered to be illegal migrants and you cannot go out and start giving them aid and asking them to come ashore and now they are encouraged to come up with essentials and come up with food aid like this to help these people as they do come ashore. >> we were told to stand by with provisions because it could be at any time and we are glad they opened up the doors for ngos such as us and also the people who want to come in and actually contribute for this aid. >> reporter: both malaysia and indonesia contributed themselves to providing assistance up to 7,000 migrant newcomers and the big question is what happens if they are confronted by many more than that but the most concerns right now are providing the provisions and help for the people who are thought to be out at sea. a year since the military toppled the government in thailand the take over was by huge street protests calling for

the government to step down. scott takes a look at if the military managed to heal political divisions. >> reporter: when the military staged its takeover dismissing the elected government then army chief said they had to do it. thailand was dividing edging close to civil war. >> translator: bringing the sides together was a top priority for the military government government. >> reporter: the political divide between the so called red shirts who support former prime minister yingluck shinawatra and the yellow shirts royalists who oppose pop list programs by yingluck shinawatra's brother when he was prime minister and one year on according to red shirts the government reconciliation program is not working. >> translator: this was founded by toxin. >> you want reconciliation but still you want to persecute, demonize and try to terrorize and intimidate the opponent.

>> reporter: but the government says it is following a reconciliation roadmap and prevented violence and denied favoring the yellow shirts. >> translator: political division is so deep rooted and it didn't just happen over the last two years. when someone chooses one side of the political divide they often find they are not happy when they don't get what they want. >> reporter: but to some it's much more than not getting what they want. this is a so called red shirt village and according to organizers there are 20,000 in thailand in the northeast and say the reconciliation program is nonexistent. >> translator: started the red shirt village concept and leads a million supporters and the military summoned him for questioning three times. >> translator: reconciliation has not happened at all. this is a lie. we can see one side is only treated badly. the general should not have been the prime minister.

he said he wouldn't stage a coup then he did, he said he didn't want any power then he became prime minister. >> reporter: as the military government moves in the second year of rule reconciliation is just one of its challenges it has again pushed back the general election schedule and it faces questions from the international community on its commitment to clamp down on human trafficking. this as it refused to give temporary shelter to the thousands drifting off its coast in migrant boats. back in the red shirt heart land they are waiting to hold gathers bigger than picnics and take a new generation of party leaders to the polls. scott with al jazeera, thailand. the former korean airlines executive who delays a flight with a tantrum because her nuts were not served in a bowl has been released from prison. cho was serving a ten-month sentence for assaulting a crew member last december and

releasing her early the court noted she will have to live under heavy criticism from society. still to come on the program the man paralyzed by a gunshot who is using his thoughts and a robot arm to pick up a bottle by himself. and in sport crash chaos is a blow for alberta, more coming up. ♪

♪ hello again and the concept of a bionic man or woman was once a subject solely of science

fiction. but huge advances are being made in a technology that can change the lives of some of the world's most severely injured people and carolyn malone explains. >> reporter: great strides being made in bionic technology and eric who has been paralyzed since being shot 13 years ago now has the ability to move a limb again. >> we found out that having a smart conversation helps the activity move a lot smother and i have to be quiet and if i get frustrated everything goes down hill and it won't work. >> reporter: it's not his arm but he is able to do one crucial thing he couldn't do before pick up a bottle and drink on his own. he is the first person to have a neuro prosthetic device implanted in the part of the brain where intentions are made. when he thinks about moving it activates a prosthetic. he is not the only one benefitting from this type of amazing new technology. he has a bionic leg he also uses

his mind to control. doctors implanted sensors into his remaining leg which pick up brain signals and link them to the prosthetic. >> as soon as i put my foot on it took me ten minutes to get control of it and i could stand up and just walk away. >> reporter: lee lost both his arms when he was electrocuted 40 years ago and he was the first person to be able to control two limbs with the technology and scientists think it's only the beginning. >> not just the accomplishment but opening of frontiers and realizing there is so much more to learn. >> reporter: jan is a quadriplegic and only able to move her neck and head but with probes on her brain she is learning to move prosthetic limbs as well. >> that say that was all you. >> that wasn't the computer doing it that was all you. i just can't stop smiling. it's so cool. i know these things.

i have not moved things for about ten years. >> reporter: eric had his sensors surgically implanted into his brain, another scientific breakthrough in the development of this mind control technology. as it turns out there is a lot that can be achieved just by thinking about it. carolyn malone al jazeera. extraordinary technology and all sport. thanks very much, pakistan marked cricket return with a win over zimbabwe what and the first time they hosted a visiting international team and matches moved outside the country following attack on the sri lanka team in 2009 and security is tight and fans thrilled by the return of top fight cricket and international cricket council refused to sent officials to pakistan over safety concerns and they allowed the home site to appoint their own match officials. and this is how the match was

won, 54 and held zimbabwe of 173 and the day delonged to pakistan and put on an opening stand of 142 as the host claimed five wicket win and on sunday before the three match one day series begins on tuesday. pakistan cricket officials hope the success of this man will encourage other countries to travel there. >> we will be making effort for the last few years to convince people to come to pakistan and for one reason or the other those efforts have not been successful. zimbabwe coming here was an extremely big step for us because it actually helps us in building our case for other teams to start playing cricket regularly in pakistan. >> cricket in new zealand donated day two of the test

against england to put themselves in a strong position and 35 for the overnight score for 389 and took advantage of the batting track and had unbeaten 92 to help black cats just 86 behind. in spain they could take charge of his last match as manager of madrid and they will finish the season without a trophy and the tense european cup last year and riyadh will qualify for the champion league after finishing second and there is speculation that ra rafael will replace him and he has one season left on his three-year deal. >> i have not talked to the club and the club has not talked to me and i'm still interested in being the riyadh coach and will remain so until the club decides afterwards and sunday or monday

we will talk about the future my future and future of the club. >> reporter: bars -- barcelona will get the trophy and go to the final and aventis in the final of the champion. >> translator: we are very motivated, two final games ahead and the chance of having a trebel for the club it it will be 100% intensity and a chance we will be too motivated and we will have to calm down a bit and we can see clearly finishing up the season in an outstanding way. >> reporter: english league has been named manager of the season and has proved his worth to chelsea yet again this season winning the title with four games to spare. >> this is something you don't get by yourself and as we like

to say in england the cake and the icing on the cake i work for the cake i don't work for the icing on the cake i work for the cake. the cake is much more important, the permi league is the real cake. >> reporter: he is obviously good at cooking too. and michael's manager says the formula one driver is still improving after his skiing accident last year and almost 17 months after suffering severe head injuries after a crash in the alps and his agent spoke at a watch which the 7 time world champion helped design. >> we are happy to say he has improvement and i say this always considering the severeness of the injury he had and of course it will take a very long time for everybody involved to fight and we are happy to take his fate. >> reporter: chiefs maintained their grip on a playoff spot and

new zealand getting better than south africa and there is bolt and 34-20 victory securing them a bonus and they are fourth in the overall standing. fallen in second place at italia after held up by a crash and this was after stage 13 and began the day with 17-second lead and held up 40 seconds after this pile up three kilometers from the end of the stage. and 19 seconds over all heading into saturday's time trial. the stage is on session a bit further back and the first rider since 1998 to win the gero and tour de-france in the same time. mcilroy missed the cut by four shot and shot 78 and included 6 bogies and one double live r leaving him five over and the

shot went to argentina and he finished off 65 with this shot with an eagle on the 18th hole. italy he overcame a shaky start to obtain his lead his second round, 69 leaving him 10 under for the tournament. the french open could see defending champion nadel meet yanukovych in the quarter finals and defending the single champion and known as the king of clay because he has won on nine occasions but he is currently out of form. he has a good record against yanukovych in paris and recently the third had the upper hand and on the 22 match win streak and n nadal trying to treat it like every other year. >> number three or seven or ten

and has been amazing when i had a chance to play here and win here. we don't need another reason to be more amazing. >> reporter: and that is the sport. thanks so much. finally it is happy birthday to pac man, the popular video game is 35 years old in japan and fans celebrating the anniversary recreating the character under tokyo towers and we look back at a piece of gaming history. >> reporter: in 1980 the video games world was dominated by games like this one, space invaders, aimed mainly at boys who played them and video games arcades. and that was until this man set out to design a game to appeal to women the inspiration and he was eating a pizza and two slices in the idea of pac man occurred to him and the name well initially it was pacuman from the sound your mouth makes when it's opening and closing rapidly and later when the game

was launched in the u.s. it was changed to pac man and became an overnight hit and 350,000 pac man arcade machines sold in the first 18 months and years that followed pulled in $2.5 billion in revenue. >> the first game for competitive artificial intelligence that hunted you down with personality and great music and beautiful colors and colorful fruits and blinking music and flashing lights and it was fun and excitement drew people in. >> reporter: it was the first original gaming mascot and the first game of many to be set in a maze. it was also the first video game licensing success with pac man merchandise worth more than a billion dollars sold in the u.s. alone. for a while there was a pacmania in the 80s where he had a cartoon and a christmas special and own can of tomatoe sauce pasta and toys and it was the

first video game character to take off and be a successful property and made them billions of dollars back then and it really did pave the way for a lot of video game stuff we see today. >> reporter: the success of pac man turned the game into a cultural icon a symbol of the generation that grew up with video games and looks like it is set to live on. ♪ in july a film is due to come out that sees aliens interpreting arcade game as a declaration of war. >> professor the creator of pac man. >> reporter: the real one retired from the industry in 2007 but in the film he is invited back to reign in the monster he created, i'm with al jazeera. [screaming] and that is it for me but julie will be here shortly with more news including the gun battle in mexico where 39 people are now

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