♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the al jazeera news hour and i'm in doha and coming up in the next 60 minutes, the death toll in iraq rises as i.s.i.l. continues to use suicide car bombers with devastating effect. malaysia airlines announces 6,000 job cuts in a bid for survival after two fatal plane crashes. smoking is ban in beijing as china introduces tough new laws

to stamp out the habit. hello, i'll have all your sport including pakistan's complete their first home series in six years and security still an issue will any other teams defeating zimbabwe tour any time soon? ♪ we begin this news hour in iraq where 42 members of the country security forces have been killed in a suicide attack in anbar province and was driving an armored humvee vehicle and 33 were killed in an ambush east of ramadi, the largest city in the province and 40 others were injured in the attack and iraq forces hit back against i.s.i.l. in anbar and targeting i.s.i.l. positions and equipment and comes as iraq's prime minister

abadi say they lost 2000 vehicles to i.s.i.l. when the group over ran mosul last year and similar to humvees used on attack in fallujah and we are live in baghdad and let's talk about these humvees that have been seized and what sort of value do they have to the fighters and what kind of strategic value do they have? >> the strategic value are vehicle explosive devices and what they are used for is suicide car bombs and the reason for this is the humvee is a lot more difficult to main tan and a lot more difficult to maneuver and the cars of choice for i.s.i.l. are land cruisers and they are armored and reenforced and immune to iraqi security forces armor and very spacious

inside and can pack a lot more explosives inside and one of the reasons that people died at 3:00 local this morning t one you just mentioned is they managed to get the humvee in an arms cache and used by i.s.i.l. in ramadi and able to split iraqi security forces by the use of these armored humvees and it's a tactic they use time and time again and it's useful not for driving troops around but a vehicle for explosives. >> and these reports of atrocities being committed by shia fighters in this battle, what more do we know about that and what the government is planning to do about it. >> reporter: what we do know is there is a lot of video on social media showing shia malitia and not giving due

process and locals say he was a farmer and shia malitia burned him for being a spy and coming under tremendous criticism for doing things like that and a lot of people in iraq say if you do that you are no better than i.s.i.l. and shia malitia denied they are making atrocities in anbar province and elsewheren say they are trying to act as professionally as possible but sometimes are forced to take extreme measures when they come under fire and there is tit for tat and they have brought it under their control and rather than rent renagade and he is making it an unique and strategic fighting force for iraq and having problems clearly because we do keep seeing these videos of atrocities and they deny they are doing this on a regular basis and saying there

might be some isolated incidents. >> thanks for that reporting to us from baghdad. now, intense fighting for control of parts of northern syria including aleppo and syrian forces bombing from the air while i.s.i.l. are making gains on the ground other groups ally to sierran opposition are losing ground and civilian death toll continues to rise as carolyn malone reports. >> reporter: most major forces in the syrian war are now involved in fighting for parts of aleppo. rebel groups have lost the countryside towns to i.s.i.l. i.s.i.l. used a car bomb in attack here before moving in. they are not far from marea. activists say this is the aftermath of a syrian military aerial bomb attack on that city that killed many people.

i.s.i.l. has released this video said to be fighters in control of iziz town north aleppo near to the border with turkey. advances by i.s.i.l. are blocking opposition supply routes between turkey and northern syria and kurdish fighters made gains against i.s.i.l. further east more raka. but to aleppo i.s.i.l. is on the attack and that has put rebels on the back foot and focus on southbounding reenforcements to the front lines with i.s.i.l. rather than pushing for new ground carolyn malone al jazeera. we will talk more with the director of the brookings doha center and is live with us now and let's talk about the fight of the opposition in syria. they have had to take on a two-prong fight essentially

against i.s.i.l. for the past 18 months and how much has it bogged them down? are they stretched too thin? >> they had momentum until a few days ago and now we are seeing a familiar paton where dosh comes out of other places and also you see the regime doing the same. it's almost as if we are back a year because in late 2013 and early 2014 the opposition fighters were beating back dash and then dash came back with american weaponry and such things from iraq and started to put them on the back foot. what is significant about this is that the opposition had momentum in idlib and was poised i think even to take aleppo over the next few weeks, instead they are watching their back flank and supply routes as you said

with the border crossing in particular with turkey. >> what more can be done then to take on i.s.i.l. and the regime when the international community refuses to establish a no fly zone over syria. >> well look, the international coalition is supposed to be meeting tomorrow again. the big question is where are the jets of the international coalition? why aren't they attacking dash positions in the north of aleppo and these positions while assad's airforce is supposedly being able to do something like that. i think this won't wait until tomorrow to be frank. those air strikes really have to start today otherwise syrians will really feel that they are really in this alone and that dash has an enabler in the assad regime and don't have anyone else to support them despite i think the more frantic calls

they have been making to the international coalition particularly the americans. >> in terms of the political calculations here, the iran regime has been stead fast for assad up to this point and any idea this may change at some point in the future? >> well i think the indications are actually as the regime has been losing ground in the north iran and hezbollah and its malitias have been looking to double up in terms of support for assad at least to fortify him in the areas that matter most, those on the cost and damascus and homs and the areas north of that. that is where i think iran and the backers of the regime will now focus. it doesn't seem as if yet iran is showing the flexibility it needs to in order to support the efforts of the u.n. envoy and broader diplomatic efforts to get a political process going

which will lead to a political transition in syria. >> good to get your thoughts on this from the brookings doha center and thanks for your time. >> thank you. now saudi arabia says efforts are being made to find a political solution to the crisis in yemen. the saudi foreign minister says they will meet in geneva but no date has been set yet and talks are currently taking place in yaman and no signs of the fighting easing and we report. >> reporter: yemen civilians are running out of safe places. this is thai a congested strikes fighting against houthis and forces loyal to saleh and houthis and allies targeted the neighborhoods with rockets and tank fire and some believed they are being punished for the uprising which made saleh step

down in 2011. densely populated neighbors have continued here for weeks and civilians are dying and supplies and food is short and fighting means aid cannot be delivered. it's not just a fight for control on the ground. saudi-led air strikes are also targeting areas under houthi control and planes targeted areas including the capitol sanaa. this is what remains of what once was an futbol stadium. >> translator: the first strike by the swimming pool and a third and fourth and led residents to flee the area entirely. >> reporter: international says antiaircraft weapons used by houthis are causing most casualties in the capitol sanaa and sawed saudi-led coalition

is helping and attempts to have an end to the fighting have failed and talks and riyadh hoping the u.n. can have a political solution. >> translator: there are now efforts to return to the negotiation table to find a situation in yemen on the basis that after the meeting in riyadh there are meetings in geneva which are being arranged and there is discussion between the u.n. and the legitimate yemeni government about setting a date for this meeting. >> reporter: the groups continue their battle for control and yemen civilians can do nothing but watch their country being torn apart. i'm with al jazeera. bangladesh police charged the owner of the rana plaza complex with murder after it collapsed and killed more than 1100 people in 2013 and 41 other people have also filed charges against them. the collapse of the garment

factory led to the worst disaster and if convicted of murder defendants can face the death penalty. now the trial of two al jazeera journalists in egypt has been adjourned until thursday prosecutors failed to produce any new evidence against fahmy and bahar mohamed and andrew thomas sat down with al jazeera correspondent peter greste in australia to talk about the case. >> reporter: it's been four months since peter greste was releashed from egyptian jail and deported but it's not over because technically he is still on trial >> we all thought once i was released i would be taken off the case and that would be the end of it but at the first hearing of course the judge named me as a defendant. it was really the last hearing when the judge formally said i had to appear or risk being declared formally in abstantia and others you automatically get

abstantia and i was declared out by the president but at the same time the judge is demanding that i appear. the solution that i've got, that we have come up with is the possibility of appearing by video link and we don't know if the court will accept that and it will involve breaking new ground for the court but if the first principle of the judicial system is to get to the truth of the matter then i see this as a solution that might work and demonstrate to the court that i'm not on the run. i'm not a fugitive. >> reporter: what would conviction mean for you personally? >> the main concern is the other two, a personal level a conviction would be incredibly difficult and mean i cannot go to a country with an extradition treaty and also i think it's a problem for the bigger issue. remember we were supported by millions of people literally millions around the world and they support us partly because of our personal circumstances,

what we were going through at a personal level and what we represent and that is freedom of speech issues. so if we do get a conviction even if it's on a simple technicality it would be repudiation of everything those people fought for. >> do you blame al jazeera as a network of what happened? >> al jazeera has questions to answer and we need to look at mistakes made along the way and inevitably there were mistakes but it is egypt that arrested us. it's egyptian and egyptian authorities that accuses and made these allegations against us. and that is where we need to fight the case. >> right now what is your focus professionally and personally? >> everything else in my life hinges on the outcome of this trial so we really -- it's all about keeping the attention, keeping the right pressure and doing the right kind of work to make sure that the court understands there is no evidence against us and that the only conclusion they can come to if it's following due process is to acquit all of us, everyone

involved in the case. >> reporter: there is much more to come here on the j a news hour remaining defiant burundi president will run in elections this month plus. >> translator: if i go back they will kill me. >> reporter: we meet one of the many children who escaped gang violence in latin america and now wants to stay in the u.s. and in sport brazil world cup lands in havana ahead of a match between cuba and one of his former teams. details coming up. ♪ so still ahead but first the man brought in to save malaysia airlines says it's technically bankrupt and new ceo says more than 6,000 jobs will be cut. the airline has been suffering years of decline and experienced two plane disasters in the past

year. it will be rebranded and my cut some routes and we have an aviation journalist and joins me now from london to talk more about this. now, as we pointed out there, it wasn't just the fall out from those two tragic plane crashes last year, there were fundamental problems with malaysia airlines long before that. what will need to be done to address those problems as part of this revamp ping? >> well, let's be clear and we can't rightly say and malaysia airlines some say for almost 20 years and of course the loss of those two aircraft last year has done nothing for their public relations and means not only have they been suffering financially due to their increased cost base but there are less passengers willing to fly on malaysia airlines so in terms of solutions i think with the introduction of the new ceo they will have to start again.

>> and what will that involve? i mean what will be the key part of their strategy for turning things around do you think? >> well firstly you have to focus on the core business and this is where malaysia went wrong in the past and they expanded too rapidly and visiting and taking flights to areas that were maybe politically useful but not so useful for passengers so i think what the new german ceo will do is certainly restructure, simplify the routes and focus on regional destinations initially as well as keeping the core long haul routes and some make money to london on the large air bus 8380 and they are for sale and currently not able to find a buyer that is actually a profitable route for them so i believe they do have what it takes but need someone in charge who is commercially minded and maybe that is where they have gone wrong in the past. >> worrying time for malaysia

employees and we said 6,000 of them would lose their jobs but this is a very competitive business and could many get re recruited by other airlines? >> we would like to think so. the issue in the aviation industry in terms of pilot recruitment is there are not enough trained pilots so they are not new recruits and many of the pilots are very experienced and excellent safety record of an airline outside of the two incidents of last year so i don't see why a pilot should not find employment elsewhere, there are plenty of airlines in the region. in terms of the crew and cabin crew and ground staff they also had a reputation of being excellent at their jobs but they are unionized there so that could be a sticking point. >> thanks for your time. >> thank you. now burundi's president ziza is going ahead with june

elections despite calls from his neighbors for a delay including he chose not to include the sum met in tanzania where they were called to postpone votes and 90,000 fled burundi because of violence ahead of the polls and this is in the capitol and has the president responded to those calls to delay elections at this point? >> no, not yet. delegation that went to tanzania he will brief them and after that he will make some kind of response and we don't know when that will be. they are disappointed but people are not processing on monday and we are told today is the day you should open your shops and come to the market. they are told market women do not be scared to come on the street and sell vegetables and go and buy food because tuesday they are planning a big march and opposition says it's not about delaying the election

that is not why they are the street and people died, they don't want the president to run for a third term which violates the constitution. >> and what effect will street protests be because the opposition seems to be adamant that they don't want that to take place? >> they are adamant but what we have seen in the past weeks is people do mobilize and gather but this neighborhood some people gathered in the neighborhood over there and that one there but failed to meet one big mass and march to the city center. the problem is the main leader and protest and opposition have fled for their lives and some are hiding and the ones we have been able to reach, we went to his house and said how do you expect me to go the street when i know there is a sniper waiting to shoot me in the head and

people come in large numbers if the leaders are not able to march with them and people wait for tuesday and they will be as big as they say it will be. >> harry live and thanks for that. i want to apologize as well for the poor sound quality in that link. u.s. laws that allow security services to spy on american citizens have expired. the senate failed to pass legislation extending powers to monitor millions of telephone calls and e-mails and it's likely to be a temporary lapse and it will not stop america spying on the rest of the world and we explain. >> i object. >> senator rand paul is runnel for the presidential nomination and unlikely he would back down to let 215 of the patriot act to expire at midnight on sunday. >> it's the tip of the iceberg what we're talking about here and realize that they were dishonest about the program until we caught them.

they kept saying over and over again we are not doing this we are not collecting your records and they were. >> reporter: but he went further preventing the usa freedom act from passing in the senate and it has passed in the house of representatives and president obama could have signed it into law on sunday night. it allows the government a few more months of mass bulk data collection while a new system is prepared leaving the records in the hands of the telecommunication and the government allowed to file secret court orders for information it feels it needs but there will be more oversight of the process and rand paul and civil liberties group say the freedom act have provisions that has unacceptable intrusion in privacy and administration warned if 215 was allowed to expire without alternative being passed it would be a blow to counter terrorism efforts. >> these authorities are important. >> do you think that terrorist elements will take advantage of

this? >> i think they watched carefully what happens in the united states. >> reporter: the problem is federal inquireyies say 215 has not contributed to counter terrorism operations in a meaningful way and government has other ways to keep collecting data of americans. >> there is another part of the patriot act to pick up on losses under section 215 and also have another device called national security letters which they can use to get some of this information and there are all kinds of other programs that we do not know about. >> reporter: the government's ability to spy on citizens is largely intact and it may pass later in the week and further debate may be needed in the house with no guaranty an agreement will be reached. in previous years 215 passed with no debate but since whistleblower edward snowden all that changed and should be noted none of the scrutiny will have

any impact on the u.s. expand ing. smoking in public in china beijing has been ban and prohibit lighting up in restaurants, offices and public transport and china has more than 300 million smokers and a million chinese people die from smoking-related illnesses every year and our china correspondent reports. >> reporter: china has been a smoker's paradise and now the beijing's government is trying again. children have been at the forefront of the campaign leading up to this ban since they are considered to be most at risk from passive smoking. antismoking campaigners say there are clear signs the authorities appear serious this time. >> for the first time the regulations very clearly spell

out what happens if somebody doesn't adhere to the regulation and it's not only that the smokers themselves will be fined, very importantly the managers and the owners of a business will be charged quite hefty charges if they don't help to make sure that their places stay smoke free. >> reporter: it's not just bars a restaurants that must comply local historic tourist sites including the great wall and forbidden city are also now off limits to smokers. but in beijing the risk from passive smoking can be the least of your problems. some doctors say breathing the city's air on a particularly polluted day can equate with smoking a whole pack of cigarettes. antismoking camp page says the ban is a start that doesn't go far enough and they want a significant rise in tobacco task pointing out a pack of cigarettes in china costs on average just $1.50. the world health organization hopes that can change.

>> the more expensive significant expensive and less people will smoke. >> reporter: squeezed too hard and accounts 10% of all government revenues and china has more smokers than the population of the united states and on monday we found one of them openly violating the new law and the restaurant owner openly telling us to leave. adrian brown al jazeera, beijing. world weather for you now with rob are we still in the heat wave conditions in india? >> surprisingly not and no longer statewide warnings issued by the india department and it's hot but monsoon making a difference and how it got and change in wind direction and should be across myanmar and it is delayed and have not got that far north but has got to the

black dot, ahead of it some humidity of thunderstorms and a lot more widespread than we seen them for the past few weeks and have done good stopping the sun heating things up and 53 millimeters of rain in one storm in the middle of a lovely white blob and contributing to a drop in temperatures we had 39 degrees here on saturday 36 on sunday, today it was 25. so more than a 10-degree drop and this certainly has helped. however there is a huge amount of hot weather over india and it's still necessary because of the high temperature just to keep the well full of water and cool down and stay in the shade and this is new deli and look happier than they were but the heat is still there and hotter in places and pakistan 48, nepal, 42 the highest 46 here and i think forecast wise we got more showers to come and it will

stay a little cooler. thanks rob and coming up on al jazeera as a draft for a new global climate deal is thrashed out in europe we have reporters on the front line of change. effects of climate change and years of isolation and collapse of the soviet union have a dwindling supplies and had to adopt to a new economy and alter agricultural practices. we are in bangladesh for a special look at climate change where rising sea levels are threatening lives and livelihoods. and raul will tell you how this former fifa chief talked about claims but used a fake story to do it. ♪

♪ hello again and the top stories on al jazeera, 42 iraqi security forces have been killed in a suicide attack north of fallujah the car bomb was reportedly planted in an armored humvee vehicle. on sunday eight suicide car bombers attacked an army hq in the city. bangladesh police charged the owner of the rana plaza factory complex and 41 other people with murder it collapsed in 2013 killing more than 1100 people in the country's worst ever industrial accident. the man brought in to save struggling malaysia airlines

says it's technically bankrupt and the new ceo expected to cut more than 6,000 jobs after years of decline and to plane disasters. major climate change meeting taking place in germany. delegates at the ten-day conference looking to lay down the foundations for a global deal to be signed in paris at the end of the year, huge obstacles remain including helping nations most effected by global warming and we have coverage. >> reporter: this is savannah a long way where they are trying to hone down the draft, all 86 pages of it in time for paris in december. and, yes cuba is a good place to examine the effects by climate change and not just because of hurricanes but rising sea levels and 3% of the coastline will be swallowed up by 2050 and a problem from towns

and villages and 5,000 kilometers of coast and not to say for havana itself but cuba has living experiences on the effects of climate change and years of isolation and collapse of the soviet union meant a dwindling supplies of fossil fuels and had to have a low economy and alter its agricultural practices. 56 rainy seasons have come and gone since the revolution and much has changed. back in the day when sugar was gold even the likes would set an example for workers in this lucrative industry. today in havana harbor the sugar ships bound for the soviet union are gone and on the outskirts of the capitol a farm and organic supplying the community and for artificial fertilizer is worms and processing manure and

marigolds and corn and it's not like the government was enlightened about the environment or agriculture and farmers were forces to be sustainable because of the years of isolation and the lack of resources. the severing of the soviet supply line meant it had to be replaced by small multi crop farms and they were expert organic growers. he says it's a lesson the world can learn moving to sustainable methods of food production. >> translator: it's a myth that organic farming cannot feed the world and until 70 years ago there were no chemicals and in the time span of humanity is nothing and this is more labor intensive and need to pay farmers better to come out of the cities and back to the countryside. >> reporter: two hours outside of havana the sustainable approach has a reserve and cubans come to enjoy the weekend

and tourists can feast on locally produced organic food but there is a threat looming, on the small family run farms it's tough to deliver decent crops and make a good living. >> translator: a lot of things we grow that would be more productive if we had chemicals and maybe the quality wouldn't be the same but we lose a lot not being able to apply artificial fertilizers. >> reporter: and diplomatic relations are changing as fast as the weather a new and open cuba will mean renewed supply of pesticides and chemical fertilizers and farmers may be tempts to go to old ways threatening the long time organic revolution. years of isolation help organic farmer here and do not have to go for to see climate change in cuba and i went to a speech to talk to a marine biologist, look at this. >> this is saturday a typical

day at the beach for cubans a very festive time and looking through slightly different eyes there is a lot of destruction going on and it's a reminder about climate change. now, when i was here about a year and a half ago, you couldn't even stand where i'm standing because this building was still partially intact and now you can see the sea has reclaimed much of this building and many of these coastal areas are at great risk from sea level rise and all the effects of climate change. all the way along the coast the government is embarking on this program of demolishing properties like this and trying to shore the coastline up. cuba is really taking climate change seriously and have strong policies but number one on the list of their policies is protecting the people so they are relocating people out of areas like this around the island and building apartment

structures further inland for their safety. now ironically where i live in the united states we are doing almost the autopsy, the insurance companies pay the homeowners for the destroyed home and rebuilding in exactly the same threatened areas. and it's not just sea level rise per se causing this it's the resulting storm surges from high seas and more frequent and more powerful hurricanes. >> that is exactly right. one of the biggest challenges now, one of the biggest challenges for the caribbean and places like cuba is the fact that we are seeing not just more frequent hurricanes but becoming much much stronger. if you look at the amount of property damage and loss of life being done by these storms over the last even over the last decade it's dramatically higher than it has been before so i think we have to really think about protecting our resources and protecting our people from storms and obviously the cuban

government is thinking about that. >> david there. and from the caribbean to the indian ocean and b o-- bolar island and it's disappearing under water and every rainy season has fears for survival and we have this report. >> reporter: as long as she in the water he is just like the others he drags his net and moves by intuition, for the blind fisherman it's a welcome release from his troubles on land. this island is not exactly friendly to people with disabilities and his island home is also disappearing fast. he had to move five times already because his homes have bender bender -- been eroded by currents. >> it's humiliating when your home gets destroyed by the river you are left with nothing, if you need anything at all you have to ask for help and people

are very kind to me but i have to depend on people because i'm blind and now i have to depend for housing and bedding and it's just too much. >> reporter: the monsoon is months away but a large storm approaches. on the front line of climate change they take shelter in a mosque and others say they lost their home to the waves and half of the land has been eroded away in the last 20 years but people like he and his mother cannot afford to move further in land and end up living on the edge. >> translator: it takes 3-4 months to find a new place to stay each time the river takes our house away and stay here and there for a month, we have to do everything and anything to get by. >> reporter: after a campaign by residents the government set up erosion barriers two years ago to keep them safe but not all sections of the barrier are

equally strong. this right here is the erosion barrier and no cement blocks and you can see without protection some of the sand bags have already fallen apart. as the rain season nears he and his mother worry not just about flooding they are concerned that even the high tide could one day sweep away the little security they have. i'm with al jazeera, bola bangladesh. rising seas bring into focus the urgency for agreement in paris in december and conflicting views of where we are at being on track for negotiation and the french president says we are a long way behind and slow progress and the u.n. climate chief says they are on tract and all nations have to submit ideas for reducing emissions post 2020 and 37 of the 196 nations have done so and

the people here in cuba may well ask what is taking so long. nick clark reporting to us from cuba on the efforts to reverse climate change and goodluck jonathan pdp party once controlled politics with control of the presidency and parliament and most states and recents elections saw them kicked out of power at almost every level so is the pdp ready to play its role in opposition? we report. >> reporter: a party now trying to reinvent itself. after 16 years in power nigeria's former ruling party is adjusting to its new role in opposition and it only lost the presidency in parliament it lost control of most seats in most crucial state elections. members of the party admitted they were not prepared for defeat or to play the role of the opposition. and observers believe that is not healthy for the country's

democracy. >> interparty crisis which if unchecked such crisis i don't think they will be able to monitor the new government that was elected recently. and there is a possibility one party is dead and when it's one party state believe you me is undemocratic. >> reporter: new opposition said it is committed to assuming its new role and provide the country with a credible and responsible opposition. >> the task of rebuilding and positioning the people's democratic party or pdp falls to the powerful state governors who in the past bank rolled the party. >> we will do our best like pdp has been doing in the last 16 years to keep the flag flying and to also compete, you know and so optimistic that the party will be there and so positive that with proper planning and

strategizing. >> reporter: opposition has a challenging task ahead, observers hope it will play its part and keep democracy alive. a hope shared by many nigerians who voted for change in the last elections, mohamed devries nigeria. the child migrants with an uncertain future and fighting to stay in the country after a wave of unaccompanied children and families arrived at the u.s./mexico border last summer and rob reynolds reports from los angeles. >> reporter: she cries for her son worried how he will fare in the hands of the u.s. immigration system. viktor is 16, shy and bright. his attorney asked us not to use his full name. he traveled alone from el

salvador to join husband mother last year and members of a violent street gang had him in their sights after he refused to join them. >> translator: held a nif up to me and said i would be coming back in a garbage bag cut up in little pieces. >> reporter: this is the court in los angeles where viktor already had one asylum hearing, his case rejected, his lawyer works for a migrant legal aid organization. >> one last court hearing before the immigration judge and government attorney and i will have to defend his case if the judge doesn't find him eligible he will have to be deported from the united states. >> reporter: more than 50,000 central american children and teens cross the u.s. border last year fleeing violence in their homelands, most have now been settled with family members, meanwhile a legal process is

underway to determine which migrant minors can stay and many do not have legal help. >> if we are able to get them to court with proper representation then we have a really decent chance of getting some relief for them but the majority of the cases were not being able to get to. >> reporter: viktor wants to stay, go to college and become a computer engineer there is nothing for him back in elbow salvador. >> translator: if i go back they will kill me. >> reporter: rob reynolds al jazeera. coming up a 92-year-old runner from the united states breaks a world record details next. ♪

hello again, declining agricultural industry in mexico had many young people abandon the countryside for search of work in the cities what about the people left behind? we report from southwest mexico. >> reporter: 88 years old she starts and ends her day fending for herself. her only son is left looking for work that simply does not exist in her small village. >> translator: i'm forced to provide the food because there is no one else but i can't go on. my foot really hurts me and i'm sick and weak. >> reporter: traditionally in mexico the family cares for the

elderly at home but those of working age have been streaming out of the failing mexican countryside for years heading to the city or u.s. and leaving the old behind. >> translator: i do not sleep thinking about my sick sister and where we will get the money and worrying about my son, he has left and not come back to me what will happen if i die? i'm already sick myself. >> reporter: government support is limited in these isolated rural areas and gets a state pension of $35 a month, not enough to cover her basic needs. in some regions the problem is worse than others but here in this area in southwest mexico many older people are living out their lives in poverty and isolation. >> basically elders are not in communication with their family members because they don't have cell phones and do not have skype and so they cannot even express their needs so migration has left them basically to their own devices without the family support they would have usually

had. >> reporter: meet a local charity and gives out blankets clothes and food to the elderly in the villages and organize activities to get elders moving again and expressing themselves and most importantly they know they are not alone. >> translator: i didn't go out to speak to people to make friends. i was just in my house. now i'm happy because i have people to talk to to laugh with. >> reporter: mexico use rural population is growing older still and the average age working in the countryside is now 55. without more support from their families or the government, many are unlikely to enjoy their retirement. john holman al jazeera, mexico. time now for the sport. thank you very much the man who brought the futbol said $10

million was paid to fifa and insists it wasn't a bribe and south africa won to host the world cup back in 2004. last week the u.s. attorney general claims south africa officials paid $10 million to fifa vice president one indicted on corruption charges and in charge of south africa in 2010 confirmed the organizing committee had made a payment to warner but said it was a contribution for developing futbol in the governing body for north america and the caribbean, an organization previously headed by mr. jack ward. keeping him out of the news at the moment and had a news article to take aim at the united states and one of 14 people indicted by the u.s. department of justice on futbol corruption and is on bail and says he is innocent and 72-year-old posted a bizarre

facebook video thanking inging supporters and the onion talking about hosting fifa. >> if fifa so bad why do the united states wants to keep the cup and the world games on may 27, two days before the election why is it the u.s. authorities sought to embarrass fifa? i made the point to you over and over that all this is attempt from the failed u.s. to wake up. brazil futbol supports the reelected blatter and is currently in havana for a new sporting rare in relations between u.s. and cuba and the new york cosmos will play a friendly against the national team on tuesday and will be the first america sports team in 16

years to play a communist party. >> translator: i always offer myself a moment of peace and brotherhood and once more we are here with soccer for peace and happiness for the people. the head of the sla larng -- shri-lanka concluded and were victims of a gun attack this 2009 that resulted in test teams refusing to tour the country and the current series with sunday's third one day there and as sarah coats now reports. >> reporter: zimbabwe's tour of pakistan has been about security in the country as it has been about cricket. checks were stringent and showing pakistan in its best light as sport returned to the stage for the first time in six years. >> translator: we are eager to

watch cricket in pakistan despite the tourism in the country we not only save cricket in pakistan but promote the game, the cricket game will prevail in the country. >> reporter: the series has not been without incident. on friday a suicide attack near the stadium killed a policeman and injured six people. still, the third and final one-day international went ahead with pakistan leading 2-0. the home side notching 296 for 9 and mohamed and both making half centuries. but zimbabwe's reply was hit by delays flood light failure caused the initial stoppage when they were 68 and a storm blew through and zimbabwe one more over before heavy rain forced the match to be abandon and the

home side taking the series 2-0 but most importantly helping to revive international cricket in pakistan following its six-year hiatus. >> translator: this series was very important from both angles because of pakistan it was important for us and exciting for all of us and emotional as well. >> pakistan. >> reporter: and for the fans too hoping to see more top-level international teams visit the country in the future. sarah coats, al jazeera. let's speak to the director of sport and live from islamabad. and how well received was this zimbabwe tour and how i'm is it that teams continue to tour pakistan? >> first and foremost this was like breaking the ice and reincarnation of cricket in pakistan and nobody expected

that zimbabwe would tour,,000 it is number ten team and at the end of the day no international team has been in pakistan since march 3, 2009 and these six years and the six past years actually indented the integrity and the social it brought to pakistan and cricket is a capitalist for change and cricket is a bond and binds us together and it is imagine and magnificent and they went to the stadium and watched the games of cricket. >> it was great to see zimbabwe and it's unlikely the big teams like india, england or australia will be touring any time soon

isn't that true? >> absolutely true. i probably think this was just a baby step taken by the two boards of zimbabwe and the pakistan cricket board. at the end of the day it's unlikely teams from south africa or australia or england or india will tour pakistan because they are stringent and like the icc after the incident decided not to send their elite panel and pakistan had to cope with what they had at hand in pakistan. so i personally feel that pakistan and cricket government to have to do more and be more diplomatic and have to reinvent their diplomatic policy and have to go to the icc and they have been shot to scale. >> great for your thoughts and have to leave it there and thank you very much. completing a marathon is a major event for most people but doing it at the age of 92 is something

special and harriet thompson is the oldest to complete the marathon when she crossed the line in san diego and started running at 76 and completed 16 marathons, her time 7:24:36. not too shabby at all, more sport on our website, for the very latest check it out at al jazeera/sport with blogs and video clips from correspondents around the world that is it and more later. before we go a solar plane attempting to fly around the world has had to make an unscheduled stop because of bad weather. the pilot of the solar impulse impact was 36 hours in flight across the pacific when a decision was made to land in japan. he will now wait for clearer skies before continuing. stay with us here on al jazeera another full bulletin of news is straight ahead. ♪

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