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migrants to an undisclosed safe location. the new cancer treatment scientists are saying is a once in a generation discovery. ♪ iraq's prime minister is describing the advance of i.s.i.l. fighters as a failure of the community and accusing the u.s. led coalition not doing enough to stop them and ministers of 24 countries are in paris to find tune strategy against i.s.i.l. but the meeting is being marred by mutual suspicion and blame for what has been going wrong. crossing over to mohamed joining us from outside that venue where the meeting is taking place in paris and ahead of the meeting mohamed saying the country and his government needs more support to fight i.s.i.l. what kind of support is he talking about here and how likely is it to get the support?

>> yeah it's interesting these comments from abd rabbuh mansur hadi because we knew leading up to this meeting there has been increased sense of frustration among the u.s. as well as the french towards the iraqi prime minister. the feeling is that the iraqi shia led government is not doing enough to be inclusive and bringing sunnis and resentment with the government in line with the fight going on there but today we hear from abd rabbuh mansur hadi and saying they are not getting the support they need. as you mentioned a minute ago he used the term failure as far as what the international community is doing with regard to the fight on i.s.i.l., it has been a humiliating couple of weeks fighting i.s.i.l. because as we know ramadi a very strategic city fell to i.s.i.l. and i.s.i.l. on the march in iraq and seem to gain strength according to analysts and saying we need more help and not geting enough intelligence sharing with air strikes against i.s.i.l. and also saying they need more help

when it comes to their ground troops and need support for iraqi army which is in tatters these days to effectively combat i.s.i.l. i want to take you to a report where we discuss the concerns surrounding this meeting here today. with their fighter jets still taking off, france's commitment to combatting i.s.i.l. continues. part of the u.s. led coalition battling the group they are among the countrys whose air rides promised to get a dangerous enemy into retreat but on the ground in iraq the situation remains dire. critics say the coalition strategy is extremely misguided, that the ministerial meeting in paris will make little difference. >> this conference is based on a myth and dream that there is iraqi army no there is nothing like iraqi army, it has been disbanded back in 2003.

>> reporter: if anyone understands how much of a threat i.s.i.l. constitutes it's journalists nikola and taken hostage by the group in syria for almost a year. >> we are supporting an army that is not reliable and we are giving them weapons that they will eventually hand over to i.s.i.l. this is stupid. >> reporter: the issues at play are far more than just tactical and low guessiccel and french foreign minister called for the second meeting in paris to discuss the fight against i.s.i.l. even before the fall of ramadi which has been deeply troubling and humiliating for the coalition. in september fabio stressed no military solution would be possible without a political solution a position he still very much is pushing. >> translator: this contract is what justified our military engagement and i say clearly here that it must be better respected. >> reporter: and yet despite

mounding pressure on prime minister abd rabbuh mansur hadi to reach out to sunnis resentful to the shia led government it has deepened expectations for talks were low and lowered further when it was announced that u.s. secretary of state john kerry would no longer be attending in person due to the broken leg he suffered. for now far from the ravaged streets of iraq and syria diplomates will discuss searching for a solution that seems harder to reach than ever before. >> so like you are saying mohamed a lot of issues at play. what do we expect to see over the next couple of hours in paris and what is the likely expected outcome if we know that at all? >> it's very unclear at this point. in fact, what is interesting is in the past several days the fanfare that initially built up around this meeting has really died down. there is going to be a press

conference in round about probably two hours or 1 1/2 hours from now and expected to hear more from participants but as to what exactly is being offered as a solution today in the fight against i.s.i.l. or how this coalition can further help iraq and syria that is really just unknown at this time doer. >> we will speak to you through the day at paris and while that meeting is underway we are getting reports that 17 iraqi soldiers have been killed in shelling by i.s.i.l. and that attacked happened at an air base east of ramadi early on tuesday. egyptian court delayed announcing a verdict in the trial of mohamed morsi for two weeks and the court received an opinion from the highest religious authority in egypt and earlier sentenced mohamed morsi to death and convicted of being with hamas in 2011 during the

revolution that toppled mubark and one of several cases that mohamed morsi is defending. south sudan government expelled a top u.n. official and saying it had an extreme view in a television interview, humanitarian coordinator and deputy envoy and appointed in 2012 and nearing the end of his term and the government says the statement to cnn the country was on the verge of collapse was unacceptable. the u.n. has condemned the expulsion, in a statement and ban ki-moon's office said that he has been instrumental in addressing the increasing humanitarian needs of conflict affected communities in the country. the secretary-general calls on the government of south sudan to reverse its decision immediately and cooperate fully with all u.n. entities that are present in south sudan. hundreds of migrants found drifting in their crowded boat

off the cost of myanmar are being escorts to an undisclosed location but not to bangladesh as earlier reported and myanmar say they won't be taking further action until the identities of the 727 boat people are verified. they were found on a converted fishing boat in the sea four days ago crossing over to florence and tell us about the condition of the migrants and also now we understand they are not being escorted to bangladesh. do we know where they are going? >> reporter: right, well it's difficult to tell you the conditions of these people on board the boat or even the conditions of the boat itself. reporters tried to get close to the boat over the weekend but they were not allowed to. navel boats escorted them away reporters were questioned some for 45 minutes or for an hour and also told to delete whatever they had on their memory cards

so pictures videos all those were deleted. now the myanmar government spokesman or the presidential spokesman when we spoke to him about two hours ago said that they would be brought to an undisclosed location and from there transported back to bangladesh. now, we don't know if these people are really from bangladesh. the myanmar government has only used the term bengoli to describe them and a term used to describe thero hinge georgia people, ethnic minority that the myanmar government does not recognize and myanmar wants to return these people to wherever they came from is in essence not acknowledging that it is part of the refugee and migrant crisis in southeast asia. other countries have said it's myanmar treatment ofro rohingya causing tens of thousands to leave the country and discriminated against and persecuted and not granted citizenship and stateless and no

future for themselves but myanmar government clearly refused to acknowledge it's part of the problem. there also has been a complete lack of transparency in how this particular incident is being handled. i said earlier no reporters were allowed access and not sure how myanmar is conducting this verification exercise. as i understand it normally an official from the reported country of origin will be invited to conduct verification exercise and this boat has been in the country for four days and doubtful any official from bangladesh or from whichever country would have had time to conduct the verification exercise. >> reporting from myanmar and thank you. 400 passengers missing after a river cruiser sank in china and five are confirmed dead and 14 rescued so far and it was carrying 458 mostly elderly tourists on the yangtze river in the huei province and people

were heard crying in the ship and people who managed excuse me the captain and chief engineer are being questioned by police and rob mcbride has more from hong kong. >> reporter: this accident will raise concerns about marine safety on china's rivers. there was an earlier accident on the yangtze river in january with a tug under going trials capsized with the loss of 22 lives. but the yangtze river is the most powerful body of water running right through the heart of china is no stranger to accidents. what is unusual in this case is the expected death toll and that is due mostly because of a set of unfortunate circumstances. it was late at night when this boat sank. it took just two minutes for it to sink. and we know that most of the passengers on board were retiree retirees people age from 50-80 who were below decks, most of

whom were asleep and had very little chance of getting out of the vessel. we expect that quite a few of the people on board the vessel would have been taking their first ever vacations and that is a concern for the authorities that we are going to see a huge growth as people more people in china take vacations during the summer, more people go on cruise ships like this. the authorities will want to ensure that that cruising is done safely. >> crossing over to captain managing director of marine services from doo buy and thanks for being with us and the eastern star sank in less than a few minutes time and it was too quickly for the crews to issue a may day distress signal what do you make of that and what is the cause of the ship to sink and so fast? >> there could be a lot of reasons for that to happen. one of the things that comes to mind in a river transit one has to understand that a lot of sand

banks and i was told reliable that the winds were gusty during the night and with the wind the vessel was and could have easily veered over a sand bag and lifted the vessel and made it cap size in a very short time providing you go with the sea ward site. >> the weather forecast and reports that you say you got, could this have been avoided? >> well this could have been avoided if the master and operators took a weather forecast before she set sail. once a vessel is underway in the river passage there is very little maneuvering ability she would avoid a storm situation. if she anchors down she would be up for some kind of grounding or

drifting on to the shores. remember, a river passage would mean that there would be a lot of tidal streams and the currents pretty strong and stronger than normal sea passage so it's very crucial that they should have had anticipated adverse weather and perhaps delayed the passage until with regard to weather were behind them. >> and at this point and from your experience what is the chance of finding more survivors? >> well there are a lot of chances of finding survivors. the temperatures are in the 20s. the vessel is sitting nicely at the bank. if there are survivors in those air pockets and manage to get a good part of the bodies out of the water and managed to survive on the freshwater that flows up the river, i feel that they

would be having a considerable chance of finding people provided people inside have the instinct to come out of the water and find a small little area to hide themselves or keep themselves dry and keep drinking freshwater. i think they should be continuing to search today and perhaps tomorrow. good chances of finding. >> right, thank you very much for speaking to us on al jazeera. >> most welcome. nine people including five aid workers killed in afghanistan northern bulk province and ngo compound attacked by gunmen on monday night and a woman is among the victims and nicole johnston has more from kabul. >> reporter: this attack north of afghanistan checked an organization called people in need. now it works on rural projects reconstructing villages and

building bridges and roads. attack happened overnight, nine people were killed. all of them afghans. two drivers, two guards and five aid workers including a social worker. there has been no claim of responsibility so far. it certainly is not the first time these kind of softer targets have been hit. in may, in kabul there was a hotel attacked of 14 people were killed including nine foreigners and also a guest house has been attacked but there has been a great deal of instability in the north of the country. it seems that the taliban has opened up a new front for fighting in areas like kondose province and the government has had to send reenforcements from the afghan security forces up to the north to try and secure the area. but still there is isolated fighting going on and that instability and insecurity is indeed being felt in the north of afghanistan.

you are with al jazeera news hour and we immediate kurds trying to loosen the party strong grip on power in turkey. also ahead a new billion dollar casino in the philippines highlights the gap between rich and poor. and in sport the french open serves up an exciting men's quarter final tie and standing by with all the action. ♪ but first it's been a year since hamas formed a palestinian unity government and hamas controls gaza and its political rival and governs the occupied west bank and a year on if they reconciled to take a stance with israel and we take a look. >> reporter: he is proud of his job. he directs traffic at this busy junction in gaza city and rarely ever misses a day off work. but for the past several months

he has received only a fraction of his pay and he is not alone. around 40,000 other workers employed by hamas have not been paid their full salaries despite assurances by the palestinian government with abbas and the political wing of hamas. >> translator: president habas is making promises and have not paid for the work we do. and abbas should show us mercy. >> reporter: it has been a year since hamas which controls the gaza strip and the running of the palestine administration form a national unity government. since then the two sides have failed to put aside their differences or solve the many problems facing palestinians. in gaza alone more than 100,000 palestinians are still homeless after last year's war between

hamas and israel, the israeli government continues to blockade the coastal territory and allowed only a small amount of reconstruction materials in. meanwhile hamas' relationship with neighboring egypt continues to deteriorate because of its alleged links to the out lawed muslim brotherhood resulting in the near permanent closer of rafa land crossing. >> translator: unfortunately hamas is not cooperating with us and we feel frustrated because it sets back the palestinian cause and the only one who benefits is israeli occupation. >> reporter: recently various representatives from ka qatar and others have went to gaza to reconcile hamas and none appear to have enough influence to do so. >> i believe what needed right now is intervention of a third-party and intervention of saudi arabia or intervention of

another party who can mediate a new agreement between hamas and qatar or the mass agreement that was signed in the beach camp in gaza. >> reporter: every attempt having failed so far there are few signs the lives of those caught in the middle of the political rivalry between hamas will improve. al jazeera, gaza. national elections will be taking place in turkey on sunday. for the first time mainly kurdish opposition party is threatening to loosen the ruling act party 13 year grip on party and we have more from istanbul. >> reporter: on the election trail in istanbul he is trying to broaden the support of the main kurdish party the hdp and one is making women makeup 50% of the party candidates. another tactic is to reach out

to poor and working class voters. >> translator: their main concern is to get a fair wage for their labor rather than just being exploited. those with kids are particularly concerned about being able to provide for their children. >> reporter: hdp leader is taking a huge gamble with this election. his party must win at least 10% of the vote to get any representation in parliament. in previous elections candidates rallied independence and over all share of the vote was never more than 7%. but if the hdp wants to advance a stalled kurdish peace process it needs more influence in parliament. >> with this decision to run as a party in this election the hdp forced turkish waters to realize the kurdish issue and their own lives are intimately connected. so now they will have to pay

more attention to kurdish issue and decide how to cast their votes. >> reporter: for more than 30 years the turkish state fought armed kurdish separatists and 40,000 were killed so ethnic turks still regard kurdish political leaders with suspicion. now if the hdp gets more than 10% of the vote they will deprive the ruling party of parliamentary majority and could effect the ambitions of erdiwan to change the constitution in navy favor of a better one. >> right no italian coast guard carrying out a rescue mission happening off the coast of libya and the main route for people trying to cross into europe and correspondent is joining us from the mediterranean sea on that rescue mission to tell us what is going on where you are what are you

seeing? >> reporter: well, i can't hear you very well. because of the interference in the area. but what i can tell you that we are on a vessel which is basically a core of the italian military police which is traditionally in charge of the italian borders including the maritime one and we are much further south than that and sailing for 16 hours and we are about 24 nautical miles off the coast of western libya, the area where most of the migrant boats leave from. now, along the road we have seen for example, a ship of the british royal navy we have seen also helicopters in the sky, those are part of the triton mission, that european mission that is now in charge of or

search of rescue of these migrants who crossed the mediterranean see. this vessel and this crew is not officially part of it but what happened is that for example we have just received the crew has just received a call from triton headquarters telling them in the area where we are they spotted a ship or boat full of migrants so we just u-turned and we are heading back from east to west towards that boat. we should be there very shortly. but this is what happens here all the time. they go back and forth along the coast and whoever is closer to one of these migrant boats has the duty to head there as quick as possible and that includes commercial ships. the crew here was telling me just last week they rescued about 580 people. they could not get them all on board this ship. so they had to call on a commercial boat to help them out and they had to stay in the sea

with these very fragile rubber dinghys until the commercial ship arrives and we are heading towards that area and it's basically halfway between tripoli and the tunisia border and when we reach there we will update you on what we have seen. >> thank you very much for that update, reporting from off the coast of libya. police in france cleared a makeshift migrant camp under a rail way bridge in paris, migrants mostly from east africa had been living in tents for over a year. police removed them over fears the settlement was getting too big. they had been relocated to a center for asylum seekers. it has been a year since mexico and neighbors got together to find solutions to their on going migrant crisis the u.s. has seen fewer people at tempting to cross the border because mexico stepped up deportations. john holdman met a group of men

and risking their lives to make the dangerous and desperate journey for a better life in the u.s. >> reporter: a short breather in an mangro grove and central american migrants and the second time guatemala is making the trip this time it's been much harder. >> translator: lots of police ready to grab us on the trains we usually take and forces us to use other routes and go hungry as we pass through places that don't have houses. >> reporter: a crack down by mexican security agencies has forced the undocumented refugees to travel through remote areas where they say they are more vulnerable to gang attacks. >> translator: we were walking on the train tracks on southern and saw a guy with a vessel he was here on his neck. they robbed us of everything and left us completely naked. >> reporter: border patrol

raids focused on a cargo train migrants call the beast. those hitching a ride risk serious injury but it's the easiest way to go north. a few months ago there were lots of migrants clinging to the top and sides of this train and now you can see there is almost no one on it. blocking the passage of those desperate to leave central american countries where gang violence and unemployment is rife simply won't work says mexico rights campaigner. >> translator: the mexican state is corrupt and with money there will always be a way through. what worries me is migrants are going down more dangerous and expensive routes because krupped officials are charging them more to let them pass. >> reporter: mexican government refused our interview request and they say they are succeeding in dismantling migrant hunting gangs making the route safer.

>> translator: that is clearly not the reality for the migrants we met. on the move once more in a hostile life. john holeman, al jazeera, mexico. let's get a check on the weather with rob and we will go to china, rob, with news of all the extreme weather patterns going on there. >> yes, it's unusual this time of year to have a lot of rain. if you look at this video here it's not unusual for residents to try it anywhere in the middle and south to see in this time of year and a lot of civil engineering has been done to reduce the impact. you will never stop the rain falling in this amount, it's just what happens. now, that was john king. during monday clouds built rather usual air from the basin and down to wang-don and bright clouds there tells you it rains

68 millimeters and rain in the same sort of area. that was monday evening and then today the clouds have started to build again, this time it looks like the brighter top for the heavier thunderstorm will be further south and we have 36 millimeters of rain so far. all this is a well-known climate feature and it's the rains and they are the plumb rains and coincide with the ripening of the plumbs in a month time and go north with the sun as the basin gets it and can generate pretty nasty storms. this one for example just to the north of it looks like it's producing a tornado, that is the one that knocked over a bus at the same sort of time and getting extreme weather this time of the year and sometimes more extreme than other times. thank you, still ahead on the al jazeera news hour. >> i'm in st. augustine, the oldest city and how rising sea

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♪ you are with the news hour and iraq prime minister describing the advance of i.s.i.l. fighters as a failure for the world community and accusing the u.s. led international coalition of not doing enough to stop them

and foreign minister from 24 countries are in paris to find tune their strategy against i.s.i.l. egyptian court delayed announcing a verdict in the trial of deposed president mohamed morsi and it had early sentenced mohamed morsi to death. the court received an opinion from the grand mufti the highest religious authority in egypt. hundreds of migrants found drifting in their crowded boat off the coast of myanmar are being escorted to an undisclosed location, navy commanders in myanmar say they won't be taking further action that is all until the identity of the 727 boat people are verified and more than 400 passengers missing in china after the river cruiser sank and five confirmed dead and 14 rescued so far and eastern star carrying 458 mostly elderly tourists in johning river in

hubei province and efforts to come back i.s.i.l. are being discussed ahead of the meeting and criticized the coalition saying they are not doing enough for the advance and we will speak to the author joining us from doha and with i.s.i.l. making gains as you know do you expect there to be a strategy? what do we hear coming out of paris? >> so far the evidence is that not much is going to change. i mean i think the meeting in paris is going to discuss the failures that have qui clearly been quite clearly been made in iraq in particular. and i think a lot of focus will be made on bolstering up security forces in iraq. in attempt at least to wage concerns about the rising role of shia malitias which are leading or about to lead the counter offensive in and anbar

province. >> looking at the situation in syria is it a one size fits all, whatever is implemented in iraq decided in iraq cannot be applied to the situation in syria? >> well, i mean there are broad strategic principles which ought to be adopted in both countries and the most important one is there a group of i.s.i.l. or terrorist organizations in the world and effectively combatted if we are talking about a sunni jahad group must be combatted by sunni fighters on the ground and so far fundamental failures so far in iraq and nothing has developed this that respect in syria yet and seeing the very very starting stages of the program and probably 100 fighters are being trained and i understand they will be deployed within the next 30 days. if we are talking about 100 fighters against i.s.i.l. in syria. >> happening in iraq with shia

being deployed is that the wrong strategy then in your opinion? >> well i mean what the shia malitias have demonstrated in iraq so far is they do have the capability of acquiring immediate short term strategic gains on the ground and recapturing territory controlled by i.s.i.l. the real concern which is being felt with international community at the moment is that will the role of preeminent role of regaining structures in sunni strongholds will it have long-term damaging implications and my personal assessment will be it will. this is providing i.s.i.s. with the perfect opportunity to portray this as an i ran victory of islam and iraq and extension also in parts of syria. so i think there are serious concerns and i think it will be discussed in the meeting in paris. >> and is one of these concerns charles, the ft that a lot of peop say that the international coalition has not done much or even enough to

combat i.s.i.l. espially with the gains that wave been seeing on the ground? >> ah i mean youknow, the internationa coalition has sort of it stands itself as a partial disadvantageanyway and you nnot defeat terrori orm tell airne d without truly effective and representative grodorces on yo side cooinatin dirtl with the air power you a not going tong-t may make short term gains as we have seen in iraq in the last 6-9 months but whether or not the gains can lost or not is another question. that leads us to the major elephant in the room with regards to the paris meeting is there yet has been no mention of syria as playing a prominent part in the discussions in paris today. and that is of serious concern. i mean i.s.i.s. has transferred a great deal of resources across the border from iraq into syria and we have seen them capture

the town of palmyra in resent days and massive advantage in northern aleppo and kurdish heart land and they are really bringing the fight to their advisorys and until the international coalition can find a representative and genuinely effective ground ally on the ground which it is willing to coordinate with, we are not going to be anywhere near defeating i.s.i.s. >> we thank you for joining us on the news hour thank you very much. u.s. supreme court has ruled in favor of a muslim woman denied a job because of her headscarf and she wore a head scarf with the clothing chain in 2008 and company said the scarf clashed with dress code and refused to fire her and found they violated the civil right act which ban discrimination based on religious beliefs. u.s. senate pushing to restore phone collections of americans. the law that previously allowed for mass surveillance by the

national security agency expired on monday. so now lawmakers are working to enact a new law to renew the program with only minor changes and kimberly reports. >> reporter: for the first time in a long time people making telephone calls in the united states exercised a constitutionally protected right their government has denied them, the right to privacy. that's because controversial provisions of the patriot act that allowed for nsa bulk collection of phone records of private citizens expired and lawmakers in the u.s. senate want that to change. >> we know what happens when we get a trove of technology in our hands that we know gives us the ability to see whether it was tied to somebody whether we knew about them or we didn't. >> reporter: so the senate is looking to pass new legislation already pushed through the house of representatives known as the usa freedom act, it would bring back the surveillance tools with

only minor modifications. instead of the government collecting the time length and phone number of calls private phone companies would do the work and if government wants access to that information, a court order would be required. >> anything that allows mass surveillance to continue which the usa freedom act does all be it in a more limited form than taking place now i think it should be very concerning to all of us. >> reporter: the phone companies al jazeera reached out to were reluctant to comment on their proposed surveillance role. just cellular provider sprint replied stating it would guard customers' privacy and only provide customer information to the government in response to a valid legal demand, appropriate for the information being sought. the white house argues each day the u.s. is without the phone surveillance tool it's at risk. it disagrees with opponents who say renewing phone surveillance violates the country's constitution and a citizen's

legal right to privacy. >> the president believes the senate should act as quickly as possible to pass the usa freedom act so he can sign it into law and we can do two important things, the first is begin to implement the reforms over a six-month period that are contemplated in the usa freedom act to better protect civil liberties and ensure our national security has the tools they need. it's controversial and many say unlawful and still expected the new surveillance law could pass this week. kimberly with al jazeera, washington. a committee for truth and reconciliation is delivering the conclusions from its seven year report of what happened in canada's residential schools. survivors of the former church run institutions had pushed for an investigation into accusations of sexual and physical and emotional abuse there and we have the latest

from ottawa. >> reporter: impending long awaited report here in ottawa into what has been described as the aggressive of canada population the so called first nation tribes and one survivor industrial attempt to beat the indian out of us. this goes back to a court case seven years ago when the population won a case against the government because they were taken away from their family take end away from their peers and placed into state schools. state boarding schools. and there they suffered terrible abuse, emotional, sexual and physical abuse. part of the settlement was a committee for truth and reconciliation would be set up and over the last five years the committee has been gathering evidence and spoke to 7,000 people and evidence will run through thousands and thousands of pages and this scheme was operated by the canadian government for more than 100 years. now, many people believe that the recommendations that are

contained in the report will help point the way forward for the indigenous population and canada as a whole. it's expected to say that there was cultural genocide and attempt essentially to wipe out what the indigenous people believed what they did and their customs and traditions. for many people this will be a watershed moment. some saying that they can celebrate but they know they still carry the scars of what happened in those schools and that will be passed on for generations to come. so it's a cause for celebration. but also a cause of great sadness. but it had to happen in the first place. delegates at a u.n. climate change conference in germany are working towards a global deal to be signed in paris at the end of the year. rising sea levels are threatening coastal communities including one of the oldest cities in the united states. andy gallagher reports from northeast florida.

>> reporter: for the past three decades chuck butler has been tending his ocean garden a pastime allowed him to observe environmental changes here and along the east coast of florida he witnessed the effects of storms and rising waters. >> the argument way back when is it's not really global warming, it's just a natural chain of events but i've been here a long time and been around a long time and my wife and i have convinced that it's global warming. >> reporter: just down the road in historical st augustine have seen a fair change and the streets fill with saltwater ten times a year and something a new seawall cannot hold back and rubin franklin says the city gets little help from the state and without it the future could be bleak. >> i know i wouldn't feel very good knowing that my property one day is not going to be worth much in the place i call home is going to be a memory instead of

place to live and work. >> reporter: the problem is one of skepticism over sea level projections and climate change science. florida governor like many in the republican party doesn't believe climate change is caused by human activity but republicans say it's time to move past that. >> i think it's a bad policy because it makes government look foolish, denying what is obvious in failing to use the leadership that they have to address what is going to be a major issue in our state. >> reporter: whether you think this kind of severe beach erosion or physical damage is down to manmade climate change or not it's relevant to people in the community and florida is o on the front line of rising sea levels and people want to see some kind of plan of action andy andy

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and we have more. >> reporter: when pam smith was diagnosed with skin cancer she was terrified she wouldn't live to see her grandchildren grow up. given a choice of treatments she chose a new combination of drugs being trialed and hasn't looked back. >> the drugs have shrunk the tumor from nine millimeters down to four millimeters. and then afterwards they found some lesions on my lungs but even though hey shrunk to tiny like a pinprick. >> reporter: combination of drugs that allow the body immune system to attack the cancer cells. the drugs were blind tested internationally on 945 patients with advanced melanoma. and what doctors discovered was that 58% of those patients saw that tumor shrink or stabilize for almost a year, like any cancer treatment the drugs don't work equally on everyone and side effects include rashes

fatigue and diarrhea. the doctor has been treating cancer patient with the individual drugs and looking forward to using them in combination. >> this is a game changing set of results for advanced skin cancer without a doubt. i think where the excitement is really coming though is in the broader perspective because these are drugs that are not just specific for skin cancer because you are enhancing the body's own immune system there is no reason why this approach shouldn't be effective against other cancers. >> reporter: this animation shows how the drugs work on cancer cells and one boost the body immune system the other reveals the cancer cells allowing hem to them to be attacked and the doctor who led the trial there is more work to do. >> there will be probably for the combination of drugs something like 40% of patients who don't have significant tumor shrinkage and what we need to do is understand why and to develop new approaches so that hopefully we can get the number of people

ben fitting from treatments to be higher still to help more patients. >> reporter: it's not a universal cure and cancer previously treated with chemotherapy or radial therapy or surgery this is a new weapon in the fight against the disease, al jazeera, london. let's get all the sports with robin. thank you very much fifa reacting to the news that secretary-general implicated at 10 million transfer part of a bribery investigation and former fifa executive alleged to benefit from the money for voting in favor of south africa staging the 2010 world cup and the epicenter of a u.s. investigation into corruption and said in a statement they acknowledge the $10 million payment but that the funding and the transfer of those monies was handled by the south african futbol solution and that it was approved by fifa finance committee and other senior

officials have absolutely no involvement. futbol leg end from cuba not far from competing at the world cup in the future and the first and only appearance at world cup finals was 1938 and looking forward to a historic moment featuring cuba national team to host new york later on tuesday and the first time a u.s. sports team visits the island since 1999. and follows the reestablishment of u.s./cuba relations in december and cuban futbol is set to flourish. >> translator: in the world cup no doubt. >> reporter: and futbol manager, they will take an sobatical and in demand after the success and the reign ended in defeat against rossburg in the german cup final and went to liverpool but taking a break for an undetermined period. focus on tennis and the french open has a tasty prospect and

defending nadel is against djokovic and the late stage at the moment and nadel calling it the toughest of his career and he overcame a gentleman name of jack sock and his 70th and mr. djokovic lies in wait. >> it's the toughest quarter final in my career without a doubt. but another final, you know it's the finals you know. and the way of the match will not be the champion you know we will be a semi finalist and that makes a big difference with a special night. >> djokovic has a date with nadal after a comfortable victory of a frenchman 6-1, 6-2,

6-3 and djokovic never won the french open and needs it for a career grand slam. >> i know what to do and what is expected of me and played him so many times and the player i played against the most in my life and we played here as you said 5, 6 times before and so i know what i need to do to have a chance to win. it doesn't mean that i will win. you know, the future is unpredictable. it's something you cannot influence but i can get myself in the right state of mind and prepare well and get on the court and do my best. >> reporter: a new women's champion this year sharapova on her way home the fourth seed also out and champion losing in straight sets 6-7, 4-6, the score in her defeat.

>> i'm happy to be in the second week for the first time that i can remember from 2012 so i need to think a little bit more but i just loss but of course i think you know after a couple of days it will be better than now. >> reporter: to the nba now where cleveland superstar lebron james believes this is the year that the cavs will win their first league title ahead of opening game against the golden state warriors despite the form of regular season mvp and steven carry through the run through the playoffs and nba record for three pointers in the post season and lebron said he could have better form right now it's the best he has ever been. >> and i have not been in a good rhythm and you know shooting the ball and it has not stopped me from doing what i need to do as far as helping our team and a three point shot is something if

i was a player that needed that shot to be effective it will effect my game but it doesn't. if i make a field i take it if i don't i stop taking it and i'm able to do other things and still be effective. >> confident what i'm able to do and how i can help my team win and just the chemistry we have built over the last 3-4 years to get ourselves to this point so i will keep riding that wave and i'm going to have 100% confidence in abilities going into a series like this when all you need is four wins to get a championship. >> reporter: new zeerland hopes of getting the cricket test series against england have been hampered by bad weather but final days and leads when they stopped play and england on 44 without a loss of 411 earns from victory and new zeerland helping to draw the test and leading the series 1-0 and that is your sport and thanks for watching. see you later and gamblers in asia who want to roll the

dice often can go to singapore but now manilla is getting in the casino business as well and here is our report. >> reporter: it stands out like a golden oasis in manilla, city of dreams and the third and latest billion dollar gambling resort to open in the capitol, 6.2 hectors of luxury called entertainment city. >> the vision was always to find the greatest location in asia to build a greater resort. no wonder philippines is one of the fastest growing parts in the world in the last few years. we want to build things that we are proud of. >> reporter: the government has been inviting investors hoping to fashion itself the next gaming capitol of the asia pacific region despite other discriminations like singapore taking a hit in hern earnings

and want to attack the growing middle classes and high flyers. >> this is a meaningful contribution to the efforts of the philippines to elevate the tourism industry as one of the main energies of economic growth. but also as you pointed out the employment, for permanent jobs. >> reporter: there are five resorts planned all in all and the government estimates that 30-40,000 people will be directly employed by them. officials are also counting on indirect employment as a result of the casinos. security guards maintenance people taxi drivers and vendors, around 100,000 jobs will be created around the gaming industry. richard delfin farrying passengers on the streets for seven years and this petty cab is all he has. he and his family of six takes turns sleeping in it at night and he was looking forward to the new addition to the neighborhood but he is not allowed to get close to it.

>> translator: business is actually slow now. i earn less money and there is more competition. >> reporter: like many other philippines delfin feels the city of dreams is out of reach and the economy might be growing but so too is the number of poor people, the income gap is widening and visitors being courted many here feel this shouldn't come at the expense of keeping marginalized philippines at bay, al jazeera, manilla. thanks for watching the news hour on al jazeera. do stay with us we are back in just a couple of minutes and i'll have a full bulletin of news straight ahead coming up on top stories and in the meantime let me point you to the direction of our website there is it on the screen, al jazeera.com and our top stories we are covering for you today is hundreds missing in china after a tourist ship sank back with

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