new revelations from the fifa corruption scanned. a former he can being tiff admits to taking bribes. ♪ ♪ hello, you are watching al jazerra. i am darren jordan here in doha. also on the program. was a former em viny president working with al qaeda? a fighter turned informant talks to al jazerra. nigeria is accused of torturing thousands in its fight against boko haram. >> reporter: how to beat the hackers. find out what threat the cyber

criminals pose to you and me. ♪ ♪ row leased a trans script a 2013 district court hearing in which a former top fifa executive admits corruption, chuck blazer, says he and others agreed to take bribes to vote for the allocation of the 1998 and 2010 world cups, kristen saloomey has the details. >> reporter: for nearly two decades chuck blazer was the most senior american official at fifa. now he is the linchpin of the united states investigation of the world body. this is blazer in 2011. >> i think that fifa is doing a really excellent job of promoting football around the world. if i look back 10 years, 20 years and see the progress we made, i am very proud of our accomplishments. >> reporter: while he is credited with advancing the sport in the united states, he was pocketing millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks

at the same time. his lavish lifestyle and the fact he wasn't paying taxes attracted the attention of u.s. authorities. >> and that's really how this whole fifa investigation really got rolling. the irs and the fbi had leverage over chuck blazer and he cooperated to the fullest extent. even making secret recordings of his fellow sport executives at the 2012 olympics. >> reporter: he is one of four men who have already pleaded guilty in the corruption investigation. in an unsealed transcript blazer admits facilitating a bribe in the process to select the host nation for the 1998 world cup. which eventually we want to france. and then accepting another bribe over the selection of south africa for the 2010 competition. he admits to receiving bribes and kickback to his broadcast rates to five gold cups in the '90s and early 2,000s. at the time he was the deputy of

jack warner former fifa vice president who has been charged as a coconspirator. it's blazer's cooperation that helped lead investigators to the indict think of him and others. however, what if anything blazer has to say about outgoing fifa president sepp blatter or the awarding of the controversy hal 2018 and 2022 cups remains a mystery. chris fine saloomey, al jazerra new york. meanwhile, former official jack warners he fears for his life and has decided to pass documents in his possession to to hayes his lawyers he has been indict today by the united states and expect to be extradited. >> the evidence, all of it,. [ inaudible ] for me. for all my friends in the past, i have never viewed myself as anything but a proud figure.

inning dignity ridicule, i have kept my mouth shut in the face of. [ inaudible ] i have kept quiet. fear that go this day will come. i will do so no more. >> earlier we talk to the chief football write fort daily telegraph. he says it's difficult to predict what will happen to the next two world cups. >> i think there is great difficulty in terms of overturning the award of those two world cup tournaments, is the legal process that would be involved. you can imagine that qatar in particular would throw billions, if necessary at resisting any attempt to be stripped of the world cup in 2022. having quite openly spent so much money aboveboard, let alone anything else that people are alleging to get the world cup delivered to them back in 2010 when they were awarded. so it's impossible to say at the moment what is going to happen in the sense of the 18 '18 and

20/20 tournaments. what happens to blatter will be key to what happened next. yemen's ex-president supported and even directed al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. former al qaeda operative who game a government informant has spoken exclusive to al jazerra. he says saleh's government was playing a double game. here is katlyn swisher. >> reporter: this car bomb attack in yemen killed eight spanish tourists. al qaeda fighters claimed respond. but this man says there is much more to the story. and it may involved the former yemeni president saleh. >> reporter: he was a mechanic

of al qaeda until arrest by pakistani intelligence and the cia in 2004. returned to yemen and jailed until 2006, he was released and began his work as a paid informant for the yemeni government. he claims that he warned security agencies one week before the attack, and provided details on the day itself. just over a year later a daring assault on the u.s. embassy left 19 dead. he again says he warned the security services. three months before. a week before. and three days before. .

>> reporter: his handler as an inform arm was saleh's nephew. he said it did not just ignore the warnings he went over to hand over money for the explosives for the bombing of the u.s. embassy. and arranged to give them to the leader of al qaeda there. >> reporter: al jazerra has verified his background within al qaeda. we have also established that he was a bomb maker. that's how he gained detailed knowledge about the attacks. he lost his right hand handling explosive.

both experts on al qaeda. >> my interpretation is, again this guy who in substantial measure is who he says is he. he has insights in to how they operate. >> if you look back, very few people have come out with details on what's going on at the point. somebody being able to report what was going on over a period of months, even perhaps years even if it's a few years back. there is an extraordinary valuable. >> if i had to give them a ballpark grade, i would say probably like 70/30. 70 being genuine. spain and the u.s. have investigated the attacks and closed their cases. he says he is willing to testify in front of any international panel in order to bring justice. clayton swisher, al jazerra. and you can watch the full

documentary al qaeda informant from 2000 gmt on thursday. and it's online at aljazerra.com/al qaedainformant. there are extended i want surprise articles and lots more. israelii fighter jets have attacked three empty fields use ed by hamas fighters in the gaza strip. it comes after two rockets were fired in to israeli territory froma. a group calling itself the omar brigades has claimed responsibility for wednesday's attack. hundreds of black israelis have clashed with police in tel aviv. they were protesting against raise i remember and calling for the police to be punished after another demonstration turned violent last night. this time two protesters were arrested. but no one hurt. a cabinet committee has been informed to improve the integration of black israelis. in syria, 20 people have reportedly been killed and several others injured. in barrel bombs attacks by government forces outside a aleppo. the bombings in the town also

destroyed many buildings. heavy shelling in the area add today the destruction in the town. the head of al qaeda's syrian a fill at al-nusra front has told al jazerra that he sees no solution to the conflict with isil in syria. he says the u.s. has created a state of instability across the middle east. >> translator: the u.s. has empowered iran to a certain ex-and has had a hand in the region's affairs including yemen, syria lebanon and iraq. they sigh iran controls iraq, but the truth is you it's the u.s. that occupied iraq and handed it over to iran on i golden platter. >> the retrial of three al jazerra journalists will resume in cairo on thursday. it was adjourned on monday, after the prosecution's closing arguments which claimed the men had endangered egypt's national security. they were present australian

journalist peter greste has not returned for the trial. they remember arrested in december 2013 and originally sentencesentenced to between seven and 10 years in prison. chinese maritime agency records show that safety violations were found two years ago on the cruise ship which capsize odds monday. more than 400 mainly elderly tourists are feared drowned after the eastern star sanction in the yangtze river. agent brown has this report from the scene. >> reporter: well, this is going to be a day i think when the death toll continues to rise. and rise significantly. at the rescue scene emergency workers have managed to drill several holes in to the up turned hull of the eastern star, they have been inside, had a look around, but so far have not found any survivors. local government officials say that some time this evening an operation maybin to lift the eastern star out of the water.

on wednesday we saw a giant crane in position beside the eastern star, and at either end of the vessel at the stern and and bow, there were cranes holding it in place. it will be a tricky operation we have had heavy rain and strong winds and the waters are very murky making it very difficult for the diving operations. there are many relatives who have arrived in the city where from where the relief and rescue operation has been coordinated 200 in total so far. they are being looked after by some 400 counselors. in other developments, it's emerged that the maritime agency has said that back in 2013, the eastern star failed a safety test. that is something that will further stoke up anger among relatives. also it's emerged today that a sister ship of the eastern star has also been ordered to stop

sailing operations. four soldiers have been killed in an ambush in southern thailand. police say the soldiers were traveling in an unmarked car when a group opened fire on them. the attack happened on a rural road. it has been plagued bicep test violence since 2004. lots more still to come here on al jazerra. including. >> argentinians demands an end to violence against women after recent murders leave the nation in shock. greece's prime minister says an agreement is close to saving the country from financial ruin. more on that, stay with us.

♪ ♪ welcome back. a quick reminder of the top stories here on al jazerra. the u.s. has released a transcript of a 2013 distribute court where chick blazer admits where he says he and others agreed to take bribes for the 1998 and 2010 world cups. yemen's former president it was suggested supported and even directed al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. a former al qaeda operative who became a government informant has spoke exclusive i feel to al jazerra. family members of the dead and missing in china's cruise ship disaster have sprinted their anger against the authorities about 80 people broke through a police line trying to get information. a bomb hid nene pile of

scrap metal has exploded in northeastern nigeria killing two people and injuring 33, it's the second blast in the city in less than 24 hours it went off 600 meters from an army bare you can. in the last few days, up to 80 people have died in the area and attacks by suspected boko haram fighters. nigeria's new press has repeated his promise to defeat boca boko haram haram. >> translator: i renew my commitment to chase boko haram and obliterate it. five years of this evil presence is enough. nigerian soldiers have suffered a lot of defeat. we are going to mobilize our best to attack this threat. and neighboring country of niner and also chad i will visit tomorrow and we will sit down to refine a common strategy. >> meanwhile the nigh year nigerian

military has rejected accusation by am necessary international and they say they are biased and concocted. amnesty internationals says they must be investigated. >> reporter: this is a cash of secret and classified military communiques obtained by amnesty international. >> a video which accompanies the amnesty report names nine military commanders. they are accused of the murders of more than 7,000 men and boys. the commanders also are accused of committing or presiding over beatings mass torture and starvation. as the report was presented to reporters in abuja amnesty international says it interviewed more than 400 victims and witnesses it says more than 800 official documents were submitted along with 90 pieces of video evidence of crimes committed. sources were nominated. amnesty rejects suggestions that

many of the dead were boko haram fighters. >> the question of whether these people are in fact boca ham was suspects is an open one. one thing we talk about in the report is the fact that many arrests are arby terry the military will go to a community roundup all of the young men and as them in front of a hidden pointer, someone who the military is paying and who will just say, yes or no, you are or you aren't boko haram. nigerian military commander have responded saying it's a false report and biased. and they say the red cross and other independent bodies have inspected detention cells in northern nigeria. some analysts say the troops have fought in difficult circumstances. >> it can't be ruled out that some of them are boko haram and as are not boko haram. the military has also explained that it is handicapped in the sense that it's operating in the theater in which there are no judicial authorities. there is no police anymore.

and so the military has to do the job of the police and the jew dish air and i so on. for which it is not trained at all do. and doesn't have the facilities to do amnesty international has handed over its report to the new president. the former military general is visiting niger and chad to discuss how to defeat boko haram. amnesty is demanding the new president and new government investigate the alleged crimes. they have yet to respond to the report but before he was a elected he promise today investigate the allegations. the question now is will he and when? al jazerra abuja nigeria. students in burundi's capital say that they are too scared to go home. their university shutdown a me ago when protests began after the president announced he would seek a controversial third term. many of them come from the countryside. a strong hold of the ruling party. >> reporter: these university

students are used to more comfortable living conditions. but when protests against the president began, more than a month ago government leaders shutdown the university. some students took part in the protests against the president's bid for a third term. he says he has nowhere to go. he is afraid of pro-government militia who control the country side. >> i can't go home because when we go home, there is. [ inaudible ] who said that they -- we must be followed whenever we go. so when you go home,. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: the police think that is a publicity stunt by the opposition saying these students have nothing to worry about. >> if everybody is attacked by a member from that ruling party he has to go to the police stations and report the case, a police is there to protect

everybody. but on the ground, we don't see these cases you are talking about. >> reporter: the location is strategic, even if sleeping out here is a bit rough. the students chose an area close to the united states embassy they say they feel safe here hoping that no one targets them because the bip are diplomatic community is nearby. the u.s. government has urged african leaders to tell the president not to run for a third term. opposition members are still protesting but there is fewer of them. controversial elections due this month have been postponed possibly until next month. >> every decision will need to be confirmed by the decision of the president of the republic. because it is a new calendar. >> reporter: until the crisis in burundi is resolved. future doctors teachers, lawyers and maybe even politicians wait for the university to open.

or until it's safe to go home. al jazerra. greece's mime minister says talks with the country's creditors have been constructive and that an agreement is in sight. athens is supposed to payback more than $335 million to the imf by friday. more now from carli angela. >> reporter: so let's take a look at what greece owes. kuhn is going to be but they need to find another $7.4 billion. 1.6 billion that have is to retaye the international monetary fund for its bailout system the rests are bills including 1.8 billions in salaries and state pensions the greek government says it will prioritize those pensions over any payments to the imf. assuming they get through june and july, they have to find another six 1/2 billion dollars. some will go to repay the imf. others to pay off bills but the majority $3.8 billion will be

for the european central bank. they have been keeping greece's banks afloat with emergency financial assistance. so if greece isn't bankrupt by august and has miraculous a made all their loan payments, things will start easing slightly with just 193 million to the imf. a billion in bills but still an enormous 3 1/2 billion dollars to the ecb. so what happens if they can't make these repayments? chief economic analyst vickie price from the center of economics and business research explains. >> i think the best option that there is out there which would satisfy the markets is if the euro zone just muddles through in this particular case. which means possibly lending the greeks a bit of extra money so they can make some of their repayments due to the european central bank and the imf. and then worry about the rest of the dead debt later. >> reporter: so what greece owes is only 8% of its total debt. if they can clear that, they'll be light at the end of the

tunnel. 10s of thousands of people have been protest information towns and cities across argentina to demands an end to violence against women. the country has been shocked by recent high-profile murders involvedinvolving women killed by their partners. >> reporter: they have had enough say these slogans no more killings or beatings. no more victims. women and men young and old from all background and sectors of society gathered across argentina to demands an end to the violence. more than 1,800 women have been killed in the past six years. that's more than one a day. usually by a husband or boyfriend. >> translator: we are always calling for new laws. but in the meantime, we need to change this culture. this culture which says women are entire fear your and should -- inferior and should belong to someone. >> reporter: adriana was killed by her partner in 2008. he received a five-year sentence

but was released after two. and is fighting for custody of their daughter. her sister said justice was not and is still not being done. >> translator: you never know what is going to happen whether his violent emotions will return. what about my niece who can tell me owe won't do the same to her? >> reporter: a watch's rights center was made after her. but there are hundreds more victims whose names are not being forgotten. many women and girls are kidnapped and forced in to prostitution while others are subject today regular abuse. women's rights groups say that despite tough new laws, the police often don't investigate. and when they do, the judicial system is far too lenient with the offenders. the anger has been brewing for sometime. but what sparked this latest nationwide protest was one

killing too many. 14-year-old murdered by her 16-year-old boyfriend. >> translator: we have these tensions because every time this happens, it means we are leaving the memory. we never get away. he took away our sister, there should be no more killings. >> reporter: the people have spoken women are overcoming their fear. demanding change. the question now is, how will argentina respond? daniel, al jazerra,. another candidate has entered the 2016 u.s. presidential race. lincoln chaffy announced he's challenging hillary clinton for the democratic nomination. the 62-year-old was previously elect today office as a republican and an independent governor. now, amateur cyber criminals are taking advantage of new online tools that can take a victim's computer hostage. al jazerra's phil lavelle reports from london where internet security experts are

looking for new lines of defense. >> reporter: here is a question, what does a cyber criminal actually look like? him. him. them. who knows. but they are trying to find out. this team of experts from all over the world all in london, all searching for the same answer. >> organized crime has moved in big time. in fact, we think probably it's bigger -- it's more involved in cyber crime than drug crime now. they are just actually ruth little businessmen so why walk in to a bank with a sawed off shotgun if you can do it from another country and much lower risk? >> reporter: authorities say the problem is most definitely getting worse in fact, by the year 2019, they reckon cyber criminalcriminals will be stealing somewhere in the region of $2.1 trillion globally. last year in the u.s. alone five out of every six big businesses fell victim to some form of attack. that is 40% more than the year before. the biggest tactic right now is

a thing called cyber ran some ware that's where you inadvertently give action he is action he is cesc to a hacker and they blackmail you and say pay up or we'll delete everything. even worse may take sensitive and maybe embarrassing stuff and share it with the outside world. >> it's been increasing once again and now also especially a to being only a civilians and now businesses that's a real threat to the industry also, probably more profitable to do this once and get 1 million let's say than trying to attack 1,000 people and get 10 or 100 euros. >> reporter: another concern is the internet of things. from kettles to toothbrush to his light bulbs our homes are getting more and more plugged in and & more and more hackable n a future where even our cars will one day be online it is a worrying time for the experts. they have a long and

unpredictable road ahead. phil lavelle. al jazerra london. and a quick reminders that you can keep up-to-date with all of the news on our website. there it is, on your screen, the address aljazerra.com that's aljazerra.com. police use deadly force on the job . violent crime including murder is on the rise in some big american cities like the one i'm in tonight, chicago. coming up we'll look at how leaders here are responding to the problem including a proposal to charge shooters with domestic terrorism. and later i'll d who says higher crime rates are partly the result of a so-called ferguson effect where police departments scale back