the fifa scandal grows. a top executive admits bribes were paid in choosing the 1998 and 2010 world cups. ♪ ♪ hello and welcome to al jazerra live from doha. i am richelle carey. also on the program pushed by war, forgotten by the world. these iraqis that cannot go home. did yemen's former president cooperate with al qaeda. a fighter turned informant talks to al jazerra. plus. >> reporter: i amount phil

lavelle in london where there is a steady stream of pima driving with one goal in mind, how to beat the hackers. find out what threat cyber criminals pose to you and me. ♪ ♪ the fifa scandal continues to unravel giving up new details, chuck blazer a former top executive has admitted that he and others took and arranged bribes in connection with the 1998 and 2010 world cups the details revealed by the u.s. justice department released a january script of blazer's 2014 court hearing. >> reporter: no nearly two decades chuck blazer was the most senior american official at fifa. now he's the linchpin of the united states investigation of the word 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 have 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 laugh i can lifestyle and the fact that he wasn't paying taxes attracted the attention of the united states authorities. >> that's really how the 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 went to france. and then accepting another bribe over the selection of south africa for the 2010 competition. he also admits receiving bribes and kickbacks for broadcast

rights for five gold cups. the north american regional competition in the '90s and early 2000s. at the time he was the deputy of jack warner former fifa vice president who has been charged as a coconspirator in those schemes. it's blazer's cooperation that helped lead investigators to the indictment of him and 14 others in the broadening fifa corruption scandal. however, what, if anything, blazer has to say about outgoing fifa president sepp blatter organize the awarding of the controversial 2018 and 2022 world cups remains a mystery. kristen saloomey, al jazerra new york. >> we are joined on set by our sports presentser raul. so this seems to be pretty damning stuff. is this the most significant evidence so far about just how deep the corruption goes? >> i zone. what strikes me how far back it goes. i mean, kristen was saying in her package it went back as far

as 1996 gold cup which is a regional competition in the concacaf region, that's two years before sepp blatter took over as fifa president. fifa back then was ran by a bra jillianbraquill sillbrazilian gentlemen and under his watch fifa became this multi billion dollars industry. and some would allege this is where the culture of corruption took hold from early to mid 90s. >> so a dong time and continuing to grow it seems over that time. so former vice president of fifa jack warner heavily implicated in these statements that we are hearing from -- or reading about from chuck blazer. have we heard anything yet from jack warner? >> jack warner is blazer's former boss at con ca to have. he's a former fifa vice president, he had to resign his position back in 2011 because of corruption allegations. and part of the deal of his resignation was that he would -- all the investigations by fifa

in to him would stop. but now the fbi has started this investigation and the department of justice he probably thinks he has nothing to lose and that was born out by some of the statements he was making. he was speak on the ground trinidad television yesterday and let's listen what he has to say. [ inaudible ] those persons who have evidence, all of it. this is. [ inaudible ] events for me. for all my friends in the past, i have never viewed myself as anything what would a. [ inaudible ] i have suffered inning dig knit at dignity and ridicule and kept my mouth shut. i have kept quiet. fearing that this day will come. i will do so no more. >> wow. so what next? >> we are heard as much as we are going to hear from chuck blazer as far as his admissions. there is intriguing conversations that he was

wearing a wire allegedly around the time of the 2012 london olympics he met with fifa individuals and those are said to be recorded we are waiting with baited breath to find the details of that. >> the one thing we have learned about this investigation so far is unpredictable. you don't know what's coming from day-to-day. thank you so much. one last point on the story. it's former president rafael was arrested in zurich last week, along with six other fifa officials accused of bribery. and corruption. allegations made to al jazerra suggest yemen's ex-president saleh supported and even directed al qaeda. a former al qaeda operative who game an informant has spoken exclusion i have to al jazerra. he says that samardzija los angeles was playing a double game. >> reporter: this car bomb

attack in yemen killed eight spanish tourists. al qaeda fighters claimed responsibility. but this man says there is much more to the story. and it may involve the former yemeni press ali abdullah saleh. >> reporter: he was a member of al qaeda until his rest by pakistani intelligence and the cia in 2004. return to yemen and jailed until 2006 he was released and began his work as a paid informant for the yemeni government. he claims 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 i warned the security services. three months before, a week before and three days before. >> reporter: his handler as an informant was saleh's president are nephew. he said he did not just ignore the attacks went so far as to handover money for the explosives used against the u.s. embassy and then arranged for the materials to be given to the military commander of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. perhaps

>> 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 thumb handling explosives. we have shown his testimony to two retired intelligence officers, both experts on al qaeda. >> my interpretation of him is that again, this is a guy who in substantial measure is who he says he is. he knows these people. he has insights in to how they operate. >> if you look back at the history of al qaeda there has been very few people that have come out with detail at what's really going on at the top. so somebody being a time report what was going on over a period

of months, even perhaps years even if it's a few years back is an extraordinary valuable. >> if i had to give him a ballpark grade, i would say probably like 70/30. 70 being genuine. >> reporter: spain and the u.s. have investigated the attacks and closed their cases. the colonel could not be reached for comment. he says he's willing to testify in front of any international panel in order to bring justice. clayton swisher, al jazerra. and you can watch that full documentary al qaeda informant from 20 gmt on thursday and it's online at aljazerra.com/al qaedainformant. there are extended interviews, articles and plenty more as well. and breaking news to bring you from the capital of ghana. we are hearing that there has been an explosion at a gas station with at least 70 people killed.

the information coming to us from the national fire brigade. so again an explosion in the capital of ghana at a gas take, dozens of people killed. at least 70. that's what we know so far. we are work to go get more information for you. so do keep it here on al jazerra. four soldiers have been killed in an 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. a group of four refugees held in an australian detention center on the remote pacific island are being resettled in cambodia. they are the first to be moved under australia's controversial relocation scheme. rob mcbride has more. >> reporter: the four migrants arrived here at the international airport and were immediately spirited through the v.i.p. entrance, these are considered after all, to be

v.i.p. refugees well way from waiting media and taken now to an undisclosed location in the suburbs where their assimilation in to cambodian life will begin they will have language courses they will be given training for different trades, they will be given health insurance education and so on. all of these guarantees to help them assimilate in to life here. but, of course, these people have thought by now they would be assimilating happily in to life in australia. the australian authorities have different ideas. this agreement goes back to last september and this is only the first batch of refugees asylum seekers that have been convince today come here. the authorities both in cambodia and also in australia are hoping that this first batch will have such a smooth experience assimilating in to life here that many more will want to follow them. coming up on the program afraid to go home, university students left stranded by burundi's political stand off.

plus officials in nepal struggle to confirm who is entitled to financial assistance after the earthquake. he's now out on bail an exclusive interview

♪ ♪ welcome back. air reminder of the headlines we are following for you here on al jazerra. breaking news coming from ghana. at least 70 people have been killed in an explosion. the this happened at a gas station in the capital a.c.c. r.a. we are working to get you more information on that. the former top fifa executive chuck blazer told a u.s. judge that he and others agreed to

take bribes for the awarding of the 1998 and 2010 world cups. blazer's testimony in 2013 2013 was leased by the u.s. just department on wednesday. allegations made to al jazerra suggest that yemen's former president supported and even directed al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. a former al qaeda oop tiff who has become a government informant has spoken exclusively to our investigative unit. 3 million iraqis are in desperate need of help pushed out of their homes homes from the war with icing. e.u. is meeting later on thursday and hope cannot come fast enough. imran kahn has this from a camp for so-called internally displaced people in baghdad. >> reporter: this is a camp humanitarian aid groups seem to have forgotten or perhaps they didn't know it existed in the first place. witsit's one of many across baghdad

which houses iraqis who have escaped fighting in anbar, there is no help from the internationallal community here, this camp is rah be inning too early from local charitable donations for what little they have the people who live here are thankful. for the younger ones, war has left its mark. >> my children are quiet. they don't have the life they used to. they stay inside this tent and don't play. i say to them, go outside. but they never stay out for long. it's too hot and there is nothing for them to do. >> reporter: there are serious issue that his need to be addressed that only professionals can tackle but they are elsewhere. many of these children are suffering from stress-related psychological trauma in other camps health officials encourage them to draw pictures and talk about their experience to his help them cope. here they are left to their own devices. a nearby mosque has been turned in to i makeshift school but it can only cope with a limited number of children. and even here the lack of funding means there is little

that can be done i don't understand trying to keep the kids busy. >> translator: these children show signs of stress, we see children breakdown and cry regularly. they have nightmares and are withdrawn. it's taken us a few weeks to get them to play like this. >> reporter: the world health organization warns it is facing a severe funding shortfall to help iraqis. funding has been tight for a long time now and there wasn't any available to allocate to this camp. a funder shortfall might sounds like a very boring accountant term but has a severe impact on the people living here. if the international community runs out of money places like these will remain forgotten and the desperate situation these people are in will only get more desperate. imran kahn, al jazerra baghdad. the retrial of three al jazerra journalist is his due to resume in could cairo in about an hour. it was adjourned on monday after the prosecution's closing argument which claim the men endangered egypt's national

security australian journalist peter greste has not returned for the trial. they were arrested in december 2013 and originally sentenced between seven and 10 years in prison. people in nepal are working hard to rebuild homes shattered by the earthquake but not everyone is getting the help they desperately need. tenants are not entire titled to the same financial aid as homeowners harry fawcett reports. >> reporter: in this down brick by brick they are starting again. shatter the homes are being cleared out. building materials collected. all of this thanks to individual and community initiative. here as in so many places the earthquake has laid bare gaps in the governing system. their home is unsafe to live in. they have had just $20 in financial aid so far but they are more worried about their tenants. >> translator: when i asked the municipality to provide my

tenants with some relief. they said they have to go to their home villages. it is ill possible to legally provide them with relief here only homeowners are entitled to hem. >> reporter: the two families who use today live in their house, are here in the ground. the eners are policemen. only those that owned homes will get $150 towards shelters before the monsoon. >> translator: there are more tenants in need than homeowners since the rooms are destroyed where we will go? >> reporter: the government, keen to events double claiming says tenants can only get money if they can prove losses back in their home districts not where they happen to be homeless now. >> the government is going to provideal approximate. [ inaudible ] with local technology what, that tenant will do without that money?

since he has no land until in a particular place. >> reporter: such problems are compounded by what the quake says have done physically to the bureaucracy. the district office was almost entirely obliterated. personal paper trails among the damage. but there was one bit of good fortunate. entire shelves are still intact in the one surviving part of the building. given how much has been destroyed here, it's a huge stroke of luck for officials in the area that so much of the records have been preserved. but if you come around the back of the building, you find another tarp on top of a far less organized pile of paperwork. piecing all this together is going to be a mammoth task here and one that will have to be repeated at localities like this around the country. here few are waiting for helpful the two families that live in this shelter say it will be finished in days then they'll focus on rebuilding their businesses. starting out on the long road back to where life was when he earthquake struck. harry fawcett, al jazerra that

nepal. students in burundi's capital say they are too scared to go home. the university shutdown a month ago when protests began against the president's plans to run for a third term. many of them came from the country side, 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 pa control tro*el the country side. >> i can't go home because when we go home, there is a note from. [ inaudible ] we say that they must -- we must be followed. whenever we go. so when we go,.

>> 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 of -- from that ruling party, he has to go to the police stations and report the case the police is there to protect everybody. 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 happen area close to the united states embassy, they say they feel safe here hoping that no one targets them because the 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. the controversial elections which were due this month have been postponed possibly until

next month. >> every edition we need to be confident 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. updating the breaking news we are following for you coming from ghana 70 people killed in an explosion that happened in a gas station in the capital. that is where we are gathering more information. what do you know? >> reporter: well, this explosion happened late last night. as you said, at least 70 people that we know of have been killed. now, it's an extremely busy area in central firm acura.

and we have had days of heavy rain. and when people were sheltering from the rain in this gas take which is why there was such a large number of people there. we don't know what the cause of the explosion was but that explosion happened at a point where there was a lot of heavy flooding and of course, as you can imagine many people were affected the president is going around the area as we speak and looking at the situation there. and also the mayor of accra. so this is really a very bad situation for the city and also we are expecting more rain, which could compound the problem. >> all right so an already difficult situation because of the flooding, people seeking shelter from the flooding it ears peers someappears some of them have lost their life. we'll continue to report on that for you throughout the day.

a bomb hid nene pile of scrap metal has exploded in northeastern nigeria killing two people and injuring 33 on 33 others. it's the second blast in the city less than 24 hours. it went off 600 meters from an army barracks in the last few days 80 people have died in the area in suspected boko haram attacks. the president has repeat the his promise to did he beat boca huhal ramirez on a visit to niner and chad two neighbors part i've joints offensive against the armed group. >> translator: i renew my commitment to chase boko haram up to its last trench to his low bit rate it. five years of this evilness is enough nigerian old jeffs have suffered a lot of defeats but it's not the time to criticize. the neighboring country of thinger and chad i will visit tomorrow, going to sit down to refine a common strategy.

hundreds of black israelis have clashed with police in tel aviv. they were protesting against racism and calling for the police to be punished after another demonstration turned violent last month. this time no one was hurt but two pro tests were arrested. prime minute officer benjamin netanyahu has formed a cabinet committee to improve the integration of black israelis. the number of live samples of lanzarotte anthrax mailed from a u.s. military base across the country is double what was previously thought. the pentagon says more than 50 50 labs in 17 states received the sample as well as three foreign countries. an army testing facility in utah mistakenly sent the samples without proper safeguards. the pentagon is investigating why the mistake was made and is expect to go relieve a report at the end of the month. officials say there is no threat to the public. amateur cyber criminals are taking advantage of new cyber controls that can take advantage

of victims computers. >> reporter: here say 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. >> organize crime has moved in big time. we think probably it's bigger -- more involved in cyber crime than it is in drug crime now because actually they are just ruthless buffering american, there is a much bigger return on their investment. 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 criminals 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 ransom ware that's where you inadvertently give access to your machine to a huh beinger they take your data and then blackmail you saying pay up or we'll delete everything. evening worse they may take sensitive, embarrassing stuff and share it with the outside world. >> it's been increasing again and especially not only action tag civilians but also businesses infrastructure. and that's a real threat to the industry also. it's probably more profitable to do this once and get a million instead of trying attack 1,000 people and get 10 or 100 euros. >> reporter: another concern is the inter in the of things. from kettles to toothbrush to light dull bees our homes are getting more and more plugged in. and more and more hackable. in 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. for updates on news throughout the day you can always visit our website it is easy to find, aljazerra.com. 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 debate someone who says higher crime rates are partly the result of a so-called ferguson effect where police departments scale back