>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the news hour, i'm julie in doha coming up, in the program a shock in the arm for i.s.i.l. several sunni tribes in iraq pledges to the group fighting government forces. over 90 people are killed in explosion at a petrol station in ghanna. new documents reveal a former fifa executive took bribes to decide the 1998 and 2010 world

cup and another promises to disclose even more and a food scare in india, instand noodles made by nestle are ordered off the shelves. ♪ i.s.i.l. fighters have been given a boost in their war with iraq government and several shakes and tribes in anbar pledged allegiance to the group after meeting in fallujah pledged to the head of i.s.i.l. and we have more from baghdad. >> reporter: we have been expecting such a move for about two years because sunnis of anbar province complains to the government they have been ignored and sidelined and promised jobs and develop for anbar province and none has come. what is the catalyst part on

this? shia attack on anbar province and sunnis see that as sectarian and the language used in the statement is sectarian and refers to the irans and let's see what they have to say and how he is going to mount this next attack on iraqi security forces forces. >> translator: we announce our allegiance and support to islamic state and commander of the fateful and muslim shake and we tell him we will adhere to and follow his path and stand by him to fight the enemy of religion. >> as you heard damning words for the iraqi government and they face a challenge and can win back the support of the sunni tribes if it reaches out to them. however, many people here are dubious that will happen and had two years to reach out to sunnis and simply have not done it.

>> let's speak to our senior political analyst and is this yet another indication of just how disenfranchised and sidelined some people feel in iraq and chose to pledge allegiance to i.s.i.l. >> they feel they are stuck there and squeezed between radical sunni group, terribly violence one like i.s.i.l. and a terribly violent shia malitia group supported by central government in baghdad. at one point they went to baghdad hoping that abd rabbuh mansur hadi will be different than malaki and worked out a deal of what baghdad does liberate land from i.s.i.l. they will take care of it in cooperation with the government. and what did the government do? sent out shia malitias and under the slogan basically a very shia anti-sunni slogan and at the end of the day the sunni tribes feel

they are unarmed, exposed and squeezed and if they come to take revenge of them and if i.s.i.l. comes to rule them with blood and fire if you will so it's a very sad and very depressing situation for these tribes. >> and the iraq government accused of not having political reforms fast enough what is this going to mean now for the fight against i.s.i.l.? >> tribes in general and iraq and elsewhere historical speaking anthropology speaking if you will have an instinct for survival and i think this kind of an event that we saw just now it shows us that they look at political and security map in iraq and they are saying it's not what american officials are saying they are not winning, it's i.s.i.l. that has the upper hand it's i.s.i.l. that is expanding, the central government is on defensive and on defense of baghdad and that for survival is pushing them to say down what for now we will

side with that which is basically winning or that side which is really clear or that side that is stead fast. >> so you will have a situation where shia malitias go to areas to retake control and coming up against sunni tribes who pledged allegiance to i.s.i.l. and it will make tensions explode in iraq. >> we saw it in tikrit and when it took tikrit from i.s.i.l. what have they don't? revenge killings started. cleansing of sunnis from parts and destroying others and killings started. so these people feel that if the central government comes supported by iran supported shia malitias they are going to be punished if you will for being sunni anti-government and so on and so forth so i think in the end of the day what we are having and happens with all civil wars that reach this stage, the humanzation begins and dehumanization continues and the chism and gap between them

grows and leads to utter violence that basically takes its toll on those people and i think unless a third-party comes in and bridges we are going to see more of that kind of thing and more escalation and violence. >> the bad situation is getting worse and thank you for that our senior political analyst there. well the u.n. is appealing for almost half a billion dollars in urgent aid to provide humanitarian assistance for iraqis and three million people in desperate need of help pushed out of homes by i.s.i.l. and we have this report from a camp for internally displaced people near 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. it's one of many across baghdad which houses iraqis who escaped fighting in anbar and no help from the international community here this camp is run entirely

from local charitable donations. for what little they have the people who live here are thankful and the younger ones the war has left its mark. >> translator: my children are quiet, they don't have the life in them they used to and stay inside the tent about do not play and i say go outside but they never stay out for long and it's too hot and there is nothing for them to do. >> reporter: there are serious issues that 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 professionals encourage them to draw pictures and talk about their experiences to help them cope. here they are left to their own devices. and a nearby mosque turned into a 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 beyond trying to keep the kids busy. >> translator: these children

show signs of stress. we see children break down and cry regularly. they have nightmares and are withdrawn. it's taken us a few weeks to get them to play like this. >> the world health organization warns it's facing a severe help iraqi and funding has been tight a long time and nothing valuable to allocate to the camp. a funding short call may sound like a boring accounting term but has a severe impact on people who live there and if the international community does run out of money then places like these will remain forgotten and the desperate situation these people are in will only get more desperate. baghdad. in syria hundreds of people fled from a border town in raka residence and people from the towns are trying to cross the syrian/turkey border and opened one through the village and allowed people in but the official border remains closed.

elsewhere in syria there has been renewed fighting between rebel groups and i.s.i.l. fighters in the northern aleppo countryside and targeting i.s.i.l. positions and 8 people were killed in government air strikes in jamal town and here military helicopters dropped barrel bombs killing at least five people. ghanna an explosion caused by a fire killed 90 people at a petrol station and spread to neighboring buildings across and many people taking shelter in the station because of the torrential rain and flooding. >> a lot of people have lost their lives and i'm at a loss of words to express how i feel. many of them through the front and many of them through the fire incident and this is services for the villagers and

through the night many of them have not had sleep and we are closely monitoring the situation. and also to express my condolence to the several who have lost relatives and the victims of the flat. we will have to take some and avoid this happening in the future. we have the latest from the scene in central akra. >> you can see the devastation behind me. i've counted around 15 vehicles at this petrol station in central akra involved in this fire but there were many more pedestrians standing around as well and it's not just the petrol station the neighboring buildings were also effected and there were homes there and businesses there, some people were able to escape they were fortunate enough to be able to escape and other people were not so fortunate. now, the reason this was so terrible is because it was raining and there was heavy and

torrential rain and the whole area was flooded and we understand that fuel was leaking from this area and a fire started somewhere nearby and the two met and the whole place went up in flames and people are already asking questions about the way this country manages these heavy rains which causes flooding. this is an annual occurrence but because of this severity of the rains over the past few days it was very difficult for the emergency services to get here so people are looking at what is this country going to do to manage the annual flooding that happens and how we are going to prevent accidents like this happening in the future. to the fifa corruption scandal and the f.b.i. is refusing to confirm reports that fraud investigations include the 2018 and 2022 world cup bids. the u.s. justice department says former fifa executive chuck blazer has admitted to taking and arranging bribes and he says so did others for the 1998 and 2010 world cups.

former fifa vice president jack warner is promising to reveal what he calls an avalanche of secrets. >> these documents to my knowledge are on matters and the link between fifa and me. the link between fifa and congress and the people's party of government. this is an fiasco. and fifa are not limited to blatter and lastly other matters involved with the prime minister. >> reporter: south africa start add preliminary investigation in bribery allegations and lawrence lee has more from fifa headquarters in zurich. >> reporter: take the claims on the face of it and sound

absolutely explosive since the prime assertion is he wants to try to take down blatter and it's worth bearing in mind that this watch is frequently a little random and some people think he is a bit unhinged and it's in the mind he said some three years ago that he destroyed a lot of the documents that he now says are in the hands of a third-party, one would assume his legal team and he now wants to be put in the hands of american prosecutors. but i think the main point is intense that it seems for whatever reason that jack warner now has the knives out for blatter and why has he said the things? there is a red notice of him and under threat of arrest if he is to leave trinidad or seen what blazer has done is to cut a deal with the feds and thinks if he does this he will get a lesser indictment and gradually and over all you can see the

strategy for the f.b.i. in the states and working with interpoll trying to chip away around blatter and get at his left tenants to try to build a case against blatter starting to bear more fruit and bear in mind blatter has not resigned yet and still head of fifa and still at work now. some including the english futbol association are asking questions about the world cup of 2018 and 2022. russia says it's not worried. russian president vladimir said cooperation with fifa is going on and most importantly russia has preparations for the 2018 world cup. meanwhile qatar foreign minister says there is no way it will be stripped of right to host the 2022 world cup and also said it is very difficult for some to digest that they have the tournament as this right cannot be for an arab state and i think it's prejudice and racism we have this campaign against

qatar. coming up, here on the program angry relatives of cruise ship passengers fear drowned in china are demanding more information. also turkey's ruling party wants more than a win and a mandate for constitutional change and women's finalist to be decided at the french open and we will have the latest. ♪ is south korean capitol soul says a doctor infected with middle east respiratory syndrome came in contact with 1500 people and come as the country announced the third death from the virus and harry has more from seoul. >> this doctor had been treating patient number she # 14 in the midst of the out break and aware of the states involved given

instructions when it is seem he may have symptoms of mers and this individual was told to remain in self quarantine and the symptoms were confirmed earlier today and the doctor said he was patient number 35 or 36 so far confirmed but in the meantime during this supposed self quarantine period this individual went to a meeting at his or her apartment building and considering pulling down the apartment building and rebuilding it and we understand 1565 people were at that meeting. mers can't be contracted just through airborne transmission and it doesn't mean each one of those is in a very high risk but all of them are being treated and being quarantined and may well be it's not just them but family and close associates may have to be quarantined as well

and it gets worst because he went to a couple of symposiums this week as well and the people involved knows have yet to be traced and we don't know the total number of this but it's a vast increase on the 1600 people so far under quarantine just through the actions of this one. >> in india packets of a popular brand of instant noodle have been taken off supermarket shelves and states ban the sell of noodles after dangerous high lead was found and lead levels are within acceptable limits but the government ordered an investigation. and we have the chief operating officer at voice society which specializes in consumer education and explains what the legal procedures involved are. >> each state has to basically take nestle to court and file a complain against them for what has taken place.

very obviously there are some states which have found no reasons of excessive lead or msg and those states won't be filing the cases. at the central level we have consumer after affairs that has a suit since 1986 with national consumer forum and the hearing will begin of that and the notice has already been served to nestle on this and there are two types of action happening here at the state and the central level. relatives of the 400 cruise ship passengers feared drown in china are growing increasingly angry over the lack of information they are given and questioning how most of the 14 survivors are crew members and rescuers are drilling holes in the hull but without success as adrian brown reports. >> reporter: they are still calling it a rescue operation but it's the dead and not the living they are finding now. the weather is making that task

much more dangerous. it briefly halts the work of rescuers drilling holes in the up turned hull and eventually got inside and found no one alive. the officials expect to soon begin the delicate task of lifting the vessel from the water, an indication they feel will are no more survivors. on a day when the confirmed death toll continued to rise more bodies arrived at the local morgue where the painful process of identification lies ahead. that is what pan-am is waiting for, his grandfather is one of the missing. >> translator: i should have spend more time with him after i came home from overseas. we let him travel alone with some friends and didn't expect this. >> reporter: they are trapped in the cold administration of loss. at the local hospital other families gather round the front desk desperately offering phone numbers asking to be called if

there is any news. at a meeting with a government official they are told that the priority now is to save lives, not identify bodies please be patient he tells them. but they weren't patient on wednesday night as they tried to breakthrough a police cord after being access to the rescue site. many of the families continue to direct their anger against the authorities. they complain of a lack of information, a lack of sympathy and question why so many other survivors were members of the crew. >> translator: i want a responsible attitude from the government i hope the government can think about their move. >> reporter: sensing the mood might become more hostile and police outside the hospital have been issued megaphones and june the fourth is a sensitive day in china, student protests were put down violently 26 years ago and today the government is becoming increasingly in lyly intolerant from

decent and grieving families demanding answers, brown in southern china. eu warning renewed fighting in eastern ukraine may lead to full scale war and people killed in the town of mirinka and home high school damaged in donetsk and the force fighting since the ceasefire started in february. ukrainian yanukovich president for porshenko warned about this. >> this is not the first time that the president porshenko accused russia of having soldiers in eastern ukraine and russia maintained its stance that is a complete lie, vladimir putin the president described anyone found in eastern ukraine of the nationality they are fighting is a volunteer but certainly there are a lot of russian troops on that border.

we were down there last week and saw a lot of russian military equipment, a lot of troops in that area, russia says that it's all part of military exercises and maintains it has a right to conduct those military exercises anywhere it likes on russian territory and analysts we have spoke to and describe the weapons that we saw to them say this is an indication of two things possibly one a troop rotation the troops being changed having served down there for a year but they also said it potentially showed what they described as the beginnings of a summer campaign but of course we cannot confirm information like that and it's something the russians continue to deny and fire fair to say there are a lot of russian military bases in that area and have been there for a long time. with respect to the peace process,000 certainly developments in the last 24 hours pose a great challenge just in the last hour or so

though a representative for the self proclaimed donetsk people's republic has told a russian t.v. channel that is the dpr and fully behind in acting and standing by this minsk two agreement and working towards a permanent ceasefire and permanent political solution to the conflict in eastern ukraine. turkey's voters elect a new parliament on sunday and ruling justice and development party facing the most challenging election yet and erdewan is hoping the party will win seats to press for constitution change and we report from istanbul. >> reporter: prime minister on the campaign trail for weeks meeting voters across turkey in the run up to what many expect to be significant elections. his party the akp is widely predicted to win but the question is by how much. the past two years have been tough on the akp and economy has hit some road bumps and accused

of antidemocratic practices and have been allegations of corruption. most of that criticism though has been directed at erdewan the former prime minister elected president last summer allowing for him to take office. this is the first time in ten years the act party will be contesting general elections without erdewan. the man main main is the country foreign minister and current pm. the party is hoping that a win in this election will prove that people vote for them based on their policies and not based on personalities. we caught up with him on his campaign bus to find out what the main challenges he believes his party faces. >> there are many expectations for people because of the success story, the standards and expectations today in turkey is much higher than 2002 and we are increasing the standards to another level when we came

around $2700 now $10400. >> people say it's based on personality and not policies, what do you say to those people? >> our party is a part of ideals and targets. in that sense we have many skillful candidates skillful leaders of the party. >> reporter: it's not only erdewan what is absent from these elections, 73 of the akp's most experienced politicians will also not be running. that allowed for new faces to emerge from the youth and female ranks. some 95 candidates are below the age of 40 and there are record 99 women running for parliament. among them is this one. >> translator: there are many more young and female candidates in the direction compared to the previous years. this has really energized our campaign. >> reporter: turkish society has historically created icons

from the country's founding father to current president erdewan. whether these elections will further the legacy of one man, create a legacy for another or strengthen its democracy al jazeera, istanbul. still to come here on the news hour did yemen's former president cooperate with al-qaeda? the former turned informer talks to al jazeera. venezuela needs higher oil price to boost a failing economy but will it be a long-term solution and putting your best foot forward, lebron james steals the show against golden state and who will be smiling after game one and we have details coming up, in sport. ♪

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>> for 6 months, the road outside the us embassy in yemen was closed... >> two car bombs exploded this morning... >> three days before the attack it was re-opened without warning. >> they would not have been able to get the car bombs to the front of the embassy. >> did yemeni officials knowingly allow these attacks? >> did you prepare the bomb? >> former al qaeda operative reveals groundbreaking allegations... >> they'd be surprised if the fbi didn't wanna talk to this guy.... >> watch the investigation al qaeda informant only at aljazeera.com welcome back i'm julie and the top stories on al jazeera, i.s.i.l. fighters given a boost in war with iraqi government and

sunni tribes pledged allegiance to them. explosion in ghanna killed 90 people and fire spread to buildings in the capitol and many people were taking shelter from torrential rain and flooding and former fifa warner is promising to reveal what he calls an avalanche of secrets at the world's governing body and chuck blazer admitted taking and arranging bribes for the cuts. houthi rebels in yemen have attempted to storm the city of tias and shelled pro-government positions and have been met with fierce resistance and victoria gatenbee reports. >> reporter: this is once a quiet residential area but the southern city has become a battleground. fighters loyal to yemen president in exile abd rabbuh mansur hadi have come under heavy fire. and rebels along with forces

loyal to former president saleh have been trying to push their way into in area but so far their advance has been repelled. >> translator: fierce fighting has taken place between the resistance and the houthis but we will fight them until we die or achieve victory. >> reporter: this was the birth place of the up rising in 2011 and seen as a gateway to southern yemen and both sides are fighting hard to control it. >> translator: there are clashes but we are here to respond to them and we will defeat the houthis and prosaleh forces. >> reporter: behind the front lines there are many unarmed people suffering and the humanitarian situation is worsening for lack of essentials like food and water, victoria with al jazeera. there have been more saudi-led coalition air strikes in yemen, government buildings occupied by houthi fighters and

armed depo were targeted in the city and several rebel fighters and forces loyal to saleh are reported killed. saleh accused of double dealing with al-qaeda and the united states former al-qaeda operative that become a government informant has spoken exclusively to al jazeera and supported and directed al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula despite the united states being a long time supporter for him. >> reporter: this attack killed eight spanish tourists and al-qaeda fighters claimed responsibility but this man says there is much more to the story and it may involve the former yemen president saleh. >> saleh has ties.

and he was a member of al-qaeda until his arrest by pakistan intelligence and cia in 2004. return to yemen and jailed until 2006 he was released and began his work as a paid informant for the yemen 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 in sanaa left 19 dead. and again he says he warned the security services three months before a week before and three days before. >> translator:

his handler as an informent was his nephew colonel saleh and he didn't just ignore the attacks and went so far to hand over money for explosives used by the embassy and arranged for the materials to be given to the commander of al-qaeda in the peninsula rainey. al jazeera verified his background within al-qaeda and we have also established that he was a bar maker, that is 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 this is a guy who in substantial measure is who he says he is. he knows these people. he has insights into how they operate. if you look back at the history of al-qaeda there has been very people that have come out with detail of what is really going on at the top and somebody being able to report what was going on over a period of months even perhaps years and 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 and colonel could not be reached for comment.

. he says he is willing to testify in front of any international panel in order to bring justice. clayton switcher al jazeera. and you can watch the full documentary al-qaeda informant from 20 gmt on thursday and it's also online on al jazeera.com/al-qaeda informant. there are extended interviews articles and lots more. the retrial of three al jazeera journalists have been adjourned again by a week and the case cousin first adjourned after closing argument said they endangered national security and mohamed was present and greste has not returned for the trial. european countries try to tackle the flow of migrants arriving on the shores the navys continue to rescue people of people crossing the mediterranean on rickety boats and we witnessed one

operation firsthand. >> reporter: it took 16 hours to reach this part of the mediterranean sea we are 14 nautical miles from libya, in international waters on patrol. and weather conditions are good enough. the crew has no doubt that somewhere in the past they are helpless migrants it's just a matter of finding them. the camera combs the water and here they are. commander says there are two boats in the area. as we approach the closest one, it becomes clear the rubber dinghy is over crowded and 124 people are packed into a small 10 meter space and have been in the sea for at least eight hours. so they are saying they left here at 6:00 in the morning and

that this skipper abandon them. they have no more water. now, the reason we came on this dinghy is because the water, the sea is slightly rough so they would rather escort the dinghy to the main vessel than actually bring the vessel which can create a bit more waves and they can panic and then it can cap size. it's a delegate maneuver slowly pushing it to the ship. the migrants don't know how to swim and they are tired and some have severe scabies and others dehigh dehigh -- dehydrated and they are safe but they need to sit down and above all stay calm. the first one off is the only

child on board. so time for the struggle to the rescuers and the last one up is this man with a broken leg and he had been lying at the bottom of the dinghy and it's in plywood and soaked and the water is seeping in a little longer it would have all sank. eight nautical miles further northeast the second rubber dinghy desperately trying to send distress signal and they are somalis and the engine broke down and they were floating aim aimlessly and there are many women here and some pregnant and have been in the water for 20

hours. everyone is exhausted and frightened. their legs are numb. some need to be held and others limp. in little over an hour 234 people were saved. the crew is also tired but proud that yet again they saved lives. the people here are hungry but they can't eat yet. the sea is getting rougher and they could get sick if they had food. in the meantime they fall into a deep sleep, the first rest without fear in a very long time, al jazeera, in the mediterranean sea. thailand's prime minister has been talking to al jazeera and he says he is committed to restoring democracy despite several election delays and human rights groups continuing to accuse the government of stifling decent and parties following last year's military coup and correspondent scott

hider has more from bangkok. former army prime minister says he is a reluctant leader. and wants to make it clear he is a soldier, not a politician. >> looking forward your goal as you say is to hold democratic elections and you stop democracy in thailand and you are on the road as you say giving it back to democracy, what will your role be once elections take place? >> translator: under our roadmap we already passed the first phase and currently in the second phase which is drafting a constitution, the permanent one. when people are okay with the new constitution it will lead to another phase, general election. after election i will pack my bag and go home. ly be sitting at home, watching thailand progress in the right direction direction. >> reporter: the prime minister and tie land are in the middle of the asian crisis and last

week in bangkok a murder to coordinate emergency operations for those still out at sea. on wednesday a three-star thai army general turned himself in accused of being involved in human trafficking and says he is innocent. just recently one officer has been implicated in being involved in these human trafficking networks. how do you respond to that? because we were hearing from top brass in the military and from the administration that no military was involved and now we are. >> translator: i said there was no military involvement in this yet, this is because we didn't find any evidence. now we found traces to him he must be involved in the trafficking ring. one thing i would like to make clear is this military government has been working hard on solving human trafficking problems. there was not any other government before working as we do now. it is not an easy task to

cleanup the whole network or system. >> reporter: and there are many more challenges the prime minister will face before the delayed elections take place. and that means much more work before he can, as he says step out of the political spotlight and watch from home. scott with al jazeera, bangkok. 12 producers of opec are due to meet in vienna on friday and if they will pump out at the current rate of 30 million barrels a day or calling for a cut, erica wood has more. >> reporter: big oil companies like bp and exxon have been going to opec to ask them to drop production so prices can be pushed backup and major job losses in the oil industry in the past few months because a year ago crude peeked at $111 a barrel and january though the price had dropped to a five-year low of $49 a barrel.

the price has recovered slightly to around $63 but oil extraction is an expensive business and not enough to cover producers costs and back in november some of opec members led by venezuela had a bid to convince producers to do it and it failed and before friday meeting the biggest producer saudi arabia has already again rejected a cut in output and opec are not the only countries at stake and 60% of the oil is produced in countries outside of the block and most notably the united states and russia and oil producers and analyst analysts say a fair price is around $80 a barrel. venezuela leading courts to reduce oil production and hard hit by the drop in prices. and virginia reports from caracus. first to stand in line for hours to find the most basic of

food item the average venezuela person is not likely to pay attention to the opec meeting in vienna and so much if not all of the oil-rich they shun's future is hinged are on this week's meeting. >> translator: if oil prices go up or down i don't really know how that effects us and what effects us is the way the country is in and we depend on oil for everything i don't get it you have to spends your life on a line to find meat coffee and even toilet paper. >> reporter: oil-producing countries weathered the price drop from $100 to half venezuela is the hardest hit and oil prices may not be solely to blame for the faltering economy. >> translator: the financial crisis in venezuela comes not only as a result of the drop in oil prices but failing to save during the times of bonanza and

countrys like norway and saudi arabia invested and we went on a never ending feast. >> reporter: fund opec to protect prices and a crucial player for years and some say chevez was behind record prices and today they lost almost all leverage and despite maduras to recover oil prices earlier this year saudi arabia and even iran and iraq are looking to boost production. venezuela on the other hand has seen its production stagnate. even after an unprecedented wind fall from record high oil prices venezuela unable to tap into the oil reserves the largest proven in the world and yet president madura is confident his oil-dependent country will withstand the current oil prices. >> translator: even if the price drops to 0 no one will stop venezuela.

we have already recovered some of the price. little by little. >> reporter: but with little chance of increasing production and with experts predicting oil prices eventually setting at $60 that are not close to end the long wait in line and returning home empty handed virginia lopez, caracus, venezuela. handy ideas for space exploration. i'm at the european space agency and in a robotic lab where the idea of remote control has been taken to another level. and in sport we will hear from fifa president jack warner who is going to release aaf landing landing -- avalanche against the organization.

♪ time for the sport. >> number one serena williams is on court right now fighting for a place in the final of the french open the 33-year-old is bidding for her 20th grand slam single's title and taking on switzerland pachinski and is 3-2 in the first set and broken early. will face the final match and the czech when it opened and beat the 2008 french in sets 7-5, 7-5 and the first grand slam 13th seed final. former fifa vice president warner says he will reveal what he knows about corruption at the

world futbol body and 72-year-old is one of 14 indicted in a u.s. investigation claimed in a t.v. address that what he has documents and passed to a third-party and repeated claims at a political rally in trinidad. >> i also will give them my knowledge of further transactions at fifa and including but not limited to blatter and i have been here 30 years and is that a step down? my friends, who came here what we did or didn't do. and this is fifa practice for 100 years. >> and follow revelations of

blazer and he and others took arranged bribes in connection with the 1998 and 2010 world cup and details revealed by u.s. justice department and released a transcript of the 2013 court hearing and plead guilty to ten criminal counts including money laundering racketeering and tax evasion. and the revelation from czech means the votes for world cups and futbol tournaments spanning two decades have been tainted and started in 1992 when transcript were awarded hosting rights for 1998 world cup and blazer the secretary-general at the tile admitted he facilitated bribes with other people and 1996 was when blazer joined fifa executive committee and that year was the first of five gold cup tournaments and he accepted kickbacks for broadcast rights and moving to 2004 and america admitted accepting payments to support south africa warded the

2010 cup and morocco a lesser bribe and in 2011 he led an investigation of his boss jack warner and mohamed both being kicked out of fifa for corruption and in the same year he was a cooperating witness for the f.b.i. and blazer assisted them with the current investigation and plead guilty to a series of charges and left the executive committee in the same year. and earlier i spoke to andrew from inside world futbol and said revelations from warner and blazer and with warner his claims had to be treated with caution. >> tends to shoot his mouth off and four years ago he had an futbol tsunami and got one with batter's resignation but i don't think at that time that warner thought that would happen. in terms of blatter's resignation i think really it's one of two things.

either he could be implicated in either of these investigations going on one by the u.s. federal authorities and one by the swiss although i have to say at this stage he has not been in any way implicated or he just got, you know if you like overwhelmed by the avalanche of corruption allegations and thought enough is enough and he is there for the time being at least and he until replaced in march. finals go on with golden warriors and cavs in game one and making the first appearance in the final since 1975 and are the favorites heading into thursday's game led by this season mvp and war warriors had 67 games and lebron james and the man known as king james and appropriate footwear and playing in the nba for the 6th

time and the chicago blackhawks have 1-0 lead in the stanley cup finals over tampa bay lightning and had to come from behind to beat them and lightning went ahead in the first period to alex and chicago are back in the game with the third period and putting them on level terms. and eventually sealing the win, final score is 2-1, game two of best of 7 series takes place on saturday. >> i thought we got better as the game and the second was better than the first and slow in third and that happened with the rush as well and a huge goal of traffic and nice shot by bermie and it was a great period. >> reporter: lots more spot on our website, for the very latest check out al jazeera.com/sports and we have videos and blog kits from correspondents around the world and that is the sport and

more later. how about this for a farfetched idea imagine a handshake which stretches from the netherlands to the international space station. our technology editor sarah has been seeing how advanced robotics are helped to revolutionize the way we explore the universe. >> handshake. >> reporter: in the lab in the netherlands the movement of a joystick signals success. and linked to another joystick controlled by nasa astronaut on the international space station and both feel the force of the other pushing and pulling with the tiniest of delay. >> we control the joystick on ground and we shook hands actually and that is astronaut and felt his seat back on the hand and had video reality overlaid to it and we showed that it is possible to actually literally reach down to ground and touch things on the surface. >> you put your arm there. >> reporter: and team working

on a robot exo skeleton to make the technology much more user friendly. with my arm in the exo skeleton i'm immediately able to manipulate the movement of this robotic arm, in this case just a few meters away. and once this technology is fully developed that robot arm could be in space or even on another planet. >> astronauts have places to execute and also controlling robots and requires months or even years of training to be an expert operator and the idea is having a more interface you can reduce training time not only for astronauts and using robotics to execute different activities. >> reporter: researchers said it could allow around the moon or planet like mars to have work on the surface below and could use a robotroffer without having

to endure the harsh atmosphere and without the 12 minute delay when signals go to earth. >> in space you have one chance to perform the operation because of timeline restrictions and orbit dynamics and restraints and astronauts need to be well trained so when they take the action in orbit they do it correctly. >> reporter: for now the team is celebrating the technical success of their trial and other tests planned in september with a more advanced robot and each step they say is closer to realizing the potential of machines to give a helping hand. >> nice to meet you. >> reporter: i'm with al jazeera, at the european space and technology research center in the netherlands. having fun there and that is it for this news hour we will be handing you over to our colleagues in london but for now from all of us here in doha

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backing isil several sunni tribes pledge support to the group in another setback for the government and army. ♪ i'm lauren taylor is this al jazeera live from london. more than 90 people are killed at an explosion at a petrol station in ghana. and jack warner vows to expose all he knows about corruption in