killing an american soldier at 15... >> i start hearing americans and their screaming and i thought, umm i'm just gonna throw this grenade... >> after 13 years, he's now out on bail an exclusive interview guantanamo's child - omar khadr only on al jazeera america possibly the biggest theft of u.s. government data ever. china says it's not to blame. hello, welcome to al jazerra live from doha. i am jane butt dutton. a deadly respiratory illness spreads in south korea. an infected doctor had contact with 1500 people. this ceo maintains maggie noodles are safe to eat in india. a high level of led content forces them off the shelves. a decade after their

destruction by the taliban the area is making somewhat of a cultural comeback. it's been revealed that 4 million current and former u.s. federal employees were hit by a cyber attack last month. the u.s. suspects china but the chinese embassy in washington says such accusations are irresponsible. patty culhane reports from washington. >> reporter: there will likely be the largest theft of u.s. government data in the history of the united states. so here is what we know. the office of personnel management or o.p.m. as it's called was hacked and they discovered it in april of this year. basically, o.p.m. is like the human resources department for the entire federal government. they do the security back ground checked for people who want to get security clearances. so 4 million peel, they say former and current federal employees had their information compromised. there are just over 4 million federal employees right now.

so they are going to be contacting these people offering them some sort of credit monitoring service for a year and a half. the big question remained, exactly what information was stolen. was it social security numbers your federal i.d. or salary information. >> reporter: right now o.p.m. isn't saying. >> and it is the third major breach by foreign hackers on u.s. government data in just over a year. last october the white house and the state department found their systems compromised by an alleged russian cyber attack, the hackers reportedly accessed press warm's unclassified e-mails. march last year alleged chinese hackers accessed dates from the u.s. office of personnel management before they were did he detective are texted and did hediddidhe detected and blocked but apparently not data was spine. martin author of the book cyber deter dent and cyber war he

says the hacked information could be used for attracting surprise. >> profiles of employee is reveal information that suggest they may be good recruits for espionage purposes. if they are in financial troubles have health issues if they need money for some reason, if for some reason there may be something that their background that they want to hide are potential indicators for people to suggest who is worth recruiting. in india the global head of swiss company is maggie noodles are safe to eat. he also says he's working with the government to bring them back on the shelves as soon as possible. company withdrew it's a popular brandt of instant noodles after dangerously high levels of led were enlargedly found in some samples. some states have banned its sell and raids are happening.

[ inaudible ] we are collecting samples from around the state and tests being conducted until we get all the tests we are ordered a stop on the sale of maggie products. south korea's health ministry has confirmed death of a fourth person in an outbreak of middle east respiratory syndrome on mers. the number of inning selected people have risen to 41. it's said that a doctor came in to contact with 15 hum people. >> reporter: the government is publically taking mesh tours stop the spread of mers. the news that a merged about this one doctor is something that will concern people nationwide. what we understand happened was that on the 27th of may he encountered a patient treating a patient with mers. two days later he developed what the health ministry says were mild symptoms, he feels toll not

to come in to work but wasn't told to quarantine him s the following day he attended a meeting of owners of this big apartment complex in southern seoul of which he is one about redeveloping the place 1,565 attendees at that meeting of the seoul city government says they weren't properly informed of this by the health minute industry and they came out the mayor came out in an overnight press conference, to publicize this fact, and saying that they would be contacting each of those people and issuing them with instructions to quarantine themselves. the government, the health minute tree says that they have a different judgment over the kind of exposure that these people would have been libel to that the exposing our wasn't prolonged enough or close contact enough for mers to have been a real transmission threat at that meeting. however there is a real difference of opinion between the seoul government. the national government and it's something which won't assuage

concerns growing more widely about the spread of this disease. with no hope of finding anymore survivors disaster teams in china have fully righted the cruise ship that capsized in the yangtze river on monday. most of the 400 passengers aboard were elderly tourists, more than 90 bodies have been recovered but hundreds more are still missing. adrian brown now has a report. >> reporter: slowly more and more of eastern star is starting to appear as this salvage operation continues. it began late on thursday night the rescue operation is really been helped by a vast improvement in the whelgtser conditions here, we have torrential rain in this part of china for the past few days, what's happening is this, two 500-ton cranes are either side of the capsized vessel. a series of steel cables are being used to support the vessel. and this gives the jibs on the crane something to attach to.

a fast net is also in the operational area to catch any debris or body that his fall in to the water. this operation is confirmation that the authorities accept there can be no survivors. relatives and families of the missing have been a raving in the city. there are now some 1200 of them and last nate in the city there was a candle-lit individual ill by this community which has been so traumatized by the events of the past few days, they feel great sorrow that something so tragic should have happened close to their city. every day hundreds of migrants heading for europe have been picked up by rescue boats in the mediterranean many are still recovering from the ordeal they endured before embark on the ground their difficult journey. a report from off the italian island of lampedusa. >> reporter: their stories are common ones of escape from war

oppression and poverty. their ordeals a symbol of the many troubles of our times. ricking their lives across the mediterranean sea was their only option. they were found adrift in the water by the italian border police, the rush to get on board the italian ship a testimony of how frightened they are stranded in the water with no coast in sight. he says the libyan skipper abandoned them. they had no water or foot. no one knew how to steer the boat. people were panicking. their suffering is etch odd their faces some stair in to owe oblivion. perhaps trying to come to terms when what they have been through. she lester had children would her mother, her husband is in yemen she lost contact with him when war broke out. >> translator: we could not talk

or ask anything in libya. any time we opened our mouth they beat us with a stick they raped us until we paid upon money, it was horrible. i never expected to be treated like that in an arab country. there was no mercy. i really thank italy nobody has been so nice with us in a long time. >> reporter: the women huddle together. even though the ship is slowly taking them away from the african coast. forgetting the rape and humiliation won't be possible. some are pregnant. there are also many teenagers she first fled from somalia to yemen but war caught up with him so he had to move again. >> in sudan i was captured and locked in the house for 18 days i escaped and we want to live ya. i was pennyless, i went to yemen hoping to find some compassion, but nothing. >> translator: today is my

birthday when i touch lands i will drink 10 pepsis to celebrate. it's a new beginning. >> reporter: the deck was silent silent. life returns on deck. now there are smiles, perhaps the first once in a long type. the moment they can get off the boat and touch land. meaning they are in europe, a whole new life starting even though they don't know what it means. there is a rush to get off the she. this time there is a excitement maybe even amazement that after sewing they are lucky and made it to europe. the thai prime minister says he's determined to crack down on human trafficking. says it's one of his

government's top three priorities after the resents discovery of graves. >> reporter: people in thailand's government know the recent exposure of camps of trafficked pima long the border between thailand and malaysia and the boats of mostly rohingyas floating off thailand's west coast has put issue of human tracking which it comes to thailand on the international agenda like never before. there have been events like this in the past to mark tie hand's anti-hugh tran trafficking day but people say in previously years it was just officials slapping each other on the back and giving each other awards. the president is here to give the keynote address suggests this issue is being taken more seriously he was keen to points out that this issue was one of his government's top three priorities and officials were hand on the ground you want the list of amendments.

which impose much tougher penalties on those caught human tracking the issue is whether this will amount to more prosecutions because thailand's record on that is poor, 127 people were successfully prosecuted last year a number even lower than the previous year despite the general consensus this is issue is getting worse not better. sessions like this one all very well but unless they have a practical impact on the ground they are not worth all that that of. in kenya, five suspects have been charged with the attack on the garissa university college in april have playeded not guilty. they allege they were tortured for 10 days, including being electrocuted and beaten. four somalis and a tan tanzanian were charged with un52 acts of committing terrorism. al-shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in which 148 people were killed. coming up on the program oil ministers from the opec cartel gather in vienna as prices are on a downward slade.

slide. as malaysia host bali wood night's biggest year and how it's helping the indian film industry.

hello again, a reminder of the head lines on al jazerra it's been revealed that 4 million current and former u.s. federal employees were hit by a cyber attack last month. the u.s. suspects china but the chinese embassy in washington says such accusations are irresponsible. south korea's health

ministry has confirmed death i've fourth person in an outbreak of middle east respiratory syndrome or march ers. number of affected people has risen to 41 and it's emerged an infected south korean doctor came in to contact with more than 1500 people. india's foot safety regulate -- food safely t* at this regulator has banned the sale of maggie noodles can go them to recall them from the market. they up sifter they are safe to eat. the 12 members of the oil block owe beck are meet in this austrian capital of vienna, they are expecting to go decide whether they'll change productive levels. so any sign if they will or won't change production levels? >> reporter: despite the recent collapse it's expected that the output level will remain the same. evan lift we have spoken to

since yesterday said they don't expect any surprises today they expect everything to remain the same as it has been and expect the meeting to be quite short. here is our report. in vee en arc the petroleum powerhouses put on a happy face. none more so that saudi arabia oil minister looking comfortable in the spotlight, he was very clearly the star of this show. he and other gulf allies projected an air of calm and an aura of confidence. >> the signs we have seen in the first quarter are encouraging. the growth in demand the possibilities and the predictions that the agencies put are all encouraging. >> reporter: at an opec seminar optimism flowed as fast and thick as the oil these countries produce. analysts said the outcome is predictable. unlike november's meeting when

oil prices fell sharply they are expected to remain unchanged. i think it will be a difficult day for a lot of us trying figure out what to say about something where i don't see anything happening at all. no drivers for them to make any sort of change any point. if he peck does as expected keeping it's output target of 30 million-barrels a day oil prices will be 50% lower than this "the stream" stage last year. a decline to member countries in venezuela that las been detrimental. they are trying to stabilize the mark one experts say will make very little difference. >> i would call them the coalition of the unable and unwilling. which is they really wants the cut to take place but they don't have the capacity to do that whatsoever so it's a futile exercise. >> reporter: bow in "the stream" day nothing got in the way of the niceties. even increased production of u.s. shale oil seen leo peck as

such a threat craft lear is being tolerated. the harsh realities of gio politics rarely rear their ugly heads, but the recent advance buys isil and iraq, are certainly cause for concern. u.s. in attacks on oil installations continue. with capacity growth expected to rise in iraq, supply discorruptions could wreak havoc with the marketplace. the other potential wildcard is iran. which if allowed to enter the market could inject it with uncertainty. worries that may be very real, but that amid this backdrop remain as hidden as undiscovered crude. there are some officials here that expressed frustration with the current levels of output and the way the prices are rights now. countries like venezuela whose economy has taken a beating because of the low oil prices

the fact of matter is this is a show of unity and what's driving this minute steer gel meeting are the gulf countries like saudi arabia, the uae. and essentially what werek peckings is that everything will remain unchanged. jane. >> all right, thank you for that mohamed. allegations made to al jazerra suggest at least seven yemeni government officials knew where al qaeda's chief bomb maker was hiding despite that, he is still a wanted map a form he al qaeda on tiff that became a government informant has told al jazerra's investigative unit he exposed the explosive expert's whereabouts phil jordan reports. >> reporter: ibrahim, one of the world's most wanted men. thought to be al qaeda's top bomb maker. he reportedly built the devices in some of the group's most daring attacks omar's underwear bomb on delta airlines flight 253 christmas day 2009. and explosives hid nene printer

on a cargo plane a year later. this al qaedanformant says he has told the yemen government where he was riding. he says he informed on al qaeda from 2006 until 2009. he had been a member of the group since the late 1990s. he met the bomb maker in 2008 in yemen. where he was hiding. >> reporter: he says i object ream was training many in al wide kidalqaeda.

and informed many including saleh's nephew, deputy director of the national security bureau. >> reporter: the colonel could not be reached for comment. he says he was fooled and so was the united states in many western -- and many western governments, today ibrahim has still not been caught. and the threat of a bomb of his made on a plane remained, will jordan, al jazerra. you can watch the full documentary al qaeda informant from 12 gmt on friday.

and it's online at aljazerra.com/al qaedainformant, you'll also find extending interviews articles and lots more. u.s.-led coalition forces have reportedly carried out air strike on isil positions in northern a help and so syria. isil's strong hold in the towns were targeted. opposition fighters have reportedly taken control of a town south of a help aleppo after heavy fighting with syrian government forces. a senior u.s. diplomat has warned of a possible collapse of the state in burundi if its president runs for a third term think u.s. assistant secretary of state was speaking during a visit to democratic republic of congo. there have been protests against the president there for weeks. ghana's president has called for three days of mourning at least 150 people were killed in flooding as well as an explosion

at a petrol station now a report. >> reporter: a combination of flood and fire in the capital has led to the deaths of many. an explosion and fire at a petrol station late on wednesday night killed scores of people. more and more bodies were discovered during the clean-up operation. he survived the inferno. >> translator: the fire came with such fury that before you could think of escaping it was upon you. >> reporter: the people in these vehicles thought they had found a safe place to seek shelter from the heavy rains eyewitnesses say there was a loud explosion and within a matter of minutes this entire place was ungulfed in flames. it's not clear exactly where where the fire started but the flames were fueled from the petrol station ghana's president saw the damage for himself. >> a lot of people have lost their lives, i am very -- i am

at a loss of words to express how i feel. many of them through the flood and then many of them through the fire incident. i want to commend the security services for their diligent throughout yester years night many have not had any sleep. >> reporter: she is salvaging what she can her house is near the bunt out petrol station. >> translator: i thank god for my life. as for these material things we can always work to replace them. >> reporter: heavy rain causes page or flooding in the capital every year. many gutters are choked with rubbish. here in an area cars were swept away by the flood. >> this is the first major major disaster that we are this magnitude level. [ inaudible ] and i think.

[ inaudible ] we will put heads together to find a solution to this disaster. >> reporter: and people now homeless such as helene, a want to see government action to improve the way this annual problem is dealt with. al jazerra. now, are the world was shocked back in 2001 when the afghan taliban blew up the saint buddhist statues. now almost 15 years later the ancient city has been declared a capital of culture among south african -- south asian nations nicole johnston has more. >> reporter: as you may know, europe has a cultural capital every year now south asia has decided to have one as well. so it's a try coup for afghanistan and the valley that they have decided that this should be the first one. but in many ways there is a symbolic largely symbolic and

naming of the cultural capital because there is major security concerns now, this weekend we have huge delegation of hundreds of officials from across afghanistan here for the inauguration, we are also expecting some south asian hypo visuals and minister to his come here to celebrate it as well. but we have just heard from local officials that they won't be coming because of the security concerns that's a major concern for afghanistan and here, that is how can they secure the country to be ready to receive foreign tourist to his try to bring in investment and development and create a tourism industry. india's bollywood is one of the largest producers of movies in the world ask over the past few years the international indians film academy awards has become a high-profile events. a report from koala lumpur. >> reporter: this is more just a song and dance for these

teenagers, it's a lesson in their culture. >> it links us back definitely to india because that's the origin of where everything started and we feel very much connected outside of india. just because of bollywood movies and to way favorite stars on screen. >> reporter: they are spawning industries around the world. >> nothing is more lucrative than films so now everybody wants a pie of it. and they want to attract shootings in the country. sideline events are also organized today cater to each country. foe some, it's trade. for mclaren action it's tourism. according to the awards

organizer, thousands of people will be flying in to kuala lumpur, they are expecting to spend about $20 million that's just over the three days of the ceremony. close to half of a billion people will be watching malaysiamalaysiashowcase the vent. so what duds bollywood get out of it? >> the objective is i think toll take indian cinema global. and that's what we have achieved now. >> reporter: the event is held in i different country each year. >> you did he had not just the committed boll bollywood audience who are watching bollywood in any case but you get new eyeballs which is what this awards turns should be aiming to achieve. so has it, is it possible to see in concrete terms whether it's increased bollywood's following abroad. that's impossible to say. >> reporter: indian born fashion designer says she believes in bollywood's appeal. >> now i am planning to open boutiques in malaysia, but i have already done in knew

mumbai. >> reporter: she says there is strong interest in her bollywood inspired designs in the middle east. al jazerra, koalaal jazerra koalaal jazerra wall koala bum pure. >> our website ahead aljazerra.com. >> hello and welcome. i'm phil torres here to talk about innovations that can change lives. hardware and humanity and we're doing it in a unique way. a show of science by scientists. dr. shini somara shini somara is a mechanical engineer. as scientists test new building tines can they survive the most