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steady and iran is signalling it wants to have more and kuala-lumpur cashes in on movie industries. ♪ india's food safety regulator has ban the sale and production of maggi instant noodles after samples were found unsafe to eat and swiss manufacturer nestle asked to recall nine types of the food saying dangerous levels of lead were in some samples and accuse them of miss labeling information about its products and the global head insists that maggi noodles are safe to eat. >> translator: the nestle was raided and seized 12-13,000 cartons of maggi products and

collecting samples around the state and until we get a report of the test we stopped the sale of maggi products. >> reporter: we are live in new deli and give us the sense of the scale of this recall how big is it? >> yeah absolutely and leaders of nestle and india were asked about in this a press conference this morning and couldn't put a number at the moment of how many packets of maggi noodle are in the indian market but it would be a huge process and if you look at the scale they are available everywhere from urban centers and big stores and supermarkets and you can imagine the scale of this process and also the withdrawal may not be as immediate as some authorities intended it to be given the scale you are looking at. >> and what sort of impact are

we looking at for nestle stocks now? >> over the past few days the nestle stocks have been trading down on fears that have come through as a result of this developing story and about nestle and how maggi fits in and it's one-third of india's sale and of the maggi brand it's the noodle product and huge with the financial performance of the company and also what the company offers to the indian market and the indian market has potentially hundreds of millions of consumers and you can imagine the sales just by looking at the figures there. >> what about those who eat them, the people who eat them everyday, the consumers, what are they saying about this? they must be pretty frightened. >> reporter: it certainly had a big response across india and

nestle has been on a big social media drive promoting the platforms like twitter and facebook and this is a vendor we met this morning and just selling maggi noodles to university to students in a main college of the city and in the past week with the story he had to retool his menu to take maggi name out of it and what is particularly worrying while he has done it the name maggi is in his business name so that is a particular concern and there will be vendors and consumers across the country that are particularly worried on either end of the supply chain. thank you. south korean health officials named the hospital where the bulk of middle east respiratory syndrome or mers cases have occurred 30 of 41 confirmed

infections were traced back to a hospital and a south korean doctor carrying the virus came into contact with 1500 people and harry faucet has more. >> reporter: for calls for transcript si south korea government said one of the hospitals involved in the mers out break and 30 cases confirmed so far were this hospital in a city south of seoul and it spread unprecedently quickly and it was transmitted between patients from staff or poor ventilating allowing them to spread in the ward. what is not known is whether it mutated into a more infectious version. >> translator: this hospital has recorded a particularly large number of people infected as compared to other hospitals and we decided to release the name in order to trace all of the people who have been in the hospital. >> reporter: until now such

information has been the subject of crowd sourcing and a map pinpointing locations where patients were believes to have been treated and pressure seen a thousand schools suspended and will close schools in the districts of seoul for monday unless the situation improves. >> translator: this weekend will be critical the incubation period for primary and secondary patients ends this weekend, if there is no further infection we can stay we stemmed the tide but if there are more cases we will have the to prepare for fourth generation and spread into the local community. >> reporter: late on thursday night such concerns were heightened when seoul's mayor announced that a doctor exposed to a patient and contracted the virus had been in contact with hundreds of people and a day after developing mild symptoms and before his association said he knew he was exposed he went

to two medical symposium and a medial with 1400 fellow owners at the apartment complex and the attack that they would have had with the doctor is unlikely to have permitted the transmission of mers but the government says all of the people need to be quarantined and it hit the tourism with 7,000 would-be foreign visitors cancelling their trips. >> translator: there has been a big drop in the number of tourists coming in and given the strain it would hit more than 50% of our business and if it goes on i may have to consider shutting down. >> in panic and it's normal but this deadly and little understood disease is playing on the mind and it has gone up 7 fold in a week and south korea hopes after a slow start the government has caught up to slow and stop the spread of mers

harry faucet, seoul. opec are meeting in the capitol vienna to see if they will change the levels of production and over supply reduced the supply of oil and last year it peeked at $111 a barrel but by jan it dropped to a five year low of $49 and it recovered slightly to $62 but oil extraction is an expensive business and not able to recover producers costs and more on the opec meeting and let's go to vienna to an economist and energy expert and good to see you and opec levels are unlikely to change; is that correct? >> we will do what they call a rollover and keep the same output levels the question here is how will we accommodate shifting production? we have seen that let's say

saudi arabia is producing more with about 10.5 million barrels a day, more than ever and everybody is going up in production and if the iran talks come out positively at the end of june then we will see iran entering the market way again and releasing some of the stocks they they have up to a million barrels a day. >> if everyone keeps producing or as you say increasing their input what sort of impact is this going to have on oil prices rather than driving it further down? >> well and not necessarily. it really depends on demand and the other side is the demand. if you look at china has and is now the new normal is 7% of growth. if you have -- it depends on whether other emerging markets can cut some of the slack and produce and have better numbers. it depends on what europe is

going to do. that depends on if greece or the greek saga will come to a conclusion and it depends on how fast the u.s. is resuming its strong growth pattern and we saw a dip earlier for the first quarter because of the heavy winter. >> okay and where does this leave the developing countries you have been so badly hit by low oil prices will be able to start benefitting and ultimately those living in the country? >> well, actually what happened is the developing countries are all consuming countries and have not been hit by oil prices and benefitted. it will be hard for the oil producing-countries. they will need the oil price to go up. if you look at the gulf country states they can produce quite cheaply but looking at other countries like venezuela or iran who have big budgets they need

to do for social welfare and so on they need a higher oil price, it's hard for them. >> interesting times and thank you very much. it's been nearly four days since a cruise ship carrying more than 400 passengers and most elderly tourists capsized in the yangtze river and they fully righted the vessel as they continue to search for the remaining bodies about 90 have been recovered so far but hundreds are still missing and adrian reports. >> reporter: the three-day recovery effort yielded little and the option was to try to right the eastern star and two large floating cranes were used for the delicate task to slowly turn the vessel up right and it was spread around the ship to catch what fell inside nets. >> translator: the next step is to take water out of the ship

and make it float on water and also we will search for bodies of victims and at the same time we will cleanup leaking oil. >> reporter: government confirmed on thursday night it did not expect to find any more survivors and divers groped through murky water after calling through the hull searching every cabin on board. the powerful currents of the yangtze dragged bodies down "the stream" and volunteers are helping in the grim process of recovery, a task that could go on for many days. there are more than a thousand missing in the city closest to the accident and where many local people have been traumatized by events in the past few days and such spontaneous gatherings would normally be for the authorities but they allow the candle lit vigil to go ahead because so many wanted to express their

sadness and sorrow. >> translator: we came here for ourselves to pray and hope the dead people can leave the world peacefully. >> translator: we all cried. we are all very sad. it's heartbreaking and i have been taking care of family members for the last few days. >> reporter: a city filled with sadness and with so much more to come adrian brown in southern china. it has been revealed that four 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 actions are irresponsible and patty reports from washington. >> this is the largest theft of u.s. government data in the history of the united states so here is what we know the office of personal management opm was hacked and discovered it in the april of this year and opm is

the human resources department for the entire federal government and do security background checks for people who want security clearances so four million former and current federal employees had their information compromised and to give you a sense of the breach there are over four million federal employees right now so they are going to be contacting these people and offering some sort of credit monitoring service for a year and a half. the big question remains exactly what information was stolen was it social numbers, your federal id or was it salary information. right now opm isn't saying. >> it's the third major breach by foreign hackers in just over a year and last october the white house and state department found their systems compromised by an alleged russian cyber attack and hackers reportedly accessed president obama's unclassified e-mails and in march last year alleged chinese

hackers partially hacked into computer networks of the office of personal management before they were detected and blocked and no personal data was apparently stolen and martin is a senior management scientist at the rand corporation and also the author of the book signer deterrence and cyber war and says the hacked information could be used for recruiting spies. >> profiles of u.s. government employees often reveal information about them that suggests they may be good recruits for espionage purposes for instance if they are in financial troubles or either issues if for some reason they need point or for some reason they have something in the background they want to hide and all are indicators for people to suggest who is with recruiting. >> reporter: just ahead in this news hour frightened migrants found hungry and drifting in the mediterranean sea and we follow

the italian navy on a rescue mission. and a come back ten years after the taliban destroyed these priceless statutes. and in sport as more revelations come out over fifa corruption scandal the women's world cup tries to focus on the board and we are in edmond canada for the opening game. ♪ allegations made to al jazeera suggest at least seven yemen government officials knew where al-qaeda chief bomb maker was hiding and he is still a wanted man and an operative who became a government informant has told al jazeera investigative unit he exposed the explosive expert's whereabouts and we report. >> reporter: one of the world's most wanted man thought to be al-qaeda's top bomb maker and

reportedly built the devices in some of the group's most daring attacks and the underwear bomb on delta airlines flight 253 christmas day 2009 and explosives hidden in a printer on a cargo plane a year later. this al-qaeda infrom -- informant said he told them where he was hiding. and he says he informed from al-qaeda from 2006-2009. he had been a member of the group since the late 90s and claims he first met them in 2008 in yemen.

he says he was training many of al-qaeda in the peninsula and informed people in security services including the president saleh's nephew deputy director of the national security bureau. and he could not be reached for comment and he says he was fooled and so was the united states and many western governments, today he has still

not been caught and the threat of a bomb on a plane remains. will jordan al jazeera. if you want you the watch the full documentary al-qaeda informant from 12 gmt friday and online on al jazeera.com/al-qaeda informant and also find extended interviews and much more. political activists are disappearing and blaming egyptian security agents and activists say there has been a wave of arrests and disappearance from a protest from the popular april 6 movement and activists from the group have been detained by egypt authorities and some accused of being with the out lawed muslim brotherhood. carried out air strikes on i.s.i.l. positions in northern aleppo and strongholds in the

towns including istanbul was targeted and taken control of the town south of aleppo after heavy fighting with syrian government forces. officials in libya say they arrested more than 500 migrants waiting for smugglers taken to europe and most people are from africa and arrests carried by libya government based in trillionel -tripoli and many recovering from the ordeal saying there would be four embarking on their difficult journey and we report from the italian island of lampadusa. >> reporter: symbols of the troubles of our times and risz

risking lives is the only option and found adrift in the water by the italian border police. they rush to get on board the italian ship and testimony of how frightened they were stranded in the water with no coast in sight. he says the libyan skipper abandon them. they had no water or food. no one knew how to stir the boat. people were panicking and suffering etched on their faces and some stare ahead trying to come to terms with what they have been through and she left behind her children with her mother in somalia and she lost contact with her husband when war broke out there two months ago. >> translator: we could not talk in libya and when we opened our mouth they would beat us with a stick and they raped us until we paid money. it was horrible. i never expected to be treated

like that in a country. there was no mercy. i really say nobody has been nice with us in a long time. >> reporter: the women huddle together even though the ship is slowly taken them away from the african coast for getting the rape and humiliation won't be possible and some are pregnant and there are also many teenagers and first plead from somalia to yemen but war caught up with him so he had to move again. >> translator: in sudan i was captured and locked in a house for 18 days and i escaped and went to libya and was penniless and left yemen and hoping to find compassion but nothing. >> translator: today is my birthday, when i touch land i will drink ten pepsis to celebrate, it's a new beginning. >> reporter: the deck was silent many slumped into deep sleep and the ship continued to

sale back to europe and night falls and the coast of italy appears life returns on deck and now there are smiles perhaps the first ones in a long time. this is the moment they have been waiting for so patiently here on deck the moment they can get off the boat and touch land and means they are finally in europe a whole new life is starting even though they don't know what it means. there is a rush to get off the ship. this time there is excitement maybe even amazement after suffering so much they are one of the lucky ones who made it to europe, lampadusa. migrants on desperate journeys and four from iran and myanmar hoping to get a fresh start and want to settle in australia but relocated under controversial multi million transfer deal with cambodia and rob mcbride reports. >> reporter: they arrive with

little ceremony hidden inside a van. the governments of cambodia and australia were equally sensitive with no official comment but australia people involved in aid work here were more vocal. >> ethics of compassion and hospitality and justice from a rich country with lots of space leave a lot to be desired. >> refugees refused going in australia are given the option and promised a job and home and access to schools and hospitals, the only problem is it's cambodia. one of asia's immoverished nation and dealing with asylum seekers from other countries. >> for cambodia to handle the

problem they turned a blind eye to ensure they can clear their own problem and put more burden on cambodia. >> reporter: this is eased by the cash the refugees represent, the agreement is worth around $40 million over the next few years, money the australia people are putting up and since last september these are only the first four volunteers and making them look like very expensive imports. the international refugee organization iom helped in the transfer after receiving transfers of what the newcomers will receive here but if the deal is so good why so if takers? >> in their own mind they decide they want to come here and i don't know how many more will be convinced and want to come here but no one is coerced to come here they are coming here voluntarily and it's not what they want and wanted to be in australia and better than home. >> reporter: how much better off they will have lots of time to ponder on the long evenings

ahead of them in a place they never thought would be home al jazeera. big weekend for sport and wondering what the weather will be like on saturday for the champion league title. >> a sprinkle of rain before kickoff jane and before that it's not bad and i know you like tennis and interruptions in tennis friday evening so something to watch for and looking at the satellite and clear and hot sunshine gorgeous sunshine out there and looking to the northwest, coming in across the british aisle and this is a band of unsettled water and bring disturbances in tennis through friday evening so wet weather will take in and 27 celsius and paris seeing high temperatures and getting up to 32 degrees but here is our rain and may be lively at times and

could see big downpours coming through and that is when we get the change. the weather system comes through as a cold front and this is what it does and ten drops and 22 celsius on saturday and good for interminute and 32 celsius and oppressive heat in place in the state and may see sprinkles as we go on in the evening and wet weather a possibility before kickoff and then it will go through with fresh weather coming in with temperatures 21 celsius and tennis on sunday is fine warm and sunny, a pleasant 22 degrees in paris. still ahead in pakistan and a million strong crowd is mashing the death of a 7th century saint and golden state warriors and opening game finals and details in about 20 minutes

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than 1500 people. and china says accusations in united states of attack and records of four million current and federal employees were broken into last month. ghana president called for three days of mourning and 150 people were killed in flooding as well as an explosion at a petrol station and we report. >> reporter: a combination of flood and fire in the capitol has led to the deaths of many. an explosion and fire at a petrol station wednesday night killed scores of people. more and more bodies were discovered during the cleanup operation. [siren] and 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 found a safe place to seek shelter from heavy rain and eyewitnesses say there was a loud explosion and in minutes this entire plane was engulfed in flames. it's not clear exactly where the fire started but the flames were fueled from the petrol station and ghanna's president saw the damage for himself. >> a lot of people lost their lives and i'm 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 incident. through the night many of them have not had any sleep. >> reporter: salvaging what she can and her house the next to the burned up petrol station. >> translator: i thank god for my life and as for material things we can always work to

replace them. >> reporter: heavy rain causes major flooding in the capitol every year and many are choked with rubbish and here in an area cars were swept away by floods. >> the first major disaster we see at this magnitude level and i think we have to be able to find a solution to this disaster. >> reporter: and people now homeless want to see government action to improve the way this annual problem is dealt with al jazeera. turkey goes to the polls on sunday to elect a new government. the ruling justice and development party insists it has been a main success but for many the current economic slow down is causing concern and we have more now from istanbul. producers fresh of this

market each with its price tag, the cost of living is on everybody's mind in the run up to polling day. >> translator: we can't make ends meet of a pension of $500 u.s. dollars a month. >> we are happy with income and at least prices are not increasing everyday. >> reporter: party came to power in 2002 and since then turkey had strong growth and development and prosperity for many and this was the party's hallmark and bidding more roads and fast trains and airports and this was built on a manmade island and construction projects and multiplying and economy grew and infrastructure plans lured foreign investors and domestic product reached $822 billion in 2013 and annual income for a person trickled since 2002 to almost $11,000. and now indicators are raising

concerns. it's the first time in many years that annual rates have fallen and unemployment figures have risen compared to previous election years and the main opposition parties are trying to seize the opportunity. statistics from the turkish government and international bodies say last year's growth rate was just over 3% why inflation was around 9. unemployment levels rose to 11% and the national currency lost more than 13% of its value against the dollar. turkey relies too much on construction low borrowing rates and debts say some. >> 2010 and 11 very high growth rates but the money that through into turkish economy and we have 9% in average growth rate for two years but it brought a huge

deficit of 10% which was definitely not sustainable. >> reporter: government leaders say the slowing of the economy won't last and promising sustaind growth and also vowing to cut personal debt and boost annual income to $25,000 in coming years. more than 55 million people are eligible to vote on sunday and when they will be free to decide and make their own calculations i'm with al jazeera, istanbul. all 500 national congressional seats are up for grabs in mexico's mid term election and voters trusting the major party has plummeted and independents allowed to run for the first time and we report. >> reporter: question what do an futballer, a crown, a reality t.v. star and vigilante have in common? answer they are all candidates in mexico's mid term election

and growing this with major parties and the about of independence to stand for the first time has led to an electoral free-for-all. and he is better known as a national futbol hero than politicians and new entering the race and says he must be able to do better than mexico's corrupt political class. >> translator: the important thing is to help the people and many politicians do not see and have forgotten them and that is why i'm running. >> reporter: his campaign partly partly cowered by a super here ra and hard to take seriously but for many mexicans so is the political establishment. in 15 years of democracy all major parties involved in scandals of corruption and government at one time or another and that is perhaps why

the door has been left partly opened for candidates who did not make it as politicians. the highest is this man a straight talking, coy boy and he will lower violence and cleanup government in the rich northern states. >> translator: what i want to do is shift the focus from political parties to the people someone needed to start doing that but no one dared to until me. >> reporter: more independents operating after structures can only be good news says mexico's top official. >> the problem is they need some renewal and therefore this external shelf of independents winning some positions can be that external shock needed. >> reporter: the man best placed to apply that shock is here and he alone among the

major independent candidates is tipped to win the race and if he does it will send a warning to the under performing parties that if they cannot do better the country citizens now have other choices, john in mexico. massive crowd of people gathered in southern pakistan for annual religious festival and the colorful celebration marks the death of a saint more than 750 years ago and from sind province we report. >> reporter: over a million people have congregated on a small town called haven to commemorate the anniversary from the 7th century known here and as far as the region is concerned that india and pakistan says it came from afghanistan and brought the message of islam to this region but today it has become a

commercial activity and attracting over a million people from across the country and gives an opportunity for the locals to sell their wares in the markets. the hotels are doing business and it has become more of a commercial activity and of course some people come here to show their respects to the saints and others come here because it's a carnival-like atmosphere and people are coming here to not just celebrate or commemorate rather the anniversary of the saint but also give them an opportunity to let off steam across pakistan and india, a great number of people believe in the message spread by them a message that can raise a message of peace. now the world was shocked back in 2001 when the afghan taliban blew up the giant

buddhist statutes. 15 years later the ancient city declared capitol of culture among south asia nations and nicole johnston has more. >> reporter: as you may know they have a capitol every year and south asia decided to have one too and it's a coup for afghanistan and for the value they decided this should be the first one but in many ways this is a symbolic or largely symbolic naming of the cultural capitol because there is major security concerns. now this weekend we have a huge delegation of hundreds of officials from across afghanistan here for the inauguration and also expecting some south asia high officials and ministers to come here to celebrate it as well but we have heard from local officials they won't be coming because of security concerns and that is the issue and challenge for

afghanistan and that issue is how can it secure the country to actually be ready to receive foreign tourists here to try and bring in investment and development and create a tourism industry. the hindi film industry known as boliwood is one of the largest and in the past few years academy awards is high profile as it seeks to expand globally and we report with the person hosting this year's event. >> reporter: this is more than just a song and dance for these teenagers, it's a lesson in their culture. >> it links us back definitely to india because that is where everything started and feel very much connected outside of india just because of boliwood movies and watch our favorite stars on screen. ♪ the dancing, music, clothes and even film locations are spawning

industries around the world but nothing is more lucrative than the films. >> we sell $4.8 billion ticks, 23 million people watch a movie a day and everybody wants a part of it right and also want to attract shootings in their country and spend over $500 million on shooting. >> reporter: that is why countries bid to host the india filming a my awards and sideline events are also organized to cater to each country and for some it's trade and malaysia it's tourism. according to the award organizers thousands of people will fly into kuala-lumpur and will spend $3 million and close to half a million people will be watching the event and what do they get out of it? >> the objective is i think to take the incident global and

that is what we achieved now. >> reporter: event held in a different country each year. >> you get not just the audience watching boliwood in any case but also get new eyeballs which is what this award's function should be aiming to achieve. so has it, is it possible to stay concrete whether it increased boliwood? that is impossible to say. >> reporter: she believes in boliwood's appeal. >> i'm planning on opening boutiques in asia and mumbai. >> reporter: strong interest in her boliwood designs this the middle east and efforts to promote the film industry abroad are paying off. before we talk about the glamour we have been hearing from you, what malaysia is expected to get out of this event but how has it been received in previous years?

>> well jane most countries say that it's been very successful, it started off as a one-day event and now like in malaysia it's a three-day event and previously held in the u.s. last year for the first time ever and the city of tampa and florida said they made $26 million out of three days and since then florida is seen for boliwood shoot locations and the indian population there has gained some exposure and even the government and mayor were saying they seem to relate to the local indian population and minorities even more so countries use it in different ways and previous years it was held at a big casino from indian reservations and say it has been successful and they have been gushing about it but i want to place us here now the first day of three-day event and tonight they will give awards to all the

technical crew and anyone behind the scenes and over the next two days there are business deals, fashion shows and finally on sunday evening the award ceremony for movies and actors. >> what sort of glamour will you expect on that green equivalent of the red carpet behind you? >> i can tell you more about that if you want. yeah it is not all boliwood stars are here and arriving over the next few days but this is seen as the big awards for those who put movies together and directors and cinematographers and music and behind the music and several musical performances and there is a lot of interest here and loads of journalists from india and around the region for this. so despite not having the biggest boliwood stars or not a main stage for awards it's generating a lot of interest. >> thank you for that.

along in a moment with sport including the world of rugbee and this man was killed in a car crash in france. ♪

sport and here it is. >> thank you very much 7th world cup is about to get underway in canada with 24 nations battling for the trophy and a build up to the tournament has been completely over shadowed by the on going fifa scandal and andy

richardson is where the tournament will kickoff on saturday. >> reporter: truly ahead of the start of the women's world cup and the first game between host nation and canada and china and this is on the career fifa president blatter and has a conversed relationshiit winner game and once commenting if the game was to market itself better perhaps the players could wear tighter shorts and on more than one occasion has the player for years and has been in the same room as female nominees and failed to recognize them or called them by wrong names and there are two sides and under blatter watch the women's game has huge investment and out of the strongholds in north america and europe and this tournament with 12 countries and 24 countries this time around and more belatedly in 2013 three women were voted on fifa's executive committee, that is the

organization top decision making body but given the corrosion of some men in the committee those three pioneers may see the promotion of something of a mixed blessing and bleter described himself as the godfather of the women's game and they will go to the relative and too many of get togethers and blatter is scheduled to appear at the world cup final in vancouver on july the fifth. >> reporter: no way to get away from the scandal with fifa and they launched invest into bribery allegations with the 2010 cup and leaked letter written by world cup to general secretary and in it jordan appears to seek an indirect route for the transfer of $10 million to fifa and the south africa government insists the payment was to help futbol development in the caribbean.

meanwhile fifa have admitted they paid $5 million to avoid a legal battle after what resulted in ireland not qualifying for 2010 world cup and allowed france for the goal in the world cup playoff jody ambrozes par -- and the outgoing blatter says he is working hard on reforms and in a first tweet to separate down and south africa started investigation corruption but united states took the unlikely lead of cleaning up the game and andy gallagher talks about the resent events on the sport that recently struggled to take off in the country. >> blatter is not going down quietly. >> reporter: not all the time that radio shows have talk of futbol and call it soccer but it's a sign of the sport growing

and paid into u.s. led investigation into fifa. >> blatter is not the only one at fault. >> reporter: lighting up and the host said the scandal will not stop fans from watching a sport that is steadily growing in popularity. >> people expected it and knew it was going on and you have that side and the actual sport side that some people are into and they do separate the two and care about the sport, those into it and the corruption on the other side by itself. >> reporter: in many big u.s. cities like this sites like this are not uncommon and youth witnessed huge growth and during the last world cup more north americans than ever tune in to watch a sport struggling to gain a hold here. the world of futbol in the united states could never rival the popularity like baseball or american football but

demographics are changing quickly and by 2050 a third of the population will be his -- hispanic and the attention will make the sport grow. >> blatter resigning and new blood may allow some non-soccer friends or people not necessarily fans of soccer be more open minded of soccer. >> a change will help with the soccer world and may help how the sport grows in the united states. >> reporter: it's far from challenging main street u.s. sports but few doubt it could change and a generation introduced by soccer moms are growing up fast and futbol is not met with indifference and the scandal with the game may be a distraction for now but unlikely to stop steady progress in the u.s. andy gallagher, al jazeera, miami florida. all captain killed in an

accident french time and vehicle collided with a bus in southern france with the couple's two-month-old daughter surviving but in serious condition and 34 from new zealand in 2001 and won 48 caps. serena williams on title and will play lucy of czech republic on friday after they both won respective semi finals and serena has been doing it the hard way. >> reporter: the women's lacked the mentions with both last year moving sharapova and williams toughest opponent has been serena williams and she lost the first set to bahinski and two years ago gave up tennis to train as a hotel manager and 23 seed is no doubt pleased she gave tennis a second chance and

by far her best grand slam performance and this is the second set. but in the second third and fourth rounds serena dug deep to level the match. and strain was showing in the heat. and the top seed dominated the decider racing through the third set 6-love to reach the final for the third time and williams was not feeling well as she left the opponent to face the media. >> she was better today and pulled out a great match because i think i was playing quite well and, well she deserved to win today. >> reporter: and serena will face a player in her first ever grand slam fighter and she is another surprise package and 13 seed has not dropped a set and sharapova in 16 and seeing the

2008 champion djokovic and down to win the semi final, 7-5, 7-5, al jazeera. golden state warriors and cavs served a thriller in opening game nba finals and going in the game all talk revolved rounds cleveland lebron james and golden state mvp and james led the way for the cavs with 44 points and curry 26 for the warriors and game into over time when he missed the chance to put the cavs in front of regulation golden state pulled away in over time to win it 108-100, game two is in oakland and that is on sunday. >> over the course of the game i thought we stuck to the game plan lebron will dominate the ball and make plays and we have

to just make itted hard on him, every position and do not give him any easy buckets and not letting anyone get a rhythm and what we will try to do every game we play against them. >> at the end of the day we gave ourselves a chance man and i missed a tough one and we had so many opportunities, you know to win this game and we did and it's up to us now, you know to look at the film watch and make some adjustments, what you need to do, and be ready for sunday. so you can't say where it starts and justice gaitlin and happened at the diamond league meeting in rome on thursday and american 9.75 seconds in 100 meters and clipped the time and the same event in 2012 by 100th of a second and will meet on the tracks at championship in august. one person will be at the world

championship is the hurdler sally peterson and dislocated and broke her wrist after clipping a hurdle and fell on the track and 28-year-old will under go surgery. golf and top of the leaderboard after the first round of play at pga memorial in dublin ohio and peltz and defending champion both shot 8 under par and 64 to claim the lead and five time winner tiger woods had a terrible start with four bogies and recovered nine shots off the lead. better news for tiger's 24 years old niece and shot a course record 63 at the lpga classic in canada during the first round of thursday to take her into the lead. that is your sport and more later. another bulletin coming up,

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health scare in india food regulators ban the sale and production of nestle-maggie noodles for containing high levels of lead. ♪ hello, this is the world news from al jazeera, i'm jane and also on this program pinpointing the mers virus in south korea, a fourth person dies and infected doctors had contact with 1500 people. raising the rake of a chinese cruise ship and government says no more survivors