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 expected to be found among the hundreds on

board and opec members meet and the oil cartel is expected to keep them steady by iran wants to pump more. ♪ india's food safety regulator has ban the sale and production of maggi instant noodles after samples were found unsafe to eat. this manufacture nestle asked to recall nine types of the popular food and dangerous levels of lead were detected in some samples and accuse nestle of miss labeling information about its products. the global nestle insists that maggi noodles are safe to eat. >> translator: it was raided and we seized 12-13 cartons of maggi products and collecting

samples from around the state and until we get a report of the tests we ordered a stop of the sale of maggi products. >> more from new deli. >> reporter: they were asked about in the a press conference this morning and said they couldn't put a number at the moment on how many packets of nestle-maggi in the india market but said it would be a huge low guessic process and at the scale the noodles are available everywhere from centers to remote and rural and big stores and supermarkets and you can imagine the scale of this process and also the fact the withdrawal may not be as immediate as some of the authorities intended given the scale you are looking at and to set context about nestle and india and how maggi fits in and it's one-third, india's total sales and of the maggi brand three quarters of sales made up

of noodle product so it's huge in terms of impact it has on the financial performance of the company and also what the company offers to the indian market and the india market has potentially hundreds of millions of consumers and you can imagine the sales just by looking at those figures there. a fourth person has died in south korea, middle east respiratory syndrome and 41 cases of mers confirmed and there is alarm over an infected south korean doctor who has been in contact with more than 1500 people and harry faucet has more from seoul. >> reporter: after days of unlined rumors and calls for more transparency south korea government last revealed one of the hospitals involved in mers and 30 cases confirmed so far with st. mary south of seoul and spread quickly and officials say it was transmitted by patients and staff or poor ventilation

and spread along the ward and what is not known is if the virus mutated into a more infectious version. >> translator: this hospital has recorded a particularly large number of people infected as compared to other hospitals, therefore we decided to release the name in order to trace all the people who have been in the hospital. >> until now such information has been the subject of crowd sourcing and a map pinpointing locations where infected patients were believed to have been treated and parental pressure seen 1,000 schools suspend classes and education officials say they will close 166 schools in two southern districts of seoul for monday unless the situation improves. >> translator: this weekend will be critical. the incubation ends this weekend, if there is no further infection we can say we stemmed

the tide but if there are more cases we have to prepare for fourth generation infection and spread into the local community. >> reporter: late on thursday night concerns were heightened when seoul mayor says a doctor had been in contact with hundreds of people. a day after developing mild symptoms but before his association says he knew he had been exposed he went to two medical symposiums and a meeting with 1500 fellow owners of this apartment complex and health ministry says the kind of contact they would have had with the doctor is unlikely to promote the transmission of mers but seoul government says all of those people need to be quarantined and this hit the tourism industry with 7,000 visitors cancelling trips. >> a big drop in the number of tourists coming in given this strain it would hit more than 50% of our business and if it

goes on i might have to consider shutting down. >> reporter: south korea is far from a nation in panic, for most it's normal but this deadly little understood disease is playing on the mind mask sales are up 7 fold in a week and south koreans are simply hoping after a self admittedly slow start the government has caught up enough to slow and stop the spread of mers harry faucet, al jazeera, seoul. 12 members of the oil block opec meeting in vienna and expected to decide the they will change levels of production over supply reduced the price of oil cutting revenues. a year ago crude peaked at $111 by january it dropped to a five-year low of $49, the price has now recovered slightly to around $62 but oil extraction is an expensive business and that is not enough to cover many producers' costs and mohamed is

in vienna and let's talk about iran first, what are the expectations there today with regard to iran reentering the market? >> well, jane there has been tension with regards to the iran tension and the member states trying to put on a unified front saying that everything will really remain as expected no changes, but the fact of the matter is iran really wants to reenter the market with the negotiations going on about the nuclear program, there is the question about sanctions possibly being lifted soon and iran is ready to start supplying the market with oil again. in fact, many analysts here have said there are millions of barrels that are already prepared and some of them in storage that is floating some of them in land-based storage facilities and they could get to the market as soon as sanctions might be lifted.

but the country such as saudi arabia qatar and uae do not want to deal with that question just yet so even though it is something that is clearly on the mind of everybody it's not expected there will be any decisions made about that today, that question will be really put to the side until after it is revealed what will happen in the final stages of the nuclear negotiations. >> and output levels and some member states are unhappy with the output levels at the moment. >> no decisions as of yet. the ministers are still meeting at this hour in the headquarters behind me but it's widely expected that there will be no changes to out put levels which is interesting because even though there are countries such as venezuela, and countries like angola and ecuador that made it known in the past few weeks they are unhappy of current out put levels and would like to see an increase in the prices because

their economies have taken a hit especially in the case of venezuela. the fact of the matter is there is really no suspense surrounding this meeting here today. everybody we have spoken with expects things will remain the same and essentially that boils down to one fact and it's the gulf oil countries that are really controlling the agenda here. they want the output level to remain the same right now and it seems that it will jane. >> thank you for that mohamed, human rights groups say increasing number of political activists are disappearing and blaming egyptian agents and activists say there has been a wave of arrests and disappearance ahead of a planned protest be a popular april 6 youth movement and activists have been detained by egyptian and some accused of belonging to the out lawed muslim brotherhood. groups and hezbollah

fighters on the border with lebanon and seven killed in fighting in hezbollah in nearby areas and al-qaeda affiliate, al-nusra killed and wounded a dozen fighters. the chinese government say there is no hope of finding anyone else alive after monday cruise zip disaster on the yangtze river and elderly tourist were on the eastern star when it collapsed and many are in mourning. >> the three-day recovery effort yielded little so the only option to remove bodies was to try to right the eastern star. two large floating cranes were used for the delicate task helping to slowly turn the vessel up right and nets spread around the ship to catch what fell from inside. >> translator: the next step is to pump water out of the ship and make it float on water and

salvage it and also we will search for bodies of victims and at the same time we will help with the leaking oil. >> reporter: this began after the government confirmed on thursday night that it did not expect to find any more survivors and divers went through murky water after cutting through the hull searching every cabin on board. the powerful currents of yangtze brought bodies downstream and volunteers helping in the grim process of recovery a task that could go on for many days. there are more than a thousand family members of the missing here and the city closest to the accident and where many local people have been traumatized by the events of the past few days. such spontaneous gatherings would normally be a cause for the authorities but they allowed this candlelight vigil to go ahead because so many wanted to express their sadness and

sorrow. >> translator: we came here to pray and we hope the dead people can leave the world peacefully. >> translator: we cried and it's sad and heartbreaking and i have been taking care of family members for the last few days. >> reporter: a city filled with sadness and so much more to come, adrian brown in southern china. still to come ghanna in mourning for the victims of fire and floods and we will have the latest. and aiming high new rules for mexico's elections open the fields to some more candidates. ♪

♪ the top stories on al jazeera, ionia's food safety regulators ban the sale and production of maggi instant noodles after they were found unsafe to eat and swiss manufacturer nestle denies they are danger and south korea try to pinpoint the mers outbreak after a fourth person died of respiratory syndrome and infected doctor came in contact with 1500 people and chinese authorities admitted there is no hope of finding more survivors from a capsized crew shape and cranes have been raising the vessel from the yangtze river and united states of a major cyber security attack are irresponsible and u.s. says

computer records of four million current and federal employees were broken into last month and we have the story from washington. >> this is likely the largest theft of u.s. government data in the history of the united states and office of personal management or opm was hacked and discovered it in april of this year and basically opm is like the human resources dopt for the entire federal government and do the security background checks for people who want to get security clearances and four million people they say former and current federal employees had their information compromised. just 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 offering some sort of credit monitoring service for a year and a half and the big question is what information was stolen was it social security numbers, federal id or salary information and right now opm is not saying.

three days of mourning in ghanna after a flood and explosion at a petrol station and 150 killed and taking shelter from heavy rain and we report. >> reporter: a combination of flood and fire in the capitol akra led to the deaths of many an explosion and fire at a station late on wednesday night killed scores of people and more and more bodies were discovered during the cleanup operation. he survived the inferno. >> translator: the fire came with such fewer ra 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 the heavy rains and eyewitnesses say it was a loud explosion and within minutes this entire place was engulfed

in flames and it's not clear exactly where the fire started but the flames were fueled from the station and ghanna 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 and many of them through the flood and then many of them through the fire incident and i want to comment for the evidence throughout the night many of them have not had any sleep. >> reporter: she is salvaging what she can, her house is next to the burned 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 major flooding in the capitol every year and many are choked with rubbish and here in an area called nema cars were swept away

by floods. >> translator: the first major major disaster that we are seeing to this magnitude level. we are in this nature and i think we have to get together to find solution to this disaster. >> reporter: people homeless want to see government action to improve the way this annual problem is dealt with al jazeera, akra. senior u.s. diplomate has warned if burundi's president insists on running for a third term in office it will be difficult if not impossible to government and tom the u.s. assistant secretary of state for democracy and human rights was speaking during a visit to democratic republic of congo and for weeks there have been protests against the president in burundi's capitol and the u.s. envoy says they should respeak the people's call for change and turkey goes to polls on sunday to elect a new

government and ruling justice and development party insists the economy has been their main success but for many it is causing concern and we have more now from istanbul. >> reporter: the producers fresh and abun -- abundant and this is on everybody's mind. >> translator: i can't make ends meet and i have a pension of $500 a month. >> we are happy because prices are not increasing everyday. >> reporter: came to power in 2009, since then turkey enjoyed strong growth, development and renewed prosperity for many and projects were the hallmark and building more roads and fast trains and airports including this one built on a manmade island and the economy grew and massive infrastructure plans lured foreign investors and

turkey growth domestic realed $822 billion in 2013 and annual income for person tripled since 2002 to almost $11,000 but new indicators are raising concerns. this is the first time in many years that annual growth 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% while 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 say some. >> 2010 and 2011 very high

growth rate and money flew in 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 will not last and promising sustained growth and vowing to cut personal debt and boost annual income to $25,000 in coming years and 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. greece says it plans to bundle its four june payments to the international monetary fund to one payment at the end of the month and prime minister trying to reach a deal to release bail out funds before his government

runs out of money but government officials say there are big grasps to be bridged before more are released. teachers in mexico fought with police in the southern state and set fire to documents outside congress as they call for sunday's mid term elections to be cancelled. teachers say the poll cannot take place until 43 students who went missing last september are found. all 500 national congressional seats up for grabs in mexico's mid term election and trusting the major parties and independents allowed to run for the first time and john reports. >> question what do an futballer, a clean, a reality t.v. star and a vigilante have in common? answer they are all candidates in mexico's mid term election, a growing disillusion with parties and ability of independents to stand for the first time has led to an electoral free-for-all.

and he is better known as an futbal hero than politicians and new entering the race and must do better than mexico's corrupt political class. >> translator: the important thing is to serve the people something many politicians don't see and have forgotten them and that is why i'm running. >> reporter: his campaign partly powered by a super hero alter ego and hard to take seriously but for many mexicans so is the current establishment and in the past 15 years of democracy all major parties involved of scandal and corruption by government and this is left partly open for candidates who did not make their name as politicians and the most prominent is a

straight talking, cowboy and packs arenas with wisdom on how he will lower violence and cleanup government in the rich government states. >> translator: what i want to do is to 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 the stagnant party structures can only be good news says mexico's top official. >> the problem with the system is this needs some renewal and therefore this external shelf of independents winning some positions can be that shock needed. >> reporter: the best place to find that shock is el-bronco and he with the independent candidates is dipped to win the race, if he does it will send a warning to mexico's under performing parties if they come

through better the country citizens now have other choices john holman al jazeera, mexico. the world was shocked back in 2001 when the afghan taliban blew up the giant buddhist statutes. [gunfire [gunfire] the city is declared a capitol of culture with nations and nicole johnston reports. >> reporter: as you may know europe is a cultural capitol and south asia decided to have one too so it's a coup for afghanistan and the valley they denieded 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. we are also expecting some south asia high officials and ministers to come here to celebrate as well but we just heard from local officials they won't be coming because of those security concerns and that is the real issue and challenge for afghanistan and for them and that issue is how can it secure the country to actually be ready to receive foreign tourists here to try and bring investment and development and create a tourism industry. >> the hindi film industry known as boliwood is one of the largest producers of movies this the world and over the past few years academy awards is high-profile event as they seek to expand globally and we report from kuala-lumpur which is hosting the event. >> more than a song and dance for teenagers, it's a lesson in culture. it links us back definitely to india because that is the

original where everything started and we feel very much connected outside of india. just because of bolliwood and to watch our favorite styles on screen. >> reporter: the dancing, music and clothes and even film location are spawning industries around the world but nothing is more lucrative than the film. >> sell $4.8 billion tickets and everybody wants a part of it and also want to track shootings in the country. we spend over $500 million on shooting a product. >> reporter: that is why countries bid to host the india international film academy awards and sideline events catering to each country and some it's trade and for malaysia it's tourism. according to organizers thousands of people will fly in and expended to spend about $20

million over the three days of the ceremony. close to half a billion people will be watching malaysia showcase the event so what does boliwood get out of it? >> the objective is i think to take it global and what we achieved now. >> reporter: event held in a different country each year >> you get the committed boliwood watching it in any case and you get new eyeballs which is what this award's function should be aiming to achieve. so has it, is it possible to see concrete films following boliwood that is impossible to say. >> reporter: she believes in boliwood's appeal. >> now i'm planning to open boutiques in malaysia but i have already boutiques in mumbai. >> reporter: there is strong interest in her boliwood-inspired designs in the middle east and efforts to

promote the film industry are paying off and i'm al jazeera. if you want to read up about that and all the other news and news bulletins go to our website, the address is al jazeera.com >> a hack attack on the federal government. personal data stolen, and up to 4 million people in the u.s., pointing the finger at china. >> edward snowden claiming the n.s.a. is collecting information on americans expanding it's collection in secret. >> fears of a serial shooter in colorado authorities trying to figure out whether three cases are