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60 million displaced a disgraced former cricket boss has indian politicians running for cover as the narendra modi government faces its first ethics scandal. detectives are treating the shooting of nine people in a church as a hate crime. they are hunting a gunman in a church in charleston in south carolina. >> reporter: people were holding a night time prayer meeting at the emanuel ame church when police say a gunman entered the building and opened fire. >> we are looking for a white male. approximately 21 years old. sandy blond hair, he obviously is extremely dangerous. >> reporter: it's an historic black church in downtown

charleston, and police, the mayor and church elders were in no doubt about the attack. >> i do believe it was a hate crime. >> the only reason someone can walk into a church and shoot people praying is out of hate. the only reason. >> gun violence has to stop. >> on the street people voiced their anger on what appears to be yet another attack on the united states community. there has been a string of cases of violence against the black community in recent months, including a video showing police brutality at a pool party. community leaders in charleston stressed this must be a time to unite. >> we stand in solidarity and solicit your prayers for family members that lost loved ones. >> reporter: jed bush who started his republican campaign was due to appear in charleston on thursday, but cancelled because of the shooting. on twitter he said:

democratic presidential hopeful hillary clinton also tweeted: . >> where do we go from here. >> reporter: while people gather on the streets in solidarity for the victims and to voice anger at the crime, the police are warning locals of the danger of the attacker as they continue their manhunt a catholic church has been damaged in a suspected arson attacks in northern israel. the fire broke out overnight in the church of the multiplication of loaves and fishes. graffiti was found on the wall calling for the expulsion of heathens in israel. it marks the spot where jesus performed a media by feeding 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish. >> we believe that we are not obliged to live together.

we will not permit a small group of fanatics to disturb this peaceful life between the two people of this country. we will repair the place, we will do it perhaps even look better. the injury will be always that what happened was a terrible thing for us. but we will overcome. >> we have more from west jerusalem. >> the israeli police suspect arson as a cause for a fire at an ancient church in the galali the church. multiplication multiplication, which lies on the church. the reason the police believe the choir may have been set is because of anti-christian graffiti spray-painted on to the walls of the church. according to the advisor, two were hospitalized for a gas in hillation. the reception area was

destroyed. according to eyewitness the crosses on the street signs leading up to the church has been covered for a long period of time before the attack happened. the church advisor says they don't know who committed the act of arson, but expect extremists. in the last couple of years the attacks against christian and muslim holy sites in israel and east jerusalem intensified and have been committed against different institutions belonging to the church not only the churches. we understand as well that the usual common thing that happens, that the police find is the anti-christian graffiti on the exteriors or the interiors of the church walls. now, the most recent attack happened here in april, when the grave stones of a christian maronite cemetery close to the border with lebanon was smashed. this prompted the israeli president to meet with church

leaders in israel and pledge to crack down on religiously motivated hate crimes evidence emerged that chlorine gas attacks in syria, from doctors that worked there, testifying before the u.s. congress. they say that bashar al-assad's government is carrying out the attacks with devastating consequences. >> they came at the invitation of the republican led house foreign relations committee to share eyewitness acts of gas attacks against syrian civilians. >> since march 16th of this year, we documented 31 attacks. using poisonous gas. where more than 380 syrian civilians were injured by it. 10 of them died of suffocation. providing additional video evidence, the doctors told lawmakers the attacks intensified 10 days after a u.n.

security council resolution condemned weaponization of chlorine and threatened military action if the resolution was breached. >> i'm a doctor and very familiar with death. i have never seen a more obscene way to kill children. i have never watched so many suffer in an obscene manner. >> the doctors say only the syrian government has access to the helicopters responsible for dropping the chlorine-filled barrels on to civilian areas it believes are supportive of the syrian opposition. bashar al-assad has always maintained his government is not behind the chlorine gas attack. last month in a u.s. tv network interview, he argued that chlorine is widely available, and has been weaponized in the past by other groups. including islamic state of iraq and levant or i.s.i.l. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says that the united states believes that bashar

al-assad is behind the attacks. and is working to hold him accountable. that is why doctors and activists are pressuring u.s. lawmakers to push president barack obama into targeted military action. to pressure political dialogue leading to the creation of a no-fly zone to stop the bombs from dropping. >> these dnt-filled weapons and eject nails and other random cheap shrapnel and harmful short nails, take dozens of innocent lives every day. >> reporter: they say without a u.s.-led international effort, there's little hope for civilian thousands of syrians who almost 60 million worldwide were displaced by war and persecution. that is the highest number according to the u.n. refugee agency. let's break down the numbers. 14 million fled in 2014 alone.

it's the biggest increase seen in a single year. that's roughly 42,500 people abandoning their homes every day. worldwide one person in every 122 is a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum. turkey hosts under 1.6 million refugees, or 11% of the world's displaced people. more than any other country in the world. the main reason for the upsurge is syria. since the fighting in early 2011, nearly 3.9 million people have been forced out of the country. here is what the u.n. high commissioner for refugees said. >> one clearly gets the impression that the world is at war. and, indeed many areas of the world are today in a completely chaotic situation, and result is the staggering escalation of displacement, a staggering

escalation of human suffering because each displaced person is a tragic story and not only are people suffering when they are forced to flee, but many are suffering trapped by conflict in their own villages, or in their own communities. a. >> bernard smith joins us from near the turkey syria border. bernard, we appreciate it. put the numbers in some sort of context for us. >> this city i'm talking to you from is a capital of this province. this is the largest concentration of syrian refugees, and turkey is feeling the strain. the latest feeling is that it spent $5.2 billion with syrians in turkey. they were never to be here, the initial idea is the war in syria

would take a few months and the syrians would not go back. 20,000 came across. syrian kurdish fighters regained control of the town. i.s.i.l. had control of it for the last 14 months. but most of the refugees in turkey are not actually in refugee camps. about 350,000 are in government sponsored camps. most living among the community. in the camps, i have seen the conditions in the camps. they are good. people are fed. there are schools provided, but the problem, the issue every refugee tells you, it's not home. another in a state of limbo, it's difficult to find work. they want to move on with their lives. yes, they are looked after, it's not a permanent solution for

them. >> many camps are not in that great a shape at all. is there any talk of what the long-term consequences will be for numbers like this significant populations displaced. >> the challenge for turkey because it was not expecting people to be here this long is how in the long term these people will be integrated into turkish society, most living along the border others plenty of syrian refugees in istanbul and other cities. they are beginning, now the turkish government is making it easier for them, they are beginning to work their way into turkish society, some are opening businesses restaurants. many are taking turkish lessons, trying to build a new life for themselves. a lot of syrians are realising

it could be a long time before they ever get to go home if ever. the biggest complaint by the turkish deposit is it says it's not getting enough from the international community. it's hardly taking refugees or helping out with the cost of refugees in turkey. the turkish government says we want - it wants help to look after the syrians, to pay for the syrians here. bernard smith reporting live from the turkish-syrian border a group affiliated with i.s.i.l. claimed responsibility for a series of car bombings in yemen's capital. dozens were killed in the attacks that hit mosques near the houthi headquarters. the violence comes as delegates meet in geneva where they are struggling to make progress on a peace deal. we have this report. >> car bombs hit a houthi stronghold in the yemeni

capital, in an area on the outskirts of sanaa, one of the houthi headquarters is located there. this is not the only attack targetting the houthis, in march the islamic state claimed responsibility for a series of attacks targetting houthi mosques. more than 100 people were killed. the attacks come at a time when crucial talks to solve the crisis are underway in geneva the united nations has been urging the factions to agree on a humanitarian truth. each party has preconditions, and there has been little or no progress. the houthis and forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh say the saudi-led air strikes must stop first. the government blames the houthis for the ongoing

violence, insisting they must stop shelling the cities. the saudi-led coalition say that they'll stop bombing the houthis, and their allies, once they pull out from the cities they control. in the meantime, the united nations envoy is on the offensive. he has only a few days left to salvage a deal. if yemen's rivals fail to make progress, fighting will continue. the humanitarian crisis will get worse with every passing day. the sanaa bombings might put pressure on the parties gathering in geneva to solve the crisis or face instability to play into the hands of al qaeda

or islamic state may take advantage of the political vacuum and expand. bomb making materials have been seized in somali. a vehicle containing explosives in may was seized after it was driven across the road linking bahrain to saudi arabia a proposal that would have given voters in hong kong an opportunity to elect a leader in 2017 has been rejected. they would have been restricted to picking candidates approved by beijing. many call it undemocratic. china reacted with did not. adrian brown is in hong kong. >> the clean-up is beginning outside the legislative assembly. the numbers of protesters are thinning out. it's been a good day for the pro-democracy groups. they ensured a government

proposal to broaden democratic reform in hong kong would not and has not passed. in a sense, it's an irony having democrats spending their lives and careers calling for democracy, voting down a proposal to do that. they had to because what was offered was, in a sense, a fake democracy. it ended quickly and chaotically. i think the pro-government parties realized that the vote would be a formality. they knew they didn't have the numbers, they knew they'd lose and walked out of the chamber before the vote. ensuring that the democrats got their way coming up in the newshour fears of a devastating famine as north korea faces a biggest drought in a century plus thousands rally in support of the greek government as it refuses to bow to calls for austerity and after losing his head during a competed copa america

encounter. all the details in sport. australian prime minister tony abbott has spent the past week dodgi navy bribed the crew of a migrant boat to turn back to indonesia. andrew thomas has been speaking to crew and asylum seekers on board. >> reporter: did australia pay smugglers to take these asylum seekers to indonesia. from sri lanka, bangladesh and myanmar, they are languishing in an immigration hostel. they are bored and listless but on dry land. for most of may, they were at sea, in boats similar to this. doing a month-long loop in the timor sea. the passage paid about conclude 4,000. in international waters they

were intercepted first by an australian customs vessel. the passengers were taken on board that. the crew were taken separately almost to the australian mainland. there they were given money and told to go back to where they come from. the australians reunited them with passengers gave them two fishing boats and escorted them to indonesia. well short of land they stopped following. >> reporter: we had very limited food on the boats. very limited fuel. not more than 10 hours of fuel. they gave us a useless navigation device. there wasn't a toilet on board. >> reporter: one boat ran out of fuel. all cram on to the other. eventually it ran aground on an island. most were collected by fishermen and taken to the island of rotty. the police were involved and found out about the $30,000,

money that al jazeera filmed paid by the australian defence force. >> i don't think it's a good thing to pay and help them to back indonesia, and the other places. they are the defense. they never break the law. it's their duty. >> reporter: indonesia, the crew was arrested. their money has been confiscated by police. in australia it's been dominating debate all week. australia government is the refusing to comment. it seems almost certain that the payments did take place. australia, then, stands accused of paying money to the smugglers its government says is part of an evil trade. all australia prime minister will say is we do whatever we need to do to stop the boats three more people died from middle eastern respiratory syndrome in south korea.

23 koreans died and almost 7,000 are in quarantine at home and in medical centers. doctors say they are doing all they can to stop the m.e.r.s. outbreak. the discovery of new cases raised questions about the government's ability to control the spread. >> reporter: at least five people have been killed after torrential rains in china. workers are searching for four people missing in flooding. thousands of homes have been evacuated. heavily rain is likely to hit southern china in the next three days. north korea's surprise announcement that it is facing a drought. the worst in a century, comes in a surprise. rainfall across the peninsula has been low, resulting in extensive damage in agriculture. this report from seoul on how serious the crisis may be.

on north korean state-run television, a rare announcement that all is not well. the government official said we are establishing and carry out drought damage and diversification, despite the pictures of lakes, crops, and hillsides covered with trees, north korea is facing the worst drought in a century. >> this is the first drought damage in my 20 years of farming experience. >> translation: normally the rice is higher as you see, the seedling is too small to do rice planting. >> reporter: the plight is backed up by the danish ambassador for north and south korea. >> i was in north korea a few weeks ago, i could see with my own eyes that the drought was a serious problem. the fields are drying out. there's a shortage of water. more needs to be done from the north in order to protect and

help their own people from this crisis. >> reporter: he went on to say why pyongyang is not crying wolf, the government could do more to help the wider population. about a third of the country's rice paddies has drayed up. low snow fall and rainfall now added to the problems. this person runs a charity that until 2010 helped north koreans cultivate the land and progress was made. that cross-border help was stopped by seoul after the north was accused of torpedoing and destroying a south korean naval vessel killing dozens of seaman. >> translation: basically, looking at statistics of food productions, productivity is on the increase over the past three to four years reducing shortages. they lack 1,000 to 2,000 tonnes of food each year. it has increased.

>> the river is low. it's reminisce ent of a previous drought thought to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. >> reporter: the united nations says more than a third of children under five are malfour issued. partly because pyongyang refuses to allow fooddistribution to be monitors, there are fears that lives will be lost if the monsoon rains don't come soon enough. obviously the question is when will the rain come. everton, hi. >> we have rain in the forecast over the next few days. bits and pieces rather than anything proper. not too far away there's downpours, that's how agonizingly close the whether it across southern japan. low pressure to the north-east.

in between is the descending air, where it's dry. you can see a speckling of clouds over the yellow sea. it will bring in a few showers, there's the wet weather. 134mm of rain in 24 hours. wet weather making its way eastwards, going on through the course of the weekend. by saturday the rain will sink down across north korea and south korea. it will not be drought breaking. the wettest weather is to the south, and heavy rain that we have seen across central china, over the houses washed into the river there. shanghai saw massive rain fall 207mm of rain in the last three days presenting wide-spread flooding. you can see the problems that have resulted from that washed out of streams, and ponds. the wet weather will sink in the next few days

it's the first scandal for india's 1-year-old narendra modi government. the foreign minister is accused of abuseing her condition for offering favors for modi - no relation to the prime minister. he lives in exile in london. we are joined from new delhi with more. explain the controversy to us. >> absolutely. it goes back to the time when mowedi was investigated with others for widespread irregularities in the english premier league. that was in 2010. while in london in 2014 he acquired travel permits to travel from london to portugal. without an indian passport he needed special permission signed off on by the foreign minister of india, and therein lies the heart of the controversy, widespread.

it involves a chief minister from rajjize tan and a british member of parliament. keeping in mind the origins are some years ago. >> so tell us what expect this may have on the narendra modi government. >> you are looking at the b.j.p. party that swept with n unprecedented majority into parliament. promising cleaner government and no corruption and as recently as marking its one year in office, the government claimed it was corruption free. this gives the opposition parties accused of rampant corruption on the election campaign trail of accusing the v.j.p. of being no different to them or the allegations that they were subjected to. it's unnecessary and untimely for the b.j.p. and many of the senior party figures are trying to distance themselves slightly

from the controversy, which doesn't seem to show a sign of stopping at this point in time. >> from new dehli - thank you. >> still ahead on al jazeera. the vatican calls for urgent action on the issue of climate change. plus we'll tell you what is forcing hundreds of civilians to cross into neighbouring more tainia. and in sport, chile's star midfielder made a cheerful apology after being arrested for drink-driving.

welcome back here are the top stories son al jazeera. detectives treat a shooting of nine people in a church in the southern united states as a hate crime. they are searching for a white gunman in an historic church for black worshippers in south carolina of 60 million people - worldwide displaced by persecution. the highest number recorded. the u.n. refugee agency said syria was the biggest source of internally displaced people and refugees. >> politicians in hong kong rejected a beijing-backed reform bill it would have allowed voters to directly elect their leader in 2017. only candidates approved by beijing could run the vatican released a warning from pope francis on the environment. the leader of the roman catholic

church says time is running out for humanity to address climate change. joining me from the catholic newsagency. what is the significance or the timing of this in particular? >> well, essentially this is a call to humanity to take care of responsibility for the world around us. the timing of it before the climate conference in paris at the end of the year taking place in november and december, the pope wanted to get it out before then. what he talks about in this cyclical way is ahead of time. he wants people to talk about it. he says it doesn't replace the science or policies and politics okay. so the pope is a spiritual leader. does the message have a hint of politics to it? >> he does. he speaks specifically in about politics about how legislation should better reflect and protect the common good.

he's asking everyone from world leaders to people of goodwill everyone outside of the catholic church, as well as inside of it to just take a little bit of responsibility for the world around them. to realise that everything is interconnected, as he said and to make policies that better protect the creation that is around people. >> obviously in the united states this is very much a political issue with democrats largely, you know believing in manmade climate change, and republicans largely not. but right now there's a couple of presidential candidates running. the speaker of the house is catholic. do you think that here in front of the pope it would shape the debate in the united states. >> i think it's definitely true that it will shape the debate. the pope - his voice heard from around the world record. presidential candidates voiced their opinions on what the encyclical could contain.

we can expect more from them. the pope wants to be heard, he wants the message to be debated. he wasn't thinking about the presidential campaign or the world in general. >> how unusual is this to hear a pope speak on an issue as controversial as this? >> i think the pope does it all the time. if you read the fine print in the document which is over 100 payments, you see he speaks out against abortion and against the injustices against the poor a result of ecological crisis worldwide. his goal is to speak out on controversial issues and speak the voice of the church based on christians principles he says everyone should look out for their neighbour. >> thank you so much. appreciate it the french finance minister

says it will be a catastrophe if greece leaves the eurozone. >> reporter: syriza wants to send europe a message. >> i say no to those blackmailing us, and for my county sold piecemeal. i want it as it is, cleaning whole, with its history, even if it means leaving the euro. >> i want to tell the prime minister that what we fear is a possible retreat, we are prepared for a break up, not a setback. >> reporter: the two sides are entrenched. creditors demand $4 billion in additional spending cuts and taxes this year. greece is offering about half that, and says that is final. these people represent the majority view here. after six years of austerity greeks want their sovereignty back. to plan their own way out of this crisis. the credibility of the european union is at stake.

just as it is politically difficult for the government to deliver deep cuts, it's virtually impossible for european partners to let it go its own way. >> greece says in the post crisis e.u., some are more equal than others. >> greece is a sovereign estate. it has a government that received a mandate recently. it is this government that is responsible for deciding how it will distribute taxes, where it will get money. the insistence that the money will come from new cuts in pensions for us is incomprehensible system. and now we must not with the technocrats, but the political leadership in europe come to a political decision. >> the charge that europe is pillaging greece has made officials in brussels furious. they say they offered the greeks a big discount on what proportion of their economy to spend repaying debt. >> it is truly false to prevent the commission trying to impose austerity, it is false. the proposals are reasonable.

>> reporter: earlier on wednesday, the greek central bank warned a default would lead to an uncontrollable crisis. with the country leaving the euro and possibly the european union. most greeks do not want that kind of divorce. austerity is a foul word to them. and they will not accept more of it. joining me now the managing director and head of macroeconomic research sat standard charters bank. we appreciate your time. june 30th, it's around the corner. what is the likelihood that a deal will be reached? >> it is looking slim. we have the euro group meeting with low hopes that there'll be an agreement between the greeks and the creditors. there could be an e.u. summit at the weekend, and i think that would be seen as a last-ditch

attempt for alexis tsipras of greece to try to negotiate with other heads of state for some sort of compromise. beyond that it's time run short for the bailout funds to be released to recover the payments in june why are they resistant to the austerity reform? >> the economy has been through a prolonged recession. output is down 30% since 2008. it suffered more than most other european countries through the crisis. and the greek people i think, are saying - have given a mandate to the government which they elected in january, to negotiate for an end to austerity. the problem is that there is a funding gap for greece if they continue to further state that

and somebody has to pay. either it has got to come from savings within greece and new funds from outside greece and greece's creditors are not feeling favourably. if a deal is not reached, how bad could this be for obviously not just greece but the market in europe the global economy? >> well i think that markets in greece are clearly showing signs of distress. we've seen a fall in the stock market yields on greek bonds have rich. the value of bonds has fallen. the cost has rich in greece. interestingly the outside greece is not the case. there has been the strong - relatively strong euro and borrowing costs elsewhere have not risen as much as expected.

if we saw greece leaving the euro that would be a different matter and there would be repercussions around the market. >> thank you for joining us we appreciate it, live from london. voters are at the polls in denmark. the center left coalition of the prime minister is neck and neck in the polls with the center right. immigration is a key election issue. the main parties want to crack down an access to the rely ware system. >> in the dominican republic hundreds of thousands face deportation under a new immigration law. david mercer reports, many rush to bad a deadline to submit applications for legal residency. >> reporter: they have been lining up for day, desperate to

get the papers they need to stay in their adopted country. immigrant workers from haiti, some of whom lived here for decades. >> they don't want haitians here. they began the process so we can stay legally, but it's all for nothing, they want us to get out of the country. >> reporter: those that haven't registered as foreign workers, and rights groups say there could be as many as 300,000. they now face deportation. some leading dominican businessmen saying taking so many workers out of the country will damage the rapidly growing economy. they are not the only ones of threat. those born here to undocumented parents have had their dominican citizenship taken away. >> wilma, a 22-year-old, was born into a community dedicated to cutting sugar cane. the fact that his father who arrived 50 years ago is undocumented means that he has lost his right to stay. when he tried to renew his birth certificate, it was taken from him. he, his siblings and children are facing an uncertain future.

>> i feel dominican, i am a native of this place. i was born here, my child was born here. this is the only country i know. >> reporter: this activist visits those most vulnerable to being deported to haiti, a country many have never visited. she said the threatened deportations are the latest example, a prejudice grown as hatians moved out of the countryside and into the cities. >> some dominicans are afraid, because they feel hatians are invading. their xenophobia because we are black and poor. conservatives say a poor country shouldn't have to take in those poorer. >> international human right groups like amnesty international are concerned how

people are rounded up and taken to detention centers, and if they have the right to appeal. making this case on television to a population in favour of the plan, the dominican interior minister rejects criticism. >> translation: if someone arrives and says they are dominican, how do i know they are dominican, how do i know their identity when i don't know their name. tell me . should i register them for telling me this. how. >> for those still without the required papers, and no options left. all they can do is wait and hope their family will be spared the u.n. says it doesn't have the capabilities to effectively carry out its peace-keeping mission in mali. the forces targeted by separatist rebels and al qaeda-linked fighters in the north. violence is causing hundreds to cross. we met some refugees.

>> reporter: life in the camp is precarious. but the severity of the elements here is nothing compared to the dangers that drove the people from their homes. >> translation: men came and looted our homes. >> most of the new arrivals have fallen. they represent a sizeable component within mali. their lives have been threatened suns the emergence of an al qaeda accolade known as the movement of liberation. the group never stated the objectives but they mainly target the malian army and when they captured some locations, they erased the flag. when they attack the army the soldiers take revenge on the ethnic. >> reporter: we are poor people that have never done any harm to

the government. the army attacked our homes, abducted our men and forced us to pay ransoms. they accused us of ties with al-qaeda. that is not true. we know some attacked some areas, we don't have links with them. >> reporter: the impacts of the attacks can be seen in the refugee camp on the morey tainian side of the border. you can see the arrivals hosted in the makeshift camp pending final registration. some came two days ago and they speak of continuing acts of aggression by the malian army. >> the u.n. says a new wave of refugees joined the camp of late. >> translation: during the last two months we received small groups of refugees fleeing the conflict. we have 107 families we do our best to provide food water and health services. we call on the world to support the effort. >> reporter: the refugees complain of shortages of food

and medical services. they say that entire months passed without any distribution of provisions arelief agencies. a peaceful contribution is promised. the people see more difficulties researchers in scotland have discovered an antimalaria compound, and it could treat the infection with a dose of medicine costing $1. it works in a different way to drugs targetting the parasite at a number of different stages in the life signingle. cycle. researchers hope to be anyone human trials next year still ahead - the gaming industry is trying to shake off an image of being insensitive to women. and it's better known for the baseball than football.

and we tell you why fans are embracing a new

sport. the video saming industry is it known for its macho image, it's been dominated by men since it began. as women try to join in some find themselves targets of the sexual harassments and threats. we report from the e 3. gaming convention in los

angeles. >> reporter: a quick look around the gaming expo showed how white male dominated the gaming world is. there are few technicians in the well paid industry. >> 50% of players are women. only about 20% of game makers are women. >> reporter: it's an issue debated within the industry for years, with little to show in the way of diversification. as more games appealing to women are made, the content is changing. >> the traditional image of a 15-year-old guy in his basement playing call of duty has been with us so long. we are a young industry, we are maturing and evolving. for sections of the audience, that is hard to take. >> the game industry's gender problem was thrown into turmoil when female designers and critics were subjected to online harassment, including death threats. >> that was known as gamer-gate. blogger and critic anita was harassed after writing about the

depiction of women in games as sex objects. and about predominance of macho games. >> i have had death threats, rape threats; family and colleagues harassed and threatened. the vitriol we have seen simmering up has been in part due to the fact that the game industry is changing. they are doing everything they can, including drawing violent, aggressive temper tantrums to stop the change from happening, wanting to stop the progress of us having conversations about representations of women, having people colouring games. what are the stories telling us, what messages are being sent. >> international game developers says the harassment came out of a hate group lurking in the internet's dark underbelly. i have gone to countless women in games event, where we talk about the issues, but nothing

happens. this, because of gamer-gate we are finally going see change happen. it was the thing that broke the camel's back. people said, you know what, enough of it. critics say that the industry is changing, but slowly. industry officials say they are taking steps to encourage more women to work in gaming, and that their goal is having those that create the games better reflect those that play them. time for sport now with joe. >> thank you. we start at the copa america, where col ombia beat brazil after 24 years of trying. jason arilo scored a winner keeping their hopes of reaching the final alive. it was a bad centered encounter that neymar found out earlier in the day that he was being vetted by spanish police for fraud. frustrations boiled over after the fine whistle when he tried

to head-butt the goal scorer. he was sent off and will miss the final group game against venezuela on monday. >> translation: i had an issue with a defender. he had an issue with me. when the game was over and i heard the whistle. i kicked and ended up hitting a player. then the defender wanted to get in trouble with me. i looked at him. i did make a mistake. it's part of the game. we lost i believe we played badly. i didn't play well. i amthat and take full responsibility i don't run. it's up to us to win the next game venezuela may be better known for its baseball players than footballers, but pulled off a shock victory over colombia. they home for a victory later. we look at how fans in venezuela are getting into the game.

[ speaking foreign language] >> reporter: against all odds venezuela scored a winning goal against football giant colombia in the first match of the copa america. sunday's result is being greeted as a change that has been slow in the making but could amount to something bigger. >> venezuelan football is improving. i saw new players, new goalkeeper. i think we stand a chance. we beat them in the last copa america in the group stage. >> overall the football record is pretty good. it's the only country that played at a world cup. and, yes, according to the technical director of one of the country's biggest training schools, there are more kids playing football than there are baseball. >> translation: our footballers are at a breaking point. we are a ways away but have more players signed by foreign leagues is helping. the upcoming generation is making strides thanks to the

older players, and a change in our approach to training. >> reporter: venezuela has been a baseball loving country. several victories could be the first time that change is in the air. it is baseball that has historically defined venezuelans. just as brazilians can play they turn any grass or concrete into a baseball field. it is a matter of identity. >> translation: baseball comes easier to us. we are caribbeans, we like baseball, it's just like that. we like hitting the ball hard and sliding home. brazilians were born with a ball, we were born with a bat. in a country facing deep woes, another unlikely victory, at least on the playing field.

chile's star player made a tearful apology after being charged with drink-driving in the middle of the competition. the mid fielder was given a ban after crashing his ferrari on a day out with his wife and suffered minor injuries. arturo vidal will retain his place after the coach said some public reaction to the accident had been out of proportion. >> translation: i had two drinks and had an accident as everyone nose, and put the life of my wife and others at risk. for that i'm sorry. i want to thank everyone for supporting me and apologise to my team-mates and the coaching staff, the leadership and people and the whole country. it's hard for me to speak, but i'm embarrassed about what happened. all i can do is ask for forgiveness, feel the support for people and show that the opportunity is worth something. spain crashed out of the women's world cup, after

slumping to the second loss of the tournament. suion kim scored the winner tapping a 2-1 comeback ending the saints first-ever competition in women's football. brazil secured a first place in group e, resting key players for the match against costa rica. rakell's late strike earned them a 1-0 victory and will play australia in round 16. >> france with a 5-0 thumping of mexico. scoring 34 seconds in for the second-fastest goal in the history of the tournament. henry surely has to be a contender for goal of the tournament. her 80th minute goal from 30 yards out sealed the route leaving mexico dumped out. >> england finished second in

group f. first-half goals scored. leading to a 3-1 victory over columbia. >> england play norway in a round of 16. here is who else made it through. sweden reached the knock out stage, taking on germany on saturday followed by cameroon against china, defending champions japan face netherlands, as they look to defend their title. sri lanka's cricketers are making progress in the first test. sri lanka only got going on thursday. they are 137 for 1, with silva unbeaten having made a half century the 11 are 5th u.s. open begins in chambers bay. some of the best players sent tuesday getting to know the course. world number one rory mcilroy after his second title says chambers bay will separate the

men from the boys. >> this is the sort of golf course that, you know if you are slightly off, it will multiple that. it will really reward people that are hitting good shots and are confident and the short games are sharp. i think this is the sort of golf course that you could see the guys that are playing well and, you know are confident with the setup, and how they approach it. they could separate themselves from the rest of the field. 2015 n.b.a. champions, the golden state warriors arrived home to a rousing reception after winning a title in game 6 against cleveland. after the teams playing touch down, players walked out holding the trophy the first time the wrors where are lifted it in 40 years. that is all the support for now. >> think they are happy? >> i think they are, yes. >> stay with us here on al jazeera, a full bulletin of news ahead. keep it here.

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