you next time, i'm ray ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the al jazeera news hour i'm laura kyle in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutes fighters make gains in seer yeah and closer to i.s.i.l.'s main stronghold of raqqa. pakistan's heat waive is continuing to rise and 400 people have died in the singe province. >> take it down. >> reporter: more controversy over the u.s. confederate flag

with growing calls for removing from public places. and how long is too long to spend online? we report on japan's growing digital addiction. ♪ we begin in syria where kurdish fighters made more advances against the islamic state of iraq and the levante. kurdish people protection units or wpg say they have driven out i.s.i.l. fighters north of the stronghold of raqqa city and backed by u.s. air strikes and say the kurds pushed i.s.i.l. back to the outskirts of raqqa and it's important because it links it to other i.s.i.l. out post in provinces of aleppo to the west and to the east and still ongoing in the i.s.i.l. held town about 50 kilometers

north of raqqa city and we have this report. >> reporter: this kurdish fighter say they discovered a tunnel used by islamic state of iraq and la van on the turkish border and not clear if it's used to smuggling people or materials from turkey to syria. production units which go by wpg have been making gains on the border and taken back territory from i.s.i.l. and they took this post in the nearby town and now the fighting is over hundreds of families have returned and turkish authorities reopened the border for surrounding areas and despite kurdish fighters pushing back i.s.i.l. there are concerns over advances and main opposition group and fighters accused them of driving out kurdsman and working with people but were blocked from entering.

>> translator: we were asked to communicate with the ypg forces and refused to have people from the factfinding committee to enter saying there was a position to the ypg unit and it's biased. >> reporter: deny discrimination and abuse and say the checkpoints they set up on the border are for security. >> translator: this country is for all and ypg is for arabs and the other is for the kurds. >> reporter: alarming turkey and accused them of ethnic cleansing inside syria and turk turkish says it's a red line and advanced to the outskirts of aleppo province and backed by u.s. air strikes they have taken villages from i.s.i.l. control and they are consolidating their gains in the nearby idlib province. as people return to the

roundabouts where they used to carry out public executions but they go back home hoping the worst is over, al jazeera. let's take a closer look at the men and women who makeup the ypg armed group. the people protection unit or y pchl g want atonomous since the war began in 2011 and ypg linked to the pkk which is fighting for kurdish independence from turkey. the persecutions seeking minority who fled i.s.i.l. advance back in august were helped by ypg units but they received little military assistance in the form of weapons and supplies from the u.s. and europe compared to the iraqi forces known as peshmerga. and contemporary middle east politics at the london school of

economics and good to have you with us and we are seeing another big victory from the kurds and from the ypg this week just how significant is this? >> very, very significant laura, a few weeks ago we were talking about the fall of kobani and now we are talking about the likelihood of the fall of raqqa and it's the capitol of i.s.i.l., the nerve center of i.s.i.l., it's one of the most important administrative centers of i.s.i.l. this is very strategic and very big because it tells you that military the military front lines are changing. a few weeks ago we talked about the fall of kobani and may talk about raqqa and it's changing and the kurds are fiercely fighting for the identity, for their culture, for their

autonomy and tells you the americans provided massive air support for the kurds. hundreds of air strikes in the last few months have have enabled the kurds to really make some strategic gains not only in the kurdish area but now in the half of darkness that is the thick area of i.s.i.l. >> reporter: did you think this really puts i.s.i.l. on the back foot in this particular area, in this northern section of syria? >> oh, absolutely. remember, if raqqa falls this is really the beginning of the end of i.s.i.l. in syria. i mean this is catalystic and strategic. everyone in the last one year has been talking about iraq being the priority that i.s.i.l. should be defeated in iraq and then syria, syria a few years. now if raqqa falls i mean this is the first basically province to fall for i.s.i.l. and seer yo

could go before iraq and really changes the dynamics of the fight both in iraq and syria. >> so if this is going to be so huge can the ypg expect even more assistance from the u.s. and europe in terms of actual weapons and supplies delivered to the groups? >> well i think the biggest story that really has not received the attention in the media including al jazeera is that the massive american support for the kurdish units in the last six or seven months. i mean the american airforce has been at the service of the kurdish forces in kobani and now in the raqqa area and the americans realize they have a winning force and realize the kurds are fiercely resisting and fighting and really providing massive air cover and you are absolutely correct. if the kurdish forces really make major gains in raqqa you

will find europe and americans with more resources and arms in order to basically remake a qualitative difference even though it's a bit skeptical because turkey would explode because turkey is now in particular president eric rdiwan is saying look the american and western powers are helping the kurds at the expense of the arabs in security and it's a major security concern inside turkey and syria as well. >> absolutely and good to speak to you and thank you for joining us from london. >> thank you. u.n. investigators accused both sides of the syrian conflict of targeting civilians and say the government has dropped barrel bombs on aleppo nearly everyday this year. and as well as rebel groups seized cities depriving people of food and also have five confidential lists of suspected war criminals. u.s. air strike in iraq killed a man linked to the 2012 attack on

the diplomatic attack in benghazi and libya and hazi was an i.s.i.l. fighter and pentagon said he was killed in a strike last week and ambassador to libya and three other americans were killed in the attack. the leaders say a debt deal with greece could be leaked within days and discussing a proposal put forward by prime minister and athens has to repay the international monetary fund $1.8 billion by the end of the month or default on debt and includes increasing taxes on wealthy and spending lesson pensions and john has the latest from athens. if greece ends up accepting the creditor proposals as they stand it will have to extract another $3 billion from an already heavily taxed economy this year and roughly $5.5 billion next year that is over

and above budget predictions and that is because rather than growing as predicted this year the economy is shrinking to the tune of three quarters of gdp and means tax revenues are smaller than they would have been because total economic turn over is smaller than it would have been and that is difficult for the government because they were elected in january promising no more austerity measures and now they have increased taxation and contribution and possibly more spending cuts which we will have to see along the way should they become necessary and this means that cesar will come back to athens with a difficult plan one it may not be able to sell to all party members particularly the left which has drawn a red line saying we will not vote with more tax extraction or austerity in any form and means that cesar has to apply to opposition and the

socialist in power to january in order to get the plan passed but if that happens and if cesar is split in parliament can it remain in power and can he remain in the prime minister's seat? it's going to be a very political intense time once this is over in brussels because then there will be a gattel -- battle in greece to get measures past. heat wave claimed 400 victims and most casualties are in the southern port city of karachi and people suffering heat stroke and dehydration and repeated power outages left many without air conditioning and running water and we have more from the capitol islamabad. >> reporter: the government is now announcing at least 450 people have been killed by the ongoing heat wave that has affected the province and hit

hard pakistan's port city also home to 20 million people. it was already saturday when people started feeling symptoms of heat stroke many were rushed to the hospital putting a severe strain on the city's hospital systems. according to some reports a few thousand people were admitted into the hospital. the city morgues were overwhelmed when the bodies was brought to those morgues. and they requested the people to bury the dead as soon as possible. the government also announcing some relief measures by instructing the national disaster management authority to set up relief camps. also the pakistan rangers which is para military forces in charge of security operation in karachi also announcing they will set up relief camps and they say the monsoon season has now ended and the temperatures

are likely to go down and that will mean some relief to the city's population. now foreign minister is calling arrest of the country east spy chief an outrage after they acted on a european arrest warrant and accused of engaging in reprisal killings after a round of 1994 genocide and expected in court on thursday and barnabie joining us from london and why he the head of intelligence service been arrested in london? >> a mystery why he has been arrested now because the spanish arrest warrant dates from 2008 and we understand that he has been in and out of london indeed brussels the united states on several occasions since. indeed he was head or deputy head of a u.n. peace keeping mission in darfur until 20009 but the charges from spain are war

crimes and they date to the immediate aftermath of the 1994 genocide when as you will recall the rpf took power in ruwanda and took power ever since and the allegation is he was involved in a series of retribution, retaliatory massacres of the majority hootoo population in years and included the episodes are murders of three spanish aid workers in early 1997 who it is alleged had evidence of rpf and indeed his involvement in the killings of majority hootoo villages. >> reporter: what happens to him from here? >> we will find out on thursday when he appears before westminster magistrate's court. but this is extremely embarrassing i think for the british. britain has a very good relationship with the rwanda government and goes way beyond

the close relationship with the former vice president tony blair and gavin document assistance to woo want -- rwanda and talk about the poor human rights record but on the whole the british thought the progress in rwanda since the genocide and it's impressive and a partner they want to stick by and they have international obligation and spain is a close eu partner and the british justice system will be on the spot on thursday. >> thanks very much for that update from london. still to come here on this news hour we meet migrant at the serbia/ serbia/hungaria border. thick blanket of smoke covers chile's capitol. and who took their place in the

women's world cup? ♪ jewish ethiopians in israel fought with security forces during protests against police brutality, at least 17 people arrested in tel aviv and regular demonstrations after a video emerged allegedly showing an ethiopian being beaten by police in april. ahmed mansour thanked people who campaigned on his behalf in germany and freed on monday after spending two days in police custody and so arrested at berlin airport at the request of egyptian airport and said as well as legal objections it took political and diplomatic concerns into account. vice chairman of south korea samsung group apologized for failing to do enough to stop the

spread of middle east respiratory syndrome around half of 175 mers cases in south korea have been traced to the samsung medical center in seoul. >> translator: our samsung medical center was unable to stop the mers infection and it spread and caused too much suffering and concern to the public. i bow my head in apology. japan prime minister heckled wheel leading a memorial marking the world war ii event and the 70th anniversary and protests mounting in okinawa from the u.s. air base. there is more controversy over the confederate flag in the u.s. following a killing in charleston with the flag and pictures posted online and seen by many as an emblem of slavery

and wants it removed from the state capitol and del waters reports from charleston. >> it's time to move the flag from the capitol grounds. [applause] surrounded by a by partisan group of state and federal officials niki haley joined the course of calls to move the confederate flag. >> for good and for bad, whether it is on the state house grounds or in a museum the flag will always be a part of the soil of south carolina but this is a moment in which we could say that this flag while an integral part of our past does not represent the future of our great state. >> reporter: the governor's comments came hours after religious and political leaders in charleston called for action. >> the time has come to remove the symbol of hate and vision from the state capitol. the time has come for the general assembly to do what it

ought to have done a long time ago. >> reporter: south carolina's use of the confederate flag became an issue once again after pictures emerged showing accused church gunman dylann roof waving and posing with confederate banners. on sunday dozens gathered in the state capitol columbia to call for the flag to be taken down and some spray painted the words black lives matter on a confederate monument in charleston and in 2000 joseph riley led a march to columbia calling for the flag to be removed from the capitol dome and led to a compromise that led the flag from the dome to the current location at a nearby monument for soldiers and requires two thirds majority in general assembly to make changes and political leaders say there are a growing number of lawmakers in favor of removing the flag but some say removing the flag is only the start and

there is more work to be done. >> it will not solve the racial divide in south carolina. we need a positive discourse on the problems that continue to plague our state. >> reporter: del walters, al jazeera, charlton south carolina. >> reporter: walmart removed all items promoting the confederate flag from shops and website and retail giant says it doesn't want its product to offense anyone and they will remove the flags by third parties on its website. let's take a closer look at the history of this controversial flag. it was created by confederate armies from the southern united states fought in the american civil war 150 years ago. the first shots of the civil war were fired in south carolina, the first of 11 states to rebel

against the united states in defense of slavery. the south lost the war and since then the confederate flag has been used as a symbol of southern independence pride and heritage but many see it as a shameful slavery and hate and a divided united states and often used by modern white supremacy groups and we have executive director of the u.s. human rights network and explains why many people want to see it removed. >> the confederate flag is a symbol of hate and white supremacy and a symbol of terror and so for african mentions and people of color and those who believe in racial equality and human rights it's a shame that we are still flying this flag. this is a flag that was used by white supremacy groups and

symbol that the united states should move away from and symbolizes slavery in the united states and it continues to be used by hate groups by extremists racist groups to put forth an idea of white supremacy. a thick blanket of smoke over santiago forced them to declare an environmental emergency and taken off the roads because of pollution and the worse in decades and we report from santiago. >> reporter: it looks just like what it is a thick cloud of soot suspended in the air. the capitol santiago is in a valley and the driest june in 40 years and poor air circulation has brought this to hazard levels. >> translator: the air has an effect on people's health and impacts the respiratory system

and provoke heart problems and even lung cancer. >> reporter: for the first time in 16 years authorities were forced to declare an environmental emergency. 40% of vehicles were ban from circulating. 90% of heavy industry was forced to shut down using firewood for heating was forbidden and people told not to exercise outdoors. >> translator: my eyes are burning. my chest is hurting and i'm having a hard time breathing. >> reporter: high levels of smog are common here especially during the southern hemisphere's winter months but the timing of this could not be more in inopportun and they have one of the most widely viewed sporting events in the world and the air quality is a concern to the quarter final match due to be held on wednesday and what is behind me but you cannot see it

is a snow capped mountain and on a clear day has a picture postcard of the city and what else is missing is clouds which would indicate that desperately needed rain is on its way. >> translator: even the massive restrictions here we see the air quality is not improving substantially. we need rain and more wind. >> reporter: with neither in sight there is no telling how long this emergency will last santiago. let's get the weather from robin and talk about the deadly heat wave in pakistan, any sign of that abating? >> it's not just heat but heat and humidity and of course ramadan and the story of karachi is this one and the valley has been hot a month and seen 48 degrees and come down to the coastal in karachi and it's 45

on saturday and at night it doesn't drop below three and 33 the last three nights but the slowly rising humidity and today we had 41 so a drop of 4 degrees. humidity has been slowly rising for the last few days. of course the monsoon rains are on their way. the forecast for tomorrow is only 37 probably a little bit more humid and this is the rain curtain here. now that is staging a change and could be you go from heat wave to flood fairly soon because out in this upcoming monsoon it's this rotating disk which could well turn into a tropical cyclone and even if it doesn't the amount of rain has been thrown off in mumbai and 39 millimeters just today. let's go back a little bit. 221 millimeters since sunday. back a little bit more but not very much more 825 millimeters in the last five days and since the monsoon burst we had over a meter of rain. that is 220% of the expectation

for the whole of june. there is a lot more to come laura? >> reporter: thanks very much. now the serbia has shock at hungry to build a 175 kilometer fence along its border to stop the flow of migrants and says it's one of many countries with a refugee crisis and we spoke to people at an serbian border town before they tried to cross into hungry. >> reporter: they have been on the road for weeks across several countries, tired, dehydrated, they are afraid of arrest and police violence. >> good morning shgs good morning, we are an organization. >> reporter: charity visits twice a week at the far end of the camp the medic finds a woman who suffered a miscarriage and many who left behind in war zones prefer not to be

identified. where do you guys all come from? >> afghanistan. >> reporter: everyone from afghanistan? >> afghanistan, all of us these guys from taliban. >> everywhere we go problem. >> reporter: the police were asking for money? >> yes, they ask about money. >> reporter: the police beat you up? >> yes strongly beat. in my whole body i feel pain. >> reporter: where are you going? >> i'm going to austria. >> i go to belgium. >> reporter: belgium. >> london. london? they seldom stay a night or two in these little encampments in the grass here and desperate and courageous people resting their aching bones before leaving afghanistan, syria, yemen, iraq and not far ahead of them now along the well-worn path the hungarian border and the

european union. so remember the people are often in quite bad shape when they reach this point in their journey, are they? >> yes of course they have been coming here really exhausting and really tired and like they really need help and medical care. >> reporter: he is a prosecutor who fled afghanistan with his wife and two children. she needs medical attention. the children ask for sweets and chocolate. what do you tell them about the future? what do you tell them about the life that they can expect in europe? >> i would like to see they have good future because we live in country for them because they should get an education. >> reporter: another frequent visitor here is an hungarian priest, his van with donations of bread and water and basics like socks and shoes. >> i've seen many thousands of people here but this is just a

fraction of the people crossing the border and many of them are not coming right here going directly because they have money and ways and have the smuggler system working. >> reporter: within hours most will have left on the road to what they hope is a better life. the only certainty is that many more will follow. al jazeera serbia. coming up, on the program violence and depression in a disputed region in bangladesh 20 years after a peace agreement. and a boom in ghana leads to a stronger laws to make sure that do not promise too much. plus in sport we will show you how jordan's futbol of the women's games in the middle east. ♪

hello again and a look at the top stories on al jazeera, kurdish fighters say they have driven i.s.i.l. out from a base north of the group's raqqa stronghold and it's important because it links it to other i.s.i.l. posts in the east and west. more than 400 people have now died from the scorching heat wave this pakistan and most casualties have been in the southern port city of karachi when temperatures reached 45 degrees celsius. moving closer to a debt deal with greece and the

cash-strapped government needs to repay $1.8 billion by the end of the month. and we have an independent economist and joins us live from athens. so what do you think of this proposal put forward by the greek government, is it going to be enough to get a deal? >> well it's certainly a step in the right direction and let's not forget we have a traditional left government and taken four months to get that far because they are criticizing the previous agreement and not selling cheaply. close to agreement leaves uncertainty and positive for europe and positive for greece and more needs to talk about the dollars and liquidity and international competitiveness and foreign investment and for that you need judicial reform

and more to be done on labor, opening markets and certainly tackling the very large private sector. >> reporter: is anyone talking about these much broader reforms in greece at the moment? >> well i think everybody is focused on the next to be brief and this has to do with liquidity and there is none left and this has to be handled with this agreement and more needs to be done over the coming months to make sure the greek economy becomes more competitive. >> and to meet future repayments because if a deal is made this week that is great because it meets the next repayment to imf but what about the central bank loans due in july and august they are much bigger amounts? >> well, the current arrangements will make sure there will be enough money over

the next two or three months for these to be taken care of. but we need to understand this is a great economic cries and a european political crisis. certainly these are steps in the right direction to not only handle the financial issues in greece but also to handle the fact that europe has to be reversible and has to be a step in the european unity and this is at stake here at the moment. >> reporter: what is it like within the greece economy at the moment and i'm reading today 8500 small and medium-sized businesses closed since the start of the year and that sounds like a huge number, is there any optimism the street? >> unfortunately the measures that are taking place at the moment do have a dollar amount and when i see more and more taxes you can only tax so much the private sector and ultimately if grease is going to grow it has to grow with private money and not help with european

or public sector money. >> reporter: thanks for joining us there from athens. >> you are welcome. a group of indian ocean islanders forced into exile decades ago appealing to the top court with a campaign to return home and they were forced to leave 50 years ago to make way for a u.s. military base a decade ago and it was ruled they could go back but the decision was overturned and they have been fighting it ever since and we report from london. >> reporter: their legal battle has already lasted nearly 20 years and refuse to lose hope. the entire population lives in exile and confident of overturning a decision seven years ago they did not have the right to return home. >> we have studies and agreement by apmg proposed which we clearly say there is no legal barrier to allow a solution to

return. >> reporter: at monday's supreme court hearing in london lawyers for the islanders including on the left here rejected the idea that returning would endanger a project to create a marine protection area. between 1967 and 1973 britain forcibly removed around 2000 people from the indian ocean including the main island which was leased to the united states to build an air base. they were taken to seachells. and some live in poverty in southern england also home to the office of allen who heads what he calls a provisional island government. he says his community feels let down by britain. >> we recently had this anniversary of the magna-carta and it didn't apply to us at all so i believe it's high time that

this country do the moral thing and that moral thing is to return british citizens back to their country. >> reporter: the island and supporters say they easily could make a living if they returned either working at the air base or in tourism. it's such a well-known face on the legal team in terms of media coverage but many twists and turns for the legal fight to go back home and could be a long time before they get a definitive answer. >> reporter: al jazeera, london. police in mexico have discovered the bodies of ten people buried in several graves in the resort city of alcopolco and three women and seven men are not known and many masked graves found in mexico in resent years. police are searching for to escaped convicts in new york

state. they say they may have tunnelled out using tools smuggled in the prison in frozen ham berg meat and they escaped earlier this month and mitchell is in jail regarding their escape. the oil spill in the state of texas and forced closer of 182 meters of coastline. the spill was discovered three days ago by the coast guard. hill tracks in southeast bangladesh has been disputed territory since 1977 when armed group people began tighting inging inging fighting with the army. a peace deal signed in 1997 but the area is tense and many people still feel oppressed as we report. >> reporter: for decades the indigenous people of the hill tracks have been resisting

occupation by the bangladesh army and by increasing numbers of bengoli settlers and conflict continues to flare-up regularly. bengoli muslims here attacked villages and temporal -- temples and they would only meet in a safe house because they are too scared to be seen and interviewed in their homes. >> translator: i could barely see. my eyes were full of tears and my father and grandfather's home in flames and my whole life was burning in front of me. >> translator: it was shameful and i was on the way to the riot site and settlers mobbed by car and they stood and watched while they beat me up me an elected official. >> reporter: the army denies it had any role in the riots. just near the other side of this border is the area in myanmar where buddhist from the state are accused of persecuting

minority muslim rohingya who they say are from bangladesh. over here what is happening is the opposite and ethnic bengoli accused of persecuting minority buddhist in the city. bengoli settlers deny they played a part in the violence against indigenous groups. >> indigenous people got our farms and we merely stage add protest against this. >> reporter: says it's the bengolis here who need more protection. >> translator: the so called indigenous people are terrorists, the whole world knows they have loads of illegal arms and attack us. announcer: they stop people from talking freely to foreign researchers and al jazeera contacted several government ministries about this ban but did not receive a response. activists say it lends weight to their claims that the hill tracks are in a state of

occupation. and as settlers continue to arrive in greater numbers the problems here don't look like they will be solved any time soon. al jazeera, hill tracks bangladesh. so popular in ghanna the world health organization believes 70% of people use it before going to see their professional doctor but medical practitioners say it needs better regulation and we report. >> reporter: he started learning about the healing power of herbs from her grandfather when she was a child and now she is in her 90s and she is passing the knowledge on to her own daughters and they run one of the few herbal farms in the country and try to preserve and protect with healing properties that are dying out. >> we know what we are doing and we try helping people and we are doing well. people like to come to us

instead of hospital and they don't like to go to see a doctor doctor. >> reporter: the government is trying to work with traditional healers. many doctors recognize they contribute to a healthcare system that is under pressure. but they say regulation is a problem. >> people just get up, go into there and start, you know curing people. and the thing that even the drugs they use is something that i have concern with. >> reporter: medicine has grown into an industry and consumers bombarded with advertisements and things that profess to cure sicknesss with no science to backup the claims. you can find all kinds of herbal products along the roadside and even processed and packages and supposed to be registered and approved but that is not the case.

the government is warning people about the dangers of unregulated herbal medicine and also advices for people to look for registered traditional healers like her but some patients have few options especially when medical services are too far away and too costly. she is calling on the government to do more to integrate the different kinds of healthcare. al jazeera. do stay with us and still ahead on this al jazeera news hour why 50,000 people turned out in belgrade to celebrate these teenage athletes. ♪

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apple has reversed its policy on music royalty payments and comes after multi award winning taylor swift was slamming the company and we explain from los angeles. ♪ pop music mega star taylor swift took a bite out of apple denouncing the giant's plan to pay performing artists nothing for the first three months of the new apple streaming service and swift said she wouldn't allow apple to play her new up coming album in the service explaining in a blog post this is not about me it's about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success. three months is a long time to go unpaid. >> her letter was saying wait a minute, there is something here that is not good for artists and

i object. >> reporter: one of those artists is patrick mcrath who is trying to scrape by in the hub of new york where emerging artists try to break into the big time. ♪ he describes himself as a needle in a hipster hay stack. >> people do not see the picture like some of your favorite bands for instance, they need to make money and they continue to do that. >> reporter: swift's outcry and had a swift response sensing a public relations disaster apple music capitulated announcing it would pay artists after all during that three-month introductory period and other services like spotify and pandora pay artists royalties but the amounts are small, a few fractions of a cent per listen. and industry analysts say they

will not get rich from their music. >> anyone who is not at taylor swift income level it's a constant and very stressful dance and interplay between what they must do as artists and whether they can make money, how are they going to get paid and i think realistically many artists realize that the record industry has been really you know pummeled by digital technology. >> reporter: digital technology has given artists an unprecedented avenue to reach a worldwide audience but the technology companies see that art as mere content and pay artists as little as they can get away with. how that will effect music going forward remains a work in progress. rob reynolds al jazeera, los angeles. >> powerhouse of women's futbol

never reaching the semi finals of the world cup and united states are in the last eight after beating columbia 2-0 and had a heated build up to the match and continued on the pitch and alex morgan brought down early in the second half and catalina sent off for the challenge and captain abbey missed from the penalty spot. moments later alex morgan gave the americans the lead. the usa rewarded a second penalty 13 minutes later when megan was brought down and the 2-0 win and will play china in the quarter finals. >> it was hard to breakthrough the defense and the second half not converting and knew we had momentum behind us and thank god we got earlier because if it was down to ten minutes columbia was

going to use tactics to slow the game down and happy we got that. >> reporter: and 15 minutes for england to turn around their fortune and beat norway 2-1 after coming from behind and stealing the victory and go through to play host canada in the final eight. take on japan on tuesday in the final around and dutch playing in their first ever women's world cup and not only looking for a place in quarter finals also playing for trip to rio for next year's olympics and japanese aware of that and said the netherlands could pose a threat to their title defense. >> translator: when i started coaching i knew both the men's and women's dutch teams were very strong and played futbol and i studied the team and respect them and the women's team is solid and the first time they appeared in a world cup and

they are very good for us. columbia exit from the tournament no more south american teams left but from the middle east none qualified for the cup and jordan almost missed out on the tournament but the best place for a top flight and we report from amman. >> reporter: jordan's women futbol team may only be a decade old but they are the strongest team in the middle east and it's a conservative and religious country and many believe that futbol is not appropriate sport for females. >> i don't think it's going to change because there is a group of people that have the negative side of not encourage women playing soccer and it's not 100% people who encourage this thing but what keeps us going is parents and friends and passion for the game. >> reporter: the team credits the game of women's futbol to the president of the country

futbol association and former fifa vice president and has been playing futbol for eight years had to stop a while before fifa lifted a ban on head scarf. >> the royal highness interfered when they did not wear the head scarf because it's against our religion so we stopped playing. >> reporter: making strides in women's futbol and getting exposure and will host a major team for age 17 in october 2016. the world cup ever to be held in the middle east for female fut ballers will kickoff in jordan and hope the award of such a significant tournament will win the game even more acceptance and recognition in the arab and muslim world. the futbol association is to

make the sport more widespread for women and there are now 13 futbol centers in every province and junior girls' teams. >> translator: we completed in the asia cup last year and almost qualified for fifa world cup and success made other arab countries interested in teams. >> reporter: advertising campaigns and put the women under the spotlight and respect and admiration of the team and women that are shy and fearful of society to join an futbol center, al jazeera, amman. around 50,000 people have crowded on to the streets of belgrade to welcome champion and beat them 2-1 in a final in new zealand and arrived to an incredible home coming parade complete with flags and flairs in contrast to the poor result of serbia team with a slim

chance of making euro zone 16 and missed out last year and the european championships in 2012. in italy seven people have been arrested of suspected match fixing involving a treat and catania and the president of the club who was seen being escorted by authorities from the police station on tuesday. the seven are accused of committing fraud in sporting competition and influencing the outcome of five or six matches. superbowl quarterback tom brady will launch attack on four-game brand and he was punished for his role in the deflate gate scandal where employees deflated game balls in championship victory over the indianapolis colts five months ago, investigation found that brady

was generally aware of what was going on and he denied any wrongdoing. over at the european games the little known sport of sambo has made a debut on the stage and it's marshal arts in the 1920 as a form of self-defense and russian president vladimir putin and big fans and sambo was the last sport to be included in the games and reportedly the request of putin and perhaps no surprise then that eight gold medals russia won five. for the latest check out al jazeera.com/sport, we have blogs and videos from correspondents around the world. and that is all the sport for now, laura. >> thanks indeed. more than half a million japanese teenagers are thought to be addicted to the internet now the government has the first detox program to deal with the

increasing problem. but therapists say japan has been slow to recognize the harmful effects of being constantly online and rob mcbride reports from tokyo. >> at an internet cafe in tokyo the booths are largely empty during the day and manager says at night is when the place comes alive and when the arrows of gaming or surfing have taken their toll customers can exchange this capsule for one in a capsule hotel downstairs, never leaving the premises that is if they can sleep. inability to sleep is a symptom of internet addiction and that he has to treat. his clinic in yokahama is one of a handful in japan treating internet addicts. >> translator: in the worst cases kids drop out of school and are not able to catch up with school curriculum and kids like that will also have other problems like not being able to

sleep which needs to be tackled in addition. >> reporter: tokyo's district on a busy weekend offers the latest devices for a gadget-obsessed generation. views here vary on what counts as too much online time. >> translator: if you use it too much it's not good for you. >> translator: i'm online about ten hours a day which is okay. >> translator: i don't think it's wrong because it's just the way we live. >> reporter: as with any addiction it seems part of the problem is failing to recognize it as a problem. but the government now estimates more than half a million teenagers may be addicted to the internet and in need of help and for some of the most extreme cases the solution may be the tough love of complete digital detox. advertising their services online of course are centers to treat addiction with complete internet fasting leaving your

device at the door can be a wrench. at the height of his addiction website editor would be online up to 15 hours a day. his battle with digital dependency led him to write a book encouraging others to charish offline time. >> translator: even at weekends when you are meant to be resting if you are connected online you are not really resting. people need to take time away from digital gadgets and disconnect and then you can nuture your imagination and encourage face-to-face communication. >> reporter: advice from someone who has been there to a generation increasingly connected to the world and disconnected from the person next to them. rob mcbribe, al jazeera, tokyo. and if you are looking to fuel your internet connection do so at our website at al jazeera.com. ♪

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